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Chapter 5 Xiaofeng Mountain

The driver just thinks that Feng Yi looks good, a bit like those young people who are more popular in the entertainment circle now.In fact, he couldn't recognize which was which, in his opinion they all looked the same.Recently, he heard that some celebrities came to Yangcheng to film a show, so he asked such a question.

Feng Yi said he was not a star, and he believed it.

That's right, why can't a star even get a car?
I heard that there are cars to pick up and drop off celebrities wherever they go.Moreover, no star will go to a place like Xiaofengshan, right?

Therefore, the thought of "Did I carry a star" swayed in the driver's mind and flew again.

"What are you going to do in Xiaofeng Mountain? Scientific research? To shoot videos? Or to explore? In the past two years, a few Internet celebrities have been there to shoot videos, but the experience is not very good, and no one goes there now. Yes," the driver said.

"Find someone." Feng Yi saw that the driver talked a lot, and wanted to get more information from him.

"What is there on Xiaofeng Mountain? This is my first time going." Feng Yi asked.

"There are snakes. They say it's Snake Mountain. Even birds don't build their nests there. Oh, there are also many farming and animal husbandry-related companies there, and there are large fields of farmland and pastures at the foot of the mountain."

"Then if I want to go up the mountain, I can only walk?" Feng Yi asked again.

"Not necessarily. I heard that there are people living on the mountainside over there, and there will be cars going up and down the mountain. The specifics are not clear. If you are lucky, you can encounter a car going up the mountain. You can pay for them to take you for a ride. I will do it. Heard what people said."

"If you go there, what should you pay attention to?" Feng Yi opened the memo on his mobile phone and prepared to write down the driver's words.

"What should I pay attention to?" The driver slammed his mouth and said, "When you go up the mountain, bring more food. If you can't move anything in the wild, don't move it. You don't know if it's poisonous or not. And animals, don't go there no matter how curious you are. Provoked, the security drones are haunted there, anyway, they will come out to patrol every day, the time is uncertain."

Thinking of something, the driver said again: "In June last year, three out-of-towners came here to explore, young boys in the first year of high school, secretly carrying a bunch of things up the mountain to have a self-service barbecue, and they were going to catch snakes, but no one was there. The machine detected the source of the fire and flew over to grab a current one.

"Afterwards, those three were arrested and sent to education, and they had to take exams, forest management secret papers, ten sets of animal protection, etc., and only those who passed the exams were allowed to come out."

"What is animal protection?" Feng Yi didn't hear clearly.

"'Forest management secret volume', 'ten sets of animal protection', this is what we joke about, that is, forest law, fire prevention regulations, wild fire management methods, etc., referred to as forest management. Animal protection is animal protection, For those related to ecological and environmental protection, an expert summed up ten sets of test questions. Later, I heard that the three children with an average height of 1 meters were crying when they did the test papers!”

Feng Yi was taken aback and wrote down the key words.

The driver continued, "In short, there is a protected area over there, don't touch the animals on the mountain, don't care about any snakes, birds, frogs, you just treat them as protected animals, stay away for safety, if you are not careful Killing and wounding is annoying. Just remember one sentence - if one violates the law, ten will be punished."

"This... is a bit exaggerated. What if you encounter a mouse? You can't fight it? There have been many gopher plagues recently." Feng Yi asked.

"Why are you kidding me? There are mice on Snake Mountain? Snakes are the natural enemies of mice! Xiaofeng Mountain is the king of snakes. It is very fierce to swallow mice. The mice there have been raided and wiped out!
"Do you know why there are still people living on the mountainside of Xiaofeng Mountain? The people who live there have to be fed! Rats have to be transported from other places every once in a while, otherwise the snakes isolated in the reserve will starve to death."

"Oh yes, Wang Jinshe eats mice." Feng Yi nodded, "And it's not poisonous."

The driver slapped his mouth again, "Wang Jin snake is what many people call the cauliflower snake. We also call it the king snake here. It was actually used for feeding and eating a long time ago..."

"Don't eat it now." Feng Yi said.

Driver: "In the old days of my grandparents, the old people used to say, 'If you see a snake, you won't be punished for three points'."

Feng Yi: "Now is 'one illegal, ten punishable'?"

"Almost." The driver sighed, "Okay, the climate will change, and the animals will die so much if they say they die?"

Feng Yi was silent.He didn't know how to answer this.

During the climate anomaly in the past 20 years, too many animals and plants disappeared, the common ones became endangered, and the endangered ones became functionally extinct.

