Earth Survival Guide

Chapter 386

this place...

How to describe it, it is desolate, really desolate.The nearest town is 140 kilometers away in a straight line. To buy groceries, Lao Zheng needs to ride a motorcycle to the town the first day, and he can only come back the next afternoon.

Oh, by the way, Lao Zheng is the old security guard.He used to be a mushroom grower nearby, but later he was too lazy to do it because he was getting old. Just when the school was preparing to build, he said he wanted to find a guard, so he came. It has been more than a month. Gu Tao is The first person he met.

However, Lao Zheng has grown shiitake mushrooms in Shenshan for many years. He has long been used to loneliness without children, so he can bear the loneliness. He just guards this huge campus. Signal, you can watch TV in the house and pick your feet, and the night will pass.

Now that Gu Tao is here, he has one more person to chat with. Although he is used to loneliness, it is not a bad thing to have one more person to talk to.

Gu Tao is not used to living here, so every night after get off work, he would drive back to Vivi's place to take care of the children, but after a few days of taking care of the children, he found that he couldn't help at all. Sister Tifa had already arranged everything , and Gu Tao lived in this place day after day.

In this way, it is also beneficial, that is, it is full of wildness.There is a wild pond on the mountain behind the school, with fish in it, rabbits in the woods, birds in the trees, and snakes in the cave. Lao Zheng is an experienced mountain man. Gu Tao’s eating game these days can be regarded as a meal. It's enjoyable, and even occasionally you can drink the millet wine and bayberry wine brewed by Lao Zheng himself, so life is not bad.

Being exiled in this place...is this considered exile?When Gu Tao was fishing, he suddenly thought of this question. He agreed on a good school, but what is the difference between this and guarding the grave?

"Xiaogu? Xiaogu!"

Gu Tao's sigh was interrupted by Lao Zheng's voice from a distance, and he replied: "Old Zheng, here it is."

Soon, Lao Zheng came over with two snakes as thick as a child's arms and a plastic jug of white wine: "Grandfather, let's bake."

Gu Tao tired the stove and lit the fire.Lao Zheng peeled the snake's skin and took out the snake's gallbladder. After a while, the two snakes were put on the red-hot charcoal and roasted with a sizzling sound. Lao Zheng also opened a plastic bag and took out peanuts and a handful of broad beans. Gu Tao, you and I drank the wine one by one.

"How did you come to this place when you were young?"

"I made a mistake." Gu Tao sighed: "Men, you have to admit your mistakes, and you have to stand firm when you are beaten. And this is not bad."

"Yes, there is still salary every month." Old Zheng took a sip of wine happily: "Tomorrow, tomorrow I will dig out a beehive and get some bee pupae to make wine, good stuff."

"That's easy!" Gu Tao put a handful of peanuts into his mouth and said vaguely, "Fry them a little more."

"I will eat!"

The old man and the young businessman spent the day chatting with each other. When dusk came, Lao Zheng was making soup with mushrooms picked from the mountains. Gu Tao was bored and sat on the rocking chair watching the sunset on the horizon. The big yellow dog lay beside him and vomited. With his tongue in his mouth, the birds began to return to their nests.

Smelling the strong aroma of rice, Gu Tao always felt a little drowsy. There was a bottle of wine beside him, so he picked it up and took a sip if he had nothing to do.

"Take over my wife and children in two days." Gu Tao took a deep breath and said to Lao Zheng who was cooking in the open air not far away: "This day is beautiful."

"Okay, isn't it just a few more pairs of chopsticks." Lao Zheng also said with a smile: "The old man likes to be lively."

"Who are you fooling, why do you like to live in the mountains all your life?"

"I don't like old people when it's lively." Old Zheng looked up at the sky: "I lived in the city, and I went to high school. But they don't like me, so I just live in the mountains."

Lao Zheng's actual age is almost seventy, and high school students more than 50 years ago can be regarded as middle-level intellectuals. It seems that this old man also has a story.

"Old guy, why don't you find a wife?"

"I had it when I was young." Lao Zheng filled up the soup, and then skillfully heated the pan with oil: "Pass me the soy sauce."

Gu Tao handed him the soy sauce, and then watched him cook with his hands behind his back. This old guy's hands and feet are nimble, and his knife skills are quite good. If he wasn't a little older, Gu Tao would have taken him as his apprentice to teach him how to cook. : "I had it when I was young, what about people?"

"Married."

"Who did you marry?"

"It's not me anyway." Lao Zheng sighed helplessly: "After a few years, he got sick and died."

Sigh... It seems that such words come from his mouth without emotion, but think about it in another way, when the young Lao Zheng heard the news that his beloved got married and then left sadly, how tearful would he be? Heartbroken... No wonder he lived in seclusion in the mountains all his life.

"It seems that you are still a seed of infatuation."

