The mountain roads are rugged and the night is dark.

A group of nine of us walked hard in the mountains for more than two hours, and finally found the first place of people after entering the mountain.

Climb to the top of the mountain, where there is a stone house made of a mixture of mountain stone and thatch, and the smoke is billowing from the chimney outside the house.

Through the window at the top of the room, we could see that there was a light in the house, but not an electric light from the city, but a flickering oil lamp.

Liu Wenya knocked on the door of the stone house, after we entered the mountain for so long, at most we ate some dry food, and after fighting with the scavengers and the gang, everyone looked tired and wanted to go into the stone house to rest and rectify.

I also took the opportunity to ask the owner of the stone house if he knew my master Yang Wensheng.

Liu Wenya knocked on the door a few times, the wooden door of the stone house creaked open, and an old man holding an oil lamp poked his head out from the inside out.

"Hello grandpa, we are mountaineering tourists, we are too anxious and tired, can you come into the house to rest?"

Although Liu Wenya was injured, she recovered for so long, her complexion has improved a lot, she looks particularly young and cute under the oil lamp, and she has a sincere smile when asking, which is easy to make people have a sense of trust.

The old man looked at us, and he let us into the stone house with a kind heart.

The room was not big, and it was a little crowded when the nine of us entered.

Liu Wenya took out some daily necessities from the backpack and gave them to the old man, and Zeng Zhiguang also took out two hundred yuan and handed them over.

The old man is an authentic mountain man, loyal and simple smiled to express his gratitude, and also took out the ingredients to boil a big pot of hot corn porridge for us.

When I was boiling porridge, I stayed with my grandfather in the kitchen at the back of the house, and I asked him if he knew Yang Wensheng, and the old man pointed to the next mountain from the kitchen window, saying that Yang Wensheng was a good citizen in this big mountainous area, and he lived on the opposite hill.

"Yang Wensheng is a good person, he has given money and goods to us poor mountain people every year for so many years." The old man said with embarrassment: "Alas, it's just a pity, I heard that Yang Wensheng seems to have been arrested for murder." ”

I didn't find anything unusual in my grandfather's eyes, and I could tell that my master was deeply popular in the mountains.

After eating corn porridge, we wanted to continue to hurry, but the old man advised us not to walk on the mountain road at night, it is easy to encounter birds and beasts, the most important thing is to be afraid of stepping on the poisonous insects in the night, in case of being bitten, some poison is the kind that will die of incurable.

After discussing for a while, and following the old man's advice, we spent the night in the stone house.

At night, a few of our men watched the three scavengers in shifts, in order to make them lose their ability to resist, Zhou Wu dragged the three of them out in the middle of the night and repaired them again, until the scavengers and others were beaten to the point that they could only walk, and there was absolutely no other strength before stopping.

The next morning, it was dawning early in the mountains.

We said goodbye to the kind old man and launched a climb towards the opposite peak.

According to the old man, Master Yang Wensheng's old mansion is halfway up that mountain, which does not seem to be far, but in fact it takes at least seven or eight hours to arrive.

Next, we stopped and stopped, and the main thing was to take care of Liu Wenya's rest, she caught a cold after being injured last night, and I originally asked her to wait for us at the old man's house, but she had to go with us.

I had nothing to do with her, so I could only agree.

Approaching eleven o'clock in the afternoon, our group arrived at the foot of the mountain where Master's hometown was located.

I discussed with Zhou Wu and the others for a while, and decided not to take the scavenger and the other three up, after all, I was going to the master's old mansion to find important items, and there was no benefit to them with the scavenger.

The reason why I want to take away the scavengers is to hand them over to the police for processing, and use the police's case-handling ability to expose the sinister face of Sister Liu Wenya.

Regarding this, Liu Wenya agrees with my approach, she is completely desperate for her eldest sister, and no longer expects her eldest sister to change her mind, she wants to make her eldest sister pay the price she deserves!

In the end, Zeng Zhiguang and Zheng Wang took shotguns, guarded the scavenger and the other three at the foot of the mountain, and Zhou Wu, Liu Wenya, and Gouzi went to Master's old house halfway up the mountain.

Before leaving, Zeng Zhiguang asked me what I should do if the scavengers and others tried to resist, or if someone came to save them.

Without waiting for me to reply, Zhou Wu's expression turned cold, he took the pistol that was originally a bald man, and pointed it at the scavenger through the air, and Brother Wu slammed his mouth: "A tooth for a tooth, kill the three of them directly, anyway, they were going to kill us earlier!" ”

Zeng Zhiguang glanced at me, I don't want to argue with Zhou Wu, I can understand Zhou Wu's-for-tat, I gave Brother Guang a hint in his eyes, signaling him not to kill, and to adapt to the situation when the time comes.

Zeng Zhiguang nodded at me and watched the group of four continue to climb the mountain.

After climbing for more than three hours, the group of four of us reached the halfway point of the mountain.

This terrain has a relatively flat area, and a stone house comes into view in the sun, and on the top of the stone house there is a plaque with a large red paint on it: Yang.

This is Master Yang Wensheng's old house, which is much larger than the stone house where we rested last night, and the stone house is surrounded by a wall.

When the four of us got closer, we found that not far behind the old mansion, there was actually a mountain dweller living about fifty meters away from the old master's house.

The dwelling of the mountain people is not a stone house, but a brick house, and the red bricks and black tiles look different in this large mountainous area.

Liu Wenya said that the owner of the house was relatively wealthy, otherwise he would not have the money to build a brick house in this mountain.

"Can there be Ye Jing's master, is he rich?" Zhou Wu said with a smile: "Yang Wensheng is a ruthless person who can easily hack into the banking system, and when Ye Jing gets the notebook and USB flash drive, King Zheng's kid wants me Ye Jing to get 100 million for him to spend, hehe......"

I smiled, and King Zheng's words were a joke.

The four of us looked at the brick house again, and then Zhou Wu climbed over the fence and entered the master's old mansion, opening a rusty iron door for us.

We didn't have the key to open the door, so we had to enter it this way.

Behind the iron gate is a small garden, probably not repaired by the master for a long time, the plants in the garden grow extraordinarily luxuriantly, and on the way to the stone house at the back, the weeds are all up to the waists of several of us, almost the same height as the dwarf dogs.

In the courtyard, the air was moist and musty, and at the door of the stone house at the back of the garden, we saw a rotting animal skeleton.

As far as I could tell, it was a watchdog chained to a stone stake in front of the door, and the dog was starved to death outside the door.

I also had a picture in my mind that when Master Yang Wensheng came home one day, he was accompanied by a person who was unfamiliar to the watchdog, and the watchdog barked at the stranger, which frightened the person, so that Master would tie up his dog.

However, due to the urgency of going away, the master forgot to let go of the guard dog, which caused the dog to starve to death.

The bones of this dog have completely lost their flesh and skin, and the bones have been qualitative, indicating that it has been dead for at least half a year.

This also shows that Master Yang Wensheng has been away from the old mansion for at least half a year, who did he bring back last time?

Who is it, the watchdog who is afraid of barking?

At that moment, when Liu Wenya and the other three people wondered that I had been looking at the bones, they looked confused, but many doubts rose in my heart.

There was a creak.

Zhou Wu stepped forward and stretched out his hand to push open the door of the stone house, which was not closed......