"All of you here, who are the same age as me, or a generation younger than me, everyone remembers Jia Xiaoyu's husband Liangwen, right? Do you remember the cause of his death? ”

The villagers listened to the village chief's words and looked at each other, and finally one of the villagers said suspiciously: "Didn't the hospital say that he died of a heart attack?" ”

The village chief sneered: "That's just Jia Xiaoyu's words, if the real truth wasn't for the old Chinese medicine doctor who inadvertently said it when I went to change the dressing, I would have been kept in the dark like you." ”

The villagers outside the courtyard were quiet, waiting for the village chief to tell the truth that he wanted to rot in his stomach and take to another world: "Liangwen was poisoned by Jia Xiaoyu. ”

As soon as this sentence was said, the crowd that had just quieted down became commotion again, and everyone was talking about "how is it possible" and "how is Aunt Jia this kind of person".

The village chief knocked on the table, saw that the crowd quieted down, and said, "Jia Xiaoyu is really such a person. When I went to the clinic to change the dressing, I was recuperating in the Chinese medicine, but I felt tightness in my chest and had some rashes, and the Chinese medicine doctor who treated me asked me if I had touched any poisonous plants recently, and also suggested that I go for an allergy test to see if I was allergic to a certain drug he prescribed. He said that he received a patient not long after he was in the clinic more than 20 years ago, and although he was a Chinese medicine doctor, he was often called to see patients in those days, when doctors were in short supply. The patient who was sent was followed by a pregnant woman with a big belly, who was also from our Beifu village, the patient had breathing problems, his face was purple, and they did not bring the patient back from the ghost gate for a long time. Judging from the patient's appearance, it was indeed a heart attack and respiratory failure, and the patient also agreed with the results given by the doctor and was ready to drag the body to the crematorium. Because she looked like a pregnant woman, the Chinese medicine doctor took pity on her and was afraid that something would happen to her, so she wanted to stay and help. But the pregnant woman kept shirking, and the last couple arrived and said that it was the pregnant woman's family, and the Chinese medicine doctor left with confidence. Because when a man dies, he has to change his shroud. As the Chinese medicine doctor urged them to leave, the family was changing the body's pants, and he faintly saw a dense rash on the corpse's legs. He could tell from experience that it was an allergic reaction after encountering the poisonous plant poison lacquer vine in the area. He saw that the patient's legs and feet were not very convenient, and he also blamed the family for not finding out about the patient's condition in time. The patient had heart paralysis caused entirely by allergies. It is directed to tachycardia and respiratory failure. He felt that the family was too irresponsible for the patient, but it was not easy for a pregnant woman to take care of the patient, so he did not blame them. At that time, the Chinese medicine doctor kindly reminded me to pay attention to the danger of allergies, but my heart suddenly cooled half. I don't think I need to say, you should know who this hero was twenty years ago, right? ”

Everyone held their breath and stopped talking. The village chief continued: "At that time, I felt like I had been hit in the head by a heavy object, and I didn't know how to meet the village with your sister-in-law Lin from the hospital. Sister-in-law Lin and I don't believe that Jia Xiaoyu is such a person. We once comforted ourselves that we were someone else, but Bei Fu Village, lame, pregnant woman, twenty years ago, I couldn't help but associate these with Liangwen and Jia Xiaoyu. Poison ivy is a plant that everyone in the village knows about its toxicity, and Liangwen will never touch this plant after so many years in Beifu Village. Then there is only one possibility that someone specially poisoned him. Jia Xiaoyu did not give Liangwen an autopsy. She also refused the doctor's help, but without any notice, a couple came to help her. back then. Liangwen had a heart attack when she sent Jia Xiaoyu to the city for a checkup, so we weren't by her side, and we can't say what happened back then. But the words that the doctor said became a pimple in my heart, and I didn't want to doubt Jia Xiaoyu, but it was too unreasonable and too strange, and I couldn't control myself. When Liangwen died, Jia Xiaoyu had a miscarriage. Who took care of her in the hospital back then, I didn't ask back then, thinking that she had just left the man and had no children. It was too hard, so I didn't ask clearly. Thinking that it might be a favor from my mother's family, now that I think about it, I was really confused back then, if my mother's family really managed it so carefully, why didn't I take my daughter back. It's suffering in our village. After speaking, the village chief smiled bitterly.

