Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Liluo Village

Liluo Village is located on a very desolate high mountain, about 300 kilometers away from the nearest city. There is no village in the front and no shop in the back. However, because the local area is rich in a kind of spice, it is not considered backward. That kind of spice was lured out of the village by Li Nuoyi's parents. They set up a factory to extract the essence and sold it all over the world. Perhaps the high-end perfumes used by many people now contain such spices, but even I have only heard of the existence of that mysterious plant, but I don't know what they look like at all.

The road leading to Liluo Village is well built, all asphalt road, and the road is very smooth.I rented a buggy and bought some camping gear just in case.The mountain road is very rugged. Although it is only more than 300 kilometers, but with the current average speed of 60 kilometers per hour, it is lucky to be able to reach the village before twelve o'clock tonight. Li Nuoyi, who was so weak that she was in a coma, is still lying softly on the back seat, and I look back at her worriedly from time to time.Although she has shown her strong and gentle side since she realized it, but no matter what, she is still a girl after all, and she will still be panicked and afraid after encountering repeated attacks by mysterious forces.

That kind of targeted, invisible, and unfathomable power really made me feel powerless. But everything has its reason, since she will be pulled into a strange space, it is probably because of unexplained reasons.Could it be that something happened in Liluo Village, far more than just Li Nuoyi's grandpa going to lose his braids?While driving, I simply sorted out the few clues in my mind.The mountain road ahead was distorted like a twist on the GPS screen, and I couldn't help but slow down again.The mountain roads here are too steep, even if I have good driving skills, I can't help but feel scalp numbness on some dangerous road sections.

Due to the constant delivery of special products in Liluo Village, there are not too few trucks coming and going, so the road conditions are not good at the second half of the road.Sparse potholes appeared on the road surface, which affected the speed of the vehicle again. The sun has fallen from the top of the head to the ridge in the distance. The fiery red sunset seems to be burning, and it is projected through the leaves, as if the western sky is lit with a raging fire. The scenery is very spectacular. Suddenly, I slammed on the brakes, the wheels of the off-road vehicle rubbed against the ground, making a loud noise, and finally stopped almost dangerously.

Li Nuoyi's body was thrown down by the brakes and hit the back of the front seat. "Woooo..." She sat up while covering her nose, finally awake. "You woke up, are you healthy?" I turned my head and asked with concern. "Well, apart from being a little scared, I'm fine." Li Nuoyi forced a smile at me, and asked, "Why did you brake suddenly, did something happen?" "There are indeed some small problems." I pouted wryly and pouted out the car window. She looked in the direction I indicated, and couldn't help being taken aback.

On the road five meters away, a thick tree broke apart and fell down.Coincidentally, the location of the fall just cut off the road in the middle.The car couldn't drive past it. "How could this happen!" Li Nuoyi stroked his aching head, opened the window and breathed out the fresh air in the mountains. "Who knows, take a rest and replenish your energy." I handed her something to eat, then opened the door and got out of the car, "I'll go and have a look." When I walked to the broken tree, I observed it carefully.This is a lush fir tree with fresh leaves, which should have just fallen down.I walked slowly to the broken place, and after only one glance, my brows frowned.

The tree was obviously not blown down by the wind, nor did it break for any natural reason. Judging from the traces at the fracture, there were elements of violent destruction everywhere.I stretched out my hand to touch it, and the fracture was very irregular, as if some kind of animal had bitten off the trunk of the tree with sharp teeth. The trunk of the fir tree in front of me is more than one meter in diameter. What kind of animal can bite it off?I really couldn't find the corresponding creature in my mind, so I had to turn around and walk towards the car. It is completely impossible to move the trees lying across the road with only the strength of two people, and at least a ten-ton crane is needed to remove them.Let's ask Li Nuoyi to see if there is another detour.

Li Nuo leaned on his chin, thought for a while, and then looked outside the car again, before saying: "If you want to take a detour, I remember that there is indeed a trail, and the off-road vehicle can barely drive it." "Is that road dangerous?" I looked at her, "Otherwise, why hesitate." "There's no danger, it's just some bad memories." Li Nuoyi shook his head, expressing his loneliness. She pointed to the ground not far away, "Go back about a kilometer, and you should be able to find that path. Let's move fast, it's getting dark, and it's very dangerous to walk on the mountain road."

I looked at my watch subconsciously. It was a quarter to six, and there were only two hours left before the sky became completely dark. Turning on the narrow road, the two of us drove back for more than a thousand meters. If it wasn't for Li Nuoyi's guidance, I couldn't find the path that had been filled with weeds and bushes. Reluctantly getting out of the car again, I took out an engineering shovel from the camping kit, and cut down the weeds and low shrubs blocking the road, finally revealing a road less than two and a half meters wide. Bumpy dirt road.As Li Nuoyi said, only off-road vehicles can pass.

