The deep mountains and old forests in the northeast are not afraid of heavy snow, but afraid of wind. I originally thought that the white-haired wind would kill people, but I didn't expect that there would be such a terrifying natural phenomenon as the black crow.

Although the group was embarrassed, they finally saved their lives, but the donkey cart fell apart, and the black donkey pulling the cart was also cut off by the ice skates and branches that flew from the trees.

Seeing that the others were fine, I carefully examined the wound on the old slippery head. Reaching out to lift his leg on the side of the injury, the old slippery head immediately inhaled in pain.

I let go of my hand and said, "I know that it hurts, so it doesn't hurt the nerves, but I guess it's a cracked hip bone, and I have to go to the hospital to get a bone." ”

Wei Dana walked over and said with a wry smile, "Don't say it's going to the hospital now, without the donkey cart, I won't be able to go back for a while." ”

I bandaged the old slippery head briefly, and then looked around. There are many traces of felling on this large slope, and it is precisely because we arrived in time to this relatively empty place that we were able to avoid the catastrophe.

I asked the old slippery head, "There is a mountain field around here."

The old slippery head said, "Yes, less than five miles to the east, there is a mountain field." ”

I said, "It's too late today, and I don't have a donkey cart, so I can only go to the mountain field for the night." ”

Wei Dana's expression changed slightly, and he asked the old slippery head, "You are talking about the whip ditch"

The old slippery head laughed dryly, "There is no place to spend the night except there"

Wei Dana seemed to be a little speechless and stopped, and finally waved his hand, "It can only be like this, come two of you, come with me to pick up the things and put them together." ”

The purpose of our trip into the mountain was to find the soul of the big back, so in addition to food, we only brought a few items that Tang Yi and I thought could be used. I was even more tormented and persuaded Jefferson to leave his box full of small coffins at the hotel.

There are a lot of things in the old slippery head, in addition to the canvas pocket that I have never left before, there is also a large backpack with various tools such as folding picks, shovels, and drill bits.

According to Dou Dabao's idea, except for our own things, we don't bring anything else, so that it can be more convenient to travel.

I didn't agree, once the environment in the mountains and forests is complicated, I don't know what kind of danger I will encounter in the future, although it takes a bit of effort to bring these tools, but after the security can come in handy.

The point is, I can see that although the old slippery head is seriously injured, he is not dead to the treasure he is seeking. If we leave everything behind him, it will be tantamount to telling him that we are only using him now, not the partnership that was agreed upon.

Don't look at this old guy's appearance, he is a bad old man, he is ruthless, and he is doing the life of a white wolf with empty gloves. I don't think that such a person can be blackmailed with his life.

Tang Yi retrieved the two uncle's darts that he had shot out earlier, and together with Wei Dana, he pieced together a simple sleigh cart from scattered donkey cart parts. He lifted the old slippery head to the cart and wrapped him tightly in the canvas that had been removed from the roof of the donkey cart.

In this way, several of us men worked in pairs and twos, taking turns pulling the old slippery head, and began to trek in the snowy mountains in the direction he pointed.

It is said that it is only five miles of land, but the terrain in the mountains is constantly undulating, and the snow trekking is extremely difficult, and the journey is really slow. By the time the old slippery head trembled and said that it was enough to turn over a hill in front of him, it was already dark.

I was about to rush to my destination in one go, when Vidana, who was in my group, suddenly shouted

"I can't do it, I can't pull the substitution"

Dou Dabao and Di Fusheng came over to take the rope that tied the sleigh cart, and Wei Dan grabbed me, "Let's go, let's go ahead first to explore the way" said and glanced at me.

The two of them climbed the hill first, and sure enough, they saw a row of birch-adobe houses in the col below.

I looked a little wrong, so I asked Wei Dana, "Shopkeeper, this mountain farm hasn't been cleared this year."

I ask this because I stand high and look far away, from this hill, I have a clear view of the houses below and the surrounding environment. As far as the eye could see, there were no obvious traces of human and animal activity around the row of houses, and the houses themselves smelled of lifelessness.

Wei Dana whispered, "I called you over, didn't I just want to tell you about this?" The following piece is called Mawhip Ditch, and the large flat land at the east end is actually a tributary river channel called Mawei River. Because it is not open to traffic, and it is next to the river, it is convenient to put the drain, so this mountain field has been preserved until now. However, at about this time last year, a strange thing happened in the mountain field of Verbengou. To what extent is it to blame the local forestry department, they directly abandoned this mountain farm."

"Abandoned" my eyelids jumped for no reason, "something strange happened last year"

Wei Dana rolled his eyes and whispered two words in my ear, "Haunted"

"What a trouble" I was more and more curious.

The corners of Wei Dana's mouth twitched, and he said, "The people in the old mountain field are diligent and happy, and they work very neatly, and at this time of year, the work that should be done is done early, so there is no logging you said at this season." Most people are in a hurry to go home, and they go to sleep on the hot kang with their daughter-in-law in their arms, leaving a dozen or so sturdy singles, waiting for the owner to come to inspect the goods, and then wait for the river to be released."

