I couldn't find the way, I didn't care about the firewood and grass thorns through the thorns, so it was not far, only a few tens of zhang away, and after paying the price of being scratched a few small holes, I finally reached the ravine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoSure enough, there was a stream and water, listening to the sound of flowing water like fairy music, I almost stretched out my hand in my throat, I flew over, brushed away the firewood and grass, and lay down at the water's edge, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, a burst of cattle drink, and poured a belly round first.

Although it was just a clear mountain stream, after drinking enough, it also made me feel a lot more energetic from the heat. I didn't dare to slack off, looked at a stone slab in the stream, gently opened it, sure enough, there was a stock, and it was a twin goods, a large and a small two crabs were caught by my hands, I unconsciously swallowed saliva, peeled off the crab shell, cleaned it in the stream, broke off its big pincers and small feet and stuffed it into the mouth.

I don't eat less raw crabs, we eat a few raw every summer. The old people say that eating crabs raw can prevent nosebleeds, but they can't eat more, crabs are cold, and eating too much raw is hindered by the body, which is easy to cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The raw crab is not unpalatable, a little fishy and salty, except for the big pincers that are hard and some broken teeth, the taste is not bad.

In addition to the two crabs hooking out the slander worms, the corners of the stomach were not filled, I rummaged and caught more than a dozen crabs of all sizes. I just wanted to fill my stomach at this time, and I didn't care if I could eat more, but the "cricket" bite finally suppressed the hunger.

I argued the direction and went all the way down the mountain stream, thinking that I should not be afraid of getting lost now, and I would definitely be able to get out.

I was right, I walked down the winding stream, and after walking about two miles, I saw a mountain road, and when I went up the mountain road, I turned a hillside, and a small mountain village with more than a dozen families came into view. I was overjoyed and walked briskly towards the small mountain village.

It was noon, the sun was blazing, and there were no people in the outdoor part of the mountain village. Before entering the entrance of the village, a big yellow dog burst out of the adjacent yard and barked at me, which caused a chain reaction, and the whole village had dogs barking, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight dogs of different colors gathered together and stared at me, a stranger.

Most of the dogs in the mountains will drive the mountain, smart and arrogant, fierce temperament, one or two I am not afraid, these seven or eight together, the combat effectiveness is extraordinary, even the fierce wild boar will run away. I hurriedly pulled a three- or four-foot-long wooden stick from the pile of firewood by the roadside, and hesitated for a moment.

"The plague is called death and soul, and it is impossible to sleep well even after a noisy nap." There was a shout from the room, and then a thin old man with a bare body came out, staring at me with slightly cloudy eyes, and asked tentatively, "Which one are you looking for?" ”

I quickly replied, "Daddy, I don't want to look for one, I just want to ask for directions." How far is it from you to Yangdong Street? How to go? ”

"Go to Yangdong? Walking along the main road all the way, you have to go more than 20 miles, so you have to walk. ”

Twenty miles? So far? I was taken aback. I remember that I only had a few miles from the hospital to the Shengli Reservoir, and the mountain road would never exceed seven or eight miles, so why was this detour so far?

Seeing that I was stunned, the old man stared at me suspiciously: "Listen to the accent, you are not from the local, where did you make this appearance, and you don't even recognize the road?" ”

I looked down at my mud-stained clothes and trousers, which were no longer visible, and although I had just hastily wiped my face in the stream, I am afraid that I had not washed it, and although there was no mirror, I could not see my embarrassed dirty appearance, but I could imagine it. My face was hot, and I lowered my head in embarrassment.

We have a very mixed accent here, three counties are next to each other, the real ten miles of different sounds, the old man naturally heard that I am not local, I paused for a moment, raised my head and replied: "I am not local, yesterday I played with my classmates in the Shengli Reservoir, and then I got lost when I separated from them, and I went around the mountains all night, and I just turned out." I've never been here before, and I don't know the way, so I wanted to ask for directions. ”

"What? You're coming from the Victory Reservoir? Doesn't that have to go through the woods from Mao'er Ridge? Turned all night! My God, how can you turn it around as a small man? You look like you're still hurt, can't it be that something happened? ”

I looked at this kind old man with deep wrinkles on his face, hesitating how to answer, the old man also looked at me, paused, stretched out his slap and slapped it on his forehead and said: "You see I'm really a person who is going to die, man, come, come into the house and rest, you said that you got lost in the mountains yesterday and turned to the present, then you must have not eaten, I'm afraid you have been hungry for a long time, my old man has no vegetables at home, and there is still a meal for you." ”

As he spoke, he took my hand and walked into the house.

