Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Big Joke

Just how much property Ruan Yao has, not to mention it is difficult for others to estimate, even he himself is not very clear.Aside from other things, the value of such a large piece of land in the suburbs of this modern city is already an astronomical figure. The reason why I specifically explained the huge number of Ruan Yao's property is because the large inheritance Ruan Yao inherited has a very close relationship with this story. The car stopped before the main building, and I asked Ruan Yao, "Do you want to drive directly to the garden?" Ruan Yao said: "No need, I'll take you upstairs, I was originally here to raise fish, because the area is too big, so I was watching the fish upstairs, once you get upstairs, you will be surprised by the garden. It’s clear at a glance, so I don’t need to waste my time!”

The three of us looked at each other again, and we had arrived at Ruan Yao's home, and Ruan Yao's tone was still so sure, judging from this situation, it seemed that he was right and we were wrong! We went through the lobby, then down a corridor, and then the lift took us to the fourth floor. We walked into a huge "fish room", which was specially used to raise tropical fish when Ruan Yao was interested in tropical fish. That "fish room" is like a large aquarium. There are still many strange fishes. Ruan Yao is no longer so fanatical, but his fish are still taken care of by special personnel.

He took us straight to a row of French windows and stood still, loudly saying: "Look for yourself!" Looking down from the series of French windows, you can see the garden, which is about 40,000 to 50,000 square feet in size. At the far left is a large lotus pond with a large fountain in the center of the pond.Then, there are many artificial streams that divert water from the big pool. At the end of each stream, there is another smaller fish pond with a white tile bottom. There are small fountains around these fish ponds, and the water in the artificial stream is constantly flowing, which is of course the function of a giant water pump.

Ruan Yao wanted to raise goldfish in those ponds, and there are still many goldfish swimming in the ponds. I don't know how Tang Yuehai and Dr. Le Sheng felt, because I didn't pay attention to their reactions at all. I just looked down and was stunned! I am really not very familiar with Rollo's map. If I am standing by the pool at this time, or I am not sure, but at this time I am on the fourth floor, looking down condescendingly, That is indisputable: Rollo's map shows this very garden. Those large and small pools, those rockeries, the stone tables and chairs in front of the rockery, several major trees, and several neat rows of shrubs are all exactly the same as the various marks drawn on the map.

Naturally, I immediately paid attention to that piece of gold on the map, all problems were caused by that piece of gold on the map, and I also remembered the location of that piece of gold on the map. I looked towards the corresponding location in the garden, and saw that on the map, the place painted in gold was a hexagonal stone base covered with large tiles of five colors. Looking at the situation, it seems that on the stone foundation, there used to be some kind of building, which was demolished later. Only then did I hear the voices of the other two. Dr. Le Sheng pointed forward and said, "Look, the gold on the map is there. What kind of building is that?"

Tang Yuehai said: "It seems like a pavilion has been demolished!" Ruan Yao's expression was very excited, he said: "Now you have admitted that the map drawn by Luo Luo belongs to me?" This is really something that can no longer be doubted, so the three of us nodded together. Ruan Yao pointed down with his hand: "That's right, this place was originally a pavilion, but later I thought it obstructed my sight when looking down from above, so I demolished it." I was still looking at the garden fixedly. At that moment, thousands of questions came to my mind. I believe they are the same. So for a long time, none of us made a sound. In Ruan Yao's hands, Still holding the photo of the map, pointing.

I took a step closer to him: "In that garden, what dangerous ambush is there?" Ruan Yao said: "Joke, what's the ambush? Look, the people I hired started feeding the fish!" Sure enough, a man came over with a bamboo basket in his hand. When he passed the fish pond, he threw the special bread in the bamboo basket into the pond, and the fish in the pond immediately rushed to the surface. We've all seen that man walk up Tinkey and come down again, he passed at least six or seven places marked with danger marks on Rollo's map, but nothing happened to him. Dr. Le Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, took a step back, and sat down on a row of chairs in front of the long window: "I see, this is a joke of Rollo's!"

Tang Yuehai also sat down, nodded and said: "Yes, we were all fooled by him, he was joking with us!" To think that Rollo drew such a map in order to play a joke on us is of course the most straightforward statement, and if this statement is admitted, there is no problem at all, but if this statement is not admitted, there is a problem. A hundred, a thousand unexplainable questions. I turned around and looked at Dr. Le Sheng: "Doctor, you know Rollo better than I do. Think about it, who has he joked with in his life? When has he ever done that?" Something like that?"

Dr. Le Sheng opened his mouth wide, and there was a meaningless sound of "um" and "ah" in his mouth, and then Dr. Le Sheng said: "Of course it has never happened before, so why did he draw this painting?" Where's the map?" I said: "This is the problem we have to study, we have to find out the reason, instead of not looking for the reason!" Dr. Le Sheng spread his hands and said nothing. Ruan Yao scratched his head: "It's strange, this map is quite detailed, when did he draw it?" I said, "He also came to your place, didn't he?"

