Hu Xuan went over to help A-Ning up and let her move her body, it was no big deal, and then she was relieved, thinking that she was desperate for herself, she shook her head and complained with a smile: "Look, I almost broke you." ”

The two of them looked around, and saw that this cave was quite large, and by the light coming in from the entrance of the cave, they saw that two or three feet away in front of them were full of black rocks, and they could no longer see it any further.

"This must be a cave, and the hole above is covered by weeds, and I didn't see it, and when I stepped on it, I fell in." As he spoke, the cave echoed, buzzing.

A-Ning said: "Fortunately, I didn't fall and get hurt. ”

Suddenly, a faint voice came into the ear drum, "Help me." ”

Both of them were startled, A-Ning leaned on Hu Xuan, patrolling left and right, and couldn't see anyone in the dark, but it was indeed the voice of the person he heard just now, could it be that there was someone in this cave?

"Help me." The voice came again, this time more clearly, with a faint and crisp voice, like a female or childish voice. Ah Ning grabbed Hu Shu's arm tightly and asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you?" Is it a human or a ghost? ”

"I'm Ah Hu." The voice was weak.

"It's a child," Hu Xuan heard clearly this time, hid A-Ning behind him, slowly opened his eyes, and groped forward, the cave was full of potholes, and it was dark that he couldn't see it really, and he could vaguely see a turn in front of him, and when he got closer, he saw a small figure half-lying and half-sitting outside the corner. Hu Xuan usually doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but his heart is pounding.

Slowly moved to the front of the figure, and looked closely, it was indeed a teenage boy, leaning against the cave wall, Hu Xuan asked, "Who are you?" Why here? ”

The child said weakly: "My name is Ah Hu, I was caught, I fell here, save me." ”

"That's right," A-Ning was no longer afraid at this time, and stepped forward to grab the child, "Don't be afraid, let's go up." But the boy couldn't get up, and he said, "He may have collapsed, don't pull it, I'll carry him up." ”

But the boy pointed to the depths of the cave and said, "Do you see if he is dead?" ”

Hu Xuan and A-Ning were startled again? A Ning hurriedly asked, "Is there anyone else inside?" ”

"Well," said the child, "the bad guy who took me seems to be dead." ”

Hu Shuan pulled A-Ning behind him, and then slowly walked towards the depths of the cave, the cave was full of stalactites, some places under the ground were very smooth, and some places were oozing water, it was very difficult to move forward, and after walking about ten steps, I saw a fine sand in front of me, and there was a black-clothed figure lying on it, motionless.

A-Ning grabbed Hu's arm behind him and said, "Be careful. Hu Xuan nodded, approached the man little by little, kicked with his foot, still did not move, and seemed to be a little stiff, Hu Xuan said, "It seems to be dead." ”

"Let's go back then." Aning said.

"Well," Hu Xuan agreed, and was about to turn around, when he saw a cloth bag beside the man, he picked it up, pulled A-Ning back to the child, reached out to pick up the child, and walked to the bottom of the hole where he fell, where the light came in, much brighter than in the cave.

I only heard the stone lock shouting on it: "How is it? I put the stick down and be careful. Then he saw a long wooden stick stretched down from the stone lock above, and Aning said, "Send the child first." ”

Hu Shuan put down the child, untied the burden in his hand, twisted the burden into a rope shape, tied the child's waist, tied it to the stick, and said, "Child, grab the stick, hold hard, don't fall off." ”

The child was very sensible, nodded, hugged the wooden stick, and the stone lock lifted it vigorously from above, and raised it outside the cave, "Huh", "Why is there an extra child?" ”

After the burden was untied, the contents fell to the ground, there were a few clothes, and a wooden box, Hu Bolt had no time to look at it carefully, and put the wooden box in his waist, at this time the wooden stick of the stone lock stretched down again, Hu Bolt supported A-Ning from below, sent her up, and then grabbed the wooden stick himself, and climbed to the ground.

Coming out of the hole, I felt that the sunlight outside was particularly dazzling, and I got used to it for a while, and looked at the child, who looked thin and white, wearing a home-woven black cloth shirt and pants, although his body and face were stained with mud and dust, but it could be seen that the clothes were very neat and neat.

A-Ning took out dry food and water from his baggage, and when the child saw it, he devoured and drank, and A-Ning hurriedly said, "Slow down, don't worry, be careful of choking." ”

After the kid had eaten and drunk and had some strength in his body, Hu Xuan asked, "Little brother, what's going on?" How did you get there? ”

The boy gasped and said, "I don't know a few days ago, I was playing at the door of my house, and a caravan came over and asked me for directions, and I told me their path, and who knew that they looked around and saw that there was no one, and at once they grabbed me, covered my mouth and nose, put me in a bag, and put me on the horse." ”

"Horse gang?" Shi Suo said angrily: "It must be the horse gang, how many people and horses do they have?" ”

The child recalled, "It seemed to be four men and three horses. He took a breath, his body looked extremely weak, and Hu Xuan said, "Slow down, don't worry, rest for a while." ”

The child nodded, and continued: "I caught it, and walked bumpily on horseback, but I couldn't scream, and I walked for a long time before I untied it, drank water and ate dry food, and then put it in a bag and continued walking, so that after walking for two days, I arrived at this place." ”

"So your home is far from here?" Aning asked.

