Chapter 44: The Strange Bus
Zhang Xiaoluo looked at the empty street, thinking that maybe it was time to learn to drive.
Zhang Xiaoluo waited at the entrance of the alley for a short time, and the low roar of the engine came faintly from the end of the street. A car with dazzling high beams came like an angry mad bull, drove in front of Zhang Xiaoluo, braked sharply, and stopped a foot outside Zhang Xiaoluo's body.
"Dr. Zhang, what's wrong?"
Gao Yaoyao poked her head out of the half-open window and asked Zhang Xiaoluo, who had opened the car door and sat in the co-pilot, with concern.
"Wacan Village, Dalingzi Township, L City, quick!"
Gao Yaoyao saw that Zhang Xiaoluo's expression was a little wrong, so she didn't ask too much, turned on the navigation on the car, and the Range Rover let out a roar and rushed forward.
"It takes about 3 hours to arrive. You said on the phone that you were going to the countryside, and the driver had already gone home, so I drove over by myself, Zhang ...... What happened? ”
Gao Yaoyao drove towards the entrance of the highway to L City, and asked Zhang Xiaoluo, who was sitting beside him and was silent.
"A colleague of mine went to the countryside today to provide medical support, there may have been some accidents, I have to go over and take a look!"
Zhang Xiaoluo didn't mention the secret marriage to Gao Yaoyao, and he himself was not sure, if he told Gao Yaoyao about this kind of thing, maybe she could still drive with peace of mind.
"High ...... Yaoyao, you just send me to Dalingzi Township, I'll find a way to go by myself, you don't want to go. ”
Zhang Xiaoluo felt the strong feeling of pushing his back, pulled the seat belt and fastened it, with a smile on his face, and looked at Gao Yaoyao.
"Yes...... Is there anything unclean? ”
Gao Yaoyao was so smart, she had faintly sensed something strange from Zhang Xiaoluo's words, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"I don't know yet! But...... Quite possibly! ”
"I'll send you over! It's almost 2 a.m. when you get to the township, and it's hard to get a taxi. Again...... I've seen those things a long time ago, and the human heart is sometimes more terrible than them! ”
Gao Yaoyao whispered to Zhang Xiaoluo, and then stopped talking.
Sure enough, as Gao Yaoyao said, by the time they arrived in Dalingzi Township, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the morning. It's pitch black everywhere outside the car, and it's really not easy to take a taxi at this point.
Gao Yaoyao rolled down the window of the car and looked outside, then drove along the only dirt road leading to the crockpot village.
L City is at the bottom of the economic level of the whole S Province, while Dalingzi Township is located in the south of L City, and most of the cultivated land is saline-alkali land for many years. The income of the peasants in the township is not good, and they often work hard for a year, and the annual income of ordinary families does not even reach 10,000 yuan after removing the expenses of pesticides and fertilizers.
And the crockpot village is only a small black dot on the map, and everything about this village is unknown.
In July, the fog is still relatively heavy in the countryside at night, and the headlights can only shine on the potholes about 20 meters ahead. On both sides of the dirt road, the shadows revealed the slender poplars, like a pole being inserted there, swinging with the wind.
After walking for about half an hour, Gao Yaoyao finally stopped the car and looked at Zhang Xiaoluo, who was squinting slightly.
"Xiao Luo, the navigation display has arrived, but ......"
The fog outside the car is heavier, and a potholed dirt road still winds its way into the depths of the fog, with no end in sight. Only the shadowy poplar trees make a "whoosh" sound of leaves colliding from time to time.
"Yaoyao, pull over and turn off the engine, let's get out of the car!" When you get out of the car, follow me closely......"
After Gao Yaoyao pulled the car on the side of the road and stopped, Zhang Xiaoluo pushed the car door and walked down, the fingers of his right hand stretched out and pinched for a while, and then looked towards the thick fog ahead.
The fog outside the car was cold, Gao Yaoyao was only wearing a set of casual clothes, she felt a strong coolness as soon as she got out of the car, so she returned to the car again, took out a blanket and draped it on her body, and walked quickly towards Zhang Xiaoluo, who was standing in front of the car and waiting.
Zhang Xiaoluo waited for Gao Yaoyao to come to his side, and then walked towards the fog in front of him. Gao Yaoyao followed closely behind him, constantly looking around. The still-lit headlights stretched the figures of the two men long and plunged into the fog that seemed to grow thicker.
After walking about half a mile, Zhang Xiaoluo saw a faint green light that seemed to be suspended on the side of the road in front of him. He hesitated slightly, turned his head and ordered Gao Yaoyao to follow, and walked towards the light.
When he got closer, Zhang Xiaoluo realized that the light was actually a mottled station sign. The entire body of the stop sign is painted with milky white paint, and only a green edge is on the edge, on which the words "No. 14 bus" are faintly recognizable. The sign was tied to a bent wooden stick with a thick piece of hemp rope, which was inserted diagonally into the side of the road, and from the dark blue skin it was a willow wood.
Zhang Xiaoluo stood under the license plate and whispered to Gao Yaoyao, who was wrapped in a blanket beside him and only showed her face.
"No matter what you see or hear, don't open your mouth for a while, remember?"
Gao Yaoyao glanced at the license plate that had been erected here for an unknown amount of time, and nodded towards Zhang Xiaoluo, who had a solemn face.
The two of them stood under the license plate for a short time, and two other faint green light sources slowly appeared on the road when they came. As the ghostly light approached, a tattered bus slowly drove through the fog.
The small body, the almost faded paint, the "No. 14" license plate written in blood by the door, and the black shadow on the driver's seat made the bus that suddenly appeared in the dead and silent countryside fog at 3 o'clock in the morning full of weirdness.
With the sound of grinding brakes, the bus stopped in front of the stop sign of the No. 14 bus. The car door slowly opened, and a middle-aged woman with an expressionless face and a pale face poked her head out, glanced at Zhang Xiaoluo and the others, and asked coldly.
"Route 14, do you want to get on the bus?"
Zhang Xiaoluo did not hesitate, pulled Gao Yaoyao next to him and stepped into the car, and as the door closed, the bus slowly moved forward again.
"Crockpot Village!"
Zhang Xiaoluo reached out and took out two dark green banknotes from his arms, handed them to the middle-aged woman, pulled Gao Yaoyao and walked towards the back half of the body.
Through the faint green light in the car, Gao Yaoyao saw the two banknotes handed out by Zhang Xiaoluo, which were clearly dark coins specially used for ghost worship. Moreover, she did not seem to hear the roar of the bus engine.
The few seats in the car were already full of passengers, dressed in colorful clothes, and their heads hung slightly, as if they were asleep. Even Gao Yaoyao saw an old man wearing a Qing Dynasty official uniform with a big braid on the back of his head in the corner of the back of the car.
Zhang Xiaoluo took Gao Yaoyao's hand and stood at the back door of the car, he faintly felt that Gao Yaoyao's palms were wet, so he turned his head slightly and looked at Gao Yaoyao.
Gao Yaoyao felt that there were bursts of cold breath from time to time in the car, and even felt that someone was lying on her shoulder, blowing gently towards her neck. But she still remembered Zhang Xiaoluo's words, wrapped the blanket on her body tightly, and didn't say a word.