Chapter Ninety-Eight: Stepping on the Kiln
The Paphead Forest is named because of the special forest structure, the center is a large shallow lake and desolate swamp, surrounded by the towering dense trees, a bit like the top of the people, the middle of the skating rink around the barbed wire, the head can also be called the hair, is so exquisite.
In the old days, there were many people who really didn't dare to walk the mountain road in a group, not for fear of encountering wild beasts, but for fear of those black-hearted beards.
The beards of the people are farmers put down the farm tools in their hands and pick up the machete and go up the mountain, at the beginning it was relatively scattered, by robbing the past pointed head for a living, the pointed head is the merchant, at that time the merchant can have a few money, that is, with a little change for eating, but those beards do not dislike the hair, sometimes they have to rob other people's goods, and then go to the frame to sell at a low price. The box is the meaning of the black county, if they say push the box, catch the market and the like, that is to attack the county seat.
Back then, Jilin had a bearded man named Li Desheng, and he should be the rotten pot that Wu Qi was looking for before. Li Desheng was just thirty years old that year, but he was the kind of bastard before he went up the mountain, and his brothers also had dozens of brothers, all of whom were the kind of lords with fierce faces and blood on their hands, so this Li Desheng became a tyrant, robbed the hunter's house in the forest, and absorbed the scattered beards nearby and collected them for his own use. Because there were too many people later, they built a few wooden houses in the forest with local materials, and gradually as there were more and more people, the power became bigger and bigger, not only robbing the past sharp heads, but even raiding and harassing the towns with garrisons, robbing a lot of money, food, and women, because there were too many people, the local army did not dare to rush to exterminate, so they raised this Li Desheng.
Li Desheng: They used all kinds of knives at the beginning. As long as they can lift up and chop up dead people, they can do anything, which is why people in the neighborhood call them kitchen knife balls. But Li Desheng called himself a foot in the sky. Their group of people is at the bottom of the world, and there are really a lot of ordinary people and wealthy businessmen in those years. The roots of the teeth that make people scared but hate when they mention it.
But this group of beards did not end well in the future, and this matter has something to do with the legendary foggy country.
In winter, the bearded men hide in their own wooden huts in the mountains for the winter, and only come out when the weather is warm, just like the dog and bear hibernating. But because this gang of beards grabbed a lot of things the year before, it was enough to eat without going out all winter, so it was a bit out of business. It wasn't until the beginning of spring that these people stretched out their lazy bones and sent a lot of skins out to explore the wind to see which town had more goods and fewer soldiers. It's good to do him.
The skin is not the yellow skin, the skin in this black language is the new beard or the young beard, these skins don't have much experience and most of them don't dare to kill, so they can only follow the line to go out to investigate, this line is the beard that steps on the wind.
As a result, within a few days, a skin came back in a hurry, and found Li Desheng directly, telling him that there was a forest less than two hundred miles to the south, and the local people called it the Patou Forest, saying that there was a swamp in the middle of the forest. But every year in the first month of spring, there will be fog in the forest, and when the fog rises, and then through the forest, there will be a township, which is said to be the kind of old landlord's big house and field.
Li Desheng heard that this was the case. At that time, I muttered in my heart, usually it is a swamp, but after the fog, there is a landlord's mansion inside. Isn't that a haunted house? It's kind of scary. But what are they, the beard that robbed houses? And it's a powerful beard, and if there are many people, you can do it with a big ticket. But there are not many things in the chicken feather shop of small households, and they are not interested in it. Although there are many people and materials in cities and towns, there are jumpers with guns, that is, guards and soldiers, and only the landlords have more money and less jumpers, which is relatively easy.
In the vernacular, the courtyard is generally called the kiln, the living kiln is the courtyard with friendship, the dead kiln is the unfriendly, the winged kiln is the barracks, the bitter water kiln is the medicine shop, the fog kiln is the smoke house, the gnawing water kiln is the restaurant, and so on. The kilns in the vicinity of ten miles and eight towns have basically been stepped on by this group of beards, if there is that they have already gone, this cold hearing that there is a strange starting point of the big kiln, although strange but think about it carefully, it may be that the landlord Lao Cai deliberately built the courtyard in that kind of hidden place, with a natural barrier as a cover, has been living there, it is estimated that there can be a lot of good things.
Li Desheng is a greedy man, when he knew the foggy town of the head forest, he scratched his heart and liver, and imagined the scene of moving things from the kiln to the outside, which were all white flowers and silver, how could he not be moved? It happened that it was the beginning of spring at this time, and when Li Desheng ran all the way to the Paotou Forest with the 100th people, the villagers who scared the nearby villagers all dragged their families and ran away, thinking that it was the beard that came to sweep it, but they made a false alarm, and the group of self-proclaimed beards who were touching the sky went directly to the outside of the Paotou Forest, and they didn't stop at all when they passed by the village.
