Chapter 52: There are four corners
Zhang Qixun took out two gas masks from his backpack and gave one to the little brother.
Huo Zhixing was more pitiful, so he could only tear off the fabric on his body and cover his mouth and nose with rainwater.
Zhang Qixun led them to be careful and nested back into the arched crack that had exploded before to hide from the rain.
After about half an hour, there was a shout from the top of the cliff, and the sound seemed familiar.
"Who put this cigarette?"
"Is there anyone down there? If there is, squeak!"
Huo Xiaoli's eyes widened suddenly, and he said excitedly, "Damn, did Brother Zhizhi come up to us on the mountain?"
"Go out and see." Zhang Qi searched.
Huo Xiaoli immediately ran out, raised his head to the top of the cliff and shouted, "Who are you? Is it the Huo family?"
The fat man was standing on the side and looking down, and all the smoke floated up, so that they couldn't open their eyes, and immediately responded, "Which one are you?"
Huo Xiaoli was just about to answer his name, but someone patted him on the shoulder, turned his head, and found that Zhang Qixun had all walked out.
"That's right, it's the fat people." Zhang Qixun could already hear the voice of the fat man, and said with a smile, "We crossed the river and met the ferryman, and it was also a coincidence."
Huo Xiaoli was so excited that he almost shed tears, "Damn, we can be saved."
The two sides exchanged their voices, and the fat man tied the climbing rope he carried with them to the tree, left a few people on it to answer, and then climbed down the cliff.
As soon as they met, the fat man pounced on Zhang Qixun and the little brother and gave him a bear hug, his eyes were red, his lips were trembling excitedly, and he pulled the two of them to look at each other, "Thin, and dark......
"If you knew that you two had suffered such a crime in a place he couldn't see, you would definitely die of distress."
Zhang Qixun listened to the fat man's chatter, a little moved and inevitably a little crying and laughing, thin is indeed thin, but it is not necessarily dark .
They hadn't seen the sun in five days under the earth, and it was dark.
"No, it's just that I haven't eaten for a long time, I'm hungry, have you brought anything to eat?" Zhang Qixun patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Bring it, the fat man knows that you two are following a few oil bottles behind your butts this time, and it will definitely be inconvenient to move, this time you will bring all the food you bring up the mountain, and you can do enough." The fat man threw the backpack from behind his back and opened the zipper, and it was full of all kinds of energy-replenishing and satisfying food.
Zhang Qixun sneered and gave a thumbs up, "It's really yours."
The fat man stuffed the food into the arms of Zhang Qixun and the little brother, and said happily: "Eat more, you two are already anemic, and you have been hungry these days, the little nutrients in the pig's feet soup that the fat master used to stew for you must have been exhausted, and when you go down the mountain this time, the fat man has to talk to the old lady Huo and say, let her contribute a little of her perfect tonic tea, and make up for the two of you."
As he spoke, he took out a flower chicken wrapped in lotus leaves from under his backpack, "Eat this first, it's a little cold, but the taste is still authentic, first eat a chicken leg to pad your stomach, but you can't eat too much at once, otherwise you two haven't had oil and water in your stomach these days, and you suddenly eat too much meat, and your stomach will definitely be troublesome."
Here, Zhang Qixun and the three of them got together to eat and talk, and Huo Xiaoli over there smelled the aroma of roast chicken and nibbled on dry compressed biscuits, and tears were about to flow out of his mouth.
Zhang Qixun has always been sensitive to other people's gaze, not to mention that Huo Xiaoli's gaze is burning his back like two ultraviolet light bulbs, and it is difficult not to notice.
"What are you staring at me all the time? Why do you want to eat it too?" Zhang Qixun turned to look at Huo Xiaoli and raised his eyebrows.
Huo Xiaoli subconsciously wanted to nod, but immediately reacted, opened his eyes with difficulty, and flatly denied, "You read it wrong, I didn't want to eat."
"Oh, yes." Zhang Qixun smiled and said, "I thought that we wouldn't be able to finish eating, so I planned to give you some, but since you don't need it, then I have to throw the rest to the mountains to feed the beasts, and if I bring it back, it may have spoiled."
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When Huo Xiaoli heard this, his eyes widened, and he complained complainingly: "It's shameful to waste food!"
The fat man deliberately said with a straight face: "Hey, you little cub, how did you talk to your Yu Ye?"
Zhang Qixun also accosted, "Did you hear that? The ownership of the food belongs to our fat man, if you really want to eat it, it's not that you can't negotiate."
