Chapter 3 The Horse Fairy in the Mountains

I was holding my backpack when I heard this sound and my hands tightened unconsciously. This kind of action seems to be afraid that others will rob me of my things, and I just happened to look up at the floor-to-ceiling signboard of the store, and when I looked up, it really looked like a hillbilly.

But there was no one behind him, who was talking?

There are a lot of strange things tonight, so it's better to go. Thinking of this, I didn't care about anything else, so I turned around and walked out of the store. But before I could take four or five steps, Fang Cai's voice sounded again, as if calling my name.

Oh, it dawned on me that this must be the mother! So good...... Huh?

My joy froze before it was fully revealed, because I saw the man who was smiling like a spring breeze. But I'm not afraid, because the first time I saw him, I inexplicably felt a sense of steadiness. I have not experienced any real danger, and I am not very guarded. That said, this trust in strangers is difficult to understand if you haven't experienced it yourself. But I just don't think he will hurt me, not only that, but there is also an indescribable kindness.

He's naturally shorter than me, about a little taller than my mother. Not fat, just a little baby fat. In the words of a girl, her face is full of collagen. So his skin is healthy fair, translucent powder. Two eyebrows neatly aligned, the corners of the eyes fluttering with a look, a very energetic young man.

I turned around and stopped, as if he hadn't expected it at all, and looked surprised. After a minute of confrontation, he smiled, raised his hand and pressed his right shoulder, sighed, and said, "Did you hear me?" ”

"Of course, I'm not deaf!" I'm not a mother, I want to have his kind of arrogance that looks down on all beings, and I will reward him with a white eye.

To be honest, his eyes are big, and the tips of his eyes droop slightly, so he looks a little innocent. Speaking slowly and slowly, with a subdued and frustrated emphasis, his expression is leisurely and calm, but it only makes me feel inexplicable.

"You took something that doesn't belong to you, give it back to me."

Seriously, I was stunned for a moment. People who don't know each other ask this kind of question as soon as they come up, how do you tell me to answer? Seeing that he was about to board the plane, I am afraid that it will be a mistake to entangle with him again. I am confident that I am not a person with unclean hands and feet, and if I really take his things, it will be an unintentional mistake. He simply pulled his backpack and handed it to us, beckoning him to come and find it casually.

He was really polite, he was still leaning against the door of the store, and he came to me in the blink of an eye. But he didn't look at the backpack, just grabbed my right hand, and I just wanted to hide with a cold touch. But at this moment, it seems that something has happened!

"Passengers heading to Jiangwan should note that the ** flight you took now starts boarding."

I'm afraid of being late, I'm afraid of being late, but it's really delayed until now. I grabbed my backpack and trotted to the gate, and my mother texted me at this time, telling me not to wait for him when I arrived. Fortunately, the legs were long enough and I ran fast, so I didn't really make a mistake.

Hurriedly sat down in his seat, his heart pounding nervously. To say that my psychological quality is really poor, but who can withstand such a few times......

At this moment, I should have made a reasonable excuse for my apprehension, but it didn't seem to be. I didn't arrive late for the airport, why did I board the plane at the last minute? Is there something wrong with this? Strange, I can't even think of it. It's really not impressive, it's very similar to the feeling after drinking the fragments. Thinking about it, eighty percent of them got up too early and were still confused. Maybe you're hungry, alas! It's hard to think about it.

Jiangwan Mountain is far away, and after flying for two hours, I met the person who picked up the airport when I arrived at the place, and I didn't say anything and got on the Wrangler directly. The highway that I started to walk was quite smooth, but the road was built by splitting the mountain, and there were only tall trees unique to the Northeast when I looked out from the car window, and I couldn't see the sky, which was shocking for no reason.

The person who came to pick me up claimed to be a manager of Northern Foundation, surnamed Fu, in his thirties, who seemed to be shrewd and capable. Before I came, I knew a little about this company, according to Niangniang, it started as a mine, and in recent years it has begun to develop real estate, and its strength is very strong. However, he also reminded me that this is a typical family business, as long as the surname Fu is related to the boss, it cannot be easily provoked.

Then again, what am I provoking them for? The strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, not to mention that a fledgling stunned green like me is probably a little white fish to them.

Without saying anything all the way, the car turned out of the highway and into the deep forest, and did not reach its destination until three o'clock in the afternoon. Originally, I thought they would take me to the headquarters of the Northern Foundation, but the moment the car plunged into the woods, I guessed that it was going straight to the scene. Sure enough, when the speed of the car slowed down, a muddy river appeared under the winding mountain road.

The road is so narrow that it's hard for two cars to pass side by side. Because of the turn, the driver has to give way to the inside lane. I rolled down all the windows to see that there were bare rocks under the roadbed, not even guardrails. I feel that this mighty river is at my feet, and I will accidentally turn into the river.

Visually measured at a height of more than 30 meters, I was a little weak in my legs. But Mr. Fu, who was silent along the way, spoke at this time, and he pointed to an iron bridge on the river that looked quite old, and asked me to look at the other side.

The bridge was so old that even though it was about 100 meters away, I could be sure that I could see rust marks on the railings. The bridge is thin and low, almost facing the river, giving people a feeling of being crumbling after a long time. It was obviously noon, but the water vapor was very heavy, and there seemed to be a private house at the end of the brick-red iron bridge, which looked very old-fashioned. The sound of birds and birds continued along the way, and when I arrived here, it seemed that even the speed of the river rush had slowed down, and it was so quiet that people didn't dare to speak.

Since I am paying special attention, I guess this is the purpose of my trip. But what's so famous here? Mr. Fu just said that this was the ancestral home of the richest man in Jiangwan 30 years ago, and it seemed to be vacant because of a land dispute.

