Chen Laohan sat in front of the coffee table, drank tea, occasionally smoked a few puffs of cigarettes, and every ten minutes, he would look out of the window, but from beginning to end, he just didn't say a word. ~Sui~Dream~Small~Say~щww~suimеng~lā

Boss Huang seemed to be inspired by some kind of inspiration, and he also fell silent.

The only thing in the room was the occasional sound of lighters and the clashing of teacups as they landed on the table.

Actually, I really wanted to speak, but I saw that Boss Huang seemed to think that it was a very correct thing to be silent, and I could see from his expression that he seemed to be in a very good mood now, and he didn't feel panicked at all.

It is precisely because of Boss Huang's strange performance that Li Huaishan and I dare not open our mouths to talk to Chen Laohan.

Maybe Chen Laohan is like this, maybe, as long as he is present, others will definitely fall silent, and Boss Huang understands this very well, if we speak rashly, he may be suspicious again.

Indeed, even if Boss Huang is suspicious, Li Huaishan can send him away with the sentence "Lao Chen didn't do this before", but the problem is that this kind of thing can confuse the other party if he says it a few times occasionally, and if he talks too much, it will inevitably become a useless nonsense.

At that time, I hadn't learned to perceive people's hearts, and of course I couldn't understand why Chen Laohan was silent, and I didn't understand why the seemingly bold Boss Huang was always suspicious.

But at that time, I could also feel that whether it was Chen Laohan or Boss Huang, they all had something different from ordinary people.

I just feel this way, but I don't know what makes them different from ordinary people.

The most helpless thing in the world is probably such ignorance.

Time passed slowly, and Li Huaishan and I sat in the room, helplessly waiting for things to turn around.

It's a pity that the turnaround has not come for a long time.

Before nine o'clock in the evening, among the four people, only Li Huaishan said a word to Chen Laohan before eating: "Lao Chen, you can get more dinner at night, if you can't eat ten people's meals." ”

Hearing Li Huaishan's words, Chen Laohan and Boss Huang's faces showed a sense of surprise, but the two of them still didn't say anything.

The dullness of floating in the air is simply crushing.

Chen Laohan should have a relatively large warehouse in his kitchen, and he doesn't come back often, but he can still get a lot of beef and flour from the kitchen, and make us a meal of beef toppings that don't taste too good.

Probably because it was too dull, just after dinner, Boss Huang went straight to the bedroom.

Chen Laohan, Li Huaishan, and me, the three of us were still sitting in the living room, with the teapots and teacups that had been drunk on the coffee table, and the three of us each had a cigarette in their mouths, and the smoke silently rose into the air and gradually hoarded near the roof.

People like to look at the time when they are bored, and so do I, almost every twenty minutes, I have to take out my mobile phone to take a look, at eight forty o'clock, I took out my mobile phone for the last time, Chen Laohan looked up at me, I immediately turned my eyes to him, hoping that he would speak in the next second.

But after all, he chose to remain silent.

After about twenty minutes, Boss Huang's snoring came from the bedroom, Chen Laohan pinched the cigarette in his hand and stood up from the sofa, he still did not speak, but stretched his neck and quietly looked into the courtyard.

A few seconds later, I heard the footsteps of the cows, turned to look out the window, and saw that the cows of Chen Laohan's family had already entered the yard.

The cow had aged a lot from the afternoon to now, and now when it took a step, all four legs were trembling, and the whole spine seemed to be unable to support its weight, and it seemed that it was in danger of collapsing at any moment.

It used almost all of its strength to move to the southeast corner of the courtyard, then raised its head and glanced one last time due east before slowly lying on the ground.

After an extremely long silence, Chen Laohan finally spoke, he looked at the cattle in the yard, and sighed lightly: "Finally born in peace." ”

As he spoke, Old Man Chen lowered his voice very low, as if he didn't want to wake up Boss Huang in the bedroom.

Next, Chen Laohan turned to me again and hooked his hand at me: "Come with me." ”

As he spoke, Chen Laohan reluctantly looked away from the window, and then turned around and walked to the kitchen.

Chen Laohan's steps were very light, the old cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles stepped on the ground and did not make a sound, and Li Huaishan and I also lowered the footsteps and quickly followed.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, Chen Laohan first locked the kitchen door before pulling the light rope.

The small kitchen was lit up by a pale yellow light, and at first glance there seemed nothing special about the place, except for an earthen stove, a few wooden cabinets, and a large cutting board hanging on the north wall.

Chen Laohan walked to a cabinet with his hands and feet, first cautiously turned around and looked back, and then opened the cabinet door.

This action of turning around should be out of some deep-rooted habit, it seems that when Chen Laohan opened this cabinet door in the past, he had to determine the situation behind him first.

I was curious about what was in the cabinet that made Chen Laohan so vigilant.

