Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 275 Restricted Area
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Under the arrangement of the village head, some village names carried bronze gongs and beat them from house to house.

This is the unwritten rule of Fengxian Village. Anyone who hears the sound of gongs is an emergency.

At this time, all young and middle-aged people from every household need to gather at the entrance of the village and obey the arrangement of the village head.

To be honest, the people in the mountains are really simple and united.

Within half an hour, nearly a hundred young and middle-aged men appeared at the entrance of the village, each of them held a torch in their hands, and many of them carried farm tools such as sickles and hoes.There are wild beasts in the mountains at night, so you need to bring weapons for self-defense.

"Assemble the whole team!" Someone yelled loudly.

The villagers gathered quickly and neatly lined up in five rows. There was no sound at the scene, quietly waiting for the village chief's instructions.

The fire illuminated the night sky, and the village chief stood at the front of the line with his hands behind his back, and said loudly, "Something happened in the village today. Wan Shan and Chu Xin haven't returned home all day and night since they went out last night. In other words, the two of them are missing!"

"disappeared?!"

There was a lot of discussion in the crowd. Everyone was surprised by the disappearance of the two of them. They were both so old, and they were strong and strong men. How could they disappear?Could it be that he ran into the mountain and met a wild animal?
The village chief said: "Fengxian Village is such a big place, and there is no sign of the two of them! I guess the two of them may have gone into the mountains. Everyone prepares water and dry food. We will go into the mountains to find someone tonight. It's hard work." Everyone!"

The village head divided the hundreds of villagers into five groups and handed them over to four people to lead them, and then led one of them himself.Next, the village chief divided the nearby mountains and forests into five ranges, and everyone split up to search the largest range in the shortest time.

Xiao Guoguo and I followed the team of the village chief, formed a team, and started to search in the mountains.

The night in the mountains was very cool, and it was chilly in the woods, but it couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the villagers. There were fires all over the mountains and plains, which looked spectacular.

Everyone was very concerned about the matter of finding Wanshan and Chu Xin. Almost no one had a rest all night. After walking through mountains and rivers and walking many mountain roads, the soles of their feet were blistered, but they still did not find Wanshan and Chu Xin.

When the sky was twilight, the five teams dragged their tired bodies and returned to the entrance of the village one after another.

After a day and night of searching, people were sleepy and tired, but they still found nothing. Many people's faces were full of disappointment and helplessness.

"How are you over there?"

"Can't find it!"

"What about the third team?"

"No gain!"

"We don't have any here either!"

There was no news, no trace, Wan Shan and Chu Xin disappeared in the village inexplicably, as if they had evaporated from the world.

The daughter-in-law of the Chu family and the daughter-in-law Wanshan have been waiting at the entrance of the village since midnight. Their bodies were frozen, shivering in the morning breeze, and the tips of their hair were covered with frost.However, their waiting did not bring back hope, their hearts were colder than their bodies.

The daughter-in-law of the Chu family couldn't hold on any longer, and she fell to the ground, crying with her daughter.

But Wanshan's daughter-in-law's tears had long since dried up, she rolled her eyes, fainted, and was hurriedly sent home by the kind-hearted villagers.

Xiao Guoguo knelt down in front of Wanning, and said apologetically, "Sister Wanning, I'm sorry, my sister has been running all night, but I still haven't found your father! My sister failed your expectations, I'm really sorry!"

"Thank you sister, I won't blame you! We are already very grateful to you for helping us in this way!" Wanning threw herself into Xiao Guoguo's arms, sobbing softly.

When Wanning cried, Xiao Guoguo also cried.

Looking at this tender scene, I couldn't help being moved. Although Xiao Guoguo is a monster, her heart is very good. She is a hundred times better than many so-called "human beings".

"Village chief, what should we do now? We've searched everywhere, but we still can't find Wanshan and Chu Xin. Did something really happen to them?"

"Not necessarily! What if they go out of the mountain?"

"Why didn't you say hello to your family when you came out of the mountain? They are both good husbands, and they wouldn't do that!"

Everyone said one sentence to another, the village chief frowned and remained silent.

Suddenly, the village chief said: "There is another place we haven't looked for!"

"Isn't it? We've searched all the mountains around here, and we haven't missed anything!" said the villagers below.

"That's right! The village chief, I've searched everywhere, what else haven't I looked for?" someone asked.

Fan Tianhua took a deep breath. Standing behind him, I saw his shoulders twitch uncontrollably, and said in a harsh voice, "Milong Cave!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone fell silent.

Many villagers even opened their mouths wide and looked at Fan Tianhua nervously.

Everyone's face changed, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart: "Where is Milong Cave? Why do the villagers react so weirdly when this name is mentioned?"

