"Wang Yuan, is Professor Zhou gone?" Xiaoying asked.

"Well, but he's coming back next Saturday."

"Really? I always feel that Professor Zhou is a bit weird...... "Xiaoying said.

"Huh? What's weird? Wang Yuan asked.

"His eyes are blank, haven't you noticed? And he has a lot of dark circles under his eyes. Xiaoying said.

"Godless...... I really didn't pay attention to it, but the dark circles under my eyes are probably like this. Wang Yuan said. Longevity ...... 100 years old...... Secret ......" Wang Yuan began to think about these words in his mind.

"It's ......" Xiaoying and Wang Yuan looked at the ruins in front of them.

The old house that was burned down by Zhao Cripple is located in the easternmost part of the village, and it is said that he built this house here when Zhao Cripple's father, the translator, stayed in the village, but it is now in ruins.

Wang Yuan looked at the street, which was dyed red by dusk, and there was a stark contrast to the ruins. "I don't know if it will work?"

"What are we supposed to do?" Xiaoying asked.

"Wait a minute, we need to ......" Wang Yuan was just halfway through the words Wang Yuan suddenly saw two trees erected in the ruins, they were two locust trees, although the dead branches were scorched by the fire, but the fire did not seem to burn them, after several years, new branches grew.

"Is it a coincidence? It seems that there are not too many trees planted in the courtyard in the village. Wang Yuan thought to himself, he looked at the two trees in front of him and was very confused.

"Wang Yuan, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoying looked at Wang Yuan who was in a daze and said.

"You wait here." After speaking, Wang Yuan walked towards the two locust trees, and because there were all burned bricks and tiles around him, he walked under the two trees and found nothing. He stood under the tree, and the scene when he met Zhao Cripple came to his mind again......

"Wang Yuan, you come with me, I have something for you, something very important." Zhao Lame said with a very anxious expression.

"I have more important things to do now, on such a hot day, you better go home and cool off." Wang Yuan said that because the people in the village said that he was lame and crazy, they didn't care about his words.

"No, no, no, I'm not crazy, you believe me, I really have something important for you, you come with me." Zhao Cripple seemed to see Wang Yuan's thoughts, and his face was a little hideous in defense.

"What's that?" Wang Yuan asked.

Zhao Cripple wanted to continue, but suddenly he looked at the distance and his face changed, and he said in a low voice: "Behind the front mountain, there is a square-shaped lake in the mountain next to the north, as long as you walk along the stream below the mountain, you will find it, it is a good place to play in the water in summer, you must go and see it." With that, he limped off into the distance.

Wang Yuan looked into the distance, it turned out that Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin were coming, and thought to himself, "Is he really a madman?" ”

Now that Wang Yuan thinks back on this matter, what Zhao Cripple is paying attention to may not be Zhao Bin and Qi Zhuang, but that there are other people hiding in the distance, and this person is likely to be spying on him. When he found this person, he realized that it was very likely that the things in his hands would be found or taken away, so he said those words, could it be that he sent the things to the square lake? It was still taken away or buried in the fire before it could be delivered, and there are countless possibilities in this. And when I went to the square lake by myself, I didn't notice anything other than the stones at the bottom of the lake carved with symbols. The most important thing is that are these two locust trees really a coincidence?

"Did you find anything?" Xiaoying also came to the place where Wang Yuan was standing at this time.

"It's a mess, and even if there's something, it's impossible to find it." Wang Yuan said. "Have you arranged what I said?"

"Well, they should be around right now." Xiaoying said.

"I don't know if I'll find out."

"I think it's more likely, it's likely that you're overthinking." Xiaoying said.

"By the way, Xiaoying, do you know who else in our village has two locust trees in their yard?" Wang Yuan asked.

"I really didn't pay attention, what's wrong?"

"Grandpa Li and Zhao have two locust trees in their courtyards, so I guess this could be a code?" Wang Yuan said.

"It's very likely, by the way, aren't there two tree stumps in Uncle Liu's courtyard?" Xiaoying said.

Suddenly, Wang Yuan seemed to be electrocuted, and he remembered that there were indeed two tree stumps in the corner of Liu Shiye's yard, and they seemed to have been there since he could remember, and they should have been cut down a long, long time ago, because the stumps had rotted away in some places, so they were very unnoticeable.

"Two, it can't be a coincidence...... Uncle Liu, that old guy must be hiding something. Wang Yuan said. Let's go and join Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin. ”

Ten minutes later, Wang Yuan and Xiaoying came to the tree by the river, and a few minutes later Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin also came here, Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin are Wang Yuan and Xiaoying's classmates, and they are also the best two people that Wang Yuan and Xiaoying have played since childhood. Qi Zhuang is as his name, although he is only sixteen years old, but he looks a little like a tiger's back and bear's waist, and people who have a good relationship with him call him Qi Dazhuang, and Wang Yuan gave him a nickname called "Qi Da Meat". Compared with Qi Zhuang, Zhao Bin is a complete reader, his body is very thin, because he loves to read, he has worn glasses since the third grade of primary school, and often uses an idiom to tell the allusion of which dynasty it is.

