If you don't put your ear completely against the wooden door, you won't be able to hear the slight "click" sound made by the door lock on the other side.

Brother Mouse regarded this common obstacle as childish, so he pushed the door open without any effort, laughing with Mr. Dong.

After exiting this door, there is a dark tunnel that is similar to what you imagined. Every few meters apart, a frame is fixed with wood to prevent the loose soil from collapsing.

After walking a few steps, I smelled an increasingly strong aroma of wine in my nose. It seemed that the Si family really had not lied. This place could indeed be used as a wine cellar.

The terrain on the mountain has ups and downs, so the road in the tunnel is not very long. There is a branch road in front of you, and there is a locked door at the end of each branch road. The mouse has come in through here, so we don’t have to worry about it. He is familiar with it.

If you are familiar with it, go to a door on the left and start operating it.

The aroma of wine is so strong that I'm afraid I'll have to lie down if I pour a glass here for a while! It seems that those old wine jars are hidden behind other doors!

But what was behind the wooden door on the other side? I couldn't help but walked over curiously, wanting to take a peek through the cracks in the door that had begun to decay. Was it the Si family's grain warehouse?

There was no light on inside, so I couldn't see anything clearly. I took out the flashlight and squinted my eyes and scanned it - it seemed to be a large area of ​​white flowers, and the crack in the door was too small to be complete.

"Don't look at it. It's not a good thing. You're not an old man. It would be unlucky to look at it." The mouse persuaded me quietly, "It's filled with wreaths."

I was startled and ran away from the wooden door! Wreaths are not placed on graves or sent for cremation, so why are they kept here?

Mr. Dong was also stunned: "Mouse, have you seen it?"

"It was the first time I came in and I didn't know the way. Of course I had to open it one by one and look at it! I was also frightened at that time..." After the mouse finished speaking, he suddenly changed the topic and used a wire to lay crookedly on the ground.

He wrote two words diagonally and asked, "What is this?"

I stretched my head and looked: "'Jing Mo'?"

"'Si Jingmo'? Who is this?" the mouse asked curiously, "I am illiterate and can't read very well, but I still remember the first word "Little Scissors" written on it. This name was written on the wreath."

I thought about it, the scissors are called Sijiandao, the third brother is called Sijianlan, and the second brother is called Sijiancang. It seems that they should belong to the same generation with the character "Jian". Although I don't know the name of the eldest brother, it should be

"Si Jian x", and where did Si Jingmo come from?

Is this person dead? If not, why do you want to get a wreath for him? If he is dead, why aren't the wreaths burned together?

I just can't figure it out. This family is not in the funeral service business, so there is no need to put the wreaths in the warehouse.

The only possibility I think is that this "Si Jingmo" is not dead yet, but he is about to die. It is difficult to transport it from the mountain to the mountain, so the wreaths are prepared in advance and kept for him!

The door is unlocked, and we still have important things to do, but we don't dare to dwell on their wreaths.

We can see the setting sun shining through the leaves. It's time for the sun to set, and the air outside is obviously much cooler than during the day.

The place leading to the exit was completely unguarded. We carefully walked up the small steps step by step, and actually climbed up from a big pit!

Looking around, we saw that the entrance to our turf gate was originally on a relatively hidden side of the hill. After twisting and turning all the way, we didn’t even know which corner we had wandered into! Anyway, those of the Si family

The little house is nowhere to be seen.

Everyone cautiously groped behind a few big trees, packed up their bags and observed the terrain. They felt that the hills here were completely empty. Even people with strong animalistic tendencies like Weird Man didn't feel around on the ground until the Si family passed by.

traces of.

Mouse scratched his head and said, "I ran over when I heard Little Scissor's cry. When I got here, I happened to see two men leading her out of the door. The older guy looked quite powerful.

I didn't dare to show my head. After they left, I came out and found a door in the pit. I didn't see exactly how they walked back to Si's house..."

When I think about it, that was when my uncle pushed the scissors away and then my third brother chased me out.

"It seems that the tomb-keepers of this family have all been trained and can hide their traces quite well." Mr. Dong waved at the weirdo to stop trying to pull the mud off the ground. "This mountain is humid and it is easy to leave shoe marks on the ground. They

Those who specialize in this industry must be afraid that someone will follow him and Yu Ling will be discovered by others, so he probably has to habitually erase his footprints wherever he goes."

Although we were free, we seemed to have lost our way. Do we have to go down the mountain first and think of other solutions? Or should we just wander around in the mountains until we meet the Si family?

