death of mountain god

Zhou Li looked down and saw that there was really a tree hole, with an opening of about ten centimeters, and the bottom could not be seen. When he took a photo with his mobile phone, it was not very deep. One end is cracked, and looking in from the crack, you can see the scene behind the tree through the cavity created by the tree hole.

Cheng Wenzhe was curious: "What's inside? A squirrel?"

"The squirrel is so timid, it ran away before you could do it." Zhou Li stretched out his hand and found some hard things. He spread his hands and saw that they were cherry pits and other kinds of fruit pits.

Cheng Wenzhe picked and picked for a long time, and when he raised his head, he gave Zhou Li a disdainful look: "Why do you even want to grab the squirrel's food? You are so careless."

What?Cheng Wenzhe's eyes widened, and he felt it was necessary to make it clear: "I'm not, I don't. I'm just trying to verify a conjecture with academic enthusiasm."

The man's expression was very tantalizing, Zhou Li followed his words and asked, "What guess?"

He pointed at the various nuts in Zhou Li's hands solemnly: "Squirrels may not simply eat pine nuts, but are interested in all shelled seeds."

Shen Yuntan finally couldn't listen anymore: "Your conjecture may have been verified by someone long ago. Next, let's get out of the mountain as soon as possible?"

There are many sharp things in the tree hole, no matter if it is a fruit core or a branch, just in case, Zhou Li made up his mind to stuff it in.

After a while, he tentatively stretched out his hand again. The bag he just put in had disappeared. He turned on the flashlight and took a photo. It was the same as before. He breathed a sigh of relief: "It's gone, it should be taken away."

Cheng Wenzhe was a little worried, and said worriedly: "Will you lose it?"

"This is the place you said yourself. If you lose it, you will be thrown in." Zhou Yue was still feeling sorry for his bag, and he glanced into the hole again unwillingly.

A corner of the khaki cloth was exposed, and he looked very friendly. He turned around and pulled out the bag, and wiped off the dead leaves and dirt on it: "Oh, it should be fine now."

Cheng Wenzhe clicked his tongue: "Broken baby."

"What should we do now? What about the things that lead the way?" Zhou Li walked around the crooked-neck tree without seeing any special marks.

"Look up." Shen Yuntan motioned him to look at a branch of the crooked neck tree.

On the branch above the head, the thing swinging with the wind, upon closer inspection, was actually a dirty strip of cloth with a knot tied at the end. The sun and rain had already faded to light brown, Zhou Li was startled, and hurried to the side.

"Someone has hanged himself here?" The stale atmosphere was faintly visible in the surrounding air, and Cheng Wenzhe's back was suddenly covered with cold sweat, and then he grabbed Zhou Li's arm, "I feel something is wrong... did you hear any sound?" ?”

"No, don't think too much..." Zhou Li retreated further as he said, even the shadow of the pine tree was careful not to step on it.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the cloth straps on the branches fell down with a clatter, shaking rhythmically in front of everyone's eyes, and the looped cloth strips knotted at the end seemed to have stiffened, maintaining the drop shape as if supported by steel wires , seeming to greet their heads.

Shen Yuntan suddenly approached the dangling three-foot white silk, Zhou Li was about to stop him, but before he could open his mouth, he watched helplessly as he put the toilet paper on his hand and tore off the weird strip of cloth.

"Playing tricks." His eyes were extremely clear, without any fear, and he looked straight ahead, "No matter what you are, the mountain ghost asked you to lead the way, not to play tricks, and you will know what to do."

Zhou Li was immediately ashamed. He was the only one here who had dealt with these things, but he was timid and afraid to go forward. He was not as reliable as an ordinary person.

He walked to Shen Yuntan's side, while protecting the person, he took out the yellow talisman with his bare hands. The yellow talisman bumped around in the air like a balloon with its mouth open, and swished onto the cloudy cloth, ho ho It started to ignite spontaneously, and the cloth strips that had been lying on the ground met the fire, and immediately came to life, writhing and rolling like a white snake that had been pinched seven inches.

Zhou Li put it away when he saw it, and used a branch to open the shrunken cloth strips, and a line of writing appeared on the place where it was blackened by the flames: "Go straight to the south, and turn right when you see the huge towering pine tree."

"Buried?" Cheng Wenzhe walked over tremblingly from a distance, feeling that he was too useless, and he could still do it if he wanted to finish it off.

There was some dust on his forehead, and Zhou Li smiled when he saw it: "Don't bury it, let the mountain ghost take care of it, you are really black now."

Cheng Wenzhe shook his head, using the phone screen as a mirror, and dusted it with his fingers in disgust: "What are these things, Xiao Zhou, do you have alcohol swabs?"

Zhou Li lowered his voice mysteriously, for fear of being overheard by something: "Yes, but, did you know? Alcohol can kill bacteria, but there are some things it can't kill."

After speaking, he deliberately looked at his forehead, and sighed a thousand times.

Cheng Wenzhe was skeptical at first, but seeing Zhou Yue's heavy heart along the way, and seeing his forehead showing a hesitant expression from time to time, he gradually panicked.

