Yuanmei and I bandaged here, and the second master stood alone in the dark, not knowing what he was doing, and after I got it done, I walked behind him and asked, "What are you stealing here alone?" ”

He didn't hear my footsteps at all, asked suddenly, startled him, hurriedly put down his clothes, looked at me with sweat on his face, walked to Yuanmei's side with a serious expression, and said with some embarrassment: "Big sister, you see you avoid it, I also have injuries on my body, it's this injury, hehe, it's not a place"

Yuanmei glanced at his hand holding his stomach, nodded, put the knife wound medicine, knife and gauze on the table one by one, looked at me, I nodded, signaled that there was no problem, then turned around and walked to the entrance of the cave, looking at the rain outside, the second master saw her leaving, and hurriedly called me: "Hurry up, you take a look at my injury, hurry up, if it weren't for you picking up bubbles, I would have forgotten about hunger." ”

Saying that, I lifted my clothes and took off my pants, I took a closer look with a torch, and couldn't help but sigh, this second master's heart is too big, I saw a whole circle around his waist, all of which were blisters two or three fingers wide, all of which were about to be connected into a line, no wonder his belt would be broken into several sections, and then look at his body, chest, belly, back, all the way to the thighs, there are more than a dozen blisters large and small, all bright and shiny, green and yellow transparent.

I took the torch and carefully inspected the stone bed, and made sure that there were no snakes, insects, rats, ants, etc., so I asked him to lie down, took out kerosene and poured some into the stone lamp, twisted it with gauze, and put the stone lamp beside him after lighting it, and put the torch on the wall at the head of the bed, and brought knife wound medicine and gauze, and began to follow Yuanmei's example, using the burnt tip of the knife, one by one, to pick the bubble and apply the medicine.

The second master gritted his teeth at first, picked a few, and listened to him start humming, and finally couldn't help howling, the sound kept echoing in the cave, and the eardrums of the people who shook hurt Yuanmei involuntarily looked back, and when she saw the almost naked second master, she turned her head back, but within two seconds of turning back, suddenly she stood up and went straight to the stone bed.

The second master, who was still hoarse and kept shouting in the last second, suddenly closed his mouth, grabbed my wrist tightly with one hand, and groped around on the bed with the other hand, trying to find something to cover, and under the light of the stone lamp, I found that the second master's sweaty face was actually red.

I shook off his hand, quickly picked up my pants from the stone table and threw them to him, the second master didn't care about the right or the other, hurriedly covered his stomach and said, "Big sister, it's not finished yet, what do you say you are doing in a hurry." ”

Yuanmei seemed to be evil, her eyes stared directly at the stone wall above the stone bed, and slowly walked over, I followed her gaze, it turned out that under the light of the torch, a painting appeared on the stone wall, no, not one, but a large one composed of several small murals.

The painting is painted with red dye, Yuanmei is close to the stone bed, one by one in detail, I also leaned over to look curiously, I didn't see a reason for a long time, first of all, this painting is really bad, all are extremely simple lines composition, one of the circles and a few sticks together, it seems that it should represent people, and the others are all plausible four dislikes.

The second master lay on the stone bed with a painful face, looked at Yuanmei on the side, and looked at the paintings on the wall, and finally couldn't help it, and gently patted Yuanmei's arm, she came to her senses, looked down at the second master with a flushed face, turned around and sat down at the stone table, turned her back to us, took out the human skin map and began to study it.

After about a stick of incense, it took the second master to completely clean up the rope, because the waist was wrapped in gauze, he couldn't wear pants, so he had to wrap his shirt around the waist, like a skirt, simply cover it, at this time the sky was already bright, but because of the rain, it was still obscure.

Yuanmei put her hand on her forehead, she had fallen asleep, the human skin map was still spread on the table, I looked at the stove pit, it was full of black mud, it looked like it was wet charcoal ash, fortunately, there was a small bundle of dry branches mixed with hay next to the stove pit, although most of it had rotted over time, but it was barely usable, I put all my brains into the stove pit, poured kerosene, lit it, and immediately dispersed most of the cold and humid in the cave.

As my body gradually warmed up, the pain of the wound was relieved a lot, I leaned on the stove and gradually fell asleep, I don't know how long I slept, I was awakened by the sound of water next to my ears, I saw Yuanmei was pouring the water in the kettle into the stone pot, seeing that I was awake, she whispered to me: "Go to the stone table to climb the meeting, I will wash the pot, boil some hot water, everyone will be more comfortable to drink." ”

I didn't speak, rubbed my sore eyes, walked to the stone table, lay on it and continued to sleep, and when I woke up again, I found that the torch had been extinguished, and the cave was dark, and the second master was still wearing a "skirt", sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a steaming kettle, blowing and sipping.

Everyone simply ate dry food, changed their medicines in turn, and sat around the stone table, discussing everything that was happening in front of them and the next step.

At present, the biggest question is what kind of place is this, in fact, I and the second master have no right to speak on these issues, after all, the knowledge is not as good as Yuanmei, and the map has always been in her hands, so she can only obediently be a student, smoking cigarettes, drinking hot water, and looking at her with blank eyes.

