Chapter 9: Re-entering the Puzzle
Lao Meng bought the typical Shaanxi farmhouse, a clean and tidy courtyard with three two-story brick buildings, and several people entered the living room on the first floor one after another.
Liu Yihe sat on the sofa with a cramped face, and Shanni next to him stared at him with an angry face without saying a word. Ah Guang paced back and forth on the opposite side, constantly counting Liu Yihe. Lao Meng frowned, listened quietly, and finally heard a rough idea from Ah Guang's incessant chatter. Suddenly, Lao Meng laughed, startling Ah Guang, and the muttering in his mouth was interrupted. Lao Meng glanced at Ah Guang and scratched his head again: "Xiao Hehe, I think you should give everyone an explanation, right?" ”
Liu Yihe touched the ancient mirror through his backpack, hesitating whether to tell everyone what was going on.
"Someone called me last night, but I didn't find fault, I just made the wrong call to me, but the person was a little annoying, so I reprimanded him." Lao Meng saw that Liu Yihe didn't speak, so he took the initiative to explain that he answered the phone at dinner last night.
"Then why did you turn off the phone later?" Liu Yihe finally spoke, obviously not believing Lao Meng's explanation.
Lao Meng smiled bitterly, and continued: "I drank a little wine last night, and the charger was forgotten in the 'old place', and after waking up this morning, I suddenly wanted to live here, so I drove up directly." I wanted to borrow a neighbor's charger, but I went to work in the pomegranate orchard during the day, and after finishing the work, I went to play mahjong and didn't come back until the evening. I saw the lights in his house come on, and he just borrowed them to charge them, and soon you will be here. ”
Lao Meng's explanation sounded reasonable at first glance, but Liu Yihe still found some flaws: "Oh, there are so many families in this village, do they all go to work in the fields, and they all go to play mahjong together after work?" Why do I have to borrow a neighbor's charger? And why do you have to carry an iron rod when you open the door? ”
"Oh my God!" Ah Guang suddenly covered his face and made a moving gesture, "I heard you right, right? Our little lotus suddenly learned to think? ”
"The old man just bought this yard not long ago, but he is not familiar with the neighbors, right? Also, you don't knock on people's doors in the middle of the night, and the mountains are not as good as the city, so everyone has to protect their own safety before opening the door! Isn't she? Without giving anyone a chance to speak, Ah Guang blurted out a series of complaints. Although Liu Yihe still has doubts, since Lao Meng is fine, he is too lazy to think about it.
Liu Yihe looked at Sunny, but the girl still didn't say a word, and sat there quietly. Sunny noticed that Liu Yihe was looking at her, snorted, turned her head to look out the window, obviously still angry. Liu Yihe was thinking about how to make Shanni happy, and suddenly saw that the watch hanging behind Shanni was pointing to 11:00, and his heart jumped, thinking that he would talk to Lao Meng on the phone at 11 o'clock last night.
Before Liu Yihe's mind could turn, Lao Meng's phone rang. Lao Meng picked up his mobile phone, glanced at the call prompt, looked at Liu Yihe with a surprised face, and then walked out of the living room and connected the phone.
Lao Meng was talking on the phone in the yard while staring at Liu Yihe from time to time. After a while, Lao Meng hung up the phone and walked in and said to everyone: "Don't be angry, I believe that Xiao Hehe must have some special reason." After a while, you can live in this house on the west side, which should be very clean and don't need to be cleaned up. Ah Guang, you go to the second floor, pick one of the two rooms, but it's a little dirty, man, get a little tired and do it, or you can go to the balcony on the second floor to feel the downhill wind, hahaha! ”
Ah Guang muttered, turned around and was about to pull Liu Yihe upstairs, but was blocked by Lao Meng: "You go alone, I'll talk to Xiao Hehe!" ”
"your glass, it's true to come out with Xiao Hehe!" Ah Guang raised his middle finger, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Shanni staring at him angrily, sticking out her tongue, and running up to the second floor as if flying, leaving only one sentence echoing in the stairwell: "Mengmei, you are too terrible, more terrible than Lao Meng!" ”
"Your uncle, you've gotten more nicknames in the past two days than in the previous half of your life." Sunny shook her head, stared at Liu Yihe with complicated eyes, and turned around and walked into her bedroom.
