Li Chao looked at the various foods piled up on the ground, picked them up and smelled them carefully, and said, "Who are these things sold in the town?"

When Zhao Yong heard this, he remembered that the shopkeeper was yin and yang before, why did he say that he was going to Hongyahe, and suddenly came to his senses: "Fuck, there is something wrong with the shopkeeper." ”

Zhao Yong took Zhang Sanchang and others and wanted to go.

Li Chao shouted: "What's the hurry? These foods haven't expired, and there's nothing wrong with them!"

Zhao Yong listened, stood up and said, "Then what's wrong with a few of them? ”

"Don't we bring some medicine with us, give them some antidiarrheal medicine first, and then go back to the town and ask the man. After Li Chao finished speaking, he went back to the tent.

As the sky gradually darkened, Zhao Yong and a few people entered the town again, and met only a few elderly people and children along the way, so they followed the old road to the small shop.

When the shopkeeper saw it, he hurriedly smiled and came up to greet him: "A few guests have figured it out!"

Zhao Yong smiled: "I figured it out." ”

The shopkeeper was just about to straighten up his hunched waist, Zhao Yong made a look, Zhang Sanchang suddenly made a move, knocked the shopkeeper unconscious, tore off the hem of the shopkeeper's clothes, used it as a rope to tie the shopkeeper, gagged again, picked up a sack in the store and put it in.

Zhao Yong and the others shot cleanly, but no one saw it. The two of Zhao Yong's men, one hand at a time, lifted the sack containing the shopkeeper and left the town as if they were carrying goods.

This small town of Kormu is built by the mountains and rivers, and it is said that it is a small town, but in fact it is only a collection of two dozen herdsmen, with a few stone houses and a few shops, and some tents in between. At this moment, there were only three or two lights on in the town, quietly, without any anger, and Zhao Yong and the others didn't even meet a figure along the way.

Zhao Yong couldn't help but be suspicious, thinking that this ghost place didn't meet a few people from day to night, but they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the owner of this camel shop was weird, could it be that this town was famous.

Zhao Yong took the shopkeeper back to his tent, and he couldn't wait to release the people and poured a mouthful of cold water on his head.

The shopkeeper woke up, but before he could speak, he had already been slapped twice by Zhang Sanchang.

Zhao Yong said sharply: "I said that you dead camel, you dare to calculate Lao Tzu." ”

The shopkeeper exclaimed, "What do you want to do?"

"Tell me the truth, how did you know we were going to the Hongya River? Also, how did you vomit and vent the food you sold us? Aren't you trying to make money and kill yourself? If you tell half a lie, I'll cut out your tongue. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yong pulled out a sharp dagger from his waist and shook it in front of the shopkeeper's nose.

The shopkeeper hurriedly smiled and said, "You misunderstood......

The shopkeeper said and tried to get up.

Zhang Sanchang kicked the shopkeeper to the ground early.

The shopkeeper was immediately angry and scolded: "You eagles are biting, vultures are leftovers, you have wronged good people, I am kind enough to sell things to you, you yourself are sick, but you come to blame, have you been kicked in the brain by a donkey?" ”

The shopkeeper simply lay on the ground and sprinkled, muttering and scolding in dialect, and everyone couldn't understand it.

The two Zhao Yong's subordinates said, "Team Zhao, do you want to notify Mr. Li to come and have a look." ”

Zhao Yong said angrily: "No, this dead camel, if you don't give him some color, he won't be honest." ”

The two subordinates wanted to make a move, but Li Chao came in.

"I asked you to find someone to ask, what are you tying people up for, and beating people, release them for me!"

Li Chao was very angry, but in front of other people, he still had to save some face for Zhao Yong, so he had to say again: "You have also worked hard for a day, so go to a few other tents to have a look, and leave the matter here to me to deal with." ”

Zhao Yong had to go out with someone.

Li Chao said: "Zhang Sanchang, you stay." ”

Li Chao pointed to the shopkeeper who was lying on the ground and scolded him: "Untie him, you are my employees, not bandits! Not everything can be solved by force." ”

Zhang Sanchang hurriedly smiled and said, "Yes, yes, Mr. Li has learned a lesson." ”

The shopkeeper got up from the ground, bent over and turned to leave.

Li Chao stopped and said, "Little brother, wait, I have something to ask you for, I offended a lot of people just now." ”

The shopkeeper had to turn around and say, "I kindly sold you things and food, but you said that my things were poisonous, isn't this a good intention, you are the same as the 'red wolf' back then." ”

When Li Chao heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at the shopkeeper in surprise for a long time, and Fang approached and looked at the shopkeeper carefully.

Through the faint light in the tent, Li Chao stared at the shopkeeper in surprise and said, "Little brother, what did you say about the 'red wolf' just now?"

The shopkeeper also looked at Li Chao carefully, and was suddenly a little surprised, but he didn't dare to speak.

Li Chao suddenly laughed and said, "Could it be that you are a camel baby!"

"Are you Uncle Chao?"

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up.

Both of them laughed, but they laughed strangely.

Li Chao said again: "It's been more than thirty years, why did you stay here?"

The camel baby was suddenly a little frightened, so she said worriedly: "It's been more than thirty years, why did Uncle Chao come back again?"

"People are old, they miss the old, and they want to come back and see. ”

Zhang Sanchang took a small folding stool for Li Chao to sit down, and Li Chao motioned for Zhang Sanchang to go out.

Zhang Sanchang understood, nodded to Li Chao and went out.

The camel baby looked outside, sure that there was no one outside the tent, Fang asked in a frightened whisper, "Uncle Chao came back this time, but ......"

Li Chao stopped and said, "Don't ask, since I met you here, I have something I want to ask you." Have strangers been here in recent months?"

The camel baby said: "Yes, there are two groups of people before and after, they went in half a year ago, and they haven't come out yet, I don't know if they are dead or alive." I also bought a lot of things in my little shop. ”

"Who are they, can you see clearly?"

"There were five people in the first group, an old man with four young people, and they didn't say what they were doing; in the latter group, there were only two people, and one was a professor, who said that they brought students to study the geology and hydrology of the Hongya River, and I guess they were all drunkards, not ...... drinking."

Li Chao raised his hand and interrupted the camel baby's words: "Tell me how you have lived all these years? Why did my employees suddenly fall ill?"

The camel baby said: "When I came out of it, I had a serious illness, and finally survived, so I helped the Tagger family to graze, and then the Tagger family died of a strange disease, so I inherited his cattle and sheep, simply sold, and opened a grocery store here to live." It's just that there is no business in the winter, and I have to wait until the snow melts in the spring and the herders come back from the cat winter farm, and my business will be better. ”

Li Chao looked at the camel baby's eyes, trying to see from his eyes how true his words were.

When the camel baby met Li Chao's sharp gaze, she hurriedly lowered her head and smiled: "As for your employees, I'm afraid it's related to the river in front." ”

"River?"

"The river in front of it looks like the snow of a snow-capped mountain, but in fact, it is probably a dark river, somehow it came out in front of this town, and its source is probably connected to the Red Cliff River. ”

Li Chao was surprised: "In this way, the Hongya River has been polluted. ”

"It's hard to say, I haven't been in it for decades, but when the herdsmen in the town come back, people and livestock are afraid to drink the water from this river. ”

"When did this begin?"

"It was a year ago. ”

Li Chao's heart suddenly became a little nervous.