Volume 1 Spring Bamboo Shoots Chapter 22

Once a person has a mind and secrets, as long as you look closely, you will definitely find that his speech form is not very different from usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Of course, this refers to ordinary little children like me, not suitable for those scheming adults who are deep and unremarkable.

In the past two days, I have been excited about having a secret, and my sister Ou Meiyu was the first person to notice and ask me.

After leaving the source of the stream that afternoon, I not only filled a basket of pigweed, but also caught at least three catties of crabs.

This time I divided the crab into three parts, and in the evening I went to Uncle Liang's house to pick up my sister, and by the way, I sent two copies, one for Uncle Guan, and one for my mother and Sister Meiyu.

My mother took the crab to the kitchen, and my sister Xiaojing also followed, only Ou Meiyu and I were in the house, she looked at me and asked:

"What did you do with your joy?"

"Nope."

"No, what are you happy about?"

"Didn't you catch so many crabs, of course I'm happy!"

"What's so great about catching some crabs."

She snorted, and I grinned:

"It's not a big deal to catch some crabs, but it's a pity you can't."

She was a little annoyed, glared at me and said:

"Bullied me and got hurt, didn't you? I'll catch it when my leg is healed, and it must be more than you. “

I smirked, and she asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

I couldn't help but say, "I laugh at you, you must have caught too much!" The crab in the bucket doesn't dare to catch it, unless the crab sees that you are good-looking and crawls into your bucket by itself...... Ouch ......"

I smiled proudly, and when she blushed with annoyance, she raised the cane in her hand and gave it to me, and I jumped up and retreated to the door, and said:

"The gentleman didn't move his mouth, let's go, I'll take my sister home and come back at night."

We see each other every day now, and the initial restraint is long gone, and we are very close to each other.

In the more than three months since she was injured, she has spent most of her time in the hospital, and it is rare for her sister Ou Yujiao to get together. This time she came to Xinghua Village for treatment, and became a relative to our family, accompanied by her peers, she was really happy, not only to me, but also to my sister Xiaojing and my sister Xiaoling, who occasionally talked to her, very close, like a family.

Even though she told me to wait and leave, I took my sister home. In the past few days, I have been absent-minded with everyone, Hu Hansan and several of them are strongly dissatisfied, so I had to send them three comic books each, promising them to return when they want to, which blocked their stinky mouths.

I'm all over caves and weasels right now.

Yesterday and this afternoon I went to the cave, and I took two broken bowls from my house and put them in them, one for water and one for food. The food is still loaches and small fish caught in the creek. Today I stole two eggs from my house and prepared to improve their lives.

The two little weasels probably already knew me, and they barked inside before I could open the door of the cave, and as soon as the stone door was opened, they scrambled to crawl on me. I love the way they look fluffy and sleep when they're full. Every time they fell asleep, I left.

Actually, the cave intrigued me the most. Yesterday I secretly brought the flashlight at home with me, but unfortunately the power was insufficient, and the things in the stone room did not light up before I finished reading. In the evening, I told my mother that the flashlight was not on, and that she gave me five dimes this morning to buy a battery (at that time, large dry batteries cost eight cents a pair). The new battery is put in, and the bulb is glaringly bright.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I'm going to go into the cave in the morning, find the mechanism to open and close the door, and then go to the back of the stone chamber to see how deep it is.

My idea was simple, but I was just curious, and I didn't think about the danger at all. Subconsciously, I trust the big weasel that Tuomeng gave to me, there must be no other fierce beasts in the cave, otherwise the two little weasels will not survive, since it asks me to take care of my children, it will definitely not harm me.

After breakfast on Sunday, his mother went to work, his sister and a few good female companions in the village went to the back mountain to chop wood, Zhou Papi and his eight-year-old sister Zhou Xiaofang were playing with his sister Xiaojing in the yard, and after a while, the mountain eagle, Hu Hansan and Huang Shiren on crutches came all the way.

Since Huang Shiren fell and injured himself, we have never been together except for two visits to his house together. If it was usual, I would definitely like to play at home for a while, but today because I have a secret, I am not very interested, and then I used the excuse of sending my sister to Uncle Liang's house, and everyone dispersed.

A few of them still went to chop wood. I carried a bamboo basket and took my sister to Uncle Liang's house to find my mother. After grinding for a while, it is estimated that I have basically gone out to work, so I returned home, took a flashlight, and dodged out of the village to rush to the stream.

I inserted a wooden stick into the small hole and opened the door, and I entered the stone cave. The two little weasels were probably sleeping, and I saw them crawling out of the nest, and there were still small pieces of fish left in the bowl next to the nest. I took them in my arms, teased them for a while, put them in the nest, turned on the flashlight, and began to look around the hole.

After two or three days of going in and out, I probably have some understanding of the situation in the stone room. This stone chamber is about two zhang high, hanging on it a stone pillar of different thicknesses and different thicknesses, the stone chamber is quite spacious, twice as large as the hall of Uncle Liang's house, surrounded by stone pillars, stalagmites and craggy strange stones, only a flat ground in the middle. There is a stone table not far from the entrance of the cave, there is a round drum stone bench on the left and right, a stone bed is placed on the right back side, there is a natural stone platform in the middle, there is an old lampstand on the stone platform, next to the stone platform is a big stone shaped like a reclining chair, there is a big hole next to the big stone, which should be the passage leading to the inside.

