The sound of the chainsaw was quite loud, and soon I heard the sound of trees falling to the ground.
There were three people in total. One of them was called Xiao Bian, one was called Uncle Bao, and the other one didn’t know his name. Did he come to steal wood at night?
I thought to myself that it shouldn't be the case. Hojing is a little better than Tianguangdong, but not much better. Before the tourism and construction industry developed, Shuiji was also a remote area.
Except for those in people's fields and trees growing on mountains, most of them are not owned by individuals. Anyone can chop them down if they want, without having to sneak around in the middle of the night.
Is it a rare species of wood?
Small-leaf red sandalwood? Agarwood? Hainan Huanghuali? Small-leaf boxwood? But these don’t seem to be produced here in Nanping.
I really can't figure it out.
Taking advantage of the noise of the chainsaw, I turned the intercom to the minimum volume and whispered: "Head...Head...please reply if you hear me."
"Yunfeng, I'm paying attention. Be careful and don't make any noise."
"I'm lying down with Brother Yu now, and I can't see outside. What should I do?"
"wait."
"Wait and see."
"These three people are sawing the tree. I guess they will be transporting it down the mountain soon."
"receive."
The wall of the dragon kiln is only 1.2 meters high. As soon as we stand up, we will be seen. At this time, Brother Yu moved over and crawled over. He asked me to help him take out the cigarette butts.
I put my hand into Brother Yu's clothes, dug out, and pulled out a cigarette butt, which was already extinguished.
"Hold your head, I'm afraid I can't wait." This was Dou Sprout's voice.
"What's wrong?" asked the head.
On the intercom, Xiaoxuan said anxiously: "Damn it! Don't move on the tree! Those two people are about to pass!"
Dou Sprout said in a bitter voice: "That's why I said I can't wait. They are coming to saw my tree. If nothing happens, I will fall if they saw the tree."
"Come on, come on, those two guys are coming over with electric saws. They're going to kill me." Dou Sprout said anxiously.
The situation was not good, so I pressed the intercom and said, "Come on, think of a way to save Bean Sprouts."
"Don't panic, don't come out, I'll think about what to do."
"Um....."
"Yes."
He walked out directly from behind the stone, turned on the flashlight, shook it from a distance, and shouted: "Who is there! The thief! The porcelain thief!"
The sound of the chainsaw suddenly died down, and he shouted again: "Come on! Catch the thief! Catch the thief!"
The three tree sawers were frightened.
The two of them ran away carrying a tree, and the other carried a chainsaw and ran directly down the mountain.
When you see someone running away, point your head in the direction they are running and shake the flashlight vigorously.
With this photo, they ran faster and were out of sight in a blink of an eye.
"call....."
I breathed a sigh of relief. These three thieves must not have seen their master. Because of the strong light of the flashlight, it is like a car with high beams on on the road at night. You can’t see what kind of car the other person is driving.
Dou Sprouts slid down from the tree and said with a frightened look on his face: "I was ready to jump down just now. If you do this well, it will catch the thief."
"Stop discussing it."
The head urged: "Hurry, hurry up, pack a sack, and then leave. I'm afraid the sound will spread to the bottom of the mountain."
I quickly dug out another sack and tied it up. Brother Yu and I picked it up and hurried down the mountain behind the leader.
It was also a bit dangerous. As soon as we came down the mountain and threw the snakeskin bag into the trunk of the car, we heard the sound of dogs barking from the mountain and the faint light of a flashlight. It was probably a real mountain ranger who heard the sound.
Taking a taxi, we pulled our things and left the foot of the mountain.
Dou Sprout said: "It was a bit dangerous just now. Let's find a place to sleep."
"ah...."
He opened his mouth wide and yawned. Dou Sprout turned around and asked, "Brother Yu, I didn't pay attention just now. Is the duck awake?"
Brother Yu drove and looked at the road ahead, shook his head and said, "No, I opened the trunk just now. If I woke up, I would scream. I just took a rest in the afternoon, so I'm probably still sleeping in the cage."
"Ha ha!"
Dou Sprouts laughed and said: "That duck will fall down in two ounces. It's so damn delicious and wants to drink!"
Brother Yu also smiled and said: "Yes, and it only drinks high-quality wine like Erguotou. Now if you don't drink it for a day, it will bark at you all night, and the barker will not be able to sleep."
Xiaoxuan covered her mouth and said, "Then let's make it into a drunken duck. It will definitely be delicious."
I know this very well. The day we stayed at a hotel in the city, Brother Yu once fell asleep without pouring wine for the ducks. The ducks quacked all night, and the boss who screamed came to us and asked us what was going on.
Talking about the Echo Duck, this thing has helped us a lot. I asked when will the head be returned to others? Or, if we can keep it ourselves, we can keep it as a pet in the car.
He sat with his head on the passenger seat and said with a smile: "I guess they are reluctant to part with it. Although this duck is far from useful in our hands, one hundred thousand yuan is not a small sum of money. Isn't it a bit too expensive?"
Brother Yu thought for a while and said: "I have money, I can provide this money, but you can just say that the duck is lost and we can keep it ourselves."