It seems that it is impossible to reach her hometown before midnight, I thought pessimistically. The car drove slowly into the dirt road, Li Nuoyi didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't talk to me, just stared blankly at the scenery outside the car. The branches on both sides kept scraping on the car shell, scraping the exterior paint of the off-road vehicle into strips of radish. Fortunately, it was a rented car, and the compensation fee could still be counted on the old man's head.If it's my own car, I don't know what kind of heartache it will be!The dirt road stretched forward with twists and turns, with no end in sight.After we climbed a few steep slopes, we began to gradually descend.I don't know how long it took, but the road finally became a little smoother.

Looking up at the sky, the setting sun burned out, and the crescent moon climbed up from the opposite ridge, it was the last quarter moon.The dim moonlight shone in the jungle, making people panic. It was almost nine o'clock. "How long will it take to get out?" I asked Li Nuoyi in the back seat. Under the light of the car, all the trees in the jungle seemed to be aggressive with dry claws.It's like entering a foreign land. "It will take more than four hours. Although this road is not easy to walk, it is much closer than the road above." Li Nuoyi sighed, "Speaking of which, the last time I went back to my hometown was in middle school. Time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, more than five years have slipped away." "You sound like an old woman now." I shook my head and couldn't help laughing. "The word 'old woman' is not pleasant to listen to. If someone ignores the word 'too' in the middle, Miss Ben will be very happy." Li Nuoyi's spirit has obviously improved a lot, and she has the strength to be silly. I was choked by her words and didn't know how to respond.People's hearts are usually very complicated, especially when it comes to emotional situations.To be honest, I still don't understand what kind of emotions and thoughts I have towards her, or towards the guardian girl, in my heart. I would run away from things I couldn't figure out, and this might be the first time in my life.Emotions can really make people in this world, smart or not, lose their original norms and concepts. Seeing my silence, Li Nuoyi sighed leisurely. For a while, the silence in the car returned not long ago. The exotic scene outside the car kept repeating. I pretended to be concentrating on driving, but my mind was in a mess.I don't know how long this situation lasted. Finally, I slammed on the brakes once. Li Nuoyi almost hit her nose again, she poked her head out from the back seat and asked, "The road ahead is blocked again?" "The tire is blown." I smiled wryly and walked on. The hiking shoes feel soft when stepping on the ground, and the road under the feet does not know how thick the rotting leaves have accumulated.The right rear wheel of the off-road vehicle has drooped down. Fortunately, the speed of the vehicle is not fast, otherwise, just a flat tire may cause the car to be destroyed. I walked over to the flat tire and checked it, and it was obvious at a glance.The culprit that caused the car to blow out turned out to be a few emerald green thorns. These thorns were more than ten centimeters long, and they were not man-made objects, more like something that grew from some kind of plant. The green thorns penetrated deeply into the outer layer of the tire. The hollow tires that are popular nowadays have not even activated the explosion-proof mechanism, and a thick wound was cut out. The entire tire is probably useless. I grabbed one with my fingers and tried to pull it out of the tire, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't succeed, so I had to get in the car and get the pliers, and with all my strength, I managed to get one out. I brought the thorn closer to observe, and saw that the front torso of the thorn was densely covered with barbs, and under the illumination of the light, there was a cold and threatening light.It doesn't take much judgment at all to know exactly how sharp those barbs are. Li Nuoyi poked his head out, looked at the things in my hand, and suddenly said "Hey": "This thing looks familiar." "You know it?" I handed it over casually, and accidentally let the thorn touch the body, and there was a sharp friction sound, and dense marks were immediately drawn on the metal body of the off-road vehicle.Those barbs not only scratched the painted surface, but also scratched the iron sheet. The hardness and sharpness are simply jaw-dropping. Seeing this, Li Nuoyi immediately carefully took the long green thorn from my hand, looked at it for a long time, and finally shook her head, "At first glance, I thought it was a thorn from a fence, but how can it be so long? I must have made a mistake!" "Fence? Is it a specialty of your village?" I asked curiously, "Does that plant also have thorns?" "That is a kind of shrub, less than one Mi Gao, there are small thorns all over his body, just like the thorns in front of him, but very small. There are only a few of them." Li Nuoyi used her slender and fair fingers to draw a distance of about one centimeter. And after thinking about it in my mind, I couldn't figure it out. Among the plants I know, there are indeed many plants with much longer thorns than the ones in front of me, but none of them have so many barbs that are hard and sharp. Incomparable.The thorn in his hand could already be called a murder weapon, and there was no need to test it. It must be harder than iron. I searched nearby, but I didn't find any plants with these