The person who shouted was thin, dressed in white military civilian clothes, and looked no less than forty years old, waving his hand at Xing Yi and shaking his head.

Xing Yi stepped back and asked, "Is it deep inside?" ”

The man nodded, "It's deep." ”

"Has anyone ever been in?"

"I went in when I was younger."

Xing Yi especially wanted to go in, but considering that he was too old and might be inconvenient, he thought about it and said, "I want to trouble you, help me find a young man to lead the way, okay?" ”

Xing Yi went on to explain that an irrigation station should be built on the edge of the ditch below to ensure that the paddy fields in the village can be irrigated.

He understood, and said, "Don't be busy yet, wait for me." ”

Turning around and running in a hurry, after more than ten minutes, he came back with a bundle of bright trees and two bundles of hemp rope.

"You still haven't helped me find someone?"

"Young people can't find it and won't come."

Xing Yi still hesitated and looked towards the other end of the village.

"Don't look at it, if you look at the sun again, you'll be gone."

Xing Yi had no choice but to agree, saying, "Okay, let's go in, then you have to be careful." ”

Pu Mingfa tied one end of a hemp rope to Xing Yi's waist and the other end to the tree at the entrance of the cave, and he himself did the same.

Pu Mingfa is from this village and is well aware of the dangers inside. What was in the cave was still unknown to Xing Yi, so he didn't say a word and was at the mercy of Pu Mingfa.

Bright and tied into a wrist-thick thickness. One person took two bundles, and Pu Mingfa said, "Light one bundle first, and when it is almost finished, then light it second." ”

How to make Liangjiao, Xing Yi knows, is to cut off the two ends of the sunflower stalks, bundle them, press the stones in the ditch and soak them, wait for the skin to rot and fall off, scoop up the remaining tendons, dry them under the sun, and make them into bundles as needed to make torches.

He was in front, Xing Yi was behind, lit a torch, and walked twenty meters inside, not letting him go in any further, saying that if he walked again, he would fall into the deep pit and would not be able to climb up. Stretch the torch forward and take a closer look inside.

He said that when he was young, several of them tied a stone with a rope and probed down, and the twenty zhang rope was used up, and the stone had not yet touched the bottom. They speculated that it should be a deep pool, basically round, with shallow edges and deep middles, like a particularly large pot.

Xing Yi remembered and asked him, "Hey, I didn't ask you, what's your name?" ”

"Oh, my name is Pu Mingfa."

Half of the torches were burned, and they walked to the left and right, the farthest was a hundred meters, almost over, Pu Mingfa grabbed Xing Yi and didn't let him go forward.

Pu Mingfa seemed to be a little nervous, and his voice trembled slightly: "No one has ever been to the other side, and I can't go." And Xing Yi himself didn't feel anything, he only knew that this cave was unfathomable, countless unknowns, and desirable.

Returning to the point where he stood just now, and after repeated visual inspections, Xing Yi calculated in his heart that the diameter of the so-called particularly large pot mouth was between seventy and eighty meters. According to what he said, the slope is 20 zhang long, that is, about 60 meters, according to a rough calculation, the total volume of this cauldron is really not small, full of water, almost a small reservoir.

Walking out of the cave, Xing Yi had a bold idea in his heart, and built a ten-meter-high dam inside the cave to block the water in the belly of the mountain. By building an irrigation station on a ditch, the head is higher, and in addition to irrigating the farmland, running water can also be installed.

Leaving the ditch, Pu Mingfa said: "You must be hungry, go, go to my house for dinner." ”

Xing Yi said: "Don't bother, I'll figure it out myself." ”

"And where are you going to get food?"

"There's instant noodles at the commissary."

"Then Nacheng, you are here to help the village build an irrigation station, no matter what, you can't let you eat outside, you must go, I don't have anything to eat at home, just order."

The hard work in his hands is sincere, Xing Yi no longer refuses.

Pu Ming made his fortune in the middle of the mountain. Two houses, one covered with tiles and the other covered with grass, looking back and looking down, there are about 100 houses in the whole village, about half of them are half tiled and half grass, and the other half is covered with tiles, the latest and modern style, just like the concrete poured by Director Dong's house, but there are only three or five houses.

