I placed the half of the lock on the table and repeated it as he had said before he died.

He picked up the copper lock and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see it clearly, so he turned on my night fishing lamp and pointed it to the section, as if he wanted to find out the uniqueness of this half of the copper lock.

I asked him if he had a pen and paper. He pointed to the bedside cabinet and told me to pick it up myself.

I went to the cabinet and found a notebook and a pen, then returned to the table, wrote down the sentence that Chi Zi asked me to explain to Brother Mao, and asked Kong Xian: "I don't know what words his sentence consists of, and the approximate guess is that 'Now the task continues to be arranged mainly by code, but the master said to prepare it, and wait for it." You see, you don't understand it the same way I do. ”

Kong Xian took the notebook and looked at it for a while, and replied: "You should understand it well, his latter sentence has been encrypted, and 'Dangda' and 'Zegui' may have special meanings, and I am afraid that only their insiders can know the specifics." ”

"What are you going to do?" I asked Kong Xian, "I agreed with Liu Yang and asked him to inform Mo Ranchen and Lin Su to set off for the mountain early in the morning seven days later." ”

Kong Xian returned half of the copper lock to me, asked me to put it away, and then replied, "I want to go back to the old house, and it will take about six or seven days to meet you when the time comes." ”

He said that he wanted to go back to the old house, and my heart was shocked, and I quickly shook my head and pulled him, saying, "I'll go with you." I haven't been back since the last accident, so I have to go back anyway, otherwise I feel uncomfortable. ”

The last time I said something happened was when my grandparents died, and it happened about a year after the death of Kong Xian's parents. I was still in school when I got a call from my mom asking me to go to the funeral. I felt uncomfortable and hurried to this side, but my mother called me again halfway, telling me not to go back to the old house and to attend the funeral at a crematorium in the city.

I remember that there is a custom in our hometown, when a person dies, he must be buried in his own home, and then carried by his descendants and walked to the cemetery with three kowtows step by step and entered the ground.

Although cremation has been practiced over the years, the old rules have only been modified slightly. In the past, it was carried to the cemetery, but now it is carried to a position outside the mountain where the funeral car can be taken, and then all the relatives sit in the funeral car to send the body to the crematorium, and then return to our own cemetery to hold the ceremony and bury it.

But after my grandparents were cremated, they never went back to their hometown for burial, and my father bought a piece of land in the martyrs' cemetery next to the city and buried it there. I was also inexplicably asked not to go back to my hometown.

Because of the long years since I came out, I don't have much to worry about my hometown, and now that my relatives are gone, there is no point in going back. So, if you don't let you go back, you won't go back. However, when I think about it, I still feel like a knot in my heart. This time Kong Xian said that he wanted to go back, and I really wanted to go back and see.

Kong Xian nodded, as if he wanted to agree, but there was still a trace of hesitation on his face. He asked me, "How much do you know about that incident?" ”

"I don't know anything, no one has told me anything, they just blindly tell me not to go back to my hometown." I replied.

Kong Xian asked again: "Don't you know that it is flooded?" ”

"?" I was stunned for a moment, and said incredulously, "How is it possible!" We're on the mountainside, and we're still flooded at such a high altitude, so wouldn't the city be flooded? ”

"It's strange here." Kong Xian whispered, "It's just our part that is flooded, and even the villages at the foot of the mountain are alive and well." ”

"Where's the water?" I asked.

Kong Xian shook his head, his eyes were a little dim, and he replied: "The specific is the same as you, I don't know much, I never went back after my parents died." These are just ...... heard."

I'd love to ask him, how did his parents die? However, the atmosphere was too low, and I was afraid that he didn't want to say it, and it was not easy to ask.

The friendship between the two of us from childhood to adulthood is very deep, something happened in the village, we all wanted to know the cause and effect, Kong Xian naturally agreed to take me back together.

The two of us made do and slept together all night, and I joked, "If my husband finds out about it in the future, I guess there will be a fight." ”

"He'd better not know." Kong Xian said: "If he knows that you have slept with a man for half your life, you are still a place, where will my old face go......

"Hahaha......" I couldn't stop laughing, pulled the quilt to wrap myself in adult cakes, and replied: "It's embarrassing to think about, but I still don't want to." ”

"You divide the quilt with me......"

The next morning, we drove my rented QQ to my hometown.

I took out the map that Bai Zechen gave me and looked at it, and asked Kong Xian, "How far is our old house from our mission location?" ”

He estimated it and replied, "There is still some distance, the two sides are in different directions, and our mission location should be the closest to the tentative foothold before." ”

"Do you remember the road?" I asked again.

He wasn't quite sure, so he hissed and said, "Take a step and look at a step, the general direction is still known, and it's okay to walk at the moment, but it's more troublesome to enter the mountain." ”

"Yo." I picked the corners of my mouth and said jokingly, "Not sure now?" Who was so eager to blow out a flower, saying that there was no unknown place on this mountain? ”

As soon as my words fell, the green tendons on Kong Xian's forehead almost jumped up, and he gritted his teeth and asked unpleasantly: "Do you have the face to talk about me?" Who was greedy enough to take a map I had drawn to set fire to roast sweet potatoes? ”

……

I'm embarrassed to talk about it.,It happened to be raining that day.,The dead grass on the ground is wet.,Didn't I just find a notebook to use to start a fire? Who knew that broken map would still be useful.

I was reprimanded by him, and I had nothing to say. I had to laugh at Erlang's legs and sing: "Don't mention the past, life has been stormy." ”

"Lao Tzu's wind and rain are all ...... you" Kong Xian whispered, and I listened to it.

