At ten o'clock in the morning, Tang Qing got into a "Hongsang" car heading to Liwa Village.

"When you're young, don't you have the right to speak?" Tang Qing grabbed the corner of the upholstery on the car, and said angrily in his heart. "I don't care, after a while, I'll stay in the car, I'm not interested in those cultural relics, what's the point of dragging me here. ”

"You still say that you are not a child, so who is angry now. I told you, you must get off the bus later, take a good walk around the village, my uncle said, there are beautiful mountains and rivers, the scenery is very beautiful. Qi Yu looked at Tang Qing expectantly.

Tang Qing couldn't help but be speechless.

"Ambiguous, Xiaoqing, you say, will the hero who saved the two of us live near Liwa Village, I really want to say thank you to him in person. ”

"Don't even think about that. Heroes can let you meet casually. ”

"If I meet him again, I must worship him as a teacher, with my talent, I will be able to punch all sides in the future, and I will never have to be afraid of running into bad people again. ”

The two people in the back seat were childishly arguing, Qi An sat on the co-pilot and flipped through a yellowed booklet, he put on white gloves on both hands, and every time he turned the page, he carefully used the thumb and index finger of his right hand to twist the page, and then stretched out his left hand to gently flip it over, and in the process of flipping, his hands have been protecting the book, for fear that the book in his hand will be creased because of the bumps in the body or the page turning too much. Occasionally, when I encounter missing pages and corners in the book, I will pause. In this way, a picture album that was only about twenty pages thin, and he kept looking at it over and over.

Tang Qing held his cheeks and looked at Qi An generously: Sure enough, it was 360 degrees without dead ends, and even the frowning appearance was very pleasing to the eye. It's obviously a heavily colored facial features, but when combined together, there is a breezy temperament, which is really weird and harmonious. Out of curiosity, she also leaned over to look at the book in Qi An's hand: this is an old atlas, the pictures and annotations are all handwritten with brushes, and the text is written in the order from top to bottom and from right to left. The best part is the paper of the book, which is translucent and lustrous in the sun.

Inadvertently, I saw a page that read: Tang Wu is remarking.

"Is it a collection album of the Tang Dynasty?" Tang Qing asked casually.

Qi An turned his head and laughed: "No, it should be from the Five Dynasties period, you see, although the paper of the book is very similar to the hard yellow paper, it is still a little different if you look closely." You touch it to see if it's lighter and thinner. ”

Tang Qing cautiously reached out and touched the paper gently: "Ambiguous, it's quite thin." So what kind of paper is this?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be Chengxintang paper. It is a rare ripe announcement. Qi An closed the page.

"But isn't the Chengxintang paper also from the Tang Dynasty?" There is an uncle at home who loves cultural relics, and Qi Yu is also familiar with it.

"Ahem," Qi An smiled awkwardly at Qi Yu, "I'm teasing other little girls, what are you doing when you come out to talk." ”

Qi Yu looked loveless: "Uncle, you are nine years older than Xiaoqing, not nine months, it's not good to bully other girls." ”

In the end, Tang Qing still didn't know why Qi An concluded that the atlas was not from the Tang Dynasty, but when he spoke like this, he was not as nervous as before when he faced him again.

"Uncle An, in fact, I am very safe in the hotel alone, and I don't like to see those cultural relics dug up from the soil, so I can't help you if I go with you. Tang Qing stroked the broken hair floating down his head.

"You don't want to help those children in the ruined temple?" Qi An put the album in his hand into a small wooden box and took off the white gloves on his hand.

"Could it be that when I go to Liwa Village, I will know how to help those people?" Tang Qing asked, very frustrated: I obviously have food, but I can't find a suitable way to use it to save people, which feels so frustrating.

"Well, you'll know when you go, but, trust me, you won't regret it. Qi An sold the guanzi, "I heard that kid Qi Yu said, you were rescued in that village before, what's the matter, did something happen there that made you very unhappy?"

"Well, it's not an happy thing, it's okay. Tang Qing didn't want to say more, "By the way, when Qi Yu and I escaped, it seems that many people in the village were sick, how is the situation now?"

"There are a lot of sick people in the village, so how many people are sick?" Qi An became serious.

"I don't know exactly how many people there are, I was busy taking care of Brother Qi Yu at that time, and I stayed in the house all day, but I heard from the doctor who came to see the doctor that there were already four similar cases that day. Tang Qing tried to recall the scene at that time.

"Since there is no news coming out, there should be no major problem, if it is really a fatal infectious disease, people in the nearby county will not know about it. Tang Qing said with relief.

Qi An nodded slightly, but his frowning brows still did not loosen.

Suddenly there was silence in the car.

Qi Yu and Tang Qing, who had been exhausted for the past two days, fell asleep in the frequency of the car's bumps.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, when Tang Qing woke up in a daze, there were only two people left in the car, her and Qi Yu, and the driver and Qi An had already gotten out of the car.

