It was a black and white photo with a bit of brown sè, which was quite similar to the one that Brother Chu showed me, sandwiched between many photos, and it was not easy to distinguish. Above is a group photo of two people, and I was surprised to find that one of them turned out to be Chen Wenjin.

This photo is much bigger than the one Brother Chu showed me, so I can see it quite clearly, in addition to these two people, there is also a small child in the background. Another man, dressed in the folk costume of the Yao tribe, had a nervous expression, while Wen Jin smiled brightly.

What's going on, how did Wenjin's photo appear here? I got goosebumps all over my body and immediately asked Agui, "When was this photo taken?" ”

Agui pulled over and looked at it: "Decades ago." He pointed to the man in folk costume, "This is my Abba, and this woman is from the expedition." ”

"Expeditions? Ever been to an expedition here? I almost jumped, "What's going on?" ”

"I don't know, I think I found something in the mountains over there." Ah Gui pointed in one direction, "I did it for several years, and then suddenly there was no follow-up." ”

I secretly shouted in my heart, there is nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to come, this trip is really worth it for me, and immediately pull Agui to sit down, and let him tell me about the expedition immediately.

Ah Gui felt inexplicable, thinking what was going on with this person, why was he so excited when he heard this. The fat man said: "A few of us are good for this, don't you mind, you can tell me, we will give money, pay for the manuscript, 30 words per thousand." ”

As soon as Agui heard that he was rich, he immediately became energetic, and hurriedly beckoned his daughter to come and count the words, and told us everything from beginning to end.

At the time of the incident, Ah Gui was only a teenager, and Banai was very poor at that time. Almost isolated from the world, the appearance of the expedition team made him very impressed. He remembered that there were more than a dozen people in the expedition, led by a woman, who followed the people who had gone out to the market back to the village, because his father was the liaison officer in the village at that time. So I went to receive this expedition.

And the woman told him about Daddy. They were an archaeological expedition from the city, and they were going to conduct an archaeological expedition nearby, hoping that his father would cooperate.

They had a red chapter document of zhèngfǔ, which was a big deal in the village, and Agui's father didn't dare to slack off, so he arranged accommodation and guides for them.

The expedition stayed here for six or seven months, but during this time. They spent most of their time running outside the mountains, and the people in the village basically had no contact with this expedition team, and the closest relationship with them was the guide arranged by Agui's father.

Later, when the expedition was gone, they asked the guide what they were doing in the mountains. The guide couldn't tell clearly, but they had traveled almost all the nearby mountains in the past few months, and it seemed that they had only found what they were looking for in the last few months. If you don't run in the mountains, you don't need a guide, and the guide doesn't go with the team. The woman told him to report every three days, and reminded him not to be early or late.

Then something happened that sounded evil.

At first, the guide went once every three days, no major problem, and once he had to help his relatives with the grass, thinking that it would be okay to go a day earlier. And it went. I found that there was no one in the camp of the archaeological team, and I don't know where I went. He was terrified. I thought that I had suffered some evil, but I didn't dare to say it. I went to look for it alone, but I searched all the nearby mountains and found nothing.

He went back to the village in fear, did not sleep all night, and went again the next day, only to find that the men had reappeared, and the camp was bustling with activity, as if nothing had happened. At that time, he thought it was abnormal, thinking that it was the mountain god who was doing the trick, but he didn't dare to say it, and waited for the archaeological team to leave before telling the villagers.

When the archaeological team left, they took with them more than a dozen boxes of things, all of which were said to have been found in that area, and no one knew what was inside. This photo was taken by the female team leader and his father when he was leaving, and he was printed out in the city and sent back, because of this incident, his father later became a village official, so his father regarded it as his glorious history and hung it on the wall.

After Ah Gui finished speaking, the fat man couldn't hold back his excitement anymore, and gave me a look, I knew what he meant: The archaeological team disappeared, probably because of the fight. I made a gesture to stop him from getting excited, and asked Ah Gui, "What year is it?" Do you remember? Agui pointed to the child in the background behind the photo with his cigarette stick: "This is me, too young, I can't figure out the year." Didn't read it at the time. But surely someone will remember, and if you want to know more about it, I'll help you ask tomorrow. ”

I thanked him, and my heart churned, it seems that things here are indeed more than that simple, the expedition team has appeared here, and it is not an accident that the stuffy oil bottle lives here, and there must be a relationship with this expedition team behind it. Although there is not much information about Ah Gui, it is already certain that they have indeed carried out a series of archaeological activities in the mountains, which should obviously have something to do with their plan.

I looked at the mountain and asked Agui, "You are a local, do you have any local sayings in the mountain?" What could there be? ”

"It's called Giethoorn Mountain, and I really don't know what that place will be, but I'm actually quite curious. Later, I also asked some people, according to some old people, there was an old village in the ravine, I don't know when it was, some say that it was in the Ming Dynasty, and then when the emperor was fighting, there was a mountain fire, and most of it was burned by the mountain fire, and many people were burned, so it was abandoned, maybe they were studying that thing. Agui said, "What? Also interested? ”

"Quite interested!" The fat man said sincerely.

"The mountain is a bit far away, the road is not easy to walk, and it is very strange, there are few wild animals, and we generally don't go there. However, there is a river valley where you can catch fish, and it rains a lot in this season, so it will be dangerous, so I advise you not to go there to play. ”

"Have you been?" The stuffy oil bottle asked suddenly.

