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Holding an umbrella with light blue bamboo, Xiao Rin came to the original town cultural center.

"Hello, I'm Xiao Rin. Walking into the open office, Rin greeted a woman sitting in a chair, "I said hello to Mr. Li yesterday, could you please take me to the archives?"

"Oh, you're Miss Xiao, please here. Because Xiao Rin had already informed the owner of this cultural center, she received a notice from the leader last night and came to the office early: "Miss Xiao is younger than I thought, I thought that only those old men were interested in the information here." ”

The caretaker of the town's cultural center is an idle job, except for some old people who plan to study or simply see, there is no one here who comes, and she usually spends very little time here. It was a bit of a surprise that a young girl like Rin would be interested in such stale material.

"Hehe, I've been free lately, and I want to see the history of the town and learn about this town where I grew up. ”

"That's right, but it's still too few young people like you now. ”

As the two chatted, they went to the archive room on the third floor.

"It's cold. Turning on the fluorescent lamp, the middle-aged woman tightened her clothes.

The archives room was not air-conditioned and somewhat cold.

The room where the town's archives are stored is quite large, and the room is generally bright under the fluorescent lamp.

Aside from the bookshelves and bookshelves, this is the first impression of this room on Rin.

The shelves for the archives are densely packed, and the space left in the middle can only allow one person to walk sideways.

"I'm really sorry, some of the humanities materials stored in this place from a long time ago in the town, because they are not very useful, so no one has sorted them out, and there is no other place to spare...... Over time, this is what it is. The middle-aged woman glanced at Rin apologetically and explained.

"That's what you need over there,"

"It's okay, I can find it slowly. ”

"Well, that's good, I have some things to go first, help me close the door when you leave. Hehe, there's nothing important here, but if something is gone, I'll be a little nerve-wracking. With a few words, the middle-aged woman left the pile-up archive room.

Through the windows of the archive room, you can see that the spiraling maelstrom over the town continues.

The winter rain did not stop, and the thunder was gusting

This abnormal weather makes people feel a little more uneasy out of thin air, and it adds a layer of weirdness to this cold winter.

.........

Rin sat down at a desk with a pile of old books in her arms, and by the light of the fluorescent lamp, she calmed down and flipped through them.

Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it has been more than two hours. Xiao Rin stretched lazily and changed to a more comfortable position. From the mountains of books piled up on her desk, it is clear that she consulted a lot of information, but very few that were really useful...... The ones on the table are either local or extremely unreliable.

For example, there were several officials in the town, and there was a concubine in the town during the Qianlong period.

For another example, in a certain year, the good people in the town paid for the construction of the bridge. So-and-so, in a certain year, repaired the ancestral hall for the clan. The biggest thing in this is that during the Hongwu period, there was no one Tanhualang in the town. And for Xiao Rin, these are just small things.

I don't know why, but now Rin can't help but think of Xiao Yin...... That little girl will always organize all the information she needs and organize it into a clear file in front of her eyes.

'Alas... I really want to exchange Xiaoli and Ning for Xiao Yin back~~' Closing the thick book in his hand, Rin couldn't help but think like this. Ahem, after a long afternoon of searching, she finally found some information about the temple of the Linguist in the "Brief Notes on Ancient Divine Affairs".

The town has the blessing of God, people feel its virtue, in the east of the estuary, tree a temple.

The general meaning of this note is that a long time ago, a time before the beginning of the story, the town was still just a small village. This not fertile land is guarded by a god who works hard every day to help the people of that small village.

Help regulate the wind and rain to make their crops harvested, and predict and protect the villagers from disasters and multiply.

Over time, this small village, which was originally very barren, gradually gathered some people to live there.

Gradually, gradually, the home was born.

There is no record of the specific length of these years, and after the production and life of the village people gradually go out of all the heavens, there are gradually fewer complaints about the gods. In addition to offering incense to the estuary temple during the New Year's holidays, it gradually fades out of people's field of vision.

However, about three hundred years ago, there were traces again.

At the end of summer and autumn, under the circumstance that everyone does not know, a powerful flood will come.

It is recorded that during that period it rained for a month, and the water upstream was fierce. The villagers have many dreams at night, and many floods are seen. But ah, even if some people had already known the warning from the god in their dreams, they were still not prepared enough, and the embankment they built could not stop the raging flood.

Increasing floodwaters poured into the town, leaving streets, houses, and farmland in the water.

Just when the flood was about to destroy the village when it was about to break the protective levee, a boulder rising above the mouth of the river rolled down for no apparent reason, blocking the raging flood and causing it to flow in other directions.

That night, many people in the village dreamed of such a scene.

A little girl, standing barefoot by the river, with a monstrous flood behind her. When everyone was desperate, she knocked down the dragon stone, which had been left to the wind and rain and had not changed at all, to stop the flood.

The village was saved from the flood, but the boulder that blocked the mouth of the river was gone.

In honor of this life-saving stone, a temple was built in its original place

A small idol of a god enshrined.

It's a simple legend, but that's where the temple came from.

.........

It was nearly noon, and Rin left the town cultural center.

