Chapter 22: The Swamp
When I heard this voice, I turned around and saw that it was Jie'an, and I couldn't help but wonder: why hasn't he slept in the middle of the night? Is it also up to let go?
Jie'an was also quite surprised to see me, I suddenly found that he was holding a string of things in his hand, and it was still smoking, and I could see that he was not up to go to the toilet, but seemed to be smoking something. I couldn't help but be vigilant, in the middle of the night, this person was sneaky and sneaky, what the hell did he want to do?
Thinking about it like this, I ignored the tofu in the squatting pit and walked towards Jie'an.
At the moment he saw me, Jie'an's expression was obviously nervous, as if something had been broken, his expression reminded me of what happened before going to bed, and he also subconsciously moved the thing in his hand back. My heart moved, and I couldn't care about being polite, so I snatched the thing with my hand, took a closer look, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's calamus?" What do you smoke it for? ”
Calamus is an aquatic herb. There is a fragrance, in traditional culture, it is said that it is a spiritual grass that can prevent epidemics and drive away evil spirits, and orchids, narcissus, and chrysanthemums are called "flowers and plants four elegance". There is a couplet among the people that says: Holding the Ai flag to recruit Baifu, the door hangs the sword to kill a thousand evils. In the countryside, wormwood is often smoked at night to drive away mosquitoes, but it is very rare to smoke calamus, and only when there is evil in the house, this thing will be smoked.
I stared at the half-smoked calamus in my hand, and countless conjectures popped up in my mind: Is Jie'an's house unclean? I thought of the scene where Jie'an's fingers trembled before going to sleep, and I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, grabbed his arm violently, and said in a low voice: "Sue me, is there a problem with the last eight characters?" ”
Jie'an was shocked, probably because he didn't expect me to be so keen, and stammered: "You, how do you know?" Don't you feel it yourself? ”
I said, "What does it feel?" What do you really know to say it? ”
Jie'an looked very nervous, looked around, and suddenly lowered his voice very low, and said, "Judging by this eight characters...... She, she should have died two months ago. ”
I gasped violently, my heart suddenly beating wildly, and I felt my voice a little dry: "What do you mean?" ”
Jie'an said: "Either this eight characters are wrong, or she...... It's not her anymore, or I can't get home, and it's a fork. "I've seen his ability to tell fortunes for me and tofu, although I don't say that I have insight into the world, but I also have two brushes, and I was stunned for a while, and my mouth was full of bitterness.
If what he said was true, wouldn't Xiao Jing ......
However, Xiao Jing is obviously a big living person, how can she be dead?
After Jie'an finished speaking, he took advantage of this to break free from my hand and said, "Anyway, you can do it yourself, and leave my house tomorrow morning, and I will not entertain you for breakfast." I stood in the courtyard at night, and my heart felt like a heavy stone had been crushed, and at this moment, Tofu trotted over with his pants down.
I shook my head and put the oddity down for now. Maybe he really miscalculated, or maybe Xiao Jing's eight characters were wrong, after all, most people can figure out the year, month and day, but the time of birth, once the parents are careless, it is easy to make mistakes. Thinking of this, I calmed down, and while walking back with tofu, I said, "Why are you so slow, are you pooping or eating?" ”
Tofu pursed his lips, looked at me with disdain, and said, "Uneducated, speaking is vulgar." What is or not, I just pulled it and hit the plane by the way. I tripped and almost fell to the ground, and said angrily, "Can you be a little more shameless?" Shut up, don't talk to me, I'll be pissed off by you sooner or later. ”
Tofu looked complaining, sighed, and said: "People like you who hug left and right all day long, where can we understand the pain of our single young people, don't stand and talk without backache." ”
I was so angry that I almost scolded my mother, sneered when I heard this, looked at my watch, and said, "Even with the plane, it took ten minutes, fast enough." Tofu was suddenly struck and stood in place, revealing an expression of the sky falling.
Early the next morning, I remembered Jie'an's words last night, worried about regeneration, so I woke everyone up early, ate some dry food I brought, and urged to go on the road.
