Xu Bai arrived in Heilongjiang in the early morning of the next day.

In a breakfast shop next to the station, Xu Bai and Liang Dong asked for soy milk dumplings and some other snacks.

Liang Dong had no strength to eat breakfast, and said weakly: "When you get to your relative's house, Brother Liang has to sleep well, I haven't suffered such a crime for many years." ”

Xu Bai flattered himself and sandwiched his fried egg into Liang Dong's small bowl: "I know that Brother Liang is good to me, I remember it." ”

Liang Dong smiled, took a bite of most of the fried egg, and said vaguely: "You have to remember." But Xiao Xu, Brother Liang is not a person who is not immoral, and some things have been told to me. Brother Liang, thank you for thinking about her in her most difficult time. ”

Xu Bai said: "Brother Liang, I'm a little unaccustomed to you being so numb, let's eat quickly." ”

"Well. Just listen to our Xiao Xu. ”

At this time, there was a ding dong, and Xu Bai's mobile phone screen lit up.

Lu Kun's name quickly jumped on the top.

Xu Bai put down his chopsticks and hurriedly touched his phone.

After clicking on WeChat, I saw a few words cut short: got off the car?

Xu Bai replied: Just now, I'll have breakfast with Brother Liang here.

After a while, Lu Kun sent a phone number with a text: The classmate I mentioned to you earlier, I dragged someone to contact him last night, and you can call him if you need it.

Xu Bai bit his fingers, his heart was warm, and his fingers were quickly tapping on the keyboard: Don't you know how bad your interpersonal relationship is? Are you sure your classmates are not coping with you?

Lu Kun sent a string of ellipses.

Xu Bai laughed at the screen, and Liang Dong looked at her like a cultural relic, and she didn't realize it.

"Xiao Xu, be careful to laugh the dumplings out of your stomach." Liang Dong spoke coldly.

Xu Bai raised his eyes and put the phone down.

Liang Dong stared at Xu Bai's mobile phone and asked gossipingly, "Lu Kun?" ”

"How does Brother Liang know."

Liang Dong raised his chin: "Who else can there be besides him?" What joke does this thousand-year-old piece of cold iron have you made you laugh like this? ”

Xu Bai said: "He said that there is a classmate from Heilongjiang, and we can ask him for help in case we have any situation." ”

Liang Dong was surprised: "Lu Kun contacted classmates? It's not like him at all. He hardly asks for help. ”

Xu Bai took a deep breath and felt warmer in his heart.

Before he could say anything, Liang Dong leaned his face over and asked curiously, "Is his classmate with us now?" How can we help? ”

Xu Bai pursed his lips: "It seems that after graduation, he didn't engage in a job that matched his major, but Lu Kun said that he was very capable of fighting." ”

Liang Dong, who had just stuffed a dumpling in his mouth, choked instantly, and he slammed his chest.

Seeing this, Xu Bai hurriedly handed his soy milk to Liang Dong.

Liang Dong drank a lot of soy milk before he finally recovered, gasped and said: "When Brother Liang returns to the office, I have to have a good fight with Lu Kun, he dislikes that I can't fight, next time he will find someone who can fight with you." ”

Xu Bai laughed: "Brother Liang, you are so smart, you know what Lu Kun means at once." ”

Liang Dong looked at Xu Bai, stood up and pretended to be angry: "You buy this order." ”

After walking a few steps, Liang Dong suddenly turned around and asked with some concern: "Brother Liang is at this age, and the marriage is not yet over." We're not going to get into a fight with people in our work this time, right? ”

Xu Baileng paused for a few seconds, and when he saw Liang Dong's appearance, he suddenly wanted to laugh even more.

After the two arrived at their destination, Liang Dong fell asleep in the guest room of his cousin's house, and the snoring sound was simply shaking.

Long before coming, Xu Bai told his cousin the purpose of coming this time.

After many things were spread out on the table and discussed, my cousin's face was very solemn.

While feeding the white geese in the backyard, he asked Xu Bai worriedly: "If what you said is true, will the serious business left to me by my mother be implicated?" After all, at that time, my mother's money for opening a company may not have come from the right way. ”

Xu Bai said: "Uncle Cousin, don't worry about this. Now that my uncle and grandmother are gone, those businesses are all serious business, and now that the legal person is you, it shouldn't have any impact. ”

Uncle Cousin's face eased a little, and he told Xu Bai some of the situation in the village.

