Who is it? I walked to the living room and asked.

At three o'clock in the morning, the ghost knocks on the door, this is the time when the yang energy is the weakest, and the yin energy is the strongest, the old people often say that the ghost who wanders in the world and cannot be born beyond the birth, if you want to find a substitute, you will shout your name at three o'clock in the middle of the night and knock on the door of your house.

"Knock knock." There was still a knock on the door, and there was no intention of stopping, but it was getting more and more urgent.

At this time, I thought to myself, if this is really a ghost, it should also be called by my name, but the person outside only cared about knocking on the door and didn't shout his name, didn't he know what my name was? Then I'll call you!

"Who are you? So late? Did you go to the wrong door when you came back from big health care? ”

As soon as he finished saying this, the knocking on the door stopped abruptly, and the whole room returned to calm, there was no superfluous sound, the swing of the living room clock ticked and ticked, and at half past three in the middle of the night, everything was silent.

I stood at the gate, not knowing why the knock woke me up, or who it was.

But soon I saw something slipping in under the crack in my door.

It was a file bag, and I opened it to see that it was a photo with my dad and some of his friends in it. It's just that in the photo, they are holding shovels in their hands and stepping on galoshes, like diggers, and in that photo, I see that the water in the river is dry, and there is a huge sand mining boat and ······ not far away And an excavator!

"Who?" Seeing the picture of my father, the man who had been missing for ten years, brought back all my memories. I opened the door, only to find an empty hallway outside, and only the voice-activated lights in the distance reminded me that someone had been here.

After chasing a few steps, I reached the top of the staircase, and soon the lights in the stairwell began to dim one by one, and I knew that the man had gone away.

When I got home, I picked up that picture and thought to myself, why would that person give me a picture like this? Looking at the appearance of the father in the photo, between his thoughts, the already blurred outline began to become clearer, he had eyes, his face was full of scum, and he stayed in the study at home in pajamas all the year round. What a typical workaholic.

My father's name is Sheng Yiming, a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, ten years ago, after the Spring Festival, he disappeared from our sight, I don't know where he went.

At that time, the family used all the connections they could use, and even with the police for a full month, nothing was found, just like when my grandfather disappeared twenty years ago, no trace was left, no trace at all.

In fact, for a long time, I also wondered, what does my dad do? Why did it suddenly disappear? Could it be that his disappearance has something to do with his grandfather? Of course, most of these conjectures ended in nothing, but when I looked at the photos, I had more and more questions in my heart, such as what was my dad and these people doing in the photos? And look at their equipment and posture, are they mining sand or digging things?

As for the people in the photo, I swept over one by one, and suddenly thought of a person, that is, Brother Wang, this person is called Wang Bojin is a friend of my father, I also saw him in the photo, and he has been opening a mahjong parlor in Yongxiu all these years, I think since he is in the photo, he should know some stories in this photo.

I thought of this, put away the photos, looked at the gradually bright sky outside the window, got dressed, washed up, and ran towards the mahjong parlor opened by Wang Bo.

At eight o'clock in the morning, I pinched the time when he opened the door to find him, and Wang Bojin was also surprised when he learned of my intention, he took the photo and recalled to me the events of that year.

"It was the end of 07, and the place in the photo was taken in the upper reaches of the Xiu River, the reason was that a brother of the same generation in my clan caught a piece of ebony when he was mining sand in the Xiu River, and there was a bronze at the bottom of the ebony, which was full of silt, and the ebony was inserted straight into the silt."

"What kind of bronze?" When these things were dug under the river of the Xiu River, I was surprised when I heard this.

"It's a big tripod, no one knows the year, but the appearance of that tripod is a little strange, there are dragon carvings all around, there are huge faces on all sides, and the facial features are clear and clear, but there are no eyes."

"Eyeless?"

"At that time, some people said that those ancient character carvings or portraits generally had eyes, because eyes are souls, and if there are no eyes, it means that this thing is used to seal souls?"

"For sealing souls?"

"That's right, it should be a coffin, and it doesn't seem to contain a human being. At the beginning, we did buy a sand mining boat, digging sand during the day and digging the bronze tripod at night, but no matter how we dug it, the silt in the tripod was just not finished, as if every day we dug at night, someone would fill it up during the day. But this is not strange, the strange thing is that on the morning of the fourth day, the thing disappeared, completely disappeared into the river, leaving only a huge abyss in the river, your father said that there is an underground river under the river, after the bronze disappeared, the water of the river below gushed up, so the water of the whole river was muddy during that time. ”

"And then? And then you dug up that ding? ”

Wang Bojin shook his head: "No, didn't you say that you gave up in the end, because we didn't dig anything, and the bottom of the river is the underground river, we can't cut off the water of the underground river, right?" Your dad also realizes that this is unrealistic, so he gives up. ”

"And then?"

"And then there was no more!" Wang Bojin smiled: "However, I heard your father say something later, and this matter was also chatted about after we were drunk, I sounded like a joke at the time, but when you asked like this, I felt a little strange." ”

"What?"

"Your father said that he had a dream that the bronze finally appeared under the temple of the old man of Poyang Lake."

The waters of the Lao Ye Temple in Poyang Lake? I opened my phone and clicked on the navigation, this fuck, Yongxiu to the old man's temple more than 200 kilometers away!

My thoughts suddenly reached an impasse, and I had no choice but to nod: "Understood, thank you." "Wang Bojin had already told me everything he knew, and I suddenly found that I didn't find any clues that could be used from him, but it made the whole thing more and more confusing.

But just as I was leaving, Wang Bojin suddenly called out to me, and I remembered something.

"What's the matter?" I looked back.

"You give me the picture!" Wang Bojin got up from the chair, took the photo, took a general look, and then pointed to a sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked person and said, "This person, this person was a well-known person in Yongxiu at the beginning, and I don't know where your father found him." ”

"Who is he?" I asked curiously.

"This guy is not famous during his lifetime, but after his death, and his name is very interesting, called Wu Ming, I first heard it as nameless, at that time, Fengyun was very popular, and I remembered this name at once."

Wu Ming? Is this Wu Ming? I look at the guy in the picture, and he knows my dad? When I heard this, I was stunned.