The pleasant scenery on the mountain road quickly dispelled the haze in our hearts, and I also restrained myself from thinking about the tattoo. I vomited so hard that it wasn't long before we walked, our stomachs started to quarrel. Fortunately, the dry food in the bag was very sufficient, and I could eat it by taking it out.

"Others bring compressed biscuits when traveling and adventures, but you actually bring compressed beef jerky and super concentrated chocolate bars, which are moist enough." I joked while chewing the beef jerky.

"The times are developing, and the equipment and food for outdoor adventures are improving. I am keeping up with the pace of the times. You can eat as long as you have to eat. Don't be good at it when you have to be cheap." Lao Tan scolded me instead.

Such a chat made us feel much easier. In addition to the fruit trees that we could not pick up along the way. After walking for more than an hour, our stomachs began to feel a little overwhelmed. There was no way, and the two of us could only stop and rest for a while. This was also my lack of experience in the wild, but fortunately there was no big problem. Along the way, I was paying attention to the location of the cave I visited when I was a child, but later on, my fatigue made me completely forget this.

Before, according to my childhood experience, I thought we should have arrived in the village in more than three hours. But Lao Tan and I had been riding a car for nearly ten hours after all, and now we have been climbing up for 10 hours, and now we are desperate and have lost our energy. Fortunately, it is dark late in summer, and although it takes nearly five hours to walk and stop, I still saw the yellow horn tree at the entrance of the village that I have lived for many years at dusk.

"It's finally here." I stood up with a wooden stick in my hand and looked at the towering tree. My heart felt a lot of feelings.

"Damn." Old Tan sat on a big rock beside the road, "Brother, I now... now know why you won the school's five thousand-meter track and field championship. Oh, my grandma, I, Tan Wei, probably haven't walked such a long way in the past twenty years."

"Okay, let's go into the village quickly. My father might be waiting." I pulled Lao Tan up and felt extremely relaxed.

The houses in the village are all wooden houses built on the hillside, hidden high and low in the woods. The terraces that have been abandoned are still the same as they were back then. Compared with my memory, there seems to be no change here, but after getting closer, I feel a kind of desolation.

The boatman was right, there should be no one here. Under the gradually gloomy sky and the lingering damp heat, a ghostly silence gradually enveloped us.

"Yuan Jie, you, your hometown is quiet enough. Damn, why do I get goosebumps?" Lao Tan muttered at the dilapidated house in front of him.

Let alone him, my hometown is also filled with fear at this moment. I used to think back to the quietness of the mountains and felt very comfortable, but now when I come back, I feel that there is nothing left in the village except desolation. Although I don’t admit it, I am actually like Lao Tan. Looking at the swaying woods and listening to the "squeaking" sound of the wooden door when it is blown by the wind, my heartbeat is faster.

After walking through several rooms, the scenes we saw were almost the same. The old house in front of me was right in front of me, but I suddenly thought of an unsettling but very realistic question in my heart: How should I spend tonight if my father hasn't come back yet?

Just as I finished thinking about it, I slapped myself, "Damn, what are you thinking about? Are you still afraid of my own family?"

Lao Tan must have heard my muttering, so he walked up angrily and pointed to the open wooden door of my old house. "I think it's like that. Your father probably hasn't arrived yet. Have you seen that, your door frame is almost falling off. Let's live there tonight?"

"Nonsense, I have no objection to you want to sleep at the entrance of the village. Even if my father didn't catch up, don't we have a tent? Just so, get used to it in advance." After saying that, I stopped talking nonsense and walked towards the old house with big strides.

After entering the lobby of the house, Lao Tan and I relaxed a little. The house was cleaned up very clean. It seemed that the person my father invited to leave had specially cleaned it up before leaving. Although there were no electrical furniture in the house, the tables, chairs, benches, and beds were quite clean, and the quilts should have been bought not long ago. The best thing is that there were mosquito repellent, candles and lighters in the cabinet beside the bed.

After looking around the room, I patted Lao Tan’s chest proudly, “How is it? My family is good.”

When Lao Tan saw that the environment here was really good, he laughed and replied: "That's right, Brother Yuan, your family must be a rich man in this mountain."

"You are mocking me, right?"

"Haha, hey, I'm serious. I see that there is a lot of firewood behind the house. Now it's dark, so just candles are not enough. The yard in front is quite big, so let's set up a bonfire and roast some wild game to make it feel good."

I just laughed after hearing this, "There is no problem with the bonfire. It's dark now. Do you dare to go to the mountains to find wild game? Let me tell you first, there are tigers on this mountain."

Unexpectedly, Lao Tan smiled thief and took out two bags of sealed meat chops from his bag. "I'm ready."

I was both angry and funny, "Damn, I said, why did your bag heavier than mine? It turned out that I had made so many tricks."

"This is the first time I have entered such a deep mountain. How can I enjoy it?"

I thought it was right, so the two of them started to carry the firewood behind the house into the yard. Soon, a bunch of bonfires were ready. Although the conditions in the mountains were not good, the sweet spring was easy to get. Set up the meat steak and sprinkle some salt. The aroma of meat was combined with the clean air in the mountains. The feeling was really impossible to express in words.

In terms of enjoyment, this guy Lao Tan is probably on the rankings. After he cleaned up his bag, I found that half of it was eaten and beer. But at this time I was too lazy to scold him, thinking that if I still wanted to continue traveling in the future, I would definitely have to go to Dazhou to repurchase equipment for him.

At almost ten o'clock in the evening, we sat by the campfire, drinking beer, eating barbecue, and smoking. For a moment, all the fatigue of the journey disappeared. We first blew the sea from all over the world, then talked about things in college, and then talked about women, which was a lot of fun.

After almost having fun, the two of them started to stare at the quiet night in the mountains and the spotless starry sky. I thought of my father and the people who were at the Yanjing Hotel last time, and I began to feel a little worried. Before the last time, although he did not make an appointment with me, according to his style, as long as there is no accident, he would definitely arrive at home before me. Now that I don’t see others, will there be something wrong?

Thinking of this, I felt helpless. Even if there was a problem with my father, what could I do? I didn’t even know where he was. The only thing I could do was wait. I secretly thought about the clues around my father over the years, "What would he do? The underworld? Unlike, his mother now has to pretend to be an old man even if she has no money. How could she be as shabby as my father? Smuggling and drug trafficking? This is not impossible, but I see that my father usually takes me around in Yanjing without any hesitation. He rented a broken Santana, copied a ticket for the police, and was not guilty when he got his ID card. Could he be a pimp? Even a spy... wait."

I suddenly remembered something. That time, when his guy wanted to give me a box with a red-bottomed black-printed box, for some reason, I suddenly linked the box to the sage Qin on the back of the baby girl I saw today. The appearance of the two actually made me feel that the feeling that the two things gave me was very similar, but I still couldn't say what it was. My father was so nervous at that time, would the things he did have to do with the box?

I thought about it one by one, and suddenly I felt something. When I turned my head, I saw that Lao Tan had disappeared at some point.

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Chapter completed!