"What the hell is going on, village chief." Someone outside the courtyard was in a hurry.

The village chief glanced at the man, and then said: "But I still don't want to doubt Jia Xiaoyu, after all, she has brought children in our village for so many years, and she has no merit and hard work, but I still can't settle down." I took advantage of the second time to go to the hospital to prescribe medicine, and talked to the Chinese medicine doctor about the things of the year. The Chinese medicine practitioner who treated me recalled the couple from that time, and the appearance he described was almost the same as the first time I saw Peng Wen's parents in my memory. After listening to this, I felt that the whole strength in my body had been drained, and I always felt that what happened twenty years ago was a big scam. So I confirmed Jia Xiaoyu's condition with the hospital again. Because if it is a miscarriage, the hospital must have a record, but the records in the hospital can only be entrusted to the judicial agency to check except for myself and my immediate family, and I have no way to call the police to check whether the person has a miscarriage, but I am not at ease if there is no result. The doctor told me that he was sure that he had not seen Jia Xiaoyu again in the hospital, there were not many people here, and there were not many doctors, and he had always been very impressed by Jia Xiaoyu, and if he appeared in the hospital again, he would not know about it. So he didn't know what happened to Jia Xiaoyu later, which deepened my suspicion of Jia Xiaoyu. In the end, after Lao Liang died, what happened to Jia Xiaoyu, I especially want to know the truth. So I had the idea of trying my luck, and when I went to the doctor later, I showed the doctor the photo of Peng Wen's parents who came to the village for registration, and the doctor immediately recognized Peng Wen's parents as the couple who helped Jia Xiaoyu dispose of Lao Liang's body. I feel that a mouthful of blood stuck in my heart took a long time to get my way, and now that I think about it, since Lao Liang married Jia Xiaoyu, they have planned to move to our village step by step without being noticed. I thought that Lao Liang would avenge him, and a good thing turned out to be for his life. As he spoke, the village chief slammed the table hard.

The young man who was talking outside just now asked again: "Then what are they trying to do in our village?" Aren't we, poor and remote, guilty of coming here? ”

The old village chief almost wanted to open his mouth, but finally swallowed his words back. But the aunt next to her spoke: "Wife, now that we can't hide it, let's tell the villagers, since Jia Xiaoyu and they can know, sooner or later the people in the village will also know." ”

The villagers also persuaded the village chief to tell the truth: "Village chief, tell us the truth." Now you're confusing us all. ”

The village chief sat in the wheelchair with his head down for a while, and then raised his head to look at the group again, and after a while, he nodded as if he had made up his mind. He looked at us again. "If I tell it, will you keep it a secret for me?" ”

Li Jing hesitated for a moment, but still nodded. Seeing that Li Jing and us agreed, the village chief opened his mouth again: "The legend of our village." You should be familiar with it, right? ”

"Isn't that a lie to a child?" The villagers below discussed.

The village chief shook his head and asked Li Jing if he could go back to the house to get something, and after getting the consent of several policemen, Li Jing pushed the village chief into the house. The village chief's house was simple but clean, in a chest of drawers. The village chief took out a wooden box that had lost its paint, but the carved patterns on the wrapped decorative iron sheet showed its former delicacy and beauty. Putting the box on his lap, the village chief motioned for Li Jing to push him out. Outside there was a commotion because of the village chief's temporary departure, and after the village chief eleven villagers quieted down, they spoke: "It's true." The legend of our village is true, but it is not the descendant of Belle Ye, but a Qing Dynasty admiral who was hiding everywhere to avoid the pursuit of the enemy. ”

"What does that have to do with Jia Xiaoyu's death?"

