Chapter 8: Statues of Evil Spirits
The so-called boats are actually just some bamboo rafts, and before everyone arrived, there were already a few exploration team members waiting here, and they put some wood on the bamboo rafts, so that they were not afraid of cement water. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info On the boat, I asked Luo Dascar what was going on in the village in front of me. Luo Dajia said that Yueren Village is a branch of the Miao people, and the population in the village is not large, there are only 100 people, all of whom are old people and children, and the young people in the village have gone out to work. The village remained in pristine condition until a few years ago when the government pulled the wires and built a primary school there.
I was a little surprised that young people nowadays are afraid of hardship, and I asked who would be a teacher in such a poor and remote country. Luo Dascar said that after the school was repaired a few years ago, there was indeed a period of time when no one could be found. The old party secretary in the village was in a hurry, but he also knew the situation in the village, and when he was about to give up, a man and a woman and a husband and wife volunteered to come to the village to teach. I was even more surprised, but it cannot be ruled out that there are really people in this world who have such noble sentiments, and when they see them in the village, they naturally have to pay a good visit.
The surrounding natural landscape is good, and the waterway for half a day is just a short time. Sure enough, as soon as I landed on the shore, I knew that this Yueren village was poor and backward, and the stilted buildings in the village knew that they had been built for many years, not only dilapidated but also disorganized, and felt that a wind and rain could also blow most of the buildings in the village down.
As soon as we arrived, there were many engineers waiting there to help unload the cargo. Due to the large number of building materials, Luo Dascar also invited some villagers from the village who can still lift heavy objects to help. The children in the village had never seen so many outsiders, and they stood in groups of three or five, all curiously standing on the periphery to watch.
I took some biscuits from my backpack and gave them to eat, watched them go happily, and asked if Luo Dascar needed help. Luo Dascar said let you come to this place just for you to have fun, how can you let you do this, and then called a brother from the engineering team, surnamed Yang, and asked him to take us to the place where we live first.
The young man surnamed Yang also had just finished serving as a soldier and had just changed jobs, and he knew that we were friends from Luo Dascar's hometown, and he was very enthusiastic to come over to help us carry our luggage. I thanked him with a smile, but Mango Tou honestly let him mention it, and the two became acquainted with each other in a few words.
I thought he would take us to the stilted building in the village, but he took us to a two-story building on the hillside along the stone road that I don't know how much had been built, and the red flag was planted on the building.
Xiao Yang took us into a small room in the school, saying that this was arranged by the old branch secretary for the captain Brother Ba, and the captain and our brother were used to living here and didn't want to live here alone, so he ordered me to bring you over.
I looked at the room more than ten square meters wide, there were only two wooden beds and a table and a chair, but it was still clean, compared to the dark and damp stilted building under the hillside, I am afraid it was much better. I put my luggage away, and Mango was tired all the way, and after lying on the bed, he snored loudly again, and even forgot about the cry he was hungry just now.
Xiao Yang and I walked outside, I took a pack of cigarettes from my pocket, opened it and handed it to him, he took it with a smile, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it before taking the lighter and lighting it. I chatted with him for a few words, and I knew that their engineering team worked hard, and sometimes it was common to live in the wilderness for half a year in a deserted place, so most of the team were veterans, and only veterans could have that kind of willpower.
I saw the two-story building of the school, with more than a dozen houses up and down, and asked about the young teachers. Xiao Yang said that there were only twenty or thirty middle school students in the village, and the pair of teachers taught all the lessons, and they lived in the room next door to us. In the past two days, the school has been busy with the holidays, and they should also be busy in the fields at this point, and you will be able to meet them later.
After a few more conversations, he wanted to go back to help, and before leaving, I gave him the pack of cigarettes, and he couldn't refuse, and accepted it with a hearty smile. He also said that when the two days are over, go up the mountain with us, there are some good things, and the mouth is very good. I smiled and said it was a good feeling, and sent him away.
