Even if the leaves are falling, it is not easy to shuttle through the poplar forest, but one after another, they are full of interest, and they are walking in the forest with their hands to block the branches. When the forest was so dense that there was nowhere to drill, he finally relented, exited the poplar forest, and walked along the side path. At this time, both my face and his face were scratched by the branches, and I felt a little stinging.

He looked back at my face and said with a smile, "It's okay, you can get rid of it after a little sleep, and restore your flower and moon appearance." ”

I didn't answer, I just looked at him silently, I looked a little uncomfortable, he didn't turn his face away, "Xiao Jiu, are you staring at people so stunned?" Even if you think I'm handsome, I should keep my eyes down. ”

sneered, his narcissism was at its peak. I suddenly called out to him: "Successively, is there something wrong with you?" ”

He was stunned for a moment, his eyes flickered, and he squinted and smiled and asked, "What can I do?" ”

"If you don't want to say it, forget it." I overtook him and became my leader, changing the dominant position. He didn't object, so he let me lead him, and after a short and half a moment, he heard him say behind him: "Xiao Jiu, accompany me on this trip, which should be a baptism and farewell to the past." ”

I didn't understand what he meant, so I stopped and looked back at him, and the afternoon sun was on his shoulders, making him look deep and handsome. Flipping his wrist, the chain between the metal rings clanged, "Even if I don't want to, I can't do it, I'm handcuffed by you." ”

He smiled immediately, his long narrow eyes full of smiles, "That's right, you have been adopted by me, don't want to be half an inch away from me." ”

I lowered my head and measured it with my right hand, looked up and said, "I'm afraid not, this is a tiger's mouth wide, and half an inch will definitely not be able to do it." He stopped talking one after another, looked at me with a tiger face, looked at the sudden "poof", and couldn't help laughing, "Xiao Jiu, you're poor enough." After saying that, he patted me on the head with an expression of looking at a pet.

A short hand avoided him, "Can I remove your claws?" He withdrew his hand and said no more.

Sure enough, he planned to enter the poplar forest one after another because of his sudden interest, and when he arrived at the large poplar forest, he saw him searching around, and when he saw the thicker dead trees, he stepped forward to take a closer look. I don't ask much, silently observe in the dark, and the results will always be presented.

When a withered and crooked tree came into view, I noticed that my eyes suddenly lit up, and my heart said that it seemed to have been found. He walked briskly past me, pulling something out of his pocket as he went, and I stood on tiptoe to see that it was a photograph of a dead tree not far away. At this time, it is not strange to say that it is fake, for the sake of viewing the scenery, is it just for this tree?

When I walked up, I heard one after another: "The root system of Populus euphratica can grow up to 15 meters long, spread below the sand, and in order to absorb water in an extremely arid environment, it can go about 13 meters underground." Don't look at it as completely withered, it's still alive. Xiao Jiu, let's gamble on how deep we dig to find the treasure. ”

"Treasure?" I reached for him on the forehead, "You're okay, your brain isn't burned." ”

"Go, go," he waved his hand in disgust like a fly, "and tell you seriously, there's a treasure map under this tree." After saying that, I didn't care whether I believed it or not, so I dug it with my hands, and because of the restrictions on my movement, I could only squat down with him. I found that this sand layer dug down dozens of centimeters, and began to become solid, and accidentally touched the sand grains, which was very cold, and the bottom layer was frozen at low temperatures because of water.

If there is something buried underneath, it will be difficult to take it out. But when he saw that he had finished planing one place and couldn't plane any more, he would start over in another, and after a while, he shouted to me: "Eh, don't look at it, help dig together." ”

I glanced at him and snapped my wrist, "How can I help?" He smiled very ruffianly, "Xiao Jiu, you are hollowing out your mind and thinking that I will untie the handcuffs, I will not do what you want." Don't help, just watch the master dig the treasure, don't think I'll share half of you later. ”

Cut! Don't give it to me, and bury it under this dead tree to return the treasure? He is dizzy in his head, and he has watched too many time-traveling dramas.

As it turned out, it was after he had shaved a lot of sand around the dead trees that he had scavenged a lot of nonsense, and finally he had found something, but it was an ordinary dark wine bottle, and then his expression was dark. Squinted, took a cigarette in his mouth, and sat down on the sand, in a daze.

I couldn't help it anymore, so I kicked him, "It's cold, you come here to dig up a bottle, but you open it to see what's there, what kind of melancholy are you sitting there?" ”

He looked at me blankly for a few seconds with a look of relief from his stunned eyes, and then he responded, "Oh. ”

The reason why I think the bottle is strange is because its seal is wrapped layer after layer. After unwrapping the layers one after another, he pulled off the stopper, put the bottle upside down and shook it a few times, and a long earthy yellow roll fell out of it, looking at the material, it looked like a parchment roll.