He raised his head and smiled and said: "Let's talk about it, let me think about it for two days."
On the way from Houjing Village to Nanling Village, you will pass by a well station. As far as I know, running water was originally connected here, but later it was not connected due to various reasons. As a result, this well station was abandoned for many years. We hid the car
Well, I stayed here. There is water here and no one is around. It is very suitable.
.....
The next morning.
Broken porcelain tiles were dumped on the floor in the yard, and a washbasin was set up. Xiaoxuan got up early and was brushing the soil on the porcelain tiles with a shoe brush.
"No words."
"There's no word for this either."
Throwing it aside casually, seeing me coming, Xiaoxuan said dejectedly: "Yunfeng, some have no bottoms, and some have bottoms without words. There are so many, I only saw two pieces with words at the bottom. I wrote "
For the emperor."
I knelt down and looked at it, and said with a smile: "No words, beautiful patterns are fine, just look at these. This pattern is called partridge spots, this one is oil droplets, this one is called watermelon flower, these are
It will be all right."
"Yeah?"
Xiaoxuan shook the shoe brush vigorously, then lowered her head and continued to brush. I gave her this job last night, and the salary was 50.
"I'm short of these for now. It's enough. You should be smart on the road."
"I know, Brother Yu, let's go."
I first ran outside Jijing Station and took a look. When I saw no one on the road, I asked Brother Yu to drive out.
When I arrived at the small supermarket, I was buying something according to the list. At this time, a man came in to buy cigarettes.
As soon as he opened his mouth, I could tell that this person was the one who stole wood last night.
"Brother, how do you like this cigarette? Is it good to smoke?" I leaned over to chat.
“The big front door is pretty good.”
Brother Yu patted me and motioned to look outside.
I looked and saw a small truck parked behind our car, with a pile of wood tied to the truck.
"Brother, what about your car?"
"Yes, I shouldn't block your way, right?" He glanced outside.
I asked what kind of wood that was? It looked smooth.
Before the guy could say anything, the owner of the small supermarket said, "If I'm not mistaken, the thicker one is Sailimu and the smaller one is Longan wood, right?" He asked the man, "Are you going to send it to Zhangzhou?"
Lake Town?”
The man paid for the cigarette and said, "What Sailimu and Longan wood? You are mistaken. They are all ordinary rotten wood. I will take them back to burn firewood." After saying this, he went out and drove away in a small truck.
"Settling accounts."
The boss was doing the same thing, so I asked casually: "Boss, that guy just now, how did you know he was going to send the wood to Zhanghu Town?"
The boss raised his head and said: "You can tell at a glance that those wood are used for making snake boards. My wife is from Zhanghu Town, how could she not know this?"
"Snake board? What is it?" I asked.
"you do not know?"
I shook my head and said I didn't know.
He told me: "Every year on the seventh day of July, we have a unique grand festival in Zhanghu Town, Nanping City, called Snake Festival, also called Liangong Festival, which is second only to the Spring Festival in terms of liveliness."
"Snake lanterns are put out at night during the Snake Festival. The snake lanterns are put out twice a year. The first time is from the first to the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the second time is from the seventh to the tenth day of the seventh lunar month. They are both put out at night."
"Huh? Why should I tell you this if you're out of town?" The boss shook his head.
"Go on, I want to understand."
He shook his head again and said that our local customs are generally not told to outsiders.
"Take two huazi." I said.
He immediately gave me a cigarette and then said: "This snake board is a rectangular wooden board with four wheels on the bottom. A lantern is made of paper on the board. At night, the candle is placed in the paper lantern."
I lit a cigarette and threw the lighter on the table. The boss gestured to me and said, "When you use it, you tie it with a rope and drag it on the street at night."
"I'm not bragging to you. The most I've ever seen was more than 900 people dragging boards together on the street. It was a sea of fire, like a flaming snake."
"One more thing, starting from May, my wife and her family will go to the mountains to catch snakes. The caught snakes will be taken to the Snake King Temple in Zhanghu Town. You outsiders may call it Liangong Temple."
"There are about a dozen large black jars in the temple. In the end, whoever catches the most snakes in the jar will win and receive a bonus of 5,000 yuan."
I was amazed to hear this.
It is true that the soil and water support the people, and there are all kinds of strange folk festivals.
I asked again: "Doesn't it start in July? It's only April."
He said: "The production cycle of snake board is long, and the demand will be huge by then. How can it be used if we don't make it earlier? The snake board made of longan wood and Saili wood is the best, does not crack, and sells for the highest price."
"Honey, I'm back, how is business today?"
While we were talking, a woman in her thirties came in with a child in her arms.
"Haha, business is pretty good today."
"By the way, wife, do you think you can see a snake girl at the Snake Festival in your town this year? But I haven't seen one in several years."
The woman bumped the child up, frowned and said, "Snake girl... I don't want to see her. I saw her once when I was a child, and I didn't dare to go to school for several days."
"What is a snake girl?" I asked again.
The woman turned around and said, "Stop asking around and leave after shopping. If you really see the snake girl from Liangong Temple, she might scare you to death."
