At the beginning of October, it happened to be the most pleasant time in Bohai Bay, neither cold nor hot, the highest temperature was about 20 degrees, and the lowest was 123 degrees.

But in the old forest of Northeast China, the maximum temperature per day has just broken ten, and the minimum temperature has reached below zero. In order to keep out the cold, when I got off the plane from Harbin, the second master asked me and Xing Wei to put on thick clothes. And he himself is still the same, and he sent himself away in a Tang suit, and I think that no one in the family seems to be afraid of the cold, except for me.

The second master said that the reason why he chose to enter the mountain at this time is mainly because the bears in the mountains have not yet hibernated, and they are now looking for something to eat everywhere, and their weight has reached the highest peak of the year.

When I heard the second master say these words, I had a sense of foreboding, didn't you say that you would bring me to practice, why did you suddenly pull it on the bear?

When we entered the mountain, it was already more than six o'clock in the evening, and the sky was gradually getting dark, Xing Wei proposed to camp on the spot and rest for one night before entering the forest, but the second master disagreed, saying that he couldn't let the old wait too long.

Who is the old man?

I wanted to ask the second master, but he was talking to Xing Wei all the way, and I couldn't interject at all.

As we went deeper and deeper, after more than four hours, the complete road was almost invisible, and there were weeds everywhere and some vegetation that I can't name, but probably because the mountains were not deep, the surrounding trees were relatively sparse.

If I remember correctly, October 6 in '06 was supposed to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon in the sky was very round and bright, and the whirring cold wind blew away the moonlight, and also blew the road under our feet.

The second master looked at the full moon in the night sky and sighed: "I should have come two days earlier if I knew it, but I can't catch up today." ”

At that time, Xing Wei was pulling out a water bottle from his backpack, and he didn't answer the second master's words, I saw the opportunity and immediately asked the second master: "Can't catch up with anything?" ”

The second master said as he walked: "I can't catch up with the time when the old forest's yin qi is at its heaviest, alas, although we entered the forest on a full moon night, it's useless to catch up with the forest farm." ”

I didn't quite understand why he rushed into the mountain when the yin qi was at its heaviest, but I just asked him, "Who is the old man?" ”

"It's old," the second master said, "He is a hermit in this area, and he is familiar with the situation in the forest, and every time I enter the old forest in the northeast, he is my guide." Xing Wei, don't go. ”

Xing Wei heard the second master's words and stopped: "What's wrong?" ”

The second master raised his wrist, pointed to his watch and said, "It's almost eleven o'clock, and he will fall asleep when he is old, and we will definitely not see him tonight." Rest in place. ”

Xing Wei glanced at the surrounding woods, and asked the second master with some concern: "Resting in this place, you won't run into a black blind man, right?" ”

The second master smiled: "This has just entered the mountain, and you won't encounter wild beasts." ”

After speaking, the second master smacked his lips towards the moon again, with deep regret on his face.

This time we went into the mountain and brought ten big backpacks, two of which were loaded with things for setting up tents, and I set up two tents with the help of Xing Wei, the second master occupied one by himself, and Xing Wei and I lived in the other one.

The second master has a big heart, and he doesn't care if it will be dangerous to camp in the wild, as soon as he gets into the tent, he falls asleep, and Xing Wei and I can hear his snoring two or three meters away.

It was the first time I slept in the field, I was very unaccustomed to it, I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, Xing Wei lay beside me, holding his head in his hands, crossed Erlang's legs, his eyes kept staring at the top of the tent, I didn't know what I was thinking.

I didn't feel sleepy left and right, so I tried to talk to him: "Viagra Brother ......"

"Don't," Xing Wei immediately interrupted me: "Don't call me that. You still call me Dawei, that's what everyone in your business calls me. ”

I laughed a little embarrassed: "Listen to your accent, it's from the Northeast, right?" ”

"No," Xing Wei waved his hand: "My hometown is Shanxi, I never spoke Mandarin before I became a soldier, and after I became a soldier, I became a Northeast squad leader, and I followed him every day, mixed and mixed, and my accent changed like this." ”

I didn't have anything to say: "Didn't you say that you brought a cook with you, why haven't you seen him until now?" ”

Xing Wei: "He went into the mountains in advance to look for the old man, and he could see him when he arrived at the forest farm." By the way, there's something I've always wanted to ask, but I'm embarrassed to say. ”

"Just ask."

"From the time I saw you on the plane until now, why have you kept squinting your eyes, did you not rest last night?"

