Chapter 194 Bottle
Su Tong reached out and grabbed Lin Li's arm.
Lin Li turned around and felt Su Tong's hand trembling slightly.
When he looked up again, he saw that her face was pale, and there was a hint of excitement and deep sorrow in her eyes as she looked at him.
"Sister Lan...what's wrong?"
"Lin Li! Hurry up and find a hoe! I, I have an idea that I want to verify."
Lin Li was a little confused and glanced at Qin Yi.
Qin Yi nodded, "Go find it! Be careful not to alarm others!"
Lin Li ran quickly towards the village.
Qin Yi looked at Su Tong and asked nothing. He looked around and said to Su Tong:
"Let's go over there and wait."
Lin Li quickly returned with a hoe, and several people went into the cave again.
Qin Yi turned on the flashlight, Su Tong pointed at the area around the iron ring, and said to Lin Li:
"Dig in this area and be careful."
Lin Li started digging as he was told, but after only a few digs, the hoe touched the bottom with a "swoosh".
After scraping away the loose soil on the surface, the bottom of the cave was actually all rock.
I dug in a different place, but the result was the same.
"Sister, do you think she might have hidden something here?"
Su Tong held a stick he had picked up and poked here and there, saying:
"If Auntie Feng was really being held here, she wouldn't have asked Mao Ya to exchange an empty bottle for no reason. The empty bottle must be useful.
This cave is damp and dark, but if it is sealed with a bottle, maybe something can be hidden. She has milk, and maybe something else. Whatever she left behind, if we can find it, maybe we can know who Aunt Feng is. "
Lin Li said: "But this layer of loose soil is very shallow, nothing can be hidden at all. The mountain wall and the bottom of the cave are all rocks. We can't dig it with a hoe, and she can't do it with her bare hands!"
Su Tong paused, "Yes! What you said makes sense. We should look for holes or cracks in the wall."
A few people searched several mountain walls with flashlights, but found nothing except loose soil falling down from time to time.
They couldn't reach higher places, and the locked people should be even more unable to reach them.
Su Tong frowned. "Could it be that my idea is wrong? She exchanged the empty bottle for other uses? Or did she take the bottle with her when she left here..."
"No! You have a point!"
Qin Yi, who had not spoken for a long time, continued:
"We may have overlooked the fact that in her situation, if she really wanted to hide something, she might only be able to hide the bottle in the easiest place."
Su Tong paused and glanced at Qin Yi. The flashlight in Qin Yi's hand circled in the small cave and then fixed itself on the huge earthenware jar filled with incense ash in the middle of the cave.
Incense ash represents respect for the worshiper and is considered a medium for passing on merit and wishes. The more incense ash accumulates, the greater the blessings, and it will not be cleaned up casually. Looking at the extent of the accumulation of incense ash in this earthenware jar, it must have been accumulated for more than two years, if not ten or eight years.
That means that no one has touched the incense ashes for at least the past two years.
Several people looked at each other and saw a glimpse of hope.
Lin Li took the stick from Su Tong's hand, walked straight to the earthenware jar, plucked off the layer of unburned incense on the surface, and then inserted the stick into it.
The incense ash had accumulated layer by layer and was quite compact. It took some effort to reach the bottom of the jar. Lin Li carefully felt the touch of the bottom of the stick, pulled it out, and probed further... Not long after, he stopped and looked up at Su Tong and Qin Yi.
Then, without saying a word, he took off his cotton jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and put his arms under the stick.
After a moment, he took his arm out of the incense ashes, and in his hand he was holding a can, the most common can with an iron lid.
The bottle was tightly closed, and several pages of folded paper could be clearly seen inside.
Su Tong felt a lump in his heart and almost cried.
"Restore this place and get out first!" Qin Yi whispered to Lin Li.
After coming out of the cave, the three of them stared at the can with rust on the lid, and no one spoke for a long time.
Finally, Qin Yi said to Lin Li, "Open it!"
Inside the bottle were three pages of letters torn from a notebook, and a small red badge with the words "Serve the People" written on it.
Su Tong could tell at a glance that the paper was the same as the one in Yu Fengzhi's notebook.
The bottle cap was tightly closed, and the thick incense ash isolated the moisture in the cave, so the papers inside were well preserved.
When I opened it, the first line of the letter read:
"Hello! My name is Yu Fengzhi. I don't know who you are, but by the time you see this letter, I should no longer be in this world."
Su Tong's eyes became hot and she couldn't control her tears anymore and they fell.
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