Zhou An unfolded his notebook and placed it on the table, and then carefully placed the photo in his hand on the notebook, obviously to protect the photo. Liu Shiye, Wang Yuan and others came forward to see what this photo was for. Placed in the notebook are three black-and-white photographs showing a bunch of strange patterns, or symbols, which, although the shapes are strange, are densely arranged and neatly arranged, as if carved in stone.

"Huh?" Wang Yuan looked at these symbols and seemed to think of something.

"Have you seen any of these symbols?" Zhou An noticed Wang Yuan's reaction.

"Well, I'm not sure it's the same as in the picture, but it should be something like this." Wang Yuan said.

"Where have you seen this, our village?" Liu Shiye asked before Zhou An.

"There are no in the village, but there are in the mountains." Wang Yuan said.

"Nonsense, I've seen the mountains for so many years and I've never seen these things, where are they in the mountains?" Liu Xingye then asked.

At this time, everyone present stared at Wang Yuan tightly, only to see him say in a stumbling voice: "Not in the front mountain, in a lake in Yan Sheng Mountain." ”

"When did you kid go in?" Li Fangzheng was a little incredulous about Wang Yuan's words.

Wang Yuan looked indifferent and said, "The year before last, I went swimming with Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin. ”

"Where and how did you get there?" Liu Shiye seemed to be a little skeptical of Wang Yuan's words.

Wang Yuan replied: "After passing the front mountain, go north along the stream at the bottom of the mountain, and after walking for a distance, you will see a stone crack in the middle of a very steep mountain on one side, and the stream leads to the stone crevice, the stone crevice is very wide, and there are many raised stones around it that you can walk through. At the end of the crevice, the creek eventually leads to a lake. The lake is shallow, just waist-grab, and the bottom is a large flat stone with such symbols carved into it. ”

"You mean there's a crack in the stone that splits the mountain in half?" Liu Xingye asked.

"Hmm." Wang Yuan replied.

"Is there anything unusual about that place other than these symbols?" Zhou An asked.

Wang Yuan thought for a while and said, "If there is anything abnormal, I feel that it is a leak at the bottom of the lake." ”

"Huh? What do you mean?" Zhou An asked.

"Although the area of the lake is not too small, maybe the size of a football field, there is more than one small stream flowing into the lake, but the depth of the lake is always just over waist and the area has not changed much." Wang Yuan said.

"How many times? How many times have you been! Li Fangzheng asked.

"I accidentally said something out of my mouth..."Wang Yuan thought to himself. Then he replied, "I would swim five or six times every summer before last year to cool off." ”

"So Yan Shengshan, have you played all the games?" Li Fangzheng said.

"No, Yan Shengshan, I've only been to that one place, and I haven't been to any other places." Wang Yuan said.

"Then how did you find that place, and that Lord Yama gave you a dream?" Li Fangzheng did not believe Wang Yuan's statement.

"It was told to me by the cripple Zhao from our village before." Wang Yuan said.

"How is that possible? Zhao lame, he's not ......," Li Fangzheng was even more surprised when he heard this.

"He died the year before, didn't he?" Liu Industrial said.

Wang Yuan scratched his head and said: "Actually, this matter is very strange, at noon the year before last, that is, the day before he was burned to death, the weather was very hot, and I made an appointment with Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin to swim in the east of the village." I arrived first, more than half an hour earlier than the agreed time, and I waited for them under the tree next to me. After a while, I saw Zhao Cripple coming over, he said that he had something to look for me, at that time I only knew that the people in the village said that he was a madman, I thought he was going to talk nonsense again, I said that the weather was hot and let him go back or something. He didn't seem to want to hear me, so he kept telling me that he wasn't crazy, that I wanted to go with him, and that he had something very important for me. I asked him what was the matter, and as soon as he was about to speak, he saw Zhao Bin and Qi Zhuang from a distance, and probably knew that I would not go with him, so he whispered and quickly told me that there was a square-shaped lake in the mountain next to the north behind the mountain, and as long as you walked along the stream under the mountain, you would find it, it was a good place to play in the water, so I must go and see, and he limped away after speaking. Subsequently, I told Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin about this while swimming, and we were worried that there was no fun place to go, so we discussed having time to go and see. The next day, I heard that Zhao Cripple's house caught fire and was burned to death. ”

"How could he, a lame man, know this place, it's really strange." Liu Industrial said.

"Mr. Liu, what is the origin of this cripple Zhao?" Zhou An asked. Liu Xingye did not answer, but fell into thought.

According to rumors from the village elders, a Japanese unit had entered Yansheng Mountain, and his father had brought the Japanese to Yansheng Mountain and set them on fire. And his father stayed in the village, Zhao Cripple's disability seems to have been brought by birth, and he was still a single person at the age of sixty when he died, which was very miserable. Li Fangzheng replied.