"Jia Xiaoyu, they found out the secret. At that time, I knew that Jia Xiaoyu and Peng Wen and his wife had a private relationship. I quietly investigated their affairs in private. Because when Peng Wen's family entered our village at that time, the household registration system was not strictly managed, and I took pity on them with a child, so I took them in the village. Peng Wen was less than a year old when he entered the village, and I confirmed with the Chinese medicine doctor that the wife of the couple who helped Jia Xiaoyu deal with the aftermath of Lao Liang had no signs of pregnancy, so who would this child be? I think you should have guessed it, I remember everyone once jokingly said that Peng Wen doesn't look like the Peng family, but is a little similar to a good old man. At that time, the Peng family was very resistant to our jokes, and I just thought it was too rude to be our jokes. But I didn't expect that Peng Wen was really Lao Liang's son. I secretly let the children go to the real yàn room of the university to do the real yàn, and the children sued sù me real yàn, and the two of them turned out to be very good, I am mother and son. So I confirmed my conjecture even more, Jia Xiaoyu did give birth to a child back then. But I didn't raise it myself, but let the Peng family raise it on my behalf, but I never figured out the reason for letting others raise it. It wasn't until I found out the identity of Peng Wen's parents before they came to the village that I learned how they approached the village step by step for the camp. ”

"I wonder what is the secret that a mother can abandon even her own son." Li Jing voiced the doubts for the villagers.

The village chief did not speak, and silently opened the box in his hand. There were several yellowed sheets of paper in the box, only one of which was faintly illegible. The village chief showed the picture to the villagers with trembling hands. Everyone squinted and looked at it for a long time and couldn't see the reason, so they had to ask the village chief: "Village chief, what is written on it?" ”

The village chief sighed: "It's Jia Xiaoyu, they still have the treasure that the people who have come to the village have been looking for recently." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar outside the courtyard, and Li Jing took the thin yellowed piece of paper from the village chief's hand and looked at it carefully, this paper was full of dense instructions. The village chief looked out of the door and said, "It's true that the admiral did hide the spoils of war back then, but. The village chief glanced meaningfully outside the door, "If you really want to know what that box of treasures is, come with me." ”

In fact, there are not many people who really follow the village chief to dig treasures, and along the way, the village chief sat in a wheelchair and told us what happened next: "Jia Xiaoyu has been pretending to be crazy and stupid for more than 20 years, in fact, she just hopes that people will not pay too much attention to her, she keeps taking care of the children, in fact, she hopes to be able to get out the secrets of the treasures of Beifu Village from the children's mouths." In order to protect their own secrets, Beifu Village will choose to keep the village guards, and our village chief is in turn to be the head of each family, but there can only be one village keeper, and there is only one village keeper who has formulated the next section of the village keepers, and the secrets can only be known by the village keepers themselves. The village keeper is not allowed to leave the village for the rest of his life, and he keeps his secret until he is old, and the village keeper in this area is actually my brother, but my brother left the village overnight because he wanted to go outside the village to see, and the position of the village keeper was passed to me. Although everyone now knows about the village keepers, no one except the old man knows what we do. I thought that in this way, the secrets of the village would slowly disappear into everyone's memory over time. And I was going to take this secret to my grave, but I found out that I was wrong, and my brother went out of the village and inadvertently told the secret to outsiders. So people flock to this village to find the legendary treasure. ”

"But what happened to your brother?" I don't seem to see the village chief's brother.

