Chapter 3 Cave Sky
This black wooden box is slender and rectangular, with complicated patterns on it, looking old and simple.
I have to say, it is really close to the image of the Moonlight Box in the movie.
Chen Ling is not sure whether this thing has the same ability to travel to the past and the future as the Moonlight Box.
However, what he is sure of is that this thing must be inseparable from his "dream for decades". Maybe it is really not a dream, but a kind of time travel of consciousness.
"Time travel? If it can be like the Moonlight Treasure Box, I will make a lot of money."
When I was wandering around the Yoyogi Flea Market in Tokyo, I just thought that this black wooden box was something from my motherland. Very kind, so I bought it.
I didn’t think much about anything else.
Of course, although I don’t know what kind of wood this black wooden box is made of, it cannot be called exquisite, but it is full of ancient charm. It is still quite good as a collection.
And a big brother who was accompanying me said firmly that this thing is quite old and it would definitely not be a loss to buy it back.
Chen Ling didn't care so much at that time. He bought a lot of things. He just bought this thing while going to the market.
After going back and taking a hot spring bath, he played with the box a little.
Later, a friend said that he wanted to taste the special customs here. He declined on the grounds that he had to take care of himself while abroad, so he stuffed the box under his pillow and slept in the room.
He couldn't remember what happened next.
All he knew was that as soon as he opened his eyes, he returned from 2021 in the parallel world to 1995, back to the time when he was unconscious in bed.
I have become a lucky person who has more than twenty years of experience in the advanced era.
“Since I can go to another parallel world in a coma, I wonder if I can travel back and forth?”
Chen Ling fiddled with the black wooden box, opening and closing it. This idea gradually excited him.
I just tried it many times, but the black wooden box didn't respond.
Chen Ling was convinced that this black wooden box was inseparable from his traveling through time and space.
But he wasn't sure whether it could take effect again.
After studying for most of the day, I couldn't figure out the reason, so Chen Ling didn't sleep well that night.
Now that I know that this secret box is special, even if I can't go back, I still want to dig out its secrets. This is human nature.
......
So the next morning, Chen Ling got up and fiddled with the black wooden box over and over again, but still gained nothing.
This feeling of seeing hope but not being able to get it made him feel aggrieved, and he couldn't help but have a few traces of sadness on his face.
Wang Susu saw that he was in a bad mood and slept with the box in his arms all night last night. She thought he was unhappy because he didn't find any money in it, so she didn't dare to provoke him, so she silently put the money in the stove. Take out the waste charcoal and dump it outside.
Chen Ling held the box in his hands and recalled some details of when he obtained the box before and after time travel, feeling a little lost in thought.
His thoughts were interrupted until Wang Susu came in to talk to him.
“I heard someone outside saying that Erzhu exchanged cultivated land with several families in our village, and some of them refused to exchange with him, so he spent money to contract it...”
"I've been working on it for several years. I heard that I want to build a greenhouse."
"Build a greenhouse?"
Chen Ling blinked and looked at Wang Susu.
Then he remembered the policies around 1995 that encouraged greenhouse planting and the second round of household land contracting.
Although Chen Erzhu is a second-rate man, he was arrested a few years ago.
But rats have their way, and this guy didn't know what was going on. After he came out, he actually met two or three well-known people in the county. He entered the sand quarry in the county and made a lot of money.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have the capital to contract land on a large scale.
This time I planted a greenhouse, I think Chen Erzhu heard about it from the county, and took advantage of the opportunity of redistribution of land to find people to exchange farmland. If he couldn't exchange it, he would pay for it.
"Want to make a lot of money by growing a greenhouse? Then he will probably lose all his pants this year..."
Chen Ling sneered and thought to himself.
You want to ask why? Because there was a big flood in 1995!
According to the memory of parallel time and space, several counties including this county are the hardest hit areas.
The reason why we are so convinced is that the historical events in the two parallel worlds are consistent with natural disasters. What has happened in history has been proven to be accurate.
"I..."
Wang Susu didn't know what Chen Ling was thinking. Seeing him laughing inexplicably, she was about to speak but hesitated.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Chen Ling came back to his senses and asked.
“I, I’m wondering if we can discuss with Erzhu. Like those families in the village who are unwilling to exchange farmland with him, we can also contract it to him...”
"If he thinks it's not possible, we will give him two more years based on the land exchange subsidy money."
Wang Susu said softly. She was a typical little woman who was afraid of her husband. Scared to the core of my being.
Even if my elder brother came to support me, I was still afraid.
Although she was talking to her husband, her posture was as if she was begging for help.
Speaking of the latter part, his eyes couldn't help but dodge, and he didn't dare to look at Chen Ling.
Because she understood that the money Chen Erzhu subsidized must have been wasted by Chen Ling.
Even if it is not spent, it will definitely not be taken out again.
She didn't have the guts to say anything like asking Chen Ling to return it to Erzhu.
We can only try our best to discuss with Chen Ling as tactfully as possible, and give him a few more years of contracting according to Chen Erzhu's exchange for farmland subsidies.
