West Xiang, Wuling Mountain.

It was almost midnight, and heavy rain was pouring, and thunder was rolling against the eaves, and waves were pouring. The front door of Yunmengfeng Inn was half open. The lights in the lobby were dim. There was a long table in the center, with a large chopping board on top, piled up countless fresh red peppers.

The inn owner Liu Guanguo held a shiny kitchen knife in one hand and kept chopping it. A lot of pepper seed juice was splashed on his mask. The moisture of the heavy rain wrapped the spicy smell of the peppers, scattered from the top and bottom, making Liu Guanguo narrow his eyes, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were streaked into his temples.

Another lightning flashed up, and the inside and outside of the door was covered with a layer of water and silver light. Liu Guanguo subconsciously raised his eyes. The light was fleeting, and he had only time to see the shadows of the mountains that were darkened in the distance.

***

Wuling Mountain is located in Wuling County. It is a newly developed scenic spot. It relies on the mountains and eats the mountains. People in the county are flocking to do two types of businesses: one is a chartered car in the tourist area, and the other is hotel accommodation.

The street where Yunmengfeng Inn is located is not far from the scenic area, next to the foot of the mountain, like a strip next to the mountain, and the doors and windows are all mountain-view rooms. Even the kitchen and toilet are all mountain-view rooms. Therefore, every household builds small buildings and opens inns. The horizontal homestead area cannot be expanded, so it develops vertically, high and low, thin and narrow, crowded into a street, which is quite interesting.

The consequence of oversupply is that every business is deserted.

However, this night, Yunmengfeng only stayed in three guests, not because the off-season customer base was not full. A week ago, Liu Guanguo had stopped taking orders on a series of online booking platforms such as Ctrip and Qunar. He hired a helper to clean up the cleaning, sprinkle medicine to kill cockroaches, change light bulbs to improve the speed of the network, for only one purpose.

Welcome the boss.

Thinking of this, Liu Guanguo unconsciously looked up at the ceiling, and the sound of chopping the knife dropped several degrees, for fear that the noise would disturb the noble man.

In fact, the visitor lives on the third floor, which is a whole floor separated from the lobby, and there is also a thunder and rain in the sky, so I can't hear anything at all.

After chopping for a while, the cell phone in my pocket rang, and news came in one by one.

Just as he was just taking a break, Liu Guanguo put his knife on his face, and he had pepper juice on his hands, which was spicy and hot. He wiped the edge of his pants with one hand, put his two fingers into his pocket, and took his cell phone out.

The crowd was flooded with the screen called "Wuling Shandu". Liu Guanguo was not too slow and started from scratch.

***

[Shen Wangu]: Liu Guanguo, is the boss here?

[Qiu Dong]: It should be here. In the afternoon, I heard from someone that a large black SUV drove to the gate of Yunmeng Peak.

[Liu Sheng]: Are you beautiful?

[Shen Bang]: That's a must.

[Liu Sheng]: Shen Bang, have you seen it?

[Shen Bang]: I didn’t see you, but the boss is the face of a mountain ghost. Can you be ugly? If it is too ugly, can my ancestors agree?

It was this sentence that enabled the screen-filling mode of the ancestors' grandmothers, including ink paintings, fine brushwork paintings, oil paintings, and even finely carved and slapped figures. I expected that they were temporarily searched on Baidu.

Liu Guanguo squinted his eyes and looked at them one by one.

***

The ancestors and grandmothers are also mountain ghosts.

The mountain ghost originated from "Chu Ci. Nine Songs". Sanlu doctor Qu Yuan used romantic brushwork to outline a strange, charming and charming mountain girl monster. It is said that she has a graceful posture, wearing vines, riding a black leopard and appearing in the deep mountains. Wherever she goes, all beasts are intimidating. Therefore, later generations created pictures of mountain ghosts, and they were almost all beauties and beasts: beauties must be delicate and well-groomed, and they are not dressed as good women. The beasts are either leopards or tigers, and they are extremely fierce, so they must be strong in the picture and stimulate the eye.

Liu Guanguo released the materials as appropriate.