"You see, we are in this position now, and further on there is the passage at the bottom of the mountain, and according to the fresco and the shape of all the artifacts here, I can be sure that the rooster was specially carved to dig the passage and block the poisonous gecko, and this cave must have been one of the sheds of the past. ”

I shook my head noncommittally, I understand what Yuan Mei said, but it's too far-fetched, geckos are five poisons, and the biggest nemesis is the rooster, but a fake stone chicken can suppress the gecko? And it seems that the chicken has been standing here for some years, and it is okay to be scared once or twice, but it is a bit too exaggerated to be scared for hundreds of years.

And there is a very important question, since it is a tunnel, the purpose must be for people to walk, but how can we get down here safely? I've seen it outside, the peaks on both sides are not high, from the top down, here is the abyss, and the bare rock wall is as smooth as a mirror, it is impossible to leave a gripper, the only way to get here is to run all the way from where we came down before, according to the position of the rooster, the ancients may really run over, so why not put a few more chickens along the way? Could it be that the ancients were all long-distance runners? Or is it an authentic ** worship of some true god, not unreverent?

The thought of the layers of poisonous geckos and the blisters on my body made me break out in a cold sweat, and I couldn't help but wonder if the ancients thought differently, or if we were wrong from the beginning?

I told Yuanmei about my thoughts, she also fell into deep thought, thought for a while, she got up and walked to the bed, re-lit the torch, carefully studied the mural, I walked to her and looked at it with her, she pointed to the first one and said: "This one is about the scene when this place was built, you see, those little dots should represent people, but I don't know what that side is, the pointed one should represent the mountain."

In the second picture, these little people put those square things into the mountain, and then moved them from ..... what is this? ”

"Stone", I looked at the irregular lines in the hands of those villains and said, the content of this painting is exactly the same as the mural in the fairy cave gate art tomb, in my heart I have vaguely guessed what those squares are, if it is correct, nine times out of ten it is a coffin, that is to say, there is a tomb in the mountain in front, and looking at the number of those people and coffins, this tomb is probably not small.

"Yes, it should be a stone, the other two are completely incomprehensible, the little people seem to be eating, the next one looks like they are dancing, and the last one, they hang those squares up the hill, and that's the end of it, what do you mean by this painting?" ”

"It's so cold, the ghost can know what it means" The second master sat back at the stone table, picked up the hot water, and said absentmindedly.

"It's really bad," I said to myself, Yuanmei was a little unconvinced and wanted to continue to show off her knowledge, but the words stopped when she came to her mouth, and she was stunned for a few seconds, and she herself said: "It's too bad." ”

I smiled at her, and she nodded understandingly, and the two of them sat down at the stone table, looking at everything in the cave in confusion.

Yuanmei opened her mouth and said: "Your idea is right, everything here, whether in terms of workmanship or shape, is incompatible with this mural, obviously not from the same period, and it is impossible for a craftsman who can carve the stone so finely to paint such a childish and ridiculous painting, so it can be seen that there should be a mural first, and then there are these stone furniture." ”

"And the stone chicken outside".

"Yes, but who would live here?" And judging from these stone carved furniture, it should not be from the same person's hand, you see this stone table, the carving is very perfect, even the table board is polished and smooth, and the stone bed is much rougher, carved with the shape, chiseled everywhere, without any rules. ”

"Whatever he has first, I think the question is, how much time do we have?" ”

Yuanmei lowered her head and thought about it and said: "Time is probably more generous than I imagined before, from southern Sichuan to Guangxi, there are many large and small cottages along the way, some big villages, people are strong and strong, even if it is a military commander, if you want to pass smoothly, it is not easy, after all, officials and bandits are not separated, but we still have to hurry, after all, what is in Longchang, how long do you need to stay, we don't know, we can only try to make time more free." ”

"Wait, I don't know what Longchang means?" ”

Yuanmei suddenly realized that she had said it well, and looked at me embarrassedly, the second master looked at Yuanmei, looked back at me again, and said anxiously: "What's the matter?" Didn't you go with me to save my daughter-in-law? Damn, Lao Tzu let you be a little girl, didn't he? As he spoke, he walked towards the fishskin knife standing beside the bed, and held the knife in his hand, and the moment the knife was unsheathed, I held down his hand, and the second master's body sank vigorously, and he shook his shoulder and shouted: "You go aside", throwing me off.

"Xiuying is already dead!" I shouted anxiously.

"What do you say?" You repeat?! The second master stared at me with red eyes and a knife in his hand, shouting at me frantically.

I was completely stunned by his momentum like a tiger descending the mountain, although I had seen him angry before, but not at me, so I didn't feel much except horror, and at this time I finally knew why he was able to sit in the position of the second leader of the Five Tiger Mountain.

Yuanmei took out a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to him gently, while the second master took the note, she turned around and silently walked out of the cave, the note was very small, just a short line of words on it, but the second master trembled and kept holding it in his hand, I pulled him back to the stool, took out the cigarette and stuffed it into his mouth, he seemed to be under a fixed spell, holding the note, thoughtless, at my mercy.

I slowly pressed down the note in his hand, and he raised his head and stared at me in despair: "You already knew?" ”

I was caught off guard by this question, gritted my teeth, lowered my head and nodded lightly, not daring to look at him again, the second master took a puff of cigarette, stood up, and slowly walked to the entrance of the cave, Yuanmei walked in at this time, the two took a look, the second master did not speak, held a cigarette, squatted on the ground, looked at the drizzle outside, and stopped talking.