In this case, Chen Ling does not need to touch the money in his hands and can keep the land, so the possibility of his objection is smaller.
In addition, if someone like Chen Erzhu is a dog, you will not bother to talk to you if you negotiate terms with him and refuse to give up some meat.
“I heard from other people in the village that they contracted land to Erzhu for 100 yuan per mu for a year. He exchanged land with us for a subsidy of 200 yuan per mu, and we gave him three hundred yuan per mu. Years or four years are fine!”
"As long as you don't exchange farmland with our family..."
"Okay?"
After Wang Susu finished speaking, she looked at Chen Ling almost pleadingly. In order to keep her family's land, she mustered up her courage.
At other times, how would he dare to say so many words in front of Chen Ling.
But unexpectedly, after listening to her words, Chen Ling nodded and said hello, and then said with a smile: "I will go to the county seat after breakfast and find Erzhu to renegotiate the farming matter!"
At this time, Wang Susu was a little confused, and even doubted whether her ears had heard it wrong.
According to Chen Ling's character and temper, he shouldn't agree so easily. Could it be...
Did he regret it too?
I wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask. When I saw Chen Ling walking out after saying this, I sighed helplessly and walked aside to prepare breakfast.
In fact, how did she know that Chen Ling was no longer the bastard boy before, so how could he dislike her as usual and lose his temper at her if anything went wrong?
It’s just that Chen Ling was thinking about the black wooden box and seemed a little absent-minded.
As for her, it wasn’t that he was ignoring her on purpose, but it was just that if his previous appearance changed for the better all of a sudden, it would be too abrupt.
My wife is probably not happy, but should think more.
So, if you want to change, you still have to take your time.
"This thing is so difficult!"
Chen Ling put the box down, took a few breaths of fresh morning air, stretched his muscles a few times, and prepared to clear his mind, otherwise he would be driven crazy by this box.
"Cluck, clack..."
The old hen at home laid eggs and was pacing in the yard, shouting and showing off.
Seeing this, Chen Ling grabbed two handfuls of bran and put it in the stone trough of the chicken coop. He poured in water and stirred it into a thin consistency to reward the old hens for laying eggs.
Then he walked to the pressurized water well and washed up, and suddenly he felt much more awake.
Then he took out the secret box again and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.
"Eh?"
"Is there a word?"
Chen Ling's eyes paused and rested on a twisted word inside the box.
This is a word that is so dim that it almost disappears, engraved in the middle of the inside of the box.
The ghost painting is as twisted as a talisman, similar to Zhong Dingwen, like the eyes of a monster.
Chen Ling couldn't tell the specifics, nor did he understand what the word meant.
"Huh? There is also one here..."
There is a similar text in the middle of the other half of Chen Ling's box. It is also dim and almost disappears. It is almost impossible to find it without looking carefully. .
Staring at these two mysterious words, Chen Ling studied in the yard for a long time, but he couldn't figure out the reason. It made Chen Ling feel dizzy.
Not only did my vision seem blurry, but I also felt nauseous.
Not good!
Don’t look at this ghost painting too much, otherwise problems will arise!
“Wealth, dignity, greatness, greatness!”
Chen Ling was about to squat on the ground to relax when Wang Laishun's voice came from outside the yard.
In a daze, I saw a thin, black old man push open the fence door and walk in hastily.
"What's wrong, Fifth Uncle, what happened?"
Wang Susu was cooking when she heard the noise and hurriedly walked out of the house.
“Er Zhu has found connections in the county and wants to build a greenhouse in advance. Now the township has approved the document and the nature of the land where Er Zhu will build the greenhouse has been determined.”
"If it is contracted, it is contracted. If the cultivated land is exchanged, it belongs to Erzhu."
"The exchanged cultivated land cannot be changed. Your land cannot be exchanged now."
< br>Wang Laishun's voice was urgent, but every word made Wang Susu's face paler.
They were talking over there, but Chen Ling could only hear the sound. The world was spinning in front of him and he could not see clearly.
Finally, I felt that I couldn't hold on anymore, my vision went dark, and I fell to the ground with a plop.
"Aling!"
"Fugui!"
Chen Ling couldn't hear the two screams in the yard.
......
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ling opened his eyes, surrounded by white mist.
All he could clearly see was a stone tablet in front of him, with a line of mysterious twisted words engraved on it.
Looking carefully, the first two words are exactly the same as the two words inside the secret box.
"Sun and Moon..."
"Dongtian?"
For some reason, Chen Ling recognized the ghostly talisman that he couldn't understand before.
"It turns out that the two words engraved inside the secret box are sun and moon..."
"I was brought here by the secret box!"
Chen Ling looked at the words on the stone tablet and murmured He muttered to himself.
I touched the stone tablet gently and found that it was not as rough as it looked on the outside. Instead, it was as gentle as jade and felt very comfortable to the touch.
“Huh…”
However, the moment Chen Ling touched the stone monument, a breeze blew around him, and thick white mist began to gather towards the stone monument.
"What's going on?"
Chen Ling was startled and hurriedly took his hand away.
But then, something even more surprising happened. Thick white mist began to pour crazily into his body.
(End of this chapter)