thorns. Besides, there are broad-leaved forests all around, and the altitude is not high enough to survive only coniferous forests.Those thorns seemed to grow out of the ground, and there was no reason at all. It didn't take long for me to give up. "Anyway, put it away and send it to Uncle Crazy. That guy will definitely be interested!" I found a towel, wrapped the thorn in three layers inside and out, and packed it in a bag. Uncle Crazy is a member of the Ye family's collateral lineage, a well-known Huamukuan, and now a professor at a famous agricultural university.I was poisoned by him when I was young, and I learned a lot of knowledge about flowers and trees from him. Although the old man didn't look very good, he gave birth to a beautiful daughter.Ye Yuxin doesn't know if she is living well now. I heard that she has been admitted to her father's university. I wish her to escape from the clutches of the devil as soon as possible. While thinking maliciously, I took out the spare tire and jack. Changing a tire on a soft road is a tormenting physical activity. Finally, I found a few stones with a little reflection as a foundation. After I replaced the spare tire, the monthly weight had already hung to the center. It was almost eleven o'clock at midnight. After repairing the car, I drove forward again. This time I was more careful, so as not to damage the spare tire. Then we would definitely be called out every day, and the ground would not work. We had to walk into the village with our luggage on our backs. Fortunately, the worst-case scenario of worry did not appear, and the ground did not encounter that kind of inexplicable strange thorn.After tossing until three o'clock in the morning, when our bones were about to be knocked apart by the road, it suddenly became clear to us that we had finally passed through the woods!In front of you is a shallow hill, located in a valley, which looks particularly mysterious in the hazy night. The houses on the shallow hills are dotted with lights, and the lights in the distance are like fireflies in the sky, remote and ethereal, like a paradise.Layers of terraced fields lie quietly in the darkness, under the dim moonlight, one can vaguely see the densely packed low round shrubs planted in the ground. "I didn't expect your hometown to be so beautiful!" I admired. Li Nuoyi shook her head, "What's the use of being beautiful? In the past, Liluo Village was the poorest place with a radius of hundreds of miles. Girls desperately wanted to get married, and it was difficult for boys to find wives. The village was in chaos." "Fortunately, God has eyes, my father came back from studying abroad, and accidentally found fences. This kind of plant that is everywhere in the village contains economic benefits. The whole village was saved from falling apart and finally became rich. " The gentle and intelligent girl sighed and concluded: "So in many cases, money is the most beautiful thing. Although the scenery in my hometown is beautiful, the people inside have long since lost their conscience. In order to occupy an extra acre of land, many people You can throw away the propriety, righteousness and shame, and you can use any dirty and unimaginable means!" "Perhaps it is because the people in your hometown were poor and afraid in the past, so you want to take your current life even more into your hands." I shrugged, noncommittal.Isn't it the same for people outside? Human beings, no matter where they are, fulfill the same code of conduct.It has nothing to do with right or wrong, it is purely the instinct of survival of the best. "Okay, let's not talk about depressing things." Li Nuoyi's point of view was obviously different from mine, but she didn't want to argue with me, so she voluntarily dropped the topic.She pointed to the cement road not far away and said, "Follow that road and you will be able to go straight to my house. Let's go." "Ok." I nodded, and drove from the dirt road to the cement road, finally I didn't have to bump anymore. The winding two-lane driveway bends and extends like an earthworm on the shallow hill. From time to time, you can see many antique houses on the side of the road. The houses are very new, obviously built after getting rich in the past few years. After driving for a short time, a large mansion appeared at the end of the road. It was a complex of reinforced concrete buildings. It was not high, but it was very grand, and the antique style made people feel very majestic. "This is our home." The closer he got to the house, the more preoccupied Li Nuoyi seemed. "Are you scared?" I asked calmly. "With Ah Ye by your side, why would I be afraid. It's just that this place doesn't even have good memories for me." He reached out and grabbed my arm, his soft palm was a little cold. I lowered the speed of the car slightly worried, the mansion glowed with a gloomy light in the faint moonlight, like a centenarian who was getting old and dying, for no reason, I suddenly felt a chill, It was as if those houses were alive, devouring the surrounding darkness. Illusion!When he was about to reach the gate, Li Nuoyi finally calmed down.After all, she is also a character who has encountered strong winds and waves, and has experienced many life and death tortures. Since she met me, her temperament has changed a lot. . "Well, now I can finally see from you the aura of a current president who has inherited a large company." I quipped appreciatively. Li Nuoyi glanced at me coquettishly, "I hate it, it took so much for her to pretend to be what she is now, don't let me break my merits." I smiled and shook my head, the car finally stopped in front of the door.The gate of the