Chapter Forty-Six: The Abandoned Village
Outside the cave belongs to the range of the Yushugou Canyon, because it has been uninhabited for a long time, the canyon is overgrown with all kinds of grass and thorns, the vision is very limited, and it is difficult to walk, if it is not for the Taoist priests who have stepped out of a road before, it is impossible for us to rush to the village before dark.
The village is not far from the cave, and after about ten minutes, I have already seen the fish pond that the Taoist priest talked about, and at the same time, above the fish pond, there are many dilapidated blue-tiled houses hidden among the countless weeds taller than people, which should be the village that Yang Mengqing saw on the forest cliff that was erased by the people of Fengyang with lies.
Thinking that the school in the photo was in the deserted village in front of me, I couldn't help but get a little excited, and I hurriedly took out my camera to take pictures of the village that I could see at this time. Unfortunately, the vegetation around the village is too dense and we can see only enough of it, and the school is not in our field of vision.
When I was shooting, there was a sudden shouting and scolding of the Taoist priest below: "Alas, I damn it, I said that you two little girls are too perverted, catch fish, catch fish, and people don't recruit you to provoke you, how can you be so cruel?" ”
The Taoist priest's words were a little inexplicable, I put down the camera, and found that the Taoist priest had taken the lead when I was shooting, and he was squatting on a bluestone slab by the fish pond at this time, and his face was a little unsightly.
Yang Mengqing and Xiao Na looked puzzled, they didn't understand why the Taoist priest said this, and they hurriedly walked down, and as soon as they approached the Taoist priest's side, their faces all changed.
The stone slab where the Taoist priest was squatting was very large, most of it was blocked by the weeds in the pond, and I could only see a small part, but seeing their expressions, I knew that something strange must have happened, and hurriedly walked down.
As soon as I arrived at the Taoist priest's side, I smelled a strong fishy smell, fishy, but more bloody. I sniffed and squeezed forward, my face changing at first glance.
I saw that the slate was covered with a layer of fish carcasses, all of which were broken pieces, and some of them were mashed, and the entrails were piled up everywhere, and the blood flowed down the slate and fell into the pool, and stained the waters red.
Seeing this scene, I remembered the half of the fish I had eaten secretly when I smoked fish at noon, and my stomach suddenly churned, and I finally suppressed the feeling of vomiting, and I hurriedly asked what was going on?
Yang Mengqing and Xiao Na's faces were ugly, and even a little frightened, it was the two of them who caught a fish by the pond in the morning, and only they could explain this scene.
"This can't be! In the morning, Nana and I caught enough fish in the morning and went straight back, this, how is this possible? ”
The Taoist priest glanced at her, obviously not convinced, and pointed to the situation on the stone slab and asked, "Then how do you explain this?" It's not like these fish jump on the slate on their own and then deliberately crash themselves into this, right? ”
The two girls were so choked by the Taoist priest that they couldn't speak, and Cortana, who had a weak personality, was even more anxious and almost cried. Seeing that the Taoist priest still wanted to speak, I hurriedly stopped him and said: "Don't talk nonsense, you look at the number of these fish corpses, there are no twenty or thirty that can't get this kind of look, they have only caught this for less than half an hour in total, if you are you, can you catch so much in half an hour?" ”
When the Taoist priest heard this, he felt that it made sense, so he snorted and scolded: "Dog, it's not them, who is so disgusting?" Damn, is there anyone else who can't do this except us? ”
As soon as he said this, we all got nervous and looked around. I took a closer look at the fish corpses, and suddenly made a discovery, and hurriedly said: "It doesn't have to be done by humans, after the bear catches the fish, it will only eat the part with the highest fat content of the fish, and the rest of the fish meat will be thrown away, you look at the heads of these fish, the fish eyes are all gone, maybe there are some animals here that only eat fish eyes or a certain part of the fish's body, so the fish is divided, let's not scare ourselves." ”
As soon as they heard what I said, they hurried to look at the scattered fish heads, and when they found that this was really the case, their faces relaxed. Although I am right-headed, I have never heard of an animal that only eats fish eyes and has the ability to catch so many fish out of the water, and I always feel a shadow in my heart. Seeing that it was about to get dark, we hurriedly beckoned them not to delay here any longer, and we had to find a place to spend the night, and when it got dark, it would be troublesome.
Without further delay, we crossed the fish pond and into the dense weeds, and after some tossing and turning, we finally entered the village.
Unlike what we saw outside, the weeds in the village were also very lush, but probably due to the solid foundation, there was no grass in many places.
