Reading The Remnants (Wen Guan) - Chapter 22

Not far from Ma’er Mountain, the snowy road is difficult, and it only takes an hour and a half to reach the foot of the mountain. The mountain is very short, and there is no snow accumulation. At the foot of the mountain, there are still a few houses where smoke has just risen, and there are one or two small shops. Li Shiyi bought some dry food in the shop, and then asked the boss who was looking for change. The boss was not surprised that someone came to look for the tomb. He didn’t lift his head to the northeast and didn’t say anything.

Li Shiyi thanked them, and after a few people had left, the uncle slumped into the wicker chair and looked at them with drooping eyes.

Winding upwards along the mountain road, and half a cup of tea, there is a fork in front of the road. The road is not paved with bluestone, and there is no barrier. The withered grass on both sides is piled up in clumps, swaying from side to side, as if coming in torrents. Pedestrians stepped out.

Tu Yaoyao jumped over first, excitedly: “It must be this way.”

The curled yellow leaves and dry branches were creaked by being stepped on, and the wind was still blowing, but it was not too bitter. Occasionally, the noon sun stabbed down, as if it had a somewhat sunny appearance in Peking. A few steps further west along the trail, a small cave appeared in front of you.

Li Shiyi glanced at it and understood that this is the shape of the Han tomb in the cave. The cave tomb is built on the mountain, and the cave is a mausoleum, which is very different from ordinary underground tombs.

On both sides of the road are yellow and white gravel, forming a very simple fan-shaped entrance. It is in the middle of a half-dead tree with a crooked neck. The wind does not necessarily shake it twice. Behind the tree is a half-person high door. The rusty iron cover does not fit the tomb very well, as if it was covered by the villagers in the mountains.

Tu Laoyao caught Li Shiyi’s wink, rubbed his hands, wiped two hands of sweat on the trousers of the coarse cloth, held the iron doorknob with both hands, and pulled it away with a loud shout.

The play was done very well, but the door was not heavy, and it fell apart after only a little effort, and it slammed on the ground with a bang, and the movement was not very loud.

The youngest Tu Yao was a little embarrassed, and with a smirk, he retracted his hand, wiped the rust on his palm, and let Li Shiyi and the others in.

In front of him was a dark cave with no sign of it. The top of the cave was not much higher than that of Li Shiyi. Tu Yaoyao lit the light by the light outside. Seeing Li Shiyi’s neck slightly hooked, it seemed that the top of the cave was somewhat oppressive. of.

This cave is very strange. There is no cool breeze from an ordinary cave, and it does not reveal a bit of gloom, and it is even warmer than the outside, as if burning a charcoal fire, warmly wrapping the youngest boy’s fingers like carrots.

Although it’s not cold, it’s getting darker and darker, and the light of the oil lamp is only enough to catch half a person’s sight. The sound of footsteps stepped inside, and the echoes that rang out were really terrifying. Tu Yaoyao was a little bit guilty in his heart, so he looked for a topic and asked Li Shiyi: “Sister Eleven.”

“Um?”

“Have you noticed that every time we go to the tomb, we don’t have to make a hole.” He used to hear about books, people who eat this line of food, it’s a technique of dividing gold and fixing acupoints, or using black folds to detect the yin claws.

Li Shiyi glanced at him: “I found out that every time you get nervous, you will call ‘you’.”

The youngest student Tu paused angrily: “Is there anything like this?”

Ayin sneered and said nothing. Song Nineteen was not used to the gloomy environment, and walked very carefully. With **** pressed against the rock cave wall, he bury his head and stared at the road with big eyes, his chin pressed to his chest.

Li Shixi was a little strange. She used to behave like a gang, and if the road is difficult, she must be arguing about holding hands, but now she is walking side by side with her stingy, and she doesn’t ask her to say a word.

Thinking of this, Li Shiyi pursed the corners of her mouth again, wanting to get along for less than a month, this “usual”, but it is also time for her to be ten years old.

