Hearing Mengli and them say that they wanted to help search the mountain, Agui didn't agree at first, so they followed after saying something.

Ah Gui asked Yuncai to follow Mengli and them, don't get separated.

Yuncai, that is, Agui's youngest daughter, the future daughter-in-law of the fat man.

These days, Mengli is also the first time to look at her seriously, she is a good girl, no wonder the fat man likes it so much, and even guards Banai for her all the time.

And this time, their fate will be changed by her, and they will have a happy ending......

The villagers gathered about 20 people, carrying torches and flashlights, and led the hounds to the buffalo head ditch.

It was pitch black all around the mountain road, and they shouted and let the hounds sniff their clothes.

The forest farms here have been cut down once, and the road ahead is not difficult, but there is plenty of rain here, and there are many puddles on the mountain, which are full of leeches.

It was difficult to walk until you reached the Baolin area, but these mountain people were all hunters and experienced people, so it was not difficult to walk at all.

For Mengli and them, such a mountain path is really like a walk compared to Tamuto. The group walked into the depths of the mountain.

As he walked, Ah Ning asked the question Wu Xie wanted to ask: "What is the situation in the area of Buffalo Tougou, is it dangerous?" ”

Yun Cai turned around and said: "There is the boundary line between the Dabaolin area and the forest protection area of our village, Yangjiao Mountain is in the Dabao Forest Area, Zhoudu Mountain is in the forest protection area, and the middle is the Buffalo Head Ditch." Behind Sheephorn Mountain is the deep mountain and old forest. The people in the forest farm have set up signs at the mountain pass, telling us not to go in, so except for the old hunters in the past, we generally don't go to Giethoorn Mountain, and the forest behind Giethoorn Mountain has never heard of anyone going in. ”

"No one has ever been in?" Wu Xie asked.

Ah Gui said behind Wu Xie: "The most familiar person in the village with Sheephorn Mountain, I'm afraid there is only Father Panma. In ancient times, in order to evade tariffs, Vietnamese jade people traveled from the forest for a month to sell jade, and I don't know how many people were trapped in the depths of these mountains. ”

The jade trade is the most lucrative, cruel and mysterious commercial trade on the border between China and Vietnam in ancient times, Wu Xie has heard of the tragic struggle between the jade gang in Vietnam and Burma.

"This is not far from the place where the jade trade is most prosperous, and the jade merchants from Banai to Guangxi are all doing small business with some bosses in Guangdong, and they are the most bitter jade people, so they are also particularly fierce. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the Vietnamese came in batches with half merchants and half bandits, which was a local evil. Agui continued.

Wu Xie thought to himself that if this was the case, if he could find the remains of those Vietnamese jade people in the forest, maybe he would be able to find the jade rough they brought. In this year, the jade color of the rough stone is very rare, the price of jade is ridiculously high, the texture of the jade of the year is much higher than now, if you find one or two good pieces, it is worth more than any Ming ware. But after thinking about it, those Vietnamese jade people used to value these jade stones more precious than their own lives, and now it is a great injustice to intercept them like this, which is different from tomb robbing, and I am afraid that it will attract ominous things.

In the first half of the night, they walked into the ditch, and the man who found the bloody clothes pointed to a tree, and said that the clothes were found on the tree, and he first saw that there was blood sticking to the trunk, and when he looked up, he found the clothes, at first he thought it was a night owl that was bitten to death by a wild cat, but later he found out that it was not.

The flashlight shone on the tree, this copper flashlight had no illumination ability, but it was certain that there was nothing else on it, apparently after the pan-horse father climbed the tree, leaving the bloody clothes behind.

Dad is almost eighty years old, and although he used to be a master at climbing trees, it stands to reason that he can't climb trees for no reason, and he obviously encountered some danger.

A-Ning looked at the clouds and asked, "What beasts are here?" ”

Yun Cai thought for a moment and replied, "I heard about tigers a long time ago, and now in the mountains, the most powerful thing may be a leopard. ”

When Wu Xie heard this, he said that the tiger is absolutely gone now, the leopard is a good hand at climbing trees, if it is really a leopard, it will be troublesome, and the leopard has the habit of hanging food on the tree and hiding it, so my father has been killed.

However, Ah Cai said: "But the leopards are all in the deep mountains, and the mountains here are not deep enough, and the probability of encountering leopards is too small." Daddy didn't bring a gun, why did he come to such a deep mountain? ”

Wu Xie remembered the plot of the little soldier Gazi hiding the captured pistol in the bird's nest, and said in his heart that Daddy Panma also learned this trick, but there was no bird's nest in the tree.

They searched around the tree for a few moments, but found nothing but a few traces of blood, in several directions. The dogs they had brought came in handy, the hunters all had their guns, and after the bullets were loaded, the soldiers went to a distance in several ways, and Mengli and they followed Aguina all the way in the direction of Sheephorn Mountain.

The buffalo head ditch is very long and deep, no one has ever walked to the end, and the middle section of the ditch is the mountain pass where Yangjiao Mountain and Zhoudu Mountain meet, showing a momentum of tropical forest, which is very similar to the feeling of Tamutuo, which makes Wu Xie very uncomfortable.

He always heard the "gurgling" sound and broke out in a cold sweat, but there was no way, he wanted to come, so he had to follow hard, thinking that there were Mengli, Xiao Ge and A Ning around him, and he was instantly relieved.

The mountain dogs are quite fierce, standing taller than a man, and although they are all mongrels, they are well trained, and soon smell the smell, leading them all the way to the depths of the valley.

There was no word all the way, and in the middle of the night, when the crescent moon was on their heads, the dogs seemed to have found their target, and they stopped near the Giethoorn Pass. It was a slope on the mountainside, and because of the mudslide, the trees were very thin, the slope was very steep, and the soil was slippery and soft like snow.

They used branches as crutches to keep their balance, and every now and then they stepped on the wrong place, and the whole mud just slid all the way down.

The hound dragged them and half-crawled to the bottom of a tree, and then stopped wandering, but barked wildly at a large patch of grass behind the tree.

Yun Cai was a little scared, and Wu Xie's heart also hung up, if Daddy met a leopard, then the things in the grass might be miserable.

Ah Ning patted Wu Xie on the shoulder, signaling him to rest assured and not let him think nonsense.

Wu Xie nodded, but he was still a little scared.

Ah Gui stepped forward to use a branch to push through the grass, but under the flashlight, he found that there was no body inside, only a large stone.

When they went over, they found that it was a fragment of an old stone stele, some years old, the traces of wind and rain were obvious, and the surface was abrasively clean.

Ah Gui and the others pushed aside the waist-high weeds around them to look for it, and suddenly a hunter said "oops", and the person suddenly fell short.

The people rushed over and pulled him back, and saw a mud puddle hidden in the grass, as if it had been washed out by the rain, and there was mud in the pit.

Looking at the bottom of the pit, the four of Mengli looked at each other, and their hearts chuckled, and a few pieces of rotten wood wrapped in the mud could be vaguely seen in the pit, and looking at the shape, it was almost certain that it was a coffin that had been broken.

This is a humble tomb that has been washed out.