The aunt looked nervously out of the door, for fear that someone would know, and whispered: "After Zhang Mei's death, Meng Chong sadly held a funeral for her, seeing that he was not young, nearly forty people, many enthusiastic neighbors Zhang Luo helped him introduce the object, and later, he met a girl himself, and the two only got married a month ago." ”

Li Bing interjected: "Auntie, the girl who married Meng Chong is also from this village. ”

The aunt smiled: "No, that girl is only in her 20s, she has never been married, she is smart, she has a good temper, she is a person from the town, Meng Chong is also a blessing in disguise, there is such a blessing, the girl fell in love with him at first sight, regardless of Meng Chong's age and her age, she was married, and she didn't think that we married him after this small mountain village." ”

Li Bing said thoughtfully, "Oh", "Auntie, what is the name of this girl, does she and Meng Chong know each other?" ”

The aunt replied: "This girl's name is Zhang Yan, her town is far away from here, she didn't know Meng Chong before, I heard that Meng Chong met Zhang Yan when chatting online at home, and within a few days, the two met, hit it off, and it became a good thing, and they only got married last month." ”

Li Bingqi said: "Auntie, what is this Meng Chong doing, he will win the heart of Zhang Yan, who is more than ten years younger than him." ”

The aunt said with a smile: "Speaking of this Meng Chong, he has been smart since he was a child, but unfortunately, his family was not very good back then, he dropped out of high school before he finished high school, and he was not admitted to college. ”

"Later, when I came to the village to see that he was smart and capable, I made him the village accountant, and this little life was prosperous, and his current daughter-in-law didn't want to do any work, so she stayed at home and helped him take care of the housework, and the two of them loved each other."

Li Bing's heart moved, and he asked his aunt: "Auntie, you said that Meng Chong has a unique skill in picking herbs, where did he pick all the herbs." ”

The aunt replied: "Remember what I told you yesterday, the Chenling on this side, this mountain is steep, the grass is lush, not to mention the outsiders, even the people in our village, few people dare to enter." ”

"Meng Chong is famous for picking herbs, he is bold and careful, and his brain is flexible, so he specially went to Chenling to pick them, because there are many precious herbs growing on this Chenling."

"Since the death of the old man who taught Meng Chong to pick herbs, only Meng Chong in the village can go into Chenling to pick precious herbs, and later, he also taught his dead wife Zhang Mei this unique skill, and the couple often go up the mountain to pick herbs together."

Zhao Wan'er asked strangely: "Auntie, I'm so strange, we also climbed up Chenling yesterday to play, although Chenling is steep, it's not that it can't be climbed, why can't the people in the village, except for Meng Chong and Zhang Mei, pick herbs." ”

The aunt looked a little surprised: "What, you went to Chenling yesterday." ”

She looked at everyone suspiciously, as if she didn't believe it,

Zhang Yuanshan hurriedly said: "Auntie, yes, we didn't lie, we outsiders, seeing the beautiful scenery on this mountain, we couldn't help but go up to play." ”

The aunt said in surprise: "Almost no one dares to go up on the mountain, the mountain is high and the forest is honey, snakes and insects are all over the mountain, you few outsiders, you don't know the specific situation, you dare to go up the mountain to play, it's really bold." ”

She continued: "When you are on the mountain, do you see a lot of flowers and trees that you don't know, which are not often seen elsewhere? ”

Zhao Wan'er replied: "Yes, the scenery on the mountain is really good, there are many things, I haven't seen them anywhere else." ”

The aunt smiled and said: "That's it, on our mountain, there are many precious herbs that are not found in other places, but you have been on the mountain, you should know that those strange flowers and trees basically grow in places that people can't reach." ”

Everyone nodded, and the aunt continued: "Especially on a hanging ya, it is said that it is full of precious medicinal materials, Meng Chong and Zhang Mei have practiced a one-handed climbing stunt, so they can go up to the hanging ya and pick herbs, to tell you, I have been in this village for so many years, and I have never been on that hanging ya once." ”

Li Bing's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked the aunt what that hanging ya looked like.

When the aunt described the hanging ya, everyone was surprised and happy, it turned out that the hanging ya was the place where they met the female ghost in red yesterday,

Li Bing asked, "Auntie, how did Zhang Mei die?" ”

The aunt's eyes turned a little red, and she sighed: "If you want to talk about this Zhang Mei, it is praised by everyone, she is a very good girl, after she married Meng Chong, she not only did all the housework, but also often accompanied Meng Chong to the mountains to pick herbs." ”

"Half a year ago, when it was still winter, one day after lunch, Meng Chong and Zhang Mei, as usual, carried the grass on their backs with ropes, and walked towards the mountain, along the way they also greeted the people in the village, but who knows, that was the last time Zhang Mei talked to the people in the village."

It turned out that that winter afternoon, the sun was shining, and what was even more precious was that there was no breeze that day, and it was a perfect time to go up the mountain to pick herbs.

Meng Chong and Zhang Mei prepared the tools to go up the mountain to pick, carried the grass on their backs, and greeted the people in the village along the road, and came to the inaccessible Chenling.

The two of them, as usual, came to the bottom of the hanging edge and climbed up smoothly.

Above the cliff, there is a platform of more than ten square meters, and there is a small mountain road on the left and right sides, which can be climbed along the small mountain road to another cliff.

After climbing the hanging edge, the couple rested for a while on the small platform, and then, as usual, the two of them picked their own medicinal herbs along the small mountain path on the hanging edge, preparing to meet at another hanging edge according to the old rules.

Meng Chong's harvest this day was not good, and he only picked less than half of the usual medicinal herbs.

He came to another hanging place more than an hour earlier than usual, sat down depressedly to rest, and prepared to wait for Zhang Mei to come to meet and go home together.

While he was smoking a cigarette, he suddenly heard someone calling out to him from below.

Meng Chong saw that it was the village secretary looking for him, and couldn't help but ask the village secretary why he was in such a hurry to go up the mountain to find him.

The village secretary told him that it was the township finance who came to the village for a routine inspection, and asked Meng Chong, who was the accountant, to return to the village immediately.

Meng Chong shouted at the village secretary: "Old secretary, my daughter-in-law hasn't come down yet, can you wait a little longer." ”

The old secretary said with a straight face: "Meng Chong, what are you kidding, the people from the township finance are waiting for you, after checking the accounts, they have to rush back to the town, time is tight enough, your wife is also a master of collecting medicine, going up and down the mountain is not necessarily worse than you, just let her go home by herself, you come down quickly, we will rush back to the village from this side of the mountain." ”

Meng Chong couldn't help it, so he quickly climbed down from the cliff,

He dialed Zhang Mei's phone, but it was said that there was no signal and could not be connected.

Meng Chong thought about the old secretary's words and made sense, his wife Zhang Mei went down the mountain alone It was not a problem, he picked up a stone on the ground, left a message to Zhang Mei on the gray and white cliff, and told himself to go down the mountain from another road with the old secretary, go back to the village to reconcile, and let Zhang Mei go home alone.