I was worried that I would be reported, but the old patriarch was shocked and said, "Bear paw! This, this...... Did you really meet a bear? "It's over, this time even if you jump into the Yellow River, you can't wash it.

Seeing that the old patriarch didn't believe it, the fat man put the bear's paw next to the sweet potato and said, "What are you lying to, do you see it, both of them are left palms." As soon as the fat man said this, the house and the house were silent, and everyone looked at us with strange eyes, not like fear or any other emotion, in short, strange.

I was shocked, and said in my heart: On other people's territory, hunting and killing rare animals, these mountain people, shouldn't they rush up directly and tie us up?

The fat man also saw that something was wrong, and immediately silenced. At this time, the old patriarch's expression gradually returned to normal, looked at the bear paw on the table, and said with a smile: "The bear paw is not cooked, so it should be cooked slowly." After speaking, he shouted at a bare-bottomed child about ** years old outside the door: "Go get more firewood." ”

Immediately afterwards, the child carried a large bundle of dry firewood and put it on the edge of the fire, and the old patriarch said that we outsiders do not know how to eat bear paws, and the real bear paws must be used with honey in the mountains first, so they took the two bear paws and opened them up, and we were dumbfounded when we watched, and for about an hour, the two bear paws were cooked, and a layer of emerald green wild vegetables was scattered on them, and the fragrance was pervasive, and the fat man immediately grunted and swallowed saliva.

A few of us rushed to the mountain road all day, I was already hungry, where can I endure it at this time, I was disgusted at first, but now I am a fragrance, and then I look at the image, the saliva in the mouth will continue to secrete, and a few people will eat around the broken wooden table.

The fat man greeted the old patriarch: "Come, come, eat together, ouch old man, your craftsmanship is really amazing." "The old patriarch is not polite, eat with us, a bunch of people outside the door are staring, but there are only two bear paws, and the six of us can only taste one taste, is it difficult to invite everyone in?

But these mountain people still know how to be polite, and after staring at them for a while, they dispersed one after another.

We ate bear's paws with sweet potatoes, chatted with the old patriarch during the meal, and the old patriarch asked us what we were doing, how could we meet a bear? I said nonsense: "We are from a photography magazine in Hangzhou, we came to Wushan to shoot some landscapes and wild animals, originally planned to spend the night in the village, but the mountain road was too difficult to walk, delayed time, as soon as the night was dark, we met jackals and bears, but several of us have practiced martial arts, and finally escaped." ”

The old patriarch was glad and asked where we met, and I said that it was not far, about a kilometer away. Then, we talked about the stockade.

This is really a Tujia village, but due to the intermarriage between Tu and Han, most of them have been sinicized, and the accent in the village is out of tune Sichuan. The old patriarch, surnamed Chen, was said to be the most powerful hunter in the village when he was young.

This village is called Agu Cottage, in Wushan, Wushan is full of mountains and stones, the land that can be used for crop breeding is very small, the food grown, only enough to eat for half a year, the second half of the year is not settled, so the people in the village rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, dig wild vegetables, pick mountain fungi, find fungus, go to the stream to catch fish and catch crabs in spring and summer, the mountains are full of ripe wild fruits in autumn, the animals are full of fat and meat, set traps to catch mountain deer and catch rabbits in winter, and when they are free on weekdays, they go out to hunt hares, catch pheasants, and eat the mountain treasures that people in the city yearn for.

It's a pity that although these things can fill the stomach, but they can't be exchanged for money, no family in the village, no household has a deposit of more than 100 yuan, most of the dolls are illiterate, there is no electricity in the mountains, and they go to bed at night.

What can you do when you sleep? Of course, it is to kiss me and me, the people in the mountains do not know contraception, the children are born one after another, the production conditions are not good, many daughters-in-law have died of dystocia, and there are many widowers in the village.

The old patriarch was very eager to tell us about the current situation of the Agu Cottage, hoping that we could bring the news out, and we could also get attention and funding.

While listening to him, I panicked in my heart, thinking about how many belongings I had, and then I thought, if I didn't rely on the property left by my third uncle, I would sell my house and car, and I wouldn't be able to help.

After talking about the widower, the old patriarch sighed and said: "By the way, speaking of which, our village is not all uneducated, there is a widower in our village, called Nawu, he married a daughter-in-law back then, but he couldn't conceive a baby, and then after more than ten years, he gave birth to a boy, their family is small, Nawu is hardworking and capable, he doesn't have a heavy burden, so he sent the doll out to study, the doll is very competitive, is the only college student in our village." "Words are quite proud.

Xie Xiaojiu was not interested, he ate sweet potatoes without a bite, and held up a mobile phone from time to time, as if he was trying the signal, I also took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and the signal was zero.

I don't know if I heard the stuffy oil bottle, so I lowered my head and ate it silently. The fat man's attention was completely attracted by the bear's paw, and his mouth chirped. Lao Hu's mind stopped eating, took a sweet potato and sat on the threshold, looking at the dark outside, and didn't know what to look at, so the old patriarch's bitter water spit on me alone, I laughed for a while, sighed for a while, and felt more tired than an inverted bucket.

After eating, the old patriarch vacated the empty room, and the bed was covered with a thin blackened quilt.

At this moment it is already October, the weather of Wushan, is the famous morning cloud curtain rain, we just entered the house, it rained outside, the raindrops were as big as soybeans, the mountain wind mixed with the rain drifted in, the cold air was rising.

There are only two empty rooms, I have a stuffy oil bottle, a fat man and a small flower, the quilt exudes a damp musty smell, the sheets are black, I am also very tired, I want to ask the stuffy oil bottle, why it appears here, but he ignores the dark quilt, and burrows into it with his head covered.

