Chapter 8 Chapter 8: The Conversation at the Foot of the Stone House

The mountains in this area have no names. Lao Yue said that in order to clarify the route, he simply gave the mountain with a broken stone house on the top a name, so as to avoid confusion during the discussion.After hearing this, Hao Dali said directly, it's better to call it Mantou Mountain, simple and clear.Gu Changtian disagreed. He looked at the mountain and said that Mantou Mountain and Baozi Mountain are too vulgar. Besides, not all mountains look like Mantou and Baozi. In his opinion, it is called Tianyu Mountain, which means that the houses on the mountain are the celestial beings. Lou Yuyu.Cai Minmin disagreed, she said that the name was not beautiful enough, it would be better to name it Cai Minminshan after her.Liang Xiaoyu looked at everyone innocently without saying a word, not knowing which name to support.

Huang Qianshan felt funny when he heard them arguing, why is the name so polite, it should be a name that everyone can understand, so he said: "Call it Shiwushan, anyone who hears it will understand understandable." "It's really unimaginative." Cai Minmin disagreed. Lao Yue agreed: "Let's call it Shiwu Mountain. Let's find a place to camp under the mountain. By the way, check if the equipment we brought is still there?" Gu Changtian nodded and said, "That's right, we need to check, the medicine is gone, maybe other things are also gone."

Although there is a road in the mountains, it is muddy all the way. After a few steps, the shoes are covered with a thick layer of green mud. The muddy walking exhausted most of the physical strength of everyone.The mountain road was not wide, with wild thorns and vines on both sides, only one person could pass through. Hao Dali was too big, so he was always caught by wild thorns, and his clothes were torn to pieces.Huang Qianshan and the others clearly saw Shiwu Mountain, but it took a long time to walk there. As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, it was dark. At the foot of Shiwu Mountain, there are many old trees, and wild thorns and grasses are crowded under the trees, and there is hardly any flat and dry open space.It is very dangerous to camp at night in the mountains and forests. Few people have set foot on the Shiwu Mountain range, and the plants and animals are kept in their original state. There may be beasts in the mountains.The night temperature in the mountains is relatively low. Although it is not cold in summer, the moisture will rush to the body, which is easy to cause the root cause of the disease.

Seeing that Liang Xiaoyu couldn't find a place to camp, she asked why she didn't go to the top of the mountain. There was a broken stone house there, at least it was dry and warm, and it would not be blown by wind and rain.Huang Qianshan said no, no, you all know that the stone house is a good place to go, and the beasts are not stupid, maybe there are fierce beasts hidden in the house, now it's dark, it's not easy to wander around in the mountains and forests. Finally, Lao Yue found a relatively flat and dry large bluestone, enough for six people to eat, drink and rest on it.Gu Changtian was worried, so he and Hao Dali cut off all the nearby wild thorns and vines, and took away the hiding place of poisonous snakes, insects and ants.Lao Yue took out a can of gasoline, piled some firewood, and lit a bonfire. After drying the bluestone, the six people spread sleeping bags before sitting down.Everyone was exhausted, and after the fire started, Liang Xiaoyu fetched some stream water nearby, preparing to make dinner to fill his stomach.

Hao Dali was in charge of medicine, food, and cooking utensils. After the water pot was set up, he couldn't find the noodles he had prepared in advance.Hao Dali rummaged through all the bags, and the pasta was gone, replaced by snacks that little girls would eat.Huang Qianshan felt his head was big just looking at it. How could he be full of snacks, and how could he have the energy to move around in the mountains if he wasn't full? Seeing this, Cai Minmin finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said blamingly: "I really can't stand it, can this kind of thing be a joke? Didn't I buy dried noodles before leaving? What about things, why are they all turned into snacks?"

Gu Changtian also felt puzzled, he asked: "Dali, what's going on, did you take the wrong bag?" Hao Dali was at a loss. He scratched the back of his head and said, "I'm not wrong. The bag is still the original bag. I don't know how things have changed." Liang Xiaoyu wanted to intercede for Hao Dali, but she was worried that Cai Minmin would attack her again with something she had lost sight of, so she kept silent.Lao Yue sighed, but she didn't blame Hao Dali, she said that this thing would be replaced if anyone saw it.Perhaps, when they inquired about the situation in the mountain in the village, they had attracted the attention of some people, so they wanted to prevent them from entering the mountain. The threatening letter was the most obvious evidence.Today's stealing the day and changing the day is just to make them more difficult and let them retreat.

Gu Changtian was very confused, he asked: "The people in the village seem to be simple, who would do that?" Cai Minmin said irritably: "It's useless to worry about these things now, the most urgent thing is to eat enough and sleep well, anyway, I won't go back." Hao Dali glanced up the mountain, he said: "Could it be done by someone who went in earlier?" Lao Yue disagreed, she said: "Impossible, they have all gone into the mountains, how can they have time to do such boring things. In fact, I have been paying attention to the situation on the road along the way, but there are no obvious traces, as if there is no trace at all. Not a lot of people pass by here."

Huang Qianshan also noticed this situation, he said: "Could it be that there is another way, they took another way?" Lao Yue shook her head and said: "There should be no other way, even if there is, think about it, people who enter the mountain see a mountain road coming out, of course they will choose this one, will they open a new road?" Gu Changtian threw a branch into the fire, and then said: "But you said that there were no traces of them on the road, could it be that they disappeared out of thin air?" The discussion lasted for more than an hour, and finally everyone became sleepy and had no interest in talking further.Everyone only ate snacks, and their stomachs didn't feel solid at all, so they fell asleep in order to conserve energy.Huang Qianshan is not worried about food. There are many delicacies in the mountains, so he will not starve to death, but it is late at night, and it is not convenient to wander around in the mountains. When the day comes, he will go to pick some wild mushrooms, or get some crabs to cook. eat.

