Chapter 7: The Trap (4)

The sky is full of stars, and there are many fireflies flying along the way, and the cries of insects come and go. Zhang Datou entered the cemetery of the family surnamed Zhang, and there were some phosphorus fires flashing on the cemetery, and the shadows were full, like some wandering spirits.

Zhang Datou was not only big-headed, but also bold, and he walked straight through the weed-covered graves towards Zhang Changfa's grave.

Zhang Datou came to Zhang Changfa's grave, and after looking around, he didn't find Zhang Xiuxiu's shadow. Zhang Datou shouted:

"Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu—" He called a few times, but no one answered. Zhang Datou said to himself:

"There's no one here, where will Xiuxiu go?" Zhang Datou hurried back home. The seventh sister-in-law asked:

"What about people?" Zhang Datou said:

"Not in the cemetery. Did you really look for it in the village just now, but you didn't find Xiuxiu? The seventh sister-in-law nodded:

"Yes, I have found all the places to look, when you went up the back mountain, a few of us searched in the village separately, but we still didn't find Xiuxiu. This child has not eaten or drunk for a day, where will she run? The seventh sister-in-law said, wiping away her tears.

Zhang Datou pushed her aside and said:

"What to cry about, you know how to cry, now that the person is gone, you should find a way to find someone, crying has a bird!" At this time, Zhang Hongliang's wife said:

"I heard Xiaoqiang say that Xiuxiu also went to our house in the afternoon, saying that she was looking for Hongliang, and she saw that Hongliang was drunk and left. After Xiuxiu went out, Xiaoqiang went out to take a look, and found that she was walking in the direction of the tip of the plum blossom!" Zhang Datou glared at her:

"Such an important situation, why didn't you say it earlier! I know, Xiuxiu must be on the tip of the plum blossom! Yesterday, she also told me that she wanted me to take someone up to the tip of the plum blossom to find those three college students! Because of the long hair, I forgot about it. This girl's courage is too big, and she dares to go to the tip of the plum blossom alone! Hurry back and call Hongliang up, and ask him to gather all the young men in the village, prepare enough torches and flashlights, and go to the tip of the plum blossom to find someone!" Zhang Hongliang's wife listened to Zhang Datou's words and hurriedly left.

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Hongliang brought more than 20 young men to the door of Zhang Datou's house with torches.

Zhang Datou said to them in a loud voice:

"Xiuxiu went to the tip of the plum blossom to find the three college students from Shanghai, they haven't come back yet, I have to work with me to go up the mountain to find them back! We haven't been on the tip of the plum blossom at night, everyone must be careful, let's act together, don't get separated, because the situation of the tip of the plum blossom is more complicated, everyone knows the seriousness of the problem if a person is separated, right? The people said,

"Got it!" So, Zhang Datou and Zhang Hongliang led them in the direction of the tip of the plum blossom. Zhang Datou, these mountain men, are different from Zhong Fei.

They walk up the mountain road, relaxed, think about their usual go up the mountain to chop firewood, carrying more than 100 catties of firewood burden on the mountain road is also like flying, not to mention that now there is no weight in the case of walking the mountain road.

Zhang Datou led everyone, shouting Zhang Xiuxiu's name all the way, and carefully inspected the roadside to see if Zhang Xiuxiu or Zhong Fei had left any clues.

The thick fog of the plum blossom tip pressed on their nerves, and they felt a certain heaviness when they opened their heads. Zhang Datou has been going to the mountain every year, so he is familiar with the road.

It took them just over four hours to reach the peak of the plum blossom tip. They saw the orange tent.

Zhang Datou didn't know if there was anyone in the tent, but he could conclude that the tent belonged to Zhong Fei.

He shouted:

"Xiuxiu—" No one in the tent answered him. They approached the tent. Zhang Datou said to them:

"Be careful with the torches, don't set the tent on fire." Zhang Hongliang handed the torch in his hand to a young man, then turned on the flashlight, lifted the curtain of the tent, and saw Shen Yuyu lying inside, and the others were nowhere to be seen.

Zhang Hongliang said to Zhang Datou:

"Uncle Big Head, there's only that female college student here." Zhang Datou said:

"You go in and see how she's doing, and we won't say a word when we call so loudly." Verse 44: Chapter 7 Trap Zhang Hongliang got into the tent.

Shen Yuyu was drenched, her face was puffy and crimson, and her lips were covered with white bubbles. She muttered nonsense in her mouth:

"Please take me out of here, take me out of here, I, I want to listen to you, sing, sing......" Zhang Hongliang stretched out his hand and touched Shen Yuyu's forehead, feeling that she was like a piece of red-hot charcoal.

Zhang Hongliang said loudly:

"Uncle Big Head, it's not good, this female college student has a high fever, if she burns like this, she will be stupid. Gotta find a way to save her!" Zhang Datou said:

"Look inside to see if there's anything left by Xiuxiu." Zhang Hongliang checked it again and said:

"Nope. Uncle Big Head, will Xiuxiu see that this female college student has a high fever, and she has no way to save her, so she goes down to find us? Zhang Datou said:

"It's possible, but why didn't we run into her along the way, and we shouted her so loudly along the way, if she went down the mountain, it would be impossible not to hear us." Zhang Hongliang said:

"Uncle Big Head, what do you think? This female college student can't go on like this, so she has to be rescued quickly. Zhang Datou thought about it for a moment and said loudly:

"Hurry up and carry her down the mountain! When we went down the mountain, we looked back along the road to see if we could find any trace of Xiuxiu and the others. Zhang Hongliang said:

"It seems that this is the only way to go." Zhang Hongliang asked a young man with great strength to carry Shen Yuyu on his back, and then, a group of people walked down the mountain with torches.

