The storm continued until the next morning, when the clouds slowly cleared after dawn. The rain-washed mountains are lush and green, and the air smells of dirt and trees.

Takagawa and Qi Hai find a dirt slope and bury rhubarb in the soil, and then the two begin to find their way home.

When I got home, I found that the night's heavy rain and the flash flood had filled my home with stagnant water, and the water in the yard was up to my feet.

Qi Hai because when he went out at night, the door of the hall was not closed, and the stagnant water flooded into the house again, and the whole house was like a pond, full of water, and shoes and pots and pans on the ground were floating everywhere.

The Takakawa family is slightly better, but it's not much different.

The two went back to the house, changed into dry clothes, and then found a broom and a mop to clean up the stagnant water in the house.

Qi Hai saw that the weather was about to clear, so he took his rain-soaked shoes and clothes to the stone platform in the courtyard to dry.

Then he began to sweep the stagnant water out of the house, and he first cleaned his grandfather's study, which had a lot of books, but fortunately they were all placed on the shelves, so as to avoid the rain.

Grandpa Qi loves to read books, and there are many ancient books that have existed since Qi Hai remembered. Later, Qi Hai bought a lot more, and Qi Ye flipped it over and over again.

After cleaning the study, Qi Hai came to his grandfather's bedroom again, the bedroom door was closed, but there was a finger-wide crack under the door, so the stagnant water also flooded into the bedroom through this crack.

Qi Hai opened the door forcefully, and sure enough, there was water all over the ground. And the photo hanging on the wall also fell to the ground, and Qi Hai hurriedly picked it up.

The photo is his grandfather's, and the grandfather in the photo is in good spirits and full of energy. This photo is also the only photo of his grandfather, and at this moment, looking at the photo, Qi Hai realized that he had not had a photo with his grandfather since he was a child.

Qi Hai gently wiped the water stains on the photo, but fortunately, there was a layer of glass frame outside, so the photo was not damaged.

He carefully put the photo away, and just as he was about to clean up the stagnant water, he suddenly noticed a string of thin bubbles rising from the ground in the stagnant water. Qi Hai felt strange, he thought to himself, what is going on? This ground is paved with pieces of bluestone slabs, and the bluestone slabs are tightly knit between them, why are there bubbles coming out?

Qi Hai stood still, he looked closely at the bubbles, and found that they were emerging from the gap between the two adjacent bluestone slabs. Qi Hai was suspicious in his heart, it was really strange, could it be that the bottom of this stone slab was empty?

Thinking of this, he reached out and touched it, but he couldn't be sure when he touched it, he blocked the bubbles with his hand, and the bubbles stopped rising, but as soon as he let go, those bubbles continued to bubble, and they appeared very evenly, obviously there was something strange underneath.

Qi Hai hurriedly used a broom to sweep out all the stagnant water. After that, he squatted on the ground and looked carefully, but he didn't find anything unusual, and the stone slabs were sealed with cement. He struck the stone slab on the ground with his hand, and the slate made a "knock" sound, and then he knocked on the stone slab next to him, and it was still a "knock" sound, but there seemed to be some subtle differences in this sound.

Could it be that the bottom is really empty? This thought surprised Qi Hai, because he was too familiar with this home, and he didn't believe that there was anything else he didn't know about here.

Qi Hai knocked on the ground again and again, he felt more and more that there was a lot of articles under the floor, knocking back and forth, he decided to open this stone slab to find out.

He quickly fetched a hammer, a chisel, and a crowbar. First, a hammer and a drill are used to beat along the gap between the stone slabs, the cement in the middle of the gap is broken, and then the broken cement block is pulled out, and soon, a groove is chiseled between the gaps.

He estimated that he was almost done, so he inserted the crowbar into the groove, and with a single effort, lifted the bluestone slab.

As soon as the bluestone slab was lifted, a black hole was suddenly revealed. Qi Hai was taken aback, he never thought that this place that he thought was familiar and could no longer be familiar would hide a hole in the ground.

Qi Hai put the stone slab aside, only to see that the entrance of the cave was nearly a meter wide and narrow, and what surprised him even more was that there was a bamboo ladder in the cave that could lead to the bottom.

