Chapter 3: Exploration at Night
With the help of the faint light, everyone slowly approached the "behemoth" lying in the stream. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Fang and Li Tong walked in the front with the lamp, Uncle Wang and Uncle Guo followed closely behind, and San'er and Zhang Renshan walked in the back.
Zhang Renshan was already half-sloppy, and he stumbled step by step when he walked by this weedy stream. San'er saw Zhang Renshan walking straight and swaying, and he didn't feel funny in his heart, and thought: "Why do you say that you, the eldest young master, have to suffer this hardship with our subordinates?" ”
Zhang Renshan saw San'er there with a bad smile on his face, and he knew that he was laughed at again this time, but it was hard to say anything, after all, he was going to follow him, and the most important thing was that his feet were scratched by weeds from time to time, which hurt and itched, and he couldn't say it, so he had to swallow his anger and hold it there.
After a while, everyone cleared the roadblock grass and came to the "behemoth" that Zhang Renshan pointed out.
"Alas! No...... How could there be such a large trunk? Li Fang looked at the trunk of the tree lying in the middle of the stream and muttered.
San'er also thinks it's strange, you have to say that this stream can catch fish and shrimp, Thaksin. If you say that you will use streams to carry wood and kill him, you will not believe it.
"Let's take a closer look at this trunk." Zhang Renshan said. Zhang Renshan actually didn't see what was in the river at all, but when he heard Li Fang say that the tree trunks in the river were cut off, he put his mind down and prepared to go closer to take a look.
San'er hurriedly stopped Zhang Renshan, who was about to go to the river, and said: "Young master, this river has not been cut off yet, this water is mud, it is cold at night, and the water is even more cold and biting, so you can just let a few of our subordinates go and take a look, you are waiting on the shore, do you think it will work?" ”
"Go to the side! You think I don't know how deep this stream is! When I was a child, I ......" Zhang Renshan just wanted to say more, but saw San'er plug Zhang Renshan's mouth and whispered: "Xian'er!" Say no more".
Zhang Renshan was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and motioned for San'er to take away the gag's hand. San'er saw that Zhang Renshan understood the meaning, so he let go of his hand.
Zhang Renshan cleared his throat and said, "That's okay, I'll listen to the housekeeper's refusal, you guys take a good look at what's going on."
After San'er heard Zhang Renshan say this, he immediately beckoned Li Fang and Li Tong to go down to the stream and river to see the severed tree trunk, and asked Uncle Wang and Uncle Guo to accompany Zhang Renshan to wait by the river.
The water of the river was not yet dry, and the silt in the river was still there, so Li Fang and Li Tong had to walk one foot deep and one foot shallow to the severed wood, while San'er was holding a lamp near the shore and looking at the two people.
"Butler, this looks like the crooked-necked willow next to our courtyard wall!" Li Fang took the first step to the side of the broken wood, looked at it carefully, and said.
As soon as San'er heard Li Fang say this, he suddenly remembered that there had always been a crooked-necked willow outside the courtyard wall. While telling Li Fang and Li Tong to come back first, he continued to walk in the direction of the crooked neck willow.
Zhang Renshan also heard Li Fang's answer at the same time, and he couldn't care about the itching on his feet, so he immediately followed San'er. Uncle Wang and Uncle Guo stayed where they were to pick up Li Fang and Li Tong.
The lights flickered, and the breeze blew the barren grass by the river, and Zhang Renshan and San'er came to the weeds next to the crooked neck willow tree one after another. San'er took advantage of the light to see that a large piece of reeds that were originally one person tall had been overwhelmed, and some of the soil by the river had been brought into the river by external forces.
"Look, isn't this the root of that willow tree?" Zhang Renshan pointed to a large tree stump and said.
San'er held the lamp and looked at the broken stump twice, and suddenly felt very strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he had to look at the severed stump and be stunned.
Zhang Renshan saw San'er standing there and didn't move, thinking that San'er was scared, so he patted San'er on the shoulder and said, "Hey! Isn't it just cutting off the stump! What is there to be afraid of".
San'er was thinking about things and was startled by Zhang Renshan's shot, and when he turned his head and was about to complain about Zhang Renshan, a flash flashed in his mind, and he finally knew that something was wrong, so he asked rhetorically: "Xian'er, do you feel that something is wrong?" ”
When Zhang Renshan heard San'er ask, he looked around carefully, felt that there was nothing wrong, and scratched his head and looked at San'er suspiciously.
Seeing that Zhang Renshan didn't speak, San'er continued to ask: "You don't think this tree is ...... Is it a little strange to break? ”
Zhang Renshan looked at the half-truncated stump, then looked at San'er and said, "There's nothing strange about it!" Isn't it just a tree stump! ”
"Take a closer look!" San'er said.
