Chapter 166: Where and Who
I have lived in Hongcun for 20 years, my parents have lived here for more than 40 years, and my great-grandfather has been in Hongcun since the end of the Qing Dynasty. There are hundreds of families here, and after nearly a hundred years of ups and downs, I have never heard that the peak of the lion is inhabited, and I have never seen that there are still lights here.
Those houses are all built up with huge long stones, there are two, there are three, and there are two floors, and there are two floors, and after a rough count, there are no less than 20 families on the top of this mountain, and the people of Hongcun will not know such a scale?
"Erdu, are you going to take a look?" I think he's the best of us all, and he'll be able to get out of danger even if there's a danger.
Cha Wenbin gave Ye Qiu a look, it seems that he and I have the same idea, Ye Qiu nodded his head and touched it with the cold moon in his backhand, his speed was extremely fast, and he half-squatted like a ghost through the open land in front of him. We are not far apart, you can clearly see each other's movements, my gun is also moving, if there is danger, I will not hesitate to shoot.
Ye Qiu soon arrived at the nearest house to us, all the houses here have no doors and windows, he leaned against the wall like a thief and peeked in through the window twice, the speed of the head shrank faster than a turtle, at a glance it was a veteran.
I sighed, "What a fucking professional, this kid must have been a thief before." "Don't talk nonsense!" Cha Wenbin stopped my exclamation, and he was also observing the movement here and asked me, "Have you heard of the situation here before?" ”
"No, I think my dad would have told us if anyone knew. In the early years, they also came to Lion Rock to do activities, cutting trees, hunting and collecting medicines, but no one ever came up. ”
"That's not right." Gu Lao turned to me and said, "Brother Xia, do you think that the rural people who rely on the mountains will give up these resources?" Hongcun is not a place with rich real estate, and there is no reason why the ancestors did not come here to find a way to survive. ”
As soon as I heard this, I felt a little uncomfortable, and it was not easy to attack next to Xiaobai's face, so I just said: "Gu Lao means that my father didn't tell the truth?" I grew up in this mountain, but I've never seen anyone come down from this mountain, let alone have lights here. ”
"You're mistaken." Gu Lao said: "Hongcun has a history of 100 years, and your father doesn't know anything about the first fifty years, what if the predecessors deliberately concealed this place, or misled people not to come here?" There is a Chinese idiom called "Three people become a tiger", and in the same way, if half of the people in this place say they can't go, then the other half of the people will naturally not go, even if the part of the people who say it has never been to it themselves. ”
I thought that what he said also made sense: "This is easy to do, go back and ask an older one, besides, this forest is so difficult to walk, who would want to climb up." ”
"Let's go!" Cha Wenbin patted me, and when I looked up, it turned out that Ye Qiu was over there signaling that it was safe.
Ye Qiu said to Cha Wenbin, who was standing outside the house: "There is no one inside, there is an oil lamp in the house, you can go and take a look." ”
"Oh?" Cha Wenbin hesitated a little when he crossed the threshold, and then he walked in, and I was guarding outside the house, this hellish place, I don't believe anyone would light an oil lamp.
After entering the house, Cha Wenbin gently touched the edge of the oil bowl with his finger and said: "The bowl is still cold, the lamp hasn't been lit for a long time, and the feelings are prepared for us." ”
Yuan Xiaobai said with a smile: "Do you think someone will be so good, is he sitting on the top of the mountain watching us climb for a day and is tired of finding you a place to live, maybe someone will prepare a pot of rice for you." So saying, she went to the stove in the house, and as soon as she turned around, she exclaimed, "Ahhh ”
She was so frightened that she didn't dare to lift the lid of the pot but took two steps back, and when I heard the movement inside, I climbed straight through the window and shouted, "Stand back, let me come!" ”
After shouting this sentence, the air instantly condensed, I thought something was wrong, turned around and looked, good guys, those gangs are all a few feet away from me! This is a real regret, I can only go forward, holding the eighty-one bar in one hand and trembling in the other to get the lid of the pot, thinking to myself, if you jump something, Lao Tzu will give you a shuttle.
The moment I lifted the lid of the pot, I suddenly felt hungry, why? A fragrance came to my face, and when the steam dissipated slightly, I looked at it and said, "Which fairy uncle has taken pity on us, and prepared such an old hen for us." ”
That's right, there was a rattan rice rack in the pot, and there was a large earthy gray cauldron on the shelf, and there was a whole old hen in the pot, and the chicken soup was still steaming, and the water in the pot could be heard bubbling. To be honest, I've been hungry for a day, and I really can't stand it, I stretched out my hand like I was going to pull a piece to eat, and then Cha Wenbin shouted: "Don't move!" ”
"What's the matter, this is a chicken, it's cooked!"