Huo Xiaoli was entangled for less than two seconds, and immediately pulled Huo Xiaoyan to the fat man's side, and said flatteringly: "Fat man, you have walked such a long way, your legs must be a little sore, our brothers' massage skills are good, give you a beating of your legs, relax and relax."
Huo Zhixing on the side had no choice but to hold his forehead, saying that he didn't see it.
In this regard, Huo Xiaoli said, what is the backbone? Can you eat it?
No! Therefore, the world is big, and the dry rice is the biggest.
Those who can bend and stretch are also big husbands.
The fat man saw that Zhang Qixun intended to tease the two children, so he also pushed the boat down the river, let them beat them a few times, and then gave most of the remaining half of the roast chicken to Huo Xiaoli and the others, "You two still lack a little heat in this technique, and you have to practice again."
Huo Xiaoli's mind had already rushed to the roast chicken, and he didn't hear what the fat man said.
However, he was still very righteous and gave the largest piece of tenderloin to Huo Zhixing, "Brother Zhixing, you can eat it too."
Huo Zhixing bowed slightly to the fat man and Zhang Qixun to express his gratitude.
He knew that the Yu Ye, who seemed a little out of tune on the surface, did not intend to use a piece of meat to amuse his two younger brothers, but wanted to distract Huo Xiaoli and the two of them from the sadness of the sudden death of their former partners.
On the other side, Huo Zhizhi glanced at it casually and saw that there were two people missing from the original team of seven people, and immediately realized that those two people would most likely not be able to get out.
But other than that, there was no special expression on his face, as if he had seen these things very lightly.
The work of going down is to tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers.
In a fight like this, the death of one or two people is already a very slight and almost negligible casualty.
Huo Zhizhi has been by Mrs. Huo's side for many years, and he has long been accustomed to this.
Some of the Huo family's private dirty things were handled by him personally, Zhang Qixun looked for the very magnificent-looking courtyard where they once lived temporarily, and there were many bones buried under the barren grass, which was originally the place where the Huo family secretly used lynching to deal with traitors and such guys who ate inside and out.
Zhang Qi looked for them to eat, and Huo Zhizhi had already led his men to extinguish the half-dead fire.
Then he also went down to the gap behind the ancient tree to take a look, took a photo record, discussed it with Huo Zhixing for a while, took out the map he carried with him, and marked it on it.
Then he came over and said to Zhang Qixun, "Since we have found the entrance, let's hurry up and go down the mountain, it is estimated that there will be another rainstorm soon, and it is too dangerous to stay on the mountain all the time."
"Let's go down the hill then." Zhang Qixun nodded when he heard this, chewed the beef jerky brought by the fat man in his mouth, and felt that the taste was okay, so he stuffed the bag directly to the little brother.
In the past, when I went to the tomb, I was surrounded by people who knew the roots, and the food in the space was taken out and eaten casually.
Not to mention the little brother this time, he himself felt that it was too miserable, thanks to the fact that there was an energy gel that didn't take up much space, so he could take it out to replenish his energy, so as not to be suspected by Huo Zhixing and them.
They couldn't participate in the next work, so Zhang Qixun and the three of them dragged the rope to climb the cliff.
Huo Zhizhi remained below, commanding his men to tie some eye-catching red cloth strips to the trunk of the tree, and after climbing up, he tied a colorful flag to a tree next to the cliff as a mark.
Then he beckoned Zhang Qixun and they were ready to go down the mountain.
Returning to the lake at the foot of the mountain, the accompanying team doctor immediately surrounded Zhang Qi to find a few people to treat the wounds, but after the inspection, it was found that the wounds on the surface of several people had been treated, and there was no sign of infection, so they hung glucose hanging bottles for infusion and told them to rest.
When I woke up, it was already the middle of the night.
The camp was still brightly lit, and there were a lot of materials and photos on the table in the center of the tent, and Huo Xiangu was discussing the matter of blasting and cleaning up the mountain rock with his geological engineering technicians all night.
In the evening, the rain became heavier again, and the sound of crackling raindrops drowned out the voices of everyone.
As soon as Zhang Qixun walked out of the tent, the smell of fragrant and delicious mutton soup came to his nose, and there was a slight movement in the tent next to him.
He turned his head to look, just in time to see the little brother walking out of the curtain with a knife on his back.
Zhang Qixun was grumbling with hunger at this moment, so he said to the little brother, "Let's go, let's go around the kitchen and see what they get to eat."
