Uncle Lai and I sat side by side by the fish pond. He didn't answer my question right away. He took a cigarette and smoked it silently. He must be thinking about how to answer me, because I already knew something.
If he tells lies, he won't be fooled, so he has to think about how to tell me and how much to tell me. I didn't rush him, but also lit a cigarette and started smoking.
"Your father has indeed gone to do something, a very important thing." Uncle Lai looked at the water under the moonlight and sighed slightly: "He can't guarantee that he will succeed. Little boy, you have to know that what we face is something that no one can do.
There’s no guarantee…”
"What are you going to do?"
"If I said that what he is going to do is related to the ghost curse, would you believe it?"
I always remember Uncle Lai’s words. He said that my dad is still safe and sound after being cursed by the ghost shadow. Moreover, the way to completely remove the curse has not yet been found. An idea came into my mind that my dad is going to find it.
Is there a way to break the ghost curse?
Uncle Lai nodded and did not deny my idea. I was smoking a cigarette. Uncle Lai's expression looked very calm in the moonlight and waterlight, but I could still feel his fluctuations. It was a kind of intuition, without any
However, I felt that he was lying, at least, not completely telling the truth.
I don’t know when and how my dad fell into the ghost curse. But I know that it definitely didn’t happen in the past two years. He was cursed, and he knew it well. If he wanted to
Finding a way to lift the curse won't wait until now.
More importantly, every word in the letter he left showed that he left with the determination to die, and had no intention of coming back after leaving.
"Uncle Lai, I won't ask you anymore, and I don't want to expose your lies." I threw away the cigarette butt, and I had already made a plan in my mind: "I will find the answer myself for the things you don't tell me. The building on the south bank of the Kongque River
There is a mummy in the ancient tomb, and my father’s name is written in a small book on the mummy. Could it be that simple? Is he really looking for a way to lift the ghost curse? "
I'm taking steps to retreat, but that's what I'm thinking in my heart. If I really have no other choice, I will go to the Kongque River to see for myself. That's the only place I can find clues at the moment.
Uncle Lai didn't blush because I told him a lie. He has a very good psychological quality. After I said these words, he didn't refute, just looked at me. After a while, he picked up a stone and threw it into the
In the water: "If this stone sinks to the bottom of the water, it will be difficult to find because the water flow is changing."
"what do you want to say?"
"It's nothing. I just want to tell you that some things are destined to only be known to a very small number of people. As much as you know, you have to bear it. If the weight exceeds your ability to bear, you will collapse."
Uncle Lai patted his chest gently: "The truth is here, do you want to listen?"
If I just wanted to get the answer, I might have nodded immediately, but Uncle Lai's words gave me a different feeling. He made it clear enough. If you want to hear the truth, you will definitely have to bear something. You have to bear it.
Things are unknown, and I am considering whether I can afford them.
I thought about it for a long time and finally made up my mind. I couldn't understand my father. What kind of person he was, I had to know.
"Uncle Lai, just tell me, I'm listening."
"Little boy, I have to admit that you are a very smart person. This is inherited from your father's genes." Uncle Lai smiled self-deprecatingly: "I don't know how to lie, so I just say what I have to say."
I have said it. But if there is anything, I will make it clear to you in advance. For example, your father is the commander-in-chief of a battle, and I am just a combat consultant. I will help him win this battle and do my best.
Do your job well, but only your father knows the real grand strategic plan."
"You mean to tell me that there are some things that you don't know, so you can't explain them to me?"
"That's what it means. This is not a deliberate concealment, because your father doesn't want me to bear so much."
"Uncle Lai, thank you. I want to know what my dad does? I am very serious. If there is something you don't want to say, you can just say you can't say it, but don't lie to me."
Listen, while making my own plans, it doesn’t matter if I don’t hear the truth, I can slowly find it myself, but if I hear lies, these lies will greatly affect my thinking and make me think.
Misunderstandings delay a lot of things.
"Your father's past has always been a mystery to you. You may think that he has always worked in the geology department." Uncle Lai looked back and saw that Taoist Qiu and Zhang Qiao were still in the room. Uncle Lai probably wanted to
I guarantee that only I can hear the following words: "Your father was once a soldier."
That was many years ago. Uncle Lai said that my dad joined the army very early. His original ambition was to be a scout, because the situation with Vietnam was quite tense at that time, and there was a possibility of war at any time. My dad’s
His original intention was to be an excellent scout and use his own strength to ensure the victory of the entire combat plan. He had a solid foundation before joining the army, which was a great advantage.
Unfortunately, this dream came to nothing. He did not serve as a scout, nor did he participate in the subsequent counterattack against Vietnam. Instead, he was transferred to an engineering unit. There must have been a tortuous past, because Uncle Lai said that at that time
The group of people who went into this engineering force were carefully selected.
If you look at it from today's perspective, the engineering unit at that time may have some abnormal factors, but my dad didn't think so much about it at that time. He has been a serious person since he was a child.
Given the era and environmental background, when given an order from above, you must jump even if there is a fire pit in front of you.
"Your father didn't tell you the troop number and other details, and I didn't ask either."
After joining this army, my dad and other personnel trained for almost half a year. Then, they were ordered to go to a place. It was a little-known area at the junction of Gansu and Xinjiang. The personnel in the army were in charge of
This is called Xihai River.
Obviously, they came here to perform a mission. The natural conditions of the Xihai River are very poor. However, those people, including my father, didn’t think anything of it at the time, because the engineering soldiers did these hard jobs. What was the specific mission? Uncle Lai also said
It's unclear, but judging from the time they stayed in Xihaihe, this is a very important task.
They stayed in Xihaihe for four full years. What happened during these four years was a complete mystery to outsiders.
Four years later, the entire army withdrew from the Xihai River. The withdrawal was very sudden, but my dad still noticed some signs, because for about a month before the withdrawal order was issued, there were no people on the Xihai River side.
Devastating sabotage operations were carried out, and some buildings that had been built with great pains were completely destroyed. Trucks of explosives were piled up, flattening certain areas.
Uncle Lai said that this is a past event that my dad is very reluctant to mention. In his mind, he may have been resenting or resisting these memories.
After that, my dad was demobilized as a conscript. He was just an insignificant grain of sand in the vast sea of demobilized soldiers every year. After demobilization, he went to work in the geological department, and Uncle Lai was the one
I met my father when I was young.
But this time, my dad didn't work for long. After about two or three years, he left the geological department. Uncle Lai left with him, and the two of them started a little business together. Uncle Lai was usually the one to do the specific work.
"Uncle Lai, is this my dad's resume?" I couldn't help but ask: "You can say you don't know about the situation in the Xihai River, but what about being in the geological team? You and he were colleagues, why did he quit? You
do not know either?"
"Actually, I don't want to be so specific about your father's reputation." Uncle Lai asked me for a cigarette: "He was fired."
"Why were you fired?"
"Because..." Uncle Lai looked up at me: "I made a mistake, a very serious mistake."
"Uncle Lai, please finish your sentence once and for all. Stop being so secretive." I listened a little impatiently, just like listening to storytelling on the radio. Every time at the most critical moment, I kept hearing "Yu Zhi"
The nonsensical sound of the aftermath being broken down next time makes people want to have the urge to throw the radio.
"This mistake is also related to the Xihai River." Uncle Lai blew out a big puff of smoke, as if venting the emotions that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time: "It was a mistake that cost three lives."