At night, the hotel was very quiet, and all the rooms seemed to be asleep, leaving only our small lamp surrounded by thick smoke. www.biquge.info Lao Cai told the past thirty-nine years ago in a slow tone that was almost hypnotic, like a steam train that was constantly wheezing, and was using all its strength to complete the most difficult journey. And we on the train did not get drowsy because of the bumps of a single rhythm, on the contrary, the thickening fog made everyone's nerves sharp and sensitive.

Lao Cai in the huge cave had calmed down from the initial shock and fear, and even noticed that the white bones embedded in the walls were all human forearm bones and metacarpal bones, which were stacked very messily, as if they were stacked with a layer of white bones, and then covered with a layer of soil and tamped. This wall is more than twenty layers, to say the least, and there are so many hand bones in it that it should be an astronomical number. So much so that many of the metacarpal bones protruded out of the wall and propped outward, as if they were about to crawl out of the wall.

But Lao Cai didn't see Chef Fang, nor did he hear a sound. He must have walked all the way around the wall, disappearing into the darkness filled with the smell of decay. Lao Cai shouted twice towards the dark front, but he didn't hear Chef Fang's answer.

At this moment, at the stone wall they dug up, the voice of his companion calling for help sounded, and Lao Cai hurriedly ran back. The next worker who entered the hole in the wall, his body was quite strong, and he was stuck with the stone halfway through, but he couldn't spread his hands and couldn't move anymore.

There was no way, Lao Cai crawled back into the hole, used the steel drill and small hammer he brought with him, helped him clean up the stones stuck in his body one by one, and worked for ten minutes before pushing the man back the way he came. Outside the cave, Lao Cai heard footsteps.

When Lao Cai climbed back into the cave, Chef Fang was already standing at the entrance of the cave, his expression a little depressed. He told Lao Cai that the bone wall was very dangerous, and asked Lao Cai to leave quickly with the people, and seal the entrance of the cave after going out. Who dragged a two-foot-long, one-foot-high iron box and handed it to Lao Cai, saying that this was the silver taels that their Ming family buried in the cave for emergency relief, and he was useless, so he gave it to Lao Cai as a reward for helping him enter the cave. After speaking, Lao Cai pushed out of the wall hole, and at that time, Lao Cai obviously felt that there was a lot of wind blowing in the cave, and the dust rolled up, making it a little difficult for people to breathe, and Chef Fang was dead and stayed inside.

Lao Cai didn't dare to delay any longer, and held back for a long time, but the other party's cook said to take care and crawled out of the cave. Cook Fang also began to fill in the hole on the other side of the stone wall. Lao Cai came out of the cave and filled in the hole according to the request of Chef Fang, and at this time, no sound could be heard. The three of them curiously opened the iron box, and inside it turned out to be a whole box of silver ingots, totaling seventy or eighty catties. The three of them were stunned for a long time, but Lao Cai made a decision to get the box back.

When Lao Cai came, he knew that Chef Fang would not follow them back, so he made a simple record of the route along the way, and walked a few more times these days, took the box, and returned to the headquarters smoothly.

Along the way, Lao Cai and the two workers discussed that the matter of this box of silver could not be hidden, so the workers of the construction team had a share each, and they shared it equally, and everyone kept the secret together.

After that, things went very well, Lao Cai and they came back and said that they found this box during the search and rescue, I don't know who buried it, anyway, there is no owner, everyone divided ten ingots, and each secretly went home and hid. After that, the search and rescue work was declared a failure, and Fang Chuzi became the third missing person, under the spread of the haunting under the alleyway by Lao Cai and his team, and the discovery of the outer wall of the vault, the leaders of the factory and the city public security realized that the search and rescue could no longer be carried out with great fanfare.

Soon, the roadway was blocked, the iron gate was installed, and with the hasty completion of the air-raid shelter repair project, the underground life of the construction team that lasted more than three months came to an end, and everyone never returned to that creepy place.

Lao Cai said this, stopped, took out a small silver ingot from his pocket, handed it to Team Cao, and said: "This is the silver ingot we brought out back then, for decades, everyone has found an opportunity to sell it, subsidize the family, and I still have a few left." ”

Team Cao looked at it for a moment, handed it to me again, lit a cigarette, and fell into deep thought.

I looked at the silver ingot, a typical Yuan Dynasty style, but it is different from the official silver, and there is a mark of the silver building under the silver ingot, which should be privately minted by the people. And Lao Cai's memories also explain why he was initially reserved about our storytelling and what he tried to hide.

