Xiaoye sighed at this time and said sorry to me, saying that if it weren't for her, none of us would be in this situation.
I asked her to stop immediately and stop saying such things.
I said, "If I hadn't met you before and you hadn't advanced our wages to us, I would definitely have been worse off than dead when I returned to my hometown. It would be better to just die. So I am very grateful to you from the bottom of my heart."
Of course, I said this, but in my heart I actually regretted it.
If I could have expected to die here today, even if Xiaoye gave me an advance of 606 million, I wouldn't come.
But now that we have reached this point, there is no point in saying these words of regret.
I continued to tell her: "Don't think about anything else now, just focus on going out."
She hummed and said, "Then let's walk along the water."
Then, I dragged Xiao Ye and groped along the river, continuing to walk in the direction of the water.
Because I had to pay attention to Xiaoye, I didn't walk very fast. Every time I walked, I had to stop and stretch my waist, because it was too tiring to walk all the time.
After walking for almost two hours, we came to an end.
The cave we are in has come to an end, and it feels like there is no path ahead, blocked by the smooth cave wall.
The water flow did not stop, but continued to flow, seemingly flowing toward the bottom of the cave wall.
Seeing that I was not leaving, Xiaoye asked me what was wrong.
I said: "The front is over and there is no way to go. If we continue walking, we have to jump into the water and let the water carry us away."
"Ah?" Xiaoye seemed to be panicking: "Where will the water rush us to?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know. It may be possible to find a way out and rush us outside, or it may be impossible to get out again after rushing in."
Xiao Ye then fell into silence, obviously realizing the seriousness of the matter.
After a long while, she sighed and said, "Let's sit here to rest and talk."
I could feel it from her tone that she might be completely desperate. Talking to me might be the last conversation before she died.
And I am also desperate. I also understand that if I jump into the water, I may die soon. It seems that all I can do now is chat with her.
I asked her to walk back. The shore where we were was very narrow and we might slip into the water. Since we wanted to have a good chat, we might as well find a spacious place.
When we found a suitable place, we sat down next to each other.
"Is there anything you want to ask me?" Xiaoye said first.
In fact, I have a lot of curiosity about Xiaoye.
What I want to know most is what her purpose was in robbing the tomb.
I asked her: "I want to know why you rob graves. Don't tell me it's because of money."
She answered me simply: "Because of my dad."
I thought about it and guessed it right. I had suspected before that she might be looking for someone very important, and it turned out to be her father.
Then she told me everything about her.
Xiaoye was born into a wealthy family. Her father was engaged in antiques and foreign trade. He accumulated a huge amount of wealth for the family early on. Xiaoye's childhood was still very happy.
However, a few years ago, her father suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and no one knew where he went.
Until one day, Xiaoye received a handwritten letter from her father. The letter had been torn up and was in a state of mutilation. Only a small part of the content could be seen. Based on the remaining part of the content, Xiaoye learned that her father In the past few years since his disappearance, he has actually been robbing graves.
Later, a friend who had robbed tombs with her father came to Xiaoye and said that her father had been deceived by tomb robbers from our province and his life might be in danger. Afterwards, he told Xiaoye a few places where her father might exist.
These include our tombs and the tomb of the Prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Xiaoye wanted to ask the man to accompany her to find her father, but the man said that he had given up the job and refused to do so. After taking a sum of money from Xiaoye, he became anonymous and Xiaoye never contacted her again.
Because she missed her father, after a period of inner struggle, Xiaoye found Jianzui and formed a less professional tomb robbing gang.
On the surface, the group of people were robbing the tomb, but in fact they were looking for Xiaoye's father. Xiaoye felt that even if the person was dead, finding the bones would still count.
As for why she wanted to find such an unprofessional and unreliable person as Jianzui, Xiaoye's answer surprised me. She said that Jianzui was her distant cousin, and they were somewhat related, so they were more trustworthy than outsiders.
I wondered why Xiaoye had asked Jianzui to be in charge before. It turned out that the two of them had such a relationship.
"Then your family is already so rich, why does your dad still want to rob tombs? He doesn't rob tombs for money, right?" I continued to ask.
Xiaoye said: "I'm not sure, but it's probably not for money. Maybe he just likes the feeling of robbing tombs? Or does he want to find some special treasure? He should have some kind of obsession. That's what I guessed. Anyway, he There was nothing in that handwritten letter about his purpose.”
I asked her again: "Does your family support you coming to find your father?"
"I don't support it, but they can't do anything to me. In the past few years since my father disappeared, my mother..."
She didn't continue talking at this point, but I guessed what she meant.
Maybe it was because her mother was having trouble with other men again, so Xiaoye found it hard to talk about it.
At this point, I also thought of my sister-in-law. It seems that Xiaoye's mother is not a good person like my sister-in-law.
"Then what's your full name? Can you tell me now?"
"My name is Xiaoye, my surname is Su, Su Xiaoye."
I smiled and said, "I thought your name was Xiaoye because it was a fake name. It turned out to be this, but it sounds pretty nice and sounds very foreign. There must not be many people named you, unlike me. Chen Jianjun, there are many people named me from all over the country."
"This is the name my dad gave me. It was at night when I was born, so my dad just randomly named me. Actually, I don't think it sounds good."
"Then you and your dad must be very close, right?"
After I asked this question, I smiled bitterly in my heart.
Isn't this nonsense? His father has been missing for several years, and she will come to find her father in person. If the relationship between father and daughter is not good and she is not close to her father, how could this happen?
Xiaoye responded and said she was very close to her father.
Then she asked me again and about me.
