It was still raining, and it looked like it was already midnight. The four of us stood on the river beach in rags, watching the slowly rising water level. It seems that the dry period of the Eli River is about to pass, and when the water level rises, will it completely submerge the ancient tomb?

I smiled and shook my head, it's been thousands of years, we can still go in, it seems that my worries are unnecessary. The thoughts of the big group and the big head around him who have crooked their mouths are all on that gold brick. I looked back at the direction of the ancient tomb, and I was very impressed by this descent, and it was also the first time I had gone underground.

Many of the people who entered the tomb together did not come out, and they will never get out. I don't know what happened to Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng now, under the attack of thousands of Gu worms, they may not be able to survive.

We didn't go back to the city that night, because the terrain was relatively remote, and there were no cars in the middle of the night, so we couldn't go back.

Luckily, Datuan and Crooked Mouth were familiar with this area and took us to spend the night at a nearby farmhouse. The one we stayed in didn't look like it was well-off, it was still a tiled house, and it was a little leaky on rainy days. The eldest mother is the only one in the family, and the sons are not at home when they go out to work.

When Datuan knocked on the door of the eldest mother, the eldest lady was almost not frightened when she saw the four of us dressed up, thinking that we were strong men who robbed the house. But our ragged image doesn't look like a robber, but like a robber. The eldest lady looked at it for a while before she said enthusiastically: "You young men, have you been robbed?" Do you want to call the police? ”

There is no other excuse between us for a while, and we just came out of the ancient tomb, and there are a few things in the bag that are not visible, of course, we can't call the police, so we only told the eldest lady that I and Datou are from out of town to play, and Datuan and Crooked Mouth are local guides, who got lost in the mountains before, and finally came out.

The eldest lady didn't have any doubts, and enthusiastically let us into the leaky house, and made us a meal in a hurry. Although it was a few simple bowls of noodles, it was really delicious for a few of us. After gobbling up the meal, I soaked my feet in hot water and slept on the bed that my mother had cleaned up, feeling very comfortable.

I didn't expect the folk customs over there to be so simple, but it really moved us a little, no wonder Datuan said that he would leave things to him. In the past, we didn't believe what he said when he was digging the river, but now after meeting this lady, we began to believe it.

I slept quite deeply this night, and I didn't have a single dream, so I slept until noon the next day. It may be that I couldn't sleep well in the ancient tomb before, but now I suddenly feel relaxed, and all the sleepiness has emerged, so I slept so deeply.

I looked at the big ball and crooked mouth around me and was no longer on the bed, and the big head was still sleeping there. The rain outside the window was still falling, and it was incessantly gloomy. Pushed the big head next to him and told him to get up and clean up and go back.

After I got up with the big head, I found that the crooked mouth and the big group were outside to help the lady mix tiles on the roof, and after entering the door last night, I found that there were many leaks in the lady's tiled house, and the house was full of jars and jars to receive water.

"You two are up, keep the rice in the pot, I'll heat it up for you later." Maybe it was because of the big ball and the crooked mouth that helped mix the tiles in the morning, and the eldest lady had a little more smile on her face.

By the time Datou and I finished eating, the crooked mouth and the big group were almost busy. Seeing a few of us in rags, the eldest lady took out his son's old clothes and put them on for a few of us.

After everything was done, a few of us were ready to say goodbye to our aunt and go to the city. Before leaving, we took out all the money left in the backpack, except for the fare of 100 yuan, the rest of the four or five hundred was left to the eldest mother. Although we just had a meal at her house and slept all night, we gave the money with peace of mind.

If he hadn't taken us in last night, we would have slept in the fields on a rainy night, starving and cold. The eldest lady excused herself, but the four of us said it with four mouths in unison, so that she couldn't take care of it at all. Until we got in the car and left, the eldest lady was still holding the money over there and said that she couldn't ask for it.

The first thing I did when I arrived in the city was to find a bank to withdraw money first, and then go to a restaurant to eat. The small restaurant is not big, but the fried food tastes good, and it may be that the food eaten in the ancient tomb is too bad, so come out and eat everything delicious. After another burst of gobbling, he finished a table of food like a storm, and looked at the tables next to him dumbfounded.

After burping and paying the bill, the four of us found a small hotel and opened two rooms, one for me and Datou, and one for Crooked Mouth and Datuan. After taking a hot shower in the hotel, I felt refreshed.

After eating and drinking enough to take a bath, I began to feel sleepy again, and I couldn't sleep well in the ancient tomb, although I had a good night's sleep at the eldest mother's house last night, but the sleep was not so easy to make up. After saying hello to the big ball and crooked mouth in the next room, I went back to sleep.

The next morning, I found the stake here with Datou, and sent back those few shady things through my grandfather's channel, especially the Tang knife, which was not very convenient to hold no matter what to do, and the security check of the train would definitely not pass.

Before leaving, Datuan really didn't break his promise, and invited us to eat all over Hubei, but the crooked mouth seemed to leave temporarily because of something, but fortunately, the three of us also had fun. But although playing is playing, I always feel a little unsure. I've been thinking about what happened in the tomb, and now that I've come out, I feel like I'm in a dream.