I don't know if he did it on purpose, but he was injured and didn't have much energy, thinking that since he had a chance to ask, he fell asleep. When I was half-asleep and half-awake, I always felt as if there were lice crawling on my body, and in a daze, I couldn't help but think, the stuffy oil bottle was sleeping next to it, what lice were so bold?

I thought it was a psychological effect and wanted to ignore the past, but the feeling of crawling like lice became more and more obvious, and finally I woke up.

The stuffy oil bottle is no longer next to it.

The room was dark, there was no light, the rain outside seemed to be much lighter, there was no terrible sound of rain, the feeling of crawling was very clear on my thighs, I quickly took out the flashlight at the head of the bed, and when I turned it on, it turned out to be a spider the size of a fist.

The spider was not large, like a broad bean, but its legs were very long, and when opened, they were the size of an adult's fist.

I felt like I threw the spider down, and by the light of the flashlight, I didn't see the stuffy oil bottle.

I touched the quilt next to it, it was cold and cold, showing that the person had been away for a long time.

I chuckled in my heart, and immediately rolled over and got out of bed, and went out of the room with a flashlight. As soon as he went out, a figure suddenly flashed around the corner, and then, the figure turned around violently, it was Xie Xiaojiu.

He looked indifferent, gave me a look, and then gestured for me to come forward.

"I saw him go out."

I know he's talking about the stuffy oil bottle, I have a strange feeling in my heart, Xiaohua's behavior, obviously stalking, I have always regarded the stuffy oil bottle as my side, on the one hand, he suddenly appeared this time, it was a little strange, although I had a pimple in my heart, but after all, it was between our brothers, and now I saw an outsider tracking him, I felt that I was suspected of following.

After Xiaohua finished speaking, she pointed outside and motioned for me to follow.

Soon, we arrived at the open space in the stockade, the rain was still falling, but it was already a lot lighter, Xie Xiaojiu completely ignored the rain, stepped directly on the bluestone slab, and walked outside the village. We only had a small flashlight, and at night under the rain curtain, the light was very dim.

Soon, we got out of the stockade, and outside the stockade was a rocky yellow mud road, and under the strong rain, the mud was everywhere, but at the same time, I found a lot of footprints.

Dense footprints walked out of the village.

These footprints were obviously formed after the rain, that is, after we fell asleep, many people quietly left the stockade.

The first thing I thought of was to report, could it be that the bear's paw matter was exposed, and the mountain people here received too good animal protection education, so they went down the mountain at night to report us? The stuffy oil bottle has always slept lightly and is very vigilant, could it be that he noticed the movement, so he followed to stop it?

The more I thought about it, the more likely it became, and without waiting for Xiaohua to start, I immediately turned on the flashlight and followed the footprints.

The rain and muddy rocks made it very difficult to walk, I could hardly open my eyes, and I kept wiping the rain on my face, and the gang walked far away, judging from the number of footprints, there were a lot of people, and then, the more I went down, the more uneasy I felt, because at this time, we had been walking in the rain for more than half an hour, and if the stuffy oil bottle really followed, then why didn't he do it?

Since he wanted to prevent the mountain people from reporting the crime, with the usual practice of stuffy oil bottles, they must all be stunned, but this time, why would he let these mountain people go on all the time?

Am I mistaken, the stuffy oil bottle didn't follow at all, but went somewhere else?

Behind our backs, sneaking out in the middle of the night to do something else?

Thinking of this, I felt a chill, when the stuffy oil bottle slept next to me, he left quietly like this, if he stabbed me, wouldn't I be asleep in my sleep? Of course, I know that the stuffy oil bottle will not harm me, even if he really slashes me one day, I will admit it, who let this life be saved by him countless times. But this feeling is still very unpleasant, even if you are missing in the bucket, you can sleep next to it now, and you actually play this kind of trick.

If I hadn't been woken up by that spider in the middle of the night, I would have woken up the next day to find that the stuffy bottle was still sleeping, and I would have been deceived forever, and I would never have known that my brother, who was covered with the same quilt, got up in the middle of the night......

I've been deceived enough, but I didn't expect that my brother, who I thought was the best, and could even deliver my life, was also lying to me.

Thinking of this, I feel cold, but I haven't seen the stuffy oil bottle himself, no amount of speculation is superfluous, in case this is just a misunderstanding, isn't it because my blind guess has ruined the brotherly relationship?

I think of the fight with the fat man in Beijing, and I still think that I am a bastard, and I don't want this misunderstanding to happen again.

Wiping the rain and shaking off the thoughts in my head, I picked myself up and kept going.

Xie Xiaojiu's body is flexible, at this moment he has surpassed me and walked in front, I was behind with a flashlight to illuminate the road, suddenly, Xie Xiaojiu's body was stunned, and he stopped suddenly, and then, he began to retreat, and then grabbed my hand, the flashlight flung down, and the light hit the ground, forming a narrow circle of light, and everything around was suddenly black.

In the dim light, Xiaohua listened sideways, and then, he pointed ahead and whispered, "Turn it off." "Xie Xiaojiu has received an authentic Tufuzi education since he was a child, and his ability to smell the soil and distinguish acupoints, listen to the wind and observe the shape, although it is not as good as his grandfather's generation, it is indeed not comparable to a three-legged cat like me, who is a halfway monk. I understood that he had heard something, so I immediately turned off the flashlight, and the whole person was suddenly plunged into darkness.

Immediately after, Xie Xiaojiu dragged me and began to walk forward, and soon, I noticed that there seemed to be a fire in the distance.

How can there be fire on a rainy night?

At the same time, I smelled a familiar smell, blood.