Chapter 276: First Arrival at Meishan
“We’re ashore, we’re finally ashore.”
Old Yang landed with his feet on the ground, and he let out a long sigh of relief and sighed with emotion.
This water restricted area is really no joke. If he had to cross the river by himself, he would have died eighteen times earlier.
It is only because of someone as powerful as Mr. Liang that we can cross over with a simple raft.
Old Man Yang sighed with emotion and quickly looked around.
He is a local of Meishan Village, and he is very familiar with every plant and tree on this mountain.
But now when he looked at the plants and trees in Meishan, he was suddenly stunned.
The vegetation in front of us is barren, with a large number of trees and thorns, and some trees have grown into towering trees.
There are many bayberry trees that he is very familiar with!
"Let me check, is this still a bayberry tree?"
Old man Yang looked at a huge bayberry tree not far away and was completely surprised.
This bayberry tree is almost twenty or thirty meters tall. It stands out among all the trees nearby.
In his impression, there had never been such a tall bayberry tree in Meishan.
However, looking at the past now, there are similar huge bayberry trees everywhere in the distance.
Yangmei also looked at the drastically changed Meishan environment with some surprise, and said: "Why has this place become like this? Uncle Lin, are you sure this is a bayberry tree? I remember that the bayberry tree on the mountain is only two stories high at most, right?" < br>
Old man Yang’s face is full of Surprised, he said: "That's right, it's a bayberry tree. Although it has grown a bit bigger, I recognize these leaves. They are still leaves of a bayberry tree."
"My dear, such a big tree can bear so many fruits." How big is it?" Old Man Yang couldn't help being surprised.
What he was thinking about was that if this happened in the past, it would have been a good harvest year?
As a lifelong fruit farmer, he always considers whether to have a good harvest or not.
Liang Yuandao: "At the end of the great flood, people and animals have mutated. It's not surprising that these bayberry trees have mutated. There are also many mutated plants in Yangshan."
"Now is not the time to sigh. Can you tell the difference?" Is this somewhere in Meishan? Are there any attractions or buildings nearby? ?”
“Our top priority is to find a way to find the people on the mountain first.”
“Yes, yes, Mr. Liang is right, Xiaoyangmei, it’s important for us to find someone, let me see. Look where this is."
Old man Yang nodded quickly and looked around quickly.
Based on his understanding of Meishan, it should have been easy to distinguish the terrain nearby.
But plant mutations have long since changed the environment in the mountains, and it is a little difficult to identify them now.
Suddenly, Yang Mei shouted: "Uncle Lin, look, there is a grave here."
Hearing this, Old Yang ran over quickly and said: "Where? Where? I see. Look.”
Sure enough, there is a grave with a cement base among the grass.
The tombstone was already covered with moss, and many weeds emerged from the cement cracks, blocking the words on the tombstone.
Old man Yang quickly stepped forward and reached out to push away the weeds.
But I saw the tombstone written "Tomb of my late father Li Mao", and there were rows of names of filial sons below.
They are Li Kuirong, Li Kuihua, Li Kuifu, Li Kuigui and Li Kuian.
There is also a row of blank spaces on the right side, which should be reserved for the mothers of these people.
Generally, the old couple will be buried together in the tombstones, and the tombstones will also be shared.
Whoever leaves first will write his name first, leaving the other half empty until the other old man dies, then write it and bury them together.
The mothers of these filial sons should not be dead yet, so the blanks there are still empty.
Of course, this was before the great flood. I don’t know whether he is dead now or not.
Old man Yang saw the inscription clearly and laughed immediately: "It's the tomb of Mr. Li Mao. I know where it is. This field also belongs to their family. Come with me. I remember their family." There are also shacks here.”
Hearing this, Yang Mei also remembered and said, "Uncle Kui'an's family's land? Then I also know where it is. I have been to this land before. Their home is not high on Meishan Mountain, and the terrain is relatively gentle. It is a Good location, I remember leaving the hotel here The road is not far away."
Liang Yuan asked: "Is this a good location?"
Yang Mei nodded and said: "The closer to the foot of the mountain, the better. There is a lot of soil and rocks at the foot of the mountain. Less, the land has good fertility, Moreover, the terrain is gentle, making it easy to get up and down. The higher you go up the mountain, the more troublesome it becomes.”
“I heard from my dad that when the fields were divided, people robbed these good places. The population is not prosperous, it’s nothing Because of my connections, I was assigned to the top of the mountain.”
