"We'll stay there tonight."

Yang Shujun told us that his previous trips into the mountains were not as "advanced" as ours, with tents and so many delicious foods. Yang Shujun only brought a pot of water and a few cold steamed buns when he went into the mountains. If he wanted to be more luxurious, he would add more

A few pickled cucumbers, not stopping along the way, not to mention seeing any scenery, I kept walking until I got to Stone Village before staying overnight. With so many stops and delays like this, we want to go all the way to that year'

The place where his uncle was exiled will take at least two days...

After lunch, we rested for more than an hour and replenished our sleep. Except for Xiaoqing, none of us slept well last night. However, when we packed our bags and prepared to hit the road, it was the hardest thing to wake up.

But it was Xiaoqing. He finally called her up, and after walking for a long distance on the road, she was still in a daze, looking like she was awake but not awake.

"Hey, it's snowing!" I yelled.

Xiaoqing was so frightened by me that she trembled, looked around with her eyes wide open, and patted me on the back, "Aleng, you bastard, how can it snow!"

I glanced at Miss Bai dumbfounded. Miss Bai smiled and glared at me.

The mountain road was very difficult to walk, so we waited until it was dark before we arrived at the village Yang Shujun mentioned.

The village is located in a valley and is very secluded. It is impossible to see the village from the outside and has to go around a dense forest. I thought to myself that the reason why the Eighth Route Army was stationed here was because it was relatively hidden.

We were already exhausted, so when we heard Yang Shujun talk about the place, everyone got excited. However, when we walked around the dense forest and saw the village, we couldn't help but be disappointed. Along the way, I heard Yang Shujun's gestures and praises.

I thought it was a paradise-like paradise on earth. However, the village in front of me was dilapidated and old, but it was just a veritable stone village.

Almost all the houses are built of stone. They are scattered and irregular in the twilight. Some houses are built on the cliffs in the middle of the mountain. Most of the houses look like they are uninhabited and have long since collapsed.

"Cousin, what a wretched place this is, thank you for praising this place so well." Xiao Qing muttered.

"Hey, you don't understand." Yang Shujun smiled, "It's so quiet here and the air is so good."

I sniffed hard, the air was indeed good, but the place looked a bit too desolate.

"Let's go and stay overnight."

Yang Shujun rubbed his hands excitedly and led us towards the village.

Winding along a path paved with bluestones, we came to a courtyard on a cliff. The fence gate was closed tightly, and dim lights shone through the rooms in the courtyard.

"Is anyone home?..." Yang Shujun shouted and pushed the door.

After a while, a man came out of the house carrying an oil lamp. After opening the door, the man looked at us nervously. Under the light, we saw that he was about fifty years old, with a dark and red face.

"Brother, you don't know me? I'm Shujun!" Yang Shujun said with a smile.

The man swallowed nervously, and the oil lamp almost touched Yang Shujun's face. Yang Shujun's smiling face looked even more obscene under the light.

The man stared at Yang Shujun's face for a long time, wiped his sweat, smiled, and said with a thick mountainous accent: "Who did I think it was, but it turned out to be you..."

We stood aside impatiently, listening to Yang Shujun and the man keep getting closer. It seemed that Yang Shujun had stayed at his house before coming to this village. I don't know why, but I felt that Yang Shujun was a little agitated when talking with this man.

My words failed to convey my meaning, and I looked towards the house from time to time.

Finally, when they were done getting close, the man waved to us, "Come in, come in, come in..."

As soon as we entered the room, before the man asked us to sit down, Yang Shujun couldn't wait to say: "Brother, do you still have bacon at home?"

Only then did I know why he was so excited when he went to the village earlier. He was greedy for pickled meat...

The bacon tasted good, but it was a bit salty. Yang Shujun was so full of praise for it that he wanted to swallow it all. That night, we stayed here. There was only one man living in this house, and there were only two rooms in the house.

, the four of us young people could only share one room. Miss Bai and Xiaoqing slept on the stone bed, while Xiangfeng and I spread hay on the floor.

I don’t know why, I was lying on the ground without any sleepiness, and my heart was filled with an indescribable annoyance, mixed with an inexplicable emotion. Suddenly, I heard someone snorting softly on the bed, it was Miss Bai,

It seemed like she wasn't asleep either.

In the middle of the night, it started to rain. Listening to the "tick-tick" sound of rain, my mind gradually calmed down. I felt as if I was far away from the world and had come to ancient times, living in the barren mountains and forests. In a daze, I

When I saw Chenxing, I was so excited that I wanted to get closer to her, but she was getting further and further away from me. Just when I wanted to scream anxiously, Chenxing suddenly ran towards me and threw herself into my arms. But

, when I lowered my head to look, I found that the person in my arms was not Chenxing at all, but Miss Bai...