"The Japanese have also entered Yansheng Mountain? This Yan Shengshan is really not simple. Zhou An said.

"The older generation in the village said so, and now it seems that it was not Zhao Cripple's father who set the fire, he just luckily picked up a life with the Japanese in the fire of Yan Shengshan, and stayed in the village by such a lie." Liu Xingye spoke at this time.

"By the way, Wang Yuan, that cripple Zhao said he had something to give you?" Zhou An noticed this from Wang Yuan's account.

"He did say that, but I didn't believe it at the time, and besides, he died the next day, and that's how it went." Wang Yuan replied.

"I don't know if I don't know these things, and I'm shocked when I turn them over." Liu Industrial said.

At this time, a person came to the courtyard to look for Li Fangzheng, Li Fangzheng went out to see that it was Li Zhiming in the village, Li Zhiming was the same age as Li Fangzheng in the village, and his father Li Xuanfeng used to be the head of the village, and in recent years he has been seriously ill and rarely goes out.

"It's Zhiming, I haven't come to our house for a long time to sit, is Uncle Li okay?" Li Fangzheng said.

Li Zhiming said with a sad face: "Alas...... That's what I'm here for, and my dad is dying. Li Zhiming walked into the house as he spoke, saw that Liu Xingye was also there, and said, "It just so happens that Lao Liu is also there, I want to ask you for a favor." ”

"Whatever you can't help, it's all from a village, you just say it." Li Fangzheng said.

"The doctor said that my father won't last long, and when he goes up the mountain to open the grave in a few days, he will ask you to do me a favor." After speaking, Li Zhiming's tears began to roll in his eyes.

"Don't worry, we'll help. It's just that I didn't expect Uncle Li's tough body back then, and now he is old. Li Fangzheng comforted.

"I have one more thing, my father wants to see Wang Yuan." Li Zhiming said.

"See Wang Yuan?" Li Fangzheng and Liu Shiye seem to be very strange.

"When my father was the village chief, didn't Wang Yuan's parents go into the mountains and suffered an accident, he seems to have been unhappy for so many years, just now he said he wanted to see Wang Yuan." Li Zhiming said.

"What, Zhiming, let's talk here first, this is Professor Zhou, just let Wang Yuan go by himself." Li Fangzheng waved his hand at Wang Yuan. "By the way, Yingzi, you can also go with Wang Yuan to see your Grandpa Li."

Wang Yuan didn't seem to want to leave here, because he was afraid of missing something, but he couldn't help but go, so he hesitated and walked out of the house with Xiaoying.

"Hey, Wang Yuan, it seems that we haven't seen that Grandpa Li for a long time." Xiaoying said to Wang Yuan.

"Well, I heard that he has been bedridden because of a serious illness." Wang Yuan said.

"What is Grandpa Li looking for you?" Xiaoying said with some confusion.

"I don't know, but it seems that because I don't have parents, the old people in the village are very good to me." Wang Yuan said.

"Your dad was a doctor when he was younger, and he was a nice man, wasn't he? It could be this reason. Xiaoying said.

"Well, maybe~" Wang Yuan said with a smile

"By the way, have you been in that Grandpa Li's house?" Xiaoying asked.

"When I was a child, I went to his yard, and there were two big locust trees in his yard, and there was a big dog called Bean." Wang Yuan said.

"yes, I think I've been in with you before." Xiaoying said.

"yes, it seems like that was the time when you made Beanzi cry in fright." Wang Yuan said.

"You're talking nonsense, I didn't." Xiaoying blushed suddenly.

Unconsciously, the two of them had arrived at the door of Li Xuanfeng's house, and the first thing that entered the sight of the two after entering the door was the two big locust trees in the courtyard, as well as the big dog named Bean. When Douzi saw the king, he wagged his tail at him. "Beans, come." Wang Yuan called. The big dog named Douzi walked slowly to Wang Yuan with his tail wagging slowly.

"Hmph, the dogs in the whole village are familiar with you." Xiaoying hid behind Wang Yuan and said.

"I heard that after Grandpa Li was sick, Douzi never left this house for half a step, and I didn't expect it to recognize us." Wang Yuan touched the bean's head and said. Hearing this, Xiaoying also slowly walked to the side of the bean and touched it.

"Let's go, let's see Grandpa Li." Wang Yuan said.

After entering the dark and dark room, Wang Yuan noticed that the two tall locust trees outside the house blocked out most of the sunlight that had been shining through the windows. Lying on the kang was Li Xuanfeng, who was in his seventies and gray-haired, his face was even more haggard in the dim light, and a radio was placed next to him and was not turned on, he noticed that someone had come in, and he opened his eyes with great difficulty and looked at the two of them for a long time, and said slowly: "Is it Wang Yuan and Yingzi?" ”