Chapter Seventy-Four: Encountering the River

Early the next morning, the convoy set off again, and the old woman saw them off at the door, and when the car was gone, she let out a sigh: "Alas! ”

The old man came out on crutches. "Don't look at it, let's go back to the house!"

The old woman shook her head and stepped into the threshold. "I'm afraid they're going to go into the mountains!"

The old man said: "It has nothing to do with us to progress into the mountains. ”

"You can't say that, to see such a great young man go there......"

"Have you persuaded them to listen?" The old man took the old woman's arm and pulled her into the house, and closed the door with his backhand. "The road is their own choice, we can't control it."

Feng Nan happened to be driving the car, and suddenly the car in front of her braked suddenly, forcing her to brake suddenly.

"Wow!" Jiang Yun covered his painful head. "Sister Feng Nan, you want to murder!"

Feng Nan looked back at a few people who were covering their heads, rolled down the window of the car with glass, and saw that Qian Xiaowu and the others had already gotten out of the car and were all standing outside the car. "Qian Xiaowu, what the hell are you doing?"

Qian Xiaowu walked out from the front. "The road is so bad that the car can't be driven."

Feng Nan asked him, "What should I do then?" ”

Qian Xiaowu said: "It's almost at the foot of the mountain ahead, let's walk with your feet!" ”

"Damn!" Feng Nan scolded in a low voice and said to the next few people: "Get out of the car and walk." The five people all got out of the car and gathered to Qian Xiaowu's side, Feng Nan asked him, "Do you know how to walk behind?" ”

Qian Xiaowu crossed his waist with one hand and held the back of his head with the other. "I haven't been here again."

"Huh!" Feng Nan shook off Qian Xiaowu with a roll of his eyes. "I just don't know!"

Qian Xiaowu did not deny it, and shouted: "Akai! ”

Akai stumbled forward. "The boss who is there!"

Qian Xiaowu pointed to a small house in front of him. "You go and see if there is anyone, and if there is anybody, ask the master for a way, and that road is the closest to the mountain."

"Good!" Akai ran to the door of the small house as soon as he slipped away, raised his hand and was about to knock on the door, but he didn't expect the door to open by itself. "Hello, may I ask me!" He just wanted to ask someone for directions, but he was frightened by his master's face and stepped back. "You ......"

The man walked out of the door with a rotten, almost bony face, as if he had been used to it for a long time, and was not angry at Akai's impolite reaction. "What for?"

Akai sighed to himself, his eyes glancing straight at the man's face. "That...... I want to ask for directions. ”

The man looked at the convoy behind him. "What way?"

"It's the way to the mountains."

"Mountain?" The man blinked with a pair of dirty eyes. "It's all grass, and there's no way!"

"Huh?" Akai exclaimed: "No way out? ”

"It's gone!"

"This ......"

"Akai!" When Akai didn't know how to explain here, Qian Xiaowu called him. "What's the situation?"

Akai listened to the smoke and ran back. "Boss, the man said there was no way up the mountain."

"How is that possible!" Qian Xiaowu didn't believe it. "I'll ask myself!" Saying that, he walked towards the owner of the house. "Hello, may I ask ......" the latter words, when the man turned his face, he was stuck in his throat. Your face ......"

The man grinned and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm like this because I'm sick." ”

Thinking of the old man who stayed overnight last night, Qian Xiaowu knew it in his heart, and let go of his surprise. "How do I get up the mountain?"

The man said, "I have already said that the grass has grown, and there is no way!" ”

Qian Xiaowu frowned. "How can there be no way?"

"There's really no way out!" The man pointed ahead. "If you don't believe it, at a glance, it's all grass!"

Qian Xiaowu thought for a while, and then asked, "Then let me ask you again, have you always lived here?" ”

"Yes, my old man has always lived here." The man put his hand over his face. "I can't go anywhere else."

"Have you ever seen someone who looks a little like me?"

"You?" The man looked Qian Xiaowu up and down. "It's as if I've seen such a person, several people came together, and they also asked me for directions."

"Really?" Qian Xiaowu was happy. "When did he get here?"

The man folded his hands and counted: "One month, two months, three months...... It's going to be almost half a year! ”

"Half a year, that's half a year, my brother came here half a year ago." Qian Xiaowu became excited. "Do you know where he went?"

The man replied, "Up the mountain!" ”

"Didn't you say there was no way up the mountain?"

"There was no way, but they insisted on going, so I showed me a path that I could barely walk."

"Where are they going?"

The man shook his head. "It's been half a year, and the road is even more unseemly, and it's harder to walk."

"We're not afraid to walk hard, just tell us where the road is!"

The man looked at Qian Xiaowu. "Do you have to go?"

"Alas!" Qian Xiaowu sighed. "To tell you the truth, my brother has not been heard from since he came here half a year, and my father is now terminally ill, and I want to see him for the last time before he dies, but the clue I know now is that he came here, I have to go there to see, maybe I can find clues about him."

