Many old friends may greet each other, but we don't, just like back then, no matter how she changes, in my eyes, she is still the original young girl, but the youth is replaced by maturity.

She still said in the same tone, and said: "You guys have big bags and small bags, sneaky, and it's not good at first glance, why do you want to go?" ”

As soon as I saw this posture, I was afraid that I would not be able to go to the village, so I hurriedly went up to get something for her, "It's okay, it's okay, how do you know that Miss Yuan will come, let's go, hurry back to the house." ”

"Wait, there's a friend." After that, she opened the back door again, and a man in his fifties wearing a gray trench coat got out of the car and said to me in a not very standard Chinese: "Hello, nice to meet you." ”

Yuan Xiaobai smiled and took the man's hand, I glanced at Cha Wenbin, his face was about to turn green, I thought to myself, could it be that this girl found such an old man......

"Let me introduce you, this is my teacher at Stanford University in the United States, Mr. Byron, a Chinese-American, whose ancestral home is Taizhou, Jiangsu, and I am considered a fellow countryman. A well-known scholar of Han culture in the United States, this time he returned to China with me mainly to visit relatives, and he especially liked the landscapes of the Jiangnan generation, so I brought him with me. ”

He generously stretched out his hand to me: "You can call me Gu Qinghe, since I have returned to China, it is better to use a Chinese name." ”

Sure enough, he was very generous, and an elegant atmosphere between his eyebrows suddenly made me feel like a dirt bun, I dropped out of junior high school, this is a teacher at an American university, I can't wait to go back to the house and immediately wash the garlic smell on my hands and come back.

"Hey, Xiaoyi, what are you doing! Teacher Gu is saying hello to you, why are you stupid! ”

"Ah......" When I wanted to stretch out my hand, Cha Wenbin said: "Praise and be peaceful, good name teacher." ”

That Gu Qinghe immediately rushed to Cha Wenbin as if he had found a baby, and left me aside, my hand stretched out in the air was not accepted, nor was it not accepted, it was extremely embarrassing......

"Young people know how to speak?"

Yuan Xiaobai also followed and walked over to Gu Qinghe and said, "He is the Cha Wenbin I told you, a Taoist disciple, who is serious all day long. ”

"Wonderful, wonderful!" He kept looking Cha Wenbin up and down as if he had discovered a new world.

Cha Wenbin continued without changing his face: "The Chinese name pays attention to the female poetry scripture, the male Chu Ci, the Wen Analect, Wu Zhouyi, and the two characters in Teacher Gu's name Qinghe should be from the nine words in Chu Ci, which has the meaning of clear beauty and harmony. ”

"Well, well, sure enough, Chinese culture is broad and profound, a 20-year-old young man knows so much, it seems that what research I am doing in the United States is really sitting in the well and watching the sky, I should bring the subject to China, everyone here is my teacher."

Cha Wenbin clenched his fists and said, "The junior has an axe in front of Teacher Gu. ”

"No, no, don't call me teacher, just call me Lao Gu, are you going to travel?"

Cha Wenbin said politely: "It's a little trivial, but since there are guests here, let's change the day." ”

"Wait," the fat man said: "Zha Ye, you can think clearly, today is the sixth day of the first month, according to the rules of our industry, the eighth day of the first month will start, and then we will let go of the door cannon, as soon as that guy comes, do you think we will still touch it?" ”

The fat man's words are not unreasonable, if we don't do it now, either we will have no chance at all, or it will mean that the risk will double.

"If it weren't for Xiaobai, you and Teacher Gu would stay at my house first, and we'll come back at dawn."

"What the hell are you going to do?" She asked.

"There's something to work out."

Yuan Xiaobai threw his things on the ground: "Okay, then take me with you, anyway, I didn't mix with you in the Northeast before." ”

"No way!" Cha Wenbin's refusal was firm.

"Okay, you're the most particular person, that's okay, Teacher Gu, let's go." With that, she turned around and got into the car.

I hurriedly went to pull her and persuaded: "Hey, I said Miss, what are you doing here, it's hard to go back to China, why are you here." ”

I have learned her oral skills: "Since you don't take me there, you don't treat me as a friend, and since you're not a friend, why should I stay?" ”

"Grandma, it's not a good thing, we are going to touch the dark, and we are in danger at any time. You said that your temper hasn't been restrained a little, it's not as good as being honest in the Northeast back then. ”

"Xiaobai, you listen to our advice and come back tomorrow morning, it's really not a good thing, it's not suitable for women." Say it, I saw the fat man muttering a few words in her ear, and then Yuan Xiaobai's face was red and blue, and he turned to me and said, "Then you go, go early and come back early!" After that, she also took a special look at Cha Wenbin, and her eyes were as ruthless as she wanted.

