Tenth round: Into the mountain
"Could it be Zhou Damin, if you think about it carefully, it was one of his stories that brought us here." Wu Jiao said.
"No, we didn't know each other before." Chen Bing said.
"Could that be one of us?" Wu Jiao said suddenly.
"You just said I got it." Chen Bing said angrily.
"Just kidding, no, I believe you." Xu Wu patted Chen Bing on the shoulder and said.
"yes, yes, I'll just kid, you take it seriously." Wu Jiao hurriedly said with a smile.
The result of this three-person meeting was naturally unhappy.
Early the next morning, when several people were still asleep, Zhou Damin suddenly rushed into the room and shouted: "Get up, get up, the river is flooding." ”
"Hair water is hair water, what's all the fuss." Chen Bing muttered, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Hurry up, I've rented a boat." Zhou Damin walked to Chen Bing's bedside and said loudly.
"What, ship?" Chen Bing finally reacted, and a carp jumped up after hitting it, not to mention the joy.
"How can there be water if it doesn't rain, teasing Chen Bing, right?" Xu Wu sat up and smiled.
"yes." Chen Bing looked out the window, it wasn't raining, and then fell to the bed again in disappointment.
"It didn't rain, but the power station released water." Zhou Damin said.
"You didn't lie to me?" Chen Bing sat up and said.
"Hehe, I don't lie to you, but you have to hurry, the water released from this power station is not as high as rain, and the water will run dry after a while." Zhou Damin said.
Now Chen Bing finally believed it, quickly got up and packed up his things, Xu realized that he called Wu Jiao next door, went to the front desk to settle the bill, ate some breakfast casually, and went out with his luggage.
The proprietress looked at the backs of several people and said to herself: "Strange, why did you leave all of them?" They all walked in such a hurry. ”
When a few people came to the river, they were dumbfounded, a small sand boat, which was already densely packed with people, there were one or two dozen people, and there was no place to stay.
"This is the boat you rented?" Chen Bing looked at Zhou Damin and said with a smile.
"yes." Zhou Damin was also dumbfounded.
"What do you call renting?" Chen Bing said the words you rented very seriously.
"I don't know what's going on, I called me on the boat, and I said that it would load the four of us." Zhou Damin said aggrievedly.
"Okay, okay, better than nothing." Xu Wu said.
Wu Jiao covered her mouth and smiled.
"Well, I finally don't have to walk." Chen Bing accepted the reality.
When several people came to the boat, Zhou Damin said to the boat owner angrily: "Master Zhang, what's the matter?" So many people sitting. ”
"Brother Damin, I'm sorry, they are on the way with you, so let's take them with you." The shipowner said embarrassedly.
"You're really good at business." Zhou Damin said dissatisfiedly, and the ship owner smiled.
"Brother Chen Bing, are you here too?" Said loudly in the empty crowd.
A few people turned around and saw that it was actually the second brother Xiong Daxiong, Chen Bing said in surprise: "The second brother Xiong Daxiong, why are you guys?" Then they took a closer look, and they all knew each other, and it turned out that they were all staying in the same hotel.
Xu Wu had a bad premonition and said to Dao Xiong Da: "Brother Xiong, where are you going?" ”
"Let's go to Longshan, aren't you?" Xiong Da said.
"We're going to Longshan too, so they?" Xu Wu pointed to the other person and said.
"They're the same." Then he whispered to Xu Wu: "Early this morning, we picked up a note at the door of the room, saying that the treasure map is in Longshan and there is a boat. ”
"Huh?" Xu Wu's face immediately became bad, and he secretly glanced at Zhou Damin, and found that he was chatting with a few people next to him, and he didn't find anything wrong.
Wu Jiao saw that Xu Wu's face was not good, and quietly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Someone leaked our whereabouts." Xu Wu said quietly.
Wu Jiao secretly glanced at Zhou Damin and said softly, "Could it be him?" ”
Xu Wu shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”
Chen Bing also sensed that something was wrong, so he gave full play to his social skills and chatted enthusiastically with others, hoping to find out something useful.
The speed of the sand loading boat is not fast, and it is against the water, and the river is full of dangerous shoals, so it is really not much faster than walking, almost three hours later, the boat owner called Zhou Damin over, the two muttered and didn't know what to say, because the ship's engine was very loud, and other people couldn't hear it, and after a while Zhou Damin walked back with a gloomy face, Xu Wu looked at his expression and knew that it was not a good thing, so he asked: "What's wrong?" ”
"I'm afraid we'll have to walk." Zhou Damin said.
"What? The owner of the ship wants to increase the price? Xu Wu knows that taking advantage of people's danger and raising prices on the ground is a common method used by some unscrupulous businessmen.
"Not really, the water level in the river is starting to drop." Zhou Damin looked at the river and said.
"How far are we to get there?" Xu Wu said.
"It's going to be at least an hour." Zhou Damin said.
"How far can the ship go at the current rate of water level dropping?" Xu Wu asked.
"I can't go far, this boat is rented downstream, if we wait until the river completely subsides, the boat will run aground, and we can't go back, so Master Zhang means to go to the front and let everyone get off the boat." Zhou Damin said.
"Just walk, just walk, it's just that Chen Bing's kid is afraid that he will scold his mother again." Xu Wu said with a smile.
Just in front of a more suitable place to park the boat, Master Zhang docked the boat, put out the fire, walked out of the cockpit, and said to everyone: "I'm sorry, everyone, the river has receded, the boat can't go, you can only walk." ”
"Isn't it? Isn't this river quite deep, is it going to increase the price? Chen Bing looked at the water in the river and said.
"Yes, yes, master, you are too unkind."
"That's it, you can tell me how much money to add."
"What a broken ship."
"What a hell of a place."
"!"
The whole boat was boiling, shouting and scolding, and the sound of questioning was endless.
"It's not that I don't want to go, the water will completely subside in a while, and then the ship will run aground, do you want me to spend the night in this barren mountain and wild place?" Master Zhang explained with a sad face.
This place used to be inhabited, at that time it was full of people, and there were crops everywhere, but later the mountains were closed here for forestry, and the young people went out to work, so the crops became barren mountains, and the previous mountain roads are now completely submerged in the thatch, and you can't see where the mountains are and where the roads are if you don't look carefully.
Chen Bing looked at the surrounding environment, and immediately became angry, and said, "You don't want to spend the night here, so you just leave us here for the night?" The others chimed in.
Xu Wu looked at Chen Bing and shook his head with a wry smile, and Zhou Damin hurriedly played a round: "Brothers, don't embarrass Master Zhang, what he said is the truth, there may be water in this river once in ten days and a half months, and if the boat really runs aground in a while, it will be troublesome." ”
"Let's go down, it's healthier to walk." Xu Wu said to Chen Bing, and then led Wu Jiao to take the lead and get off the boat.
Seeing that this was the only way, everyone slowly got off the boat unwillingly, looking at this barren mountain and wild place, they could only shake their heads and sigh.
In the midst of a noisy crowd, Xu Wu suddenly saw the familiar back again, and was about to step forward to say hello, Wu Jiao pulled him and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”
Xu Wu turned his head and glanced at Wu Jiao, pointed to the front and said, "Look...... Belch? What about people? ”