Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 170: Listen to the sound and follow, good brother Guan Lei

Xu Ning stood on the edge of the ditch and looked at the surrounding environment and terrain, but did not find any point where he could draw strength.

Although there are a few scattered pine trees, six or seven birches, linden trees, and messy branches growing around, this place is much more empty than the old forest.

Moreover, they only took five ropes. They were originally planning to tie up animals and sledges, so they never expected to meet people here.

Xu Ning put the old pouch and the cloth bag containing the lunch box on the two roe deer, then turned around to clean the snow on both sides of the ditch.

Because there are likely to be loose clods on the snow-covered edges, if the three of them accidentally step on them later, they could easily fall into the ditch accidentally.

Their behavior is a good deed, but they cannot involve themselves in it.

After Xu Ning cleared the snow on the edge, he struck at the ash wood with the cutting knife, lifted off the two loose soil blocks, and let them fall under the ditch.

Li Fuqiang tied the tree hooks, while Wang Hu tied the two ropes together. Because the rope they brought was only five or six meters long, and the people in the ditch were stuck at ten meters, they could only lengthen it. Rope, otherwise it won’t hook.

"Brother, it's done. How do you like it?"

Xu Ning took the twig hook, squatted down and hung it under his armpit, and asked Li Fuqiang to lift it up. When he felt the force under his armpit and the twig hook was not unhooked, he nodded.

"Brother, you have to find a small tree with a long five or six meters long and thick arms, tie the rope cover on one end. At that time, the two people hook them. There is also more strength. "

"Okay, that's all right." Li Fuqiang nodded.

Wang Hu grabbed the remaining three-meter-long rope and said, "Second brother, if it doesn't work, I can go down."

"No." Xu Ning refused decisively.

"Eh." Wang Hu didn't ask why, he just nodded and went to look for the cloth bag in front of the roe deer.

After Li Fuqiang came back with a six-meter-long sapling, he and Wang Hu tied a rope noose on the thin end of the sapling. The thick end was about as thick as a person's calf, so it was quite difficult to hold it.

"Brother, you will tie his legs later, and Huzi and I will hook him. The cotton-padded jacket he is wearing should be able to withstand the force."

"OK."

Then the three of them came to the edge of the ditch. Xu Ning and Wang Hu lowered the hook first to the man's shoulder, while Li Fuqiang stood on the side looking for his leg.

"Brother, you can't see his legs."

Xu Ning handed the hook rope to Wang Hu, bent down to pick up the two marlezi on the ground, and muttered: "Man, let the three of us give you a ride, don't embarrass the three of us, just listen to the noise and follow..."

Then Xu Ning lit the two marlezi and threw them towards the open space five or six meters away.

Bang bang!

Two explosions.

Xu Ning hurriedly took the hook rope from Wang Hu, and then hooked the man's armpit. Wang Hu also hooked his arm. The two of them pushed upward at the same time, and the man followed the force. Moved up two or three centimeters.

"It can be fixed! Pull hard...brother, you'll be trapped just by looking at it."

Wang Hu and Xu Ning held the rope with both hands and straddled both sides of the ditch with their feet, forming a big split. It was much easier to pull up.

When they pulled it up less than half a meter, Li Fuqiang saw the man's legs, but his left ankle had been twisted at the back joint. Li Fuqiang didn't care so much, and immediately grabbed the tree trunk with both hands and tied the thin end. The rope noose was hung on his leg. He slowly pulled it up and the rope noose was wrapped around his thigh.

"Brother, it's trapped, let's work together."

"Come on! One or two... pull! Pull!..."

The three people struggled for five or six minutes and finally pulled him out. Xu Ning and Wang Hu hurriedly grabbed his shoulders and dragged him up from the ditch.

He was lying in the snow whole, and Li Fuqiang stepped forward to unbutton the sleeve on his leg.

Xu Ning glanced at this man's face and found that his face was completely white with frost...

"Second brother, what should we do?" Wang Hu asked from the side.

Xu Ning said: "First look for any note in his pocket. If we can find it, we will send it back to his home. If we can't find it, we can only build a grave with stones."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Well, this man is quite pitiful. He may have suffered much punishment. If possible, send him back."

"Second brother, look at his left foot. His left foot is broken. If he hadn't been stuck in the middle and broken his foot, he should be able to climb out."

Xu Ning said: "No matter how sorry I am, I'm still alive. Let's quickly find out if there is any information on him."

"Eh."

Li Fuqiang muttered a few words to him, then reached out and rummaged through his pockets. He rummaged through the inner and outer pockets of his cotton-padded jacket but couldn't find any useful information.

There was nothing but an old stick-handled shotgun, twenty bullets, a pipe pot and pipe.

Wang Hu glanced at the bottom of the ditch and said, "Second brother, there is a cloth bag at the bottom of the ditch!"

"Come up."

