It seemed that no one had spoken to this old man for a long time, and at the dinner table, he didn't care whether we liked to listen or not, but talked to us on his own, and from time to time he looked at us with the same worry as a child, as if he was afraid that we would be bored with him.

The old man's surname is Wang, and according to his own words, he is a veteran who retired from the Anti-Japanese War.

"When I first joined the army, I was incorporated into the Ninety-ninth Army, which is Commander Xu's troops," the old man said to us with a smile, his tone was very weak, compared to the old man's old age, this old man was really in his last years.

"Grandpa, have you ever fought devils with the troops?" Zhou Yujia asked curiously.

"Hit, fight!" The old man patted the table excitedly, with a proud face, and his dialect accent was very strong when he spoke: "In the Northern Jiangsu Campaign, I killed thirteen devils!" ”

I asked tentatively: "Grandpa Wang, the 99th Army you are talking about is not a country. People. The Party's Ninety-ninth Revolutionary Army? ”

Maybe it was because of my brain pump, or maybe I didn't think much of it, but anyway, I just asked this question, and I almost didn't slap myself afterwards.

Hearing my words, the old man's face stiffened, the corners of his shriveled mouth showed a wry smile, and he nodded: "Yes, I am a country. Soldiers of the People's Party"

"We were captured after the Battle of Northern Jiangsu," the old man sighed, buried his head tremblingly, and drank the fish soup that he didn't know how to taste.

"Aren't you fighting devils? Why would you be captured? Zhou Yujia is a little strange, after all, there are things that cannot be explained clearly by the content of the book, let alone guessed by ordinary people.

The old man did not continue, silently drinking the soup, his cloudy eyes gradually turning red.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yujia also understood that she shouldn't continue to ask, so I hurriedly helped her change the topic: "Grandpa, you're quite far from the town, it's hard to buy this fish back, right?" ”

"This is what I fished," the old man looked up with a smile and pointed to the back of where we were sitting, of course, it was just an ordinary wall, and what he was referring to was probably behind the wall.

"There's a pool there, very deep, but small," said the old man, gesturing with us with his hands, and in his description it was a strange pool.

The area of the water surface is probably not as large as a room, that is, three or four square meters, and the water is black and bottomless.

The most confusing thing for me is the location of this waterhole.

"Under the tree in the back room, a bunch of dead leaves floated on the pool of water, and no one could find it," the old man told us: "I happened to find this place a few years ago, and there were fish in it, but there were not many, and I could only catch them from time to time."

"Grandpa, what do you usually live by?" I'm a little curious about this question, after all, there is no village in front of this place, there is no store in the back, and it takes a while to go to the town, not to mention that there is no car to go out of the barren mountains and wilderness in this place, just because this old man is alone, how did he survive?

"There are a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, and from time to time you can go to the pool to catch some fish" The old man flattened his mouth and smiled very easily: "The villagers in the neighborhood often come to help me, and I am doing well."

I couldn't help but look at the old man's dirty coat, glanced at the tattered house again, and asked in a low voice, "The state didn't give me some subsidies or anything?" ”

The old man was stunned, shook his head and smiled: "You can't just cause trouble to the country"

"Is it because of identity?" I saw a little flickering in the old man's eyes, and then I vaguely thought of something that I shouldn't have thought of.

Hearing this, the old man didn't answer me, just smiled, but the bitterness on his face became difficult to hide.

"Little babies, you sit and rest, grandpa goes to wash the dishes" The old man stood up tremblingly, happily cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and his face was full of happiness: "No one has come to chat with me for a long time"

"I'll go, old man, you sit first." Zhou Yujia smiled, then stood up, took the dishes and chopsticks from the old man's hand, and turned around to wash the dishes, but suddenly was stunned: "Where to wash it?" ”

"I have to go to the pool to fetch water, I'll go fetch water, you two babies just sit and rest" The old man smiled and walked to the corner of the house, picked up the wooden bucket placed on the ground, and was about to go out of the house, Zhou Yujia and I glanced at each other, and followed invariably.

