I have to say that this old man Liu is really inkblotted, after driving a group of sheep away, he didn't see anyone for a long time.

This small open space in front of the commissary left a place of sheep dung eggs, the unique smell that makes people drunk and dreaming to tears is still permeating the air, Boss Zhang pinched his nose and said that he couldn't stand it, and went back to the car to hide, Chen Tao and Uncle Long and Haozi had a good match, as for Yang Lixuan, he sat on the stool on the side alone, his eyes were closed, and he didn't know whether he was closing his eyes or sleeping.

Annoyed with Haozi, he got up and walked around, and Chen Tao suddenly found that their car and mountain ghosts were gone.

Chen Tao went into the commissary again, and even looked at the toilet, but he didn't see the figure of the mountain ghost.

"Huh? Strange, where did the mountain ghost go? Shouldn't it? Chen Tao couldn't help but wonder. The mountain ghost is Uncle Long's person, and he obeys Uncle Long's orders, and where Uncle Long is there, he will definitely follow. When he first came in, Uncle Long was sitting next to Yang Lixuan and smoking, so the mountain ghost would never run away by himself, the question is, what about people?

"Oh, that benefactor, he's going to buy groceries." The proprietress saw Chen Tao spinning around, and couldn't help but lower her voice. Since Liu Laohan left, she has been cleaning up at home, and the boy is still in a coma, so she cleaned up the glass ballast that the boy broke and overturned before, as well as the instant noodle dregs on the ground. I mopped the ground inside and out again.

"What, grocery shopping? What's the situation? "Chen Tao is a little blind, didn't he just eat?

"I don't know, I just came in and asked me, if there is ginger and garlic for sale, I said it's really unfortunate, the last bit left yesterday was bought by people, there are no miles. He also asked me where to sell it, and I said that this was a product from the town, so I could only buy it there. ”

"So, he drove and went grocery shopping?" Chen Tao said.

"I guess so, I didn't pay attention." The woman shook her head.

"Forget it, I'll ask Uncle Long." Knowing that he couldn't ask her anything, Chen Tao went directly to ask Uncle Long, in this world, only Uncle Long knows where the mountain ghost is, and the mountain ghost will only listen to him. Similarly, if Uncle Long is not there one day, the mountain ghost must also know.

"Uncle, Uncle Long, the mountain ghost and the car are gone!" Chen Tao ran out of the store and asked Uncle Long.

"Hmm." Uncle Long didn't even look at him, squinting his eyes and leaning on the back of the chair to close his eyes.

"The hostess said he went grocery shopping? Is this what it's about? Pickles on the road? Seeing Uncle Long's strange look, Chen Tao couldn't help but be a little crazy, what is Uncle Long doing behind his back again?

"Well, yes, Kimchi." Uncle Long didn't look at him as usual, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Chen Tao's fingers twitched, eager to wake up Uncle Long. Just as he was going crazy, he heard a sound of a car, and the mountain ghost drove back.

"I'm going to see what you're going to do." Chen Tao thought as he walked towards the mountain ghost and the car.

When I got closer, I saw the mountain ghost get out of the driver's seat, turn around and go to the trunk, and drag out two large nylon plastic bags from inside.

"Huh? Little boss, why are you here, these are too heavy, you can help me get the boxes in the car, and I'll do the rest alone. ”

The strength of the mountain ghost is really big, and that big bag of things is fifty or sixty pounds, and it can be lifted on the shoulders with one hand. Chen Tao looked at the bag on the mountain ghost's shoulder, and walked towards Uncle Long with a bag in his hand, remembered the words of the mountain ghost just now, opened the back door of the car, and saw a few square cardboard boxes thrown behind, pick it up and take a look,

"Fully automatic juicer? What the heck? Looking at the things in his hands, Chen Tao's head was big for a while. glanced back at the mountain ghost and Uncle Long on the other side, then closed the car door and walked over.

"Kimchi still needs to be juiced?" Chen Tao raised the two juicers in his hand.

