Chapter 53: The Forest Farm
I looked ahead, and in the surging quicksand, there were dense tree trunks as far as the eye could see, but the trees around the house were shorter and thinner than those elsewhere.
When I heard the second master mention the forest farm before, I thought that the so-called forest farm should be a relatively open place, with a few workshops, a few machines for cutting wood, and some felled logs stacked in the corner of the open space.
The scene in front of me made me wonder, is it a forest farm with a few simple old houses put together? Shouldn't it?
The old man just said that there was a forest farm in front of him, and he didn't explain much, and after saying that, he continued to walk forward with his head down.
When I approached the house, the quicksand in my sight and the yin in the air disappeared at the same time, and even the temperature increased slightly.
A faint light peeked through the window, illuminating a small area in front of the house, and I could see that the houses were made of wood, with a bunch of chili peppers hanging by the window, and a large sack with the word "salt" written on it.
The old man walked to the door, turned his head to me, and said, "Now this room is full of antiques from more than 70 years ago, but it is still sturdy, and the wind and rain cannot be blown in it." ”
At this time, the second master also came over with Dawei, and I saw that Dawei was closing his eyes, and I didn't know whether he had fainted or fallen asleep.
The second master looked around: "I always heard you say that the forest farm is from the forest farm, but I didn't expect it to be this." ”
The old man smiled and said to me: "I used to suppress bandits in the Northeast back then, if I remember correctly, you old lady of the family still found him here." ”
"But no," the second master pushed open the door, and his words were a little stunned: "This time, more than 70 years have passed, it's really fast." ”
As soon as the door opened, I could smell the smell of boiled meat.
From the time I ate a meal in the morning until now, I have been on an empty stomach, and as soon as I smell the aroma of meat, the saliva immediately exceeds my tongue, and I quickly pursed my mouth vigorously to prevent saliva from flowing down the corners of my mouth.
When the second master heard my pouting voice, he immediately glanced at me: "That's a little bit of interest!" ”
I said, "I haven't eaten at noon, I'm a little hungry." You still say what about me, your saliva is coming out. ”
The second master quickly wiped the corners of his mouth, and found that his chin was dry, so he gave me a slap on the spot.
He slapped me on the shoulder, and I felt like my bones were about to be crushed, and I gasped several times in a row.
When the old man entered the door, he shouted to the back room: "Is the rabbit meat ready?" We're all hungry! ”
There was an immediate response from the room: "Come on, wait another ten minutes." ”
The old man shouted again: "Get more, don't run out of food by then." ”
"I've prepared a quantity of fifteen people, it's enough!"
The second master glanced at the door of the inner room and asked the old man, "Who?" ”
Lao De: "Jin Xiangqian, the cook of the special combat team, you should know him." ”
"Oh, it's him." The second master chewed the root of his tongue and said, "I said, the yin qi outside is so heavy, how can a person who has no mental power on his body get in." Yo, the furnishings in this room are still the same as they were 70 years ago. ”
While speaking, the second master still took a brief look in the room.
I also looked around, and saw a small boxy wooden table by the window, with no chairs around, and a few oil lamps on the tabletop, and some things hanging on the wooden beams not far away, and the light was so dim that I couldn't see what they were.
Other than that, there was nothing left in the house.
The old man pointed to the window: "I only changed the window glass, and the others didn't move, I'm old, and I don't have the energy." ”
The second master leaned in front of the window and looked outside: "When is the little ghost coming?" ”
The old man took out a spirit talisman from his pocket, pasted it on the wooden wall, and responded: "They will come as soon as the time comes, what's the matter, you still plan to take them all down?" That's a little ghost sent by Lord Yama, so it's best not to provoke it. ”
The second master looked out the window, as if he hadn't heard the old man's words.
He turned his head to me and said, "In the past three or four years, three or five years, this forest farm has been occupied by bandits. At that time, the bandit leader in this area had a nickname, called Liu Shuangxiang, with two box cannons in his hand, and he had a hobby, that is, he practiced guns with live people. When Liu Shuangxiang sat on the top of the mountain, he often asked his subordinates to go to the surrounding villages to 'scoop up poles', old man, do you remember Liu Shuangxiang scooping poles? ”
The second master still looked out the window and ignored him.
