Twenty-seven, the old house
The house is at the back of the house, the so-called mountain and water side with its back to the mountain. Master Ribu said that this small house was not for human use, and that it was originally a storage room for firewood, and then I don't know why my uncle, who was Aqurib's father, vacated the house.
"Storage?" I read a sentence in my mouth, and immediately thought of the house that helped me lock it up, it was also a storage room, the place was not very large, only a day window, and it was still very high, I looked at the house that was getting closer and closer to me not far away, it didn't look like a storage room.
"This storage room was remodeled by my uncle and converted into his study, so you can see that there are two windows here in addition to a ventilated high window, one at the front and one between the backing hills at the back."
I answered, and followed him to the door, which looked unusually old because it had not been used since his uncle's death, and the railing of the door was covered with a layer of ash, and through the cracks in the windows, it was dark and dark, without a trace of light, and the old-fashioned furniture and window railings set off the house like a haunted house.
"How do you get in?" I saw Master Libu standing in the doorway, and I knew immediately that there was no key to this thing, so what did he mean by bringing me here?
"Barbed wire can be cut." He said lightly.
"Don't you have the key here?" I was surprised.
"No, only my uncle has the key here, and inside is where he participated in the epic." Master Ribu gestured to his apprentice, and his apprentice began to pry the barbed wire fence from the window with a stick.
"Hey, what's this? The sticks from there, you are premeditated, you need to use me as an excuse. "I'm a little embarrassed.
After a while, the little duo pulled the wire open, and finally kicked open the window, and the whole person jumped in, this series of movements is agile like a habitual thief, I can't help but feel that they are really all-round talents.
We squeezed through the window, and when we came in, we found that the house was just a small place, in fact, to put it bluntly, the space was crowded, and at the back of the house was a window facing the mountain wall, and there was a curtain on the window, and the curtain was already covered with dust, and some small spiders even had webs on it, and I took the flashlight given to me by Master Libu, and I just saw a spider falling vertically from the curtain to the table in front of the window.
The table was made of a very ordinary piece of wood with some brief workmanship, and there were some books on it, and a few messy pens, and then I heard from Master Libu that his uncle had died here, and I opened a book, and flicked off the stolen goods, and found that it was actually an anthology of [***] works.
"If you can, let's move as little as possible." Master Libu took the books from my hand and put them directly on a bookshelf on the right side of the house, I turned around a little displeased, the bookshelf was neatly filled with a row of books, most of them were the epics of the Yi people passed down through the generations, I muttered that I had broken down the windows of other people, and came to blame me, while walking towards the bookshelf, because I found that the books on the bookshelf I was somewhat familiar with.
"These are all hand-copied books from my uncle's cave in the temple, and my brother's abduction and his uncle spent a whole year alone in the temple, these are his masterpieces."
"So that's it?" I looked at the bookshelf and couldn't imagine how a person could live in that place for a year.
The bookshelf was as tall as my own, except for some books, there were some miscellaneous items underneath, I took a flashlight and swept around, I always felt that something was not right here, until I walked to the side of the bed on the opposite side of the bookshelf I realized that it was the smell of mold, the whole room was filled with this smell, and the dim light made me always feel that someone was watching me in the dark.
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and ignored the eerie atmosphere, instead crouched down and knocked on the floor, "Puff puff." There was an echo from inside, "Hollow? "I'm a little excited" isn't it in there? ”
"Don't think about it, there's a layer down here, otherwise the sheets you see now can be wrung out of the water."
"Let's look around." After the little duo finished translating a sentence, he immediately changed his words.
"You'll have to learn Chinese." I reluctantly pointed at Master Libu and said, he just smiled and lifted the bed board, "There's nothing in it." ”
"Need to look at the walls?"
"No need! This house can't afford to toss us like this. ”
"Then there's nothing."
"Look inside the bookcase."
"It's so small, we've already finished looking for your time in a daze." That little duo said something in a good way, and despised me with his eyes.
I didn't say much, there was always something in this place that disgusted me, not the atmosphere or the light, I thought as I walked to the window next to the table and opened the curtains, but instead of sunlight and blue sky, there was a dark rock wall. "What's going on?" I asked myself, "No, this house was originally built against the mountain, can it?" "I pushed them away and got out of the window, and I ran to the back of the house, and what I saw was not the gap between the house and the mountain wall, but a wall of earth, which was sealed, and what was the little space between the house and the mountain wall? Just sealed? No, no, there must be a problem, I stood a little farther away and estimated the distance between the window and the mountain, just enough to accommodate a person, there is a problem.
I immediately went back to the house, "What did you find?" They asked.
"Why are the windows sealed?"
"This."
"It's a very simple question and a problem that doesn't fit, and we always thought that Eastern Tibet was the safest province in our own home, so we almost missed that place."
"Tear down the windows." Master Libu glanced at me, and immediately said to the little duo, and then he ping-pong by himself.
"Guess what?"
"It's supposed to be my uncle's stuff, I don't think that kid will find this place." Master Libu said firmly.
"Not necessarily, we can find that this does not mean that he will not, after all, our ideas have been cultivated in the outside world, and many opinions are different. You don't think there are a lot of ideas about this kind of thing. I said to him.
"That's right, it's our habit to build houses on the mountain, so most of the tall buildings you see are built against the mountain, and those windows are not for ventilation and light, but for absorbing the spirit of the mountain, and the only thing I believe you say is that you said that the distance between the house and the mountain wall is too small, which is also my suspicion, but it is not enough for us to make such a crazy move. But there's nothing wrong with going crazy. After a pause, Master Libu suddenly said, "It's okay not to say it this time, but as soon as he finished speaking, the little duo almost didn't fall off the table."
I smiled hatefully, looked at him, and raised a disdainful middle finger at him behind my back, "Retribution." "I'm a little happy in my heart, but I'm a little bit hung by this explanation, I don't want to catch something to make him run away, there are so many clues that have slipped through my fingertips before, I feel like I'm constantly moving back and forth.
"Master, there's nothing in there."
"You."
"Try to get him to dig up a little dirt." I made a gesture to Master Libu.
“。”
"Okay." After some time we heard the little flower trembling, and then we hurried over, and I leaned on the window, and saw that sure enough, the earthen ramparts and the window that extended out had formed a small space of their own, and the boy had thrown a hole in it, and a stone slab was exposed underneath the hole.
"No, that's not a slate." Master Rib said suddenly behind me.
"Where are your eyes?" I said angrily.
"If you look at the lines on the slate, the notches are like sewers."
"What do you want to say?" I interrupted him, "Can you stop talking nonsense?" One moment slate, another moment not slate. ”
"No, what do you think he looks like?"
"He? Who is he? Flagstone? I turned my head and looked at Master Ribu, but he spun my head, "The pattern on it is exactly the same as the lock pattern on your mask. ”
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