"That'......," the man nodded. Okay, I'll take you! ”

"Really? That's great! ”

When I met this person newly, I didn't like the old man and the old woman before, who always hid and didn't want to say anything, and said whatever I asked. Probably because I've been alone for a long time, I will take the initiative to say something about myself from time to time along the way. I know that his surname is Li, and he has lived here for almost his whole life, and his wife is gone with the plague three years ago, and he has a son.

The road is getting harder and harder, and although someone leads the way, there are still mistakes from time to time, and you have to go in a different direction. Or the snake that suddenly crawled out or something, scared everyone to jump to their feet.

Another green bamboo leaf crawled over, almost brushing Qian Xiaowu's feet, and he was so frightened that he didn't come back to his senses for a while. "This ...... Why is this bamboo leaf green so big? ”

Lao Li smiled and said: "It's not better than the outside, no one comes, and the snake grows freely, so it's bigger than the outside." ”

Qian Xiaowu patted his chest. "It's too big, it's almost two meters."

"I'm scared!" Lao Li said: "It's okay, if you don't mess with it, it won't mess with you." "People continue to follow him all the way, and he can't hold it when he opens the box." You young people, you are not knowledgeable, so you are curious, and I know that. ”

Lao Li said this inexplicably, Qian Xiaowu couldn't help but ask: "How do you say this?" ”

Lao Li said: "What else can I say? It's just that there's something unusual, and I want to see whatever it is. ”

Qian Xiaowu was even more confused when he heard it: "What happened here that made you feel like this?" Lao Li suddenly stopped, staring at Qian Xiaowu with a pair of dirty eyes, and he was uncomfortable looking at it. What are you looking at? ”

Lao Li pulled the corners of his mouth without much meat. "Nothing, this is the place."

Hearing this, Qian Xiaowu looked forward and found that it was a suspension bridge, and the water below was rolling through, which was very steep. "Do you have to cross the river before going up the mountain?"

Lao Li said: "Why is this place called Suomi Bay? ”

"Why?"

"Suomi BaySuomi Bay, in fact, is Suomi Bay, if you are not careful, it will be fatal to fall into any river and ditch, but it is still everywhere."

Qian Xiaowu sighed. "I see!"

Lao Li suddenly showed an oozing smile. "So, do you still want to go up the mountain? There may be a place in the mountains that is more frightening than this! ”

Qian Xiaowu said firmly: "No matter what, I can't fly this time." ”

"Okay!" Lao Li nodded. "Then my old man can only wish you good luck, but don't be like my hard-working son."

"Your son? He also went to the mountains? ”

"It's not!" Lao Li shook his head. "Don't ask, it has nothing to do with you anyway."

Since Lao Li didn't want to say more, Qian Xiaowu didn't ask, and took out a stack of cash from his pocket and gave it to him. "You take these, thank you for showing us the way."

Lao Li pushed the money back. "No need, I live in this place, I don't have a place to flower, you can keep it for yourself, and always keep something on you."

Qian Xiaowu listened strangely. "What do you mean by that?"

"It's not interesting." When Lao Li said this, people began to walk back. "The place has arrived, and the road ahead, you can do it yourself!"

Bidding farewell to Lao Li, Qian Xiaowu went to the bridge, and Feng Nan and the others were already there first. "Miss Feng Nan wants to go first?"

Feng Nan slapped one hand on the rope of the suspension bridge. "You're the boss, of course you're the first, where is our turn!"

"Miss Feng Nan said this politely." Qian Xiaowu glanced at the bridge. "I don't know if this suspension bridge is aging or not, and whether it can withstand the weight of people."

Feng Nan smiled: "You will know if you can try it!" ”

"This ......" Qian Xiaowu looked at Feng Nan, Feng Nan also looked at him, he went to see the people under his hands, but those people were all low-headed and pretended to be dead, so they had no choice but to name them. Akai, you go first! ”

Akai's heart sudden. "This ...... Old...... Boss! ”

Qian Xiaowu's face sank. "Let you go." Saying and directing the others. "Take a rope and tie it around his waist."

With the rope as a guarantee, Akai was a little bolder, got on the suspension bridge, and staggered to the opposite side, although it seemed dangerous, he finally arrived safely.

After Akai arrived safely on the opposite side, the others breathed a sigh of relief, and Qian Xiaowu said, "Okay, cross the bridge one by one." ”

Although there is a lesson from Akai's past, the people behind are still hesitant to take the lead, after all, there is not much rope to protect them. At this time, Zhuang Su stood up and stepped onto the suspension bridge.

"Asu, what are you doing?" Feng Nan grabbed Zhuang Su.

Zhuang Su turned around. "Sister, let me go first!"

Feng Nan vetoed it. "No way!"

Zhuang Su insisted: "Sister believe in me, I'm no longer a child, and I can't always rely on you to protect me." Feng Nan still wanted to say something, but seeing Zhuang Su's earnest and serious expression, he really couldn't say anything else to refuse.

"Then be careful!"

"Good!" In this way, Zhuang Su, who had no rope protection, also walked across the bridge step by step, proving that the bridge could indeed be walked, and the people behind finally willing to move, one by one to cross the bridge, until everyone was on the other side of the bridge, Qian Xiaowu gave an order:

"Up the hill!"