Walking up the hill is a pine forest, covering the entire hillside, which is in stark contrast to the barren and gloomy mass graves below the mountain.

Pinus tabuliformis, also known as redbark pine or brevifolia, is a pine needle plant, which can usually grow to more than 30 meters tall after adulthood, and its main characteristics are thick dry branches, thin needles, and short needles. Pinus tabuliformis is distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan and other places, and is a relatively common pine tree.

There are a lot of tabuliformis pines growing under the remnants of the main peak of Bears Ears Mountain, and the brothers of the grave team are okay to take a cool break under that pine forest. But the pine trees here are at most small trees that have not grown, and the width of the top is conical, and the distance between each tree is very close, so it is difficult to allow people to pass, and the needles are very painful, and no one has ever passed through the pine forest in order to take a shortcut.

The four grave chasers opened the thick needles in the forest and searched for the footprints left by the man last night, and they at first thought that the man might have been forced into the pine forest. But after following the footprints for a while, I realized that it did not seem to be the case, and the route that this man had taken was all more widely spaced between the two trees, and there were many thicker tree trunks that had been deliberately broken, as if to make a passage out.

The fifth Zhang Tianxiao walked in the forefront with a short shovel, waving a sharp short shovel on the side from time to time, cutting off the branches blocking the road in front of him, he smelled the faint smell of pine resin nearby and was a little confused, so he turned back to Xiao Qi behind him and said: "Qi'er, what is the place in front of the forest?" Don't let the leaves block your eyes and step on the bottom of the cliff, you won't have to fall into the face. ”

Xiao Qi observed the movements around him, and when he heard the fifth child ask him, he patted off the needles on his body and replied: "Fifth brother is fine, you can walk ahead, the cliff is far away from here, I remember that there is a stream in front of the forest, and the water is sweet." ”

The third child walked behind them for a while, and began to gasp for breath, and the wound in his hand ached faintly. Yesterday, I also saw that the knife was about to stab the fourth child, and in a hurry, I didn't think much about it and held the blade with my hand, but now I think about it, just grab that person's wrist, why suffer this crime.

But now he's hurt, and it's not going to be. He was a rough man, and this injury was really nothing, but he couldn't eat it a little, and his legs and stomach trembled after walking up the slope for a while, and his mouth was almost smoking, and his swallowing and saliva were hard.

At this time, Xiao Qi said that there was a stream in front of him, and that the water was still very sweet, so the third child shouted for them to hurry up.

"Hey, I said hurry up, I'm a injured person and can still walk so fast, what are you little greenheads grinding in front? Hurry up, I'm dying of thirst, hurry out of the forest and go to the creek where we can drink some water and rest. ”

Because the sixth heard the third child calling from behind, he looked back while walking, and it turned out that a cluster of needles on it was scraped against his scalp, although the skin was not broken, but it was really painful to let a bunch of needle tips rub against the scalp.

The sixth child took a breath and rubbed his scalp, squinted at the third child and said, "Third brother, why do you have so many things to do, why should you come in?" Are we here to play? Don't we have to follow the footprints to find that grandson? You see my head melon because you almost didn't let those needles poke into a sieve, you are still in a hurry to drink water, sixth master, I won't let you drink today, wait until the place I go first to wash your feet, hey, then you are free. ”

The group of people in the grave team are not young together, and they are all old singles who have been together all day long and have no proper behavior, so the nonsense will not end. This time, let the third child give a start, a few people you and I hurt each other, and they all shouted to wash their feet first where they could drink water, and specially went upstream to wash so that others could not drink, disgusting each other.

Xiao Qi took the short shovel and walked in front of the road, the three people behind him kept their mouths and were not idle, and gradually Xiao Qi pulled away a certain distance, and when they had made enough trouble, they found that Xiao Qi who was walking in front of him was already gone, and there were layers of thick pine trees on it, and the sight in front was blocked, so he could only look down and look for two lines of footprints to go forward.

As a result, the footprints of the third brother who walked to the halfway up the mountain were gone, and the needles around him were not found, and Xiao Qi also lost it and didn't know where to run, and several people shouted on the spot that Xiao Qi didn't respond for a long time.

The brothers saw that this was not good, don't have something wrong, so they estimated that a few people walked forward in one direction from under the thick needles with their hands and feet.

I don't know how far I walked, and finally walked out of this maze-like pine forest, and the front was suddenly a lot wider, but this scorching sun immediately exposed a few people to a layer of sweat, fortunately there was really such a stream, it seems that Xiao Qi didn't talk nonsense.

The third child was the last to arch out of the forest, his hair and clothes stuck to a lot of pine balls and needles, as soon as he moved, he fell down in a loud voice, he just got up and wanted to get rid of the loose balls and rotten leaves stuck in his hair, but when he looked up and saw the water in front of him, he didn't care about anything, and he ran to the water source like a hunting dog.