The two of them arrived at the tent that was used as a makeshift kitchen, and in the smoke, a familiar chubby figure was busy working in front of the stove.
"Fatty!" Zhang Qixun was pleasantly surprised, "You haven't slept so late?"
Hearing this, the fat man turned his head and glanced at the two of them, "Hey, you two woke up, there is a chair next to you, sit and wait for a while, and the mutton soup will be ready immediately."
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and stirred in the iron pot with a large iron spoon in one hand to prevent the mutton from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Zhang Qixun pulled out the bench and let the little brother sit down first, put a handful of peanuts on the plate in front of him, leaned over to the pot table, bent down to look at the stove door below, saw that the fire was a little small, and grabbed a handful of loose firewood and stuffed it in.
As the old saying goes, "the soup is thick on high heat, and the soup is clear on low heat", try to keep the whole heat when stewing mutton soup, so that the stewed soup is not only rich in flavor, but also milky white in color.
After a few minutes, the fat man took out a bowl of base with a soup spoon and tasted the taste, and felt that it was almost there, so he sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions into the soup and said to Zhang Qixun: "It's done, you don't need to add firewood to the wooden fish, hurry up and stay at the table."
"Gotcha." Zhang Qizi responded with a beautiful voice, patted off the firewood on his hands, got up and went to the eaves of the tent to get water and wash his hands.
The fat man is an expert in cooking, and as long as it is eaten in his hands, it is not unpalatable.
"Hurry up and try the perfect mutton soup that the fat master made for the two of you." The fat man happily brought two large bowls of fragrant and rich mutton soup, one bowl with coriander and the other without it, and put it on the table, urging the two to eat quickly.
Zhang Qixun tasted it, the mutton was crispy and soft, and the soup still had a faint fragrance of herbs, so he stirred it at the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, and found that there were many precious medicinal materials floating in it.
At a glance, there were ginseng slices, wolfberries, angelica, and He Shou Wu, and I couldn't help but be surprised: "Where did you get so many medicinal materials to replenish qi and blood?"
The fat man smiled sheepishly and lowered his voice, "When you two were resting before, the fat man secretly went to Mrs. Huo's private vault and walked around, and found that there were all kinds of precious medicinal materials in it, even the salvia that was hung at a critical time had several large boxes, as well as the red plate gui for expectorant cough and blood pressure and poisoning, and the Tianshan Snow Lotus for dispelling rheumatism, but I only quietly took a small handful of not so expensive ones, Huo Zhizhi's little cub should not be able to find it."
"It's just that the fat man always feels a little strange." The fat man touched his chin and frowned, "When it rained heavily before, Mrs. Huo's complexion looked a little bad, Huo Zhizhi fed her medicinal tea as rice every day, and it didn't get better these days, and when she asked me to go to the tent to talk about things yesterday, I found that the old lady seemed to have a very faint layer of death between her eyebrows, and her face was miserable."
"Hey, you say, does the old woman think that her limit may be near, and wants to put us who don't like her eyes into it as funeral offerings?"
"No, it won't." The little brother who had been drinking the soup quietly suddenly spoke up, and when he saw Zhang Qixun and the two of them looking at him in surprise, he said softly, "She has no qualifications to be willful."
The fat man was a little confused, "What do you say?"
The little brother stopped talking, and when he saw that the fat man still wanted to speak, the little brother directly pushed the plate of peanuts he had just peeled in front of him.
Zhang Qixun sneered and laughed, "Once in your life, fat man, the peanuts that the little brother peeled with his own hands, remember to leave some for me."
The fat man was also happy, grabbed all the peanuts on the plate into his pocket, and said, "That's not good, this is the little brother Ming Huanghuang's preference for the fat man, and the fat man has to treasure it like a baby."
The smile on Zhang Qixun's face suddenly froze, and he turned his head to stare at the little brother like this, his eyes were dumbfounded.
The little brother paused as he scooped the soup, and after a few seconds of silence, he took out something from his pocket and motioned for Zhang Qixun to open his palm.
Zhang Qixun suddenly smiled and narrowed his eyes, and quickly spread his hands.
Then I felt that the little brother put a little hard to the touch and a cold little thing in the palm of his hand, and then withdrew his hand and continued to drink the soup as if nothing happened.
When Zhang Qixun saw the little thing clearly, the whole person was stunned.
It was a small stone the size of a thumb, very plain stone, grayish-white.
The shape looks like a triangular pyramid and has four corners.
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