The village chief's expression suddenly became hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said, "My brother is dead. ”

Dead, I was shocked, and I got up: "Yes." Sorry, I didn't know that's the case. ”

The village chief's expression calmed down and waved his hand at me: "Don't take it to heart, my brother has died a long time ago, and was killed by Peng Wen's parents twenty years ago." I also knew about it when I killed Peng Wen's parents later, so I guess I avenged my brother. Speaking of this, the village chief suddenly stood up from his wheelchair, he turned his head to Li Jing and said, "Actually, I can walk." ”

"I know." Li Jing stopped the wheelchair in his hand, "I'm a doctor." ”

The village chief walked a little further, pointed to a piece of hibiscus, and said, "Dig here." ”

Several villagers while digging the ground. The village chief turned his head and continued to talk about his own affairs: "The day I killed Jia Xiaoyu, I happened to know that Jia Xiaoyu was Peng Wen's mother, and I just wanted to ask her what was going on. But because of a bad premonition in my heart, the devil sent the gods, so I threw a drugged meat bun to Kuroko before entering the house. Dogs in the countryside eat roughly, and when they see meat buns, they feel like they are dead. When I went to ask Jia Xiaoyu, I thought she would be submissive, but I don't know what's going on, she suddenly became crazy and sneered and said I finally went to find her. also said that he came to Beifu Village just to find the treasure, and marrying a good old man is also a good old man is a village keeper, so when he found out that the good old man is not a village keeper. The juice of poison ivy pierced into the veins of the good old man. At that time, the medical level could not do a more complete autopsy, so the good old man was cremated with a heart attack. It's really blind to the good old man's sincerity to her. Speaking of this, the village chief's expression was angry and sad, which made people feel inexplicably sad. Seeing that we were all looking at him, the village chief continued: "She said that the reason why she took care of those children was to find out if there were village guards in their families under the guise of losing them. In her, after a long investigation, she finally locked on me as the person she was looking for, and she was still planning how to find out the secret from me, but I passed that day, just in time to give him an opportunity. She also laughed at me for being as incompetent as my brother, showing off that she was stupid for two generations of village guards at once, and it was the heavens that helped her get the treasure, the more I listened, the more angry I became, she didn't know that I was actually a healthy person, so when she attacked me, she saw me stand up and fight back, she was stunned in place, the anger in my heart made me completely lose my mind, and I killed Jia Xiaoyu by mistake. I don't know why people can brutally kill others for the sake of inexplicable legends, I'm so angry, looking at Jia Xiaoyu, I'm like looking at a demon I don't know, I stabbed her with a knife several times like crazy, and when I regained my senses, I really didn't know what to do. I threw Jia Xiaoyu into the dry well in her backyard, and took the sunspot out of the village and into this hibiscus field. I was here at the time. He pointed to the place where Li Jing picked up the piece of iron, "I tripped over it here and found that it was a piece of clothing, but the sunspot had already shown signs of sobriety, probably asking me about the smell of blood on my hands, although I didn't open my eyes and bit indiscriminately, I stuffed the clothes into its mouth, but I didn't expect to bite off a piece of fabric on the sleeve." At that time, it was like I could use this to frame the Peng family, these people who hurt my villagers for the so-called treasure. The village chief's tone was firm.

The villagers dug up two coffins that had been ruined, and opened the coffins, revealing the white bones of each village. Everyone present was stunned. The village chief pointed to a coffin and said, "This is the Admiral's treasure." ”

The village chief later told the origin of the treasure, when the general led people to fight, the war was fought very hard, the general almost died on the battlefield, the admiral could not be called the admiral at that time, he was a teenager who served in the army for his father, his father died of illness in the early days of the war, so the real admiral was his father, but in order to stabilize the heart of the army, he has always said that the admiral is still alive. And the boy stared at his father's name and continued to fight. During one mission, the Admiral met an enemy girl, but the boy was injured and took him home to be secretly healed. The Admiral has been without a mother since he was a child. Spent in the military camp as a child, he had never been cared for so gently, and soon the admiral fell in love with the girl, and later fell in love with the girl, but at that time, the shape shì did not allow the two to love each other at all. After the war, the girl became a prisoner and was to be sent to the frontier, and the admiral could not bear the fate of the woman in the future, nor did he want to go around fighting against her will. One night he rescued the maiden and fled with a few of his war-weary men all the way to the village, where he settled down. The imperial court was furious when they learned of this situation, and the people who had long been displeased with the governor's father and son were stirring up the situation behind their backs, and the emperor ordered the governor to be arrested on charges of embezzlement of military salaries and self-theft. But it's too remote to get there. So I didn't live until they didn't stay. However, the room is rumored to have escaped to a secret place with a large amount of treasure. After his wife's death, the Admiral buried his wife with his own hands and planted a large number of hibiscus flowers on his wife's grave, and Gradient has always believed that the hibiscus flowers in the morning and twilight are as tenacious and eternal as the love between him and the girl. Later, when the Admiral died, the descendants buried them together. Since then, generation after generation of village guards have been elected, in fact, to take care of their graves from outside interference, and to protect the gradient of precious love with the rising sun.

