Network New Liao Zhai

Chapter 73

In the early morning, Dongshan, located in the Hedong New District of Jiangcheng, ushered in the rising sun again.

The old man Liu went out and went up the mountain to pick mushrooms as usual.

It has been raining for a few days, and the mushrooms must have come out. It has to be early, and it will be someone else's food if it is late.

In the past, the villagers on the mountain often collected wild mushrooms and sold them for money. Although they no longer live on the mountain, many people still dig into the forest to pick mushrooms whenever they have time.Liu Laohan is one of them.

Liu Laohan is from Shangyunling Village, Dongshan Mountain. The year before last, the entire village moved to the town. It was a residential area built by the government.

The land on the mountain has also been returned to forest, and Liu Laohan’s family has no land to plant. His son works on the construction site, his daughter-in-law has a vegetable stall, and his wife is responsible for cooking and picking up the children. Liu Laohan can’t be idle either.Of these seven things, which one does not require money?No other old man Liu can do that either. He used to farm, but when he gets older, he doesn't want to be on the construction site.Old man Liu had to go to Dongshan every once in a while to find wild mushrooms, pick them up and sell them at his daughter-in-law's vegetable stall, and someone specially came to buy a big restaurant and send them to the city.

Because no one lived on the mountain, the road up the mountain was soon covered by dense weeds. The mountain was lush with trees and bushes, providing a good living environment and a breeding ground for many wild fungi.

Old man Liu carried a small back basket and drilled in and out of the deep mountains and old forests. He held a small machete in his hand, and when he encountered thorns and thorns, he waved it to open the way.Today's harvest is not small. It didn't take long for half a basket to be picked. In the early morning, the dew was too heavy, and all the clothes were wet. Old man Liu planned to go down the mountain.Instead of going back the same way, he detoured to Yunling Village.

Every time he went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and when he went down the mountain, Liu Laohan would go back to Yunling Village to take a look and rest there. Although there are no people there now, only some dilapidated tile houses and thatched huts are left.But after all, it is the place where I have lived for decades. My grandparents lived here. I was born here. I grew up, married and had children. Later, I had grandchildren. After I got down the mountain, I will come back here when I am old.Old people are nostalgic.

Old man Liu quickly walked to Yunling Village on the mountainside. The two tile-roofed houses in his house were not too broken. Sometimes when it rained suddenly when going up the mountain, he could come to take shelter from the rain, and if he was tired, he could come to rest. Take a break.

The pigsty next to it is a thatched shed, and the thatch has long since disappeared, leaving only four bare pillars and a half-person-high stone wall.

Old man Liu remembered that the yard was overgrown with weeds when he came last time.The stone pen wall was almost covered by weeds, but today I found that the grass near the pig pen had burnt marks.

Old man Liu's first thought was that someone had come here and a fire was lit here.Are you brave enough to make a fire in this mountain?In the event of a forest fire, the consequences cannot be imagined.Liu Laohan was also a forest ranger in the village before, and he still has his own knowledge about fire prevention.

Old man Liu walked over quickly and saw a large black stain on the stone slab of the pigsty, which was burning ashes.It rained two days ago, and the rain washed the stains a bit messy, but it was still clear that the fire started in the pigsty first, and then ignited outside and ignited the weeds. Maybe the person who started the fire was also afraid that the fire would spread very much. The burning weeds around it were quickly extinguished, so only the grass near the pigpen was burned, and other places had no effect.

Who came here to set fire to it?

Is it a villager?Are you picking mushrooms like yourself?

Homeless?

The villagers know that their tiled house has a stove, pot and firewood, and the door is unlocked. They can light a fire at will, and what needs to be burned in the pigsty?

Homeless people usually squat in bridges and don't run up to the mountains, right?

Along the low wall of the pigsty, Old Man Liu found a series of footprints extending towards the back of the house. He wanted to see who was doing something behind his house.

There are traces of new digging behind the house. Old man Liu knew from experience that it was only dug in the past few days. He walked over and used the machete in his hand to plan the loose soil. ? No, not digging, but burying.If you dig, only some pits will be left, which are buried evenly.

There must be something down there.

The old man Liu quickened the movements of his hands, and the machete quickly moved the soil. Suddenly, he hit something, black and charred, like claws.

what?

Old man Liu's heart was beating fast, and he pulled it with a machete to take a closer look. It was a hand.Yes, it is a hand, a human hand.

