As I walked deeper into the village, I noticed that Fat Dahai turned his head and glanced at the car outside the entrance of the village, and he noticed my gaze and quickly moved his gaze to other places.

The old cat walked very fast in front, the village was not big, and we soon reached a small mountain road at the end of the village.

The dead trees and grass next to the road are still vigorous, but the middle of the road is bare, and the soil is very firm, and even the roots of the wild grass have been trampled to death, and they cannot sprout at all.

It seems that the villagers often go into the mountains, but the distance between the deserted village and here is very long, and it takes about a whole day to walk on foot, and the locals rarely go to that place.

The old cat took us on the mountain road for a while, and everyone else was fine, but the mine was about to lose track of him, for no other reason, because the mine was too heavy, and his physical strength was quickly exhausted.

I couldn't stand it anymore, so I shouted at the mine: "Landmine, give me the luggage!" ”

As soon as he shouted, everyone stopped, and the old cat glanced at the mine, and when he saw the mine's sweaty appearance, he immediately frowned, and the mine didn't notice the old cat's expression, but just turned his head and said to me: "I'll just take it myself, it's not sinking." ”

There are ghosts only if they don't sink.

I didn't bother to talk to him too much, so I just stretched out my hand to him: "Come, give it to me." ”

The old cat slapped a mine in the back: "You have too many trips, let's take turns to help you carry a burden, don't delay the trip because you are alone." ”

As he spoke, the old cat also subconsciously glanced at Mia and Xiao Jiu respectively, with a deep displeasure in his eyes.

Probably because he didn't want to lose face in front of the two girls, he hesitated for a long time before handing me the luggage.

I tried to check his bag, good fellow, it weighed more than fifty pounds, and I didn't know what it contained.

The old cat continued to take everyone to the depths of the mountains and forests, during which in addition to the old cat, me, and Li Huaishan, other people were indispensable to gossip and gags, especially the guy with the mine, from the beginning of the mountain has been chatting with Mia and Xiao Jiu, and from time to time two meat and vegetarian jokes popped out of their mouths, which caused a burst of laughter from the people present.

Seeing that these laymen were all relaxed, I couldn't help but worry about them.

The old cat never participated in the conversation of other people from beginning to end, just walked forward, before Li Huaishan and I studied the map of the mountainous area, there was a clearing about thirty miles from the village, that place used to be a small forest farm, abandoned in the late eighties, and there are still two or three dilapidated factories. The old cat must have planned to rush over before nightfall and camp in the forest farm that night.

When we first entered the mountain, the mountain road was fairly easy to walk, until we encountered a stream halfway, and the old cat took us out of the smooth mountain road and walked towards the stream.

In the cold winter, all the grass and trees on the mountain are withered and yellow, and the side of the stream is full of yellow grass and scattered dead branches, which is not easy to walk, and everyone's speed has slowed down.

After more than two hours of continuous trekking, they no longer seemed to have the nature of chatter, and everyone became silent, except for the sound of running water and the sound of the soles of their feet crushing the branches.

At half past five, it was already dark, and the old cat could only speed up his pace as much as possible and rush in the direction of the forest farm.

At about six o'clock, Li Huaishan, who was walking in front of me, suddenly stopped, he looked up at the dead trees around him, and then looked at the downstream of the stream, raised his neck and shouted at the old cat: "Old cat, the direction is wrong!" ”

The old cat immediately stopped and glanced at Li Huaishan from a distance: "What did you say?" ”

Li Huaishan responded loudly: "The direction is wrong!" The forest farm should be in the southwest direction, and we are now going due west. ”

The old cat frowned, took out a map from his backpack and looked at it carefully, and said to Li Huaishan with a frown: "That's right, you can find the forest farm by walking along this stream,"

The mine also helped: "You can rest assured, the old cat has never been lost in the mountains, it is right to follow him." ”

Li Huaishan still insisted on his opinion: "The direction is absolutely wrong. ”

The old cat looked at the map carefully, took out the compass and looked at it, and then said to Li Huaishan: "That's right, let's go in the southwest direction now." ”

Li Huaishan pointed to the old cat: "Your side is due west!" The magnetic field here is not normal, and your compass is not accurate. ”

Seeing that Li Huaishan was so sure, the old cat was a little unsure, he lowered his eyebrows and pondered for a long time, and finally turned his eyes to me.

I nodded at the old cat: "The direction is indeed wrong." ”

In such a deep mountain and old forest, I can't see the moon and the sun setting in the west, I don't know how to identify the direction, but I believe in Li Huaishan.

