Chapter 2: Strange Things in the Middle of the Night

On the second day, Zhang Dazhu slept until noon and didn't get up, picked up a few mouthfuls of food and went out. Recently, because of the excavation of the ancient tomb, the police sent by the city police station have protected the ancient tomb found, and the road has been stopped. When everyone saw Zhang Dazhu coming, they warmly beckoned him to come and sit down, Zhang Dazhu walked over and found a place to sit down at random.

"Dazhu, have you had lunch? I can't build a road recently, why don't you spend more time with your wife? An older man asked happily.

"Oh, she's taking a nap. Didn't I take the time to catch my breath? Zhang Dazhu stretched lazily, basking in the sun on a winter afternoon is definitely the most pleasant thing in the world.

"Haha......" Uncle was amused by Zhang Dazhu's funny tone.

"By the way, I heard that the tomb was robbed last night. Even the Municipal Public Security Bureau was alarmed, and came over early this morning to surround the ancient tomb. The provincial experts who came with him were even more angry, not to mention that the thieves would be caught and severely punished. Haha - who are you saying is so bold that he even dares to dig other people's ancestral graves, and he is not afraid of bad retribution. Another village name leaned forward and said in a gossipy manner.

When Zhang Dazhu heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly inquired, "Really? Was the tomb really stolen? I don't know if you said who did it? ”

The villager shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." However, there are a lot of people on the side of the ancient tomb now, and it seems that this matter is not far away. ”

Zhang Dazhu was flustered for a while, and he almost didn't hear everyone's conversation after that, and when he returned home, he saw the gold and jade lock plate at the head of the bed, and hurriedly wrapped it in a towel and received it to the innermost part of the wardrobe. I was still not at ease, so I woke up Fang Yu again and said, "Wife, the golden jade cleats I got back last night, you remember not to let people see it." ”

"What's wrong?" Fang Yu asked puzzled.

"Leave it alone, just do what I say." Zhang Dazhu didn't dare to tell Fang Yu the truth, for fear that she would hurt her body if she didn't do it well.

"You're not going to do anything illegal, are you? Was the cleats stolen or robbed? I sue you, although our family is poor, we can't do illegal things, do you hear? Fang Yu said very worriedly when he saw Zhang Dazhu's mysteriousness.

"What do you say! How so. I'm ...... That's a serious reward, how could it be stolen and robbed. You're going to be foolish! Zhang Dazhu was a little lacking in confidence, but he still didn't show a point on his face, and said loudly.

"Really? So why are you afraid that others will see that lock plate? Fang Yu asked unrelentingly.

"Don't you know that money doesn't leak out? In case someone else sees the bad intentions and I'm not at home, what should you do alone? Zhang Dazhu made an excuse in a hurry, afraid that Fang Yu would continue to ask questions and hurriedly said, "Sleep, don't you keep saying that you are sleepy." Go to sleep. As he spoke, he lay down beside Fang Yu, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Although Fang Yu felt strange, as soon as he thought that what Zhang Dazhu said was right, he stopped thinking about it and prepared to continue sleeping. Who knows, as soon as he closed his eyes, he heard Zhang Dazhu turn over and get out of bed. "What's wrong?" Fang Yu saw that Zhang Dazhu put on a cotton coat and asked suspiciously, "Where are you going?" ”

"I have something to do to go to Brother Hu, you go to sleep first." Zhang Dazhu put on his cotton shoes and hurried out.

"Cut, god-nagged." Fang Yu didn't pay attention to it, and fell asleep again.

Shanghai

Eleven lay on the table to make up for sleep, and her beautiful hair was casually placed on the table, which was very common in the third grade class of Beihua College. The textbooks erected on the desk can't actually block the teacher's sight at all, but the teacher in the class can't say anything, she didn't disturb the classroom discipline, and the results of every exam are the first in the grade, what else does the teacher have to say, he can only grit his teeth and let her do this.

"Bell bell bell-" The bell of the last class finally remembered. The students exhaled and prayed in their hearts not to drag the class. The teacher on the podium looked at Eleven and saw that she showed no signs of waking up, so he had to say loudly in hatred, "Class! ”

"Goodbye, teacher!" The students of the third class cheered and packed their school bags, and then walked towards the school cafeteria in groups.

