Chapter 15 Chapter 14 Evidence of a Heartbeat

Xiao Ru was standing at the door, drawing pictures to the little rabbit next to him.Seeing us come back, he closed the picture book and asked, "What's the matter? Where's Brother Nine?" "They have something to do. I'll be back in a while." I glanced at the little rabbit on the side and frowned and asked her, "Where's your sister Xiaotao?" "She's taking a bath." Xiaotu looked at us in surprise. I'm not much better than Wang Fugui. "Are you stealing sweet potatoes or fighting with a dog? How did you do that?" "It's okay." I called her haha, and then asked Xiao Ru, "Xiao Ru, do you know how to use computers?"

"Slightly understand." Xiao Ru nodded. "Just understand." I said to him with my computer bag, "Come with me." When I got back to the room, I didn’t even bother to take a shower, so I took off my shirt and couldn’t wait to find a table, took out the computer and put it on the table, turned on the screen, and pressed the power button, the computer screen slowly turned on . I lick my lips, nervous, wondering what's in there that we don't know. "A password is required!" Xiaoru pointed to a dialog box that popped up on the computer and told me.password?I closed my eyes, and a string of numbers suddenly appeared in my mind.I stretched out my hand and typed the string of numbers that had almost made me collapse - 87201.

The computer's boot music played, and I let out a long sigh of relief. "Brother, why did you go?" At this moment, Xiaotao came in wiping her hair with a towel, frowning and looking at Wang Fugui and me covered in mud, and asked, holding her nose, "Where did you go? How did you do it?" so dirty?" "What, Fugui fell into the ditch just now, I went to get him." I lied casually and gave Wang Fugui another look.Wang Fugui nodded hastily: "Yes, yes, he came after me." Xiaotao rubbed her hair and looked at us dubiously.I closed the computer on the table casually, pulled Wang Fugui and said to Xiaotao, "We're going to take a shower now." Then I gave Xiaoru a wink.

Xiao Ru knew how to block the computer with her body. I dragged Wang Fugui to take a shower, and when I opened the door, I found Old Man An's daughter-in-law, a woman named Xiaoyue, standing on the stairs.When she saw me, she had a weird expression on her face.I asked her, "Sister, what do you do?" "Ah? No...no..." She turned around in a panic and wanted to leave. "Hey... big sister." I hurriedly called her to stop.She froze for a moment.I looked at her and said, "Could you get us something for the shower?" "Oh..." She quickly took out towels, soap and other things from a side utility room and stuffed them for us, then turned around and ran away.

"Strange," Wang Fugui pouted, "What happened to her?" Wang Fugui and I washed the dirt off our bodies indiscriminately in the bathroom, and found clean clothes to change into. After we came out, we went back to the room where the computer was placed, only to see Xiaoru sitting at the table playing poker with the computer, while Xiaotao and Xiaotu crowded around him and chirped to teach him how to play cards. My heart skipped a beat immediately, and I thought, what should I do if there is something on the computer that Xiaotao cannot see.Unexpectedly, when Xiaotao heard us coming in, she just looked back at me, then frowned and continued to look at the computer screen.

As soon as I gritted my teeth, I thought to myself, sooner or later she will know. I walked over with guilt on my face and said, "Xiaotao... this computer..." "What are you doing? What's wrong with this computer?" Xiaotao asked me, frowning when she saw my expression.I was about to answer, but I caught a glimpse of Xiao Ru secretly winking at me.I took off my shirt instead, and changed my words: "Then, you can look at the wound for me." "Oh." Xiaotao looked at the wound on my back, told me to wait, and then went out to the car to find a medical kit.

When I saw her go out, I hurriedly asked Xiaoru, "What's going on?" Xiaoru glanced at the little rabbit beside him, and asked me with his eyes.Little Rabbit and I shook our heads and said, "You go out first." "What kind of shady business are you doing?" Xiaotu curled her lips, looked at us and turned her head, "It's okay to let me go out. I will tell Sister Xiaotao that you have done bad things behind her back." "What bad thing did you do?" Xiaotao came in from the door carrying a medicine bag.I was surprised, why so fast? The little rabbit pouted and said, "They don't know what to do in a sneaky way to keep you from knowing."

Xiaotao let out an expressionless expression, walked behind me and began to treat my wound.The atmosphere in the room was a little stagnant for a while, and I was embarrassed and didn't know how to speak to her. It wasn't until she wrapped me around with a new bandage that she sighed softly and said, "This computer belongs to my brother, doesn't it?" I froze and looked at her: "Xiao Tao..." Xiaotao looked at me calmly, and said in a word: "Brother, you don't need to hide it from me." Then she turned and opened the door with the bandages that had been removed from me and went out.I hurriedly chased her out and saw her throw the bandages into the garbage bag, then turned around and went to pick up the dirty clothes I took off and threw on the ground.She knew I was chasing after her, but she didn't even look at me.

