Arrival in Banai
Beijing Liuli Pavilion.
Mengli and Little Brother had already packed their bags and were about to leave for Banai, but they were postponed by a phone call from Nan Feng.
"Little brother, we still have to meet someone, and the trip will have to be postponed." Mengli hung up the phone, looked at the little brother with the black gold ancient knife on his back, and said helplessly.
"Hmm." The little brother nodded, and agreed.
Oh, forgot to mention. The Black Gold Ancient Knife was found a month ago, Nan Feng brought people back, that place was extremely dangerous, although Mengli put his blood in a small bottle to protect those guys, but some of the guys were injured, but fortunately, no one left their lives there, and found the Black Gold Ancient Knife.
Mengli, who walked into the Liuli Pavilion with the little brother, looked at Nan Feng who was walking towards her, and asked, "Where are the people?" ”
"The Xuan Room on the second floor," Nan Feng replied.
"Hmm."
Mengli and the little brother went up to the second floor and walked into the Xuan room. The short-haired and capable woman sitting inside stood up: "Miss Dream." ”
"A-Ning," Mengli smiled at her, and she was relieved to see that she was okay.
That's right, it's Aning who wants to see them.
"What's the matter? In such a hurry to see us? Mengli asked suspiciously, but she probably guessed something, but this matter still needs to be said by the person concerned to be convincing.
"I've decided not to go back because I don't want to see my teammates die one by one. And in my boss's opinion, I'm already missing from the Western Queen Mother Country. A-Ning said, she thought of Xiao Qi and a few subordinates who died in the Lu Palace, as well as the sixth wife who died for her in the Devil's City and in the West Queen Mother Country, which was enough, so she made this decision.
"So you're coming to me?" Mengli looked at her and smiled.
A-Ning shook his head, noncommittal. She said: "After we came out of there, Wu Sansheng rested for a few days and got better, so he went in, and I couldn't stop it." I waited outside for a few more days, and then I saw the black blind man come out with a man. Then she took out a note from her pocket, "This is what he gave me, let me give it to my little brother." ”
The little brother who had been silent reacted when he heard this, and took the note given to him and opened it, with two words written on it: Banai.
"The blind man is really a god, and he can still know that we are going to Banai." Mengli looked at the note and sighed a little.
Really...... Unsolvable mysteries, one ring after another!
"Why, are you going to Banai?" Aning asked.
Mengli nodded, "Knock knock", and there was a knock on the door.
Mengli: "Come in." ”
"Don't be in charge, the fat man is looking for you." Nan Feng opened the door and led an acquaintance in. "The person got it, and I went to get busy."
"Little brother, sister, I can be regarded as finding you two!" Before the fat man entered the door, he opened his mouth and said, "Wu Xie Na......" Seeing A-Ning, the fat man closed his mouth and looked at Mengli, "Why is she here?" ”
Mengli pondered for a while and joked, "Come to me." ”
"Isn't it, you all believe her? Don't forget, how badly she deceived us. The fat man saw her accepting expression, and his face was incredulous, indeed he had really been deceived so badly before.
"Fatty, why don't you believe her? She just didn't stand out from us before, but you can't deny that we've lived and died together. Mengli said.
The fat man wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't speak, and indeed he couldn't deny this, so he could only acquiesce to this.
Seeing this, Mengli opened her mouth: "Speaking of business, what are you doing?" ”
"Hey, that's the case...... the fat man told him what happened, and then Wu Xie explained what happened, "Wu Xie asked me to take you and my little brother to meet in Banai." ”
Mengli nodded: "Oh." ”
The little brother on the side had deep eyes, and he always felt that something unexpected would happen this time.
A-Ning listened and pondered for a while, and said, "I'll help you too." You saved me, and I don't want to owe anyone anything. Although A-Ning said so, he regarded them as friends in his heart, after all, it was a fact that he was born and died together in the Lu Palace, the Xisha Submarine Tomb, the Genting Heavenly Palace, and the West Queen Mother Kingdom.
Moreover, she also met Wu Xie, very inexplicable, she wanted to know if Wu Xie still remained innocent after going through so many things.
