After lunch, when I saw that there was nothing wrong, I said to Liu Xi: "Brother Liu, I'll help you dig together, let my sister-in-law rest, she is a woman, don't be tired." ”

Liu Xi smiled and nodded in agreement: "You, a child in the city, can you endure this hardship?" ”

I patted my chest and said, "Don't worry about the city and the country, the big and small guys always have strength." ”

So Liu Xi and I divided the labor, he went down to dig the well, and I specially transported the soil that was hoisted up outside the hospital.

Liu Xi took a thick rope, tied two loops at one end, stretched his legs into it, held the other end in his hand, used the roller at the wellhead as a fixed pulley, put himself down with his arm strength, and then began to swing a shovel to dig the well. I put the earth in a basket and hoisted it up for me with that rope.

So I poured the earth into a cart and pushed it out of the courtyard. I've seen pushing a trolley on the construction site, but I didn't expect it to really work, it's still a little laborious, it doesn't look like Li Ting is skilled, and the sweat on my head has been dripping down after a few trips. Li Ting wanted to change me for a break several times, but I refused, although I was tired, I could still persevere, and if I couldn't let her do it, I would try not to let her do it.

After about an hour of work, Liu Xi hung himself up with a rope.

I thought he was tired, so I handed him a cigarette, and the two of us lit it and sat on the ground and smoked.

Li Ting handed it over and opened it coldly.

The two of us took a few sips, and there was a smell of earth.

I asked Liu Xi, "Brother Liu is tired, right?" Why don't I change you? ”

Liu Xi shook his head and said, "Where is this?" The point is that you can't dig it anymore. ”

I was puzzled and asked, "Can't dig anymore?" Is the soil underneath too hard? ”

Liu Xi said: "No, if it's hard, it's easy to say, the bottom is too soft, it's all sand, dig in the middle, and the two sides go through, you can't dig deep." ”

I stood up and looked into the well, the well was too deep to see the specific situation clearly, and then turned around and said to Liu Xi: "You probably dug up, the bottom of the first layer of groundwater, there is no water in it, there is only sand washed by the water, there should be a layer of soil after the sand, and then digging should be able to dig the next layer of water." ”

Liu Xi said: "I have never encountered this situation, this sand is really impossible to dig, it will move." ”

I paddled on the ground for a long time, came up with a way, and told Liu Xiyi, I also felt that there was a door, so we walked out of the courtyard.

When he arrived at the village tannher's house, he specialized in making iron sheets, and sold the whole white iron sheets into stove tubes and dustpans.

Liu Xi asked him for a white iron sheet, the standard size of one is, one meter two by two meters four.

I asked the tanners to bend one side of two meters four to a right angle two inches wide, and then smashed the iron sheet into a roll, and carried it home.

After going back, we rolled the white iron sheet into a cylinder down, because the iron sheet is elastic, and it firmly supports the wall of the well as soon as it goes down, and the side that is not bent at a right angle goes down against the sand.

Liu Xi put me down with a rope first, and then he used the rope to fix himself in mid-air, and took the rubber mallet borrowed from the blacksmith's house, and began to smash the right-angled side. As soon as he spun around like this, the other side began to insert into the sand, and after a while, the width of the white iron sheet of one meter and two basically disappeared into the sand.

This is equivalent to using a white iron sheet to extend the well downward.

Then I started digging the sand, because it was blocked by iron sheets, and the sand was dug up, and the sand next to it would not flow over, and the sand was very easy to dig and fast, and he dumped the sand hanging on it.

When the digging is almost done, Liu Xi puts himself down again, smashes it with a rubber mallet, and we repeat the previous work.

Liu Xi was on it, carrying the sand in the basket with a rope, and exclaimed: "It's still the ability of people in the city, you see that this reading is of great use." ”

Li Ting also giggled on the side.

After digging about two meters deep, there was still sand underneath, and I was about to ask Liu Xi to come down and smash the iron sheet, when the phone in my pocket suddenly rang. I hurriedly set my shovel aside and picked up the phone.