In the dog days, the days are longer, and it is still bright after six o’clock, but he feels chills all over his body for no reason, and he is dizzy. After suffering for a long time, he half-closes his eyes and announces dejectedly: "I think something is wrong with me. "

Zhou Li grinned loudly, his white teeth shook Cheng Wenzhe's eyes, and he suddenly couldn't figure it out: "When you smile...why do you have four rows of teeth?"

Zhou Li replied: "Look carefully, do I have two heads?"

Cheng Wenzhe took a closer look, sweating profusely: "There are more than two heads, you have mitosis all over!"

...Is this really inflamed?

Zhou Li stopped laughing, and replied seriously: "Xiao Cheng, don't be nervous, I was just scaring you. Didn't you just sleep for a long time with the mountain wind blowing? You probably got blown, just a simple cold."

Shen Yuntan stretched out his hand to touch the man's forehead, pondered for a moment, and said after deliberation: "I have a fever, it's not mild, let's go quickly, there is medicine in the car, you hold me first, if it doesn't work, just say it, we take turns. will carry you out."

Cheng Wenzhe was deceived quite a lot, and he was a little confused because of his fever, so he was very blunt: "Bah, in the end it must be that you two went out hand in hand to sleep and fly together, and then left me alone to be taken away by wolves."

It really made people cry, Zhou Li didn't plan to reply any more, wasting his tongue, he was going to stretch out his hand and pull him to continue walking.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Cheng Wenzhe's eyes were red, as if if you don't recite me, I'll cry for you.

While speaking, he had already seen the huge tower-shaped pine tree, which must have been very shocking to others. It stood upright like a commander in a group of gray-headed bushes, and even a poor man was sorry for such a tall appearance.

Cheng Wenzhe's eyes dried out in a short while, and now he looked remorseful: "When I get excited, I tend to cry, it may be terminally ill."

Shen Yuntan patted him on the back: "It's okay, we won't say anything."

The direction is right, and the will soon turn bright. I even met an old man who came to carry water, with a light pole on his shoulders, a plastic white bucket at each end, sludge hanging outside, but the inside wall was spotless. The old man was a nearby villager. Wearing a pair of brightly colored sneakers on their feet, they greeted them when they saw them: "Are you here for fare evasion? Be careful and go back before it gets dark."

Before leaving the mountain, Zhou Li glanced back again. The mountain in the distance seemed to be covered with a layer of dark green carpet. The winding path was looming, and the blue peaks of different shades overlapped one another. Ground.

"I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep." Cheng Wenzhe got into the car, and before he had time to put down the seat, he curled up in a ball in the back seat.

Zhou Li pulled out the antipyretic and stuffed it into his mouth, and said into his ear hole: "Are you going to take it yourself, or should I pour it in for you?"

As he spoke, he unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, the liquid was suffocated by the high temperature in the car, and Cheng Wenzhe felt dizzy, feeling the bitterness of the pill in his mouth, so he took the water bottle and quickly swallowed it.

When I rushed back to Qingyang, the fuel tank was almost bottomed out, and when I looked up, the gas station that claimed to be open 24 hours had already closed, filled with a sense of dilapidation that people went to empty buildings.

Zhou Li took out their family's recharge card from the drawer. There were more than 1000 yuan in it, and a contact number was written in the lower left corner.

"The number you dialed is an empty number..."

Hehe, I was still thinking about this recharge card, and came to find someone with my last breath, but now it's all right, I can only treat it as a dog.

There is a newly opened Shell nearby. Zhou Li went to apply for a new card with full of melancholy. people.

Holding a brand new fuel card in his hand, he felt as if the lost 1000 yuan had come back, and the smile gradually returned to his face.

Shen Yuntan felt that he was not very good at comforting people, so he swipe and pull the shopping cart on Zhou Li's mobile phone for a long time. From socks to earphones, the content was extremely complicated, and he couldn't tell what he liked at all.

Taking advantage of the time when Zhou Li went out to apply for a card, he dashed down, walked around the street, and finally came back with a bag of chilled mangoes in his hand.

He took a bite, and it tasted good, cool and sweet. He looked up and saw Zhou Li walking over with a relaxed expression, and his heart that was bunched up in a ball also relaxed.

Zhou Li got into the car, smelled a strange sweet smell, didn't pay much attention to it, and was about to start when Shen Yuntan grabbed his right arm: "Is it hot? Do you want some iced mango?"

As if by magic, in the blink of an eye, a bunch of orange paper bags appeared out of nowhere. Shen Yuntan tore a new one. The frozen mango looked like jelly, smooth and soft. He reached out to take it, but was slapped again. down.

"Come on, open your mouth..." Shen Yuntan racked his brains to come up with such a sentence, but he felt a little ashamed after saying it.

Zhou Li squinted at him, and opened his mouth obediently, but he didn't aim at the mango, but bit the lips of the person next to him.

It's not enough to move your mouth, you have to use your hands, stretching your right arm, messing with Shen Yuntan's hair, clasping the back of his head tightly, then getting up and pressing the person on the back of the chair for a deep kiss.