Chapter 10: The Road Up the Mountain

He touched the ring on our hand, his eyes lit up, and his mouth was amazed: "Ouch, these two rings don't feel the same, one is cold and cold, like jade, and the other is hot, like fire, it's really a good thing, where did you get it?" Can you sell it to me? ”

"I can't sell it." My brother pushed his hand away and said, "This ring recognizes the owner, except for the two of us, no one can wear it, my grandfather asked my husband to get it since he was a child." ”

Liu Kuaikou couldn't hear it, his face was lost for a while, and finally went to check out, a meal cost thirty or forty thousand, and he almost had a heart attack, so he pretended to come out like this: "Small money, it's all small money." ”

When I got in the car, I asked him suspiciously: "Brother Liu, how do we get to Gulu Village?" ”

"Drive to the bottom of the mountain first, then find a way to climb up." Liu Kuaikou thought for a while: "It's more remote over there, it's hard to say whether the car can get to the foot of the mountain, if you can't drive through, then we can only go up on foot, it is said that the road up the mountain alone will stay for a day, and it is estimated that you will not be able to get down in two or three days, so you two brothers should be mentally prepared." ”

I couldn't believe it: "It's all in this era, how can there be such a remote village in China?" ”

"Alas, the development of the times does not mean that everything is developing, and some things may even go backwards." Liu Kuaikou looked worried about the country and the people, and he looked very knowledgeable: "These villages were originally ancient villages, and the times developed, but they never came out in the deep mountains, and naturally they did not keep up with the footsteps, and they have always lived a self-sufficient life. ”

"We can't do that." My brother picked his teeth and said with an indifferent look: "In the era of development, it is all a matter of the country, I just want to find my mother and live a good life for the people." ”

As he spoke, Liu Kuaikou suddenly frowned, as if he remembered something, and said: "By the way, Brother Tu, I remembered one thing, when that friend sent me the photo, he also said another thing, saying that if I go to Gulu Village, I must be careful, there is something abnormal in that place." ”

When I heard him say this, my heart ached, and I hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”

He looked like he was in a bit of a difficulty, and he looked like he wanted to stop talking, deliberately annoying people's appetites: "This... It's hard to say, if you two are old Taoists, I'll just say it's okay, but I really don't know if you have been in contact with this profession of taming beasts. ”

"Don't ink it, what's the point." My brother was also curious about what it was.

Liu Kuaikou frowned, as if he was doing an ideological struggle, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I'll tell the truth, we are all our own brothers, and we won't hide it from the two, I heard that the ancient road village is built on the top of the mountain, surrounded by mountains and forests, most of the houses are wooden houses, a total of more than 100 households, one of which is a house, no one lives in it all the year round, and no matter who lives in it, after a while, they will die in it, many people who come to the ancient village to travel, live in it for one night, either disappeared, or crazy, It is said that there is something unclean inside. ”

He said and glanced back at us, his voice deliberately lowered, and said mysteriously: "It is said that there are ghosts." ”

"Fart!" My brother crossed Erlang's legs and said disdainfully: "What age is it still haunted, besides, even if it is really haunted, what does it have to do with us, we are here to find someone, just don't bother with it." ”

I also thought my brother had a point, and nodded along with it.

But Liu Kuai's face was not good, and he said: "I understand what you said, but the question is whether you have ever thought about it, knowing that the house is haunted, why do those tourists live in it?" Because they are like us, they will not come up for at least two or three days when they go up the mountain, and if they are on the mountain, there will only be one empty house to live in. ”

As soon as he said this, my brother and I sat there and gasped, and no one spoke in the car for an instant, and there was a dead silence, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

The car kept walking, getting farther and farther away from the city, the road became empty, the people began to sparse, and they did not speak from beginning to end, as if they were fighting a silent psychological battle.

In the end, I couldn't help but admit it: "Or... Shall we buy a tent and go? ”

"What are you trying to do!" My brother patted my head angrily: "Don't listen to Brother Liu's nonsense, what the hell is there, scare yourself, what have you and I been afraid of?" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm still afraid of imps? I'm telling you, if there is a ghost, teach you a way, as long as you are more fierce than it, it won't dare to do anything, you know? ”

"Really?"