After listening to this, Xu Bai was a little disappointed: "In other words, it is impossible for the people living in the village now to have anything to do with the previous theft of cultural relics?" ”

My cousin thought about it for a long time, and suddenly said, "I suddenly remembered that there was one person." ”

Xu Bai was surprised: "Who?" ”

Uncle Cousin threw a few leaves, turned around and said, "An old man." I'm 60 years old this year. This man is a strange man, and the time he moved to our village was about half a year behind my mother. He never spoke to the people in the village, and he didn't usually socialize with our family. But I remember that when my mother was dying, this old man used to wander around my door, and once he ran into my mother's room and sneaked around looking for something, which is quite unusual when I think about it. ”

After hearing this, Xu Bai also felt that this person was quite suspicious, and asked, "Where does this person live?" Cousin, can you take me there? ”

My cousin said, "He is usually not at home during the day, so if you want to look for him, you will go and see him at night." ”

"Does he have a job during the day?"

"This cousin doesn't know, anyway, in the past, the big iron gate of his house was always closed during the day, and he could only see people when it was dark." After feeding the white goose, my cousin put the rattan frame back in place and said, "You must be very tired after sitting in the car for such a long time, why don't you go to sleep for a while, wait for your colleague to wake up, and go to the old man's house with him at night." ”

Xu Bai was silent for a while: "What's his surname?" ”

Uncle Cousin replied, "The surname is Fu." ”

"Which volt?"

"Lurking lurk."

Xu Bai chuckled in his heart.

And Fuzhong translates a surname.

At this time, my cousin said, "Your cousin and I are going out in a while, and we have a business to discuss." There are dishes in the kitchen, and when you are hungry, you can prepare them yourself. ”

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Uncle Cousin's house was quiet, Xu Bai was lying in the guest room next to Liang Dong and sent a text message to Lu Kun: I want to ask you something. Does Mr. Fu have siblings?

Lu Kun replied: I haven't heard of it. How?

Xu Bai's phone ran out of battery, she didn't reply again, and plugged in the charger. A bunch of things began to stir around in my head, and I couldn't sleep. She rolled over and came down the stairs.

happened to see Lu Yueping's mother sitting at the door, holding a puff fan to fan the wind.

Xu Bai exchanged a few words with her and asked for the address of the old man surnamed Fu.

Mother Lu and Uncle Lu said very similar words, they both said that the old man was a strange person.

Xu Bai asked the man if he had any relatives and friends, and Lu's mother said that he was an old bachelor in the village, and although he had lived in the village for decades, none of the villagers had a relationship with him, nor did he have relatives or friends.

Lu's mother even joked that no one would know that such an old bachelor would die at home one day, even if he stinks.

Xu Bai was out of his mind, and Lu's mother said: "Yue Ping said that he will go home to see me in a while, and he should get off the plane at this time, you two are really fateful, you have been here several times when Yue Ping came over." ”

Xu Bai's face froze, what did Lu Yueping come back for at this point, could it be that he was also looking for someone?

Xu Bai couldn't sit still, and after a few more words with Lu's mother, he walked to the house of the Fu surnamed Guangchao alone.

After crossing a long dirt road and making eight detours, Xu Bai finally saw the marker that Lu Ma said.

In a piece of heaven and earth, a stone bungalow was abruptly built.

The surroundings are endless, and it is obviously daytime, but it is very terrifying because of the terrible cries of a few crows.

Xu Bai frowned and continued to walk towards the bungalow.

As they described, the door to the bungalow was closed in broad daylight.

Moreover, the windows of this house are very high, very small, only a small square hole of ten centimeters by centimeters, and the door is made of iron, which exudes a strange feeling everywhere.

Xu Bai stood in front of the door for a while.

Suddenly, there was a sound inside the door.

Xu Bai's heart sank, and he raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Is there anyone?" ”

After a while, the door opened.

A gray-haired old man opened the door and stood inside the door, staring at Xu Bai with those eyes that revealed vigilance and strange eyes.

