Mantra

Chapter 51

There are many rules for driving at night. Drivers should pay attention not to drive tiredly, and not to look around. The most important point is that if someone stops the car in the middle of the night, they must not stop.

It is not a feudal superstition to block cars at night, but a law of self-protection for drivers in many cases.

Certainly, vision is bad at night, and the situation is too complicated to judge. It is easy to be used by bad guys. Maybe the person who stops the car is a beautiful woman with long hair, but the person who gets on the car becomes a strong man with a sharp knife in his hand.

Therefore, try not to park at night. As the saying goes, it is easier to invite God than to give it away, which is the reason.

Also because I had such thoughts, when Zhao Hong's pickup suddenly stopped suddenly in the first night, I was really shocked.

In a hurry, I hurriedly asked Zhao Hong what happened, how could he park at night?
Zhao Hong didn't answer immediately, but pointed to the front of the road.His face also became pale.

I saw that his face was not right, and under a burst of curiosity, I hurriedly looked in the direction of his fingers, and quickly understood his concerns.

A few hundred meters away, on the not spacious country road, there were several police cars with flashing lights.

I rubbed my lazy eyes, comforted him half asleep and said, "Aren't there just a few policemen? It's not a female ghost. See, you're scared..."

"I know!" Zhao Hong pointed to his nose and said, "The key problem is that my buddy has been drinking! And don't you feel that the police are a little weird tonight?"

As soon as I heard what Zhao Hong said, I immediately remembered that we were drunk driving!But what's wrong with those police officers?I don't know anymore...

So, I said naturally: "What's wrong with the police? Is it abnormal to check for drunk driving at night?"

At this time, Hongye, who also saw everything clearly, said: "...Why can't you see it? An common sense, it is impossible for the police to appear on this road!"

"Huh? Why?" I asked puzzled.

Zhao Hong nodded in agreement, and said to me: "Your girlfriend is really smart... Because this is a rural road, you can't walk a few times in one night. The police set up road cards here, unless there is something wrong with the road ahead."

After hearing Zhao Hong's words, I fell silent again. I looked up at the road ahead, and suddenly realized that drinking and driving is not a big problem. The most important thing is the road ahead. What happened?

But after all, there is no way for us to wait like this. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, we have to go and see first.

After a little calculation, all of us made up our minds, first change to Xian Hongye, who is the only one in the car who hasn't been drinking, to drive, and then ask and talk.

And when Hongye drove the car over, we were stopped by the traffic police as expected.

To my surprise, after the traffic police stopped us, they didn't question us, didn't even look at the car book, and let us turn around and leave.

In surprise, we naturally didn't understand what was going on with this sudden situation.After detailed questioning, the traffic policeman simply told us the truth.

He said that the country road leading to Shirengu suffered a "landslide" due to the continuous rainfall in the past few days.The road ahead was crushed to death by the mountain, and a few people were buried. It will not be possible to repair it in a while.

This answer, unexpected and unlucky, made me feel like I was caught blind at the time.

I know that landslides are a common geological phenomenon, but in the north, the probability of this phenomenon happening is really rare, because there is very little rainfall in the north, and the mountains are mostly rocky mountains with stable structures, so they rarely happen The probability of this phenomenon is almost as low as winning the lottery.

But even with the same probability of winning the lottery, we did it?This has to be reminiscent of something.

Is it God who has trouble with us, or is there some kind of power in the dark to arrange all this?I have no idea.

After that, the traffic police didn't explain anything to us. Under his urging, we quickly turned the car around and drove back slowly while discussing the next route.

While walking slowly, I first asked Zhao Hong, who is a local, if there is any way to get around the road section of Benghuai, and if so, how to get there?
Zhao Hong replied, "There is still a rural road to the west, but if we go around it now, I'm afraid we won't be able to reach it tomorrow morning."

His words made my heart sink.

So, I continued to ask: "Is there no nearby journey? The old squad leader...I'm afraid I can't wait that long."

My words made Zhao Hong fall into silence.From his expression, I suddenly saw a kind of anxious emotion, which seemed to have some consideration.

"Is there any problem?" I was infected by his concern, so I asked with concern.

Zhang Hong's face of thinking quickly disappeared, and then he regained his composure, smiled at me, and said it was fine.

Afterwards, Zhao Hong suddenly reminded me: "I know a shortcut, but the road conditions are not very good. Let's drive forward, we will be there in a while."

"Is there a shortcut?" I was pleasantly surprised, but also worried for him: "Is it easy to go? Don't scratch your car."

Zhao Hong shook his head indifferently and said: "It's okay, that's an 'Old Qi Road', very flat, not next to the mountains, but it's been abandoned for a long time, let's just walk slowly."

While Zhao Hong was talking, I suddenly felt very curious, so I asked him what is an old Qilu, and why it was abandoned later.

Zhao Hong told me that before he was a soldier, he was also a mountain dweller in the Yimeng Mountains. Although he doesn't come back often now, he often walked the mountain roads when he was a child.

In his memory, Yimeng Mountain at that time did not have the road network extending in all directions now, but only the dirt roads winding in the mountain streams and the slightly wider "Old Qi Road" in the valleys.

Why call the flat road in the valley Lao Qi Road?In fact, this is also related to the special geographical location of Yimeng Mountain.