Omg!dead!

It was people who burned in the pigsty and buried them here.

Who is so immoral to do such a rude thing?No, even if you are afraid of entering the crematorium, you will not just casually do things here...

Liu Laohan thought of four words: kill, burn the body.

The old man Liu, who had never experienced a major event in his life, sat on the ground in fright, and the mushrooms in the basket were knocked over.

The old man Liu shivered and tried to get up, but he was bored.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

The old man Liu muttered to himself.

Call your son.

There is an elderly machine tied to his belt, which his son bought for him last year for 200 yuan.He complained at the time why his son spent the wrong money.Well, mobile phones are used by people who do big things.What kind of mobile phone does he use as a bad old man?

The son said: "Dad, you often go to the mountains, and you are always alone. If there is any good or bad, it will be called Tiantian not, and the ground will not work. The mountain is so big, where can we go to find you, it is convenient to have a mobile phone. ."

Anyway, let him bring his mobile phone and taught him to use it.

The son set up two shortcut numbers for him, 1 is for his son and 2 is for his daughter-in-law.Didn't expect it to come in handy today.

With a trembling hand, Old Man Liu pressed 1 and then the call button, then put the phone to his ear, waiting anxiously, and soon remembered his son's voice in his ear: "Dad, what's wrong?"

"Dead people... There are dead people behind our house..."

"Our house? That house?"

"On the mountain...the old house...burned in the pigsty..."

The old man Liu was a little incoherent.

"Dad, did you see clearly?"

"See clearly, I'm sitting on the side! I can't move if I want to!"

"Dad, don't worry, I'll pick you up right away."

After Liu Laohan's son answered the phone, he first called 110 to call the police.

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Besides, Team Qin and his party went to the Dongshan Town Police Station first, and borrowed a policeman familiar with the terrain to lead the way.

The director of the police station quietly asked Team Qin if there was a case that needed their cooperation, and Team Qin said they were just going to the mountains.Since Team Qin said so, it was inconvenient for him to ask again.

The policeman who led the way was surnamed Luo, who was from Luojia Village, Dongshan, and was very familiar with this area.

After getting in the car, Qin team said to go to Yunling Village, and the car stopped at the foot of the mountain.There is no way up the mountain ahead.

Luo Min police said: "You see that is Xianren Peak. Yunling Village is just below Xianren Peak. It is the highest and furthest village on Dongshan Mountain. It's also deserted, and the car can't go there, only the path into the mountain. It's all the villagers who went into the mountain to pick mushrooms and walked out, so it's not easy to walk!"

While he was talking, he looked at Zhu Yan a few times.

Zhu Yan: "I'm fine."

Team Qin "Okay, Lao Luo, lead the way!"

So Lao Luo led the way, Qin team, Zhu Yan Zengcheng followed in turn.

Team Qin: "Do people often come to this mountain?"

Luo: "Since it was announced that a forest park would be built, the villagers have all withdrawn, and some old men and women have also gone up the mountain to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables. Who are the young people here?"

Team Qin: "How many households are there in Yunling Village? Oh! I mean before."

Luo: "Yunling Village has only [-] households. It is halfway up the mountain, and the transportation is inconvenient. The people in the village grow some corn and rely on the sky for food. Some of them moved out one after another in the early years. I went out to work and do business and made a fortune. I bought a house at the foot of the mountain or in the city and never came back. The remaining dozen or so poor households have all moved to the town this year, so I can only see desolation and dilapidation when I go up. .You might be disappointed."

Team Qin: "It's hard to say whether I'm disappointed or not. Haha!"

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　　In hot summer, pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling.Drink plenty of water and soup.Today Yuxin made the sauerkraut vermicelli dumpling soup, and added a few slices of fresh bamboo shoots, which was delicious. (The old mother in the countryside sells the bamboo shoots she dug herself. I bought two kilograms of bamboo shoots, sliced ​​them, boiled them in boiling water, rinsed them a few more times to remove the bitterness, then put them in bags and put them in the refrigerator. Soup is fine. There is also a storage method. After slicing through water, rinse it a few times, pick it up and dry it. It's sun-dried this day. Soak it when you want to eat it later.

　　Yuxin is a foodie and likes to cook by herself. Xiangha also posted home-cooked recipes!If you like it, you can pay more attention to the exchange!

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(End of this chapter)