It didn't rain today, but the rain that night before was still there, and I walked on a remote path, not only muddy, but the tree canopy on the high place was sprinkled from time to time. After walking for more than an hour, it was no different from being rained.

Lao Ga, who was leading the way, stopped and reached out to push a bunch of dense branches in front of him.

From this angle, you can see the Bahanzhai in the depression down the mountain - it was at dusk, and the water vapor in the mountains was simmering. Looking at it, the white water vapor was floating on the top of the tree, close to the back of the house, with strangeness in silence and a strange beauty of silence.

Lao Ga pointed at: "Here, just there, the lights on the second and third floors are on, and everyone should be there."

It's good that they are all there, Meng Qianzi is too lazy to go over and see - anyway, there are so many eyes that help her see - she sat down on a wet stone, pulled two leaves and patiently wiped the mud stains on her boots, and Xin Ci quickly took out a tissue to help.

Meng Jinsong frowned and looked at the lights of the stilt house. It was a little far apart and could not see the situation in the house clearly. Even if he used a telescope, he could not hold back the people to close the window and pull the curtains: Turning on the light does not mean that the person is there. What if someone goes out, he will pounce on it with great fanfare, which is likely to alarm the enemy.

Liu Guanguo also thought this way: "Or, let Liu Sheng go over and explore first?"

During this time, he left Shen Bang and Shen Wangu, who were polite, to hijack the charlatan, and ordered Liu Sheng and Qiu Dong to accompany him. Among these two, Qiu Dong was steady and Liu Sheng was smarter and better at exploring jobs to throw stones and ask for directions.

Meng Jinsong looked back at Meng Qianzi waiting for her to show her instructions, but Meng Qianzi's eyes fell on Lao Ga who was standing aside with his hands behind his back: "What if we start to move... what can we do with your relatives?"

***

Even though Meng Qianzi was poking her eyes, she didn't recognize her. However, since Xin Ci was very sure, she would probably not be wrong. She immediately asked Liu Guanguo to find Lao Ga.

Lao Ga did not hide it, but truthfully destroyed the causes and consequences.

It was said that more than a month ago, two men and one woman entered Bahan Village and found him directly, claiming to be a relative of his fourth grandfather.

Lao Ga does have four grandfathers. When this grandfather left Bahan Village, Lao Ga's father had not yet asked for his wife. This Bahan Village was also a large village with hundreds of people before liberation. However, life in the mountains was hard, and natural disasters and chaos. People in the village went out to make a living one after another. Some went to the provincial capital, some went south, and some went abroad. If life was good, they would fall outside. Maybe they were deserted. In short, those who basically didn't come back were basically sent back no letters. How could he know who the fourth grandfather married, who gave birth to, and how many relatives of other families had developed?

I am a lonely old man, and there is little chance that he will come here to cheat, and the three of them are very polite. When it comes to things from the past, they are very polite. There are many things that Lao Ga can't even tell me.

So, it should be really a distant relative who is very distant.

According to them, although the old man was buried outside, he was thinking about his hometown until his death. They came here just to live for a while, take photos on behalf of the old man, collect some old objects from the past, and take them back to complete the wishes of the deceased.

Well, it sounds like that. After all, Ye Luo has not returned to his roots. It is understandable to have this wish. In addition, the three of them took the initiative to pay for the meal and the house, Lao Ga even thought the whole thing was reasonable. If he was still suspicious, he was really a little scheming.

Among the three, the oldest man was Wei Biao, who was thirty and hung up, tall and strong, and was okay, but he looked a little fierce, and he looked like he was angry at any time. The other man named Jiang Lian was the opposite of him. He always had a smile on his face, and was kind and gentle. The youngest was the woman, named Kuang Meiying, who was only twenty-three or four, weak and quiet, and was very literary. He liked to fiddle with the camera to take pictures, or set up a painting board to draw mountains and waters. He was not in good health, and he felt uncomfortable every few days, and he would sleep and rest during the day. Whenever she went to bed, Wei Biao would go downstairs to remind Lao Ga to "silence", which made Lao Ga pick up the knife and pull it back and forth, like pulling a small saw.

