I was about to blurt out and scold, but Zhang Chengshan pressed his shoulder and motioned for me to steady. "What's wrong?" he asked. ”

The apprentice driver stumbled back: "Wheels...... The wheels seem to have hit something, so I'll go down and take a look. With that, he opened the door and got out of the car to check, and we waited in the car. After a while, he poked his head back into the car and said, "The tire is broken, I need to change the spare tire." ”

We had to get off the car one after another, at this moment the sun is staggered and mottled in the sparse bamboo shadows, I wear a cotton hat with a large brim, tighten the hat belt, look around the surrounding environment, this more than 100 meters of bamboo forest path, is a two-way two-lane, much wider than the bridge deck into the village.

This trail is unevenly covered with bamboo leaves, a gust of summer wind hits, the bamboo forest rustles, and the bamboo leaves flutter in the sky.

Almost at the same time, we found that among the sparse fallen leaves on the trail, there was a pile of raised bamboo leaves, much denser than other places, just more than ten meters behind our car, and there were faint traces of wheels above the bamboo leaves.

The two apprentices were busy changing the spare tire, and the driver's apprentice was looking up to see the pile of bamboo leaves, and said curtly: "It seems that there is something under this pile of bamboo leaves, and it should be something under the bamboo leaves that has punctured the tires." ”

Zhang Chengshan and I glanced at him, slowly leaned towards the pile of bamboo leaves, and suddenly a gust of south wind blew, I suddenly felt a chill, you must know that in such a hot weather, coming out of the air-conditioned car, it was like being in a stove, and the sudden coolness made me a little frightened. Looking at Zhang Chengshan again, he also trembled in the wind, and his eyes were still firmly staring at the pile of bamboo leaves.

This gust of wind blew the leaves of the bamboo forest and the leaves on the ground also blew up, but instead of being blown away, the pile of bamboo leaves was not blown away, but many pieces were enveloped.

Suddenly, the apprentice who was supposed to repair the car shouted, "There's something moving under the bamboo leaves!" ”

Hearing him shout, Zhang Chengshan and I stood still, and I instinctively looked at the apprentice first, who was standing straight next to the car with a wrench in his hand. I immediately turned my attention to the pile of bamboo leaves.

In fact, just now, I was also staring at the pile of bamboo leaves, and I didn't find anything unusual, when I heard the apprentice shouting, and then looked closely, I saw a few bamboo leaves shaking in the wind, and there was no other movement.

I threw a disdainful look at my apprentice and said, "Don't be a bow and a snake, the grass and trees are soldiers!" Where is it moving, is it the wind moving, or is your heart moving? ”

This drop of the schoolbag made Zhang Chengshan laugh too.

The apprentice was aggrieved, approached us, frowned, and said, "Something is indeed moving. As he spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand and hurriedly shouted, "Look, it's moving again!" ”

Our teasing glances immediately swept back onto the pile of bamboo leaves. This time, we did clearly see that the pile of bamboo leaves moved forward as a whole, and at the moment of eye contact, it suddenly stopped again.

Zhang Chengshan stretched out his hand to stop us and signaled not to move forward, but we also froze on the spot, not daring to be presumptuous anymore.

The apprentice stiffened and said, "What is this moving, is this thing puncturing the tire?" ”

Zhang Chengshan did not respond, let us not move, and took the wrench from the driver's apprentice. Calmly approached the pile of bamboo leaves, trying to pick them apart to see what was going on.

The wrench in his hand was used to change the tires, and the two apprentices had a division of labor, one of them was still placing the jack, and this apprentice was responsible for screwing the tires. This wrench is used to tighten screws and has a length of more than 20 centimeters.

The pile of bamboo leaves was under our direct gaze, and it never moved again.

Zhang Chengshan opened a layer of bamboo leaves, hazy to see the white thing, and then when more bamboo leaves, a white skeleton was revealed, the skeleton was more than a meter long, the end and end were coiled together, a thick bone ridge in the middle, and the bone forks on both sides were thin and pointed, spreading out like fish bones. From the shape of the skeleton, it looked like the bones of a snake.

The apprentice also asked, "Is it the skeleton of a snake?" ”

Zhang Chengshan stood in front of the pile of bamboo leaves, frowned and looked at it carefully, and said, "It is indeed the skeleton of a snake." ”

I also took a step forward and looked closely at the skeleton. Seeing that there was no flesh and blood on the skeleton, and the roots of the snake were distinct, I wondered in my heart: "This snake skeleton is so clean, whose technique is so clever?" ”

I was puzzled and asked, "How brittle is this snake bone, not to mention puncturing the tires, it is to go under the tires, and it must not be rolled into powder." Also, this snake has become a skeleton, how long does it have to die, how can it move? ”

I threw out two questions, and Zhang Chengshan also shook his head, very dazed.

Just as he hesitated, the wrench in Zhang Chengshan's hand continued to pluck the bamboo leaves near the snake bone, in addition to this snake bone, there were several complete white skeletons revealed, and the snake bones like fish bones on the skeleton were distinct.

This kind of peeling and fleshing work is overwhelming.

At this moment, the pile of bamboo leaves that had not been completely picked up shook again, so frightened that Zhang Chengshan instinctively withdrew the wrench, and the driver apprentice and I also looked at each other, and took a step back in unison.

Zhang Chengshan soothed a little, let us go back further, but he took a step forward, flicked the wrench, and quickly turned in the pile of bamboo leaves, which were stirred up by him.

Suddenly, a black soybean sized insect crawled out of the bamboo leaf, Zhang Chengshan couldn't help but be shocked and took a step back. The metal wrench in his palm hit the insect hard, only to hear a "pop", the wrench shook in his hand, and then looked at the insect, it was unharmed.