When I returned to the house and sat on the edge of the bed, the fatigue of the journey came up in an instant, and I couldn't care about being hungry, so I fell asleep. I don't know how long I slept this time, but I knew that it was already dawn when I woke up, and I didn't even know if the pair of teachers next door had come back. I sleep relatively lightly, I can usually wake up as soon as there is movement, and I sleep like a coma like this, but I am afraid that it is the first time, and it seems that the journey is too tired these days.
I woke up and was in good spirits, and as soon as I sat up, I saw Luo Dascar walking in with a large pot of noodles. Seeing that I woke up, I said that it was already midnight after unloading yesterday, and when I came in and saw that you were all asleep, I didn't wake you up, eat noodles, be hungry.
The aroma on that face was like a hand, grabbing my empty stomach, so hungry that my saliva flowed, and even the mango head that was still asleep smashed into my mouth, just afraid that I would dream of something delicious. I finished washing up in three or two clicks, and kicked the mango head to wake up again, and the two of them solved the pot of noodles in a few clicks.
After eating, he had all the strength of his body, and followed Luo Dascar to the place where their engineering team was camped. Actually, it's not far, it's just a clearing on the right side of the school, and it was too dark last night to see clearly. There were only about 30 people in the entire engineering team, and when they knew that we were friends with their captain, they all greeted us with a smile.
I greeted them with a smile, and after a while Luo Dascar led us into a makeshift barracks, where there were two people, one was black and thin, but very refined, and at a glance I knew that it was someone who had been working in the field for a long time; The other was white and wore a pair of large, thick glasses. When we entered, the two of us were gesturing on the drawings.
Luo Dascar introduced to us that the black and thin man was named Chen Dali, the deputy captain of the engineering team, and the one who wore glasses was called Bai Bai, who was temporarily transferred from the company's headquarters this time.
Chen Dali smiled at us, and said hello, but the surveyor named Bai Bai just glanced at us lightly, and then bowed his head and went to work again. I didn't expect to be treated by everyone, and after asking him about some basic work of the Luo Da Scar engineering team, I asked him when he would officially start work?
Luo Dascar paused, saying that it would take two days to start construction, and he was still waiting for someone to meet. I just wondered who else I was waiting for, but I didn't think that day I said coldly: "Isn't it nonsense that two teams of people who don't know each other get together!"
Luo Dascar's face changed, and he didn't speak, so he walked out with us. I know that there must be a story in this, and I also know Luo Dascar's temperament, don't rush him, wait for him to tell it himself.
Mango head is not so patient, several times I wanted to ask but I waved my hand to interrupt, Luo Dascar took us to a hillside, looking at the small village located by the stream, suddenly turned his head to look at me, and said Huang Shang, don't you think it's strange? Don't ask me?
If I say that you want to talk about it, I will naturally say it to me, and it is useless if I don't want to say that I force you, not to mention that this is a matter of your engineering team, what does it matter if I am an outsider who knows it.
The corners of Luo Dascar's mouth twitched, and he didn't have time to speak, but Mango Head couldn't hold back anymore, and hurriedly asked who were you waiting for? The face with the surname Bai is so black that he can change his surname to black.
Luo Dascar thought about it and said that the original engineering team did not start work here, but before they set off, they received a temporary notice from their superiors, saying that they were going to change the location, because they wanted to cooperate with a national archaeological team to carry out archaeological work in this area.
"National archaeological team? Archaeology? I was stunned, and suddenly remembered the "Tomb Bag Mountain" I saw on the road, and wondered if I was really right by me, and there was really some prince and general buried here.
Luo Dascar nodded, said that it rained heavily for a month earlier in this area, which washed away the mountain, and after the rain stopped, the villagers found that there was a little stuff mixed in the mud that flowed out of the mountain.
It happened that a staff member of the county's cultural relics unit was passing by when he returned to his hometown, and when he saw it, he asked two questions and asked about the ins and outs. He reported to the previous newspaper, and the leaders also attached great importance to it, so it didn't go to the country. The state attached great importance to it and immediately sent an archaeological team down. It just so happened that the professor of the archaeological team was very familiar with the leader of our head office, so he ......