"I don't know where this is, my home is in the old pavilion village, it should be quite far away." The child nodded and said, "Two days ago, when I was free, the person who guarded me took a nap, and I ran away, thinking that when I met someone on the road, I shouted for help, or went to the mountains to find a place to hide, who knew that I had just run a short distance, and I was discovered, and the person chased after me and grabbed me, and I even shouted and screamed, but no one heard me." I was caught by him and hit him a few times, and as I walked back, he took a shortcut, and I fell into this hole all at once, and he was in front of him and fell down first, and I was in the back, and fell on top of him. He crawled down for a while, and then he stopped moving, and I stayed in it, scared, and I don't know how long it took for you to fall in. ”

"Don't be afraid, we'll take you home." A-Ning comforted the child and said.

"In this way," said Hu Xuan, "sending this child home is the next step, and now I should go after the caravan, and I should go to the grass hut and ask for directions." ”

Shi Suo said: "I have been there, there is no one there, it is a deserted and empty house, let's go forward first." With these words on their backs, the three of them got up and walked forward, but fortunately they had not gone far, and met a woodcutter, who asked for the way, and hurried along the road.

3

When they turned onto the original road, the time had reached the afternoon, a few people only sat down to rest for a while when they were tired, ate some dry food, and the rest of the time they stepped up walking, the child called "Ah Hu" was quite sensible, and his physical strength had not yet recovered, so he did not want the adults to carry it, and he reluctantly followed the walk.

Walk all the way, ask all the way, fortunately, the goal of the horse gang is big, and they can always ask about their whereabouts, Hu Xuan encouraged everyone and said: "According to the situation when Ah Hu was arrested, they were a total of four people and three horses, one fell and died in the stone cave, and there were three people and three horses left, plus the goods of the pack, and the cousin of Aning who was robbed, so it is impossible to ride a horse, as long as it is on foot, we can catch up." ”

Chased until dark, according to the people in the village on the side of the road, the horse gang just passed at noon, three horses carrying bulging goods, along the road, if according to the stone lock, simply do not sleep at night, keep chasing, Hu Bolt said: "No, half a day's journey, walk all night may be able to catch up, but it is not easy to ask for directions at night, it is more troublesome to go wrong, and Ah Ning and Ah Hu's body can not stand it, we might as well go to the store early to rest, and get up to catch up before dawn in the second half of the night, and ask for directions along the way." ”

The three of them found a small inn on the side of the road and stayed there. Ah Ning suddenly remembered something, and said to Hu Xuan: "Isn't there a wooden box in the baggage you picked up from the cave?" What's in there? ”

Hu Xuan smiled and said, "Yes, yes, if you don't say it, I forgot about it, let's open it and take a look." ”

The four of them gathered in the room of Hu Bolt and Shi Suo, and Shi Suo also deliberately closed the door and said, "If you pick a treasure, don't show it white, let the thieves see it." ”

Ah Hu also said: "Maybe, the person who broke the burden, the person who grabbed me stayed with me all day, when I was in the cave, those horse gang members were still shouting and looking for it on the mountain, I was afraid that they would find out, and I didn't dare to make a sound." Then he died, and I was scared and did not dare to go to him. ”

Hu Xuan took out the wooden box, there was a small lock on it, I don't know how to open it, the stone lock took it, twisted it hard, twisted the lock, lifted the lid of the box, a red cloth wrapped inside, carefully opened the package, and several small jade objects appeared in front of the eyes of the four people.

An orange-yellow seal, the button is a unicorn with its head raised, two ruyi, one red and one green, all glowing with a warm and soft dark light, obviously all ancient jade, and another oblong jade, hollow, engraved with complex patterns, jade half red and half yellow, like smoke like xia. Stone Lock pointed at it and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Yucong." Hu replied.

These pieces of jade, the light is not very bright and gentle and restrained, so soft that people look very comfortable, Hu Xuan's eyes don't blink for a long time, as if he is stupid.

A-Ning looked at Hu Xuan's stunned appearance and said with a smile: "What's the matter, nerd?" Look stupid? Didn't you learn this? Are these things treasures? Is it worth it? ”

Hu Shuo pinched his arm twice, as if to verify whether he was dreaming, and muttered in his mouth: "I can't imagine that I have eyes to see these real things, these things, can't be judged by whether they are worth or not, national treasures are priceless and cannot be measured by money." This jade, unearthed in Shu, is the ancient Shu king sacrifice used, is a symbol of a national spiritual worship in ancient times, this Tian Huang seal, not to mention the meaning of the seal itself, only this orange Tian Huang, it is difficult to find, buy is not bought, except for the palace, there is no such goods anywhere else. And these two wishful ......"