"Unless what?" I asked in unison.

The old village chief, looking at the expressions of the two of us, showed an incomprehensible smile, after snorting from his nostrils, the cigarette in his hand came into his mouth, took a deep breath, spit out a smoke ring, and said with a smile: "Unless, you don't let outsiders into this village!"

"Village chief, what kind of method are you? If no outsiders enter your village, what will happen to the villagers in your village if there is no tourism income? Don't you need to make money?"

Listening to the stone's words, the village chief let out a cold snort from his nose again, and said coldly: "Isn't that all the tourism income earned by others? How much can we get? These people who come to travel don't pay attention to protecting the environment, you go out and see the white garbage left by these people everywhere, and if this continues, we will have to become their garbage dump here!"

"Eh, village chief, you can't say that......"

Without waiting for the stone to continue, I grabbed the stone, took out a cigarette and refilled it for the village chief, I smiled at the village chief, "Village chief, what about the people who come here to travel, some of them are indeed a little better, but we are not here to discuss this issue today, I just want to ask, what do you mean by what you just said that unless outsiders are not allowed to come in, it will be fine?"

Hearing my words, the village chief turned his head sideways and looked at me suspiciously, "That's what it means, doesn't that mean that as long as outsiders don't come in, it's fine." ”

"Why are you so sure you'll be fine as long as outsiders don't come in?"

"This, this ......" I continued to ask, which made the village chief a little speechless.

"Village Chief, since you are so sure, you must know something, can you tell us?"

I saw the village chief put the cigarette in his hand to his mouth and took a deep breath, and after thinking about it, he said slowly: "There is nothing that can't be said, these are some of our guesses, it is not the first time that we have made a disappearance here, of course, I am talking about the mysterious disappearance of people before the homestay was built." ”

In the next hour or so, the village chief told us the story of the Dragon King Temple in the village.

The small village we are in is an inland mountain village, according to some customs, it is impossible to have a dragon king temple here, because the dragon king temple should have been built in some coastal areas, and the fishermen pray for the dragon king's blessing and safety every day. In a place like the small mountain village where we are located, a land temple should have been built, but a dragon king temple appeared. There is no way to verify what the village chief said, saying that thousands of years ago, a group of fishermen in the coastal area escaped from the disaster and fled to this deep mountain under the leadership of the patriarch, established this small village, and at the same time, according to their living customs, this dragon king temple was built. But perhaps because of the change of living habits, the dragon king in the dragon king temple was not able to bless their clan, the fishermen who fled along the coast of this clan gradually lost, and finally they sold the clan property to a local rich family, and then moved back to the coastal area in one fell swoop, although they sold all the clan property, but the only thing that was not sold was this dragon king temple, they made an agreement with the rich households, every three or five years, the coastal fishermen will send people back to repair their dragon king temple, but the rich and his people are not allowed to touch the dragon king temple brick by brick.

Since then, the wealthy families have been abiding by the agreement between the two sides and strictly forbidding their clansmen to enter the Dragon King Temple, and the coastal fishermen will also send people back to repair their temples on time. However, an accident happened, and a few decades later, the rich man died, and his son inherited his father's family business, and the son did not follow his father's agreement with the fishermen, and he fell in love with the land of the Dragon King Temple and wanted to build a courtyard here. At the moment when it was pushed to the wall of the Dragon King Temple, the originally clear sky suddenly rained rain, and the construction had to be stopped, that night, a strange thing happened, several villagers who were responsible for tearing down the temple wall at noon that day disappeared mysteriously, and since that day there have been people in the village who have disappeared mysteriously, and the new patriarch has tried his best to prevent the disappearance from continuing to happen. In a rainy night, a lightning flashed, and the new patriarch who had been staying in the house disappeared, and the villagers were completely panicked, and the next day when the new patriarch disappeared, his younger brother took over as the new patriarch, and the first thing he did was to lead the villagers out of the village, and since then, the village has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and since then, for unknown reasons, the fishermen have not come back to repair the Dragon King Temple.

Until hundreds of years ago, the village chief fled from the north, bought this mountain forest from the people who fled here at a very low price, and settled down here.

According to the old man, the Dragon King Temple at that time was already dilapidated, but the village chief of this clan respected the gods and ghosts, so he paid great attention to the reminders of others, and since a clan settled in the village, they had never touched a brick or tile in the Dragon King Temple, so the villagers in the village had not had a strange disappearance.

"Village Chief, the mythological stories you tell are very good, but these are all stories that have been handed down hundreds of years ago, who can believe you when you say this?"

"Young man!" the village chief stared at the stone in front of him, and the young man did not speak for a long time after speaking, and a pair of attentive eyes stared at the stone a little unnaturally on his dry face. Shi avoided the village chief's eyes and muttered, "This really makes people feel like they're listening to a story!"

