In 1960, Liu Xiangui was 20 years old, and in the best years of his life, he suffered a catastrophe, which was later called "three years of natural disasters", also known as "three years of difficult times".

That year, Liu Xiangui's hometown suffered a severe drought and there was no harvest, and Liu Xiangui's father sat on the field all day long, looking at the barren farmland without saying a word, and finally fell in the field one day. By the time Liu Xiangui arrived to carry his father home, his father was already dying.

Before dying, Liu Xiangui and his father did not persuade Liu Xiangui to flee like others, but told him that he must first live, and secondly, he must guard the family's fields.

"I just don't believe it, God doesn't let it rain!" This was the last sentence that Liu Xiangui's father said.

Liu Xiangui hastily buried his father, and then followed some young adults of the same age in the village into the mountain and walked in the direction of Guanwu Mountain.

Why go into the mountains?

Liu Xiangui's answer was: "Many people are running to big cities, what's the use?" The peasants are hungry, and the people in your city still have something to eat? The only way to run into the mountains is to have everything, wild vegetables, wild things. ”

At that time, food and people were disproportionate, so the less people there were, the more abundant the food on the contrary.

In nature, animals are relatively simpler than humans, so their biological characteristics doom them to live according to the laws of nature, while human beings are the opposite, and people's selfish desires lead to their continuous demand from nature, which eventually leads to the complete exhaustion of nature.

Liu Xiangui and the others, who originally planned to take the main road, were worried that more and more people would join their team on the road, resulting in an uneven distribution of food found after entering the mountain, so they could only let the hunter Liu Jianguo lead the way from the small road.

Because Liu Xiangui's village is basically surnamed Liu, the five people in the same family are basically of the same clan, all surnamed Liu, and there are two people called Liu Jianguo.

Why is there the name Liu Baogu? Originally, his name was Liu Mai, and during the Cultural Revolution, his whole family was criticized because of this name, and the reason for the criticism was that they thought that their whole family was capitalist and named their children with the word "wheat".

Helpless, Liu Mai's father can only name him Liu Baogu, bud valley is corn, corn is always coarse grain, right? That's why there was such a strange name, which was indeed ridiculous in that era.

When these five young people surnamed Liu came to the range of Guanwu Mountain, it was already five days later, and for five days, they were all eating gray grass and grass roots to deceive their stomachs, and they survived all the way, but they didn't expect that after coming to the foot of the mountain, they found that there were footprints everywhere.

Liu Xiangui was stupid at the time: "Finish chatting, finish chatting, engage in hammers, come late to chat, you can know that there are many people who come to chat." ”

Except for Da Liu, everyone else sat down on the ground dejectedly, unwilling to move forward.

Liu Baogu, who was dizzy with hunger, sat there, looked at the grass next to him, pulled a handful and was about to send it to his mouth, but Liu Weidong snatched it down, raised his hand and slapped him: "Don't eat, you can't eat, it's not gray grass that eats and wants to make trouble!" ”

Liu Baogu's tears fell at that time: "I'm so hungry that I can't walk, what should I do now?" ”

Liu Xiangui took out the kettle, shook it, handed it to Liu Baogu, asked him to drink saliva first, and then asked Liu, who was standing there and had been looking at the mountain: "Liu Dawa, what should you do?" Is it into the mountain or cut back? ”

"Into the mountains!" Da Liu clenched his fists, "There must be a place where there is a food le, but it depends on whether you dare to cut it." ”

The eyes of the other four people lit up, and Liu Xiangui immediately asked, "What is the place?" Why do you dare to cut it? Do you want to take us to cut steal? ”

Liu Da shook his head: "It's not stealing, it's taking, no one wants it, do you remember?" I told you before that I had an uncle who used to hunt in the Foggy Mountains every winter, and one winter when I was a teenager, I followed him into the mountains, and by mistake found that place, where there were fruit trees, and rabbits ran everywhere. ”

As he spoke, Liu Da swallowed his saliva, and the other four people also looked at each other, and Liu Xiangui immediately said, "You want to go far?" Can't walk together at night? ”

"Actually, it's not far, but I want to go around the ravine, at least until tomorrow night." Liu Da looked at the other four people, "Do you cut it?" ”

Liu Xiangui nodded vigorously: "Anyway, I'm waiting for death, cut!" You guys? ”

The remaining three also nodded immediately, and stood up with each other: "Cut (go)!" ”

The five of them continued to move forward under the leadership of Da Liu, and as Da Liu said, they went around the ravine for a day and a night, and finally came to a pass on the morning of the third day, and at the same time saw the whole field of wild apple trees there.

