Chapter 35: Secrets
Chen Ni shook her hanging head with a pale face, and turned back without saying a word, her thin figure like a telephone pole under the direct light of the snow-white flashlight. The corners of Wang Zhen's mouth curved, and he threw a meaningful look at me, and I naturally guessed where he wanted to go, and waved his hand at him impatiently.
Black Bear wanted to ask Uncle Leng about other things, but the other party's face was pale, his face was tired, and his upper and lower eyelids were glued together. Before he could finish his sentence, the other party was already leaning against the tree and snoring. The black bear frowned, stood up and said, "Let's all go to sleep, there is a task tomorrow." Biaozi, you go and find out if there are any extra sleeping bags. ”
When I returned to the snow cave, Wang Linshuo was rubbing his sleepy eyes and asking me what was wrong, while Zhang Siyuan was still asleep with his mouth open. I gave a brief explanation, shivered back into my sleeping bag, covered my head, and said, "Don't call me until dawn." ”
In retrospect, this night was one of the few peaceful nights. The stone in my heart about Uncle Lu was temporarily put down, and the pain and exhaustion in my body did not make me think cranky at all, and in the second half of the night, my sleep quality was surprisingly high, and I didn't even have a dream, and when I opened my eyes again, it was already full of light.
There was a snoring sound in his ears, and in front of him was the wrinkled sleeping faces of the three men. I struggled to sit up, staring at the sun-stained golden mouth of the snow cave, slightly surprised, and put on my clothes and put on my coat and bent down to get out of the snow cave.
The black bear was leaning against a tree in a silent daze, his eyes hollow, looking like he was staring at the snow but not focused. I became worried again and snapped my fingers tentatively. He jerked his head up, his eyes glazed over to bright, and he grinned and nodded at me. I looked around and wondered, "Could it be that they are still sleeping?" It's almost eight o'clock today. ”
He smiled: "I never had a good night's sleep a few days ago, so I just had a good rest today." I see that your hands and feet are weak and your faces are pale, and I am afraid that you will faint on the way. You help me find compressed biscuits, and I'll call them up. ”
I groaned and started rummaging through my backpack. The black bear walked to the middle of the clearing, clapped his hands vigorously and shouted, "Get up and work for me!" ”
He blew his beard and stared at him very much like an instructor during military training, and if he stuffed a whistle into his mouth, I was afraid that the group of people in the cave would rush out and stand in front of him to rest for a while. The snow cave, which had just been filled with low snoring, was now in a mess, and it was the sound of Suo Suo getting dressed and folding his sleeping bag. I threw the compressed biscuits on the ground, walked to the entrance of the cave and said to Zhang Siyuan, who was sitting and yawning: "Everyone get up and move bricks." ”
Zhang Siyuan drooped his head, and his voice was full of sleepiness: "The contractor is always in arrears of wages, and he can't afford it." ”
Wang Zhen said while folding the sleeping bag: "You slept the deepest last night, like a dead pig, no one outside heard it, and now you still have the face to say sleepy." ”
Zhang Siyuan's eyes widened, he looked at him incredulously, and said in surprise: "Impossible! My vigilance wouldn't be so low. You must be making fun of me, aren't you, Ershuo? ”
Wang Linshuo shook his head with a smile: "Your vigilance is so low. All three of us were woken up last night, and they even went out to talk to the man for a while. And you, saliva is running down the pillow. ”
Zhang Siyuan tilted his head and frowned, glanced at me and peeked at his pillow, and there was indeed a big watermark on it. I couldn't help but laugh, and pulled him out of the bed and said, "Don't you come out and take a look?" ”
Biaozi and the others were really afraid of the black bear, the instructor, and they were already dressed up and busy. Uncle Leng and the black bear stood side by side, pointing to the map and talking to each other. I pointed at Uncle Leng and said, "He is from Uncle Lu's side, he was separated from the team a few days ago, and he accidentally ran to our camp on the way to find the team." You couldn't have heard such a loud conversation outside last night, did you? ”
Zhang Siyuan scratched his head and said with an embarrassed smile: "Maybe my ears haven't been pulled out for too long, and they are a little tightly blocked." ”
As he spoke, he walked up to introduce himself, and Uncle Leng nodded and smiled. I saw that Uncle Leng's face was still very haggard, and the two dark circles under his eyes were almost hanging down to his chin, and I couldn't help but smack my lips and say, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" ”
He sighed: "It's not that I didn't sleep well, it's that I didn't sleep enough." You try to go a few days and nights without sleep, and you'll know what it's like. ”
After eating the dry, hard compressed biscuits, we continued on our way. This time, because of Uncle Leng's guidance, the journey was much easier, and we easily bypassed one fork in the road, passed through the hard rock-like ice, dodged the snow nests that could trap people in, and accelerated all the way.