The old man smiled, and said to me: "Fishing, that is, going down the mountain to capture people, if it is a beautiful woman, he will stay and suppress the village, if it is a man or an ugly woman, it will become a target for him to practice guns." Before Liu Shuangxiang practiced the gun, he would ask his subordinates to tie people to a wooden stake, and from a hundred meters away, these live targets looked like poles inserted in the snow, so they were called fishing poles. Hey, have you watched "Lin Hai Snow Plain", do you know about Yang Zirong outwitting Weihu Mountain? ”
I said, "Lin Hai Xueyuan has never seen it, but I have heard of outwitting Weihu Mountain." ”
I had to first glance at the second master, and then said to me: "What Dong did back then was similar to Yang Zirong. It's just that Yang Zirong took a mountain carving's nest, and he was almost followed by Liu Shuangxiang. If it weren't for the old lady of the family who came in time, the life of the family would have been confessed here. ”
This time, when the second master heard what he said, he frowned, and kicked the old man fiercely: "Don't you open which pot you don't open for which pot!" When I suppressed the bandits, I was completely alone, can I be the same as Yang Zonggui? When they were suppressing bandits, they could still bring more than 100 people into the mountains, and when I entered the mountains, there were only three or four people. ”
The old man said to me: "Yang Zonggui is Yang Zirong, alas, hero, it's a pity that he left too early." Or everyone says that heroes don't live long, and bears live for a thousand years. ”
"You're almost done," the second master waved his hand impatiently at Lao De: "Don't keep saying these inconsequential words." I just wanted to ask you, after Liu Shuangxiang was exterminated, shouldn't this forest farm be abolished? But look at the trees around me, which are about 60 years old, right? ”
Old: "Liu Shuangxiang and his gang were not served until four or three years, and the person who killed him at that time was the one who looked up and flew in the ditch." The two gangs of bandits combined, adding up to nearly 2,000 people, and most of them were folded here. Coupled with the group of civilians who were killed by Liu Shuangxiang in the early years, there are still a large number of bones buried under the tree, and you can see the bone slag when you dig a foot into the ground. ”
The second master touched his chin: "No wonder the yin qi in this place is so heavy." But why is there only yin qi and no resentment? ”
The old man said: "The grievances have been hooked by the little ghosts sent by Lord Yama, I don't know why they only hooked up the grievances, but left the yin qi." ”
"Lord Yama," the second master said with an unhappy face, "Have you seen Lord Yama, why do you say that the little ghost was sent by the King of Yama?" ”
The old man waved his hand: "I know, you old family has never believed that there is a netherworld in the world. But you don't believe me, the ancient books of our vein say that those little ghosts with long hands and short feet are the soul seducers of the underworld. Don't forget, the ...... you found from Lao Miao Village."
didn't wait for the old man to finish speaking, the second master's eyes suddenly widened: "You talk more leisurely!" ”
After speaking, the second master also glanced at me.
The old man looked at the second master, and then at me, as if he understood something, and immediately turned around and walked towards the meaty inner room, shouting as he walked: "Is the meal ready, all waiting!" ”
It wasn't until I got into the back room that I asked the second master: "Second master, did you want to say just now, Netherworld Tongbao?" ”
The second master sighed and nodded: "Don't think too much about it now, first learn the bone-destroying hand and the eight styles of tooth splitting." ”
I knew he was starting to sloppy with me again, but I didn't ask any more questions.
Probably afraid that I would continue to think about what I said just now, the second master said to me again in order to divert my attention: "Do you remember the Wuling Zhang family?" ”
Wuling Zhang family? It sounded familiar, but for a while I couldn't remember where I had heard it, so I gave the second master an inquiring look.
The second master obviously understood my eyes, so he said to me: "When you went to Zhao Guang'an's house to get the copper money that night, didn't you run into an old monk?" He is a member of the Zhang family in Wuling. ”
More than a month has passed since Zhao Guang'an's incident, and during this time, I have been overwhelmed by various spells, and I have long forgotten about the events of that night.
But when I heard the second master say this, I also remembered that the old man was coming, so I nodded at the second master.
The second master clasped his hands and pouted: "He's dead." ”
"Dead? Didn't I remember, did you ask Wang Lei to send him to a sanatorium, why did he die? ”
"Wang Lei only controlled Zhao Guangan and his wife in the sanatorium, and the old monk committed suicide by swallowing poison halfway." The second master tapped his right arm with the index finger of his left hand, frowned and said: "At first, the people in the industry thought that the Zhang family in Wuling was extinct, but they didn't expect that they would have descendants, in addition to the old monk you met, the Zhang family also has a descendant named Zhang Jiacheng." A few days ago, Zhang Jiacheng had already contacted me and said that he would come to Bohai Bay early next month to take away the ashes of the old monk. ”
Speaking of this, the second master turned to me: "I plan to send you to contact Zhang Jiacheng...... Don't be in a hurry to refuse, the old monk is your catch, you will deal with this matter, and it is justifiable. At present, I am not sure what kind of purpose Zhang Jiacheng came to Bohai with him, whether he was seeking revenge, or simply coming to get the ashes, and I don't know what means he has. Alas, the world is unpredictable, I don't know if Zhang Jiacheng will be unfavorable to you after he sees you. ”
I frowned and said to the second master: "No, second master, you obviously caught the person, why did you push it on my head in the blink of an eye?" ”
The second master directly ignored my words: "Anyway, no matter what, you must practice the bone-destroying hand and the tooth splitting eight styles within this month, as long as you have these two kung fu skills, Zhang Jiacheng has the means to reach the sky, and it is difficult to suppress you." ”
The second master was talking here, and he came out of the back room with a big cauldron: "Stop talking, come and eat." The braised rabbit meat just out of the pot, hehe, fragrant! If not, go to the beams and take down the tortillas and hot sauce. ”