"There's such a saying." Liu Kuaikou said thoughtfully in front: "Ghosts are afraid of wicked people, I used to say so, and I don't know if it will work now." ”

We talked like this, the car drove for nearly a few hours, and stopped at the parking stop of a service station in the suburbs, Liu Kuaikou leaned on the steering wheel, pointed to a high mountain in the distance through the front window, and said, "See?" Gulu Village is on the top of that hill, so let's hike there. ”

I opened the car window and poked my head to look out, and I saw a mountain range in the distance, and I couldn't see the edge, one of which was a majestic mountain, like a pyramid, standing in the middle of the mountains, very eye-catching, and there was a thick layer of white fog floating on the top of the mountain, because I was too far away, I couldn't see how high this mountain was, and I felt like a god, guarding the sky.

I was secretly admiring when I heard my brother in the car angrily saying, "Brother Liu, what are you doing here?" Isn't there a road ahead? Let's go! ”

"Don't go, go further, if you really get to the foot of the mountain, there will be no place to park, what if you lose it in this wilderness?" Brother Liu said that he was unwilling to go any further.

"You have so much money, buy another one if you lose it." My brother still didn't give up, and persuaded him to move forward.

It's okay not to say this, but as soon as I said Liu Kuaikou, I won't leave, my face is blue and white for a while, I guess I am scolding my brother in my heart, this little rabbit cub eats me thirty or forty thousand for a meal, and angrily patted the steering wheel and got off the lane: "Don't go!" Let's stop here, and we'll walk the rest of the way. ”

There was no way, the car had to stop here, we all walked on foot, fortunately we didn't have anything with us, and it was easy to walk.

I was afraid that there would be no signal in the mountains, so I took advantage of the moment to send a message to Chen Qing to report that she was safe, and by the way, I told her that I would go back in two days.

As soon as the message was sent, Chen Qing replied to me after a while, saying that he was waiting for me to come back at home, and he was ready to surprise me when the time came.

I was overjoyed to see this, and curiously asked her what surprises she had, but she didn't come back.

Keep going into the mountain, this mountain looks like it is close in front of you, that's because it's big, really walk over, you know how far it is, along the road for three hours to the foot of the mountain, from then on, the road to the other side of the province to go, we have to go up the mountain, we can only go up the dirt road step by step.

Waiting for the mountain road to go up, when I walked a third of the way, I began to regret that I didn't bring some usable equipment over, this mountain stream is full of stones, lush vegetation, bumpy roads, walking is extremely physically demanding, and I am wearing thin-soled shoes, walking on the mountain road, the soles of my feet hurt.

And after walking a few steps, there are grass and trees blocking the way, if you want to pass, you can only use your hands to push yourself away, this is the time to test your ability, who knows what will be when you open the grass, there is an insect snake or something like that in the mountain, the most normal is not much.

Liu Kuaikou was originally walking at the front to lead the way, but when he pushed the grass through the grass during the period, a snake came out at the beginning, and the seven souls were so frightened that they lost three souls, and they sat on the ground for a long time before pulling them up, saying that they would not go to the front for anything.

I wanted to go to the front of the line, but my brother wouldn't let me, so he took the lead by himself, I was in the middle, and Liu Kuaikou was at the back.

The further up the road became, the less the road became, the steeper the terrain became, and there was almost no way to go to the back, so I had to climb up the rocks, and I even began to wonder if I was in the wrong place.

Asked Liu Kuaikou, he was tired and panting, leaning on the mountain wall and saying yes, just climb up, climb to the top of the mountain, and you will be there.

I muttered in my heart, sweating profusely in the middle of the mountainside, looking back, the mountain is lush and green, like a green sea stretching endlessly, the mountains are connected, one by one like the waves, undulating, between the clouds and mist, the whole world is in full view, the scene is extremely magnificent.

While I sighed at the beauty of heaven and earth, I wondered in my heart, is there really anyone living in this kind of place? Living here, without even a signal, isn't it really isolated from the outside world? What kind of people would live in this place?