I held up the phone, looked around and gasped, "Yes...yes, I looked for it. Douyazai and I looked and found that there were footprints here in the pond, and our second-hand diving equipment was also there."
No, I guess Lao Tian got into the water secretly, or maybe he ran away."
"To be so anxious..."
He kept his head silent for a few seconds and then said: "The rest of you, please don't act rashly. It will take me two days to go back. I will wait until I get back to talk about everything."
"Two days? Didn't you go to Yongzhou to look for diving suits? You can't come back in one day?"
The head said: "Wetsuits are easy to find. Just build a relationship and ask someone on Nanpai Road to get it. We don't have much experience in diving into the cave, so I need to borrow something from someone."
"What to borrow?"
"You'll know when I get back. Let's not talk about it for now. Wait for my news."
After hanging up the phone, Dou Sprout and I looked around the pond. The water was calm and there was nothing.
Why is Lao Tian so anxious?
Could it be that there was some big treasure in the water and he was in a hurry to fish it out?
Can't figure it out...
Lao Tian was an unattractive person, and he came and went in a hurry without thinking. I listened to the leader and didn't go near the pond before he came back. However, I asked Xiao Tang to take me to the Yin Yang Cave not far from Guizailing.
Gave her 20 yuan.
Yin Yang Cave is a very peculiar place, much like the Cave Paradise in martial arts movies where peerless magical skills are hidden. When you climb the mountain and follow the path, you can see a huge valley-shaped cave.
This valley cave has two entrances, the east and west, which are like carved doors, dozens of meters high. Looking down from above, when you walk in from the entrance of the cave, you will feel like an ant crawling in.
The top of the cave is open-air, and you can see the blue sky and white clouds when you look up, which is a very interesting thing.
Looking up from the east entrance, the cave roof is round, but looking up from the west entrance, the cave roof is half-moon shaped, just like the sun and moon, so the locals call it Yin Yang Cave.
The ground in the cave is full of gravel, which makes your feet feel awkward even if you step on it with your shoes on.
"Look, that corner is where I dug Jerusalem artichokes when I was a kid. There used to be a lot of them, but now there don't seem to be any."
After finishing speaking, Xiao Tang pointed to the southwest corner and said: "There used to be dozens of ghost sculptures (stone sculptures) on that very smooth rock. When I was a child, I remember that there were several ghost sculptures with red faces and gestures."
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"Red-faced stone sculpture?" I have never seen a colored stone sculpture in my memory.
I asked out of curiosity: "Xiao Tang, you said the stone sculptures have gestures. What gestures are they?"
"Um..."
Xiao Tang thought for a while, then looked at me and slowly stretched out a little finger.
She also naughtily twitched her little finger at me and said that's how it works.
Keep the other fingers still and raise your arm to the height of your head, showing a little finger.
I learned it myself and found it awkward beyond words. If you don’t believe me, you can try it yourself.
Of course, I just feel awkward. I have seen a lot of messy things. Who knows what the ancients thought.
For example, I have seen pottery people from the Han Dynasty who gave people the middle finger, cast iron Buddhas from the Ming Dynasty that gave the OK sign, and this little Tang said, stone carvings with pinky fingers from who knows what era.
Since I came during the day and the Yin-Yang Cave is open-air, the sun shines in very well. I looked around and found that the rock formations of the Yin-Yang Cave looked a bit like the stalactite cave structures found in tourist attractions.
"Xiao Tang, why are those stone carvings of ghost cubs with red faces and no bigger than a pinky finger gone now or stolen?"
Xiao Tang shook his head: "No one stole it. No one wants that thing. There are only a few red-faced ghost cubs. It seems that they were taken away by people from the county cultural relics office a few years ago."
"There is also a cultural relics center in your county, where is it?" I asked.
"This...I don't know this either."
"Ouch, ouch, my stomach hurts," Dou Sprout suddenly shouted, covering his stomach.
"I can't hold it anymore anymore. You two go out first and wait. I've been selling big stuff these past two days and it's quite smelly. Don't stink on you."
I put my bag on the ground and said loudly: "Really, I can't say anything to you anymore. Come on, Xiao Tang, let's go out and wait for him."
Before leaving, I winked at Dou Sprout twice, and Dou Sprout also winked at me.
