Version 0 Chapter 23 Overnight in the Old Street
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Our car stopped in front of the old house with the word "game" on the door, and my second son and I got out of the car and knocked on the door. As soon as I stepped on this thick bluestone ground, the pine of the years floated to my heart. It was almost the end of the old street, and beyond that there was a dark wilderness, and the night wind was cold, so I fastened my zipper and walked up the steps in front of the door.
I saw that the ordinary white paper and black letters, like the old wooden door, were mottled. There was no light on in the house, so I knocked lightly twice, then a little harder, and called out "Is there anyone?" "But no one paid any attention to me.
The second son said let him come, he stepped forward and knocked heavily on the door a few times, and called out in the local dialect, "Is there anyone?" Reception of guests! β
After a while, I heard someone respond in an old, hoarse voice, and the second son said that the man had heard, so let's not worry.
The engine of the car had stopped, and the footsteps downstairs were very clear in this silent old street, and as the footsteps came to the door, the old wood slid and with a "swish", the door opened. An old Khan with an oil lamp stood in front of us, squinting at us and saying something, and the second son translated: "He said that there is no game tonight." β
"I expected that, we just need to stay." I said to my second son.
The second son conveyed my meaning to the old man, who nodded, got out of the way, called in, and went upstairs, as if he was not going to care about us. Knife told me that he had told his daughter to come down.
Sure enough, after the old man went upstairs, a girl went down from the small building to the courtyard, she didn't look very small, she looked very ordinary, and there was no expression on her face. Dao Dao greeted her first, and then the girl said to us in non-standard Mandarin, "My name is Big Girl, come with me." β
So we followed her into the first floor of the small building, where there were two tables in the dark, and there was an indescribable smell, which made me feel very comfortable. After entering, the eldest girl walked to a door on the right, opened the lock on the door, and said to a few of us, "There are just four plank beds inside, Dao Dao and I will go upstairs to sleep." β
"Alright, you girls go upstairs and rest! By the way, there is no game, and there is no wine? The fat man said as he walked towards the back door of the hall, wanting to check it out.
The eldest girl said: "The wine shop opposite is also closed. Don't run around at night, especially not in the backyard! Go to bed early! She said the last two words aloud to the fat man, who stopped, smiled and agreed to return to our door.
As soon as he entered the room, the fat man was surprised: "Okay, this is not even a lamp, I know that our tomb robbers have their own flashlights?!" Good fellow, there is a piece of cloth on the plank bed, and there is not even a mattress, and there is still meat in the wood seam! This is the bed of the corpse, right? He took a few steps inside, and then said, "Look, you see, the white paper on the window can't see the outside, isn't it just a backyard?" I can't even open it! Hey, naΓ―ve, don't close the door yet, you can't secretly lock us in for a while! β
I said, "You're going to sleep with the door open like this?" β
The fat man scratched his head, and ran over to close the door by himself, "Hey, it's windy when the door is open, and if you really get locked outside, don't be afraid, with the fat man in his body, it's not a problem for this kind of broken wooden door to break through two." After saying that, he was the first to lie down on the bed at the door, and seemed to sleep quite comfortably. The second son slept on the fat man's bed against the wall, and I slept on the wooden bed by the window on the side of the stuffy oil bottle.
The room was so simple that it really looked like a morgue, dark and gloomy. It's just a double cloth covered with a quilt, and I don't take off my clothes anyway, so it doesn't matter. But when I lay down, I remembered that someone was following me from the stuffy oil bottle, and the strange light on the mountain road at that moment, by the way, the ghost seal, it is the most important thing here besides the name of the person. So I took the bag with the ghost seal, stuffed it into the quilt and put it close to my body, and then I fell asleep in a daze.
I don't know how long it took me to fall asleep, and I seemed to start dreaming, and someone put his hand on my quilt, "Damn, what are you doing?" Put your hand in my pure quilt! Who is it? "I still have such a feeling in my dream, and the bag with the ghost seal also appeared in the dream, it turned out that the hand was aimed at the ghost seal, and it was the dream that the ghost seal made me?
"That's not right, this hand wants to take away the bag containing the ghost seal!" I just reacted, bullshit dreaming, someone really wanted to steal the ghost seal, I yelled "Who?" He sat up and grabbed the bag, but he only grabbed a little bit of it, and he couldn't do it at all, and the man dragged it away. Then I felt like he had jumped on the bed and was about to break through the window and escape! But the moment he jumped out, I felt a chill in front of me, and a lot of liquid splashed on my face. The man screamed and smashed through the wooden window and ran into the backyard. Naturally, it was the stuffy oil bottle that was slashed, and he followed, and the ancient knife pulled a big knife flower when he went out of the window, protecting his body and rushing out of the window.
