"Guo Guo, not far ahead is the cave where Lan Yan lives."
Chujiu took me over a mountain. On the hillside of the second mountain, Chujiu climbed onto a tree branch, looked around, smiled and pointed in a direction.
"Where is the cave? I didn't see it. You haven't been here for a long time and you took the wrong path, right?"
Following the direction of Chujiu's finger, I only saw a large forest, not the cave he mentioned at all.
On the way here, Chujiu told me that the last time I came here to see Lan Yan was with Lan Xi three years ago.
I now extremely suspect that Chujiu took me the wrong way again. An hour ago, Chujiu asked me to take a shortcut. After a lot of effort, the two of them finally climbed up a nearly vertical stone wall, and then
Tell me very simply that I am on the wrong track.
"It's easier to go up the mountain than it is to go down the mountain." I have always heard this sentence from adults since I was a child. This time I really felt the meaning of this sentence.
It took more than ten minutes to climb up a two-story stone wall. When I wanted to come down, I found that there was no flat foothold below, so I couldn't jump down at all. I had to walk around for almost an hour before returning again.
On a small road.
"Guo Guo, I'm really sure I'm right this time."
When Chujiu saw me raising my hand, she instinctively hugged her head, looked at me aggrievedly, and said that although there were some changes from the last time she came, it was definitely not wrong.
Chujiu, who had vowed to lead the way, suddenly stopped and had a strange smile on his face.
"As expected, Lanyan's style of doing things has not changed at all."
When I was thinking about the reason why Chujiu suddenly said this, Chujiu pointed to the ground.
Two meters directly in front of us, there is an almost transparent silk thread hidden in the grass. It is really easy to miss it if you don't look carefully.
"this?"
What answered me was that Chujiu smashed the bamboo pole in his hand towards the silk thread.
With a "swish" sound, two wooden arrows were shot out from the bushes on both sides, and were nailed into the soil at the position of the silk thread. The exposed arrow tails were still shaking slightly.
"Holy shit!"
Fortunately, Chujiu was leading the way. If I had been leading the way, at least one arrow would have hit my leg. No wonder Chujiu was carrying a bamboo pole and was always banging it along the way.
Chujiu said as he looked around and picked up the bamboo pole again. He reminded me to follow him closely and not to wander around. He didn't know how many traps Lan Yan had set up.
After passing through a large forest, Chujiu successfully destroyed two more hunting traps, and I finally saw the cave entrance not far in front of me.
The entrance of the cave is very similar to the cave dwellings in our Lijia Village, which are also arched. The fence at the entrance of the cave is made of tree trunks, and several Miao clothes are hanging on the fence.
There was light green smoke floating out of the cave, and it seemed that Lan Yan was cooking.
Chujiu squatted down, picked up a piece of gravel, and threw it towards the entrance of the cave.
The stone made a crisp sound when it hit the ground, and I felt helpless for Chujiu's teasing behavior. Just as I was about to say a few words to him, I heard a loud "dong" sound.
The birds in the forest immediately flew up from the trees and fled in all directions, and bursts of panicked bird calls came from the sky above.
"Oh, Xiaolanyan, this is serious, you dare to shoot me?"
Only then did I see a thin, dark boy standing at the entrance of the cave. The boy was holding a shotgun with a barrel of two meters long. The muzzle of the gun was facing us, and black smoke was still coming out of the muzzle.
.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, haha, does it scare you?"
The boy casually threw the shotgun aside, jumped over the fence, and ran towards us.
"Hey, Chujiu, it's different now that you're in college. Your skin has turned a bit whiter."
As soon as the boy rushed in front of us, he was kicked out by Chujiu. Then Chujiu jumped on the boy, punching and kicking him.
"Guawazi, what did you call me?"
"Brother Chujiu, brother Chujiu, I call you brother."
The two quarreled for a while, then Chujiu came over to me holding Lan Yan's collar.
"This is my Guo Guo, and you also call me Guo Guo."
"Brother Feng, hello, I am Lan Yan. I know you are coming in the next few days."
It turned out that Grandma Jian Shu had told Lanyan two days ago that Chujiu and I would come to the village recently. Lanyan said that if Chujiu came to the village, she would definitely come here to find him.
"Let's talk inside the house. I thought you wouldn't come until tomorrow. I caught the hare and then cleaned it up. I'm just waiting for you to come and roast it."
Lan Yan pulled Chujiu, waved towards me, and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
After entering the cave, the light dimmed, and I could faintly see a cluster of firelight inside. Before entering, I thought the structure of the cave was similar to our cave dwelling, but I didn't expect it to be so deep inside. I estimated it was at least twenty meters, maybe deeper.
Lan Yan lit a cluster of firewood near the stone wall. A small pot was hung above the firewood. The small pot was suspended on a wooden frame. Hot water was boiling in the pot.
After staying for a while, my eyes adjusted to the dim light, and I saw a simple bamboo bed under the stone wall on the other side, as well as some simple wooden furniture, which seemed to be made by Lanyan himself.
On the way here, I saw no water source or mountain spring nearby. At this time, I saw clearly that there was no vessel to hold water in the cave.
"The ninth day of the lunar month."
As soon as I called out Chujiu's name, I instinctively shut my mouth. The cave began to echo with the echoes of "Nine", "Nine" and "Nine".
"Hahahaha, Guo Guo, it was the same when I first came here. Just face the wall when you speak, not the ground or the air."
Chujiu saw my surprised expression, smiled and told me the technique of speaking without any echo.
I looked at both sides of the cave. This ten-meter-wide cave is supposed to be unable to produce echoes. Lan Yan seemed to understand my thoughts and pointed to the top of his head.
"Holy shit! This, this, this is so amazing."
I was really shocked this time. From the top of the cave, I can only describe it as being unable to see the end.
I closed my eyes hard and opened them again to make sure I saw it correctly.
Through the endless darkness in the sky, as far as the eye can see, there is a faint turquoise color, which is somewhat similar in color to the jade pendant my grandfather gave me.
This distance may reach the top of the mountain. No wonder there is an echo when speaking.
"That's the top of the mountain. I've been there. From the outside, it looks like a large rock." Lan Yan explained to me with a grin.
"Woooooo~"
Suddenly, there was a strange sound coming from a wall not far from me. I was so frightened that I sat upright and listened carefully. It was very similar to the howling of ghosts and wolves mentioned in the book.
Looking at Chujiu again, there was also a strange expression on his face, but he soon returned to normal.