"Then why is Uncle Zhang okay?" I then asked rhetorically.

Huzi thought for a while and said, "That's what you said, but what are we going to do in the ditch?" What's in it for us. ”

"Huh! Huzi, don't forget what your own ancestors did, when we went to the ditch to find out during the day, I saw the name of this ditch on the hillside? "I played a dumb riddle to Huzi.

"Isn't it? What do you see? Could it be that there's something down here? When Huzi heard me say this, his whole person suddenly became energetic.

The corners of my mouth smiled slightly, "If I'm not mistaken, there must be a big bucket in this toad ditch?" ”

"How?" Huzi said anxiously.

"The toad also became a toad, and the general shape of this ditch resembled a golden toad crawling on the ground, surrounded by mountains. According to Feng Shui, it is called the treasure land of the golden toad to protect the cave, although it is not as good as the superior dragon vein, but it is not impossible to bury a prime minister general. I explained to Huzi.

"Then you mean there's oil and water down there to fish?" Huzi's eyes lit up.

I clicked on it, pulled the quilt up and said, "Sleep!" Look for a chance to go down and check it out. ”

In the next few days, Huzi and I kept looking for and almost tried to go down to the toad ditch to investigate, but Uncle Zhang kept looking for us and couldn't find any suitable opportunities at all.

Until one day, the village asked the village cadres to go to the village for a meeting, and it would take at least a week to go. When Uncle Zhang was leaving, he repeatedly told us not to go around the toad ditch behind the village. We were full of promises, but our hearts were no longer happy.

After Uncle Zhang left, Huzi and I planned our big plan this time. Unfortunately, while I was discussing, I was overheard by the pigeons.

The pigeon was noisily trying to tell Uncle Zhang that Huzi and I were coaxing and deceiving the pigeon to prevaricate the past. Either how to say that the little girl in the countryside is easy to deceive, Huzi promised that as long as the pigeon did not tell Uncle Zhang, we would buy him a few feet of canvas in the city to make clothes.

Next, with the help of the pigeons, we found some simple equipment. The shotgun in Uncle Zhang's house was stuffed into the sack early by me and Huzi.

We stuffed hemp rope, shovels, candles, and axes for chopping firewood into sacks, and stole a communal flashlight from the village committee as we left.

The pigeon brought the rhubarb, the guard dog of the third aunt's house next door, to us, and the tiger looked at the rhubarb who kept sticking out his tongue and shook his head and teased.

"Girl, what are you giving us this, is this girl obviously a soil dog, what can you do if you stand up and take it with me high?"

The pigeon pouted and said, "Brother Huzi, don't underestimate the rhubarb, it has great ability." A few years ago, several hungry wolves ran into the village, and Rhubarb pounced on them. He single-handedly drove all the hungry wolves out of the village, and even killed two big wolves. ”

"Huzi, don't talk nonsense, my sister will bring you if you want to take it, the dog has a keen sense of smell, we can't stop it, and it's still useful." I said to Huzi.

In this way, we walked to the back of the village with two people and a dog, and carried the cornmeal steamed buns prepared for us by the pigeons, and a sack of equipment. It was noon when we set off, and the green plant seedlings could be seen on the ground in the early spring, and the young leaves on the branches slowly showed their small faces.

The downhill road is difficult to walk, and there are dry plants everywhere, and it is easy to trip over if you are not careful.

At first, the two of us were still humming a little song, with the mentality of playing in the mountains and rivers. There were little birds and hares along the way, and there were no accidents at all, so we went all the way to the depths of the toad ditch.

Looking back, I realized that this toad ditch was so deep, and there was such a feng shui treasure hidden in the canyon of the two mountains, and the further I went, the more I felt that something was wrong with my surroundings.

"Huzi, don't you notice that the trees around you seem to be getting sparser?" The surrounding trees are obviously far behind the dense plants in front of them.

Huzi just walked forward, completely ignoring the changes around him, and only after I said this did he react. "yes, don't you say I haven't found out yet, what's going on, the trees here seem to be a lot rarer."

The distance between the trees and plants in front of me was obviously much larger, and I wondered in my heart when I saw this strange appearance. Could it have something to do with sunshine?

There is a big mountain on the east and west sides of the toad ditch, which just blocks the sunlight at the bottom of the ditch, and the sunlight can only shine here at noon. It may be that the scarcity of plants here has something to do with sunlight.

"Wang! Barking! The sudden cry of the rhubarb interrupted my train of thought, and there was nothing unusual about the large number of people around, but how did the good rhubarb bark wildly.

"Huzi, you see that something is wrong with rhubarb, there shouldn't be any problems ahead." I pulled the rhubarb rope and walked forward, but the rhubarb was stunned and didn't say anything to move forward.

"No, you don't see anything around, you're suspicious." Huzi replied as he looked at the movement around him.

"It doesn't necessarily mean that you don't see it with your eyes, there are some things that can't be hidden from the dog's sense of smell, so it's better for us to be careful." I reminded Huzidao.

Then the rhubarb became incomprehensible, with his head lowered and his nose kept sniffing on the ground. We followed Rhubarb and walked slowly until we stopped next to a pile of dry leaves.

Tilting his head to the two of us, "Wang!" After a few barks, the front paws began to toss in the pile of leaves.

"Look at Huzi, what is that?" As the rhubarb paws tossed the leaves away, a piece of white oozing bone-like thing appeared before our eyes.

When I picked it up, I was so frightened that I threw the bone in my hand a few meters away, and it turned out that under the leaves was actually a human thigh bone. Huzi and I peeled off all the leaves on the ground in front of us with sticks, and under the leaves were all white seeping white bones.

"Come on! And here's more. Huzi peeled off the leaves not far away with a stick and shouted at me.

Then we found dozens of human skeletons in less than ten square meters, and I began to wonder if this was the place where Uncle Zhang said the hunting team was killed.

Since they were all killed here, there must be something unusual here. I reminded Huzi, "There must be some danger here, so don't be careless." ”

Huzi took down the sack he was carrying on his back, took out a shotgun and held it in his hand. I also had a fork axe in my hand, and we cautiously moved forward.

Since I was holding the rhubarb in my hand, the rhubarb sniffed from time to time, and my walking speed was significantly slower. Huzi just walked forward, and in a short time the two of us opened a short distance.

As I was struggling to pull the uncooperative rhubarb forward, suddenly there was a scream from the tiger in front of me, and when I looked forward, the tiger was gone.

Immediately, my heart became frizzy, and the rhubarb began to bark incessantly, and I thought that something must have happened. Coupled with the fact that I had seen so many seeping white bones earlier, I always had a sense of foreboding.

I grabbed the rhubarb and ran forward, but I was so anxious that I couldn't even worry about my feet. Just ran forward with his head buried, and suddenly stepped into the air, and the whole person pulled the rhubarb and fell into a big hole like a shaft.

(End of chapter)