Recently, a reader set up a book column, telling a strange and interesting experience.The reader is a deep-mountain hunter living in the Xiling Mountains. His surname is Zhao, and he will be referred to as Zhao hunter in the following text.To make a digression here, as the director of the Supplement Department, I am also very pleased that this newspaper can cover such a remote corner. In the 30th year of the Republic of China, on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, it was midwinter season. Zhao Liehu, who lived in Zhaojiagou, Xiling Mountain, left his thatched hut with a firecracker on his shoulders and headed for the deep mountain covered with half a foot of snow.In order to be able to put the fragrant bacon on the table during the Lunar New Year, a few days ago, he had found a secluded mountain forest and set several traps to catch wild animals.Loopers, bear traps.

When he left home that day, the snow had stopped, but when Zhao Orion arrived at the secluded mountain forest, there was a light snow in the sky again.Zhao Orion inspected the traps he had set up, and harvested one wild fox and six hares, but the results were only so-so.He walked out of the forest, climbed up the mountainside, and came to the last trap he had set, only to find that the trap had been trampled down, and the sharp wooden stake standing under the trap was stained blood red with the blood of animals, but the stake beside the stake was blood red. But it was empty, and no prey was seen.

Looking at the two lines of foot marks left by wild animals beside the trap, one line was deep and the other was shallow, with bloodstains still mixed in between, Zhao Orion immediately recognized that a foraging wild boar had fallen into the path of the trap and was still hanging. In order to serve an extra dish of cured meat for the Spring Festival, Zhao Orion cheered up and walked towards the unknown Xiling deep mountain, following the footprints left by wild boars with a firecracker. The wild boar must be very strong, Zhao Orion followed the footprints for two hours, but did not find the wild boar's body.At this time, he came to a bare mountain, and the snow was getting bigger and bigger, and the snowflakes changed from sporadic to overwhelming, and soon covered the footprints left by the wild boar.Zhao Orion couldn't chase anymore, so he had to give up and turned back, but what he didn't expect was that when he looked back, the two lines of footprints he had walked by himself were also covered by snow, and he couldn't find his way back. .

As an experienced hunter, Zhao Orion should have been on guard against the possibility of getting lost in the snow, but that day he only cared about the injured wild boar that could be turned into a delicious dish, but forgot to leave a leaf on the tree next to the beast's footprints. Marking, but Zhao Orion also has another statement in the book, he also left some marks on the trunk with a hunting knife along the way, but later, the mountains became higher and higher, and the trees became rarer and rarer. , in the end, the circumference is a vast expanse of whiteness, where are there trees that can leave marks?

All in all, at that time, Orion Zhao could only run around in the deep mountains by luck, firing a shot with a firecracker from time to time, hoping to meet other Orion who entered the mountain.But things backfired, and there was no one else in the mountains except him. Just as the so-called auspicious people have their own celestial features, just as the sky was getting dark and the night was falling, Zhao Orion, who had walked to the top of the mountain, suddenly found a valley within the range of his eyesight. cabin together.Although there was no light in the house, Zhao Orieu still ran all the way, and came to the valley before falling into darkness.

There were indeed several stone huts in the valley, but there were no lights shining through at this time. Zhao Orion shouted loudly, but no one answered.He pushed open the door hastily, walked into a stone house, lit a fire, and saw an Eight Immortals table with an oil lamp on the table.After lighting the oil lamp, Zhao Liehu saw bacon hanging from the beams of the house, and the rice tank in the kitchen was full of raw rice, and a few dry firewood were stuffed under the stove, as well as soybean oil and condiments.Filling the stomach is the most important thing, Zhao Orion didn't think about it, he went straight to the fire to cook, took off the sliced ​​bacon and stir-fried it, and enjoyed a delicious meal that he had never expected before.Of course, Zhao Orion did not forget to leave a few banknotes on the table of the Eight Immortals, so as to use it as money for cooking by himself.

After the meal, Zhao Oriehu found a lantern in the stone house, so he took the lantern and inspected the valley, and found that the valley was a deserted village, and the villagers had disappeared, but Zhao Oriehu was surprised The strange thing is that people here seem to have just left their homes and took nothing with them.In the kitchen of every household, oil and rice are kept, and some people even have a half-eaten frozen cabbage next to the stove.The people in this village seemed to be blown by the wind, leaving no trace behind.Zhao Orhu was suspicious, suspecting that bandits had just visited this valley, but there were no traces of smashing and searching in the houses, and some people put gold and silver coins under the bed randomly, and they were still intact.

Although he had doubts in his heart, the snow did not abate in the next few days. Zhao Orion was worried that he would get lost again if he left the valley, so he had to stay in this deserted village.Fortunately, there is enough water in the stone house, which is enough to spend the whole winter in the valley, so Zhao Orion lived in the village with peace of mind, but he was worried that if he couldn't go home, his relatives would think he was in the snow. There was an unexpected event in the sky. Zhao Liehu stayed in the uninhabited valley until the ninth day, that is, on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, when he just opened his eyes, he heard noisy voices coming from outside the house.Shocked, he quickly got up and rushed out of the stone house, only to see that there were more than 20 people standing at the entrance of the valley outside the house, including men, women and children, and all of them had extremely pale faces. Deeply surprised, the young man even pulled out his bow from behind, put on a feathered arrow, and pointed directly at Zhao Orion.

