Li Bai and Lao Chen tied the camp next to the haunted house. As for the reason, only ghosts know.

Li Bai, who had no idea about this, worked hard to build an open-air shower room.

The aluminum alloy profile as thick as an egg is used as a frame, and the light-impermeable tarp is fixed with screws and strips. A rough stone slab is placed under your feet. A bucket of cold water and a bucket of hot water are prepared outside. A handheld electric shower can easily enjoy the convenience of summer showering.

The things prepared in the trunk of Da Ben were amazed by Lao Chen. It was really sufficient. Even if you don’t have a village in front or a shop in the back, you can still camp and sleep comfortably.

I originally thought that when I was taking a shower, I would be "stealed" by a few cunning mosquitoes until I changed into dry clothes and returned to the tent with a small ceiling fan. Lao Chen didn't even have a snatch.

"Strange, are there no mosquitoes here?"

The old man was still in shock and doubtful, wondering that he didn't even see a fly and mosquito. He kept holding the green scale in his hand.

The dense grasses and ditches where mosquitoes breed are obviously more than ten meters away, but no bug flew over or crawled over to harass him.

If Old Chen looked around carefully, he could actually find that whether it was flies, mosquitoes, ants, rat women, spiders, centipedes and other insects, they were far away from the tent area in all directions like a escape, and they would not dare to get close to them.

"There is fish at night, and you can eat it for grilling, or stew the soup?"

Li Bai used local materials, used slender and tough thatch to make straw ropes, hung a large skewer of fish back from the stream near the entrance of the village, and tied up a large handful of wild vegetables.

Tiankeng Village is surrounded by mountains and water. There are naturally fish in places where there is water. There are big fish hidden in the deeper river sections. He looked around and slapped it on the water surface. Several large grass carp and more than a dozen small crucian melon seeds hidden at the bottom of the water turned up their stomachs and floated up.

In summer, there are many wild vegetables everywhere. As long as you are interested, pick them at the slightest, marlanchoe, purslane, lichen (the ground collapse) and pick them at will. It is not a waste of money. If you are lucky, you can pick a few home-cooked vegetables that accidentally fall outside the field. This is not a stealing vegetable, but a free picking.

Unfortunately, I didn’t encounter wild animals, otherwise I would have made the dinner extra dishes more abundantly.

Old Chen, who was still thinking about snake scales, looked in the sound, with a surprised expression on his face and said, "It's not bad, where did you catch fish? You have harvested a lot!"

In just a short while, I have gained so much. It seems that today's dinner will be very rich.

I really took Li Bai with me this time. At least the three aspects of food, housing and transportation are very reassuring.

"I caught it in a river not far away."

Li Bai turned around and pointed to the mountain stream a hundred meters away. He happened to see the shadow of fish swimming in the water, so he began to think about it, squatted on the shore, penetrated a ray of energy into the water, and caught these spoils.

"Make grilled fish, it will easily smell fishy when stewed."

When Lao Chen looked at the grass carp, he knew it was an authentic wild fish.

Although fish is fresh, if you don’t use clean water for two days, the smell of earth will be very heavy. The best way to cook is to add heavy ingredients, fry and grill.

Put the barbecue stove, clean the cut, and use salt, cooking wine, ginger powder and garlic powder to remove the fishy smell and add the flavor to the mesh rack. On one side, it takes off the abdominal cavity of the internal organs, and on the other side, it has removed the scales and cuts of lattice on both sides. Don’t rush to apply oil, but directly put it on the red charcoal fire to roast it carefully.

The key to barbecue: if you want to taste the seasonings and roast them slowly over low heat, you must be calm and anxious, and you will only get the harvest of black paint.

Several fish were gradually dried up by the heat from the rising charcoal fire, and the soft fish meat began to tighten. Only then did Li Bai slowly apply oil on it.

Next, it is better to say it is fried. The heated oil soaks the fish, gently maintains a higher temperature than boiling water, and discharges excess water, while the protein solidifies, locks down the remaining water, making the meat crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. If you roast it for a while, the fish will brown and become more attractive.

When the heat is right, sprinkle with cumin or other barbecue dipping sauce and the fish will become quite delicious.

As for the fine thorns inside, they will brittle when close to the surface, and can be chewed and swallowed, and the inside can be easily spit out. As long as you have enough patience, you can even make the grilled fish crispy inside and outside like fried fish.

There is still such food deep in these mountains, which is completely impeccable.

Just as Old Chen started drooling, a sound of footsteps came.

He turned his gaze and said in surprise: "Captain Zhi, is there anything wrong?"

"Seeing you setting up tents here, I'll give you a few plates of mosquito coils."

The village elder was holding a box in his hand with a pattern of incense on it.

"Come and have a drink!"

Old Chen signaled the can of beer in his hand and the disposable paper cup found in the trunk of Da Ben.

There are a few open cans on the folding square table, both meat and vegetable, which can be paired with grilled fish.

The old village chief who brought mosquito coils to the two of them looked at several cans on the table and fish on the barbecue rack, and was a little stunned. After a while, hesitantly said: "Okay, OK!"

People in the city are really good at playing, but they actually rely on the mountains to eat and water to eat.

Suddenly, I thought of something and said, "I'll bring some food to eat."

After saying that, he put down the mosquito plate, turned around and left.

Li Bai, who was skillfully flipping over the grilled fish, looked at each other, and there was a chance!

