Chapter 15: Old Photographs
The boy at the window looked like he was in his teens, and when he saw that I noticed him, he waved my hand more quickly and called me over.
I don't remember seeing him at all, so I leaned over and asked, "Brother, what's wrong?" ”
The boy nodded timidly and asked in a low voice, "How is the injured sister?" ”
He was supposed to be referring to ugly oranges, and I was rather surprised, and replied:
"Well, she's awake, it's no big deal, do you know her?"
The boy pursed his lips, shook his head, and said, "Are you going to leave now?" Help me say I'm sorry to that sister. ”
The boy apologized to the ugly orange inexplicably, and I immediately reacted, remembering that the village doctor said that this clip was done by the children of the old Li family, and it was this kid who dared to love it!
"You put that beast shelf on the mountain?" I didn't show displeasure and asked him softly.
The child was just about to speak, when he heard a burst of laughter from the eldest sister outside the hospital, his face changed and he ran over the back wall.
He moves nimbly, but a pair of glasses fell out of his trouser pocket while climbing over the wall.
I jumped over the window and picked it up, the lenses of these glasses are very thick, the style is very old, it is a pair of reading glasses, and I suddenly recalled, this seems to be the mirror of the old man Sven in the bearded gang yesterday!!
Yan Laosan saw that I hadn't come out for a long time, so he yelled in the courtyard, and I hurriedly went to the next room with ugly oranges on my back and went out with my glasses.
The eldest sister talked and laughed as usual, and didn't leave us, and left after a polite time.
Seeing that there was no one on the road, I took out the pair of glasses and handed them to Lao Qin and Yan Laosan: "I was just in the house, and a child in the back window asked me to help him apologize to the ugly orange, and he fell this when he walked over the wall." ”
Yan Laosan's eyes were vicious, and he recognized it at a glance: "Oh, how can the old man's glasses be on a child." ”
Lao Qin also glanced at it, sneered and said, "When you go out to eat and drink, those people are all mallets except for this old man with glasses!" ”
Glasses are personal objects, if it weren't for some special circumstances, they would definitely not be thrown away, I flipped the mirror in my hand and sighed:
"No wonder I didn't hear them walking last night, I guess the kung fu was boiled into oil by the eldest sister!"
Yan Laosan's eyes narrowed: "I see that this group of people is indeed going up the mountain, and they should also be going to Bailiu Mountain, what did the woman say is true, Lao Qin, what do you say?" ”
Lao Qin nodded: "Yes, the eldest sister must have turned over the human medicine, and after looking at the things in their bags, she knew that they were going to Bailiu Mountain to dig treasures." ”
Yan Lao Sanyi waved his hand: "Don't worry about them for now, there is trouble in this place, let's go to the next village to settle down." ”
After a day of wandering around the village, we finally hired an ox cart to replenish some food and water in the commissary, and then went to Daqingshan Village.
In the middle of the night, hundreds of birds return to their nests, and on the quiet dirt road, only the "click" sound of cow hooves walking can be heard.
The ox cart carried a few of us forward slowly, lying comfortably on the car, swaying a little sleepy, after a while, Yan Laosan suddenly sat up, alertly approached my side, and whispered:
"Be smart, there's someone behind you!"
This sentence "someone is following" is like giving me a tube of chicken blood, and I am instantly refreshed!!
Is it the toad-eyed old man's man coming? Or, the eldest sister regretted letting us go? I didn't dare to look back, so I asked in a low voice: "Who".
Yan Laosan shook his head, unable to figure out if he didn't know, or if he told me not to ask more.
The two villages were not far away, and it was not yet dawn when they arrived at Daqingshan Village. According to Yan Laosan's meaning, we randomly found a deserted empty house at the head of the village and got in.
The house must have been on fire, several beams had fallen off in the house, there were many cracks in the corners of the walls, and the walls were still burned black.
After entering the house and closing the door, Yan Laosan raised his voice and shouted: "It's almost dawn, let's go to sleep first!" After saying that, he hurriedly gave me a look at the back window, I understood what he meant, took out the short knife in my backpack, and cautiously jumped out of the back window of the house with him.
The two of us carefully went around to the front door to take a look, and sure enough, a figure was lying in the crack of the door with a cat waist and peeking in!!
I lunged over and kicked the man in the ass.
"Oops", this man broke through the door and I kicked in.
Lao Qin turned on the flashlight and shone it on his face, which really surprised me, it was not a toad eye, nor an eldest sister, it was actually a bearded old man Sven, who only discovered his glasses during the day, thinking that he was fierce and lucky, which would look good, except for the dirty body on his body.
The old man squinted his glasses and blocked the bright light of the flashlight with his arm, and said tremblingly:
"Don't, don't, I'm a good person, we're in this group!"
I still have his glasses in my hand, take them out of my pocket and throw them to him, the old man was very surprised, took the glasses and hurriedly put them on and asked:
"Why are my glasses in your hands?"
Yan Laosan squatted down and patted the dust on his body closely:
"Old man, you're not dead?"