At this time, the Wang team, who was listening attentively on the side and had not been open, said: "Lao Cai, there were only four people who entered the bone wall back then, and only four people knew most of the truth, then, the black tower and the white bones we saw on the outer wall of the vault are very likely to have been transported from there, and Chef Fang did not come out, so the other two people are seriously suspected, and it is very likely that the thieves learned the specific situation from them." ”

Lao Cai Chong Wang team smiled: "Those two people are not very likely, one of them died in the martial arts fight a few years later, and the other one died of illness in 62, they are all honest workers who have not seen much of the world, I don't think they know any friends with great ambitions." In addition, Team Wang, there is one more thing you didn't say right, Chef Fang didn't come out of it. ”

Lao Cai's words shocked us again, "Chef Fang didn't die inside, did you see him later?" Team Cao was obviously very uncomfortable with the repeated reversals of the story. Lao Cai nodded, but if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand, when we first investigated, Lao Cai told us that two people were missing in the alley at that time, and Chef Fang was ignored, in fact, it was not Lao Cai's memory that was wrong, but that Chef Fang was not missing, and Lao Cai saw him later.

About three years after the bomb shelter incident, Lao Cai is still burning boilers in the factory, and his life is dull. Lao Cai lives in a small bungalow in the factory, because he is an old worker, he moved out of the collective dormitory last year, and the factory gave him a small house of only 10 square meters.

It was a summer evening, Lao Cai returned to the courtyard after work, but found that there were many footprints with black mud in the courtyard, he didn't think much about it, pushed the door and entered the house. The room was a little dim at this time, but Lao Cai suddenly found a person sitting on a chair in the corner of the wall. Lao Cai was startled, but vaguely felt that this person was a little familiar.

Take a closer look, this person is Chef Fang, but Chef Fang in front of him is even thinner than three years ago, almost skinny. "Chef Fang, are you out?" Lao Cai asked with some surprise. At this time, Chef Fang raised his head, and Lao Cai noticed that he had been covering his eyes with his right hand, and seemed to be very afraid of light.

Chef Fang smiled bitterly at Lao Cai, and told Lao Cai that the array that Fang Tiantai set up was very difficult to break, and it had taken him a few years of hard work to just touch the doorway, but it was difficult for him to succeed alone, and he moved some of the mechanisms inside, and the resentment in the array became heavier and heavier, and if he didn't solve it as soon as possible, he was afraid that there would be big trouble.

Chef Fang said, handed Lao Cai a crumpled envelope, and begged Lao Cai to go to Langzhong and find his master Master Lichen in Jinchan Temple, if the temple is gone, there is still an address on the envelope, give him the letter, and don't worry about the rest. Lao Cai took the letter and was about to ask a few more questions, when he suddenly smelled a strong smell of rotting corpses, which made his stomach twitch for a while, and his brain was as heavy as lack of oxygen, and then his consciousness was a little blurred. He only remembered that Chef Fang got up after speaking, bowed to him, but his hand still covered his forehead, and then went out without looking back.

Lao Cai regained his senses, and the sky was full of stars outside. At one time, Lao Cai thought that he had a nightmare, and it was not really what happened, but when he saw the envelope on the bed, and it was a special envelope in the familiar factory, he knew that it was not a dream.

This envelope is not only wrinkled, but also full of moisture and musty smell, it is clear that this letter has been written by the chef a long time ago, and has been carrying it on his body for many years, so it has become what it is now. Lao Cai didn't dare to delay, so he went to the factory early the next morning to ask for a leave, and went to Langzhong on a long-distance bus.

At that time, from Chongqing to Langzhong, the road had to be bumpy for more than ten hours, Lao Cai fell into Langzhong, it was already dark, so he had to find a guest house to stay for one night, and the next morning, find someone to inquire about the location of Jinchan Temple. When I asked, I found out that a few years ago, the Golden Toad Temple had been set on fire by the Red Guards, and now there is only a pile of rubble left in the middle of the mountain.

Lao Cai hurriedly took out the envelope, carefully identified it, inquired all the way to passers-by, and stopped at a dilapidated courtyard at the end of the old street. knocked on the courtyard door, and the one who came out to open the door was an old man with a slightly hunched back, but it was not much different from the farmers in the town, and he didn't look like a monk, Lao Cai couldn't help but wonder if he had gone to the wrong door.

Lao Cai just opened his mouth and asked the old man is Master Chen, the old man saw the envelope in Lao Cai's hand, and asked, are you from Chunjiang Factory, the letter sent to me? Lao Cai nodded, the old man stopped talking, took the envelope, pushed Lao Cai out of the courtyard door, and told Lao Cai, hurry back, don't enter the air-raid shelter again, just as if this incident never happened. After that, the gate was never opened.

Since then, Lao Cai has never seen Chef Fang and Master Lichen again. At the end of the sixties, a fire broke out in the bomb shelter, and because the water source was far from the entrance of the cave, the fire engine could not drive in, and the fire burned for a day before it was extinguished. Lao Cai looked at the cave with thick smoke from a distance, thinking in his heart that Chef Fang didn't know if he had come out of it.

(The song is complete, the vain is straight, the depression is profitable, the new is new, the less is gained, and the more is confused.) It is a saint holding one for the world. I don't see myself, so I know; is not self-sufficient, so it is manifested, not self-cutting, so it is meritorious; Not self-conscious, so long. The husband is indisputable, so the world can not fight with it. The so-called "song is complete" in ancient times, is it not a lie? --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )