The pleasant scenery on the mountain road quickly dispelled the gloom in our hearts, and I restrained myself from thinking about the tattoo again. We vomited so much just now, and it didn't take long for our stomachs to start croaking. Fortunately, the dry food in the bag is very sufficient, and you can eat it when you take it out.

"Other people bring compressed biscuits for travel and adventure, but you bring compressed beef jerky and super concentrated chocolate bars, which are moisturizing." I teased as I munched on beef jerky.

"The times are developing, the equipment and food for wild adventures are improving, I am keeping up with the pace of the times, you can eat if you have it, don't sell it cheaply." Lao Tan counted me down.

This kind of chat made our progress a lot easier, plus those fruit trees that could not be picked along the way, after walking for more than an hour, the two of us began to feel a little stretched, no way, the two of us could only stop and rest for a while. This is also my lack of experience in the wilderness, but fortunately, there are no major problems. Along the way, I kept an eye on the location of the cave I had been to as a child, but later on, exhaustion made me forget about it completely.

Before, based on my experience as a child, I thought that we should rush to the village in just over three hours. But after all, Lao Tan and I have been in the car for nearly ten hours, and now we are desperate to climb up, and our physical strength is declining very quickly. Fortunately, it was late in the summer, and although it took nearly five hours to stop and go, I still saw the yellow horn tree at the entrance of the village at dusk, which I don't know how many years it had lived.

"It's finally here." With a wooden stick in my hand, I looked at the towering tree, and all kinds of feelings suddenly came to me.

"Holy." Lao Tan sat on a big rock on the side of the road, "Big brother, I now know why you won the school's 5,000-meter track and field championship, hey, my grandma, I Tan Wei probably haven't walked such a long way in the past 20 years." ”

"Alright, let's hurry into the village, my father may be waiting." I pulled up Lao Tan and felt extremely relaxed.

The houses in the village are all wooden houses built on the hillside, high and low hidden in the woods, and the terraced rice fields that have long been abandoned are still the same as they were back then. Compared to my memory, there seemed to be no change here, but as I got closer, I felt a kind of desolation.

The boatman was right, there must have been no one here, and under the gradually gloomy sky and lingering damp heat, a ghostly silence gradually enveloped us.

"Yuan Jie, you, your hometown is quiet enough, damn it, why do I have goosebumps." Lao Tan looked at the dilapidated house in front of him and muttered.

Don't talk about him, even my hometown is also stunned at the moment. I used to think about the quiet in the mountains and felt very comfortable, but now when I come back, I feel as if there is nothing left in the village except for the barrenness. Although I didn't admit it, I was actually the same as Lao Tan, looking at the swaying woods, listening to the "creaking" sound of the wooden door being blown by the wind, and my heartbeat was speeding up one after another.

After walking through several rooms, we saw almost the same scene, and my old house was right in front of me, but I suddenly thought of a disturbing but very real question: if my father has not returned, what will I do tonight?

As soon as I finished thinking about it, I slapped myself, "Damn, what are you thinking, and you're afraid of your own family?" ”

Old Tan must have heard my muttering, so he walked up and pointed to the open wooden door of my old house. "I look like that, your father probably hasn't arrived yet, have you seen it, your door frame is about to fall off, let's stay there tonight?"

"Nonsense, I don't have a problem if you want to sleep at the entrance of the village, even if my father doesn't catch up, don't we have a tent? Just, get used to it in advance. After saying that, I stopped talking nonsense and strode towards the old house.

After entering the lobby of the room, Lao Tan's hearts and I relaxed slightly. The house was cleaned up, and it seems that the man my dad invited had cleaned it before leaving. Although there are no electrical appliances and furniture in the house, the tables, chairs, benches, and beds are very clean, and the quilt should have been bought not long ago, and the best thing is that there are mosquito coils, candles and lighters in the cabinet next to the bed.

After looking around the room, I patted Lao Tan on the chest proudly, "How is it?" Lao Tzu's house is good. ”

Lao Tan saw that the environment here was really good, so he replied: "That's that, Brother Yuan, your family must be a local tyrant in this mountain." ”

"You're sarcastic about me, aren't you?"

"Hehe, eh, I'll tell you seriously, I see a lot of firewood at the back of the house, and now it's dark, and only candles are not enough. The yard in front is quite large, so let's make a bonfire and roast some game. ”

After listening to it, I was happy, "The campfire is no problem, it's dark this day, you dare to go to the mountains to find game?" Let me tell you first, there are tigers on this mountain. ”

Who knew that the old Tan thief smiled, and then took out two bags of sealed meat steaks from his bag. "I've got it all."

I was angry and funny in my heart, "Damn, I said why is your bag so much heavier than mine, it turns out that you have done so many tricks." ”

"It's the first time I've been in such a deep mountain, so why don't you enjoy it?"

I was right, so the two of them began to carry the firewood from behind the house to the yard, and soon a bonfire was ready. Although the conditions in the mountains are not good, the sweet mountain spring is readily available, set up the meat steak, sprinkle a little salt, the aroma of the meat matches the clean air in the mountain, that feeling, there is really no way to express it in words.

In terms of enjoyment, Lao Tan is estimated to be on the rankings. When he cleared his bag, I realized that half of it was food and beer. But at this time, I didn't bother to scold him, thinking that if I wanted to continue traveling in the future, I would definitely have to go to Dazhou to re-purchase equipment for him.

At almost ten o'clock in the evening, we sat by the campfire, drank beer, ate barbecue, smoked cigarettes, and for a while, all the fatigue of the journey disappeared. We first talked about the sea blowing from all over the world, then talked about things in college, and then talked about women, which was very fun.

When the fun was almost over, the two of them just looked at the quiet night and the spotless starry sky in the mountains and began to be in a daze. When I think of my dad and the people I spent at the Beijing Hotel last time, I start to feel a little worried. Before the last separation, although he didn't make an appointment with me, according to his style, as long as there are no accidents, he will definitely rush to the house before me. If I don't see anyone else now, could something be wrong?

Thinking of this, I feel a little helpless. Even if something goes wrong with my dad, what can I do? I don't even know what he's doing, where he is, the only thing I can do is wait. I secretly thought about the clues around my father over the years, "What would he do?" Underworld? It's not like, he's going to be an uncle even if he doesn't have money, where is there someone as shabby as my father? Smuggling and drug trafficking? It's not impossible, but I don't shy away from seeing my dad when he usually takes me around Beijing, and once he rented a broken Santana, copied a ticket to the police, and didn't feel weak when he got his ID card. Could he be a pimp? Even spies and so on. ”

Something suddenly occurred to me. At that time, when he wanted to give me a box with black stripes on a red background, I don't know what it was, and I suddenly connected the box with the thorn on the back of the baby girl's corpse I saw today. I don't really think there is any connection between the two in terms of appearance, but I think the two things give me a similar feeling, but I still can't say what it is. My dad was so nervous at the time, could what he did have anything to do with the box?

I thought about it for a while, and suddenly I seemed to feel something, and when I turned my head to look, Lao Tan didn't know when Lu Dao was gone.