Chapter 42: The Bathhouse
I took out a photo of Cheng Hai from my pocket, and he was smiling weirdly, how I looked at it was different from before.
I picked it up, but I didn't feel too scared, Cheng Hai is a friend and not an enemy, at least he won't harm me.
When he came to the cafeteria and saw that Hu Tou'er and they had returned, Cao Yuan's face was full of light, and he probably didn't find anything. Everyone sits down to eat together, the meal is very simple, Chinese cabbage stewed vermicelli, plus a steamed pork ribs, what to say in the forest farm, the food is really good, there is a lot of wine and meat.
Hu Tou'er told the results of their search, but they didn't find anything, followed the traces, and disappeared after winding into the deep forest. They searched for a while more and came back without any results.
Lao Meng said: "I found some good things. He pulled out a handful of crushed pink flowers and placed them on the table.
"What is this?" I asked.
Lao Meng told me that this is called a dream flower, also known as a laizi flower, which can emit a kind of pollen and improve people's sleep. In their hometown, the mountains are full of this thing, and taking it home and putting it in the bedroom can make people fall asleep and have sweet dreams.
I picked it up and smelled it, it was dull and tasteless, and Lao Meng said: "Now that it is winter, the flowers are withering, and I will pick a basket of it in the spring of next year." ”
Everyone laughed, the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and Lao Zhang began to brag again, saying that there were all kinds of rare plants growing in Daqing Mountain, and what medicinal effects there were.
After this turmoil, it was calm for a few days, and everyone saw that there was really no problem, and the courage was magnified, the duty should be on duty, and the patrol of the mountain should be patrolled.
On this day, Lao Zhang and I patrolled the mountains for a day, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and it was very difficult to walk the mountain road, and my face hurt when it blew. Unfortunately, when I came to a mountain stream, there was heavy frost on the ground, which was called a slip, and I didn't pay attention to roll down the hillside until I fell into the ditch. It took a long time to climb up with the help of Lao Zhang, and I was very embarrassed.
When I got back to the station, I was as tired as a dead dog. I ate hastily in the evening, and barely played poker with them for a while, my eyelids were glued, and my head was lit up again and again, and I was sleepy. Hu Tou'er laughed at me, saying that I was a nodding chicken and told me to go back to sleep early.
I walked back to the dormitory in a daze, washed my face and feet, took off my clothes and went to bed. It's still warm in the bed, the wind is raging outside, and the bed is warm like spring, it's really comfortable to die.
I closed my eyes and was about to fall asleep, when I suddenly smelled a fragrance, and I barely opened my eyes, and saw that there were some more petals on the bedside table, pink and pink. I immediately remembered what Lao Meng once said about sleeping flowers.
Strange, who put this specifically to improve my sleep?
I didn't think much of it, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep. In a daze, I had a dream that I somehow became a woman, trying on a wedding dress in a bridal shop, and twisting and pinching in front of the mirror. Later, it seemed that something had happened, and my wedding dress got dirty and took it to be washed. I'm so angry, I don't put on makeup well in the mirror, it's a mess, like a little ghost. Later, a man came, who was supposed to be my fiancé, and I vented my complaints to him.
The man didn't speak, he led me out of the store, and the car was parked outside, and he asked me to get in.
The car kept driving and driving, and the sky outside was dark and oppressive, like a rainy day. The road on both sides was also extremely desolate, with hundreds of mounds looming in the wilderness, and the surroundings were gray.
My fiancé was intently driving, expressionless, and I sat groggily in the passenger seat, looking out at the wild grave.
At this time, the mist was filled, and I vaguely saw a very desolate village in front of me, and there was no one in every house, as if it had been deserted for a long time. I also asked my fiancé where all the people had gone.
The fiancé said coldly, in the ancestral hall, you go and have a look.
The car entered the village and stopped in front of an old-fashioned ancestral hall. This ancestral hall has black tiles and white bricks, and the form is strange. I didn't know how to follow my fiancé inside. Entering is the courtyard courtyard, and the courtyard is full of people, all asking for food. Dressed in tattered clothes, carrying sticks and carrying broken bowls, when they saw me, they all crowded over to beg for food.
I was so frightened that my legs went limp, and when I looked back, my fiancé had disappeared at some point, and the door of the ancestral hall was tightly closed. Those who asked for food stretched out their hands to ask for money and food, but I couldn't understand a word of what they said.
The sky was cloudy, and the clouds were as thick as lead, and they were overwhelmingly oppressive.
My emotions quickly spiraled out of control, and I yelled at them, somehow, not making a sound at all.
The yellow sky is dark, and the people are squeezed and pressed...... I suddenly woke up from my dream. I opened my eyes and stared at the dark ceiling, I didn't relax for a long time, and the whole dream was depressing and cramped.
My mouth was dry, I put on my clothes and dragged my slippers down to drink water. Seeing that the bed opposite was empty, Cao Yuan was not sleeping. It's weird, what time is it, and it's not him on duty tonight.
