Chapter 139: Going Down the Ditch
After a few days, Dunzi and I kept searching for a while and almost tried to go down to the toad ditch to inquire, but Uncle Zhang couldn't find any suitable opportunity for us. Until one day, the village asked the village cadres to go to the township for a meeting, and it took at least one week to leave. When Uncle Zhang left, he repeatedly told us not to go around the toad ditch behind the village. We agreed, but we were so happy that we couldn't do it anymore.
After Uncle Zhang left, Dunzi and I made up our big plan, but unfortunately, during my discussion, Pigeon accidentally heard it. Pigeon clamored to tell Uncle Zhang that I and Dunzi were coaxing and cheating to make excuses for Pigeon. How could I say that the little girls in the countryside are easy to cheat? Dunzi promised that as long as Pigeon didn't tell Uncle Zhang, we bought him a few feet of canvas for him to make clothes in the city.
Next, with the help of pigeons, we found some simple equipment. Uncle Zhang's hunting rifle was stuffed into the sack by me and Dunzi. We stuffed all of them into the sack with hemp ropes, short shovels, candles, and axes that chop firewood into the sack. Before leaving, we stole a public flashlight from the village committee.
The pigeon also brought Dahuang, the watchdog of the third aunt next door, to us. Dunzi looked at Dahuang who was sticking out his tongue and shook his head and joked, "Girl, what's this thing for us? Is this obviously a native dog? What can I do when I stand up and take it with me?"
The pigeon pouted and said, "Brother Dunzi, don't underestimate Dahuang, it's very capable. A few years ago, several hungry wolves ran into the village. Dahuang rushed out and drove all the hungry wolves out of the village alone, and they also bit two big wolves to death."
"Dunzi, don't talk nonsense. If you ask me to take you, I will bring you with me. Dogs are useless if we can't stop them." I said to Dunzi.
In this way, we two added a dog, took the corn flour steamed buns prepared by the pigeons and a bag of equipment to the back of the village. It was noon when we set out. On the ground that had just entered spring, we could see the tender green plants and tender leaves on the branches slowly exposed our small faces. It was difficult to walk downhill roads, and dry plants were everywhere, and we could easily trip over if we were not careful.
At first we were humming small songs, with a mentality of traveling around the mountains and rivers. There were birds and rabbits accompanying us along the way, and there were no accidents at all. So we walked all the way to the depths of the toad ditch.
Looking back, I realized that this toad ditch was so deep. There was such a Feng Shui treasure land hidden in the canyons of the two mountains. The more I walked forward, the more I felt something was wrong with the surrounding environment.
"Dunzi, don't you notice that the trees around you seem to be getting less and less?" The surrounding trees are obviously far behind the dense plants in front.
Dunzi was only concerned about walking forward and completely ignored the changes around him. After I said this, he realized. "Yes, I haven't noticed it yet. What's going on? The trees here seem to be much less."
The trees and plants in front of me were significantly larger from one another. Looking at this strange appearance, I wondered whether it would be related to sunshine. There is a mountain on the east and west sides of the Toad Gully, which just blocked the sunlight at the bottom of the ditch. Only noon sunlight can shine here. Perhaps the sparse plants here have a certain relationship with sunshine.
"Wool! Wool!" Dahuang's sudden scream interrupted my thoughts. There was nothing unusual about it after a lot of things around him, but why did the good-looking Dahuang bark?
"Dunzi, you see something wrong with Dahuang. There should be no problem in front of it." I pulled the rope tied to Dahuang and walked forward, but Dahuang was competing with me and didn't move forward no matter what.
"No, you see, there is nothing around you, you're suspicious." Dunzi replied with a lot of movement around him.
"It doesn't necessarily mean that there is no danger if you don't see it. Some things cannot be hidden from the dog's sense of smell. We should be careful." I reminded Dunzi.
Next, the rhubarb seemed incomprehensible. She lowered her head and kept sniffing on the ground. We followed the rhubarb and continued to walk forward slowly until a pile of dry leaves. Rahubarb stopped and raised her head to look at us. "Wool!" she barked a few times, and her front paws began to throw them in the pile of leaves.
"Look at what Dunzi is?" As the yellow claws threw away the leaves, a piece of white seeping like bones appeared in front of us. When we picked it up, we were so scared that I threw the bone in my hand a few meters away. It turned out that under the leaves was a human thigh bone. Dunzi and I peeled all the leaves on the ground in front of us with sticks, and the leaves were covered with white seeping bones.
"Come here! There is still here." Dunzi peeled off the leaves not far away with a stick and shouted at me.
Next, we found dozens of human skeletons less than ten square meters. I began to wonder if this was the place where the hunting team was killed by Uncle Zhang. Since they were all killed here, there must be something unusual here. I reminded Dunzi, "There are so many corpses here, so there must be some danger. Don't be careless."
Dunzi took the sack on his back, took out the hunting rifle and held it in his hand. I also held the axe for splits in my hand, and we carefully looked forward to the explorer.
Because I was holding rhubarb in my hand, I smelled rhubarb from time to time and walked slowly, and the speed of walking was obviously slower. Dunzi just walked forward, and within a short while we both pulled a short distance away.
Just as I was struggling to pull the uncooperative Dahuang and walked forward, suddenly a scream from Dunzi came from the front. When I looked forward, Dunzi was gone.
Suddenly, I felt frigid and rhubarb started barking wildly. I thought something must have happened. With so many seeping bones seen before, I always had an ominous premonition.
I pulled Dahuang and ran forward. Because I was extremely anxious, I couldn't worry about my feet at all. I just bury my head and ran forward. Suddenly, I missed the air and pulled Dahuang and fell into a hole like a shaft.
"Ah!" When I landed, I felt soft under my body and did not hurt me. I was just wondering what was going on with the shouting just now. Suddenly, there was a squirming under my butt. I was so scared that I jumped up. Then Dunzi's swearing came, "Zhao Xiaoqiang, your uncle, you want to crush me to death."
I looked down and saw Dunzi crawling on the ground. Dahuang was licking his face, looking quite funny, "Fuck! I heard that something happened to you, and I was so anxious that I lost my pulse under my feet and I was just running wildly. Who knew you were under the pit?" I said to Dunzi.
Chapter completed!