"Qianqian...I..." I stood behind her, hesitating and not knowing how to speak. "Is he still alive?" Xiao Tao asked calmly with her back turned to me. "I...don't know yet." My heart was twisted into a ball, not knowing how to answer her. "Where is he?" Xiao Tao's tone was still as calm as water.But the more this happened, the more I felt like I was being pressed against a huge rock, making me unable to breathe. "Old Nine and Fifteen are waiting for him..." I held her shoulders and turned her around, only to see that her face was already covered with tears.I just realized that she was holding the wallet in her hand.I felt a "thud" in my heart. It turned out to be like this. Maybe I just went to take a bath and accidentally dropped the wallet on the ground, and she happened to pick it up.Looking at the tears on her face, I can't wait to slap myself a few times.

"We'll find him..." I reached out and wiped the tears off her face, "Trust me." "Brother..." She suddenly cried out heart-piercingly, and she lay on my shoulder and couldn't stop sobbing. I had a sore nose, I just put my arms around her shoulders, not daring to speak. "Master Yu!" Wang Fugui suddenly ran out of the room and called me. Seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help being stunned.I winked at him, he nodded, and pointed to the room, I knew they must have found something.I patted Xiaotao on the shoulder, and said softly: "He'll be fine, elbow, let's go see what your brother's computer wants to tell us."

Back in the room, Wang Fugui saw me coming in, pursed his lips and pointed to the computer. "What did you find?" I pulled up a chair and saw that Xiaoru was opening a video. The picture in the video shows a strange green color, which is the effect of shooting in the dark with an infrared camera. "Is this in the water?" I saw some dust floating in front of the camera, and asked with a frown. The video is very long, like a person diving with an infrared camera.I dare not blink, for fear of missing something.After watching it for about five or six minutes, a shadow suddenly disappeared from the camera. I quickly pressed the freeze button and returned the screen. "Is it a fish?" I slowly pulled back frame by frame, and sure enough, the figure of a fish appeared in the frame. The fish looked huge, in proportion, its body was almost over one and a half meters.Its open mouth is full of fine and sharp teeth, and its two eyes emit a very different silver light under the infrared camera, as if it is a creature from another world.I was taken aback: "What the hell is this?" "Big mackerel." Wang Fugui looked at the screen and said, "Why is it so big? It's rare." I took a closer look. Although the fish in the video looked scary, it was indeed the mackerel we usually eat, but it was much bigger than the fish we saw in the market.I scolded myself for making such a fuss. Continue to watch, the number of fish and plankton in the video gradually increased, all kinds of underwater creatures in the infrared lens showed a strange state that only appeared in alien movies.It was the first time I watched the underwater world in this way, which was completely different from the colorful effects shown on TV before.I couldn't help being in a trance, not knowing which scenario was more real. At this time, the lens suddenly became cloudy, and then some reefs and flat sand gradually appeared.I know it's the bottom of the sea.The camera continued to move forward, and after an unknown amount of time, it stopped in front of a stone wall. "What is this?" I stared blankly at the flat stone wall.Looking at the camera, I saw oysters and various seaweeds growing on the stone wall, and I could vaguely see some patterns engraved on it.Because the camera is too close, only the magnified pattern can be seen but not the whole picture.The person holding the camera seemed to know what I was thinking, and slowly moved the camera a little further away, and roughly saw that there seemed to be a few patterns on the stone wall, and there were some things like words.Suddenly, there was a strange "whoosh" sound in the video, and at the same time the camera shook violently a few times, and then the picture became still.The video stops here. "No more?" I looked at the frozen picture with some disappointment. "Look at this." Wang Fugui frowned and pointed to one side of the frozen picture, "What is this?" I followed his fingers and found half a paw vaguely emerging from the turbid seawater on one side of the lens, like a human hand, but unfortunately I still couldn't see it clearly. "Can you