Chapter 8 A River

Walking in the woods of the barren mountain, I have been staring at the exquisite wooden box on Yan Laosan's chest, to be honest, I am very curious about what is inside, just such a boxy box, to say that it can contain valuable things, that is, cultural relics!

Since the client chose to let them send things thousands of miles away, it shows that Yan Laosan naturally has something extraordinary.

Last night's chat with the old man with a dark face refreshed my understanding of people's hearts, they are people who are active late at night all the year round, it is not strange how dark their hearts are, this matter is related to the lives of me and Da Fei, and it is necessary to mention twelve points of caution.

We walked for half a night in the barren mountains, and when we came to the road on the side of the mountain, a dilapidated van was parked on the side of the road, Yan Laosan sat in the co-pilot, I sat in the middle with the ugly orange, and Lao Qintou sat alone in the back seat.

I don't know what kind of calculation this dark-faced old Qin Tou has in his heart, and he gave me all kinds of instructions last night, and it was only a day apart, just like he didn't know me, he didn't even look at me this night.

The car was driving on the road for a long time, and we stayed at a roadside hotel at five o'clock in the morning.

Everyone was sleeping after dawn, and I kept thinking that Yan Laosan would throw me down to worship the river god in that Yitong River, and I couldn't sleep restlessly.

Sitting at the door of the hotel with a cigarette in his mouth, he thought about the contingency plan. As I was slipping away, a pair of dirty slippers stretched out, and I looked up and saw that it was Yan Laosan.

He dragged the cigarette from my mouth, took two puffs, and sat down next to me.

"Why don't you sleep, what are you thinking?"

I paused for a moment and said, "Didn't think of anything, come out and smoke a cigarette." ”

Yan Laosan nodded, smoking a cigarette and looking out of the courtyard without saying a word.

"Big brother, have a few questions, can you ask?"

Maybe he was a little tired after a night's journey, and replied lazily: "You ask." ”

I'm careful to organize the language.

"Big brother, are we all in a car on the road behind us?" To avoid his suspicions, I first asked an innocuous question. Yan Laosan shook his head slightly.

"If you sit for half a night tonight, you'll have to walk into the mountains."

"It's safe to enter the mountain, will there be robbers in the mountain?"

As soon as my voice fell, Yan Laosan suddenly turned around and glared at me, usually he was such a big grinning rough man, his expression suddenly became serious, and he was actually scared in my heart!

"Hahahaha...."Yan Laosan stretched out his arm and put it on my shoulder, leaned over and said in a low voice:

"Brother, when you take a boat, don't talk about the boat capsizing, don't mention the plane crash when you take the plane, and go out to make an auspicious picture, right?"

I knew I had said the wrong thing, so I quickly nodded my head again and again.

"Second..."Yan Laosan took a puff of his cigarette, spit the smoke in my face and said:

"Woe comes from the mouth, brother, dare to mention the word "dart", you are afraid that others don't know what we do, right? ”

I was speechless for a while, and I didn't speak for a long time, Yan Laosan smiled bitterly, waved his hand and said:

"Forget it, this place is still our territory, it's not a big problem, and when you enter the mountain in the middle of the night, you must not talk nonsense."

"Hey, I see." I didn't ask if I wanted to ask, but I was given a lecture, and I was depressed, but Yan Laosan said it himself:

"It's not a big problem along the way, it's just that there is a village in the middle of the road that is difficult to do."

This is exactly what I wanted to ask, and seeing that he said it himself, I hurriedly answered:

"What's wrong with this village, isn't it a poor mountain and a bad water..."

Yan Laosan smoked the remaining half of the cigarette, threw the cigarette butt to the ground and crushed it.

"It has nothing to do with Diao Min, the main thing is that there is a big river in that place, blocking our way."

"Oh, no bridge?"

"There's a bridge, it's that bridge, wow, it's a bit evil!"

