There was no choice but to get out of the car and walk forward. The car belonged to Ah Qing, and it was directly driven to the side of the road and hidden with branches and leaves of trees, on the one hand, to be stolen, and on the other hand, to prevent it from getting wet in the rain.

"Third Master Kong, it takes two or three hours to enter that village, if you hurry up now, we can spend the night in the village before dark, if it is slower, we may have to sleep in the woods." Aaron's Mandarin is not too standard, but he can understand it.

Seven of us carried seven bags on our backs and started the climb up the mountain. At the beginning, I felt that such weather and such climbing were very relaxing, and it was rare to have such an opportunity, so I felt very relaxed.

But then, half an hour later, we didn't think that way anymore. The small road is rarely walked, and the people in the village do not come out for most of the year, and the people outside do not enter it for most of the year, so the path has been occupied by weeds and branches on the side, and there is no difference between walking in the jungle.

Ah Qing and Ah Long, one of them is holding a knife in front of the road, our progress is very slow, and the bags on everyone's backs are also very heavy, this time Kong Sanye wants to fight a long battle, and the backpack is full. So after more than an hour, we had covered less than a quarter of the way.

"Third Master Kong, it seems that we won't be able to get to the village tonight, everyone get ready to sleep in the wild." Aqing turned around apologetically and said to us.

We have also seen the situation here, and we will definitely not blame them, and we have not experienced sleeping in the wild, especially Kong Sanye, who estimates that the number of times he has slept in the wild is much more than me and the big head group combined.

After climbing for more than an hour, seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, Aaron said that it was time to prepare to find a place to sleep in the open and prepare dinner. In this mountain, as soon as the sun sets, it gets dark very quickly, and we have to prepare everything we need for a camping in this short time.

The most important thing is, of course, the fire, and the autumn evenings, especially in the mountains, are cold. If there is no fire, no one will be able to hold out at night. Luckily, there are endless woods, and if we do it, we can pick up piles of dry firewood. Datou and I were going to prepare firewood nearby, while Ah Long and Ah Qing set up a simple tent over there using branches and leaves.

By the time we had lit the fire, the big tuans and crooked beaks had already come back from there to hunt some hares and pheasants and stuff. There were seven of us, and after eating, we were divided into three vigils. I was in the group with Datou, Aqing and Aaron were in group, Datuan and Crooked Mouth were in group.

The first vigil was Aqing and Aaron, and the big head and I were the last. Ah Long and Ah Qing set up a total of three simple tents, and Datou and I went to sleep first. But they didn't wake me up and Big Head with Big Mouth, to be exact, they didn't wake me up, and when I woke up, I found that all of them had already packed up their things and were waiting for me.

After eating some leftover barbecue from last night, we set off again. The road on the mountain is still very difficult to walk, and Ah Long and Ah Qing have been waving their knives in front to open the way.

"Ah Long, is there only one way to Longxi Village?" I thought about things as I walked and asked Aaron in front of me.

The reason for this question is because this road looks like no one has walked for half a year, and if there is a road to enter the village, then it is very likely that grandpa did not come to this village. If Grandpa hadn't entered that village, then what was the point of us going over?

"I don't know this very well, every time I come, I enter the village from this road, I seem to have heard that there is another road, which is more difficult and dangerous, and I have never been there." What Aaron said gave me a wave of hope that my grandfather had entered the village by another way.

After three hours, we finally climbed to the top of the mountain. Looking down from the top of the mountain, it is particularly beautiful, not the kind of effect that has been processed in TV commercials, but a real beauty. The top of the mountain is surrounded by clouds and mist, which is beautiful and makes people forget to return.

"Qiangzi, Kong Sanye, you see, that is Longxi Village, and all the people in that village are Miao people, but don't worry, those people are all familiar Miao, and they are hospitable, and they will not have any hostility towards you. But don't walk around in this mountain, there are a lot of seedlings hidden in the mountain, they don't like to be disturbed by the outside world, especially if you don't understand the Miao dialect, there will be problems when you encounter it. Standing on the top of the mountain, Aaron pointed to the village at the bottom of the mountain and said to us.

Looking down from the top of the hill, the village looks like it has grown out of the plains of the basin, surrounded by mountains and only a small river flowing slowly. On the top of the top, you can hear the rooster and the dog bark, you can see the smoke curling, a harmonious pastoral scene, looking at this scene, all feel relaxed and happy.