There are so many mosquitoes at this time, and they all fly very low, so everyone has to put on long-sleeved shirts again. Once there is no sunlight, the temperature drops quickly, but the degree of adhesion between clothes and skin becomes worse.

High.

The atmosphere on the mountain became a little strange. We relied on Mr. Dong's compass and started walking flatly in one direction. I remember that there was no particularly steep uphill or downhill slope in the wine cellar, so we must still be in contact with the entrance to the turf door.

We are at the same height in the mountains. If we keep the level and detour like this, we will always find the way back. Then walk a few hundred meters down from that place and you can see the Si family's bamboo house!

Originally, everyone wanted to keep an eye on Third Brother Si first, and then follow him to Yuling. But looking at his ability to erase shoe prints, we knew that this tracking method would not work. We had to wait until he left.

Just borrow his ghost trail in front of the bamboo house, or get him to join the gang!

According to what he said in the wine cellar, he wanted to take the human skin rubbings and the ghost road guide at night. Since he could guarantee that he would set out at night and get ahead of his uncle, the sun had just set now.

, we should be able to catch up if we speed up a bit!

After understanding the nature and struggles of the Si family, we know that if we want to get clues about the jade ultimatum, we have to go to Yuling to find out. It is useless to ask these guys. In fact, this idea is better than waiting leisurely.

It’s so exciting, I’ve long been eager to rush to Yuling to find out!

The figure of Dayu is hidden in the mountain at our feet. Will the jade ultimatum on the Arctic mural appear in his tomb?

My anxious steps were getting bigger and bigger, and I wanted to speed up and rush to the front of the team! But my legs became very heavy. When I stepped on the ground, and then pulled it out, it became too heavy.

It becomes more strenuous every time——

The soil on the mountain is much wetter than during the day. It forms a very suction-filled mud. Not only does it create a pit when you step on it, but if you stand unsteadily, you will slip out one step at a time!

As the sun disappeared, the air on the mountain was really humid, as if it had just drizzled! The weirdo's cheap T-shirt was completely soaked, almost translucent, and I could see the lines on his back.

It’s clear!

In this hot and humid climate, you have to carry heavy loads, have to rush on your way, and have to guard against insects that can barely fly. It is really torture! My chest is so tight that I almost want to yell, "Scissors, where are you?"

where"!

When I looked up, I realized that I could no longer see the trees in the distance and the nearby peaks.

Is fog the culprit behind humidity?

No, I have seen what real heavy fog is in Penglai Island, and the situation now is different from that then:

I lost my vision of "seeing all the small mountains at a glance", but I could clearly see the rat at the head of the team and the crooked-necked tree behind me that I had wiped mud on a minute ago.

Figuratively speaking, the heavy fog formed a soft wall of fog, surrounding and protecting the Kuaiji Mountain!

Although I know that this scene must be related to the mountain breeze and cold and warm air that I learned in geography class, but under the hint of the two words "Yuling", I always feel that this night fog is really nagging...

The heavy fog completely isolated Kuaiji Mountain. We were still walking in the same direction on the compass, but we never discovered where the sod gate was, where Si’s bamboo house was, or where the tourist attractions very close to Yucun were.

Where.

This is wrong. How can the entrance and exit of the wine cellar be so far apart? And we couldn't open the turf door because my uncle put a heavy object on it, so that location should be obvious!

"I'm lost..." Mr. Dong in front stopped and reported to us helplessly.

My heart sank. Getting lost in this situation is really bad news. If we can't find Si's house, our third brother and uncle will all run out. Not only do we have no ghost guide, we can't understand the rubbings, we also

I can't figure out the direction on the mountain, but how can I sneak into Yuling?

I looked up at the sky and suddenly discovered that the fog formed a faint layer of purple-red!

By the way, last night, we all stayed on the awning boat, drank wine, played mahjong and admired the moon. When we looked at Kuaiji Mountain in the distance, didn’t we just see the purple-red mist smearing the moon? I kept telling weirdos that it was Si

What kind of incense did the family burn?

"Mr. Dong, can we see clearly where this purple-red smoke is thinner and where it is heavier?" I raised my hand and asked.

Mr. Dong raised his head and thought carefully for a while: "Do you want to see clearly the source of the colors? The fog is not static. If you stay still quietly, you can see that they come from-"

He lowered his head again and checked the position of the compass on his watch: "It's coming from the north-northwest."

"Let's go to the source!" I ran to the head of the team with confidence, and said with a proud smile, "You all were either staring at mahjong yesterday, or you fell down drinking. I'm probably the only one who noticed Ryo Yamajong.

There must be some lights on!"
Chapter completed!