Ruan Yao said: "Yes, he has been here, but he has never been interested in fish. When he comes to me, most of the time he stays in the old houses in the west, where I collect antiques, and various primitive tribes. The works of art are all in those houses." He paused for a while when he said this, and added: "In those houses, you can't see this garden." I shook my head and said, "Wrong, you must have brought him here to see the fish. If he brought a small camera, as long as he takes pictures of this garden, he can make a map!" I said it solemnly, but Ruan Yao was fine, just scratching his head, showing a confused look.But Dr. Le Sheng and Tang Yuehai couldn't help laughing out loud.

Tang Yuehai smiled and said, "Why did he do that?" I was a little unhappy, and said in a deep voice: "Professor, why did Rollo do that? You don't know, and I don't know either. But he has already done that. This is a fact that you and I both know. Since he did that Yes, there must be a reason for him." Dr. Le Sheng shook his hand: "It's up to us to fight. It's useless for us to fight here. Why don't you go down and have a look." Ruan Yao first raised his hand: "Yes, go down and have a look, everyone, we will go down to the garden, to the place where a great explorer drew a mysterious exploration map, I hope we will not take this matter too lightly!" This time, even I couldn't help laughing. If you just listen to Ruan Yao's two words, it seems that the place we are going to is the birthplace of the Amazon River, or the virgin forest on the Lima Plateau that no one has ever been to. But in fact, the place we are going to is just his garden! Ruan Yao took the lead, he seemed very excited, we walked through the fish room together and went downstairs, and within two minutes, we had already stepped on the land drawn by Rollo's map. We walked forward until we came to the stone foundation of the demolished pavilion. If, at this time, our actions had any sense of "adventure", then the few of us would definitely be considered lunatics. Ruan Yao scratched his head, sighed, and said, "It seems that Luo Luo is really joking!" I took out the photo of the map from Ruan Yao's jacket pocket. The map was clearly drawn, and there were seven or eight signs of danger near Tingji. I walked down the pavilion, took two or three steps forward, and stopped on a grassy field.To be correct, I stopped on one of the flagstones of the flagged path in the meadow. After I stood still, I raised my head and said, "According to the instructions on the map, the place where I am standing should be very dangerous!" Dr. Le Sheng nodded helplessly: "Generally speaking, the place where you are standing now should be a floating sand pond, or a colony of man-eating ants, or a village of a headhunting tribe. An active crater!" Still standing, I said, "But now I have nothing to do. Doctor, does this mark have other meanings?" Dr. Le Sheng said: "Maybe there is, but I'm sorry, I don't know." Ruan Yao suddenly said loudly: "Ah, maybe, Luo Luo knows it well, those symbols indicate other things, not danger!" I said loudly: "Maybe, but I stand here, but I feel that I don't mean anything." Ruan Yao said: "Aren't you standing on a stone slab? Perhaps, there is something special under the slate!" Tang Yuehai smiled and said: "Be careful, he may have buried a bomb under the stone slab, and it will explode as soon as the slate is lifted!" As he spoke, he laughed again, but Ruan Yao was serious, he didn't appreciate Tang Yuehai's humor, and stared at him. Ruan Yao was originally a person who didn't care about anything, but now he suddenly became serious, which is understandable. For Rollo's map does indeed show the place of his garden, and whatever purpose Rollo may have drawn it, of all us, he is naturally the most concerned. When Ruan Yao stared, Tang Yuehai also stopped laughing: "Don't be angry, let me unveil the prelude to this expedition, I'll lift this slate and see what dangers there will be!" As he said that, he walked down from the base of the pavilion, came to me, and pushed me away. When I was pushed away by Tang Yuehai, I just thought it was really boring, the four of us are all adults, not children, why bother to play such inexplicable games? However, before I could make a sound to stop it, Tang Yuehai had already bent down, grabbed the edge of the stone slab with both hands, and was trying to lift the stone slab. Ruan Yao and Dr. Le Sheng also walked down from the pavilion base. Tang Yuehai's face flushed very red, it seemed that the stone slab was very heavy, and he couldn't lift it for a while. If he really can't lift it, then forget it, but he is very serious and still lifts it vigorously. Seeing this situation, Ruan Yao hurriedly said, "Come on, I'll help you!" However, Tang Yuehai shouted rudely: "Go away!" Ruan Yao was already walking forward, but Tang Yuehai's sudden shout made him startled. In fact, not only Ruan Yao was stunned, but Dr. Le Sheng and I were also stunned. Tang Yuehai is a typical Chinese-style intellectual, refined and elegant, and never harsh to others, but at this time, he uttered such a rude drink. This is a very abnormal thing for the Tang Yuehai we know.And I especially feel that he is abnormal, because he pushed me away just now, which is really not what Professor Tang did. For a while, he was still working hard, and the three of us were all looking at him.Tang Yuehai also seemed to know that he was out of order, he continued to blushed, panting slightly: "Didn't Luo Luo leave a dangerous mark here? If there is any danger, let me take it alone, why bother?" Is one more person in danger?" He seemed very serious when he said that.Ruan Yao looked like he didn't know what to do, and Dr. Le Sheng and I also had a sense of irony. And at this moment, Tang Yuehai's body shook