Early the next morning, Yang Tiancong and I got up and prepared to leave, just about to see Xiaolan, who knew that this girl got up earlier than us, and had already packed all her luggage. I have all her pulses, there is nothing abnormal, and it should be no problem to travel long distances. Yang Tiancong and I looked at each other, and each knew what each other was thinking: Did Xiaolan sleepwalk again last night?

Aunt Yao had already prepared pancakes, boiled eggs and other dry food for us, and each brought a bottle of water, and the whole village gathered at the house of the village chief Yao to see off the three of us.

When I learned that I was going to take a shortcut, many people advised us to go back to the city first and then take the bus, but I insisted on taking the shortcut. Village Chief Yao immediately arranged for Uncle Leopard, an old hunter in the village, to escort us for a ride. Uncle Leopard is a five-guarantee household in the village, a lonely one, because of his ugly face, more than fifty years old, an old single, the village people call him "Leopard", "Old Leopard", Uncle Leopard was strong when he was young, very bold, and killed a leopard alone in the nearby forest, however, the leopard scratched his face with a claw, and left a very terrifying face, which is also the reason why he beat the single. Over the years, Uncle Leopard has been accompanied by a few dogs he raised and a homemade ** - brush cannon, ten or twenty years ago, Uncle Leopard can still hunt freely in the deep mountains, leopards, bears, he has hunted, the government can not control here, in recent years, the government has become more and more strict, he has never entered the deep mountains again, some nearby mountains occasionally have wild boars and so on to make trouble, he will also go to see. He would certainly share the meat of the prey he had hunted from house to house, and for decades, despite his frightening appearance, he was revered by the whole village.

Uncle Leopard was tough, and very politely agreed to go forward with us, put on his straw sandals, carried his long **, hung a horn tube around his waist, filled with gunpowder and iron sand, wrapped in a roll of leopard skin on his back, and called his two big dogs, one yellow and one black, to escort us.

The whole village gave us one ride after another, until we climbed a small hill and then waved away.

The sun is rising, the morning glow is all over the sky, through the dense and flaming green hills in the forest, and scattered to the nearby streams, the whole mountain path seems to flow up in a golden light, all things are bathed in this sacred light of life, sucking the essence of heaven and earth, vigorous and vigorous, standing on a rock, looking at it, the peaceful mountain village is quiet and lazy, the ploughing horn on the field is long, between heaven and earth, there are all the notes of life beating.

The stream is murmuring, the morning birds are chirping, the breeze is refreshing, the wild flowers are fragrant, the morning dew is stained, and we are all fragrant and wet, so it is a moving mountain morning! Uncle Leopard was walking in front, the two dogs were drilling around, and Xiaolan was walking in front of me and Yang Tiancong, very lively, occasionally picking a mountain flower, it was actually a human-faced mountain flower, which was very beautiful. And I walked at the end, looking around. I have always been in the city, although I have also been active in the countryside, but I have rarely been to the mountain villages, let alone shuttle through the blue sky and the mountains in the morning, and I am momentarily forgetful.

After seeing enough, I also quickened my pace, followed the team, and before I knew it, I had walked on this small mountain for most of the hour, and asked Uncle Leopard, and learned that at our speed, at noon, we could not walk out of this small mountain. After walking out of this mountain, you have to enter an old forest, and then go through a barren mountain to Harrier Ditch, through Harrier Ditch, you can walk on a big road, and you can reach Shipen Village in a short time. If you speed up your pace, you can try to get out of the harrier ditch before it gets dark.

Uncle Leopard said that the most dangerous part of this mountain road is the old forest ahead, and the blind bears infested in it have repeatedly injured people, but because the government has organized hunters to hunt many times, bears have been rare in recent years, and it is relatively safe to walk that section of the mountain road during the day. Uncle Leopard said that although dogs are afraid of bears, unless it is a Tibetan mastiff, dogs dare not come forward when they see bears, but dogs are fine, especially his two dogs can report to their owners within half a mile of the bear blind infestation. It can also remind him to be more careful. Along the way, Uncle Leopard told us about his hunting career over the years, it was really thrilling, once, Uncle Leopard went up the mountain, but a dog disappeared, he looked around, unexpectedly, when it was dark, he was targeted by a litter of hungry wolves, more than a dozen wolves had blood-red eyes, chased him a mountain forest, surrounded him on a rock, Uncle Leopard's brush cannon had already run out of ammunition, he thought he would die, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, the flower dog he lost appeared, and the flower dog took advantage of the wolves to besiege Uncle Leopard, and took away a small cub in the wolf pack, caused the wolf king to lead the wolves to rush up immediately, and Uncle Leopard escaped. The flower dog finally died in the mouth of the wolf, and Uncle Leopard had already sighed when he said this, which is why he regarded the dog as his own child for so many years.

