Chapter 0025: Walking in the Mountains
The two couples were stunned by what she said. One of the girls said disapprovingly, "No way, boss lady, you look like you have read a lot of books. How can you still believe in such nonsense?"
"What does a kid know? Madam, what kind of monster is this? Tell us about it." A rude voice suddenly interrupted.
The one who spoke was a man among the seven.
The girl's face turned red after he scolded her as "a kid who knows nothing", but perhaps because she saw that the man looked fierce, she was too shy to retort.
The lady boss smiled and said, "What kind of monster it is, I don't know, but for safety's sake, everyone should listen to my advice and don't go into the mountain."
The man laughed and said, "I think it's probably some rare beast. That's what we brothers do. When we catch it, we'll open everyone's eyes!"
Several of his accomplices also laughed.
"Damn, are these guys really poaching?" He Jintang muttered.
Meng Dazhi looked quite proud, "How can my vision be so bad?"
I had been keeping an eye on the table of the tall and thin man. When I saw them stand up, the tall and thin man smiled and said, "Since the boss said there are monsters over at Maotou Mountain, let's go and see if there are any."
After paying the money, the two of them left the inn and walked into the mountains.
"Are these two people sick?" I heard the two couples muttering.
"Who are you trying to scare by going into the mountains when it's so dark?" Some of the seven poachers also started to make a fuss.
But the two people really never came back and disappeared into the darkness in a moment.
I saw the lady boss sighing slightly. He Jiuye stood up, bowed to her and asked, "Boss Pei, we want to inquire about a place. Have you heard of Cang Gou Village?"
The lady boss shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of it. Is it from this area?"
"It should be a village in this mountain area, but it was called this more than a hundred years ago," said Master He Jiu.
The lady boss said, "Oh, so it's so early. That's hard to say. I'm afraid the village might have disappeared a long time ago."
We were a little disappointed when the lady boss said, "I have a few old friends in my shop who have been with my grandfather for a long time. I'll go ask them if they know."
Mr. He Jiu was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.
The proprietress entered the inn and soon came back, saying with a smile, "I asked, and the clerk in my inn said he didn't know about Cang Gou Village, but there are not many places to live in this area. According to the guest, Cang Gou Village is probably in the area of Maotou Mountain."
He Jintang said, "Damn!" "Isn't this Maotou Mountain the place where monsters appear that she mentioned?"
He said this so loudly that the proprietress heard it. She turned around and looked at us, then smiled and said, "Yes, that's the place."
He Jintang was not embarrassed. He shrugged and said with a smile, "Beautiful lady, you are kidding us, right? How come when we asked about Cang Gou Village, it just happened to be on Maotou Mountain?"
The proprietress said calmly, "I did say it, whether you believe it or not is up to you, the customer."
He Jintang was frustrated and felt very unhappy. I thought of something and asked, "Boss Pei, I wonder how many years have you run this inn?"
The proprietress smiled faintly: "My grandfather has been here for at least forty years."
"Then may I ask, Boss Pei, were there two people who came here thirty-two years ago?" Liu Feihe asked nervously. At this point, perhaps thinking it was wrong, he added, "One of them was surnamed Ge and the other was surnamed Xue. I wonder if the staff of your store have any impression of them?"
The proprietress was a little embarrassed: "It's been so long, I'm afraid... I'll go ask for you."
He went into the inn and came back a little later, saying, "I'm really sorry, I don't have any recollection of it."
Liu Feihe sat back in disappointment.
When we went to bed at night, He Jintang insisted on sharing a room with me, saying that they would have company and wouldn't be bored if they were together.
I glanced at him and said, "Are you afraid that your old lover will come looking for you?"
"Puh, puh, puh!" He Jintang covered himself with the quilt and shouted, "Old Chen, if you mention that woman again, I will break up with you!"
I said, "We're done now, hurry up and go to the next door."
"Old Chen, fuck you!"
The next morning we got up early and got ready to go.
However, the seven-member poaching group left earlier than us. I heard that they entered the mountains at daybreak.
After that, it was the turn of the two couples who came to explore. They set off happily after breakfast. Our group and Li Kun’s group were the last to arrive.
The lady boss brought us breakfast, but her face was not very good: "I'm kindly reminding you all, but since no one is willing to believe it, I wish you all a safe journey!"
After saying that, he went into the inn and never came out again.
He Jintang smiled and whispered to me: "The beauty is angry!"
I said, "How can she be happy if we treat her kindness as nothing?"
He Jintang nodded and said, "That's true. But Old Chen, you don't really think there are man-eating monsters, do you?"
I didn't say anything. Of course, I couldn't make any judgment based on just one word from the beautiful boss. But she was right in one thing: all kinds of strange things could happen in the mountains, so I had to be careful.
At this time, Meng Dazhi came over and said, "What kind of monster is this? I guess the people in the mountains saw some strange-looking beast and mistook it for a man-eating monster."
He Jintang suddenly became interested and asked him what strange-looking beasts he had seen.
Just as Meng Dazhi was about to start a conversation, I saw Li Kun and his group walking out of the inn.
Bald Boss Liao leaned on his cane and smiled, "Master He Jiu, Master Liu, from now on we have to work together. Let's put aside any grudges until we find a place. What do you think?"
Master He Jiu had a gloomy face and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Okay!"
So the two groups joined together and headed towards the mountains.
I grew up in a plain area and had never been to such vast mountains. I saw towering ancient trees and overlapping peaks along the way, which shocked me.
He Jintang is not much better than me, he kept making clicks of the tongue all the way.
But in the afternoon, the boy began to lose confidence. After all, the mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel on. In some places there was no road at all, and it was very difficult to walk.
"Old Chen, why don't you look tired at all?" He Jintang asked weakly.
As I walked, I observed the ground veins around me and said casually, "Because I'm a Feng Shui master."
He Jintang said "Damn" and asked in surprise, "Does being a Feng Shui master require good physical strength? Then wouldn't you be invincible when it comes to picking up girls?"
"What?" I was concentrating on observing the terrain, and for a moment I didn't understand what good physical strength had to do with picking up girls.
He Jintang chuckled and said, "Isn't it obvious? Beautiful girls like men with good physical strength !"
I saw his lewd smile and immediately understood what he meant.
Just when I was feeling angry, I suddenly heard someone shouting in front of me.