mansion is a full three meters high and four meters wide, and there are tall walls of unknown length extending on both sides of the gate. I honked the horn, but no one came out to answer the door. "You can't do this, drive the car to the stone lion on the right." Li Nuoyi ordered. "Why do you drive there? Is there a key hidden in the lion's mouth!" I wondered. "You'll know as soon as you drive past." There was a smile in her eyes, obviously planning to punish her. I scratched my head and obediently drove the car over. There are two majestic stone lions at the gate, which are exquisitely and vividly carved. You can tell at a glance that a famous sculptor was hired to carve at a high price.After the car stopped beside the right lion, Li Nuoyi did something that almost made my eyes roll out of my eyes. She took a card from her purse and stuck it in the lion's mouth.Within a few seconds, the stone lion's eyes flashed a few green lights, and the head made a slight "whoop" sound of card reading, and the sound of the motor starting came from the gate not far away, and it slowly moved to the left and right. side open. I stared at this scene dumbfounded, speechless for a long time. Li Nuoyi smiled triumphantly, "It's the modern era now, and many high-tech elements were added to this house during renovation. Don't think that being in the deep mountains means you have to be isolated from the world. Hehe, Ah Ye, You look so cute when you're surprised." This girl definitely wanted to see me out of embarrassment on purpose and premeditatedly.I came back to my senses and gave her a hard look. "Come in, welcome to the main residence of the Li family." Li Nuoyi sneaked over at lightning speed, and she kissed my face lightly with her soft mouth, then covered her flushed cheeks, and shouted happily: "It's great that there is no guardian girl following me!" .People have wanted to do this for a long time, hee hee." I was dumbfounded again, basically showing a petrified state.I admit that I can't keep up with the thinking of the girl in front of me.It's over, when Li Nuoyi was in Canada, she must have been spoiled by the dead woman Lin Zhiyan. The girl who was originally so quiet and gentle, now her code of conduct has become elusive. "Look, what to look at." Li Nuoyi's cheeks became more and more red under my dull eyes, she pouted her mouth and raised her chin slightly. "A Ye, do you still want to kiss me back? I don't mind." I stared at her without blinking for a long time, but I really couldn't tell which one was the real her. She was gentle and a little girl in Canada, but now after returning to her hometown, she was afraid and inexplicably developed great courage at the same time.Could it be that the latter is her real character?The gentleness and sweetness in the past are all illusions shown under the oppression of the guardian girl?Headache!It's completely impossible to predict! "Go in quickly, the door will close soon." Li Nuoyi suddenly exclaimed, interrupting my thoughts. I saw that the wide open door not far away was closing at a slow speed.I stepped on the accelerator subconsciously and rushed over at an extremely fast speed. The thick metal gates were closed tightly behind them, like the teeth of a wild beast.I looked forward, and as I observed from the outside, there were indeed many buildings in this mansion, which were built in four directions: southeast, north, and west.The road goes straight, and with the headlights, one can barely see a forest, which should be a leisure place like a small garden. "There is a parking lot as you keep walking. Let's park the car in the garden first. Don't rush to get the luggage. We will talk about it after we see the situation." There was a trace of nostalgia in Li Nuoyi's eyes. I drove forward as I said, and I saw a small parking lot. There were more than 20 cars parked in it, all of which were expensive cars. The worst ones were Mercedes and BMW. Ni limited edition.In contrast, the off-road vehicle we parked in the corner was really shabby. "Your family is rich enough, it seems that making fragrances can really explode." I sigh. It is said that women and children's money is the best earned. As expected, a unique fragrance can accumulate wealth to such an extent. Li Nuoyi didn't smile, and said in a slightly desolate tone: "The company was listed before the parents died, and almost everyone in my family holds the company's stock more or less." "They work from sunrise to sunset, and the poor peasants become rich and upstarts. Apart from watching stocks on the computer every day, they are intriguing, wanting to farm more, and wanting to get the company under their own name. The husband and wife did the most blatant thing." "Except for grandpa, no one in the whole mansion really cares about me. They only care about when I die and whether the inheritance can fall on their heads." There was great sadness in her light tone, and now I know what kind of enormous pressure this weak girl has been enduring.Maybe Lai is in Canada not only because he wants to stay with me, but also because he wants to avoid all kinds of conflicts in the family. I gently hugged her body, Li Nuoyi felt my warmth, and leaned her head on my shoulder. "Ah Ye can bring people a sense of security. No wonder girls like you all the time." She smiled and took my hand, "Let's go. I'm afraid Grandpa can't wait to see 'grandson-in-law'!" She bit the three words "grandson-in-law" very hard, and her silver-like laughter cut through The lifeless night, constantly echoing in the night sky. I was held tightly by her hand, walked around the central parking lot, and walked towards the buildings in the north.