The parchment rolls are knotted with red string, and if they don't look old, they look like love letters made in a popular valentine's bottle for a certain holiday. In the past, I used to prepare this kind of gift for my customers, and I sent it by courier. Thoughts flashed, this couldn't be some token that his girlfriend Dongdong asked him to come over, right?

The color of the old can be made, and now many people like this kind of nostalgic retro style, and there is a market where there is demand.

When he opened the parchment scroll one after another, his eyes involuntarily drifted up, but when he saw that there was no writing on it, he sighed secretly, and when he looked closely, he found that it looked like a hand-drawn map. At this time, one after another's face was very serious, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his eyes were fixed on the parchment scroll, which was only more than a foot wide, and he suddenly took out a lighter, and actually lit the parchment scroll.

I was shocked and asked, "Why do you want to burn it?" "This is the map that is doing this, and now it is burning, isn't it a trip for nothing?

He pursed his lips and smiled, pointed to his head and said, "It's all imprinted in my head, why do you need this thing?" ”

Memorized the entire map so quickly? Forgive me for being stupid, I haven't reached the level of memory that can remember a map in a matter of seconds. But a surprising scene happened before our eyes, the parchment was half burned but extinguished itself, and the two of us looked at each other suspiciously, and he took the lighter and lit it again, but this time he could not light it.

I said, "No, one after another, there seems to be something else in there that is not flammable." He thought about it, and took the sand beside him, and then cut it out again, and the sparks on the parchment were completely extinguished, and what had been earthy yellow was now a charred black.

When I peeled off the outer layer little by little, I was surprised to find that the parchment scroll had a sandwich, and inside the sandwich was an extremely thin piece of metal, and there was also a map on it, which was very similar to the previous one. It's not a painting, it's something that someone carved little by little with a sharp object.

One after another, he sighed suddenly: "If I hadn't deliberately destroyed the sheepskin map, I'm afraid that no one will ever know the true map here." ”

Real or false maps? Things seem to be getting interesting. I asked him what the map was for, but he told me that he would know when the time came. It's not the one who breaks the casserole and asks to the end, since he doesn't want to say it, I don't force it. Glancing at the back of the metal sheet, he whispered, "Successively, look at the reverse side, it seems that there are words." ”

He was stunned for a moment, then flipped over the metal piece, and the next moment he froze.

The words on the metal sheet were small and dense, and I was in the opposite position, and I could only vaguely see a few words. He didn't care about the above content, but he was a little surprised by the reaction one after another, and even his hand holding the metal piece trembled a little, and his eyes were staring in shock. I asked softly, "Are you alright?" His breathing suddenly became heavier, his hand clenched into a fist, and he held the metal piece in his palm, but the edge of the metal sheet was sharp, and blood instantly came out of his fingers.

I suddenly changed color, and hurriedly broke his hand, and when the five fingers were broken one by one, it could be seen that there was a long bloody mouth in his palm, and the blood was still gushing outward. "What are you doing here?" I just asked, but I didn't want to raise it one after another, and my eyes were full of sadness, "Xiao Jiu, I never thought that the truth of the matter was actually like this!" ”

The dead trees in the poplar forest, the hidden map, the picture within the map, and the text left behind, and at this moment they are saying "the truth" one after another, even if I don't know anything about it, I understand that this is not a simple matter. The most important thing is that this kind of succession is very worrying.

I tried to get the piece of metal and read the words on it, but when my fingertips touched it, he immediately put it away and quickly hid it in his pocket. He said, "Xiao Jiu, don't look at it. I nodded, everyone has their own secrets or scars, and like my past, I don't want anyone to know. So he just silently turned the handkerchief out of his pocket and tied a knot in his palm, and soon the handkerchief was stained red with blood, and he felt that it was inappropriate, so he found a tissue and pressed the bloody mouth.

When I was done, I pulled him down and said, "Go back." ”

He shook his head, and reached into his trouser pocket with the other hand, but he couldn't get it in several times, because he was still in a bad mood because of trembling. Seeing this, I said, "What do you want, I'll help you." He didn't object, and whispered, "There's a cigarette and a lighter in my left trouser pocket, get one for me, I want to smoke a cigarette." ”

Cigarettes are a lot of things that calm the mind. I found his cigarette case according to his words, and saw that it was still the same brand I smoked last time, opened the cigarette case, there was still a small half pack in it, and I smoked one out, and a faint smell of tobacco came to my nose. After stuffing it in his mouth, I went to take out the lighter, which was an ordinary lighter, sold for a dollar in the commissary, and asked while lighting a cigarette for him, "Why don't you use the original one?" After asking, I remembered that his lighter seemed to be in my pocket at the time, and finally lost it.

But I heard him reply: "That is unlucky, don't use it." "Slightly surprised, is that lighter still with him?