There was a white wooden table in the outhouse, on which there was a woven bag, which looked like a futon, and a plastic bag, which contained a washbasin, a gargle jar, and a lunch box.

The woman with Pu Mingfa was squatting by the stove, pulling and roasting potatoes from the inside out from the edge of the stove. The roasted artichoke was served in a small bamboo dustpan, and the woman was also short, in her thirties, with a kind face.

The aroma of roasted potatoes filled the room, and Xing Yi couldn't help but stir his nose.

Pu Mingfa took two roasted potatoes from the dustpan and handed them to Xing Yi, introducing the woman: "This is Uncle Xing, who came to help the village build an irrigation station." ”

Xing Yi was polite, followed with both hands, put it to his nose and smelled it, ate two in a row, and said, "You can't eat this taste in the city." ”

Pu Mingfa instructed the woman: "Go and take down that piece of bacon and wash it." ”

As soon as I entered the house, I saw that the family was not very good, and when I came in, I saw the table and two benches in the outhouse, and the door of the inner room was ajar, and I vaguely saw a bed covered by a mosquito net.

I heard him go and wash that piece of bacon, that is to say, there is no second piece, how can I bear to eat it?

But the woman moved quickly, and had already put the bacon in the pot.

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Xing Yi had no choice but to say: "I promised to eat at your house, but I have to make it clear first, and I have to pay for the meal." ”

"It doesn't have to be this way. It's not that our family can't eat, and it's not enough for you to eat for a month and a half, but it's okay to have three or two meals. ”

An hour later, the meal was ready, and a burst of bacon incense came to the nose.

Pu Mingfa moved the pile of luggage to the corner, asked Xing Yi to sit at the table, added him a bowl full of rice, and pressed three slices of bacon on the rice noodles, the bacon slices were one centimeter thick and the size of the palm of his hand.

The woman also put two slices of bacon in the bowl she gave her man. Pu Mingfa took a bite himself, and pointed his chopsticks at Xing Yi: "Eat, this salt is not heavy, it's delicious." ”

Xing Yi ate it, and his mouth was full of bacon fat and fragrant, which was a taste that he would never forget in his life.

After eating and tidying up, and making tea and drinking, two people came outside the door, both in their thirties, one with a bald head and the other with long hair, and they were not polite when they entered the door, moved the bench, and sat down side by side.

Pu Mingfa didn't move, and said coldly: "Something? ”

The long-haired man pointed to the luggage: "Are you really going out?" Can you get away, Lao Pu? ”

Pu Ming said in a sullen voice: "My feet are born on my stomach, who can care where I go?" ”

The bald head said: "Where you want to go, Lao Pu, it has nothing to do with us, it is your own freedom, but however, there are requirements in the village, you know." ”

"What kind of requirements? I do not know. ”

"I'm going to report it before I go."

"I don't have that time." Pu Ming took the bowl, drank the dry tea in one go, and put the empty bowl down, and the bowl rolled on the edge of the table, falling directly to the ground, and breaking in half with a clang.

The woman came to clean up, and he kicked it away, and half of the bowl landed at the foot of the long-haired man, only half an inch from the tip of the toe.

The face with long hair suddenly turned red, and he rushed forward in a few steps, reached out and grabbed Pu Mingfa's collar, and glared at the round eyes: "Pu Mingfa, what are you going to do?" ”

Pu Mingfa wanted to pull the hand away, the size was asymmetrical, the strength was not proportional, and he couldn't pull it, so he jumped up desperately and swung his fist to hit the face.

The woman and the bald head stepped forward at the same time, and Xing Yi also made a move to separate them.

The woman knew that her man was no match and quickly pushed him back into the back room.

The long-haired temples flickered, tears flowed out, and the hand that he fought back was blocked by the three men, and he was angry, and followed closely behind, waving his fists at the woman's head.

Xing Yi toe towards his ankle joint, and when he staggered, he stretched out his arm to stop him, pushed him to sit on the stool, and said, "There is something to say, there is no need to do this." ”

The long hair snorted angrily, his hair was too long, and when he waved his hand, he drove the long hair down to cover his eyes, which affected his shot, and when he swept his hair back, he grabbed it hard, and was angry with himself. He shook his body, and was about to jump up when he saw the opportunity.

At this time, a shrill voice sounded at the door: "What happened?" ”