Qi Hai gently put the diary on the table, and said: "Since it has been decided, it is better to go to Xi'an sooner rather than later, to the Duyin Village under the Qinling Mountains, I think that there is the source of all this, we will definitely find clues when we go there." ”

Listening to Qi Hai's words, Gao Chuan muttered: "Qinling, Zhongnan Mountain, Duyin Village, yes, that's where everything begins." ”

With this decision, the two decided to leave as soon as possible, after all, it was no longer safe here.

Qi Hai said: "Shall we keep these diaries or put them back in the hole?" ”

Gao Chuan said: "It's better to put it back, keep it and it will soon be broken, these are your father's diaries, let's stay with him." ”

Qi Hai also had this in mind, he found a plastic bag, put the paper in it, and sealed it. Then he said, "Then I'll go down, and I want to kowtow to my father a few times." ”

"I'll be with you."

Qi Hai nodded and said, "Let's go." ”

Soon the two of them went down the ladder to the cave again, and now Qi Hai was not as surprised as he was just now, he felt the dark and damp environment in the cave, imagining that his father had been hiding here for eight years, and his heart was very uncomfortable.

When they came to the grave, Qi Hai put the tattered diaries back in their place, then knelt down in front of the tombstone, kowtowed a few times in thought, and then stood up and said, "Let's go." ”

After returning to it, Gao Chuan touched his stomach and asked Qi Hai, "Are you hungry?" Why don't we get some food first, let's go out, it's going to be a long time. ”

After a night of tossing, the two of them were indeed hungry, sleepy, and exhausted now, and Qi Hai thought about it too, so he agreed.

Gao Chuan knew that Qi Hai was in a complicated mood at the moment, so he offered to cook and let Qi Hai wait.

At this time, it was close to noon, and Takakawa returned to his house and saw that there were still a few handfuls of noodles in the kitchen, as well as various vegetables grown by his grandfather. He also found eggs and shredded meat from the large and small bags he had brought with him yesterday.

Brush the pot and start the stove, and the ping-pong will be busy. He stir-fried a simple shredded pork with green pepper and made a braised eggplant. After the two dishes were ready, the egg noodles began to fall again. Although Gao Chuan does not open a hotel like Qi Hai, there is still no problem with simple meals.

After the noodles were ready, he served them in a bowl and served them to the table, and then he went to call Qi Hai.

When I walked out of the house, I saw Qi Hai sitting on a small dirt slope not far away, staring blankly at the mountain. This scene made Gao Chuan unconsciously startled, he suddenly felt that Qi Hai's back looked very thin in the past, and in the mottled shadow of the tree, the back revealed a desolate loneliness.

Gao Chuan was suddenly stunned, thinking that he couldn't be like this. He and Qi Hai have similar lives, in the previous years, in fact, most of the life trajectories of the two overlapped, no matter where they grew up, or the relatives around them are the same. Maybe he is worse off than Qi Hai, at least now Qi Hai has found his father, even if it is only a tomb. As for himself, everything is still unknown.

Gao Chuan shook his head, not thinking about these things for the time being, he shouted at Qi Hai. Qi Hai heard the shouting, turned around, and saw Gao Chuan standing behind him, and reluctantly smiled at him and asked, "Is the meal ready?" ”

Gao Chuan nodded and said, "Let's go, don't think about it." ”

Qi Hai jumped down from the dirt slope, came to the house with Gao Chuan, and when he saw the food on the table, Qi Hai teased: "Yes, you're getting better and better at cooking, and you're about to catch up with the chef in my store." ”

Gao Chuan said: "Pull it down, don't you count my level, less oil and no salt, if your chef is at this level, ten hotels will have to open and close, you can make do with it." ”

Qi Hai picked up a piece of eggplant and put it in his mouth, chewed it and said, "Chuan, you are too modest, do you call it less oil and no salt, you put the entire salt jar in it." ”

Gao Chuan heard Qi Hai say this, and he also hurriedly put a piece in his mouth, tasted it and said, "Ah, the salt is a little too much, a little salty, but it's not as exaggerated as you said." Then Takakawa continued: "Don't eat the eggplant if it's salty, eat this." As he spoke, he pointed to the shredded green pepper meat next to him with his chopsticks.

Qi Hai's ridiculous words made the two of them slightly ease out of the dull atmosphere. Since returning home to find that the grandfathers are gone, the two have been in anxiety and panic, and what happened next is particularly strange, one after another, the two of them are completely unclear, so that they are at a loss.

This cast a shadow on both of their hearts, and the grandfathers disappeared inexplicably and disappeared, followed by an unknown mysterious person, and then Rhubarb also died. Qi Hai inexplicably found his father again, but it turned out to be a long-ago tomb, still hidden in the depths of the earth. These successive events left both of them physically and mentally exhausted.

Soon, the two finished eating, and now they feel much better, after cleaning up. Gao Chuan asked, "Do you think those people from last night will really come again?" ”

Qi Hai shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, no matter what, let's go back to the city first, rest well, prepare to go to Xi'an, and find the place called Duyin Village first." ”

Gao Chuan nodded and said, "Okay, but how can we know where that place is?" ”

Qi Hai replied: "I think about it, let's find my college classmate first and ask him for help, as long as the village is still there, we will definitely be able to find it." ”

Gao Chuan nodded in agreement, and he asked again, "Even if we can find it, do you think we can find the grandfathers?" ”

Qi Hai said: "I don't know, but I believe that if we can find it, we will definitely know some of my grandfather's past life trajectory, I would like to know the reason why he suddenly moved from there, doesn't my father's diary also suspect that there is a secret hidden in it?" This secret has to do with my dead father, and with the disappearance of our grandfather. He looked at Gao Chuan, and then said, "What's more, this is our only clue." ”

Qi Hai returned to his grandfather's bedroom, put the stone slab back in its place, and sealed the hole, but because he used an iron crowbar to pry it open, there was a gap around it, and at a glance, he could find that there was something strange underneath. Only then did Qi Hai remember that when he was a child, there was a carpet here.

He understood that at those times, before his father died, he could lift the carpet and go down to the hole in the ground, but he never knew it.

Later, my father died, so my grandfather sealed the entrance to the cave. Thinking of this, Qi Hai remembered again that the old carpet that had been laid on it had been put in the cabin by his grandfather.

He called Takakawa, told him about these things, and then asked Takakawa to go with him to the cabin, bring the old carpet, and relay it on it.

The cabin has been turned into a mess by Brother Hei and the calf, and they found the old carpet in a pile of miscellaneous items, the carpet is almost three meters square, so that the whole spread, except for the bed, can almost cover the grandfather's bedroom, this should be designed by the grandfather, just cover the hole in the middle position, extremely hidden.

The two of them cleaned the carpet and relaid it as they remembered. Looking at the carpet re-laid on the ground, Qi Hai seemed to have returned to the time more than ten years ago, when he once stepped on this carpet and asked his grandfather about the news of his parents, but how did he know at that time that under this carpet, his father heard his words there.

At this moment, the past and the present converge, making Qi Hai feel like a lifetime, but like a world away.