Chapter 4: The Kind Old Man Who Sells Melons

I can't find the location of the Lai tribe, so I can only take one step at a time, Wushan County has arrived, and the next thing is to go to the Iron Coffin Gorge, hoping that there will be clues about the Lai tribe there.

After walking a short distance, I saw a bus stop in the county, looked at the mark on it, and its end point was the Iron Coffin Gorge.

So Liu Tingting and I sat on the chairs at the bus stop and waited for the bus to come.

But after waiting for more than an hour, I didn't even see the shadow of a bus.

At that time, I still wondered, how long does it take to send a car, this time is inevitably too long, isn't that the Iron Coffin Gorge a tourist attraction?

I was puzzled when an old man pushing a cart selling melons passed in front of me.

Seeing this, I hurriedly ran up and asked him, "Old man, let me ask you, how long does the bus to Tiecoffin Gorge take, we have been waiting for more than an hour, and we haven't even seen the shadow of a car?" ”

The old man raised his head and looked at me carefully with cloudy eyes, and then said: "Young man, you are here to travel, let me tell you, such a car has long been stopped, then it is useless for you to wait, you just board the car for a day and a night, there will be no car." ”

"What, stopped! Why? I asked, confused.

The old man who sold melons narrowed his eyes and continued: "Young man, something strange happened to the Iron Coffin Gorge and people died, if you want to go anywhere, I advise you to go back, where it is very evil now, everyone dare not take a step closer, you still dispel this idea!" ”

As he spoke, the old man who sold melons ignored me, pushed his cart and continued to walk forward.

At this time, Liu Tingting ran over from the bus stop, obviously she heard everything the old man selling melons said just now.

He shouted as he ran, "Wait a minute, old man! ”

Seeing Liu Tingting shouting like this, my heart just chuckled, and my heart said that Liu Tingting should still want to follow the old man to fight each other.

Actually, I was a little worried, it turned out that because of the reason I had a hot pot before, Liu Tingting was thirsty, and I happened to see the old man selling melons, so I was going to buy a watermelon to quench my thirst.

There were only two of us, so we only bought a quarter of the watermelon, which was enough for the two of us.

The old man who sold melons was quite enthusiastic, and he also divided the watermelons into pieces for us to eat.

However, this watermelon is really ridiculously expensive, presumably Tongcheng is more than twice as expensive.

Of course, the money was not given by me, Liu Tingting was very generous and directly took out a red ticket and handed it to the old man who sold melons.

Looking at the red ticket, the old man who sold melons suddenly became difficult, "Child, do you have any change, this melon is only five yuan in total, you give me such a big money, I don't have money to find it!" ”

Liu Tingting took a bite of watermelon and said with a smile: "Uncle, you are so old, and it is not easy to come out to sell melons, so you don't need to find this money, just treat it as the hard money I gave you!" ”

After that, Liu Tingting walked towards me with a few halves of watermelons.

I took the watermelon from Liu Tingting's hand, and I couldn't wait to take two bites, not to mention, this watermelon is really watery and sweet enough, it is the sweetest watermelon I have ever tasted, and it is enough for this hundred yuan.

I was eating there when I saw the old man who sold melons staggering towards us with the red ticket.

"Child, I can't ask for this money, uncle, you take it back, and the melon will be treated as if the uncle invited you to eat."

Liu Tingting immediately hurriedly waved her hand and said: "Uncle, don't postpone it any longer, this money is the money we used to buy melons, and I won't want it if you give it to me!" ”

"Old man, this is also a little bit of our mind, not much, you can accept it when you are old!" I agreed.

Seeing that Liu Tingting and I had repeatedly postponed, the old man who sold melons could only accept it in the end.

After carefully putting the red ticket in his pocket, the old man who sold melons had no intention of leaving, he stared at me and Liu Tingting for a long time and then slowly said, "Child, can I ask you, what are you going to do in the Iron Coffin Gorge?" ”

"Uncle, of course I went to the Iron Coffin Gorge to take pictures, otherwise what else could I do." Liu Tingting said without thinking about it.

The old man who sold melons nodded when he heard this, and then continued: "Okay, for the sake of your two children having such kindness, I will take you to the Iron Coffin Gorge, which happens to be around me." ”

"Great, thank you so much!" I said with a grateful face.

"But I remind you, you can only take a picture from a distance, you must not get close, otherwise you will lose your life!"

Regarding the advice of the old man who sold melons, Liu Tingting and I nodded again and again.

In fact, it is more than ten kilometers from here to the Iron Coffin Gorge, but if you rely on the 11th leg step, it is really choking.

But now it is much more convenient to have this old man who sells melons to lead the way, because his car selling melons is still quite large, and it is more than wrong to sit on two people.

But this car is human, although it can be pushed and ridden, but it is already very difficult to push a cart of watermelons, plus the two of us, wouldn't it be tiring and paralyzed The old man who sold melons.

So I took the initiative to ask me to ride, let the old man who sold melons also sit on the car with Liu Tingting, and show me the way.

The old man who sold melons was definitely reluctant at first, on the one hand, he didn't want me to do this, on the other hand, he was worried about my skills, and he was worried that I would detain this car of watermelons.

But later, because of my skillful skills, the old man who sold melons was completely conquered.

"Young man, you ride well, have you learned before?" The old man who sold melons asked me.

"Ah, that used to be a vegetable seller at home, so he can ride!" I casually perfunctory.

When I said this, Liu Tingting, who was sitting in the car, covered her mouth and snickered, she naturally knew that I was talking nonsense.

The reason why I ride this three-wheeled bike is entirely because there is such a car in the villa warehouse in Tongcheng.

It's not just such a three-year-old wheeled vehicle, but Liu Baye, who has wheels, has made me learn it all over again, saying that these vehicles will be used sooner or later, so I have to be prepared.

No, will you be using it soon?

"Well, you know how to endure hardships, what a good boy, girl, you follow him and wait to enjoy the blessings."

The old man who sold melons said such a sentence for no reason, so that I was almost suffocated in one breath.

However, after Liu Tingting heard these words, she smiled, and her little face turned crimson.

After riding for more than half an hour, we went down a mountain road under the guidance of the old man who sold melons.

After walking through the mountain road for a while, the old man who sold melons pointed to a huge water canyon in the distance and said, "Here we are, there is the Iron Coffin Gorge!" ”

The Iron Coffin Gorge, I searched on the Internet before coming, its section is located in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River Wu Gorge, and this Iron Coffin Gorge is one of the Wu Gorges.

Although it is a section, it is also nearly 10 kilometers long, and the steep cliffs on both sides of it are even more strange and steep.

And the reason why it is called the Iron Coffin Gorge is because there are 24 pitch-black coffins hanging on the steep cliffs on both sides.

The coffin is not made of iron, but some kind of wooden coffin, due to the wind and sun for thousands of years, the coffin itself is carbonized, so it has become black, and in ancient times, iron was black, that is, the origin of black iron, so there is the name of this iron coffin gorge.

Of course, this iron coffin gorge was also later, before this it also had a name, called Shuanglong Gorge, because at a certain angle, the lofty cliffs on both sides are like two coiled dragons playing in the water by the river, so there is the name of this Shuanglong Gorge.

When I saw the Iron Coffin Gorge, I was interested, and the fatigue of pedaling along the way was suddenly swept away.

I looked around, hoping to see something similar to the Miao village, but as far as I could see, except for the steep cliffs in the distance, there was a turbulent river.

Finally, I saw a simple farmhouse at the edge of the canyon, but the old man who sold melons told me that it was his home, and that he had arrived home......