Chapter 87 Chapter 4 Mother and Child

"Why did I hear something calling, Xinhong, did you hear that?" I asked nervously. "It's the sound of the wind, it's too noisy, I can't hear it clearly." Xinhong listened for a while and said. "It's the sound of a tiger. Many of us who work in the fields have seen it before," the driver continued, lowering his voice, "I think those people who took guns to the mountains a few days ago must have come to poach. !" We didn't answer, just sat quietly, but our hearts were surging.Two foreign men and a Chinese woman went into the mountains with guns, could it be Lin Yue again! ?How could it be such a coincidence, or maybe it wasn't her, China is so big, it wouldn't happen so soon.I feel weird in my heart, and I can't tell why, if it's really Lin Yue's gang, there is another treasure in the mountains!Our fathers also came here when they were young. Could their research really be a treasure?

"Brother, did you say that the woman among those few people last time was very beautiful with long hair?" I leaned forward and asked. "Yeah, she's pretty. What good things can I do in the mountains with two big men? But, those two men seem to be very... Oh, I can't tell." The driver brother started the car intently after speaking Come. This mountain path is narrow and steep, and it is easy to get into an accident if you don't drive carefully.Although the driver didn't describe what was in his heart, I could still guess that he meant that the two foreign men respected Chinese women very much. If that was the case, I would never think of anyone other than Lin Yue.After driving for nearly half an hour, after going around and around, I finally drove into a small village.I really don't know how people in this place communicated with the outside world in ancient times, and they were hidden deep in the mountains. No wonder the scenery here is unique, and it has not been destroyed by modern industry at all. Everything is so primitive.

After getting out of the car, the driver only charged us a few dollars. It seems that the people here are very kind. At the beginning, I was thinking, such a long drive, and the road is so rough, he will not charge us a high price to embarrass us. .After the driver turned the car around, he said to us, "Go into that alley, there is a river at the end, and the boatman will take you there." "Thank you, brother. I'm sorry to trouble you. I didn't expect this road to be so long." I stretched my sore muscles and bones and said. "It's okay, but fortunately you met me, ordinary taxis don't come in." The driver brother said with a smile.

"Why?" I asked. "Because..." The driver brother frowned, and then smiled at us, "Because the road is too difficult, let's go, okay, I'll go. There are buses coming here every day. If you want to get out, take the bus Right. In fact, you can also take the bus when you come in, but you have too much luggage, it will be inconvenient to go up." "Oh, that's it. Then we'll go first, goodbye." We turned and left, but I still couldn't help but look back at the taxi. I always felt that there was something in the driver's brother's words, and the taxi doesn't come in often. Is it because the road is too difficult to walk?He didn’t sound like that, maybe he didn’t want to scare us so he didn’t say it, the scenery here is so beautiful, there shouldn’t be any horrible things happening.

Xinhong and I walked into an alley with heavy luggage on our backs. The village here is very classic, just like in an ancient costume movie.The narrow alley smelled like cattle, and the ground was muddy. If I fell here, flowers would surely bloom on my face.I heard that a recent popular movie was filmed here. It seems to tell the story of a young British couple who came to live in the Chinese countryside in the 1920s. The theme song of the movie was sung by last year’s Super Girl champion Shang Wenjie. Yes, I remember it was called "The Pontoon Bridge of Dreams". As soon as we walked out of the alley, a small stone bridge over the stream appeared in front of us.Because the stone bridge is very narrow, only one person can pass at a time, so Xinhong let me go up first.However, just as I was about to step up to the stone bridge, a pair of mother and child came over from the mulberry field opposite.The mother scolded the little boy all the way, and the little boy was crying.The mother didn't seem to notice anyone standing on the bridge, she still scolded the child angrily, and she stopped scolding me when she walked to the stone and saw me who was stunned.When I saw this angry mother, I stepped back to make way for her.