[Liu Guanguo]: Meng Qianzi is very stylish, like a star, with an assistant and a makeup artist.

The group was already full of discussion, but his speech became even more and more exciting.

[Chen Wangu]: The boss is really simple. Now those celebrities don’t bring five or six assistants when they go out. I heard that some people also bring personal trainers and nutritionists.

[Chen Bang]: That is, the boss is not without money, and his family is not full of mines. It is seventy-seven. If the socialist countries had not advocated low-key, the boss could have made a private plane to fly over.

[Qiu Dong]: Chen Bang, don’t mention the mine if you have nothing to do. I heard that someone monitors the online chat.

[Liu Sheng]: It doesn’t matter, it’s not a sensitive word.

...

Liu Guanguo did not speak. He was assigned to serve as a reception this time. He was quite proud and inflated, and he spoke with mercy. He enjoyed the feeling of being sought after when he showed his mouth.

Meng Qianzi and his party arrived in the afternoon.

The weather had not changed at that time, and there was no sign of heavy rain at night. The sunset melted gold and melted into the clouds, hills, roofs, and streets, just rightly setting off the atmosphere to welcome important people.

Liu Guanguo held his cell phone and was waiting at the gate of Yunmeng Peak. He mistakenly recognized several cars. After sweating for several times, he finally saw a big black SUV coming.

When the car stopped, the first person to get off was Meng Qianzi's assistant Meng Jinsong.

Meng Jinsong is in his thirties, with dark skin, tall and thin eyes, and a slightly drooping tail. Most of the time, he looks unspirited, but as soon as he raises his eyes, his eyes are so sharp and cold.

Liu Guanguo held his breath excitedly: When the assistants are so aura, the world should be lost when the big guy appears.

...

Liu Guanguo was so excited that the news in the group surged again.

[Chen Bang]: Will the boss treat you tomorrow? Can we serve?

[Chen Wangu]: I think too much, is it your turn? Besides, treating a guest is just a form, and the essence is to visit all kinds of good friends from Xiangxi to visit the boss and consolidate friendship.

[Liu Sheng]: Good friends are bleeding, right?

[Chen Bang]: That's a must. You can go to the door with empty hands and have a free meal. Are you embarrassed?

[Liu Sheng]: This gift is hard to give, after all, the big guy has nothing to do. Don’t give any gold and jade, it’s too vulgar!

[Shen Wangu]: It’s unbearable! If you really dare to give us a reward of ten times, you will humiliate him!

[Liu Sheng]: Damn I want such humiliation too!

【Qiu Dong】:1

【Shen Bang】: 10086…

...

Liu Guanguo is not too slow, so add more materials.

[Liu Guanguo]: Meng Qianzi is wearing a male makeup artist, very handsome. The two of them stand together and are very good at each other.

The makeup artist is Xin Ci. He is twenty-six years old, 1.8 meters tall, with slender eyes and straight noses, and long hair. He is still quite masculine and handsome, a bit like Ekin Cheng, the young and dandy boy who became popular in the 1990s. He was wearing a loose white casual outfit and looked good and elegant. Liu Guanguo was hesitant at the time and thought he was Meng Qianzi's male companion.

Sure enough, one piece of information caused a thousand waves.

[Chen Wangu]: Can't you find a homosexual? Is it difficult to hire a female makeup artist?

[Chen Bang]: I won’t have feelings, I put on makeup all day long and day... I can’t accept the marriage between big bosses and mortals, poorer than her, and monks.

[Qiu Dong]: I think it should not be. The distance creates beauty. The distance is too close and there is no sense of mystery between each other.

[Chen Wangu]: I hope the boss will be rational, restrained, and smart, and not be moved by the beauty of inappropriate families.

[Liu Sheng]: I can’t stand it anymore, what’s wrong with the makeup artist? The profession is not limited to the high and low, and it’s also good to match the big guy with a makeup artist. A man who stands behind him and silently supports the big guy’s appearance.

...

It is said that women gossip, but in fact, men are not inferior to eight. Liu Guanguo was watching the fun, and Qiu Dong suddenly made a comment.

