Of Mountains and Rivers

Inaccessible, unreachable mountains.

There are no stone steps in this place, and of course there is no cable car. The slope is gentle and you can walk two steps. When you reach a dangerous place, you have to nail a dagger into a crack in the stone with your bare hands to climb up with hands and feet.

As a result, Chu Huan couldn't understand what those mountaineering enthusiasts thought, and he couldn't understand the desperate love for this sport anyway.

After hearing this comment, Nanshan quickly asked, "Then what did you like to do before?"

Chu Huan thought about it carefully, and found that the first to jump to the level of consciousness was "playing games at home" and the other was "watching TV while lying down". For a moment, say: "Test some program loopholes, and care about some film and television literary works that reflect complex social issues."

Yuan Ping laughed so hard that he almost fell off the mountain wall.

The group of them didn't have any climbing tools, and they were completely prepared to fall to their death at any time, but they still chatted a few times when they were in the mood. It can be seen that walking on the cliffs is not very difficult-because the mountain is very clean.

Not to mention those big monsters with fur and blood, along the way, even ordinary small wild creatures are hardly encountered. Snakes and geckos are hard to find in the grass, and only a few silly little bugs crawled over them occasionally. He didn't even know how to hide, and was trampled to death by accident.

This proves from the side that Nanshan's decision is correct, the quieter it is, the more difficult it is to deal with the danger hidden in it.

There was a naturally formed small cave on the mountainside, and a few people had a temporary rest in it. Yuan Ping opened the package and divided the dry food. Chu Huan picked a piece, and Yuan Ping saw that his wrist was broken The dial mirror of the spider web.

Yuan Ping: "Throw it away as soon as possible."

The watch mirror is generally made of sapphire glass, which is not wear-resistant and impact-resistant, and waterproof cannot prevent monsters. Chu Huan has been busy running for his life for a few days to recover from injuries and fall in love. Only then did he notice the spider web-like bump marks on it. He bought it with a monthly salary, and he immediately felt distressed, but it was useless - the watch mirror had been broken, and the metal case was covered with scratches of all sizes, except that the movement was still running mechanically, There is basically no hope of recovery.

Chu Huan took off his watch and threw it aside, sighed, examined his appearance, and felt that he had completely changed from a fake elite to a real savage, so he simply adjusted his glasses to telescope mode, took them off and threw them away Giving it to Nanshan, all the unnecessary things were removed from his body at once, as if he had turned back to the wild child who played in the mud without any scruples in the compound many years ago.

The taste of the dry biscuits was horrific, making people feel very sad. Yuan Ping just took a bite, and suddenly he had the urge to beat the drums to avenge his grievances.

For several days in a row, Yuan Ping was really fed up with the food standard of the mountain guards. The dry biscuits were so hard to swallow to an unprecedented level that even the compressed biscuits could be overwhelmed, which is really ridiculous.

Xiaofang glanced at his expression, and said to him with a smile: "The one you took is not made in spring, is it unpalatable? Our spring craftsmanship is the best."

Eldest sister Chunchun is slightly left-handed, so the shape of the cakes she makes will be slightly different from others. Xiaofang knows this well, and Chu Huan has already seen it, but they are both chicken thieves, and they don’t know each other Xuan, no one said anything.

Chu Huan broke off the piece in his hand in half, turned his head and stuffed it into Nanshan's mouth, winking at him.

Yuan Ping couldn't whet his appetite. In his opinion, the dry biscuits made by anyone are equally unpalatable. The so-called "good craftsmanship" by the mountain guards means that the darkness of the dark dishes is just a little darker. He complained lazily. : "I want to eat barbecue."

Da Shan: "Didn't I just eat yesterday."

"Hey," Yuan Ping waved his hand, "You silly boy, you just shaved your hair before you saw the world, and you just washed it and it turned black from the fire. Does that deserve to be called barbecue?"

When he said this, he suddenly sat upright, as if he was trampled by the cruel reality, so he had no choice but to draw cakes to satisfy his hunger, and said to several people vividly: "You can't use fire directly for barbecue. You have to get a 'burning child' first, what do you know?" Is it called '烧子'? It is a big iron plate, iron bars are welded together one by one, with a seam in the middle, and charcoal is put under it. Cut into small slices, the fresher the better, the thinner the better——prepared to adjust the sauce and simmer in the flavor, put it on the iron plate, and there will be a "呲啦"—"

Yuan Ping licked his lips, and Dashan and Xiaofang swallowed their saliva in unison following his description.

