Chapter 9: Sneaking Around
After Cao Daring finished talking about the first people who came here, he went straight to the second other self. He said that it was half a month ago, and when the second one came, he said the same thing as me, saying that he was looking for the twins' younger brother, and that he was going to enter the gate.
Cao Daring didn't think much about it at that time, after all, the first two looked the same, and he couldn't suspect that they were twins, and he did know that the first batch of people went to Guanmengou, so he let the second one stay at home for one night, and took him into the mountains the next day.
This time it was the same as the last time he entered the mountain, Cao Daring still did not enter the Guanmengou, he brought the people to the Guanmengou and came back alone.
After Cao Daring finished speaking, he took me and the old prostitute some steamed buns and a sausage, he said that he had dinner in the village, so the family did not cook, these are steamed steamed buns in the morning, let me and the old prostitute have a meal, and wait for tomorrow during the day he will go to the village to buy some good wine and food, and then treat us well.
For me and the old prostitute, we don't care about what to eat, after all, this is a wild village, and we are not here for food, how can we ask him what to do for us, we still have a lot of questions to ask him.
I didn't say anything about turquoise, but the old prostitute asked while eating.
Cao Daring said that the turquoise was picked up by him, that is, when he took the first batch of people into the gate, so he didn't know any information about turquoise at all, if someone in the village didn't know a little about turquoise, saying that the turquoise he picked up could be sold for a few dollars, he wouldn't take it out and sell it.
When Cao Daring was talking about turquoise, I was worried that he would hide something, so I kept observing his expression. His expression didn't change, and he said it sincerely, but the process of picking up the turquoise was too simple, which made me a little suspicious.
Of course, this suspicion is also unfounded, after all, there is no process involved in picking up things.
When I looked at Cao boldly speaking, I had two feelings, either he was really sincere and had nothing to hide. Either he is too good at disguise, he is telling lies from beginning to end, and his sincerity is pretending. But no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a person who can pretend to be so profound.
Cao Daring also said why he would find an underground auction house to sell turquoise. It turns out that he is not as old as he looks, Cao Daring is only 45 years old this year, but he looks a little 60 years old. In order to show that what he said was true, Cao Daring also took out the household registration book and ID card to show me and the old prostitute.
I took it and looked at it twice, and I was really 45 years old and still unmarried. The reason why he sold turquoise was to get a wife for money, and he said that the local women disliked him for being poor, and even second-married women with children looked down on him, so he thought about selling the turquoise he had picked up, and then took out all his savings and asked the people in the village to help him marry a Vietnamese wife.
As soon as the old prostitute heard Cao boldly say that she wanted to marry a Vietnamese wife, she squirted out of the mouthful of steamed buns in her mouth, and then said: "I heard you right, you want to marry a Vietnamese wife, why are Vietnamese ladies so good-looking?"
"I'm this age, and I don't want to look good or not, as long as I can give birth to a son and a half daughter, and pass on the lineage, I don't care if it's good or not." Cao Daring took out a cigarette and lit it himself, and said helplessly: "If you can marry a local, who wants to marry a Vietnamese who can't understand what you can't understand."
"You, really don't marry a foreign girl, don't be fucking deceived, and in the end you will lose both your money." The old prostitute reminded.
"No, there are many Vietnamese wives in our village, and they are all doing well, but it is more troublesome to talk and communicate."
"Don't believe it, it's all good on the surface, I told you that it won't take two years, and all the Vietnamese girls in your village will have to run out." The old prostitute also chatted with Cao Daring, and they chatted for more than two hours.
I don't know if the old prostitute hasn't spoken so happily for a long time, but the conversation box has been endless since it was opened. One will talk about Cao Daring personally, the other will talk about this village, in short, he has talked about everything he can talk about, he has almost talked about it all over again.
I didn't participate in the conversation between the two of them, and I was thinking about the information he told me.
Although Cao Dada's process of telling the two things was extremely simple, I learned a lot from it. Through Cao's bold description, I know that there is not only one person pretending to be me in this world. And both groups of people came here to have one thing in common, that is, they both came to close the door ditch. Moreover, turquoise also appeared near the gate, which raised the importance of the gatekeeper ditch by a notch.
As for the purpose of the two groups of people going to close the door, it will never be as simple as Cao boldly described. Of course, this is not to say that Cao Daring is lying to me, I believe that he is telling the truth in this matter, but it is impossible for him to know the real purpose of the two groups of people entering the gate.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that there was a senior brother in the first batch of people, and the senior brother had used it because of the reason of going into the mountains to explore. I remember that it was a few years ago, in a fight in Shaanxi, when the senior brother took me and a few guys into the mountain, that is, on the grounds of geological exploration, not only was we not suspected after entering the mountain, but the local rural leaders also invited us to eat, and really regarded us as geological exploration experts.
