Strangers

Smile, this is such a good thing. "

Ding Li tried his best to understand this feeling and smiled at her.

"We didn't talk that day, we nodded and separated." The woman continued, "I was still wandering alone most of the time, and whenever I missed this feeling, I would go to his place. Slowly, that room The small shop has become a special place in my heart, where you can take shelter from the rain on rainy days, and take a nap when you are tired... Finally one day, he walked out of the counter and told me that he liked me very much and was willing to marry me. I said I was already a ghost Yes, he said he didn't care, it doesn't matter even if it's a ghost marriage."

Ding Li understood the whole story, and also understood this bizarre and beautiful relationship.

"But I don't know where Qi Xie put your life." Ding Li said.

The woman slowly raised her slender fingers and pointed to a bright cabinet in the corner of the room. Ding Li got up and opened it, and saw a piece of bright red silk.

"Is it this?" He lifted it out carefully, it seemed to be wrapped in something, soft and heavy.

The woman raised her eyes silently, a big teardrop rolled down from the bottom of her eyes, then she held up the piece of silk and satin tenderly, nodded to him, and slowly left Zhiguai Zhai.

"You will never believe that I met a ghost this morning." Ding Li welcomed Gu Youwei in and said to her.

She smiled, and handed over a bag of apples in her hand: "I used to think that you are a normal person, but after dating for a while, I realized that you are weird."

"Really." Ding Li lost interest.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Gu Youwei Yanran said, "What kind of ghost is it?"

At this time, Ding Li was already aware of the off-line just now, and thinking that Qi Xie was involved in this matter, he suddenly refused to talk about it.

"I'm just joking." Ding Li brushed it off and handed her the cotton slippers, "Is it cold outside?"

"It's okay, it won't be cold after walking around." She took off her coat, trying to find a place to hang it up.

"I'll do it." Ding Li took it and put it on the old elm hanger in the corner.

Gu Youwei looked around the room, the furniture and everything was unusual, it looked like an antique shop or a fortune-telling booth.

"These are the property of the landlord." Ding Li explained, "He is a friend of mine who works out of town and his house is usually empty, so he let me live here."

"Your landlord must be a very interesting person." Gu Youwei said with a smile.

"It's okay." Ding Li said perfunctorily.

Sitting opposite each other at the tea table by the window, the two chatted tacitly, asking each other about their past experiences so that they could get acquainted with each other better, and also euphemistically talked about their views on marriage, such as the concept of loyalty and the concept of consumption. , How to manage the house, whether to have children, whether to live with parents, etc., all seem to be planning to get married.

Unexpectedly, they chatted until the evening, they went downstairs to eat something casually, and then returned to the house, the atmosphere was already different.

The light was turned off, light blue light came in through the curtains, and an ambiguous smell permeated the room.Ding Li turned around and pressed Gu Youwei lightly against the wall, stroking her waist with her wide palm, she smiled coquettishly, and quickly pecked his lips.

It was as if a fire was on fire, and Ding Li picked her up and carried her into the bedroom.

It was already hard to tell who had taken off whose clothes, they just remembered that they kissed so fiercely, in a state of confusion, Ding Li suddenly exerted force to push her down, she didn't feel disgusted, this kind of roughness was just right.

During the brief exchange of glances, Ding Li froze for a moment.

——This is Chen Jing's home.

He wants sex/love with other women, at least not in his bed.

This thought flashed, like a gust of cold wind blowing into the back, and the passion/desire gradually faded away.

"What's the matter?" Gu Youwei asked, her eyes shining brightly.

"It's nothing..." Ding Li buried his face on her shoulder, hiding his expression.

Gu Youwei grabbed him and asked softly, "Is it because of what happened the day before yesterday?"

"Yeah." Although Ding Li didn't know what it was.

Gu Youwei patted him on the back: "It's all over, don't think about it..."

"Sorry." Ding Li said, "I'm still distracted at this moment."

"It's ok."

Ding Li closed his eyes and kissed her mouth.

He would not tell her that when he entered, he imagined her as Chen Jing.