zoom in a little?" I asked Xiao Ru.Xiaoru fiddled with the mouse a few times, and the screen was enlarged, but it was still blurry. Wang Fugui sucked his teeth on the side. "And those patterns," he took out his mobile phone, pressed it a few times and handed it to me, "the same as the ones on the wall in the tomb." "What exactly is this?" I compared those patterns, "It looks like a bird and beast inscription pattern, but I can't tell what's wrong, I seem to have seen it somewhere." "There are more." Xiaoru immediately clicked on another video.I put the phone aside and watch intently. The picture is still that weird green, but this time it doesn't seem to be in the water, the picture shakes very badly, like a person running in the dark with a camera. "What is this?" I paused the picture, and carefully identified some protrusions that kept appearing in the lens, "Stalactites?" I struggled to identify them. "Is this in a cave?" My heart moved, and these stalactites seemed familiar.I continued to watch, my heart beating fast with the footsteps in the video. "Pounding", I felt that it was about to jump out of my chest. The screen kept shaking.I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly the picture stopped, and then the stalactites in the picture disappeared out of the lens, and the lens became empty, as if the camera stopped working, but the progress bar of the file continued move forward. "Is the camera broken?" Wang Fugui frowned and asked me. "No, look." I pointed to the computer screen, only to see that the screen suddenly lit up, and a torch flew in from outside the screen. "Fuck!" I jumped up from the chair in fright.It turned out that there was a huge abyss in front of the camera, and that abyss was as chaotic as void.The torch draws an arc across the screen, and then gets farther and farther away until it becomes a small bright spot and slowly disappears. "What...is this place?" Wang Fugui was also surprised. "Look!" Xiaotao shouted at us while pointing at the screen, "Here we go again." Sure enough, another torch was thrown from outside the screen. This time it seemed to be thrown farther, and the torch seemed to be much larger than the first one. The flame on the torch had the sound of tearing the air. Fly into that chaos. "Stop!" I hurriedly asked Xiaoru to press pause, pointed to a black spot in the firelight, and said to him, "Zoom in." The picture is cut out as small as, and then enlarged on the computer. "What is this?" I looked at the black dot that was getting bigger and bigger on the screen.After being magnified eight times, the pixels of the picture are already blurred, but the shape of the object on the picture can be barely recognized. In the halo illuminated by the torch, a huge stone stood alone in the darkness. It looked like a small part of the top of a certain boulder, more like a unicorn protruding from hell. . The video stopped here again, and my palms were already clenched in cold sweat. "What is he going to do?" I was stunned for a while, then turned to look at Wang Fugui who was frowning. "I think he wants to go somewhere, but he hasn't found the way in yet." He tapped his fingers on the table indiscriminately, staring at me thoughtfully. "Minwang Terrace!" I gritted my teeth and said the place at the same time as Wang Fugui. A few dogs barked suddenly from downstairs, pulling me back from the computer screen to reality.I hurriedly stood by the window and looked down. The fog outside had already reduced a lot. I saw a few people standing downstairs. Ah Da and Ah Er were standing in the yard, talking to them, while Xiao Xiong rushed barked at them. There was something in the middle of the crowd, it was the big ram that had been gutted out. "What's wrong?" Wang Fugui also leaned over to look down. "Go down and have a look." Knowing that something happened, I hurriedly put on a dress and went downstairs, Wang Fugui and Xiaoru also followed.When they arrived in the courtyard, they heard Ah Er shouting to them: "This thing can't be thrown into the sea, it will cause trouble." "What's the matter, brother?" I asked him. When Ah Er saw me coming down, he pointed at the big ram with a frown and said, "What kind of dragon king are they going to sacrifice it to?" "Comrade policeman," Old Man An came out from the crowd and said to me, "This sheep is what the Dragon Lord wants, we can't keep it. If we keep it, the Dragon King will punish our village!" The rest People also chirped on the sidelines, which made me dizzy.People by the sea are mostly superstitious, and sometimes their awe of gods