Along the way, everyone shouted Zhang Xiuxiu's name. Zhang Datou is a careful person, he took off his vest, soaked it in cold spring water with the vest, and applied it to Shen Yuyu's head to cool her down.

In the dense fog of the jungle, there seemed to be a pair of cold eyes watching the group of people whistling away in the jungle.

Zhang Datou hoped that his daughter Zhang Xiuxiu would suddenly appear. However, his hopes were not realized, and when they reached the chain bridge, they did not see Zhang Xiuxiu's shadow.

Where will Zhang Xiuxiu go? Perhaps, she didn't have a plum tip at all...... 35 Zhang Xiuxiu fell into a deep trap.

The bottom of the trap was covered with leaves, and if there were bamboo sticks stuck underneath, she would have died. The trap was cold and damp, Zhang Xiuxiu was shivering, she thought she was finished.

After falling into the trap, she felt something on it covering the hole. She's like a worm in a bottle.

Zhang Xiuxiu couldn't hear the woman's cry, that cry was originally a temptation? Zhang Xiuxiu's tears flowed.

She whimpered and cried. No one heard the desperate cries of this kind girl. I don't know how long it took, Zhang Xiuxiu, who couldn't cry anymore, choked up, and she suddenly heard a call.

The cries echoed through the jungle and buzzed into the traps. Zhang Xiuxiu can still tell that it is the voice of her father Zhang Datou and the villagers in the village, they are calling her name, yes, it is calling her name!

Zhang Xiuxiu was surprised and delighted, it must have been her father who woke up and found that she was gone, and took the villagers to find her up the mountain.

Zhang Xiuxiu felt hope. She shouted loudly at the top of the trap:

"Dad, Dad, I'm here, I'm here-" Zhang Xiuxiu's voice was a little hoarse because she cried so much.

Zhang Xiuxiu thought that her father and the villagers could hear her cries for help. But they couldn't hear her screams.

Zhang Xiuxiu listened to her father's shouts and drifted away, and the hope that had just risen in her heart was shattered little by little.

What a desperate thing it was, as if the father knew that she had fallen into the water and was sinking little by little, and he stood on the shore, looking at his daughter, who was suffering from the catastrophe, and could not do anything.

Zhang Xiuxiu grabbed the wall of the trap in the dark and tried to climb up, but she climbed up and slipped down little by little.

Again and again she pulled her fingers into the hard wall, and again and again she tried to climb up, she was doing useless work.

Zhang Xiuxiu's nails were all bloody out, and she didn't feel pain, just unparalleled despair...... Zhang Xiuxiu curled up in the trap, feeling like a person waiting for death, her hands twisting her hair, the fear of death intimidating her heart.

What is death? Will everything disappear, including her body, voice, and soul? Does death mean the end of all her activities and the entry into a world without hope?

Is death a very personal thing that has nothing to do with everyone, including father and mother, including brothers and sisters, including classmates and all those who have ever known him?

She couldn't cry anymore. Verse 45: Chapter 7 After the cries of the Trap Father were gone and disappeared, Zhang Xiuxiu's spirit completely collapsed.

Zhang Xiuxiu heard footsteps in a drowsiness. Her first reaction was whether she was dead, and the footsteps were made by the little ghost who came to lead her to Huangquan Road.

When she opened her eyes, it was still pitch black, and perhaps there was no light in hell in the first place. She heard her own breathing, could it be that people still breathe even when they die?

The footsteps were getting closer and closer to her, and she was blankly waiting for something, at this time, she didn't want to struggle and scream anymore, she didn't want anything more.

She thinks of herself as a lonely ghost. A man stood next to the trap. Her breathing was heavy, and she didn't think she would be able to walk freely through the jungle at the tip of the plum blossoms, like those old years, what kind of years were they?

She remembered how she had been like a she-wolf in the misty jungle, when nothing in the jungle could stop her, she was a ghost floating on the tip of a plum blossom.

She didn't expect that after so many years, she would still be able to walk through the jungle at the tip of the plum blossom so easily, and still be able to find this trap accurately.

She let out a long sigh. Zhang Xiuxiu, who was under the trap, heard the long sigh, and she thought stupidly, the little ghost who led the way would also sigh?

Could it be that he also has unspeakable sorrow and anguish?

"Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu—" The man was calling her. Who's this? Who's calling her name? Zhang Xiuxiu couldn't believe her ears, her voice was a little hoarse and very unfamiliar.

Zhang Xiuxiu didn't dare to agree to her. Are you still alive? Zhang Xiuxiu thought. Is that really a ghost who came to seduce the soul?

When she was very young, her grandfather Zhang Wenhui said to her like this:

"When you go out at night, if a stranger calls your name, don't look back, don't answer, as soon as you turn around or answer, your soul will be hooked by ghosts."

"Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu, are you down there? You speak, Xiuxiu—" Zhang Xiuxiu heard the cry from above the trap again.

She still didn't answer, and the cry was very strange. Zhang Xiuxiu's brain gradually woke up, and the more she sobered, the more frightened she became, she would rather she be in a daze now, thinking that she was dead and had become a wanderer.

"Xiuxiu, don't be afraid, I know you're in the trap, I'm a blind mother-in-law—" Zhang Xiuxiu had goosebumps all over her body, and she heard it

The words "blind mother-in-law" felt eerie and terrifying, how could this blind old lady who was usually like a ghost come here?

Even a person with good eyes will not be able to find this trap accurately.