Now there is a very contradictory question that haunts me, if there is really a senior brother in the first batch of people, where has he gone in the past few months since he disappeared? And why he never came back to me, which made me doubt my own judgment, and wonder if there was a senior brother in the first batch of people?
This is really a very contradictory question, obviously I have thought in my heart that the person who leads the team will be the senior brother, but it is so unreasonable to think about his appearance in every way. Probably the only thing that makes sense is that he was with someone who was pretending to be me, and as for what to do in the gate, I don't think it was a simple act of fighting.
What are they doing in the gate? I've been thinking about this question for a long time, and the first reason that comes to mind, and it's also the most likely and reasonable explanation, that is, the senior brother's entry into the gate ditch is related to the master.
Although turquoise also appears in Guanmengou, I don't think it has anything to do with the senior brother coming to Guanmengou. After all, the senior brother didn't know the secret of this turquoise, so it was impossible for him to go to the gate ditch for the sake of turquoise. Then there is only one possibility for the senior brother to enter the gate, and it is related to the master. You must know that before the disappearance of the senior brother, all his actions were inseparable from the master.
Did you really let me say that he came to close the door for the master?
But thinking of this, I still have some questions that I can't figure out, if it's to find the master, then why didn't he inform me, but he wanted to take a fake me into the gate.
I closed my eyes and tried to calm my mind, probably thinking too much, my mind was a little messy, and I felt as if I had neglected something.
No, no, I kept reminding myself that I wasn't right, and it occurred to me that I had overlooked something. I overlooked one key thing, the voice recorder.
That's right, a voice recorder in a drawer.
Suddenly, a cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and I felt like I had missed something of great importance. After watching the monitoring before, I thought that the recorder was very likely to be given to me by the senior brother, but now it seems that it is not very likely, it should be given to me, and I have already guessed what the content is in it, it must be the information of the door ditch.
So it seems that everything fits together, and everything fits right. I went through everything in my head, and it seemed like a lot of problems, but when I figured it out, I found that it was very understandable.
Three months ago, Senior Brother brought a group of people here, including one who was pretending to be me, with the purpose of entering Guanmengou. Although I can't be sure what the ultimate purpose of their coming here is, I think there is a high probability that it has something to do with the master, so I will consider the purpose of their coming here as related to the master.
Before they arrived, the elder brother sent someone to put a voice recorder with content in the bedroom drawer. Of course, I firmly believe that it was recorded before he entered the gate, because this is in line with the character of the senior brother, he usually only communicates some information to me that has not yet been finally answered, and once there is an answer to something, he rarely communicates with me, because he feels that since he already knows the answer, there is no need to communicate again.
The elder brother must have thought that I would see the voice recorder in the drawer, because he is a person who knows me very well, and he knows that I am a person who likes to rummage through drawers when there is nothing to do. But three months ago, I was not in China, but in the Golden Triangle, so I didn't get the content of the voice recorder for the first time. Eventually, he was taken by another person pretending to be me ten days ago, and he listened to the contents of the recorder, so he immediately came here and entered the gate ditch.
When I got all this sorted out, I became very interested in Guanmengou in my heart, and at the same time, I began to worry a little about the elder brother. Because I know the elder brother too well, I firmly believe that the recorder is the message he left for me before entering Guanmengou, but this also proves that after he entered Guanmengou, he evaporated from the world.
Somehow I suddenly wished that my judgment on this matter was wrong, and if the recorder was a message left for me by the elder brother after he came out, it would be great, and it would prove that he came out of the gate ditch safely.
But things are often like this, because I know too much, so I worry.
After thinking about it, I made a decision, I wanted to go into the gate ditch to find out.
At this moment, I don't know who made this decision, whether it was because of the concern for the safety of the senior brother or the matter of turquoise, I decided to go to Guanmengou.
Before going to bed at night, I told the old prostitute that I was going to Guanmengou, but he didn't stop me, just said that it was just the two of us. After all, we don't have anything with us now, and it is not a wise choice to go into the deep mountains and old forests with our bare hands, so he suggested that I arrange some people to come over during the day tomorrow, even if it is to send us some equipment, it is better than doing it with bare hands now.
I agree with the old prostitute, in fact, he didn't say it, and I didn't plan to go in with my bare hands.