has far exceeded ordinary people's cognition. When their beliefs are involved, they will instantly change from cowardly lambs to dangerous wolves. I have a headache and don't know what to do. "Shut up!" Wang Fugui took out his pistol and yelled, and the scene suddenly fell silent.When he saw that everyone was quiet, he immediately changed his gentle expression, found a stool, stood on it, pinched his waist, and shouted in a low voice: "Folks, don't make noise!" He looks like a traitor in a movie. I glared at him, he glanced at me from the corner of his eye, gave me a wink, then pinched his waist with his left hand and continued: "We are sent by the country to solve this matter for you. Please rest assured, folks, please believe me Country, we will take care of this matter for you. This sheep..." He pointed the ram tied to the wooden board with his pistol, and continued in a cadence, "After we investigate, it will be returned to the folks Ours. Just now, I ask the folks to help and understand." "Sent by some country... Mingwangtai Village is not..." A middle-aged man in the crowd whispered.Old man An glared at him immediately, the man closed his mouth knowingly, and just looked at Wang Fugui who was standing on the chair with disapproval.I heard clearly on the side, and turned to stare at the man.When the man saw me looking at him, he squeezed into the crowd warily.I walked over, took out a pack of cigarettes, handed him one, and asked him with a smile, "This elder brother is also from this village?" The man looked at the white general I handed over, gave me a contemptuous look, pushed the cigarette I handed away, and said, "No, I just pinched it." Then he consciously or unintentionally took out a cigarette from his pocket. Cigarette case in hand.When I saw it, it was the Yellow Crane Tower.I shook my head and smiled. The Yellow Crane Tower's twenty yuan is indeed several grades higher than that of Bai Jiang.I lit the cigarette on my own, and asked him, "You just said that Mingwangtai Village..." "What's the matter, what's the matter." The man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You heard me wrong..." He hurriedly walked aside and ignored me.I knew there was nothing I could ask at this time, so I had no choice but to give up.Wang Fugui's speech over there is also coming to an end: "So, folks, please believe in the country and us. And we have to ask the folks to keep our identity secret. We are carrying out a secret mission of the state." He proudly said Glancing at me, he continued: "In order to make up for wasting everyone's time today," he waved his hand, "One counts as one, we'll take care of the lunch today, and enough wine and meat!" I thought to myself that this guy is really troublesome, what else is there to do in this situation?If he blows up the cowhide so much, isn't he afraid that people will see through his tricks? But this trick really worked. The villagers who had been stupefied by Wang Fugui suddenly became enthusiastic about us.I wasn't in the mood to watch the farce that Wang Fugui had made, so I called out to Xiao Xiong, wanting to go upstairs and see if there were any valuable clues in the notebook. The bear on the other side heard me call it, but just turned around and grunted at me twice, and then continued to stare at the dead sheep on the ground with a wary expression.Huh, its reaction is a bit abnormal. I walked up to it, squeezed its fat face, and followed its line of sight to look at the dead sheep on the ground.Strange, is there something wrong with this sheep?I stretched out my hand to touch the sheep carcass, only then did I realize the strangeness in it.It has only been a few hours since it was discovered by us, but the rigors of this corpse have spread all over the body, making the whole body of the sheep hard to the touch, just like an iron plate wrapped in sheepskin.Generally speaking, whether it is a human or an animal, rigor rigor will appear within one to three hours after death, the muscles will contract slightly, and the joints will not be able to flex, but it will not become as severe as it is now.Judging from the current climate, it takes about ten hours for a corpse to become so stiff after death. And I found that there seemed to be black and blue under the white hair of the sheep corpse.I stretched out my hand to grab a handful, and I pulled a handful of wool from the hide without any effort, and I was very puzzled.Ah Er sighed behind me, and said to me with a low voice: "You also see something wrong?" "Second brother," I glanced at him, "what do you think? Did