"It's really a food." Liu Xiangui pointed to Lin Zi and shouted, "It's the food for the soldiers!" ”

This kind of wild apple is known locally as the food for the soldiers, and it is also called Shanli Red, but this is the name of some parts of Sichuan, and it is not the same as the Shanli Red called in the north, but in any case, this kind of thing can be eaten, and at that time, it was considered extremely delicious for these five people.

The five rushed into the apple grove like crazy, each guarding a tree, picking wild apples, eating and laughing like people who had just escaped from hell.

After the five of them ate and fed, they sat there against the trunk of the tree and looked at each other and smirked, Liu Weidong and Liu Yuwa were about to sleep with a yawn, and this one yawn went down and immediately infected the remaining three people.

There is a saying in Sichuan that "when you are full and dozing, you are hungry spirit", and the five people who had been hungry for a long time finally ate enough, coupled with the fatigue of the journey, they soon fell asleep and did not even say a superfluous word.

The next morning, when the sky was slightly bright, Liu Xiangui was awakened by the cold air in the mountains, he sat up with his arms crossed, looked around with half-squinted eyes, and felt a little hungry again, so he stood up and went to pick the wild apple, and at the moment when he stood up, he seemed to see something in the corner of his eye.

Liu Xiangui turned around and looked at a slightly raised earthen bag on the right side of one of the wild apple trees, and there were some wild apples in front of the earthen bag, but those apples had already rotted.

Because they were so excited to see the relationship between the wild apple grove yesterday that no one noticed that there was such a dirt bag under the tree.

Liu Xiangui walked around and found that there were two or three such dirt bags under each apple tree, he was deeply puzzled, and immediately went to wake up the others, only to find that Da Liu and Liu Yuwa were gone.

Liu Xiangui immediately woke up Liu Weidong and Liu Baogu, the two woke up, and looked at the place where Da Liu and Liu Yuwa slept last night, as well as the dirt bags everywhere, plus the relationship between them who had just woken up, and they were directly stunned.

"Human?"

It took a long time for Liu Baogu to burst out of his mouth these two words, he had been seriously frightened in the criticism, and his courage became very small, in the face of this situation, he immediately stood beside Liu Xiangui, reached out and grabbed his clothes.

Liu Weidong was calmer, stepped forward and touched the place where Da Liu and Liu Yuwa slept last night, and then said: "The two of them have only been gone for a long time, you see, they have slept in the place, the grass is still flattened, and there is no dew on it, so it should not take more than half an hour to walk." ”

Liu Weidong watched Liu Xiangui keep staring at those dirt bags, and stepped forward to ask, "Brother Gui, what are you thinking?" ”

Liu Xiangui pointed to the dirt bags: "You say, do these things look like tomb bags?" ”

As soon as Liu Xiangui's words came out, Liu Baogu was so frightened that he hid behind him, clinging to him, sticking his head out from behind his shoulders and looking at it carefully, but thinking that there were still these dirt bags beside and behind him, he immediately turned around and leaned his back against Liu Xiangui, trembling slightly.

"Bud Valley, do you want claws?" Liu Weidong was upset when he saw Liu Baogu's appearance, "Brother Gui, what do you say?" ”

Liu Xiangui thought for a while, and looked at the foggy pass: "They must be found." ”

Liu Baogu looked at the pass: "I don't cut it, there is a food in this place, there is a small river at that end, there is everything, why do we want to cut it?" ”

Liu Weidong said impatiently: "Let's cut, you stay." ”

Liu Baogu immediately shook his head again, and when Liu Xiangui was just about to raise his feet and move towards the pass, he remembered something, took off his coat and hat: "Decorate more food for the rescuers." ”

Liu Weidong and Liu Baogu immediately did so, and after the three of them tried to fill enough wild apples, they walked towards the pass.

