Before leaving the house, Hao Jingde was a little worried and handed Dongzi a stack of paper figurines and asked Dongzi to remember the formula for activating these paper figurines.
It was a pile of paper-cut figures, all cut into the shapes of soldiers holding swords. They looked lifelike.
After Dongzi memorized the formula, he asked with some confusion: "Master, we are here to ask for help, not to fight. Why do we need these things?"
"You can take it with you if you are told. The place in Xiangxi is not like our place in Jiangzhou. Most of the practitioners gather there. There are all kinds of complicated people and things. You are reckless. If you encounter any danger, you can't do it."
You won’t lose your life!”
At around nine o'clock in the evening, the plane Dongzi and I took landed safely at Xiangnan Airport.
After getting off the bus, we didn't stop for a moment. We directly stopped a taxi and told the driver that we were going to Xiangyuan County.
"Xiangyuan? If you don't want to go, don't go!"
After hearing this, the taxi driver waved his hands repeatedly and turned around to drive away.
"Why?" Dongzi said loudly, holding her hands on the car window and refusing to let go: "Is it because it's too late? Can't we give you more money?"
"I won't go even if I pay more!" The driver said to Dongzi: "I still have my wife to support, and my girlfriend is still waiting for me to earn money to marry her. Can you let go? If you don't let go, I will just close the window glass.
Got it!"
"Hey, I'm talking about you, I'm not asking you to go to hell -"
Dongzi came up stubbornly and looked at the taxi driver to argue.
The driver didn't look back and pressed the window-closing button without saying a word.
The glass slowly rose, and the man put his hand directly on the gear handle.
"Forget it, Dongzi, we are here to find someone. Don't cause trouble and find another car!" Seeing that the driver really didn't want to take us to Xiangyuan, I gently pulled Dongzi's arm and said.
"Damn it!" Dongzi cursed in Jiangzhou dialect and let go of his hand.
The taxi drove away as if it was running away.
"No, Hu Ling, why do you think he doesn't want to send us there? I already said it would be extra money, right?" Dongzi asked me angrily.
"I don't know, maybe it's because it's too far and too late!"
I shook my head and said, "There are so many taxis on the road, why don't we just find another one?"
While I was talking, another taxi stopped in the distance towards the roadside where we were standing.
"Master, we want to go to Xiangyuan!"
I shouted to the driver.
"Xiangyuan? Don't go!" The taxi driver said this and drove away directly.
Next, Dongzi and I stopped three more taxis, but the results were the same as the first two taxis.
It's so strange. Xiangyuan is just a small ordinary county in western Hunan. I haven't heard anything special in the news recently. Why are the drivers unwilling to go there?
After getting off the plane, I encountered a series of obstacles that made me feel a little depressed.
"Hu Ling, don't talk when the bus is coming soon. Let's get on the bus first." Dongzi thought for a while and said to me.
"If the person who got on the bus doesn't want to go, we still have to get off." I said, "Can you still force the driver to take us there?"
"Even if we can't force others to send us there, at least we can ask the drivers why they don't want to go. If we ask clearly, maybe the problem will be solved. There must be a reason why all the drivers are unwilling to go," Dongzi said.
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While Dongzi and I were talking, another taxi stopped towards us.
"Girl, boy, do you want to take a ride?"
The driver was an uncle in his fifties, with disheveled hair, heavy dark circles under his eyes, and a tired face, but he looked quite kind.
Dongzi didn't say anything, opened the car door and sat in directly.
I had no choice but to follow him and get into the car.
"Where are you two going?" The driver turned around and asked us. His Mandarin was not very standard and he had a bit of a Xiangxi accent.
"Go to Xiangyuan County." Dongzi said.
"Xiangyuan County? I won't go!"
Not surprisingly, the uncle driver's answer was the same as the previous taxi drivers' answers.
"I can give you more money, triple the money!"
Dongzi looked at the driver and said, "Maybe you can agree on a price."
The driver's face suddenly turned cold: "My son and I never charge more for you foreigners when we drive a taxi. As long as we can go to places, we charge whatever the meter charges. But we can't go to Xiangyuan County!"
It turned out that the driver was a very honest and upright person, and he thought Dongzi said this because he wanted to raise the price.
Dongzi opened his mouth, wanting to tell the truth, but I gently pulled his arm to signal him to stop talking.
"Uncle, we have been waiting here for a while, but when people heard that we were going to Xiangyuan, they refused to take us. But we really have something very important to go there now. Can you tell us why?
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I said to the driver sincerely.
The driver looked at me for two seconds and then said: "Girl, you are all foreigners, why are you going to Xiangyuan so late?"
I was stunned, not knowing how to answer the driver.
Telling the truth is definitely not possible, but if we hesitate and don't understand, he will definitely not believe us and will just kick us out of the car without asking anything.
"We have a sister who is married to Xiangyuan County. She called us this morning to tell us that she was sick and asked us to come over. We are really worried. We wanted to go directly as soon as we got off the plane. Uncle, can you
Help us, let's go there now?" Dongzi said quickly.
The uncle's eyes fell on Dongzi's face again and he glanced at it: "Actually, why you went to Xiangyuan so late has nothing to do with me. No matter what you are telling the truth or lies, I will not send you off now.
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But you don’t look like bad people, so I advise you not to catch a taxi here, no one will take you there.
The road to Xiangyuan was not smooth. No one who took the taxi at night came back alive. My son went there just before dawn and came back with half his life. He is still lying in the intensive care unit for half a month.
, the doctor did not find out what was wrong with him, nor did they know why he remained unconscious, let alone when he would wake up.
I advise you to find a hotel to rest for the night and go back tomorrow morning.
You can leave my phone number and call me at dawn tomorrow and I will send it to you right away!"
After the taxi driver finished speaking, Dongzi and I were stunned. After looking at each other, I asked the taxi driver: "Uncle, you mean that the road to Xiangyuan is haunted, that's why your taxi refuses.
Are you bringing people to Xiangyuan in the evening?" This chapter has been completed!