Because the branches are not shovels after all, and the excavated soil is a small area, so Sheng Shiyao changed to the other side and expanded the pit dug before, and suddenly saw him frowning, I asked urgently: "What's wrong?" ”

"The branches hit something hard."

The instinctive reaction was that the coffin, although his heart was furious, he still leaned forward to look at it, and soon Sheng Shiyao dug up the grave to the side, and the hard object he said was also presented in front of our eyes. Where is the coffin, it is a black wooden box, two feet long and one and a half feet wide, no need to think about it, it is impossible to bury people in such a small box.

Relatively speaking, I was less scared. It is speculated that the box may be clothes and other things, and this tomb that He Yunlai is a clothed mound erected by his grandmother for someone. But when the box was opened, I was so shocked that I sat down on the ground.

Inside was a wreckage! The reason why it is said to be a wreckage is because it is not complete, but it is listed one by one. The skeleton is placed on the far left, followed by the skeleton and the bones of the hands and feet. With such a list of methods, it is obvious that my grandmother collected the skeletons at the beginning.

Sheng Shiyao patted my head, "What's there to be afraid of." He said it easily, but my back was wet with sweat, and it was all cold sweat. The main reason is that when I saw a small box before, I let go of my guard, thinking that at most it would be some clothes, but the contrast was so big that I was scared.

Got up from the ground in embarrassment, and couldn't get rid of the wet mud on his body. I saw Sheng Shiyao approaching the box and looking at it carefully, and asked on the side, "Did you find anything?" Remove the ...... inside Is there anything else besides those bones? ”

He shook his head and said: "No, so it's very strange, generally buried in the soil will be put with burial goods, simple shrouds and shoes will always have, even if the bones are scattered and cannot be worn, they will be folded and put inside, but this is nothing." ”

I didn't get too close, but I could see the inside of the box at a glance, and I couldn't help but ask, "What does this mean?" ”

"It means that your grandmother did not have a deep friendship with this person, and the situation at that time did not allow her to do more, and she did not even prepare a coffin for her, but just took the box and collected the bones and buried it."

sighed in my heart, after listening to what Zhang Liuye said before, I speculated that even if he was not a grandfather, he was also my grandmother's lover when she was young, so I would build a monument for it. Before opening the box, he thought that he might die in a foreign country, so his grandmother set up a mound for him.

But now, I don't think about it anymore, first of all, I ruled out the possibility that he is my grandfather, if it was my grandfather, my grandmother would definitely not be so hasty. In this way, the identity of He Yunlai is even more thought-provoking.

Suddenly heard Sheng Shiyao let out a "hey", and in a blink of an eye, he saw that his face was suspicious, and when he looked down, he found that his eyes were fixed on the box. After a while, I heard him say, "But I looked away, and I thought it was an ordinary box, but it was hundreds of years old." ”

I was stunned, "You mean this box?" Hundreds of years? Isn't that an antique? ”

He nodded, pointed to the lock of the box and said: "The shape of this bronze lock, the most recent date must be the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago, and the box wood is a special black wood, no wonder it has not rotted for so many years." ”

In other words, my grandmother actually attaches importance to this, where did it come from? Our previous assumptions were wrong. ”

"Not necessarily, you can't judge until you dig up the two next to you."

I was taken aback, "Still digging?" Lian shook his head, "Don't dig it." "I won't talk about this, the other two are both surnames, obviously the ancestors of the family, I am a descendant of the family, digging my own ancestral grave, this kind of thing is not tolerated.

Sheng Shiyao saw that my voice was firm, but he didn't force it, he just said follow me, threw the branch and turned around and walked to the river. I looked at his back, then at the unfilled pit, sighed, and had to pick up the branches myself, fill the pit with soil, and when it was completed, I bowed to the tombstone, and said a few words to the owner of the tomb not to be surprised.

Only then did I turn around and want to find Sheng Shiyao, but when I turned around, I didn't see him, I walked out, afraid of being blocked by the bushes, but I circled around the entire mound and didn't find anyone else. Strange, where did he go? It's impossible to leave without telling us.

Just when I was wondering and was in a hurry, I suddenly heard a soft call from behind me, and I still didn't see anyone else when I turned around, but I was sure that the voice was his, and I looked around, and my eyes were fixed on the big tree. The direction of the voice just now is from there, could it be that he is behind the tree, but I obviously looked for it just now.

Just as I was about to step forward, I saw Sheng Shiyao really come out from behind the tree and wave at me. When I trotted over, he pulled me around the tree and asked, "Do you know where I was hiding?" ”

I looked up at the branches and guessed, "On the tree?" ”

He shook his head and reached for the stump, but he didn't know how to get it, and unexpectedly uncovered the bark more than a meter high, like a door, and the inside was hollow. Before this, he said that this kind of tree is the most hollow, but he didn't think that it was really empty, and compared to the one planted in the backyard of the old house, I don't know how many times bigger, so he said, this tree hole can be used as a tree house, at least it can accommodate the two of us.

