Chapter 90: Spending the night on the mountain, predicting the future
He said to Dong Wentao: "Go and help Lan Lan and the others. Leave this place to me."
Dong Wentao was obedient and handed these strange small stones to Mr. Qiao.
Professor Yang over there raised the gray stone in his hand and said to Mr. Li: "Look at this pattern, does it look like scales?"
Mr. Li took it and looked at it carefully, and after a long while he spoke.
"Like... snake scales?"
Professor Yang nodded, "You also find it strange, don't you?"
Mr. Li remained silent. Why do ordinary stones excavated in blocks have snake scale patterns?
But the entire bottom of the pit is covered with gray stones. They are not buried in soil, but paved with stones.
Professor Yang rubbed the lines and said loudly to everyone: "Let's all go eat. After eating, we will go into the mountain."
Bai Ruoxuan and his senior sisters put down the rocks and went out. Teacher Liu saw Qiao Hexi lying there and not moving, so he thought he didn't hear.
Teacher Liu called him again: "Mr. Qiao, let's go have dinner?"
"Oh, here it comes."
Mr. Qiao stood up and walked out, holding the folder with two small stones in his hand.
A message had been sent earlier that a car would pick them up after lunch to take them to Liu Village and into the mountains.
Lingye asked Ren Xido to help them prepare some food, and told Zhao Yu to prepare a travel bag. No one knew what she packed in the room.
She packed her backpack and went out, and saw the second master holding something in his hand, which was the soul-binding whip she had given him before.
Ling Ye couldn't help frowning when he saw it.
She stepped forward and said, "Second Master, what do you do with this?"
"I, I'm afraid of danger, I'll just hold it with you at ease."
Lingye chuckled and said, "It's okay. Fugui and I are here, and we will protect you."
The second master lowered his eyes and pursed his lips, no one knew what he was thinking.
After a while, the second master said in a low voice: "I just want to hold it!"
After saying this, he got into the car.
Uncle Chang walked up to Lingye and said to her: "Let him go. If the second master wants to take it, let him take it. Just watch it and don't let him use it."
Lingye nodded and said nothing more.
Fugui slowly climbed into the car with a jar of yogurt in his hand.
He also changed into a backpack today, which was bulging as if there were many things in it.
Qi Yang then told him to take good care of the second master. Zhao Yu also hesitated to speak, as if he wanted to give instructions but did not dare to step forward to speak.
"It's cold in the mountains at night, so be careful not to get caught in the cold air."
"Be sure to drink plenty of water and drink hot food. Don't be greedy for fast food, which can easily hurt your stomach."
"..."
Fu Gui responded perfunctorily: "I know, I know, don't worry, don't worry..."
Aunt Qiyang kept talking, and Fu Gui felt as if he had gone back several lifetimes.
Auntie, you really don't have this need.
The second master is already an adult, and with Ling Ye following him, he is like a three-year-old child who cannot take care of himself.
Fu Gui simply closed the car door and urged Lao Zhang to drive quickly.
Lao Zhang, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was listening very helplessly. He glanced behind the second master as if unintentionally, and happened to meet his eyes.
He was so frightened that he quickly looked away and cursed secretly in his heart.
Looking at the meticulous care he took, he was obviously a young man from a wealthy family. I really don't know why he insisted on going to the mountains to suffer such a fate.
Just in case it causes trouble to others again.
Alas, it is better to have money.
In the car, the second master asked Lingye: "Are we really going to spend the night in the mountains tonight?"
Lingye nodded and replied: "It seems so."
Lao Zhang murmured in his heart, Professor Yang didn't say he wanted to spend the night in the mountains, why would the director think so?
Besides, is it necessary to live in the mountains? Isn’t Liu Village at the foot of the mountain? It’s better to live in the village.
The car stopped in front of the hotel, and before I even got off the bus, I saw Professor Yang arranging people to carry large and small bags of things into the car.
Seeing Ling Ye and the others coming, Bai Ruoxuan hurried over and talked to Ling Ye through the car window.
"Director East, the teacher has temporarily decided that we will stay in the mountain for one night tonight. We have prepared tents and other things. If you need anything else, you can go back and get it now."
Lingye replied: "The things we should prepare have been prepared, and we can set off after you pack them up."
Bai Ruoxuan was a little surprised when he heard this, and turned back after saying a few words.
Lao Zhang in the front was also surprised, how could the director of the East Hall be so unpredictable?
"Director Dong, how do you know that Professor Yang will arrange for you to spend the night in the mountain tonight?"
Lingye chuckled and said, "I guessed it right by chance."
Lao Zhang heard that Ling Ye was not very willing to talk about the topic, so he laughed a few times and stopped talking.
At 1:30 p.m., the car left Genzi County and headed towards Liu Village.
This time Lingye and the others were still in the same car with Professor Yang and Bai Ruoxuan.
As soon as he got in the car, Professor Yang asked Lingye how she knew she was going to spend the night in the mountains tonight.
Lingye replied with a half-smile: "I think we can go and stay one night in the village at the foot of the mountain. After all, it's very close."
Professor Yang disagreed. He said: "No, this investigation should be conducted in a low-key manner. It would be too conspicuous for us people to live in the village together. If some villagers who like to join in the fun follow us up the mountain, things will become difficult to control.
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When he said this, Lao Zhang in front nodded, thinking that Professor Yang had thought too carefully.
Professor Yang's explanation really made it clear that Ling Ye had foreseen the matter in advance.
In fact, there is no such thing as foretelling. The only thing that matters is the consideration of human nature.
Professor Yang, an old man, is too persistent in the matter of going to the mountain and going to the tomb. In addition, Qiao Hexi might be on the sidelines to fan the flames. If someone teases his mind, Professor Yang must want to speed up the process.
And last night and this morning, they said they were studying those gray stones, but how could they study them so easily?
In addition to the delays of several things before and after, it is not difficult to guess that Professor Yang wants to guard the tomb.
He alerted the attention of more other relevant departments, and it was inevitable that he would not want to live in the villagers' homes.
Perhaps it was because I went to Liucun for many days in a row. I felt that the time spent on the road today was not as long as before. I arrived at Liucun in less than two hours.
Uncle Liu is still standing at the entrance of the village.
They had already called the village in the morning and told them to come at this time, so Uncle Liu was waiting here early.
The weather now in early June is very hot at this time.
Professor Yang asked Lao Zhang to stop the car. He rolled down the window and said to Uncle Liu: "Uncle, please get in our car. You can show the way in the car and we will tell you how to go."
Uncle Liu waved his hand, "No, no, I can't get used to your little car."
After saying that, the uncle got on his bicycle and took the lead towards the road.
Lao Zhang quickly followed.
This time they took the same route as yesterday, but compared with yesterday, they are somewhat more popular now.
Some children who didn't want to take a nap were running back and forth on the roadside, which was much more lively than yesterday.
The same journey, still with two forks in the road, everything is the same as yesterday.