Those who support the strictest protection law do not necessarily have pity for those animals and plants, nor do they necessarily have any awareness of ecological protection. They regard mass extinction events as early warnings.The living conditions of animals and plants are also indicators of human living environment, and are the data that the sixth database needs to collect.

Therefore, "data" must be protected.This is common consciousness.

The atmosphere in the car was a little heavy.

It's just this kind of heaviness, and as it gets closer and closer to the destination, it starts to get restless again.

There are fewer and fewer buildings on both sides of the road, more and more warning signs, and signs with telephone numbers.

The driver said: "If you see a snake outside the quarantine area, contact the phone number on the warning sign. It is very likely that the snake is in the protected area and has escaped."

Feng Yi saw the isolation belt pulled up not far away, and the further he walked, the closer the road was to the isolation belt.

This is already the area of ​​Xiaofeng Mountain. Feng Yi can see that on a large rock in the isolation zone, a snake stands up slightly and looks at them, as if he is watching a loach that has strayed into a group of snakes.

The further you go in and the closer you get to the isolation belt, the more you can see the figures crawling along the edge of the isolation belt.

"There are a lot of snakes here... as expected."

Feng Yi's face turned pale.

The driver is okay, it's not the first time to run this way, so it's not surprising, "They just like to lean over to the edge of the isolation belt to watch the passing vehicles and pedestrians."

"So brave?"

"These kinds of snakes are generally brave and fierce. Now they are getting more and more arrogant because no one dares to eat them. Okay, here we are!"

The driver parked the car at the designated place, and the road behind could only go up by Feng Yi himself, and foreign vehicles were not allowed to go up the mountain.

Seeing Feng Yi's body tense, the driver patted Feng Yi's shoulder, "Don't be afraid, it's just a cauliflower snake."

Feng Yi was not comforted.

Cauliflower all over the place may just be a local drama, and the cauliflower snake everywhere is a horror movie!
The driver looked around the parking lot and parked in a smoking area.I didn’t dare to smoke while driving on the road. Xiaofengshan has set up a smoking area where you don’t need to get out of the car.

Lighting the cigarette, the driver watched Feng Yi put on the equipment.

Simply armed to the teeth.

Smiling, the driver said, "We have an old saying here, 'One mile of king brocade snake, ten miles of poisonous snake'."

There are two kinds of sentences:
Ten Miles/No/Poisonous Snakes - There are no poisonous snakes here.

Ten Miles/Non-Venomous Snakes - Snakes are everywhere!It's just that they are not poisonous.

Actually it's the same!
The driver said: "Although it sounds exaggerated, Wang Jinshe also eats snakes. You have to believe that the strength of foodies is unquestionable."

Feng Yi twitched the corners of his mouth: "Thank you, master, you really comfort people!"

The driver smiled and shook his head, "You said that you are afraid of snakes, so what are you doing here? Isn't this looking for abuse?"

Feng Yi said quietly: "Life is not easy."

These words touched the driver's abuse point in an instant, with a cigarette in his mouth and his eyes vicissitudes: "It's not easy."

Feng Yi asked, "Aren't you afraid of snakes?"

Driver: "What am I afraid of if I don't get off the bus?"

Feng Yi: "..." That makes sense.

Driver: "As long as I'm in the car, no snake can sneak into my car! I don't even go to the toilet! I'll find a place to solve it when I get out of here."

Feng Yi: "...so rigorous."

Driver: "We still have a saying here, 'There are thunderstorms and there are many groups of worms and snakes'. After this year's worms, the old people said that there may be more worms and snakes this year than last year. Now the weather is getting warmer, and there are snakes and worms on the mountain. There are indeed more mouse ants, so be careful."

"Thank you, master. Please leave a phone number, master, and I will contact you when I return to pay more." Feng Yi said.

"Okay." The driver's impression of Feng Yi was quite good, he was reluctant to miss the big order, and he was a little worried about Feng Yi.

After thinking about it, the driver said, "This way, for three days at most, if you don't call, I'll call you. If you can't get through, I'll call the police, okay?"

"Row!"

Feng Yi was also worried about his personal safety, and the driver's method was in line with him.

After exchanging phone numbers, the driver checked the car again after smoking, and left immediately.

Feng Yi was carrying his bag, turned his helmet uncomfortably, took a deep breath, and went up the mountain with the snake repelling stick.

You've come this far, so what are you afraid of?

Going further up the mountain, the pulled up isolation nets were on both sides of the road, and the cauliflower snakes gathered on the other side of the isolation net, spitting out letters, moved with Feng Yi as he walked.

