Chapter 5: Leaving the Homeland

It's not an old horse, it's a person you don't know.

I turned my head to look at the old horse, who had no idea what kind of psychological struggle I had just been experiencing, and was dozing off, and seemed to be ready to fall asleep again.

I looked at the man in the straw hat again, still with the same unfamiliar face, not as an old horse.

I let out a long sigh of relief, feeling pathetic and funny, for I was a soldier now.

What about wearing a straw hat at night? These peasants couldn't hold their hats with sacks in their hands, so it was normal for them to get into the car and take them off with their hands.

What the hell is wrong with me?

There is a lack of exercise, if the spirit is still in this state, it is no different from sending people to the head for thousands of miles.

The old horse's snoring sounded again, the car started again, and the few peasants who had just come up also made sleeping gestures, I sighed, leaned slightly to the window, and the sky was dotted with stars, extremely quiet.

"Daze, up, up!"

In a daze, I heard the voice of the old horse dangling in my ears, sometimes far and sometimes near, I half-squinted, and felt like a layer of paste on my eyelids, and I couldn't open them.

"Hey! It's time to get off the bus! ”

Suddenly an unfamiliar voice came out, I woke up, but my brain was still empty, and I subconsciously looked out the window, the sky was already white, and I looked at my watch, it was not half past four.

I let out a long yawn, feeling my whole body aching, and my head seemed to be filled with lead, and the old horse looked at me with great interest, and was in good spirits.

I looked at him, I actually felt a little envious, no heart and lungs are sometimes a kind of happiness, I have a lot of hearts, I wake up every time I get to a station, but he sleeps like a dead pig next to him.

The farmer put on his straw hat again and dragged two sacks out of the car, and we followed him.

The air under the car is fresh and cool, compared to the stuffy gas mixed with all kinds of sweat and smell on the car, it is simply heaven.

"Daze, what's going on now?"

The old horse looked left and right at the bustling crowd, but I kept staring at the man in the straw hat until he disappeared into the crowd.

"What else can I do, have you played the game, do you know what to do before playing a dungeon?"

Lao Ma shook his head: "I haven't played it, what is the copy?" ”

I had a pain in the egg, this guy is a super rookie, and I wanted to count on him to make a monster, but he couldn't even find the monster.

I sighed: "Buy equipment, budding." ”

The old horse suddenly realized: "What to buy?" ”

I thought about it carefully, since it is a tomb near the water, I am afraid that I have to go into the water, diving equipment is a must, the situation in the tomb is weird, I don't know what demons and monsters will be encountered, even the old man Chen is on the road, those things that are chattering must also be prepared, I dare not hand over the equipment to the old horse, let him prepare some exorcism and evil spirits.

"Old Ma, you have also learned, what do you say is good for exorcism?"

The old horse thought for a while: "Black dog blood." ”

I nodded: "I heard that it is easy to raise corpses when there is yang energy in the ancient tomb, and you have to use black donkey hooves and glutinous rice to deal with zombies, you go to buy it, you know more than me, see what else can be used to buy it back, there are not too many life-saving things, I will wait for you here." ”

Lao Ma Lianying took the money and left a few times, and I sat down directly by Daoyazi, flipping through my mobile phone.

The network is also advantageous, the satellite map of the entire Taixing County is in front of my eyes, I put it to the maximum and looked around along the Yangtze River, and I can't see where there is a tomb.

There is a Chaoyang village near Taixing County near the river, it is a relatively small village, and the mountains there are the most dense, I think it is the most suitable place, you can live and inquire, it is not easy to attract attention.

It is not easy to buy equipment, but fortunately, there is a universal online shopping, which will not attract attention, climbing ropes, sapper shovels, waterproof flashlights, waterproof fire machines, diving suits, gas masks, cold fireworks, simple water purification equipment, all of which are the best and most expensive.

The seller who sells the wetsuit also desperately recommends oxygen cylinders, and I thought about buying two 0.45L bottles again and again, which can only last for about five minutes, but it is better than nothing.

In less than an hour, I placed an order for everything I could think of, and the address was directly written in the guest house in Chaoyang Village, and our speed was always faster than that of express delivery.

When I put down my phone, my heart suddenly emptied, and I couldn't help but want to remember the past.

Soon I found out sadly that in the past 20 years or so, there was nothing worth remembering, and the only thing that I could remember was a week ago, as if that was the beginning of my life.

The sun was rising higher and higher, and I glanced at my watch, and it was already past ten o'clock, but the old horse had not yet returned, and I couldn't help but wonder if he suddenly regretted it and didn't want to go with me anymore.

It wasn't a good place in the first place, and the old horse was not obliged to be with me, and the more I thought about it, the more sad I became, as if his escape was a fact, and I thought to myself, wait another hour, and then I would go.

After waiting for another half an hour, I finally saw the figure of the old horse in the crowd, and the big stone in my heart finally landed, and I felt a lot more relaxed in an instant, and I realized how important the old horse was to me.

