Chapter 12: Kong Ming Lantern (II)

Early Saturday morning, we packed all the bags we needed for hiking and camping, and my boyfriend drove me towards the western suburbs of the city, where Eagle Mountain is located.

Eagle Mountain is also a relatively famous tourist attraction in our province, and there is an endless stream of tourists. Eagle Mountain is more than 3,800 meters above sea level, the mountain is steep, the cliff is outstanding, lush, and has the characteristics of the high mountain in the south.

"I don't know if that Kong Ming lantern will follow." I sat in the passenger seat and looked at my boyfriend worriedly.

The boyfriend didn't speak, just held the steering wheel and stared ahead.

After arriving at the scenic spot, we parked the car and went to queue up to buy tickets. After eating a few more things at the bottom of the mountain, my boyfriend and I started climbing, both of us carrying camping backpacks and preparing to find an open space at the top of the mountain tonight.

……

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was sinking in the west.

We had already found an empty space at the top of the mountain, set up our tents and lit our camping lights, and snuggled up to each other and nervously looked at the sky, both scared and excited. At such a high altitude, I don't know how close that Kong Ming lantern will be to us.

"We can all see this light, but why is it only following you?" My boyfriend looked at me with a frown, a puzzled expression.

I tried to answer him, but froze.

The weather is fine tonight, the moon is big and round. And at this moment, below the bright moon, another "full moon" quietly appeared. It emits a breathtaking orange-green glow and floats silently in mid-air.

Kong Minglan really appeared.

It's really big, so close to us, it's almost like we can reach out and grab it. My boyfriend had already noticed the strange expression of my expression and looked up to see this weird Kong Ming lantern.

The two of us also immediately noticed the words on the Kong Ming lantern. The five big words "Together Forever" were so dazzling that my heart immediately shone into a ball. However, her boyfriend stood up, and he pointed to Kong Ming's lantern -

"Baby, you didn't write it! Not your handwriting! ”

These words made me bounce like an electric shock, yes, I almost read it wrong, fear hallucinated me, and now that I look closely, I didn't write it at all.

"The other side! Luo Zhen, what is written on the other side? I shouted.

The boyfriend immediately rushed to the opposite side, but he ran for a long time at a distance that seemed to be very close, after all, it wasn't really right in front of him. After my boyfriend stopped, he squinted and carefully identified it for a long time, and shouted to me: "It is written 'Zheng Xiao and Hu Lang'"

"Do you know? These two people? After my boyfriend finished reading, he thought about it for a while and immediately asked me.

I shook my head, I didn't know these two people, I hadn't heard of them at all. "Well, there's still a word on this side!" I pointed to my boyfriend with the words "Together Forever" and said, "It's a date, February 14, 2017, it's Valentine's Day!" "I was amazed, that was a month ago! So, this Kong Ming lantern was put a month ago?

However, I couldn't see it until a few days ago. Why did it appear? Is it just because I also put a Kong Ming lantern and wrote the same words?

My boyfriend circled around Kong Ming Lantern two more times, but didn't find anything again, and then came back to me. He thought silently for a long time, and then said to me, "Baby, although we don't know these two people, this lamp is haunting us. It means that something must have happened between the four of us, but neither of us realized it. ”

"But what happened?" I couldn't figure it out.

"I think we're going to start with this date." The boyfriend analyzed: "Do you remember where we went on Valentine's Day? ”

"Of course, we happened to be camping here." I replied, "However, I don't think we had any communication with other couples!" ”

"This lamp points us here, and I think it must have something to do with that day! Baby, I remember, we once met a very strange person that day, do you remember? The boyfriend said: "I met not far from the entrance at the bottom of the mountain, the person wearing a hat and a mask, sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the top of the mountain in a daze!" At that time, you asked me, why do people with disabilities come to climb mountains? ”

I sighed, "Well, I remember!" Yes, at that time, I thought this person was very strange, alone in a daze, in a wheelchair, and fully armed, even unable to distinguish between men and women. You mean, that person has something to do with this lamp? ”

The boyfriend nodded and said, "Only this one thing was the weirdest that day, the elimination method, so, I think it should be like this!" ”

"But even so, it's been a month, how do we go about finding this person?" I sighed.

"Don't forget, this person must be very eye-catching, let's go down the mountain tomorrow morning and ask the ticket staff or go to the security room to consult, I think someone will remember him." The boyfriend seems to be very confident.

I nodded, and then we both washed up and went to sleep in the tent, spending the night in unease.

The next day, we went down the hill early to the ticket office, and at this time the tickets had not yet been sold. We waited until the staff came to work, and then we couldn't wait to ask.

"Hello, may I ask if you had a wheelchair here about a month ago to buy a ticket?" I asked the expressionless conductor in front of me.

"I don't know," he replied coldly.

My boyfriend and I were so disappointed that even if this person was special, they would have forgotten it, after all, there are tens of thousands of tourists every day, and asking about one person is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"We really have a very important matter to find him, and his life is at stake! Can you tell us how we can get the news of this person, we are really anxious. The boyfriend pleaded unwillingly.

"What day is it?" The conductor finally looked up at us.

"It's the fourteenth of last month! It's Valentine's Day," I replied immediately.