"I haven't been there either, my grandfather has been, and he said that the wildfire was very strong, everything that could be seen on the ground was gone, and there may still be some foundation piles left in the soil, and it has been a matter for many years." Agui said, "If you want to know about the archaeological team, why don't I take you to the guide at that time tomorrow to ask." He must know more than I do, and it's best not to go to the mountains. ”

The stuffy oil bottle didn't pay attention to it, but said: "If you must go, how should you get there?" ”

"If you want to follow the stream, the road is very difficult, and if you want to go there, I can help you find someone to lead the way. Two hundred. What do you think? However, I can't go tomorrow, at least two days, and now the Orion has not returned. ”

The stuffy bottle looked at me, and I nodded, going and see anyway. Two days is just right, we can first inquire about the stuffy oil bottle in the village, and then go to the mountains. There is no conflict in time.

Ah Gui muttered and said, "The problem is, there is nothing in that place, it's the forest, and you can't see anything when you go." ”

The fat man immediately said to him, "It's better to step on it." ”

Ah Gui shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "That road is really difficult to walk, you people in the city don't know what's going on, and you like to spend money to buy sin." As he spoke, something suddenly occurred to him, and he asked us, "That's right." What are you asking about? Aren't you selling cultural relics? ”

The fat man drank too much and scolded: "What is the resale of cultural relics, it is so earthy, to tell you, in fact, we are poured" I quickly poked him. Then he said, "It's the tour guide." There's a group coming in, and there's no place to accompany it. Let's inquire first, looking for attractions. ”

Agui was very interested when he heard it: "That's good." People bring me to help you arrange, there are many interesting places here. It's not fun in the mountains, just go by yourself, the guests won't like it. ”

I nodded and smiled in agreement, scolding the fat man in my heart. The fat man also knew that he was speechless, so he stopped instigating and went to urinate by himself.

I also wanted to ask Ah Gui for some details, but he said that he really didn't remember, and it could be seen that he might have been out to work for a long time, and he didn't know much about the past of the village, so I had to give up and could only wait for someone else to inquire tomorrow. That's it. Then we sat outside in the open air and continued to discuss some details.

The fat man saw Agui return to the room, and immediately lowered his voice and said: "The hellish archaeological team is elusive, no one is seen during the day, and so many things are taken away before leaving, obviously there is an ancient tomb in this generation of Giethoorn Mountain, this is really a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, we traveled, but we got this news, how about it, two?" Should we conform to the will of heaven and easily bring down this bucket? ”

I said to the fat man: "I knew you must mention this, there is an ancient tomb in the mountain, now it is just your speculation, you will not know until you get there to see it on the spot." And the ancient tombs that those people entered, every one of them was weird and abnormal, and I really didn't want to go in. ”

"It's going to be okay this time, didn't you see that they all came out safely?" The fat man said, "And I brought several boxes of bright utensils, damn it, how much is it worth." ”

"It's also strange to say, listening to Agui's statement, this group of people obviously did not adopt the working method of the archaeological team to uncover the top, it seems that they also went down to the cave, which is really rare." I said, if I wasn't sure that these people were from a zhèngfǔ background, I would definitely think that they were professional tomb robbers disguised as members of the archaeological team.

"This is your loneliness, when the conditions are not ripe, the archaeological team will also use the cave to rescue some cultural relics. In my opinion, it may be that the scale of this ancient tomb is quite large, and it is impossible to excavate it under the conditions of the previous thinking at that time. The fat man said, saliva came down, "Didn't the little sister say that the Vietnamese are still in the mountains, I think they may have heard about this here, looking for this ancient tomb." Even if we don't do it for money, we can't give this cheap to those Vietnamese who can't even use the Luoyang shovel. ”

I sighed, and said in my heart that I really don't want to go down to the ground anymore, and I won't listen to what you say, but if there is really an ancient tomb there, then it must be related to what the archaeological team is tracking, and it seems that I am unwilling not to go in. It's a bit tricky.

The fat man continued to nag in my ear, so I delayed the army to the fat man, so that he would not be excited, and we went to see it on the spot two days later, even if there is an ancient tomb, the place is so big, you may not be able to find it. But if he really finds it, he wants to go down, and we will help him, so he is willing to give up. But he couldn't press it anymore, and as soon as Agui came back, he immediately pulled Agui to ask questions.

I was afraid that he would show my stuff, but my heart was very chaotic, so I was in no mood to care about it, so I let him go. Leaning on the pillars by himself, he pondered what to do while learning to look at the moon from a stuffy oil bottle.

It was a little hot and humid at night, we fanned the fan, blowing the cool breeze with the trees blowing from the mountain, and soon the wine was on the head, I was a little dizzy, the fat man was talking to Agui, I couldn't hear clearly, and my brain couldn't turn up, I just felt that looking at the stars in the sky here, it seemed to return to the feeling of being in the countryside when I was a child, very natural and happy.

In a trance, I suddenly noticed that on the other side, in the window of Agui's own wooden building, there seemed to be a person looking at us, and there was no light on there, only a vague and strange shadow could be seen.

I rubbed my eyes, and I found that the shadow, the shoulder, was completely collapsed, just like the shadow behind the screen on the photo that Brother Chu gave me.