People are so strange, when you have a lot of friends around you, you will want to be alone, and when you have no one around, you will be extremely eager for a group.

"Osawa, I'm back! This donkey's hooves are waiting for me to die! ”

The old horse ran over panting, his whole body was almost blind, he was carrying a few plastic bags in his left hand, and on his right shoulder he was carrying a donkey leg that had not been peeled off half of his skin and a large bag of glutinous rice, followed by a black dog, the leash was in his left hand, the dog was dragged listlessly by him, and was sticking out his tongue desperately.

I felt my mouth open enough to swallow an egg, and the old horse stopped in front of me and raised the donkey's leg with gusto.

"It's a coincidence that there is a donkey killer today, and it happens to be a black donkey, how lucky you say we are! I asked the man if he could give me the donkey's hooves, and he said yes anyway, but he had to wait until he sold all the donkey meat, or I would have come back sooner! ”

I looked at the bloody leg of the donkey with black hair and dizzy, how big a donkey's hoof was, now it's half a leg!

"We just need donkey hooves, how can you take such half a leg, heavy and long, how can you take it to the tomb?!"

The old horse looked pitiful as if he had been doused with cold water: "It's all bones and it's not too heavy, you don't need to carry it, I'll take it as a stick, it's good to be long, if you really meet the black hair, you can slap it in the mouth." ”

I was speechless and pointed to the black dog behind him, "What's the matter with this dog?" ”

The old horse smiled "hehe": "I bought it from the dog meat seller, I was originally thinking about getting some blood, but now it's so hot, and when we go in, it will already stink, so just take it with you, the dog's eyes can see ghosts, and if there is a ghost, we can run." ”

I patted my chest and tried to hold back the dirty words: "And what are you hanging on your body?" ”

"Talisman," the old horse took off a bunch of chains around his neck, "touch the golden talisman for you, Maitreya Buddha for me, obsidian for you, wolf tooth for me, Guanyin for you, cross for me ......"

I couldn't bear it anymore, so I snatched the pile of rough workmanship chains in his hand and put them around his neck: "Give it to you, give it to you!" ”

Lao Ma looked confused: "You don't want it?" ”

"Don't! With your living treasure, ghosts are not uncommon to me! And this bag of glutinous rice, huh? Ten pounds! Are you going to rob the tomb or go to a picnic?! ”

"What's the way, people won't let it be demolished, this is quite heavy, let's take it out."

I was suddenly filled with despair about this adventure, and I knew that it would be better to go by myself, and if the old horse did die in it, I would not be able to feel at ease.

I exhaled heavily and pointed to the plastic bags, "What is this?" ”

Lao Ma felt that I was in a bad mood, and his strength was not so strong: "Incense and yellow paper, as well as cinnabar, my master said that three incense sticks are used to enter the door, and it is difficult for gods and ghosts to be, I used to learn talismans from my master, and I want to draw a few pieces with cinnabar." ”

That sounds pretty plausible, but I'm skeptical of the old horse's ability to draw talismans, look at the pile around his neck, and the cross, why doesn't he hang a bunch of garlic.

Lao Ma is serious, although he is simple and stupid, but he really wants to help me, since my father died, I never thought that there would be anyone willing to help me.

What else can I blame such a person?

I sniffed and picked up the glutinous rice and the plastic bags: "Let's go, I booked a ticket for the afternoon, let's go to the station to eat something good, and when we get to Taixing, it won't be so comfortable." ”

Lao Ma didn't say a word, just silently followed behind me, the station is not far from here, but because the minibus we are sitting in is a black car, so we can't go in.

We went around outside the station to find a dozen restaurants, but none of them would let us in with donkey legs and black dogs, and in the end we had to buy two pancakes and fruits, and sat in front of the station to nibble on them.

I left a few mouthfuls of pancake fruit to the black dog, see it eat very fragrant, the big red letters of the Yishui bus station behind me are shining in the sun, this is where I have lived for more than 20 years, today goodbye, I don't know if there is a chance to come back.

Yishui bus station did not go directly to Taixing car, we can only take the car to Linyi South Passenger Station, the staff of the bus station does not let the black dog get on the car, we repeatedly promised that it will never provoke right and wrong, and bought a ticket for it to reluctantly let us go up.

This time, it was replaced by the old horse sitting by the window, holding the black dog in his arms, and sleeping soundly with one person and one dog.

I still don't feel sleepy, this dog is indeed very well-behaved, but it's too troublesome for us to take it everywhere, Yishui is a small place, and they are all fellow villagers to be accommodating, but I'm afraid that Linyi will not have this good luck.

I was right, we were stopped directly outside the Linyi station and told us that the dogs could not go in.

The old horse was reluctant in his heart, but in the end he had to compromise, he reluctantly looked at the black dog that was blocked out of the glass door, and turned back three times in one step.