"It's me, Grandpa Li." Wang Yuan said.

"Grandpa Li, are you feeling better?" Xiaoying said.

Li Xuan closed his eyes and shook his head, there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "No, how good is it that you are old like this, didn't Zhiming come with you?" ”

"Uncle Li is chatting with my dad at my house, and I will come back later." Xiaoying said.

"Yingzi, I'll ask you something." Li Xuanfeng said.

"What's the matter, you say." Xiaoying said.

He pointed to a few steamed buns on the plate on the table that had dried and said, "The beans haven't been fed for several days, you take these dry foods and feed them, I'll talk to Wang Yuan here for a while." ”

"yes, okay." After Xiaoying finished speaking, she walked into the courtyard with a few steamed buns.

After Li Xuanfeng watched Xiaoying walk out, he said slowly: "Wang Yuan, you must listen carefully to my next words, do you hear?" Wang Yuan didn't react at first, he just nodded and mumbled.

"Listen......" Li Xuanfeng's tone was extremely slow, and every word he said seemed to take a lot of effort. As early as more than 20 years ago, when I was still the head of the village, there were countless people from other villages who came into the mountain to spy on this secret, but almost no one could find it, and even many people had never returned. Someone had reported it to the town, but there was no evidence to prove that there were any ancient ruins or tombs on the mountain, so the town did not come to investigate or excavate. But every year, there is still an endless stream of people who want to enter Yansheng Mountain, and most of them enter the mountain to hide people's eyes and ears, and even the people in the village do not notice it, they will only greet me when they enter the mountain, and some even threaten me and ask me to keep it secret. Li Xuanfeng said.

"Don't you know what they're looking for?" Wang Yuan asked.

Li Xuanfeng waved his hand and said with some difficulty: "Don't interrupt first, listen to me." Some of them asked me about Qin Shi Huang, some asked me if there were any ancient tombs on the mountain, and some asked me about witchcraft and other things I didn't understand, because I had never entered Yansheng Mountain, and there were no similar legends in the village, so I couldn't answer at all. "To tell you the truth, in fact, your mother is not from this village, she is actually one of the people who entered the mountain back then, she later stayed in the village to marry your father, the location of your family's previous house is where Liu Shiye lives now, and in the following years, I think your parents must have discovered something on Yan Sheng Mountain, they almost cut off contact with anyone, and constantly went in and out of Yan Sheng Mountain. On the night of their accident, the fire was very big, and the fire in Yan Shengshan never reached the front mountain before, but that time it burned all the mountains, even the house of your family halfway up the mountain at that time was also burned, and the one where Liu Shiye lives now is rebuilt. Actually, I thought later that there was such a big fire in the middle of the night, at least I thought it was very likely to be man-made. ”

"I think so too." At least he had this suspicion, Wang Yuan said, and frequent fires were unlikely to be a natural phenomenon.

"Your parents entrusted you to Li Fangzheng before they left that night, but he still had one thing that he did not hand over to him, but handed it over to me for safekeeping. Wang Yuan, I know that you have suffered a lot over the years as a child without parents, and you must also want to know about your parents. After Li Xuanfeng finished speaking, he pointed out the window.

"Grandpa Li, what did my parents give you?" Wang Yuan was a little anxious.

"It's a locked square wooden box, I haven't opened it, I don't know what's inside, it was given to me by your father before he left, and he said that if they can't come back after entering the mountain, let me wait until you're twenty years old to give this box to you, and don't let anyone else know about its existence, and for this reason I buried it under the locust tree on the south side of the courtyard. You should be able to see a raised rock under the tree, and the thing is just below it. Every year I dig it out and wrap it in plastic paper again before burying it, so it should be well preserved. Li Xuanfeng said.

"Can I dig him out and take a look?" Wang Yuan was a little excited, and he felt that this was probably the first time in twenty years that he had the opportunity to really get to know his parents.

"Well, I may not be able to wait for you to be twenty years old, so I'll bring you here, but you don't let anyone see it, including Yingzi, you find the time to come and get rid of it yourself." Li Xuanfeng said.

"Grandpa Li, I grew up with Xiaoying since childhood, there will be no problem, I can trust her." Wang Yuan said.

"I'm afraid to let Li Fangzheng know, I've been thinking about this question, if your father trusted him back then, he would have handed over the box to Li Fangzheng with you, but he didn't do it. I don't know what your father's purpose is, at least in my opinion, Li Fangzheng is still an honest person all these years. Li Xuanfeng said.

