In this life, people are constantly choosing, and then constantly facing the consequences of their choices, and then continuing to choose how to face new choices. This process, over and over again, doesn't stop until you die, because this is a world of accidents.

My name is Lin Min, I am a reporter for Chongqing X Newspaper, originally I was just an ordinary office worker, in order to survive, I worked every day, got up early and greedy for darkness, and I was no different from other hard-working people in this city. But something happened that changed the trajectory of my life and even upended my original understanding of the world.

That incident started on the afternoon of September 15, 2015, or earlier, because it was all a butterfly effect, one ring after another. A lot of times I wondered, if it wasn't me, but someone else who got the news, what would have happened?

That afternoon, I was doing an interview in Ciqikou, because my parents ran a small restaurant in Ciqikou, so I wanted to sleep at home today after work. My roommate, Xiao Wu, went on a date at night, and I didn't want to live alone in a rented house. I had to wait until dinner time to go back, otherwise it would be early to go home and my family would start talking about my life events, so I decided to take a walk by the river before going home.

When I came to the riverside, there are always a lot of tourists in Ciqikou, there are also a lot of people walking along the riverside, and there are some people who do small game business shouting at tourists to play those games of shooting, pitching, and winning rewards, but those games, it is generally difficult for customers to get prizes, otherwise how can the boss do business? I haven't won since I was a kid, and I have to say that I've had a lot of bad luck in this area, and I can't help but sigh.

I stopped, looked at the calm river, and couldn't help but imagine what would happen if I fell, although I could swim, but I was still very scared to swim in the Jialing River. I'm always like this, if I stand on a high place, I will have the scene of falling down in my head, and the Internet says that this is also a disease.

Suddenly, someone hit me behind me, my center of gravity was unstable, I fell forward, and I was about to fall into the Jialing River, oh my God! Could it be that this fantasy is actually going to come true? Who the hell pushed me? Is my good youth going to waste like this? Just as I was about to fall into the river, someone grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

After standing still, I looked back and saw that he was actually a handsome guy, very tall, a head taller than me, and he was also in good shape. Although the face was expressionless, it was already charming, and the people next to him were also frightened, and the crowd was in a commotion. A woman ran over and grabbed a boy beside me and said, "Oh, my little ancestor, tell you not to run around, see you knocked my aunt down!" ”

Aunt? It should be my sister, right? I couldn't help but roll my eyes. It turned out that it was this bear child, in fact, I was really angry in my heart, but on the surface I still held back and said to the woman: "Auntie! You really have to discipline your children well, it's good to have this today" I looked again, the handsome guy who saved me just now has left. "It's good that there is a brave person, otherwise it would be difficult to say. If a child falls into the river by himself, you will regret it for the rest of your life. ”

The onlookers also talked one after another, thinking that the woman should be optimistic about herself, how could she let the child run around by the river? I didn't want to be in the center of the crowd anymore and squeezed out. I want to find the handsome guy who saved me just now and say thank you. Maybe, it's my peach blossom luck! I was amazed and delighted that this was bought for my life.

It's a pity that I looked around the neighborhood twice, but I didn't see him again, this is too fast! Let's see that the time is almost up, let's go home for dinner, and we will meet again.

I received a call from Aunt Jiang halfway through dinner, and Aunt Jiang said that something had been dug up in the ground during the stone bridge paving subway. I used to help Aunt Jiang expose things, so I left a phone number for her to call me if she had any news, so she also became one of my "informants", and the informants who provided useful information would also get paid accordingly.

I hurried out again, and the family got used to it. I took Metro Line 1 to Shiqiaopu, and after leaving the subway station, I couldn't help but sigh at the scene in front of me. Shiqiao paved the new line of the subway line 5, which was already jammed with traffic, and now there is such a thing, and it is the time to get off work, and it is already blocked.

Originally, the construction site was surrounded by a fence, but now there are a lot of people around, and police cars are also parked on the side of the road. The sound of car horns, the shouts of people, and the sound of advertisements in roadside shops. It only makes me feel tingling in my eardrums. After this afternoon's events, I suddenly had a phobia of the crowd.

I squeezed inside, was stopped by the police, I took out the press card in my bag, and said to the police officer in front of me: "I am a reporter from Chongqing X newspaper." I want to know the situation at the site. ”

The policeman looked at me and pulled up a cordon to let me in. And he said, "Don't be afraid. ”

I looked at him and asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”

The policeman smiled: "It's a coffin, there's something inside." At this point, he paused, "Go see for yourself." ”

Actually, this is the first time I've encountered such a thing, but when I was in college, I read a lot of tomb robbery novels, and I wanted to see it for a long time. Besides, there are so many people here, I am not afraid, and there are corpses and antiques in the coffin. If there were zombies, that would be great! That's the big news.

I looked at him, and just now I only thought that he was in good shape and very strong, so I took a closer look at his appearance. Thick eyebrows and big eyes, a small mouth smiling all the time, quite handsome, looking very small, just like a high school student, giving a feeling of a sunny teenager. I couldn't help but ask, "How old are you, did you just graduate?" ”

He didn't look scared at all, and didn't take what he said to heart at all, but asked him another question, a little surprised, and said, "How come, I'm older than you, but the years don't leave traces on my face, do you want me to tell you the secret of maintenance?" With that, he laughed again. One second I thought he was like a sunny boy, but now I just think that he is also a flamboyant person, no different from other policemen who can speak well.

