Chapter 6: The Mysterious Word

We looked along the place pointed by Feng Lian, and saw that under the big tree next to our tent near the root, there was a black hole hole, the hole was about the thickness of a person's waist, for a person to drill into, now the sky is bright, this hole looks particularly deep and mysterious under the gray and blue background. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"It can't be a pigtail ghost, right?!" I still remember what had happened in the graveyard before.

"I'll go and see," said my cousin.

I know that my cousin is a scholar of archaeology, and he has a strong desire for knowledge, and he usually has a strong curiosity about mysterious things. Now relatively safe, the sudden appearance of the dark hole must have aroused his desire to explore.

In fact, I also want to know why such a hole suddenly appeared, and what is in the hole.

"Be careful," I said to my cousin.

My cousin nodded, let me, Feng Lian and the rescued woman leave, hide in a safe place, let Feng Yun stand at a relatively far distance and aim a shotgun in the direction of the cave entrance as a cover, shoot whenever there is a situation, he himself took a flashlight and a dagger and walked slowly and cautiously towards the entrance of the cave.

Because it was far away and the sky was not completely bright, I vaguely saw my eldest cousin hiding next to the big tree after approaching the entrance of the cave, shining a flashlight into the entrance of the cave, picking up a stone and throwing it in, seeing that there was no danger in the situation, I leaned out and put my face close to the entrance of the cave and looked in. After that, I saw my eldest cousin look at it for a while, poke his head into the hole, take a flashlight and look inside, and then almost the entire upper body poked in.

When I saw it, I became nervous, afraid that my cousin would encounter any danger, so I pinched my throat and shouted, "Cousin, come out quickly, don't look at it."

The cousin didn't seem to hear, but still leaned over to look in the cave, and after a long time, it was estimated that it was about a quarter of an hour before the cousin leaned out of the hole. I saw my cousin stay at the entrance of the cave for a while, as if thinking about something, then stood up and walked to the place where Fengyun Station, I saw that there was no danger, so I asked Fenglian to stay with the rescued woman still in place, and I ran over to ask my cousin: "Cousin, what's in that cave?"

"It's nothing, maybe it's some kind of animal nest, there's nothing in it, probably because we didn't pay much attention when we set up the tent. ā€

I felt a little strange that when we set up the tent, we had looked carefully around us, and I remember very well that there must not have been such a hole at that time, why did my cousin say that we did not pay attention at the time?

My cousin asked me and Fengyun to move a large rock nearby to block the entrance to the cave, saying that I was afraid that someone would accidentally fall into it. When I blocked the hole, I looked inside, and it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.

After plugging the hole, we dug a pit next to the dead leopard, buried the dead leopard, and covered the ground with blood. Although almost no one in this barren mountain or mountain range usually comes here except for some people who go to the grave on the eastern slope and may occasionally pass by, we are still afraid that this dead leopard will frighten the people passing by, so we still cleaned up the surroundings, and then packed up the tent and the things scattered near the tent, and left here with the rescued woman.

On the way back, the sky gradually brightened, and I took a closer look at the rescued woman, about eighteen or nineteen years old, very simple-looking, dressed very plainly, and at first glance she was an ordinary rural girl. Don't talk much, just ask a word, according to her she is from which village in Shanxi, a person lied to her and said to take her to Xi'an to work but abducted her here and sold her to a family, and later learned that the family's son died, but did not marry, bought her to be a "ghost bride", and then the person who deceived her brought a group of people to tie her up and put her in the coffin, fortunately we saved her, and cried as she spoke, and thanked us a thousand times. Feng Lian comforted her a few words, and slowly stopped crying.

The eldest cousin told us not to mention the dead leopard and the pigtailed ghost when we went back, and no one would believe it if we said it, and it would cause panic, so we agreed. It wasn't until years later that I learned the cause of the leopard's death and the truth about the pigtailed ghost.

On the road, I always felt that my eldest cousin was not the same as usual, as if he had something on his mind, and rarely spoke.

After returning to the village, we went back to my uncle's house, and told my uncle and my parents that we accidentally rescued a girl who was abducted on the way, and my uncle contacted the local police station, and after a while, two policemen came to the police station, understood the situation, and made a record, we only said the general rescue process, of course, we did not mention the matter of the pigtail ghost rolling the trafficker into the grave and the strange dead leopard, and then the police took the rescued girl away, and later heard from the uncle that the girl was sent back to her own home.

Fengyun Fenglian said goodbye to us and went back with Uncle Zhao's shotgun, and what she encountered in the mountains was like a dream.

My parents and I stayed at my uncle's house for a while, and for the next few days, I kept feeling that my eldest cousin was a little different, as if he was always on his mind, and he didn't like to talk much.

One day, the clouds were thick, and it seemed like it was going to rain heavily. My eldest cousin and I stood on the top of the cave and looked at the direction of Helan Mountain, only to see that the big mountain seemed to be right in front of us, and the dark clouds were pressed very low, pressing on the top of the mountain like a pot lid, and it seemed to be very close to the top of the mountain, and I felt that if I stood on the top of the mountain, I could touch the dark clouds with my hand.