upwards abruptly, and the stone slab was lifted up by him, and it fell on the grass. Tang Yuehai stood up, clapped his hands to wipe off the dirt on his hands, and we looked under the stone slab together. In fact, that is superfluous, what will be under the slate?There was nothing but soil, grass roots, and an earthworm that suddenly lost its shelter and was writhing rapidly! Tang Yuehai said "ah", "There is nothing!" The four of us laughed together, Ruan Yao said: "Forget it, Luo Luo must be joking!" I strongly disagree with the term "joking".But Rollo was dead, and it was impossible to understand why he had drawn such a map. Moreover, we have uncovered a slate, proving that the markings on Rollo's map are meaningless! Since the danger marks on the map are meaningless, the gold color on the map naturally has no meaning either. This matter should stop here! I lifted the slate with my feet and laid it on the original place, saying: "Whether he is joking or not, there is really no need to study this matter any further!" Dr. Le Sheng patted Ruan Yao on the shoulder: "Do you still remember? When you first saw that map, you said that the golden area might be a gold mine. Now, there may be a lot of gold buried Under the base of that stone pavilion!" Ruan Yao shrugged: "Then let it continue to be buried in the ground, gold has no other use for me!" Several of us laughed and left the garden. It seemed that everyone didn't want to mention this matter anymore. At that time, the sky was also dark, and apart from Tang Yuehai's unusual rudeness when he lifted the stone slab, there was nothing special about it.We parted ways after having dinner together. I returned home. Bai Su had gone on a trip a month ago and hadn't returned yet, so the house seemed deserted. I listened to music for a while, then sat and watched TV. The TV program was boring and made me feel drowsy. Although I was sitting in front of the TV, I was still thinking: Why did Rollo draw this map?There was nothing special about that garden. For a man like Rollo, he had better have forty-eight hours a day. He never had time to do something meaningless. If this is affirmed, then why Rollo drew this map remains a mystery. I was thinking, I should solve this mystery.If I find out that Rollo's map shows that the place is in the heart of the Congo, then I will set off for the Congo without hesitation. However, that place is just a garden, and the journey by car only takes 20 minutes. Although the matter itself is still full of mystery, when I think about it, I can't get any more energy! In the constant imagination, the time passed very quickly, and the time was displayed on the TV screen, it was almost twelve o'clock! I yawned and stood up. Just as I was about to turn off the TV, the news reporter appeared and was reporting the last news. Originally, I didn't listen to it at all, but suddenly a name came from the news reporter's mouth. attracted me. That name is: Professor Tang Yuehai. When I started to pay attention to the news, I didn’t hear the first half of what the reporter said, but I only heard the second half. The reporter said: “Professor Tang is an internationally renowned anthropologist. He passed away suddenly. It is a great loss for the education community." "He passed away suddenly" was heard.When I said this, I couldn't help laughing, it was so ridiculous, I just broke up with him two hours ago, how could he "died suddenly"?The TV reporter must have made a mistake. I was about to turn off the TV, but at this moment, another photo appeared on the screen, it was Tang Yuehai's photo. Looking at that photo, I couldn't help saying loudly: "Hey, what are you kidding!" The photo disappeared, and the reporter went on to report another piece of news, about the Vietnam War. I couldn’t listen to it anymore. I stood in front of the TV for a long while before turning off the TV. At this moment, the phone rang suddenly, I picked up the phone, and heard Ruan Yao's voice, Ruan Yao said loudly: "Hey, what's going on, I just heard the radio report that Professor Tang died gone?" I hurriedly said: "I just heard the TV report, I only heard half of it, what did the radio station say?" Ruan Yao said: "The radio said that we just received the news that the famous anthropologist, Professor Tang Yuehai passed away!" I shook my head involuntarily: "No, I think I must have made a mistake. Hey, you can call me later. I'll contact Bo Tu and ask him how he is doing." Ruan Yao said: "Okay, I hope I made a mistake!" I put down the phone and stayed there for a while. Just as I was about to dial Dr. Lesheng's phone number, the phone rang again. When I picked it up, I was still thinking that Ruan Yao was too impatient. However, it was not Ruan Yao's voice that came from the phone, but a young man's voice. The young man asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Wesley." I hurriedly said, "I am, you are---" The young man sobbed a few times before saying: "Uncle Wei, my surname is Tang, Tang Ming, my father is dead!" Tang Yuehai was middle-aged and widowed. He had a child who was already in the first year of college. I had met him several times. At this moment, when I heard what he said, I was stunned. I immediately said, "What's going on? I and Your father only broke up at half past nine, how did he die?" Tang Ming's voice was very sad: "Uncle Wei, I don't know what to do now. I'm still in the hospital. Can you help me?" Although I heard the TV report and received a call from Ruan Yao, I knew that the radio station had the same report, but I still thought it must be a mistake.Of course, I also know that the chances of getting it wrong are slim, but how is that possible?How could Tang Yuehai die suddenly? At this time, after receiving a call from Tang Yuehai's son, there was absolutely no way it was wrong!