“I remember when I was a child, my parents had to climb up and down every day to serve the more than a hundred bayberry trees. They were so tired. .”
"Thankfully, Meishan was designated as a scenic spot by the government, and our land was contracted by the government. They gave us money every year, so my family became more relaxed. Later, we caught up with demolition and other things, and our lives became rich."
Yang Mei sighed with emotion, seeming to recall the difficulty of her parents when she was a child.
Old man Yang was looking for a way ahead. When he heard this, he turned around and said, "In our time, whichever family had more males was stronger. Li Mao's family had the most males. The benefits are that his family’s five sons are prosperous and prosperous. The five brothers are very powerful in the village. Li Kuirong is still the village party secretary, so their family’s land can be reduced. ?”
Liang Yuan asked curiously: “Why aren’t all the people in Meishan Village surnamed Yang?”
Old man Yang said with a smile: “Then they must not all be surnamed Yang. The main surname is Yang. and Li, and some other miscellaneous surnames. They were all transferred to us from the city and settled here.”
"When the market economy was first opened, many people from Jiangbei came to work here. Those who came early and made money bought homesteads and built houses here. People with foreign surnames like this started to appear one after another. "Little."
Liang Yuan was surprised: "Can you still buy and sell homesteads in Linjiang?"
"Hey, it can't be done now. The control was loose in the past, and it was in Meishan back then. It’s also a place where no one cares about it.”
“Who knew it would be developed into a scenic spot later? The entire Linjiang area will be developed well, and the land will be valuable then.”< br>
“I remember that we had a lot of land at that time. You could build a house on any piece of vacant land, even on the mountains. Whoever occupied it would own it if it was reclaimed.”
Old Man Yang laughed and said that the era they lived in did not have so many rules.
Liang Yuan sighed in his heart, Linjiang just reaped the dividends of the policy.
Sometimes it’s really not that I don’t work hard, it’s that I was born in the wrong place.
We are also farmers. The land in Liang Yuan’s hometown is not worth a penny. Some people would rather work there than farm it.
Look at Linjiang City, this land is so valuable, and it can be divided into millions if it is demolished casually.
"Look, it's over there!"
Old man Yang suddenly shouted excitedly and pointed deep into the dense forest.
Liang Yuan looked through the woods and saw deep in the woods where he built an inconspicuous shed.
There is only a wooden fence surrounding the shed, and the entire shed is covered by trees, vines and haystacks.
It would have been hard to find it had it not been for the heavy rain that exposed some plastic roofs on the top.
Old Man Yang pulled away the nearby grass and said excitedly: "Let's go over and take a look. There was no fence here before, but now there is a fence. Someone must be living here."
"I don't know if it's them." Which of the five brothers?"< br>
As he walked, Old Man Yang shouted inside: "Is there anyone there? Kui Rong? Kui Hua? Is there anyone?"
Liang Yuan followed Old Man Yang with Yang Mei, his eyes Looking at the nearby grass, there seemed to be no footprints.
As he approached the obviously covered shed, he saw some chaotic footprints on the ground.
Many footprints were submerged in the water. Liang Yuan looked towards the fenced shed.
There is a cracked earthen jar outside, and some fragmented bricks and tiles are piled in the corner.
The area enclosed by the fence seems to show signs of reclamation. There are many water containers such as paint buckets near the field ridges. There are also some crops between the field ridges, but most of them are dead. dropped.
There are still many potholes, as if someone has dug something.
Old man Yang pushed open the fence and walked towards the shed. The door of the shed was made of wooden boards and was very simple.
When he came to the door, Old Man Yang took a look and found that it was actually locked.
He turned to greet Liang Yuan: "Mr. Liang, Xiaoyangmei, come and see, this place is locked and the lock is rusty. I'm afraid no one has come for a while."
Liang Yuan walked over, looked at the lock, and squeezed it casually.
There was a sudden click and the lock was crushed by him.
Liang Yuan opened the door and looked inside.
The shed is surrounded by bricks, and the roof is a blue steel plate used in construction site dormitories, which is then welded with locking nails and the like, and covered with a layer of plastic sheeting. Above are thick branches of leaves.
The space inside the shack is not large. There is a wooden bed with bamboo poles supported at the four corners, and white mosquito nets tied to the bamboo poles.
There was a moldy quilt and tattered pillows on the bed.
There is a dark yellow table beside the bed, the paint has peeled off.
There are some bowls and chopsticks on the table, and there is some water in the broken bowl.