It was this sentence that made the group temporarily cold.

[Qiu Dong]: Liu Guanguo, Brother Liu, do you know why the boss came to Xiangxi? We have been marginalized here for two or three hundred years, right?

This is true.

***

Mountain ghosts, here in Liu Guanguo, have two concepts: broad and narrow.

In a broad sense, people in this group can be called mountain ghosts, also known as "mountain dwellers" and "pangolins". As the name suggests, they travel through mountains and forests, and have been relying on the mountains to make a living for generations. They have some secret skills, act in a low-key manner, make money quietly, and do not tell others about it.

In a narrow sense, it only refers to a small group of people who are truly "selected" by the mountains. They are gifted and have the same veins and breathing with the mountains. They can enter the deep and deep places of the mountain belly that ordinary people cannot reach and pick unknown mountain mines. This small group of people is also divided into grades and is limited to the number of people. Generally, the human body is used to describe the mountain body. From low to high, there are two mountain shoulders, two mountain ears, two mountain eyebrows, and one mountain bun...

The mountain bun is not the highest. In ancient times, there was a crown on the bun, which was inherited by the king and the respected one. Therefore, there was a mountain ghost throne above the mountain bun, which was naturally the best among the small group of people.

But the first predecessor who compiled the mountain ghost level obviously ignored one thing: mountain shoulders and mountain ears, etc., all of which are two words. They are quick and easy to pronounce, but the highest-ranking one...

Calling her "the one sitting on the mountain ghost throne" is too long and too difficult to pronounce; it is called "mountain ghost throne" for short, and it sounds like a chair and has become a spirit, which is really hard to devastating - no one comes out to give a standard answer, which gives everyone the opportunity to play freely. For example, Liu Guanguo and others are used to being called "big boss".

The latest big shot is naturally Meng Qianzi who was being talked about in front of him.

There is no definite statement on which dynasty a mountain ghost originated from. However, the internal habit of regarding the mountain ghost in Qu Yuan’s "Chu Ci. Nine Songs" as his ancestor grandmother. Perhaps it was because of the kindness of his ancestor grandmother that the mountain ghosts of all generations were prosperous and yang, and all the highest rankings were women.

In ancient times, information was blocked, the economy was underdeveloped, and I didn’t know where the land was big, but I only knew that there were mountains outside the mountains. In order to understand the conditions of the mountains, the big guys would work hard to open the mountains and forests. Later, the people’s wisdom was opened and the country was defined. A book called "Mountain Book" clearly listed the mountains in China - the predecessors planted trees and later took advantage of the shade, and the successors were inevitably slack. The remote deep mountains and forests of Xiangxi naturally faded out of sight. In addition, during the Ming Dynasty, the traveler Xu Xiake tried to discriminate and rank in different places, promoting the saying "If you don’t look at the mountains when you return from the five mountains, you don’t look at the mountains when you return from the Huangshan Mountain", which is exactly the same as the big guys’ thoughts. Okay, you directly settled your permanent residence at the foot of Huangshan Mountain, titled "Shan Guizhai", which secretly matched the word "mountain ghost".

Qiu Dong said it was quite restrained. In fact, Xiangxi is marginalized for two or three hundred years.

So the question is, how could Meng Qianzi come without warning? Suddenly, in person?

***

Liu Guanguo couldn't answer, so he turned off his phone and re-engaged: This is the best thing about WeChat group chat, from wherever he comes and goes, he is erratic, and there is no need to explain.

I just chopped a few times and saw a dark look in front of me, and a person flashed into the gate.

The man wore a big black raincoat with a hood and black rain boots, and was covered in shiny skin from head to toe by the rain.

The boss was in the room, and Liu Guanguo was extremely alert. He glared at him and subconsciously lifted the knife. However, the man was busy taking off his raincoat at the door, clenching and shaking.

I recognized it. It was my drink friend Wang Qingliang who worked as a security guard in Wuling Mountain Scenic Area.

Liu Guanguo felt strange: "Didn't you get off work early? Why are you here for the middle of the night?"
Chapter completed!