Chapter 30: Lost Soul
The old ruffian was stunned by my shout, holding the lamp in his hand, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
I stepped forward and took the lamp from the old ruffian's hand, put it back on the table, and said, "You'll know later." After saying that, he leaned down and squatted on the ground, tossed aside the broken parts of the old-fashioned telephone that had just been broken by the old ruffian, and reached out and knocked on the floor, making a thumping sound.
Until this point, who could not see the oddity in this. I made up my mind, stood up and looked at the old ruffian and the third master, the lost soul on their faces had long since disappeared without a trace, replaced by excitement that could not be concealed.
The old ruffian grinned and asked excitedly, "Ah Zheng, is there something down there?" ”
The third master was also rubbing his hands excitedly, also waiting for my reply.
I nodded, and said, "It's really hard to find a place to step through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there." If it weren't for the old ruffian's fall, we would have been looking for two days, and I'm afraid we wouldn't have found the bottom of this wooden floor. Plank, this time you're the first to do the trick. ”
The old ruffian smiled excitedly: "It's good to find it, it's good to find it." Let's dig it out and see what is so tightly hidden. As he spoke, he squatted down and reached for the floor.
My master and I also stepped forward to help, but although the wooden floor is in disrepair, but good things are good things after all, so many years are still tightly biting each other, and the three of them have been engaged for a long time and there is no progress.
I didn't think it would be a problem to pick it up like this, so I wanted to find something hard and pry the floor open. He took the backpack off his body, and the dagger he had just used to fight with the old Taoist priests fell to the ground with a bang. I saw the dagger slap on the head for a moment, and then picked up the dagger to pry the floor, and said: "A few of us were really dizzy, and when we saw the floor, we started to pick it up, and we forgot that we still have this guy in our hands." ”
When the old ruffian and the third master saw the dagger in my hand, they also felt that they couldn't cry or laugh, and they all felt that they were simply stunned just now, and they wanted to pick it up with their hands. At this moment, both of them took the dagger out of their backpacks, and together with me, they worked hard along the narrow gap in the floor joint, and this time quickly pried a gap in the wooden floor.
I threw down the dagger, and with both hands lifted the gap to exert force, the old ruffian and the third master also continued to pry with the dagger. With a click, a rectangular wooden floor was torn down.
After the first floor was removed, the three of them looked down along the gap, and sure enough, the bottom of the wooden floor was empty. The old ruffian turned on the flashlight to look inside, his head getting closer and closer, and the whole person lay on the ground, squeezing me and the third master to the side.
I also knew what kind of virtue the old ruffian was, so I let him see enough first, and after a while he asked, "Old ruffian, do you see anything?" What's inside? ”
The old ruffian squatted up from the ground when he heard this, let out a long sigh of relief, without any expression on his face, his eyes looked straight at the gap in the floor, and he didn't speak silently, which was completely different from before.
Seeing the old ruffian like this, my heart and the third master sank. I was worried that the old ruffian would be hit and do something stupid again as soon as his brain was hot, so I hurriedly comforted: "It's okay if you can't find it this time, just accumulate experience." We are still in Qingshan, so we are not afraid of no firewood. ”
The third master also sighed, and said with emotion: "That's the way things are, everything must pay attention to a balance, how much we want to achieve, we must be able to withstand how much risk, how much loss." I think I was ....... back then."
Before the third master finished speaking, the old ruffian suddenly laughed, and the laughter became louder and louder, and in the end, the muscles on the whole face looked a little weird because of the stretching too much.
The old ruffian was so sudden that the third master and I were taken aback, and the two of them looked at the old ruffian's abnormal behavior with solemn faces. I opened my mouth and asked, "Third Master, what's the situation with the old ruffian?" ”
The third master shook his head and said helplessly: "This is the first time I've seen this situation, I think it's something that has taken away the soul of the ruffian brother, and I have to find a way to let the ruffian come back by himself." ”
I frowned, who would believe this strange situation, but now the old ruffian is indeed behaving very incomprehensibly. I couldn't think of any way to do it, so I sighed and asked, "Third Master, do you have any good solutions?" ”
The third master shook the title slowly, and said: "I don't know what to do, but I've heard people say before that if you want your soul to come back by yourself, the best way is to find something that he is most familiar with and care about, and keep calling people's names with this thing." This method is said to be wonderful, but I haven't tried it. ”
When I heard this, I thought about what the ruffians were most familiar with and cared about the most. The old ruffian had been gone for several years, and I had only recently met him, but I knew that this kid loved beef and mutton, and that a lamb bone might work. But several years have passed, and I have experienced so many things in the army, that it is difficult for me to come up with ideas for a while.
It didn't help to think too much, so I simply reached into the pocket of the old ruffian's clothes and pulled around. There were two pockets on the left and right sides of the ruffian's shirt, and I put my hand into the left pocket first, and reached out to take out the unfinished half bag of cigarettes and a lighter, which were useless, and I put them back in the ruffian's pocket.
Then I went to the right pocket, and there were quite a few things in the right pocket. I grabbed it out, and there was a wallet that I had taken out before, a military discharge card, and some change scattered out of the wallet.
I put all these things on the ground, and when I swept my eyes, I saw that the old ruffian had taken out the Wang Ba box again at some point, and I stepped forward to take the old ruffian's Wang Ba box in my hand, and put it together with the wallet and other items.
The third master looked at the things on the ground and said, "The things that can be brought with him by the ruffian brother must be very important to him, so choose among these things." After speaking, he squinted his eyes and thought about it, and then said: "Judging from the performance of the ruffian brother along the way, he should take money very seriously, and I suggest taking his wallet and giving it a try." ”
I listened to the words of the third master, thought for a while, then shook my head, and said, "Third master, you still don't know about the old ruffian. Although he loves money as much as his life, it is only on the surface. He is a loving person in his bones, and his wallet will not work this time. ”