My heart sank, according to him, this mansion has not been popular for thirty years. I often hear Niangniang talk about some of his encounters, and this kind of place is as unclean as it is. I glanced at Mr. Fu sitting in the co-pilot, he was solely responsible for this operation, and there were probably a lot of strange things waiting for him. My trip is worth it, and I'm sure I'll be able to learn a lot.

Fortunately, the house flashed by, and we turned into a village on the mountainside. The village is not large, there are only a dozen families, except for a tiled house at the entrance of the village, the rest are all earthen walls and grass roofs. It should have been a rare occurrence for a large car to suddenly drive into such a small village far from the people, but the villagers who occasionally saw it through the wooden fence ignored us, and the driver seemed to be familiar with this place, and did not know what was famous here.

At the other end of the village, there is a courtyard that is far away, surrounded by lush cornfields, and the houses are barely visible. Only a bunch of colorful cloth strips hangs on the gate more than two meters high, which is particularly eye-catching.

Before the car could get closer, a large earthy gray dog "swished" out of the gate. Standing in the middle of the road, he barked wildly, and his eyes were vicious, as if he wanted to eat people.

My family used to have dogs, so I know a little bit about it. This kind of dog is a kind of wolf dog, but it is not the kind of mighty German shepherd. Its scientific name is Wolf Green, and it has a fierce temperament with a pair of iconic triangular eyes, and it is the most wolf-like of all wolf dogs. This kind of dog caretaker is the first choice, and the owner can't greet the owner.

Especially this one, I noticed that its tail was only half truncated, which is the old custom of raising dogs in the north. Once a puppy has been selected to be used as a housekeeper, it will chop off the tip of its tail at the time of the full moon. Because of the cold winter in the Northeast, dogs living in the yard have to curl up in a ball and protect their mouth and nose with their tails to keep out the cold. Losing its warmth, the dog sleeps soundly at night and is always on alert. Therefore, it is more fierce than the other wolf greens, fortunately it is not tethered, otherwise once it breaks the chain and catches someone, it will have to take a piece of meat down.

Although the car was parked in front of the house, no one dared to open the door. The driver honked the horn several times and waited for a while before we heard a woman's rough voice coming from inside the house.

"Just leave it at the door, I don't cook much for lunch, so I won't leave you to eat."

The words shouted out in the smoke were hard, but Mr. Fu turned around and stretched out his hand through the gap in the car seat to open the door on my side, and hurriedly asked me to get out of the car.

This is really a wolf dog in front of the river, and I don't dare to go down, and it's not appropriate not to go down. In this hesitation, the woman called out the dog's name and called it into the courtyard.

I had a little courage and got out of the car with my bag on my back.

The car swerved sharply, stirring up a cloud of dust. Mr. Fu made a phone gesture to me, rolled up the window and left. I didn't know anything, and he didn't ask me anything. Standing in this small village in the north, I suddenly realized that it was not only Wan'er who had to keep key information secret, but even the customers still had reservations. If you don't reach the ground, you won't give the bottom to the bottom, so as to achieve the purpose of containing each other. It didn't seem to be as simple as I thought it would be.

Doubts about the future are secondary, and the main problem at the moment is the home of the person I am about to board. Their big dog, to be exact.

"Put the knife down, and come in again."

The woman spoke again, and she knew what I was carrying in my pocket? It's not actually a knife, is it? At best, it's a way to ward off evil spirits. But people are taboo, and I can't force it. Looking around, there was a discarded grinding disc in the ground, and I took out a plastic bag from my bag, wrapped the dagger tightly, and took out a small pit from under the grinding disc and buried it in it.

Now that I think about it, it's a good thing I didn't really listen to her and throw it on the side of the road. Without this dagger, I am afraid I would not have been able to get out of this river alive.

Entering the door, the wolf dog that I feared disappeared. The door was open, and a dense curtain of straw beads hung from it. When I went in, I saw that it was neat. It's an ordinary Northeast house with a narrow kitchen in the middle. In the two rooms opposite, the door of the West House was closed, and the smell of incense mixed with earth came out through the crack in the door.

The east house is not very bright, the furniture is simple, and the only thing worth mentioning is the red sideboard of the North Kang. This kind of kang cabinet is generally stacked with quilts on the top, and valuable soft ones are hidden inside. But there are a lot of gold and silver ingots piled up in the north kang, and no one sleeps at a glance. The one in front of me is lying on the wall in the middle, and it seems to be specially used to dry the shredded beans. Although it is placed on the kang, it has four legs, the whole is square and heavy, and it is painted with double phoenix peonies, and the color is old, but you can still see the remnants of gold paint. This is a lacquer made of pure gold powder, even if it has been oxidized to brown, it does not peel off, and it is by no means comparable to the chemical gold on modern furniture, which is very eye-catching in this simple farmhouse.

The woman who spoke just now was sitting cross-legged on the tip of the kang in Nankang, smoking a bag of dry tobacco. When I saw her, I realized how barren my imagination was. Listening to her voice before, my mind was full of the vicious queen in Snow White. In fact, she is about forty years old, and she has a little charm in addition to plumpness. He wore two gold bracelets on his wrists, and he was very rich. Maybe it's that I smoke too much, and the sound is more unpleasant.

I didn't know how to say hello, so I just nodded and asked, "Hello, I'm ......" to introduce myself, but my surname is relatively rare, and most people don't believe it, so I just let her call me "roe deer".

"What's that, roe deer?" She "poofed" for a while, and said with a smile: "Why don't you call it a roe deer?" ”

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