After telling the story, the old man laughed mockingly: "It is true that the Admiral has hidden priceless treasures in this village, but the world only thinks that they are worldly things like gold, silver and jewelry. Who would have thought that for the Admiral, the real treasure is the innocent love of his youth, the warmth of his companionship in middle age, and the peace of the rest of his life. In the past few years, the treasures of Beifu Village have been spread vigorously, and everyone is digging out their hearts to find treasures. But no one really valued the most important treasure. Because of greed, people have suffered enough crimes, my brother died because of treasures, good old men died because of treasures, Jia Xiaoyu and Peng Wen's parents also died because of wealth, there are really too many people who have died. If I don't say it, there will be many more people who will lose their lives because they don't have any gold and silver treasures, so I also figured out that instead of hiding them, it is better to tell you the truth, and give the Admiral and his lover a peaceful peace. ”

"I have one last question." Li Jing waited for the village chief to finish speaking before asking him, "Then why did you kill Peng Wen?" ”

The village chief shook his head: "I didn't kill Peng Wen. ”

"But." Peng Wen's cause of death is the same as Liangwen's death, isn't it your revenge?

Seeing the doubt in my eyes, the village chief smiled bitterly: "He is Lao Liang's son, how can I be a killer?" ”

"That." Why did Peng Wen die?

"Peng Wen was killed by his adoptive parents." The village chief said the second half of the words quietly, "Back then, I created an opportunity for Peng Wen to escape from the village just so that Lao Liang could protect his descendants from being killed by the people in the village who wanted revenge at that time. But I missed people's greed, Peng Wen's adoptive parents and Jia Xiaoyu were a group of wanted tomb robbers before they came to Beifu Village, Peng Wen's adoptive father was indeed Jia Xiaoyu's own brother named Jia En, and he lived incognito in Beifu Village in order to find the so-called large number of treasures. I still thought too little at the time, Jain could kill Lao Liang, and he would also kill Peng Wen for the treasure, and they were not Peng Wen's biological parents. They thought that Peng Wen escaped because he knew the secret of the treasure and wanted to swallow it alone, so he repeated the old trick, but they finally found out that Peng Wen really didn't know anything, and they didn't dare to go back to the village. That's why I said 'retribution'. ”

After listening to the story of the two cases, my whole body froze in place, I didn't expect the truth of the matter to be so bleak, I looked at the two white bones on the ground, and suddenly had an urge to cry, human beings are constantly looking for more treasures because of greed, but when they are looking for it, are they also losing more precious things? Isn't it a greater sadness that we are always chasing what we can't get, even at the expense of wasting our most precious feelings, and we become nothing in the blind pursuit?

A month later, with the help of Shi Hao's brother, the police finally captured Jain and his wife, they haven't seen each other for a long time, they just looked at each other indifferently when they met in court, money has blinded them, greed has numbed their hearts, they are still alive, but their souls have been burned forever and disappeared, they have been searching for treasures all their lives, but they have lost their most important treasures in the whirlpool of **, which is the biggest irony for them. (To be continued.) )

PS: This story is over, the story was written at the beginning on my birthday, and slowly wrote to the end, each story is a piece of my own understanding in my own growth. There's something I want to express, there's my perspective on the world. I am lucky enough to be able to come to this world, so cherish everyone around me, learn to love yourself, learn to love this world, and I believe that you will definitely find the only treasure that belongs to you.