Seeing that Kou Zhenge didn't speak, Xi Menglan didn't ask much, but the thoughts in her heart were rooted, and her obsession with this soul ladder was deeper.

When they arrived at the place where they said they were quarrying stones, the two of them didn't talk much, Kou Zhenge took a small hammer to knock in front, Kou Juncheng picked it up in the cart in the back, and Ximenglan couldn't help much, so he sat next to him and looked around at the scenery.

The scenery of this Eagle Gully is different from the last time she came, the last time they followed Aunt Hua they came to the sunny slope of Eagle Gully, where the trees and vegetation are luxuriant, this is the north slope of Eagle Gully, except for the rocks, nothing, bare, looking at it from a distance, patches of light gray and blue connection, as far as the eye can see, all are stones.

"This is a quarry in our nearby village, whoever builds a wall and builds a house with stones, they all come here to transport, and the government opens the mountain for us to quarry, at that time I remember that it seems that the group of educated youths also came to help."

Kou Zhenge may have looked at Ximenglan's curiosity about this stone, but he was also afraid that she would be bored, so he told her about the past of this quarry.

"Educated youth?"

When she heard the educated youth, Xi Menglan's mind jumped out of the scene she had just spoken, if she remembered correctly, the beginning of the ghost blowing the lamp seemed to start as an educated youth, could there be any connection?

"Yes, five years ago, intellectuals began to come, and hundreds of them came one after another."

Kou Zhenge slowed down his movements, and finally sat directly on the stone, half-squinting, avoiding the sun's rays, as if remembering something, if he held a cigarette in his hand, it would be the standard action.

"Do you live in our house?"

Xi Menglan leaned over and squatted next to Kou Zhenge, as if listening to a story, looking at Kou Zhenge and asking.

"Yes, there are quite a few of them."

Kou Zhenge looked at Ximenglan and nodded, suddenly tilted his head, and smacked his lips at Ximenglan.

"Oh, how did you know about this, there were no educated youths in your village at that time, right?"

Hearing Kou Zhenge's question, Ximenglan pursed her lips and sat next to Kou Zhenge.

"I've never eaten pork and I've never seen a pig run, I went to other villages and saw it, I was envious at the time, and I wished they lived in my house."

When Xi Menglan said this, she couldn't help but glance at Kou Juncheng, this is nonsense made up by the mouth, don't let Kou Juncheng debunk it.

"Those little intellectuals are versatile, I don't think it's anything, but the old lady likes it very much, and she changes her three meals a day to eat, I'm afraid they won't eat well."

Kou Juncheng listened to the excitement of the two of them, and also came over to join in the fun, and as soon as he squatted down, Kou Zhenge asked him to pick up stones on the side, which caused Kou Juncheng to be full of grievances and leave reluctantly.

"Second uncle, do you know where that soul ladder is?"

Xi Menglan changed the topic, and sure enough, as she imagined, Kou Zhenge's eyes instantly became a little bleak, his eyes looked into the distance, and even the sound of breathing became cautious.

"Second uncle, have you ever been to the Soul Ladder?"

Seeing his cautious appearance, Xi Menglan's thoughts were solid in her heart, and she was now sure that Kou Zhenge must have been to the Soul Ladder.

Kou Zhenge didn't speak, got up and took the small hammer and continued to make stones, Xi Menglan looked at his figure, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, there is definitely a story in this second uncle's body.

"The Soul Ladder is nothing more than the use of the principle of dislocation, and the black light blinds people in that dead loop......"

Xi Menglan sat on the stone, and as she spoke, she looked at Kou Zhenge's side, seeing that he was unresponsive, and her mouth was cursed.

The two of them hammered and picked it up, and they didn't say a break for a long time, seeing that the stones on the two small carts were almost full, Xi Menglan got up and looked around, but didn't find that there was a soul ladder.

"I'm home."

Kou Zhenge shouted, Xi Menglan was a little disappointed, sitting here for a long time, she didn't see anything special at all.

followed them back the same way, and watched Kou Zhenge several times and wanted to continue to ask about the Soul Ladder, but looking at Kou Zhenge's swishing figure rushing home, Xi Menglan put this in her heart.

When he arrived at home, Kou Juncheng took a water scoop and drank half a scoop of cold water in one go.

I don't know if Kou Zhenge was afraid that Ximenglan would pester him to ask about the Soul Ladder, so he threw down the stone, pushed the wheelbarrow, and went home without looking back.

"What kind of place is your soul ladder, look at how scared you were for your second uncle, you didn't even bother to take a sip of water and went back directly, when I came back just now, I saw that the corners of his mouth were white, it must be thirsty."

Kou Juncheng watched Ximenglan sit there in a daze, and after drinking the water, taking advantage of the coolness of his body, he walked over and pinched Ximenglan's nose, and said half-jokingly.

"You really haven't seen a ghost blow out a lamp?"

Xi Menglan was originally quite disappointed, thinking about asking Kou Zhenge about it, and seeing that Kou Juncheng was so concerned about this matter, after making sure that he really didn't know, she directly described the principle of the soul suspension ladder to him in the courtyard.

Kou Juncheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, and sometimes his eyes were serious without blinking.

"That's what it looks like."

It took Xi Menglan a long time to understand that wonderful passage, watching Kou Juncheng listen to it with relish, she was secretly happy in her heart, at least he understood it, and it was not in vain.

"Did they get out at the end?"

"That's for sure, they're the protagonists, if they really die here, then what's the protagonist?"

Xi Menglan nodded like a drum, and when she spoke, she felt like Hu Bayi, and she didn't know where the pride came from.

"It really sounds a little similar to what the second uncle said about Luling."

Kou Juncheng also began to analyze this matter, put away the expression of the joke just now, and said with a serious face.

"It's not just similar, I remember that the protagonist in that book was also born as an educated youth at the beginning, think about it, the second uncle also said that we have never broken the educated youth here, and there is also a soul ladder and this Luling."

Xi Menglan didn't finish all of her words, and looked at Kou Juncheng and raised her eyebrows.

Kou Juncheng seemed to understand something, and looked at his expression with deep meaning.

"Do you suspect there's something going on?"

"Yes, I heard from the grapevine that this ghost blowing the lamp may be based on real events, if there is really such a saying, if the educated youth go to the countryside and the soul ladder fit, then it is not groundless, this true story can be true."

The more Xi Menglan spoke, the more excited she became, and when she looked at Kou Juncheng, she couldn't wait to tell him all the clues she knew.

"The nine-story demon tower has traces in modern archaeology, if even the soul ladder appears, isn't this a sure thing!"

Xi Menglan clapped her hands and said to herself.