Ding Li felt that this was really immoral, but the matter had come to this point, he could only use the pleasure of shocking again and again to annihilate the evil in his heart.At that moment, he almost called out that name, but in the end it was suppressed in his throat, and it turned into a dull gasp...

After simple cleaning, Ding Li hugged her from behind, and called Wei Wei as if to atone for sin.

Gu Youwei clasped his palm: "I like it when you call me that."

Ding Lin hummed: "Then I will call you Weiwei from now on."

"What's your nickname?" She asked suddenly.

"I told you not to laugh."

Gu Youwei blinked: "Say it."

"Ding Xiaohu."

She suddenly laughed.

Ding Li also smiled: "Is that so strange?"

"No, it's quite cute." Gu Youwei pursed her lips.

"When I was young, my family called me Xiaohu. When I grew up, only my grandma called me that. I remember a parent-teacher meeting in high school. I went to pick her up at the school gate and found that she had just participated in a community event and was wearing a bright red and green dress. He came, and when he saw me from afar, he waved his hands and shouted, Xiaohu! I was so scared that I didn’t dare to agree.”

Gu Youwei was so happy that she couldn't straighten her back: "Your grandma is so cheerful!"

"Do you want to meet her?" Ding Li asked timely.

"Okay." Gu Youwei said happily.

"Then next Tuesday night? It just so happens that we don't have work."

Gu Youwei nodded and said yes.

Ding Li told her grandma that she was going to take her girlfriend back, and the other side of the phone was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. When the two of them entered the house, she ignored her grandson, narrowed her eyes and pulled Gu Youwei to look back and forth, praising her daughter be beautiful.

Satisfied, she let her go, grandma wanted to go into the kitchen to prepare dinner, and Gu Youwei wanted to help, but was pushed on the sofa, with two extra big oranges in her hand, and all the melon seeds, peanuts and pistachios piled up in front of her.

Ding Li was left alone, and he couldn't help thinking that if he had brought Chen Jing back, grandma would have suffered a heart attack and was lying on the 120 and breathing oxygen.

After dinner, Gu Youwei was dragged into the room alone by her grandmother.

Through the crack of the door from a distance, Ding Li saw grandma take out a gold bracelet, Gu Youwei waved her hand, but it was still stuffed into her pocket.

"I'll return this to you first." After finally walking out of the house, she handed over the bracelet.

"Grandma gave it to you, just take it." Ding Li was a little absent-minded.

"How dare you accept such a heavy gift when we meet for the first time." Gu Youwei blushed.

"It means that grandma likes you very much." Ding Li looked at the street lights in the distance, "Isn't this very good."

"It's not enough just because grandma likes me, there are also your parents, and the most important thing is..."

Ding Li knew what she was going to say, so he said, "I like you too."

Gu Youwei tiptoed to kiss his side face.

At this moment, Ding Li thought of that woman. Has she already met her true love, holding hands and telling her heart, and will take care of the small shop together in the days to come, supporting each other for the rest of her life?

A piece of news gave the answer.

In the blurred picture, the beautiful cheongsam is hung thinly, and the woman hangs herself on a camphor tree with red silk and satin, her long hair hangs down, her feet are dangling...

Ding Li didn't understand what went wrong at all, and immediately followed the address on the news to find it.Next to the roadside tree, there was indeed a small shop selling books and newspapers. A man sat behind the counter and cracked melon seeds, with a look of nothing to do with himself.

"What's going on!" Ding Li pointed to the tree at the door, the woman's body had been carried away, and there was nothing left.

"It's none of my business." The man raised his eyelids, "That woman hanged herself at my door in the middle of the night, can I stop her?"

"You said you wanted to marry her, so she paid back for you! Did you go back on your word!" Ding Li questioned.

"Hey, why are there so many neuropathy in the past two days." The man looked helpless.

"Don't you know her?" Ding Li felt something was wrong.

"I know you." The man said, "She came to my store two days ago and asked where the boss was. I said I was, but she believed me. I suspected that the girl was cheated out of money, so I kindly asked if I should call the police for her. She ignored me at all and stood stupidly at the door until closing time, and when I opened the door the next day, man, it was hanging on a tree."

