Chapter XII

The uncle was wearing a gray white shirt, a pair of black trousers that were not very new but very smooth, and a pipe in his mouth, and his beard looked a little sloppy. But the spirit is very full, and the eyes are bright. The villagers who were carrying Akai on their backs on the left and right all smiled when they saw the uncle, and shouted with their eyebrows: "Hello village chief!" ”

"The village chief?" I looked at the people around me with a puzzled expression, they were carrying people on their backs, and after walking for so long, they were already exhausted, panting, and sweating profusely. At this moment, when I saw the village chief, I didn't feel tired at all, and I was smiling. This kind of smile is not the kind of courtesy, nor is it a dry smile that is forced out by the leader, but a smile that gives people as if they have seen someone who is particularly close to them. It seems that Qiangzi's father is still an excellent leader who is very popular with the people! I couldn't help but be curious about his dad. I was also curious about the hadrons.

Father Qiang nodded at the villagers beside me, looked at us casually, then turned around, helped the pipe in his mouth, exhaled a puff of white smoke, said in a very hoarse voice, "Carry it into the house", and then went into the house with his hands behind his back. Looking at the back of Qiangzi's father, I thought to myself, this old man is quite cool, and he feels quite majestic.

Then Wang Qiang led a few villagers into the house, and I followed the villager who carried Akai on his back, and the last one entered the main house of Wang Qiang's house. Qiangzi's family looks too much bigger than Aunt Ying's family! After entering the house, I found that his house not only has a sofa, a coffee table, but also an LCD TV, air conditioner, refrigerator, and all the household appliances that I can think of. Even if it is the village head, in such a remote mountain village, this seems too tyrant! As far as the Samsung LCD TV in the living room is concerned, it is several times larger than the Konka in my house.

I simply looked around the living room of Wang Qiang's house, and without lingering too long, I followed to a bedroom on the second floor. Wang Qiang's house can be seen to be renovated in the later stage, there is no main house partial room, but all the rooms are connected together, and the second floor is added, the decoration is not very exquisite, but it can be said that it is reasonable, similar to the average urban family, in it, if it were not for the fact that I just came in from the yard, I might think that this is a unit building in a certain community.

Wang Qiang told me that because people come to the village from time to time to collect medicinal herbs, many people in the village have built a lot of rooms at home to entertain the bosses who come to collect medicine.

After putting the unconscious person in the bedroom, Wang Qiang and the villagers began to work for a while, and went to the kitchen to fry a large pot of Chinese medicine, which was particularly smelly, I originally wanted to help do something, but the smell made me a little nauseous, so I simply stayed in the room on the second floor and looked at Akai and them.

Tossing for about half an hour, Wang Qiang and the villagers went upstairs with a big bowl of medicinal soup, broke open the mouths of the three of them, and poured most of the bowl into one mouthful, the people who were filled with medicine began to cough wildly, fortunately, they only coughed a few times, and they all lay down quietly, I looked at the stinky, black medicinal soup was still flowing out from the corners of their mouths, and I felt an indescribable discomfort, and I felt uncomfortable.

Wang Qiang's father pierced two silver needles on the temples of the three of them, gently turned the silver needles to stimulate it, and gave the three of them a pulse. Only then did he nod and said, "It's okay, you can wake up tomorrow after sleeping for a night, and there will be no impact at all after three days of raising." ”

I listened to Wang Qiang's father's words, and thought of Liu Tong from Aunt Ying's family, it seems that they were all covered with their noses again, and they had to be poured decoction again, and they had to recuperate for three or four days to recover, but why was it only me, just wearing a gas mask, dizzy for a short while, and then there was nothing left? Could it be that I am not deeply poisoned, so it is not as serious as theirs?

I looked at Wang Qiang's father with doubts, and wanted to ask Akai what kind of poison they were in, and why they made them look like ghosts! Unexpectedly, Wang Qiang's father didn't give me a chance to ask questions at all, and said lightly: "If there's nothing to do, just rest early!" Then he put his hands behind his back and went downstairs slowly. I looked at the back of the old man going downstairs and thought to myself, this old man is not ordinary cool, how can such a cold person be supported by so many villagers? In my impression, this kind of popular people are smiling every day, enthusiastic, and able to speak! But Wang Qiang's father is so indifferent, I really don't know why the villagers love him. There must be a story in this!

