Chapter 18: Brain teasers
I've had this momentary familiarity before, and it gives me goosebumps every time. I said that this was an illusion, but this time it was different, because I saw that the face of the stuffy oil bottle also changed, and I had the same puzzled expression, I don't know if it was the same feeling as me.
Where is it? Where have I seen something like this, or something like this?
I tried to remember, to think about it in my head, but I couldn't remember it, I just remembered that I should have seen it not long ago. And, along with this similar feeling, there is also a feeling that something is wrong. Obviously, the impression I remember is still a little different from here.
The fat man had no heart and lungs, and he just took off and only left his pants to swim in the water, Agui asked him to be careful, the lakes in the mountains are unlucky, don't toss too much. The fat man hadn't seen any scenes, and poured water at Agui to shut up.
Back on the shore, we took off our wet shoes and pants, the fat man helped Ah Gui build a canopy, Ah Gui went to chop wood, Yun helped cook rice, and I drank water, and then I remembered where I had seen this mountain.
The shape and feel of this mountain is very similar to the mountain scenery we saw when we played in the water by the stream in the village, and the lines and movements of the mountain are exactly the same. It's just that we were in the stream, and now we are in the lake. So the reflection in the water and the appearance of the mountain surprised me at once. It's just that the mountains here are densely wooded, and the trees on the edge of the village have been cut down, so there is a little abnormality.
When I closed my eyes and recuperated, I carefully observed the scenery around the stream, and the stuffy oil bottle did not look absent-minded, and he must have seen everything in his eyes, and the fat man's attention was on those little girls at that time, no wonder he did not notice it.
It's really interesting, nature is really magical, I don't know if it's a pure coincidence, or because of some geological reason. It seems that there is a kind of feng shui topography that is like this, this kind of terrain is called "fish scales", all the mountains are like fish scales, layer by layer, the mountains are very similar, this kind of feng shui is not suitable for burying people, because it is said that under the fish scales is a place to hide dirt and dirt. Geographically, the fish scales are particularly prone to soil erosion, and it is also a terrain with particularly high levels of waterlogging, as we see in the mountain pass. However, if there is a spring lake in the "fish scales", it is completely different, it is called "fish from the water", the water is in the fish scales, out of the water and does not die, then this is not a fish, but an untransformed dragon, if there is a young man who died early, should be buried here.
In this way, the possibility of an ancient tomb here is really big, but unfortunately I don't know the details of the burial of this kind of mountain, and in my opinion, the surrounding mountains are not very suitable for burial.
After they finished building their shacks, they began to collect firewood on one side, and I and the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle did not need help, and began to search around the lake to roughly observe the surrounding environment.
The lake is only the size of two football fields, and I walked on the shore and looked at the lake, and I felt that the bottom of the lake seemed to be full of stones, and the difference between the bottom of the lake was very large, and the bottom of the lake could be seen in a slightly shallower place, and then the bottom of the lake quickly disappeared into darkness, and it seemed that the bottom of the lake could be very deep. The beach is full of large and small stones, as Panma said, the size varies greatly, what makes me concerned is that the beach is very clean, there is no clutter, maybe it was washed into the lake by the heavy rain.
I always have an inexplicable fear of extremely deep lakes, as the saying goes, shallow water does not hide dragons, the depth of the water must be strange, a deep water means that the lake is not as small as we see from the surface of the lake, there may be some strange things in it. There are many large lakes in the world with water monsters, the lakes are not big but they are extremely deep, and even if there are no oddities, there are some big fish in places where the water is extremely deep. When the bottom of some large reservoirs is cleared, there will always be some extremely large fish.
There were no obvious traces of bones in the circle, but most of the stones on the beach were finely broken, and the water level here has been changing for more than 40 years, and the rocks have been rolling down, and the bones may have been crushed under the stones.
We judged the process at that time, according to the general situation, the archaeological team should be on the south side of the lake like us, and on the other side of the mountain, there will be a danger of rockfalls and mudslides, so the area we want to search should be the south side of the lake.
It's a big project, and I'm lucky to bring a few dogs, but I don't know if it will come in handy. The corpse has been watered for so many years, and it must have been ossified, and it is not necessarily any different from a stone.
After lunch, Ah Gui went around to see what was good to fight, and we began to demarcate the area to search, and the clouds washed our sweaty clothes. The area by the lake was huge, and I started with a large piece of land for each of the three people, the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle.
What we have to do is to move the stones one by one with our bare hands, the situation of the stones here should be the nearest offshore to the center of the lake keeps rolling down, but the water level here is gradually declining, and the accumulation of stones itself has the effect of preventing rainwater erosion, and the rainwater will soak into the lower layer of the rocky beach and converge into groundwater, and will not form a water flow on the rocky beach, part of Dujiangyan is this principle. The slope at the bottom of the lake was very steep, and it was impossible for the horses to go too deep into the lake, so the place where the corpses were dumped must have been very close to the shore, and the water level had dropped a lot, so the bones would not be in the lake, but on the shore.
