Chapter 8: Night Talk in the Tiankeng (1)
There was silence all around.
I saw countless tiny bubbles in the water, smearing us as if we were in smoke.
I saw rocks around me sweeping backwards so fast that they even cut through the water.
I saw a little deep whirlpool in front of me constantly approaching, like a pupil full of seductive eyes, which made me yearn for it.
Everything was like a silent movie, my body was constantly spinning and bumping with a feeling of weightlessness, and then I lost myself in the sense of hearing.
When I woke up, the golden sunlight was shining everywhere.
For a moment I even thought I was still sleeping in the bed at home, just like a sound sleep after every shift, until the afternoon sun hit my face and woke me up. Everything was as usual, all the pain and exhaustion were just in the dream.
But I'm still in that dream.
I was lying on a rock, and there was a fire not far away, and Liu was roasting something with his back to me.
My police uniform was almost dry, and my police equipment was still hanging on me, but the knife and baton were far away. The joints all over my body ached, and my brain felt like it was rusty, and I could barely think.
Later, when I recalled this experience, I would always sigh at the wonder of human nature, but in fact, there were only two questions in front of me at that time: the first question was why Liu Dongxi didn't kill me while I was in a coma; The second question is whether I should take advantage of Liu Shi's back to me to force him first. But my brain was rusty at the time, and I just looked up at my watch as I usually did when I woke up, and I realized that I was still holding a belt in my hand.
It's the kind of belt sold in the prisoner's supermarket, with the criminal's number sewn on it, and the belt buckle bumps on the rock, making a sound.
Liu Dongxi turned his head, and his eyebrows immediately flew to the top of his head,
"Brother An, you're awake!" This kid is about to lean this way in with a smile.
"You stop! Tell me what's going on. I sat up and surveyed my surroundings.
This is on the top of a hill, surrounded by flat stones, and there is a pool next to it, which has not much water but is clean, and there is an outlet next to the pool, and it seems that the water level can flow down from this outlet when the water level is high. I stood up and looked into the distance, the mountain was not very high, more than 200 meters, overgrown with unknown trees, in early autumn, the leaves were still very green, and the sunlight cast a deep shade of green, like ink smudging, but it was more transparent, and it was very beautiful. The distinct green of the pole eyes stretched straight up in the far distance ahead, and it wanted to intersect with the sky.
I looked around, and the admiration I had just felt at the view turned into shock. There are also several small hills of about the same size next to it, distributed in a roughly arc, and behind each mountain is a towering mountain. Facing the hill, one side is full of unclimbable cliffs and rocks, hundreds of millions of years of wind and rain and frost, the cliffs are mottled, slightly inward-arc, it is like a huge mouth of a bone beast, very terrifying. This steep wall is connected together, intersecting with the green in front of it, but it is distinct, and it actually frames the blue sky into a huge circle.
It's a sinkhole!
I was deeply shocked by this spectacle, and I couldn't put into words when I stood there, and this huge sinkhole hundreds of thousands of meters deep may be rare, but I can't say that there are none. But like this sinkhole, life and death are in the same place, blending with each other but not interfering with each other, and the beauty of life and the coldness of death are vividly displayed, which is simply a miracle.
In the past, I had seen some extremely strange landscape photos on the Internet, and I always thought they were retouched pictures, which is not surprising. Today, in the face of such miracles, I discovered the miracle of nature's creation, and it is indeed my generation's exhaustive efforts that I could not have predicted.
Liu Shishi was also obedient, and when I scolded him, he didn't move forward, and squatted there to tell me what happened after I fainted. I was so immersed in the admiration of nature's creation that I didn't know what he was saying.
After Liu Dongxi finished speaking, seeing that I wasn't listening, he asked tentatively: "Brother An!" Are you alright? ”
He screamed several times before I came back to my senses, "What's the matter?" I asked him rhetorically.
"I'm done debriefing you, is there anything else you want to know? Are you still dizzy? Liu Dongxi waved his eyebrows and asked me flatteringly.
That's when I came back to my senses, "Ah! Much better! "I'm very surprised by Liu Shi's conceit, it's too much, this kid behaves like a grandson in prison.
Supposedly, according to his previous performance by the underground lake, he should have killed me when I fainted just now, how could this behave like this? Nothing to be courteous, either treacherous or thief, there must be fraud in this, I have to be careful.
I pretended to move my body, and took a few steps to put the knife and stick back into the gear, and while watching his reaction, I found that the boy didn't react at all. I'm surprised by this, I resolutely don't believe that he Liu Shiwu can suddenly find out that he has become a good person. Even if I believed it, I would never believe it in my shoulder, and it hurt everywhere, and the most painful thing was the left shoulder he hit before.