"Eleven! Wake up! It's time for class to have lunch! A delicate girl walked up to Eleven's desk and shook Eleven's body in hopes of pulling her out of her sleep.

"Ruan Ruan, you can't do this, look at me!" The other girl walked quickly past Qin Ruan and walked in front of Eleven, smiled evilly, lowered her head and shouted into Eleven's ear, "It's time to eat!!! ”

The deafening scream finally made Eleven move, only to see her slowly raise her head, look at the girl with her face facing her in confusion, tilt her head and ask, "Who are you?" ”

"Liu, Wei, Ling!" The girl who was still gloating just now immediately jumped up angrily when she heard her say this.

"Okay, okay, she's just woken up, not yet." The girl named Qin Ruan hurriedly hugged the girl who jumped straight to her feet and persuaded.

Eleven rubbed his confused eyes, and sighed before he looked at the two girls in front of him, who were obviously twins, but had different personalities, and asked unhurriedly, "Qin Ruan, Qin Xin, what are you doing?" ”

"What do you say?" The short-tempered Qin Xin gritted her teeth and said, who is to blame, why doesn't she have a little self-knowledge.

"Is class over? My classmates are gone. Eleven felt that the surroundings were very quiet, and when he turned his head, he realized that the students had basically left the classroom, and only the three of them were left grinding in the classroom.

"yes, go wash your face. We're going to the restaurant for lunch. The gentle Qin Ruan took Eleven's hand and walked towards the water room. Qin Xin in the back stomped his feet before following.

Beihua College has everything from kindergarten to high school, with complete facilities, a good teaching environment, and very capable teachers, so many wealthy families like to send their children here. So this school, also known as the aristocratic school. Either the rich or the powerful here, and of course the children of an ancient family like Eleven will also study here. The first class starts at 9 o'clock in the morning and ends at 12 o'clock at noon, with an hour and a half of rest and dinner, and the school leaves around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The time is different from most schools in China, because here students not only learn knowledge, but also learn to communicate. What is taught in the classroom is far from satisfying this new generation of rich and powerful successors. The Nursery Division, Elementary Division, Junior High School, and Senior High School all have their own areas, and they are basically not accessible to each other. At noon, everyone basically goes to the school cafeteria to eat, saying that it is a school cafeteria, which is more like a five-star high-end restaurant. The exquisite decoration and exquisite and perfect food are still quite popular among the students. Eleven and the Qin twins came to the restaurant, found a table and sat down, and the waiter hurried up with the menu, "What do the three young ladies want to eat?" ”

"I'll take a look, a silver cod, a tomato salad, and a corn soup. Let's go tiramisu for dessert. Sister Qin Xin took the menu and quickly ordered the lunch to eat, and added to the waiter while handing the menu to her sister Qin Ruan beside her, "Remember to serve us a few cups of tea later." ”

"Yes." The waiter was very polite and answered.

Qin Ruan took the menu, but didn't open it, and handed it directly to Eleven, "Mine is the same as her." Pointing at Qin Xin, he said to the waiter.

Eleven on the side opened the menu and carefully selected his lunch, "Spicy chicken, spicy shrimp, mapo tofu, soup, Shangxi Lake beef soup." Eleven announced the lunch he was going to eat in one go, and then closed the menu in his hand with a 'snap', "Finally, I need a piece of rice." ”

The waiter looked at Eleven in a daze, in this school, it is not impossible to like spicy food, but it is really rare to order this kind of heavy and spicy dish all of them.

"Any questions?" Seeing that the waiter had been staring at her, Eleven asked confusedly.

"Ah, no, no problem. I'll give it to you right away. The waiter hurriedly adjusted his expression and behavior, the work here is very good, the environment is good, and the salary is high, he doesn't want to lose this job. So, he quickly took the menu and smiled, so he didn't wait for a moment and walked towards the kitchen.

"Eleven, you ordered so many spicy foods, okay? You're not afraid of being discovered by your brother. Qin Ruan asked with concern.

"If you don't say it, no one will know." Ten kept looking at the two sisters, Qin Xin and Qin Ruan, and their eyes were very similar to the eyes of the Labrador when their family made a mistake and begged for forgiveness.