Zhao Liehu hurriedly explained, but found that he couldn't understand the language of these pale-faced people (we will refer to these people as pale-faced people in the following text).The white-faced man spoke a strange language, the tone was like singing, twittering, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, Zhao Orion had no choice but to use hand gestures to let the other party know that he did not have any malicious intentions, but because the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, he accidentally Suddenly, he accidentally hit and walked into the valley. Among the white-faced people, a one-year-old man figured out what Zhao Orion meant, and immediately took out a piece of silk and a wolf hair brush, and picked up the brush to write and draw on the silk. Orion took a closer look, and it turned out to be a simple and easy-to-understand map.

At this time, the heavy snow has stopped.Bringing the bacon rice balls presented by the white-faced man and the silk with the map on it, Zhao Orion set foot on the way home.To express his gratitude, he left the fire gun to the white-faced man in the valley.After five full hours, Zhao Liehu finally returned to his home. When he mentioned the matter of the white-faced man to his neighbors, they were all astonished.Reminded by his neighbors, he recorded this strange experience and wrote a letter to Xichuan Business Daily, his favorite enlightened newspaper. In order to verify this matter, I personally visited Zhao Xiling Mountain, but unfortunately, when I visited the home of Orer Zhao, his home caught fire, and the silk with the map on it was also buried in the sea of ​​fire, so it is impossible to verify its authenticity. fake.Zhao Liehu led me back to the deep mountains based on memory, but he still couldn't find the way to the valley.

Although it is difficult to prove the authenticity of what Zhao Liehu said, it is also because the settlement where the white-faced man is located cannot be found again, which makes this matter full of suspense like Tao Yuanming's reappearance.Therefore, I still remember Xiaowen's announcement of this matter, and also add some interesting talk for all respected readers after dinner. ——The World Interesting Column of the Supplement of "Xichuan Business Daily" February 5, Thirty-one Years of the Republic of China The courtesan suffered an accident, and the Tianchao Demon reappeared in the world News from our newspaper, the day before yesterday (November 24th, 30th year of the Republic of China) in the middle of the night, the frightening Ripper Demon committed the latest shocking murder again.The victim who died in the murder this time was Miss He Man'er, a well-known social star in Xichuan City. The young and beautiful Ms. He Man'er spent 30 gold bars to build a mansion on Xiangshan Road in the west of the city where rich people live. According to the mother in charge of Ms. He's house, on the night of the incident, Ms. He participated in an event hosted by the garrison. After the ballroom dance, I returned home at midnight, feeling very tired, and went to the bedroom to rest after washing.The mother in charge and the servants in the house immediately went back to their rooms to sleep peacefully. It was night, and no one heard any abnormal noise, but in the morning of the next day, Miss He Maner did not go down to the dining room on the ground floor to have breakfast as usual——The mother in charge Said that no matter how late Ms. He goes to bed on weekdays, she will definitely wake up at 7:00 am the next day, and then go downstairs for dinner. At first, the mother in charge thought that Miss He Man'er was not feeling well and needed to rest more, so she didn't become suspicious, and she didn't go upstairs to wake up Miss He. Until noon, the mother in charge still didn't see Miss He coming downstairs, so she felt strange, so she called the servant The servants went upstairs together and knocked on the door outside Miss He's bedroom, but the door was not opened. The mother in charge suspected that Miss He was seriously ill, so she immediately called the strong male gardener in the house, knocked open the bedroom door, and immediately saw the lying Miss He Man'er's horrific corpse in a pool of blood. Exactly the same as the six murders committed by the Eviscerator before, Miss He Maner's neck was cut off by a sharp blade, and the throat to her lower abdomen was also cut and split in a straight line by the sharp blade. . A window of the bedroom facing Xiangshan Street was smashed by a hard object. The police guessed that the Ripper Demon entered through this window. At present, the Xichuan police are focusing on investigating this bloody case, trying to find out the true identity of the Ripper Demon as soon as possible, and arrest him.Li Wuyi, the senior inspector of the Xichuan Police Department who is in charge of investigating the case, deliberately appealed to ordinary people through the "Xichuan Business Daily", which has the highest credibility and circulation in Xichuan City, and hopes that adults can provide reliable clues as much as possible. Instead, it will be kept secret and rewarded with bonuses. In addition, Inspector Li also reminded law-abiding ordinary people that in order to prevent the recurrence of bloody crimes, young women are advised not to go out alone late at night, even at home should try to avoid being alone in a room.It's the end of the year, an extraordinary period, and everything is about safety. ——The local gathering column of the social news edition of "Xichuan Business Daily" November 26, Thirty Years of the Republic of China