Chapter 583: Pulling Carrots
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When we heard this, we turned around and saw an aunt with tanned skin, wearing an old sweatshirt and a pair of army-green rubber shoes on her feet, staring at us with a basket on her back.
This aunt looked like a villager who lived nearby, and we looked at her face to face, and no one knew what to say.
The atmosphere was very awkward, and after a full two minutes, my aunt probably suspected that we did not understand her dialect just now, and continued to force Mandarin and asked, "Who are you?" What are you doing in the mountains and forests? โ
I can't help but feel warm in my heart, although this aunt's Mandarin is not good, but she also tried her best to say it in order for us to understand, which is a kind of politeness and thoughtfulness.
Actually, I already understood the tongue when my aunt first spoke, and I didn't answer because I hadn't figured out how to explain it yet. Now that my aunt speaks Mandarin, it would be rude for me not to answer again.
I hurriedly said: "Auntie, that's the case, we are here to travel, I think the environment here is very beautiful, so I want to come and visit, it is best to stay at the villager's house and experience the life here or something......"
Of course, I didn't tell my aunt that we came here to find a ghost town, and ordinary people like my aunt didn't know what the Shen family's treasure was.
Since the Great Treasurer has left us here, we have no choice but to survive here. The first thing you have to do to survive in such an unfamiliar place is to find a local guide.
I think this aunt is really temperamental, enthusiastic and very suitable to be our guide.
Sure enough, my aunt saw that I and the panda were dressed up in a regular manner, and the face was not bad, not like a bad person, when even if we talked to us, asked why we didn't play on the famous mountain side of Fengdu County, the ghost city scenic spot in Xudu is famous, it is one of the best attractions in Chengdu.
I hurriedly said that there are a lot of people there, and the scenic spot is not interesting, or this kind of mountain village is the most authentic. I saw that my aunt also had a good impression of us, so I asked her if she could take us in for a few days, and we could stay for a few nights, and the accommodation fee was negotiable.
The aunt was happy when she heard it, and said of course she could. Her wife went out to work, and the daughter of the family also went to college in Fujian, so she was left alone in the family, which was not interesting, and guests were welcome.
Saying that, my aunt suddenly looked up at the night general standing on my shoulder, and said, You crow is so well-behaved and spirited, you have been domesticated since you were a child, right?
I smiled and nodded, and the Night General remained low-key in front of the stranger, not speaking, but just grabbing me on the shoulder to show dissatisfaction.
Most of the people in Chongqing are enthusiastic, and between the words, we have formed an indissoluble bond with this aunt. After inquiry, we learned that the aunt came out with a basket on her back at noon to pull carrots in the field.
Fengdu County is famous for its radish, and it is one of the important production areas.
Since a few of us claimed to be here to "experience life", we naturally had to share the joys and sorrows with our aunt, and after discussing it, we decided to go to pull radishes with my aunt first.
It's ridiculous to say, in the morning, we were still arrogantly preparing to crusade against Erzhang and regain the treasure of the Shen family, but we didn't expect that in the afternoon, we accompanied the local aunt to work in the field and pulled up the radish. It is really unpredictable that the sky has unforeseen circumstances, and people have good and bad luck.
However, pulling radishes is a technical job, and Panda and I have brute strength, but we can't do it, so we didn't succeed for half a day. Auntie couldn't stand it, and she couldn't bear to let our two guests do such heavy farm work, so when it came later, she let us stand by and rest, and she did it alone.
While chatting, we observed the surrounding terrain, and gradually became more familiar with my aunt.
I struck while the iron was hot, so I asked my aunt, how many people are in the village? What about the nearby villages?
Auntie didn't have any taboos, and immediately said that there was only one village within a radius of ten miles, and the population was not large, and most of them went out to work, and there were more in Chongqing.
I thought about it for a moment, and then asked if any outsiders like blind people had ever been to the village these days. The aunt said no, this village is not welcome, only people go out, no one comes in...... We're kind of the first.