As soon as I heard this, it was exactly the same as what Old Qin Tou said, and my heart rose to my throat, and I continued to ask: "What is the evil method?" ”

Yan Laosan's mouth was half open and he was about to speak, but after thinking about it, he swallowed it back: "Forget it, you will know when you get to that place." ”

After speaking, he stood up and stretched: "Go back to sleep, you have to travel at night." ”

Yan Laosan turned around and took a step, suddenly remembered something, leaned down and said in my ear:

"By the way, brother, after entering the mountain, you can help me keep an eye on that old Qin Tou, especially when I arrive in Yitong Village, don't let him have a chance to be alone!"

Before I could react, he patted me on the shoulder: "It's not a big problem, when this dart is over, the eldest brother will release your hot brother, and your dividends are indispensable." ”

"Hey, got it."

Seeing that I agreed, Yan Laosan turned into the house with confidence, leaving me alone in the wind!

Beware of each other!! I really can't guess what kind of ghost the two old foxes who work together are pregnant, but these are not important to me, I just need to rescue Da Fei and take care of my own life.

During the day, we slept soundly, and at night, as soon as the night fell, our group set out on the road of darts again.

At one o'clock in the second half of the night, we entered the mountain and began to hike, although there was not much luggage, but Yan Laosan had to protect the darts, Lao Qin was too old, and the ugly orange was a little girl, so the two big backpacks were naturally all carried by me.

In the middle of the night in the barren mountains, there is a kind of horror of a hundred ghosts at night, the wild beasts in the distance scream, the grass branches swaying nearby, we turn on the flashlight, and slowly move in the dark environment.

The knives for self-defense were all in my backpack, and I clutched the handles of the knives, always on the lookout, for fear that something would suddenly come out and bite me.

The mountain road is rugged and difficult, after walking for two hours, we sat together to rest, although Yan Laosan is already middle-aged, but the physical fitness is particularly good, this section of the road down the face is not red and breathless, seeing that I keep wiping sweat, he laughed, quipped: "Brother, a little empty?" ”

I looked up at him, shook my head, and said, "It's okay, nervous." ”

Ugly Orange smiled sweetly when he heard this, and took out a bottle of mineral water from his bag and handed it to me.

"This kind of deep mountain is rarely visited, except for the black spots, there is nothing scary, the most scary is the hill at the foot of the village."

I took the water and asked curiously, "Why is the hill scary?" ”

"Because there are graves buried on the hill, I remember a trip to the dart the year before last, passing a hill at the foot of the village, it happened that night was the fifteenth family of the first month to go up the mountain to send lights, good guys, there are people in front of each grave."

I said casually: "What's wrong with someone, don't send lights." ”

The ugly orange leaned closer to me more meaningfully, and the light of the flashlight reflected the pockmarks on her face, and said mysteriously:

"The point is, at the foot of that mountain is a deserted village, and there are only two families!"

I was stunned when I heard this, the four were a black mess, and from time to time a cool breeze blew through the back of my neck, and I lowered my head and subconsciously wrapped my clothes.

The ugly orange sneered at me, Lao Qin didn't speak all the way, and he finally opened his mouth.

"Clown, don't scare him, we'll be in Yitong Village in a while, let's study some serious things."

I've always been suspicious of superstitions, and as soon as the ghost story of the ugly orange was finished, Lao Qin mentioned the Yitong village that needed to sacrifice the living people to cross the bridge, and my heart suddenly tightened.

Lao Qin took out the map and spread it on the ground, and said with a flashlight: "Look, the third child, turning over the hill in front of you is Yitong Village, Yitong River is here, this river is too long from here to here, if we go around, it will take two more days." ”

Yan Laosan looked down at the map, shook his head and said: "The employer is in a hurry, let's choose this shortcut to save time, this river can't be bypassed, we have to walk from the bridge!" ”

"But...."Before Lao Qin's words were finished, Yan Laosan interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"But what's it, I haven't looked at the bridge yet, what kind of river gods and water ghosts, aren't they all legends?"

