At dawn, the five of them still went to the meadow with steel knives in hand, and there was nothing unusual. The weeds grew up to man's knees, and clumps of flying insects fluttered among them, and they were not afraid of man, but went straight into man's nose and ears; The wildflowers are red, purple, and white, and they bloom extraordinarily gorgeously.

The five of them walked cautiously around the meadow, but they did not find out where the fire they had seen last night came from, nor did they see any traces of the fire. I had to make a gesture and finally meet in the middle.

Zhao Gao was walking, suddenly his feet were crooked, he almost fell, it turned out that he was struck by something, he took a steel knife to open the grass and looked, and he was scared to a big trembling, only to see a white skull half-buried in the soil, and a clump of wild grass grew out of the eye socket and mouth, which looked very hideous. So he shouted, "Four virtuous brothers, take a closer look at what is under your feet!" ”

When the four heard this, they lowered their heads and searched. After a while, Li Feng shouted: "There are bones!" As he spoke, he scooped up a long bone from the grass and shook it towards the others. Immediately afterward, the other three also found bones.

Li Feng looked at the bone in his hand and said to himself: "I don't know what kind of bone this is......"

"Human!" As Zhao Sheng spoke, he pulled out a skeleton from the grass.

Li Feng was startled when he heard this, quickly threw away the bones in his hand, ran to Zhao Gao's side, and asked, "How can there be human bones here, could it be that some big insect eats the leftovers?" ”

Zhao Gao pointed to a nearby piece and said, "Just here, I found eight corpses. ”

"Look at the scars on these bones—" Zhao Sheng said, holding the skeleton in his hand, "There is a long gap in the back of its head, and it looks like it should have been cut with a large knife." ”

Zhao Gao nodded, and also said: "Of the eight corpses here, five of them had their heads separated from their bodies, and they were all cut off by a large person's sword. It seems that there was a massacre here. ”

Gao Hong proposed, "Let's talk about it more carefully and see how many bones there are here." ”

Zhao Gao nodded, then took out a piece of white cloth, tore it into five pieces, each person held one piece, and when he saw a corpse, he tied a white cloth on the grass there. In about a meal, the five of them walked through every inch of land here, gathered together and added the number of corpses they saw, and there were as many as two hundred and thirty-six corpses!

A gust of wind and waves blew, and the strips of white cloth tied to the grass and the flowers rose and fell with the wind, if they didn't know that there were hundreds of corpses hidden here, it would really be a travel scenery, which was refreshing.

It seemed that last night's fright hadn't subsided in Gao Yang's heart, and his legs were still shivering.

Zhao Gao took out the map from his arms and said to the other four: "We are probably here now, in front of us is the White Wolf Valley and Shizipo, and when we get out of the black pine forest, we should be able to see Daqing Mountain." ”

Gao Hong said: "Before I arrived in Daqingshan, I found such a piece of bones, isn't it too unlucky?" ”

Zhao Gao sighed and said: "It has been more than forty years since our grandfather's generation left Daqingshan, and I think that in the forty years here, there must have been a lot of battles, and these bones were left in the war." ”

Li Feng patted his head and said, "I remember that my grandfather once told the story of the martial saint breaking the grassland soldiers, I don't know if it was the grassland soldiers who died here, or our people?" ”

Gao Hong smiled and said, "What are our people?" We've long since separated from them! You say, don't you? As he spoke, he knocked on the skeleton in Zhao Sheng's hand.

Zhao Sheng hurriedly put the skeleton back to the ground and said, "If the people who live in Daqing Mountain now are not people from our distant relatives, but people from the grassland, what should we do?" ”

Zhao Gao thought for a moment and said, "If Daqingshan changes hands, let's look in the nearby mountains to see if we can still find the remnants of Daqingshan, ask what has happened in the past forty years, and reply to the village elders when we go back." ”

When the four of them heard this, they all nodded in agreement. Then return to the river to pack your bags and continue north.

In the evening, the five of them arrived at the White Wolf Valley, which was a canyon more than thirty meters wide, but they did not see a single wolf, nor did they hear a wolf howl. Li Feng smiled and said, "I haven't even seen the shadow of a wolf, I really don't know why this place is called 'White Wolf Valley'!" ”

Zhao Sheng said: "Do you want to see a wolf? ”

Li Feng immediately shook his head.

Zhao Sheng continued: "Maybe there were wolves here before. He turned around and asked Zhao Gao: "Big brother, are we going to spend the night in the valley tonight, or are we going to spend the night on the stone slope in the east?" ”

Zhao Gao said: "Let's go down to the bottom of the valley first." ”

As they spoke, the five of them slid down the hill carefully. Zhao Gao walked around, looked at it, and came back and said, "You can't see wolf dung here, and you can't smell the smell of wolves, probably there are really no wolves here." ”

"And we're going to spend the night here?" Li Feng said that he was about to put down his bags.

"Wait a minute." Zhao Gao looked at the stone slope in the east, estimated that it was more than 100 meters high, covered with large and small gravel, and asked them: "Do you still have the strength?" How about we go up and have a look? ”

All four nodded yes. So they all climbed up.

Unexpectedly, the stone slope is very difficult to walk, a foot on it, the gravel will move down, the person takes a step forward, the stone slides the person back half a step, so that you have to keep going up, if you stop moving, it will slide down with the stone. It's okay for one stone to slip, but as soon as the five people move, there are five slips, and they are bound to bury them. Seeing this, Zhao Gao hurriedly shouted: "You find a big stone to grab, wait for me to go up, and pull you up with a rope." ”

The four of them immediately found a big rock to lean on and stabilize their bodies. At the same time, Zhao Gao struggled to climb up, only to see that every time he landed, he first stepped on the gravel under his feet, and then used his hands and feet at the same time, using the dexterity not to step on the stones, and flexibly rose step by step.

