Hearing Su Mengke say this, the driver was speechless and silent for a few seconds before he spoke: "Little girl, don't scare me, build a house in our countryside, seven or eight out of ten will use explosives, otherwise those stones will not be able to be opened at all, and the police station will not see it." ”

"Uncle, you misunderstood me, I'm talking about buying and selling explosives, not using explosives." Su Mengke said reluctantly.

"It's... This... In a small business, I only sell to acquaintances. The driver said nothing.

Su Mengke seemed to be intent on continuing to entangle on this issue, so I hurriedly pulled her and said, "Miss Su, on our side of Hengyang, the houses built by the mountains will also use explosives. ”

"Oh!" She said lightly and didn't say anything more, but her eyes kept rolling over the driver.

The jeep was speeding down the road, and after about an hour and a half of sitting, we came to a village, called Yinzi Village, with more than 30 families, all of which were low mud houses.

The driver stopped the car and led us to a house in the southernmost part of the village, which was only one story and was made of red bricks, which was considered a 'villa' compared to other houses in the village.

When we entered the house, there were five children and a middle-aged woman eating supper, and when they saw us come in, the children shouted to the driver, "Dad! ”

The driver hummed, touched the children's heads, and said, "Good! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the middle-aged woman, meaning to take the children away, and the middle-aged woman came to her senses and took the children away, leaving a sentence: "Don't be too out of line, you are the pillar of our family." ”

He nodded, but did not speak.

After the middle-aged woman left, the driver invited us to sit down in the middle of the house, poured us a glass of sugar water, and gave me a cigarette, saying: "Young man, my explosives are 300 yuan a catty, the fuse, 100 meters, and I won't hide it from you, this price is several times more expensive than the regular channels." ”

I was stunned for a moment, but the driver was straightforward, and said: "5 catties of explosives, 20 meters of fuse." ”

As soon as he said yes, he moved the sofa on the left side of the room, uncovered a wooden board on the ground, and shone it with a flashlight, I got up slightly and glanced at it, it was a cellar, and many families in Hengyang would dig this kind of cellar.

However, we dug the cellar to put sweet potatoes and other things, but the driver put explosives, and the cellar was not very loaded with explosives, about 20 catties, the fuse was three bundles, and some shotguns were placed next to it.

The driver picked up a hook next to him and hooked the explosive to the fuse, the outer packaging of the explosive was a snakeskin bag, and he took out a bag of things from the snakeskin bag, and the outside was a pale yellow [colored] kind of oiled paper.

As he took out his things, he said: "My explosives are very well maintained, very dry, each package is one catty, to ensure that the power is sufficient, no matter how big the stone can be exploded." ”

Hearing this, I smiled, people who sell things always boast about the quality of their things, I don't know much about explosives, but I saw people use them when I was a child.

Subsequently, he counted five packets of explosives for us, and measured the fuse for 20 meters, and it is worth mentioning that the driver's method of measuring the fuse, he used a one-meter-long stick to measure a total of 20 times.

After getting the explosives and fuse, I was embarrassed to find that I had no money on me, and asked Su Mengke, she said that Shabi only had so much cash on him, so he said a very avant-garde sentence to the driver, "Uncle, can you swipe the card?" ”

When the driver heard this, his face sank, and he said angrily: "Miss, we are in the countryside, where did the credit card machine come from, you didn't mean to entertain me, right?" ”

As he spoke, he gave us a wary look, and was about to throw the explosives and fuse into the cellar, but I quickly grabbed him and said, "Go to the town and get the money for you!" ”

He glanced at me, as if he didn't believe it, and said, "You can't be the police, right?" Want to take me to the police station? ”

"It's not!" I shook my head and said, "I'm just an ordinary coffin bearer, and I found a tomb in Taihang Mountain, and I can't dig it that deep by hand, so I plan to use explosives." ”

"What?" He exclaimed, "Where did you say you found the tomb?" ”

"Taihang Mountain!" I say.

"!" He burst out with a foul word, didn't make any more moves, ran to the door, and shouted, "Everyone come here to help!" Someone came to our village to cause trouble! ”

As soon as he said this, in less than a minute, there was a noisy footstep at the door, and then seven or eight big men came to the door, and the driver saw these big men, stretched out his hand and pointed at us, and said, "These two people came to our village to check for explosives." ”

As soon as I saw this situation, I secretly screamed that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Everyone, listen to my explanation, we are not here to check explosives, but to find the tomb in Taihang Mountain, and we need to use explosives." ”

It was fine not to say this, but as soon as he said this, the people were in high spirits and were about to come and beat us, but fortunately one of them was stopped by an older man, who was five years old and thick, and had dark skin, and was about fifty years old.

He stopped at those people and said, "I heard that the tomb of our old hero in Quyang is preparing to be dug in Taihang Mountain, is it you?" ”

I nodded and immediately said, "Yes, yes, that's us!" ”

Hearing this, he turned overjoyed, and hurriedly drove those people out, pulled the driver aside, and said a lot of Hebei dialect, I couldn't understand what they were saying, and I knew that the driver's attitude towards us had taken a 180-degree turn.

First he invited us to sit down, then he brought us some fruit, and he cooked us two bowls of noodles, and added two poached eggs and some shredded meat on top.

This sudden change made us a little confused, and we didn't dare to eat it, mainly because we were afraid that he would put sweat medicine in it, and I have heard a lot of such news.

The driver smiled awkwardly when he saw that we didn't move the chopsticks, and said, "Little brother, I hope you don't dislike it, our village is not rich, and the usual eggs are sent to the market, this pork is three days ago, and we don't have to save it." ”

As soon as I heard this, I was even more puzzled, so I said, "Brother driver, who are you?" Why did attitudes change so quickly? ”

"Hey!" He twitched heavily in his face and said, "I didn't know that you were busy in the tomb of the old hero, and I was offended, please forgive me!" ”

Saying that, he stood up and bent over us, "Little brother, you don't need to wonder, the old hero is the pride of our entire Quyang, I am from Quyang, and naturally I am proud of the old hero, you are running around for the old hero, how can we embarrass you, so be it!" The explosives were given to you. ”