Dozens of miles away from Mount Tai, there is a small village called Chenjia Village. Xu gave this name because most of the people in the village had the surname Chen. In Chenjia Village, there are not many households, only a few dozen, and the population is only three or four hundred. With the development of the economy, fewer and fewer people in the village rely on crops to harvest, and most young people choose to go to the city for development. After a long time, people who could afford to buy a house in the city and move their families. Slowly, there are fewer and fewer people in the village, and all that is left behind are old people who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, guarding the land that has raised them all their lives.

While most of the young people choose to go out to work, a few choose to stay, as is the case with Chen Jiancai, who lives in the east of the village. Chen Jiancai, male, is already thirty years old, at this age, he is already a child running all over the village and can play soy sauce, but he is an outlier. Due to the poverty of his family in his early years, no one was willing to start a family with him when he reached the marriageable age, and he lived alone over time. Later, with the help of the young people in the village going out to work, he contracted a lot of idle land by himself, and finally replaced the original stone house with a bright brick house with his own hands. Seeing that life is getting better and better, strange things have happened.

In the countryside, there are a large number of festivals dedicated to ancestors every year. Some time ago, it was the Midyear Festival, which was the time to worship ancestors. Early in the morning, men, women and children in the village carried baskets, rode bicycles, or walked in groups, and came to the cemetery of Chenjia Village in an endless stream. When they came here, people scattered around, found the grave of their old man, squatted in front, took out the burning paper and gold ingots in the basket and lit them, and some would talk to themselves, telling the old man what they had encountered recently, in order to send their feelings of longing.

Chen Jiancai, who gets up early every day, has a rare snooze today, and when he wakes up, it is already three poles in the morning, and it is noon. At this time, Chen Jiancai remembered that today was the Midyear Festival, so he hurriedly went to the supermarket to buy burning paper and went to the grave to incense.

On the way there, someone had already come back, and when they saw him in a hurry, they hurriedly quipped: "You forgot about such a big thing, were you too tired last night?" haha. ”

The people around him could naturally hear what it meant, Chen Jiancai was introverted, so he had to smile and leave quickly.

Looking at Chen Jiancai, the old people in the village still cherish this child from the bottom of their hearts. His children are not around all the year round, and anything will come to trouble the young Chen Jiancai, and he will never shirk, and will do it immediately. A few years ago, because his mother was sick at home, he dragged him down, so he didn't marry a daughter-in-law. When the old mother passed away, Chen Jiancai's hard work was also seen in the eyes of everyone. The hearts of the people were still very happy.

Quickly walked to the mother's grave, plucked the weeds, sprinkled the surroundings, sat down in front of the grave, laid the tribute, and began to burn paper.

It has been two or three years since Chen Jiancai's mother passed away, but he still misses his mother in his heart. Usually busy with farming, not too much time to come, today came, so I sat down while burning paper while chattering about the recent days, talking about whose children are married, whose old people are sick, this year's crops are growing gratifying, etc., as if his mother is in his face, looking at him with a kind face.

In a blink of an eye, it was past noon, and Chen Jian patted the soil on his buttocks and prepared to go home. At that moment, he noticed something white dangling in the ground not far from his feet, which caught his eye.

He hurriedly squatted down to see that the thing was covered with a thin layer of soil, and he took it out in a few clicks. The texture of this thing is warm, the color is milky white, soft as moonlight, and the surface is curved, like a broken jade bowl.

Chen Jiancai was overjoyed when he thought of this. Since this village is also old, the children in the village will occasionally pick up some strange things, some of which are worthless, and some of which can make people turn over in an instant. Chen Yucheng next door relied on the treasure he picked up, and the family moved to the provincial capital to live.

When he saw the strange thing in his hand, was it also a treasure, and he was about to turn over? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be excited, and hurriedly took the treasure into his arms to prevent others from seeing it. Then he ran home quickly.

When he got home, Chen Jiancai didn't care about making lunch, so he sat on the bed and looked at this beautiful baby, who looked even fairer under the sun. This must be a piece of jade, or a precious piece of jade, without any impurities at all.

It's a little late today, and he plans to get up early tomorrow morning and take the baby to the provincial capital to find a famous jewelry store to appraise it.

Thinking that he was about to become a rich man, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart. He put the treasure in his hand again and kept looking at it from all angles, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

Late at night, families had begun to turn off the lights and go to bed, and the village slowly fell into darkness.

Chen Jiancai stayed at home, guarding this treasure, and put him on the table first, feeling that it was not safe, what if someone came in and stole it? Finally, it was decided to put the baby in a cloth bag and hide it under the mattress. Looking at the bulging mattress, he stroked it lightly, as if he was touching the woman he loved.

To prevent it from being pressed, he lay down far away, resting only his hands on it.

This night, Chen Jiancai tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Finally, it was dawn, he hurriedly washed, put on the most decent clothes, and came to the bus station in the village with the baby in his hand.

He was going to take the earliest bus to the provincial capital.

Finally getting into the car, he chose the front seat and sat down. This is also the result of his careful consideration.