Liu Yihe and Lao Meng were lying on the bed, Lao Meng asked Liu Yihe what was going on, Liu Yihe looked at him left and right, and wanted to fool him, but Lao Meng took out his mobile phone and threw it in front of him. Liu Yihe fixed his eyes and saw that it was the call record of Lao Meng's mobile phone, and the last call record was really from himself, and the time was 11 o'clock in the evening.
Liu Yihe knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to take out the ancient mirror from his backpack and tell Lao Meng about the whole process from buying a mobile phone to discovering the secret of the ancient mirror.
"So you contacted me at 11 o'clock last night through this mirror, and found out that something bad would happen to me today, so you managed to find here?" A trace of doubt flashed in Lao Meng's eyes, "Then why didn't anything happen to me tonight?" ”
Liu Yihe thumped his head, and he was puzzled: "Oh, otherwise, I'll verify it for you on the spot?" ”
Lao Meng nodded, so Liu Yihe took out his mobile phone and began to unlock it, and then dialed Lao Meng's phone and turned on the speakerphone, but the other party didn't answer the phone. Lao Meng looked at the mobile phone in his hand without movement inexplicably, took Liu Yihe's phone again, and confirmed that the set of small numbers under his name was indeed his mobile phone number, so he looked left and right, his face was full of incredulity, until there was a prompt sound from the microphone that no one answered.
"Brother Meng, you are quite stubborn on a cloudy day." Liu Yihe looked at Lao Meng's performance and felt very funny, "Yin knows that it was the two of us who called, but he didn't answer the phone, how much do you dislike yourself?" ”
Lao Meng looked at the ancient mirror beside Liu Yihe, and wanted to reach out to touch it, but he retracted it halfway through, and said to Liu Yihe with a solemn face: "Xiao Hehe, according to my experience, most of the things like this kind of anti-natural things will bring bad results to people, so let's put this mirror up first, don't use it for the time being, I will take you to see a master on a cloudy day, he may be able to tell us what is going on." Liu Yihe looked at Lao Meng's solemn face, and was about to laugh a few words, but suddenly thought of all kinds of strange things that had happened in the past two days, and finally didn't say anything. After installing the ancient mirror, the two discussed for most of the night and did not come up with a reason, and finally fell asleep in a daze.
Early the next morning, the two were woken up by Ah Guang. Lao Meng opened the bedroom door with a depressed face, only to see Ah Guang dangling in front of him with an empty bowl, asking Lao Meng to solve the breakfast problem. Lao Meng divided five by two to make breakfast for a few people, and arranged for Ah Guang to drive Sunny back while eating.
Ah Guang looked at Lao Meng suspiciously, and couldn't help but tease: "Why did you two hook up in one night?" Tell me, how many times did you two come last night? Little lotus can still sit on this small body? Yes! No, Lao Meng, it turns out that you are ......"
Liu Yihe was about to sneer at each other, when Lao Meng suddenly stood up and knocked on Ah Guang's head with a punch. Ah Guang jumped up in pain, and shouted with a face full of grievances: "Lao Meng, you are too rude, you return my little lotus!" Next to her, Shanni was sitting there expressionlessly, and finally was amused by these two living treasures and smiled, the ice was melting, like the sun in winter. Liu Yihe looked up at Sunny's smiling face, and couldn't help but be stupid. Sunny turned her head to meet Liu Yihe's gaze, couldn't help but be stunned, then snorted coldly, turned her head with a straight face, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.
Seeing this scene, Ah Guang suddenly shifted the target of the flirtation, and had to ask what the two were doing. Liu Yihe lowered his head in shame, feeling his face burning, thinking that his face must be too red to look at. Liu Yihe quietly raised his eyes and secretly looked at Shanni, and the little girl's face was also red, and she was peeking at him. The two looked at each other, and hurriedly separated, and Liu Yihe felt his heart "plop" and skip a beat. Lao Meng also noticed the abnormality of the two, glanced at Ah Guang, laughed loudly, and Liu Yihe's head was buried lower and lower.
After breakfast, Lao Meng and Liu Yihe sent the two to the car, watching the vehicle turn over the hill and slowly drive down the mountain, Lao Meng turned around and went home and took out his car keys, Liu Yihe couldn't help but ask Lao Meng where to take him. Lao Meng didn't speak, silently handed over a cigarette, lit one himself, took a deep breath, looked up and watched the smoke curl up into the clear blue sky, and finally disappeared into the clouds.
"On the highest peak of Lishan, there is a temple of ancestors."