I kind of understood, and said that since you are so busy, the two of us will not bother, and we will leave in a day or two.
Luo Dascar shook his head and said, Don't, I haven't seen you for a long time, so I thought about bringing you here to play, it's not in the way.
I said let's see it again, but the archaeological team is working, and it will be in vain to see it then, and there is something good to talk about when I go back and talk to that group of colleagues.
Luo Dascar patted his chest and said that this little thing is absolutely fine.
Mango Tou suddenly said, when is it time to eat, he was hungry again, and he was almost kicked down the hill by me and Luo Dajiao.
In the next two days, in my spare time, Luo Dascar took me and Mango Head around the nearby hills, and really caught some good things in the trap set by their engineering team, among which there was a small mountain boar, which was very fierce, and would turn its head and bite people when it was caught. This little guy, where is our opponent, three or two to get it, Luo Dascar brought the other hares and pheasants back to the engineering team, and only brought the wild boar and us to the old branch secretary's house in the village.
I asked why, Luo Dascar said that the old branch secretary was also a hunter, and when he was young, he often went to the mountains to hunt, and he was very good at baking wild boars, and he kept you until you swallowed your tongue. I grinned noncommittally, but Mango's face was full of anticipation.
The old branch secretary's house is in the middle of the village, and it is not difficult to find, Luo Dashuang shouted as soon as he arrived at the door, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, and after a while, the old branch secretary walked down from the stilted building.
Luo Dascar introduced us to the old branch secretary, the old branch secretary was full of white hair, wrinkled forehead, holding an old pipe in his hand, smiled at us, and pointed to the little mountain pig that Luo Dascar was holding in one hand and shouted in the local language, I didn't understand, but from the look on his face, I could also see that he was very happy.
Luo Dascar asked us to go to the stilted building to rest first, he and the old branch secretary went to kill pigs, and said that there was no one on the stilted building, the old branch secretary had a son and a daughter, all went out to work, his wife died of illness a few years ago, and he was left alone in the family.
I walked up with Mangotou, the stilted building is not big, because of the backlight in the house, I can't see it very really, but they are some old objects that I don't know how many years have been used. I found a place to sit down, and Mango Head walked around the house, and suddenly shouted, Uncle, what do you see that?
I followed his finger and saw that in the middle of the room, there was a statue, and I knew that it had been placed for many years, but just looking at it, it made me feel a chill in my heart, and a layer of goosebumps slowly rose behind my back. The statue should be a patron saint or something, but it is very weird, it is barefoot, the clothes on its body are loose, it has a big belly, and there are Buddhist beads around its neck, a bit like the Maitreya Buddha that I often see in the temple, but the head is round like beads, a pair of giant eyes are carved in the middle, and the grinning mouth shows a row of fine teeth, which is very hideous.
Such an incongruous statue, I still see it for the first time, I was trying to be bold to get closer and take a closer look, but I heard footsteps from the stairs, Luo Da Scar rubbed his hands and walked in, saw me and Mango head around the statue, smiled and asked if we were frightened, he was also startled when he saw it for the first time, every household in Yueren Village worshiped such a strange statue, asked them why, I don't know, the old branch secretary only said that this god saved our ancestors, so generations of worship and prayer.
Mango Head muttered how could someone worship an evil ghost, this doesn't look like a god.
Luo Da scar sighed and said that you better be louder, in case you are kicked out of the village, I will not help you.
I kicked the mango in the head, saying that even if I think so in my heart, don't say it, besides, China is so big, the history is so long, there are no strange totem statues, and the dragon we respect was not like this at the beginning, and it was not a patchwork piece.
We chatted for a while, and suddenly I smelled the fragrance wafting from outside the house, and all I could say was that the roast boar I had eaten that night was the best delicacy I had ever tasted in my life.