After that, the fat man and I walked around the outside of Liuhe Town, and found nothing particularly noteworthy, Liuhe Town is at first glance a relatively dilapidated and desolate waterfront town, with a small river flowing through the westernmost part of the town.

The only thing that is special is that there are many willow trees on the beach on the side of the town near the river, which are shaded in patches, but in late autumn the leaves fall and become more desolate.

"The willow tree belongs to the yin, and the entrance to the underworld should be in the willow forest." The fat man observed for a while and made a judgment.

I nodded, this judgment should be correct, because entering from the entrance of the town to the east, through the town to the end of the west, is the willow forest.

The willow tree likes water, it is a very feminine tree, as the saying goes, there are many water ghosts on the bank of the willow, and that kind of place is generally more obscure and evil.

After scouting the terrain, we returned to the town, walked around carefully, and took advantage of the opportunity to talk with the shopkeeper to buy things, and found that not all the people in Liuhe Town were from the Northeast, and many of them obviously spoke with foreign accents.

We were sure that most of these people gathered together from all over the world.

As for who organized it, I instinctively thought of the beard, the bearded accent should be northeastern, but it is a little different from the local one, and it is estimated that he is also an outsider.

It's the middle-aged owner of the noodle restaurant who has a more local-like accent.

After walking around inside and out, the fat man was even more sure that this was a small town composed of people who walked in the yin.

When we were done, it was close to noon, and we had lunch early and were ready to go back to the herb shop.

As I was walking back, there was a jolt in my pocket and a call came.

I hurriedly took a look, it was Gua Ge calling!

As soon as the phone was connected, Brother Gua asked us if we had found Boss Cao.

I said I found it, and then briefly talked about some of the things that happened yesterday, and also said about the Yin people.

Brother Gua was surprised and said with a smile: "Ho ho, yes, you can find out the bottom of Liuhe Town so quickly, you have grown!" ”

"Fuck off!" I was upset, and said, "You know if you don't say it earlier, how hard it will be for me to find out some news here!" ”

"Don't be angry, there's a reason I didn't tell you." Brother Gua hurriedly begged for mercy, and then explained: "I didn't tell you the details of Liuhe Town, and asked you to go to Boss Cao, the purpose is to let you approach him in the most natural state, and then do things better; Knowing too much makes him suspicious. ”

"You planned it a long time ago?" I was taken aback that this bastard was playing such a trick and hiding it from me.

"Be quiet." Brother Gua sighed and said, "Listen, the purpose of our trip is for Miao Miao, and among all the things we have prepared, your task is the key, and the reason why you are close to Boss Cao is to get one thing." ”

"Damn, what's the situation?" I was confused, and finally understood why Brother Gua had commanded me to come to the ditch, it turned out to be to get me close to the beard.

"We'll talk about the details when we meet, your task is to get a secret map of the head gourd from the beard, and the beard doesn't know that the map has been leaked out of his hands. He's very defensive of us, so it's up to you to do this. Guagodao.

"The secret map of the head gourd?" I repeated.

Gua Ge said: "Yes, we don't know exactly where to put it or in what form it will be stored, you have to figure it out yourself, remember not to alarm him, otherwise he will immediately run away with the map, and it will be troublesome to find it again." ”

I raised my eyebrows, the most likely location to store the map, there is only one, the second floor of the herb shop!

The bearded man didn't let us go up to the second floor, and if we couldn't get it, there was a secret map in it.

It's just that I felt a little embarrassed and said, "Isn't it bad for us to steal his things like this?" "Actually, it's about Miao Miao, and I'm going to do my best in this matter, but it feels weird, because I've never stolen anything from others.

"Xiaochun, don't be burdened, the secret of Boss Cao's getting the map has been leaked, and he can't keep the map at all according to his strength, and if he doesn't get it, he will be killed." Gua Ge said, paused and said: "Besides, I have a gut feeling that he is not a good person, so you must be careful when you act." ”

I frowned, thought for a moment and asked, "Is there any pattern to the bearded man's life?" "If the bearded man doesn't leave the shop, we basically don't have a chance, and we have to master his actions before we can start.

Gua Ge pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that he sometimes goes down to the village to collect some medicinal herbs, and there should be a chance at that time." ”

I said okay, as long as he left, it would be fine.

Then Brother Gua told me a few more words, saying that the bearded man is not weak, let us be careful, and hung up the phone.

"What's the situation?" The fat man leaned over and asked. I put away the phone, pulled the fat man to an unoccupied position, and then told Gua Ge about his plan.

The fat man digested for a while, and said: "If we want to go up to the second floor to find it, we must do it after the bearded man leaves, he is not simple, once we have a conflict with him, we are likely to not find the map and have to suffer; Don't forget that he is the mayor of the town, and he must have a lot of appeal in the group of Xingyin people in Liuhe Town, and there are many people. ”

I nodded thoughtfully, still the fat man thought comprehensively.

