"I can't see it," Song Lao Liu first responded, then turned his head to look at me and said, "I just think, you don't look like you're engaged in geology, how can you do geology and still have a piano?" ”

He's talking about the guitar bag I've got on my back.

I smiled at him, "Don't I look like a geology person?" ”

Song Lao Liu nodded: "Not like that." ”

I asked him, "What do you think I look like?" ”

He said, "I'm looking for a baby." ”

As soon as these words came out, my heart suddenly chuckled, Senior Brother Geng and I glanced at each other, and asked Song Lao Liu: "Looking for a baby?" Anyone else has been here before us? ”

"It's the first four or five years," Song Lao Liu said while thinking: "At that time, a group of people also came, saying that they went into the mountains to find some treasure, hey, what kind of treasure they were looking for, isn't it just a group of tomb robbers." That time, it was also the mountain I led them into, and they seemed to have ...... Seven or eight people, these people went into the mountain together, and finally came back one. I tell you, there's something strange in the woods. ”

Senior Brother Geng asked him, "Do you remember what the person who came out looked like?" ”

Song Lao Liu shook his head: "Then how can I remember, it was a few years ago, I just remember that it was a man in his thirties." After he left the mountain, he stayed in the village for one night, and I asked him, what about the others? He said he left early, he was tired and wanted to rest for the night before leaving. You say this is not a lie, my family lives on the side of the mountain pass, and I can't see the people who come out? Hehe, I guess those few must have been folded in the mountains. ”

Speaking of this, Song Lao Liu raised his chin at Xian'er and Luo Fei, and then said: "You said that you will enter the mountain when you enter the mountain, and you will bring two little girls, if you can't get out, don't you blame the pity of panic?" There's something unclean in this mountain. Alas, that's what I said, we have talked about it before, whether this thing works out or not, the money has to be given to me. ”

Dawei interjected next to him: "Fellow, look at what you said, it's like there's something in the mountains." We have to believe in science, anything that is not clean, it's all old superstition. We are engaged in geology, don't look at them as girls, they are deeply educated. ”

Song Lao Liu glanced at Dawei and muttered, "Do you believe it or not?" While entering the entrance of the village.

We didn't dare to stay in the village for too long, for fear that the locals would become suspicious, so we went to Song Lao Liu's house and took two bags of dry food and followed him into the mountains.

Before leaving, Song Lao Liu also brought his nephew Song Zhong.

Song Zhong, sending him to the end, sounds like a very unlucky name, but Song Lao Liu said that the reason why his nephew took such a name was because he had attracted evil and lost his soul when he was a child, and he gave such a name to keep him safe.

A half-dead name can keep you safe? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing.

Speaking of which, there was no way for Song Lao Liu to take Song Zhong into the mountain, and after leaving the village, we had to walk the mountain road for two whole days to reach the destination. When the time comes, we will continue to go deeper, Song Lao Liu will return along the same road, the forest is full of dangers, and it is indeed not safe for an old man like him to travel alone.

Song Zhongren is very burly, but there seems to be some problems with his head, when we talk to him, he doesn't respond for a long time, and even if he responds, it's simply "um, ah", and I've never seen him say a complete sentence.

Along the way, Song Zhong has been following Song Lao Liu, and he will do whatever Song Lao Liu asks him to do, but it can be seen that Song Lao Liu is not good to him, every time he tells him, he yells and scolds, and sometimes beats Song Zhong with a tree stick, every time Song Zhong is beaten by him screaming, but he has never fought back.

Once I saw Song Lao Liu beating Song Zhong again for no reason, I couldn't look at it, so I snatched the branch from Song Lao Liu's hand and asked, "Old Song, what are you doing here?" ”

Song Lao Liu was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, "Alas, I didn't hit him, it was something attached to him." I don't want to hit him, but this kid, if he doesn't beat him for a while, he's going to hurt people! ”

Something attached to the body? I opened my eyes to see that Song Zhong didn't have anything on him at all.

can look at Song Lao Liu's appearance, but it doesn't look like he is lying.

I asked Song Lao Liu: "Who told you that he had something on him?" ”

Song Lao Liu said: "It's Xiqing's mother who said it, oh, Xiqing is the eldest nephew of the village chief, and his mother is our god-in-law, but it works, what she said is accurate." ”

When I was talking to Song Lao Liu, Dawei and Senior Brother Geng threw worried glances at me at the same time.

I know what they're worried about.

At that time, I really wanted to tell Song Lao Liu that Song Zhong had nothing on him, and the goddess in their village was simply a charlatan. But I can't say that, this time we're operating in secret, and we can't let anyone know who we are.

I threw the branch aside, sighed, and said to Song Lao Liu: "Do you know that it is illegal for you to beat people like this." ”

After speaking, I glanced at Song Zhong, and he looked at me expressionlessly, without gratitude or other feelings. I sighed and walked on.

After this incident, although Song Lao Liu would still beat Song Zhong, he finally restrained a little.

Since entering the forest, Xian'er's mood has become very good, we are all cautious forward, but she always breaks away from the team, walking around alone, and has a relaxed expression, as if she has returned home.