This old man is not young, and we are not at ease with him going to fetch water alone.

Although he used to fetch water by himself, he couldn't ignore it when he saw it

"This old man seems to have no relatives." Zhou Yujia walked side by side with me and whispered.

I nodded, this must be inevitable, if there are relatives, then his descendants and other relatives can bear to see him suffer here alone?

"By the way, I just took a look, his house is only two rooms, if you want to rest here at night, you go and sleep in the other room, I'll sleep in the hall, just make do with one night." I said.

"Well, then I'll go see the sunflowers tomorrow!" Zhou Yujia said excitedly.

Just when I was about to say, "Ming'er is going to come out of the sun", suddenly, I shivered inexplicably, and I only felt an unspeakable danger approaching us.

No, if I'm not mistaken, we should be approaching danger.

"Old man, don't be in a hurry to leave, there seems to be something there" I stepped forward and grabbed the old man, my eyes fixed on a pile of dead leaves not far away, and my heart lifted.

There's definitely something in that place, and it's something unusually tricky

"What?" The old man turned his head to look at me and said strangely, "Are you talking about the pool?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, then nodded and frowned: "There is a waterhole under that pile of dead leaves, right?" ”

"yes, there's water down there, but the dead leaves are so thick that they're all covered." The old man pointed to the bushes not far away and explained to me: "Every year, the fallen leaves will be blown into the waterhole by the wind, and the leaves will fall into it, and they will never come out again.

"I'll go over and see if there's something hiding there, it looks like an animal." I casually made a reason, and reached out and dragged the old man behind me, and then I took a few steps forward with courage, only to feel the hairs on my body stand on end.

There's definitely something wrong with this waterhole, and the closer I get to it, the more I feel inexplicably dangerous.

This does not bode well.

When I was two meters away from the pile of dead leaves, I picked up a long bamboo pole on the ground, poked it over with the head of the bamboo pole, and carefully picked up the dead leaves piled on the water.

The pool water is indeed black, but it is not the black that is dirty, but the darkness that cannot be seen in the depths

"That's," I squinted slightly, looking at a reflection somewhere.

On the far side of the pile of dead leaves, there was a small piece of metal that reflected the light, and at first glance, the whole thing looked like it was made of brass, and it looked like it was one

"Water tank?" I was stunned.

"What's the matter, little baby? Where are the animals? The old man looked left and right, lest a wild beast would pop out of the bushes halfway through.

I resisted the urge to go over and find out, turned to the old man and asked, "Grandpa, this water tank has always been here?" ”

"Yes, the first time I saw this pool, I saw this tank." The old man nodded: "This water tank is too heavy to pick up, otherwise I would have moved it back to use." ”

"Brazen?" I asked tentatively.

The old man nodded and said, "Copper, it should be brass, the pattern on it is very exquisite. The antiques that were smashed out at that time should be worth a lot of money. ”

"Grandpa, there is an underground river under this pool, right?" I gasped as if I had a toothache, my brows furrowed, and after thinking about it, I asked, "I remember that crucian carp don't live in underground rivers, do they?" ”

The old man looked at me suspiciously, probably not understanding what I was talking about.

"Is this something that seals injustice?" I asked myself as if I was muttering to myself, my eyes kept looking at the ordinary bucket-sized water tank, and my heart became more and more bottomless.

I really haven't heard of anyone sealing the injustice with a water tank, is there an injustice living in it?

There's no reason for that.

Just when I couldn't figure it out, I heard a sound from a waterhole not far away

"Knock Knock"

At the same time as I heard those two muffled sounds, I saw something incredible in both eyes.

The tank seemed to be swimming ashore

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Tomorrow's May Day~~ I wish you all a happy May Day~~~ I'm in tears~~~ We can finally take a few days off, haha!!!

Tomorrow's shift, I'll go shopping, two shifts on Friday, one shift a day on weekends, well, walking~