Chapter 21: The Mountain Village Cottage
Sister Jing told me that she didn't go to the mountains at all, and that the expedition I was talking about was just a dream. At first, I didn't believe it, after all, it was the first time I had encountered such a real dream. Then I asked Xiao An about the situation, and Xiao An also said that I had been with Sister Jing for the past few days and had never gone to her. And she hasn't seen Xiuxiu either.
According to what they described, I went to Sister Jing after I came out of the abandoned school building, and that was just what happened yesterday. And Xiuxiu didn't go to Xiaoqian with me when she came out of the abandoned teaching building, but the school she left by herself.
And in my memory, I ended up falling asleep in a tent in the mountains and forests. Could it be that what I have experienced is really a dream? Then I went to look for Uncle He, but when I got there, they all said that there was no such person. Later, I inquired about the yin and yang through some of my father's old relationships, but the news came back that I had never heard of such a person.
If you hadn't experienced it yourself, you might never have been able to experience that feeling of confusion and delirium. I'm really depressed in my heart, and if I continue to struggle, I may really be schizophrenic. So, Sister Jing and I took a leave of absence, and took Xiao An to go out to breathe and change our mood.
We rented a car and instead of going to the bustling city, we headed to the mountains on the outskirts. This rented car is different from the car I bought, because it is not my own, so it can be unscrupulously ruined, the accelerator pedal is slammed, and the brake kick is a regular operation. Xiao An, who was sitting in the co-pilot, kept telling me to pay attention to safety, and I didn't pay attention to it.
I don't know how many old drivers have ravaged this car, although the appearance is still quite bright, but no one knows how many dark wounds there are, and it doesn't have to be strange if it is broken down and thrown on the road.
After entering the mountain, I turned two hills along the winding mountain road, and finally the car still had a recurrence of the old injury, and it turned off and did not move.
Originally, I wanted to stop a passing car to help, but this is a mountainous area, and there are few vehicles on the road, plus in this ravine where there is no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, occasionally a car comes by, and when they see someone blocking the road, they do not slow down and stop, but slam on the accelerator to speed up. Xiao An also joked that I didn't look like a good person, so people didn't dare to park. So I got into the car and asked her to stop the car on the road, and the result was the same, all the cars were speeding away.
In the past hour, only six or seven cars have passed, and if we continue to wait like this, I am afraid that we will have to spend the night on this mountain road after dark. So I pulled out the tow rope from the trunk and asked Xiao An to sit on it and steer the direction, and I pulled the broken car in front of me and struggled forward. Therefore, I advise you to buy a new car when you buy a car, no matter how low the configuration of the new car is, the probability of breaking down halfway is less than this kind of N-hand new broken car. A good car is the accelerator of your path, and a broken car is a stumbling block on your way, and there is nothing wrong with that.
As I walked, Xiao An also stuck his head out of the car window and sang loudly: "Sister, I'll take the bow of the boat, brother, you walk on the shore, ,..." I saw a passing car, which had slowed down next to me, but when I heard Xiao An's singing, I sped away again.
If it weren't for the fact that we had just turned the hill and the road was a little downhill at this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to walk a few steps with this thing, not because of how heavy it was, but because the force of the rope on my shoulders still made my flesh and blood feel a pain.
The mountains are undulating and breezy, so it's not bad to take a walk in the mountains. Sometimes people just have to stay away from the city to calm down and think about something. It is no wonder that the legendary immortals are all in the famous mountains and rivers, far away from the red dust and the world, perhaps only in such a place can they concentrate on enlightenment. Immortals and saints are still like this, let alone mortals!
I just sighed silently in my heart, and Xiao An was having fun in the car, and her singing never stopped in my ears. Maybe she was also more depressed in the crowd before. Although Xiaoqian and I don't have the name of husband and wife, but there is a reality, her existence is always like a little three, although she has never said anything, but there must be some emotions in her heart. Now that she is in a barren mountain, she can let herself go willfully, it is rare for her to be so happy, I didn't interrupt her, just buried my head in pulling the car.
Finally, after walking a long way through the mountain road, there is a small fork in the road not far ahead, and it looks like there is a building from a distance. I thought about putting the car at the intersection and going there to see if there was anyone, and it would be better to find a car repairer nearby. I told Ann what I thought, and she agreed. So when we came to the fork in the road, we pulled over and locked the car and walked towards the fork in the road.
Without the burden of a broken car, I walked very briskly, and Xiao An still hummed a song I didn't know what the name was, but it was quite good.
"Look, there's a house!" Xiao An suddenly shouted.
"Really? Or your eyes are amazing! I pretended to praise her, but I couldn't scold her with "brain-dead, I saw it so closely". After all, women need to be coaxed.
The house is not big, the red brick and red tile ridge house, at first glance, it was built by modern people, and it must have been inhabited. However, there are no other buildings in the vicinity of this house, as far as the eye can see, and I don't know what this house is used for, so I can only go over and see it before making plans.
"Bang bang, is anyone there?" I knocked heavily on the door and asked loudly through the panel.
After waiting for a while, no one answered. So I knocked a few more times, and after a while I still didn't see anyone in there responding. So I tried to pull the ring on the door, and with a "squeak", I pulled the door open. Immediately, a damp and moldy smell hit my face, and I quickly took a step back.
The hut is not big, there should be about twenty square meters inside, there is only one door, there is no window, the light in the house is very dim, standing at the door to look inside can not see clearly. Only the outline of a plank-made bed could be faintly seen. So I covered my mouth and nose with one hand, took out my phone with the other, and turned on the flashlight function to illuminate it.
After a few steps inside, I looked around with the light of my flashlight and could see that it was a room that had been inhabited. At one end of the room was a simple brick stove, in the middle was a wooden bed with brick feet, and at the other end was a dilapidated wooden table. There are also some daily necessities such as pots and pans.
The focus was on the rudimentary wooden bed, which was covered with a large pile of dirty quilts that had risen high and covered with dust and cobwebs, and had not been touched for I don't know how many years. Look at the height of the quilt bulge, it's like someone sleeping below.。。
I picked up a firewood stick from the ground and lifted the quilt, and in an instant dust flew everywhere, and an even stronger musty smell spread from there with a rancid stench. And a corpse curled up under the quilt.
The corpse turned away from me in our direction, its hair was disheveled, and its clothes were tattered, but it didn't look like it was weathered, but it looked like it had been chewed by something. I hurriedly pulled Xiao An out of the house.