Under the cover of night, Cheng Yu walked down the bluestone steps step by step.
Along the way, he has been using the light from his mobile phone screen to illuminate the path under his feet.
First of all, he really needed some light. The night in this mountain was too dark even on a moonless night. Cheng Yu didn't want to die before leaving the army. He fell down the steps after only a few steps and fell to pieces.
He said that it would also alarm the people in the village.
Secondly, Cheng Yu also wanted to observe whether the mobile phone signal would disappear when it reached the lowest point of the valley. If the light on the mobile phone screen was not bright, even if someone saw it from a distance, there would be no clues.
Not far down the road, the signal on the mobile phone weakened significantly. That is, about two-thirds of the way down, the signal had completely disappeared.
Because there would be a certain delay in signal search, Cheng Yu estimated that there was no mobile phone signal in most areas of the village, and the high-altitude mobile phone signal tower could not cover the bottom of the valley at all.
At the bottom of the valley, Cheng Yu walked slowly along the path paved with stones.
Although it was only seven o'clock, it was already very quiet in the village. Apart from the chirping of birds and insects in the mountains, there was almost no other sound.
After turning a small corner, the entire Yao Village appeared in front of Cheng Yu's eyes.
Even in this dark night, Cheng Yu could still clearly see the appearance of those houses due to the depth of the mountains, trees and the outlines of the houses.
In the evening, Cheng Yu once observed which houses the villagers working in the fields returned to after packing up their farm tools. But now it seems that all this was in vain. After turning that bend in the valley,
, Cheng Yu found that he could not even accurately determine where he was in the evening, let alone the houses that the villagers had entered.
Fortunately, there was a faint light coming from several houses, which at least meant that those bright places were inhabited.
Passing by several farmlands, there were crops growing high and low that Cheng Yu couldn't tell clearly. It was not the harvest season. For urbanites like Cheng Yu, who had never seen fields since he was a child, those big crops were growing high and low.
The large and small leaves and vines were simply not enough for him to distinguish the types of crops.
There was a creaking sound not far away, and Cheng Yu quickly lowered his body to blend in with the crops in the field.
On the hillside, a bright spot was clearly magnified, and then several black shadows appeared, blocking part of the light.
There were some big and small shadows, and the larger ones were chattering. Although they were quite far apart, because the night in the mountains was so quiet, Cheng Yu could hear almost every word they spoke.
Judging from the voices, the people talking must be quite old, and their voiceprints showed age. But Cheng Yu couldn't understand a word of what they said. This was probably the unique language of the Yao people.
The smaller shadows were probably the children left behind in the village. They were playing with each other, and the old man talking would occasionally scold them. Then the figures separated, and the two elders and the younger one returned to the bright house.
The big one and the small one walked hand in hand and slowly climbed up the bluestone steps. After a while, they turned into a fork in the road and disappeared.
A faint light lit up where the figure disappeared. The grandfather and grandson must have returned to their own home. They might have gone to other people's houses for dinner before? Cheng Yu was not sure.
In fact, not long after the time passed, Cheng Yu in the field turned on his phone and looked down. It was just after eight o'clock, but the newly lit light was quickly turned off. It seemed that the grandparents and grandchildren had already laid down to sleep.
go.
Even in this mountainous area where there is probably no running water except electricity, going to bed at eight o'clock seems a bit too early.
But soon Cheng Yu discovered that the lights in the village were extinguished one by one as if they had been arranged. Soon, there were only three or four lights left on the entire hillside.
Light up. In the mountains without any entertainment activities, it turns out that people really go to bed so early.
Because Cheng Fu is an outsider, he must not be used to going to bed so early. What's more, he is not here for vacation, but to hunt for treasures. The dark night without moon is the best time for him to act. He is sure
It's impossible to go to bed so early. This almost means that among the three or four remaining lights, there is one belonging to Cheng Fu.
Cheng Yu stood up and continued to move forward, but the road down the mountain now turned into the road up the mountain. At this moment, Cheng Yu realized that the seemingly gentle steps were not that gentle. All aspects of his body functions were affected by the system.
The descent is pretty good, but climbing such a hill is still a bit strenuous.
The first light he passed was the place where the grandfather and grandson had just left. Cheng Yu quietly walked in, found a small window and looked in. What he saw was a pair of elderly people in their late teens, one male.
One girl.
There are actually two lights on in the room, one is a slightly dim incandescent lamp above the head. Under the dim yellow light, it seems to Cheng Yu that it is just enough to ensure that he will not bump into each other. It is really a bit too dark, at least.
Cheng Yu had never seen such dim lights in his memory. Under such dim lights, an old lady sat in front of a low table, with a stoneware jar the size of a wastebasket in her hand.
There was a bamboo plaque placed on it, and the plaque was covered with some dark things. Cheng Yu couldn't see clearly what it was.
The other lamp is a much brighter desk lamp, placed in the corner of a large wooden table in the room. An old man is sitting in front of the table, seeming to be carving something. The reason why he can be distinguished
It was carving, all because a blue coarse cloth was spread out on the table. On the coarse cloth were placed tools such as large and small chisel knives and hammers. At first glance, they were all kinds of knives used for carving.