I pretended not to hear, and continued to joke: "Since you don't remember the way, you have to take it easy, don't take me into the primitive tribe, my sister is so embarrassed, and then the chieftain of the tribe takes a fancy to me, let me stay as the chief's wife, and the scene will be very embarrassing." ”

He turned his head to look at me, and asked with a smile, "Do you still want to be the chief's wife?" ”

I said "hehe" twice and replied: "Who made my childhood sweetheart not powerful, I haven't said anything about mixing with the village chief or anything for so many years, and I have also been addicted to the village chief's wife." ”

I wondered if he would be hit by my words, but he pretended to be bitter and said: "It's one thing to be the village chief, if I marry you as a wife, I will have to live 40 years less." ”

……

I was upset to say that, stared at the back of his chair, and scolded, "What the do you mean by that?" How am I to you, let you live 40 years less. ”

"Alas......" he sighed, "have you bullied me for so many years, and you don't have any points in your heart?" ”

"." I was laughed at by him, "Your ability to reverse black and white is getting stronger and stronger, you have bullied me or I have bullied you for so many years, do you dare to say it again?" Wait a minute, a thunderbolt won't kill you. ”

He smiled and shook his head, no longer arguing with me. Drive into the gas station in town and fill up the gas.

I got out of the car and found a large department store, collected some food and water, and threw it in the trunk of the car. However, the car can only be parked at the foot of the mountain, our village is too small, and it is not a tourist attraction, and it is not easy to find a dirt path, let alone a winding mountain road. When the time comes, it will definitely be inconvenient to carry this water, so throw it in the car, and you can take some food with you.

Kong Xian bought more practical things, a high-strength slingshot, a windproof lighter, and a set of gadgets rolled up in cowhide, plus a roll of rope with the highest strength he could buy here, and a tent.

It seems that we will be half an hour's drive away, and we will be at the bottom of the mountain, and then we will have to rely on a pair of feet. In order to have better physical strength, I pulled Kong Xian to sit down in the nearest restaurant, intending to let my stomach rot first.

The name of the restaurant is 'Cambodia'. It's a knockoff, covering a lot of area, but the decoration is really not flattering. The three boxy bold characters on the shiny signboard at the door, plus the beer advertisement that occupies half of the page, I am afraid that it is not the masterpiece of the carved designer.

We set off early, it's only eight o'clock in the morning, and there are not many people in the restaurant. However, this kind of restaurant is not as good as a restaurant, and a person can eat a meal for a dozen or dozens of yuan, and when it comes to the meal, it will not be prosperous. On the contrary, when the rainbow lights were first on, three or five friends made an appointment to fart and brag together, so it was good to come to this kind of restaurant, even if it was a little more expensive, but what I wanted was that kind of atmosphere.

The waiter of the restaurant looked at the guests, greeted us very warmly, spoke Yichang dialect, and chose a location with the best light for us.

Kong Xian took a look at the menu, ticked off a few of my favorite dishes, and then handed them to the waiter, asking her to serve them quickly.

I wondered and asked Kong Xian: "Why do you order all the food I love?" To be honest, I really don't know what you like to eat after all these years. ”

He smiled, looked at me and said, "You think I'm a picky eater like you?" There is a rule in the teachings of the saints: Do not choose what you eat, eat in moderation, and do not overdo it. ”

"Alright, alright." I had a headache when I heard him recite the disciple rules to me, but he restrained himself very well, but the concubine couldn't do it! Let me follow the rules of my disciple for the rest of my life, I would rather go to the underworld with a bottle of paraquat to find the lord of Yama to fight the landlord.

"Be humble." He washed the dishes and chopsticks with tea and taught me like an old national professor.

"Huh." I chuckled and teased, "The next time you grab beef with me, please trouble Lord Xian'er to remember this sage teaching." ”

He pretended not to hear, and the plate of cold beef that the waiter had just brought was hugged by him with chopsticks.

I hissed, grabbed two slices of beef and put them in the bowl, and looked at him with resentment: "I can't figure it out, you have learned that disciple so beautifully, why are all clouds when you come to me?" ”

He ate happily, raised his head and said to me with an innocent face: "The disciple rules pay attention to brothers, friends and brothers, and it stands to reason that you should let me." ”

"Then you're really trying to be blind......

I still want to scold him a few more words, and see that he eats so happily, I am afraid that before the words fall, the beef will only be left with the plate and a few slices of green coriander. I had to quickly shut up and turn on the food grabbing mode......

Due to the small number of guests, our dishes were served quickly. Unexpectedly, although the decoration of this shop is very low, the taste is still good, and the food is called a refreshing taste. However, it would be more comfortable to have two more beers. It's a pity...... I didn't forget the signing and drawing, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: Alas...... Shameful.

I was pulling the diced chicken into the bowl with a plate, when I suddenly felt the light in front of the table, and it seemed that someone was standing in front of our table. Kong Xian and I thought it was a waiter at first, so we ignored him, and when we saw that he didn't move for a long time, we raised our heads and looked at him.

The man in front of the table was quite burly, tall at one meter and eight, with big shoulders and a round waist, and his eyes were like Zhang Fei. He wore no shirt, only a pair of loose black cotton silk pants and a red rope tied around his waist. At first glance, he looks like a thug in the underworld who wants to pay for accounts.

I thought, isn't this time to settle the bill yet? Besides, we weren't going to eat the Overlord meal. How? Is he here to collect protection money?

The man didn't speak there, his eyes kept rolling on Kong Xian, and he looked like he wanted to strip him naked. I couldn't guess what he meant, and Kong Xian also looked puzzled.

"Is there something wrong?" Kong Xian looked at him with a cold expression and asked.

He was still silent, still looking at Kong Xian.

The embarrassing atmosphere lasted for a while, and the strong man asked faintly, "Are you the young master of the Kong family?" ”