He walked over quickly and pulled me away and said, "Do you think someone in this place will give you chicken stew!" Do you think there will be? I'm really impatient! ”
I was stunned and thought, yes, where would anyone stew chicken on this mountain? Cha Wenbin pulled me away and quickly walked to the stove, and there were still some flints in the stove, which was the red charcoal fire when the firewood had not burned out, and it had just been extinguished for ten minutes at most. There is also a water tank in this room, Cha Wenbin also opened it, the water in the water tank is full, next to the stove is a dining table, he wiped it with his hand, there is no ash on the table, everything here looks like a normal farmer, just like ten minutes ago the hostess was waiting for the man to come back from dinner.
There is a wooden ** in the other room, which is very primitive, with some hay spread underneath, and the quilt on top is actually made of hemp, and there are several clothes scattered on the ground in the house that are also hemp, but the style is very different, it is the kind of placket open, a bit like the shape of Hanfu. We all consciously retreated after walking around this room, and a few people rushed out as if they had been released from prison, why? Just because of Gu Lao's words, he took a jar in the room and said: "This thing looks like it has been around for some years, at least it must be fired in a folk clay kiln for two to three thousand years." ”
Everyone is a smart person, and there is no need to say what this sentence means, those hemp products, those rough and ancient household utensils, the oil lamp, everything here does not belong to modern civilization. There were no plastic products or modern industrial products found in the whole house, and Yuan Xiaobai finally said a more appropriate sentence: "I feel that we have traveled back to ancient times all of a sudden, and when we walk into that room, we feel that we have returned to thousands of years ago." ”
Through? The stars outside the house will not travel to 3,000 years ago just because you climb a mountain, which is too. But everything in this room is the furnishings of that time, how do you want me to believe it?
Cha Wenbin looked at Ye Qiu's face a little unnatural, Ye Qiu only had a cold expression all year round, but tonight there was a trace of sorrow between his two eyebrows.
"Something is wrong?"
Ye Qiu grabbed a handful of dirt and put it on his nose and sniffed it and said, "No, but it's familiar." ”
"Familiar with what?" I asked.
He put down the dirt in his hand and stood up and said, "Everything here, my intuition tells me that I have been here before, and there is a well behind the third house on the right-hand side. ”
In order to confirm his intuition, it was just to go for a walk, and when we followed Ye Qiu's guidance to that place, I suddenly felt that the sky was dark, and it was indeed an octagonal well, the well water was not deep, and the bottom could be seen with the help of a flashlight. I looked at him, and I could even read a hint of fear in his eyes, he was afraid......
Afraid of what? Suddenly, Ye Qiu jumped, his speed was so fast that my flashlight couldn't keep up with his footsteps, and Ye Qiu disappeared into the night in three strokes and two clicks, leaving only the four of us at a loss.
"Chase!" Cha Wenbin only said this word and followed out, Gu Qinghe is old, Xiaobai is a woman, I watched Cha Wenbin run in front, and I was afraid that something would happen to them, so I had to drop my speed and walk in the direction they ran.
"Crazy, these two are crazy!" I helped the panting Gu Lao and said to Yuan Xiaobai: "We'll go down the mountain early tomorrow morning, what the hell is this place, and those two people, come as they say, leave as they say, what do you think of us!" ”
Gu Qinghe took a breath and said, "Brother Xia, don't you think it's very interesting here?" ”
"Interesting?" I think your old man is probably not sober either: "Yes, it's interesting for you to go and play, I decided not to play anyway, stay at home and don't sleep, run here and play haunted again and again, old professor, your capitalist theory can't educate this proletarian ghost." ”
When I was annoyed, Yuan Xiaobai shouted: "Xiaoyi, look, where is it!" There they are! ”
I looked up, good fellow, the two of them were standing on the top of the hill one after the other, and they didn't look at us but looked down.
"Hey!" I shouted, "Did you find anything?" ”
But Cha Wenbin and Ye Qiu didn't seem to hear my voice, these two people, really, I shouted again: "What are you doing, there is a treasure there?" ”
After this sound, Cha Wenbin reacted, he looked up and looked around, and then bent down and stretched out his hand.
What the hell are these two people doing? I was only thirty or forty meters away from them, and I saw it clearly, his posture seemed to be pulling something, and after a while, I saw someone stretch out his hand, Cha Wenbin dragged it up, and then slapped the man's arm with a smile.
Well! No, why does this guy look so familiar, he actually has a handful of five or six and a half on his back!
Say:
The golden ticket is lala, and tomorrow the fifth is proper