She felt a little stunned for no reason. When she was alone, she didn’t care about the “time” thing very much. Spring, summer, autumn and winter were nothing more than adding clothes and reducing clothes, but Song Nineteen used a strange and exaggerated way, like a human-shaped pocket watch. In front of her, let her examine the meaning of time without hiding.

From the fat baby with her arms around her neck to the Ping Ting girl who is now sneaking next to her, she unexpectedly felt a sense of loss caused by changes in personnel and the passage of time. This sense of loss has undergone compression, and no matter how insensitive people are Can not ignore.

She stopped and passed her hand over, her soft palm facing up, her four slender fingers slightly bent, it was a complete invitation.

Tu Laoyao stopped, the Lantern in his hand shook, and Ah Yin also put his eyes on Li Shi’s hand in a daze. Li Shiyi looked at Song Jiu, and Song Jiu fixed her fingertips. .

Fortunately, the stunned pause of Song Jiu and everyone was a moment. Before she thought about anything, she handed her hand over, holding Li Shixi’s cold and dry hand, squeezing it, her skin was delicate and delicate. Clearly, it is clear that only a few days have not been held, but it seems like a long time to reunite.

The touch was still the same as when she was a child, except that her hand was much bigger. Li Shiyi could no longer let her hold it loosely, but instead held her four soft fingers with her backhand.

In the way of adults.

On the contrary, Song Jiu flinched a little, and withdrew his fingers back with the heartbeat of Tutuo. Li Shixi looked back at her unconsciously, and unconsciously pinched her fingertips.

The heartbeat was very disobedient, and he rushed out of his ears and eyes, as if he was about to jump in the empty cave. Song Jiu covered his ear with his left hand, and after thinking about it, he pinched the fever earlobe, and then he would be held by Li Shiyi. The gripping hand squeezed out and grabbed her wrist like an evasion.

Better. She bit her lip and lowered her head, exhaling.

The youngest Tu, who opened the road ahead, naturally couldn’t notice Song Jiu’s hundreds of thousands of turns, and just said to himself: “Eleven sister, what do you want to do if you take gold?”

“I don’t know.” Li Shiyi’s voice was very pleasant. The wrist was held by Song Jiu, and in her unwavering tone, the lively beating veins under the skin were buried.

This feeling was wonderful, as if pinching the unknown beating connection under her cold and indifferent appearance.

Youngest Tu asked Ah Yin again: “Grandma Yin?”

Ayin held his hands: “My grandma has all the clothes from the Kinmen Garment Bureau.”

Tu Laoyao teased her and turned to Nineteen: “Where are you? Nineteen?”

Song Shiji was taken aback, looked at Li Shiyi, then lowered his head, and said embarrassedly: “I’m not hiding it from you.”

“I haven’t seen gold yet.”

Tu Yaoyao laughed like a donkey cry, bluffed Song Jiu, squeezed Li Shixi’s wrist, and looked up just to see the corners of her mouth that was slightly raised in the dim light.

Song Nineteen pursed his mouth and smiled, and then asked the youngest Tu: “Then how do you spend it?”

The youngest Tu Yao turned back to face her and waved his eyebrows with a big hand: “Le Tujing brand milk substitute, have you heard of it? I used to hear a few older brothers from Guangzhou say that a foreign brand is no different from breast milk. I Hearing that when the aunt next door gave birth to her baby, she screamed in pain. I thought about waiting for your sister-in-law to give birth to a son. If you have money, buy milk substitutes to eat. Don’t you know when your sister-in-law yells, ten miles of old corbels All shaking!”

Song Nineteen was happily listening, his chest trembled, and he was about to talk, but he heard a loud noise in his ear, the sound of the old cow entering the water, the water splashed and splashed her all over her face.