The old man swallowed his saliva and trembled his throat and said, "I didn't die, I escaped a catastrophe!" ”
Lao Qin moved the strong light of the flashlight to the side, snorted coldly and asked, "What about the others, what is going on?" ”
Old man Sven wiped his sweat: "The chicken soup is poisonous, and on the night of check-in, all of our gang who drank the soup passed out." ”
"You didn't drink the soup?"
The old man shook his head: "I have a bad stomach, I don't like greasy things, and I don't think the soup is right, so I didn't drink it!" ”
The diamond-shaped oil droplets are human oil This thing was told to me by Lao Qin, and I had never heard of it before this, could it be that this old man Sven also saw it?
Yan Laosan was half incredulous, turned sideways to the window and looked out, came back and asked:
"And then?"
"This group of people usually snores when they sleep, but they didn't sound like a dead man that night, and I saw that things were not good, so I quickly slipped through the back window!"
After speaking, the old man put on a pair of glasses and continued: "I originally thought that you were in the same group as those two people, but I stared at it for a long time and found that you were really passing by?" So, then why do you have these glasses of mine in your hands? ”
"Pick it up!" This old man looks like Sven, but when he said this, he didn't alert his companions when he found that there was a problem with the chicken soup, and he slipped away alone when something happened, which was really cunning, and I looked down on this kind of person, so I replied coldly.
The old man didn't ask much about the glasses, sighed and said, "Huh? Since you're not in the same group, why are you all right? You didn't drink chicken soup either? ”
"Ahem, human fat chicken soup, we don't like that." As soon as Lao Qin's voice fell, the old man's face changed suddenly, and a look of surprise rose:
"Oh, old brother, can you actually see that there is oil in that soup?" As he spoke, the old man gave a thumbs up.
Lao Qin didn't eat this, and asked rhetorically: "I see that you came with the bearded guys, why did you run away alone when something happened?" ”
The old man sighed, and did not know whether to pretend to be low or to be serious, so he lowered his head and said:
"Ahem, if it's really with them, how can I run, I'm studying geology, these people are all hooligans, they want to get rich and want to go up the mountain to hunt for treasure, and I don't know where to find out about me, so I was kidnapped here!"
From the eldest sister's house to the present, I have heard the saying of going up the mountain to hunt for treasure several times, and I can't help asking:
"Is it going to Daqingshan? What treasures are you looking for? ”
The old man Sven was stunned for a moment, and then said with a light smile: "Several, since I know that you are not in the same group as those two people, I have followed all the way here, old man, I have a handful of you as friends, you can recognize that there is oil in the chicken soup, that is definitely a veteran of the rivers and lakes, how can you not know the treasure on Bailiu Mountain?" ”
After speaking, the old man saw that we were cold-eyed and relatively unanswered, so he nodded awkwardly and continued:
"There are a lot of sayings outside, I don't know the difference from what you hear, they all say that when the war against Japan was fighting, there was a company of Japanese devils who wanted to pass through this mountain to slaughter the villagers under the mountain, which angered a god, and in one night, these devils died inexplicably! Since then, the mountain has become famous in a small area. ”
Taking a breath, the old man continued:
"Those who know this are called Bailiu Mountain, in fact, the secret of this Bailiu Mountain is just concentrated in a forest, the flowers and trees in the willow forest, birds and animals, all are a color of white, in this forest, there is one largest white willow tree, which is the treasure left by the gods at that time, some people say that a piece of bark can be sold for tens of millions of dollars from the tree."
The old man was very excited, and when he mentioned the big willow tree, he trembled all over.
"Of course, I'm an old man who is about to enter the earth, I'm not looking for Bailiulin for money, I'm studying geology, I just want to see if such a magical place exists, and if it exists, what is the reason."
The story of the white willow forest made the old man say it vividly, as if it was a road, close at hand.
I slowed down and choked: "Old man, you also said, this is all a legend, how can you, a researcher of geology, still believe in these superstitious things?" ”
Old man Sven nodded hurriedly: "It's true, it's true...."
He chattered as he lowered his head and pulled out a few photos from the backpack he was carrying!
I took the photo, Lao Qin and Yan Laosan also came over, and invariably turned on the flashlight and looked up:
These are a few old film development photos, the surrounding area has deteriorated and yellowed, the first two pictures are some strange animals, or three-eyed wolves, or one-man tall hedgehogs, and long-legged snakes, and colorful rabbits...... It's very strange, the last few photos are a large white willow forest, these willows from the trunk, to the branches, and even the leaves, from the inside to the outside, all are white, even the flowers and plants on the ground are white, pure and beautiful, like a paradise forest garden!
Although I didn't study computer science and photography in college, there was a PS master in my dormitory, who often synthesized some fake supernatural photos for the forum to deceive readers, and I learned from him how to distinguish the authenticity of the photos.
I took the flashlight and looked left and right for a few minutes, although I didn't want to believe it, but I had to admit that these photos of the old man were actually real photos that had not been processed and synthesized!!
I couldn't help but gasp, I never thought that there was such a magical place in this world!!