"Master, how do you know what Madame said to them?" How can it be connected so well?

Fan Shenxi glanced at Eleven: "When you marry a daughter-in-law in the future, you will naturally know." ”

Eleven pouted, can he still marry a daughter-in-law in his life?

Back at their residence, Xiao Shi and Eleven immediately went to boil hot water, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Xiao Hachi take a hot bath, and then drank a bowl of hot ginger soup each, Xiao Hachi silently walked around the front and back of the house, making sure that no one else was close to them to eavesdrop or watch, and then returned to the main house.

"What the hell is going on?"

Qiu Xiaobei sat beside Fan Shenxi, watching his body temperature return to normal, and there was no problem with his pulse, so he had the heart to ask this worrying question.

After Xiaoba got Fan Shenxi's signal, he said everything he saw with a straight look.

Downstream to the bottom of the river, they came to a stone chamber, not a natural cave or a mine, but a man-made stone chamber, the rectangular stone chamber was a bit like an underground water channel, and in the middle there was a canal that connected the water to the underground river, and they came out of the canal and went ashore.

There is an arch there, and behind the arch is a long walkway, which is really long, at least Xiaoba and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have walked for a long time, and they don't dare to speed up casually in such a place.

They had just come out of the water, and in the end, the water stains were frozen on them, so you can imagine how low the temperature was there.

Both of them were naked, and if it weren't for their deep internal strength, they wouldn't have been able to stay for a quarter of an hour, so they walked down with their support, and finally encountered two closed ice doors.

I don't know what the ice door is made of, the tentacles are extremely cold, put your hand for a while, it will freeze your hand on the door, Xiao Ba touched it, and was pulled down by Fan Shenxi, the ice door seems to be crystal clear but can't see through it at all, I don't know what is inside the door.

There is a strangely shaped keyhole on the door that requires a key to open.

At that time, the two of them were already freezing and couldn't stand it, and they were worried about whether Qiu Xiaobei had something to do, so they had to retreat first.

"Behind the ice gate, there must be something hidden, this nameless village, there must be some secret."

Fan Shenxi calmly and calmly added: "I guess, that strange army is probably in this village, and it is not hidden among the villagers." ”

"You mean, they're being hidden by the people here?"

The shadow guards cultivated by Fan Shenxi will not only obey orders, they will also think about problems on their own and ask questions: "The reason why they are called wonder soldiers, they will never be easily controlled, master, if they are quietly hidden, is it possible that they have ...... dead, only bones remain?"

Eleven's brain opened: "Could this be a black village, doing the business of killing people and selling human flesh?" Are they the ones who killed the predecessors of the Wonder Troop? And then they have been lying to us, waiting for us to let down their guard, and also wiped us off? ”

Xiao Shi pressed Eleven's head, trying to shut him up.

Fan Shenxi didn't refute Eleven's words, he felt that before the matter was clarified, any possibility existed: "Find a way to find the key to the ice door, I want to know what is behind the ice door." ”

He had a hunch that it was the crux of the whole puzzle.

So, where to start?

Naturally, it starts with the village chief.

Coincidentally, the village is going to have a festival, called the Spring Festival, which means the festival of hope, it is a festival that belongs to the nameless village, everyone will kill chickens and sheep, make many tributes to the altar to worship, the villagers will also organize their own programs, which also includes dragon and lion dances, girls will dance, sing, pour the night, and put Kong Ming lanterns...... All in all, at the end of the day, it was very lively.

Secretly rummaged through the village chief's house several times, but did not find the key that matched the keyhole of the ice door, Fan Shenxi and others had to focus on this festival.

On the day of the festival, the altar that is closed all year round will be opened, and every family will participate, whether it is to get into the altar, or to find clues from all the villagers, or to rummage through the villagers' homes while they are all out, or even to take advantage of this annual festival to get to know the village well, etc., it is a good opportunity.

The night before, the hard-working village women prepared a few of them beautiful clothes that could participate in the festival, for the sake of Qiu Xiaobei's pregnancy, and also helped them prepare food to worship, and when they came to the square in front of the altar on the day of the Spring Festival, they mixed with the villagers of Nameless Village, at that moment, they seemed to have become a member of Nameless Village, and in the future, they would live here with everyone for a long time until they died.

This kind of thought came out of nowhere, and Eleven made a cold sudden, looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the others, and found that their faces were not very good at that moment.

The altar is in a small fortress, and around the fortress is a large square, around which there are many tables with various offerings, and complete pigs, cattle and sheep are placed on top.

Everyone waited outside the fortress-like stone house, until the bell rang and opened it slowly, Eleven and the others quietly hidden, Fan Shenxi hugged Qiu Xiaobei, and slowly walked in with the crowd, avoiding her from touching others.

