060 Get ready to go into the mountain
This is a rather barren mountain village. Most of the people in the village wear patched clothes. Because it is summer, there are more people who are topless and only a pair of gray-blue shorts. It is rare to dress neatly.
The house is almost made of stone, and there is no trace of bricks. There are no signal towers around, and even there are only a few sparse wires. Ning Caichen can't imagine why there are such backward villages in such a beautiful place in this country!
Li Ling was in asked the villagers about the address of his distant relatives. As soon as he entered the village, he was surrounded by five or six children. Those children chattered and Ning Caichen frowned.
However, it was not difficult for Li Ling to communicate with them at all. In a short time, he asked where his relatives were, and turned around to greet Ning Caichen and walked up the hillside.
More good children shouted and rushed up the hillside to inform her distant relatives.
Ye Xiaoqian and the other two also caught up and followed them.
Liu Yadie's expression is very different from her usual cool expression. In this pure natural mountain village, she also seems to have regained her lively nature. She enthusiastically took out pieces of beautifully packaged chocolates from her schoolbag and gave them to the children who have been chasing them. Of course, the consequence of doing so can only be to attract more children. However, the two women seemed to be very happy, throwing a lot of candy out.
After a while, a dark and low middle-aged man came down from the hillside under the guidance of a person. As soon as the man saw Ning Caichen and his party, he immediately accelerated his pace and came over, and raised his hand and shouted loudly to drive away the onlookers.
The middle-aged man stood on Li Ling, sighed shyly, and expressed his apology with a sad face. He speaks quickly and pointed at the mountains, which made Ning Caichen and others even more confused by what he said!
It's been a long time. The communication between the two came to an end. Li Ling reached out and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and turned around to introduce: "Ning Caichen, this is my cousin Li Tiezhu. A few days ago, my parents came back to mourn for his father." She sighed and lowered her head. "Let's go. My cousin said let's go to his house first."
Li Tiezhu's home is a low stone house, which is located halfway up the mountain. It is built on the hillside. The yard is not big. The courtyard wall is made of large and small cyan stone. Although it is not very neat, it can be well integrated with the surrounding environment and is full of harmony everywhere.
In the yard, there is a large square stone that acts as a table, and several flat stone piers are scattered around the stone table.
Uncle Li Ling warmly greeted several people to sit down, and also took out a dilapidated hot pot that could not see the original color and poured water on several people.
It uses that kind of big porcelain bowl, and you can't see the original color when it's black.
As soon as the water was poured into the bowl, Ye Xiaoqian frowned slightly, but she still politely motioned the mineral water bottle in her hand, indicating that she had water! But Ning Caichen still saw that she carefully tightened the bottle of mineral water and bumped it into her backpack with her backhand. It seemed that she was not going to drink the water of this small mountain village these days.
Ning Caichen also did not touch the water in the bowl. He shook his head and smiled, walked back and forth in the yard, curiously looking at the rare things he had never seen since he was born. He really couldn't understand what Li Ling and his cousin were talking about, so he could only listen to her translation afterwards.
However, Liu Yadie stood beside Li Ling all the time, quietly listening to their conversation, and frowned from time to time, as if she understood.
After half an hour, they finally stopped talking.
Li Ling hesitated for a moment and walked towards Ning Caichen.
"What do you say!" Ning Caichen asked.
"My cousin said that my parents disappeared on the 18th. The villagers looked for a long time and couldn't find it. My mobile phone broke down two days ago and I couldn't get in touch with me. It was not until last night that they found me by the phone in the town. In order to contact me, my cousin stayed in town for three days and three nights. I didn't come back until this morning." Li Ling smiled bitterly and sighed softly, "They called the police, but the police only came around and left. I didn't look for it carefully at all.
"A bunch of idiots." Liu Yadie had a cold face and scolded angrily beside him. She is an inspector, so naturally she can't see these blaspent acts.
Ning Caichen has been used to it for a long time, and Li Ling didn't care. She whispered, "My cousin said that the woods have become very abnormal recently, and there is often inexplicable fog. My parents are not the first people to disappear. There were people who disappeared before, and they were never found again." She smiled sadly and whispered, "My cousin asked me to be mentally prepared."
"Mog?" Ning Caichen repeated it, thought of the hint about the puzzle, and couldn't help frowning, "Is there anything else?"
Li Ling looked at him and said, "What's more, my cousin and child are still looking for my parents in the forest. My cousin doesn't want us to go into the woods now. He said that it is easier to get lost in the mountains at night, and there are beasts. Even most of the villagers don't go up the mountain at night. She frowned, looked at the foggy jungle in the distance, and whispered, "But I still want to find it."
"Hmm! It should be." Ning Caichen looked at Liu Yadie when he heard the word beast, but still nodded. He thought of the final deadline given in Tianji Book, "Go!" Hurry up. Uncles and aunts have been missing for several days. After a long time, I'm afraid there will be any real danger. Let's go and see what the maze looks like.
Just after two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has begun to go west. In the hot summer in the city, there is no warmth in the small mountain village. On the contrary, when the mountain wind blows, I still feel cool.
After getting Ning Caichen's one, Li Ling turned back to negotiate with his cousin.
Ning Caichen hesitated for a moment and said to Liu Yadie, "Xiaodie, you and Xiaoqian stay!" Li Ling and I went to the mountain forest to have a look.
Liu Yadie glanced at him and said faintly, "Are you worried that I will be eaten by the beast?"
Ning Caichen was stunned and nodded bluntly: "Yes, I even regret letting you follow me. In the forest, I'm afraid I can't take care of you."
"Do you think there will be no beasts coming in the small mountain village?" Liu Yadie glanced at him, took off the pistol from the back, and checked the bullets inside. "Don't worry, I can take care of myself."
"Don't want to leave me." Ye Xiaoqian also stood up with her bag and said stubbornly, "I won't stay in this small mountain village alone."
At this time, Li Ling and her cousin had a fierce quarrel. The two of them blushed and didn't want to let go.
Ning Caichen took a look at Liu Yadie and walked over.
Seeing him coming, the two immediately stopped arguing. Her cousin opened his mouth and was about to say something to Ning Caichen, but he saw Liu Yadie carrying a pistol and was stunned. After a while, he turned back to the room, took out a knife that was a little long and cold from the room, and said something to Li Ling.
Hearing these words, Li Ling was overjoyed, nodded excitedly, and picked up his backpack from the ground: "Let's go, my cousin agreed to go to the mountain." She looked at Liu Yadie and said, "Since we have guns, we don't have to be afraid of anything."
Liu Yadie shrugged her nose proudly, raised the gun in her hand to Ning Caichen like a demonstration, and also picked up her bag.