Even so, Wang Yuan was a little surprised, in his impression he had always thought that Li Fang was the most trusted person by his parents, and there must be some reason for this. And if that box involves something related to Yan Shengshan, then this Li Xuanfeng was the most likely person to open the box under the constant questioning or use of outsiders, why did his parents hand it over to him for safekeeping? But for now, he needed to figure out what's in that box. At this time, he suddenly remembered that Zhao Cripple also said that he would give him something, but that incident was finally extinguished with the fire.

"Wang Yuan, let me say one last thing, that box probably has everything you want to know. But you remember, there are some problems, and the only one you can trust in this village is Liu Xingye. After speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for Wang Yuan to go out.

Wang Yuan wanted to ask too many questions in his mind, but he couldn't speak for a while, he stood for a while and chose to go out. He roughly recalled what he had learned recently, and felt a little upset, but things would eventually come to light. The most important thing right now is to dig up what is buried in the courtyard, and now should be the best opportunity. When he arrived in the courtyard, he walked straight to the south under the locust tree, he couldn't avoid Xiaoying, picked up a dead branch on the ground and began to dig the stone, the stone was not big, the bottom was flat, he turned it over and began to dig the soil with his hands, after a while he came across two bricks, after turning over the two bricks, the bottom was covered with the square box in a plastic bag, this box was the size of a brick, he carefully cleaned the soil on the plastic bag and buried the pit, and then took the box and got up and walked outside the house. This scene made Xiaoying on the side stunned, and she didn't even have time to ask Wang Yuan what was going on.

"Let's go." After Wang Yuan said this, he walked out of the door.

"Wait a minute." Xiaoying quickly followed. "Wang Yuan, what are you holding in your hand?" Xiaoying asked.

"I won't be able to explain it for a while, don't tell anyone about it when you go back, please, understand?" Wang Yuan said.

"Well, I won't say that. So can you tell me what this box is individually? I think your eyes changed when you saw this box. Xiaoying said.

"This box belonged to my parents back then, I don't know what's inside, let's take a look when we go back." After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he quickened his steps.

When the two returned home, they went straight to Wang Yuan's house, which was a single room in the easternmost part of the courtyard. At this time, Li Fangzheng was still chatting with Liu Shiye and others, and did not notice that Wang Yuan and Xiaoying were back.

After entering the house, Wang Yuan Xiaoying sat on the bed, Wang Yuan didn't care about the dirt on the surface, so he opened the dirty plastic bag on the bed, and carefully took out the square wooden box. Although it was wrapped in a plastic bag, the surface was starting to rot a little due to the dampness, and the wooden box was locked with a small lock. Wang Yuan shook the wooden box in his hand, looked at the rusty little lock, and after looking at it for a while, he grabbed the lock with his hand and pulled it hard, uprooted the lock and the lock that linked the box, and then opened the box. Xiaoying was also very curious about the contents of the box, and when she got closer, there was also a layer of plastic packaging inside, or a plastic bag to be exact.

Wang Yuan poured the contents on the bed, there was a booklet and some paper inside, Wang Yuan finally shook the plastic bag, trying not to miss anything inside, suddenly a photo like a piece of paper finally fell from the bag and fell on the bed.

"This is ......" Wang Yuan and Xiaoying looked at the photo, it was a black and white photo, in the photo, a man and a woman sat on a big rock under a tree, and the girl leaned on the boy's shoulder, although the photo was a little worn, but it still couldn't erase the happy smiles on the faces of the two. Xiaoying noticed that the boy in the photo looked almost exactly like Wang Yuan, and this photo should be Wang Yuan's parents, and at this time she also noticed that Wang Yuan's body trembled a little when she looked at the photo.

"Are these your parents?" Xiaoying asked.

"Perhaps......" Wang Yuan replied with a bowed head. At this time, he felt a kind of sadness that he had never felt before, and he looked at the smile of his parents in the photo, and felt uncomfortable in his heart. Why do you go into the mountains? What's there......

"Wang Yuan, don't be sad, maybe your parents have a reason to go." Xiaoying comforted. "By the way, look at what's written in these papers."

Wang Yuan came back to his senses at this time, picked up some folded paper on the bed, and when Wang Yuan opened it, he saw that it was indeed a letter......