smuggler

Chapter 102 The old fisherman

In the barren mountains and wild mountains, the weather is a bit gloomy, and some fog diffuses in the woods, making the mountains and forests dark.

We waited for nearly an hour, and an old bus wobbled out of the fog.

The front of the car first appeared in our sight, which was a style that was eliminated a long time ago.

I have never seen this kind of bus with a layer of dark black paste on the outside of the body.

The car wobbled and kicked up a lot of dust. I covered my mouth and retched.

Chu Yuan and I got into the car, the corridors of the car were dirty, and we could step on unknown things if we were not careful.

There were a few farmers with sallow faces and freckles sitting in the car, and an elderly peasant woman. There was also a bamboo cage in the aisle, which contained several old hens.

There was an indescribable strange smell in the car, but I was not spoiled and raised, so I could accept it, so I found two empty seats next to each other and sat down.

As soon as the two of us sat down, the conductor at the front of the car came over shaking.

It was a fat middle-aged woman with a black leather bag slung over her shoulder and a wad of change in her hand.

"Where are you going?"

The fat middle-aged woman leaned on the seat in front of us, cast a glance at me and Chu Yuan, and asked me where I was going in a local dialect.

I said, "Lujiatan!"

"Ten yuan per person!" She spoke a dialect with broken Mandarin, but I could understand her.

I took out 50 yuan and handed it to her, and the middle-aged woman gave me 30 yuan in change. When I handed it to me, she frowned and said angrily, "You people, you ran so far to die!"

"Don't yell, come back and sit down, there is no one to guard your mouth!"

When I heard what he said, I felt very uncomfortable. Just as I was about to refute, the driver in front yelled at her in a fierce tone.

The middle-aged woman curled her lips, glanced at us and went back.

The mountain road is rough and difficult, the car body is crooked, the glass of the car is rattling, the whole car body is shaking, and I want to throw up the overnight meal due to the bumps.

After bumping along the way for another hour or two, I got off at Lujiatan and arrived at the port.

It can be seen that this small estuary should have been a pier in the past, but now it is quite deserted and empty, and there are a few small boats by the river.

But no one was around the mouth of the river, and some boats had been abandoned, shabby and crooked by the river.

A big river wraps a mountain in a U shape. The river is much wider than I imagined.

Looking over, there was no sign of any village at all.

I can't go without a boat. At this time, I happened to see an old man sitting on the steps not far from the mouth of the river, basking in the sun and smoking a pot of dry tobacco
I walked over and asked the old man if he knew where Fengshan Village was, and how to get there by boat. As a result, when the old man heard this, the look on his face like a knife and axe changed suddenly.

Without speaking, he waved his hand at me, indicating that he didn't know, then got up, turned around and left.

This old man must know the clues of Fengshan Village, but he obviously doesn't intend to reveal it to me.

I yelled at him a few more times, but the old man disappeared after a while, looking at his age and his ability to be very vigorous.

It seems that this Fengshan Village is indeed a taboo here, which makes me a little troubled.

If you don't take a boat, it is impossible to go to the opposite side, let alone enter that village to find the Yindeng.

I was thinking about what to do next, when suddenly, a hoarse voice came from behind.

"Little girl, where are you going?"

I turned around and saw an old man in his fifties standing on a boat by the river mouth behind him.

This uncle has gray hair and dark complexion. It may be because of the wind and sun all year round. His whole body looks weather-beaten, his face is sallow, and there is a shallow scar on his forehead.

It spoke in a low voice, and looked at me after it finished speaking.

I subconsciously replied, "Fengshan Village!"

After I finished speaking, it suddenly occurred to me that when I came here just now, I had noticed all around, and there was no one else nearby except the old man on the steps. Where did this old man come from?

"Fengshan Village?"

Hearing what I said, the old man raised his head and gave me a deep look, "That's a veritable ghost village. What are you doing there as a girl?"

I don't know how to answer him for a while.

I can't just say that I went to that place to look for Yindeng. After thinking about it, I lied and simply said that I was just a tourist. I heard that no one had come out of that village for several years. I was curious and wanted to see it.

The old man was quite surprised when I heard this. He smiled at me and said, "I'm afraid that place is not very peaceful. I sent several groups of foreigners, but none of them came back."

My eyes lit up, and I said, "You are on a boat, can you take me there?"

"Just you two?"

"Ok!"

The old man looked at me with deep eyes, "Don't be afraid, I just told you that there are five or six foreigners who went in and didn't come out."

I smiled wryly in my heart.

So what if I'm afraid, at least there is hope if I go in, if I don't go in, this matter will become a knot in my heart for the rest of my life.

Whether it is the whereabouts of my parents or Chu Yuan's snake head, I have to go to Snake Village to take a look.

I said: "Old man, help me bring it in, as long as you bring it to the shore, then you can show me the way, and I will go in by myself."

The old man shook his head slowly, and said, "It's too risky for you to go to that kind of place alone as a girl, and it's not yet July, so you're very cloudy. If you take such a risk, something will happen."

I asked, "Is there a fixed route to that village? Is there anyone going to Fengshan Village by boat now?"

The old man pointed to the opposite bank: "At this time, even the fishermen who pull the river dare not fish in this river. No one dares to go to that village except me."

Sure enough, what the sanitation aunt told the driver was right.

This river is very evil, and no boatman is willing to take a boat. It is estimated that many foreigners pay their own money to hire boats to row across.

It seems that the old man in front of me is the only hope.

I took a deep breath and said to the old man, "Just take me there!"

There was a smile on the corner of the old man's mouth, and he said, "I can take you there, but now I'm traveling by boat, the risk is too great, you have to pay more."

Seeing the local people's taboos towards Fengshan Village, I knew that if this old man didn't take the boat, I might not be able to find anyone else.

So, without hesitation, I nodded and said yes.

The old man held out a hand to me.

"Five hundred?" I looked at the old man, pondered for a while, nodded and agreed, "Yes!"

The old man shook his head and said directly, "It's not five hundred, it's five thousand."

"Five thousand?" My lips twitched a few times.

The old man said, "There are too many evil places on this river. Maybe my old bones will never return. I am risking my life to go on this boat. Five thousand seems like a lot, but this kind of business is not good." do it."

(End of this chapter)