Slowly straightened up, his legs and feet were numb and cramped, Tang Qing couldn't help but open the car door and go down for a walk.

The car was parked in Liwa Village, and as soon as he opened the door, Tang Qing saw the village chief's house with a very iconic elm tree, and the simple wooden door was still pasted with faded and damaged Spring Festival couplets: auspicious and good luck come, and everything goes smoothly and blessed.

"There doesn't seem to be much change in the village. Tang Qing thought to himself.

When the stiff leg was placed on the ground, there was a heart-piercing pain, as if the leg was placed on the serrated teeth of a knife, and it was numb and terrifying. Tang Qing leaned against the car door and moved slowly. Suddenly a person rushed out of the back room, she pounced on Tang Qing, the two girls were of similar height, Tang Qing didn't stand firm for a while, her body was pushed to the car door all of a sudden, and her back was hit painfully.

Pushing away the person who pounced on him, Tang Qing was furious: "Don't you look at it when you walk?"

"Tang Tangqing, it's me, I'm so excited to see you. The little girl with her hair raised her head, tears crossed her face covered with black ash, and stared at Tang Qing pitifully.

"You, you're Huang Ting, is it you, why are you here?" Tang Qing was a little incredulous, "What about your aunt?"

"Auntie, aunt, she doesn't want me anymore. Huang Ting sat on the ground and cried.

"You stand up and talk well, what's wrong with her?" Tang Qing wanted to step forward and pull her up, but when she thought of the disgusting thing about treating her before, she felt a resurgence in her heart, and finally leaned her hand on the car and didn't pull someone.

Huang Ting lowered her head, and a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes.

"After you left, many people in the village were sick with a strange disease, and the doctor at the health center said it was an infectious disease that would kill people. Since then, whenever someone in the village is sick and has a fever, they will be dragged to the row of small cabins in the west of the village. If you die of illness, you will burn it on the spot. I didn't even see my aunt for the last time. Huang Ting choked.

"Then is there anyone in the village who still has this disease?" asked Tang Qing worriedly.

"Yes, yes. Hearing Tang Qing ask this, Huang Ting trembled in horror, and she leaned to Tang Qing's side: "The son of the village chief also has this disease. ”

She covered her mouth and shook her head incessantly: "I don't dare, I don't dare to have bad thoughts anymore." As he spoke, the whole person curled up on the ground and grabbed Tang Qing's trouser legs: "Xiaoqing, you save me, help me, I don't want to accompany a dying person, last time the village chief and his wife also said that if their son dies of illness, let me accompany him to die." I'm only eleven years old, only eleven years old. ”

"You get up first, get up first. Tang Qing looked at his young companion who had changed beyond recognition, and he didn't feel good in his heart.

"If you don't promise to help me, I won't get up. Huang Ting knelt on the ground, clasping Tang Qing's trouser legs.

Being relied on like this, Tang Qing couldn't say it. She is not stupid, for no reason, why did the village chief and his wife do this to her. Besides, Huang Ting said so many things, but she just cried and begged in her words, and didn't say anything about the key things.

"What's going on?" Qi Yu was originally sleeping soundly in the car, but when he heard the movement outside, he hurriedly ran out.

"After my aunt died, the village chief's family took me in, and I felt at least something to rely on. But who knows, they just want to find a servant who can be beaten and scolded, I have lived in their house for so long, I have to get up before dawn every day to work, and often have no food. Seeing Qi Yu come out, Huang Ting immediately entangled him, and even cried much softer.

Tang Qing couldn't cry or laugh, she looked around, and couldn't stop thinking: Huang Ting cried so loudly, no one at home came out to see, it seemed that the village chief and his wife went out with Uncle Qi. For a while, his eyes accidentally drifted to the window of the room, Tang Qing carefully identified the black shadow on the window, only to find that it was a human face sticking to the window, it may be that the other party used too much force, and his nose was deformed by the transparent paper on the window. Looking at the outline of his facial features, he looked like the son of the village chief, his eyes were staring at Huang Ting all the time, and he couldn't see any expression on his skinny face.

"You spoiler, you don't look at you for a while, you make some moths. As soon as the woman entered the door, she pinched Huang Ting's ears and dragged her into the house, and after a while, she only heard the crying sound from the house.

The village chief who followed into the door smiled awkwardly: "My family is a little anxious, but his heart is still good." ”

Looking at Huang Ting's pitiful appearance, Qi Yu frowned and asked: "Everyone else has to move out when they are sick, your son is sick, you don't move, what's more, let an eleven-year-old girl take care of the patient, it's not good?"

The village chief blushed: "I am such a son, I will count on him for the next life, if he dies of illness, what hope will the two of us have in the future." Hmph, that girl, don't look at your young age, you are ruthless, my son is what she harmed. Usually it's okay to cheat something to eat, but she shouldn't have coaxed my son to bring food to her aunt, why didn't she go herself. Could it be that her life is worth more than my son's life, and on this basis, it is not too much for our family to let her be a cow and a horse. ”