From noon to midday, the scorching sun shone on the mountains and forests, and we were no longer visible from the outside.

I followed my cousin, and because of my small stature, I didn't feel cramped, so I could stand up and follow him.

The cave is not dark, but some sunlight shines through the large and small holes in the stone wall, and when you turn your head, you can see the translucent leaves illuminated by the sun outside.

After a while, he came out of the narrow cave and into a cave that was noticeably wide and neat. There was light shining in the grass from the front of the cave, like an exit, and my cousin was walking towards it, and I looked back at the back, and a pile of rocks blocked the cave that I didn't know if it was the way to come or the way, and then I also walked towards the light.

Slowly approaching the entrance of the cave, I saw an open ground and three walls in front of me, the walls and the ground were paved with bluestone slabs, except for some dead branches and leaves on the ground, there was not a single weed in sight.

There is a stone staircase in the middle of the front, and when I get closer, it is a square well, the water is clear and deep, and the bottom is not visible.

Looking up at the center of the cave roof, there is a naturally formed circular hole, from which the sunlight shines in, and the light shines on the stalactites that cover the cave roof, and the crystals on its surface reflect the sunlight, and the stars are extremely beautiful.

It was a hand-hewn cube room, and the wall of the hole we entered was broken, while the other three stone walls were unharmed.

"How is Xiaolinzi, it's good-looking!" My cousin said proudly on the side.

"It's so pretty!" I couldn't help but reply in admiration. The two of us were sitting by the well, looking around at the hall.

After looking at it for a while, I left the square well in the middle and walked towards a wall. When I came to the wall, I touched the smooth wall with my hand, and I couldn't feel a little pothole, and it was even difficult to distinguish the joints of the two bluestone slabs.

"Xiao Linzi, come here, see what I found!" My cousin's tone was agitated, and when I heard him say this, I walked up to him and looked up at the view of the cave as I went, while he was standing in front of the other wall.

When I came to him, I saw him pointing to the wall and excitedly saying, "Listen carefully." He lightly tapped his fingers with the wood knife and sent out

The sound of "knock knock" was followed by a knock a little farther away

The sound of "bells". I instantly understood, excitedly shouting, "It's empty." My cousin also said excitedly, "Yes, let's see how to get it open." I nodded excitedly, and then he pushed his shoulder against the crack in the wall, and I pushed his other shoulder hard, but no matter how hard I tried, it couldn't be opened.

Then I changed to another place, and after many attempts, there was still no response. The two of us came to the well listlessly, and my cousin took out the poop slices and handed them to me, and said, "I didn't find this place yesterday, otherwise it would be nice to call a few more people to come today." ”

"Second brother, do you think there is a treasure here?" I asked, eating. My cousin is two years older than me and is in his first year of junior high school this year.

It's not that we can't open the door, it's that we're using the wrong force. This door is embedded in the wall, and the thick door is connected to the wall, unlike the normal single door, there are no gaps.

So it wasn't possible to push it on one side, but we didn't realize it at the time, but after eating the poop and resting for a while, my cousin and I finally opened the door after trying to figure it out again.

This time we came to the stone wall, and my cousin tapped the wall with a wood knife to determine how big the hole was. After the size is determined, we will use force on one side and on both sides at the same time.

The slate slowly sank inward, and we were happy to see the light coming through the crack in the door on the other side, but we couldn't push it again.

Take a break and get back on board. Just before I could exert my strength, my cousin's side used force, and the door that couldn't be pushed slowly rotated, and a strange fragrance came from inside the door.

Later, I realized that the door was inserted into the guide rail by the upper and lower shafts, and the whole door was like a Chinese character.

At first, the embedded wall could not be rotated directly, and when the door was pushed to the bottom of the rail, it could not be pushed with force on both sides, but now there is room to rotate, and the revolving door can be pushed open unilaterally.

Excited, we walked in through the half-open door, and what we saw made us stunned again. At this moment, the sun has been slightly slanted to the west, and the sun shines on the towering mountains opposite, the yin and yang are distinct, the sky is clear and the earth is wide, and the mountains are vertical and horizontal, just like a thousand peaks.

Years later, when I recall this scene, I am also thrilled and amazed, nature is so magical. I don't know how long I was stunned, but my cousin pulled me, and I saw him pointing to my right and his mouth growing.

I turned my head strangely and saw strange trees and plants in my eyes. Some of these plants are verdant, some bear fruit, and they are all varieties that have never been seen before.

Only a few are similar to common plants and trees. I hurriedly ran closer to take a closer look, and saw that the leaves of this orchid were green, without the slightest dead leaves, the soil where it was planted was black, there was no trace of weeds around, and the budding white flower bones had a light purple on the tip, which must be very beautiful when it opened.

There is a plant with golden branches and jade leaves not far away, I don't know whether it is a herb or a tree, there is no branch, only a golden trunk, this long leaf grows around the trunk, the veins on the leaf are golden like the trunk, and the tip of the leaf is as sharp as a thorn.