you get poisoned?" Ah Er shook his head, lifted his glasses, and said, "I don't know yet, but this thing can't be thrown into the sea." "Well," I nodded, rubbing the wool off my hands, "Leave it alone, if it doesn't work, just set it on fire." When I looked up, I found that the woman named Xiaoyue was standing and looking at this side, with complicated eyes.Seeing me look up, she quickly looked away.At this time, Wang Fugui came over, patted my shoulder, and said triumphantly, "How is it?" "It's not good." I glanced at him angrily, and cursed in a low voice, "You are such a big braggart, I think what to do if someone exposes it, you just wait to eat the public rations. Also, you don't care What kind of meal, do you still think there are not enough things?" "It's okay." He shook his head nonchalantly, looked at the villagers and sneered, "Do you think these people are stupid? They don't believe it at all, but they don't care who we are, they are just afraid of guns That's all. The old man surnamed An has seen us go down to the grave. As for taking care of them..." He paused, squinted his eyes and looked at the villagers and said softly, "A lot of things have to be found from them. Landing." Then, he looked up and saw Xiaoyue, and hurriedly called her to stop, preparing to arrange meals. I looked at him and sighed, patted the little bear next to me, pointed to the sheep carcass and said to it: "You are here to watch your buddy, don't let it run away." called out. "Second brother, come with eldest brother." I told Ah Er, "I have something for you to see." Back upstairs, I asked Xiaotao to play the video again, picking out the important ones, and asked Ah Er: "Second brother, what do you think?" Ah Er pondered for a while, then said lightly: "First of all, the person who took this video must not be a human being." "How to say?" I froze for a moment. "Look at the time," Ah Er pointed to the length of the video, "42 minutes." I didn't pay attention to this before, but now I can't help but feel a little surprised. "This video was created on September 2." Ah Er looked at the instructions on the computer, "In the season of early autumn, the water layer where the big mackerel lives is about 30 to 50 meters deep. Take this video The 'man' has unarmed dived to a depth of more than 30 meters for 42 minutes without wearing a respirator, do you think it is possible for a human to do this?" "How do you know he's just diving?" I asked him curiously, "Maybe he's wearing all the equipment?" "There is no respirator sound in the video." He adjusted his glasses and continued, "This kind of infrared camera equipment has its own sound pickup device, especially this kind of underwater camera. The sound at the end of this film It shows that it has a sound pickup device. If it is equipped with it, there will be sound." "Not a human?" I was stunned for a moment, and the picture of the little ghost in the tomb lying on the ground with blue-gray scales all over his body suddenly flashed in my mind, and I heard Ah Wu say, "Look, does it look like a fish?" Ah Er glanced at Ah Da who was playing with a knife: "Boss, what do you think?" Ah Da turned the knife in his hand a few times between his fingers, and said the first sentence since we met: "Si Ye told me something before," his voice was extremely hoarse, as if using Half of his throat was talking, he glanced at me, and continued, "He said that there used to be a tall man in the school, whose body was different from ordinary people, and his underwater skills were the best in the world, and he could stay underwater for a day and a night without getting out of the water... ..." After a pause, he continued, "If it was him, it would be fine. Unfortunately, he has been dead for decades. So far, I haven't heard of anyone else in this world who can do it." "Is there really such a person in the world?" I was surprised. "Isn't this the same as the three heroes of the Ruan family mentioned in "Water Margin"? Is it just a legend?" "Fourth Master has seen it with his own eyes. I believe he won't lie." Ah laughed a little. "There are still many things in this world that you don't know." I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't think that there was something different about Yishanyang. The most important thing was that he couldn't drink at all.During those years when we played the bongos together, when we encountered rivers, lakes and seas, I was good at swimming, but I never saw him go into the water.Once I forced him into a knee-deep creek, and he screamed in fright. But, who else would have