Volume 3 Life History Chapter 4 Mountain Ghost Stories

After listening to what the shallot said, Dong Wu's face darkened. Without saying a word, he turned and sat back beside Bei Juese, staring blankly at the lifeless face of the sleeping man, and fell into deep thought.

After the shallot finished speaking, he rubbed his sore neck a few times, and leaned back on the carriage to close his eyes and recuperate. Song Gongbao looked at the shallots, and then at the East Invincible and the North Beauty, he was bored and did not spoil the dull atmosphere in the carriage, and once again stretched out his head to the window to look at the scenery.

In silence, the speeding carriage continued to lead everyone towards the unknown road, the rolling wheels rolled over the spacious streets of the bustling city, and crossed the quiet bluestone road of the town. Along the way, the scenery along the way became more and more desolate, and the road ahead became more and more remote.

On the fourteenth day, the carriage had passed a narrow country road and turned into a barren mountain road lined with half-man-high weeds. Along the mountain road bumpy for more than an hour, at noon, not far ahead appeared a small village built by the mountain, there is a simple tea house next to the mountain road in front of the village entrance, that hung on the bamboo pole, wrote a big "tea" word, can not see the original color of the old cloth banner fluttering in the wind.

The shallot ordered the coachman to park the car in front of the tea house and said to the people in the car, "The carriage in front of us is impassable, so let's rest here for a while before we go on the road." ”

Song Gongbao reacted and shouted: "What? Aren't we going to walk? ”

"That's right." Shallot replied neatly, turned around and jumped out of the carriage, shouting at the boss who was dozing in the tea house: "Boss, come four bowls of tea and ten vegetable and meat buns!" ”

After a few people gathered around the dilapidated square tea table and sat on the rickety bench, Dong Wushu first asked, "Onion, how long will it take for us to find the person you are talking about?" ”

Shallot looked at the desolate mountain road in front of him, which seemed to have no end in sight, and said, "Just walk the road ahead, and pass through a place called the Boar Grove, and it won't take long to reach it." ”

The boss who was pouring tea for them listened to the words of the shallot, his hand trembled, the tea spilled on the table, his face turned pale and he asked inarticulately: "Everyone, guest officers, do you want to go to the wild boar forest?" ”

The unusual behavior of the owner of the tea house made everyone suspicious.

Song Gongbao glanced at the individuals present, and then asked with a smile: "Boss, the wild boar forest is just a place infested with wild boars at most, uncle, my martial arts are still good, and I can't look down on a few little wild boar uncles!" ”

"It's not like that!" The boss shouted in response and put the big copper kettle on the table hard, and the broken table shook a few times, and some of the hot tea in the pot shook and spilled on the table. The boss turned his head and glanced at the mountain road in front of him, and quickly turned his head around, saying: "There were wild boars in the wild boar forest more than ten years ago, and then they were hunted by hunters, and now it is difficult to find a trace of wild boars in the forest......

Song Gongbao interrupted the boss with a laugh and said, "Since there are no more wild boars, what are you afraid of?" ”

"You don't know anything about the guest officer!" The boss's thin old face became serious, and the wrinkles on his face became more three-dimensional. He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, bent down as if he was afraid of alarming something bad, suppressed his voice and leaned in front of a few people and said word by word: "The wild boar forest is haunted!" ”

The pretended mysterious voice, combined with the wrinkled old face that looks like it is dry, has the effect of adding to the terrifying atmosphere. However, the people around the broken table waiting for tea were all masters who were accustomed to wind and waves, and their faces did not show the slightest look of fear expected by the owner of the tea house, and several people just stared at his vicissitudes of life with indifferent eyes.

The boss was very uncomfortable by the calm attitude of everyone and the gaze that stuck to his face, he straightened his waist and said excitedly: "I mean really! The nearby hunters and woodcutters had seen a female ghost in the woods many times, with a disheveled head, green fangs, and a long red tongue! That female ghost is very fierce, and she will also ride a very ugly wild boar in broad daylight! Many people were so frightened by the female ghost that they couldn't afford to fall ill or even die......"

"Boss!" Dong Wushu slapped a large string of copper coins on the table and interrupted him, "Please hurry up and pour tea, we have to continue on our way." ”

The boss was stunned, his eyes fell on the copper coins that could be worth an unknown number of bowls of tea and vegetable and meat buns, and swallowed his saliva. He grabbed the string of copper coins and put them in his arms, picked up the copper kettle and neatly filled several empty bowls with hot tea. While he was pouring tea, he muttered as if he was talking to himself and as if he was deliberately speaking to everyone: "That wild boar forest was originally a good place, and more than ten years ago, people often saw beautiful little fairies flying around in the trees in the forest, who knew that in recent years there would be ghosts, what an evil door!" ”

Everyone pretended not to hear, lowered their heads, drank tea and nibbled on bags. Only the shallot's face changed after listening to the boss's words, but he quickly returned to normal and joined the team drinking tea and eating bags as if nothing happened.

Dong Invincible's expression changed from the message to the shallot, and he couldn't help but feel a little more suspicious in his heart.

After drinking tea and nibbling on steamed buns in the tea house, Dong Wushu carried out the North Juese from the carriage and tied him firmly on his back with a cloth belt, while Song Gongbao automatically and consciously helped carry all the burdens. Because the carriage in front of him could not pass, Dong Wushu asked the coachman to stay at the inn at the bottom of the mountain and wait for them to return.

The carriage soon departed.

Shallot raised his eyes to look at the sky and said, "If you go faster, you should be able to get to that place before dusk." ”

Under the sympathetic gaze of the owner of the tea house, under the leadership of the shallot, Dong Wushu walked in the middle with the north on his back, and Song Gongbao dragged a few big burdens to the rear, and began to stride towards the winding mountain road in front.

Walk forward one foot deep and one foot shallow along the winding and undulating narrow mountain road, and after turning a corner and making sure that there is no one around, the shallots began to perform light skills and stepped on the weeds and barren trees and ran straight forward, Dong Wushu and Song Gongbao saw this and hurriedly used light skills to follow.

The three of them jumped up and down among the grass and trees for almost two hours, and saw the sun gradually slanting to the west, but the narrower and steeper mountain road in front of them still seemed to have no end, and the East Invincible was a little anxious. He sped up and chased after him less than half a meter behind the shallot, and asked loudly, "How long will it take to get there?" ”

The shallot head didn't reply, "It's almost there." ”

Hearing him say this, Dong Wushu couldn't say anything more.