Qi Hai looked inside, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly. You can only see the upper half of the ladder, and you can't see how deep it is. Qi Hai shouted below, only to feel that the sound was fluttering and spreading far away.

Qi Hai didn't have time to think about it, he found another flashlight, and then slowly climbed down the ladder, the ladder was very long, and every time he took the next step, the ladder squeaked and swayed. According to rough estimates, it is about ten meters deep, and the bottom is wet everywhere because of the seepage water at night.

After Qi Hai reached the end, he used a flashlight to shine around, and found that the walls around him were all rocks, obviously this was an underground cave. Little did he know that his house was built on top of a huge cave.

Qi Hai walked slowly along the cave, the more he walked, the more frightened he became, this cave was very big, and he couldn't walk for a while.

He took his flashlight and slowly fumbled his way inside the edge of the cave, and soon after. He heard the sound of running water. Then a slender stream of water appeared in front of him, and it appeared that there was an underground spring, and the water from the spring formed this stream, which flowed all the way to the low part of the cavern.

Qi Hai stepped across the stream, and a very large stone chamber appeared in front of him. He looked around the stone room with a flashlight, only to feel that his scalp was numb, and he was horrified to find that this stone room had actually been inhabited.

There was a bed in the stone chamber, which seemed to be very old, and because the cave was dark and damp, the wooden bed had begun to decay, and there were pillows and bedding on the bed, and it was also broken because of the unknown amount of time. There are also tables and stools next to it, and there are even plates and chopsticks on the table.

Qi Hai was shocked, he didn't understand what was going on at all, who lived here? Why live here? And why did you never know it?

Just when he was surprised and silent, a shout suddenly came from the entrance: "Qi Hai, Qi Hai, are you down there?" It was Takakawa's voice.

Qi Hai suddenly came back to his senses, and he hurriedly replied, "I'm below." ”

Gao Chuan heard Qi Hai's answer, and soon came down the ladder, and when he saw the light in Qi Hai's hand in the distance, he also slowly came to Qi Hai's side along the stone wall.

He was shocked and asked, "Oh my God, it's incredible that there would be such a big cave down here, you don't know, right?" ”

Qi Hai shook his head and said, "I don't know at all, my grandfather never told me, if it weren't for the rain flooding into the house, I might never have found this place." ”

When Gao Chuan saw that there was a bed here, he asked, "How can there be a bed, does anyone live here?" ”

Qi Hai was noncommittal, he said: "I don't know, didn't those people in the night say that they would dig three feet into the ground to find someone, I guess it has something to do with this hole." ”

Gao Chuan hurriedly said: "Could it be that Qi Ye has been hiding a person at home all along?" ”

Qi Hai felt an inexplicable fear, if it was really as Gao Chuan said, there had always been a person hiding in his home, and after all these years, he didn't know it at all, this kind of thing was simply terrifying.

But Qi Hai thought about it, this possibility was very small, after all, the entrance above had been sealed, which meant that there would be no one below. Perhaps, this is just an ordinary cave in the ground, and it just so happened that the grandfathers built the house on it.

"Hey, look over there." Takakawa shouted.

"What?" Qi Hai hurriedly asked.

Then they saw a half-meter-high mound of earth at the edge of the stone chamber, and when they got closer, it was actually a tomb. The edges of the tomb are neatly circled with smooth stones, and there is a tombstone in front of the tomb that is flush with the head of the tomb.

Qi Hai used a flashlight to shine and found that there was an inscription on the tombstone, and Qi Hai could tell at a glance that the handwriting on it belonged to his grandfather, and it seemed that his grandfather should have carved it himself.

I saw that it was engraved: The tomb of the late male Qi Ling has been erected for many years

Qi Hai stood in place, not knowing why, and suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart.

Gao Chuan hurriedly asked, "Who is this Qi Ling?" It can't be your father, right? ”

Qi Hai was surprised in his heart, and he asked Gao Chuan: "Why do you say that?" ”

Gao Chuan replied: "Isn't it obvious, "old man" should be the title of the father to erect a monument for his son, this person's name is Qi Ling, also surnamed Qi, it must have something to do with you, otherwise why would he be here?" ”