"Xiao Linzi, look at this flower." The cousin shouted on the other side. I reluctantly looked away and looked at my cousin, only to see a strange little tree on his side.

It looks like a willow tree, but its branches are green, and they are covered with small white and gold flowers, separated from each other.

The aroma you smell when you get close is the same as when you come in. I muttered, "It's beautiful! "When we were young, we were attracted by the beautiful scenery and the flowers and trees in front of us.

The two of them stayed in this small garden for a long time, staring stupidly at each tree, and when they found something strange, they took turns pulling each other, and the two of them sighed for a while and then turned to the next one.

There are about 100 strange flowers and trees in this small garden, and this first discovery is also the last time you have seen them.

After a long time, we left the small garden, and although the flowers and trees were beautiful, we did not have the slightest idea of picking the flowers or taking a few with us.

Returning to the square well, my cousin sat on the stone steps by the well, and said thoughtfully: "The side we came here seems to be an entrance, and the opposite side is the garden, so are there secret doors on both sides of the wall?" Xiaolinzi, let's go find out. "After many attempts, I finally found a secret door on one of the walls.

The door was actually in the middle of the wall, but it took a lot of time to find because the gap was too thin to discern, and the sunlight in the cave was not as bright as it was at noon.

Push open the door and walk down the smooth stone path to a small room. There were stone beds, stone cabinets, stone tables and chairs, and we were pleasantly surprised by the discovery.

There was no futon or anything like that on the bed, just a long pillow made of stone, on which my cousin was resting.

I found that there were eight holes in the wall facing the small garden, and light was shining through the holes, and the room was not dark.

I approached the holes and found that they were all octagonal, and when the light came in from the outside, I could see that the holes were very deep, and the eight holes formed a circle.

"Xiao Linzi, how about it is an eye-opener today!" My cousin said proudly on the stone bed.

I also happily agreed: "Second brother is so amazing, he can find such a fun and beautiful place, next time I will bring my classmates here to play, so that they can also see and understand." "We were still in good spirits from the moment we came in, and we talked for a while before we were going to find and open the last secret door, but none of us could have imagined that what happened afterwards would change my life.

My cousin rolled over and jumped out of bed, looking at the stone box in front of him with great interest. I also leaned forward to take a closer look, this stone box is blue-gray, the four corners of the lid are painted with circles, there are incomprehensible lines in the circle, four circles are separated by lines with tic-tac-toe, the middle seems to have written words, five horizontally, five vertically.

But the writing is too small, and the glyphs are not common, and we can't read it, so we don't know what it's written.

My cousin pulled out his knife and searched for the crevices, trying to crack open the stone box. But no matter how hard you try, the tiny gap just can't fit into the tip of the knife, as if it's like painting.

After a few attempts, he gave up, and my cousin planned to bring enough tools to get it open in the future. Leaving the stone house room, I returned to the hall square well.

At this moment, the light in the stone hall has dimmed a lot. The two of us then came to the last wall, and because of the previous experience, it was easy to find the door this time, and the two of us opened the stone door the same way as before.

Just as the stone door was spinning and opening, I smelled a strange smell again, and I didn't know what it was coming from.

Entering the last stone house room, there were eight holes like the previous one, and the light still came in from the direction of the small garden, but by this time the light had dimmed a lot, and what we saw was beginning to be a little hazy.

I saw that there was a platform like a bed, with three sides attached to the wall, and there seemed to be a statue sitting on the platform, and there was a square stone platform opposite it, that is, in the center of the room, and a pot, the size of a basin, which I later learned after I went to junior high school history that this thing was called Yuanding.

The two of us walked to Yuanding first, because we were the closest, and the statue on the platform against the wall looked a little seeping.

The two people looked at the tripod with four eyes, and by the light that came in from the hole, they could see that the tripod body was carved, all kinds of birds and beasts, and the size matched each other as if it was a painting.

The cousin glanced at the painting a few times, and then reached out to touch Dingli.

"Hey, there's a lid in there." My cousin made an unexpected sound, and I reached out and touched it.

The lid was lifted by my cousin and put to the side, and my two hands groped in the round tripod for a while, because I was not as tall as my cousin, so I couldn't touch it at all.

Listening to the voice, my cousin touched the end, and it seemed that he was still grabbing something.

"Xiaolinzi, come and see what this is!" The cousin excitedly grabbed the things in his hand and came to the small hole with light.

I hurried to follow, and in the bright light, I saw in his hand a small, irregular sign carved with an incomprehensible pattern, and three round beads the size of broad beans.

"Cousin, what are these?" I didn't understand, so I asked my cousin.

"I'll take a look." My cousin picked up the small sign in his left hand, looked at it carefully, didn't seem to see anything, and handed it to me, "You can take a look, and if you like it, put it away." I reached out and took it, it felt like it was wood, it didn't feel heavy, but it felt a little cold in the palm of my hand.

Facing it to the light, it is not transparent, the whole piece is uneven, and there are many small holes in it.

