Chapter 69: Pick up a leak
and rumble -
thunder rumbles, shaking the earth and the earth.
The sky was dark, and it was clearly just after noon but it felt like evening. There was faint thunder above the black clouds, but there was only thunder but no rain.
The dark clouds are overwhelming, making people feel breathless. People working in the fields have already finished their work and gone home. Even most people in the workplace have turned off their mobile phones.
Lele's father was sitting in the workshop sorting Xiangru, looking out the window from time to time, his heart was tangled up, Lele ran into the mountains again this morning, and he didn't know where he was at this time.
His daughter brought back the news of her acceptance letter and bonus yesterday. The father and daughter had a good night together, and early this morning, his daughter set out for the second trip to Shennong Mountain.
To be honest, Le's father naturally didn't want to agree, but he was a womanizer. He couldn't stand the threat of his girl running away if she didn't agree, so he sent her off in the morning as he had repeatedly warned.
Thinking of his children running around the mountains in such a sky, Le's father was worried to death. It's not safe for people to be in the forest during thunderstorms.
Classmate Le, who was worried about her father, was already in a small village in the northwest corner of Shennong. This time, she took the same road she took home last time, from Jiudao to the Shennong Mountain Bancang Line, before entering the deep mountains and old forests. On the way, I passed a village that had been relocated in the mountains. I couldn't hold back my curiosity and ran to pick it up.
As soon as she arrived near the small village, dark clouds appeared in the originally sunny sky, and then they became more and more intense. When she walked around two houses in the village, the sky turned dark, with faint signs of rain.
The small village is a natural village, located on a slope at the foot of a mountain. There is a terraced field on the slope, and seven or eight families live sparsely. Because of education issues, Shennong District has been vigorously committed to relocation in recent years, mobilizing remote Families in the mountains moved to villages and towns with more concentrated settlements, and many small villages in the mountains were relocated one after another, and their fields were returned to farmland and forests.
The small village was probably moved a year or two ago, and the newly planted trees in the fields are still very short. Moreover, the villagers will come back occasionally to cultivate the saplings in the fields. The roads are not barren and the houses are not in ruins.
Le Yun came to the village purely because of Li Daniu's influence. When a village is relocated, there are usually some things that cannot be moved and left behind, and some are simply thrown away. Li Daniu collects old and second-hand goods all the year round, and several times he found some valuable items in the ruins of other people's relocations. Valuable old stuff.
There is no need to spend money on picking up old things. If you find something without an owner, it is your own windfall.
Subconsciously, classmate Le was also interested in scrapyards and villages. Passing by a small village, he took a detour to take a look and see if he could find anything missing.
Looking up, there were faint flashes of silver in the dark clouds. Le Yun sighed and quickly ran to the third village. Under this situation, if it rained and she was afraid of thunder and lightning, she couldn't run in the mountains. It was better to walk around the village. If the rain keeps falling, she can still find a house to light a fire and cook food at night.
The villagers only moved away the more precious household items. After all, the mountain roads were not easy to walk, and moving was not easy. It was expensive to hire horses, donkeys, and camels. All the unused items were left in the old houses. Many doors were not locked and were only tied up with ropes. People walking in the mountains can go in to rest or stay overnight.
Most of the small mountain villages are wooden houses. Some people still retain the old style of pig, cattle and sheep pens built with stones and soil. Almost every household has firewood.
The sky is covered with dark clouds, and the uninhabited village in the wilderness is like a scene from a ghost movie. If it were a timid person, he would probably be scared out of his wits. Le classmate is not afraid, she has walked at night since she was very young. , and even got into the graves. In her grandfather's words, she was the one who had the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard.
Before she could reach the third house, the sky became darker, and dark clouds seemed to be pressing down on the roof. Le Yun was observing while running, and vaguely saw colorful lights flashing before her eyes. She ran to the eaves of the villagers in one breath. , there was a "boom" in the sky, and a heavy downpour poured down in an instant.
There is a piece of ground in front of the village. The mountain stream water collected from the mountains is placed on a corner of the ground with a wooden support. The water flows out from a finger-thick water pipe and falls into the pool, and then is discharged through the water outlet.
There is grass growing all around the ground. The owner of the household probably came back recently and cleared away the weeds and piled them in a pile. The surroundings of the house are quite neat, and there are several bundles of firewood stacked under the eaves.
Le Yun stood under the eaves, and the heavy raindrops hit the dirt floor, causing yellow mud to splash. Some of it splashed onto her trouser legs, which soon wetted her trousers.
She didn't care and stared at the edge of the pool. She ran closer to the wooden house and saw many colors in front of her eyes. After looking for it for a long time, she found it by the pool - a clothes-beating stick.
The clothes-beating stick was a laundry tool commonly used by people a long time ago. In the past, clothes were made of coarse cloth and needed to be beaten vigorously to be washed clean. In rural areas more than a hundred years ago, every household must have a clothes-beating stick.
A clothes hammering stone is placed next to the pool built by the villagers to facilitate laundry and storage. The clothes hammering stick rests on the base of the stone. It is about two feet long and round. It must have been aged for some time, and the end of the hand has been ground into a thin circle. , dark gray, without any features to the naked eye.
Leyun used X-scanning eyes to find that it was very healthy from the inside out, with no insects or corrosion. It emitted circles of light, a halo representing health, and a circle of gentle white light.
What exactly does white light represent?
She couldn't understand that in order to test the function of her eyes, she had observed many living things, including inanimate ones, such as benches, tables, porcelain, pots and pans, etc. Overall, only the troublemaker at home was the only one. Yaochung emits a faint white halo.
The white aura of the hammering stick is very strong, rich, and gentle, as gentle as the moonlight.
Inexperienced, Le Yun didn't know the meaning of white light, but it didn't mean she would despise the clothes-beating stick. She took out her rain boots from the space and put them on, took out her umbrella and rushed into the rain, ran to the pool, picked up the clothes-beating stick, and ran back Under the eaves, I found a towel to dry myself with. I waved it in my hand a few times. It felt good and the weight was right. I studied it over and over for a while, then threw it back into space.
After picking up a second-hand item, Mr. Le was in a good mood. After wandering around for a while, he found the key hidden by the owner in the window. He opened the door and entered the villager's house. The things were almost moved. The main room was empty and the light was dim. He needed to turn on the flashlight. It is clear that this situation is the perfect shooting location for a ghost movie. It is a pity that no Bole discovered this paradise.
I didn't find anything in the main room, so I went to the kitchen, left some pots and pans, and then moved to other rooms. I searched everywhere for a while, but didn't find anything valuable. I locked the door for the master, hid the key in place, and held an umbrella. Go to another one that's closer.
The rain was pouring, the sky and the earth were misty, and there was only the sound of rain in the mountains. Le Yun, with the good mood of searching for treasures, ran from house to house. Even if she didn't pick up any good things, it didn't dampen her enthusiasm. She took away two old sheep. Small wooden barrels for rice and some small things that look pleasing to the eye.
(End of chapter)