Section 2 White Smoke, Corpses and Savers
There was a large group of people in military uniforms outside the door of the main wing, and the commander of the automobile company in the room was reporting to Commander Yang and Political Commissar Liao: "Our main wing room has always been the company's grain warehouse, and this morning when the cooking squad leader piled up flour on the shelf in the northwest corner, suddenly the shelf fell crookedly, and it turned out that one of the legs of the shelf had sunk down, and a black hole suddenly appeared. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoWe were afraid of sabotage by the class enemy or other serious circumstances, so we reported it to the regiment. ”
Regiment Commander Yang is about 50 years old, burly, with thick eyebrows and leopard eyes, and half of his left ear missing, which was wiped off by a stray bullet on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and he is silent and rarely speaks.
"What's going on now?" The emaciated Commissar Liao asked.
"Now a fighter has been sent down to check on the situation, and he hasn't come up yet." Company Commander Wang replied immediately.
The wooden shelves and grain in the northwest corner of the granary have been cleaned aside by the soldiers, and the seven or eight soldiers who are on guard around are loaded with guns and ammunition, vigilantly paying attention to the surrounding situation, and other unrelated personnel are not allowed to enter outside the door.
"Pull the rope up, I'm coming up!" The warrior in the cave shouted, and several men pulled him up with all their hands.
When he came up, he patted the dust on his body, saluted several chiefs, and said, "Report to the chief, let me go down and observe, the hole is five or six meters deep, and it is a shaft. After the end, it was very dark inside, I knocked on the four walls, and found that there was a wall that echoed very loudly, and when I touched it carefully, there was a small iron door, and a copper lock was locked on the door. ”
Head Yang said calmly: "This time, you go down a few more people, bring flashlights, sledgehammers, pay more attention to the surrounding situation, don't enter recklessly after smashing open the iron door, first carefully observe the situation!" ”
This time, the three soldiers cautiously entered the entrance of the cave in turn, and the soldiers who were on guard around them also increased their vigilance, holding the guns in their hands tightly, and the head of Yang and several people stared closely at the entrance of the cave without saying a word.
"Boom! The sound of smashing the iron door in the cave was clearly heard on the ground.
"Oops!" Suddenly, there were exclamations from several people in the cave, and then a strange cloud of white smoke came out from the entrance of the cave, dripping and spinning at the feet of several soldiers who were on guard, and a young soldier was about to pull the trigger of the semi-automatic rifle in his hand due to nervousness, Commander Yang quickly grabbed the barrel of the gun and lifted it up, and roared: "Don't be afraid!" Be calm!"
Before the words fell, the white smoke "slipped away" out of the grain depot, and the people outside the door screamed again, and then disappeared without a trace.
"What's next? How are you doing? Company Commander Wang shouted at the entrance of the cave.
"I smashed open the iron door just now, and a white thing floated out, and it flew up coldly, and we were fine." Said the fighters below.
"Go on!" Head Yang ordered in a low voice.
Several warriors in the cave smashed open the iron door and shone it with a flashlight, revealing that it was a narrow hole that only allowed one person to bend down to enter, and the smell of decay emanated from it.
"I'm a party member, I'll go in first, you guys come with me!" One of the slightly older warriors said.
Several warriors bowed their waists and groped forward for about dozens of steps, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and found that they had come to a hall, which was more than ten meters longitudinal and longitudinal, with dozens of neatly arranged wooden boxes placed on the left side, and bulging sacks on the right.
One of the warriors pinched the sack on his right, and then scattered it all over the ground, and when he looked closely, it was all rotting wheat.
Look at the neat stacks of wooden boxes on the left, all locked.
"Oops, look!" A warrior exclaimed. A few flashlights shone forward, and a decomposed corpse was found half-lying on a sack, with a dagger stuck deep in its back. Because of the passage of time, the rust and blood stains on the dagger turned a dark red.
Then the fighters looked around again, and after making sure that there was nothing else, they all returned to the ground to report.
After listening to the soldiers' reports, Regiment Commander Yang ordered the second battalion to transfer more than a dozen sappers to assist the automobile company in widening the entrance of the cave and the passage inside, and carrying all the things inside, including the corpse.
Dozens of heavy wooden boxes were brought up and split open with axes, and inside were a large number of silver dollars, gold bars, jade, and land deeds that had been yellowed by rotten mold.
"Damn, this is the treasure trove of the old bully landlord, he didn't explain the whereabouts of this treasure before he was shot, and now decades have passed, and it is finally owned by the people." Political Commissar Liao continued: "But what happened to this murdered corpse? What does it have to do with this treasure cave? Alas, it's a mystery. Head Yang frowned, and he couldn't figure it out.
On the second day after Xiao Haiyang's father's unit dug up the treasure cave of the landlord's old wealth, Xiao Haiyang and his mother returned to their hometown hundreds of miles away.
