Chapter Eighty-Nine: White Bones
The white bones lay in the old man's bed, and I was scared out of a sweat.
Before I could regain my composure, a pair of hands slapped me on the shoulder from behind.
I turned around sharply, and it was the old man Zhang in a mountaineering suit.
"Young man, what's wrong with me?"
I frowned and looked at him vigilantly, and for a while, I pointed to the side and whispered:
"There's movement in the grass over there, I'll tell everyone to get up and be on guard."
The old man smiled and waved his hand.
"It's okay, I was there just to relieve you."
The old man's words stunned me, the grass over there is not high, and I should be able to see someone hiding in it, why didn't I see him.
I felt that something was wrong, and I plucked up the courage to point to the tent and asked:
"And what's going on in your tent?"
"Oh, you mean that," said the old man, bowing his head into the tent, pointing to the bones lying in the bed.
"She's my wife, she's been dead for more than 20 years, I'm carrying her everywhere I go, I'm sorry to scare you."
What the? His wife?
I've seen a lot of news, there are indeed some perverts abroad, after the death of the wife to sleep with the corpse in his arms, the body is hidden in the cabinet, buried in the wall, but this old man carries his wife's bones wherever he goes, and this degree of perversion can definitely rank in the top three.
The old man saw that I was sweating, withdrew a tissue, handed it to me, and said:
"It's all because I didn't inform everyone in advance, and I'm afraid of scaring you, so wipe your sweat quickly."
I didn't believe his words, so I took the tissue and didn't say anything more, then turned around and went back to my tent.
I slipped into the tent and was still thinking about the chilling bones.
"Shit wife!!" I cursed in my heart.
This old man hasn't been sneaky since he was in the car, and he doesn't look like a good person, which makes me catch it right, but instead flaunts himself as a lover!
I couldn't bear this, I quickly woke up Lao Liu, who was sleeping on the side, Lao Liu was woken up by me and thought something was going on, and asked nervously:
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
I hurried over and whispered what I had just seen and what the old man said to Lao Liu.
Lao Liu was also quite shocked when he heard this, and thought about it for a long time and went to the old man's tent with a stick to find out.
Old man Zhang didn't seem to care and welcomed me and Lao Liu into the tent, this white bone was still lying in the quilt and did not move, at close range, it was not missing from head to toe, it was really a complete human skeleton.
I couldn't help but gasp, thinking that the old man carried these things on his back every day, and took them out at night to sleep in his arms, it was really eerie and terrifying, and I felt a cool breeze on my back.
Lao Liu looked at Bai Gu carefully and asked in a low voice:
"Brother, what year did your wife die?"
Old man Zhang replied:
"I got sick in seven years and didn't leave, I missed the old and couldn't let her go, so I buried her in a well-dressed grave and took the bones with me."
Lao Liu nodded when he heard this, and beckoned me out.
That's it?
Out of the tent, before I could ask, Lao Liu whispered:
"It's just an ordinary white bone, it's okay, don't make a fuss, go to sleep"
After Lao Liu finished speaking, he didn't wait for my reaction, and went into the tent to sleep by himself.
Lao Liu can see it, I can't, even if what he said is true, but in China they pay attention to entering the soil for peace, he shares the bed with the bones every day, and occasionally says a word to the bones, thinking about it gives me goosebumps.
I was still a little sleepy, but after such a terrible incident, I couldn't sleep at all, and this time I not only had to prevent the beasts from attacking, but I also had to keep an eye on this old perverted tent.
After dawn, everyone got up, Bai Fan saw that I was in good spirits, and couldn't help but ask me what happened, the old man's bones were on my back all day long, I was afraid that Bai Fan would inadvertently find out and scare her, so I asked her to be mentally prepared to tell her about it.
What I never expected was that Bai Fan not only didn't feel terrible when he heard this, but praised Old Man Zhang for being a rare good man, and said that he envied that they must have had a vigorous love story when they were young.
Women's way of thinking is really different from that of men, and I almost thundered me when I heard Bai Fan's words.
After breakfast, we packed up our tents and started looking for Momiji Valley.
Today the weather was good, the sun was abundant, and we walked for another morning according to the directions on the map.
This section of the road is the main route shared by the two maps, it should not be wrong, and when we reached the fork, our group sat down to drink water and rest, and studied how to go next.
I was leaning on the big tree to drink water, and Old Man Zhang deliberately sat next to me.
I looked at the big backpack he was carrying, and I couldn't help but shudder, and said:
"Uncle Zhang, the weather is good, don't you take your aunt out to bask in the sun?"
Old man Zhang smiled when he heard this, and said:
"No, the sun is too full today, I'm afraid of damaging her"
This sentence is strong enough, in fact, if this white bone is really his wife, I will sincerely admire him, but this old man did not leave a good impression on me from the beginning, I always feel that he hides a knife in his smile, and he does not look like a good person at all.
