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  "Turns out they can talk, I thought they were all mute." The fat guy was good at causing trouble and his mouth was even more vicious. Now that he had the upper hand, he became even more unreasonable: "Since you want to compensate, that's easy to say. I have 50 mu of ginseng fruit and 100 mu of peaches inside. If one tree dies, you'll have to pay 10,000 yuan. Today is such a big sunny day, you can deal with it yourself."

  The old man knew that the fatty was causing trouble, but he didn't get angry and just smiled: "Young brother is joking, in a moment I'll send someone to deliver a jar of good wine, a set of chicken, duck, fish and meat, let's have a drink together. When you're out, there are many places where you can offend people, so please forgive me."

  "Send away the beggars, I'll treat you to two jars of good wine. Excuse me, let me through, I'm going in right now." The fatty's face was gloomy and he pretended to be very angry as he tried to rush in. Just then, Cha Wenbin came out, fearing that if things escalated further, it would be difficult to bring the situation under control. He shouted at the fatty: "Alright, Stonehead, you go back first, I'll talk to him."

  "Old man, it's not right for you to block the way and not let us pass. We rely on the mountains and rivers to make a living. This year, the harvest outside is not good, and many people in the high mountains can only open up wasteland to plant some corn. After working hard all year, we just hope to have these few days of autumn harvest. If you block our way and don't let us pass, isn't that being a bit too much?"

  The old man didn't respond, with a smile on his face, looking at Cha Wenbin with an expression that was neither soft nor hard.

  This is an old hand, I reckon it's almost over in this gathering, Cha Wenbin has never been a rascal for eight lifetimes but can only force himself to go on. Just then, the fatty leaned forward with his body and slapped that old man with a "pa", then turned around and shouted: "Ouch, painful...!"

  Looking at the fat boy's expression, which was so serious that his eyebrows were furrowed, his eyes were closed, and his nose and mouth were almost twisted together, Zha Wenbin secretly admired him in his heart. He turned around and shouted loudly: "Teach people to get beaten!"

  Good people are always so easily taken advantage of, from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's rebellion in the past to our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom later on... never mind. Once the emotions of the common people are ignited, they can be extinguished very quickly. Cha Wenbin is now a small celebrity after all, and this little Daoist has been popular recently. With a "hula" sound, villagers carrying sticks and stones rushed in.

  At this moment, the curtains inside suddenly opened, and the old man pushed the fat boy who was leaning in his arms outwards, saying: "Sorry to have delayed everyone's journey. Now, whoever wants to go in can go." He also made a gesture of invitation.

  Actually, who didn't have anything to do ran there, the fat guy was still squatting on the ground pretending, Cha Wenbin glanced over and everyone had finished, everything returned to normal. The old man gave him a deep and mysterious smile, then turned around and went back to where he should go without looking back, that strange tone of singing sounded again, various colorful flags and the noise of gongs and drums made people even more convinced that this was a funeral.

  "Alright, you can get up now." Zhang Wenbin kicked the fat man on the ground, who had already walked far away, and was still pretending to be asleep.

  I don't know if he's overacting or trying to tease people, but he continued to hug his knees on the ground and moaned softly: "Ahh...".

  Cha Wenbin had no way with this guy, and reluctantly stretched out his hand to pull him up, saying: "Get up! Let's go!"

  At this time, Ye Qiu quickly walked over and grabbed the fat man with one hand, flipping him over on the spot. It wasn't until then that Cha Wenbin saw that the fat man's forehead was covered in sweat beads the size of soybeans, his lips were trembling, and his face was twisted in pain as he curled up into a ball. This really didn't look like an act. Ye Qiu looked up at Cha Wenbin and said: "Get me a silver needle."

  Towards the belly button of Pangzi, Ye Qiu suddenly stabbed a needle in, and the skin on his belly was picked up by him with a silver needle, flashing. If it wasn't for Cha Wenbin grabbing him, I'm afraid Pangzi would have rolled on the ground this time. It wasn't until then that he discovered that Pangzi wasn't pretending, and he didn't know how to do it suddenly. Ye Qiu slowly picked along the skin of Pangzi's belly, and suddenly used his hand to pinch a small piece of meat and stabbed another silver needle. After this needle, a black blood was immediately squeezed out. Ye Qiu used force again, and a worm about the size of a sesame seed came out from the needle hole.

  There was actually a worm under his belly, and Zha Wenbin had never seen it before. He was shocked in his heart: "How could this be?"

  Ye Qiu carefully picked up the insect with her fingernails and said, "This is a Corpse Wasp. It should have been on its way earlier. That old man took advantage of it being unaware and put this thing inside. If it had continued to drill in for another moment, it would have drilled into the fatty's five internal organs, and by then, it would be impossible to find."

  "What a ruthless move!" Looking at the departing troops, Cha Wenbin suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart. Fatso had been unreasonable earlier, but it wasn't to the point of using such a deadly trick. If it hadn't been for Ye Qiu, the consequences would have been unthinkable. Ye Qiu repeatedly squeezed the wound on Fatso's neck until the blood that came out was red, then he let out a sigh of relief and said, "It should be fine now. The corpse cicada itself isn't very toxic, just its teeth are sharp. There's a master in Luo Men who specializes in taming corpse cicadas. Using this thing to harm people is stealthy and hard to guard against. That group of people must have an expert among them."