"Sister, come and eat, today my mother bought your favorite pine fish. As soon as she entered the house, Xiaoying hurriedly ran over, grabbed her hand and walked to the dining table.

"Little liar, obviously I like to eat!"

Picking up his sister, Rin pulled her tender cheeks and pulled them out.

"Wow, let go, mom help, my sister bullied me!!"

"Aha, if you call it again, the gift will be gone. With that, Rin pulled it out of her pocket, revealing a corner of the chocolate package. The little girl's eyes lit up, and she immediately stopped screaming, and squeezed her eyebrows at Rin, and then showed an anxious look, waving her hand again and again, signaling her not to take it out in front of her mother.

Hmph, the little girl is very ghostly, and she knows that if her mother sees it, she will never be able to eat it!

After lunch, her mother pulled Rin aside, avoiding Xiao Ying, and said in her ear with some worry, "Xiao Rin, Aunt Li in the neighborhood said yesterday that she saw something strange. ”

"Last night at about seven or eight o'clock she saw a dark shadow outside the window, she thought someone was looking for it, so she opened the window, but there was nothing, and then several times, after she opened the window, the black shadow actually appeared in the house...... Luckily, she only stayed for a while and flew out of her house!"

"Then Aunt Li didn't have an accident. ”

Not really, but she was frightened by the incident, and said she was going to Yuyu to ask for a few more amulets. Xiao Rin's mother covered her forehead and sighed with a crying and laughing expression: "Alas, this little girl should be happy for a long time." ”

Hearing this, the corners of Xiao Rin's mouth suddenly darkened.

"The talisman of language painting?? That's really not a reliable thing. ”

Thinking of Yuyu's unreliable talisman, the corners of Xiao Rin's mouth twitched.

............

Mountains and forests, old temples

"Thank you for your patronage, and welcome back - the gods will bless you. ”

With a serious expression, Yu Yu hung an amulet around the neck of a middle-aged woman. She is dressed as a sacrificer, and her face is quite a kind of majesty of a fairy spokesperson.

"This time, I will write down five points for you, and if you accumulate ten points, we will give you a talisman of my father's consecration. However, then this sentence completely destroyed the divine stick posture she desperately maintained.

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, then took out a hundred-yuan bill from her wallet: "Anyway, don't be afraid of too many talismans, bring me five more!"

"Mmmm, I'll charge you a hundred dollars. Madame, you are so generous, and the gods will bless you. After handing down the money, Yu Yu took out five more talismans from his arms, and then shouted to the back hall in the expectant eyes of the middle-aged woman: "Xiao Jing, please come out of the talisman that has been opened and blessed by the gods." ”

"It's coming. Xiao Jing hurriedly ran out, holding a talisman in her hand that looked old and had faded slightly. With a solemn face, she said earnestly to the middle-aged woman who stretched out her hand: "You have also seen that this kind of talisman was left a long time ago, and we don't have many of them, so it is not easy to sell." Since you are so devout to the gods, I will give it to you. ”

She was wearing a thick winter coat, and her white and tender face still had some red marks.

"Thank you so much, if the house is safe this time, I will definitely come back to make a wish. ”

The middle-aged woman was full of excitement after hearing this, covered the old amulet she received from Xiao Jing's hand, and went home with a happy face.

After the guest left, Yuyu gave her sister a thumbs up!

Hehe, that high-grade amulet just now is completely unbelievable! It was just something that wasn't sold out last year, because it was already a little old and couldn't be bought as a new one, so the two sisters came up with such a trick. Well, don't really say it. The effect is really good, and there are many people who want this kind of expensive and old thing.

.........

"Sister, don't you think business has been surprisingly good lately?"

The two sisters returned to the back hall, and Xiao Jing took out a thick stack of amulets from the drawer.

"Well, isn't that great, if someone comes to buy amulets every day, our living expenses won't be a problem at all. Yu Yu counted the money he had just sold the amulet with great interest, and closed the ventilated door by the way.

"That's right, sister. The cinnabar at home is all used up, and the charms I drew in the morning are replaced with red ink, I don't know if it's okay?" rubbed the little red traces left on his face, Xiao Jing said with a sad face: "I didn't know that business would be so good before, so I didn't prepare much, and it would be nerve-wracking if someone found out." ”

He didn't care about this words, waved his hand angrily, and said, "It doesn't matter at all, cinnabar is red, and red ink is also red, so the effect is the same." After finishing speaking, Yuyu lowered his head and thought about the price gap between cinnabar and red ink, turned around, and said to his sister seriously: "Na... Xiao Jing, red ink seems to be cheaper, we will use it in the future!"

"Okay sister, then we can have a living allowance left. "Although Xiao Jing is sometimes surprisingly kind, she refuses to let go of her living expenses at all, and if you save this money, you should be able to buy crabs that my sister likes.

Alas, this may be due to the poverty of living since childhood.

"By the way, Xiao Jing, are you still having that dream recently?"

"Hmm. Answering softly, Xiao Jing tugged at the corners of her clothes, and her pretty face was a little weak: "Where's my sister?"

"I wish this dream had stopped sooner, or I'd have had a nervous breakdown, and the dark environment was really disgusting. ”