I looked up at the horizon. The fire clouds were gradually replaced by dark clouds, and the horizon in the distance was covered with a layer of gray.
"Go back to the car first, you can't stay here."
When we returned to the village entrance, Lao Sun was leaning on the car door smoking, and Wang Dali was squatting on the ground playing with stones.
As soon as they met, Lao Sun couldn't wait to ask: "How are you doing? Do you have a place to stay?"
"Um……"
I hesitated: "How far is it from the next place to stay?"
Lao Sun held his cell phone and looked at it for a while: "There are about 80 kilometers left. If we take the rural road, it will take us most of the night."
no.
The rural road conditions were complicated, and Lao Sun had been driving all afternoon, so he must be mentally exhausted. If something happened, he wouldn't even be able to find rescue.
After much thought, I could only make a very helpless choice.
"Let's spend the night at the entrance of the village tonight."
After saying that, I opened the passenger door and asked Ah Chen, "Do you have any objections?"
"The two girls in the car are not afraid, so what should I be afraid of?"
Lao Sun walked to the car and took out a large roll of tent: "You can't live in the car, or you will freeze to death in the middle of the night."
"Since we have a leader, let's obey and do as we are told, and no one will make any mistakes."
This was obviously meant for Ah Chen.
In order to prevent it from raining at night, choose a higher hillside location to pitch your tent.
The dense woods have become a natural barrier and can also block the wind. The only problem is that there are too many mosquitoes.
In contrast, Lao Sun was still very experienced in the outdoors. He pulled out a handful of dry mugwort from the car and lit it near the tent.
The aroma of mugwort lingers, and there are indeed a lot fewer huge mosquitoes.
Outside the tent, I divided the people into groups.
"Lao Sun and Ah Chen are in a group, and Dali and I are in a group. The two girls sleep in the same tent."
Ah Chen leaned against the tree with half a piece of grass in his mouth: "Give me someone else."
Xiaomei also echoed: "I don't want to share a tent with her either!"
I glanced back at them and looked at Xiaomei deliberately: "If you have any objections, just find a place to live by yourself."
I moved my eyes to Ah Chen again and added slowly: "Don't be pretentious!"
Ah Chen looked up at me and said with a smile: "Using chicken feathers as an arrow? Don't you think you are a bit pretentious?"
"You just live too selfishly."
Lao Sun smoked a cigarette and looked at Ah Chen with squinted eyes: "Don't think there is a knife in your hand. These people are afraid of you. If nothing else, you can't survive one night here, do you believe it?"
"Boy, I am more than ten years older than you. I would like to advise you as an elder brother. When everyone adds firewood, the flames will rise. You..."
"Come on, don't give me political lessons here."
Ah Chen obviously didn't believe it, and said quite confidently: "Without you guys dragging me down, I can walk more easily!"
"One has a thick head and the other is a pretentious person. They both wear the same pair of pants. How can they show off their sense of superiority?"
Lao Sun crushed the cigarette butt hard and kept smiling strangely: "You'd better be so strong tomorrow morning."
After a brief quarrel, everyone returned to their tents.
In the first half of the night, Lao Sun and Ah Chen were on duty, each holding his own, and neither of them said a word.
After a short rest, Lao Sun woke me up in the middle of the night.
I was about to stand up and leave the tent when Lao Sun grabbed me first and said, "This is for you."
I looked down and saw that it was a rather delicate sachet.
"This is?"
Lao Sun chuckled and said in a low voice: "There is mud under our feet and there is a river behind us. Miasma will definitely break out in the middle of the night."
"Put this on your nose and I'll make sure you feel refreshed the next day."
Only then did I realize that the people Liang Hai chose were not unreasonable.
Lao Sun's strengths are not only his driving skills, but also his rich field experience.
Feeling grateful, I asked, "Does everyone have one?"
"I hung two outside the girl's tent, and Dali also has one."
When I heard it, I immediately understood that only Ah Chen didn’t.
In the past, I might have been able to ask Ah Chen to talk about it, but not today.
If this kind of person doesn't teach him a lesson, he won't be in awe of others.
I put the sachet in my hand and stood up quickly: "Thanks."
The wind in the mountains is very cool. It blows slightly and takes away all my sleepiness.
I leaned on the tent and looked down the mountain, and suddenly I noticed clusters of lights shining on the village.
That's not a light, it's the light of burning paper!
