Chapter 40: Yi Lin
To be honest, it's better not to sleep well in the car.
I have to wake up every few minutes, and the more I sleep like this, the more tired I feel.
But fortunately, the symptoms of nosebleeds have improved, and after closing my eyes and resting for a while, I feel that the nosebleeds have stopped, but the amount of water that flows out of front alone scares the old prostitute a lot.
"Brother Shen, it's not that I said something frustrating, you better go to the hospital and have a look" The old prostitute said, raised her head and glanced in the rearview mirror, and found that Qibao threw a napkin soaked with nosebleeds out of the window again, and her voice trembled: "This excessive blood loss is not a trivial matter, we don't dare to be strong"
"Drive with peace of mind, how long will it take to get there?" Shippo replied on my behalf.
"About two hours, the main thing is that now it's a mountain"
Before the old prostitute could finish speaking, the jeep rattled and shook so much that we almost flew up.
When the car condition stabilized a little, the old prostitute continued: "Now I am walking on a mountain road, so it is a waste of time to twist and turn, so I will try to drive as fast as possible." ”
"Dude, this time it's really bothering you"
Hearing this, the old prostitute looked a little displeased: "You are welcome, Qibao's brother is my brother, and I will be angry if I am polite." ”
"My brother still settles accounts." I smiled and said, "Your relationship with Qibao is calculated separately, I owe you a favor, and you can use my place in the future to speak." ”
"It's a lot to say that." The old prostitute sighed, shook her head, and changed the topic: "Longshan is a very evil place, I don't know what you are doing, I want to play in Hunan, there are many good places, I have to go to Longshan"
I have to say that when I heard Lao Yan, a local, mention Longshan, Qibao and I became curious.
"What's wrong?" Qibao leaned forward and asked with great interest, "Do you know the inside story?" ”
The old prostitute was silent for a while, as if she was thinking about something, and her expression was obviously a little afraid.
"Say it." Qibao handed him a cigarette and lit it for him by the way, seemingly becoming more and more curious: "When the sky falls, your brother Bao helps you carry it, what is the matter?" ”
The old prostitute took two puffs of cigarette, calmed down a little, and whispered to us: "I went to Longshan a few years ago, and I went to play with friends at that time."
"In the mountains?" I asked quietly.
The old prostitute didn't speak, but looked at me in the rearview mirror and nodded.
"What did you encounter?" Qibao also seemed to realize something, and asked more curiously.
The corners of the old prostitute's mouth twitched, and the fear in her eyes became more and more obvious, and she whispered.
Corpse.
"Started bragging to me again?" Qibao was stunned for a moment, then laughed and patted the old prostitute on the shoulder: "If you meet a zombie, will you still be able to come back alive?" ”
"That's a zombie being chased away!" The old prostitute whispered, her tone very excited: "We met them halfway up the mountain!" There are three of them! The gentleman in the lead is beating gongs and drums to drive the corpse! ”
"How do you know it's a zombie?" I asked rhetorically, and said quietly: "I heard others say that if there are people selling drugs in Xiangxi, they are also relying on living people pretending to be zombies to drive away, could it be that you are mistaken?" ”
The old prostitute said with certainty that he would not be mistaken, and if he was wrong, he would rather poke himself in the eyes.
"Can a living person jump two meters high?" The old prostitute asked: "The knees are not bent, the legs are together, and I don't even have the action to jump, and I can jump on the fort in one step." ”
Hearing this, Shippo looked at me, but didn't ask anything more.
"Who is the man who drove the corpse? Do you see clearly? ”
"Invisible." The old prostitute shook her head: "I can only see a vague back, he is driving away the corpse while shouting at the living to avoid, listening to the voice should be an old man." ”
Speaking of this, the old prostitute didn't continue to talk, smoked a cigarette and drove the car, and fell silent.
Qibao leaned back and asked me quietly, do you think it will be him, the corpse chaser that the old prostitute said?
"It's the same old man, it's the same corpse, it's the same in Longshan," Qibao muttered, "Wouldn't this be too coincidental?" ”
"I don't know." I shook my head and whispered, "I'll ask when we meet." ”
The mountain road is very bumpy.
In particular, the winding mountain road near Yongsan is simply indescribably rotten, and the jeep with a very high chassis can drive a tractor all the way over.
