At dusk (rì), we saw the blue smoke rising from the mountains in the distance, which was the smoke that could only be raised from the burning of the carbon stones of the stove fire, which proved that there were indeed villages in the mountains, and most likely Gangzijing. It's just because of those previous speculations that the villages that popped up at this time seemed to be particularly appropriate.

"If you want me to say, let's take a detour, don't you think this place is a cage, what's the matter, I don't want to be a sparrow." There are layers of spy fog in the mountains, you can't see the villages, the shadows of the trees are sparse, the mountains are like walls, and they are completely like a stone tablet forest.

Jiang Huai glanced at me, a little surprised, but soon lost his color, he paused before saying, "Sometimes it's not a good thing to know in advance how to go on the road ahead,"

After Jiang Huai finished speaking, he didn't mean to continue, he shook his hand and walked out towards the mountain road into the village, and the others followed, I paused in place for a while before hurriedly chasing after him.

This place is indeed a Gangzijing, the place is not big, it is a town, the whole is built according to the mountain, it is the appearance of a carp. The town borrowed the light from the mountain power tower and also connected it to electricity. The lights in the whole town are not bright, but half of them are turned on.

We found the only guest house in the town, this is an old corner tower to change, there are many rooms inside, I heard the boss say that at the beginning, this is the house of a local rich man, and then the house was confiscated, this place was changed to the government office, until now, the office moved away, this place was contracted to an individual, so that the current boss changed into a guest house.

The corner tower extends left and right, and five or six rooms protrude forward, and this building is probably a triple courtyard surrounded by three sides and one open. The building has two floors, only the middle has a staircase going up, because it was late, we couldn't find food elsewhere, so we ate directly in the canteen of the guest house.

The boss is a bald man in his forties, who doesn't look shrewd, but he can feel that this is an extremely thoughtful person. During the meal, Lou Gushan asked a few words about the boss.

Lou Gushan leaned against the door frame, holding yellow rice porridge in his hand, took a sip and spit out the chaff that was not cleaned by hand, and asked the boss with some complaints: "This place has two trains in and out a week, the place is (tǐng) beautiful, but it is not convenient to enter and exit, and at the end of the year, it is only us who are a few waves of people, do we recover the cost?" ”

The boss brushed the pot by himself, and after a long time he glanced at us, and didn't hear any tone from the other party, he just snorted and said: "It's not just you, there are many, every month, and the upstairs is full of you." ”

Lou Gushan was slightly surprised, he probed to the door, I couldn't see the opposite side, but the left and right sides of the corner tower can still be seen, at first I didn't pay much attention, thought it was the decorative lights upstairs, but now it seems, but it seems that it is the room window in the open-air corridor, each brightly lit, and there seems to be a figure walking around.

"Who are the people who live there, and are there so many people in this small place?" I don't understand the Tao at this time, this broken place, it's not so easy to come here, how can there be so many outsiders. This corner tower guest house has a total of three floors and at least fifty rooms. If you calculate it on average, there must be more than 100 people.

The boss bowed his head and remained silent, and his behavior had to make others suspicious. Before, no

The Yizhuang where I have lived for a long time, is it also here? The lame grandson is a little similar to him, and I feel that it is wrong, so I almost blurt out a question: "Is this also Yizhuang?" But the words didn't open at all, Jiang Huai pinched my thigh, this hand was not much worse than pliers, my leg was throbbing, and I had no choice but to say that.

Although I immediately realized that I almost made a mistake, this guy is extremely strong, and I won't be comfortable if I deal with me like this. In the end, we didn't ask the boss much, and the face (yīn) was also difficult to say well.

"It's a cage, you're still eating in it, you want to die." Jiang Huai glanced at me when he went out, and I snorted twice angrily and went upstairs.

Most of the rooms in this corner tower are large rooms, and one room is enough for seven or eight people, and it is a shelf (chuáng), so we naturally live in one room.

The atmosphere is not too harmonious, Jiang Huai and the four of them are sitting on each (chuáng), it is already dark outside the window, and tomorrow is also the time when Liu Quan and I have an appointment, but now that we are kidnapped, this matter (qíng) may not be easy to do.

"I didn't understand why you followed those people before, but now I understand, there is no benefit (qíng), even I don't do it, you guys will not be stupid than me, is this matter related to the one I was involved in?"

After waiting for a long time, Jiang Huai shook his head, he frowned before saying: "It's hard to say, this thing just happened to bump into, and it doesn't seem to have much to do with you, don't you want to find that old fox, tomorrow he will go with you, we have other things to do (qíng)." Jiang Huai glanced at Lou Gushan, I wasn't surprised, but I was a little troubled and had to suffer this bastard. Although it was helpless, I also knew that this matter had already been decided a long time ago. I had to avoid Lou Gushan's eyes and sink into the sour futon.