After looking at each other for less than a minute, Qin Xin and Qin Ruan announced their surrender, "Okay, if you're fine, we shouldn't have seen it." But only this once, not for example," Qin Xin said helplessly.

"Well, that's it. You won't forget the last time you were admitted to the hospital because of a stomach perforation due to gluttony and spicy food. That time, your brother almost killed the chef of the restaurant, if it weren't for Brother Han Leng, the chef of the restaurant would definitely suffer. Thinking of the appearance of the eleventh elder brother at that time, Qin Ruan felt afraid for a while, that destructive power, resting on people, if he didn't die, he had to lose half of his life.

Eleven black lines, that was three years ago, why do they still remember. It is precisely because of that incident that the chili pepper she loves to eat has since disappeared on the Liu family's table, and every time she wants to eat it, she can only hide it secretly and eat it. Who made the whole family stare at her?

"By the way, why didn't Liu Qing come today?" Qin Xin always felt as if something was missing, and after looking around for a while, he realized that during lunch, Eleven's heartfelt guard Liu Qing would definitely be there, but he was not there today.

"He has a mission and has taken a leave of absence." Eleven replied.

"I said. It turned out that no one was staring at you, so you had the courage to order so much spicy food! Qin Xin said amusedly knocking on the table.

Eleven pursed her lips and didn't speak, what Qin Xin said was the truth, and she had nothing to argue.

Just when everyone was chatting without a word, the lunch of the three was delivered, the three girls were all from the family, the tutors were excellent, and the table was naturally silent and silent, and there was nothing to say for a while.

Yuxi Village

Zhang Dazhu told Zhang Hu about the situation, and Zhang Hu immediately hid the silver-patterned jade circle like Zhang Dazhu, and then told his wife not to take it out for others to see, so as not to make people blush and be a thief. Zhang Hu's wife, Sister-in-law Li, was not as suspicious as Fang Yu, and when she saw that what Zhang Hu said was reasonable, she answered and went out to work.

Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu were smoking in silence in the yard, and suddenly there was a sound of rapid footsteps outside, and the two of them panicked in their hearts, couldn't they have found themselves?

"Zhang Hu, Zhang Hu!" There was a simple voice of the villagers outside the door, and the two of them heard it, so they were relieved. A guy with a simple voice and a very honest look came in from outside the door, "Zhang Hu, hey, Dazhu is also here." That's right, I'll go to your house again. Experts from the province came and said what was going to be done, yes, protective excavation. I don't quite understand what that means, but they say there are not enough people and they have to recruit people from our village to help dig the tombs! The salary is the same as building a road, it is settled every day, and now it is at the entrance of the village, if you want to go, hurry up and sign up! After speaking, he didn't give Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu time to ask, and left in a hurry.

Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu sat in the courtyard and looked at each other, thinking about going again, and afraid that they would be found out that it was themselves who went to rob the tomb, so they couldn't make a decision for a while, so they could only smoke sullenly.

Zhang Dazhu finally made up his mind when he finished smoking the fourth cigarette, "Brother Tiger, I'm going to sign up, are you going to go?" ”

Zhang Hu was still hesitating, lowering his head and smoking a cigarette without speaking. Seeing this, Zhang Dazhu persuaded him and said, "Brother Hu, this time they are paying salaries, let's go to work, what are you afraid of!" As long as we are careful, no one will find out. What's more, isn't it even more suspicious that we are young and energetic, but we don't work! ”

Zhang Hu took a puff of cigarette fiercely, as if he was persuaded by Zhang Dazhu, put the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground, stood up and said to Zhang Dazhu, "Go, go and sign up!" ”

The two came to the entrance of the village, which was already crowded with people, and the honest villagers who had reported to Zhang Hu's house before were happily squeezing out of the crowd, and when they saw Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu, they greeted them with a smile, "Zhang Hu and Dazhu are also here, hurry up, they are still recruiting." ”

The two of them vaguely answered, and plunged into the crowd. By the time the two had finished registering, it was already evening, and the two hurried home, had dinner, and went to bed.

In the middle of the night, it seemed to be windy outside. The branches whirred and sometimes hit the window, and that was the crisp sound of tapping on the glass. The wind poured into the house, whining and screaming.