Yuan Ping took a hard bite of the half-cooked pancakes, and swallowed them with a grim face: "Then spread the vegetables on the meat, roast them together with the smell of meat and oil, and take them out. Dip it in sauce, put it in a pancake, of course it’s not this kind of pancake, you want crispy skin, deep-fried until golden and crispy, you want a bite... oops!"

He shook his head, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

Chu Huan was unmoved, determined to clean up the low-quality starch in his hands, and was not affected at all. He took advantage of Yuan Ping's east wind and offered his hospitality against every second, and turned his head to Nanshan. Say, "Would you like to eat? Me too."

Nan Shan was listening intently, when he heard this interjection, he was startled: "What do you know?"

"I can do everything," Chu Huan brazenly blew on the cowhide, "Steaming with iron bars, slicing barbecue meat, making sauces—by the way, I also learned the skills of two months from a master chef who cooks Huaiyang cuisine, frying and frying. Cooking, frying, stewing, boiling, and stewing are all possible."

Yuan Ping: "Brother, if you want to brag, you can also make a dozen drafts."

Xiaofang was also very disbelieving, and said in surprise: "Then you have been in the clan for so long, why have you never got angry."

Chu Huan smiled reservedly, glanced at Nanshan, and said meaningfully: "I am alone, I can make do with two bites, I am too lazy to make it, who will eat it?"

Xiaofang heard the sound of the strings and knew the elegant meaning, so she gave her face very much, and expressed her admiration without hesitation, then rubbed her hands and asked, "You bitch, what else do you want?"

"There are a lot of meetings." Chu Huan found out a piece of wood from nowhere, and took out his short knife—this was picked up by Nanshan from the river for him many days after the dead flowers were cleaned up.

The short knife is not a carving knife, and the wood is also a piece of ordinary bad wood, but the hand of the knife is very skillful, and a round pig is cut out in a few strokes, which is quite similar.

Chu Huan: "I can paint a little bit, I can do a little bit of various handicrafts, I can glue a few simple hairy monkeys, and I can use a toy engine to modify a car - remote control, and I can run by myself."

In his early years, he really loved to play and had many interests, but later he gradually lost interest, so he put all of them on hold.

The mountain guards had never heard of such a rich leisure life, and they were all amazed.

Only Yuan Ping, who had been robbed of the limelight, was sour on the side: "It's almost enough. If you say you are fat, you are still panting."

Chu Huan completely ignored him, picked two nostrils for the little pig, and handed it to Nanshan: "When we go back, you can say whatever you want, and I can find a way to make it for you."

Duke Huan of Chu was like a peacock spreading his tail, exuding a coquettish air as if he didn't want money. Yuan Ping wanted to compete with him habitually, but he took a look at the rough men around him, and didn't know who to show him more .

It's like an old boxing opponent, before he has time to tell the difference, he is changed to play table tennis without saying hello, which makes him at a loss, so he has to pour cold water on him.

Yuan Ping: "Just your virtue of 'follow me, and you won't be hungry in the future', it's especially like a combination of old landlords and old fortunes in the past and cooks in the new era."

Whenever a peacock opens its tail, it must have forgotten its shame. Chu Huan didn't blush when he heard his run, and directly used Yuan Ping's words for his own use, and said to Nanshan: "Follow me, and I won't be hungry in the future. If in the future If we can find a way to cross that border, I sold Chu Aiguo’s run-down house and my small apartment, and replaced it with a big kitchen, with [-] cookbooks hanging on the wall, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, Luchuan, Guangdong and Fujian , strive to feed you into a big fat man as soon as possible, so as not to have young and beautiful girls thinking about it."

The words were so blatant that Dashan and Xiaofang couldn't pretend they didn't understand, but Nanshan just laughed while listening.

"Oh, yes, I have other advantages - I like to stay at home, I must go home for dinner every day, I never go out to fool around when I have nothing to do, I work hard, I don't eat much, I have a good temper and easy to communicate, and I can't sleep well. Grinding your teeth, not snoring or grabbing the quilt, it is very convenient and practical for home and travel.”

