Five days later, it was the ninth day of the ninth month.

"This day is the Double Ninth Festival, and it is also the beginning of the winter mountain walking of Zhuangli people.

"At four o'clock in the morning, there was a knock on my door: 'Buddha, are you ready?'

"I opened the door and saw that it was the big stomach king in the village, and the three pots were full.

"I let the three pots fill me and said, 'It's ready, but the rice is not cooked yet, you can eat with me later.'" ’

"Sanguo said, 'I ate it last night. ’

"I smiled and said, 'What do you eat?

"Sanguo said: 'I ate all the dry food of the past few days last night. Look, I didn't bring any dry food!'

Then I realized that he had nothing on him but the axe at his waist and the rope bundle on his shoulder.

"Sanguosa's original name is Li Genzhu, due to the large amount of rice, one meal can eat three pots, and the people in the village have nicknamed Sanguosa.

"I only knew that he had a lot of food, but I didn't expect him to be able to eat for a few days at a time.

"Thinking of this, I asked curiously: 'You can eat three pots in one meal, how much do you want to eat in the mountains for seven or eight days?'

"Sanguo squatted under the eaves and said: 'Yesterday my daughter-in-law rolled out the noodles for a day, and rolled all the seventy catties of noodles into noodles, and in the evening, the four of them each ate two bowls, and I ate the rest. ’

I stuck out my tongue in surprise.

"When I finish eating and tidy up the pots and bowls, your sixth master has already set up the car in the yard.

"He called me through the wall and said we would meet at the head of the village.

"At five o'clock in the morning, a dozen people walking the mountains and four carriages gathered at the head of the village.

"Your master, your sixth master are all inside. Your grandfather is the team leader.

In addition, there were many people from all over the world who came to send them off.

"When your lord saw that all the people had arrived, he said, 'Everyone has set out, let all the people who sent them go back.'" ’

The people sent by each family scattered and left, and the procession of walking the mountain slowly set off.

"I had just taken two steps and I felt a pair of eyes behind me looking at me.

"When I looked back, it was Yuhua.

She was standing at the mouth of the alley in the distance, watching the crowd walking up the hill.

"I said to my companions, 'Go first, and I'll chase you later.'" Then he turned around and ran towards Yuhua.

"When I came to Yuhua, I suddenly didn't know what to say, but said casually: 'Why are you here?'

"Yuhua said: 'In the morning, someone from every house will come to deliver it, and I am afraid that you will feel uncomfortable when you see it, so I will send you off. There were too many people just now, and I didn't feel embarrassed to go there. ’

After listening to this, I suddenly felt a sweet warmth flowing through my body, and I felt an indescribable sense of happiness in my heart.

"The loneliness I felt when I watched others hold hands and say goodbye, and what Aunt Zhen said a few days ago, have all been thrown out of the sky at this moment.

I called out softly, "Yuhua," and stepped forward to take her in my arms.

Yuhua didn't push me, her hands hugged my waist tightly.

At this point, my heart was beating violently, as if a mouth would jump out of my throat.

Suddenly, I felt Yuhua's head leaning on my shoulder sobbing.

"I wanted to ask, but I didn't know how to say it.

"After sobbing for a while, Yuhua looked up at me and said, 'Buddha Dai, I know that my mother has looked for you, and I also know the rules of our family for generations. But I've identified you with this life. Take me away, and we'll go to a place where no one knows, and spend the rest of our lives together. ’

"I began to feel distraught, and a strange sentence came out of my mouth: 'Aren't you afraid that Aunt Zhen will be sad?'

Yuhua lowered her head, rested her head on my shoulders again, and hugged her hands tighter.

"She said, 'I don't want my mother, of course I know she will be sad, but I don't want you to slowly alienate me and abandon me.' ’

"I sighed and said, 'We have no fate in this life, if there is an afterlife......

Before I could finish speaking, Yuhua pushed me away, turned around and ran into the alley, and I heard her sad cry.

"I stood at the mouth of the alley for a long time, watching the dark alley wash through the morning light.

"The quiet and empty alley is empty, and there is no Yuhua.

"I tried to force myself to get everything about Yuhua out of my brain, but I couldn't.

"When the first rays of sunlight hit my face, I realized I had to hurry and catch up with the troops.

"When it was getting dark, we set up camp in the same place where I had camped on my first walk into the mountains.

"This is not the final destination, we have to walk all day to get to the place we want to go, but the carriage must stay in this place, and there is no road ahead.

"The errand of watching the chariots and horses was handed over to Cunli this time, because he was the youngest of these mountain walkers.

The next morning, except for the gifts, everyone packed up their things and headed for the mountains.

"At night we arrived at a place called Yuangou.

"A round ditch is a deep valley in the middle of the mountain, and the deep valley is distributed in a semicircle, surrounded by the protrusion of a high mountain, and outside the semicircle is a groove recessed by another mountain.

"Both mountains are very high, but the slope is gentle below the halfway point, and the cliffs are above the mountainside.

"The gentle slopes on both sides are covered with pine trees that cannot be surrounded by two people, which is an excellent raw material for making pine planks.

"This time we went into the mountains to cut wood and make planks.

"In the evening we pitched our tents on the leeward side of the round ditch and set up shelves for sawn planks. Then set up the stove and start cooking.

"After sitting for a while on the stones in front of the tent, he said, 'You cook first, and I'll go around the ditch to see if I can get you some game.' ’

As he spoke, he took out a slingshot and a purse containing iron beads from the bag hanging from the tent and walked deeper into the ditch.

"We have cooked and eaten, and we have waited for a long time, but we have not seen the three pots come back.

"Your lord was a little anxious, and said, 'Why did Sanguofeng go for so long and still haven't come back, let's go to a few people to find it.'" ’

"I volunteered to stand up and say, 'I'm going to see. ’

After speaking, he casually took a wood-splitting knife and hung it on his waist, and walked in the direction of the three pots to be full.

"In the dark, everything in the mountains seems unusually deep and gloomy. The late autumn wind blows on the body, and it already has the biting strength of winter.

"I walked along the valley for half an hour, and I saw no one in sight except for the dark ravines.

"I continued to walk a little further, and suddenly, I noticed a figure on the hillside on my right, and I vaguely saw that it looked like three pots were full.

"The taboo of mountain walkers is not to shout people's names in the mountains, especially at night.

I didn't call him, but went up the hill and ran in the direction of the figure.

"Suddenly, my feet slipped and my body fell down.

"I subconsciously used my hands to support it, but I didn't want the place where my hands were holding it to be empty, and the turf collapsed to reveal a black hole.

"I didn't hold my hands steady, and the whole person fell into the hole at once.

"It was like I had fallen into a bottomless pit, and I kept rolling down in it.

"I don't know how long it took me to roll over, but I snapped and fell on a rock and passed out. ”