The friends in the village are very envious of Xiao Haiyang, they have been to the city with adults as far as to catch the market, and Xiao Haiyang has made many cars, and has also taken a long, long train, which runs quickly and "whines" and roars. So whenever Xiao Haiyang came home from the army, they asked him to tell him what happened outside the village, feeling that although Haiyang was younger than himself, he was also a person who had seen the world, and he could understand a lot of new things through Xiao Haiyang's mouth.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Haiyang and the second egg of the same village, Wei Hong's friends played "pop" on the bluestone bridge deck at the entrance of the village, that is, the damp yellow mud under the bridge was pinched into a bowl, and then fell hard to the bluestone slab bridge deck to see who fell loudly was the winner. Xiao Haiyang played for a while, and then proposed: "Erdan, let's find a bamboo pole to stick to it, right?" ”
Erdan is two years older than Xiao Haiyang, he has a dark complexion, a thin body, a big head, and now his school is on summer vacation.
Erdan shook his head and said, "Yesterday, Wei Hong and I stuck our heads for a day, and only a few were caught, and our necks still hurt, so I won't go today." The chubby Wei Hong said: "A few days ago, my father caught a big fish with a net by the pond in the vegetable garden next to the village. ”
Xiao Haiyang said hesitantly: "My grandmother and my mother told me not to go to that pond to play, saying that the pond is very deep----" Erdan rolled his eyes and said to the little Lamei next to him: "Lamei, do you dare to go?" Xiao Lamei is about the same age as Xiao Haiyang, with big eyes and long eyelashes, she said crisply: "Dare!" ”
The second egg turned his face and looked at Xiao Haiyang with disdain: "You are not as good as a girl, what a coward!" Xiao Haiyang was enraged: "You are the coward, just go!" ”
In the fifties of the last century, in order to prevent drought and water shortage, the village dug a deep pond in the hollow next to the vegetable garden to store water, and built stones around it to divert the river water to water the vegetable garden.
Over time, reeds, cattails and some unknown plants grew densely along the pond.
Xiao Haiyang and a few friends came to the pond excitedly.
Erdan picked up a stone shard, skimmed it sideways to the water, and the stone flake popped up four or five ripples on the water, and then dived into the dark green pool water.
A cool breeze blew in the face, and the wicker on the shore stroked lightly, and the little ocean felt really refreshed.
At this time, the copper coin hanging on Xiao Haiyang's chest suddenly trembled, and he was wondering, "Come and see!" There's a big fish in the water! Xiao Lamei pointed to the pond and shouted to everyone. A few friends looked at the gesture and saw a black shadow looming under the water. "Where?" Xiao Haiyang's voice did not fall, and he stepped on the damp moss of the stone slab under his feet, and suddenly "fluttered" and slipped into the pond at once, and before he could shout for help after struggling a few times, he choked on two mouthfuls of water.
The little friends were all stupid, stunned for a while, and the second egg said, "Go and call the adults to come!" Then they scattered and ran away. Xiao Haiyang's nose then choked on a few more mouthfuls of water, and suddenly his calf tightened, and he felt something under the water grab his leg and drag him into the deep water.
When it was extremely urgent, a girl carrying water appeared on the shore, her long braids threw her back, and quickly put the buckets on the ground in a stack, and stretched the flat pole to the small ocean struggling in the water: "Don't be afraid, grab the flat pole with your hand and I will pull you up!" Xiao Haiyang grabbed the flat pole and didn't let go.
Xiao Haiyang was dragged to the shore and retched a few times, but it didn't matter.
The girl helped him with concern and asked, "Are you okay?" I'll send you home? Xiao Haiyang was frightened, felt some pain in his calf, rolled up his wet trouser leg and looked, and there was a clear cyan palm print on the white calf.
Only then did Xiao Haiyang see the girl who rescued her: about 20 years old, with delicate facial features, familiar but unrecognizable. "Thank you, Auntie, I'm fine." Xiao Haiyang got up and slowly left. The girl smiled and looked at Xiao Haiyang's departing figure, and suddenly stuck out her tongue very quickly, and her tongue was able to reach her chest.
After experiencing the pond falling into the water, my mother beat Xiao Haiyang with a broom after knowing it, and then threw away the broom and hugged Xiao Haiyang tightly and cried: "Mom beats you not because it doesn't hurt you, but for you to have a long memory, don't go to dangerous places in the future, how can I live again if something happens, and how can I explain it to your father."
Mom asked who the person who rescued him was and what he looked like. But he couldn't tell. Mom said: The person who saved you is not from this village, maybe from a neighboring village, and if you find that girl in the future, you must thank them.
But Xiao Haiyang never told his mother that something was pulling him underwater, and the blue palm prints on his calves gradually faded over time.