Ding Li thought she couldn't make a mistake, and asked, "Is there really no one else in this store?"

The man shook his head: "I've been contracting this shop for five years. There's only one polished commander. Where can someone else come from?"

Ding Li suddenly realized: "Where did the boss go five years ago?"

The man spat out the melon seeds: "The fire caught fire in the middle of the night, and even the people and the shop burned down."

Ding Li understood immediately.

It turns out that ghost marriage does not refer to the marriage between a man and a ghost, but a male ghost and a female ghost. At first, the woman thought that the shop owner was a living person, but when they met, he had been dead for many years.

"Does that woman know about this?" Ding Li asked.

"I told her, and after she finished listening, she went out and stood for punishment."

"That's good..." Ding Li finally felt relieved and murmured.

She really didn't have the courage to commit suicide, she just went to find her lover.

"Oh, you said this place is really unlucky, two women have died." The man complained in disgust.

"Are there other women who died here?" Ding Li was puzzled.

"It turns out that the boss is a woman, but she usually dresses like a man, she's so disgusting that she can't get married even in her 30s!"

Ding Li's heart suddenly constricted.

Immediately, a question flashed through my mind: Will a woman become a male ghost after she dies?

Without thinking too much, he immediately gave himself an affirmative answer.

—if that's what its soul really is.

☆, Yan Er

New Year is coming.

Most of the patients in the inpatient department were taken home, and the rest were either left unattended, or too seriously ill to leave, lying sparsely on the hospital bed, which made people feel desolate.On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, even the doctors and nurses are off, and only a few people are left on duty in each department.Ding Li's parents have their own homes, and he didn't know where to go to celebrate the New Year, so he simply took on the job that no one did, and enjoyed the benefits of eating dumplings for free in the staff canteen.

Sitting alone in the office, he turned on the computer to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and occasionally laughed along with the audience on the screen, as if the atmosphere was very peaceful.The countdown to the New Year's Eve began, the host chanted a series of words, the paper fireworks exploded, and a group of children jumped onto the stage...

He feels hungry again.

He boiled a pot of water, took out instant noodles, and listened to the happy New Year greeting music mixed with the sound of firecrackers outside the window, Ding Li's mood suddenly improved, and he picked up the phone to say Happy New Year to Chen Jing.

But in exchange for a sentence, Mr. Qi is on a business trip.

He hooked up the receiver.

The door was pushed open.

Ding Li suddenly thought, could it be that he came back to surprise him?

But on the other side is another person.

Wrapped in a thick down jacket, with long hair covered in snowflakes, Gu Youwei pulled down her scarf and bent her eyes: "I'll celebrate the New Year with you."

Ding Li was in a daze: "Didn't you go home..."

"After the New Year's Eve dinner, I bought a train ticket and came back." Gu Youwei brushed off the snow on his shoulders, "There was no one on the train, and I took a nap, so I can just be on the night shift with you."

The electric kettle snapped.

"Boil water to soak instant noodles again?" Gu Youwei asked.

"Hmm." Ding Li scratched his nose in a concealed manner.

She lifted the cloth bag in her hand, took out a thermos cup, unscrewed it, and handed it over.

Ding Li stirs the heat with a spoon, and it is stewed pears with rock sugar lily.

"You've been coughing since the last time you caught a cold. Pears moisten your lungs." Gu Youwei took out a bowl and brought it in front of him.

Ding Li's heart sank, and he quickly lowered his head to eat pears so that she wouldn't notice.

"Didn't you eat tonight, so hungry?" She asked in surprise.

"Each person is only given [-] dumplings, so we can't get enough to eat." Ding Li mumbled with something in his mouth, his head sullen.

Facing such kindness, he was really grateful, so grateful that his nose felt a little sore.

Holding a heavy porcelain bowl and a heavy iron spoon, he ate the stewed pear mouthful, chewing slowly, digesting the long guilt and reluctance.