"I said that Wang Yuan, your kid arranged for us to be next to him, just to see you and Xiaoying chatting there, I thought you were being chased and killed before." Qi Zhuang said......

"So, didn't you notice anyone around?" Wang Yuan was a little disappointed when he heard Qi Zhuang's words.

"From what we have observed, there are no suspicious people around." Zhao Bin pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his thumb and said.

"Could it be that you two have been discovered?" Wang Yuan asked.

"No, I went up the mountain to catch pheasants, and the chickens couldn't find me, let alone anything else." Qi Zhuang said. "I said Wang Yuan, what's wrong with you kid? How suspicious. ”

"It's a long story...... Wang Yuan scratched his head, he didn't know how to tell them these things.

"What are you doing with Xiaoying in Zhao Cripple's house?" Qi Zhuang asked.

"Do you remember when Cripple Zhao told me about the square lake?" Wang Yuan said.

"The time you met him at noon a few years ago?" Qi Zhuang said.

"Yes, when Zhao Cripple saw you and Zhao Bin coming, he left in a hurry." Wang Yuan said.

"What's the matter, he's afraid we're not going to make it?" Qi Zhuang said.

"You two think about it, were there any other people around at that time?" Wang Yuan said.

"Probably not, only a few of us will go swimming at noon, and the others will be there." Qi Zhuang said. "I said Wang Yuan, what's wrong with you?"

"Then let me ask you one thing, who in our village still has two locust trees in the yard, even if it is not a tree but a stump." Wang Yuan said.

"Isn't there only two trees in the old village chief's Grandpa Li's house? As for the stump, it really doesn't really matter. Qi Zhuang said.

"Uncle Liu's yard has two tree stumps, isn't it? And where you stood just now, there seem to be two locust trees next to it......" Zhao Bin said on the side.

"Oh yes, I remembered, too." Qi Zhuang said.

"Also, don't you have any impressions of other people's homes?" Wang Yuan asked.

"How did you start studying trees, what the hell is going on?" Qi Zhuang asked.

"I'll talk to you in detail later, Zhao Bin and Qi Dazhuang, you two do me a favor, starting tomorrow, the two of you and I will look in the village together to see who has two locust trees at home." Wang Yuan said.

"Okay, there's nothing to do anyway." Qi Zhuang said.

"Wang Yuan, in fact, I just thought of one thing just now." Zhao Bin said.

"What's the matter?"

"Do you know what the locust tree says in feng shui? It is said that the locust tree represents Lu in feng shui. Represents official positions. ”

"No wonder there are two trees in the old village chief's house...... One day, I will try to plant two trees at home. Qi Zhuang said.

"Of course, there is also a saying that the locust tree belongs to the yin, and the locust in the house is easy to attract ghosts...... Zhao Bin said again.

"Huh?!" Xiaoying was startled when she heard this.

"Zhao Cripple's old house was burned down by the fire, and Wang Yuan, the location of your parents' house seems to be where Uncle Liu lives now, and it seems that it was also destroyed by the fire back then, and those two trees are likely to be cut down by Uncle Liu because he felt unlucky...... Although I don't believe in this, many people in the village pay attention to these things, so there shouldn't be too many locust trees planted in the yard. Zhao Bin said.

Wang Yuan was even more puzzled when he heard this, in this superstitious village, it seemed even more unreasonable to dare to be in the courtyard in the locust tree, is this the mark of "fragments"?

"Then come here today, don't forget tomorrow, help me find it, but be careful, don't let others know that you are looking for the locust tree, you two are looking for it separately, and you need other excuses." Wang Yuan said.

"What about me?" Xiaoying asked.

"You'll be fine for the time being, by the way, you can go back, I'll go to Uncle Liu's house for dinner tonight, and I'll go back later." After speaking, Wang Yuan walked towards Liu Shiye's home.

"Xiaoying, what's wrong with him today?" Qi Zhuang looked at Wang Yuan's back and said.

"Alas...... It's hard to put into words. After saying that, Xiaoying also left.

"One is a long story, the other is hard to say, what are these two people stimulated." Qi Zhuang said to Zhao Bin.

"It's the first time I've seen Wang Yuan do something so seriously, maybe something big will happen to him." Zhao Bin said.

"It's not too early, go back to dinner, and I'll go to you tomorrow morning to discuss the matter of this tree." After speaking, Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin also left.