I looked up the river, but I never found the lake in my grandfather's diary, so maybe I could find it by going into the village or continuing up the river.

"Third Master Kong, Qiangzi, let's go, I have a friend's family who lives here, go over there and ask them first to see if your grandfather has come here." This is exactly what I mean, as the saying goes, acquaintances are easy to do, and they rely on friends when they go out. Since Aaron's friend lives here, things must sound a lot easier.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, the village was not very far, but we found that the way down the mountain was more difficult than the way up, and it took us four hours to descend from the top to the bottom of the mountain. Fortunately, after going down the mountain, it was all the way to flat ground, although the road was also covered with weeds, but it was better to walk.

After Ah Long arrived at the bottom of the mountain, he was familiar with the road and walked directly towards Longxi Village. When I first arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard Ah Long shouting towards the village at the top of his voice: "Ah Feng is not here, I have come to visit the door." ”

Later, we learned that this Ah Feng turned out to be Ah Long's cousin, and Ah Long often came to visit the door, so the people in the village felt nothing when they heard Ah Long's voice.

A few minutes later, we saw a young man dressed in Miao costume hurrying towards the entrance of the village. But when he came here, he saw that Ah Long was not alone, but there were seven people in total, and he was stunned for a moment, and then came over to greet Ah Long.

"Ah Feng, let me introduce you, these people are from outside, and his grandfather may have come here, so they are here to find them, I don't know if there are any new people in your village who have been here recently." Ah Long pointed at me and explained his intention directly and clearly.

"Yes, there is, but #¥%&......" Ah Feng spoke very quickly, and after saying a few words to Ah Long, it became Miao language, and Ah Long also spoke to him in Miao language.

Ah Qing can understand the Miao family's dialect, and I can only watch with a few people in the big head group, especially me, I want to know what they are talking about as soon as possible, and Ah Feng's sentence before made my heart rise to my throat.

Finally, five minutes later, their conversation ended. Ah Long turned around and said to us in non-standard Mandarin: "Kong Sanye, Qiangzi, Ah Feng said that a few Han people came a few days ago, and some of them stayed overnight at his house, and the old man of his family seems to know that person. It's just that the person disappeared the next day, and the old man didn't know where he went. ”

The man didn't come from the same way we went, he must have come from another way, and he disappeared the next day when he arrived in the village. And according to Ah Feng's description, that person's appearance is very similar to his grandfather, and my first feeling is that that person must be grandpa, but we don't know where grandpa went.

"Ah Feng, can we go to your house to borrow it?" Since grandpa lived in Ah Feng's house, and it was very likely that the old man of Ah Feng's family knew grandpa, I always felt that I could find out about my grandfather's whereabouts from the old man of Ah Feng's family, so I asked Ah Feng.

Ah Feng's personality is also very easy-going, and he is very hospitable, and when he heard that we were going to his house to borrow it, he naturally agreed. There are only two people in Ah Feng's family, the old man of his family and him. Originally, Ah Feng was also the same as Ah Long, working as a guide outside to make money, but due to the old man's poor health, Ah Feng returned home during this time to concentrate on serving the old man.

When he arrived at Ah Feng's house, the old man of his family was not there, and it was said that he had gone to the village to visit the door. Most of the people in this village are left-behind old people, and the elderly people's homes will always have endless words, and there is also a sense of intimacy, after all, they have experienced so many years together, and they can understand each other better.

Ah Feng's house, like other buildings in this village, is a wooden stilted building, a total of three times, the top floor is rarely up, and the small river flows slowly under Ah Feng's house.

After arriving here, Ah Qing and Ah Long's work was completed, Kong Sanye went to settle the rest of the money directly, I thought Ah Long and Ah Qing would go back, but I didn't expect them to say that they would not go back until we found our grandfather.

It's a bit difficult for too many people to know about looking for grandpa, so after talking about it, I persuaded Ah Long and Ah Qing to go back tomorrow, so that we can save some things. And the codex that grandpa said must not be able to see people, if you know that grandpa robbed the tomb in Miaojiang, even if this village is a mature seedling, it will not tolerate this.

Just after we discussed for a long time, and finally sent Ah Qing and Ah Long back tomorrow, the old man of Ah Feng's family came back.