Chapter 174: The Quiet River
I didn't care so much, I didn't sleep well last night, I was already sleepy, and after going upstairs and entering the room, I didn't take off my clothes, and I slept upside down, and I didn't get up until the sun was setting.
Datuan, like me, only got up around that time. As soon as the two of us got up, we heard a sound downstairs, and the fragrance wafted up, and I knew that we were going to eat below, so I immediately sped up, and I was already hungry at this time. When I got dressed and went downstairs, I saw that they had just brought their food to the table.
Go to wash your hands and come back, the old man they have already begun to eat, we are not very polite, eat directly, although the taste here is different from our taste, but it has a different flavor, retains the most original way to eat, especially the bamboo tube rice, it tastes very fragrant.
As soon as I finished eating, when Ah Feng was still cleaning up the table, the old man patted me on the shoulder and motioned for me to go upstairs with him, and all the remaining people looked at me and the old man. Several people thought that the old man didn't know how to speak Mandarin, including Ah Feng and Kong Sanye, but after talking to me for so long yesterday, it had to arouse suspicion.
Today let me go more than him, so the remaining few people must be more suspicious, Datou is the most familiar with me, and he will definitely not suspect that I can speak Miaojia, Kong Sanye and Datuan crooked their mouths, and they will not suspect that I can speak Miaojiahua, only Ah Feng may doubt that I can speak Miaojia instead of suspecting that his old man can speak Mandarin.
In the eyes of several of them, I followed the old man upstairs and into the old man's room. The old man motioned for me to sit down first, and when I was done, he went straight to close the door first, and then went up to the attic again.
The last time the old man went to the attic and took down the jar of five poisonous wine, what will he take down when he goes to the attic this time, my eyes have been following the old man's steps, looking at his figure.
It didn't take long for the old man to come down with a wooden box, which was not big and had a thin layer. The old man put the box in front of me, took out a cloth, and wiped the dust off it. I looked at the old man suspiciously, wondering what was in it.
In fact, there was some judgment in my heart at the beginning, it was very likely that it was the codex mentioned in my grandfather's diary, but there was no way to confirm it before the wooden box was opened.
When the old man opened the wooden box, what was revealed inside was really a book, and it seemed that it should be the grandfather's codex. When I saw this book, I didn't feel the slightest excitement or joy in my heart, as if all this was a logical procedure.
The old man handed the book to me, and when I took the codex and was about to open it, I was stopped by the old man: "Qiangzi, go back and read it, you have time to read it." ”
After saying that, the old man waved his hand and signaled that I could go out. I was about to go out when I remembered that there was something very important that I hadn't asked yet. So he turned around and sat opposite the old man again, and asked him, "Old man, when will all the Zigu on my body be finished?" ”
"What, I had another nightmare last night?" The old man looked up at me, his eyes as flat as water, as if he had known the result.
"yes, it's nightmares again." I leaned back, sighed, and sat down in my chair, waiting for the old man's answer.
"You go back first, give you medicine tomorrow morning, if it goes well, you should be able to discharge it the day after tomorrow." After the old man finished speaking, he went up to the attic by himself, and when I saw the old man's action, I knew that it was time to leave, and went out with the codex.
Datou and Datuan were still sitting downstairs, didn't they look up at the old man's door, and after seeing me coming out of the old man's door, several people immediately stood up and wanted me to go down, but when they saw that it was completely dark outside, they didn't go down, and went directly into my room.
This village is relatively remote, and there is no electricity yet, so there are very few entertainment activities at night.
I went back to the room and didn't open the codex for the first time, but waited for the big head and the big group of them to come in, and I knew that the two of them saw that I didn't go down just now, and they couldn't help but run up and ask, and sure enough, within two minutes, I saw two people enter the room.
Also coming in with them were Crooked Mouth and Kong Sanye, and after they came in, all five of us sat on the bed. I waited for a few of them to hear from me, and I knew they must have a lot of questions.
"Qiangzi, what did the old man of the Feng family call you for, doesn't he know how to speak Chinese, how do you communicate?" Before Kong Sanye and the others could sit down, the question of the big head had already been asked.