"I didn't find the right guy, so I had to make do with this," the mountain ghost said again, bringing a bag of small plastic bottles and two buckets of water.

"It's okay, go and borrow their basin and rolling pin from the proprietress and come over." Uncle Long commanded.

Haozi went to get two basins and two thick rolling pins, Uncle Long looked at everything and said:

"Alright, it's almost time to start!" I saw Haozi and the mountain ghosts, one peeling the garlic and the other washing the ginger.

"Why are you still stunned? Help! Uncle Long shouted at Chen Tao and threw him a garlic road.

"Huh? Oh, good......" Chen Tao was completely confused, stunned and busy. Yang Lixuan on the side also opened his eyes and walked over with Uncle Wang to help.

Peel the skin here, wash the ginger, and then put the garlic and ginger in a juicer to squeeze the juice and pour it into a large empty plastic bucket.

"What is this for?" Chen Tao asked while peeling the garlic.

"Make a potion, you'll use it later." Yang Lixuan said.

"Huh? What can this be used for? ”

"Bloodthirsty black worms are powerful, but it's not impossible to deal with them. This insect is very sensitive to smells, mashed garlic and ginger and squeezed into juice and rubbed on the body, the smell of garlic and ginger prevents them from burrowing into human skin. It can also have some protection against other mosquitoes and the like in the woods. ”

"Oooh!" Chen Tao suddenly realized and nodded.

I've been busy for a while, and it's a big bucket full. Yang Lixuan went to the car and took out two small bottles from his equipment bag, poured the red medicine powder into the bucket, stirred it well with a rolling pin, and then filled all the juice in the bucket into those empty plastic bottles.

"What is this?" Chen Tao asked.

"A special medicine powder, it can deal with those bloodthirsty black worms."

On the other side, Boss Chen in the car looked at the few people here peeling and juicing, and couldn't help but be curious, and asked, "What kind of tricks are those street boys doing?"

"I don't know about them." Yan shook his head and said.

"Hmph, Di Yilong, this old fox, will never do worthless things, these people must be doing something behind our backs, go, go over and take a look!" Boss Zhang got out of the car, knocked on the window of the other car, and called the two brothers over to the company.

"Come, come on." Seeing a few of them coming, the mountain ghost took four bottles filled with juice and threw them to them.

Boss Zhang took one, picked it up and looked at it, opened the lid and smelled it, almost didn't faint, he sneezed several times in a row, and snot and tears came out.

"Hey......

Seeing Boss Zhang's embarrassment, Chen Tao and Haozi held their mouths and laughed, Boss Zhang spat a few mouthfuls and said angrily:

"How many of you are going to kill me?"

"You smelled it yourself, and we didn't stop you." Chen Tao said with a smile, and handed a bottle of water to Boss Zhang by the way.

Boss Zhang hummed and took the water, took a sip and said, "What are you doing here?" Engage in these things? ”

"These are used to protect against those black bugs, and with it, you don't have to worry about the bugs below." Uncle Wang said.

"Oh oh oh, that's it, does it work?" Boss Zhang said suspiciously.

"Didn't you try it just now, if you think it's useless, you can use it, those bloodthirsty black worms, maybe you think you have too much oil and water, and you can't get used to it, they will automatically avoid you." Uncle Long quipped.

Boss Zhang ignored Uncle Long's jokes, picked up the bottle and looked at it, rubbed his nose with his hand, and couldn't help but sneeze two more times: "Okay, I believe you...... Yes...... Yes...... Sneezing ...... Once. Ay...... Oops, this one smells too big, I'll enter anyway...... Cart...... Yes...... Yes...... Ahh Go up. After speaking, he wiped his nose and went back with Yan and Brother Ah Cheng.

"Hahahahaha......" Chen Tao and Haozi couldn't help laughing, and Uncle Wang on the side asked, "Is he okay?"

"It's going to be fine, it's just that I'm suddenly stimulated by the smell of medicinal juice, just slow down for a while." Yang Lixuan shook his head and said.