The fat man said that if there is nothing to tie up after the corpse is dropped, it will first become a floating corpse, and then sink to the bottom and be swallowed by fish and shrimp, the bones should be scattered, the head is here, and the buttocks may be a hundred meters away, so you will definitely not find it. And if the carcass is not thrown into a deep place, then there is also a risk that the animals will be dragged ashore and eaten.
No matter what I say, it is unlikely that there will be no clues left, [**] said, the world is afraid of the word serious, let's find it first, I really can't find it and then analyze the reason.
The three of them just kept going until the sun set, still without any results, and a few hounds frolicked around the lake, completely ignoring us and not wanting to help. The sun by the lake is very poisonous, and after a day of sunbathing, my Tianling Gai is hot and painful. Agui's gun rang twice in the woods, bringing back a pheasant, and soon the smell of roast chicken made us unable to suppress it.
The fat man couldn't help but be a little frustrated, we leaned together to smoke when we were resting, and the fat man said that it seems to be enough, you should see where there may be a fat bucket here to be safer, and the dead may not be found. I knew that he was thinking about his tomb and said that he would stay for a few days anyway, and take his time, and if he really couldn't find the dead, I would go find the fat bucket for him.
Rarely, I didn't have much impatience in my heart, and after drinking some rice wine, we rested around the campfire by the lake, which was both by the lake and in the mountains, and it was as cool as hell. Yun also changed his clothes, wore a light T-shirt, and washed his hair to feel a lot like a girl in the city. After eating, she also danced to show us, the dance of the Yao nationality has a lot of movements of turning circles and kicking the calves, the calves of the Yao girls are particularly good-looking, the fat man can see that his jaw has fallen, he must learn, but he is completely like a dancing god, I laughed so much that people turned on their backs.
It's been a long time since I've laughed so comfortably, and I couldn't even smile anymore, but when I saw the stuffy oil bottle, I saw him leaning against the stone, and there was no relaxed expression at all. At first glance, his presence is undetectable.
I don't know if it's a mistake to come here to find his past, judging from the clues collected so far, it is obvious that we have come to the right strategy, for us, this way is easy, but for him, everything he encounters is knocking on the door of his past heart, and it is really difficult to make him relaxed.
This person is a typical self-exiled personality, his heart is outside the peach orchard, and he laughs at himself, and no one can enter his heart.
Thinking about it, I took a small stone and threw it at him, and said to him: "Don't ponder, tell you, I have experience, it's useless to ponder, what we are doing now is a puzzle, before all the pieces are almost found, ponder less." As he spoke, he handed him rice wine.
The stuffy oil bottle silently took it and put it aside, I was a little too much, sighed and said, "You can't take a sip?" ”
He shook his head and looked at the darkness to the side.
I had to turn my attention back to the fat man, who was making a brain teaser to guess us, and asked the clouds, what battle was: kill a hundred enemies, and lose three thousand?
I'm afraid that the fat man will make a joke for the little girl to guess, the little girl is very pure, this kind of thing feels like it's polluted when it comes out, so I drank it. The fat man said don't worry, this brain teaser is absolutely serious.
Agui also drank too much, giggling, guessing and guessing, and finally the answer was announced, it turned out to be a battle between Fart Hu and Thirteen, playing mahjong and firing guns, winning a hundred, but losing to the cannon thirty times.
Yaozhai doesn't want to do this, Yun Cai can't understand it at all, I scolded you, aren't you bullying? There is no rustic brain teaser a little.
The fat man said yes, and asked us: Guess again, what kind of battle is to kill one enemy and lose three thousand yourself.
"Hornet!" The clouds immediately raised their hands.
The fat man sighed: "Stinky girl, are you trying to stimulate me?" ”
We laughed, and I said that it must have been a battle between cavalry and tanks, and the fat man said that if it was a cavalry and a tank, he would not be able to kill one of them if he lost 10,000 himself.
Then we guessed, some guessed poker, some guessed ants, some guessed abalone, and the fat man said that it was not right, and he was proud, as if he was insulting our intelligence.
I said angrily, what the fuck are you talking about that fight? If it's far-fetched, I'll beat you.
The fat man said: "This is too easy, hey, fat man, I am really talented, and you ordinary people have a gap, I tell you to listen well, kill one, lose three thousand, it is a battle between bananas and elephants." ”
I was furious when I heard this, and scolded, what nonsense are you talking about, the battle between bananas and elephants, what kind of thing is this, how can you talk about how bananas and elephants can kill one enemy and lose three thousand yourself?
The fat man said, "The elephant was strangled to death." ”
We laughed so hard that the clouds couldn't breathe, but after a few laughs, we slowly relented, for I saw the bottle of stuffy oil standing up silently as we turned it on our backs, and walked in the direction of the lake, and then sat far away where the bonfire could barely reach.
There was a hint of trepidation in Yuncai's eyes, and she looked at us: "Does he think we are too noisy?" ”
The fat man sighed, took a puff of yellow tobacco leaves, and comforted: "It's okay, don't pay attention to him, he's going to." ”
I looked at the bottle of stuffy oil and was about to stand up, but the clouds rushed towards him first.