Fang Yu turned over with difficulty, she had been pregnant for more than seven months, her belly was getting bigger and bigger, but her body was getting more and more unfavorable, and she had to use the table next to the bed to turn over overnight. Fang Yu panted sideways, listening to the wind outside, and slowly frowned.

The wind came intermittently with a whining, crying-like sound, and Fang Yu was sure it wasn't the sound of the wind pouring into the house. Sometimes the sound seemed to be close to the window, and sometimes it seemed to be far away at the entrance of the village. Fang Yu pricked up his ears and wanted to listen carefully, but the voice disappeared again. All that was left was the whine of the wind pouring into the house through the crack in the door. Fang Yu felt that he might have heard it wrong, so he didn't care about it anymore, closed his eyes and quickly entered the dream.

On the second day, Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu went to work together, and when the two arrived at the construction site, they found that the construction site had already changed. A huge tent was erected above the hole dug in the construction, and most of the arched brick walls had been cleared, and a large clean area had been cleared around it, and tents were erected, which were said to be the work of the provincial experts.

"You two are here to work, come over here." Supervisor Li, who was wearing a white shirt, was still working on the construction site, "You two go and get the old locust tree on the side." Director Li said that the tree was in the way. "Director Li is the leader of this group of archaeological staff who came from the province to participate in archaeology, because he is also the deputy director of the provincial museum, so everyone calls him Director Li.

Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu heard what Supervisor Li said, and hurriedly took the shovel and walked towards the place he designated. The old locust tree was not far from the hole that had been excavated, and Zhang Dazhu could see experts from the province carefully cleaning the soil on the green bricks.

The time of the day passed quickly at work, and lunch was in charge of the construction site, so the villagers did not go home to eat, and Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu were no exception. At the end of the day, Zhang Dazhu found that the arched wall had been completely cleared, and a young man took a few pictures with a camera. Then I heard Director Li say to the others, "This work will come here first." Let the police protect this place. Everyone will go to Team B tomorrow to help, and the progress over there is slow. ”

"By the way, you guys will also go over there tomorrow to help, there is a lot of work over there, and the work is progressing slowly." Director Li turned his head and said to Zhang Dazhu, Zhang Hu, and the other two villagers who were standing right behind him.

"Okay." Everyone answered one by one.

Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu finally dragged their tired bodies back to their respective homes, and after eating, they hurriedly washed up and went to bed directly. slept until midnight, Zhang Dazhu was pushed awake by Fang Yu, "Dazhu, listen, is there anyone crying outside?" ”

Zhang Dazhu slept in a daze, and said angrily, "It's freezing this day, who will cry outside!" ”

"Listen, it really looks like someone is crying." Fang Yu was afraid that Zhang Dazhu would fall asleep, so he pushed him again.

"Who will run out in the middle of the night. It is estimated that it is a cat meow, you don't care, sleep! Zhang Dazhu turned over, and no matter how much Fang Yu pushed him, he just stopped talking.

Fang Yu saw that Zhang Dazhu no longer paid attention to himself, wrapped the quilt on his body, and felt that what he said made sense, so he stopped closing his eyes and sleeping.

When Zhang Dazhu was woken up by Fang Yu, the workers who stayed overnight on the construction site happened to get up at that time to go to the toilet, and heard whimpering sounds from time to time outside, at first they thought it was the song of birds in the mountains and forests, but after returning to the tent, the whimpering began to become clearer and clearer, and the workers were so frightened that they hid in the tent and never dared to go out again.

The next day, the news of the haunting at night on the construction site quickly spread among the villagers. When Director Li heard this, he also criticized the speaker with righteous words, saying that he was feudal and superstitious, and if he continued to spread rumors, he would be dismissed. When the villagers heard Director Li say this, they immediately shut up and didn't dare to say any more. The salary of this job is good, the work is not too tiring, and the food is still taken care of at noon, such a good job, no one wants to lose it like this. They all said that they would never talk about it again in the future. At this time, Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu were working on construction site B, which was just a few hundred meters behind the ancestral hall, but fortunately there was still some distance from the ancestral hall, otherwise, the village would never agree to him start work.

In this way, time passed unhurriedly. Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Hu didn't know that things had just begun.