The old man saw that I didn't want to talk to him more, so he didn't sit for a while and went over to study the map with Lao Liu.
His apprentice also knew that the matter of the white bones had been made public, and he saw that I had a bad attitude, so he also made do with it and said to me:
"Brother, don't be afraid of the white bones on my master's back, I can testify, it is really my master, the two of them have a good relationship, but my master died when I was very young"
This kid is in the same group as Old Man Zhang, how can he be trusted with his words, I just nodded politely.
This kid began to tell me how virtuous Shi Niang was when she was alive, and how the relationship between the two of them was like glue, and Balabala said a lot of things, and I didn't take a word to heart.
After resting, we finally agreed to walk in the direction marked on Lao Liu's map, and a few of us picked up our luggage and started to hurry again.
Changbai Mountain is empty and continuous, the deeper we go, the more difficult it is to discern the direction, we stop and go, in the blink of an eye the sun is slanting westward, and the sky is almost dark again.
I was worried that Bai Fan's body could not withstand it, so he carried his luggage over, just as we walked to the second fork in the map, suddenly the wind was fierce, and the leaves on the ground flew out, and it was difficult to open my eyes.
The wind blew stronger and stronger, and it made us unsteady on our feet. Although they hugged the big tree, they had the posture of blowing us away.
Old man Zhang raised his head and glanced into the distance, and shouted at the apprentice next to him:
"Xiao Zhou, please incense"
Hearing this, the man quickly took off his backpack, took out a stick of incense from his pocket, and lit it with a lighter on his back.
After the incense was lit, he quickly handed it to Old Man Zhang, who took the pillar of incense, and walked forward with the apprentice against the strong wind, until he reached the intersection and stopped to put the incense on the ground.
He was still muttering something while sticking it in his mouth.
It's strange to say that as soon as this incense landed, after a while, the gale actually stopped instantly.
Bai Fan trembled in fright and held my arm in shock, Lao Liu saw that the wind stopped, stepped forward and said:
"Brother, what's going on with this strange wind, is there anything to say?"
Old man Zhang patted off the leaves blowing on his body, and said with a smile:
"It's a good thing to meet this wind, it means that we are on the right track"
"How?"
Old man Zhang continued:
"The road to Momiji Valley often changes, but I heard that if you go right, you have to experience a wind and rain on the way, and I have only experienced one strong wind in my eight trips in the past 40 years, but I didn't expect to experience it again today."
Lao Liu nodded when he heard this, and greeted everyone with trust to continue on his way.
We continued along the intersection of the incense planting and came to a wide flat land that was rarely seen.
Seeing that it was not early, he found a good place to set up his tent and prepared to spend the night here.
After last night's incident, I deliberately kept me and Bai Fan's tent away from the old man.
Old man Zhang didn't get angry when he saw it, he just nodded and smiled at me.
After setting up the tent, a few of us sat around and chatted over dinner as we did yesterday.
Bai Fan was kind to Xin'er, and asked about the story of Old Man Zhang and his wife with a longing face.
Old man Zhang seemed to be happy to talk about this, and recalled with a smile.
We were fascinated by the story of their young people, and if I hadn't slapped myself in time, we would have been fooled by him.
Bai Fan is emotional, and he has long been moved to cry into a tearful person.
In order not to be confused by the old man, I stopped listening, and stood up and went to the neighborhood to relax.
Although it was getting dark, there was still some visibility in the forest, so I didn't dare to go far, so I found a big tree to pee, and suddenly saw a middle-aged man in casual clothes in front of me who waved his hand nervously to let me pass.
After walking in the mountains for two days, the first time I saw someone, I quickly lifted my pants and walked over.
When the middle-aged man saw me coming, he looked behind me and said in a low voice:
"Dude, you're also here to find Momiji Valley, right?"
I nodded yes and asked:
"You too?"
The middle-aged man snorted and said that he had been following us all along, and he had come after me when he saw me alone.
Puzzled, I asked:
"Why are you following behind, why don't you catch up and walk together?"
The middle-aged man pursed his lips and said nervously:
"The old man in the mountaineering suit is walking with you, how dare I follow?"
I asked:
"What don't you dare, what do you mean?"
The middle-aged man sighed and fumbled around in his backpack for a long time and took out a newspaper.
Point to a news section for me to see.
This newspaper was published the day before we went up the mountain, and I took it and looked at it carefully, and the headline on it read:
Tourists on the road to Changbai Mountain were killed, two people were killed and many were injured.
I took a closer look, and in the black-and-white scene map published in the newspaper, a small passenger car overturned on the side of the road covered with blood, and there were two corpses lying nearby, although the faces of the corpses were mosaic, but I could recognize the clothes and body of these two people, it was the old man Zhang and his apprentice in mountaineering clothes!!
I stood upside down with my hair all over my body, and looked back in the direction of the tent, the old man was chatting with Bai Fan for some reason, and while talking, he took out the eerie white bones from his backpack one by one!