At this time, someone said: "Impossible! The Milong Cave is a restricted area stipulated by our Fengxian Village, and no one is allowed to enter. How could they run to the Milong Cave?"

"Yes!" Immediately someone echoed: "It's not like they don't know the danger of Milong Cave, so they ran to Milong Cave to die if they have nothing to do?"

Fan Tianhua sighed: "Now that Wanshan and Chu Xin are missing, even if there is little hope, we must not let go of any hope! Now there is only Milong Cave that has not been searched. What if they are really there? What about the Lost Dragon Cave?"

"Village Chief, you won't really tell us to go to Milong Cave to find someone?"

"That's right! Everyone in the village knows the dangers of Milong Cave, so there's no need for us to risk ourselves like this!"

"Yes! They are going to the Milong Cave to die, we don't want to go to the Milong Cave to die!"

The village chief's proposal was obviously opposed by the villagers, which is a very abnormal phenomenon.Through these two days of observation, I found that Fan Tianhua, the village head, still has a lot of prestige and status in the village, and the villagers obeyed his orders very much. This was the first time I saw the villagers clearly protest.

A middle-aged man came out and said in a rough voice: "Village chief, you want us to find someone, we have no objection! But if you really want us to go to Milong Cave, I will be the first to stand up against it! Village Chief, you are more aware of the dangers of Milong Cave than us! There is no need to sacrifice more people for the sake of two people, right? If you really go to Milong Cave, I refuse!" After saying this, the middle-aged man turned around then go.

"I'm not going either!"

"We're not going either!"

As soon as the middle-aged man left, several people immediately followed suit.

The crowd began to stir, and more and more people left.

"There are old and young in my family, I don't want to die so early!"

"My daughter-in-law is still waiting for me at home. My son will be born next month. I can't do anything! I won't go either!"

"Yes! We have tried our best to help, but if we are asked to die, we will not go!"

The villagers dispersed one after another. Faced with such a situation, Fan Tianhua seemed very calm, as if this situation had long been expected by him.

I only heard Fan Tianhua say: "I know Milong Cave is very dangerous, so I won't force everyone. Those who want to go will stay. The village will give everyone a labor bonus of 500 yuan. Those who don't want to go go home and rest. Well, everyone is tired after running around all night!"

As the saying goes, "Under a great reward, there must be a brave man!", 500 yuan is a very generous bonus for the villagers in the mountains.So as soon as Fan Tianhua said this, some people who were hesitating stopped immediately, and a few people who had already left also turned around and came back, but there were also some people who insisted on leaving: "Although the bonus is huge, I'm afraid I will die. !"

Anyway, they came and went, and at the last count, there were eleven or twelve people left, all of whom were very brave.

The village chief fulfilled his promise, and immediately asked people to go to the village committee to withdraw several thousand yuan, and distributed a bonus of 500 yuan to each of the eleven or two people, and then everyone sat around the table and had a full meal.After running around and working hard all night last night, everyone was really hungry.

While eating, I asked Fan Tianhua out of curiosity: "Village Chief, can you tell me where this Milong Cave is? Is this place dangerous? Why do people hear that they are going to Milong Cave? Didn’t everyone say they won’t go?”

Fan Tianhua put down his chopsticks: "Tuobagu, you are foreign guests, and you don't know about our Fengxian Village! This Milong Cave is a forbidden zone in our village, and no one in the village can go there!"

"Why do you consider Milong Cave as a restricted area?" Xiao Guoguo was also curious as he pulled the rice grains.

Fan Tianhua squinted his eyes, looked at the mountains in the distance, and said quietly: "There are two main reasons! One reason is that the terrain of the Milong Cave is complex, and the mountain is full of caves. There are many caves and roads. The inside is like a big maze. If it’s a human being, even if an animal walks in, it won’t be able to get out!”

"Is there another reason?" I stuffed a pancake into my mouth and asked impatiently.

Fan Tianhua's fingers trembled uncontrollably, and there was a hint of chill in his tone: "There is another more important reason, the Milong Cave is... haunted!"

Haunted? !
I was slightly taken aback: "What the hell is going on?"

Fan Tianhua said: "Actually, Milong Cave was not a restricted area before, but later on, weird things often happened there, and the haunting incidents became more and more serious. In order to protect the safety of the villagers, the village committee had to regard Milong Cave as a Forbidden zone, and write this rule into the village rules, no one is allowed to step into the Lost Dragon Cave!"

"Haunting incidents?!" I put a clove of sugar garlic in my mouth and bit it loudly: "What haunting incidents? Can you tell me about two of them?"

I am very interested in these haunted incidents. Hearing what Fan Tianhua said, I immediately became curious, so I asked him to tell me a lot about Milong Cave.

(End of this chapter)