The old cat put away the map and beckoned to Li Huaishan: "Come, buddy, you lead the way, we will follow you." ”

Li Huaishan didn't talk nonsense, and immediately ran to the front of the team.

Now the people behind the palace are only myself, and the person walking in front of me is the grasshopper, and when the team starts again, Li Huaishan pulls the old cat and they jump over the stream and walk in the direction of the opposite bank.

After I crossed the stream with the grasshopper, the grasshopper turned back to me and asked, "I heard the old cat say, you and Ergou are helping people look at feng shui?" ”

I could only respond: "I do understand some of the things in Feng Shui." ”

As she walked, she said, "Have you ever been to a deserted village, I have heard that this place was once haunted." ”

I asked him, "Where did you hear that?" ”

"Isn't the mine a website, someone has made a post on his website, and it's about the haunting of a deserted village. But I heard from Landmine that the identity of the poster is very mysterious, and that person has registered an account on his website a long time ago, but for more than two years, he has made such a post, and he can't find any other post records. ”

I frowned and didn't say anything.

After a while, the grasshopper asked me again, "Do you say that there are really ghosts in this world?" ”

I just said, "It's always right to be careful." ”

The other party seemed to have made up his mind to get the words out of my mouth, and after a while, he asked me again, "Have you seen that post?" ”

I said no, and the grub continued: "I heard that in the early years, there lived in that village, a group of craftsmen who specialized in shadow puppetry, and the post said that it was very mysterious, saying that every time they made a puppet, they had to kill a person, and attach the soul of the dead to the puppet, so that the puppet had charm." ”

"It's all nonsense," the mosquito sitting in front of the gnats spoke: "That kind of post is just released to cheat clicks, you really believe it, where are so many strange things in the world." ”

The gnats immediately choked back: "As if you don't believe it, when the mine said that he was going to come to the deserted village to explore the spirit, you behaved more actively than anyone else. ”

The text turned his face sideways and squinted at the grasshopper: "I'm not here to visit the spirit, I'm just here to play." ”

The gnats had their back to me, and I didn't see what his expression was, only that the mosquito frowned vigorously and then turned his face back.

I asked the grasshopper, "You people have come all the way to the mountains just to look for ghosts in a deserted village?" ”

Grasshopper: "Or what? I really want to see the deserted village, and you don't need to come to this kind of place, let me tell you, the most beautiful deserted village in the country is in Zhoushan, it is best to go in spring, the old houses in the village are all green, how handsome and handsome. ”

I asked him, "What are you going to do if you do encounter a ghost?" ”

As I asked the question, the mosquito turned its head to look at me, but quickly turned its gaze back to the front.

The gnats patted their backpacks: "I've got the camera ready, if I really see a ghost, I'll definitely take a picture of it as soon as possible, haha." Oh, it's just a gimmick, it's been too long, and everyone wants to find some excitement. Do you know what the most exciting thing is? ”

"What is it?"

"Scare yourself. Actually, I don't believe that there are ghosts in the world, but if you go to a place where there are legends of ghosts, you're still quite nervous. Don't say you're not. ”

I smiled helplessly behind him and didn't say much.

At this moment, Li Huaishan's voice came from the front: "The front is the forest farm!" ”

I looked up at the front of the group and saw a gray wall emerging from the woods, and a sloping roof could be seen among the dry branches.

The grasshopper turned to me and said, "You buddy has two brushes, and his sense of direction is better than a compass." ”

I smiled at him: "Ergou has had a talent for this since he was a child. ”

The old cat led everyone towards the forest farm, and Li Huaishan retreated to him like a gust of wind, and when he walked past the grasshopper, the grasshopper slapped him and stretched out his thumb at him.

Li Huaishan showed a smile and ran to my side.

At first I was wondering what he was doing when he suddenly came back, but when he quickly approached me, he pulled my sleeve and motioned me to stop.

I immediately stopped and waited until they were far away, and then asked Li Huaishan in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Huaishan glanced towards the crowd and made sure that no one had stopped to look at us, so he turned his back to the crowd and took something out of his pocket.

I took a look at it and saw that what he was holding in his hand turned out to be the shovel head of a small Luoyang shovel, which was the thickness of a small thumb, and was the smallest of all Luoyang shovels, and was usually used to measure soil quality.

Li Huaishan shook the shovel head in front of me: "Brand new, I haven't used it yet." ”

I took it and saw that it was indeed brand new, and there was still a little pine oil on the shovel surface.

Li Huaishan pressed his body towards me again, and whispered: "I found it next to the stream, and the old cat also saw it, and he also signaled me to keep quiet." ”

(End of chapter)