Walking into the pass, the three of them found that the situation inside was much more complicated than they imagined, with towering trees and dense jungle blocking their way, coupled with the dense fog, the visibility was very low, so they could not see too far, and walked quite slowly and with difficulty.

Liu Baogu followed behind the two tremblingly, and Liu Weidong deliberately trampled down the surrounding bushes and broke the hanging branches, which was regarded as a mark, and if he got lost, he could follow these marks and return again, while Liu Xiangui walked in the front, carefully observing the walking traces left by Da Liu and Liu Yuwa.

After walking for almost half an hour, Liu Xiangui stopped and looked at the foggy jungle ahead: "There are no traces, there is nothing, what can I do?" Is it to cut back or keep going? ”

"Cut back!" Liu Baogu immediately said, and after speaking, looking at Liu Weidong's eyes staring at him, he immediately lowered his head and shut up without speaking.

Liu Weidong looked around: "Let's go!" Back to Cheler's words, that little wild apple, we have to eat it sooner or later, it's better to break through and try our luck, I think, Liu Dawa must know that there is a good place in this mountain, he doesn't want to tell us, what do you think, Liu Yuwa is his father's doll, he is the head of his personal family, the three of us are outsiders, he definitely doesn't want us to follow them. ”

Liu Xiangui nodded: "It makes sense, then let's go, Baogu, don't be afraid, you follow closely, if you are hungry, eat first." ”

Liu Baogu nodded silently and walked between the two, eating wild apples as they walked.

……

When Liu Xiangui recalled this, he didn't say any more, but poured another glass of wine, and after drinking it dry, he poured a second glass, and when he raised the second glass, Chen Taidong held his wrist and asked, "Brother, what happened later?" What happened? ”

Liu Xiangui looked at Chen Taidong, shook his head woodenly, and then grinned, broke Chen Taidong's hand after laughing, and drank the wine in the cup again.

Chen Taidong watched Liu Xiangui drink cup by cup, stopped talking, and gave Xingshu a look, Xingshu immediately got up, walked to the shopkeeper sitting at the door, squatted down, and asked, "What's wrong with your father?" Why don't you say it halfway? ”

The shopkeeper turned around and glanced at Liu Xiangui, who was already drunk, and pointed to his head: "I said yes, he has a problem with his brain." ”

Xingshu shook his head to show that he didn't understand, and the shopkeeper said: "I was a teenager, and I only heard my old man talk about the incident back then, but every time he talked about it, he just talked about them walking into the mountain, and then he didn't say nag, I don't know why, and every time he said where he drank, he couldn't let him drink, he was going crazy, only by drinking wine, he was better, I said nag just now, you don't believe it." ”

Xingshu turned to look at Liu Xiangui, who was already lying on the table, and shook his head helplessly at Chen Taidong, saying that he didn't ask anything, just when he got up to go back, the shopkeeper said again: "But there is a thing that is really Le, they were at that time, five people cut, and in the end there were only two people who came back, one is my old man, and the other is the Liu Baogu he just said." ”

Xingshu squatted down again and asked, "You mean, Liu Baogu is still alive?" Still living here? ”

"It's still alive, and then he left to chat, and I heard that he cut the north or somewhere." The shopkeeper looked at the torture technique.

Torture sighed, "Okay. ”

Just when the torture technique was about to leave again, the shopkeeper said again: "But Mum, a few years ago, Liu Baogu came back to chat, so he lived in the town." ”

The torture technique almost didn't fall out, and after standing firm, he looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Big brother, can you finish the words at once?" ”

Instead, the shopkeeper looked at the torture with reproachful eyes: "You didn't ask. ”

Xingshu nodded: "Okay, okay, my fault, can you tell me, where does Liu Baogu live?" What is the exact address in town? ”

"You go out of the town, go west, on the edge of the town, you can see his house at a glance, so good! Don't be wild! People cultivate their own wilderness! The shopkeeper looked envious, "Look at Liu Baogu, and then look at my old man, oops, it's just a heaven and an underground, Mofabi!" ”

Xingshu nodded, and when he was about to correct the pronunciation of the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper got up and said, "I know, it's called a villa, not a wild one, but I said that you are used to nagging, anyway, you understand nag?" ”

The bitter torture nod, got up, and nodded towards Chen Taidong.

