Wang turned his head and said: "We will start to go to Lao Shengou tomorrow, this Lao Shengou is not to go if you want to, you have to go through several dangerous places, this is the first thing to enter the first dangerous dry rice basin." ”

"Dry rice bowl? Why is this name so strange? Is there any origin? I heard that in the northeast, as long as there is a name in the mountains, it has its origin. As soon as I heard the strange name, I opened my mouth and asked.

At this time, Wang took out his cigarette pouch, pressed a bag of cigarettes, lit it with a foreign fire, and took a puff of cigarettes, Zhong Dabiao said to us, in the northeast, whether they smoke or not, they must take a cigarette pouch, in this isolated time, smoking has become a way to relieve loneliness, and smoke has the effect of preventing snakes and mosquitoes. In the early Northeast region, the ancestors of various ethnic groups who came for development, as well as the people who went to the eastern part of the country to find a way to survive, as well as those who panned for gold, released rows, dug ginseng, and hunted in the deep mountains and old forests, smoked when they were resting and spitting out smoke that could make poisonous snakes afraid and afraid to approach people. At the same time, the oil of the cigarette pouch can also release a strong odor, which makes poisonous snakes intimidating. This greatly helped the people in the mountains. Invisibly, it requires that people who enter the mountains must learn to smoke. Before entering the grass (working in the old forest), people also have to smear some cigarette bag oil on the leggings to prevent snake bites.

At the same time, soot is also a commonly used folk hemostatic medicine. Working in the old forest, in case of external injury, people will pinch a little cigarette ash and smear it on the wound, which not only kills bacteria but also stops bleeding.

Whenever a big stick mallet is found, the ginseng head shouts: "light the fire" and "light the mosquito smoke". At this time, Xiao Da (the little guy) wants to light a cigarette on the head of the ginseng, let the head of the ginseng hold the cigarette while digging and smoking, Xiao Da will fan the head of the ginseng on the side, the wind blows the smoke, the smell of smoke will drift around the head of the ginseng, the mosquito will not dare to bite, and the head of the ginseng will concentrate on digging ginseng. There are many mosquitoes in the old forests in the deep mountains and are very powerful, and they can't be bombarded with their hands, so they can only be driven away by smoke. But we have anti-mosquito medicine on us, and those mosquitoes don't touch our bodies.

In the Northeast, in winter, the weather is very cold, freezing and snowy. People who help and run errands often hide in big car shops, head houses, work sheds, big houses, errand shacks and other places. The winter nights are cold and long, what do people do? Smoking, bragging, chattering. The gang went out, hunted and drilled the mountains, and drove the carts. Smoking can relieve a little cold, and by the way, roast your hands and warm your mouth.

However, a few of us couldn't smoke cigarette pouches, mainly because the smell was too choking, only Wang took a puff of cigarette and said to us: "This dry rice bowl is not a good place, we have a song here, that is, the dry rice bowl, it is sung like this, the dry rice basin, the dry rice basin, just like the stuffy rice suffocating people." Ten people went in and nine were not born, and one person came out and lost his soul.

There are many mountains in the dry rice basin, surrounded by a basin-like terrain. Inside, the big basin is set in the basin, the middle basin is set in the small basin, ninety-nine eighty-one basins, the basins are set together, the rings are connected, and the basin is in that basin, just like entering Zhuge Liang's eight arrays. There are a lot of mada ghosts wandering there in the dry rice bowl, and after entering, you will encounter the mada ghosts, they lead the people who put the mountain to walk in the dry rice bowl, and finally get lost and die.

The most terrible thing in the dry rice bowl is to get lost, because whenever the fog at the bottom of the dry rice bowl rises, even the old mountain catcher can't find the direction, so he can only rely on experience to find it slowly. There are also wild beasts in the dry rice bowl, there are bears and wild boars with armor, these are all capable of killing people, so just a dry rice bowl is enough to kill people.

