Chapter 41: Getting Started

The countryside in Yunnan is very different from ours, where the local atmosphere is strong, but the farmers are very hospitable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoWe parked the car at an uncle's house, and with a little money, we could stay for food and accommodation, and in the evening we ate farmhouse meals together at the uncle's house and chatted about the local culture.

"Uncle, what do you have to do here?"

Sister Li began to ask questions in a routine.

"There are no attractions here, if you want to play, you can go to the old town of Lijiang to see, there have been some archaeological teams or something before, but there is nothing."

"Oh, I think this is also from the deep mountains and old forests, I wonder if there will be wild beasts coming down the mountain at night?"

"No, as long as you don't walk in the woods at night, there are no jackals, and usually we carry shotguns on our backs when we go up the mountain, and we have to go in a group of at least two people."

"Is there anything else you can't go to besides the danger of the forest in the back mountain?"

"Let me tell you, there is a river behind the forest, our locals only go to the forest to hunt at most, and will not cross the river, legend has it that there are man-eating beasts on the mountains on the other side of the river, and the people who cross the river have never come back alive, so you don't go to the other side of the river, there will be nothing else to do."

"Well, thank you for the reminder."

I looked at Sister Li's expression, as if I was confident, and I saw that she meant that she had to cross the river. After dinner, Sister Li gathered us all.

"You all have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we will go directly to the other side of the river."

"Ah, didn't the old man say that there is something that eats people?"

"I studied the geographical location of the tomb before I came, and I just listened to the old man's words, which made me even more confirmed, this is not an ordinary tomb, do you think you will put the **** in the common people?"

"I'm not afraid, I'm just worried about you, whatever he eats, I will borrow two shotguns from the old man tomorrow."

"Look at this picture."

Sister Li took out a roll of paper from her pocket, it was very new.

"This is what I have sketched out of my own long research, and now the village where we are staying is here, surrounded by mountains, with dense woods on the north side of the mountain, and at the end there is a river, which is the one that the old man said. On the other side of the river is a mountain, and around that mountain there will be another big river, and along the river there will be a cave, and outside the cave is where we will go, and the tomb is there! ”

"Wow, Sister Li, what you describe is like you've experienced it yourself, it's amazing."

"Okay, the old man's words must have a reason for him, and he can't be taken lightly, everyone hurry up and go back to rest, get ready for an adventure tomorrow morning!"

It's all so scary, but it feels like we're like Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the sea and I are naturally adventurous people, and the more forbidden things are, the more curious we become.

The next day we all got up very early, for the sake of safety, like the old man borrowed two shotguns, they are located at the foot of the mountain and eat the mountain, the family usually has a shotgun at home. We put the tools in our backpacks, and it was close to March, and the weather here in Yunnan was no longer cold, and it was a bit of spring. We also set off in simple clothes. Passing through the village is the forest, we walked carefully, although there are some jackal beasts in it, but it is daytime, so we are relatively safe, most of the beasts come out at night to look for food, the forest is full of birds, there is early morning dew on the grass, the air is very fresh, we are like returning to nature.

"Catch some birds now, you must live."

"What do you do catching birds, keeping them for lunch?"

The sea looked at the birds in the forest and asked blankly.

"Catching birds is not for you to eat, when we go to the tomb, we can use birds to probe the air and corpse poison, most of the ancient tombs are sealed all year round There are some poisonous gases inside."

"OK, I know, catching birds is on me."

After saying that, the sea began to look for prey, and we stood aside to watch how the sea caught the birds. Children living in the countryside know that catching birds is not an easy task, just like catching flies with your bare hands, you just want to get close to them and fly away when you hear a hint of wind and grass, and wait until you do it. But I believe in the sea, and when I was a kid, this guy was very good at catching birds. First of all, the sea found some branches of different thicknesses, and then tied the branches into a net with small strings in the backpack. The middle is more convex, like a net bag. Then he used two forked branches to fasten the finished net to the ground, and then found a short branch and sharpened one end with a knife, and the other end was fastened to the net with a rope. Finally, I found an earthworm, stuck a branch next to the net bag as bait, tied the rope to the tip of the tree I had just made, and hid it to the side and began to wait for the birds.

After a while, some birds began to come out looking for food, and the early birds had worms, and I thought the early birds were caught. Found the earthworm on the ground, jumped to the bottom of the net, just wanted to peck, said that it was too late, that was fast, the sea pulled the rope violently, and instantly the net covered the bird, no matter how it struggled, the sharp tip of the tree had been stuck in the ground, and the blow was successful! Sister Li next to her also applauded with the sea to express her appreciation. The sea shook off Liu Haiyang proudly put the loot in his bag, and then used this method to catch three or four one after another. Almost, let's move on.

In less than two hours, we were able to reach the so-called forbidden river, and we did not encounter any wild beasts along the way. The river was not very wide, but we didn't have boats, and it would have been suspicious to borrow a boat from the village in the first place, so we planned to make a temporary contingency. In a place like the wild, what is important is the law of nature, the way of survival. But making a boat is not easy, not to mention the workmanship time, even the necessary skills we don't know.

We walked along the river, hoping to find a shallow area or a relatively easy place to cross. But after walking for a few hundred meters, it seemed that the river was the same, and it seemed that it was impossible to be opportunistic, so we had to make our own tools to cross the river. Easier said than done, the "boat" must be able to withstand the weight of the five of us.

"Why don't we make a simple raft?"

Lin Mengying took the lead in breaking the deadlock.

"You have to have an air cushion to make a raft, otherwise it will be difficult to support it."

Sister Li responded immediately.

"I think it's feasible to make a raft, first of all, there are a lot of trees in the forest, if you are worried about bad buoyancy, we can use a long rope tied to it to cross the river one by one, and in the past one is using a rope to pull the raft back, and the river is so wide."

"It's a good idea, Li Daxian either doesn't speak, and when he says it, it's a golden sentence."

They began to go into the woods to pick up the trunks, cut some branches and came back, and tied the logs together with ropes, and a simple raft gradually took shape. Finally, I tied a long rope to the raft and moved the raft to the river, the sea was the first to go up, lying on it just enough to float, and I am afraid that one more person would not be able to do it, the sea in order to maintain balance, lying on the raft, holding the plank with both hands, slowly rowing, it only took ten minutes to reach the opposite bank, and then everyone was pulling the raft back. Fortunately, there was no wind, and the raft did not have much resistance in the water. So we took turns crossing the river, and I was the last to go up, and when it came time I asked them to tie the rope to the other end of the raft, so that when the time came, I could take back the rope on this side, which was very important to us, and they pulled it over without any force myself. Because of the simplicity of the raft, most of us were wet by the river, because the weather had not yet warmed up, so we lit a bonfire to keep ourselves from catching a cold, and dried our clothes, and it was already noon, and the sun was shining directly on the shore, so we caught some fish from the river and grilled them for lunch. Just as we were happy to eat, there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching us in the grass in front of us.

"Who is it?"