When he was about to take a break at noon, Uncle Leng, who had been pointing with the black bear with a map, suddenly stood up, pretended to be casual and walked over and asked casually: "I have a stomachache, you go with me to have a gong, it's not safe here, let's take care of each other." ”
I felt a little strange, but I nodded and stood up. He walked a hundred meters, went around to a tree, squatted down without taking off his pants, and said, "I'm just making a show, don't make a noise." ”
I nodded blankly, he glanced around vigilantly, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Lu specially asked me to let me tell you this, you have to remember it." You've seen a roast chicken bag on the road, and at the bottom of it is a plastic shackle with a few letters written in a marker: bckal. ”
My heart trembled violently, I raised my head suddenly, stared at him with wide eyes, and said hurriedly: "I guessed for a long time and didn't guess it, what does it mean?" ”
He made a shushing motion, glanced back and squeezed his eyes, and said, "Be quiet!" You've been to college anyway, why don't you even know this word? Isn't this what black means, Uncle Lu told you to be careful of black bears. ”
My facial features squeezed together, tilted my head and glared, "You, are you sure this is an English word?" Black is spelled like this: b-l-a-c-k! Uncle Lu's guy definitely doesn't know English, and said, who made this bad move! ”
He smiled awkwardly: "Your Uncle Leng's English is not good...... he suddenly changed his words, "Uncle Lu said that the black bear has a criminal record, let you pay attention." But he didn't say what it was, and when I asked him he was just prevaricating me."
My angry nose is crooked, this old fox's favorite thing is to only talk halfway, he thinks he guesses the lantern riddle? I said angrily, "I see, do you have anything else to say?" ”
Uncle Leng glanced back vigilantly again, stood up and whispered while pretending to lift his pants: "He said that you should pay attention to find a huge tree, saying that there is a treasure on it." ”
It's good that he didn't mention this, but when I mentioned it, I was shocked and angry, and I couldn't wait to grab Uncle Lu who didn't know where he was, and tie him to a tree to question him. I sneaked my hand at the diary in my arms, suppressed my frantic heartbeat, took a deep breath and nodded, and took the lead in turning my head in the direction of the black bear.
Zhang Siyuan glanced at Uncle Leng and said with a smile: "You are careful of hemorrhoids, you can't squat in the pit for so long." ”
Uncle Leng laughed a few times, and Zhang Siyuan grabbed my sleeve again and started talking nonsense. I wasn't in the mood to tease them, saying that my stomach was upset, and I sat alone on the side, my heart was turbulent, and I didn't have time to worry about whether I would be seen out.
For the rest of the journey, I was so preoccupied that I followed the group alone with my head bowed. I don't know if it's the same reason for the fall of the world, but I found out that Xiaofei's mood seems to be very bad, hiding at the end without saying a word, and his face has been ugly. In the morning, I always gaged with them, and I didn't pay attention to him without the slightest sense of presence.
I hesitated, but walked over anyway. Dumbo seemed to be immersed in his own world, startled by my sudden appearance. He patted his chest with a long sigh of relief and said, "Why do you walk without making a sound?" ”
I replied, "Why do you keep a little distance from the team?" Did you know it's dangerous? ”
A flash of panic flashed in Xiao Fei's eyes, his face changed, and he pretended to be calm: "No, it's okay, I have a gun." ”
I sneered: "You think you can use it with a gun?" How you fainted before now we don't know. ”
The red on his face gradually faded, like the tide receding, his eyes flickered, his eyebrows squeezed into the middle, and he said incoherently: "I, I don't know, I ......"
I saw that he looked frightened, and when he spoke, his eyes kept staring directly at the black bear and Lao Fan beside him, with both fear and resentment in his eyes. At this time, five words suddenly flashed through my mind: black bear has a criminal record. My heart felt like someone had kicked me, and cold sweat broke out, and goosebumps stood up.
Could it be that the person who killed Lao Liu was a black bear?
No, it can't be, I shook my head vigorously. It can't be him, I can see the anger and anxiety in his eyes, maybe Xiao Fei is staring at Lao Fan. As I was thinking, I was suddenly slapped on the shoulder, my muscles tightened, and I turned around sharply to bump into a smiling face.
Wang Zhenhu stared at the two of us suspiciously: "Sneaky, what are you doing?" Why are you scared like this when I pat you? ”
I squeezed out a smile and prevaricated: "It's nothing, I see that he is unhappy, and I want to come over to enlighten him." ”
Wang Zhen pouted: "Don't lie to me, I think the person who is more unhappy is you." ”