Liang Yuan looked up and saw that it should be dripping from the steel plate on the roof.
Some leather tiles were laid on the ground to make a simple floor.
The house must have been raided. All the benches and other items were gone, as well as some farm equipment.
Old man Yang looked around and said: "It seems that no one has come here for a long time."
Yang Mei said strangely: "Why do you still put up a fence outside and cover it with leaves when no one comes? Living in a shack?”
Old Man Yang shook his head and said: "I'm afraid these things have been acquired before the flood. After all, this place is close to the Shuizhe restricted area over there. There are so many mutant beasts in it. It is estimated that the survivors from Meishan will not dare to come here."
"Let's go to the plank road and go up the mountain from the plank road. We should be able to find someone." With that, Old Man Yang was about to leave the shed.
Liang Yuan did not move, looking under the wooden bed.
Yang Mei was curious and asked: "Brother? What's wrong?"
Liang Yuan shook his head and said: "There is a smell under the bed."
Yang Mei was stunned: "Stink?"
She sniffed, but couldn't smell it, only smelled Got a musty smell.
Liang Yuan walked towards the bed and reached out to lift the bed board, revealing the leather floor inside.
He pulled the floor casually, and with a loud sound, the leather floor was torn apart by him.
But under the leather, there was not dirt, but a wooden door!
“Huh?”
Old man Yang came back and was surprised when he saw this scene.
“Why is there a cellar here?”
Liang Yuan reached out and grabbed an iron ring on the wooden door and pulled hard.
Click!
The wooden door was lifted directly, and a strong smell suddenly hit my face!
It is a stench of rotten protein, mixed with the stench of fermentation.
Liang Yuan immediately held his breath. Old Yang beside him almost vomited out and quickly covered his mouth and nose.
Yang Mei also hurriedly covered her mouth and nose and retreated hastily.
Liang Yuan looked into the cellar and saw darkness below, with some cage-like iron bars vaguely visible.
He casually took out the flashlight from the inventory, looked down, and his expression suddenly changed slightly.
But I saw that there was indeed a large iron cage underneath. Water had already entered the iron cage, but it was not deep, only about the depth of the ankle.
The entire cellar is estimated to be more than three meters deep. The walls are built with bricks. The large iron cage is close to the wall, which not only functions as a bracket, but also fixes the entire cellar space. It also functions as a dungeon.
Because in this iron cage, there were three swollen and maggot-infested corpses!
Liang Yuan's mental power swept through and confirmed the gender of these corpses.
They are all women!
And these women are all naked!
The corpse has been soaked in water for a long time, and the phenomenon of giantism has appeared.
Liang Yuan backed away, pulling Yang Mei out.
Old Man Yang didn't see clearly, but he vaguely saw the terrifying appearance of a human body.
He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He didn't dare to look at it, so he quickly closed the board and ran out quickly.
As soon as I ran outside, I immediately vomited in the corner.
"Ugh... vomit!"
Yang Mei didn't see what was going on inside, so she couldn't help but ask: "What's going on? What's inside? Why is it so smelly?"
Liang Yuandao: "They are several soaked corpses."
"Wow——"
Old Yang suddenly vomited again.
Liang Yuan pulled Yang Mei away from the wooden house and said, "Someone should have lived here after the great flood. Not only did they live here, they also imprisoned three women here."
"Looking at the bodies of the three women without clothes, I guess..."
He shook his head and said nothing more.
Yang Mei's face suddenly turned pale, and she obviously knew what Liang Yuan meant.
At this time, Old Man Yang finally came to his senses and cursed: "His grandma, who has no conscience, how could he do such a thing? You are a beast, you are worse than a beast!"
The old man stamped his feet and cursed, his face also turned pale.
Liang Yuandao: "Old Uncle Lin, it's the end of the world. Have you never encountered these things before?"
When Old Man Yang heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "We went up the mountain early. Although there were some quarrels in the building and some fights when pressed, nothing particularly excessive was done."
"Then we arrived. After reaching the mountain, it’s not like there’s nothing to eat at all. You can go to the river to catch fish, and you can hunt mutant beasts in the mountain. Everyone can still fill their stomachs, but they haven’t done anything too extreme.”
Hearing this, Liang Yuan couldn’t help but sigh: “Then you are lucky. If you stay in the building, you will know that human nature is there. How terrible.”
Yang Mei couldn’t help but think of the miserable things she saw in the building.