But anyway, the guy didn't panic in the palm of his hand, I checked the police pass, and sure enough, as I expected, there was no signal at all, and I didn't know what the chaos was in the unit. But then again, there is no way to contact it, seeing that this sinkhole is so big, it will definitely not grow so tightly, find a mountain road to climb up and see if there is a signal. Besides, the hole is there, maybe the people from the unit have come down to save me, I just need to stabilize Liu and don't let him run again.
As I moved, I said, "You've told me what you think and how you run." ”
Liu Dongxi said respectfully: "Captain An, the sun won't shine here in a while, you take advantage of the warmth to come up and dry your clothes by the fire, I will tell you about this matter as it is, and I will never hide it." ”
I listened to him respectfully, and looked at him very strangely, seeing that this little appearance with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes did not look like a deception, and looked up to see that the sun was about to hang on the top of the mountain in the south, and I thought that I was not afraid of what he would do, and besides, if he wanted to be bad for me, how convenient it was when I was unconscious just now, there was really no need to wait for me to wake up and harm me.
So I sat down by the fire, and Liu sat across from me and told me his story.
Liu Dongxi was born in a well-known mining family, and his ancestor was a mine supervisor during the Jiaqing period, leading a group of lackeys to run rampant in Fujian and loot on a large scale. Then he offended the powerful people in the court, and he was in a state of panic all day long, and suddenly one day he realized that he could do more good deeds or accumulate virtue and avoid evil, so he did the way of accumulating goodness and acted very differently than usual. Later, in the mining accident, he rescued a dying Lao Suo, Xu adopted his grandson, and Lao Suo was grateful to teach all the ancestral books of prospecting, including astronomy, geography, yin and yang, feng shui and other strange techniques to assist in mineral exploration. This mine supervisor learned thaumaturgy, and felt that the road was dangerous, so he used thaumaturgy to change his face and wander the rivers and lakes. The eunuch couldn't have children, so he took the adopted child as a son, followed his own surname Liu, and walked the rivers and lakes with what he had learned, and he had already made a fortune three generations later. Famous.
As the saying goes, "no more than three rich", to the third generation of the Liu family has only one son named Liu Ranqing, who has been frail and sickly since childhood, but also clever and clever, and is favored by his family. Since childhood, he has been accustomed to a body of problems, and in less than thirty, he lost his huge family business, but fortunately he has a son, otherwise he will inevitably end up with no place to bury.
The family is lost, Uncle Ranqing's hobby has not been left behind, sleeping flowers and willows, horse racing and dog fighting are not supported by a lot of silver, the money is spent to sell antiques, antiques are sold out and furniture is sold, and in the end, the ancestral house is almost sold, if it is not for Lao Tzu to die to force each other to keep the ancestral home. The ancestral house is preserved, people still have to eat, the family's land has long been sold, and if you want to eat, you have to follow the old road of your ancestors and sell your crafts.
It is said that although Liu Ranqing is a loser, he is confident that the ancestral craftsmanship of his family has been learned out of ten, and he has come out of a big mine in the mountains, and he has been rich for several generations. But Uncle Ran Qing is used to being free, and he can't bear so much suffering, and he will be miserable in a few days after entering the mountain, and one night, when he is thinking about giving up and returning home, he finds that the feng shui in the mountains here is good, from the stars to the mountains, there must be an iron dragon through the mountains. The next day, as expected, not only iron ore was found, but also an ancient tomb was discovered, and the courage to enter it was innumerable, and there were countless gold and silver treasures. Liu Ranqing started to think crookedly, and the hard work of mining is naturally not as light as taking it and leaving. With the treasures in the tomb, the Liu family is revived, Liu Ranqing also put away the playboy style, and devoted himself to the study of the technique of finding dragon points. Since then, Liu Jiaming has been prospecting for mines, secretly robbing tombs, and the family road is better than in the past, and it has lasted for two dynasties without decay.
I was so engrossed that I didn't notice that it was getting dark, when the last rays of light slipped from the top of the mountain, and I woke up suddenly.
Liu Dongxi looked at my demeanor and hurriedly said, "Officer An, don't worry, we won't be able to get out of this place for a while, we are both very tired now, it is better to rest for one night and make plans tomorrow." ”
It makes sense for me to think about it, and my heart settled down, Liu Dongxi was very thoughtful, and even caught an unknown little beast on the mountain when I was unconscious, washed and peeled it off and soaked it in water, and took it out at this time and roasted it on the fire, but it was also fragrant.
So Liu Dongxi continued to tell his story while skillfully turning and roasting.