Wei Dana said that this series of procedures is a common practice in the old mountain field here. The hotel opened by the two of them is the closest foothold within a radius of 100 miles, and Sifang Town is also the only way out of the mountain. So at this time of year, the hotel business is the hottest.

At this time last year, as in previous years, the two of them had stockpiled a large number of condiments to eat, waiting for business to come to their door. However, from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth, and then from the fifteenth to the end of the month, only one guest came to the hotel.

Wei Dana, who had always loved the vernacular and ran a hotel, saw that this year was different from usual, so he borrowed wine and chatted with this man.

Pour a few more cups into this only guest, Wei Dana asked him, what's the matter, your whip ditch is also going to be barren, I remember that your straight pine wood is not in the sea, why is there no boss willing to take it, this year there is no cutting and not draining

It wasn't the first time that the guest had stayed at the hotel, and Wei Dana knew that he was a master who didn't open the door after drinking two more drinks, but this time no matter how Wei Dana asked, the other party just refused to speak.

In the end, he tried his best, and the skin of his mouth and the root of his tongue were about to grow flowers, and the man said, "Something has happened to the whip ditch." ”

After speaking, he stood up and walked back, walked to the back door, opened the curtain with one hand, but turned back to Wei Dana and smiled, "I haven't drunk enough, or let's go to the back room and continue drinking"

The business of the hotel has been surprisingly poor for a while, Wei Dana has long been on fire, and he was aroused by the other party's sentence that the whip ditch had an accident, so he didn't think twice about it, let his mother-in-law order a copper pot, and took a bottle of Daqu and personally sent it to the guest's room, that is, the Chase shop where I slept with Dou Dabao and others the night before yesterday.

After entering the house, the man seemed to be a different person, as if he had drunk too much, and began to talk like a river, pulling Wei Dana to talk non-stop, but they all told some anecdotes about the mountains, or someone's little daughter-in-law and second sister-in-law stealing men and other meat words.

Wei Dana is a local and runs a shop, how can he not know the beating nature of the men here, at first he said perfunctorily, he didn't drink a few glasses, and he was really hooked by the legs of the big girls and the cheeks of the little daughter-in-law that the other party said. Later, I really drank too much, and the sister-in-law of the Wei family came to shout a few times and was kicked out by him.

However, Wei Dana still had a wine base, so he would not be completely drunk, and seeing that it was almost the middle of the night, he pushed his wine glass and said that he would go back to the house to rest.

At this time, the man grabbed his wrist and said in a low voice

"Something big is wrong with the whip ditch"

This time, he hooked back the question that Wei Dana had left behind, and asked immediately

"What big things can happen in the mountain field"

The man stared into Wei Dana's eyes and didn't speak for a long time, but when he spoke again, he smiled coldly and burst out between his teeth

"It's just one left, you can do it for me. When you get there, you'll know what's going on."

Wei Dana drank a lot of wine, and he was stunned and thought that the other party was joking, and just wanted to gag a few words, but suddenly found that the other party's face changed.

This person originally had a very thoughtful square face, but I don't know why, but at once he lifted his cheeks, puffed out his eye bubbles, and became like a monkey, and his lips kept opening and closing, as if he was silently reciting something.

Wei Dana was born and raised here, and when he was shocked, he quickly reacted to what was going on. When he was about to put his other hand into the collar of his neck, he turned out something and shouted at the other party with round eyes

"You peach-faced, red-fart, immoral monkey, dare to come to us, don't you want to die?"

Before he could finish speaking, a golden light shot out from his chest and went straight to the top of the other party's eyebrows.

The man was struck by the golden light, and immediately showed a pained expression, and his grinning mouth was covered with beast-like fangs.

Wei Dana took the opportunity to break free, picked up the wine jug on the kang table, and was about to smash the door against this person, but he never thought that the other party suddenly grabbed his neck with one hand, and stretched out his other hand to Wei Dana, begging

"Help me, save my life"

Wei Dana was stunned, and before he could react, the rest of the person's face, and even his whole body, began to shrink rapidly, until he shrunk like a seven or eight-year-old child, and then leaned on the kang sideways, completely silent.

At this time, Wei Dana boldly stepped forward to investigate, and saw that the other party had turned into a skinny corpse

Speaking of this, Wei Dana's body trembled violently, and he put a pair of hands to his mouth and sighed, staring at me

"I only saw that the man was a top fairy, thinking that it was an evil cultivator who borrowed his body to blame and harm people, but I didn't know that he turned into a dry corpse in the end. There is no need to say much about what happened to this person, but not long after this incident, a group of people from the city passed by Sifang Town. When they came back from the mountains, they stayed in my shop for one night, and that's when I learned that they were forestry people and a survey team sent by the government. The purpose of entering the mountain is to go to the horse whip ditch. The reason is that last year, except for the guy who came to my shop to work with a monkey, a total of 24 people are gone."