In fact, not only me, but also Song Yanan and the others frowned slightly.
From a logical point of view, what Jia Lao said was not logical at all, but he insisted on making it sound reasonable. No matter how I thought about it, I felt that everyone in the world was a fool and only he was smart.
I wanted to say a few words to him, but Song Yanan grabbed me. It was at this time that I finally saw the other side of this woman - forbearance.
She was being played as a fool, but she could still laugh, and her laugh was not hypocritical at all. She said to Jia Lao: "Okay, since you have nothing to do here, I am relieved. I am sorry to disturb your ancestor worship ceremony. We will leave now and cancel your report."
As she said that, she turned around, waved her hand and asked everyone to leave. She even dragged me out, clean and neat, without any intention of dragging her feet. I was a little confused. Is she really leaving?
But I didn't know what she was thinking, so I didn't jump out to spoil her. I suppressed my depression and followed silently.
"Hey, wait a minute!"
After walking about ten meters, Jia Lao behind us suddenly shouted, and then ran up to us. He looked to be at least seventy or eighty years old. He was out of breath after running a few steps. He stood in front of us and panted for a long time before smiling and saying, "It's so late, you officials should stay in our small village tonight? It's dangerous in the mountains at night, especially in this season. The mountains are blocked by heavy snow. Not only is the road difficult to walk, but the wolves in the mountains are hungry. The wolves are looking for food all over the mountain and pounce on people when they see them. I think you might as well stay in our village first. Rest in the house for a night and wait until it's brighter. Although our village is not big, we still have to have proper etiquette. You have come from far away, so we can't help but find a comfortable warm bed and a hot meal!"
"Haha, old lady Jia is too polite!"
Da Pao is really a big-headed guy. He still treats the people in this village as ordinary mountain people. He patted the machine gun wrapped in the camouflage canvas bag behind him and laughed: "Do you really think we are vegetarians? They are just a few wolves. Even if all the wild beasts in the mountain come, I will shoot them all to death!"
Old Jia smiled and said nothing.
Song Yanan hesitated for a moment, turned her head and glared at Da Pao, then turned her head and smiled at Jia Lao and said: "What Jia Lao said makes sense. It is indeed dangerous in the mountains at night. We are not afraid of wolves, but the road is not easy to walk on. There is such thick snow. If you slip and fall into the ditch, you will die unjustly!"
After saying this, Song Yanan shook hands with the old village chief: "In this case, we will stay here for one night. Thank you in advance, old village chief."
"Oh, you're welcome!"
Jia Lao waved his hands repeatedly: "The conditions in the mountains are not good, please don't be disgusted!"
After saying this, Jia Lao turned around and said to the villagers around the bonfire: "Okay, tonight's ceremony ends here, It's time for everyone to go back and rest!"
It can be seen that Jia Lao is still very majestic in Diantou Village. As soon as he opened his mouth, the villagers in the village dispersed without saying a word, and walked towards their homes in groups of three or five. Many villagers walked past us. I don't know if it was my illusion, but I found that there were several men in this group of villagers who looked particularly familiar, especially a middle-aged man in his forties who almost brushed past me. This man had a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looked very majestic. Although he was dressed very simply, he walked among the villagers with a dragon-like and tiger-like pace, which could not cover up the outstanding momentum. He walked over and glanced at us, and then left directly without stopping.
"Brother!"
Zhou Jing, who I was holding, suddenly pulled my index finger, waited for me to turn around, and then lowered his voice and said to me: "This man seems to be a member of the official family?"
Official family!?
I squatted down and said in a deep voice: "What did you see?"
"Yeah."
Zhou Jing said to me: "This man's official palace is unusually developed, and the two sides of his forehead extend inward very deeply. It is obvious that he is not an ordinary person. Generally, such people are young and have worked for the government for their whole lives! And his five mountains are rugged and uneven, which means that he is also a person with a sudden death in his fate, but not as deep and difficult to understand as your face. His wealth palace, that is, the nose, is unusually straight, which means that the money he earns should be physical money, and the business he does is also a business with his head on the belt, which also corresponds to his five mountains pattern! Combining all these, this person should be a warrior, a warrior who works for the government!"
I frowned slightly, and felt that something was wrong. The person Zhou Jing said looked familiar to me, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him!
At this time, the old village chief had settled the villagers and came over with a middle-aged woman. When I saw him coming, I patted Zhou Jing and asked him to stop talking and discuss it later.
"This is Gu's sister-in-law!"
Mr. Jia took the middle-aged woman to Song Yanan and said, "Gu's sister-in-law's house is more spacious and she is a virtuous person. Why don't you stay there at night?"