Since the old man dared to blatantly call me in public, then he was definitely not afraid to let others know that he was talking Chinese, so I picked out some of the key points about meeting with the old man, if there were only big heads and big groups with crooked mouths, I might say it all, but Kong Sanye is here, so I have to avoid the important and lighten some places.
Actually, I really want to ask now, how did Kong Sanye's dragon pattern knife come about, according to the old man of the A Feng family, this dragon pattern was taken by his master from the cottage, and he may have let his grandfather take it later, but how did Kong Sanye get the dragon pattern knife from his grandfather.
It stands to reason that a treasure of this level of dragon pattern knife, once grandpa gets it, it is impossible to let go, even if someone pays a high price, he will not sell it, and now that he knows that the dragon knife in Kong Sanye's hand was actually left by grandpa, it has to make people suspicious. ‘
That codex, when Kong Sanye and they came in, I had already hidden it, I don't know why, I was more and more vigilant about Kong Sanye, and I felt more and more that he was very problematic.
Kong Sanye is an old fox, and I also know the truth that if you say too much, you will lose, so I don't dare to say more, for fear that Kong Sanye will seize the loophole in his words, in that case, I will appear very passive. So I quickly changed the topic and asked Big Head and Crooked Mouth, what did you gain by going out to play today.
Speaking of this, the big head was interested, and he said how many fish there were in the water, how big the fish was, and he must catch a few and burn them to eat when he had time. The big head said it alone, and the crooked mouth usually couldn't put out a word for a long time, but at this time, he was also energetic, and began to sing and supplement with the big head.
I talked about it for about an hour, all about what I saw and heard along the way, and a large part in the middle also talked about going down to the river to fish when I was a child. After listening for a while, Kong Sanye finally couldn't help but go out and go back to his room to sleep.
Seeing that Kong Sanye was about to go out to sleep, the big head hurriedly got up, took out a flashlight from his backpack, and sent Kong Sanye back. After Kong Sanye went out, he was still talking crookedly just now, but suddenly stopped, and watched Kong Sanye walk out of this room, and then his face became serious.
Only then did I understand that the reason why the crooked mouth and the big head made so many bends was to avoid Kong Sanye, and now that Kong Sanye is gone, it should be time to tell the truth.
But the crooked mouth still didn't say a word, and waited until the big head came back and made a gesture of getting everything done, then he breathed a sigh of relief, gave way to the big head, and let the big head tell us.
The big head was not polite, he sat down and described the scene to us, at the beginning it was the same as the previous description, but after walking a short distance, it was a little different. According to the words of the big head, it is gloomy, and the aquatic plants are very deep, and more importantly, the big head said that the fish in the river are particularly dull, just like if there is no spirituality, as long as it is a person, a stone can hit the fish.
"Qiangzi, you don't know, how big the fish is, the shortest one is half a meter long, if you take it out and sell it, you will definitely be able to sell it for a good price. But to tell the truth, when I saw the fish, I really didn't dare to eat it, like a fool. The big head gestured as he spoke, as if he thought the fish was really a fool.
The two men walked on for a short time, when they saw a relatively high steep slope and saw another tributary. The tributary was a waterfall left over from the top of the steep slope, and it didn't seem to be very big, so the big head and the crooked mouth didn't care, and the steep slope was difficult to climb after all, so they continued to walk up the river below.
But the problem arose again, there were a lot of fish in the downstream, but when you went up the river, you couldn't see anything. Not only can't you see the fish, you can't see any animals at the water's edge, but you can at least hear some bird chirping and the like when you're down, but here, it's so quiet that you can't hear anything.
The big head said that the silence there was frightening, and he and the crooked mouth walked up a distance again, but did not dare to continue walking, and saw that it was already late, so he returned directly.
"Qiangzi, isn't it written in your grandfather's diary that when we arrived at the lake, there was a section of the river like this, look at the section we walked, is it recorded in your grandfather's diary?" I also remembered that the big head said this, and it was indeed written in my grandfather's diary.
"Big head, when did you peek at my stuff?" I asked, looking up at the big head. The big head said with some embarrassment: "I don't want to see what you were looking at when you were chatting with Alan that night, so I secretly glanced at a few times, only a few glances, and definitely didn't peek at anything else." ”