"Datuan, don't divide the money from the sale of the gold bricks with us, and give it to the brothers who went in and didn't come out." Thinking of the people who dug the river with Zheng Wen, I felt distressed for a while, those people were the pillars of the family, and now they are dead, and the family doesn't know what to live on.

When Datuan heard me say this, his mood instantly fell. Many of those people have worked with him for several years, and suddenly they say that they are gone, how can they be in a good mood.

"Okay, I'll give them the money when I make a move." After Da Tuan finished speaking, he picked up the beer bottle on the table and drank the remaining half of the bottle.

Before leaving, Datou and I left the contact information and address to Datuan. Say goodbye to Datuan, let him have the opportunity to go to Henan to find me and Datou, and I will treat him to eat and drink in Henan. There are also more than 300,000 yuan, and when the money is taken out, I will remit it to him, so that he must settle the families of those who died.

I bought a sleeper car from Hubei to Henan with Datou, at that time the car had not yet accelerated, and I sat in the kind of green car, basically regardless of the size of the station, every station stopped.

Sitting on the chair next to the sleeper, looking out the window at the still rainy scenery, thinking about the things that have happened these days, I still feel light, as if those experiences are not my own, all of them are someone else's.

Thinking of those who died, Leng Dao, Mouse, Brother Li, the two mercenaries, those who came with Zheng Wen to dig the river, and Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng, who might have died, sighed in my heart and felt a little tired.

Before leaving temporarily, he used the method taught to him by Kong Sanye to solve the problems on my body, and now I also know the heat and cold, and I know the pain.

"Hadron, what are you thinking?" Big Head sat on the bed, looked at me and looked out the window in a daze, turned to me and asked. Since we all bought the lower bunk, we can see it more clearly.

I sighed softly and said to the big head: "I'm thinking about grandpa, where are he and Zhang Dahai now." And where did Kong Sanye go, and whether Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen were dead. ”

Hearing my words, the big head was also silent, did not continue to speak, and got up and sat down opposite me, looking at the rainy scenery outside. Since it is not a holiday, there are not many people on the train, and even fewer people in the sleeper compartment, which seems deserted.

Almost a full day and a night, at half-past four in the morning, we were woken up by the conductor to get off the train. Datou and I packed up and got out of the car, it was not yet dawn outside, it was very cold, and there were not many cars. On the square of the railway station, people from all over the world are sleeping, stranded and transiting here.

"I'm back." Datou sighed softly beside me, I really didn't expect Datou to have this kind of sentimentality, it seems that this trip to Hubei is also extremely impressive for him.

"yes, we're back." I added another sentence after the big head's words. When I come back here, I am back to my own turf, and I don't have much to worry about.

Datou and I found a taxi near the train station, and after loading our luggage into the car, we directly told the address of my antique shop and asked the driver to drive the car over.

Almost half a month has passed, and the antique shop has been closed by me. Now back here, from the brand new backpack I bought in Hubei, I took out the key that was already a little rusty, and opened the door of the store. The dust had already fallen to the inside, and I sat there with the big head and chatted casually, and then went to the room at the back of the store to make up for sleep.

I couldn't sleep when I was lying on the bed, and I was a little unaccustomed to it. Seeing that the big head was also turning over there, knowing that he couldn't sleep either, he simply sat up and patted the big head: "Are you asleep, haven't you fallen asleep and get up to talk for a while." "The big head really didn't fall asleep, and as soon as I finished filming, he sat up with his back wrapped and leaning against the wall.

"Big head, have you ever had a dream lately about that grimace?" Ever since I came out of the tomb, I haven't had a single nightmare.

The big head scratched his hair with his right hand, thought for a while, and then said to me, "I haven't dreamed since I came out of that ancient tomb, and I haven't even dreamed of it. ”

"Is it true that the curse of the Ghost Cup on our bodies has been lifted?" Although I knew that the big head could not know the answer, I still asked, hoping to find some comfort.

"Maybe, before entering the ancient tomb, your grandfather put on such a big formation, maybe it was to understand this curse." There is some truth in the words of the big head, grandpa will not do useless things, he must have his own intentions when he does that.

I just don't know where my grandfather is now, if I can find him, just ask. And when I entered the ancient tomb this time, I found that we were not the only ones looking for grandpa, there was another mysterious force that was also looking for grandpa, but I didn't know what their purpose was to find grandpa.

When I think of that mysterious force, I think of Uncle Zheng and Kong Sanye. Uncle Zheng is very knowledgeable, and the Zheng family in Xingyang is also a fellow countryman, although he is working hard for that mysterious force, but if he really dies in the ancient tomb, it will be a pity. Kong Sanye has disappeared since he came out of the ancient tomb, what can make him not even have time to wait for us to come out.

"Qiangzi, go to sleep, don't sleep again, it's dawn outside." After the big head finished speaking, he lay down on the bed, covered the quilt and fell asleep.

Looking at the sleeping appearance of the big head, I couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly, no matter what, let's talk about it when I wake up. So like a big head, he lay on the bed, put away his mind and began to make up for sleep.

Home is home, and the feeling of sleeping is different from other places, and sleeping is more peaceful. It was almost half past ten in the morning when Datou and I woke up.