Hearing me yelling anxiously, our old man smiled and patted me on the shoulder and said: "You are asking us to salvage the sunken ship ten miles downstream of the Qinglong River...200 meters east of the Qi Lao Ye Temple. What’s the matter?”
I nodded sharply and said, "That's right!"
As soon as I said these two words, I suddenly realized a question, that is, how did they know?
Thinking of this, I looked sharply at our old man, and then turned to look at Uncle Xu.
Seeing me looking at the two of them like I was mentally ill, our old man gave a rare smile and said, "Why are you looking at us two old guys like that?"
I asked doubtfully: "How did you know?"
Uncle Xu lit a cigarette at this time, took a puff and said, "How do we know? Of course, your boy told us..."
"I told you...? Cough cough cough..." Uncle Xu is an old smoker. His cigarettes are often made from tobacco leaves rolled by himself. Stopped coughing.
Upon seeing this, our old man turned around and glared at Uncle Xu. Uncle Xu shrugged helplessly, then stood up and strode to the window, opened the window and stretched out the cigarette in his hand, but even so, he was still reluctant to put his hand Throw away the cigarettes inside.
"Cough cough cough cough... cough cough..."
I coughed for a while, then slowly opened my mouth and asked: "I told you...? When did I tell you...?"
Our old man saw that I kept coughing, so he reached out and patted my back, and then said, "Xiaotian, do you want to drink some water?"
I waved my hand, and then asked: "When did I tell you? Why don't I have any impression?"
Uncle Xu interrupted at this time: "Of course you have no memory... When you were in a daze, you kept repeating that place in your mouth, and said that you must salvage on the third day. One more day will not work, and one day less will not work. …”
After Uncle Xu said this, he took another long puff of cigarette, and after inhaling it with great enjoyment, he slowly continued: "Isn't this... I just finished this in the first few dozen minutes after you woke up. Come back..."
"So that's it..." I looked at Uncle Xu and said calmly: "Then what did you salvage?"
Uncle Xu didn't answer me directly. He turned to look at our old man. Their eyes met. Although neither of them spoke, it seemed that the two of them had reached some kind of tacit understanding in an instant.
Perhaps for me now, I can capture this subtle change of expression very well, but I was too young at that time and could not observe the change of expression between the two old foxes at all.
Seeing that Second Uncle Xu was silent, I asked again, "Second Uncle, what did you salvage? That guy kept asking me to ask you to salvage the sunken ship at a specific time and at a specific place... What is inside? ? Let that big tortoise die and leave that thing at the bottom of the river?"
Uncle Xu smiled and said, "It's nothing...it's all grown-up stuff. Tell me, Xiaotian, but you don't quite understand."
Although I'm not that old, I really don't like Uncle Xu treating me like a child, and I don't like the way he talks.
I was a little angry, so I frowned and said, "Why am I a brat? What belongs to you adults? If I hadn't passed the message, you wouldn't have been able to find those objects... I don't even know what they are. Are all your rights gone?”
When I said this, Uncle Xu and our old man were stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.
I looked at the two of them and said angrily: "Why are you laughing? What's so funny?"
Second Uncle Xu said: "Good guy, our Xiaotian has grown up! This sounds...a bit like Yiyuanzhai...! Okay, if you want to know what is fished out from the bottom of the river, then Second Uncle will tell you you……"
Hearing this, I hurriedly asked: "Second uncle, please... tell me, what did you fish out of the river?"
Second Uncle Xu said: "Actually, it's nothing...just a statue of a god!"
I was stunned and quickly asked: "What...? It's just a statue? What kind of statue? What kind of statue is this that would make that big turtle risk his life to sink the ship..."
Before Second Uncle Xu could answer me, I asked, "I mean, Second Uncle...did you see that big turtle when you were salvaging it...? A turtle as big as a dozen trucks?"
Uncle Xu smiled and shook his head when he heard this, and said, "No! I didn't see the big turtle you mentioned..."
I sighed with some disappointment and said: "Oh... I guess that big turtle is hiding..." Before I could finish speaking, the old man who had been silent beside me suddenly asked: "Xiaotian... I have to ask you something..."
When I heard the sound, I turned to look at our old man and said, "Dad, what's wrong?"
Our old man said: "Who told you these things?"
I said without thinking: "It was a weirdo who was hiding in the cabin at that time..."
"A weirdo?" Our old man repeated in a slightly doubtful tone.
I nodded quickly and said, "Yes! A very weird and weird person..."
Our old man asked: "Do you know what this man looks like?"
I shook my head and said: "I don't know this! It's too dark inside the cabin, I can't see him at all..."
When our old man heard what I said, he couldn't help but frown slightly. After a while, he said: "You didn't even see what that person looked like, but you believed what he said... Xiaotian, you are not Are you lying to me somewhere?"
When I heard what our old man said, I hurriedly waved my hands and said, "Dad, it's not what you think... I remember the principles you taught me. Don't easily believe what others say outside... So what did that guy say to me at first?" I don't believe it, but you don't know... Everything that happened later was almost developed according to what the guy said... It felt like he had experienced it before... I had to believe……"
The more I spoke, the louder my voice became. It sounded like I was afraid that our old man wouldn't believe me.
At this time, Uncle Xu threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, smiled and said, "Okay, Xiaotian! Your dad didn't mean not to believe you, he was just asking..."
"But..." I wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Uncle Xu.
Uncle Xu said, "Xiaotian, does it hurt? If it doesn't hurt, do you want to eat ice cream? I just saw one being sold outside. Do you want one?"
As soon as I heard the word "ice cream", I immediately put aside what I had just done. I looked at Uncle Xu with bright eyes and said, "Of course! Can I have two?"
Uncle Xu smiled and said: "No problem! Don't say two! Twenty is fine!"
I laughed and said, "Second uncle, this is what you said! Don't go back on it!"
