The laughter suddenly rang out, and it was not intimidating in this silent and empty mountain. Especially Li Rui and these people have just heard the story of the origin of the old man's so-called fox spirit, and now they are even more frightened when they hear this weird laughter.

Gao Zixuan exclaimed in surprise and threw herself behind Li Rui. Li Rui was so frightened that he almost didn't jump up, looking at the half-unfallen north wall in panic.

Xu Da also looked surprised, looked at the place where the strange laughter sounded, and said, "Who is laughing inside? How can there be people inside? When I walked there just now, there was no one." The old man glanced at the north wall and said lazily, "Nobody, that's not people laughing." Fuck, it's those foxes laughing at me for not being able to catch them. Xu Da was surprised and said, "Fox...... Laughing at you? ...... "They can't laugh?" said the old man, "They cry and laugh and scream and make trouble, just like children." Last time I had an old red-eyed fox, and the little foxes here cried for more than a week, every night, and I was annoyed. ”

Li Rui couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he heard it, and he didn't know if what the old man said was true or not, although it was no problem for foxes to understand human nature, but to say that foxes can cry and laugh, just like people, it would be amazing, it's not that I haven't been to the zoo, when I passed by the fox area, I have observed the white fox and the red fox, just like the dog, they are the most ordinary animals, no matter how developed its brain is, it is impossible to learn to cry and laugh like a human, in that case, it is not a fox, it will really become a fox spirit.

Xu Daqi said: "Why are they crying?" The old man said, "Woo, it's just like people." Xu Da smiled bitterly: "That's really crazy." The old man said, "What kind of mad people are that? They don't dare to bite you and won't eat you, they just scream blindly, are you afraid of it? Come with me." He walked around beyond the half-crumbling north wall.

Li Rui, Xu Da, and Gao Zixuan glanced at each other, and all three followed.

The area outside the north wall of the mountain temple is not very large, that is, about ten square meters, to the west is the mountain wall, to the north two or three meters to the head, to the end is the slope of the slope is very steep, the ground is covered with gravel tiles and thatch, you need to be very careful when walking.

Li Rui and the three of them followed closely behind the old man, seeing that they had already walked outside the north wall, and suddenly, there was a "fluttering" sound from the bushes under the northern hillside, followed by a "fluttering" sound. All four of them turned their heads to look over, only to find a few unkempt grasses dangling there.

The old man who walked in front bent down and picked up a stone from the ground, smashed it hard, and scolded angrily: "Kill you, let you tease Lao Tzu." ”

The three of them all laughed when they saw this. Gao Zixuan followed the old man's example, picked up a stone and smashed it.

The old man waved his hand and said, "Don't smash it, run early." Gao Zixuan asked rhetorically: "Then you still throw it?" The old man laughed and scolded: "I'm fucking angry, I can't wait to smash it to death." ”

While speaking, the old man had already come to the bottom of the half of the north wall, and after Li Rui and the three of them surrounded him, he pointed to the root of the wall and said, "This is the hole of the fox's den." ”

When Li Rui and the three of them heard this, they all approached and looked at it with wide eyes, but they couldn't see anything else except for some of the broken wall tiles.

Due to natural causes such as wind and sun, rain and moisture, a large area of the wall has been corroded, forming a concave pit, about two feet long and less than a foot high. But the surface of this pit is very shallow, and all the details are clear at a glance. If you want to say that there is a fox den here, as long as you have eyes, no one will believe it.

Gao Zixuan flattened her mouth and said, "What kind of fox nest is this?" Uncle, aren't you making fun of us?" The old man said: "Of course you can't see it when you stand and watch, you squat down, and you can see it when you squat down." ”

Li Rui squatted down when he heard this, and then leaned his head to look at it, and finally discovered the mystery. It turned out that on the left side of this pit, inside the wall, where the two bricks meet, there is a small hole facing downward. This small hole was not much bigger than the rat hole, and it was deep in the wall, so the three of them couldn't see it at all when they were condescending just now.

At this time, on the outside of this small hole, a looper made of thin steel wire is placed almost close to the orifice. One end of the looper is blocked at the entrance of this hole, and the other end extends out, tied to the root of the wall under the iron drill rigged in the ground, the steel wire is extremely thin, and the iron drill only shows its head on the surface, if you don't look carefully, you can't find their existence at all. If a fox comes out of this small hole, it will be caught by this looper without accident, and it is good not to struggle, the more it struggles, the more it dies, and the faster it dies. But Li Rui didn't understand, how could this hole, which was not much bigger than a mouse hole, be a fox's nest......? Not to mention a mouse, even if it is several laps larger than a cat, how can it be possible to get into such a small hole?

