The next morning, we took a taxi to the international cruise terminal to go to Gulangyu Island, and I was still thinking about the sea breeze blowing on the ferry, Jiang He thought that there was a conspiracy hidden in his genes, Shi Ting thought that there was a treasure buried in the courtyard of his villa, Ding Yao thought that he had seized an opportunity that could change the trajectory of his life, and I felt that returning to campus was the best destination. This may be narrative psychology, where you think you are being pushed along the road of fate by bits and pieces, but in fact you are just going around in circles in the stories you make up.

The villa was clean and tidy, couldn't see much renovation. In fact, in the process of joining the World Cultural Heritage List, Gulangyu Island has undergone unified planning, and has been repaired by the government many times for many years in line with the principle of repairing the old as the old, and the effect is very good, avoiding the behavior of destroying the original appearance of each other. At least optimistically, I don't know what these buildings looked like a hundred years ago. The so-called original appearance may be an obsession, it is not so important, we have been creating what we think is the best in a way that we approve of, the standard is fluid, if we feel that something is wrong, then change it.

Before the villa was withdrawn from operation, it was a theme café, and in order to facilitate the sale, the related decoration has been demolished, and the hall and rooms are empty. Countless poems in history are left by poets under the torment of lust, Shi Ting is often very thoughtful under the inspiration of lust, he bought four camping mats and sleeping bags, or a very professional brand in China, he said that this is a souvenir of the villa camping, use up and take it home, and then go to other places can continue to use.

There weren't many rooms on each floor of the three-story building, and we chose to live on the third floor, which had the best view, occupying the innermost rooms on either side of the stairs, and Jiang He and I didn't emphasize that we weren't lovers, and that such rhetoric was meaningless to Shi Ting.

Shi Ting had already asked someone to clean up yesterday, but the two girls were still not enough, and scrubbed in their respective rooms. Shi Ting and I went to the balcony of the master bedroom, and he gestured with his chin to the end of the courtyard downstairs: "That well is over there." ”

Because the villa was built on a flat piece of land on the hillside, the yard was not very large and not square, and the well was on a protruding corner thirty meters away, because there was another villa in front, which looked more like the backyard of the front one, no wonder it was so easily drawn out when it was surveyed later.

I asked him who the villa belonged to, Shi Ting said that he didn't know, that villa was originally built by the younger brother of their great grandfather when the Shi family crossed from Taiwan, although the family had been separated at that time, but the relationship was still close, and after living next to each other for more than 20 years, the descendants of their family sold their property and moved overseas, and now they have long lost contact.

I speculated, "That means maybe the two families were digging this cold well in the first place." ”

Sting said that it was possible at first, but it was certainly not universal after the change of owners in the twenties. Although the family had a refrigerator in the early forties, the cold well was not abandoned, and he asked his grandfather, who said that it was only two months before his great-grandfather left that it was filled in and razed to the ground.

"Many rich people ran away when they were liberated, and there were many idle villas on Gulangyu Island at that time, so they were gradually accepted by various units, and a large number of people followed to Gulangyu. At that time, the owner of the villa in front of him also ran away, and several families lived in it at once, and my great-grandfather was afraid that a successor of the proletarian revolution would fall into the well and cause trouble, so he sealed the well. ”

I said, "It makes sense to landfill in a timely manner, and it is better to prevent problems before they occur." ”

Shi Ting shook his head and said, "That's exactly what makes sense. If my grandfather hadn't misremembered the time of the landfill, then the picture would have been drawn about two months after the well was filled, and the well no longer existed at that time, so do you think there is still a need to mark the location? And a special warning symbol was made. ”

I then asked him, "If you really have any heirlooms in your family, you should have taken them with you at that time, so there is no need to bury them in the well, right?" And it's not necessarily safe. ”

Shi Ting disagreed: "We have to put ourselves in the shoes of the problem, when the political storm is coming, although the attitude towards the industrial and commercial circles at that time is different from that towards the landlords during the land reform, but the mentality of the rabbit and the fox and the frightened bird must be figured out." Although my great-grandfather has always been holding on to the luck mentality, he will not leave if he can. But he is not a straw bag, and he must also consider what if something unexpected happens, what if you say that the house is searched out? Do you turn it in or fight it to the end? Under the circumstances, it would have been unrealistic to think about taking it out or sending it out, it might be more dangerous than confrontation, and the best way was to hide it, and I suspect that it would be difficult to carry it with you, and there was only one way to bury it. ”

I answered: "That means this thing is not too small, and the weight is not too light." ”

Shi Ting nodded: "Very likely." ”

I sighed and said, "If there really is something to hide like this, it can be regarded as painstaking, once the house is buried in the house, then the thing will not be able to be recovered, and it is better to throw it into this abandoned well, no wonder there have been many stories in the well throughout the ages." ”