Old man Yang said angrily: "Now that they have arrived at Meishan, the resources in Meishan are much better than those in Yangshan. Not only do many families have fields on the mountain, but there are also many crops on the mountain. They It’s not like we don’t have anything to eat, so how can we still harm people?”
Liang Yuan shook his head slightly. Old Yang thought of people too well.
Some people, even if they have food and drink, once they find out that the end of the world is coming and no one can restrain them, evil thoughts will naturally arise in their hearts.
"Let's go, I'm afraid this person is still on the mountain, maybe in the shelter of Meishan."
Old Yang and Yang Mei suddenly changed their expressions.
Old man Yang couldn't help but said: "I don't know which beast did this."
Liang Yuan shook his head slightly: "Let's find a shelter and wait. I don't know how Sister Mei's parents are doing now."
Yang Mei's beautiful eyes showed a bit of worry, and she couldn't help but said: "I know where the plank road is. , follow me."
She pulled Liang Yuan and hurriedly found the plank road.
Old Yang also hurriedly followed. The three of them climbed through the woods and hillsides, and soon saw a winding mountain plank road halfway up the mountain.
This is a wooden plank road, with a steel frame keel underneath and pure wooden handrails. The plank road is relatively spacious, three to five meters wide.
Meishan Liangyuan has also been here, so he naturally knows this plank road.
This is a walking plank road for tourists to visit Meishan.
Along the plank road, there are bayberry trees in each family.
Tourists can stop at any time to negotiate the price of picking bayberry with the owner of the bayberry tree.
Generally, the price is not cheap, mainly because you can eat as much as you want, and you can weigh a few kilograms when you leave.
If it is not the bayberry season, this plank road is open to the public free of charge, allowing tourists to enter the mountain.
In June and July, when bayberry is ripe, the plank road will be temporarily closed.
Until the picking work is almost done, some will be left for tourists to come in and experience the fun of picking bayberries for themselves.
Walking on the mountain road and climbing all the way up, you can see many bayberry trees erected vertically and horizontally with steel pipes.
These steel pipes are not to prevent the bayberry trees from collapsing, but to facilitate the fruit farmers to climb the trees and pick the bayberries.
Liang Yuan noticed that the steel pipe frames of many bayberry trees had been removed and he didn’t know where they were moved.
Not long after, Yang Mei suddenly said: "There is smoke over there! There must be someone over there."
Old man Yang also looked over quickly. There were lush trees over there and the water mist covered it, making it difficult to see. Find out what's going on over there.
But Old Man Yang recognized the direction instantly: "That's Yunquan Temple! That's Yunquan Temple there!"
When Liang Yuan heard his words, he immediately remembered that time When I visited Shushan, I did see a temple on the mountain.
But every time he follows the plank road route, he can't get there, so he has never really been to Yunquan Temple.
Yang Mei hurriedly said: "Let's go over and have a look. Yunquan Temple is large enough, with many rooms inside, and the square is tidy enough. Maybe everyone in the village lives there. "
"Yes, yes, the places where people can live on Shushan are Yunquan Temple and Jieshi Academy to the west. If there is smoke coming out there, there must be someone there." Old Man Yang was also excited. road.
Liang Yuan said: "In that case, let's go over and have a look."
Liang Yuan was not familiar with the road conditions, so Yang Mei and Old Man Yang led the way.
The three of them passed the plank road, then walked onto a path, climbed along the steps, and climbed up the mountainside.
Yang Mei introduced: "This path is generally known only to local people, because it can enter various orchards, so it has not been open to the outside world. Many foreign tourists do not know this path."< br>
"How do outsiders get to Yunquan Temple?" Liang Yuan asked.
“Take the main entrance, come in directly from the east gate of Shushan, and then don’t take the plank road, take another road, you can go directly to the main entrance of Yunquan Temple.”
“Of course, the east gate There are very few people walking there. The bus is far away from the east gate. Most people will still take the west gate to enter the mountain. Then they can only climb the plank road and cannot reach Yunquan Temple. ”
Liang Yuan suddenly realized, the three of them walked forward while talking.
When we reached a flat section of road, suddenly several figures suddenly jumped out of the forest.
“Stop!”
“Damn it, who allowed you to leave Yunquan Temple?”
“Stand right there!”
The visitors issued threats, and each of them had weapons such as hoes and sickles in their hands.
And looking at their strong bodies and extremely fast speeds, they have clearly awakened their powers.
(End of this chapter)