Li Rui originally thought that through this old man who can be said to be a local expert, he could learn more about the distribution of caves and caves in the mountain temple, because if the treasure collector wants to hide the treasure, it is unlikely that he will open another cave on this stone mountain by manpower, not to mention the labor, it will take countless days, and how to cover up the cave is also a big problem, he can only use the naturally generated cave to make a fuss. Based on this hypothetical premise, the more caves you find, the greater the probability of finding those treasures, which is a very simple truth. But now, the old man pointed out to him a cave entrance that was not called a cave at all, and it made him feel as if there were no flowers in the willow and the village.

Li Rui coughed dryly and said with a wry smile: "Old brother, you say this is the hole of the fox's den?" The old man said, "What do you think?" Li Rui stretched his hand into the small hole, but he could barely stuff it in, and said: "It's just such a small hole, can the fox get into?" The old man said: "What do you think, the fox has soft bones and can shrink bones." ”

Li Rui was skeptical, he couldn't believe it, but he didn't believe it, he stood up and looked at Xu Da and Gao Zixuan, with a wry smile on his face.

The old man didn't pay attention to him anymore, squatted down and began to dismantle the booty sleeve in a graceful manner, and muttered non-stop: "This litter of fox cubs, all of them are fucking better than monkeys, and they are getting harder and harder to catch, so you have to force me to get off the clamp......"

Li Rui and the three of them looked at him and didn't say anything.

The old man finished putting away the cover, got up and sighed: "Speaking of which, now even the rat knows how to hide from the clip, let alone the fox who has become a sperm." Well, that's it for today, let's go down the mountain. Keep playing, haha. After saying that, he went down the mountain with a sleeve and an iron chisel.

The three of them watched him leave, and when they couldn't see him anymore, Gao Zixuan suddenly asked excitedly: "Shouldn't we also go down the mountain and go home?" I don't think this treasure can be found. ”

Xu Da shook his head slowly, looked at Li Rui and said, "No, I think this fox nest is a bit weird." Maybe our treasure will fall on it. Li Rui's heart moved when he heard this, and said, "Brother, what do you think of?" Xu Da said: "I've seen foxes, they are two circles bigger than cats, and they are similar to small dachshunds, not to mention whether they can get into such a small hole, even if they can get in, how much space does it need to accommodate them? They have at least one litter, not one." If you count a litter as less, you have to have a male and a female plus three or four cubs, and you have to add up to five or six or even more. Think about it, how much space do five or six cats have to occupy, let alone a fox that is so much bigger than a cat?"

Li Rui was very excited, and then said: "I understand what you mean, you mean, this fox nest has a small entrance, but a big belly, and there is still a lot of space inside?" Xu Da nodded and said: "That's what I thought, further reasoning - the entrance to this fox nest is open at the base of the wall, and it is only two layers of bricks from the ground, and it is naturally impossible for a nest of foxes to live in such a small space, so their nest must be under the foundation, and there is another world." Li Rui exclaimed happily: "And we have already deduced before that the probability that the treasure was buried under the foundation is the highest. Xu Da smiled: "Foxes can't dig burrows in mountain rocks, they can only use natural caves as nests, so this fox den located underground is likely to be where the treasure is hidden." ”

When they said this, they were both very happy, and they invariably reached over and high-fived each other to celebrate the solution of the puzzle.

Gao Zixuan became excited when she heard this, and said, "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and dig it." Li Rui asked her with a smile: "Aren't you yelling to go home?" Gao Zixuan raised her hand to hit him, and said with a smile: "Nonsense, I can dig up the treasure now, what am I going back to, hehe." ”

Xu Da said: "Don't worry, you wait, I'll find a soft branch to probe into the hole and see which direction it leads." After speaking, he broke off a soft branch from a small tree next to him, about a meter or so, walked to the root of the wall where the entrance to the fox's den was located, half-squatted and half-knelt on the ground, and slowly sent the branch in with his right hand, while sending it in, while feeling the direction in which the branch entered.

Li Rui walked to him and squatted down, looked at it for a while, and asked, "How is it?" Xu Daxi said: "It's really the same as our reasoning, the hole is obliquely downward......" After speaking, he pulled out the branch, gestured, and said in surprise: "You see, when I reached in just now, I stuck the length with my hand, and now you see, the length of my branch is obviously sixty or seventy centimeters lower than the ground! But this is not to the end! This means that there is a big hole underneath." Li Rui was ecstatic and shouted: "There is indeed an article in this fox hole!"