shot these two videos?The one in the cave is okay, but what about the part in the water?Is it true that as Ah Er said, this was not filmed by someone?Could it be that brat? I can't help but feel numb all over. Could it be that the purpose of raising that thing is to let it find its way?But where did that kid come from? "Chi la chi la..." The voice from the jar sounded in my head, lingering in my ears. "Wang Fugui," I opened the window and shouted downstairs, "come up!" Wang Fugui was downstairs directing a group of people to kill sheep, and it seemed that it was another sheep caught from old man An's sheep pen.Little Bear lay listlessly beside the dead sheep, watching them busily disembowel another sheep.I caught a glimpse of the sheep being carried out of the sheep's belly, and my stomach was churning. "What's wrong? What's the matter?" Wang Fugui ran up panting. "Old Wang," I lit a cigarette, looked at him and asked, "You told me that you and Lao Yang have been investigating these things for years, right? You don't know anything about the things in this video. Know?" "I know he has always wanted to go to Minwangtai." Wang Fugui smiled wryly, "But after years of research, I have no clue. I don't know how many times I have traveled from Xiangxi to here. The people back then were dead. How can I find any valuable clues except relying on the strength of the two of us? After a long time, I will be discouraged, and with the resistance from home..." He lit a Yan continued to smile wryly: "You know, my house is too close to the courtyard. There are many things... It's not that I don't want to do them, but there are too many helpless eyes staring at me. "At the beginning, Mr. Yi and I still kept in touch with each other, but later on, we seldom contacted each other. Occasionally we met each other in a hurry. Besides, he and I haven't urinated in the same pot all these years. I vaguely knew what he was doing, but no matter how deep he was, he refused to tell me. Until a few months ago, those things came out here, a few people died, and my family even warned me Don't meddle, I've been keeping an eye on the other side of the yard, so I didn't dare to make too many moves. But I know he must be busy, and he took things away as soon as they were born. Therefore, I have also I have been looking for him. But their family, including their wife and children, disappeared without any news. If he hadn't shown up with you, I almost thought he was dead. "I'm different from him, because I saw my late father's body 25 years ago, and I didn't think about it long ago. But Mr. Yi is just a missing person. No one knows whether he is dead or alive. As for those secrets, The attitude of the family has always been very clear, three words—" Wang Fugui stretched out three fingers and said word by word, "Don't get involved." "In the yard?" I nodded, understanding him somewhat, "No wonder Li Yide got close to you." "Li Yide is just a small person." Wang Fugui sighed, "I guess he doesn't know too much. He searched for things all over the world on that TV, and he just followed orders. I guess what he was looking for, he himself I don't know what to do with it. The water is deep..." I glanced at Xiao Tao, who was silent on the side, and saw that she was pinching the photo with a blank face, and the tears in her eyes might have dried up long ago.Xiao Tu didn't dare to speak when she stood beside her.I looked at them and suddenly thought of one thing. "You didn't know Luo Yuhan before, did you?" I turned my head and asked Wang Fugui. "Yes, I often go to Jumeizhai for dinner." Wang Fugui glanced at Xiaotu and said, "I've seen Xiaojian too, but I didn't know her sister's surname was Li before." "Tell me, does Lao Yang know that Luo Yuhan's original surname is Li?" I looked at the two girls on the side, their fates were so similar, they were all involved because of their older brothers or older sisters. I sighed, "Now I just feel that things are not as simple as I thought at the beginning. She should have met Lao Yang, and I'm a little confused whether Lao Yang came to find me or her that time!" Wang Fugui nodded: "I also don't think it's such a coincidence. Tell me what happened that day." I thought about it, from the time when Yi Shanyang called me, until he gave the little rabbit a golden pottery, to the jade twisted silk pattern yuan hanging around Luo Yuhan's neck. "Slow down—" Wang Fugui interrupted me suddenly, and then stretched out his left hand towards me solemnly, revealing a big golden pottery on the ring finger of his left hand, "Is this the golden