In the end, he put down the tableware, and smiled apologetically at Gu Youwei, maybe this smile was too forced, she also found it strange in her eyes, and hurriedly asked him what was wrong.

Ding Li pulled her to sit down opposite and held her hand: "Wei Wei, thank you for coming all the way here, I really didn't expect..."

Hearing what he said, Gu Youwei thought he was touched: "It's okay, I'm willing to come and accompany you."

"Actually, I mean..." Ding Li lowered his gaze, "I know it's not appropriate to say these words at this time, you came here to accompany me on purpose, I shouldn't spoil your interest, and you should say something during the New Year's Eve It's a happy thing." He said and laughed twice, trying to create a little humor to ease the atmosphere, but saw her expression froze.

Neither he nor she can escape the next question. Ding Li knew this well, and slowly took a breath: "You are right... I am gay, or bisexual, and the person in my heart is a man So I'm sorry, I'm not worthy of your love, and I'm not qualified to accept your love again. I think I like you, there was a moment when I really liked you, and I wanted to forget him, but until now I just realized that I can't do this, so I don't want to lie to you anymore, and I don't want to lie to myself anymore... I'm sorry Weiwei, I'm sorry."

Ding Li finished speaking without stopping, looking straight into her eyes all the time, he thought whether he was sad, disappointed or angry and resentful, he should accept it.

It took a long time for Gu Youwei to speak, her words were very polite, like an incompetent actor reciting lines: "Thank you for telling me. I am very sad and very angry, but it is better if you tell me now than after you get married."

Ding Li didn't know what to say, so he could only look out of the window silently, and the sparse firecrackers crackled, during which a ball of fireworks exploded dully, flickered, and then went out.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ding Li returned to Zhiguai Zhai on the fresh snow.

He was very sleepy after not sleeping all night, but he couldn't close his eyes when he lay on the bed. He let his eyes stare straight at the ceiling, and a sentence of words flashed in his mind.

After taking some time to put the sentences together, he looked at his phone, nine o'clock.

"Hey, Xiaotao, happy new year."

"Doctor Ding, happy new year to you too!" She responded enthusiastically on the other end of the phone.

"I want to find Qi Xie, can you contact him for me?"

"Mr. Qi and the others went to Gansu, so it may not be easy to find."

"Can you think of a way?" Ding Li said in a sincere tone, "I have something very important to ask him, so I'm sorry to trouble you."

"Then let me try."

"Thank you."

After hanging up the phone and holding the phone, he continued to stare at the ceiling.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a vibration in the palm of Ding Li's hand. Ding Li picked it up and saw an unknown number: "Hello?"

"You're looking for me." Qi Xie's attitude was indifferent.

"Ah Jing!" Ding Li sat up from the bed, "Is it convenient for you to talk?"

"inconvenient."

"Then I tell you to listen?"

"Forget it, let's talk about it next time."

Ding Li's words were splashed back with cold water: "How long will it be next time, three to five days? Ten days? Half a month?"

"Not sure, I will contact you again."

Ding Li was discouraged for a moment.

"I hung up." Qi Xie said.

"Wait a minute." Ding Li rushed ahead, "I broke up with my girlfriend, so—"

"I know." Qi Xie interrupted him, "I have business to do now, not the time to talk about these, take this time to calm down and think things over clearly."

"What are you thinking about...?" Ding Li didn't understand, or he didn't understand whether the other party understood or not.

"Consider all aspects." Qi Xie enunciated clearly but vaguely, "I'll talk when I'm done, wait for my call."

Ding Li let out a low voice.

Seven days later, the Spring Festival passed, the fifteenth passed, and the first month passed. He didn't receive any reply until Qian Sining hung up a phone call.

Qi Xie had an accident in Gansu.

terribly sorry.

Seeing Qian Sining in the waiting room of Shanghai Dachang Airport, she said the first sentence.

Ding Li managed to suppress his anger, and there was no politeness in his words: "What do you think of him in Guixintang! Let him do any dangerous things, and don't think of any way to ensure his safety!"