At this time, the old woman picked up a black thing from the bamboo plaque and put it into the altar at hand, and so on. Watching the old woman put in several black things, Cheng Yu seemed to see clearly.
It seemed to be some kind of bird. If it hadn't been for barbecued quail, Cheng Yu wouldn't have known what it was for a while.
While waiting for dark on the top of the mountain in the afternoon, Cheng Yu took advantage of the signal on his mobile phone to search for some customs of the Yao people.
What I see in front of me is probably a special food of the Yao people, called Bird Sauce. The captured birds are plucked, washed, dried, mixed with rice flour and salt, put into a jar and marinated.
Cover it with banana leaves and seal it, and you can eat it after a few days. This kind of bird vinegar is said to be used by the Yao people to entertain distinguished guests.
There is nothing to see here. They are probably just a pair of ordinary Yao old people. However, these old people seem to be a bit educated. After all, carving is not something ordinary old people would do, especially in this deep mountain.
An elderly Yao ethnic minority who is almost isolated from the rest of the world.
When leaving, Cheng Yu thought to himself, could this be the clan leader of the Yao village?
Standing on the bluestone steps, two more lights that were on before were extinguished. Except for the one behind me, only the last one was left.
This saves Cheng Yu a lot of trouble, and he doesn't have to go from house to house. Since the house behind him is not the one behind him, the remaining house should be where Cheng Fu is hiding.
Of course, it is not accurate to say that he is hiding. After all, for Cheng Fu, he came to this Yao village openly. Is there anyone to help him? There is no need to hide his whereabouts. On the contrary, Cheng Yu himself was cautious along the way, for fear of being caught by the Yao village.
people discovered.
What Cheng Yu didn't expect was that when he touched the outside of the only remaining house where the light was not turned off, all he saw was an old man sitting under the light and smoking a pipe.
Just when Cheng Yu felt strange, the old man had already finished smoking the bag of cigarettes, knocked the pipe on the sole of his shoe a few times, and put it on the table. Then the old man turned off the light and went to bed.
Cheng Yu was unwilling to give in and continued walking up. There was no longer any light nearby or in front of him.
Climbing almost to the highest point of the Yao Village, Cheng Yu could not find any lights that were still on.
On the contrary, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang with a rapid sound. Cheng Yu was startled and looked around. Fortunately, the Yao people who were not asleep noticed this sound that should not have appeared here.
He took out his mobile phone and saw a WeChat message from Xue Changyun. When he was at the bottom of Yao Village, there was obviously no signal, but now, the signal has been restored. It seems that in this Yao Village, there is only the highest one.
Several houses can receive mobile phone signals.
Does this also mean that if Cheng Fu wants to keep his mobile phone able to communicate with the outside world, he can only live in the top few houses?
However, it was less than 8:30, and in the entire Yao Village, only the room at the bottom near the bottom of the valley still had light coming out. Did Master Cheng really just come to this Yao Village to relax?
Do you want to feel the suffering of the people for a while?
What a joke!
Cheng Yu opened WeChat and took a look. Xue Changyun said that he had inquired about the whereabouts of the crown. It was not some underground auction held in Fangcheng Port, but in Mong Cai City, Vietnam.
The time is the afternoon after tomorrow, and you don't need any tickets. As long as you know the location of the auction and pay a deposit of 5,000 yuan in soft sister coins before entering, you can enter. It can be said that it is an underground auction with an open door and no scruples.
Cheng Yu set his phone to silent and was too lazy to reply to Xue Changyun.
The day after tomorrow, in Vietnam, although it is not far away, considering that it is not easy to get to the market town here, you may not be so lucky to find a car into the city when you get to the market town, and you must leave tomorrow afternoon.
If he is like this, Cheng Fu must be like this too.
Of course, Cheng Fu may have been prepared, and there may be a vehicle in the market town to take him away, but since Cheng Fu doesn't even have a passport, he definitely won't be able to leave customs through legal channels, which should consume him some time.
Generally speaking, Master Cheng can only leave this Yao village by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.
From this point of view, Cheng Fu actually only has one night left. After tonight, he may have no choice but to use violent means to obtain the base of the crown.
Cheng Yu has no doubt that Cheng Fu has enough force to obtain the base of the crown, but Cheng Yu also believes that Cheng Fu is not willing to do that. If it were in Vietnam, this kid would just do it hard if he couldn't protect everything, but
This is in China. Even if Cheng Fu has a system by his side, he must consider the difficulties he may face after using violent methods. Even if this is just a Yao village in the mountains, and there are only old people and children left in the village, he wants to
It's not easy to leave anyone alive. I'm afraid even the villagers here may not know how many people are left in the village. What's more, there are so many uninhabited empty houses here, and the mountains are densely wooded.
A cat can be found anywhere, and the few people around Cheng Fu are simply not enough.
And as long as someone is left alive, it won't take a few hours for word to spread that someone is killing people and stealing goods here. The villagers, even the elderly and children, will probably be able to run faster than Cheng Fu and his gang.
Once the police learned about the situation here, Cheng Fu had no next step, and the possibility of smuggling to Vietnam was extremely slim.