Wang Hu tied the rope, lengthened the rope to twenty meters and put the hook at the bottom of the ditch. It took a long time to hook the cloth bag up.

Opening the cloth bag, there were corn flour pancakes and two pickle lunch boxes. In addition, there was a pair of handbags with four characters embroidered on them.

"Wanfa Coal Mine..."

Li Fuqiang frowned and said, "Brother, the Wanfa Coal Mine is far away from here. It must not be more than two hundred miles away."

"Maybe it's a family member."

Xu Ning took a look at the clothes this man was wearing. The coat was a cotton-padded jacket made by himself, with a small dark blue cotton-padded jacket wrapped inside. Xu Ning didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after hearing the words Wanfa Coal Mine, he suddenly remembered This dark blue jacket is a autumn work suit sent by Wanfa Coal Mine to workers!

Xu Ning wore it when he was working in the coal mine, but after so many years, his memory has become a little cloudy.

"They are indeed people or family members of Wanfa Coal Mine." Xu Ning confirmed.

Li Fuqiang said: "What should we do now? This man looks to be in his fifties, shall we send him to Wanfa Coal Mine?"

"Then we can't leave for two or three days?" Wang Hu said.

The road of more than two hundred miles must have taken two or three days. After all, they started from Baishilizi and headed towards Wanye. They still had to walk more than fifty miles before they could see anyone. Just being able to see people didn't mean that they would go out. After leaving the mountain, you still have to walk thirty or forty miles east to get out of the mountain.

Xu Ning glanced at his watch and said, "It's past three o'clock now. Let's drag him to the cave first. Then we will go east down the mountain early tomorrow morning and find a village to call Wanfa Coal Mine."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Brother, does this village in Lao Po Valley have a phone?"

"Yes, let's go east from Xiaobeigou. After passing Xiaoqinggou, we will reach Team 8 of Wanye Dairy Farm. The dairy farm must have a telephone."

"That!"

Then Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu went to cut branches to make sledges, while Xu Ning untied the rope and tied it to the roe deer's hind hooves again.

Xu Ning looked at the handbag with the four characters "Wanye Coal Mine" written on it, and remembered the good brother who shared the joys and sorrows with him in his previous life.

This brother's name is Guan Lei. Both his parents died one after another three to five years ago. Then he and his eldest sister and younger sister lived together for two or three years.

Last year, his eldest sister married the eldest son of the Wu family of the same village. Since then, the help of the old Wu family has gradually improved.

Originally, Xu Ning planned to find him again next year, because next year he would follow people from the same village to Qing'an Forest Farm to work as a tenant. By then, Xu Ning would have a reason to establish a relationship with him. Otherwise, go to him if he goes straight to him, it will definitely make Guan Lei murmur.

It should be grounded, Guan Lei is really good to Xu Ning. He really treats him as his brother, and he is very affectionate and pays attention to things. Sometimes he is too daring ...

When Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu made the sledge, they lifted the man onto the sledge, stuffed the pipe pot, pipe, and handbag into the cloth bag, and placed them beside him along with the shotgun.

Xu Ning pulled the sledge, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu pulled the two roe deer, and walked towards the Baishi Lizi Cave.

It wasn't until after four o'clock, when the sun was setting, that the three of them entered the cave.

However, the sledge was not dragged into the cave. It was not a taboo...but that people who died violently were not allowed to enter the land of the living, just like they were not allowed to enter the villages.

Xu Ning filled the dying fire with firewood, then roasted the roe deer meat, lunch boxes and fried cakes, and cooked two boxes of pickle soup.

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang cut branches outside the cave and piled them on the sledge to cover them. They also hung two pieces of roe deer meat on the nearby tree for fear that animals would come looking for food at night...

The three of them finished their evening meal and went to bed at around seven o'clock. They didn't feel scared. Everyone had to help with this kind of thing. Since it was to help, how could he bully his benefactor?

The next day, at about half past five, Xu Ning got up and took a look outside the cave. The two pieces of meat hanging on the tree were still there, and there were no fresh animal traces nearby, so he felt relieved.

After eating and drinking enough, the three of them carried six boxes of roe deer meat, two boxes of badger meat, as well as the remaining pickles and corn pancakes, and headed east on the sledge.

We arrived at the lower edge of Xiaobeigou at around nine o'clock. After climbing over the mountain to the east of Xiaobeigou, we arrived at the boundary of Wanye. It was all downhill, so it was quite easy to pull the sledge.

But until noon, after traveling for more than thirty miles, no village was seen.

The three of them cooked food on the spot, and finally arrived at Xiaoqinggou at around two o'clock in the afternoon. Standing on the hillside of Xiaoqinggou, they saw a village with only a dozen households at the foot of the mountain.

"This should be Dairy Team 8. You two will stay outside the farm for a while. I'll go into the farm and ask if I can make a phone call."

"Brother, let Huzi follow you into the village, and I'll just leave him outside."