The driver yawned, he was really sleepy and panicked when he got out of the car early in the morning, and he didn't bother to care about him when he saw the only passenger in the car sneaking in the rear mirror. It's just that the man's face was dark, and he looked like he was sick, so he probably went to see a doctor.

The bus stumbled and drove, and after nearly an hour of suffering, it finally arrived at the station. Chen Jiancai got into a car and drove towards the largest shopping mall.

The mall opened at ten o'clock, but now it is only nine o'clock, and this hour is really difficult for Chen Jiancai.

When he finally opened the door, he was the first to enter, and ran towards the largest gold and silver jewelry store.

"I'm sorry, you're not jade. The clerk returned the treasure to Chen Jiancai.

Chen Jiancai couldn't believe it, so beautiful, isn't it the same as the jade on TV? It's not jade, what is it? It must be a baby!

"I'm sorry sir, we don't see what it's made of. ”

Carrying this thing in his hand, Chen Jiancai was a little depressed, and the blow was not small.

Could it be that they don't understand, or that they want to lie to my baby?

He went to another place to identify it, and the answer he got was still the same.

He didn't believe it, this thing was rare at first glance, how could it not be a treasure? They must have lied to me!

At this time, Chen Jiancai was already a little crazy, and in his heart, this treasure that could make him turn over in an instant must be priceless!

Chen Youxin, the village head of Chenjia Village, has not seen Chen Jiancai for a long time, and he doesn't know when, Chen Jiancai, a fairly hard-working person, no longer works in the fields, and the crops planted in the fields are deserted. He was very puzzled, and he also went to Chen Jiancai's house to look for him, and at first he saw him lying at home with a sick face, and thought it was just a cold. Later, I couldn't see anyone at all, and the door of the house was not locked, but there was no one in sight.

During the autumn harvest, the village chief organized others to collect Chen Jiancai's crops and put them in Chen Jiancai's house. Even so, there is still no one to be seen.

Seeing that the New Year is about to begin, Chen Jiancai still did not appear. Dust fell to the ground in the house.

On this day, after Chen Youxin finished dinner, he walked to Chen Jiancai's house again, and saw that there seemed to be lights flickering inside, so he strode in.

"Where have you been during this time, the crops have not been harvested, and the family is gone?" Before entering the door, Chen Youxin said loudly.

The originally slight sound inside suddenly stopped, and then only heard the sound of broken glass, Chen Youxin hurriedly ran in, the window was broken, as if something had run out, and by the faint moonlight, there was a fishy smell coming from the black things on the ground.

Chen Youxin had the courage to turn on the light, and a bloodstain instantly appeared in front of him, and a lamb that had been dead for a long time was lying next to him.

Seeing this, Chen Youxin was in a cold sweat, his heart was pounding, and he ran out screaming. Startled, the neighbors hurriedly came out, and when they saw this, they were also frightened and had nothing to say. That night, the men had no sleep.

Early the next morning, before there was a large number of days, Chen Youxin called his nephew Chen Shunfa and set off in the only car in the village.

After a few days, Wu Zhong finally learned the old man's name, Yao Chongming, and the old man couldn't remember where his home was. Fortunately, before my sanity was not good, I could take care of myself in life.

At this moment, the old man was cooking, and he babbled and said that he wanted to give Wu Zhong pancakes to eat.

Soon the smell of pancakes wafted throughout the courtyard.

The two sat on the stone bench, one holding a cake in his hand, and a bowl of hot soup in front of him.

Before lunch was finished, someone walked in.

In the past few days, there will occasionally be people who come to incense, Wu Zhong thought it was the person who made incense, but it can be seen that the person who came, Wu Zhong judged that there was something wrong with the person at first sight.

The older man had a strong smell of rotting flesh. This kind of smell generally does not appear in living people, and if it does, it must be something that has caused trouble.

"Excuse me, is Chief Kim Dao here?" the visitor asked.

"Chief Jin?" Wu Zhong wondered, "No, are you in the wrong place?" ”

"No, I've been here before. Jin Daochang is an elderly Taoist priest, with hair, forehead, not much. I came to him for something. The other party said.

Only then did Wu Zhong realize that he was talking about his cheap master: "Oh, you're looking for my master, he's not here." Do you have anything to do with him?"

When the man heard this, his face was sad: "It's so unfortunate, I really came to him for something urgent." Can you help me find him? Or let me talk to him. ”

Wu Zhong was a little difficult, he didn't leave any contact information before his master left, and he couldn't contact him at all. He told it to the comer.

When the man heard this, his face immediately turned anxious: "What should I do, what should I do!"

Wu Zhong couldn't, so he had to calm the man: "You sit down first, you can talk to me if you have something." ”

The man grabbed the glass of water that he handed him and drank it in a big gulp, which eased up a little. The other young man had been unimpressed, and was sitting outside the gate with his head down and playing with his mobile phone.

Chen Youxin's face was embarrassed, this matter was strange, and it was really difficult to speak.

Seeing this person's stumbling appearance, Wu Zhong had no choice but to speak first: "If there is anything, you can say it, and there will definitely be a solution." I see you, did you come across something unclean?"