She stopped and saw the situation in front of her in the shaking lights. There was a small river in front of the road, and the stagnant water didn’t move. The youngest Tuo got out of the water, wrinkling his face and vomiting. A few saliva, hands raised high, the rescue is generally holding a kerosene lamp.

When he stood still, he realized that the water was no more than thigh height, and it was flowing around from the top of his knee, with some movement slowly flowing. Li Shiyi stretched out his other hand that was originally in his pocket, bent over and handed it to Tu Lao. Yao, Ah Yin also stepped forward and said: “Come up quickly and freeze carefully.”

The youngest Tu Yao glanced at his leg in doubt, scratched his head and said, “The water is warm and it’s not freezing.”

The water at the entrance just now was a bit salty, and the river seemed to be connected to Haizi.

Li Shi kept getting up and withdrawing his hand. Tu Laoyao looked around with the lamp, pointing to the front and said: “There is a ladder above, I think it is a tomb. There is no side road here, as if you can only go through the water. .”

Li Shixi thought for a while, and immediately got into the water and tried the depth.

The wrist was pulled out of Song Jiu’s hand, and Song Jiu dropped his hand to the edge of his leg, twisting the raw edges of his clothes.

Li Shiyi said: “The water is clean and not freezing.” Yubi handed Ayin a hesitant look, looked at her beautiful cheongsam, and asked, “Can’t it go down?”

Ayin snorted, “Don’t ask nineteen, but instead ask me? When I went into the fight and touched the coffin, you were still being chased by a female ghost.” As she said, she took off her high-heeled shoes and hung them on her hand. Jumped out of the water with a crash.

Song Nineteen said nothing, and squatted down and leaned his legs into the river.

Tu’s youngest member still took the lead, wading forward with Shui Xuanzi one foot and one pit. Li Shiyi led Song Shiji and moved slowly, and Ah Yin followed, because the smell of rotten shrimp in the water concealed the unpleasant smell. Nose up.

The waterway was difficult, so the youngest Tu didn’t scream anymore. The atmosphere didn’t dare to go out and looked at the road, accidentally stroked the water with a stick and tapped twice to explore the reality. Li Shiyi’s hand suddenly tightened. Turning around, it was Song Jiu who froze in place with a pale face. He met her gaze, licked his lips twice, and said, “Ok… thing.”

There was a slippery touch on her calf, and she hit her calf like a wooden stick. There was a gurgling sound in the water, and every second was bigger than a second. She was silent as a chill, and the unknown fear spread from her spine. , Easily spread all over the body. Li Shiyi felt the trembling of her fingertips, and squeezed her hand tightly, and said warmly, “Don’t move.”

Song Jiu nodded and took two breaths quickly, but saw Li Shiyi slowly approaching her, holding her tightly with one hand, and stooping down with the other hand, catching the thing that hit her with a little force.

When it was clear, Li Shiyi’s breath moved and smiled softly, turned his head, and was coming back to look at Song Jiu clearly, and raised his eyebrows.

“Hi! Fish.” The youngest Tu Yao came closer and stared at the young fish fry with the tail in Li Shi’s hand.

Before Li Shiyi let go, he moved his eyes closer, blinked twice under the light, and said in a strange way: “What kind of fish does it have eyeballs?”

Li Shiyi turned his hands and took a closer look. The body was long and flat, with a round belly and short head: “It looks like a red scale fish.”

“Red scale fish don’t go down the mountain, they usually grow in the waters of Mount Tai, why are they here? Besides, the eyeballs are gone, as if they are degenerate.” Ayin walked over.

Li Shiyi released the fish: “There is no light in the cave. The sky is long, and the ability to see things is not used. There are also degraded eyes. It is just that the fish swims here, and the river opens to the sea. It is natural. Being able to swim out, there is no reason for living in the cave for a long time to thrive and even degenerate the eyes.”

Ayin nodded and said yes, and listened to Li Shiyi groaning: “Unless.”

“Unless there is something that attracts them to gather here.”

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