The fat man then said to Yuan Xiaobai with a flattering face: "Let's discuss, the car will be borrowed from me at night, and I have to decorate the façade for him." ”

"Take it, how far and how far to roll, which girl is blind!"

I explained to my father, Yuan Xiaobai and Lao Gu lived in my house first, and then we went straight to Zhuangyuan Village, now that we have a car, we don't have to borrow any three jumpers.

On the way, I asked the fat man, "What did you say to her?" ”

"Haha, I said that there was a matchmaker who arranged a blind date for Zha Ye in the evening, and our big bag was a gift specially brought by Cha Wenbin to his future mother-in-law......"

I glanced at Cha Wenbin sitting in the back row from the reflector, and his eyes already had an urge to kill, so I took the opportunity to ignite the fire and said: "**, fat man, you are too damaged, hahaha!" ”

Then, there was a pair of big hands behind him who pinched the fat man, and then our car was racing in an "S" shape all the way......

At the entrance of the village, at 12:05, there was silence, and there were occasionally a few pieces of yellow paper money floating on the road, which were scattered along the way when the old patriarch was at his funeral the day before. Some people say that if you don't walk at night at night, you will inevitably encounter dirty things that come out to pick up money, but we are not afraid, who is called Cha Ye?

The lights had been turned off in the house across the river, and yesterday the dog barked at the river a few times, and the fat man got up and shook it, and then saw the dog disappear without a trace at a rocket-like speed, and it knew that the plague god was coming, and did not hurry to run......

The entrance of the cave is no different from yesterday, open the door and drive straight into the same yard as you have yourself, open the floor this time is a person with a bright miner's lamp down the iron ladder down, has been down about twenty meters There is a platform, there is a ladder under the platform, on the platform you can already hear the sound of the water mixed with a "gurgling" machine sound.

"Pump, look, there's wires over here." When the fat man reminded me of this, I saw that there were two lines, one red and one green, along the edge of the iron ladder.

Cha Wenbin pointed to a few small shells on the platform that had dried up but were still stuck to the stones, and said: "The water used to be here has arrived, so I just let them pump it, I don't know how deep it is." ”

Behind us was a yard of black, bare stones, covered with wet moss, and there was no trace of cinders in the place, which the locals called "Mali Light", which means hard, smooth stone, and was of no use at all.

It was less than 10 meters down the stairs, and the first thing I felt when I touched the ground was ice, and through the rubber shoes, I could feel that the water here was much cooler than the water outside, and even my toes were a little numb. I tried to walk a few steps, and the ground was flat, without any bumps, just a layer of silt, which had to be about ten centimeters thick, so it was quite laborious to walk.

The mountains on both sides are about half a house wide, and there are no traces of artificial excavation, so I really didn't expect that there would be such a world in the middle of this mountain.

There was only one way in front of me, and that was to go forward, and there was a thick drain pipe on the ground that was gurgling and floating together, and when I looked back, the pipe was in the middle of the second ladder, and there was a hole in the bottom of the platform, and the pipe went out along the hole.

The fat man is still half an expert, he can see the role of this water pipe, and immediately sighed: "Good guy, big money, do you see, this drainage facility is made, even Xi'an Qian Ye can't get it." The hole is also ventilated, and the gang has invested a lot of money. ”

I saw that Cha Wenbin had been stunned and didn't move, so I asked, "Wenbin, have you found anything?" ”

He whispered, "Look ahead." ”

"Where?"

"That!" He shone it with a miner's lamp, and the place was about twenty meters away from us, and the fog on the water surface of the pit was very large, and it was white, and it was not very clear to see.

"What's that?"

He whispered, "It seems to be floating alone." ”

Person! Floating here?

The water here is coming from us, I can vaguely see a white thing floating up and down, I want to go over and see what Cha Wenbin pulls away, we just wait there quietly.

The minutes ticked by, and after a cigarette, I was back up the stairs, for just a few seconds earlier, a corpse with its back up, dressed in a white robe, had drifted slowly before my eyes. This is not the most magical, the most amazing thing is that it only took a blink of an eye to float past, and the corpse was gone!

I was standing in the water, three meters behind me was a stone wall, and the corpse was as quiet as a piece of wood as it floated slowly at my feet, except that his hair and a clump of aquatic weeds floated with the waves, and it was impossible to distinguish between men and women.

The point is that less than two meters away from this corpse, the second corpse floated over, and then the third, and the distance between them was just right, as if a bamboo row was connected to a bamboo row.

It's not that I'm timid, it's that the choices of individuals at that time will be the same as mine......

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Good night