"With Mr. Qi's ability, he can best guarantee his own safety." Qian Sining said honestly, "Don't be too impatient. He is just missing now. I believe he will be fine."

"It's just missing 'just'?" Ding Li felt funny, "Then how can it be called not 'just'?"

"Maybe my wording was wrong." Qian Sining smiled apologetically, "I just want you not to worry too much, you must know that our position is the same, Mr. Qi is very important to you, and also to us Guixintang. Very important, Lord Xun has ordered to find him at all costs."

Ding Li didn't appreciate these words: "What you call important is just using him as a tool."

"Doctor Ding, I'm so sad when you say that." Qian Sining crossed his arms and looked at the tarmac outside the glass window, "Whether it's forced or voluntary, I've done his work for nearly a year. Assistant, Yu Gong has solved so many cases with his cooperation, and Yu Shi is concerned about his daily life every day, how could I not care about him at all, not to mention that his accident this time is also due to Master Fang..."

"What?" Ding Li asked angrily, "He found out because of Fang?"

"I didn't hide your plan." Qian Sining said, "The drought in the northwest has lasted for more than two years. The higher authorities hope that Guixintang can find a way to alleviate the disaster. Lord Xun sent three groups of people to Gansu. Mr. Qi is the second He is the leader of the batch, and all the action plans of the team are formulated by him, and he is also obliged to take care of the safety of the team members, including Young Master Fang, so logically speaking, he is indeed because of what happened to Young Master Fang, but from a legal point of view, This accident was not anyone's fault."

Having said that, the airport ground staff reminded them that it was time to board the plane.

At this time, several people who had been sitting next to him stood up, and Ding Li realized that they were all from Guixintang.On the boarding bus, after a brief introduction by Qian Sining, he learned that one of them was the eldest lady of the Xun family, that is, Xun Wanyue, the general manager of the Jiangsu branch, and that the other young woman was her ability to assist in the search and rescue. The man, named Yang Huan, and the rest of the men are their men.

Ding Li's mind was not on them, and he continued to ask Qian Sining about the accident.

"Let me explain." Xun Wanyue took the topic and smiled at him, "You are Ding Li, right?"

Seeing her attitude as if she knew him well, Ding Li admitted hesitantly.

"I heard him mention you." Xun Wanyue picked up her luggage and boarded the plane, "I mean Qi Xie."

For some reason, Ding Li suddenly felt a little hostile towards her: "Are you familiar with him?"

"Of course." Xun Wanyue sat down in a seat near the corridor, "After all, he is my husband."

Ding Li was stuffing his backpack into the luggage rack, and almost dropped it in a daze.

There must be something wrong here.He immediately thought, was it Ah Jing that she was talking about just now?Or someone else?Could it be that Guixintang has two Qiharma?Otherwise, I got it wrong, he got married?How can it be?We haven't seen anyone he could marry in just a few months!

"Are you surprised?" Xun Wanyue leaned on the seat, looked at him across the aisle, her tone was calm, "Do you want to see our wedding photo?"

Of course Ding Li wanted to verify it with his own eyes, so he got angry again and snapped on his seat belt: "No need."

Xun Wanyue ignored his emotions, took out a photo from her wallet, and handed it in front of his eyes like a demonstration: It was a pair of biren suits and cheongsams, the bride had exquisite makeup and long hair, and the groom held a bouquet of red roses slightly. Bowing his head, the warm smile appeared on the familiar eyebrows, but it made him feel extremely strange.

In an instant, too many questions flooded into Ding Li's brain: "Why did you marry him?" "Why did he marry you?" "How long have you known each other and to what extent are you in love?" "Do you have some ulterior purpose in getting married? "

However, he didn't ask a word, but silently scolded the bastard three times in his heart.

——The object of this bastard is of course Qi Xie.

The whereabouts are unknown, life and death are unknown, and Xun Wanyue still looks leisurely after something happened to her husband, which shows that there is no relationship at all between them. In one case, he didn't mind at all.

"You seem to mind?" Qian Sining, who was seated next to him, asked nonchalantly, "I thought Mr. Qi had already said hello to you."

