Chapter 2: The Strange Village
The bottle of stuffy oil grabbed me, and I was chuckling in my heart, and my first reaction was: When did they stand there?
We live in the city, and we are used to looking at everything, and we usually don't think to pay attention to the mountains when we get here, so when I first came, I didn't have any impression of whether there were people on this hillside. If they're there early in the morning, they'll be spotted when we climb into the stilts, which is a bit of a bad thing.
And looking at the expressions of several of them, they seem to be very unkind, and they feel a little cold. It seems that in the previous black-and-white movies, the expressions of ordinary people looking at Han Jiān.
I was a little overwhelmed and stopped to look at them for a while. These people are between 40 and 50 years old, and the mountain people are generally old in the difficult life, so their actual age may be a little younger. There were two men carrying flat poles, as if they had just come down from the mountain. These people didn't make any moves, they just looked at us directly.
I'm not popular in my hometown of Changsha, and I've experienced this kind of scene before, and knowing this kind of expression means that they are very wary of us, but they are not sure who we are. It seems that we may have seen what we just did.
In the mountain villages, you must not offend the locals, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable, and you will be kicked out at least or sent directly to the police station. Changbai Mountain and his entourage were betrayed by Brother Chu, so our case records are not clean, and we don't know if we are wanted.
At this time, climb in again is to find a fight, the fat man hit a few "beep" sounds behind us, suggesting that we go quickly, don't look at them, this is a bit provocative, beware of provoking people and rushing down.
Originally, I was a thief in my heart, but at this time, my heart beat faster, and I became nervous, and I felt a pressure coming down from the mountain. But I looked at the stilted building, and I felt that I couldn't go, but I couldn't get this low-hanging fruit, just like reading a novel and seeing that the mystery was about to be revealed, but the author went around in circles, which was too uncomfortable.
I didn't move for a while, but the fat man grabbed me and whispered to me, "Come back later, it's not about a few hours." He dragged me back.
The three of us tensed up, tried to leave as naturally as possible, walked into the village, walked for a long distance before turning back, and saw that the villagers behind us did not follow, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
This scene is a bit like when I was a child, Lao Itch and I went to the orchard to steal oranges, and after stealing it, we happened to meet the owner of the orchard, and the two of us were full of oranges in their pockets, so they were so afraid that they had to pretend to pass by. The tension that keeps you from stepping your feet, and now I'm certainly not as scared as I was when I was a kid, but it's also uncomfortable, and it's kind of funny.
With the help of memory, we took a few detours and returned to Gui's house, Gui was not there, his eldest daughter was weaving a dustpan, and when she saw us, she asked why she came back so quickly. I said it was too hot to eat.
The fat man went straight back to his room and hid the iron box under the bed, and then we settled down and felt that the matter was over. The fat man said: "Eat a trench and grow wise, in the future, let's not be so anxious during the day, we have to observe the environment first." At the same time, I think we also have to check on Ah Gui, he is the head snake, we have to pull him in, and we have someone to speak for us at a critical time. ”
I said in my heart that it was useless, and he would not wade into this troubled water. Moreover, there is a reason why I am anxious, and at this point, any extraneous branches may have a butterfly effect, so it is better to be anxious or anxious.
After speaking, the fat man went out to beg for water to drink, and I remembered the photos I didn't see, and I only felt dry and warm, so I lay down and forced myself to meditate. It didn't take long to hear the fat man asking Agui's daughter, where does the mountain road behind the wooden building lead, and are there many people who usually walk? Agui's daughter said that there was a melon field in the mountains, and in summer, the watermelons were ripe, so some people often went to the mountains to pick watermelons. The old wooden building has been there for a long time, and I heard that an old woman lived there before.
I looked at the stuffy oil bottle and said old woman? Could it be that the stuffy oil bottle used to live with an old woman? His blank fifteen years were not to be imprisoned there as a slave, it would have been too tragic. Then I was surprised that I didn't know where the dirty thoughts came from, probably because I had heard too many of the fat man's Huang Sè jokes all the way.
However, before Agui's daughter said it, the time span was not clear, maybe it was earlier, or maybe it was after the stuffy oil bottle left.
After that, the fat man asked Agui's daughter about the unkempt man, and there was really such a person when he asked. This madman has been around since she was born, and I don't know who it is, and the people in the village call him "Ayu's son", as if he used to be a hunter, and he didn't know how he went crazy. This man lived in a dilapidated house in the mountains, and sometimes he was seen coming down to pick up some leftovers to eat, but now he doesn't see much of it, and he may not be able to walk very well when he is old. There was an old man who took pity on him, and would put what he had eaten in the mountain pass and cover it with a jar, and he would always move the jar away and bring back what he had eaten.
I heard it strange that the man I saw today was running like an ox, not at all like an old man, could it be that the physique of the people in our city is not as good as the old madman in the mountains?