Another time, Uncle Leopard was sleeping on a bluestone slab on the mountain, his face was licked by something uncomfortable, he thought it was his dog, and punched hard, but he heard a "roar", and he was hugged in the air by a huge force! When I opened my eyes, I was not scared half to death, a fat yellow-haired animal hugged myself tightly, I couldn't turn around, and I couldn't see what animal it was, but I suddenly heard a burst of "hahahaha" crazy laughter spread throughout the forest, laughter was like the sound of the wind, the grass and trees in the forest were swaying, Uncle Leopard suddenly understood, and he hugged himself was the "laughing bear" that was rarely seen in the deep mountains and old forests, once the laughing bear hunted a living thing, it would hold the living creature tightly in its arms, and then let out a wild laugh that was very similar to a human voice, and could laugh darkly, It's as if a person has never laughed, and he can't stop laughing. Uncle Leopard has heard people say since he was a child: If you want to live, don't wait for the blind man's laughter to fall, and aim a knife at the navel, so as not to laugh enough and have no brains. The laughing bear hunts only live creatures, and then holds the living creatures tightly in its arms and howls incessantly, much like a human laughing. However, after it laughs enough, it will smash the heavenly spirit cover of the head of the living creature with a punch, therefore, after being accidentally hugged by the laughing bear in the deep mountains and old forests, don't panic, the laughing bear generally has to laugh for ten minutes, and it is also said that it will laugh for several hours, the laughing bear generally stops the waist and hugs the human body, and then laughs at itself, if there is any hard object on the body, the knife is of course better, a knife stabs it to the navel, the laughing bear will immediately let go of the upper limbs and escape, a hard attempt to break free from the resistance is to no avail, how strong is it? Otherwise, when it has laughed enough, death will come. Uncle Leopard naturally knew it, and there was a knife on his body, and he stabbed it into the navel of the laughing bear, and the blind bear really left him and fled in panic, and Uncle Leopard's chest had been strangled almost suffocated, otherwise, if there was no knife on his body, let alone wait for the laughing bear to laugh enough and eat himself, I was afraid that when it laughed for a few hours, he would be strangled to death by it.

Listening to Uncle Leopard say this, the three of us were so fascinated by the sound that we couldn't help but be there, but Xiaolan was particularly interested, and asked: "Uncle Leopard, you always haunt the deep mountains and old forests, I heard that there are ghosts in the mountains, have you ever encountered them?" ”

Yang Tiancong and I laughed when we heard this, but we heard Uncle Leopard say: "Girl, how can there be ghosts in the mountains!" There are only wild beasts in the mountains, but wild beasts are really more terrible than ghosts! What do you say? If a person encounters a wild beast, he will be bitten to death and eaten by it on the spot, hehe, what if he encounters a ghost? Ghosts only harm people, people don't die immediately, do you say that beasts are terrible or ghosts are terrible? ”

"Well, if you say that, the beasts are more terrifying!" Xiaolan looked at us, stuck out her tongue, and continued to ask, "So, Uncle Leopard, have you ever encountered a ghost?" ”

"Yes, there is! In my life, I have encountered all kinds of strange and strange things, and I have indeed encountered 'ghosts' twice. When Uncle Leopard said this, Yang Tiancong was shocked, staring at me, very surprised.

"Hehe, Uncle Leopard, tell me quickly, I like to listen to ghost stories the most, although I don't dare to sleep alone at night, but the more scared these stories are, the more I like to listen to them!" Xiaolan pulled Uncle Leopard's placket, like a real little girl for a day.