The phone was called by the fat brother, and as soon as it was connected, I heard the fat brother say over there: "Where did you kid go?" Why can't I get through to the phone for two days? Did we think you were killed? ”

I replied: "I'm not looking for Sister Hua and Lu Shan, I'm in the village." ”

The fat brother said again: "You are in a hurry, you go on the front foot, and they come back on the back foot, saying that they just got off the train and were stopped by someone they don't know, and told them that they were in danger and could not go, so they went home timidly." ”

Listening to what the fat brother said, then before I left, the inexplicable phone call I received seemed to be without malicious intent, if I listened to the words of the person on the phone, I wouldn't have run this trip in vain.

I didn't have time to think about it, so I said to the fat brother: "Then don't worry, I'm not in danger, I'll go back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

The fat brother said: "What's the matter, we are in the village, Brother Zhao is also here, and Sister Yanqiu, saying that you two came to the village together." ”

Yanqiu girl? It's the first time I've heard this name, and I'm here together? Could it be the tattooed woman who was pointing a gun at me on the long bus?

The fat brother continued: "We inquired for a long time, and people said that you came five years ago, and then you didn't know where to go. Later, we found Uncle Liu's house in the west of the village, and he said that you lost it at that time. ”

I was confused, and hurriedly said to the fat brother: "Where have I been here, this is the first time I've come, I'm in the west of the village, Liu Xi's house, you can find it as soon as you ask." ”

The fat brother said: "Don't make it up, I'm at Uncle Liu's house, Liu Xi, his wife's name is Li Ting, crazy and crazy." ”

I smiled and said, "What Uncle Liu, Brother Liu Xi is only in his forties, it's not appropriate to call him uncle, right?" His wife is shrewd, a beautiful woman in the village. ”

The fat brother was anxious: "What's in your forties, I saw you in my forties five years ago, and now I'm in my early fifties." His wife is forty-three years old and is in a bad spirit. ”

The more I listened, the more unreliable I became, so I said to the fat brother: "You give the phone to Li Ting." ”

Li Ting's cry came from over there immediately, and she said while crying: "Zhanxiao, where have you been, it's been five years, we thought you were ......" Although the voice is indeed older than Li Ting, it is indeed Li Ting's voice.

My brain short-circuited in an instant, I couldn't say a word, my eyes widened, I didn't know what was going on now, all the Yiqiē was completely inexplicable, they were playing a joke on me? No, this joke is too high-end, not by the fat brother.

If this qiē is true, then the two standing at the mouth of the well above my head, and this whole strange village, are they the human world or the underworld? Or is this whole village fake? Someone deliberately simulated a village in order to deceive me? Totally unreasonable.

There was a sound of the fat brother and others fighting on the other side of the phone, and I heard the fat brother shouting at the top of his voice: "Don't make trouble, return it to me quickly, it will be broken for me in a while, it is a priceless treasure." It's over, it's over, it's over, it After enough trouble, the fat brother smiled at me on the other end of the phone and said, "How is it?" Don't lie to me, I'm at Liu Xi's house, you show up quickly, are you going to find my sister? ”

I still explained to the fat brother: "I'm really at Liu Xi's house, I'm helping them dig a well." ”

The fat brother paused for a while, and then said, "Liu Xi said, you just helped their family dig a well five years ago and lost it." ”

I was confused, and I craned my neck and shouted to Li Ting above the well: "Sister-in-law, what year is this year?" ”

Li Ting said: "08 years, 2008, aren't you too confused? The Olympics have just ended. ”

Her answer made me even more confused, did I cross over? When I came, it was the end of September 2013, but how did it become 2008? I didn't believe my ears, and asked again: "Brother Liu, what year did my sister-in-law say?" ”

Liu Xi asked me, "What's wrong with you?" Touched your head? Don't know in '08? ”

I could hear the answer clearly, it was like a thunderbolt, it was like a thunderbolt, it was booming above my head, and my whole body was numb, and I didn't know what to do.

Anyway, I went up and figured it out first, and I lowered my head and put the rope on my leg, and when I looked down, I saw something faintly in the sand.