pottery you mentioned?" I frowned and raised his hand to look at it, wondering, "Why is this thing here?" Wang Fugui withdrew his hand and said to me word by word: "This is my father's relic." He spit on his finger twice, took off the ring, pointed to a word on it and said to me: " You look at this again." I took it over and saw that there was a word "二" engraved on the inner wall of the ring, and asked strangely, "What's going on?" "Master Yi—" Wang Fugui squinted at the words on the ring and said, "It's a 'Ba'." "Xiao Dian," I showed the ring to Xiaotu, "do you remember this?" "Isn't this the ring that Brother Yi gave me?" Xiaotu frowned and asked Wang Fugui, "Why is it with you?" "That day, Lao Yang gave you the ring, how did your sister know about it?" I asked her, "Be honest." Xiaotu tilted her head and thought for a while and said: "That day I thought the thing he gave me was a fake, and I told other sisters that this old thing is a fake to pick up girls, so I wanted to throw it away later. Just when I came back to the front desk, my sister came back from the outside. She saw the ring in my hand, and immediately asked me where I got it from. Then, I told her that someone you brought gave it to me Yes. You will know everything after that..." I thought carefully about the situation of the three of us in Jumeizhai that day, every detail, every sentence, every look, every expression. ... "My name is Yi Fengqing. I am Xiaoyu's big brother. People in the industry call me Yishanyang, but you can call me Xiaoyi or Xiaoyang." "Brother Yi is joking, how can the small fish and shrimps in our small place compare to the hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the capital?" "As soon as you make a move, it's real gold and silver. Our sisters can't afford it." "Sister, don't worry, this matter is on the young master." ... Yi Shanyang said a few words, with deep meaning like the sea; Luo Yuhan frowns and smiles, his eyebrows and eyes are like knives. "Master Yu?" Wang Fugui called me, and I promised to recover and return the ring to him, "8, 2...is there still 7, 0, 1?" Wang Fugui nodded: "There should be, but I only saw mine and Master Yi's, and I haven't seen the others." "That is to say, there should have been five people back then? Why did Mr. Yi only mention four of them in his diary?" I dug out the diary, "According to the diary records, this incident started in Xiangxi. I used to Playing the snare drum, and went there with Lao Yang. It’s just that I didn’t know that he still had such a big thunder in his heart.” "Xiao Jian, let me ask you, does your sister also have a ring like this?" "I haven't seen it." Xiaotu thought for a long time, shook his head and replied, "I haven't seen it. I don't let me touch her things." "Qianqian, do you know about this ring?" I asked Xiaotao again, and she also shook her head. I suddenly understood that when Yi Shanyang called to go to Jumeizhai, he insisted on giving the ring to Xiaotu. It turned out that he knew that if the ring was in Xiaotu's hands, Luo Yuhan would definitely see it. If the ring is released, it will prove that Luo Yuhan's surname is Li. "Damn it, I was played by this bastard again." I angrily stubbed out the cigarette butt in my hand, "I don't care about this shit!" "Master Yu, don't..." Wang Fugui hurriedly pulled me back, and pouted towards Xiaotao, "You can't let this matter go now." "Brother..." Xiaotao looked at me, tears welled up in her eyes, "I'm sorry..." "Don't cry!" I waved my hand distractedly.She was startled by my voice, and stood there in a daze, not daring to cry out.Seeing how pitifully she was holding back her tears and twitching her body, my heart softened all of a sudden.I took a deep breath of the suffocation in my chest, rubbed my painful temples, and cursed: "Damn, this bastard, how many things are you hiding from me?" Xiaotu was looking for tissues for Xiaotao, and looked at me timidly: "Brother-in-law, don't be angry, when we find my sister, I will ask her to waive all the forms you signed in Jumeizhai..." "Your sister?" I gritted my teeth and scolded, "Don't call me brother-in-law from now on, I can't climb up to the big names like your sister. Take my own life, I admit it, don't take the lives of everyone in this room go in!" "What are you doing?!" Xiaotu curled her lips and opened her posture to cry, "I didn't mess with you." "Master Yu, calm down." Wang Fugui came over and pushed me on the chair, then turned his head and said to the two girls, "He is just trying to scare you, how can he really ignore it?" I glanced at him and