"Well, he mentioned it to me." Ding Lizhi rested his cheeks on the armrest, lying as a matter of course, "I'm just a little surprised, I didn't expect him to find a marriage partner so quickly."

The small plane broke through the clouds and headed towards Dunhuang at top speed.

☆, eight rivers

Across the aisle, Ding Li handed back the wedding photo: "It's time to get back to the topic."

Xun Wanyue didn't answer: "Here's a gift for you, let's keep it as a souvenir, maybe it will be his posthumous photo."

Ding Li clenched it into a ball and stuffed it into the garbage bag in front of the seat.

"Qi Xie is going to Dunhuang this time to restore a ceremony of praying for rain." Xun Wanyue casually played with her wallet, "There is a folklore in the Northwest, as long as you collect 100 yuan cloth samples embroidered by a hundred skillful women and sew them together , make a cloak and dedicate it to the goddess named Yachuan Yugu to bring rain. According to the news sent back before, they have collected all the cloth samples, and the Yachuan Temple has also been found. There is a problem. To put it simply, Fang Xun accidentally touched a mechanism, which led to the termination of the ceremony, the backlash of the spell, and Qi Xie was sucked into an underground river. Since the accident at noon yesterday, Fang Xun has organized a search and rescue on the spot, but you also know With his ability..."

Xun Wanyue didn't say anything, and her contemptuous attitude was fully revealed. Ding Li guessed that the relationship between their siblings was not good, or they didn't look like a pair of siblings at all.

"Where is the accident, near the Mogao Grottoes?" Ding Li asked.

"Most of you really only know about Mogao Grottoes, this time it seems that Yulin Grottoes are much more interesting." Xun Wanyue was very interested.

In a daze, Ding Li felt that her excited expression was somewhat similar to Qi Xie, and the idea of ​​husband and wife photograph flashed in his mind, and then he snuffed it out in disgust, just like he usually pinches a cigarette.

"Do you want some water?" Xun Wanyue asked, but not to him.

"Okay." The woman named Yang Huan replied lightly.

Xun Wanyue asked the flight attendant for two glasses of water, one was handed to her first, and the other was placed on her desk.

Ding Li saw something, and chuckled knowingly: "Why are you looking for him?"

Xun Wanyue didn't understand his question for a while, and then she understood: "First of all, this person must be in our circle, I don't want to find an ordinary person to cause trouble for each other; secondly, he must be single, and he will never be with anyone else in the future. Women get married; the third old man must be satisfied, and the son-in-law must be able to put on the stage and make him look good. After all three points are combined, only Qi Xie is the candidate. "

Ding Li felt strange, and asked with a straight face, "Is that why he agreed?"

Xun Wanyue raised her chin slightly: "The son-in-law of the hall master of Guixintang is not something that ordinary people can become if they want to. Besides, if I inherit the family business in the future, our child will also be the sole heir of Guixintang."

He was startled when he heard the word Ding Li for the child, and from the corner of his eye he saw Xun Wanyue raised the corner of his mouth in an unclear manner, and his heart was galloping past.

"Let's tell him the truth, Qi Xie also helped us." Yang Huan said calmly, leaned slightly from his seat, and explained to Ding Li over her, "Wan Yue went to the United States to have a test-tube baby. As her and Mr. Qi's child."

Her voice was not loud, but Ding Li finally felt relieved, and immediately said generously: "That's up to you."

At six o'clock in the afternoon in March, the standard East Eighth District had entered the night, but the sky in Gansu was still bright. Yulin Grottoes were still [-] kilometers away from Dunhuang Airport, so everyone booked three rental cars and set off immediately.Taking advantage of Qian Sining being the only driver in the car, Ding Li inquired a little and learned that Fang Xun was the illegitimate son of Boss Xun, and had never been welcomed by the siblings of the Xun family.