Hey, he didn't mean that the two of us would live in this tree hole tonight, it wouldn't be too cold, otherwise sleeping in this kind of place in early spring would definitely be cold to the bone.

But listening to Sheng Shiyao's words, he said with interest: "Xiaoxiao, you must not have thought that this tree still has a mystery, come with me." I stooped down and looked in, and he reached out to me inside, so I gave him his hand, and shook it warmly, and got in. The tree itself can't be hugged by one person, and after two people enter at the same time, the space is still very spacious, and it doesn't feel crowded, and the hollowness of the head is also very serious, enough for us to straighten our waists.

The tree of the heart is empty like this, and it can still survive. Suddenly, he suddenly felt that there was nothing left beside him, and when he turned his head to look, he was shocked on the spot, where was Sheng Shiyao? He was obviously next to him, why did he disappear in an instant? Because after I came in, he closed the door of the tree, so it was impossible to get out, but what about people? Disappeared into thin air?

"Tiny?"

My heart was shocked, he was still there! The tree hole is pitch black, and you can't see your fingers, but no one can feel anyone in the space, and the sound seems to come from...... Under his feet, just as he was imagining, a beam of light shot up from below, and Sheng Shiyao's voice came again: "What are you deserting?" Come down. ”

It was from that beam that I realized that two steps in front of me there was a crater from which the light came out. Hurriedly stepped forward, saw that he was looking up below, and he couldn't be surprised, without hesitation, he stretched his feet down, he picked me up below, and landed smoothly.

It's not so much a surprise as a shock, who would have thought that under this old tree, there would be a cave. It's really a cave, the slope is down, although the slope is not steep, but because the hole is not high, we can't walk upright, so we can only climb backwards and down. Sheng Shiyao said that he had discovered this cave before, and he wanted to enter it, but when he heard me looking for him on it, he went out first and called me in.

We climbed about 20 meters deep before we reached the end, Sheng Shiyao took a flashlight, a door appeared in front of him, the two glanced at each other, and vaguely felt that another secret was about to be revealed.

The door was ordinary, there was no mechanism, just push hard, and the door opened. When I got inside, I suddenly saw that my eyes were spacious, and I could stand up, and when the flashlight lit around, I found that there were many red bricks stacked around, just like houses, but the top of my head was still hard soil, and no bricks were laid.

There are some daily necessities in the house, of course, all old things. On the far left side of the room, a bed was made of two planks, and a quilt was stacked on top of it, but there was a musty smell. Noticing that there was a box under the wooden bed, he dragged it out and studied the wood and lock of the box first, Sheng Shiyao said that this was an ordinary box, at most decades ago.

The box was locked, and with a slight pick of Shadow Moon, it was opened. Inside are some clothes, looking at the color and style, it is the kind from decades ago, and I am slightly surprised that these clothes are all women's models, and they look like ...... Grandma's clothes. I took out one piece, shook it open and looked at it, the size and length were indeed about the same as my grandmother's, could it be that my grandmother had stayed in this place?

To confirm this, I rummaged under the box, only to find a baby's cloak and a few small clothes at the bottom. A strange thought came to my mind, could it be that my grandmother gave birth to my mother here, and then for some reason, they still lived here for a while? But when I think about it, I feel a chill down my spine, how can anyone live in a cemetery.

Ignoring Sheng Shiyao's voice, he turned his head to look and saw him standing in front of the wall with his back to him, not knowing what he was looking at. I put down my clothes and walked over to him, where I found him with a brick in his hand and his eyes fixed on the hole in the wall.

"Huh?" I was shocked, the hole in the wall where the bricks had been removed didn't seem to be dirt, and I reached out and touched it, and it was hard. I only heard Sheng Shiyao say: "Xiaoxiao, it seems that we are going to move these bricks down to take a look." ”

The bricks themselves were piled up with the mud they have been reconciled, and they were not as strong as the cement of today, so I easily took off the bricks one by one, and when I could roughly see them behind the bricks, I was speechless.

In fact, behind the brick wall is a stone wall, and the stone wall is engraved with words, and after reading a few lines, it is already clear. I finally understood why my grandmother had the manuscript of Huang Xingyuan's secret technique, and it turned out that the "fragment" was here. The handwriting on the wall is the secret technique we saw in the manuscript before.

Then we demolished the other brick walls, and the stone walls behind them were also engraved with handwriting, but not all of them were the contents of Huang Xingyuan's secret arts. On the last stone wall, the carving of a biography in a tone that seems to be autobiography, describes how he accidentally learned about this secret art, but caused trouble because of it, and eventually fled here.

I can't help but wonder that these four sides are surrounded by stone walls, so even if the project is not huge, it is difficult to build this stone house by one person.

Sheng Shiyao said suddenly: "This is a tomb in itself, not man-made." ”