"What's wrong?"

"No, nothing,...... It's just ......" Lin Li stared at the lake and shook her head.

"What's in the water?"

"Nope! It's just, it seems...... I....... ”

"Is there something wrong?"

"Like some."

"What?"

"I can't say it myself." After speaking, Lin Li closed her lips tightly.

Bai Lang didn't ask any more questions, just rowed quietly in the boat.

The boat approached the opposite shore, a steep and winding cliff.

Shirarou rowed the boat into a small inlet, which was flanked by a steep wall of 6 or 7 meters, covered with shrubs, and the light could not shine in, and the bay became a dim little world. The cliff was damp and covered with green moss.

The temperature inside the inlet was much lower than outside, and the drops of water dripping from the stone wall kept hitting Bai Lang and Lin Li. Lin Li couldn't help but tremble, she looked at the cliffs around in fear, looked at the lake again, and then, as if she remembered something, but shook her head again.

At this moment, a dull bell rang out of nowhere. "When! While! While! ……”

Lin Li listened attentively, it was from a temple not far away.

"Oh! The bell ......" Lin Li muttered, her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist.

"The bells are ringing...... Yes! I remember...... At...... That's right! …… I heard this bell when I was very young.

"And the gravel road you just walked...... The road sign of Zhujia Village, I think I have been here before.

"This lake ...... Turquoise water,...... This small inlet, a terrible cliff,...... It's all in my dreams.

"No, it's not a dream, it's what I saw with my own eyes when I was a kid, my mother brought me here when I was 6 years old.

"The ringing of the bell just now evokes memories of my childhood, which happened more than 10 years ago. At that time, I came with my mother. How happy I was then...... Yes! Mom! ”

Lin Li hid her face with her hands and kept sobbing.

"It seems that my speculation is correct." Bai Lang said to Lin Li.

"Did your mother and grandfather bring you here when you were 6 years old?"

"Yes, it was the bell that awakened my memory, and on the way here, I felt that the scenery was familiar. The old avenue, the dirt slope, the jungle, and the beautiful lake still have some vague memories in my mind.

"Just as I was thinking about it painfully, I suddenly heard the bell, and it was it that evoked my memories and made me relive my childhood dreams.

"Ahh Now I feel like my mother and grandfather are close by. Lin Li was immersed in happy memories, then she looked around and said, "On the other side of the small water inlet, there seems to be a small lake. ”

When Bai Lang heard this, he shook the sculls again. In a moment, an even more charming lake came into view. It's a little smaller than the outside, but the lake is much clearer and surrounded by cliffs.

"It's amazing that there's no world at the end of a secluded cove! Your grandfather was not easy to find such a wonderful thing. ”

"Yes, it's a great place that no one else can discover. Lin Li looked at everything around her with the attitude of revisiting the old place.

"I remember that my mother was sitting there with my grandfather across from you. I took my mother's hand and looked around at the scenery, as it is now.

"Look! There's a tree among the rocks over there, and it hasn't changed at all.

"This lake is semi-circular. However, there was no other exit, and there was a sandy beach on the other side of the lake, and that was the end. There is a waterfall on the steep wall on the left and another on the right. On the beach on the side of the waterfall, there is sand that glows like jewels. There's a hole in the cliff over there, and the entrance ......"

"Imports?" Bai Lang hurriedly asked.

"Yes, at that time, there was a man waiting for us inside. He was intimidating-looking, with a dirty beard and a black jacket, and I remember him as very burly. ”

"That person should be in there now." Bai Lang said as if he had a premonition and looked at his watch.

"It was exactly 12 o'clock...... Meet at 12 o'clock. ”

Bai Lang rowed the boat onto the beach, and then jumped off the boat with Lin Li. There is a bottomless hole at the bottom of the cliff, I don't know whether it is artificial, or the wave impact is formed, the sunlight shines into the hole, only to see a stone staircase, extending into it. Two men walked into the cave with their waists bent. It's quite spacious inside,

I saw a table in the middle of the cave with two napkins on it, a plate of fruit, milk and snacks, and a business card pressed under the plate.

Bai Lang picked up the business card and wrote on it: Huang Jianlong, there are a few lines on the back of the business card.

Ms. Lin Li:

I am your grandfather's former friend Huang Jianlong, and I wish you all the best here, please forgive me for not greeting you. I'll be back in a moment, though.

"Huh?"

Lin Li's eyes widened in surprise and said, So, he is waiting for me here?"

"Yes, four days ago, I discussed with Senior Huang and brought you here today. The boat he had rowed was also his, and he lent it to us. ”

"Ahh

Lin Li was surprised that things had changed so much.

Lin Li carefully observed the furnishings in the cave. On one side of the cave wall is an easel on which an unfinished painting is clamped, and on the other side are painting tools, a worn jacket hangs from the hanger, and a hammock hangs from the roof of the cave. The stove was very simple, just made of two stones, and the rock wall was blackened.

"Is this the home of the seniors?"

"So to speak. He doesn't stay here every day, though. In the winter, he moved back to Zhujia Village, as if he had to come here once a day. I met him in Zhujia Village.

"Both my predecessor and your grandfather were very cultivated gentlemen. He was passionate about art and did not like social activities. So he lived in seclusion in the mountains and painted some unsavory paintings to enrich his life, so he can be said to be a gentleman who escaped from the world, so he is still single. ”

"And what about his house?"

"He had a mansion and a farm and a pasture, and because of his indifferent nature, he left them to others, and he only made occasional rounds of the house, and the house was left to the servants while he hid here painting, fishing, and hunting.

"He was very fond of giving to the poor, so most of the income from the ranch and farm went to help the poor, while he lived a simple life.

"He lived here for a long time, on the one hand, for the sake of recreation; On the other hand, it is to wait for you. According to him, he has been waiting for you here for exactly 15 years.

"Ahh 15 years ......, he's waiting for me to become an adult! ”

"Yes. He was there to fulfill the promise he made to your grandfather. I asked him many times what kind of promise it was, and he told me that I wanted to tell Miss Lin Li in person. There is a hint of uneasiness in the uneasiness