In 1998, there was a catastrophic flood in Jiangxi, and a bronze dragon coffin was washed out, and the coffin crashed directly into a house downstream along the water, at that time people did not know where the coffin came from, but they saw that the style was very strange, and the coffin was lying on the top of a creature very similar to the turtle, but it was finely different, it had a row of sharp teeth, the turtle shell was covered with auspicious cloud-like lines, and the neck was also covered with golden scales. And there was a stone tablet on the back, the stone tablet was integrated with the creature, and ancient words were written on it, because the culture of the people present at that time was limited, so they didn't know what was written, but when they opened the coffin, they found that it was actually empty, only a little jewelry to accompany the burial and a layer of gray-white "skin".

Coffins don't bury people? What do you mean? The bold man jumped into the coffin, picked up the skin with both hands, drained the water, and shook it to find that it was actually a human skin.

At that time, some older people said that this should be the ancient dragon transformation technique. Because the dead inside had already shed their skin and turned into dragons, the coffin was only empty.

However, no one knows where this coffin came from, some say it is Dongting Lake, some say it is Poyang Lake, and some say it is the Mufu Mountain Range, the source of the Xiu River.

Of course, there are different opinions, but the most rumored thing is that the coffin actually rushed up from the "Yin Sea" under the Xiu River.

What is "Yin Hai"? In fact, it is the dark river under the Xiu River, you know, many underground rivers are actually connected to the above-ground rivers. But the "Yin Sea" is different, it is an independent water source, it does not belong to the ground, it belongs to a hollow layer underground, and some people even say that it is the sea that has existed since the existence of the earth.

Then a few people who found the coffin looked at it, the coffin was also a treasure, and felt that there were benefits, so they asked someone to contact a rich antique merchant in the city, and the rich merchant sent someone over, looked at the coffin, and gave 10,000 yuan without saying anything, saying that it was waiting for the coffin to be sent to the city, and another 40,000 yuan. When the family saw so much money, they were dumbfounded for a while, and they found a car overnight to send the coffin away, but before the coffin could be transported to the city, it was found out at the highway entrance of the county.

But when the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived the next morning, the coffin disappeared with the detained people, and during that time, the Cultural Relics Bureau and the Public Security Bureau dispatched all the manpower to frantically search for the lost coffins and those cultural relics dealers, and until now they have not been found, or they have never appeared in this world again.

At the beginning, my grandfather was the driver of that car, he took the job in the middle of the night, saying that it was 1,000 yuan to send something to the city, you must know that in those days, 1,000 yuan was a month's income for ordinary people. He didn't ask what it was, so he took the business in a daze. In the end, it ended up in a situation where his whereabouts were unknown, and his life and death were gone.

At that time, the family thought that the antique dealer had robbed people for the sake of the treasure, so in the following time, they desperately inquired about clues, and finally followed the clues of the family who found the coffin, and found the city, but something strange happened, that is, there was no such person at all.

And what's even more strange is that when the relevant departments were preparing to confiscate the illegal property obtained by the family from buying and selling cultural relics, the family found that all the 10,000 yuan received that night had turned into dark money.

At this point, there is no clue to the situation.

But the people in my family did not give up, my father and two brothers searched around the county day and night, but they didn't even find the wheel of the car that my grandfather drove at that time.

But no one thought that a month later, an old man came to the house, the old man, who was almost old, but he was a child-faced crane hair, holding a peachwood cane, and as soon as he arrived at home, he said: "Don't ask about the things under the river." ”

At that time, my father was not at home, only the little uncle came back from outside, and as soon as he heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground and begged the old man to tell him his whereabouts.

But the old man just shook his head and said, "That coffin was originally from the Dragon Hall, how can it be reasonable that you stole someone else's coffin?" ”

After finishing speaking, he threw up his sleeves and left, only to see that he walked lightly, and the little uncle was galloping, but he couldn't catch up, so he could only watch him disappear from sight, and finally the whole person walked into the mouth of the river.

Later, when the father and the others returned home, according to the little uncle's recollection, after the old man entered the water, the river was flooded, and he vaguely saw something like a turtle shell appear in the ripples and disappear.

"Could it be the old turtle in the Dragon Palace?" This was the biggest question in my uncle's mind back then, and of course this question was never answered.

Time turns a page.

In the course of such a catastrophic flood, such a small disappearance case slowly blurred from everyone's sight as the flood receded, until it ······ ten years later.

It was the beginning of 2008, and my dad had disappeared for some reason.

Then time turned again, and another ten years passed, and it was 2018.