I felt that something was wrong, put on my clothes and opened the door and went out, it was very cold outside, and the mountain wind was so strong that the windows creaked.
I saw the lights on in the duty room, and quietly walked over and looked through the window. On duty was Hu Tou'er, who was sitting in a chair with his back to the window and wiping his clay guns, and from time to time he raised his gun and aimed at the wall, and when he looked at it from the side, his face was extremely hideous.
I was a little scared, and I thought to myself that tomorrow I should quickly let him lock the gun in the vault, and don't do anything with the gun on the spur of the moment. When the time comes, it will be too late to regret it.
I tiptoed past the duty room, and when I passed by the kitchen, I found the sound of giggling and talking inside, and I didn't dare to show my head, so I hid behind the door and listened.
The little chef's voice came from inside: "Brother Cao, did you really do that?" ”
"Haha, I hate him for more than a day or two. Let me tell you, when you didn't come, he pretended to be a sick person and a dead dog, didn't go to work much, and slept all day long, hating me so much that my teeth itched. Cao Yuan said.
I groaned in my heart, and said, "What about me?"
The little chef said: "That kind of dream flower must be put in a small amount to be fine, if there are too many, it will have nightmares." ”
"Haha." Cao Yuan said: "I hid a lot in his pillow, scared him to death, and made him have nightmares every night!" ”
I was so angry that my lungs exploded, I said, what a strange dream tonight, it turned out that these two boys did it.
I can't wait to go in on the spot, but after thinking about it, I still hold back, go back and find the evidence first, and then throw it all in their faces, and I have to fight to the death!
I didn't alarm them, I tiptoed back, and was about to go back, when suddenly I heard a voice behind the house. There was a dark path between the two houses, and I walked along the path, leaned on the wall and looked out, and saw a very strange scene.
Lao Zhang carried a bucket, put his hand into the bucket, drenched some liquid, walked along the circle, and sprinkled it as he went. In the middle of this circle is the dog raised by Hu Tou'er, Dasha. Dasha squatted on the ground, his two front legs standing up, like a human being, and a blood-red full moon hung in the sky.
I was dumbfounded, how is it weird tonight?
I didn't dare to alarm them, and quietly retreated. Back to the dorm. I didn't dare to turn on the headlights, turned on the small lamp at the head of the bed, sat on the bed for a while, and then picked up the pillow, opened the zipper, and a lot of pink petals fell out of it.
I'm so angry that I'm about to faint, okay, you Cao Yuan, Lao Tzu is not finished with you! See how I clean you up.
I was about to hold this pile of petals to settle accounts with him, when suddenly I saw something slip out of the pillow, black and slimy, about a finger long, what is this?
I picked it up and looked at it, I copied, this is a human finger!
I hurriedly threw it aside. Pitch-black fingers are thrown on the bed. For a long time, I mustered up the courage to pick it up and look at it, and my fingers felt sticky to the touch, as if I had been smeared with a layer of wax.
Could it be that this is also Cao Yuan's prank? I made a candle like a finger and it scared me.
How bad this kid is, I still call him Brother Cao.
I picked up my finger and looked at it, and the more I looked at it, the more crooked it became, and I threw it aside. I picked up the petals and walked out, trying to settle accounts with Cao Yuan, and suddenly thought of one thing, how could the little chef have a hot fight with Cao Yuan within a few days of coming to the forest farm, and the two were still discussing pranks, which seemed a little unreasonable.
Looking at this little chef is very kind, but I didn't expect it to be crooked. Good! Take this opportunity to subdue the two of them, I want to stand up, and if I don't fight back, I can't fight back, and the tiger won't be able to do it when I'm a little chicken.
I was about to go out, who knew that Cao Yuan was back, he walked leisurely, holding a two-pot wine bottle in his hand, came to me and grinned: "Didn't sleep?" ”
I looked at him with a cold face, and my heart turned a hundred and eighty thoughts, thinking about how to him, and I wanted him to be convinced.
Cao Yuan burped: "Take a bath?" ”
"What's that? Bathe? I was stunned, and then I became furious: "Take Nima's bath." ”
Cao Yuan smiled: "No, no, no." "It's like a repeater. I was so angry that I was about to throw out all the flowers in my hand, when Cao Yuan suddenly raised his hand and smashed it with the two-pot head liquor bottle in his hand.
The bottle was extremely thick, with very hard obtuse angles, and it was hitting my head, and I had a headache and passed out.
I don't know how long later, I opened my eyes in a daze and found myself in a bathhouse. This bathhouse is a typical small northeastern bathhouse, with tiled floors, four sprinklers, and a hot tub in the corner of the wall, in which steaming heat.
I rubbed my head, a little confused. We have a bathhouse in the forest farm, which supplies hot water 24 hours a day, but this water is the groundwater in the mountains, and it is not ash on the body, and it is not clean, so we rarely use this hall to bathe, unless it is dirty.
At this moment, this small bathhouse in front of me is not a bathhouse in the forest farm, I have never been here.