The sun hung high in the sky, but the moment Xu Bai collided with his eyes, goosebumps popped out for no reason.

The old man surnamed Fu had a very dark complexion, because he was dressed plainly, his skin was dark, and he looked older at the age of sixty than his peers in the city.

"What's the matter?"

The man spoke.

Miraculously, this man's voice is very powerful.

Xu Bai didn't know how to answer for a while, and froze in front of the door.

After a while, Xu Bai said, "I'm passing by." ”

She turned to leave.

Suddenly the man's voice sounded behind him: "Oh, are you thirsty and want to ask for water?" Come on in. ”

Xu Bai's footsteps stopped suddenly.

Because compared to his eyes, the tone of his voice this time was very kind.

When Xu Bai turned his head, he found that the old man had already entered the house, but the door was open, as if he expected her to enter.

The old man really grasped Xu Bai's curiosity, and desperate to know the answer, she finally turned back and stepped into the bungalow.

It was pitch black inside, and there was no light on.

In addition, the houses are built around the fields, and the humidity inside the bungalows is extremely heavy.

As soon as Xu Bai entered the house, he felt cold.

She took a few steps forward, and when she looked around, there was no old man in the bungalow.

When I looked down again, I felt that the place under my feet seemed hollow.

Just when he was wondering, a hemp rope wrapped around Xu Bai's neck from behind.

The old man immediately put away the rope and turned his back, put Xu Bai behind his back, and pulled the hand holding the rope down tightly.

Due to the reason of being carried, Xu Bai's legs fluttered in the air, and there was no force point at all.

I heard the old man say as if he lost his mind: "Little girl, I heard your conversation when the archaeological team was digging up things that day." I know you're a relative of that family, and I know you're from the archaeological institute. What a passerby, really I'm a fool. For many years, none of them have given me a good life. Since you've come to the door, the old man isn't afraid of anything. ”

Xu Bai desperately used his hands to break the rope around his neck, and it became more and more difficult to breathe.

The discomfort of being on the verge of death is something that no one who has experienced it can understand.

Xu Bai opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't say anything in his heart.

Just when she thought she was going to explain this, the half-hidden door was kicked open, and Lu Yueping's voice suddenly jumped in Xu Bai's ears.

He knocked the old man to the ground with a punch, and then took off the rope around Xu Bai's neck and bent down to drag her back.

Seeing this, the old man immediately got up, retreated to the door and quickly locked the iron door.

Seeing the strangulation marks on Xu Bai's neck, and then looking at the closed iron door, Lu Yueping rubbed his teeth a few times and scolded fiercely: "Damn, an old thing." ”

As soon as he finished scolding, he didn't know what the old man was doing outside.

The place where Xu Bai and Lu Yue stepped on the whole place sank down, and the two of them instantly fell into the mud tunnel five meters deep.

"Grass, peers, this tunnel was dug." Lu Yueping scolded fiercely.

Xu Bai gasped and asked Lu Yueping: "Give me the phone." ”

Lu Yueping scratched his head irritably: "After the third brother got home, I chatted with my mother for a while before I knew that you were here, and I didn't take my mobile phone on the table, so I ran to find you in a hurry." ”

“……”

The surroundings were so dark that Xu Bai couldn't even see Lu Yueping's eyes and nose clearly, only knowing that he was very close.

She calmed down and said, "It's okay, your mother knows that you're here, and if you don't go back for a while, you'll definitely come here to look for you." ”

Lu Yueping sneered: "The two of us fell so deeply, and the iron door was locked again, who would think that the two of us were in danger and came to break into the house?" ”

Xu Bai: "It means that we have to die, can we do this?" ”

Lu Yueping was not in a hurry at all, stretched out his arm, accurately hugged Xu Bai's shoulder, and said angrily: "It's good that you haven't lived and died together." ”

Xu Bai couldn't cry or laugh: "Aren't you uneducated?" ”

In the dark, the corners of Lu Yueping's mouth curled: "My mother used to love to listen to dramas, the West Chamber, the third brother is tired of hearing this word." ”

Xu Bai was a little anxious: "You have to think of a way." ”

Lu Yueping was not in a hurry at all, a smile erupted from his nose, and he teased: "Then you kiss me." ”