But when the door opened, I found that there was only a strip of flour and a few empty wooden baskets.

Chen Laohan piled the bag of flour on the wooden basket, and then grabbed the bottom of the cabinet with his fingers, and lifted it hard, the half of the bottom plate used to carry the weight of the wooden basket and flour remained still, and the other half of the bottom plate that Chen Laohan grabbed was directly lifted by him.

Old Man Chen turned sideways and waved at Li Huaishan and me, and then quickly got into the cabinet.

Directly below the cabinet is a horizontal tunnel, the height of this tunnel is about one meter, and adults must kneel on the ground and crawl forward on all fours if they want to walk through it.

After Li Huaishan and I entered the secret passage, Chen Laohan turned on the flashlight and took us deep without stopping.

The ground in the dark passage is paved with bluestone bricks, and the top is reinforced with wooden beams, in the process of climbing, the flashlight in Chen Laohan's hand has been shaking around, and the beam of light continues to illuminate the wooden beams at the top of the dark tunnel, I found that some of the wooden beams look older, but some of them have obviously just been renovated.

Even if this secret passage is not often used, it must not have been abandoned for a long time.

The dark passage was very long, and after climbing for about ten minutes, Chen Laohan's voice came from the front: "Be careful, don't fall." ”

My eyes kept looking ahead, and as soon as his words fell, I saw the flashlight in front of me shake violently, followed by a brief period of darkness, during which I heard a dull sound of landing.

About another minute passed, and a white light appeared in front of me.

This light came in directly along the ground, and it was only when I saw this light that I realized that there was a hole in the ground in front of me that extended vertically downward, and Chen Laohan had already gone down one step ahead of us.

I climbed a few steps quickly, and looked down before coming to the entrance of the cave, but I could only see that directly below the entrance of the cave was a piece of cement ground, and Chen Laohan was not in my field of vision.

At this moment, Chen Laohan's voice came from below: "Come down quickly, you will be sealed in a while." ”

Authentic? What do you mean?

I was a little confused, but I didn't ask too much, and jumped into the hole.

The distance from the hole to the ground below is about two meters, and you only need to bend your knees quickly when you land.

Li Huaishan and I landed back and forth, Li Huaishan's skills have always been good, but this time I don't know what's wrong, he didn't stand firm when he landed, and he fell to the ground with a snort.

Although he was not seriously injured, Li Huaishan seemed to be frightened by something, and he didn't get up after he fell to the ground, and kept looking at the hole above his head in a daze.

I was about to ask Li Huaishan what was going on, when Chen Laohan rushed to Li Huaishan's side like a gust of wind and pasted a spirit talisman next to the entrance of the cave.

"In order to prevent thieves, I have raised some things in the tunnel, although they are harmless to people, they can also scare and scare people."

Chen Laohan said with some embarrassment while pulling Li Huaishan up from the ground.

Li Huaishan patted the soil on his body, obviously shocked, but he deliberately widened his voice, and asked Chen Laohan with a very calm look: "What is that?" ”

Chen Laohan frowned and asked him, "What did you see?" ”

Li Huaishan said while thinking: "It seems to be a woman, but she has no body, only a head, no, it's not that she doesn't have a body, she has a human head, a snake's body, her eyes are like cats, and she glows green in the dark." ”

Describing these things, Li Huaishan couldn't calm down at all, and his face became a little pale.

By now, Li Huaishan's clever mouth seemed to be completely useless, and he actually stuttered a little.

This guy is nervous and that's it.

In my eyes, this is already Li Huaishan's consistent problem, and it has long been strange, but Li Huaishan's various performances are in the eyes of Chen Laohan, and the problem is big.

He must have guessed that Li Huaishan was a completely inexperienced novice.

Next, Chen Laohan shifted his gaze to me, looked at me with the expression of a teacher examining a student, and asked, "Tell me, what is the thing he saw in the tunnel?" ”

"Beautiful snake," I answered his question very succinctly, and then changed the subject: "Let's talk about the affairs of the village, we must deal with the case as soon as possible, and there are other things waiting for us to do later." ”

What I'm most afraid of now is that others will know that Li Huaishan and I are fledgling novices.

Chen Laohan is a half-clear, and I feel that his doorway is much deeper than that of Old Man Zheng in Kunming, a person like him, once he knows that we are novices, this list will definitely not be able to continue.

Maybe it was the ability that I pretended to be when I spoke that affected Chen Laohan, he didn't say any other nonsense, nodded, and walked towards a small door not far away.

Now we're in a boxy basement with nothing but a lamp embedded in the top of the wall. At this time, the door that Chen Laohan walked to was directly below the light bulb, not locked, and there was a gap three or four fingers wide between the door panel and the door frame, and from time to time a faint yang energy floated out along this gap.