There was a bright light in the dark clouds, and after the light there was a muffled sound of thunder. The mountains were surrounded by empty fields, and we could see the sky all the way, and the clouds above our heads and above the mountains were dark clouds, but the horizon in the distance was bright blue and white, and gusts of wind blew past us, and the wind carried the smell of rain. It is difficult for people in the city to experience this feeling, the earth is silent, only the occasional muffled thunder comes from overhead, standing on the top of the cave I feel that the whole person and nature have become one, I am so small, nature is so vast, mysterious and shocking.

After a while, I saw that a black cloth seemed to hang down on the mountain, and the rain had already fallen. It was getting darker, like night, and there was a strong wind blowing on our side, mixed with the rain of soybeans on our faces and bodies, and my eldest cousin and I hurried down from the top of the cave and returned to the house.

As soon as I got back to the house, the rain fell outside, and it was a violent storm! "Downpour" was not enough to describe the intensity of the rain.

Although this kind of rain came violently, but it went quickly, it fell for about ten minutes, the rain gradually became smaller, the sky began to gradually brighten, and after a while, the rain stopped completely, the world is really changing wonderfully, the scene after the rain and the heavy rain is just like two worlds, the sky on the field is blue and blue, blowing a slight wind, the wind is still with moisture, the earth seems to have gone through a baptism, everything is so thorough and clear. The white clouds in the sky are like marshmallows floating in the air, the shadows of the clouds are projected on the field, the sun appears and disappears with the white clouds, and the earth is also bright and dark.

The eldest cousin suddenly said to me, "Dongzi, come with me".

I was a little surprised, since I came back from the mountains that day, my eldest cousin has not spoken very much lately, and has not gone out with me, and does not know where to take me.

I followed my eldest cousin out of the village, towards the direction of Helan Mountain, on the way, the eldest cousin said to take me to see the torrent, Helan Mountain every time after this heavy rain, the torrent will pour down from the drainage ditch, the scene is very spectacular, there will be many people waiting there in the downstream of the drainage ditch, because the torrent will wash down a lot of small animals on the mountain, such as green sheep, argali, etc., people can pick up the animals brought down by the torrent.

When I arrived at the drainage ditch, there were many people around the downstream, men, women and children, people were like a party, chatting with each other, laughing, occasionally someone used a hook pole to catch a green sheep that rushed down, which immediately attracted the envy of the crowd of onlookers, and it was very lively.

I followed my eldest cousin upstream, there was no one here, only the two of us, we climbed to the embankment of the drainage ditch, the water in the drainage ditch mixed with the mud and sand rolling violently, there was a rumbling sound, the scene was really spectacular.

After looking at it for a while, the eldest cousin suddenly turned around and said to me, "Dongzi, I'm leaving, maybe I won't come back"

When he said this, the eldest cousin seemed to have made a lot of determination.

I paused for a moment, not understanding what my cousin meant, and comforted my cousin: "Cousin, you are about to start school, right? We are about to start school, and I will go back to Beijing with my parents in a few days, but it's okay, I'll come back next summer, and you can come back too, okay?

My cousin didn't speak, but took out a piece of paper from his pocket, a piece of paper torn from his notebook, folded neatly, and handed it to me.

I opened it and saw that there were some patterns drawn on the paper with a pen, and I asked my eldest cousin, "Cousin, what are these patterns?"

The cousin said: "Dongzi, this is not a pattern, it is a text, you have to keep it well, if I don't come back, when you are older, you may be able to know the truth of the matter." ā€

I just agreed as if I didn't understand, and I refolded the paper and put it in my pocket, and my eldest cousin told me to keep it well, and I felt a little uneasy at that time.

A few days later, our school was about to start, and I reluctantly said goodbye to my eldest cousin and Fengyun Fenglian brothers and sisters, saying that I would come back to play next summer, and then returned to Beijing with my parents. When I returned to Beijing, I carefully sandwiched the piece of paper my cousin gave me in one of my favorite novels, as my eldest cousin had instructed, and then forgot about it.

In the winter of the following year, bad news suddenly came from my uncle's house, that my eldest cousin had disappeared! No one knew where he had gone, that he could not be contacted at school or at home, and that two of his classmates had disappeared with him.

The school, the family, and the public security bureau sent a lot of people to look for them, but in the end they still couldn't find their whereabouts, and finally they could only think that they had died in an accident while playing. I cried for days after hearing the news.

Today, after this nightmare, I suddenly remembered this childhood past, I sat on the couch, looked at the jade Buddha in my hand, and suddenly realized why I felt that I had seen the words on it somewhere.

I immediately found a magnifying glass, rummaged through the box for a long time, and finally found my favorite novel in junior high school, which was indeed sandwiched with the paper given to me by my eldest cousin, I opened the paper and looked at the words on the jade Buddha with a magnifying glass, and compared it with the words on the paper, I was stunned when I saw it, and said in my heart: "Nima, not only do you know that the words on this jade Buddha are the same as the words written on the big cousin's paper, and the words on the jade Buddha are exactly the same as the words written by the big cousin!"

What is going on?! I suddenly wanted to know immediately what was written on the Jade Buddha.