It can be seen that the stone table, stone bench and stone bed are all carved out by hand, and the surface is very smooth, wipe off the thick dust on it, and it can be seen that there are also carved patterns on it. There is also a large square frame carved on the stone table, more than a dozen horizontal and vertical straight lines divide the square box into a number of small squares, there are two stone boxes with a black and a white on both sides, uncover the dusty cover, inside is a pile of black and white small stones that are smooth and flat like buttons, grab a handful and are heavy and cold in your hand. I didn't know what it was, so I brushed it off.

My current target is not the stone chamber, I'm looking for a mechanism to control the cave door. Only by finding this mechanism can you control the door in the stone chamber. I pondered for a while, and felt that the habit of people entering a house is to close the door casually, and this mechanism should be arranged near the door to be convenient. I turned on my flashlight and looked closely at both sides of the hole.

The entrance to the cave is flanked by thick stone walls, which are either convex or uneven, and there are several cracks. I swept through the flashlight little by little, and at the top of the weasel den, I found a small tree root.

The roots of the tree protrude from a large crevice. I approached to examine it closely, and found that it was a living tree's roots, which I had broken with my hand, moist and flexible, and when I broke it, I smelled a smell of pine. I thought of the crooked-necked pine tree in the crack in the rock outside. I now understood that this gap, which was slightly larger than my fist, started from the position of my head and went diagonally upward, communicating with the outside.

No wonder the weasel was able to enter this closed stone cave secret room, and it is believed that the five-step snake also slipped in from there to steal the weasel cubs.

And, more importantly, in the dorsal eye below the crack, I found two iron rings embedded in it with a layer of embroidery spots. I reached out and grabbed the iron ring on it, and tried to pull it, but without much effort, I actually pulled it, only to hear a click, and the hole slowly closed, and the stone chamber was suddenly dark.

I was greatly surprised, but I was also a little frightened, and hurriedly pulled the iron ring below. With a click, the door slowly opened again. I let out a long sigh of relief as the light poured in through the hole, and now I was completely relieved.

With the problem solved, I was bold and decided to go inside and see what it was like inside.

Turning around the stone chair, there was a smaller stone room than the outer room, about half the size of the outer room. There's a lot of stuff piled up inside. Among them is a long wooden bookcase with a pen holder, an inkstone and a stack of books, and a carved chair next to it. There is an armory rack in the back, and there are swords, sticks, guns and other weapons on the weapon rack. There are also some miscellaneous daily necessities.

I cautiously approached the bookcase, which was thick with dust. I carefully picked up the books on the table, and removed the dusty one on the top, and below it was an old thread-bound book, with three regular characters written on the cover. I flipped through them, and they were all traditional characters that I didn't know most, and I looked at them and didn't know what to do. Looking at the following books, they all have three big characters written "Hug Puzi", thinking that it should be a set of books, so I don't bother to turn it again.

I picked up the brush on the pen holder and looked at it. The bamboo branch pen holder, similar to the current brush, next to the paperweight pressed a stack of straw paper, I think it should be the master of the stone room to write the words, I can't understand the traditional Chinese characters are a headache, I don't bother to look at it.

I walked over to the weapon rack and reached for the sheathed sword that was stuck in it, and it was heavy and heavy. I wanted to take it out to see, but it took a lot of effort, but I couldn't pull it out, and I guess it was embroidered. When he put it down, he reached out for the stick that was standing upright, but he couldn't pick it up, and when he looked closely, it was black and iron. No wonder I can't hold it with one hand, it looks like it weighs at least twenty or thirty pounds.

I was startled, thinking that the master of this stone room must be a martial arts master with great strength, and it should be a heroic figure like Yue Fei and Wu Song.

Although I was light-hearted, I moved the books, books, swords, sticks, and weapons, and at this time there was a choking dust floating in the stone room, and in the light pillar of the flashlight, I could see the dust rising and flying, and I hurriedly withdrew, spitting at the entrance of the cave.

When the two little weasels saw me, they crawled out of their nests, squeaked and whined at me, and I crouched down and knocked one of the eggs left from yesterday into the broken bowl, and added a few pieces of broken fish, and watched them scramble to lick them clean, and caught them into the nest one by one, but they crawled out again, and chased and played in the stone room.

I also wanted to go to the back to see, afraid that they would run out of the hole, so I reached out and pulled the iron ring to close the door of the stone chamber. Screw the flashlight and go to the stone room in the back.

I didn't find the "gold and silver treasure" I imagined in the small stone room, and even if there was a "gold and silver treasure", I didn't know what to do with it. I'm just curious, and I'm not very interested in all sorts of things.

I walked all the way in, the stone cave was wide and narrow, high and low, after more than ten zhang, I turned a small corner, and the front was wide again, and a stream of water blocked my way. In the bright light of the flashlight, the slow-flowing water is crystal clear, it doesn't look big, shallow, flowing from a small fork to another small fork, and the sound of the small water flow is very pleasant. I reached out and probed, and it was bitterly cold.

I stood up and shook the stone pillars and stalagmites on the opposite side with a flashlight, giving up the intention of wading through the water. I don't know where this cave leads, I don't know how far and deep it is, if there are other forks, it's too dangerous to be alone, in case you get lost or encounter something, you'll be in trouble.

I turned around and went back to the stone room, thought about it, and took a copy of "Hug Puzi" from the bookcase. I'd like to take it back and translate it into a dictionary to see what is written in it, and then decide whether to take it all back.