Due to the influence of the strange picture by the pond, we deliberately found a house that was very far away from the pond. It was a relatively well-preserved bluestone and black-tiled house, and the courtyard was completely surrounded by weeds, but there were very few weeds in the courtyard because of the stone slabs.
The bluestone and white ash wall has begun to decay after the erosion of wind and rain, and a little force can destroy it, and the courtyard gate has been rotten to the point that it is completely invisible. However, the door of the house is relatively well preserved, although it has also been eroded by the years, but because the eaves cover the rain, although the surface is full of devastation, all brown rotten spots, but the degree of decay inside is not too serious, we pushed, but it has not been pushed.
The Taoist priest patted the door panel, listened to the sound of the door shaft, and then asked Lin Qiao'er for a hairpin for hair preference, and tinkered into the crack of the door a few times, and the old wooden door creaked open.
I didn't expect the Taoist priest to have this skill of sliding the door and picking the lock, and I couldn't help but sigh: "I said, you are very skilled in this business, you are honest, what is there that you can't do?" ”
The Taoist priest glared at me and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense on dog days, sliding the door and picking the lock is a thief's behavior, Taoist I am a serious Taoist priest, and I don't bother to do that, but people in the rivers and lakes, it is always a good thing to have more skills." Come on, don't be verbose, hurry in, and while there's still a little light, hurry up and see if there's anything that can be burned, and if not, we'll have to go find firewood. ”
It was very dark in the house, so I turned on my flashlight and took a look at it, and found that although it was covered with cobwebs and dust, all kinds of furniture were arranged quite neatly, so it can be inferred that the family should have left quite calmly, and the reason for the abandonment of the village was probably not caused by sudden changes.
The floor slabs of the house were worn out, and the old rafters and black tiles of the roof could be seen through the decaying holes, and in addition to the main hall, there were four transepts in the whole house. Three of them had beds in them, but all the quilts and other things had been removed, and only the bed boards remained, which was supposed to be the living room. The other room was used for debris, and there were many bags and debris of rotting beans and rice.
As for the kitchen, it is on both sides of the courtyard outside the gate. We searched the whole house, and the Taoist priest happily found a box of cinnabar and yellow money paper in a cabinet in the living room, saying that with these two things, he would not be so passive when he encountered the corpse again.
The Taoist priest went to tinker with the drawings, and I found a few black-and-white photographs of a teenage girl in the offering table in the hall, which was very cute. I only took a cursory look at two of them, and it was completely dark, and there was no moonlight, so it was very dark.
We found some dry wood in the kitchen, lit a bonfire directly in the hall, and lit a candle from the offering table, and the hall suddenly became very bright.
Turning off the flashlight, I pulled out the photo and continued to look down. The background of the next few photos is somewhat familiar, I took a closer look, I was shocked, and hurriedly took out the group photo at the school, by comparison, I found that the background behind the little girl was the school in the group photo, but the group photo was taken outside the school, and these photos were taken in the school.
Lin Qiao'er also found out about this, her little face flushed, and she said excitedly: "It seems that the school is really here, we have come to the right place!" ”
I nodded, the little girl in the photo should be a student of that school, but I don't know why, the village and the school are deserted, and the townspeople of Fengyang Town are trying their best to hide the existence of the village, and even after that, Fengyang Town has not had its own school.
What's going on here?
Thinking about it, I went through all the things I had encountered since I came to Fengyang, trying to see if I could connect them and come up with some guesses.
First, the strange letter sent by a person named Zhang Juming from Fengyang also led us to the root of this cause of our subsequent dangers. What is the purpose of the person sending the letter? Did he send us such a letter of guidance after knowing everything that happened in Fengyang Town and the secrets behind it, hoping that we could make the situation here public?
Second, almost everything that happened in the town stemmed from the white light that emanated from the depths of the ore veins, what was that white light that would turn the town into a treacherous town full of monsters?
Third, what is the purpose of the deserted village where the townspeople are trying to hide, and why would the town prefer to let its children go to school dozens of kilometers away than build a school?
Fourth, the white light that caused the change in the town was shot from the gold mine, and the gold mine was stolen by the town mayor and the Shangli patriarch in collusion, so is the white light related to them?
These four are the four biggest mysteries in front of me at present, as long as these mysteries are solved, I believe that all the secrets can be easily solved, but the information I know now, I can't even speculate, let alone decipher.
After thinking about it for a while, I didn't have a clue, so I decided to leave it alone, since there was only a photo of the school in the letter I sent at the beginning, it means that the message that the sender wanted to convey to me must be about the school, and it is very likely that all the secrets can be solved by the school.