Entering the crater area of Langya Treasure Palace, you have to take a road down the mountain, the weather is hot, everyone can't speak, bow their heads and walk forward, not long after, I found that Xiao Jing fell behind. I turned around and was about to give her a hand, Xiao Jing bit her red lip, looked at Gu Wenmin in front of her, and said, "I can do it, I'm not here to trouble you, don't help me." ”
Looking at her jealous and competitive appearance, I couldn't help but smile, and said in my heart that it seemed that I had thought too much, how could I believe it all when I said it, how could such a living, angry and jealous person die early? Xiao Jing gritted her teeth and insisted, refusing to let me help, so I went with her, at this time, it is good to let her exercise and get used to it, and if there is any danger at that time, she can also run faster.
Our footsteps were relatively fast, and at about dusk, we arrived near the first line of heaven as the villagers said.
The so-called first line of heaven is the only passage into the interior of the crater, the whole crater seems to have been split by a big knife, revealing a gap, the narrow place can only accommodate one person to pass guò, standing at the entrance and looking inside, the afterglow of the sunset can not penetrate it. While it was still nightfall, we decided to make a big push and cross the first line of sky before nightfall tonight, and then camp inside the crater, which would save a lot of time.
Everyone has no objections, after a day's trek, even I am tired, let alone Xiao Jing, my tired legs tremble, and in the end, I can't care about being strong, so I can only be supported. The angular rocks on both sides are easy to scratch the skin, and the cracks are natural nests for snakes, insects, rats and ants.
Walking in the front is the brother of the family of Zhen Rui, named Zhen Ji, the young man has a good personality, and his spirit is also very full, all the way to the front, about touch in the line of the sky for about ten minutes, then listen to the front of Zhen Ji said: "It's the exit, hey." He stopped abruptly and did not go any further.
Zhen Rui, who followed him, asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Zhen Ji said: "Brother, there is a big swamp ahead. ”
Swamp? I was a little puzzled, so I squeezed forward, and I squeezed to the front, and when I looked out of the exit, I couldn't help but be shocked, it was really a big swamp. This swamp is not visible at a glance, there is a thin layer of black water floating on the surface, and the water is full of rotten leaves and rotten branches.
I didn't expect that there was a large swamp behind this line, and the group was immediately blocked here.
Zhong Gong said: "It's not strange that there are swamps here, so what should I do now?" ”
Zhen Rui thought for a while and said, "Go back first and then figure out a way." "So far, we have to retreat from the sky and retreat back to the entrance. Everyone took out their tents and set up camp, lit bonfires, and discussed countermeasures while eating compressed dry food.
If it's a small swamp, we can go through the guò rope or something, but the swamp behind the sky is too big for this method to be useful, so I thought about it and came up with an idea, "Just make a raft and slide through." ”
Gu Wenmin nodded and said, "The Indians in South America will slid in the swamp with planks tied to their feet, and they will also use rafts to move, I think this method is feasible." "They were well fed and drunk, and while it was still dark, they immediately began to collect the materials for making the rafts, and the most important thing in the mountains was trees, large and small, and they were prepared before nightfall.
The group divided the work, took turns resting and pitching the raft, and in the early hours of the next morning, a sturdy raft was successful.
There are no outsiders in this place, and Zhen Rui estimated that he was uncomfortable wearing a mask all the time, so he took off half of the mask, and scared Xiao Jing and Gu Wenmin, who didn't know it, but fortunately, Zhen Rui didn't mind his appearance, with an extremely handsome and ugly face, he made a gesture, and everyone crossed the raft and entered the sky.
It worked, the raft did not sink, and the tension on the surface of the swamp was so great that it would slide forward with a specially made wooden mallet. However, we didn't prepare gas masks this time, and the smell of this swamp is not good, and after smelling it for a long time, I feel a little dizzy.
The rest of us are fine, where did Xiao Jing experience this, sitting on the raft with her knees crossed, as if she was seriously ill.
It was so different from what we imagined, I thought it would be a jungle-covered basin when I entered the sky, but who would have thought that it would be a swamp with no end in sight, flanked by crater walls, growing dense vegetation, and from time to time I could hear the chirping of various animals, which I could see at first, and when the raft slid to the center, even the crater wall could not be seen.
All of a sudden, it was as if we had entered a vast black lake.
As the sun rises at noon, the fog in the swamp is steaming, blocking our vision a lot, and the unpleasant ** smell is getting thicker and thicker, and people want to vomit. In this environment, no one was in the mood to speak, and the raft moved forward in silence.
At this moment, Tofu suddenly found something, pointed not far away, and said, "Look, there seems to be gold there." ”
Gold?
Gold in the swamps? The kid was running the train again, and looking in the direction of his finger, I couldn't help but be stunned: there was really gold.