The third child went to the river and drank several sips of stream water, turned over and lay down on the fine sand and stones with a satisfied expression and said: "Oh, this water, this water is really a good thing, not only quenching thirst but also very delicious, not to mention this, but I am a little sleepy after drinking." ”

Lao Wu has been looking for Xiao Qi, and has already walked to this creek, and it stands to reason that Xiao Qi will definitely wait for them here, but where did this kid go? But don't have an accident, you can't explain it to Lao Wu.

The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, my head was full of sweat, and I was looking for someone everywhere, and when I turned around, I saw the third child lying by the stream, his face was full of red light, and he was babbling about the water to drink and quench his thirst.

The fifth child replied to him angrily: "Yes, it's delicious, you drink more, this water is not only delicious, quenching thirst, but also diuretic." ”

But the third child lay there lazily without moving, and the amplitude of panting between his abdomen became smaller and smaller, as if he was about to die.

This scared the fifth child very much, and quickly called back to the sixth child who was going upstream, and the two came to the third child to take a look, the third child seemed to be asleep, and the expression on his face was strange, as if he was smiling and smiling like a dummy, and everyone was a little panicked.

The sixth brother stepped forward and patted the third child's face, and seeing that he didn't react, he looked at the river water and said: "It's bad, it's bad, the third brother must be evil, don't drink this stream water, it's not good that there are old zombies buried upstream, and this water is not clean." ”

The sixth man is superstitious, and every time he encounters something unexplainable, he says that he hits the upper body of an evil ghost. The people in the grave team didn't care about these things at first, but every time they heard the old six talk like this, they couldn't help but muttered in their hearts, what they ate was this bowl of rice, and they did the work of digging people's ancestral graves, and there were many taboo things.

"Hurry up and play with the eggs, you have just fallen into the evil spirit, how can he know nonsense all day long, the third child is evil? That may be that I was injured yesterday and didn't react at the time, I walked so far just now, maybe it's a recurrence of internal injuries, don't forget where we are, don't talk nonsense in this big forest, do you understand? The fifth child saw that the third child was not in the right situation, and he was scared and didn't know what to do.

The sixth wanted to continue, but when he heard the fifth child's words, he suddenly remembered something.

I have heard from the villagers that there is a house on the lower hillside of Bear's Ears Ridge on the grave slope, and it is said that it has lived there for several generations. Later, for some unknown reason, the family did not go down the mountain for a long time.

It is said that there was a child who went to the forest to collect branches and firewood, and found that the doors and windows of the house had fallen off and had long been deserted, and the child was timid and did not dare to go in, but just peeked a few times, and when he went home for dinner at night, he casually said that there was a broken house on the mountain, and the doors and windows were all down, and there were several large boxes inside, and I didn't know what they contained.

The child's family didn't take it seriously, and everyone who lived in the mountains knew it, but they hadn't seen anyone come down for years.

I don't know what day it was, and the child's father brought it up in a casual conversation with a neighbor. There is a saying that the speaker has no intention of listening, and there are so many big boxes in the deserted house on the mountain, usually when you hear this in the story, then it is said that there is a treasure hidden in the deserted house, and after taking it away and exchanging money, you can live the rest of your life without worry.

Of course, this is a story, but some people really believe it. The boy who went to the pine forest to collect firewood exaggerated the fact that his son went to the mountains and saw the deserted house and the boxes in it, saying that the doors and windows of the house were closed, and his son was passing by collecting firewood, and as soon as he walked nearby, the door opened, and an old wrinkled hand stretched out from it, and his index finger bent to beckon his son over.

His son was timid just a little closer, and when he got closer, he saw that it was a broken hand, which was caught in the crack of the door, although it was a broken hand, but it was still moving, which was too scary, and his son was scared to run home, but before leaving, he saw from the crack in the door that there were many large golden boxes in the house, all of which were inlaid with gold and silver, and it was estimated that they were filled with countless gold treasures, which were worth some money.

When it came out of his mouth, it became wicked, and everyone who listened to it knew that he was blowing, and he should only listen to it.

But one of the people present who listened to the gossip still really believed it, this person's name is Liu Xi, and he said that when Liu Xi was young, he tripped over the threshold and injured his head, and his nerves have not been normal.

That's not to say that you're walking around the streets like a fool and seeing who scolds whom, but you usually can't see it, but after a period of contact, you will find that this person is not shrewd, not transparent, and feels a little stupid.

It was this Liu Xi who was squatting by the wall at the time and heard about it, and everyone else knew that the child's father was talking nonsense, only this Liu Xi took it seriously if he didn't make it in his mind, and really thought that there was a big box inlaid with gold and silver. In the afternoon, I took a few sacks with an iron pickaxe and went directly to the deserted house halfway up the mountain, and it turned out that I really put a few big boxes in the bright surface of the deserted house. But in the end, it was found that it was not a treasure of gold and silver at all, but a sealed evil.

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