I was woken up early the next morning and heard Xiaoqing shouting outside, "Come and see, come and see!"

As soon as I walked out of the door, I was shocked by the scene in front of me. I saw a huge rainbow hanging in the sky opposite, with colorful flowing colors, as if there were countless beating notes wandering on it.

"Oh my god, it's so beautiful!" I shouted to Miss Bai, "Yuxin, hurry up, get your camera!"

Only then did Miss Bai realize what she was doing. She took out her camera and took a few shots at the sky. It wasn't until ten minutes after breakfast that the rainbow gradually disappeared.

After breakfast, we decided to continue on our way. I thought to myself, since we were eating and staying here, we had to give something back. However, no matter how hard I tried, the man just refused to ask for money.

"Okay, uncle, we have dried meat and specialties from Shandong in our bag. We'll leave some for you." After that, I pointed to the corner and said to Xiao Qing, "Xiao Qingzi, go and get some from my bag.

I only left the roasted chicken for the uncle..."

The man refused. I said that the specialty product was not valuable, so he had to accept it and try it.

Xiaoqing opened the bag clumsily and took out the roast chicken. She accidentally took out the photo frame and dropped it to the ground with a 'pop'.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Ah Leng."

Xiaoqing leaned down to pick it up, and suddenly my heart moved.

"Wait a moment."

I picked up the photo frame and handed it to the man, "Uncle, take a look. Do you know these people in the photo?"

The man looked up and down, and suddenly his whole body was shaken, "Oh, this, this is a person from our village!"

"Really, where do they live?"

"They...they are all dead..."

"Dead?" I frowned, "How did you die?"

"Burned to death..."

"Burned to death? Were all burned to death?" I asked in surprise.

The man nodded and told me that their village had never had electricity due to its remoteness. With the advent of reform and opening up, starting in the late 1980s, people from the mountains began to move out one after another. Now, the whole village only has

There are only ten or twenty families left. Except for some old people who love their roots, they live like him who are single and have never seen the world, are timid and afraid of life, and cannot integrate into the new world. There are also some people who are lazy and lazy.

Incompetent men, the man in the photo who smiles like a monkey is one of them, his nickname is Ergouzi.

Although Er Gouzi is lazy and lazy, he has a diligent and beautiful sister. When his sister grew up to the marriageable age, Er Gouzi's parents used marriage exchange to marry his sister to a village a hundred miles away from Stone Village.

The village gave Ergouzi a wife in exchange for her, who is the woman holding the child in the photo.

On the day of her wedding, Er Gouzi's sister cried so hard that she knelt at home and refused to leave because she was marrying an older disabled person. In the end, the girl was beaten with sticks by Er Gouzi and his parents.

After she got married, several men who came to welcome her were forced away. The girl never came back after she got married.

And the woman who married Er Gouzi never enjoyed a single day of happiness. Er Gouzi's parents thought that by finding a wife for their son and getting him married, he would change his ways and go out to work like other people to make money to support the family.

Ergouzi did seem to be a different person when he first got married. He went out to work with someone else, and came back half a year later and brought back a lot of fashionable clothes. However, he came back less than a month after going out again, and then he refused to go back to his death.

, I feel resentful and miserable. I sit at home and drink every day. When I get drunk, I beat my wife and sometimes my parents. Most of the little grain produced in the terraced fields every year is exchanged for wine by Ergouzi.

The family lived together in a dilapidated stone house left behind by their ancestors, and they ate one meal without finishing the next.

Er Gouzi's wife resisted when he was beaten at first, but gradually got used to it, accepted it, and gave birth to a son for Er Gouzi. The birth of the son did not change Er Gouzi's gender, but instead made it worse. The child was

He grew up under the shadow of domestic violence. He is very sensible and the elders in the village like him. Everyone said that for a beast like Ergouzi to have such a good son, God really treats him well.

By the end of the 1990s, with the booming development of tourism, many people began to get tired of those crowded tourist resorts and liked to travel and explore the barren mountains together. One day, four people from Stone Village came to travel to the Taihang Mountains.

The girls who stayed overnight. One of them stayed at Er Gouzi's house and was drunk and raped by Er Gouzi. Er Gouzi's wife and his parents watched helplessly as Er Gouzi did whatever he wanted, and no one dared to come forward.
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