Uncle Leopard looked solemn and said: "That was more than 20 years ago, when I was still young, vigorous, not afraid of heaven and earth, the villagers knew that I was bold, that year the town built a dam and killed and injured many people, the corpse was parked in the storage room of the production team, and no one in the township dared to go, I heard that there was some compensation, I volunteered, and kept watch for three nights in a row, the cold winter and the moon, it was very cold, my bed was not far from those corpses, I slept until midnight, and the cold was really unbearable, In a daze, I heard a guy talking to me: Hey, it's cold, isn't it? Come here, let's sleep together and keep each other warm. At that time, I was only dreaming, and suddenly woke up, and felt that someone around me had indeed spoken to me in the dream, I got up and lit the lamp to check the corpse, and I was scared: I had obviously sorted out all the corpses in advance and covered them with white cloths, but I didn't expect that on my nearest corpse, the white cloth was actually opened, and the posture of the corpse was obviously to make room for people! Thinking of what someone had said to me in a daze, I was immediately frightened. You say, people are bold, but this must be 'taken advantage of', the 'momentum' cannot be broken, once broken, no matter how bold the person is, he must be afraid, I immediately picked up my brush cannon and ran away. Halfway through, the scalp has been numb, the hair stands tall, rush home to pass a stone arch bridge, the arch bridge is a mass grave, for weekdays, I walked on the thousands of people do not blink a brow, but this heartbeat is terrible, I did not expect, just walked under the stone arch bridge, in the darkness I saw a black shadow several meters high in front of me jumping and shaking, I immediately stopped, did not dare to move forward, the black shadow continued to block the front jump, I yelled: Who? There was no sound, I was sideways, and continued to walk forward, but I didn't expect that as soon as I got together, the black shadow also walked towards me, as soon as I stopped, it also stopped, my heart was cold, thinking that this must be a ghost, that is, people often say 'the ghost of the reverse road', I pulled the brush cannon into loading, thinking that the ghost is afraid of artillery, and then a bold man, continue to walk towards the black shadow, I am together, the black shadow also walked towards me, the closer to the black shadow the higher, higher and higher, when I was about to approach me, it was as high as a city wall! I yelled, and with a bang, I shot at the black shadow, and sure enough, the black shadow disappeared instantly! I rushed home without looking back, but I didn't expect that as soon as I got home, I had a headache! It hurts, and it hurts explosively! It hurts so much that I roll in bed! The next day, he couldn't get bed, got sick, and lay in bed for half a month before he got off the ground. After I got better, I was very strange, I went to the stone arch bridge to see what was going on during the day, but I didn't expect that when I got there, I had a fucking wry smile, and the position where the black shadow haunted was obviously a big cypress tree! It turned out that the one who confused my eyes that night was actually a cypress tree, I thought there must be something wrong with this tree, and I don't know how many people who walked at night there at night, and I had a serious illness, I couldn't figure it out at the time, so I immediately found an axe to cut down the cypress tree, hey! Something strange happened! When the cypress tree is chopped, blood is gushing from the cypress tree! This strange thing spread throughout the village at that time, and if you don't believe it, just pull someone to ask if the stump of the tree I cut down is still there. ”

Hearing this, Xiaolan's face turned pale, but she was urging: "I'm so afraid, so afraid!" Uncle Leopard, there's another one, you said you bumped into a ghost twice! Uncle Leopard smiled, and just as he was about to continue, he heard Yang Tiancong say: "Okay, okay!" Uncle Leopard, this person who walks the mountain road, puts these dragon gate arrays, and listens to people's goosebumps falling off a mountain! Say something happy, hehe, one day, I'll bring you a flower sister-in-law back from the city, do you like it? You've been a bachelor all your life, and you don't want to raise a little hunter? ”

The atmosphere suddenly relaxed, everyone smiled, look at the time, it was almost noon, this small mountain was about to come out, the old forest in front of us was close in front of us, we sat down on a stone for a while, just drank a sip of water, and listened to Uncle Leopard said: "I said, the beginning of that thing, it is indeed a bit mysterious, I know you don't believe it, but, my other hellish thing, but it is genuine, and it happened in the harrier ditch on the road ahead!" ”

