Chapter 18: Speculation
My grandfather has had a dog nose since he was a child, and his spirit is tight, so there is no shortage of family names for Ergou. At the moment when Grandpa had no choice but to leave, a vague smell of herbs was found by Grandpa Tai. It is not surprising that there is a miraculous elixir of Ganoderma lucidum in this deep mountain, but there is a hint of a different taste in the smell of this medicine.
The strong smell of herbs should have covered the smell, but it couldn't escape such a dog's nose. Even if ordinary people smell it, they can't recognize it anyway. But the smell was too recognizable, and he had smelled it on the man and Liu Er before. The smell was strange, and the faint scent of sandalwood always seemed to be hiding something. The more Grandpa Tai couldn't see through it, the more he wanted to dig into this hidden smell, but he racked his brains and found that he couldn't find the answer.
However, when Grandpa Tai passed by with the grass baby, the masked smell finally surfaced. What can a grass baby have? Some only have the stench of corpses, but the smell is disgusting, and it must not be the smell of the man. But the corpse stench was like an introduction, guiding Grandpa Tai to a clear path.
The scent of sandalwood does not cover up the smell, but the smell and sandalwood are one, and it is the same source of water as the smell of the corpse of the grass baby after death. This fragrance is dominant, but there is a trace of death in it, which is the same as the smell of corpses. This smell is too grandfather has never smelled before, this is the first time I have smelled it, and it is especially deep because of the special memory.
Why is there such a peculiar smell here?
The only answer immediately popped up in Grandpa Tai's head: this man and Miss Liu'er must have been to Hulukou. Since these two people will definitely leave footprints when they have arrived, Grandpa Tai hurriedly checked whether there would be any traces left on the road. The hard work paid off, and I really found a line of footprints, which were very strange. Only half a footprint on the forefoot, but the footprint stretched all the way into the thick fog. How can ordinary people leave such strange footprints when walking, this man is already strange, these footprints are theirs.
Since there were footprints in it, Grandpa Tai frowned but couldn't find the footprints that came out. Then it is certain that they have gone into the fog and have not yet come out. Since they are in, can they also follow in?
As soon as the idea of grandfather came to him, he began to think about some problems again. The first is the identity of the man, and the accent he hears is not local. But Grandpa Tai didn't travel much, and he didn't know much about the local dialects, only that he was not from the vicinity of Jiangxi. Since the accents can't be distinguished, Grandpa Tai's mind has the costumes of the two of them again, and the costumes are not much different from those of the Han people, and it is really difficult to see any clues from them.
At the moment when Grandpa Tai decided to give up, a detail suddenly became clear in front of Grandpa's eyes. That is the embroidery on the sleeves of the man, and the hair on Liu'er's head is a strange silver medal. Men's sleeves with embroidery, women's silver medals, this is the tradition of Miaojiang people since ancient times! Grandpa Tai sighed in his heart, these two people turned out to be the Miaojiang clan in Xiangxi.
Why did the people of Miao Jiang come all the way to Jiangxi, there must be a plan. As for what he was drawing, Grandpa Tai couldn't figure out what he wanted to do, so he had to give up.
The second question is, how are these two people doing? There is no doubt that the man escaped and ascended to heaven under the sharp claws of the grass baby, and his subsequent behavior was even more decisive, which can be regarded as a ruthless character. But the previous events have proved that the man is missing a pair of tailwind ears, and even if he bumps into the two of them, he can hide in the dark in time.
As for the Liu Er girl, her slender figure looks like she can't lift her hands or shoulders. And this woman is kind-hearted, but she is afraid of the so-called "daddy" everywhere, and she is so weak that she is tight. If it is said that there is a fight, it is more than enough for Grandpa Tai to take down Miss Liu'er, but there is not much threat.
However, Grandpa Tai couldn't figure out a question, why would a man bring such a weak woman here? I was thinking about it for a while, and then I could only do it, and my grandfather didn't want to be entangled in this issue.
I figured out a few of the two questions, and some more questions popped up, thinking about it too much for my grandfather's head to hurt, and he planned to stop dreaming about these things. But the third question came up, and it seemed that it was unwilling to be ignored like this. I don't know why, my grandfather can't let go of this question in his heart, a dispensable question.
That is, when my grandfather heard the second uncle greet the man, he said, three masters. And he has only seen the man and Miss Liu'er from beginning to end, and the third master has never seen him from beginning to end.
Youyun: Knowing oneself and oneself, invincible in a hundred battles. Grandpa didn't know anything about the third person, and that was the most terrible thing. Now grandpa Tai has a life-saving pill in front of him, but there is a tiger hidden next to the pill.
"Forget it, wealth is in danger. Lao Tzu Jiang Ergou has been in the world for a while, and he can't be a coward. Grandpa muttered to himself and made up his mind.
Grandpa raised his legs and walked towards the thick fog, but the moment he got close to the mist, he suddenly froze. A trace of doubt flashed in his heart, and he always felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to return if he walked in like this, but it was clear that the man and Miss Liu'er also entered the thick fog. Then a grotesque thought came to me, if this man and Miss Liu'er never returned, naturally there would be no footprints coming out.
Thinking of this, Grandpa Tai chuckled in his heart and subconsciously took a step back. But he quickly dismissed this idea, because he smelled a faint smell of blood shortly after the loaches disappeared. This time, I couldn't smell the smell, which means that there must be no accident between the two.
Looking at the thick layer of fog in front of me, I can vaguely feel that the accident of the loach and the skin monkey has a great connection with this fog. Since the two of them were able to enter here safely, presumably the fog did not stop the two of them, and the same flesh and blood body should be fine.
Thinking about it like this, my grandfather had a little bottom in his heart, and he muttered a few words in his heart, and he could only bother when he was cornered. Despite this thought, Grandpa Tai still took a cautious step and stepped into the mist. After ten minutes in the mist, I was no different from usual, and I was sure that there was no problem with the fog. Grandpa Tai let go of the burden in his heart and took the second step.
Step Three, Step Four... This mist was only four steps away from the thick fog, and Grandpa Tai soon pressed the tip of his nose against the thick layer of fog. Grandpa Tai only felt a flower in front of him, and the thick fog suddenly changed, turning into a huge face and swallowing towards him. The sudden change frightened my grandfather to retreat again and again, but the huge face grinned and couldn't give up.
It's also terrifying to say, only one step back, and Grandpa Tai only felt that his heel was tripped by the root of the tree and fell to the ground. You must know that there are only brown and black dead leaves around this fog, not even a tree, where did the roots come from. The giant face soon pressed up, and the mist around him instantly became thicker, and Grandpa Tai's whole person was swallowed by the thick fog.
The moment Grandpa Tai was swallowed, the death of the loach and the leather monkey appeared in his mind, and his fate can be imagined. How could a living person be willing to be captured, my grandfather was naturally unwilling, and hurriedly struggled to get up. At this time, I realized that it was too late, and where I had just tripped over was the root of the tree, it was clearly a blackened human hand. And since Grandpa Tai fell, his hands and feet have been unknowingly grabbed by the hands of people under the dead leaves, and now the only thing he can do is to watch the giant mouth swallow himself.