But the aunt thought about it, and suddenly said that in the previous paragraph, it seemed that a few people ran to the nearby mountains to camp, and stayed for several nights, and these people were often active at night, which was quite scary.
As soon as I heard this, I knew in my heart that these people were eighty percent of Erzhang and their small team. Since the big shopkeeper put us here, it means that we and the two of them are basically the same trajectory.
I wanted to ask my aunt about them in more detail, but she couldn't say anything more. They came and went in a hurry, and seemed to deliberately avoid the eyes and ears of the villagers.
And since the news of Erzhang has been asked by me, the rest is how to find the "real ghost town of Xudu" as the big shopkeeper said.
While my aunt was working, I asked her if she had ever seen a ghost after living in this capital for so long.
When my aunt heard this, she laughed and said that you people, you always like to ask us about the ghosts that Fengdu people can't see, if you haven't seen it, others don't believe it, but when you say you have seen it, others don't believe it, it's really hard to answer.
I hurriedly smiled and said, "Say it, I believe it." โ
When my aunt heard this, she straightened up and looked at me, wiped her sweat, and said, "I really don't lie to you, Auntie has really seen ghosts." โ
I was stunned when I heard this, and looked at my aunt's eyes sincerely, as if it was really not a lie. But for an ordinary person, the chance of seeing a ghost is not great, if the aunt has seen a ghost, it is likely that she has inadvertently broken into the real "ghost town of Xudu".
I hurriedly asked my aunt what the hell she had seen.
The aunt said that it was a little boy, and he met him under a stone on the cliff in front of her, and it was morning, and it was just dawn, and the aunt heard the cry of a child, so she chased after it and saw the little boy.
Although she already wondered why there was a child here, especially the little boy in the village, she had seen it, there was no such one. But driven by motherhood, the aunt still picked up the little boy and asked him whose child he was and why he was here......
When she said this, my aunt suddenly stopped, and then stretched out her arm and showed me her forearm.
At this time, I saw a rather horrible scar on my aunt's dark and thick arm, which looked a bit like a wound caused by the bite of a fierce beast, and it looked like my aunt must have been torn off a piece of flesh at that time!
I asked my aunt, was it the little boy who bit it?
The aunt nodded, saying that the little boy was still crying one second, and the next second his face suddenly changed, and the whole person became a fierce and vicious appearance, and his mouth was bigger than the mouth of the dog guarding the house.
This bite bit off a piece of the aunt's flesh at that time, and the aunt fled, and the little boy chased after him with a mouth full of blood. Although the little boy had short legs, he ran very fast, like a rabbit on the mountain, and fortunately the aunt met two villagers who went out to buy rapeseeds, so he barely picked up a life, otherwise, the little boy would have caught up with the aunt and would have eaten her alive.
When the aunt tells the story, it is flat and straightforward, and there is no excessive exaggeration of the atmosphere.
But this most simple description sounds to us the most thrilling experience.
Because this description is quite realistic, it makes several of us feel immersive.
After my aunt finished speaking, she didn't express any emotion, but just went back to continue pulling radishes as if nothing had happened, while Panda and I looked at each other and felt that this matter was not simple.
At this time, General Ye took advantage of the aunt's distance and asked in a low voice: "I'll test you, do you know what that thing my aunt bumped into before?" โ
The panda wondered, "No...... Ghosts? โ
The Night General shook his head and said, "No, it's not a ghost at all, it's a ghost, a legendary thing similar to an 'elf'. โ
I was puzzled and asked, "General Night, what is the charm?" โ
General Night smiled lightly, and instead of answering, he asked, "Have you heard of 'Ghost Spirit'?" โ
The panda and I nodded at the same time.
And General Night continued: "Although the four characters of this ghost ghost are all edged with the word ghost, but these four things, all of them are not ghosts, just now according to Auntie's description, I suspect that the thing she met is the legendary ghost!" โ