After the leading leather led the large army to the Patou Forest, he hurriedly pointed to the forest and said, "This is the landlord's kiln in Wuxiang Township!" The boss is gone! That's what everyone in the neighborhood says! ”
But as soon as he finished saying this, there was a burst of white mist drifting out of the forest, and sure enough, it was really a spring fog, the fog moved slowly but was very thick, and there was only a piece of white in the eye, and the trees that gradually disappeared into the house, this scene made the hundred and ten people confused, and they were dumbfounded.
Li Desheng rode a high-headed horse, he was also stunned when he saw the fog, but then he reacted, got off the horse with a suspicious face, picked up the big knife he was carrying, pointed at the head of Lin and shouted: "Shoulder to shoulder, this kiln in front of us is the first time we have stepped on it, it is estimated that no one has stepped on it except us, that thing must have an old nose!" After finishing this ticket today, we will step on the big walnuts in the kiln at night, gnaw the rich and move ginger in the kiln, and then play with those clean bucket flowers, and finally sell them to those who eat long roads! ”
This vernacular is mixed with black words, which means that after taking the house after completing this vote, he will be in the landlord's old rich house at night, stepping on the landlord's head to eat meat and drink, playing with young girls, and finally selling it to human traffickers, which is a big profit.
The bearded people were all excited after hearing this, clamoring to rush in, but at this lively time, suddenly Li Desheng found an old man standing on the side of the road not far away, looking at them with a bitter face, and saw through the shape of his mouth that the old man seemed to say: "Don't go in, don't go in!" ”
Li Desheng felt a little uncomfortable at that time, he suddenly felt that something was wrong for some reason, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the misty pickpocketing forest, and a fear that he had never felt before hit his heart. I don't know if his mind affected the horse, or the fog was really strange, but after hearing a long howl, the high-headed horse that Li Desheng rode over suddenly launched a frenzy, kicked over several beards, and then actually rushed into the fog of the pickpocketing forest, and then only the sound of horses' hooves was getting farther and farther away, but it was gone.
The beards who were still a little excited just now were taken aback, and Li Desheng was also shocked, and after looking at the old man again, he found that the old man was long gone, leaving only an empty path. Looking at the restless beard in front of him, Li Desheng stabilized his mind, and without thinking too much, he directly took people through the dense fog to take a look, to see if there was a big kiln in the fog country, and to find the horse back by the way.
But this fog is really too big, and it can't be illuminated with torches, so the hundred and ten people can only be lined up in two rows, one dragging the other into two teams and entering the pickpocketing forest. Li Desheng himself leads half of the people, he is the head of the beard, so he naturally has to take the lead to strengthen the courage of the people behind, as long as he does not mess up and does not retreat, then all the beards will not be messy, and no one will run away when something happens.
The moment Li Desheng stepped into the forest, he seemed to be poured a basin of cold water on his face, the fog was much thicker than he imagined, and there were some strange smells in the fog, not like the fog with the general smell of dumplings boiling in the pot, but a kind of indescribable, but indeed some strange taste, this smell made people uncomfortable, and it became more and more difficult to breathe.
In the fog of the chopping forest, every breath inhaled was like pouring a mouthful of water, and the choking people coughed non-stop, sticking out their tongues and red eyes, as if they had fallen into the water and choked several times. Li Desheng didn't dare to gasp for breath, covered his mouth with his sleeve, there was not much difference between opening his eyes and closing his eyes in the fog, but there were occasional stumbling roots exposed to the ground under his feet, and in addition to that, there were towering trees, as long as the person who hit the head avoided the back, nothing would happen, and he walked slowly but gradually approached the center.
No one knows exactly how big the swamp is in the middle of the Pickhead Forest, because there are very few people in this place, so I only know the approximate scale, and I really don't know what the middle of the swamp is like. Some people say that it may be a lake, others say that there is nothing in betweed, but it is all speculation, and no one has ever entered it.
Li Desheng's group of people touched the sky, they relied on their own people to have a lot of things, and they were all brave and not afraid of death, Li Desheng led a team of people through the thick fog and entered the middle of the pickpocketing forest. When the breathing was easier, Li Desheng wiped off the fog on his face, and when he opened his eyes, he was stunned, the scenery in front of him was particularly weird, the dense fog surrounded the surrounding woods, and in the middle was a small village, all of which were gray, although it looked particularly gorgeous, but it gave people the most intuitive feeling that it was gloomy, as if this place had been abandoned for a long time, and it was deserted and deserted, without the slightest sign of human and animal activity. (To be continued......)