It should be four or five o'clock in the morning, and the corner tower began to sound chaotically, and the wooden building would be transmitted everywhere no matter where people walked around. The bald boss really didn't say the wrong thing, and the building was indeed full.

I endured it until the sun came out, I got up (chuáng), except for Lou Gushan, the rest of the three people are no longer there, on the table is Lou Gushan got the breakfast, I took a look, it is still yellow rice porridge, the difference is that there is a fried pasta, the whole is a bit like fried steamed buns.

"Eat quickly, you're done eating." Lou Gushan stood at the window and looked outside, estimating that he had finished eating. I wondered why I had to eat in this rancid room, and when I reached the window with the yellow rice porridge, I found that there were many people squatting or standing on the steps of the courtyard and the entrance of the cafeteria, probably swept, at least forty or fifty.

"So many people from the middle of nowhere? The outfit doesn't look like it's a perennial walk in the mountains, a tomb robber, right? "I took a sip of yellow rice porridge, I don't know how to deal with this thing, it was all chaff, I swallowed it and chewed it for a long time and didn't chew it off, and I spit it out directly on the ground on the side.

"Hey, do you remember Qingbaiyuan? At that time, there were tens of thousands of people in the church, and there was no trace of them inexplicably, what did tens of thousands of people eat, think about it, these things on the surface are not only what you see with your eyes. ”

Lou Gushan didn't have his usual laughing tone, he sighed, and looked at the people downstairs with some sadness. I still am

I probably understood what he meant, but for some reason, I always felt that these people were always teaching me in a teacher's tone, but not in an extremely conceited manner. I don't understand what state of mind they're in, but it's still annoying. His mother's brain cells are so small, how much can they recover in a day? If you use it so actively, will you get Alzheimer's disease in advance?

Qingbai Yuan, the cult had nearly forty or fifty thousand at its peak. In the initial stage, they were similar to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, calling themselves righteous soldiers, and they did everything they could to say about doing the right thing for heaven and doing great righteousness, but when Li Niu'er succeeded to the position of the Great Heavenly Master, it seemed that they were not so interested in the struggle for political power. All of them hid in the mountains, but these 30,000 or 40,000 people, that's 30,000 or 40,000 long mouths.

In ancient times, there was a famine, and hundreds of thousands of hungry people crossed the border like locusts, and all the leaves and branches of the grass and tree roots were eaten clean. That's all the same, and these more than 40,000 rebels who believe in cults should be no different from them.

Since ancient times, peasant uprisings have basically been no different from bandits who burned, killed, and robbed, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were like this, and so was Li Jiancheng, not to mention the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The former (shēn) of Qingbai Yuan is the remnant of the kingdom of heaven, and the robbery of property runs through the beginning and the end, but the middle generation of the Bashu Han Dynasty was not a rich place in those days, and the common people ate chaff and throat skin (rì), they are like this, and the robbers who robbed them to survive are probably not better than them.

The reason why I suspect that there is a problem is because some of the numbers here do not match common sense, money, they naturally don't have it, let alone food, so what is it that keeps these individuals alive? Jiang Huai said before that there were indeed people who went out to the mountains to purchase materials, but the actual quantity purchased was absolutely not enough to supply tens of thousands of people. The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and I really didn't have a clue.

All those who are squatting at the window or eating and drinking on the steps. After looking at them one by one, these people were no different in terms of appearance alone, almost all of them were wearing outdoor clothes, and from the door of the room that was open on one side, you could see some large hiking bags and black equipment boxes. There must be something wrong with these people, but I don't know what Jiang Huai wants to know, although I don't understand this, but I can easily guess what he is doing now.

I greeted Lou Gushan, and went to find Liu Quanyou alone, there was danger on both sides, although this surnamed Lou was also a first-class person with Jiang Huai, but I didn't have much fear of him, Suo (xìng) asked him to follow, Liu Quanyou was really difficult when the time came, and it was not so easy.

After searching in the town for more than an hour, I saw Liu Quanyou alone, still holding the cane that could be used as a broken leg, and he didn't look like a disabled person walking in a few steps.

When he saw that I had brought an outsider, he didn't show much of the overzeal, but just pointed to the dilapidated earthen house behind it and beckoned us in.

This is indeed an old house, I don't know how long it hasn't been inhabited, the old guy only came back in the past two days, and the cobwebs in the house have not been cleaned up much, but you can see a broken futon on the simple (chuáng) made of wooden planks.

Liu Quanyou casually pointed to the wooden board (chuáng) on the side, and we sat down with great reluctance (qíng), and saw Liu Quanyou rummaging through the cabinet on the side. This cabinet must not be new, and it has definitely been more than three years since it was last opened. The cabinet was full of dust. The old guy probed for a long time before he pulled out something from it.