Everything was agreed, and Mengli looked at Nan Feng on the side: "You know about this time, remember to keep it secret, especially the old man, don't let him worry too much." ”
"Don't worry, the head of the family has me here." Nan Feng replied.
Mengli nodded, indicating that she understood, and then instructed: "When I am far away, remember what I told you." ”
Nan Feng hooked his lips, a little helpless: "I know, how uneasy is the young master?" ”
"Everything is unknown, how can I rest assured?" As she spoke, Mengli sighed.
The two played dumb riddles, and the three people next to them didn't understand, but they wouldn't ask curiously, after all, curiosity killed the cat.
The group packed up and headed to Banai.
Banai is a Yao village, located in the hinterland of the 100,000 mountains and mountains of Guangxi, which feels like a poor countryside in the mountains. But on the way, Mengli has expectations in her heart, what will the place where the little brother live be like? And where he lives, will there be his relatives or friends?
Mengli, Little Brother, Fat Man and A Ning first went to Hangzhou to meet Wu Xie, and after telling all the things, they set off from Hangzhou, flew to Nanning, and then transferred to the train to Shangsi.
It's not an inverted fight, they didn't bring much with them, they were relaxed, and they joked along the way, saying that there were some and no, than Mengli and the little brother, and Wu Xie and A Ning.
Speaking of Wu Xie and A Ning, the fat man felt that the atmosphere between them was a bit strange...... Strange ambiguous.
Close to Shangsi, it is full of mountains, the train passes through the caves one by one, and the mountains in the distance are surrounded by mist, which is the hinterland of the 100,000 mountains.
The mountains of Guangxi are called 100,000 mountains, hundreds of kilometers of mountains are paved together, the forest area is more than 5 million acres, its center is hundreds of thousands of acres of primitive jungle no man's land, the mountains are stacked, the forest is lush, the waterfalls and streams are said, it is said to be a blessed place in the heavens, it is the place where the immortals gather. However, this terrain has also caused extreme inconvenience in transportation, and Mengli and their choice of trains is also for this reason, people in the plain area, taking a car into the hinterland of Guangxi, may vomit dry.
Wu Xie looked at the mountain, his mood was very strange, in the past, seeing this kind of situation often meant that he would have to go deep into this lofty mountain in the future, to find some secrets buried deep in it. This time, however, their destination was just a county town in the mountains.
This feeling is very strange, I don't know whether it is disappointment or happiness, looking at the cyan granite peaks and dense forest sea in the distance, Wu Xie always felt a little goosebumps.
When I arrived at Shangsi, I went to Nanping and then entered Banai, took a car and walked for a while, it was the height of summer, the scenery was so beautiful that it almost melted, Wu Xie and the fat man were full of flowers, and even the little brother's eyes were full of light, and Mengli and A Ning were even more laughing like best friends.
In this way, it was delayed for a long time on the road, and it was already close to evening when he arrived in Banai, Wu Xie asked a few travelers to get the information before, and knew that Yaozhai could stay there, and asked all the way to a person named Agui, so as to find a place.
Agui is in his forties, has two daughters and a son, they are not very old, there are two tall Yao wooden buildings, one lives by himself, and the other is used as a hotel. He looked at the little brother, Wu Xie thought he would recognize it, but he didn't expect him to react at all.
The fat man and Agui told them where they came from, and he made a big deal and stayed without much bargaining. Ah Gui is quite accustomed to them, and he has the style of a farmhouse owner, saying that if he lives here, he can help them with anything.
After a long journey, Wu Xie couldn't think of anything that he needed to do, so he just felt hungry and panicked, so he told him to finish dinner first.
Agui asked his two daughters to cook, and he took Mengli and them to settle down.
Wu Xie put down his luggage on the wooden floor, wiped his body with spring water, sat on the wooden floor with high legs, it was very cool and comfortable, and his whole body was soft, and then he looked at the two slender Yao girls making food, he suddenly felt that this was the life he wanted to live. His eyes involuntarily glanced at A-Ning, who had a curvature at the corner of his mouth, and smiled silently.
Taking advantage of the fact that the meal was not good, the little brother pulled Mengli and asked Agui where the address that Brother Chu gave them was: "Do you know where this address is?" ”
"It's in the stockade, but it's on top of the stockade." Agui replied.