"I told you not to go to the mountains to play, but you still want to go, didn't I tell you!" The mother said angrily, because the Guiliu dialect in this place is a bit close to Mandarin, I can still hear what she said . "Wow... I don't dare anymore, I won't go in the future." The child wailed loudly. The mother and son walked across the stone bridge, and the mother continued to preach: "Do you know that there are lunatics in the mountains, lunatics! Do you understand?" The mother said the word "lunatic" very hard, which shocked me.However, I immediately became puzzled. There was an endless mountain on the opposite side. Didn’t I just keep saying that there were tigers in the mountain? How did this mother turn into a lunatic?Although people like to spread rumors, but this news has become too exaggerated here, the difference between a tiger and a madman is more than a thousand miles away.

"Auntie, you said there are lunatics in the mountains?" Xinhong asked kindly. The mother didn't speak, just looked at us quietly, making us both uncomfortable.She looked us up and down, frowning together, as if looking at a prisoner.Both sides were silent, very embarrassed, forced to do so, I had no choice but to speak first: "Auntie, isn't there a tiger in the mountains? That's what we heard just now." "They heard everything they knew." The mother said contemptuously, "I don't know what happened in the mountains. There are only lunatics in the mountains. Where are the tigers?"

"Why are the sayings different?" I asked in confusion in my heart. "Did you hear me? From now on, you are not allowed to play in the mountains. If you don't want to live, go in and have a look!" The mother taught her son again. I felt very awkward when I heard what she said. What does it mean to "go in and have a look if you don't want to live?" Aren't we going into the mountains?What she said is cursing us, how unlucky it is.But why did this mother swear that there are madmen in the mountains but no tigers?I can see that she is very sure, maybe she knows something that others don't, we can just ask her.

"Auntie, how do you know there are lunatics in the mountains?" I asked pretending to be curious. "Forget it, let's not talk about it, I'm going back to cook." The mother seemed to realize that she shouldn't say too many things to the two strange young people, so she quickly shut down the conversation. "But...but, I..." The little boy seemed to have something to say, but he hesitated for a long time but couldn't say a complete sentence, probably because he was afraid of being scolded by his mother again. "Go back quickly, don't be here but there, I haven't made lunch yet!" The mother angrily twisted the little boy and rushed home.

They walked a few steps, and the mother turned around and said, "You must not go into the mountains, if you still want to marry someone and have children." We were taken aback when we heard it, and completely forgot about the heavy luggage.Originally wanted to inquire about the situation here, but the mother took the little boy into the alley.Xinhong shrugged helplessly, urging me to hurry forward.I walked slowly across the stone bridge, but my mind was full of the little boy's face.When the mother took the little boy to the alley just now, he kept looking back in fear, as if something terrible was following him.Especially just now, the little boy opened his mouth and didn't say a word for a long time. I have always been worried about that expression. Is there something he is afraid to tell his mother?

When I walked into the mulberry field, I was caught by Xinhong who was thinking. I looked back at him in bewilderment, but he said, "What are you thinking, you are going into the ditch." I looked ahead and saw that Xinhong was right. If I took another step, I would have stepped into a ditch in the mulberry field.There are many people raising silkworms here, mulberry fields are everywhere, and the mulberry trees are also very tall. If I didn't know that there are farmers here, I would have thought I had walked into the forest.I laughed embarrassedly and said, "I was thinking about that boy just now, as if he had something on his mind." "We also have a lot of concerns, let's settle ours first." Xinhong patted my shoulder and signaled us to move on. "But,..." I had something in my heart but couldn't say it, because I didn't know how to express the feeling when I saw the little boy. His frightened expression seemed to be something very serious. Xinhong urged me to go on my way, and the little boy also left. No matter how much I guessed, it was useless, so I had to keep going.After going around a few circles, an extremely green river appeared in front of our eyes. The two banks of the river are full of bamboo forests that move with the wind, and the green mountains and green bamboos on both sides of the river are reflected on the river surface. Various green colors representing life are mixed here. , It made us feel relaxed and happy, what a beautiful scenery!As soon as we appeared by the river, an old man rowed towards us with a bamboo raft.After the old man came over, he asked us whether we wanted to cross the river or take a bamboo raft to browse the scenery along the river. I was just about to answer that I wanted to cross the river, but there was a rush of footsteps behind me.We looked back curiously, and it turned out that the mother was pulling the little boy towards us again, but the angry expression on her face had disappeared, and now she had changed into an expression of extreme panic!