Yan Laosan is the boss after all, seeing that he is impatient, Lao Qin didn't say anything more, and Ugly Orange interjected:

"Big brother, there are relatives of my family in the neighboring village of Yitong Village, do you think we should go there first to find out the situation?"

Yan Laosan stared at the map and was silent for a while, then shook his head for a while and said:

"It's too troublesome, let's go to the foot of Yitong Village first, and then you can go alone and ask when it's okay at dawn."

The ugly orange answered, and no one spoke, and everyone rested.

We quickened our feet and hurried slowly, and finally in the morning light and dew, we rushed out of this deep mountain and saw this village of Yitong, which was secluded in the embrace of the mountains.

Looking down on the mountain, you can clearly see the whole picture of the whole village, Yitong Village is really not small, large and small houses are tightly next to each other, roughly calculated enough to have more than 100 households.

On the way down the mountain, he met an old farmer who was going to work in the field with a hoe, and when he saw us coming out of the mountains in strange costumes, he stared straight at it, and if it wasn't for the ugly orange calling him, the old farmer almost hit the tree.

Yan Laosan beckoned, stepped forward to greet him, and said:

"Brother, are you going to work in the field?"

The old farmer approached, looked at us carefully, and asked:

"Why did you come out of the mountains early in the morning, what were you doing? Poaching? ”

Yan Laosan laughed: "Yes, we poached, but we turned out to be stupid pigs, and we didn't hunt any hair." ”

The old farmer pursed his lips when he heard this, and threw his hoe into the ground.

"Don't say that you are old, weak, sick and disabled, even the old hunters can't hunt in this mountain, let me tell you, we have a mountain god in the village, and the river has a river god!"

Yan Laosan nodded yes, and then asked:

"Brother, you haven't found a place for us to lie down for a while, I've been wandering in the mountains for a night, I haven't blinked, don't worry, don't live in vain, give you a red ticket!"

The old farmer didn't seem to welcome us, but when he heard that he could earn a red ticket, he touched his chin and hesitated for a while and said:

"Okay, why don't you just go home and sleep with me, don't make trouble? The cattle and sheep in the village are not allowed to fight indiscriminately. ”

Yan Laosan hurriedly agreed, and the old farmer turned around and led us down the mountain to his house.

The old farmer's house was in the middle of the village, a big tiled house, and the family had wives and children.

Nibbling on the hot steamed buns, Yan Lao Sanyi happily pulled out two hundred yuan from his backpack and handed it to the old farmer and said, "Brother, it's a little interesting, I'm sorry for you." ”

The old farmer took the red ticket and nodded one after another with a smile: "Don't bother, sleep first after eating, and kill a chicken for you at noon." ”

Seeing that the relationship was almost over, Yan Laosan changed the topic and said:

"Brother, we want to leave when we wake up in the dark, we have to cross the river, so where is the bridge to cross the river?"

When the old farmer heard that he was going to cross the river, his face suddenly fell.

"What are you doing across the river? We can't cross this river casually, we can't cross it, we can't cross it..."

Yan Laosan and Lao Qin glanced at each other, Lao Qin cleared his throat and asked:

"Why can't you get by, let's be careful."

The old farmer sighed and said, "There is a river god in our river, and the river god will not let you cross the bridge, and you will have to be lifted into the river even if you get on the bridge." ”

It's getting closer and closer to what I'm worried about, and the river god's statement that he won't let me cross the bridge is exactly the same as what Lao Qin said.

This Yan Laosan brought me to bet on this dart, did he really want to sacrifice me to the river god?

"Then there's no way to cross the bridge?"

As soon as the words fell, the old farmer's daughter-in-law came over from the side with the child in her arms and interjected:

"There is a way, find the goddess of our village, use a living person to sacrifice to the river god, and you can cross the bridge."

After listening to the woman's words, my heart suddenly "chuckled" suddenly, and when I turned my head to look at Yan Laosan, I found that he also turned his head slightly to look at me!!