In China, if you want to get closer to each other in the shortest time, sometimes you only need a good dish.

After a while, the old village chief came back with a bamboo basket, came to the table, and placed the three large porcelain bowls in the basket onto the table.

A bowl of dried plums and dried bamboo shoots steamed pork, each piece of meat is quite solid pork belly, soaked in soy sauce, a bowl of fried cowpeas with salted fish, a bowl of freshly fried vegetables, and a bowl of steamed sausage. The sliced ​​sausages are crystal clear and the black and red lean sausages are clearly colored, emitting a strong wax aroma.

Three bowls of wine and food can be eaten for several meals. If you can’t finish one meal, you can put it back in the refrigerator. Just steam it again next time, and it will add more flavor. This is the village’s serious home-cooked dish.

"I have wine here too!"

In order to show that he was not here to eat and drink for free, the old village chief took out a bottle of Wuliangye and put it on the table, with a full posture.

"It's better for me to sit down!"

When Lao Chen saw the bottle of Wuliangye wine placed on the table, he smiled. Just the mottled and yellow Feitian sticker, he knew that this wine had been around for some time and could not be drunk at all with money.

As for the can of Qingdao beer in your hand, you should use it to cook!

Immediately, I turned aside without hesitation.

"Go one first"

The old village chief was not polite, so he took the paper cup, and one half of the cup with Old Chen, looked at Li Bai again, and said, "Young man, can you have a cup?"

When he saw the black horse in the village, he knew that the old and young man who asked about the haunted house did not look like ordinary people, and should have some background.

He came over with mosquito coils, and to find out the bottom of the situation, the other party invited him to the table, which was exactly the same as the old village chief, so he brought his own wine and food.

"You two drink white, I'll drink beer!"

Li Bai pointed to the can of Qingdao beer that was put aside by Lao Chen's head.

On hot days, a can of cold beer will be cooler and a few more hiccups.

What's more, how can you get less beer in barbecue? These two are the perfect match.

"Come on, eat vegetables!"

Ignoring Li Bai, Old Chen skillfully took off the disposable bamboo chopsticks and picked up a large piece of braised beef in the disposable paper bowl of the old village chief. There were some left at noon and it would not break even if it was placed in the car refrigerator.

It is convenient to have this Da Ben, you can walk whenever you want, stop whenever you want, and you can carry more things to make the trip more comfortable.

If it weren't for Li Bai's car, it would be impossible to camp in the village with barbecue and eat and drink comfortably.

After two sips of wine, they passed the food on the table. While Li Bai's roasted crucian melon seeds were shipped, the old village chief put down his chopsticks and asked, "Where are you from?"

"We!" Old Chen took a sip of the old wine and said with a smile: "We are from the Huxi Anti-Fethical Superstition Association, and we come here to investigate the haunted house."

The other party's question hit his mind, otherwise he would have to find an excuse to introduce his origin.

"Huxi Anti-Fethical Superstition Association?"

The old village chief repeated it in confusion, and he had never heard of this association at all.

Seeing the other party’s half-believing and half-doubted, Old Chen said: “It was just established last year and is not an illegal organization. It has a serious registration in the Civil Affairs Bureau and has a financial fund every year.”

There is not even a Taoist temple or a temple in the mountain. Young people go to work, so there is no time to go to the great god. The old village chief shook his head and said, "We don't have any feudal superstition here!"

"Here! We are here to find the haunted house."

Old Chen pointed at the small yard closest to the tent.

Seeing that the other party happened to point to the "haunted house", the old village chief felt a little sad.

After all, he became a spirit, and he said quietly: "There are only a dozen old people left here, and there are not a single young people. Even if they are haunted, how can they make trouble?"

He smiled dryly and picked up the wine glass to hide his surprise.

Li Bai, who was concentrating on grilling fish, looked up at the old village chief. His professional experience told him that the old man was a little insincere.

"I'll show you!"

In order to prove that he was not false, Old Chen took out his mobile phone and opened a folder and clicked on a video file inside.

This is a live video broadcast on the Internet. The camera is pitch black, and only the faint light illuminates the close range. The male anchor with a shaved cockscomb head is holding a mobile phone stand, saying alarmist words and terrifying voiceovers on the painting, while walking forward on the other side.

Although the camera is a little shaky and the light is dim, it is difficult to see the surrounding situation clearly, it is still vaguely able to distinguish some of the architectural features of Tiankeng Village.

The video was not long, lasting only fifteen minutes, and there were not many shots about the haunted house, because the anchor was scared away. The first half was verbose to set off the atmosphere, and the second half was a escaping all the way. Even the camera was dizzy, and ghosts knew where they had gone.

With such courage and such quality, it is really speechless to want to do a haunted house series.

I clicked on a few more videos, and those online anchors of the fish were also half a dozen, and there was no one who was really professional. It was obvious that they were all cheating on traffic and then running away.

As for the truth, just like those headline news, they only know nothing, but in fact they have no real information.

The old village chief was indeed speechless. No wonder some guys who had been chaotic recently came to the village, sneaking and didn't know what to do.

"There are all lies where there are haunted houses now."

The old village chief picked up a piece of pork belly steamed from dried plums for Lao Chen, and greeted Li Bai, who was still fiddling with grilled fish, "It's almost done, let's eat together!"

"It'll be fine in a while!"
To be continued...