I wore my press card around my neck and saw his name on his police uniform, Jiang Yi. I looked up and smiled and said to him, "Officer Jiang, please take me down." ”

He nodded, walked up to me and said, "Be careful. ”

On the way, Jiang Yi said: "Do I really look that young? ”

I smiled and said, "Really, you look like you're only 22 or 23, I thought you just came here for an internship." ”

Jiang Yi smiled and said, "Actually, I'm 27 years old. You're the first to say I look young. ”

"That's because the people before were too discerning."

"Reporter Lin, I think you look younger than me, how old are you?"

“26。”

"Say it, I'm definitely older than you." I'm a little impatient, a people's policeman, and a male policeman, why do you pay so much attention to age and appearance? So I stopped talking.

Jiang Yi saw that I didn't answer him, and he didn't say anything. But after a while, he asked, "Are you really not afraid?" "Actually, there was a lot of noise and traffic just now, and I wasn't scared at all. But now that I'm going deeper into the ground, it's quieter, and it's just the two of us, which makes me feel like that.

Thinking about seeing the dug up coffin for a while made me feel like I was exploring in a novel, and I was terrified, but I still said: "Don't be afraid, isn't there still a police uncle here?" ”

Jiang Yi said: "Why did I become an uncle again? "We joked and arrived at our destination. It was the construction site of Metro Line 5, because there was already a Line 1 underground, so the new line was dug further down, and we went down to about 30 meters underground, although it was already underground, but the on-site lighting was very good.

The workers had stopped working, so it was quiet, you could see the long tunnels on both sides, only the person in charge of the construction site and a few workers at the time, and 2 policemen were there, and the entrance and exit of passengers were being repaired, and the coffin was dug up when the workers were digging.

As we approached, Jiang Yi pointed at me and said to them, "Reporter." ”

I said to the person in front of me: "I am a reporter from Chongqing X Daily, my name is Lin Min, please advise." ”

After the two policemen got out of the way, the coffin appeared in front of my eyes, and I finally saw with my own eyes the ancient coffin that I had only seen in previous novels. It was a dark red coffin, large, about 1.5 meters high, 3 meters long, and 1.5 meters wide, and it had been dug up by the workers to clean the surface and the surrounding soil.

The coffin lid has some strange words written in lacquer, and I can only be sure that these are not simple traditional characters. In fact, it should be more accurate to describe it in symbols than strange words. The coffin is only carved with some simple patterns around it.

I first took a few photos with my mobile phone and sent them to the official blog of our newspaper, and then took pictures with my camera and carefully took pictures of the symbols on them. Then he asked, "Is this the coffin?" Didn't you dig up anything else? Also, did you dig up the coffin directly? Didn't dig into the wall or anything like that? ”

One of the workers said, "Wall? No, I just went down with a shovel, and I felt that I had dug something hard, and I thought it was a stone, but I went down with a shovel and dug up some soil, only to find that something was wrong. As a result, we dug up and a coffin, nothing of value, and we dug for half a day. ”

He still wanted to complain, but a worker next to him pulled him, and he stopped talking. I continued, "But it's so strange that there's a coffin here, there's no burial chamber or anything. "Aren't there dangerous tombs in tomb robbery novels? Are there still many mechanisms?

A policeman looked at him and said to me, "No one really knows about this, but when the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau come, they will know when they look at it, we are all laymen, how can we know these things." ”

Another policeman shook his head and said, "I see, this is the one who used to bury a sinner when he died, otherwise how could there be nothing, not even a monument, and buried so deeply, how can future generations worship?" ”

Jiang Yi interjected. "But if it was a criminal, the ancient people wouldn't be so good at getting a coffin, and this coffin looks quite luxurious."

The policeman continued: "If you die unclearly, and you don't bury it in your ancestral grave, you just bury it." ”

Jiang Yi said: "Yes! Brother Li, your imagination is rich enough, I think you can write a novel about this. ”

I suddenly remembered that I had read in novels that some tomb robbers would bury the treasures they had just stolen in a coffin, dig them up and sell them after a while, or simply leave them for future generations. So he said, "Could this be someone else's buried treasure?" ”

Jiang Yi turned around, gave me a thumbs up and said, "You're not bad, you two have a fight." ”

I ignored him, and several of the other workers were obviously interested in my idea, but the police were here, and they couldn't do anything, so they began to whisper.

"Little girl, don't think too nicely." At this time, a deep voice came from behind me, and I looked back to see that it was a worker sitting behind me who was smoking a cigarette talking.

The worker looked to be in his 50s, with dark skin, and he could see the muscles on his body that had been trained by his daily hard work, and his body was very strong.

He finished a cigarette, did not stop, lit another cigarette and smoked, and continued: "It is not a good thing that a coffin is buried alone in the ground, and there are some words written on the lid of that coffin, I heard my master say when I was young, they also dug up such a coffin when they were young to help people repair tombs, but then something very bad happened.