  Fatty, when did you ever eat such a dark loss? Getting up with teeth chattering: "Damn it, I'm going back to grab my gun and shoot that son of a bitch!"

  "Now don't be rash, this gang is very dangerous. I think it's better to let the villagers retreat first, or else a real conflict will break out. They are ruthless and dare to take lives. Let's follow them for now and see what happens."

  Hongcun continues to head northwest, there is a place with excellent scenery, locals call it "Longtan Keng". Along the mountain stream road, winding up and up, on the left side can hear the "rumbling" sound of huge water. The roadsides are overgrown with weeds, walking to the edge can overlook the lower part is a dark canyon, until many years later someone built a cableway to enter here, this is a about five kilometers long, vertical drop of about two hundred meters uninhabited mountain valley, in the valley there are eleven large and small water pools, each one is connected by a waterfall, the deepest place is not visible, shallow places just over knee-deep, in the valley there is a kind of scaleless small fish, both eyes have turned white, meat tastes delicious. There is also a kind of animal that looks like a lizard called "big salamander", also known as "baby fish", its cry sounds like a baby crying, the temperature here is always below ten degrees all year round, even in the hot summer days are no exception.

  Along the mountain road beside Longtan Pond, going further in is the reservoir. It was built by the local government before and after liberation. The water area is vast, and you can't see the end at a glance. I heard that when it was built, there was an accident with stone blasting, and several workers died. The dam is about 300 meters long and 80 meters wide, and only one old man in charge of power generation is on duty. The old man's house is on the left side of the dam, and he is also the last living person in the Longtan Pond area.

  Along the reservoir, as they walked further in, there was a fork in the road. The team that Wen Bin and others were following was walking along the small path beside the reservoir, and an old man wearing blue polyester was bowing his waist to see off the team with great respect.

  Fatso exclaimed: "Isn't that Old Cao? How does he know those people?"

  The fat boy said that this old man Cao was the one who took care of the reservoir. Every week, he would go down the mountain once to buy some daily necessities. Each time, he would use a plastic bottle to fill up with wine and a bag of peanuts. The owner of the small grocery store would prepare these things for him on Friday afternoon, waiting for him to pick them up. Since the reservoir was built, he had been there all along, never talking much to the people in Hong Village, and no one knew where he came from. It was said that he was sent by the water and electricity department upstairs. Old man Cao's household registration was not in Hong Village, only the owner of the small grocery store knew his surname was Cao. The fat boy liked to play table tennis there, so he had also seen this old man.

  The three of them hid behind a clump of grass, waiting until the group had walked far away. They planned to continue following, but at this time, Fatty discovered that Old Cao hadn't gone back into his house, instead staring rigidly in their direction.

  Fatso pressed down on Cha Wenbin and said: "Don't move, that old man seems to have found us."

  The two sides were stuck in a stalemate for about five minutes, watching as the group walked further and further away. Zhao Wenbin couldn't hold back any longer, so he stood up, and indeed Old Cao was still staring at him. At this point, Zhao Wenbin felt like a thief who had been caught, and he felt a bit embarrassed. He was trying to figure out how to talk to the old man when that fat guy walked over with a smile on his face.

  "Hey, Old Cao! How are you?" Fatso yelled from afar. He seemed to be familiar with Old Cao, so Cha Wenbin and Ye Qiu followed him up.

  Old Cao didn't respond to Fatty's words, Old Cao looked quite old, possibly due to hyperthyroidism, his eyeballs were slightly bulging, and there was a large tumor on his neck. His face was very thin, with dark skin tightly stretched over his cheekbones, and his eyes were filled with distrust as he looked at Fatty.

  "It's me, I often see you at the entrance of Xiaofang's store." The fat man continued to introduce himself, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to Old Cao, saying: "Old man, take it and smoke, it's good tobacco from Qianmen."

  That old man looked at the fatty with suspicion, and when the fatty smiled, he was absolutely harmless. He turned to look at Cha Wenbin and Ye Qiu, then glanced back at the fatty and said, "What are you here for?"

  "It's fun, this mountain is really fun." The fatty laughed and rubbed his hands together while pointing at the departing group: "Old Cao, what are those people doing? Do you know them?"

  The old man glared at the fatty with a fierce gaze, his already bulging eyes now even larger. With a mouthful of yellow teeth, he bellowed: "Get out! Get out!"

  "Hey, old man, I was kind enough to give you a cigarette, forget it, let's go!"

  "Where are you going?" Seeing Baozi's footsteps continuing up the mountain, the old man shouted again: "Go down the mountain! Don't you know that it's not allowed to go up the mountain now!"

  "What's it to you, anyway?" The fat man was about to retort, but Cha Wenbin advised, "Forget it, forget it. What's the point of arguing with an old fool? Let's just go our own way and ignore him."

  Fatso turned around and saw that Old Cao had walked straight into his own house. He didn't think much of it and continued to climb up the steep slope. After a few steps, he heard someone shouting from below: "Don't move, anyone who moves again will be shot!"

  What's going on, it turned out that Old Cao actually went back to the house and fetched a shotgun, chasing them out now, holding the gun within ten meters of the three of them. The fatty was stunned, where did this fierce old man come from...

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