Everyone filled the remaining empty bottles, cleaned them briefly, and gave them to the proprietress of the commissary. Looking at the more than a dozen bottles on the ground, Uncle Long said:

"Well, that's enough, enough for us for a month."

"I'm sorry, my sixth man went out to play mahjong and went to see him, I have arranged all the sheep, when will we go?"

Hearing this shout, Chen Tao couldn't mention how happy he was, and it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when he glanced at his watch. Xin said, "Good girl, your old man is here!" ”

Bidding farewell to the proprietress of the commissary, everyone finally set foot on the road to the cannibal valley. This time, there was one more Liu Laohan, Yang Lixuan still returned to Uncle Wang's car, and Liu Laohan and Chen Taohaozi squeezed in the back seat and took the lead on the mountain road.

Liu Laohan herded sheep all the year round, and there was a very strange smell on his body, but everyone didn't say anything along the way, although he felt a little uncomfortable, but he was not so hypocritical. A few people chatted with Liu Laohan about a lot of local anecdotes, and they were quite harmonious along the way.

The road to the mountains was not very far, and I just didn't want to stay in front of the commissary by driving. Within a few minutes, the car arrived at a gap at the foot of the mountain, the mountain ghost drove the car directly into the woods, everyone got out of the car, Uncle Long said: "Take the equipment, enter the mountain, the car is here, I have arranged the people, someone will come and drive away in half an hour." ”

Chen Tao followed Uncle Long out of the car. Turning to the trunk and pulling out all his big and small bags, Haozi saw it and said, "You don't need these rags, throw them all back."

"You're in tatters! This is a treasure that I only found after going to several shops and supermarkets! Chen Tao retorted.

"Baby? Oops, what baby? ”

Hearing the sound here, Boss Zhang came over with a smile, and when he saw the big bag in Chen Tao's hand, he reached out and took one to see.

Chen Tao didn't expect him to take it, but he didn't pay attention for a while, and he took one. Boss Zhang excitedly put the bag in the trunk and opened it to take a look, and suddenly there were a few black lines on the door of his head.

"Oh, what the hell is this, it's just a bunch of garbage!" Uncle Long threw away the bag in disgust, turned his head to Chen Tao and said, "Come on, Hou Shengzi, your Uncle Zhang let you see what equipment is!" After saying that, he turned a color towards the Ah Cheng brothers, and the brothers walked to the back of the pickup truck and untied the big black leather seal behind them.

There were four large boxes in the back of the car, stacked neatly, and the two soldiers went up and carried one down. Boss Zhang walked over and opened it and beckoned Chen Tao to come and see.

Chen Tao stepped forward and saw that there were layers of storage shelves in the box, and on the shelves were neatly stacked with rows of wolf's tooth flashlights, mountaineering ropes, gas masks, goggles, compasses, headlamps, sapper folding shovels, and flint...... There is even a radio intercom. Chen Tao was dumbfounded. Chen Tao picked up a folding shovel and looked at it, and then checked it in his hand, he had only seen a folding shovel of this quality on TV. Thinking about the imitations I bought for dozens of dollars in my bag, I couldn't help but blush a little.

Ah Cheng pulled out two backpacks from the car and threw them to Chen Tao and Haozi and said, "Load them yourself." Uncle Long and the others on the other side also came over early, took their backpacks from the car and began to load equipment and food.

Ah Cheng and the soldiers got into the car and carried the remaining three large boxes down. Chen Tao leaned up to see, one was a sleeping bag and a tent, as well as some clothes and the like, and the top of the other box was a small bag, after opening, there were some commonly used first-aid medicines and medical supplies such as bandages, and the lower row was compressed biscuits, beef jerky and other food, and below was a smokeless stove, cold fireworks, and things like Luoyang shovels and steel pipes.