"In fact, Master Xun prefers Young Master Fang in his heart. After all, he is the only one among the three brothers and sisters who has supernatural powers. He was specially assigned to Young Master Fang in Jingfang before, just to let him have a good relationship with Mr. As assistants, including this marriage, I also hope that Mr. Qi can play the role of a middleman and bridge the gap between their siblings." Qian Sining sighed helplessly, "As long as Young Master Fang strives hard, there is no suspense about the inheritance of Guixintang. It's a pity that he is born with a lazy and awkward temper. He is already in his twenties, and he is still like a child. I hope this incident can make him grow up..."

The car headed east all the way in the vast Gobi. In the far distance, the Qilian Mountains in the south were covered with snow, and the Black Mountains in the north towered into the clouds. Beside the road, sections of the ancient Great Wall stretched one after another, always accompanying the car like a ghost.

"May I inquire about the relationship between you and Fang Xun." Ding Li asked tentatively, "In my opinion, you and him are more like siblings."

It was not warm in the carriage, Qian Sining let out a mouthful of mist: "I am an orphan picked up by Master Xun, and I have been fostered at Aunt Fang's house since I was eight years old. Fang Xun is indeed my brother who has no blood relationship."

Knowing her life experience, Ding Li couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic, but Qian Sining didn't get too entangled in his own affairs: "This time Mr. Qi and his party consisted of four people, excluding Young Master Fang and Xiaowen, who was his helper, and Zheng Zheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor. He and Master Xun are old acquaintances. This trip to Dunhuang is partly for investigation and partly for help. He has done a lot of work in collecting hundreds of cloths before. But how should I put it, no matter how knowledgeable he is, he is still a normal person , There is nothing we can do when encountering strange things, we can only rely on Mr. Qi and Young Master Fang, and we are the same."

The car drove all the way to Yulin Grottoes, bypassed the gate of the scenic spot and continued on. According to the instructions of the GPS, we drove for another half an hour along the cliffs of the Yulin River, and finally arrived at the destination.

At this time, the sky was already dark, the taillights of the car were gradually going away, and there seemed to be only a few flashlights left in the sky and the earth. Ding Li looked up, but there was no star in the night sky, and the crescent moon occasionally showed a weak sharp horn, and was caught again. Layers of black clouds engulfed it.

Qian Sining walked forward according to the positioning, and soon heard the gurgling sound of the Yulin River, the light of the flashlight suddenly fell, and there was a cliff in front of him.There was a fire on the flat ground not far below the cliff, surrounded by three tents. She looked around and found no steps. At this time, a person came out of the tent and pointed loudly to the right. It turned out that there was a soft ladder anchored there.

Walking down the slow and steep cliff to the flat ground, the man was already waiting there: "Sister Qian, you are finally here!"

Qian Sining took off his scarf and stepped forward quickly: "Xiaowen, what's the situation now."

Xiaowen led the crowd westward: "Yesterday, the three of them went in to find the Bachuan Temple. They said they would come back before dark, but I didn't hear anything until midnight! Then this morning, at about nine o'clock, Master Fang called. , Said that something happened to Mr. Qi, I will notify you immediately!"

"Where did they go to find the temple?" Qian Sining asked.

"That's it." Xiaowen tilted his head, and then realized that they couldn't understand, so he walked to the front of the cliff and pointed.

There was no hole or door there, only a large piece of weathered loess. Qian Sining knocked twice, the echo was short and firm, and there seemed to be no space behind.

"I don't understand either." Xiaowen explained, "Mr. Qi entered from here yesterday. At that time, the three of them stood in front of this wall and disappeared in a blink of an eye. It's like piercing the wall!"

After finishing speaking, the subordinates moved out of the way as if discussing, and Yang Huan stepped forward.At this time, she changed into a black T-shirt and camouflage trousers, her shoulder-length short hair was tied up, a pair of leather boots on her feet, and a pair of knives on her back, looking heroic.

"Are you sure it's here?" Yang Huan looked up and squatted down to touch the ground.

Xiaowen pointed to a black cross drawn on the wall: "Master Fang made a mark at that time, so it must be right here."

Yang Huan didn't speak any more, took off his backpack and took out an engineering shovel, leaned the head of the shovel upward against the marked earth wall, and hung a stone on the top with a rope, and finally tied a few bells to hang on the stone .

