I stood up and was about to call his name, when I heard a scream like a pig coming from behind the house.

"Old Yuan! Come here! Damn, hurry! ”

In the middle of the night, when I heard people screaming like this in this deserted deep mountain, even if I knew that the person was Lao Tan, I couldn't help but tremble. But hearing his voice, it seemed that something was really wrong, so I hurried to the back of the house.

"What's your name?" In the past, I saw Lao Tan squatting on the ground with a flashlight, and saw him there, as if he was looking at something.

I walked all the way behind him before Old Tan turned his head. "Hey, what do you think this is?"

My family's old house is a typical rural house in eastern Sichuan, with a large house, a large yard, and a pigsty at the back of the house, and the space between the pigsty and the house is used to put firewood, and the thatched pit is just outside the fence of the pigsty. Lao Tan should have come to the toilet and accidentally saw something. But this is my family's old house, and I know everything in my heart, so I was a little impatient when I saw the startled expression on his face.

"Except for firewood, it's something in the thatched pit here, shouldn't you see it" I said, my eyes looked in the direction of Lao Tan's flashlight, and I was suddenly stunned.

The flashlight shone on the wall where the firewood had been placed, and less than half a meter above the ground under the base of the wall, three very strange bricks appeared.

The houses in the village are wooden houses, but the kitchens are mostly made of mud bricks, which is mainly for fire prevention. The three odd bricks were two on top and one on the bottom, in the same arrangement as the other masonry around. The strangest thing is that the three bricks are bronze, and there are some relief-like patterns on the outside.

"I said, is there a treasure hidden behind this firewood in your house? Could this thing be a gold brick? Old Tan looked at me.

"I don't know if it's a gold brick, but I haven't seen it before."

Lao Tan and I were stupid, and we didn't know what to say, so we began to get closer and carefully observe the reliefs on the three bricks. The reliefs on the three bricks are different, the bottom one is carved with a landscape, and the one on the left is carved with several figures, all of which are backs, but it can be seen that they are ancient figures. The carved thing on the right piece on it didn't understand Lao Tan and I, and it felt like a few lines.

I reached out and touched it, and the three bricks were indeed metal, but I couldn't tell whether they were gold or copper.

"You really haven't seen it before?" Old Tan asked me again.

"What did I lie to you, maybe it cracked here later, and my father found these three things to cushion." When I think about it, I don't think I paid much attention to it when I was a child. This has always been a place to pile firewood, and I have been raised by my father as a young master since I was a child, and I don't make a fire to cook, let alone take firewood.

"Cracking? Wrong. I'm sure these three things have been on this wall all along. ”

I rarely saw Lao Tan speak so absolutely, so I asked him what he was for.

"You see, although these three things are not mud bricks, they are the same length, width and height as the surrounding mud bricks, and in addition, you can see that the rammed earth between these three bricks is the same as the surrounding ones, both in terms of new and old and thickness, which means that these three things are built together with this wall."

When I heard it, I looked at it again, "Okay,, why didn't you notice you had such good eyes before?" ”

"Lao Tzu observes a lot of subtle things, brother, this is called great wisdom and foolishness." Lao Tan shook his head proudly, "Eh, besides, I have a feeling that this wall may be built for these three things." ”

"It's impossible, even if these three are gold bricks, I don't feel like there's any reason to build them up like this."

"Of course, you have to ask your father or your family, but if you look closely, the size and length of all the bricks on this wall seem to be smaller and shorter than ordinary bricks."

As soon as Lao Tan said this, I suddenly trembled. "That's right, these bricks are at least a third shorter."

This old house is at least fifty or sixty years old, and my grandfather lived here, and it was all wood at first. I remember very well that when I was six years old, the old and young people in the village worked together to move the bricks and stones from the dock.

"The size of this brick has basically not changed, no matter what stone bricks, sand bricks, mud bricks, hollow bricks, as long as it is not used in special buildings, the specifications must be the same. You see that there is no crack on the edge of the bricks on this wall, that is, it was done when it was fired, and the size, length and width are exactly the same as the three metal bricks, in this case, it can only be that these mud bricks have to deliberately match the size of the three metal bricks for some reason. ”

I pondered for a moment and felt that Lao Tan made sense. "But it's too much trouble to do that."

Lao Tan wiped his chin, suddenly looked at me and said, "I really think these are three gold bricks now." ”

"Huh?"