Now, as long as he doesn't run fast, he walks like an ordinary person.

They walked into a large hall, the main hall was very large, it could hold hundreds of people, the walls of the main hall were hexagonal, except for the door, the other six walls had several carved lattices, and in each lattice there was a stone statue, counting, nearly twenty-five lattices, there were twenty-five stone statues.

These stone statues, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, posed in a fighting posture, but they had blue faces and fangs, and black faces, red faces, and blue faces, all of them without exception had fierce faces, and standing in front of them, one could feel an awe-inspiring aura rushing towards them.

It looks very intimidating during the day, and if you want to come here alone at night, if nothing else, these stone statues alone can scare the faint of heart into tears.

The nameless village is really strange, picking the Spring Festival well, such a festival with a full meaning, is actually here to pay homage to these terrible stone statues?

Qiu Xiaobei touched his arm a little coldly, and when he turned his head, he saw Fan Shenxi looking at those stone statues very seriously, looking at him like that, as if he knew these stone statues, he asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?" ”

Fan Shenxi patted her back with a faint smile and said It's nothing, this will be a lot of people, Qiu Xiaobei didn't ask more in understanding.

"Xianggong Fan, Mrs. Fan," the village woman who had been in contact with Qiu Xiaobei and them in the past few days came over when she saw them, and spoke to them in a low voice, "You guys are here, eh, why didn't you see your other three brothers?" ”

"They're fun," Qiu Xiaobei smiled politely, "I don't know where to play, it's so lively today, let them go, I can't care." ”

"It's better to take care of it," the village woman who has always been enthusiastic, but she is very serious today, "Don't let them scare away, this Tianci house can't run around, and many places can't be entered, otherwise, it will be a taboo." ”

The Heavenly House is the small fortress-like stone house where they are currently located, that is, the place where the altar is located, but as soon as they enter, they are led into this large hall, and they have not seen the so-called altar yet.

"Why, is there anything in there?" Qiu Xiaobei asked curiously.

"If you can't go in, you can't go in, where are there so many whys, people, just live well, too much curiosity will only kill yourself."

"How can people not have any curiosity at all, so what is the meaning of living?"

The woman looked at her, and tried to say something with a disapproving expression, when the bell rang again.

Hearing the bell, the woman didn't care about anything else, and urged Qiu Xiaobei and the two: "It's started, hurry, kneel quickly." ”

With that, she had already found a place and, along with the other villagers, knelt down towards the wall directly opposite the door.

Qiu Xiaobei looked at Fan Shenxi, this His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never knelt down to anyone, and now he wants him to kneel down to something inexplicable?

However, Fan Shenxi's endurance and acceptance were better than she imagined, he spread a face towel on the ground, and then helped the big-bellied Qiu Xiaobei to sit down carefully, lifted the hem of his long clothes, and knelt down.

Facing Qiu Xiaobei's distressed eyes, he smiled indifferently.

The bell rang several times in succession, and all the people who entered the hall had already knelt down, except for Fan Shenxi and Qiu Xiaobei, at a glance, everyone's expressions were very religious.

Hearing the sound of "click", they quietly looked up and saw that the wall they were facing had opened, revealing the space behind the main hall.

Qiu Xiaobei and Fan Shenxi finally saw the appearance of the altar.

There, there are two hexagonal discs, the horns and corners are staggered together, and there is a stone statue of a woman in the middle, compared with the stone statue outside, this stone statue of a woman is larger, but the face is much more normal, but the carved facial features are more blurred, and the real appearance cannot be seen, but after Fan Shenxi saw it, he could vaguely see the familiar feeling from the blurred facial features.

The woman is wearing a crown on her head, the crown is real, very delicate and beautiful, a long needle in the middle is crowned with a beautiful gem, and she is wearing a dress like armor and a skirt, which reminds Qiu Xiaobei of the queen's dress in her "hometown" game, sexy and beautiful, and the female stone statue in front of her is more solemn.

In her hand, she held something like a funnel, and the opening was like a bowl in her hand, and one end of the tip extended to the bottom of the stone plate, and she didn't know where it would continue to lead.

The entire altar has a simple and heavy atmosphere, Qiu Xiaobei's feelings are even deeper, she feels that the surrounding fierce and evil stone statues, combined with the evil aura, is not as deep as this altar.

She couldn't tell why this feeling came from, obviously the stone statue woman gave her a good feeling, but the whole altar added up, it was full of evil.

She couldn't help but move towards Fan Shenxi, getting closer to him, and using his vigorous yang and dragon qi to suppress the cold evil qi.

Fan Shenxi didn't know what was wrong with her, so he didn't want to ask much in this situation, so he just took her hand and covered her slightly cold hand in his hand.