"Do you think the bearded guy is a good guy or a bad guy?" After a pause, I asked the fat man.

The fat man groaned for a while and said: "Those who do the work of Yin people, either the descendants are reincarnated and lack longevity and need Yin Virtue to prolong their life and increase blessings, or they are too evil and have been punished by God and want Yin Virtue to hedge." ”

I muttered to myself, isn't the bearded man really a good person?

……

Then I discussed it with the fat man, and then decided to go back to the herb shop and wait for the right time.

When we went back, the bearded man was treating people, and he didn't even look at us, and he just treated us like air.

After he finished treating the patient and prescribing the medicine, he still let us stay for an hour as yesterday and went upstairs on our own.

I sat with the fat man for a while, and an old man with a bamboo basket and a sickle came outside, and when he saw us, he asked, "Where has Mayor Cao gone?" ”

I stood up and said, "Boss Cao went upstairs for a lunch break, are you okay, uncle?" ”

"Oh, yes, Mayor Cao is going to doze off at noon, and his memory is getting worse and worse as he gets old."

The old man smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said quite politely: "Thank you, two little brothers, can you bring a message to Mayor Cao?" ”

"Yes, uncle, you say." I nodded.

"Then thank you brother first." The old man smiled and said, "When Cao Zhen grows up, you can help me tell him, and just say that the herbs of Thirteen Ditch have been dried." ”

After speaking, he put down the bamboo basket behind his back, took out a bamboo tube with a plug from it, and said, "Please transfer this to Mayor Cao as well." ”

"Okay." I walked over and took the bamboo tube, and I could clearly smell a faint smell of medicine inside.

Then the old man said a few more polite words and turned to leave.

I put the bamboo tube on the shelf next to it and looked at the fat man, who nodded heavily.

Here's your chance!

The old man looked at the costume and should be a medicine picker, he came to the bearded man and said that the medicinal materials had been dried, combined with the previous mention that the bearded man would go down to the village to collect medicinal materials every once in a while, and the old man must have asked the bearded man to go down to the village to see the medicinal materials.

In other words, the bearded man will soon be out of the house.

The old man's mouth of the thirteen ditch village, is a remote village at the foot of Changbai Mountain, I and the fat man and I have seen the map before coming, it is a little far from here, it takes at least an hour and a half to go back and forth.

In addition to the thirteen ditches, there are three ditches, four ditches, and six ditches in this area, all of which are villages under the Changbai Mountain, in the ditches and recesses of the mountain range.

……

Time passed to one point, and the bearded man went downstairs on time, and when he saw the bamboo tube on the shelf, he asked, "Has the medicine delivery come?" ”

The fat man hurriedly got up, "Yes, he also said that the medicinal materials of the thirteen ditches have been dried." ”

The bearded man nodded, glancing at me and the fat man, and I was keenly aware that there was an inexplicable doubt in his eyes, and it disappeared in a flash.

Then he opened the bamboo tube, took a closer look at the sky outside, and nodded with satisfaction.

I also took a look and saw that there were two ginseng sticks with full beard and whole roots.

……

Next is the anxious waiting time, the bearded man obviously has no intention of going out in the afternoon, he is still sitting in the clinic, prescribing medicine and catching medicine.

The next day, he went on as usual.

It wasn't until the morning of the third day, when we had breakfast, that the bearded man somewhere got a three-wheeled motorcycle, cleaned up from the upper floor, put a bamboo basket in the body, and said to us, "I'm going to go out, and I can't tell when I'll be back, and if anyone comes to look for me, let them come back tomorrow." ”

When we agreed, he drove his three-wheeled motorcycle towards the entrance of the town.

My heart began to beat faster, and the opportunity had finally arrived; I ran to the door and took a look, and found that the bearded man had turned out of the town and disappeared, so I asked the fat man, "Act now?" ”

The fat man groaned for a while and said, "Don't worry, it takes more than an hour to go back and forth in the thirteen ditches, we have time, and it is impossible for the bearded man to completely reassure us, beware of him killing a horse gun." ”

I feel a pang in my heart, this is the truth.

So we simply took out our phones and pretended to sit and play, while I stared at the clock on my phone, anxiously waiting.

A few minutes later, there was a sound of sudden braking in front of the door, and at a glance, sure enough, it was the bearded man who had returned, much faster than he left.

The fat man really said that he was right, the bearded man didn't worry about us in the end, and killed a horse pistol!

Seeing that we were playing with our mobile phones, the bearded man looked at us and went upstairs, and after a while, he came down again and said to me, "I missed the line before, go to the compartment and help me get a tarpaulin to cover the rain." ”

I nodded hurriedly, ran into the cubicle and took out the tarpaulin and handed it to him.

The bearded man took it and drove away again.

I glanced at the fat man, and the corner of the fat man's mouth raised a sneer, and said, "Excuse!" ”

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