The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 238 The Withered Rice Field

The fat man took out the flashlight and took a look. Seeing that there were so many unnamed weeds and buzzing mosquitoes in front of him, he asked with black lines all over his head, "Brother Yuanchao, what the hell are you talking about?" Is it accurate? There is not even a road ahead, so how do we get there?"

"This is indeed a mountain road, but it has been abandoned for many years, and it is marked in red letters on the map: extremely dangerous, forbidden to pass." Wang Yuanchao explained.

"You dare to go even if it's extremely dangerous. Is there another way?" The fat man was startled.

"It's gone." Wang Yuanchao flipped through the map for a long time, then shook his head.

"Stop talking nonsense." I glared at the fat man, and asked Wang Yuanchao directly, "If we go this way, how far is it to Zuoer Village?"

"If the map is correct, there are still ten miles."

"Let's go!" After I finished speaking, I took out toilet water from my backpack and poured more than half of the bottle on everyone, and then I took the fat man and Wang Yuanchao across the path full of weeds.

The toilet water was bought before we came. Shangqiu is too poor and there is no special insect repellant at all. I can only settle for the next best thing and use the strong aroma of toilet water to drive away the mosquitoes in the mountains.

Fortunately, we came directly from the Yellow River. Although we did not bring any equipment, our clothes and shoes were all specially made, so we were not afraid of encountering poisonous snakes.

Originally, Wang Yuanchao and I were ready to overcome obstacles, but unexpectedly, after crossing this barren grassland, the road ahead turned out to be flat.It was surprisingly smooth, which surprised us somewhat.

The fat man let out a long sigh of relief: "Damn, I scared the fat man to death! I thought this road was so scary."

I bent down a little strangely, took a look at the surrounding environment with a flashlight, and said strangely: "No, there seems to be something wrong here."

"What's wrong?" the fat man asked nervously.

"It seems that what we are walking now is not a mountain road, but a rice field where crops are grown in the countryside." I said.

When I was a child, I spent a period of time in the countryside and watched other people plant rice seedlings every day, so I was particularly impressed by the rice fields. What is the neatly divided land in front of me?
"Rice field." The fat man looked at me in surprise: "I said Tinker Bell, you can't be blind, right? Now is the season when the rice is growing and flourishing. If this area is a rice field, how can there be one There is no rice."

Wang Yuan squatted there with his face sunk like water, digging with one hand in the cracked ground, and finally grabbed a handful of shriveled rice and said: "Ding Dong is right, this is indeed a rice field, but It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time..."

"No way?" The fat man said with a look of surprise: "Then these villagers are too lazy, right? There are so many good crops, all of them are ignored."

I shook my head, expressing that I didn't know too much: "Let's go a little further and have a look!"

As a result, the further we went, the more deserted fields we found. If it weren't for the limited range of our flashlights, we really couldn't tell how big this field was.

Looking at the withered and yellow rice all over the ground, Wang Yuanchao couldn't help sighing: "The villagers here are really sick. If such a fertile field is carefully taken care of, the crops produced will not know how many people can be fed! It's all a fucking waste."

This is also my question, what the hell are the villagers in Zuoer Village doing?Don't they farm?Then stay in the mountains and eat and drink every day.

It seems that everything this village does is unpredictable.

After walking for about three hours, we finally saw a village.

At this time, it was already five o'clock in the morning. Although the sun hadn't come out yet, the sky had already brightened.

We walked for half a night, sleepy and tired, so we thought about finding a family to rest our feet.

But just like the fields we saw earlier, there is not a single family in the whole village whose chimneys are emitting smoke.Fatty and I are a little strange at the moment, logically speaking, don’t all rural families pay attention to starting at sunrise and resting at sunset?
Besides, let alone the nightlife in such a remote mountain village, I guess they don't even have a TV set. Why haven't they gotten up to work in the fields yet?
In the end, the fat man couldn't stand it anymore, and he knocked on the door of a family.

After a long time, an old man in a military padded jacket came out of the house and asked what we were doing.

Let's take a look, this old man has two thick dark circles under his eyes, listlessly pinching the earthen cigarette in his hand, yawning non-stop, as if he has not woken up, the most eye-catching Mo Because he only has one ear.

I thought to myself, it seems that this is the legendary Zuoer Village!
Now he smiled and said to the old man: "Hello, grandpa, we are college students who went to explore the mountains. We lost our way while walking. It took us a long time to find the village. Can you let me rest at your house for a day?"

As a result, the old man ignored us from the beginning to the end, and just yawned again and again. I saw that he had already yawned more than a dozen times in just a few minutes.

The fat man rolled his eyes, quickly took out two packs of cigarettes, and a few hundred-yuan bills, and stuffed them into the old man's hand with a playful smile: "Grandpa, we don't live for free, these are all to honor you, how about it?" Is it convenient? Don't worry, we are all good people, we will leave after staying for one night."

Chubby chattered non-stop, and finally made the old man get impatient, and threw the money on the ground: "Fart, no one picks up the money on the ground in our village! If you want to live, go to The thatched hut next to it should be dealt with all night, I have to go back to sleep, I'm so sleepy..."

After finishing speaking, the old man closed the door with a bang, leaving the three of us staring blankly.

Fatty Wang Yuanchao and I have seen a lot of people in the world. I haven't been to any remote place. I haven't heard of anyone who doesn't want money. This old man is really weird!

But seeing that the old man was very unfriendly to us, we stopped talking nonsense with him, turned around and walked into the thatched house he just pointed out.

The thatched house was dark and dilapidated, emitting a strong smell of swill, like a pigsty, except for a broken bed and a few farm tools, there was nothing left.

Wang Yuanchao found a broom to clean up all the cobwebs in the house, and then opened the windows for ventilation.

I saw that Fatty and Wang Yuanchao had a lot of tossing along the way, their eyes were red and bloodshot, so I let them go to bed first, and I sat on the bed and watched.

I don't know if it's my illusion, anyway, I always feel that something is wrong with this village, but what is wrong, I can't tell for a while.

That ominous premonition has always been pressing on my heart like a huge boulder, making me breathless!

Fatty and Wang Yuanchao didn't get up until two o'clock in the afternoon. After waking up, I told them my worries.

Wang Yuanchao thought about it carefully, and said: "There is something wrong, there is no popularity in this village."

"That's right." Although the fat man yawned again and again, as if he didn't get enough sleep, his head was clear: "Fatty, I've never had such a good night's sleep! I haven't heard the villagers speak this morning, nor People go to work in the fields, and the whole village is like his mother's hell, where you can't even hear cats and dogs barking."

"That's right, the whole village is really too quiet, it's a little weirdly quiet, it doesn't look like a big village with hundreds of people at all." Wang Yuanchao said.

"Could it be that people in the village don't raise livestock?" I thought of a possibility.

"The possibility you said is very small. With so many households, how could no one have a puppy or a cat." Wang Yuanchao shook his head and said, "I've never heard of a village without livestock."

"Hey, I said there's no use for you two guessing there. Don't we understand everything when we go out and have a look?" After finishing speaking, the fat man climbed out of the bed and said to us: "I know Miss Si. Well, since he left a blood letter and told us the truth lies in Zuoer Village, then there must be a shocking secret hidden in Zuoer Village!"

(End of this chapter)