"Take me there." The little brother was obviously a little anxious and said.
"Little brother......" The fat man hurriedly pulled the little brother aside and said softly, "Don't worry, although it is to go to your own house, but let someone else take you there so late, and you don't have a key, what do you let people think." Anyway, we're already here, we have a lot of time, and we can go back tomorrow. ”
The little brother nodded, and several other people agreed.
"It's too late, if you want to go, I can take you tomorrow." Agui said.
"That place is actually the residence of a friend of ours, and we came to visit the mountains and rivers this time, and we came to see our friends by the way." Mengli said.
"Friends?" Agui looked at her suspiciously and said, "The place you asked about has been abandoned for a long time. ”
"Desolate? It's too much......" Mengli pretended to be very angry and said a little excitedly, "My good friend for so many years didn't even tell me when he moved!" ”
"The wooden building is very remote, on a hillside, and very few people go there. To be honest, I haven't met the owner who lives there, I heard that it's a young man, and your friend is really mysterious. Agui said.
"Well, so you don't know where he moved to." Mengli said with some disappointment.
Feeling that the little brother's gaze had been on her, Mengli turned her head to look at him, and saw his playful eyes, as if to say "good acting".
Mengli gave him a look back, "It's not as good as you", and said in his heart: Little brother has lost his memory this time, but he has changed a lot, and I don't know if it's good or bad......
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Dinner is stewed meat and sweet wine, Yaozhai people also hunt, eat is said to be squirrel meat, feel very strange, but the sweet wine is quite OK, the entrance is sweet, and the local water is good, the entrance is very clear.
The fat man drank too much and had a big tongue, so he persuaded Agui that he was the big boss, he didn't want to leave, and asked Agui to marry his two daughters to him, and he would farm well.
Mengli looked at him with some disgust, and thought: If Yuncai is with him in the future, I must use this matter to blackmail him.
Wu Xie was afraid that he would offend people by talking nonsense, so he hurriedly finished picking up his things, and helped Ah Gui's two daughters clean up with Ah Ning, so that the fat man could stay alone and blow the cool breeze to sober up. Mengli and the little brother went out for a walk.
A Ning and Wu Xie chatted with the two little girls while washing, and asked about the situation in Yaozhai.
The two little girls told them that they used to be very poor here, and they couldn't even eat enough, but then after someone came to travel, the situation improved, like their father brought someone to live at home, and the money he earned was enough to eat and drink, and he didn't have to go up to the mountains to hunt, he could buy things brought by other people, so that their family could feed several families.
Wu Xie specially asked Chen Pi Ah Si about the situation, and asked them if they were Vietnamese here.
They said that there were Vietnamese, but not in Banai, but in the mountains, and now there are more people here, and they can't tell whether there are Changsha people in it.
After cleaning up, Wu Xie shook his hand, and said in his heart that it seems that Chen Pi Ah Si is really careful, and he doesn't even dare to stay in the village.
A-Ning on the side looked at him and raised his eyebrows: "What?" Any thoughts? ”
Wu Xie looked at her and smiled: "I think Chen Pi Ah Si and they may disguise themselves as tourists to Banai, and the Vietnamese go directly to the forest, and they meet and trade in the mountains, so to speak, there are many more things traded here than we think, at least Chen Pi Ah Si values them very much." These relationships may also be the connections he planted when he fled in Guangxi. ”
A Ning nodded, and said with a smile: "It seems that you understand a lot!" ”
Wu Xie listened, just smiled and touched his head, noncommittal.
Wu Xie walked into the dining hall and was about to ask Ah Gui for some fruit to eat, when he saw a fat man with a drunken body staring at the wall on the side.
Wu Xie thought that he had drunk too much, and his mind was settled, but he didn't expect him to see him, so he grabbed him and said to him, "Xiao Wu, come here." ”
Wu Xie walked over, and A-Ning, who followed Wu Xie into the house, also came over, and the two followed the direction of the fat man's eyes, and saw that on the wooden wall of the room where he was eating, there was a photo frame hanging with a lot of photos in it.
The fat man pointed to one of the pictures with his chin and said, "Who are you looking to see this?" ”