But this is only a part of it, out of the dry rice basin, you will arrive at the ghost cliff, the ghost cliff is an underground canyon, this canyon is very long, the strange stones on both sides of the river, the strange scenery is stacked, a river runs through there, there is 10,000 years of ice in it, the river water is cold and biting, and the people are inaccessible; In summer, the grass and trees in the forest shade the sun, poisonous insects lurk, and there is no path, because there are often sharp ghost screams, so the ghost is called the cliff. There are long-haired evil ghosts in the ghost cry cliff, and there are very few people who can go to the ghost cry cliff, and this is the second natural danger to go to Lao Shengou.

After passing the Devil's Cliff, you will arrive at the Devil's Cave, which is a huge underground cavern, with patios in some places, strange trees, and something like the devil, that is, the four dislikes. ”

At this time, Luo Xihan said: "The four are not like I know, it is a kind of deer in the Northeast, and the book says that the head and face are like horses, the horns are like deer, the neck is like a camel, and the tail is like a donkey." ”

When the king heard this, he shook his head and said, "No, no, the four things I am talking about are the devil in the underground cave, that thing, which is not recorded in the tree, is a terrible beast, its head is like a tiger, very huge, its fangs stick out of its mouth, its tail is like a leopard, it is like a steel whip, its body is like a bear, its strength is infinite, its eyes are like ghosts, and it is shining red. That thing haunts the underground cave, as long as it is encountered, no one can come back alive, and I have only followed the older generation of you, to the devil's cave, but we did not dare to continue to go forward.

I heard that if you go further in, there is an underground lake, the water of that one is black, goose feathers and wood will sink to the bottom, if you want to go over, you have to sit on the stone to go over, after the underground lake, you can go to the old ginseng ditch on the other side. I'm very strange, you say that the goose feathers and wood are sinking to the bottom, so why can the stone float? ”

When the king said this, we people were also confused, this stone can float on the water, it is the first time I have heard of it, and we have discussed it for a while, and we have no clue. Since we set off the next day, after returning we washed ourselves by the spring and then we rested in the wooden house. On the second day, we bowed to the old man of the mountain god early, then packed up our things, put down all the things that should be put down, and carried the necessary things on our backs, and we set off.

The trees in the woods are towering, here are all pines, in the northeast the trees have a clear demarcation, at the bottom of the mountain, there is a broad-leaved forest, in the middle is a forest mixed with some coniferous and broad-leaved forests, and at the top is a coniferous forest, tall pines, which hide the sun's head.

We walked on, and when we came to a place, this place was a little strange, and everywhere else there were pine trees, but there were no trees in this place, all stones, and there was moss on the stones, and from a distance it looked fluffy, like a carpet. It's soft and comfortable to walk on.

At this time, the king turned his head and said: "We have reached the edge of the dry rice basin, and then there is the dry rice basin, the edge of the dry rice basin is not terrible, but the terrible thing is the inside, so when you get inside, everyone has to be careful, and the gun can't leave your body, you must always take it with you, and you can't shout loudly when you get inside, otherwise you will call the mada ghost, you know?" ”

We all nodded our heads and said that everything was arranged by the king. The king nodded his head, and then we went down the gentle slope toward the bottom of the basin, and when we reached the edge of the basin, we looked at the basin, and there was a huge basin in it, and there were green trees everywhere, and they grew on top of each other, and there was no edge in sight. This dry rice basin is indeed like a basin, the edge of the basin is surrounded by huge stones, there are no trees on the stones, there are some mosses and weeds, we people, picked up a gentle slope, slowly walked towards the bottom of the dry rice basin, there is nothing on the edge of the basin, there is no danger, we went to the bottom of the basin very smoothly, at the bottom of the basin to look around, on one side is a steep stone wall, on the other side is the endless woods, I can't help but remind me of the song of the king's head, dry rice basin, dry rice basin, just like stuffy rice suffocating people. Ten people went in and nine were not born, and one person came out and lost his soul.

After we entered the dry rice basin, there were some indescribable depressed dares, always felt very depressed, and other people also felt this way, everyone raised their heads, looked around, and did not speak there, then the king turned his head and said: "We are still on the edge of the basin, we must go forward, through the lowest part of the basin low, and then we can reach the ghost cliff, it's not too early, let's go." ”