Chapter Twenty-Three: What Happened to Wang Tao [2]
"You idiot! This thing will save your life! ”
The old villager didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he got up from the small wooden bench angrily and forcibly put the sachet around his neck: "Even if you dislike this thing is ugly, you can't take it off now, if you want to take it down, you have to wait until you go down the mountain!" ”
Seeing that the old villager was angry again, Wang Tao groped for the sachet on his neck with an unnatural face, put it between his nose and sniffed: "The incense is quite fragrant, but if you say that this thing can save your life, isn't it a little too evil?" ”
The old villager smacked his lips and gritted his teeth and said: "The sachet is an ordinary sachet, but the great thing is that it has something in it, and I know that it is not a stupid boy!" ”
"There's something in there?"
Wang Tao glanced at the old villager with a suspicious face, and was about to open the sachet to take a look.
The old villager stopped him in time and asked, "Do you believe in uncle?" ”
"Believe it!"
"Believe me, don't open it!"
"Why?"
"Tsk..."
The old villager smacked his lips again, looking loveless: "This thing was given to me by an old Taoist priest a few years ago, and he said that this thing can ward off evil spirits, but it can only be used once." And he also said that he couldn't open it to see the things inside, saying that once he opened the aura, it wouldn't work! If you want to ask me what's in the sachet, I don't know, anyway, you just put it on, where is so much nonsense! ”
Seeing that the old villager said solemnly, Wang Tao didn't dare to ask, pinched the sachet, put it in his hand and weighed it, and when he saw that there was nothing special, he began to change the topic: "Uncle! Are you hungry? Shall we have something to eat first? ”
"You stinky boy, when it comes to eating, your brain turns quite fast, I think you're hungry, right?"
The old villager shook his head helplessly, took down the skewer of cooked pheasants on the grill and handed it to him: "Here you go, you can eat it first!" I can't eat much of my old bones, so you don't have much left over for me. ”
"Hey!"
Wang Tao took the roasted pheasant with a smile, held the handles on both sides with both hands, handed it to his mouth and began to gobble it up.
After eating, the two of them rested on the makeshift wooden bed, ready to recuperate, and tomorrow they were looking for a way down the mountain.
In the second half of the night, instead of getting lighter, the rain tended to get heavier and heavier.
The strong raindrops hummed on the roofs and the raging winds continued to invade from all directions, giving the illusion that the cabins were about to fall apart.
Wang Tao was sleeping soundly, and suddenly felt something dripping on his face.
This thing was cold and cold, which made him very uncomfortable, but he was groggy and didn't want to open his eyes to check, so he simply turned over and continued to sleep.
But even so, Wang Tao could still feel something dripping on his neck and back.
This made Wang Tao unable to calm down, because his back was wet, and he was shivering with cold.
He suddenly got up from the wooden bed, wiped a handful on his face, and handed it to his eyes to look at it, only to find that it was all water stains.
Looking up in confusion, I saw that the roof had begun to leak.
Turning his head to look at the old villager beside him, he saw that he was still asleep, so he didn't wake him up, but planned to go out and repair the roof by himself.
When the door opened, a cold wind suddenly poured in, Wang Tao unconsciously shrunk his neck, and quickly closed the door again.
In the house, he found a shabby coat and put it on, put a hat on his head, and carried a wooden ladder in his arms, and walked out of the door again.
When he got to the outside to set up the ladder, Wang Tao was about to find some artemisia grass to fill the gap in the roof leakage, but at this time, there was a faint voice from behind him, and the meaning of the words seemed to be calling his name.
Wang Tao felt very strange, it rained so hard, who would wander around in the woods?
Because the sky was very dark, and the edge of the hat had been pulled into columns by the rain, his vision was blurred, and even if he turned around and tried hard to see what was in front of him, he could only sigh in vain.
I was a little hesitant in my heart, and suddenly I heard a sound of kicking and tapping in front of me.
It didn't take long for a familiar figure to appear in front of Wang Tao, Wang Tao fixed his eyes and saw that this person was not Ma San'er, one of his companions who went up to the mountain to hunt together.
Before Wang Tao could speak, Ma San'er said anxiously: "Taozi, it's not good!" Our brothers who went up the mountain together fought! ”
"What's going on? You can be clear. ”
Wang Tao didn't doubt him, thinking that everyone lived in a village and usually got along quite well, how could they suddenly start fighting? This is what puzzles him very much.
"Hey! It's not the treasure that came out of that coffin! ”
Ma San'er wiped the rain from his face, and explained breathlessly: "After you and Uncle Zhang left, we found a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from that coffin.
When the two of them made a fuss, several other people stopped doing it, and finally it turned into two groups of people and began to fight in groups.
After a few calls, we all hung up, and then we separated. ”
Wang Tao was stunned when he heard this, he never thought that there would really be gold and silver treasures in the coffin, and at the same time he was envious, he suddenly thought of a question, that is, since he and Uncle Zhang came to this small cabin, it has been more than half of the night, so why did Ma San'er and his group stay on the mountain? Shouldn't they have gone down to the mountain and gone home long after they had finished dividing the treasure?
Puzzled, he asked Ma San'er: "After you finish distributing the treasure, hurry home!" Why are you still staying in the mountains? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold? ”
At the mention of this, Ma San'er was angry, opened his mouth and said a few swear words, and then explained, we also want to go down the mountain! But the fuck doesn't know how, I just can't find my way down the mountain.
Hearing him say this, Wang Tao was even more convinced, because he and Uncle Zhang were forced to stay in the cabin for the night because they couldn't find a way down the mountain.
He bowed his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Then where are you all staying now?" Why don't we go to the cabin together to bake the fire and shelter from the wind and rain, and the villagers are like enemies for such a thing, so how can we meet in the future? ”
"Hey!"
Ma San'er slapped his thigh and said bitterly: "Those boys are like ghosts, none of them believe it now, and they don't dare to come to the wooden house, for fear of being followed and ambushed by Li Ermazi, so now the cat is {hiding} in the tree hole!" I came to you, didn't I just want you to be a middleman to talk and make peace! After all, you're not involved in the jewelry snatching, and they'll listen to you. ”
After speaking, he just wanted to pull Wang Tao's hand, but after a pause, he still took back the outstretched hand again, and began to urge: "Then let's go quickly!" Otherwise, it's too late for a while, maybe something big will happen to those boys! ”