Chapter 53: Overnight
Under the guidance of Ke Xiangu, we walked the mountain road in the dark for more than an hour with a flashlight, and we arrived at the place she said. XsHuotXT lights passed, only to see some abandoned houses, some have even collapsed, the houses are surrounded by dense vegetation, more than one person tall weeds, in the night wind, those weeds are blowing, and people are seeping out.
Ke Xiangu said: "This is it, I don't know how many years it has been abandoned here, but I can hide from the wind and rain, when I used to turn the mountain, I would occasionally rest here." There is also an ancient well behind there, where you can go and fetch water. ”
At such a time, it would be nice to have a place to rest, and where would everyone dislike it for being desolate, they would immediately go inside. Although the building has collapsed a lot, and the rest is dilapidated, but according to the remaining building materials and pillars, the buildings in this piece should have been more elaborate and did not look like an ordinary village.
Furthermore, even if it is a village, who would build a village next to Wanling Pit?
Could it be that this is the remains of a mausoleum somewhere? The upper and lower tombs, the tombs below, and the tombs on the ground are also within the normal range.
Of course, this is just a speculation on my part, after all, we are not knowledgeable in this area, so I can't tell what this dilapidated complex is, but according to Ke Xiangu, she has slept in this place several times without encountering any danger.
This building complex is very dilapidated, the road is not passable, the walking is winding and twisting, Ke Xiangu has been carried at this time, more than an hour of mountain road, Zhou Xuanye is not a superman, where can the princess always hug it, but this aunt seems quite satisfied, and showed us the way with great interest, and it didn't take long to find a room that looked quite stable in this crumbling dilapidated building complex.
The door of the room was broken, half-hidden and hung on the railing, and the door was covered with thick cobwebs, which were blown around in the night wind. In the dark night, occasionally there are a few unknown bird calls, which sound extremely cold, and I can't help but think of Lanruo Temple in A Chinese Ghost Story.
Fortunately, the place was ventilated on all sides, and there was no oppressive and gloomy feeling in the ancient tomb, so everyone took sticks, twisted with cobwebs, and entered the room.
After a cursory look, I found that this should be a place similar to an ancestral hall, in ancient times, big families had special ancestral halls, and the materials used in the ancestral hall were also the most exquisite; Villages that are not large households often have a common ancestral hall, and in the ancestor worship of ancient people who worship ghosts and gods, the ancestral hall is very important, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor ancestors.
Even though the house was one of the best preserved, many things were decaying, and you could see some rotten wood or some clay blocks, probably broken statues or something.
A thick layer of dust shrouded the place, and as soon as we walked in, the dust flew with the movement of our footsteps, and the eyes of the fascinated people could not open their eyes, and they coughed for a while.
The only thing that caught people's attention was the black fire in the center, with unburned firewood on it, and a clay pot blackened by the fire next to it.
Ke Xiangu said that it was left by her last camping, and then, Ke Xiangu and I were placed next to a pillar, and Zhou Xuanye and Zhou Xuanye began to clean up and take care of the place where we were resting, while Tan Gui Mao went to fetch water with a jar under Ke Xiangu's dictation.
After a busy life, a fire was lit, water was heated, salt was added, and the slimy thing on me and Ke Xiangu was removed, it was already more than half an hour later, the time was already more than four and forty minutes, and there was still an hour at most, and the sky was about to dawn.
After this time, everyone was exhausted, and even the hunger disappeared from exhaustion, and they barely ate something to replenish their strength, closed the door that was squeaky by the wind, and fell to the ground and slept in the dark, as for the corpses of the five old people, they were lined up at the door by Zhou Xuanye as a doorman.
After running around all day and night, I barely closed my eyes, and even if I was in a coma in the middle, I woke up quickly, so this time everyone slept very deeply. I don't know how long it took me to wake up from my deep sleep, I opened my eyes and found that the sunlight outside was a little dazzling, and then I raised my wrist and looked at my watch, and I slept from more than four o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon.
looked at Zhou Xuanye and a few people again, they were still sleeping very dead, Ke Xiangu was still snoring like thunder, but I slept too heavily before, and I didn't hear it.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and even if I was in a hurry, I wouldn't be able to walk long, and it was already dark. In the early hours of the morning, everyone was so tired that they only thought about sleeping, eating and drinking were very simple, and at this time, as soon as I woke up, I felt hungry and thirsty in my stomach, and I guess they would wake up the same later.
