One day in the mountains lasts a thousand years. Everything that happened on this land has long since disappeared.
At sunset and dusk. By the stream in the valley, a group of people in camouflage uniforms were busy. They skillfully used engineering shovels to level the gravel shrubs on the highlands, then spread a layer of loess, stepped on it firmly with their feet, and then A tent with a dark green top was set up above.
A tall, powerful man was inspecting the work at hand. His sharp eyes like an eagle saw some flaws and came over to correct them himself. His expression was meticulous. It can be seen from this that this man He should be the leader of the team.
Gu Zheng had his hands clasped and held a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. He was dressed in homespun clothes. He looked rustic and was incompatible with the whole team. He held a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth and looked a bit carefree. , looked like a delinquent young man. He stood on the huge stone by the stream not far from the crowd. After carefully looking up at the surroundings of the valley, he frowned slightly. He walked closer to the tall man. Said: "Brother Sun, this is not a suitable place for camping!"
Sun Yan was directing everyone to work. When he heard Gu Zheng's words, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?" Along the way, Gu Zheng kept nagging in his ears, saying that this was not possible and that was not possible. His ears had already woken up. There is a thick layer of cocoon.
Gu Zheng pulled him, pointed around the valley, and said: "Look at the mountain peak on the left, which is like a sharp knife, facing us, and the valley is round like an anvil, and look at the huge stone by the stream, like a grinding mill. Knife stones, sharpening knives, our camp here is like meat on the chopping board!" Gu Zheng said seriously.
Sun Yan's raised eyebrows immediately relaxed. He smiled "haha" and patted Gu Zheng on the shoulder. Gu Zheng's strong body couldn't help but shake a little. "Gu Zheng, don't keep taking it. Tell me what your master said, Brother Sun, I am a rational person, how could I believe such nonsense?" Sun Yan cleared his throat again and shouted to a team member not far away: "Chen Fu, please be more diligent, how many times have I told you that smoking is not allowed in the mountains and forests, why haven't you been able to control your addiction?"
The young man named Chen Fu smiled awkwardly at Sun Yan, made an "ok" gesture, and immediately put out the cigarette butt in his hand. Sun Yan turned back to Gu Zheng and said: "Gu Zheng, you Just be your guide and don't lead us astray. I have been a soldier for seven years and have been wallowing in the mountains and forests for six or seven years. I have never been anywhere! It is ventilated, condescending, and close to water. We are lucky to be able to find such a place to camp before dark. It gets dark quickly in the mountains. Even if we follow your advice to camp, it will be too late! What’s more, for a sensible person like me , how could you believe that nonsense? Don’t always use your master’s tricks to scaremonger people, times have changed, and you have to keep pace with the times!”
Gu Zheng could only smile bitterly at Sun Yan and remained silent. Gu Zheng's master was a famous Feng Shui master in the last town before entering the mountain. However, the master and apprentice stayed away from the crowd and lived deep in the mountains. Sun Yan said this When he went into the mountains, he originally wanted to find Gu Zheng's master to lead the way, but the old Feng Shui master had died of illness a few months ago. In desperation, he could only hire Gu Zheng, a young "Feng Shui master" who had just turned twenty. "Yes.
This is an archaeological team going to inspect an old village called Lijiayu deep in the mountains - this is what team leader Sun Yan said to Gu Zheng. Of course, why are there more than a dozen young and strong team members in this archaeological team? It's a bit hard for Sun Yan to explain himself. Sun Yan is a retired soldier, and the investors of the archaeological team spent a lot of money to hire him as the leader of this team. The actual leader of the team is Professor Lin Xiude, the host of the archaeological team, but He is already an old man in his sixties or seventies. He never interferes in daily affairs and leaves it to Sun Yan to take care of everything. He and the two students beside him study things with maps all day long.
Gu Zheng was just a guide hired by the team from the mountains just the day before. Because of the rain some time ago, the roads the archaeological team had taken were washed away by mudslides. The team leader Sun Yan had no choice but to change the route and take a detour of more than a hundred miles. We walked on a mountain road where no one has ever walked before.
In the small town, he wanted to hire a guide who was familiar with the mountainous area. But when the people in the small town heard that they were going to Lijiayu, their faces turned pale. No matter how high the price Sun Yan offered, they remained unmoved. In the end, there was still someone there. He pointed out that Gu Zheng's master and apprentice were the only two people in this area who dared to go to Lijiayu. So Sun Yan found the place where Gu Zheng lived and found that Gu Zheng's master had died of illness. Disappointed, he hesitated After a while, he decided that he needed a guide to lead the way from here to Lijiayu. He offered Gu Zheng a high price: a guide fee of three hundred yuan a day. You know, in this deep mountain, an adult's annual net income is only It was only two thousand yuan, and even some places were still classified as abject poverty. This amount of money was enough to make many people excited. (But Sun Yan was very depressed. He had already offered this price to many mountain people, but those mountain people refused. ).
Hearing that Sun Yan and others were going to Lijiayu from here, Gu Zheng was also shocked. Lijiayu has always had a bad reputation, and there is a song nearby that has been circulating for many years: "Lijiayu, Lijiayu, the living will not go and the dead will go, and there will be no fog in the clouds." Now, you will never see the living or the dead. Once you enter Lijiayu, you will never see your relatives again..." I don't know when these songs started to be passed down, but it is enough to show that Lijiayu is an absolute place within a radius of a hundred miles. forbidden place.
Gu Zheng thought for a while and agreed to Sun Yan's request. In addition to the several hundred yuan a day guide fee, he was more concerned about the safety of the team. He knew very well that almost all the people who entered Lijiayu from this place were There is no good end---the exception is Gu Zheng and his master, because they know the secret of Lijiayu. In fact, this is the main reason why the two live in seclusion in the mountains.
Gu Zheng sighed. Sun Yan's stubbornness made him helpless, and from time to time he would show off his empiricism and life creed. This can't be blamed on Sun Yan, because this was not the first time that Sun Yan went to Lijiayu. His previous experiences They were all very safe, and nothing weird appeared. Only Gu Zheng knew in his heart that the reason why Sun Yan and others were not wrong before was because they were not taking the same path now.
The world is like this. If you look at the same problem from different angles, you will get different results. And when you go to a place from different roads, the encounters will be different. Even the place you go to may not be the same. Same.