Zhang Renshan really didn't know what was strange, so he shook his head and said to San'er: "Just hurry up and tell me what's wrong!" I really can't see it, so don't sell anything, let's finish it and go back early! I'm going to feed the bugs, bite me to death! ”
San'er nodded and said, "Okay! Look first at the gap where half of the stump is broken. ”
Zhang Renshan walked to the side of the tree stump and looked at it carefully, slapped his head and said, "San'er! This...... Broken stump! ”
"Hmmm! That's right! This tree is simply weird, the stump left by the fall of a normal tree will definitely be uneven or leave some broken wood chips and broken branches, but there is nothing around this stump, the most important thing is that you see that there is no gap or broken wood on this broken stump, and the whole willow tree is like being broken in two by an extremely sharp thing from here. As San'er spoke, he pointed out his suspicions to Zhang Renshan.
Zhang Renshan looked around and was stunned, how did this tree break, artificial? Providence? Or something incomprehensible.
San'er looked at Zhang Renshan silently, and knew that he was thinking about something! He stopped talking.
The barren grass brushed aside both ends, and a pair of mud feet stepped into the open space next to the willow stump, and the lights were in a trance only to hear someone shouting: "San'er housekeeper!" ”
As soon as San'er heard someone shouting at him, he looked at Li Fang and replied, "Oh! Li Fang! Is there something wrong with the trunks in the river? ”
"The butler really made you right, that trunk is really weird!" Li Fang touched the sweat on his head and said.
"What's wrong?" San'er looked at Li Fang's frightened pale face and motioned for him to sit down and speak slowly.
Li Fang casually dialed a piece of barren grassland, and regardless of whether there were snakes, rats, insects and ants, he sat on it and began to say: "Didn't you let me and Li Tong go to the river to see the broken tree!" The two of us touched the broken tree with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and it happened that there was not much water in the river these days, and it was not too difficult, and when Li Tong and I got there to take a closer look, it was the crooked neck willow outside the courtyard wall, so I discussed with Li Tong and said that I would go to the top of the tree to see, he went to the root of the tree, and after turning around, he met on the other side of the tree, so that he could hurry up! Then I walked to the top of the tree, higher and higher, and finally I went to the other side, and I realized that the whole tree had blocked the stream, and then I was ready to go to the other side of the tree to meet Li Tong, I just wanted to turn the top of the tree and found that there was no... No...... The right place. ”
Li Fang unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of spit when she said this, and Zhang Renshan hurriedly urged when she heard it: "Hurry up, what's wrong?" ”
San'er waved his hand to tell Zhang Renshan not to be too anxious, after all, normal people will be afraid of the first time if they see something they can't understand, so at this time, you must not rush to urge, and wait until the other party's mood eases up before asking slowly.
Li Fang wiped the top of her head again, I don't know if it was hot sweat or cold sweat that came out of fright, and continued: "That... That...... There are no leaves on the entire canopy of a tree, and the entire canopy of the tree looks as if it has been artificially shaved. ”
"Is this tree already dead? So the leaves have already fallen off, but we don't know," Zhang Renshan said, looking at the blurred figure of the tree trunk in the river.
San'er also felt that there was such a possibility, but when he looked at Li Fang's expression again, he felt that things were not so simple.
"Young Master, I thought so at first, but then I took a closer look at the branches on the trunk, and it turned out that the wicker on the branches was new, and the willow tree did not die at all," Li Fang said to Zhang Renshan while shaking her head.
San'er looked at Li Fang, who was sitting on the ground, and said, "Hmm! What's so strange about it? ”
"No, I saw this, so I said hello to Li Tong and came to report to you and the young master" Li Fang sat on the ground, and the whole person was a little stunned.
"Hmmm! It's weird, why don't we go back first! Zhang Renshan felt a chill in his back.
"Okay, young master, Li Fang, you go and meet Uncle Wang and them first, and the young master and I will arrive later" San'er also felt that he should go back and talk to Zhang Fengtian first, after all, he had never seen this situation at the moment and didn't know how to deal with it.
Li Fang nodded, stood up from the ground, and walked in the direction he came, San'er saw Li Fang go away, turned around and glanced at Zhang Renshan.
Zhang Renshan was standing on the stump, looking at the courtyard wall and not knowing what he was looking at, San'er waved his hand at Zhang Renshan and said, "Xian'er, go back!" The old man is still waiting for me to come back! ”。
Zhang Renshan answered, and slowly walked back behind San'er.
"San'er, guess what I thought of when I looked at the courtyard wall just now?" Zhang Renshan kicked away a stone at his feet and said.
"Hmmm! Is it possible that you still want to climb over the courtyard wall to enter! San'er turned his head sideways and looked at Zhang Renshan and said.
"It's not! I'm thinking...... If this willow tree falls into the courtyard, will something happen to you? Zhang Renshan looked at San'er, who was holding a lamp in front of him, and said.
San'er thought that Zhang Renshan was thinking about something useless again, but Zhang Renshan's words instantly made him tremble, and he secretly said in his heart: "That's right! If this tree falls into the courtyard, it will really be a big accident, and the most important thing is that the direction in which this willow tree falls into the courtyard is exactly where Zhang Renshan lives. Just thinking of this, I didn't realize that I was in a cold sweat, and at this time, I heard someone shouting in front of me: "Something's wrong!" ”。