Listening to Wang Junhui's question, Zhao Kuan glanced at a few of us in surprise and said, "You won't come to find that thing, will you?" ”

What's that? I was also confused in my heart, and turned my eyes to look at Wang Junhui.

Wang Junhui smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, what are we looking for, you don't have to ask, just tell us everything you know, the money will not be given to you." ”

Zhao Kuan was stunned for a moment and said, "You really came to find that thing." After speaking, Zhao Kuan fell into silence, thinking about something.

Wang Junhui was not in a hurry to ask.

Li Yajing held the water cup next to him, poured him a lid of water and handed it over, he took the lid and drank it all, and then returned the lid.

Seeing Wang Junhui and Li Yajing so calm and relaxed, I was a little anxious, and I couldn't wait to go over and urge Zhao Kuanliang to speak for them.

Zhao Kuan was stunned for a while and said: "Actually, when Lao Lin asked me to be my guide, he told me that you were learning the Tao, and I felt that the group of people coming here was definitely not as simple as going to see the bottomless pit in our mountains." ”

Zhao Kuan paused for a moment and continued: "Actually, if you go to Xiaoxitian, you will find other people in the town as guides, and they will not go, because there are not only wild boars, wolves, and long worms (snakes) there, but also the living dead, the living dead who crawled out of the bottomless pit. ”

The Living Dead!? That's a living corpse, in other words, a zombie!

There are zombies in this deep mountain, I looked at Wang Junhui and Li Yajing with a look of surprise, these two people had a calm expression, not surprised at all, as if they had known all this for a long time.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that Li Yajing asked me if I would show the corpse, it turned out that they had already known some secrets in this mountain.

And Wang Junhui came to me this time probably to let me see something from him after finding the so-called living dead.

When I was thinking about this, Zhao Kuan continued: "In fact, we have always had the legend of the living dead here, and I don't know how many lifetimes it has been passed on, but there are few people who have seen him with their own eyes. ”

Zhao Kuan said that there were few, which means that someone has seen it, so I couldn't help but ask: "Did the person who saw him say what the living dead look like?" ”

Zhao Kuan was stunned for a while and said: "Dry, with black hair, long nails and teeth, no eyeballs, just like a zombie on TV, but it is not jumping, but running, very fast, scurrying around in the forest, more clever than a monkey, no one who is targeted by him can get out of the forest alive." ”

I asked Zhao Kuan curiously, since there was such a terrible thing, others refused to take us there, why was he willing.

Zhao Kuan smiled bitterly and said: "It's not because of the high price given by Lao Lin, I have a son who goes to college at home, since my family doesn't have the forest farm, and then provides for the child to go to school, the family money is already beyond the means, the child graduates, and I have to marry a daughter-in-law for the child, I will die of sorrow when I think about it!" ”

It is true that parents nowadays are very hard, especially those who have raised their sons, whether in the city or in the countryside, after providing for their children's college, they have to take out almost half of their life, or even a lifetime of savings, to marry their sons.

Thinking of this, my heart suddenly increased a lot of sadness, my parents left early, and my grandfather ran away with most of my wife, I...; …;

No one noticed my emotions, and Zhao Kuan continued: "In addition, I dare to take you into the forest, also because I know a safe path, I have been to the bottomless pit of Xiaoxitian three times along that path, and I also picked up a wooden lump from there, and later some people said that it was a medicinal herb, and I took it away for a hundred yuan and a catty." ”

Li Yajing asked what shape the pimple was, and whether it was heavy.

Zhao Kuan thought for a while and said: "It's not heavy, it's very light, it's like a pile of rotten wood, and it looks like a lot of tree moths (an edible fungus in the mountains) hugging each other, the shape is very strange, I picked it up, I sold it for less than two hundred yuan that time, and then I thought about coming here again to pick up that thing to make some money, but I didn't pick it up." ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Kuan paused and continued: "The third time, and the last time I went to Xiaoxitian before, I always felt that something was following me, and I didn't go to me and turned back halfway, and after I came back, I also had a high fever, or my wife went to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha to ask for good, and then I never went to Xiaoxitian again." ”

At this time, I heard Li Yajing whisper a few words to Wang Junhui, and after finishing speaking, the two of them showed regretful expressions on their faces at the same time, I knew that they were sorry for the wooden lump that Zhao Kuan sold for two hundred yuan.

In other words, the pimple is likely to be a priceless good.

If the two of them don't say anything, they are afraid that Zhao Kuan will worry about it.

Zhao Kuan continued: "There were a few old people here who knew the path before, and they had been to Xiaoxitian, and one of them met the 'living dead', the old man was practicing Hong Boxing, and he lifted two or three hundred catties of grinding discs with his hands, and the guy in his hand wrestled with the living dead for a while, and ran down the mountain with a broken arm, but unfortunately he died a few years ago, and he is also our part, I know, the only person who has seen the living dead." ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Kuan stopped, I guess he didn't know what to say.