To be honest, it's okay not to mention eating, but I'm hungry when I mention it. Those dozen or so raw crabs can only temporarily suppress hunger, and they can't resist it at all, not to mention their dirty appearance like a mud monkey, living like a small flower, it really doesn't look like it, and it really should be washed. Looking at the old man's sincere and kind appearance, although I was extremely embarrassed, I didn't push back, and let his big thin hand lead me into the house.

The old man raised his foot and kicked the nearest big yellow dog away, and shouted, "When the dead dog gets up, there is no good guy or bad man, and he knows how to bark all day long." ”

The dogs seemed to understand his scolding, and they all closed their mouths and drooped their heads, and only the big yellow dog sniffed and followed us, and wagged its tail as if to please me when he turned his head to look at me.

As soon as I entered the house, I smelled a strong medicinal fragrance, and when I saw a lot of herbs hanging on the wall, I guessed that the old man might be a Langzhong. The old man took out a bath towel, put the footbasin on the steps at the back of the house, scooped a basin of warm water from the potbelly pot on the stove, and asked me to take a bath first, and rub my dirty clothes and pants at will. It's sunny outside, and it won't take an hour to dry. He washed rice and lit the fire with his hands and feet, and cooked for me.

My heart is warm, and I won't say anything other than saying, "Daddy, your old man is so good" and "Trouble Daddy". I looked around, there was a hill behind the house, but I didn't have to worry about being looked naked, I stripped myself naked in three or two clicks, sat in the footbasin and scrubbed my own mud and sweat stains, and the big yellow dog lay down on the side, and seemed to be staring at me curiously.

The old man came to take a look, and saw that the water in the footbasin was as dirty as ditch water, and brought a bucket of water for me to wash again, and then brought a pair of big pants for me to change, which made me warm and embarrassed, but there was no one else in the house, so I quickly poured out the sewage and washed it again with clean water, and finally it was refreshing.

Put on the old man's coarse cloth trousers, take out the contents of his dirty clothes and put them away, then stuff them into a bucket, and go to the stream outside the door to wash them shirtless.

By the time I had dried my clothes and carried the empty bucket into the door, the old man had already prepared the meal, and at this point, I was no longer polite, and I pretended to eat and ate a lot.

This meal is the most fragrant meal I have eaten in my life, three bowls of snow-white rice and a bowl of fried bacon with green chili peppers, which were swept away by me in an instant.

The old man said that he had eaten, sat on the side and watched me eat, smiling and smiling with a kind face, and did not speak, until I finished eating, he smiled and asked me: "Son, I have also eaten, you tell me the truth with my father, did you run out of anger with my grandmother?" Look at you, you should be more than ten years old, you should be a sensible man, there are thousands of mistakes, there is nothing wrong with the grandmother, whether you beat or scold, you all hope that your children will be good people, but you don't dare to run out and not return home. If you don't return overnight, your grandmother may be in a hurry! Tell Daddy where you live and I'll take you home later, okay? ”

I was stunned by him, he was treating me as a naughty ghost who ran away from home with my grandmother, this misunderstanding is ridiculously bad. I hiccuped and quickly explained: "Daddy, you misunderstood, my home is in Sangong Bridge, hundreds of miles away from Yangdong!" I don't want to coax you, I came to play with my classmates at her brother's house in the county people's hospital, yesterday afternoon on the mountain on the other side of the Shengli Reservoir, we got separated, and couldn't find the way, so I walked around in the forest for most of the night, and then came to Hujiachong, just now I came down from Hujiachong along the ravine and the river.

The old man Huo Di stood up, interrupted me and said, "Wait, you said you rushed down from the Hu family?" You are a foreigner, how do you know Hu Jiachong? Which tells you? ”

I burped again, looked at the nervous old man, and choked: I couldn't explain it.

"Son, this is no joke! Tell Daddy, you really rushed down from the Hu family? Then tell me what Hu Jiachong is like? Where have you come across anything? ”

I was relieved, so I told him the main points from the time I heard the singing to the time I woke up this morning. The old man listened to me with a solemn face, and after staring at me for a long time, he examined the wound at the back of my head, sighed, and stood on the small bench without saying a word for a long time.

I pretended to be stupid and asked, "I was looking for someone to ask, obviously last night it was singing and worshipping, it was very lively, but I came out in the morning and searched all over the village and saw no one, and those houses have obviously been deserted for a long time, and no one lives in them for a long time, could it be that I had a dream or they are ghosts at all?" ”

The old man didn't answer, he was silent for a while, then stood up again and said to me solemnly: "Son, in fact, I should have seen it earlier, but unfortunately I am old and blind, don't find that you are not an ordinary person." It's certainly not as simple as you say, don't hide it from me, tell me the truth, maybe I can help you! ”