"Story?" The village chief snorted coldly and continued: "Then I'll tell you a story that is closer in time!" After speaking, the village chief took another puff of the cigarette in his hand and said slowly: "When it was just liberated, the young people in the county heard that there was a dragon king temple here, so more than ten young people came to the village and said that they wanted to break the four olds, in fact, after thousands of years of wind and rain, the dragon king temple has been dilapidated, only a few withered beams and pillars are still barely supporting the tattered roof that can barely be called a roof. Of course, since the young people came, they were definitely not willing to leave so easily, more than ten young people no matter how persuaded by the villagers, they entered the broken temple at that time and pulled down the only few dead pillars, in order to celebrate their victory, they burned a bonfire in the open space in the broken temple that night and carnivaled all night, but in the middle of the night, the lively carnival scene was not moved in a moment, a few bold villagers ran to the broken temple in the dark, only to see that the bonfire was still there, the food was still there, the pots and pans were still there, but the more than ten young people were gone。 ”

"There are so many people missing, why don't we police have any information?"

I patted Shi Shi on the shoulder, "That era was very special, the villagers definitely didn't call the police in order not to cause trouble for themselves, and more than a dozen enthusiastic young people could go anywhere in the social environment at that time, so maybe no one knew that they were missing, of course, the police had no case record to find." ”

After telling the story of the disappearance of more than a dozen young people, the old village chief stopped talking, lit a cigarette to himself, and kept smoking. Seeing that the old village chief didn't want to say anything more, I also learned a little about the situation, got up and said goodbye to the old village chief, and walked towards the door of the village chief's house with a stone.

As soon as I stepped out of the courtyard gate of the village chief's house, the slightly hoarse voice of the old village chief behind me sounded: "This police officer, please stay." ”

I turned my head to look, "This police officer, I think you should believe my words, I also know that the people who disappeared in the past two years are innocent, but it turns out that no one wants to listen to what my old man said, please report to your superiors after you go back, and demolish this homestay, it is also for everyone's safety." With that, the village chief turned and walked towards the house.

"Okay, I'll definitely report it, and I'll definitely take care of your affairs here!" After saying that, I turned my head and prepared to walk out of the village chief's courtyard gate, but at the moment I turned my head, a miserable white face and a pair of empty eyes met me.

I wiped, I took two steps back to distance myself from the empty eyes in front of me, and accidentally collided with the stone that followed behind me, and after a whole panic, I and the stone fell to the ground, and was about to hit a ball of the sun, when the rhythmic clapping and talking outside the door sounded.

"Dragon King Temple, see the Dragon King, the Dragon King sits high, I bow my head, the Dragon King allows me a thousand taels of gold, and I accompany the Dragon King to play chess...... Hahahahaha"

Putting away the Zhiyang Ball in his hand and looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a big fat man in his forties standing outside the door of the village chief's house, his face was pale, his eyes were blank, his hands were clapping rhythmically, and his mouth kept muttering the words just now, and a mouthful of hara kept flowing down his chin to the clothes on his chest, this guy is a living person, but his movements and demeanor are ......

"Three fools, get out of the way, who told you to come here?" At the same time as the voice sounded, the village chief ran to the gate of the courtyard in three steps and two steps, and pulled the big fat man called the three fools into the courtyard, while turning around and saying sorry to me and the stone, while pulling the ears of the three fools and walking towards the house, just the old man's series of actions just now, it can be seen that this old guy is an old man of nearly 70.

I got up and picked up the stone that I was pressing under me, and looked into the house, only to see that the old man and the young man had not moved since they entered the house, and I smiled and walked down the hill with the stone.

Going down the stone steps, the voice of the stone behind him came: "Officer Ye, what should we do? Is the Dragon King Temple really that evil?"

"Since it's the Dragon King Temple, let's go to the Dragon King to find out, as long as we find the Dragon King, we should be able to solve everything. ”

The hesitant voice behind him sounded: "Find the Dragon King, Officer Ye, is there really a Dragon King, can we deal with him?"

I smiled lightly, "What? Are you afraid?"

There was no continued sound of talking behind him, if it weren't for the footsteps of the stone still ringing, I might have thought that he had disappeared behind me, and after a while, the voice of the stone came: "I'm not afraid for Xiaozhen, Officer Ye, I believe in you, you are not an ordinary person at first glance, you say, what should we do, I will listen to you!"

This time I didn't pick up the stone, I smiled and shook my head, and walked down the mountain by myself, what should I do if I find the dragon king? I know what to do? I have dealt with one of the Yan Jiao before I became a cartoon dragon, and I have been defeated! I have never met this dragon king, what should I do? Let's talk about it then!