Wang Junhui asked with an "oh": "Then in recent years, apart from you, has anyone else been to Xiaoxitian?" ”

Zhao Kuan shook his head and said: "Now that the lives of the people in the town are all right, who has nothing to do to go to that dangerous place, even if I don't dare to go again after going three times." ”

Listening to Zhao Kuan say these things, we were almost rested, and we began to continue on our way, and we still had a few days to go.

As I walked, I asked Zhao Kuan: "How much money can you earn a day by selling medicinal materials here on the edge of the town?" ”

Zhao Kuan said: "If you're lucky, it's not a problem to pay more than 100 yuan a day." ”

I said "oh" and continued to ask him: "It will take you half a month to go back and forth to Xiaoxitian, even if you can pick up that pimple and sell it for money, it is not as much as a round-trip medicine near your town that day, why do you have to risk going to Xiaoxitian." ”

Since I was a child, I have followed my grandfather to push and hang, interpret hexagrams, and pay attention to a clear conditioning, so once there is a slight problem in logic, I will be very awkward in my heart, and I must ask clearly, otherwise I will not be happy for a day.

This is also a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

After listening to my words, Zhao Kuan hesitated: "This...; …; ”

Obviously, there is something else he didn't say here, and I instantly felt that this Zhao Kuan followed us into the mountain not only to guide the money, but he may also have come to find something, most likely the same thing as Wang Junhui wanted to find.

When I thought so, Wang Junhui said to me: "First year of junior high school, you don't have to guess, he went into the mountains to seek wealth, but I am not, I am different from what he is trying to find." ”

Then Li Yajing also said to Zhao Kuan: "Brother Zhao, in fact, we have also heard the legend you have here, we are not here for that legend, you can rest assured, now that you want to know, you can tell him about it." ”

Wang Junhui and Li Yajing spoke more mysteriously than the other, including Lin Sen, who had never spoken, as if they both knew the purpose of their trip.

In addition, Zhao Kuan, as a guide, seems to have another purpose in coming to this forest, but I am an aimless person.

Zhao Kuan listened to Li Jingya's words, and said: "Also, even children can tell the story of my part, since you want to listen to it, I will tell it to you." ”

Zhao Kuan wanted to tell me about this matter, so I naturally hurried up to head with him side by side, so that I could hear it more clearly.

About the bottomless pit of Xiaoxitian, there is such a legend here in Baiyu.

The bottomless pit is the home of the living dead, and the living dead keep many golden toads in the bottomless pit, and these toads will crawl out of the bottomless pit every day, and when they climb out of the hole, the golden toad will become a gold nugget, and whoever can pick up the gold nugget and exchange it for money is estimated to be unable to spend it in a lifetime.

This legend sounded a little ridiculous, so after Zhao Kuan finished speaking, I laughed: "There are people who believe in such legends?" ”

Zhao Kuan also smiled: "This legend, other families don't believe it, but our old Zhao family believes it, because the first person to pick up the golden toad is the ancestor of our old Zhao family, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the golden toad was taken away by a county official here and dedicated to the Empress Dowager Cixi, so the Empress Dowager Cixi also gave him an official and a knight, the county official was overjoyed, and after coming back, he gave our ancestors a large sum of money, so that my family became a big rich man in this piece. ”

When Zhao Kuan said this, I asked him curiously: "Is that path also handed down by your ancestors?" ”

Zhao Kuan nodded and said: "Yes, but our ancestors have gone into the mountains for generations to find more people, and there are many people who died in the mountains, but no matter who they are, they have never found the golden toad, so although this legend is very famous in our place, almost no one believes it." ”

Indeed, the credibility of this matter is too low, how can a living thing become a dead nugget?

Even if Zhao Kuan told me that this was something that his ancestors had personally experienced, I still couldn't believe it, I don't think this kind of thing could exist, either there was something wrong with the ancestral teachings of Zhao Kuan's family, or their ancestors had been fooling their children and grandchildren.

Thinking about it like this, I couldn't help but laugh, other ancestors are all protecting their descendants, why did this old Zhao's ancestor change it to "flickering"?

Zhao Kuan asked me what I was laughing at, but I naturally couldn't say what I was thinking, so I said, "I still think it's a little unbelievable." ”

Zhao Kuan also smiled and said: "If it weren't for the fact that my family is too poor, my health is not good, and I can't do any hard work, I wouldn't believe in it, I have such a thought in my heart now, I hope to find the 'golden toad', let my son finish college, and then marry a good daughter-in-law, even if I die in this deep forest, I am also satisfied." ”

This should be the so-called "pity the hearts of parents in the world"!