As soon as he finished doing this, he saw someone walk forward, and when he saw it, it was the village chief Hu Lao who was wearing a priest's robe, he walked to the disc, bowed his head to the female stone statue, and recited the scriptures with his hands in handprints reverently, only to hear the sound of "click", the two hexagonal discs overlapped, and they turned in different directions, and there were small holes on the disc, and those holes emitted red beams of light with the rotation of the disc. can see that everyone doesn't dare to breathe one by one, lying on the ground and not daring to move, this is the impact of the evil qi on them.

After the village chief finished reciting the "Sutra", he turned around, and the place where he stood was the center of the disc, and the periphery of the disc was rotating, and it was still stable.

His face is not as amiable as before, solemn, more cold, and arrogant, just like the same leather face, but actually two people.

"Let's get started." After he said these three words indifferently, the villager who knelt in front stood up, still hunched and jumped onto the disc, Hu Lao took out a dagger inlaid with gems from his wide sleeve and handed it to the villager, the villager came to the female stone statue, made a cut in the palm of his hand, and then the palm was against the long funnel in the hand of the female stone statue, and the blood dripped from the mouth of the bowl drop by drop.

It took about ten drops of blood to stop, and the villager got off the disc and another villager walked up and repeated the action of the previous one, dripping ten drops of blood into the funnel.

The villagers kneeling in the hall went up one by one in an orderly manner, and then came down one by one to kneel again, when they came in here before, children were not allowed to come in, Qiu Xiaobei didn't understand why, but now he understands a little.

If even the child had to bleed, it would be too much of a funeral.

Everyone moved quickly, and the action of cutting the wound was fast and decisive, so the speed was very fast, and it didn't take long for Qiu Xiaobei and Fan Shenxi's turn.

The village chief looked at them, and his solemn face softened slightly: "Although you are new here, I also hope that the goddess can bless you." ”

As he spoke, he pointed his dagger at them, apparently asking them to go up and bleed them too.

Qiu Xiaobei shrank back to Fan Shenxi, she didn't want to harm herself, she slashed into the palm of her hand, how painful it was.

Fan Shenxi hugged her and said calmly to Hu Lao: "She has been pregnant for more than eight months, it is really not suitable to bleed, next time, I haven't come over for so many years, next year, let the goddess bless her." ”

"Then come on." The direction of the dagger in Hu Lao's hand turned to Fan Shenxi, "As her husband, your devotional goddess can feel it, let her bless your child to come into the world safely." ”

Qiu Xiaobei immediately grabbed Fan Shenxi when she heard this, she was afraid of pain, and naturally she didn't want Fan Shenxi to cut a knife on herself.

Fan Shenxi patted the back of her hand soothingly: "Don't worry, it'll be fine for a while." ”

In Qiu Xiaobei's round eyes, he pulled away her hand, got up and walked towards the disc, he didn't walk fast, but everyone would only think that he was elegant and calm, and they wouldn't think that there was something wrong with his legs.

With a small light skill, he landed steadily in the disc, and as a result, Hu Lao's dagger was cut in his hand, and his own blood was also dripped into the funnel, seeing Qiu Xiaobei biting his lower lip, obviously his face was calm and indifferent, and she was as painful as if she was scratching herself.

Fan Shenxi, like everyone else, dripped about ten drops of blood: "It's enough." ”

Village Chief Hu nodded, and made a "please" gesture to let Fan Shenxi go down, Fan Shenxi seemed to be curious before leaving, glanced at the stone statue of the goddess at close range, and got off the disc without any change on his face, and returned to Qiu Xiaobei's side.

Qiu Xiaobei immediately grabbed his hand, sprinkled the medicine powder to stop bleeding and relieve pain on his wound, and blew it for him.

The distressed little appearance made Fan Shenxi laugh: "It's okay, it's just a little injury." ”

Qiu Xiaobei glared at him, but in the current situation, she couldn't say anything "indecent", and it would be bad if she was regarded as an ungodly person.

The villagers behind them, continuing to maintain their previous speed, went up to the disc, bled out, got off the disc, and the other went up, and continued for a while, and after the people in the main hall—who were just adults and under fifty—bowed to the goddess with their palms up, the bell rang again, and everyone slowly withdrew from the main hall according to the rhythm of the bell.

As soon as they left the main hall, or rather, left the Tianci House, the villagers with strict faces just now, like puppets, immediately regained their familiar warm smiles, and everyone arranged the sacrifices prepared early around the Tianci House, the gongs and drums sounded, and the arranged festivals began to be arranged, everyone talked and laughed, from the cold atmosphere to festive and lively, Qiu Xiaobei said that he was a little maladapted.