Two-meter-long cauliflower snakes are not uncommon here, and there are even bigger ones, which Feng Yi did not look at.

He just felt goosebumps all over his body about to explode now.

Living in the city for more than 20 years, getting close to nature is also a major scenic spot, or an elegant farmhouse. This is the first time I have approached this kind of wild ecological reserve where animals and plants grow wildly.

Another section of the road can still see waves of unnamed flying insects. When Feng Yi walked past, several flying insects rested directly on his helmet mask.

Something flies over the shoulder, and after a while it flies away.Feng Yi only glimpsed a black figure.

Before summer, these flying insects are already active.

Continue to go up and see a card point, where someone is guarding.After registration, Feng Yi was allowed to go up the mountain, and he also told Feng Yi the location of the Feng family's ancestral house.

"There is only one old house on this mountain, it seems to belong to the Feng family. The specifics are not clear. There is only one person living there. If you are talking about the old house, follow this road and go up. You should be able to see the road. If you meet someone, you can ask again, they all know.”

After Feng Yi thanked him, he continued to walk up the mountain.

Fortunately, I didn't get far when I heard the sound of a car approaching and hitchhiked.

The two who drove the car were from a feed factory down the mountain, and they also had work assignments to go up the mountain.

"The ancestral home of the Feng family? Are you looking for Uncle Du?" one person asked.

"Uncle dumb? It should be. The elders in the family just told me that the house there is taken care of. I have something to do at the old house." Feng Yi said.

The other party looked at Feng Yi's equipment, "Looking at you, you know it's your first time here."

"You live on the mountain? Are you okay?" Feng Yi asked.

The two laughed.

One person explained: "Now who is willing to live in the mountains, even if there is WiFi, no one will deliver if you want to eat takeaway at night, not to mention that there are eight snakes watching this place in a pit. Would you like it instead?"

"Isn't there an isolation belt?" Feng Yi said.

"The isolation net is right next to you. When you are squatting in the pit, you look out of the window, and there are seven or eight snakes staring at you on the isolation net not far away. Except for rotating or temporary assignments, other times we live in the company down the mountain. Dormitory. Those who can live safely on the mountain are not ordinary people."

"Like Uncle Dumb?"

"Yes, Uncle dumb is really not an ordinary person. He still lives happily."

"What's Uncle Dumb's surname? What's your name?" Feng Yi asked.

"Name? It's called Uncle Mute. I don't know what his surname is. Anyway, everyone calls him Uncle Mute, and he can't speak."

The mountain looks desolate, but the road is well repaired. The car is not bumpy when driving on it, and even the slightly larger stones cannot be seen.

"There are cars that clear the road every day." One person explained, "Uncle dumb often has people help him with things. There are not many vehicles going up and down the mountain, but it is not uncommon. We will send you up the mountain first, and then come back later."

The car drove up the mountain for a while. After crossing the mountainside, the isolation belt gradually moved away from the driveway. There were traces of artificial activities in the woods beside the road. The trees planted were obviously planned. Yi has never seen it.

Just thinking about it, Feng Yi suddenly heard the person next to him shout, "Hey, I saw Uncle Dude! Uncle Dumb!"

The car stopped by the side of the road.

Feng Yi looked in the direction they pointed.

A man who looked about 70 years old and dressed as an old mountain farmer came out of the forest.

Probably often outdoors, with a dark face and deep wrinkles on his face.There are large bamboo baskets for commoner rubber shoes, half-dry mud marks on the trouser legs, a straw hat on his head slightly tilted, and a few strands of slightly long gray hair sticking out against the brim of the hat, swaying with the steps.

The bamboo basket carried by the old man contained freshly picked fruits and vegetables. Most of the varieties Feng Yi could not recognize, they were all special products on the mountain.

The young man in the driver's seat opened the car window and beckoned to the old man, "Uncle dumb, you have a guest at your house and I will bring it to you!"

Uncle dumb looked into the car.

Feng Yi met his gaze, but he didn't see any haze in his eyes.

Uncle dumb raised his hand to wipe the sweat, and showed a bright smile to Feng Yi.

Then, Feng Yi saw the old man pull out the latest smartphone from his pocket covered in muddy debris—

He Fengyi's mobile phone is of the same series, but the old man's phone has more "plus" than Fengyi's.

The top matching model is [-] more expensive than the one in Feng Yi's hands.And it's hard to come by.

　Thanks to the cute master dark blue crow!Thank you to all the book lovers who voted for their support!

　
(End of this chapter)