"It's not me going to work that day, you wait a minute, I'll make a call to help you ask."

My boyfriend and I were immediately thrilled and thanked each other. Looks like things are coming to an eyebrow! We watched as the conductor took out his phone and dialed the number, and after a few words with the man, he hung up.

"How?" We both asked immediately.

"Something really happened that day." The conductor looked at us: "My colleague said that there was a man who went missing on the mountain that day, it was a boy, he went to the top of the mountain alone, and then he didn't come down again. The girl who was traveling with him came to report to our ticket booth that she happened to be a disabled person. We immediately sent people up the mountain to look for it, but we couldn't find it, and then we handed it over to the police to deal with, and then the rest of the matter is not very clear. ”

After listening to the conductor's words, my boyfriend and I fell silent. I didn't expect such a story to be hidden behind it.

"Do you know the names of these two people? Isn't it Zheng Xiao and Hu Lang? The boyfriend hurriedly asked.

The conductor thought for a moment and pointed to the opposite side: "You go and ask the security guard, he should know that he is responsible for things like going up the mountain to search for tourists." ”

After thanking each other, my boyfriend and I followed the conductor's instructions to go to the security guard. After another questioning, it was confirmed that the boy's name was Hu Lang, but the security guard couldn't remember the girl's name. According to the security guard's recollection, before the attraction closed that day, a girl in a wheelchair came to the security hall and cried that her boyfriend could not be reached. said that her boyfriend took her out to play, but because she was unable to move, she was left alone at the bottom of the mountain and went to climb the mountain by herself. But since two o'clock in the afternoon, there has been no news, calls are not answered, and messages are not returned. The girl thought he didn't pay attention to the phone, so she waited patiently. It wasn't until it was dark and the tourists were almost gone that the girl felt something was wrong and came to ask for help.

"So the boy didn't find it?" The boyfriend asked the security guard.

The security guard shook his head: "Something should have happened." Maybe the greedy play went to the danger zone and then stumbled. Anyway, the police didn't find it, and then the attraction was closed for a few days! Alas, the girl cried patheticly! ”

That's right. I think the boy must have been killed, and then his soul turned into a lamp and came to us. But why did he look for us? What exactly does he want to do? It seems that we have to find this girl named Zheng Xiao to understand what happened.

"Can you contact Zheng Xiao?" The boyfriend looked at the security guard expectantly.

"She left a cell phone number," the security guard said, "and let us contact her if we have any news." ”

My boyfriend and I looked at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, finally with an eyebrow.

……

We got in touch with Zheng Xiao and explained the reason, she invited us to her house. So on Sunday night, my boyfriend and I rushed to Zheng Xiao's house together.

Zheng Xiao's home is a bit remote, and in the old city, many houses here have begun to be demolished. She lives on the first floor, in a dark and damp environment, and there is no sunlight all day.

Her face was very bad, and she could see that she hadn't slept well for many days, and she was extremely haggard.

Zheng Xiao led us to the window, where the view was very bad, blocked by the tall buildings, and the sky was barely visible. "Can you see that Kong Ming lantern now?" Zheng Xiao asked faintly, her eyes filled with tears.

"I can see it. It's small, but you can see it. Can you tell us what the hell is going on? I replied.

Zheng Xiao sighed and said slowly: "You have also seen that my legs... I was full of despair about life until... His appearance. He gave me a vision of the future, he said he would take me to the sea, to the mountains, to the desert, to all the places I wanted to think of or did not dare to think of, he said he would take me all over the world, even if it was pushing me and carrying me. ”

"We agreed that whenever I went to a place where I couldn't go, he would go in my place, and would light a Kong Ming lantern for me there, with our names written on it, and the words "always together". I looked at the lamp as if I had been there, as if I had been free. Zheng Xiao said, her eyes full of affection.

"But on Valentine's Day, I didn't get to see the Kong Ming lantern, and I couldn't wait for him to come back." Zheng Xiao's lips trembled, and she couldn't continue.

I put my arm around her shoulders, and all the comforting words came to my lips, but I couldn't say them again.

"I see! Why do we see that Kong Ming lantern, it must be Hu Lang who wants us to tell you that he wants to light that Kong Ming lantern for you, it must be so! It dawned on me: "Next weekend, no, tomorrow!" Let's take you to Eagle Mountain again, and we'll release the Kong Ming lantern that he couldn't fly for you instead of Hu Lang, okay? ”

Zheng Xiao raised her head to look at us and nodded.

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"Let's go!" My boyfriend lit a square candle, looked at me, and motioned for me to let go.

I opened my arms, and the blue Kong Ming lantern in my hand slowly rose, and the words "forever together" on it were extremely dazzling under the cover of the firelight. I watched as the lantern flew higher and higher, smaller and smaller, until it coincided with the orange-green phantom in the sky, and then disappeared into the sky.

I turned around and looked down the mountain, Zheng Xiao must be watching at this moment! This hard-working couple, the love of this life is like this ethereal Kong Ming lantern, floating in the world.

"Let's go!" My boyfriend took me by the hand and prepared to go down the mountain. I held his hand tightly and congratulated myself on what I had.