said nothing.Wang Fugui handed me a cigarette, lit it, and said with a frown, "Do you think they discussed something? They disappeared together, right?" I closed my eyes and calmed down a bit. "Where did the jade twisted silk pattern Yuan in Luo Yuhan's hand come from? What are the two of them going to do? Who took that pot? Fugui..." I closed my eyes and racked my brains, trying to figure out a clue Come on, "You said that Xiaohong is in Rizhao? Is Luo Yuhan also in the army now?" "According to what you said, I don't think they knew each other before. It was the first time they met. And based on the time, Mr. Yi has been raising a kid underground for two months. And this video, shot The time was more than a month ago. I am afraid that the jade yuan in Miss Luo's hand has been in her hand for a long time. If it flowed into her hands from the army, it would make sense. That Xiaohong is your classmate, right?" I nodded, feeling a little sour in my heart.I was kept in the dark about what the people I cared about were going to do.She would rather go to someone else for help than tell me.It seems that she never took me to heart, even a little bit.I smiled wryly and said, "She wouldn't tell me about such a big thing..." "No, she told you." Wang Fugui said suddenly, "She let you watch that Yuyuan, and she was on TV, I'm afraid she wanted to say something, for example, to someone like me...Master Yi Maybe she was the one who found it. I've already been involved, I don't know if others will be involved..." "My knowledge is limited." Wang Fugui continued with a bitter face, "Many people are staring at this matter both openly and secretly. For example, in the courtyard, the one who stole your jar... there is no guarantee that there will be no other people. .” I rubbed my temples: "Who would be the one who stole the jar? Just be a thief and leave money. Who the hell? A grand thief? Swallow Li San'er?" “鱼爷，”王富贵捏着烟屁股狠嘬了两口，“我不知道您想过没有，我觉得……这事儿好像是伊爷有意安排的。您只是个中间人的角儿罢了。您想想……” “什么意思？”我愣了一下。 “您想想，”他弹了弹烟灰，“说实在的，您知道我插招子盯过您，您也别怪我。打伊爷在您门口一站，我就知道信儿了。当时我还知道他可能是带着东西来的，可碍着您的脸，我不好直接露面儿。我原本打算找个机会直接跟他接触一下，那天您把他自己扔医院，我原想是个好机会，结果您一个电话就把我召了去，没料想一回头他就给跑了。早知道这样，我就不把那大台球卖给那老头，耽误事儿。” 他看了在一边沉默着的小桃一眼，她正咬着嘴唇不知道在想什么。 王富贵又皱着眉头说：“您说会不会是伊爷要借您的手，把那罐子卖了，得了的钱，让您替他照顾老婆、妹妹、儿子？这有点儿托孤的意思啊！您说呢？这世上他可就信您一人儿。他想学伊老爷子，可又不想跟他爸爸一样就那么一走了之，什么都没给老婆孩子留下。”他叹了一口气，“他这是存了必死之心呢。” “托付给我……”我看着小桃喃喃道，“托付给我，总要把她们人给我送来，给我钱又有什么用？” 王富贵看着我撇撇嘴：“不给您弄点钱你拿什么养她们？您也不是会挣钱的主儿。这行里谁不知道您鱼爷只出不进啊！像您那么做买卖，他把老小托给您，让他们一家子喝西北风？给您留下那些刀勒……” “刀勒，美元？”我“腾”地站了起来，在房中来回走了几步，盯着他说，“你说偷罐子的会不会是外国人？要是国内的同行，谁能拿出那么多美金来？” “不对，”我瞬间又否定了自己的猜疑，“老羊曾经说过一句话，拿假东西蒙蒙外国傻逼行，别让外国人拿钱把你蒙成傻逼。把真东西卖给外国人的事儿他还办不出来。且不说那罐子里边装的是什么，就凭那材料也能混个国宝级，他不敢做这样的事。除非偷罐子的人想混淆视听。” “别想了。只要找到他们俩其中一个，就会水落石出。”王富贵苦笑着看了看桌上的电脑，“至少，咱们现在知道了点什么，不是么？” 我这才想起来，老九跟阿十五还在那荒坟边上猫着呢。 “九哥，那边有情况么？”我在对讲机里问他。 “没什么发现，雾快散了，藏不住。”老九在对讲机里喊，“刚才在马路上还看到几个当兵的。” “当兵的？”我眉毛跳了几下，继续问，“你们被发现没？注意点儿，记得把枪收一下。” “嗯，没事，会注意的。” 这时候，那个叫小月的妇人来敲门，跟我们说：“菜都做得差不多了，要不要开席？” “哦哦，开，开席。”王富贵拍拍我的肩膀，招呼道，“走，先吃饭再说。” 我原本不想去，又想起先前那个汉子嘀咕的那几句话，还是起身了。 我看了看还在抹眼泪的小桃，叹了一口气，安慰道：“刚才是我不好，别哭了，咱们先吃饭去。来海边了，咱要好好吃顿新鲜的海货……”小桃赌气似的拧了几下身体。 “走，小兔，拉着你小桃姐一块儿。”我跟小兔说。小兔哼了一声，撅着嘴把小桃拉走了。 其实楼下人并不太多，一共就摆了两桌菜。我们下去时，桌子都已在院子里摆好了，几个渔民围了一桌，安老汉坐在另一桌上。他看到我们下来，站起来朝我笑了笑。我赶忙让他坐下。 分宾主落座之后，我却发现，除了在外面的老九跟阿十五之外又少了一个人。我问王富贵：“小歪呢？” “小歪……”王富贵站起来四处喊了几声。 “哎——”小歪睡眼惺忪地从院外走了进来，“王哥喊我？”他一抬头看到桌子上的菜，笑道：“要开饭了，嘿嘿……”自己赶忙走过来搬了椅子坐下。 “你刚才干吗去了？”王富贵皱着眉问他。 “我在车上睡了一会儿。”小歪拣了双筷子，“咱车上那么多东西呢。” I nod. 这时，王富贵倒了一杯当地的尧王醇酒，站起来，说：“今天咱们就一件事儿——务必要吃好喝好。开席——”他把杯里的酒喝了一大半，却悄悄留了一半儿。 气氛一下子热烈起来。渔民们大都豪放，他们开始推杯换盏，场面变得乱糟糟的。我看着桌上的菜，大都是羊肉，海鲜类只有几个。一个贝类拼盘，一个大铁盘子上胡乱堆着一些扇贝海蛎子香螺之类的东西，一盘像头发一样的海草，几只瘦小的螃蟹，跟一个小杂鱼贴锅子，还有一盆奶白色的豆腐汤。 “怎么不多弄点海货？”我问王富贵。 王富贵正往嘴里塞羊肉，听到我问，不由得愣了一下。他还没回答，旁边的安老汉叹了一口气，说：“最近封了海，连养的东西都不让下去打。就这些，还是四处凑的。同志您就将就些吧。下回来，等开了海，老汉我一块儿给您补上。” “不妨事，这些就很好。”我端起酒杯敬了他一杯。待把酒喝干，我才问他道：“大爷，这封海多久了？真是搞什么军演？” “说是军演……”安老汉躲开话题，拿着勺给我舀了一碗汤，“喝汤，喝汤，海搐子炖豆腐，滋阴补阳……” 我刚端着汤喝了一口，听到他这么说差点没喷出来，只好艰难地把嘴里的汤咽下去。安老汉看我一脸古怪，问：“怎么样？不错吧？” “很好，很好。”我把汤放在一边却不敢再喝。 旁边的小桃悄悄问我：“哥，这是不是就是你说的那个东西？跟老道从你肩膀上挖出来的……” “别说了。”我赶忙打住她的话头。 小桃见我难受，赶忙用筷子给我夹了一些肉，放到我的盘子里：“那吃肉吧。”我低头一看，竟是几块羊杂。我胃里又是一阵翻腾，心里暗骂，这他妈还有能吃的菜么？ 看着满桌子的菜，我一下子没了胃口。 我悄悄跟王富贵说了一声，离席走了。找到厨房，我让安老汉的儿媳弄了点饭，准备给老九送去。她给我胡乱包了些大饼跟羊肉。看她的神情，我直觉她一定有事隐瞒，可又不方便问，只好作罢。 我喊了一声小熊，它立刻吐掉嘴里的骨头，颠颠儿地朝我跑过来。 小如见我出门，便放下筷子跟了过来。 雾气已经散了大半，在村口就能看到不远处的大海。我深吸了一口略带海腥味的空气，伸了个懒腰让身上的骨骼嘎嘣乱响了一阵，看到小熊肆无忌惮地在路上跑着，一时间心情竟好了许多。 我回头看着跟在身边一言不发的小如，笑着问他：“你跟小兔是怎么回事儿？” 他不好意思地笑了笑：“没什么事儿，她挺好的。” “好好处，别欺负她。”我看着几只盘旋在头顶上的海鸟，感慨道，“你看这几只鸟，追风逐日，戏浪踏沙，想做什么便做什么，比咱们这些人活得更洒脱。上帝真是不公平，给了它们一双翅膀，给我们的却是一些毫无用处的智慧。知道的东西越多，想要的便越多；想得到的越多，烦恼就越多。终于有一天明白过来了，却也没办法回头了。” “鱼爷，”小如很认真地看着我，“你怎么想，世界就怎么改变。” “呵呵，”我捡了一块石子儿扔出去很远，“这个世界不是像你画画那么简单。我们所能看到的，不一定是真实的。我们每个人都想改变世界，可到头来，改变的都是我们自己。” 一路再无言。