After a while, Zhao Gao climbed to the top of the slope, unloaded his bag, took out a hemp rope from it and threw it down, pulling the four of them up one by one.

By the time the four of them had gone up the stone slope, the sky had become dark, and the forest in front of them was gloomy.

Li Feng gasped, shook his head and said, "It's better to be at the bottom." ”

Zhao Gao said: "The map shows that there is a small stream seven or eight miles east from here. We went there to spend the night and take a shower. ”

As soon as the four of them heard that there was a stream in front of them to take a bath, they all came to their senses and shouted: "Hurry up, it's not far from seven or eight miles, hurry up and go to take a bath!" ”

After walking three or four miles, they heard the sound of flowing water, and the five of them were overjoyed and were about to run over, when suddenly Zhao Gao gestured to stop the other four, and the four of them knew that there was an abnormality, so they quickly held their breath and listened carefully. After listening to it for a long time, I didn't hear any movement. Zhao Gao and low said in a high voice: "Now that we are close to the boundary of Daqing Mountain, it is not surprising that we have met one or two people." We need to be careful! ”

At that moment, the five of them were cautious, lightly, and took one step at a time.

A hot wind blew into the woods, and only the rustling of leaves could be heard, muffling the footsteps. Zhao Gao was overjoyed, but it didn't take long for him to stop the four of them, and squatted down, and when they came closer, he asked in a low voice, "Did you smell anything?" ”

All four shook their heads.

Zhao Gao raised his head, facing the direction of the wind, wanting to confirm again. The four of them did the same. After a while, if you smell a foul smell.

All five of them squatted down again. Li Feng said: "It's like something rotten. ”

Zhao Gao thought for a while and said, "The north side is the mountain, the stream in front of it must flow from the north, and the wind is blowing from the south, if there is anything, it must be below us." If there are people, let's go north along the stream for a while, and then find a way to cross it. ”

The four of them nodded in agreement, and then followed Zhao Gao towards the stream.

After a while, the five of them walked to the front of the stream, which was more than ten meters wide, but unfortunately the sky was too dark to see the depth of the stream. Looking further downstream, I vaguely saw a fire five miles away, and I didn't know if there was anyone there. Zhao Gao put down his bags and whispered, "Let's eat something here first, and then, Li Feng, you and I will go down and have a look." Gao Yang, Gao Hong, Zhao Sheng, the three of you stay here, take care of your luggage, and wait for us to come back! ”

The four of them nodded in agreement, unloaded their bags, and just as there was still water in the kettle, they sat on the ground and had a full meal.

Before you know it, the moon rises and illuminates the valley. Zhao Gao told the three of them again, and then he and Li Feng each grabbed the steel knife, got into the grass, and went downstream.

Five miles was not too far, and the two of them used steel knives to cut through the grass and walked slowly, and soon they reached the opposite shore of the fire. The stream here is several times wider than upstream, and it is like a great river, and the opposite bank is not overgrown with weeds in the west, but it is clean, like an orchard, and the fire is under a big tree by the river, and two people are sitting next to it, roasting a goat, eating and drinking.

Li Feng touched Zhao Gao and pointed to the rear of the two. Zhao Gao looked at a thatched hut, which was also lit with lights, and there seemed to be a figure floating. Li Feng whispered to Zhao Gao: "I wonder if they are from Daqingshan?" ”

"Let's get closer." After Zhao Gao finished speaking, he waited until a gust of wind blew, and took advantage of the situation to drill into the grass by the river. By this point, they could already see that they were two men, but they couldn't hear them clearly.

When he was helpless, he suddenly heard a woman's loud words, which seemed to be scolding the two men by the river, and the man was also convinced, and scolded in a different way. Then a woman came out of the grass hut and scolded, "You two drunkards, don't you get it if you don't drink to death?" If you miss tomorrow's big event, see if the king doesn't chop you up and feed it to the dogs! ”

As soon as the woman's voice fell, a man said in a loud voice, "You mother-in-law is not sleeping yet, what do you care about our affairs?" If you don't wake me up early tomorrow morning, I'll chop you up and feed you to the dogs!" ”

Another man hurriedly played a round and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, let's sleep after drinking these." ”

The woman cursed and scolded again in her mouth, and after a while, she went back to the house.

Zhao Gao touched Li Feng with his hand, Li Feng understood, and the two immediately withdrew from the grass, returned to the forest and began to stride back. After walking for a while, Zhao Deng spoke: "Listening to the accents of those three people just now, they are no different from us, and they must be from Daqingshan." We just need to figure out how to get in tomorrow. ”

When he went back to see the three people who were guarding the same place, Zhao Deng told him about the situation, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Deng then said: "Let's work harder tonight, go up along the stream, it is best to climb to a commanding height, and at dawn tomorrow, we can clearly see the geographical environment of the entire Daqing Mountain and its buildings and roads." ”

The five men went north to the bottom of the mountain, and saw a pool, so they put down their bags, filled the kettle, washed themselves, changed into clean clothes, and climbed up the mountain.

From there, all you see along the way are thick pine trees, stretching for more than three miles. Finally found a stone place with a wide view, and the five of them planned to spend the night here.

Zhao Deng put down his bags, walked to the edge of the boulder, looked into the distance, and saw the stars, which were fireworks in the world.