We followed the innkeeper all the way, climbing up and down in the mountains, and getting more and more wild. After running for about two or three hours, Tan Zhe held on to an old tree and panted: "No, no." I can't really run. ”

I stepped forward and saw only the tip of the innkeeper's head through the shadows of the trees. I wiped my sweat and scolded, "This shit, where does you get such vigorous energy? Looking at him cowardly and pustuple, I didn't expect his physical strength to be so good. ”

Seeing that the innkeeper was about to be lost by us, I hurriedly pulled Tan Zhe: "Hurry up!" You don't want to find your wallet anymore? ”

As soon as Tan Zhe heard the wallet, it was like being beaten with chicken blood, and he gritted his teeth and ran forward. We followed the innkeeper for a while and came to an open area.

This place is next to the river, and across a low bush, we can clearly hear the sound of "rushing" water. Tan Zhe asked me a little strangely, "Have you noticed anything strange?"

I nodded: "The land here is getting flatter, and where we just passed, there are even a few pieces of regular land, like farmland divided by a path."

Tan Zhe nodded and said, "How do I feel that someone has ever opened up a wasteland here?" And, look at that! I looked at the place where Tan Zhe pointed and saw that the innkeeper was climbing a steep slope, and the most peculiar thing was that this steep slope seemed to be built by people, because it had a small platform in the middle, just like the "human" herringbone railway built by Zhan Tianyou in primary school textbooks.

"Also, did you notice that something was wrong with the innkeeper too?" I lay in ambush in the bushes, staring at the innkeeper on the slope without blinking, and said, "How do I feel that he has lost a little weight?"

Tan Zhe looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "Compared to last night, I am indeed a little thinner."

Just walked such a little way, even if you sweat, how much can you shed? How can it be obvious that people are thin? This man has eccentricities.

When the innkeeper climbed to the top of the slope, Tan Zhe and I didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly chased after it, and we ran up to see that there was a village here!

I saw that under the shadow of distant mountains and near water, several old-fashioned thatched houses were hidden behind rows of poplar trees, and the style of the houses should be built in the seventies and eighties of the last century.

I was so shocked that I couldn't close my mouth, and Tan Zhe suddenly said, "What about the innkeeper?" Damn, where did he go? ”

We searched the neighborhood, and even the corners were picked, but we didn't see the shadow of the innkeeper. This hard-working and tired climb the mountain for hours, hit the plane at the doorstep, and give up all the work?

Tan Zhe and I were very unwilling, and after discussing it for a while, we felt that it was very likely that he ran into the abandoned village in front of him and hid. But the village says it's not big, and it's not too small, so it's just the two of us, how can we find it?

"Let's look for it one by one, we don't believe it, he can hide in the mouse hole!" We made up our minds and headed for the abandoned village, and after a few steps I was screaming in my stomach.

"I'm hungry." I touched my stomach and said. It's already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and I haven't eaten water and rice since last night, and Tan Zhe's situation is similar to mine.

Tan Zhe said: "Let's find out if there are any hares, pheasants or something." I found it, and we roasted it. ”

I looked at him in disbelief: "Will you?"

Tan Zhe said, "Yes." When I was a child, I often followed my master to the mountains to collect medicines, and often caught rabbits and pheasants on the mountains at noon. ”

I laughed and said, "You still go up the mountain to collect medicine?" What about filming? What does your master do? Old Chinese medicine doctor? ”

Tan Zhe hesitated for a while and said, "I'll tell you later." Let's find something to eat first. When we were full, we went to the village in front of us to look for it, but if we couldn't find it, we went down the mountain. It's not early, we can't spend the night in the mountains. ”

Although we didn't find the old gap, we did have some clues. Lao Que's physical characteristics are too obvious, as long as you look slowly in these villages, you will definitely be able to find it.

I grew up in the countryside, and I caught rabbits and fish in the river, so these things are not a problem for me.

We found a rabbit's nest on the hillside, plugged two holes with dead branches, and then burned wet wood at the mouth of the other hole, and the smoke rose and the wind went into the rabbit hole.

It didn't take long for a big gray rabbit to run out of the fourth hole, its coat was shiny, fat and attractive, I smashed its brain with a brick, and then I was roasting meat with Tan Zhe.

Tan Zhe carried a knife on the key, which was long but very sharp. His approach to rabbit skin is clean, smooth and natural.

I picked up firewood and roasted the rabbit on the fire, and before long, a strong fragrance spread.

There is an old saying in our hometown: pigeons and turtledoves in the sky, rabbits and dogs on the ground. This means that the meat of these four animals is delicious and the best of the meat. But the two of us roasted this rabbit, although the meat was thick and oily, but there was no seasoning. The taste is so-so, and it's really not delicious.

If I hadn't been really hungry, I guess I wouldn't have been able to eat even a rabbit leg.

After eating, we headed for the village. No matter what, we have come here, we have to try our luck, and if we find the old missing, our problem will be solved.

Tan Zhe and I searched the homes of two families at the entrance of the village, except for the broken gables and rotten furniture, we didn't even see a mouse.

After searching seven or eight houses in a row, I was a little disheartened: "After so many years of famine, how can anyone ever come?" Eighty percent of them are hotel owners, and we found out about the two of us, so they deliberately led us around in circles, right? ”

Tan Zhe was lying in front of a broken window and didn't know what he was doing, and he didn't say anything after listening to my words, I couldn't help but walk over, poke my head out and ask him, "What are you looking at?"

The walls were made of yellow mud, and two wooden windows were installed, which had long since rotted into slag, but there were a few pieces of black mud on the yellow mud windowsill, which looked wet.

As if I had been electrocuted, I looked back at Tan Zhe, who was also looking at me with a smile. I patted him on the back and said, "Come in, why are you looking at me so angry and laughing?"

With that, I jumped in through the window first.

The courtyard of this house is relatively large, a bit like the regulation of a courtyard house, and the place where we jumped in was the back window of the east wing.

Standing in the courtyard, Tan Zhe couldn't help but sigh: "This family should also be a rich family, right?" However, I always felt that this house was weird. ”

I said, "This is an improved version of the courtyard house, but this kind of house is rare in the south, is it possible that the head of this house moved from out of town?"

In the seventies and eighties of the last century, a foreigner deliberately moved to a mountain village in the south to live in seclusion?