Shi Ting said: "Now the key is how to dig out, I have been close to observe during this time, and at present I can only see the corner of a stone on the well platform, obviously this well is not big, about one meter in diameter." I have calculated the surrounding terrain, this well should be at least ten meters deep before there can be water, perennial water must be about 12 meters, a meter of diameter of more than ten meters of depth, manual excavation is unrealistic, if the well wall is not firm, minutes can bury people alive. ”

I asked him, "What is that villa across the street doing now?" ”

Shi Ting said: "It's also a café, the owner is a Beijing woman, I talked to her, she said she can't figure out who the owner is, and the contract is all arranged by an intermediary." ”

I shook my head, looked at Shi Ting very seriously and said: "It's really difficult for you to dig treasures in other people's places, just because you can insist on the non-disclosure of information, this owner is by no means ordinary, do you think about how many people and who can do this in the land of the republic?" If you are caught trespassing on other people's property, I am afraid that you will not be able to eat and walk around. What's more, there is still a café over there, how do you start with the crowds coming and going? ”

Shi Ting gritted his teeth and made a hideous face: "I don't care who he is, if he really gets to that point, he will be killed, and it will be a big deal to fight another lawsuit and get into trouble with the media, Lao Tzu has the title deed of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

I patted him on the shoulder: "Last night, Pu Yi asked me to bring a message to the Second Imperial Court: I died early in the morning, and you will ascend the throne if you have a kind of Second Imperial Court, don't talk about Lao Tzu again." ”

Shi Ting put his hand on my shoulder: "Brothers are of the same heart, and their profits are gold!" ”

I slapped his hand away: "I can watch you pick up girls and listen to you call the bed, but I will never see you take the risk of digging, barely justifying the treasure map and the waste well in other people's yards, you begin to fantasize, your dream of making a fortune is as simple as the second teenager in secondary school, this kind of dream I am unemployed at home for half a year can do two paragraphs a day." ”

Shi Ting stubbornly put his hand on my shoulder again: "I have been secretly investigating and researching for more than a month, and I won't look for you if I don't have points, when was the last time you rolled up your sleeves with a dream?" If you don't do something stupid, you won't have a chance, even the back of your ass is with a girlfriend, if you don't do it now, will you take your son as a parent-child activity in the future? Let's really do this as a matter next, whether it is a CD or not is a copy of a life, for men, isn't the pleasure of digging walls and holes second only to pickling girls? ”

Ding Yao came over at this time and said with a smile: "You two are hiding here to hook up your shoulders, and your feelings are asking us to come and serve the two masters?" What dig walls and make holes? ”

Shi Ting moved his arm from my shoulder to Ding Yao's shoulder: "My brother and I are discussing the ultimate meaning of a man's life. ”

After packing up, the four of us walked around Gulangyu, Shi Ting acted as a tour guide, and I had never heard of some of the gossip about Gulangyu that he said. I took a lot of photos of Jiang He, Jiang He is very photogenic, I regret not bringing the DSLR camera at home, and it is the first time that my mobile phone has taken so many photos in one day.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when I returned to the villa, I was really a little tired, I proposed to rest for a while, and the energetic Shi Ting looked like he understood.

The windowsill was huge, and Jiang He sat on it reading an e-book, and I watched her backlit silhouette and slowly closed my eyes. Then I felt a slight rhythmic vibration from the floor, which I wouldn't have felt if it weren't for my ears lying on the floor, and I didn't hear any sound when I held up my head, and when I fell asleep and heard that kind of impact, it must have been a good thing for Sting. Jiang He asked me what was wrong, and I shook my head and fell asleep.

When I woke up, night had fallen, and I had recovered a lot of mental and physical strength, and the negative effects of the torture of the hospital bed were slowly dissipating, and maybe I would be able to return to the state I was in college in a few days.

There was laughter in the courtyard downstairs, and I looked down the window to see that the three of them had built a barbecue in the courtyard and were giggling around it.

Shi Tingting was quite an expert, and he bought a lot of things, and the brushes for brushing sauce and oil were used separately. Beef and chicken wings are all skewered in the supermarket, and some of them are marinated and some of them are original, and they are also very well considered.

I threw a little oil on the charcoal and said to Shi Ting: "There is less beef oil, and I often shake some oil in addition to brushing more oil, and mix it with charcoal and bake it, so that taste can be called charcoal roast beef." ”

The fiery red charcoal fire shone brightly in Jiang He's eyes, and I handed her a few skewers of roasted beef sprinkled with cumin and chili, and she looked at me with tenderness in her eyes.

The satiety of beef and mutton is far less than that of pork, so it is effortless for the average young man to eat a pound or two of beef and mutton, and I am just a master of eating beef. Drinking the beer in the ice bucket, listening to the Mongolian song played by Shi Ting's Bluetooth speaker, and watching the meat skewers gradually simmering on the charcoal fire, it really tasted like camping.

At this time, the hidden courtyard door was pushed open, and a woman walked in, smiling and greeting Shi Ting, I chuckled in my heart, Shi Ting's ex-girlfriend came to the door? I've experienced this kind of thing.