I asked Xian'er if she had lived in this place before, and Xian'er shook her head and said no, and told me that this place was very similar to the old forest in the Northeast in summer.

Song Lao Liu told me that in the past two years, few people have gone into the mountains to hunt, so that there are more and more wild animals in the mountains, and even if they do not encounter unclean things, the forest is still full of dangers.

Listen to him, now the most common in the forest is wild boars, they not only move in the forest, sometimes they also run down the mountain, to the village to steal crops, the villagers for these wild boars are also a headache for a while, and later some people found that wild boars are particularly afraid of the sound of gongs, especially the wild boars in the deep mountains, as long as the gong sounds, they turn their heads and run. On the contrary, the wild boars that often sneak into the village, because they have heard too much, are not very afraid now.

In addition to wild boars, there are foxes, porcupines and wolves in the forest, and yellow deer and leopards can be seen in the early years. Song Lao Liu said, the most troublesome thing is the wolves, other beasts will not take the initiative to attack people, but the wolves will, tell us not to panic when we encounter the wolves, if you just care, the wolves will definitely catch up, you must face the wolves, don't let them see your fear.

I asked him how to deal with the wolves, and he just told me that the wolves were afraid of fire, and they were afraid of the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers, and he had firecrackers on him at that time.

After saying this, Song Lao Liu said without a head or an end: "In fact, the most terrifying thing is the fox in the mountain, in the past, the old people in the village often said that those foxes often go down the mountain to harm people after becoming a spirit." ”

Fortunately, Xian'er was not present when he said this, otherwise, I guess he would have had a nightmare that night.

Anyway, Song Lao Liu's words are right, walking in such a forest, you must always be careful.

In the evening, we rested by a small river, and David surrounded the city with pebbles, added dry wood to it, lit a fire, and propped up a stand on the fire, and placed the open cans on top of it to heat.

I sat by the fire, staring at the beating flames, when a low howl suddenly came from the woods behind me.

Song Lao Liu immediately stood up, he pulled Song Zhong to his side, and then turned to me and said, "It's the wolves." ”

As he spoke, Xian'er went into the forest like a gust of wind, Song Lao Liu looked at the direction where Xian'er left with a surprised face, and then looked at a few of us separately, he probably couldn't understand why Xian'er rushed into the forest, we didn't stop her.

It wasn't long before Xian'er returned, and the low howls of the wolves did not appear again.

Dawei looked at Xian'er, smiled, turned his head and whispered to me, "Fortunately, you brought Xian'er with you." ”

I smiled and didn't say anything.

Although I don't know what Xian'er did just now, it is certain that she drove away the wolves. She was originally a fox demon in the old forests of the Northeast and knew how to deal with these wild animals.

The canned food was roasted on the fire for a while, and soon the aroma of beef wafted out, and we took out the dry food prepared by Song Lao Liu and started to eat dinner.

I don't know when, a wild boar crept up near our camp. The first person to discover it was Liu Shangang.

At that time, Liu Shangang poked me with his elbow and whispered to me, "Brother Dao, there is something over there." ”

I looked in the direction where Liu Shangang's gaze had stayed, and there was nothing to see behind me except for a black and oppressive old forest.

I asked Liu Shangang, "What's there?" ”

Liu Shangang shook his head: "It's too dark to see clearly." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, I heard a "squeak" sound from the other side of the woods, and since the night was relatively quiet, everyone present heard the sound.

First, Liu Shangang said to me: "Since just now, it has been called like this." ”

Then, I saw Song Lao Liu take out the gong prepared in advance, and he said, "It's a wild boar." Then the gong sounded.

With a sharp sound of "dang-", the frightened cry of a wild boar was immediately heard in the forest.

It was so dark in the woods that I couldn't see which direction the boar was running, only the sound of a rapid run.

After about a few seconds, a shadow burst out of the forest, running towards Xian'er and Luo Fei.

When it was closer to the fire, I saw that it was a small wild boar, its fur was a grayish light brown, and it had dark gray patterns.

At that time, Song Lao Liu was still beating the gong, and the little wild boar seemed to be very scared, so it ran straight to Luo Fei's side, and then drilled under Luo Fei's hand, as if to find shelter.

I waved my hand at Song Lao Liu and motioned for him to stop.

He stopped immediately, but said to Luo Fei: "Hurry up and drive this little boar away, or the sow will come!" ”

As soon as the gong stopped, the little pig peeked out from under Luo Fei's arm, and then kept staring at the can on the fire.

Luo Fei smiled and said to me, "They know that we are not hunters, but they just want to get a piece of food." This little pig is very spiritual. ”

After a while, an adult wild boar came out of the forest with another little wild boar, the adult wild boar should be the mother of the little wild boar, it saw the little wild boar with us, it looked very nervous, but I don't know why, and I didn't dare to rush up, just "chirp" in the distance.

Luo Fei stood up and walked towards the big boar with the hot can, and the little boar followed closely behind her, as if it was not walking steadily.

The last time we were in Qinghai Grassland, we found that Luo Fei seemed to have a natural affinity for these animals.