After a while, Qiu Xiaobei couldn't hold on, she was getting more and more tired now, and urinating frequently, and after being so scared on the altar just now, this would be a little untidy, and she would be sleepy after a little trouble, Fan Shenxi said goodbye to the villagers who had been chatting with them around her, and took Qiu Xiaobei back to their temporary home.

After going back, Xiaobei took a nap, and Eleven and Thirteen came back.

Everywhere they could, they all went around, focusing on checking the village chief's house, and the Tianci House was also mixed in, but except for the main hall, the rest was locked, and they opened one or two rooms while no one was paying attention, but there was nothing else except the stone statue.

Qiu Xiaobei looked directly at Fan Shenxi, his expression in the main hall, maybe others couldn't see anything, but she could sense that something was wrong: "Did you find something?" ”

"In the main hall, the clothes on those stone statues are a bit like the armor worn by the generals of the Great Fan Dynasty more than twenty years ago."

Qiu Xiaobei blinked in surprise: "Could it be a coincidence?" ”

Fan Shenxi turned his fingers on his hand, and his slightly drooping eyes had a cold light: "The stone statue of that goddess, although the face is carved a little blurred, can ...... In silhouette, it looks a bit like the queen mother. ”

Before the brain finished analyzing this sentence, Qiu Xiaobei's hand had already spontaneously held Fan Shenxi's.

I'm a good girl, the clothes of the generals of the Dafan Dynasty, like the queen's goddess stone statue, if this is not a coincidence, the matter is a bit big, think about it, the people of the nameless village will not worship a "goddess" for no reason, it must be the so-called goddess What did she do, if this goddess is really her mother-in-law, then what did her mother-in-law do, not only engaged in such a battle, but also let every participating villager cut blood and donate blood, it is just the same as a cult, which is completely different from the heroic female marshal in her mind.

As a son, what should Fan Shenxi think?

"Coincidence, sure coincidence." Qiu Xiaobei nodded firmly, whether it was a coincidence or not, it must be a coincidence, and she didn't believe that how it was possible for so many marshals who were admired by so many people and who were willing to follow him all his life to do such a thing.

Fan Shenxi smiled faintly to reassure Qiu Xiaobei not to be so nervous: "Whether the statue of the goddess is related to my queen mother is secondary, but I found the key to the ice door on this statue of the goddess." ”

At this moment, even the immobile Xiaoba lifted his eyelids.

Fan Shenxi moved his wrist: "The next target, the crown on the head of the goddess statue on the altar of the Heavenly Gift House." ”

"Yes!"

……

The Spring Festival will be lively for five days, and the middle-aged people in the village will take turns to enter the main hall to bleed, until the village except for the children, and the old people who are too old to walk fast, will enter the main hall once.

After five days, the house will be closed again, and it will not be reopened until the next year's Spring Festival, which will be closed for a whole year.

Therefore, if you want to get the crown of the goddess statue, you must do it within these five days, but even if everyone goes back to rest at night, there will be people keeping vigil inside and outside the Tianci house, because you have to keep an oil lamp to ensure that the oil lamp will not be extinguished within five days.

After a few days of observation, they found that there are several strong farmers in the nameless village of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and there are several strong farmers with good martial arts, but think about it, there are so many legends in Wuxue Mountain, which will definitely attract people to come, and those who can see through the platform above the ice lake are not necessarily the only ones, so it is not unusual for there to be martial arts masters who can not go out after entering the nameless village and can only stay here.

What's more, it's hard to say what the Nameless Village represents behind it, maybe it's the headquarters of some force hidden here.

Therefore, it is not that they are afraid that they will not be able to beat the vigil, but that they are afraid that they will be frightened and that the whole village will attack them in groups, and if they want to get the crown of the statue of the goddess, they have to think in the long run.

On the night of the fourth day, Fan Shenxi was making the final arrangements and was preparing to act, but there was a noise outside, Xiao Shi went out to check and asked a villager who had run by, and the villager said that someone had broken into the Tianci House and gone to the altar.

Fan Shenxi heard the news, and raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, but he was not in a hurry, and thought about it carefully, there are three kinds of situations now, either the nameless village deliberately staged such a play in front of a few of their outsiders, or there were people with similar thoughts to them, hidden among the villagers, and went out tonight.

"What about the third case?" Eleven asked.

Xiao Shi frowned: "Someone, following us, entered the nameless village together, but hid and did not appear." ”

"So what do we do now?"

"What should I do?" Fan Shen snorted coldly, "What do you say, do you want to give the key to others?" ”

The noise outside became louder and louder, Fan Shenxi buckled the table, and finally said: "Let's go, since you are already a member of the Nameless Village, you naturally have to help catch the thief." ”