Chen Taidong had a little smile on his face, looked at Ma Fei, who was still eating and had already eaten the fifth bowl of rice, and asked, "Let's go, boss, settle the account." ”

Ma Fei put down the dishes and chopsticks: "Okay, I'm almost done, I've eaten eight points full." ”

Chen Taidong was stunned for a moment, and when he was paying the bill, he secretly asked the torture technique: "Torture, your fiancée can really eat, five bowls, five bowls of white rice, where is she Ma Fei, Zhu Fei!" ”

Xingshu looked at the empty bowl on the table, and Ma Fei, who got up without a bulge in his stomach, gave her a thumbs up, but Ma Fei looked at him strangely, not knowing why.

At the same time as they went to Liu Baogu's villa, in the private room of the restaurant with a very decent decoration two streets away, the conversation between She Caixiang and Fan Meng was about to end.

Fan Meng ate the noodles carefully, swallowed them with difficulty, and said, "You should go back, or they will suspect you." ”

She Caixiang was indifferent, and the food in front of her was completely untouched: "I want to know if he is okay." ”

Fan Meng shook his head: "You shouldn't ask me, I don't know, I'm just a messenger, but you can't refuse your mission because of this, otherwise, he will die." ”

She Caixiang squeezed the bag in her hand tightly and got up: "You tell Lian Jiuqi, don't break your promise, when I find "Nine Sons", I must also hand over the book with one hand and the other hand!" ”

Fan Meng nodded: "I can tell you on my behalf, but I will modify your tone, because, if I repeat it directly according to your tone, Lian Jiuqi will make him suffer." ”

She Caixiang was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I'm sorry." ”

Fan Meng smiled: "Accept your apology and leave quickly." ”

After She Caixiang turned around and left the private room, Fan Meng slowly took out her mobile phone and dialed the number: "I'm Goumao, she is basically sure that the "Nine Sons" is in the hands of the torturer. ”

The person on the other end of the phone said coldly: "One of the tasks of "Nine Sons", Qimen's clues must also be obtained, you should convey this to her, right?" ”

Fan Meng said: "I conveyed it, but I don't understand, why didn't you let me go to Tang Sirong?" Obviously, the most accurate clue is in my hands. ”

"Because now you are no longer Fan Meng, but dog hair." The man sneered, "And you are not as smart as the torture technique, let him do this, get twice the result with half the effort, you do it, it will only get worse and worse, what you need to do is follow my plan and follow them, I believe that with your current appearance, the torture technique may not be able to recognize you, so you just need to be cautious." ”

Fan Meng hesitated, and then asked, "But, when Lian Jiuqi asked, what should I do?" ”

"Don't worry, I've got you covered." The man replied, paused, and said, "Lian Jiuqi definitely didn't think that I would hide behind his back." ”

Fan Meng thought for a moment and said, "Thank you, I will definitely complete the task." ”

The man said "um": "Don't worry, as long as you complete the task, what I promised you will be given to you, and I will also arrange the best plastic surgeon to ensure that you will be more handsome than before." ”

After saying that, the man let out a long laugh before hanging up the phone.

Fan Meng sat there holding the phone, all that echoed in his mind was the strange and weird laughter, and at the same time he was guessing who the person on the other end of the phone was.

Of course, that person is not Lian Jiuqi, but he must be from the Cusco Company, otherwise, that person will not arrange for the people on the ship to treat Lian Jiuqi well after he leaves and give him the best medical conditions, otherwise, he will most likely die on the ship, because Lian Jiuqi simply wants to kill him.

Fan Meng covered his face, and suddenly there was a conflict that wanted to cry, but it was not because of remorse, but because the wound left by Lian Jiuqi was really painful, and it hurt his heart.

"Lian Jiuqi, I must kill you!" Fan Meng clenched his fists and said fiercely.