Thinking of this, I didn't wake up a few people, got up and stretched, hugged the clay pot to fetch water, and decided to make breakfast and dinner first.
The old well that Ke Xiangu said, the location is quite secret, I held the clay pot and searched for a long time to find it, the wellhead was half collapsed, there was no use of wheels, only a rope, eighty percent was also left by Ke Xiangu before.
The mouth of the well was covered by dense weeds, and I passed by here several times without finding it. There are still a lot of wild vegetables around here, I didn't know wild vegetables before, and I have been in the wild with Zhou Xuanye and the others for a long time, so I know a lot of wild vegetables now.
I picked some, washed them at the well, fetched a jar of water, and when I went back, I made a fire, boiled them with water, biscuits, and half a jar of wild vegetables, and put some dry oil and salt, and before long, there was an unbearable fragrance.
When people are very hungry, they feel that everything they eat is fragrant, and this thing only puts dry oil and salt in it, and it sells very poorly, very close to the appearance of pig food in the countryside, but the smell makes my mouth water.
I was staring at the jar and about to get out of the pot, when suddenly there was a grunting sound next to me, and I looked sideways and saw the face of an obese middle-aged aunt, staring intently at what was cooking in the clay pot, her throat rolling, and she kept swallowing saliva.
Immediately afterwards, she looked at me and said, "Young man, the craftsmanship is good, the people are also good, and the meal is ready." I have a daughter who also works in Shenzhen, do you want to think about it. ”
Daughter?
I got excited and said, "Aunt Ke, how old is your daughter?" What are you doing? Does she have a boyfriend? Is it pretty? Well, it doesn't matter if you're not pretty, the most important thing is character. "Shuiyushuang and Shen Lan are very beautiful, but none of them are normal! As a twenty-five-year-old who has only been in love once, and has had a pretty miserable relationship, I desperately need a girlfriend right now.
I said solemnly: "Auntie, don't worry, I must love her very much, although I don't have a house or a car, but I am a good person, I promise not to mess around outside, and I won't let her be wronged, by the way, I am also very good at cooking, and my boss said it was good after eating." ”
At this time, someone suddenly dismantled the stage and said, "When did I say it?" Immediately afterwards, Tan Guimao said to Ke Xiangu: "He is nothing except for good people, the rest are useless, these days, if you say that it is good, it is good-hearted, and if you say it is ugly, you should think about it." ”
Ke Xiangu glanced at me up and down when she heard this, and finally said earnestly: "Young man, I was wrong, I don't have a daughter, only a son, do you want it?" ”
I want your sister!
Don't stop me!
Let me slaughter this turtle hair!
Just when I was about to fight with Tan Jian, I naturally said a word; "The meal is ready." At that moment, he took the chopsticks made of wooden sticks and ate them. This kid's physical fitness is abnormal, and he belongs to the type of sleeping and eating less on weekdays, but at this time, he is hungry and eats very fast, in order to prevent him from eating all the 'vegetables' inside, everyone hurriedly gathered around to eat, only Tan Guimao said angrily: "Scoop it up and eat it separately!" ”
No one paid attention to him, and there was still a little scum left in the end, Tan Jian stared very tangledly, hovering on the edge of eating or not eating.
After this toss, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, it was dark early in the mountains, and it would be dark in another hour at most, Ke Xiangu said that there was no other foothold around except this place, and now we set off, we had to sleep in the wilderness at night, and most importantly, our equipment bags with tents and hand pots had been lost.
In desperation, everyone could only stay here for one more night, and decided to leave early the next morning.
Since I slept for a day during the day, there was no sleepiness at this time, Ke Xiangu began to count her body to see if there was any damage, and I sat with Tan Jian, Zhou Xuanye and Tianran Stay, looking at each other speechlessly.
In fact, I have a lot of questions in my heart now, and the biggest question is about Tan Jian's transformation into purple hair, but because of the presence of Ke Xiangu, it is inconvenient for me to ask about this matter for the time being.
Tan Jian only rushed into the tomb where Ke Xiangu and the others were after transforming, so except for Zhou Xuanye, no one recognized that the purple hair was changed by Tan Jian.
After thinking about it, I decided to ask some others, so I said, "Brother Zhou, you helped Aunt Ke turn the mountain, why did you turn around and turn into that ancient tomb?" ”