Chapter 1: The Uncle's Story
By the time I got back to the village, it was already completely dark. I heard that the cable in the village was cut by something, so the whole village was shrouded in darkness.
It was pitch black in the hotel, and the flashlight we were carrying was drained of the last power on the way into the village.
Everyone sat in the big living room, looking at each other, and still no one spoke......
It wasn't until the landlady walked in with a candle that the atmosphere eased a little - everyone finally had some movement.
"Got a candle? It's so good that there is finally light. β
I don't know who spoke.
"Need a candle? Gratuitous. I see you've been out for a few days, are you still having fun? The landlady asked us as she lit the candles.
"It's a pleasure, it's very well lit, okay, thank you, hostess." I smiled and took a candle and placed it on the table in front of me.
"Okay, you guys get busy first, I'll go first." The landlady turned to me and smiled, took a candle and left the living room.
When the living room door was closed again, I took the opportunity to take advantage of it and said with a long sigh of relief, "Okay, we're all back, the matter is settled, and everyone isβ"
At this point, I suddenly choked up, and I didn't know how to continue, and the words that had come to my lips were also swallowed back by me.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by the "click" of a lighter.
"Anyway, eldest nephew, I am to blame for this. Uncle, I'll tell you first, I'm sorry. But you have to understand that the uncle is also forced to be helpless. β
The uncle, who was sitting across from me, lit a cigarette and sighed.
"Actually, it's not your uncle's fault."
"Yes, we have a responsibility too."
Seeing that the uncle opened his mouth, the yin people and black holes sitting in the corner also echoed one after another, intentionally or unintentionally blocking the responsibility.
"You all shut up, what are you responsible for, this is my own problem!" The uncle's words were excited, and the cigarette in his mouth flickered with his breath.
"Can't you put all the responsibility on yourself, none of our ten families can get rid of these things, after all, ......" Black Hole said halfway through, and didn't say anything. He rubbed his face, thought for a moment, took a cigarette out of his pocket, and lit it with a candle.
But Black Hole doesn't smoke, so as soon as he took a puff, he coughed violently, and he had to stuff the cigarette in his hand to the Yin Renke next to him.
"Okay, okay, it's over anyway, and you'll take care of the rest." The black hole cursed, stood up and hurried out.
"You ......" Seeing this, the Yin Man who was sitting next to him dropped his cigarette butt and followed.
"Uncle, they're all gone, and we're the only ones left, do you have anything to say?"
Ah Cheng, who was sitting next to me, asked about his uncle.
The uncle was still silent, smoking a cigarette vigorously.
"Uncle, I remember when we first came, there weren't so many people...... Ah Cheng looked around, "Yuan'an, Venster, where are they?" β
"They went first, went back first...... "The uncle spat out the last puff of his cigarette, "I let them go first, and they walked with the people who walked Maling, I guess it's time now......"
"Then besides them, the others, don't you just ......" I answered, and I couldn't ask after all.
"You are spitting, do you want to ask the whereabouts of the young lady of the Li family and the young lady surnamed Jiang." Uncle broke through my voice.
"That's true, after all......" I had to admit.
"O them, behold their creation. Everyone's life is different. Jiang Chenhui is, after all, you also know what happened to her before......" Uncle sighed, "As for Miss Li, it is to repay her debts, whether it is to repay her own debts or her father's debts." β
Listening to the uncle's words, I lowered my head and was silent for a while, but I heard the uncle say again: "There is no one now, I just want to say a few words to you, there are many people just now, I am afraid that some things will be heard by outsiders, which is not good." Uncle said, looking at the few remaining guys next to him.
The guys understood, got up and took the two candles, and then retreated one by one.
In a moment, there were only four of us left in the living room...... Then, the uncle lit a cigarette by the candle flame and said slowly: "Where to start, this story is not long, and it is not short." Okay, let's start with the text message I got that day. β
"Old man's text message? My grandfather? I muttered, stunned for a moment.
Uncle nodded: "Yes, ...... that day"
It turned out that at noon that day, the uncle had just had lunch, and he was lying on the rocking chair in the room leisurely drinking tea, chatting with the guys around him. Suddenly, the uncle's mobile phone on the coffee table next to him vibrated a few times.
As usual, the uncle picked up his phone and glanced at it casually. I was about to put it down, but I was attracted by a line of words on the mobile phone screen: Come to this position, the old man is waiting for you here. Uncle opened it and saw that in the message sent, in addition to the paragraph just now, there was also a line of address.
The uncle looked at the address and felt more and more familiar, but he just couldn't figure out where it was. So the uncle went to the recipient again, but unexpectedly the recipient column was empty.
At this time, the uncle was dumbfounded, and hurriedly called over a few guys who had followed him for many years. After a few people discussed for a while, an old guy who had followed the uncle for a long time finally remembered: Isn't the address in this text message the place where the old man went and kept silent?
The old man didn't know where my grandfather went, but my uncle had followed my grandfather for many years and more or less knew that there was such a place. And with his intuition, he guessed that I might come over when I came, so Uncle simply made such a decision: first bring a group of buddies to explore the way, and if we come later, we can also pick us up.
But what he didn't expect was that this place was far beyond his imagination: first, the guys found my grandfather's tombstone on the top of the mountain, followed by the gathering of people from all walks of life, and all kinds of true and false news obtained by Yin Renke and Black Hole......
In particular, the arrival of Li Changfeng pointed to all kinds of clues, the kyanite glass box and the conspiracy behind the box.
Uncle knew it might have something to do with what my grandfather had been doing all those years ago, and he knew that I would follow the clues and get here.
But before he could do that, he had to do something......
So, the uncle took a group of men and horses down.
Of course, the ending was very miserable, the uncle and his party were trapped and died in a mezzanine at the top after going down. As a last resort, in the end, they finally escaped at the cost of eight horses.
But that's just the beginning......