"What kind of crazy? I was sent to the labor camp for touching the female student's thigh. I learned how to grow mushrooms during the labor camp. After I was released, I couldn't find a job, so I lived in the mountains to grow mushrooms."

well?This old thing, I thought it was a seed of infatuation, but I didn't expect it to be a bastard.

In the evening, the two of them sat at the dinner table and drank one glass after another. The liquor was very strong. After a while, they were almost drunk. Gu Tao entered his room in a daze and fell asleep.And he didn't open his eyes until he was awakened by thirst in the middle of the night.

Poured himself a glass of water, sat on the edge of the bed for a while, rubbed his temples and said to himself: "This wine is powerful enough..."

And just when he was about to continue sleeping, he suddenly heard silver bell-like laughter in his ears, accompanied by a clear and sweet call: "Hehehehe, Gu Tao... Come on, Gu Tao..."

"Damn it." Gu Tao laughed: "Break ground on Tai Sui's head, Satania, prepare for positive ion shock."

After speaking, he put on his clothes and prepared to go out, but just as he went out, he found Lao Zheng sitting on the rocking chair at the door, half asleep, and opened his eyes slightly when he heard Gu Tao's movement: "Boy, did you hear that?"

"Ang." Gu Tao nodded: "What is that?"

"Mountain spirit." Lao Zheng stretched out his hand to stop Gu Tao: "You can't go. None of the people who followed the mountain spirit could come back. I was afraid that you would follow me at night, so I hurried over to wait for you when I heard about it. I didn't expect you to be so small." The bastard really wants to go."

Gu Tao was not at all surprised why Lao Zheng knew the mountain spirit. Whoever has lived in the mountains all his life has never encountered anything strange, but he couldn't fall asleep after being tormented like this, so he just moved a chair to sit on it. By Old Zheng's side.

"Can't sleep, talking about ten yuan?"

Old Zheng chuckled, "What are you talking about? Go, fry some peanuts."

The peanuts were fried deliciously, and the two sat in the depths of the mountain in the cool early morning and drank some wine. Old Zheng loves to drink, and he has a lot of goods. Although it is not good wine, the quantity is large. The yellow ones are self-brewed, and there are all kinds. The two warmed up some rice wine, and chatted with peanuts.

"The scariest thing I saw when I was in the mountains was when I saw a female ghost in red."

"True or false? Just like you, what about the female ghost?"

"Hey... brat." Old Zheng laughed: "You know, the female ghost in red is the most vicious. In the past, only newlyweds would wear red clothes, and they would get together when they were happy and fierce. This ghost Terrible. I was driving from the town to my mushroom shed at night. The motorcycle was bouncing on the road, and suddenly there was such a thing in front of me. She was standing in the middle of the road, and I was thinking about it If I stopped, I would be finished, so I accelerated and rushed over while cursing, but just after I rushed over, I even turned the car into a ditch. Otherwise, the next morning, there will be an exploration team passing by. Can't see me."

Gu Tao smiled and said, "Isn't it because you drank too much and had hallucinations?"

"Those of you who have read books will always believe one or the other. If you really encounter it, I guarantee that you will die immediately." Old Zheng said drunkenly: "In the mountains, you really can't run around at night."

"I know, I know." Gu Tao was also a little drunk, leaning against the wall and waving his hands: "Don't run around."

I don't know when both of them fell asleep. When they woke up, it was already past midnight. Gu Tao didn't even know when he fell asleep on the bed, but it didn't matter anymore.

While washing up, Lao Zheng had already started making lunch. He looked at Gu Tao who was squatting next to him: "A little girl came to see you just now."

"Ah?" Gu Tao raised his head with a mouth full of toothpaste: "Which one?"

"A girl who is so tall and has a small face." Old Zheng gestured: "She also asked me to give you this."

As he spoke, a package was thrown in front of Gu Tao. He opened the package with a toothbrush in his mouth, and inside were a few pairs of socks and a few idle books. After smelling the smell, Gu Tao said, "It's eucalyptus..."

While eating, Eucalyptus came in wearing a wreath, and when she saw Gu Tao, she was overjoyed, and jumped up to him: "Isn't it pretty?"

"Looks good." Gu Tao pinched her face: "It's not a big deal to come here."

"It's not far away, come and see you." Eucalyptus sat next to him, ate the mushrooms that Gu Tao fed her, and then said with a smile, "I saw a few friends in the mountains just now."

Gu Tao rolled his eyes and glanced at Lao Zheng. Lao Zheng didn't seem to respond, he just ate and drank with his head down, and Yuen seemed to realize that there were outsiders here, so he quickly shrank his neck and stuck out his tongue: "Wait I want to hang out with my friends for a while."

"Go."

"Then I'll go."

Eucalyptus, who returned to the forest, was just like the little girl when he first met, exuding joy and joy, and Gu Tao also showed a very doting smile watching her bouncing figure all the way.

"Little thing, is this your daughter-in-law?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Strange." Lao Zheng smacked his lips, "Don't be offended, this girl... has no sense of humanity."

(End of this chapter)