The last box was black, and when Ah Cheng and the soldiers carried it down, they obviously felt that the things in it were not light. Uncle Long glanced at Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang nodded. I don't know what the two meant, Uncle Long glanced directly at Haozi, Haozi also nodded, turned to Liu Laohan, who was joining in the fun, and pulled him to the other side of the woods, a little far away, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

Seeing that Liu Laohan was walking away, Uncle Wang nodded to Brother Ah Cheng, and the two of them opened the lid together, and Chen Tao almost sweated out of fright at this look.

In the box, it turned out to be rows of pistols! To tell the truth, Chen Tao is just a college student who has just graduated, in this new era of reform and opening up, the country is rich and the people are safe, Chen Tao never thought that Uncle Long would have guns. In Chen Tao's cognition, guns are absolutely untouchable forbidden areas.

Chen Tao looked at these people around him with some horror, and then looked at Haozi who was pulling Liu Laohan to speak in the distance, at this moment, his heart stirred up shocking waves, and all his cognitions of the people around him collapsed at this moment.

"What kind of family do I live in? Who are the people around me? At this moment, Chen Tao's brain was completely in a state of shock and disbelief frenzy. He thought of his father, of his grandfather, of everyone around him.

He stared blankly at the box of guns and bullets, shocked and nervous, and then calmed down in disbelief that he couldn't even believe.

"Now that I've come to this point, even if the sky falls, I'll admit it!" Chen Tao knew in his heart that since he had chosen this step, he had to accept it unconditionally, and there was no room for refusal. What kind of secrets does this family have? Chen Tao didn't dare to think about it anymore.

The people around, including Uncle Long, quickly took the pistol and bullets and hid them in their backpacks, leaving only a lone stand lying on the box.

Boss Zhang on the side saw that he was like this, and at a glance, he knew that he had never touched a gun, and couldn't help sneering in his heart: "You street boy, I thought you had a lot of ability, it turned out to be just a cucumber egg who hadn't even touched a gun, oops, tsk......tsk"

Boss Zhang shook his head in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "How is it, little boss of the Chen family, my equipment is good, right?"

Chen Taoli ignored him, and at this moment his heart was struggling violently. He looked up at Uncle Long again, Uncle Long was also looking at him, from Uncle Long's eyes, Chen Tao saw a trace of encouragement, a trace of expectation, and a touch of emotion that made Chen Tao couldn't help but want to cry.

He knew what Uncle Long wanted to say, and he also understood what Uncle Long meant, if he couldn't bear it, don't touch these things, don't touch the secrets of the family, just be an ordinary person, no one will blame him.

Chen Tao hesitated and struggled. His hands were shaking, his fists were clenched, and his nails were digging into his flesh.

"I have to make a choice!" This is Chen Tao's inner voice. He knew that as long as he took a small step forward, his life would be completely changed, and everything that had been once would be completely goodbye.

Looking at Uncle Long's eyes, he wanted to retreat, wanted to avoid all this, wanted to go back to the time when he still didn't understand anything, but all this was already impossible. No matter whether he chooses this path today or not, he can't go back to the old self who didn't know anything all day long.

He looked at Haozi in the distance, and thought of this brother who grew up with him, who dropped out of school early to follow Li Lao to learn the craft, and now it seems that he is also sacrificing for the family's affairs.

"So you've been carrying these things since the beginning?" Looking at the thin body in front of him, Chen Tao's eyes were a little blurry, "Thank you for your hard work, brother!" ”

"You have to grow up quickly, this family needs you, and the Spirit Alliance needs you!" The voices of his father and Uncle Long overlapped and amplified infinitely in his mind, and he remembered the words that Uncle Long asked him to remember, we are mausoleum keepers, not tomb robbers, and at any time, we must not forget our duty as human beings!

"Yes, my duty, my heart! I am the Chen family, and I am a member of the Chen family, the mausoleum keeper! I am, Tao Chen! This is the responsibility I have to bear! ”

He exhaled tremblingly, and slowly stretched out his hand, which was still a little trembling, and the blue and purple nail marks on the palm of his hand gradually became a trace of blood.

Syllable! Chen Tao's hand pressed heavily on the gun,

"I'm not going to back down!"