The scenic area is full of mountain roads, sometimes it is a steep slope upward, sometimes it is a deep valley downward, and occasionally it is a good place to drill through the cave, which is a good place for exploration and leisure during the day, but at night, it is a barren mountain range that is dark and you can't see your fingers. There is no way, the scenic area management committee did not install street lights in the scenic spot at all, in fact, there is no need to install them, because at night, the scenic spot is closed, no visitors, no tourists, and there is no point in installing street lights.

Li Yulan was in a hurry to call the door, and she also neglected this, but fortunately, the staff of the scenic spot were very friendly and borrowed an LED flashlight for her. So Li Rui and Li Yulan, holding the only flashlight in their hands, walked to the depths of the valley.

The silence of the mountains, especially at night, is even more quiet, and the occasional chirp of owls in the air forms a continuous echo in the valley, but it is more and more cold. The zenith is like lacquer, the stars are twinkling, and the mountain peaks in front of you are like giant beasts standing in the dark.

Walking out of more than ten meters, Li Rui handed the empty bottle in his hand to Li Yulan to hold, took the rather heavy flashlight from her hand, held it himself, and held her plain hand with the other hand, his steps slowed down, and said softly: "Go slowly, don't rush." After speaking, he sighed: "Actually, you don't have to accompany me in, you just wait outside, I know the way." Li Yulan was held by him, her heart was happy, she snuggled up to him affectionately, and said, "I'm fine anyway, I'll go with you, just stay with you for a while." ”

The two chatted all the way, talking and laughing, although there was no affectionate action, but they fell into tenderness and honey and couldn't extricate themselves, and unconsciously arrived at the destination of this trip, the fairy cave.

The Fairy Cave is said to be a cave, in fact, it is more similar to the exit of a passage that the Fairy River crosses from the Taihang Mountains, the entrance of the cave is located at the bottom of a cliff in the valley deep in the scenic area, low and narrow, the height is more than one meter less than two meters, there are five or six meters long, the entrance of the cave is covered with grass and moss, from a distance, it looks like the indecent place of the woman in the lateral state. Li Rui always felt that the real reason for the name of this cave was its shape, not what fairies had appeared in it. The water of the Fairy River flows smoothly from the mouth of the cave, and flows day and night along the low channel in the valley to the plains in the southeast.

Li Rui is very familiar with the Fairy Cave, and used to come often, because the Fairy Cave is one of the most important water monitoring points in Qingyang City during the flood season, and on the external stone wall of the Fairy Cave, it is also marked with the hydrological height measurement column carved by the Shuanghe County Water Conservancy Bureau. Now, Li Rui irradiates the measuring column with a flashlight, and naturally remembers the previous days in the Flood Control Office of the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, and then thinks of himself now, and he is very emotional.

"How do you go down?"

Li Yulan asked with concern, looking at the railing in front of her. The fairy cave is three or four meters away from the side of the mountain road where the two are located. In order to prevent visitors from accidentally falling into the river in the valley, the scenic spot management committee specially built a railing more than one meter high here, outside the railing, first the corner of the rock that is more than ten or twenty centimeters long, and then the uneven mountain wall below, the shrubs are thick, it can be able to go down to the bottom of the valley, it is the deep pool formed by the river water next to the fairy hole.

Li Rui took the flashlight and shone it on the mountain wall below, and said, "You help me shine the flashlight, and I'll climb down to catch the water." Li Yulan grabbed his arm and asked, "There won't be danger, right?" Li Rui shook his head with a smile and said: "No, there are many places to settle down below, with my skills, there is no problem at all in climbing up and down, you can rest assured." After speaking, he handed her the flashlight, took out his mobile phone wallet and something afraid of water, and put it on the ground by the roadside.

Although he is confident that he can safely descend to the bottom, it is better to put down these important and precious items first, just in case, which can be regarded as a rainy day. Besides, with the lack of these bits and pieces on your body, it is easy to get up.

"Be careful, climb slowly!"

When Li Rui climbed over the railing, Li Yulan was so nervous that she spoke again. Li Rui smiled at her, squatted down, stretched out his right leg, pointed at a protruding mountain wall below, and after standing firmly, he climbed down carefully. Li Yulan pointed the flashlight at the direction under him, and did not dare to deviate at all. The night was like ink, and Li Rui slowly descended in this condensed beam, gradually approaching the bottom.