After living together for a while, Lao Ga discovered two strange things.

First, among these three people, he can't tell who is the leader.

It is said that Wei Biao, the oldest and most stubborn, but he is obedient to Kuang Meiying and his words and actions are cautious. This kind of care, with Lao Ga's feeling, is not the kind of care that men can please women.

That is Kuang Meiying? It seems that it is not. In front of Jiang Lian, she seemed to obey her plans and occasionally made some stubbornness, and only Jiang Lian could explain it in a few words.

But Wei Biao didn't buy Jiang Lian's account and often sarcastically squeezed him out. Jiang Lian always smiled and didn't respond.

These three people are really like a closed cycle of downs and downs.

Second, this Jiang Lian must go out on heavy rainy nights.

It's the season now. The mountains are rainy and often fall at night, especially in the first half of the night. It's a lot of money every three or five days. To put it bluntly, I'm chasing dogs with sticks, and the dogs don't want to leave the nest, let alone people. Why is this Jiang Lian always running out when the wind and rain is heavy? If you want to say that money is buried in the mountains, you can dig while it's dry and refreshing.

And twice, when Lao Ga heard the movement, he secretly looked out through the crack in the window and saw Jiang Lian carrying a big black pack bag, which was so long and wide that he could be pretending to be alone.

Fortunately, Lao Ga is born without curiosity: it’s easy. As long as the relatives of the outer family who don’t know the truth and do not cause trouble, they don’t implicate themselves. What kind of way do they do? They will only live for a month or two before they can leave. At that time, the bridge will return to the bridge and the road will not be their own? You can’t just go to explore how long and far the bridge is because the road and bridge are intersecting. Are you tired?

But unexpectedly, the expectation was broken. When the mountain ghost came here for the sake of the talisman, he knew it was broken, and the three of them were in trouble.

This Miss Meng from the Shangui Family is a polite person. She can move her hands to a maximum of 10% and she will get his advice.

Lao Ga had a mute face: "One side is a distant relative and a good friend. I don't have the ability to mediate, and it's not suitable to help anyone. You guys are busy with yours. I don't watch the fun or listen to the sound. When can I go back to the house, just give me a message."

After saying that, he walked out about ten feet away, found a stone and sat down with his back to it. After a while, white smoke rose from his head and face, and he actually smoked earth cigarettes.

Meng Qianzi smiled: "This old man is interesting."

He nodded again: "One person explores the way, two people encircle it."

Although this was not what he said to him, it was an indirect order. As soon as he was received from the command of a big shot in his life, Liu Sheng was nervous and quickly put on the blue cloth jacket that people often wore in the mountains, grabbed his hair with his hands, rolled up his trouser legs, and applied some mud on his trouser legs. Then he carried the basket and coughed and walked into the village along the path down.

Liu Guanguo and Qiu Dong quickly drilled into the dense forests on both sides, rushed up the trees like monkeys, and carefully jumped out from the high place, adjusting their positions, trying to form a big triangle with Liu Shengla while moving and put the stilt building in the center - this way, it can be vigilant and open the encirclement at any time, expanding or narrowing the encirclement at one time, killing two birds with one stone.

Xin Ci only regretted that he was not capable and could not join it. He looked up at the leaves on the high ground shaking and went all the way. Thinking of the big scene of arresting people, his voice changed with excitement: "Qianzi, I really caught that Jiang Lian, do you have to cut his skin?"

Meng Qianzi picked up a stone in her hand, carefully brushing off the mud and sand on the edges, and a small pool of water accumulated on her feet, clearly reflecting her appearance wearing an eye mask. She glanced at her twice and felt that her one-eyed look was quite beautiful.

Xin Ci looked back at her: "Qianzi?"

Meng Qianzi used the tip of her boot to mess up the water: "What a big deal, be tolerant, don't cut and kill them at all."

Meng Jinsong's mouth twitched: She was still tolerant, you know, Meng Qianzi's social account was called "x2" (by 2). When she was a child, Meng Jinsong had to pay two cups of ice cream when she flipped her ice cream, otherwise her toilet lid would be filled with harsh words of pursuit with a red pen. Speaking of which, Meng Qianzi really has the talent to lend money loans and open a debt collection company.

***

At this end, Liu Sheng had already entered the depression. While walking, he pinched off flowers, leaves and branches and inserted them into the crack of the back basket, giving the leisure and leisure of people from the mountain.

When he approached the stilt house, he opened his voice and shouted: "Uncle Ga, Uncle Ga, are you at home? It's me!"

After shouting for a while, someone from the third floor poked out and kept pressing down with his hand, as if to make Liu Sheng whisper. Meng Jinsong lowered the telescope and saw it very well, and said, "Wei Biao is here."

Meng Qianzi nodded and drew a horizontal line on the ground with a stone.

one.

Seeing that Wei Biao had finished his gesture, Liu Sheng turned around and disappeared. He knew that he was going downstairs, so he stood there waiting, and even made a gesture to scratch his head, looking around, looking puzzled.

Wei Biao stepped very quickly, but his steps were light. Generally, the wood in the stilt house was old. He squeaked and screamed when he stepped on it. However, along the way, Liu Sheng almost didn't hear the big wood sound, which made him feel alert: this man looked stupid and had good skills. It seemed that he had to make a flaw and could not fight hard.

But he didn't show his face, but just stretched his head and looked behind Wei Biao: "Where is my uncle..."

The voice became a little louder, and Wei Biao was so anxious that he raised his index finger and shouted straight: "Shut, whisper."

Liu Sheng was inexplicably, and Wei Biao was a little embarrassed: "My sister is sick and is sleeping, afraid of quarreling at her."

It seems that the person named Kuang Meiying is there, and Liu Sheng's palms are slightly sweating: Before leaving, Liu Guanguo ordered that this trip is to find important things. First make sure that all three of them are there, and then just put them down one by one in the most effortless way. If the person is not running away, the house is there, so it will be convenient to find things.

He cooperated and lowered his voice: "Where is my Uncle Ga? I promised to see the ghost face shell and smoke."

Lao Ga is a Nuo mask master, and he has his own ancestral craftsmanship of carving Wu Nuo masks. People in western Hunan often call Nuo masks "ghost face shells". The so-called "ghost face shells" means collecting the wood chips chiseled when carving the masks into a basin to light the fire. When the smoke floats out, put the masks up and frying. It is said that doing this can not only prevent corrosion, but also make the carved faces vivid and lively, as if they are alive. Some foreigners joked that this is called "boiling beans and burning bean pods" - you chisel me off as waste, and you also have to burn me to smoke the face shells. It is the same root, but the class difference and how can you fry each other?

Wei Biao knew nothing about smoking and had no intention of asking for it. He just wanted to send him away as soon as possible: "Someone treats him to the county for dinner. Didn't you tell me?"

Liu Sheng said oh, frowned, as if he was carefully recalling whether there was such a story. He looked up and down at Wei Biao: "I remember, you are the relatives in the city that Uncle Lao Ga mentioned?"

Wei Biao didn't know what Liu Sheng came from, but when he heard him talking about Uncle Lao Ga, he even knew about "relatives in the city". He must be Lao Ga's acquaintance, so he nodded.

Liu Sheng smiled all over his face, showing the enthusiasm of the people in the mountains to the point where he could not be more important. He asked about his well-being and long-term questions, and he also acted stupidly in time to pretend to be simple. Finally, he looked around again: "Didn't he say three relatives? There is still a young man? He went to the forest?"

He was very concerned: "The forest is not quiet. I heard that there is still Ma Biaozi now, and even tigers are afraid of that thing."

Wei Biao was so annoyed that he was not easy to have an attack: "No, too... to sleep."

Liu Sheng glanced at the lights on the second floor: Lao Ga mentioned that Jiang Lian lived on the second floor - it was strange. It was not dark yet, and he was asleep, but he still turned on the light to sleep.
Chapter completed!