Little Tang didn't know that there was a Luoyang shovel in the bag we brought, so I asked Dou Sprout to hit two probing spots.
When you come out of Yin Yang Cave, you can see a big tree. Xiao Tang is sitting on a stone leaning against the tree and looking at the bottom of the mountain. When the wind blows, her bangs are flying up and down on her forehead, which is very beautiful. For a moment, I looked at Xiao Tang and suddenly remembered
Li Jing.
"Brother Xiang."
Xiao Tang suddenly turned around and asked me: "I have only been to Yongzhou as far as I can. What do you think the big cities in the north are like?"
"I heard from my classmates that girls in big cities drink milk when they are young, and they grow very tall. I have never ridden in an elevator."
I shook my head, "No way. Don't listen to people's nonsense. They all look the same, but they just know how to dress up. The elevator is not good and accidents are easy to happen. It is better to take the stairs."
I'm not lying. The girls I know, except Bailash Qiong, are not too tall. Tingting is from a big city in the north, but she is only 1.5 meters tall at most and weighs almost 200 kilograms.
Xiao Tang was amused by my words. She chuckled and said, "How long do you plan to travel? I can be your tour guide and earn some money. Of course, I won't go to that place except Guizailing."
I smiled and said, "You have quite a business acumen. Study hard. After you graduate from college, you will have plenty of opportunities to travel to big cities in the north."
We chatted for a while, and Dou Sprout came out carrying a bag.
After glancing at Xiao Tang, I walked over and asked in a low voice, "How are you doing?"
Douyazai whispered: "I hit two probing points, and I didn't even see a single hair."
We went back together, Xiao Tang earned me 20 yuan, she took a branch and jumped ahead.
Douyazai suddenly said: "Hey, Fengzi, this little girl is very pretty, can I chase her?"
I glared at him and cursed: "What the hell, xxxx, have you forgotten the little seedling in the hotel? Be honest with me."
Douyazai laughed and said that Xiaomiao has passed and he almost forgot about it, but now he still thinks Xiaotang is good.
I told my boss that I wouldn't be back until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I had dinner after I got back. I had nothing to do in the afternoon, so I strolled to the county seat alone. I wanted to see what the red-faced stone sculpture that Xiao Tang mentioned looked like.
The Dao County Cultural Relics Administration Bureau was located in a large courtyard with several rooms, and the wooden management sign of the Cultural Relics Institute was hung at the door. It was later moved to the vicinity of the No. 5 Middle School in the county.
At that time, you only had to say at the door: "Hello, I am doing cultural relic research in a certain city out of town. I came today just to see the stone carvings in our Guizailing."
Normally I would let you go in and take a look, and you could still get started, but now you can't.
I said that I came from Beijing specifically to see it. The person who received me was named Yang Dazhi. At that time, Yang Dazhi was in his thirties and was still an ordinary clerk. He should be the deputy director now.
Seeing that I was very young, he smiled and said: "I didn't expect that our little place is so famous. Even the research enthusiasts in Beijing know about it. Let's go, I will take you to see it, and we can discuss it by the way."
I registered at the door on the grounds that I had forgotten my ID card, and then followed Yang Dazhi to the warehouse. Of course, I registered under a false name.
The conditions are very poor, not comparable to that of a museum. It is a very simple warehouse. Dozens of stone sculptures of ghost cubs are piled up and down on the ground. Some of them have fallen over. The stone sculptures placed here are quite special. According to Yang Hongzhi, these are some of the representative ones.
The ghost cub stone sculpture.
The stone sculptures I have seen before were not wearing clothes, only the facial features and facial expressions were carved. The ones here are different, they are all carved with clothes, including statues of military attachés in armor, statues of civil servants with crowns and hats, etc.
I took a few glances and asked: "This is the only warehouse we have here? I heard someone said that a few red-faced stone statues were found in the Yin Yang Cave in Tianguangdong Village a few years ago. Where did that one go? I want to see it."
"What are you talking about? I was deeply impressed by those statues. I pulled them all over at that time. A year later, when the Yongzhou Museum was established in 1998, those special ghost stone sculptures were taken away, but a bad one was left behind.
It's been stored in a small warehouse and has not been repaired."