Of course, not everyone is asleep. Who knows if a beast will run out of the forest in the dark at night. To be on the safe side and to continue the fire, everyone has to take turns to watch the night for an hour and a half.Huang Qianshan's calf still hurt a little, and he couldn't sleep, so he volunteered to be the first on duty.Huang Qianshan was still thinking, since the medicines he brought were all gone, he had to pick some yams for emergencies when he was on the road tomorrow, and he couldn't just remember to eat. The bonfire was flickering with red flames, and a few sparks flew out from time to time. Huang Qianshan leaned against the fire, looking around vigilantly at his surroundings.The big bluestone is surrounded by tall trees, with a lot of moss growing on the tree trunks, and the flickering firelight is reflected on the nearby trees, it seems that the trunks have become moldy.In front of Huangqian Mountain, there were several old trees mixed together, and the vines wrapped around the old trees, forming an airtight wall, and the night wind did not completely blow to the big bluestone.The night wind in the mountains blew strongly from time to time, black clouds drifted past the moon one after another, and the leaves rustled. For some reason, Huang Qianshan thought of a sentence: the moon is dark and the wind is high and the night kills people.

Just when Huang Qianshan was in a daze, Lao Yue turned over. It turned out that she hadn't closed her eyes, and she only heard her say: "Do you regret following?" Huang Qianshan smiled lazily and said: "Of course I regret it, when I go back, you have to give me extra money." Lao Yue sat up, she moved the sleeping bag to the campfire, and said seriously: "Do you think I'm crazy?" Huang Qianshan lit the bonfire and said, "Even if you are a madman, you are still a rich madman." Lao Yue saw that Huang Qianshan was old and unruly, so she said even more melancholy: "The money is left by my parents, and I didn't earn it myself."

Apart from being serious at work, Huang Qianshan is very casual in life. He doesn't like these boring topics, but Lao Yue seems to have been holding back his chatterbox for a long time, so he stopped talking frivolous words and concentrated on listening to Lao Yue.Lao Yue glanced at the people who were sleeping soundly, and was quiet for a moment before talking about her own thoughts. Lao Yue said that she is not the only daughter of the Lao family, she also has a twin sister.When she was a child, the Lao family and his wife were going to the South China Sea for archaeology. Unfortunately, they encountered a storm, and the waves capsized the boat. Her sister was sucked into the sea.Although everyone thinks that Lao Yue's sister is dead, but the twin sisters have a special telepathy, Lao Yue always feels that her sister is not dead.However, the South China Sea is vast, how can a child survive if he falls into the sea? The Lao family was deeply saddened by the loss of a daughter. In the following years, they adopted four children one after another, three girls and one boy, in order to comfort their regrets.Although the Lao family adopted four children, they never took these three children with them when they went out for archaeology, only Lao Yue, probably because they were not their own, so they dared not let them take risks.Lao and his wife have not only traveled all over China, but also set foot in all over the world. They have been to Egypt more than ten times. During these times, Lao Yue also gained knowledge and interest. Three years ago, Lao and his wife died of illness. They left many precious collections and a large fortune.The Lao couple got a manuscript before they died. It is said that the manuscript was copied from the lost classics in the Old Summer Palace.Wangwushan has been the place where emperors of all dynasties offered sacrifices to heaven since Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. It was not until an emperor changed the rules that subsequent emperors did not come to Wangwushan to worship heaven.The Lao family speculated that since many emperors had come here to sacrifice to heaven, would they leave a batch of treasures in the mountains as a show of respect? However, the world is tricky, the Lao family and his wife died of illness three years ago, so this matter was delayed.Lao Yue originally wanted to fulfill her parents' wish and find the ruins in Wangwu Mountain for them, but something went wrong with the Lao family's property. In order to solve the family property, Lao Yue kept running around and didn't get away until not long ago.After Lao Yue finished her work, she wanted to fulfill her parents' unfulfilled wish three years ago. It happened that next Friday would be her parents' birthday, so she went to Wangwu Mountain with three other adopted children to find the ruins, and wanted to commemorate her own. parents. After hearing this, Huang Qianshan asked hesitantly: "Those three children, could they be..." Lao Yue said with certainty: "That's right, they are Minmin, Xiaoyu, Dali, and Changtian are friends I met in school." Only now did Huang Qianshan understand why this group of people didn't have the same temper as people with rich experience in exploration, and why they were able to get together because they didn't agree with each other.As soon as Lao Yue stopped talking, there was a rustling sound in the forest ahead, and Huang Qianshan thought it was like an electric current.Just when they felt strange and were staring at the forest in front of them vigilantly, a voice like a broadcast came from the forest: "Go away, go away!" "What's going on, who's playing the radio?" Gu Changtian asked after waking up. "Hush—there is something weird in the woods." Lao Yue hinted to everyone who woke up to keep quiet. The sound in the woods is not the sound of people talking, but the sound of a low-quality speaker, but the west side of Wangwu Mountain is deserted, there is not even a village, so where does the radio come from?Huang Qianshan also found it strange that the voice was very similar to the broadcasts that were often used when gathering in rural areas in the old days.But there is no village here, and besides, that kind of broadcast has been eliminated long ago, who would use this kind of broadcast to scare people at night, everything is not like what ordinary people do. "Go away, go away!" The voice on the radio sounded panicked and came intermittently from the woods.After everyone was awakened, they all stared at the dark forest in doubt. They stared wide-eyed, and no one spoke. After a long time, Gu Changtian opened his mouth in disbelief and said, "This voice...is from the sky!"