"Xiaolinzi, do you want this?" My cousin asked, and without thinking too much, I put the little card in the small pocket on the chest of my shirt, and then looked at my cousin, who was holding one of the three beads in his hand.

He was kneading it with his right hand, and his mouth said, "It's hard, like a bead of stone." ”

"I've never seen a stone this round." I looked at it curiously,

"Now, I'll give you one, and I'll take the remaining two, okay?" My cousin said as he handed me the one he was playing with.

I happily took it, it really felt like a stone,

"Okay," replied casually. After dividing the things, the two of us looked at each other, and my cousin whispered, "Do you want to go over and see that statue?" At this time, the light in the stone house dimmed a little.

"Whatever." I played with the round stone that I had just arrived, and said with some uneasiness in my heart.

"Let's go together, we'll go home after seeing this statue," my cousin patted me and turned to walk towards the statue.

When I heard this, I followed with a small stone in my hand. When he came closer, he saw only a humanoid statue in the dim light, and his cousin's surprised voice came: "He's still wearing clothes!" "I also reached out and touched it, and the feeling of touching my hand was slippery, and it was a little cold, it was really a statue of clothes.

Suddenly, my cousin turned his head to look at the stone gate where we came in, and asked me in a low voice, "Xiaolinzi, did you just see something?" I turned my head to look outside, and it was slightly brighter than that, but it was the same as when I came in, there was nothing.

"No, I don't." I replied to him in a low voice. My cousin's voice trembled a little at this time: "It's not early, let's go back." With that, he walked out briskly, and I followed.

Just out of the door, my cousin suddenly shouted, "Which one are you?" Behind him, I saw his body trembling slightly, and hurriedly walked around to look, but there was no one in the empty hall.

At this time, my cousin suddenly pulled out his wood knife, and his body trembled and shouted: "Xiaolinzi, go quickly." I was startled when I heard this, and looked around to see nothing in the darkening hall.

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that something small was moving in the corner of the wall, and when I looked closely, my soul was full of ghosts, and my body trembled, and I said tremblingly: "Second brother, there are spiders." But then I heard my cousin shouting, "Don't come, don't come......," and I turned my head to look at him, only to see him slashing around with a knife.

The little spiders were already crawling out of the corners around me, and I ran with trembling legs through the hole I had always come from, and I could see that there were spiders all around, and they were slowly crawling towards me with their mouthparts.

I was so frightened that I cried out, looking around for my cousin's figure, only to see that he had come to the stone gate of the small garden at this time, my ears were full of the rustle of spiders crawling, I couldn't hear what he was saying, I opened my mouth and cried out: "Second brother, there are many spiders, and you also have them." But the cousin, as if he could not hear, turned his head and saw the light outside the little garden, and rushed out like a fly.

I only saw his back flash, and then disappeared from the edge of the cliff, shouting with a crying voice: "Second brother, you wait for me." "Move your heavy legs and chase him.

As I stepped up the stone steps, I had forgotten that there was a well in front of me, and I stepped on the air and fell into it. Then I felt a great suction force pulling me down, the cold and biting well water wrapped my whole body, and it was pitch black in front of me, and I felt like I had hit a stone in my back, but I didn't feel the pain, so I gradually lost my frustration.

I don't know how long it took, but the pain in my left leg made me wake up gradually, and then I felt like my whole body was falling apart, and it hurt everywhere.

I opened my eyes with difficulty, and what I saw was a blood-red glow reflecting the horizon, and the sun... It's gone.

I was confused and could recognize that this was a river that I often passed by, and I don't know how much strength it took to slowly climb to the shore on the road, slowly stand up, trembling and limping in the direction of my uncle's house, at that time I just wanted to go home.

I don't know how I passed out on the side of the road later, my uncle came back from the town, saw me lying on the side of the road dying, and hurriedly took it back to my grandmother's house, my grandfather hurriedly attached herbal medicine for me, a day later I slowly woke up, heard the adults outside the door talking, said that this morning my cousin's body was found by the rangers patrolling the mountain, and then brought back to the town, someone recognized it as the uncle's child, so he rode a bicycle to send it over, and when he heard the news, his aunt cried and fainted....

I was lying on the bed, tears couldn't stop flowing, and my grandmother who came in saw me crying, and hurriedly came over and stroked my head and said, "Xiaolin, it's okay, it's okay.... Grandma's gentle voice made me fall asleep slowly.

After that, my grandmother and grandfather took care of me until the third day, when my parents came back from out of town and took me back to my hometown.

This incident was never mentioned again, as if it had never happened, as if the second brother had never existed.

After returning to my hometown, I was no longer as naughty as I used to be, I went around casually, and I usually stayed at home when I had nothing to do.

I talk to people a lot less, and my neighbors say I'm like a girl. At the beginning of the second year, I was almost recovered, and my parents were going to go out to work as usual, leaving me and my grandmother behind, because I still had a first-level school because of this.

I raised my head and looked out the window, it was almost dusk, and I was stroking the small sign that my second brother had given me back then, this was the first time I had turned it out of the box in five years, and the past came to my mind as if it had happened yesterday.