We sat in the car and chatted, basically in a stuttering way, sometimes repeating a word several times, and biting our tongues if we were not careful.
After enduring it for more than an hour, the condition of the car stabilized, and the rotten potholes on the road disappeared.
"No wonder someone drove the corpse, what a fuck" Qibao smoked a cigarette, rubbed the bag that was knocked out of his head, and scolded and said: "Just this way, if you dare to let the car transport the corpse, you have to break people upside down!" ”
"Make do with it." I sighed: "We'll meet in a moment, and we'll talk a little bit." ”
"I'm not stupid."
Qibao smiled bitterly, turned his head sideways, glanced out of the car window a few times, and couldn't help but sigh.
It's so poor.
According to the old man's instructions, we drove all the way over, and the location at this time should be near Yi Daxishen's house.
Poor, that's really poor.
This place should be located outside the suburbs of Yongshan, and there are rows of old houses on the side of the road, much like the common rural house type, but the decoration is better, all of them are self-built small buildings.
The further you leaned to the side, the more dilapidated the house became.
Before he came, the old man said that Yi Daxishen's family lived next to a big banyan tree, which was the only banyan tree in the vicinity, so it was absolutely conspicuous, no different from road signs.
After driving a little way inside, I saw the banyan tree that the old man had mentioned, and the three worst and most dilapidated houses.
This is no exaggeration.
Looking at it all the way, only the houses of these three can be described as dilapidated, and I can't bear to see it.
"The one in the middle is Yi Daxi's family?" Shippo asked me tentatively.
When the old man told me the specific location, Qibao was listening to it, so when I saw this big banyan tree, I immediately knew that the destination had arrived.
"I should," I said, feeling a little unreal.
In this part of Xiangxi, Yi Daxi God is definitely the old leader of the sky, if he dares to admit the second, then no one dares to recognize the first.
To put it bluntly, his status in Xiangxi is similar to that of the old man in Sichuan.
Like such a powerful character, it must be easy to make money, but this doesn't look right.
If Yi Daxi was really that rich, he would definitely not live in such a place.
I don't believe that he came to experience the suffering of the people, which is obviously really poor
Soon, the old prostitute drove the car under the banyan tree and stopped against the side of the road.
"You wait in the car, we'll be out in a moment." Qibao said, picking up the cigarettes and alcohol he had prepared in advance, pulling open the car door and jumping in.
I didn't hesitate and got out of the car after that, but I was still a little nervous, after all, this was a door-to-door request for an errand, and I really didn't have this kind of experience
Walking outside the gate with Shippo, I raised my hand and hesitated for a while, but finally I had the courage to knock lightly on the door.
After a while, footsteps could be heard in the courtyard, until they stopped behind the door.
"Who are you looking for?"
The person who questioned him was a child, and he could hear it just by hearing, and he was no more than seven or eight years old.
"Let's find Yi Daxi God!" Shippo said first.
Knowing this, the boy groaned and cautiously opened the door, but did not mean to let us in, only opened a crack.
Through the gap, I could only see his eyes.
It was a pair of very clear eyes, but there was a strange smell in the eyes.
"Yi Daxi is not at home, he went out with Uncle Fat to run errands, you should wait first." The child whispered, his right hand tightly tugging on the doorknob: "It's not that I don't let you in, it's that Yi Daxi God said, don't let outsiders enter the house casually, for fear that you will be angry." ”
"Rush?" Qibao was stunned: "What's it?" ”
Due to the angle, I couldn't see the situation in the courtyard clearly, but I could see it clearly.
In the right corner of the courtyard of Yi Daxishen's house, a kerosene lamp is lit, and something similar to a spirit flag is inserted on the ground, which looks extremely eye-catching.
Is this the practice still
"What's your name, I haven't seen you before." The kid asked me, a little wary in his eyes.
I thought about it, took a piece of chocolate out of my pocket, passed it through the crack in the door, and handed it to him.
"My name is Shen Shi'an, I am from Sichuan, and my grandfather and Yi Daxi are old friends." As I spoke, I asked curiously, "Are you a child of Yi Daxi's family?" ”
"The Sichuan people seem to have a bit of an impression," he muttered, like a little adult, and his expression was very serious.
As he spoke, he looked at us a few more times, as if to make sure there was no threat, and then smiled.
"Yi Daxi God is my grandfather, my name is Yi Lin!"