Xun Wanyue seemed to find it interesting, and asked in a low voice, "What kind of formation is this?"

"It's not a formation." Yang Huan said indifferently, "The organ on the cliff is only activated at a specific time. When it is activated, it is extremely subtle, and it is difficult for ordinary people to detect. I am not familiar with the legend of Bachuan, so I can't calculate the time. Tested with this."

Hearing this sentence, Ding Li immediately saw the clues. Yang Huan just made a device. Once the entrance appeared, the support force of the wall disappeared, and the weight of the stone would immediately bring the shovel down.

Yang Huan took out an old pocket watch: "Let's wait."

As soon as the voice fell, the jingle bell rang, and the shovel fell inward with a snap!

"Let's go!" Yang Huan waved to the back and dodged into the earthen wall.

It was not pitch black in front of me. On the contrary, there were copper bowl oil lamps hanging on the aisle as high as one person, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance. I guess it should be lit by Qi Xie and the others.

"The door is closed." Qian Sining looked behind him, there was only an ordinary wall left, and half of the engineer's shovel was lying on the ground, and the fracture was as smooth and flat as a knife.

"Didn't she come in?" Ding Li couldn't find Xun Wanyue.

"Miss is pregnant, how can she do this kind of rough work?" Qian Sining smiled and tied her long hair into a ponytail, followed Yang Huan tightly with her backpack and walked forward.

Not long after, everyone came to a crossroads. The front, left, and left sides were all the same passage, and they didn't know where they were pointing. Yang Huan observed the direction of the oil lamp flame and decided to follow the air current.One intersection is connected to another intersection. This place is a maze. After walking for a long time, I still can't get out of it. Looking at the infinite narrow corridors in the front and back, the dim light of the fire is even more dazzling, which makes people feel anxious.

Ding Li wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Isn't this temple for people to worship? Why is it so hidden, it's a secret door and a labyrinth."

"Because Bachuan is a goddess, almost all the hostesses of the rain praying ceremony are priestesses." Qian Sining said ironically, "The status of women is continuously improved in the annual ceremony, which is dissatisfied by men, so the worship of Bachuan is gradually increasing. It was demoted as evil, and the temples were all destroyed by those in power, and this may be the only one that survived."

"It's here." Yang Huan suddenly pointed.

Ahead is a dead end, and at the end of the road there is an extra two-meter-square pond, surrounded by rough stone railings, against which the water surface reflected by the fire is as smooth and brilliant as a bronze mirror.

Seeing the lookout post on the stone railing, Qian Sining smiled, and there was a sticky note pasted on the top, with the word "Entrance" crookedly written on it and an arrow on it, obviously it was Fang Xun's handwriting.

Ding Li tapped against the earthen wall in the direction indicated by the arrow, but found no mechanism, thinking that the entrance could only be underwater.On the other side, Yang Huan was already prepared. He took out the diving suit and breathing mask from his backpack, ordered two more men to act together, warmed up a bit, and then dived into the water.

Seeing that the water gradually calmed down, Ding Li could only stand on the shore and worry.

"I remember you can't swim, right?" Qian Sining asked teasingly, moving his arms and legs.

"Who says I can't." Not to be outdone, Ding Li simply gave up, took off his heavy coat and followed her into the water.

The water in the pool was cold, and he couldn't help but tremble. He couldn't step on the bottom, and his hands were tightly grasping the edge, not daring to let go.When he got used to the temperature, Ding Li tried to dive a little lower. Just as the water overflowed his head, he immediately felt a wave of native fear and raised his head again.

This won't work... He thought to himself, I went to the swimming pool with Ah Jing when I was in elementary school. At that time, he said that the human body is less dense than water, and as long as you don't move around in the water, it will automatically float up. At this time, press the water lightly , you can move forward...

It was a good idea to do this, Ding Li grabbed the railing and was about to try again, but a few small bubbles appeared on the surface of the water, and then there was a pull under his feet, and the water all over his body suddenly sank, instantly dragging him into the dark water.