Early in the morning, Lin Tian followed Hong Gang and set out to find the craftsman.

They took a bus and then changed to a minibus.

When the minibus was driving on the winding mountain road, Lin Tian felt that his heart was in his throat.

The car was only half full, and the driver was chewing betel nuts and spitting red saliva out the window from time to time.

He finished the betel nuts and smoked again, reaching out the car window to flick the cigarette ashes, looking like he was sleep deprived.

Watching the driver press the accelerator hard, the car was going very fast, and the wheels were rubbing against the edge of the cliff. Lin Tian was frightened several times, thinking that the car was going to fall into the cliff.

The people in the car talked and laughed as they should. The car was noisy, as if they were in a vegetable market. The people here were accustomed to the driver's fatal driving skills.

Lin Tian was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He felt that he was not that scared when facing a powerful enemy. He felt like his life was hanging by a thread.

The minibus took them to a small town, where they bought a few steamed buns for breakfast.

However, the buns had a rancid smell, as if they had been sold for a few days.

Lin Tian frowned and ate it, beginning to miss the fresh buns made by his mother.

Hong Gang took him to the edge of the town, where there were endless mountains as far as the eye could see.

He pointed to the vast mountains and said to Lintian: "The place we want to go is inside these mountains.

This kind of place can only be reached by walking, not by car.

We still have to climb some cliffs, and we won’t be able to get there in half a day.”

"Is it so remote?"

Lin Tian couldn't help but think of the cliff village that he had heard of before. People inside had to climb the cliff to come out to the outside world.

It seems that there are still many such villages.

Why do craftsmen live deep in the mountains?

Maybe the worldly experts like to live in seclusion in the mountains and rivers far away from the hustle and bustle of the world. It is best to live in a place where no one can find them, so as to avoid a lot of troubles.

Lin Tian followed Hong Gang to climb mountains and walk on mountain roads, which was an eye-opener.

The terrain of the entire Nanxing City is basically plain, with no high mountains.

The hill behind his house is already quite high.

While climbing several big mountains here, he realized what a mountain is, and the mountains behind him could only be regarded as slopes.

He saw a lot of herbs on the mountain. Since Hong Gang was nearby, it was difficult to store them in the bead space.

When they climbed to the top of a mountain, Lin Tian heard Hong Gang stop, point to a point below, and speak to him.

"Climb one more hill and we'll be there."

Lin Tian raised his eyes and looked over the hill. He could vaguely see some houses located in the mountains and forests, not many in number.

He asked in surprise: "Is this a village?"

"Yes, that craftsman lives in that village."

Lin Tian thought he was a master living alone in a small wooden house in the smoky mountains, but he ended up living in a village with no traffic.

After climbing over the hill, they came to a mountain path, with the village below.

When walking in the village, all I see are old houses. The village is quiet. Occasionally, I will see one or two old people sitting in front of the house in a daze.

Most of the people in the village were elderly people, some with good eyesight. When they saw the arrival of the two strangers from Lin Tian, ​​they gathered around them curiously, looking at them as if they were looking at aliens.

Finally, an old man couldn't help but stepped forward and asked them where they came from and who they were looking for.

The dialect here is obscure and difficult to understand, and it took Lin Tian a long time to understand what he was talking about.

Hong Gang understood it immediately.

"Let's look for Jiang Mazi."

When he heard the name, the old man shook his head and left as if he was afraid of being infected by the plague.

The other villagers who gathered around looked at Lin Tian and the two of them with strange eyes and dispersed in a hurry.

Seeing the strange reactions of the villagers, Lin Tian became more and more curious about what kind of person this expert was.

Hong Gang, who rarely spoke along the way, said to Lin Tian: "You have to be mentally prepared, Jiang Mazi is quite weird.

If you accidentally make him angry, he won't do anything for you for a minute."

Lin Tian remembered it in his heart.

The reason why masters are called masters is that they have a bit of a bullish temper, because they have real materials, ability and arrogance.

No one showed them the way, but luckily Hong Gang knew the way and took Lin Tian to the most remote location in the village.

In a large place at the foot of the mountain, there is a yellow mud house, standing alone among the barren mountains and ridges, looking inexplicably sad.

This yellow mud house is even more dilapidated than Lin Tian's old house before it was renovated.

Lin Tian saw a lot of grass growing on the wooden door. He said dubiously: "Hong Gang, are you sure the craftsman lives here? It feels like no one lives in this house."

"yes."

Hong Gang raised his head and looked at the sky. It was still afternoon and it was not dark yet.

Lin Tian had been walking for so long and wanted to find a place to sit.

"What are you waiting for now? Let's knock on the door and go in."

Hong Gang looked at the time on his phone and said, "No rush, we'll wait at the door for three hours. When the time is up, we'll knock on the door and go in."

Seeing Lin Tian still looking confused, he explained a few more words.

"Jiang Mazi, his craftsmanship is first-class, but he's a little weird.

You can't disturb him outside the scheduled time, otherwise he will turn his back on you and refuse to recognize you.

I heard that he sleeps during the day and works at night, so knocking on the door now is disturbing his sleep."

Lin Tian shrugged.

“Quite a personality.”

It was hard for him to say anything. Originally, he only asked people to do things and acted according to other people's rules. He still had this awareness.

The two of us found a relatively clean place at the door, sat there and waited.

Hong Gang meditated quietly and had no intention of talking to Lin Tian.

Lin Tian looked at the surrounding scenery for a while and felt bored.

It was impossible for him to enter the bead space to practice at this time, so he could only check his cell phone next to him.

The mobile phone signal in the mountains is extremely poor, and there is only a little network occasionally.

Lin Tian could only read the novels he had downloaded on his mobile phone to kill some time.

He figured out why Jiang Mazi was so difficult to date.

The network signal here is so poor that you may have to climb to the top of the mountain to make a phone call.

Maybe due to communication reasons, I couldn't find anyone, so I could only leave a message to Jiang Mazi, and wait for Jiang Mazi to see the text message before responding, which took a lot of time to come and go.

Lin Tian spent three hours bored, during which the two of them ate some bread and biscuits to fill their bellies.

It's getting dark.

Hong Gang suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the time on his phone, and said to Lin Tian: "The time is up, let's go in."

Lin Tian followed Hong Gang's lead and followed him.

Jiang Mazi has a bad temper, and he might mess things up if he acts haphazardly.

Hong Gang knocked on the door three times. When he knocked on the door, the mud on the wooden door fell straight down.

No one answered the door for a long time. Hong Gang knocked three times again, but still no one opened the door.

Lin Tian resisted the urge to ask questions and waited patiently.

Finally, after Hong Gang knocked on the door for the ninth time, just when Lin Tian thought there was no one inside, the door creaked open from the inside.
Chapter completed!