I smiled: "I can't open my eyelids, and if I open them, I'll be in trouble." ”

Xing Wei shrugged his shoulders: "You old people seem to be like this, everyone is a little different." ”

Since he mentioned the family, I couldn't help but ask, "Wei...... Dawei, you see, I just returned to my wife's house, and I still haven't figured out what my family is doing. So now I want to know, what are we old couples doing? ”

Dawei pouted: "You old family, your responsibilities in the industry are more miscellaneous, and people from big families like you have many identities in the industry. Hey, in fact, I haven't had many opportunities to deal with the family in the past two years, and I can't tell you what you guys do. Anyway, every time I see the second master, he either wants to go to the tomb, or he wants to go somewhere to suppress the corpses and ghosts, so I always feel that the things that the old family does may be similar to that of the Soul Village. ”

I said: "Recently, I have often heard the second master mention the Soul Village, what is this Soul Village? ”

Dawei pondered for a while before he spoke: "That's it...... Exploring the tomb, a corpse and a ghost, I can't say it, anyway, it's about the same as your family. ”

He said the same thing as if he didn't say it.

But I also probably know that when I take over the second master's stall, I'm afraid I will often go to the grave and often deal with evil corpses, ghosts and other things.

I really don't understand, the family is so rich, why do they have to engage in such a business when they have a good life?

At this time, Dawei patted me: "Hurry up and sleep, just the second master's temperament, you have to get us up and hurry before dawn tomorrow morning." ”

With that, he got into his sleeping bag and soon began to snore.

I looked at the top of the tent, and my mind kept thinking about what the second master said to me when I entered the mountain.

"At this time, the bears in the mountains are at their fattest time of the year. Well, the black blind man can't do it, his strength is too small, at least he has to find a big guy with brown hair. ”

What does the second master mean by this, what is he looking for a bear for?

I pondered over and over again, and I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night.

Dawei was right, with the second master's fiery temperament, it was absolutely impossible for us to sleep too long, at four o'clock in the morning, he pulled the two of us up, and after a hasty breakfast, we continued to march towards the depths of the forest.

Of the ten backpacks, five of them are full of food, but these things are enough for me and the second master to eat for a day, the second master's meal is almost half of mine, and Dawei's food is only one-third of the second master's.

So during breakfast, David stared at me with extremely stunned eyes, until I stuffed the last bite of compressed biscuits into my mouth, and he exclaimed, "You can eat seven or eight people's food alone!" Don't feel sick to your stomach? ”

To be honest, I don't know why I eat so much every day and never get indigestion, and since my body shape has become the way I am now, no matter how much I eat, my weight has hardly changed, and I don't know where all the things I eat have gone.

After most of the day without stopping, we finally approached the hinterland of the deep mountains, since there were more trees around, the second master kept looking around, Dawei did not chat with the second master again, but also every time he walked a section, he had to stop and look around.

Seeing that the sky had begun to turn yellow, the second master became a little impatient: "Where did that old man die, why hasn't he shown up yet?" ”

While the second master was talking, Dawei suddenly picked up the gun.

I looked at the muzzle of David's gun, and I saw something running in the depths of the woods, and it was moving so fast that I couldn't see what it was, but I could only roughly tell from the outline that it was a wolf or a fox.

As it moved, David moved the muzzle of the gun quickly.

For a moment, the shadow in the distance paused, and David immediately seized the opportunity and pressed the trigger.

Phew!

With a dull gunshot, an old tree in the distance was hit, a large number of sawdust flew everywhere, and the black shadow that had just shrunk under the tree disappeared.

Dawei frowned and said to the second master: "Something is wrong, it may be an evil one." ”

As soon as Dawei's words landed, there was a rapid sound of "Sisuo" in the distance, Dawei immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and was about to press the trigger, but the second master stretched out his hand and blocked his muzzle with his palm.

Dawei looked at the second master very puzzled, and the second master smiled at him: "Don't shoot, it's old." ”

After that, the second master shouted into the depths of the forest: "Don't pretend to be a ghost, come out quickly." ”

The sound of "Sisuo" soon sounded, and I looked in the direction from which it came and saw an old blue-gray wolf galloping towards us.

Just when it was about to come to me, my vision suddenly blurred, that is, for a moment, when my vision became clear again, the old wolf was nowhere to be found, and an old man in a blue-gray cotton jacket appeared in front of me.

I have to say that this person's appearance is very distinctive, with a long nose, a long mouth, a chin longer than a shoehorn, and a pair of thin eyes that shine straight through.

I quickly lowered my head and looked away, but I saw his tattered old cotton jacket, which was full of patches of various sizes, and there was a hole in the waist, from which a few strands of cotton leaked out, and it hung so softly on it, as if it was going to fall off at any time, but it couldn't fall off.

Anyway, the person in front of you makes you feel uncomfortable everywhere, I don't know if he deliberately made himself like this, or if he was originally this virtue.

The old man raised his hand, pointed to me, and asked the second master, "Is he your apprentice?" ”

The second master first said to him: "He is a kid of the Fengyu family." It's half of my apprentice, anyway, they are all my own children, and I don't usually judge them as masters and apprentices. ”

After that, the second master said to me again: "This old man is so old, he has no name, he only has such a nickname." ”