This place, right......

How to describe it, it is desolate, it is really desolate. The nearest town is 140 kilometers away in a straight line, and to buy food, you need to rely on Lao Zheng to ride a motorcycle to the town on the first day, and then come back the next afternoon.

Oh, by the way, Lao Zheng is the old man of the security guard. He was originally a mushroom farmer who grew mushrooms nearby, and then because he was old, he was too lazy to do it, and it happened that when the school was being built, he said that he was looking for a doorman, so he came, it has been more than a month, and Gu Tao is the first person he has seen.

However, Lao Zheng has been growing shiitake mushrooms in the mountains for many years, and he has long been accustomed to loneliness without children and daughters, so he can endure loneliness, just guarding this huge campus, and it is a little infiltrating at night.

Now that Gu Tao is here, he has one more person to talk to, although he is used to being lonely, but one more person to talk to is not a bad thing in the end.

Gu Tao is not used to living here, so he will drive back to Weiwei to take the children every night after work, but after taking it for a few days, he found that he couldn't help at all, Sister Tifa had already arranged everything, and Gu Tao lived in this place for a day.

In this way, there is also a benefit, that is, it is full of wild fun. There is a wild pond on the mountain behind the school, there are fish in it, there are rabbits in the forest, birds in the trees, and snakes in the holes.

Exiled to this place...... This is an exile, right? Gu Tao suddenly thought of this question when he was fishing, and said that it was a good school, but what is the difference between this and guarding the tomb.

"Kotani? Kotani! ”

Lao Zheng's voice came from a distance and interrupted Gu Tao's sigh, and he answered: "Lao Zheng, what about this." ”

Soon, I saw Lao Zheng walking over with two snakes with children's arms and a plastic pot of liquor in his hands: "Let's two roast it." ”

Gu Tao tired the stove and lit the fire. Lao Zheng peeled the snake skin and took the snake gall, and after a while, the two snakes were put on the red-hot charcoal and roasted with a sizzling sound, Lao Zheng also opened a plastic pocket and took out peanuts and a handful of broad beans, and Gu Tao drank the wine one by one.

"How did you get to this place at such a young age?"

"I made a mistake." Gu Tao sighed: "Men, you have to admit your mistakes, and you have to stand firm when you are beaten." And that's not bad. ”

"Yes, there is still a salary every month." Lao Zheng took a sip of wine: "Tomorrow, tomorrow I will dig out a honeycomb and get some bee chrysalis to make wine, good things." ”

"Well said!" Gu Tao kneaded a handful of peanuts into his mouth and said vaguely: "Fry it a little more." ”

"Will eat!"

An old man and a small business blew each other for a day, when dusk came, Lao Zheng was boiling soup with mushrooms picked in the mountains, Gu Tao was bored sitting in a rocking chair watching the sunset on the horizon, the big yellow dog was lying next to him and sticking out his tongue, and the birds began to return to their nests at this time.

Smelling the rich aroma of rice, Gu Tao always felt a little drowsy, and there was a bottle of wine beside him, so he picked it up and took a sip.

"I'll pick up my wife and children in two days." Gu Tao took a deep breath and said to Lao Zheng, who was cooking in the open air not far away: "This day, beautiful." ”

"Okay, isn't it just a few more pairs of chopsticks?" Lao Zheng also smiled and said: "The old man likes to be lively. ”

"Who are you fooling, why do you like to be lively and live in the mountains all your life?"

"Lively doesn't like old men." Lao Zheng looked up at the sky: "I have lived in the city, and I have also gone to high school." But they didn't like me, so I just lived in the mountains. ”

Lao Zheng's actual age is almost seventy, and the high school students more than fifty years ago are considered intermediate intellectuals, so it seems that this old thing is also a person with a story.

"Old guy, why don't you find a wife?"

"I had when I was younger." Lao Zheng put the soup up, and then skillfully heated the pan with oil: "Hand me the soy sauce." ”

Gu Tao handed him the soy sauce, and then watched him cook with his hands behind his back, this old guy has quick hands and feet, and the knife work is also quite good, if it weren't for the old age, Gu Tao would like to take him as an apprentice to teach him how to cook: "When I was young, what about people?" ”

"Married."

"Who are you marrying?"

"Not me, anyway." Lao Zheng sighed for no reason: "Later, within a few years, I got sick and died." ”

Alas...... This kind of words seem to come out of his mouth without emotion, but think about it from another perspective, how heartbreaking it would be when the young Lao Zheng heard the news that his beloved was married and then left the scene gloomily...... It's no wonder that he has lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests all his life.

"Looks like you're still a seed of infatuation."

"What kind of seed of idiocy? Lao Tzu was caught in the labor camp because he touched the thigh of a female student, and he learned to grow mushrooms when he was in labor reform, and he lived in the mountains to grow mushrooms when he was released and couldn't find a job. ”

Alas? This old thing, I thought it was an infatuation seed, but I didn't expect it to be an old king.

