Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 272
Seeing that Lao Yan had arranged everything, Liu Hanqiu had nothing to say, so he buried his head and continued walking. A group of eleven people walked out of a path in the forest full of shrubs.

Now I feel something is wrong. Since there are forest guards, there must be a way into the mountain. Why do we have to go through the thorns here?
"Old Yan, have you forgotten that there is a way into the mountain?" I really couldn't hold back, I stepped forward and asked in a low voice.

Lao Yan glanced at me, and said hey: "It's not that I forgot, but we can't go that way."

I frowned slightly, not understanding what we couldn't do on the ordinary road.Lao Yan explained that because it is an exclusive road for forest guards, it is not open to the outside world. Even if we have a special status, it is not easy to open it to us, so that if there is a problem in the forest, they will not be able to hold them accountable.

To be honest, I think this explanation is very forced. Although I don't know how the specific work of the forest rangers is carried out, this is the first time I have heard that the road up the mountain for the forest rangers will be exclusive, but I won't say anything if Lao Yan doesn't say it Ask.

Although it was not evening yet, the forest was completely dark. We took out our flashlights and walked in the forest with difficulty.Just when we were about to collapse, a warm light came through from not far away - a row of log cabins in the forest farm appeared in front of us.

An old man in his fifties approached with his hands folded in the sleeves of his military overcoat: "Is it the leader from the city? Come on, it's freezing cold, come in and drink some hot tea."

It seems that what Lao Yan said was right, the forest guards did not doubt our identities at all, and welcomed us into the largest wooden house in the forest farm. First, they poured a large cup of hot tea for each of us, and then set up dinner.

Dinner is very simple, just a large plate of fried rice with chili sauce, and a large plate of unidentifiable poultry meat.

"Isn't this waiting for us?" Lao Yan drank his saliva, exhaled white air, and said a little embarrassedly.

The forest guard's surname is Sheng. Under Lao Yan's questioning, he rubbed his hands a little cautiously: "There are only so few things in the forest, leaders, don't look down on them."

"Big Brother, don't say that, we've been hungry all this way, with our chests sticking to our backs, wishing for something warm to eat, this is just right for you, come, come, everyone will eat." Lao Yan first gave four The girl filled a bowl and greeted us.

Then he looked at Lao Sheng again: "Big brother, don't call us the leader, we are just herbalists, just like you."

"How can this be the same?" Lao Sheng was still a little cautious. It was only after Lao Yan's repeated explanations that he believed that we were not leaders, but he still couldn't let it go. The meat of the chopsticks found a corner and squatted and pulled it, obviously starving.

Lao Yan wanted to ask something, but his stomach didn't allow it, so he had to fill his stomach in a hurry, and then he looked at Lao Sheng who had also finished his meal: "I said, big brother, isn't there a dozen people in this forest ranger team? What's the matter?" Didn't see them."

"Oh, isn't it the Chinese New Year? Every year around the New Year's Eve, there are only a few people left in the woods. This year it's my turn. They just left today. After leaving, they received the notice that you are coming. This..." Lao Sheng thought that Lao Yan wanted to hold those people accountable for leaving their posts without authorization, so he hurriedly explained.

Lao Yan waved his hand: "I'm just curious, big brother, don't be nervous."

Lao Sheng smiled stiffly and didn't speak, but his expression relaxed obviously, and he guessed that if Lao Yan really pursued him, he didn't know how to deal with it.But he was wrong, as an old smoker, he didn't bother to pursue this matter, and besides, it's normal for others to want to go back for family reunion after Chinese New Year.

"Big brother, let me ask you something." Lao Yan said.

Lao Sheng nodded hurriedly: "You ask."

"Apart from us, have other people entered the forest recently?" Lao Yan pondered for a long time and choked out such a question.

Lao Sheng paused for a moment, obviously he was a little surprised by Lao Yan's question, but I knew something was going on when I saw his expression, so I hurriedly asked, "Is it true that someone else came in?"

"Actually, I don't know if I'm a servant." Lao Sheng hesitated, as if he didn't want to say much.

Lao Yan smiled and said: "You just talk about it, I just listen to it, and I won't talk about it."

Although there must be no one outside the door, Lao Sheng still looked out the door vigilantly for a while, then closed the door and window, and then said: "Let me tell you, it may not be a person."

We pricked up our ears in an instant, and Lao Yan rubbed his hands excitedly: "Big brother, tell me quickly, we people like to hear such weird things the most!"

"Aren't you guys engaged in scientific research, and you also believe this?" Lao Sheng was a little strange, but he was fooled by Lao Yan's few words. The latter took out a cigarette and lit it for Lao Sheng. He told everything he saw.

Lao Sheng took a puff of cigarette like a gentleman, and then smiled a little embarrassedly: "It is a rule that forest guards are not allowed to smoke, so I haven't seen cigarettes for a long time, so I just come to have one or two occasionally. Today is a crowded place. , nothing will happen."

"Understood, this winter, the nights are so long, it's normal to smoke a cigarette once in a while." Old Yan snorted, and urged him to tell what he heard quickly.

Lao Sheng vomited a smoke ring, his eyes were a little confused, and he was also a little scared: "Actually, it was only two days ago, when everyone else was asleep, and because I drank a few bowls of water at night, I was woken up by urinating. I really can't help it." I just got up from the bed and wanted to run outside to solve it."

"I just finished solving it and was about to go back to sleep when I heard a noise outside. I thought it was someone stealing firewood." Lao Sheng rubbed his face: "So I took a wooden stick and groped towards the place where there was movement. , but when I got there, I didn’t see anything.”

"Didn't see it?" Lao Yan repeated.

Lao Sheng hummed: "The sound was right next to my ears, but I couldn't see anything. I thought I saw a ghost, so I didn't dare to look any further. I ran back with my head in my arms."

"It's not a big deal, why don't you dare to talk about it?" Lao Yan nodded first, and then asked a little strangely.

Lao Sheng was a little hesitant, and he didn't explain why after talking for a long time. We immediately understood that there was something tricky about it, so we hurriedly asked a few words.

"Well, can you give me another cigarette?" After dawdling for a while, Lao Sheng asked cautiously.

Lao Yan handed the remaining half pack of cigarettes to Lao Sheng, and he smoked two cigarettes after taking it, as if he had finally made up his mind: "I told you, can you really not tell others?"

(End of this chapter)