Xu Ning nodded: "That's fine, you carry a gun."

"Eh."

Then the three of them walked down the mountain and headed straight towards the eighth dairy farm team.

"Brother, how did you know there was a dairy farm here?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "I saw a map of the forest area on the street. To the east of the dairy farm is the Dalang River, a tributary of the river."

"Oh shit, next time we go to the street, we can check out the entire map. With this thing, it will be convenient for us to go anywhere." Li Fuqiang said.

"Okay, but it's best to have a planning map of the forestry farm."

After chatting for a while, the three of them arrived at the entrance of the eighth dairy farm team.

Li Fuqiang took the shotgun from Wang Hu and stood not far from the village entrance and waved to the two of them.

After Xu Ning and Wang Hu walked into the village, they met two people on the street.

The two people frowned and asked what Xu Ning was doing. When they heard that Xu Ning was picking someone up in the mountains, and saw that he looked handsome and did not look like a bad guy, they led Xu Ning and Wang Hu to the factory office of the dairy farm. .

"You two are from Qing'an? Then why are you here?"

Xu Ning said: "Didn't we meet someone in the mountain? He wrote Wanfa Mining on his hand, and the three of us walked through the mountain."

"I see that you are not old, and you are quite a man in your work. Come on, go inside and get warm. There is no one else in the house. They have all gone to herd the cows." This man was in his forties and should be working in a dairy farm, but he had no ego. Introduce, just say your surname is Liu.

Xu Ning stuck the gun under the wall and followed Lao Liu into the office.

"Brother Liu, can I go to Wanfa Coal Mine first and make a call?"

Lao Liu nodded: "Okay, our phone lines at Wanfa are all connected. There are numbers on the wall. You can call them."

"Eh."

There were dense numbers written on the wall, but Wang Hu found them at a glance. After giving Xu Ning the number, he dialed the number.

It beeped twice and was connected.

Xu Ning briefly explained the situation to the other party, emphasizing that this man was found in the mountains of Gongyao Lingzi and had nothing to do with Wanfa Coal Mine. However, this man was wearing a handbag and a small cotton-padded jacket from Wanfa Coal Mine. It was very possible that He was a family member of a coal miner, and he wanted to ask the other party to help him find out more.

The other party was stunned when he heard this, "You met someone wearing our coal mine's cotton-padded jacket in the mountains? Wait... I think I've heard about this. I'll call you back later."

"it is good."

As soon as Xu Ning heard that the other party had heard about it, he felt that the rightful owner of this matter could be found.

He was having a drink with Lao Liu in the house, and soon the phone rang.

As soon as Xu Ning answered the phone, he heard a rapid voice coming from the phone.

"Hey, have you found my third master in the mountain? He is in his fifties and has a mole on his chin..."

Xu Ning said: "Yes, he is wearing a dark blue cotton-padded jacket, with a small coal-mining cotton-padded jacket underneath, and a coal-mining handbag..."

After finishing speaking, the other party remained silent for a while and said: "Brother, I... where is he now?"

"He fell into a ditch. After we pulled him up, we pulled him to the entrance of the village of Dairy Team 8."

"Is the person gone?" the other party asked knowingly.

"Yes, at least half a month."

"...Thank you, brother, for causing you trouble. I really don't know how to thank you. Then I will go back to the village from the coal mine. No...I will find someone to pick you up first. You must come with me!"

Hey, brother, I haven’t asked you what your name is yet. My name is Wu Haiquan, and I live in Wanye Village. The person you met is my third master, thank you..."

Xu Ning was stunned when he heard the other party's name, because the name was very familiar. He was a small leader in the inspection department when he worked at Wanye Coal Mine in his previous life.

At the same time, Wu Haiquan is also the cousin of his brother Guan Lei's eldest sister-in-law, that is, the elder brother of Guan Lei's brother-in-law.

"Ah, okay, how long do I have to wait?"

Wu Haiquan said: "It won't take long. I'll call the village first and ask them to drive over to pick you up. You'll be there in half an hour. Brother, you must come with me... No, brother, I don't know yet. What's your name?"

"My name is Xu Ning, and my home is Qing'an."

"Qing'an, okay! Let's talk later when we meet. I'll call the village now."

"it is good."

Putting down the phone, Xu Ning frowned and fell into thought.

He recalled chatting with Guan Lei and the Wu family in his previous life, but he could never remember that there was a third master in the old Wu family.

Guan Lei's brother-in-law Wu Hailong and Wu Haiquan who just talked on the phone are uncles and brothers, but Wu Hailong never mentioned the third master. He only told Xu Ning that there was a mountain runner named Yang San and Wu Hailong's uncle. That is to say, Wu Haiquan's father is a brother-in-law.

Yang San was a lonely man with no worries. He had to go hunting in the mountains almost every day, but unexpectedly he disappeared one winter and was never found.

(End of this chapter)