In the evening, the two of them sat at the dinner table and drank one by one, the high level of liquor was very powerful, and after a while, both of them drank almost, Gu Tao entered his room in a daze, and fell asleep. And it wasn't until he was awakened by thirst in the middle of the night that he opened his eyes.

I poured myself a glass of water, sat on the edge of the bed for a while, rubbed my temples and said to myself, "This wine is powerful enough......"

And just as he was about to continue sleeping, he suddenly heard a silver bell-like laughter ringing in his ears, accompanied by a crisp and pleasant call: "Hehehehe, Gu Tao...... Come on, Gu Tao......"

"." Gu Tao laughed: "Groundbreaking on Tai Sui's head, Satania, cation impact preparation." ”

After speaking, he put on his clothes and prepared to go out, but as soon as he went out, he found Lao Zheng sitting in a rocking chair at the door, looking half-asleep and half-awake, and when he heard Gu Tao's movement, he opened his eyes slightly: "Boy, did you hear me?" ”

"Aang." Gu Tao nodded: "What's that?" ”

"Mountain spirits." Lao Zheng stretched out his hand to stop Gu Tao: "I can't go, none of the people who follow the mountain spirit can come back, I am afraid that you will follow you at night, so I will hurry over and wait for you after hearing it." I didn't expect you little rabbit to really want to go. ”

As for why Lao Zheng knew about the mountain spirit, Gu Tao was not surprised at all, who had never encountered something strange in the mountains all his life, but he couldn't sleep after being tossed like this, so he simply moved a chair and sat next to Lao Zheng.

"Can't sleep, talk about ten dollars?"

Lao Zheng hehe: "Dry talk? Go, fry some peanuts. ”

The peanuts were fried fragrantly, the two of them sat in the depths of the mountains in the cool early morning and drank a little wine, Lao Zheng loves to drink, he has a lot of goods, although it is not a good wine, but it can be a large amount, what white and yellow self-brewed, what kind of wine, the two of them warmed a little rice wine, and chatted about peanuts.

"Lao Tzu is in the mountains, and the most terrifying time is to see the female ghost in red."

"Really? That's it, how about you didn't treat a female ghost, right? ”

"Hey...... Stinky boy. Lao Zheng laughed: "You know, the female ghost in red, that's the fiercest." In the past, the average bride wore a red dress, and she was overjoyed and rushed together, this ghost was particularly fierce. I was rushing from the town to my mushroom shed at night, and the motorcycle was upside down on the road, and suddenly there was such a thing in front of me, and she was standing in the middle of the road, not dodging or dodging, and I thought that if I stopped, it would be over, so I accelerated and rushed over while scolding, but as soon as I rushed over, I even took the car into the ditch, or the next morning there was a survey team passing by, and you were afraid that you would not be able to see me. ”

Gu Tao smiled: "I'm afraid it's not that you've drunk too much wine and hallucinated, right?" ”

"Those of you who have read books always don't believe this and that, and if you do, I promise you'll die at that time." Lao Zheng said drunkly: "In the mountains, you really can't run around at night." ”

"Got it, got it." Gu Tao was also a little drunk, leaning against the wall and waving his hand: "Don't run around." ”

I don't know when the two of them fell asleep, and when they woke up, it was already sunset, and Gu Tao didn't even know when he slept in bed, but it didn't matter anymore.

When he was washing, Lao Zheng had already started to make lunch, and he looked at Gu Tao who was squatting next to him: "A little girl came to you just now." ”

"Huh?" Gu Tao raised his head with a mouth full of toothpaste: "Which one?" ”

"A girl with a tall face and a small face." Lao Zheng gestured: "She also said let me give this to you." ”

As he spoke, a package was thrown in front of Gu Tao, he opened the package with a toothbrush, and inside were a few pairs of socks and a few idle books, and then Gu Tao smelled the smell: "It's eucalyptus......"

When she was eating, Eucalyptus walked in wearing a garland, and when she saw Gu Tao, she was immediately overjoyed, and jumped in front of him: "Isn't it good-looking?" ”

"It's good-looking." Gu Tao pinched her face: "It's not a big move to come over." ”

"It's not far away, I'll come and see you." Eucalyptus sat next to her, eating the mushrooms that Gu Tao fed her, and then said with a smile: "I saw a few friends in the mountains just now." ”

Gu Tao rolled his eyes and glanced at Lao Zheng, Lao Zheng didn't seem to react, just lowered his head to eat and drink, and Eucalyptus seemed to realize that there were outsiders here, so he quickly shrunk his neck and stuck out his tongue: "I want to go and play with my friends for a while." ”

"Go ahead."

"Then I'll go."

Eucalyptus who returned to the mountains and forests was like the little girl when she first met, full of joy and joy, and Gu Tao looked at her bouncing figure all the way and showed a very doting smile.

"Little thing, is this your daughter-in-law?"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"It's weird." Lao Zheng smacked his lips: "Don't be surprised by what you say, this girl is ...... It's not human. ”