Seeing that he was about to step on the ground at the bottom of the valley, Li Rui was perhaps anxious, or overconfident, and jumped down when he was still more than half a meter high from the ground. How do you know that the rocky ground you stepped on was extremely slippery because of the proximity to the river, Li Rui's feet stepped on the ground at the same time, and he also slipped out, and he didn't have time to react at all, so he felt that his body was overturned, and his eyes also saw the light shining from the flashlight above his head, and the next moment, the back of his head suddenly "banged", and he fell to the mountain wall behind him, and then he fell to the ground on his back, and he couldn't get up for the time being.

Li Yulan stood on it and saw the scene of him falling clearly, only her face changed in fright, and she shouted: "Li Rui, what's wrong with you, are you okay?" Li Rui, can you hear it, why did you fall......

Li Rui grinned bitterly and shouted at her: "I'm fine, it's just a fall, it's just a trivial matter." As he spoke, he put his hands on the ground, sat up slowly, and felt that the back of his head was still a little painful after getting up, and raised his hand to the back to touch it, and his hand was wet and sticky, and his heart moved, it wouldn't be a break and bleeding, right?

Li Yulan asked nervously while illuminating the way forward for him: "What did you touch just now, did you break it?" Li Rui smiled: "It's okay, skin trauma, don't worry, I'll go up immediately." ”

After he had said this, he had already walked to the side of the deep pool formed outside the cave, and he deliberately avoided the pool, and got as close as possible to the mouth of the cave, to catch the living water that flowed from there, instead of the stagnant water that had been condensed on the edge of the pool for many days. The river water is cold and pure, with the fresh taste of nature, not to mention whether it can cure diseases, drinking it is definitely good for the human body.

"Uh......h Wow (three 'watts' here)...... Woo...... Wow......"

Li Rui just took half a bottle of water, and suddenly the sound of a baby crying came from the hole, he didn't hear it clearly at first, and when he finally heard it, he was only frightened, he shivered coldly, his right hand trembled, and the mineral water bottle in his hand fell into the water instantly, and was quickly hit away by the flowing water.

Li Rui didn't have time to take care of the bottle, he was frightened, got up and took a few steps back, avoided the entrance of the cave, stared at the entrance of the cave with wide eyes, his face was full of bewilderment, how could there be a child's cry in the cave? Could it be that a child fell into the water? But it's not right, the sound sounds more like the cry of a baby about a year old, and babies are usually taken care of by their parents, how can they fall into the water? What's more, even if it falls into the water, it will be washed away by the river that is not turbulent but actually flows fast, how can it be that it flows backwards into the fairy cave? Damn, is it a river ghost?

Legend has it that there are water ghosts in the river, which are ghosts formed under the water after a child goes to the river to play in the water and accidentally drowns. This ghost creature was resentful because of his unjust death, and at the same time wanted to borrow the corpse to resurrect his soul, so when someone entered the river, he grabbed his feet, dragged him to the bottom of the river and drowned him alive, and then borrowed his body to resurrect him...... But after all, this is just a story and legend, no one has ever seen a real river ghost, and there is no evidence of the existence of a river ghost. But if it's not the river ghost who is crying right now, what can it be?

Li Yulan above had been paying attention to Li Rui's movements, seeing that he suddenly took a few steps back, as if he had seen something terrible, she was also worried and nervous, and shouted loudly: "What's the matter?"

It's good that she didn't ask this, but when she asked, Li Rui became more and more frightened, and involuntarily her teeth clashed, and she shouted boldly: "Hole...... There are ...... in the cave With small children...... The child cries. Li Yulan was stunned at first, then burst out laughing, and said, "That's not a child crying, it's the cry of a baby fish." Li Rui was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Baby fish?" Li Yulan said: "Yes, it's baby fish, don't you know that there are baby fish in our fairy river, especially the river section near the fairy cave, the water quality is good, the environment is safe and secluded, and there are many baby fish living in it." These baby fish cry at night, just like children crying, and the people who live here have long been surprised. ”

Li Rui breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it was not a river ghost, patted his chest, and secretly said ashamed in his heart, he was a five-foot-tall man, and he was scared half to death by a baby fish.

He was happy, suddenly thought of something, was shocked, raised his hand and slapped his forehead, and shouted: "Oh, my bottle fell into the water and was washed away!" Li Yulan said: "What? Do you say it again?" Li Rui said: "The bottle fell into the water, you ...... Take a flashlight and take care of it, I'll see if it's gone. ”

Li Yulan irradiated a flashlight in the direction he pointed. Thanks to the LED flashlight she is holding, the beam is condensed and pure, the power is strong, and there will be no astigmatism within ten meters, Li Rui can see the things on the waterhole at the bottom of the valley clearly, if it is replaced by an ordinary flashlight, he has to let Li Yulan throw the flashlight down, and he can only illuminate it by holding it himself.