The villagers also said goodbye and prepared to leave, I sent them out of the courtyard with Wang Qiang, I thanked them a few times, and watched their backs disappear in the night, I returned to the courtyard with Wang Qiang, Wang Qiang closed the courtyard door, turned his head to me and said: "Lao Fu, are you hungry?" "Being asked by Qiangzi, I really feel a sour stomach, after what happened just now, and after walking on the mountain road for so long, in fact, I have long been hungry, but seeing that my companions have all had an accident, because I am worried, so I don't feel it, now that everything is too peaceful, the feeling of emptiness in my stomach is really uncomfortable, so I looked at Wang Qiang and nodded.

Wang Qiang took me to his kitchen, I thought that his stove would be the same as Aunt Ying's firewood, but what I didn't expect was that his stove was still a gas stove, a big gas tank on the side, refrigerator, running water, range hood, it can be said that there is something, living in this kind of small mountain village so far away from the city, the standard of living is still so high, I can't help but sigh: "It's really the times are developing, and the society is progressing!" ”

Qiangzi opened the refrigerator, took out some wild vegetables that I had never seen, and half a chicken, chopped them casually, turned on the hot pot, and after a while, two dishes and one soup were put on the table.

A plate of scrambled eggs with wild vegetables, a plate of roasted chicken nuggets, and a bowl of wild vegetable soup. I really can't see that the big smug hadron still has this craft. Although it didn't look good, the smell of the meat from the chicken nuggets made my stomach start to drum.

I unceremoniously picked up a chicken leg and took a big bite, not to mention, it tasted really good. Qiangzi stood aside, looking at me with a smile and a satisfied expression, as if he was very cool watching me eat!

I was a little embarrassed to be looked at by Hadron and spit out a chicken bone and said to Hadron "You can eat it too!" ”

Qiangzi turned around, took a plastic bucket with half a barrel of dark red liquid from the cabinet, took two more cups, put them on the table, and then walked to the window, opened the window, and a cool mountain breeze blew in, and suddenly felt a lot cooler.

Wang Qiang turned his back to the window and sat down, his back was reflected on the glass, vague, looking from me, it was as if a person was standing outside the window, looking at us, a little scary, I shuddered, quickly took my eyes back, and put it on the roast chicken nugget in front of me.

Wang Qiang rubbed the sweat on his palms on his pants, "clicked" and unscrewed the lid of the plastic bucket, and a smell of wine mixed with herbs came, Qiangzi poured two glasses, put one in front of me, picked up a cup and drank it himself, and enjoyed it so much that he exhaled, chirped, tasted it, and then said to me: "Come, taste, this is my own medicinal wine, very replenishing qi." ”

I rarely drank, but I was too embarrassed to refuse, so I took a sip from my glass. As soon as I took this sip of wine, I felt a strong smell of wine, mixed with some slightly bitter herbs, so choking that I almost sprayed the wine in the face of the hadron! I held my breath and swallowed the wine like a pill, and I felt a fever from my throat to my stomach, and I was very uncomfortable, so I quickly picked up the soup bowl in front of me, and drank two large sips to suppress the taste of wine, which was much more comfortable. I gasped and said, "This wine is too spicy!" ”

Wang Qiang took another sip himself, and then laughed out loud. "Old Fu, you're still the same!" After speaking, Qiangzi's eyes became a little sluggish, as if he had something on his mind, and his eyes seemed to be red. "What's wrong?" I was a little confused by the hadron and had to look at him for some reason and asked.

Hadron took another big sip, drank the wine from the glass, then poured another glass, and said to me, "Alas! It's nothing, it's just that I can see you again, I'm very happy, and I remember a lot of things we used to do in the dormitory, at that time you sat alone on the bed in a daze all day long, and never contacted us, in fact, I always thought you were a stupid and stupid weird person, we have known each other for so long, this seems to be the first time, sitting at the table to eat together, right? ”

I looked at Hadron and didn't understand what he was trying to say, so I didn't answer, just nodded and asked him to continue. Qiangzi picked up his glass and touched it with me, and continued: "Actually, I like you a lot, I was born in this mountain, and the first time I went to school in the city, I met you. Our children in the mountains are straight, I think that since we are so fateful, then we are good brothers for life, but I didn't expect that God would be so unfair to me and let me leave school early! ”

I looked at Qiangzi's painful expression, as if I had been wronged, and quickly asked, "What's wrong?" I heard that you weren't arrested by the Public Security Bureau for fighting? Isn't that so? "Qiangzi looked at me with a bitter expression, with a trace of resentment between his eyebrows!" That's right, it's just not what you think. Then Hadron told me what had happened.

Qiangzi said that their village was very poor when he was very young, but the people were also very pure, and they were all like a family. His father wasn't like this before, and he wasn't the village chief at that time. But he is very warm and cheerful, he will greet everyone he meets, and he likes to chat with others. At that time, although the conditions of the strong son family were not good, they lived happily and comfortably.

But God seems to be deliberately playing with their family! When Qiangzi was ten years old, his aunt had a strange disease, although they knew a little bit about medicine in the whole Wangjia Village, but it was only limited to some common minor diseases, his aunt didn't know what the disease was, the conditions at that time were very poor, at that time there was no road to the city, and the family was very poor, and he couldn't afford to send his aunt to the hospital for treatment, and after the whole village tried their best, he still died!

After Qiangzi's family left his mother, he fell into deep pain for a long time, and Qiangzi's father was not as cheerful as before, always alone, looking up at the sky in a daze. Qiangzi was very strong when he was a child, although the death of his grandmother was also very painful in his heart, but he did not succumb to fate, the little Qiangzi knew that life had to go on, and the road ahead was still very long, so he redoubled his efforts to learn cultural knowledge, and he understood that only knowledge can change fate. In this way, Qiangzi and his father have been dependent on each other for four years, and in these four years, earth-shaking changes have taken place outside the village!

First, some people from the city began to like to travel to their villages below the mountain, and then they built roads, opened cars, and finally pulled up electric wires. But for their small village deep in the mountains, no one has been caring. At that time, the village chief also wanted to take advantage of this wind to develop tourism in the village. But there are very few tourists in the village! And there will be people who are often poisoned and dangerous, and eventually there will be no tourists in their village!

Qiangzi said this, lit a cigarette, looked at me mysteriously, and then lowered his voice and said to me, "Actually, I have heard a legend, do you want to hear it?" I nodded, made a gesture of please, and motioned for him to continue, and after pondering for a moment, Hadron said, "It all started with a tourist accident." ”

The accident occurred not long after the village chief started tourism, some tourism enthusiasts who thought they were senior and were not afraid of the dangers of nature came to their village, and after staying for a few days, they continued to move forward to the depths of the mountain without listening to the dissuasion, and went up from the back mountain of Wangjia Village, which is where the ancestral tomb of their village is located, where it will fog up at night, and the fog contains poison that makes people confused, but this fog will only float to the vicinity of Wangjia's tomb, and it will not spread downward. But in some special cases, it will also spread, and sometimes it will even appear in the village, such as a light breeze, or continuous rainy weather, just like the breeze in the mountains today, blowing the fog down the mountain, so our group was recruited.

However, compared to the power of this bit of mist in the deep mountains, it is simply like a little sparrow seeing the Eagle King, which is not worth mentioning at all! The mountain behind Wangjia Village is a real no-man's land, where not only is it inaccessible, even birds and beasts are not there, and not only there is fog at night, but also fog during the day, even if there is an antidote made by the Wang family, the danger in the mountain can not be completely dealt with!

The tourists did not listen to the advice and insisted on going up the mountain, and spent a lot of money to buy a lot of antidotes, and under the temptation of money, the village chief had to nod and agree. At first, the villagers were worried about this matter, and sent many experienced herb pickers into the mountain to look for them, but they didn't find even a trace. At that time, the village chief felt that maybe they didn't go in at all, because if they did, they should at least leave some footprints, right? Maybe they saw it too dangerous and went down from somewhere else. So slowly, this matter was forgotten by the villagers.