It is indeed possible, because he is old, and he doesn't know how old he is, maybe he is only in his forties, because he has not eaten or drunk, so he looks very old, but he lives in the mountains all year round, and his physique must be different from ordinary people.
The fat man came in with a water cup and said to me: "Do you hear, it's the season to harvest watermelons, there are too many people over there, you have to calm down, this is no better than the wilderness, you can do whatever you want, instead of taking that risk, let's wait a little." I think it's best for us to wait until the second half of the night, and if we can't bear it, we will 'poop'. ”
I did the math, and my heart said no, if he was indeed a madman, then his behavior was unpredictable, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not climb back to see. It wasn't a big deal for him to climb into an abandoned old house in the village, and who knows what he would do in it. I just said that I can't wait, and I have to go around after lunch later, and if I can get in, I'll go in and take care of it.
The fat man smiled bitterly, and didn't want to talk to me more, so he said let me be.
To make a long story short, after lunch, I went to the outside of the old house with the stuffy oil bottle again, and found that under the big tree at the door, there were a few old ghosts sitting in the cool.
The difference between stories and real life is that you can always speed up the pace of the story at critical times, but real life always fucking accidents. I squatted under the tree on the side, waiting for the old men to leave, and when the oil on my head was blown, the old men chatted more and more cheerfully.
It's hard for me to describe the anxiety that stuck in my chest, and I didn't want to go back and be laughed at by the fat man, so I spent hours in a state of nervousness. The fat man came to us later, and when he saw that we hadn't come back for so long, he thought we had been caught.
At this time, I had gradually calmed down, or "hot" quiet, because the sun was shining, and the air was cháo humid and hot, and we were holding banana leaves to cool off, and we were steamed, so hot that there was no power. All those anxieties were out of the pores. I was really impressed by the stuffy oil bottle, even if it was so hot, he didn't move, he didn't see any irritability, but he was also drenched in sweat. The iceberg-like cool brother can't stop the big sun in Guangxi.
The fat man taunted me, and I didn't have the strength to refute him, he had been in běijīng for a long time, and he couldn't get used to the humidity and heat here, and it was even more uncomfortable, so he said to us: "Let's go and walk, don't wait, let's go out for a walk and find a stream, otherwise I will have to be ranciful." ”
There is a mountain stream outside the village, we have seen it when we came, it is not wide but the water is very urgent, I thought it must be a good place to escape the summer at that time, but I don't know how to walk from the village to get there.
I couldn't bear it anymore, and as soon as I heard it, I felt agreeable, so I got up and went over with three people. I asked a few villagers along the way, and the villagers showed me the way, and the fat man picked the banana leaves to block his head, scolded the sun all the way and walked out of the village.
The village and the stream are basically adjacent, the village in the mountainous area is basically built next to the stream, between the village and the stream is a stone beach, when it rains heavily, the water will overflow, these stone eggs can play a buffer role. We looked at the ridge and found that there were still many people playing in the water. It seems that the locals are not afraid of the heat either.
The water of the stream was calmer than when we saw it downstream, and when we walked to the stream, we felt a chill on our faces. Most of the people who are playing are children, and fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls do not wear underwear but only shirts, and the soaked clothes stick to the body to show a graceful figure. The fat man suddenly became energetic, took off his clothes and rushed into the stream, as if Zhu Bajie saw a spider jīng.
I felt unsightly in briefs, so I went into the water in my gym shorts, the stream was a little warm in the sun, and I walked to the cool place under the stones. The stuffy oil bottle did not go into the water, and sat under the tree on the side to enjoy the coolness.
After a while, the heat was gone, and a leisurely comfort came to the face, and the fat man was playing with the girls, and the stuffy oil bottle was dozing. I looked up at the village and could see that the stilted building of the stuffy oil bottle was not far away, which was much more comfortable than waiting at Agui's house.
It's like a candidate who is waiting in front of the wall of the list, which is a little more comfortable than waiting at home. The anxiety just now made me feel a little sorry for myself, so I told myself, don't be nervous, this time we are not inverted, nothing will happen here, there will be no zongzi, just take your time.
So I lay down, submerged myself in the water, closed my eyes, and stretched.
I don't know how long I was lying down, but when I was a little blindsided, I suddenly heard someone call me. I gradually woke up, and as soon as I sat up, the water slapped my face and knocked me awake. When I got up, I found that the children who were playing in the water had all run back to shore, screaming in one direction. The fat man threw himself at me and shouted, "Wake up! ”
I stood up, saw a place in the stockade in the distance, and there was green smoke coming up, and asked what was going on? The fat man said, "It seems that a house is on fire." ”
I looked in that direction, where the stilted building of the stuffy oil bottle was, and suddenly I thought it was not good.