"If you think about it, you lived here when you were a child, and you never noticed it, and no one else would have thought that there was a mystery under the wall. I think, maybe your grandfather or your father deliberately made it, three gold bricks, I look at it is a bit like an antique, even now, it is also valuable, hum, I used to think that your father is very shrewd, it seems that this is his idea, 'the most dangerous place is the safest place'. ”

"You're right, we can't tear down the wall, take it out to prove it, I think we'd better go and put out the fire, go back to the house and sleep, what's the matter when my father comes, ask him directly." I've smelled enough of the pit smell behind this. After thinking about it, I thought it was nothing unusual, so I urged Lao Tan to leave.

But Lao Tan seemed to be very interested in this inexplicable thing, and even squatted there like a scholar and began to study the reliefs on it.

I wanted to scold him again, but Lao Tan suddenly stretched out his hand and made a "stop" gesture. Then he became agitated, and fell to his knees, almost touching his face to the wall.

"I, I'm not mistaken." Old Tan suddenly turned his head and looked at me with a frightened expression, and without waiting for me to ask, he pulled me by the collar and pulled me to the ground, and then motioned for me to come closer.

Lao Tan's flashlight shone on the relief on the left above, which was engraved with several human figures, all of which were backs. But as soon as I looked at it, it was as if a scoop of ice water suddenly poured down from the top of my head, and I suddenly felt chills all over my body. At this moment, the figures on the reliefs of those people had turned their faces around, and although the light in front of me was not very good, I could still see a grim smile on the faces of several people.

It is possible for people to have delusions, but the gap between the front and back of a group of people is so great that it is impossible for us to be wrong. If it's a painting, there's room for interpretation, but this is a relief, how can a figure carving on solid metal turn its face on its own?

The people on the relief were all grinning, and I was horrified to see it.

"Yuan Jie, this, what's going on?" Lao Tan was also scared, and tugged at my sleeve tremblingly.

"I don't know, maybe, maybe we just drank too much" I wanted to use alcohol as an excuse, but when I thought about the fact that we had just drunk two cans of beer, I felt far-fetched. "Anyway, let's go back quickly, and we'll talk about this when my father comes back."

We couldn't look at these things anymore, so I hastily grabbed firewood to block them, and then walked briskly back to the front yard with Old Tan. The two men sat in front of the fire, and the cigarettes in their mouths trembled violently.

"Old Yuan, I think we'll sleep in a tent tonight." Old Tan looked at me with fear in his eyes, and then at the old mansion behind him.

", I'm all home, have you ever seen a bed that doesn't sleep at the door?" I have a hard mouth, but I actually have the same thoughts as Lao Tan in my heart.

"But"

"Don't be, anyway, my bed is big, we can squeeze together, yes, if you're really scared, it's a big deal that we'll sit here all night."

"Damn, aren't you scared like this bear? What is there to be afraid of, go back to the house to sleep. ”

"Alright, let's put out the fire, lie in bed for a few hours and it will be dawn."

With that, we put out the fire with water, packed up our things, and walked back to the house with a grizzly heart.

No matter how strange this thing is, as long as it doesn't lead to any bad results, it's actually easy for people to make excuses for themselves or forget about it. When we first entered the house, we hardly dared to look into the kitchen, but as soon as we got to bed and lay down, we both started to get sleepy after a few conversations.

Because of the habit of getting into the habit of most modern people, I always like to take out my phone and play before I go to bed. I wanted to play two games, but when I took out my phone, the phone signal was full.

"Eh, there's a signal." I poked Tan with my elbow.

"Hey, what if there's a signal, I'm sleepy now, turn off the sound when you're playing." After Lao Tan finished speaking, he kicked me impatiently.

"That's right, what the hell can I do if I have a signal." I muttered, and suddenly I wanted to try to call my dad again. Although I couldn't get in touch a few days ago, my grandfather's death day will come soon, and his mobile phone should be turned on.

Although I didn't give any hope, I opened the phone book and dialed his number.

The long night in the mountains was so quiet that the seconds of waiting for a response after dialing the phone seemed like a long, long time had passed.

"Toot."

The phone actually got through, and I trembled with excitement. Hey, looks like my dad is almost on his way too.

I waited for my dad to answer the phone, wondering how I would explain to him later that I was calling so late. Thinking about it, I faintly heard a voice in my ears. I was afraid that I had heard it wrong, so I sat up and listened carefully. After a few seconds, I noticed that the sound was familiar and regular.

"Doodoo"

The electronic sound on my phone that was waiting to be answered suddenly made my muscles tense all over my body, and I seemed to know what the sound was. I hung up the phone, and immediately, the sound outside was gone. Then I dialed that number again

"Old Tan, get up quickly, something happened."