After the stuffy oil bottle was chased out, there was no sound of fighting, so I poked my head out to check the situation in the backyard. The backyard was piled up with miscellaneous items, as if it were a place to prepare for the kitchen, with firewood, piers, large water tanks, and a large rectangular sink. The flashlight streaked across the wall, and there was a lot of blood on it, and I wiped the blood from my face in disgust. It seems that they chased out, and there was no one in the backyard.
What's so strange about this broken yard, don't let us go, can't steal your things? The most conspicuous thing is the big rectangular sink in the middle, which is estimated to be used to wash dishes, pheasants, and vegetables. But I suddenly realized that there was more to it than that, this thing was familiar to me, it turned out to be a sarcophagus! "Damn! It's good that I didn't eat 'game' here today, who knows what kind of game?! β
The fat man listened curiously, and asked me, and I described to him the only features of the sarcophagus. After hearing this, the fat man said unscrupulously: "Cut, ordinary goods." It seems that these people don't stop, but why do they want to carry back such a heavy sarcophagus? Or do you really need such a sink? Don't say the family doesn't know it's a coffin! β
I said, "Is that possible?" I didn't hear that she wouldn't let you go to the backyard to see it! β
"Hmph, I'm sorry, now I don't even want to drink the wine from the other house!" The fat man spat on the ground.
After a while, the stuffy oil bottle came in through the window. I asked him how he was, and the stuffy oil bottle shook his head and said, "He ran away, and the retreat was very well planned." β
I thought I could run away with an injury under the stuffy bottle's hand, but it wasn't a brush or two! But he still comforted the stuffy oil bottle and said: "It doesn't matter, fortunately, the ghost seal was not lost, he also left an arm, and we have no casualties." β
I could hear the bottle sigh softly, and then lay back on his bed. As soon as the stuffy oil bottle lay down, the door was pushed open, and the fat man and my two sons rushed over. As a result, it was the big girl who walked in, "What are you making a fuss about?!" β
The fat man replied unceremoniously: "You guys are a black shop?" Someone came to steal something, but fortunately we beat them away, what do you say? β
The eldest girl was startled and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, how can I know this, it's impossible, we are all ordinary people, how can it be a black shop?" Lost something? β
Knife rushed in from behind her, and anxiously asked, "Oops, is anyone hurt?" β
I said to the knife, "Don't worry, it's the one who escapes who is hurting." β
"Oh, that's good."
I said to the eldest girl again, "The things were snatched back, but the window of your house is broken, and it will be calculated for you tomorrow along with the house money." β
The eldest girl shook her hand and said, "No need, no need!" Rest, I'm leaving. With that, he fled back upstairs. Dao Dao didn't want to go up to sleep anymore, saying that he would accompany us below, which was difficult. It's okay for men and women to be in the same room, but this small wooden bed is not enough to sleep. As a result, the second son took the initiative to give up his bed and took out his sleeping bag and spread it on the ground. I still slept back on the bed in the window, there was a smell of blood, and the sarcophagus outside the window, I couldn't sleep at all, so I just lay down until dawn.
Early in the morning, we left the "game" shop. There are still no people on the road, and it is estimated that many of the houses here are empty. I drove until I was near Xinjie, and I found a shop that bought breakfast, ate a bowl of hot gruel and baked cakes, and bought a few more to take with me. Then we parked the car in a more suitable, less conspicuous place.
Then Knife Knife took us and started on foot. Return to the end of the old street and enter the mountain from here.
The 100,000 mountains are by no means beautiful, and gradually I feel the taste of poor mountains and bad waters, and the more I go inside, the more barren they become. Weeds and thorns are everywhere, the road is mostly unclear, and occasionally a few strange withered trees can be seen, on which only crows chirp unpleasantly. There are still strong animals like rats scurrying around under their feet, and they can't step on them if they want to.
I climbed a number of hills, and each one looked the same, but fortunately it wasn't very high. At this time, a rocky mountain wall appeared on the left-hand side, and the knife said to go around to the left from that side. After that, the mountains in front of me began to get higher and higher, and the rocky cliffs became more and more.
Walking across a dry, rocky beach, we were in a low-lying terrain flanked by continuous hillside ravines. The knife stopped and said to us, "This is the entrance to the 'Dead Horse Ditch'." β
The fat man asked with interest, "Haha, are there a lot of dead horses here?" Mustang is old and comes here to die? β
Dao Dao made a strange face and explained, "It's not what you think!" There must have been a lot of dead horses before, but they didn't come here to wait for old age to die, but they accidentally fell to their deaths. β
The fat man didn't believe it: "Ha, you don't bluff me, just this terrain, how can you fall and kill many horses?!" β
Dao Dao had an expression of "you have been tricked" and continued: "Hmph! It's easy to walk, but as long as you keep riding a horse, both men and horses will have to die inside! β