"Okay!"
Song Yanan didn't know what she was thinking, and she agreed without thinking. Then she exchanged a few words with Mr. Jia, and Mr. Jia left. We walked straight to their home under the guidance of Gu's sister-in-law.
Gu's sister-in-law looked like a very kind and talkative middle-aged woman. She talked and laughed with us all the way. She had a unique simplicity of a mountain village woman. In short, she was the kind of person who was very approachable. She was a bit like Sister Li I met in the Qinling Mountains. After a few words, we became familiar with each other. We all called her Gu's sister-in-law.
Mrs. Gu is a widow. Her husband is a sickly man. She just married him more than ten years ago, but he died of illness within two years, leaving her no children. Diantou Village is a very feudal village. If you remarry in this place, you will be criticized. Mrs. Gu was afraid of being scolded, so she never remarried in the past ten years and lived alone.
During the conversation, I also tried to test Mrs. Gu's attitude indirectly, such as the police who disappeared in the accident section of Mianshan Highway 106 and attacked their village. As a result, every time Mrs. Gu was mentioned, she avoided the topic and was unwilling to say more. However, her skills were obviously not as deep as that of Mr. Jia. The look between her eyebrows was a little panic, which made me more sure that there was something wrong with this village.
As we were talking, we had already arrived at Gu Dasao's house, which was an ordinary house in the south of the village. The yard was not small, and the land in the yard was turned over. It was estimated that Gu Dasao would grow some vegetables in spring and summer. Apart from that, there were only two large rooms, one facing south and one facing north.
Gu Dasao lived in the north room, and the south room was given to us. There were two rooms in it, one for Lin Qing and Song Yanan, two female comrades, and Dapao and I gathered in the other room. The house was simply furnished with a large kang that was more than ten meters long. Gu Dasao started a fire, and the kang became warm.
You know what, we are really envious of this hot kang now. Our clothes are still wet. Although we ran all the way here, our body temperature has not decreased, but our clothes have been frozen hard. When we were arguing with the old village chief just now, we didn't exercise. The cold pants and clothes were sticking to our bodies. It was like staying in a snow cave in winter. Don't mention how ecstatic it was. Now our bodies are basically cold and uncomfortable. Now that the kang is hot, our eyes are red. Several men don't have so many rules. They shouted "Ah" and started to take off their clothes.
Unexpectedly, at this time, there were two female coughs at the door. Turning around, it turned out to be Song Yanan. It made us men a little embarrassed. Fortunately, we still had a pair of thermal underwear on and didn't show off.
"It's not safe here, do you really think it's your home?"
Song Yanan was still wearing frozen clothes. This woman was really tough. She walked in with her hands behind her back without changing her expression, closed the door, and then said to us with a serious face: "This village is not right, but we don't know the situation and we can't directly conflict with the villagers, so I am going to take a step back and hide in the dark to observe what's going on with them. But since the village chief invited us to live here, it's not bad. It's close to these villagers, there will always be opportunities! Be careful at night. Although it is on the territory of our country, it is not the same as the environment for carrying out missions abroad, but after all, it is at the scene of the incident. We must be very careful. Don't go through all the storms and finally capsize in such a small ravine!"
So this is her idea!
My eyes lit up. Indeed, this might be a good way. If you don't venture into the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub? It's a little dangerous, but the fastest shortcut is this!
Crack!
At this time, the door of the south room was suddenly pushed open, making a somewhat harsh sound.
Song Yanan made a gesture to keep quiet, and then opened the door.
The person who came was Gu Dasao, who was smiling and holding a large plate with rice and vegetables in it. She came in and put the dishes on the edge of the kang, and then said with a smile: "Are you all starving? Sister-in-law made some food for you, eat quickly, and put the dishes outside after eating. Sister-in-law will clean up tomorrow, you can rest!"
After that, Gu Dasao left directly!
Gulp!
Dapao stared at the full plate of rice with his eyes straight and swallowed hard. In fact, even I was quite moved. After tossing back and forth for so long, this hot rice was really too tempting.
But Dapao was still quite cautious. People like him would habitually check the food before eating it, so Dapao took out something similar to an ultraviolet money detector from his backpack, and immediately emitted a blue light. After scanning the food, he turned his head and smiled at us: "It's edible, it's not poisonous!"
As a result, Chen Yu, who had been sitting on the kang leaning against the wall in a daze, suddenly raised his eyelids and said: "Can it be eaten if it's not poisonous? If it were me, I would definitely not eat it!"