Because of its dangerous terrain and traffic congestion, Yimeng Mountain was the natural boundary between Qi and Lu in ancient times.

Historically, Qilu and Luzhou often attacked each other in this area, you come and go, sometimes attack and sometimes defend, leaving behind many related military facilities.

As for Old Qi Road, it is said that it is one of these numerous military facilities.

No one knows the exact history of the old Qi Dao. The older generation only passed it on by word of mouth. It was a battle road used to transport food, grass and soldiers when the Qi and Lu countries fought each other. Very serious, many sections can still go, and are used to this day.

According to Zhao Hong's recollection, when he was in junior high school, he passed the old Qi Road near Shirengu several times. He still remembered that the road was still very wide even though it was compacted with earth.There are more than a dozen on the side of the road

"Stone Man" as a "landmark".

When I heard this, I couldn't help but interjected: "There are stone men on the side of the road! This is very interesting."

Zhao Hong nodded and replied, "Actually, it's just a few big stones that people attached to them. The stones are so weathered that it's hard to tell whether they're artificial or natural. I just heard from the old people that those stone figures are..."

When Zhao Hong said this, he paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about what to say and what not to say, and then continued: "...it is the Taishan Stone that ran down from the stone mangu. It was set by the gods on the side of the road. , used to suppress evildoers..."

"Oh!" Hearing this, all of us nodded, and couldn't help urging Hongye to speed up the drive.It seems that everyone is looking forward to seeing those stone men standing on the side of the road early, and by the way, sticking to the fairy spirit.

During the journey, Zhao Hong told us that there are not many old Qi roads anymore, and most of them have been replaced by cement roads and expressways. After passing through the section of Shirengu, it has not been repaired for some reason, and it has gradually been abandoned until now. ...

While speaking, Zhao Hong suddenly pointed to the side of the road and said, "Look! Isn't that what it is?"

We followed his instructions and suddenly looked up, and sure enough, we found a very secret and cluttered fork in the edge of the country road.

At the beginning of the forked road, I also saw the "stone man" that Zhao Hong and I had mentioned.

In fact, it was just a small stone half the size of a human being, hidden among the weeds, it looked like a figure crawling and crouching in the grass.Under the rising moonlight, looking at it from a distance, it still looks a bit like a human being, but if you take a closer look, it will lose all artistic conception.All that could be seen was a stone as white as a dry bone.

After turning the car around, Xian Hongye gave up the driver's seat, and we were led by Zhao Hong again, and we drove into the old Qi Road, which was almost completely forgotten, which was made of mud.

When I was about to enter, I took one last look at the white lying stone man, but suddenly found a wild cat slowly walking past the stone man. It stared at us curiously with a pair of eyes. Cautious Blu-ray.

I don't know why, but those eyes reminded me of Wang Hou's collision with Yin Banquet, and I felt that those cat's eyes were so similar to the eyes I saw in the mirror.

"I hope there will be no more accidents." I sincerely hoped.

Afterwards, Zhao Hong started the car, and we quickly entered the road that had been hidden for many years.The wild cat was quickly left behind by us.

...At first, we were fine.

The car drove very smoothly, and the road was much easier than I imagined.After passing through the thorns and grass at the beginning, the road immediately became wider, which made me feel like I was running on a two-way four-lane road.

However, in order to be cautious, we are still advancing at a relatively slow speed.

And decided, we are not taking a regular journey, if we really run happily, if we encounter some situations, we will not react well.

Perhaps because of the good road conditions, each of us in the car felt a little sleepy.

All of a sudden, the exhaustion and alcohol of the day surged to the top of his head, causing the whole car to feel drowsy and breathless.

In the chaos, I even had a dream. I dreamed that I arrived at the home of the old squad leader, and the old squad leader was standing in front of his porch, with a smiling face and a kitchen knife in his hand, welcoming us.

I saw the old squad leader, and I was very happy at the time. While hugging each other, I pointed to the kitchen knife in the old squad leader’s hand and asked him why he saw me wanting to take such a thing. chicken.

The old squad leader smiled even more happily at that time. He held the kitchen knife in his hand and said it was a meeting gift for me, it was a family heirloom of their family, and he asked me to accept it.

When I heard this, I was stunned at that time, I can't ask for it if I specify it!I can't bear Lei Ren's kind of treasure that can be admired by old things that are about to fall into the soil, and it is the honor of the old squad leader's family for generations.

But in the dream, when the old squad leader heard that I didn't want it, he quit.

He smiled and said that if I don't want it, I have to, otherwise, he will kill me with a kitchen knife.

After that, the old squad leader really took a kitchen knife and slashed at me, no matter how much I yelled, the old squad leader also resolutely chopped on my head!

Immediately afterwards, I was awakened by the inertia of Zhao Hong's brakes!I hit my head on the front seat, and it hurt like hell in an instant, and it was the same as the part where the old squad leader cut me in the dream.

In the pain, I comforted my injured forehead and complained at the same time: "Old Zhao! Why are you in such a hurry to brake? Is there a ghost in front?"

Zhao Hong looked pale and horrified. He looked back at me, then slowly stretched out his hand, pointed to the road ahead and said, "If it's a ghost, I won't stop the car... You can see if there is someone in front... Banquet, how about dinner?"

"What?" I was dumbfounded.

In this wilderness, in the middle of the night, how could someone throw a banquet for dinner?
(End of this chapter)