As soon as I heard it, I looked at Yang Tiancong, this harrier ditch we have to pass by when it is dark, I heard the village chief Yao say that the harrier ditch in the liberation war years of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China had a bloody battle here, the corpses are piled up all over the ravine, it has been rumored that the night is haunted, this leopard uncle has really seen ghosts there? Nodding at Yang Tiancong, I said, "Uncle Leopard, let's talk about it." ”

Uncle Leopard lit a dry tobacco pouch, in the smoke, his face that had been scratched by the leopard was like a grimace, he said slowly: "A few years ago, I chased a group of wild boars that trampled our crops, and the group of wild boars in our village hated to gnash their teeth, and I haven't tasted wild boar for a long time, so I chased the group of wild boars, and chased until it was dark, just chased to the harrier ditch, I took my rhubarb, wrapped in a leopard skin blanket, we hunters, we have to always 'drive more than a dozen mountains, Stay up late for three or five days', if you want to catch good goods, you have to stay up all night and wait, the group of wild boars disappeared near the harrier ditch, I waited on the ditch, they will always appear again. The sky is also dark, there are no stars, it can be said that you can't see your fingers, the wind in the ditch is flying sand and stones, I just thought, this harrier ditch is often haunted, people who walk at night have to detour, but I think, come here, and be afraid of a man! I spread the leopard skin blanket on the ground and prepared to sleep, but the ground was damp, and I saw two small earthen beams not far away, and there was a ditch in the middle, so I immediately cut down a few small trees, put the trunks between the two earthen beams, and spread the blankets, and the ground was no longer damp. At that moment, my rhubarb was digging under my crotch, and I was so agitated that my vest was cold, and I thought what was wrong? Rhubarb is usually bold and active, it is not afraid of anything except the blind bear, and at this juncture it drills straight under my crotch, not daring to stay three feet away from me, could it be, what does it see? I picked up the gun, looked around, nothing abnormal, I immediately took out the dry smoke, lit the fire, I didn't expect it, the lighter is not burning! Luckily, I also had matches with me, damn it, matches don't burn! Wipe all the matches in the box, and none of them burn! I realized, what the fuck is it! This lighter oil is full, and the matches are not damp, why is it not burning? I was in a hurry, for fear that something would come out of my back and hold me at night......

"When I was in a panic, I always lit a cigarette, which is good, the cigarette can't be lit, and I am even more panicked, so I have to lie on the bed of the trunk, fortunately, there is nothing wrong, who knows, I slept until the middle of the night, and suddenly woke up by the cry of rhubarb and a vibration under my body! When I got up and looked, I saw two small earthen beams shaking violently! It's as if there's something in the ground to crawl out! Oh my god, I couldn't sleep in this place, so I rolled up the blanket and the trunk of the tree, and immediately ran away to set up in another place. Hey, at this point, the fucking lighter is lit again! Not long after, the stars also came out! I slept until dawn, got up and looked at the two earthen beams last night, and I was scared again, and there were two monuments in front of these two earthen beams, which turned out to be the graves of the soldiers who died during the war! No wonder I can't sleep well on it! Since then, I have grown an eye when I walk at night and stay up late, and I must not hit the grave when I lay on the ground in the field, otherwise, the dead will look for trouble. This is something I have really experienced, and if I don't believe it, I'll take you there in the afternoon. ”

Hearing this, Yang Tiancong and Xiaolan have already settled down, and I am also three points shocked, is this harrier ditch really haunted? It doesn't matter where you go during the day, the key is that when you get there, the sun is about to set, and at night, it is the steep change of people, and the evil spirit prevails. As he spoke, an old forest in front of him was already rushing towards him, and Cui Dai was very oppressive.

Xiaolan said let's go first, she has to take care of it. We knew that the girl was going to find convenience, but how could we go far in the mountains, so we waited for her on the side.

After waiting for most of the day, but not seeing her come back, Yang Tiancong was anxious and shouted, but no one answered, only to hear Uncle Leopard shouting: "Here the bear is blind, shouldn't the girl be ...... Oops! The two dogs were immediately aroused, but the two dogs did not react, "No, if there are blind bears around, my two dogs would have called the police!" ”

I immediately let out a "pop" in my heart and ran into the grass ahead.