When Chu Huan said this, his voice paused for a moment. When he spared no effort to promote himself, he seemed to feel very good about himself. For a while, his face was not covered by glasses, and suddenly he looked a little less stable. When it bends, it becomes two small hooks, which almost have the meaning of peach blossoms in the eyes.

"Look, everyone, can I do it?" Chu Huan glanced at Dashan and Xiaofang, as if he wanted a witness.

Xiaofang and Dashan looked at each other, and said "hey" to each other in embarrassment, but the person involved was shameless, and seeing this situation, he went downhill and made a request: "Then if I hug your patriarch and kiss you, please everyone Don't make a fuss, okay?"

Xiaofang finally couldn't bear to raise her opinion to Nanshan: "Patriarch, you should say something, you are still not a man!"

Nanshan smiled broadly: "It doesn't matter."

Chu Huan couldn't help being even more frightened, his face was too hateful, under Yuan Ping's leadership and call, Xiaofang and Dashan rushed over and beat him up together, and they soon had a quarrel in the small cave. into a ball.

Just as Chu Huan lifted Yuan Ping and was pressing the mountain against the wall, he suddenly heard a chattering sound. He didn't smile, and raised his head casually: "Huh? What did you say?"

The others fell silent for a moment.

Dashan asked suspiciously, "What?"

Chu Huan immediately realized that something was wrong, he tilted his head slightly, and there was a rambling voice in his ears, and he couldn't hear the content clearly, but it seemed that he was not talking alone.

Nanshan turned his face: "What did you hear?"

The voice sounded like a phone was strung together, and the speech was fast and hasty, disorganized, but Chu Huan just felt...they seemed to be calling for something.

who?What are you talking about?

Chu Huan slowly raised his hand and covered his ears. The voice seemed to enter his brain directly instead of through his ears.

Chu Huan was slightly absent-minded, stood up unsteadily, bumped his shoulder against Nan Shan, and Nan Shan pressed his shoulder: "Chu Huan!"

Nanshan's voice was mixed with countless whispers, and Chu Huan could barely distinguish it through his mouth movements.

Yuan Ping suddenly opened his throat and shouted into his ear: "Chu Huan!"

Chu Huan dodged abruptly, his eardrums trembled wildly when he was called out by his voice, those dense voices suddenly vanished into thin air, Chu Huan pressed his ears, blurred Yuan Ping's face, pointed in the direction of Zhengnan and said: "Then There seems to be a sound on the side."

The few people suddenly lost their idle mood. After packing up their luggage, they quickly set off again and rushed to the summit.

The closer to the top, the lower the temperature. In the end, the exhaled air seemed to be covered with white mist, hazy, and the fine wind was blowing on the bare skin. Even the frost-resistant mountain guards could not bear it gradually. up.

There is a thin layer of ice on the rocks, which is getting slipperier and harder to walk on, but the plants in the cracks are still lush and green, which is a bit weird.

Nanshan was the first to climb to the top of the mountain and climbed up the highest boulder. He was supposed to give the people behind him a hand, but when he glanced down the mountain, he froze.

Chu Huan walked over from behind him without knowing why: "Why..."

His voice suddenly cut off.

I saw that at the foot of the mountain, the wind and water were faint, and the shadows of the trees were whirling. Everything seemed to be ok, but there was no light.

The whole world seems to be divided by a certain place at the foot of the mountain, with one side basking in the midday sun and the other side with nothing.

Looking down from a high place, it seems that the lights of the world over there have been turned off, the vast forest sea is motionless, the river that should have been rushing seems to be frozen, there are no animals, and there is no wind...

It was like a... spooky landscape painting nailed to the wall.

Chu Huan heard Xiaofang's voice behind him, and the ferocious hairy monkey's voice seemed to contain unparalleled fear.

He said: "Sink... sink..."

Chu Huan suddenly turned around.

The journey of patrolling the mountains seemed so long. They trekked through mountains and rivers, climbed countless mountains, crossed countless tributaries, and walked an unknown distance...

Now, this long journey is so short that it is hardly worth mentioning. The area that was thought to be infinitely vast is surprisingly small. Chu Huan didn't know what the "fallen land" was and what was inside, but when he faced the border, he was shocked. cold sweat.

It's the feeling that the whole world has turned off the lights, and they are an island deep in the depths.

There are only faint, crumbling clusters of sunlight.