My words made Xiaopeng's father Du Liming stunned.

He secretly clenched his fists, but did not speak, and the expression on his face was very complicated. If Du Xiaopeng dies like this, he, as a father, is unbearable, who would want the murderer to get away with it?

I walked over and said to Du Liming: "Uncle Du, I will definitely help Xiaopeng to the end, and I believe that he will definitely come back to life." In addition, please rest assured that I will definitely find a way to protect the villagers. What happened last night was an accident and will never happen again! ”

Listened to this.

Du Liming was stunned for a moment, and then, suddenly, leaned down, bowed deeply to me, and said, "Mr. Lin, thank you!" ”

I immediately helped him up, said that you don't have to be polite, and then, together with Xiao Xuanzi, I prepared to go out and leave the Du family. However, when we walked to the gate of Du Xiaopeng's house, Du Liming suddenly called out to me.

"Mr. Lin!"

I turned around and asked, "Uncle Du, do you have anything else to do?" ”

"Mr. Lin, wait a minute."

As soon as he had finished speaking, he went into the back room of his house, as if he had gone to look for something. After about two or three minutes, Du Liming came out of the house with a small wooden box in his hand. The very delicate wooden box looks a little old, and I don't know what it contains.

Du Liming came over with a wooden box, closed the door first, and then opened it carefully. He said in a low voice: "This piece of kodyu was born with Xiaopeng. When he was born, the jade was in his mouth, and I think that this jade must have some connection with Xiaopeng, and it should be helpful to Mr. Lin. ”

After Du Liming finished speaking, he handed over the wooden box.

I took the wooden box, picked up the piece of jade pendant, and when I saw it clearly, I couldn't help but be stunned. Then, Xiao Xuanzi and I looked at each other, because we both thought of Chen Liuzi's piece of kodyu.

It is said that his jade pendant also came to the world with him.

Could it be that Du Xiaopeng is also one of the reincarnations of the twelve righteous gods of the Heavenly Dao? The shape of the jade pendant is very abstract, only the size of a finger, and it looks like the shape of a rooster. Moreover, it looks like a naturally formed kind of jade, and it does not look like it was deliberately carved by someone.

This is similar to Chen Liuzi's piece of kodama.

I took the jade pendant and said to Du Liming: "Uncle Du, don't tell anyone else about the jade pendant, this matter is very important!" ”

"Mr. Lin, don't worry, I naturally won't tell anyone about this. I also know that this jade pendant may be connected to Xiaopeng's life, otherwise, he would not have come to this world with him. Du Liming said.

I nodded, and then, put away the jade pendant, and left the Du family with Xiao Xuanzi.

Yan Guoshan's side.

was busy until the afternoon, and the white affairs of these three families were over.

When Yan Guoshan returned to his house, I went over and asked him about something. The first thing was the old man in the backyard of the ancestral hall.

The old man was very weird, as if he lived in the ancestral hall, and the ghost singing was in the ancestral hall, and he might be a clue there.

Yan Guoshan listened to what I said, and said with a puzzled expression: "It's not the old society now, and there is nothing valuable in the ancestral hall, no one takes care of it!" ”

I said directly: "Yan Shanshen, there is an old man in the ancestral hall, who is almost seventy or eighty years old. ”

When I said this, Yan Guoshan's brows furrowed, he seemed to be thinking about memories, and after a while, he said, "Could it be the old Zhang Tou who used to look at the ancestral hall?" ”

"No, he died five years ago."

After Yan Guoshan finished speaking, I told Yan Guoshan some more, the characteristics of the old man, roughly compared, Yan Guoshan said: "Mr. Lin, if you say so, what you see may really be the old Zhang Tou who looks at the ancestral hall." However, he died five years ago and hanged himself in the ancestral hall, and since then, no one has dared to visit the ancestral hall. ”

"Hanging, why?" I asked.

"This matter is an unsolved case, and no one knows why Lao Zhangtou hanged himself in the ancestral hall for some reason." Yan Guoshan said.

I thought for a moment and asked, "Five years ago, apart from what happened to Lao Zhangtou, did anything else happen strangely?" ”

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, and as soon as I finished speaking, Yan Guoshan immediately continued: "Yes, of course there is!" Strange things five years ago, there are many! ”

"Really? What kind of weirdness is it? "I asked, it seems that this Luyuan Village, I don't know the secret past, there are still a lot of secrets.

When my grandfather visited this place many times, was he just here to sing?

It dawned on me that it wasn't that simple.

Yan Guoshan recalled for a while, and then said slowly, he said: "The first thing is related to Xiaopeng, five years ago, Xiaopeng was only five years old. Once, Xiaopeng didn't know what to do, so he had a high fever inexplicably. The situation at that time was very similar to this time, and it didn't work to find Lang Zhong or anything. ”

"What happened then?" I asked.

"Later, a Taoist priest came to our village. I remember that the Taoist priest was surnamed Li and the Taoist name was Nanhua. We called him Daochang Li, it was he who took action and rescued Xiaopeng who was in a fever. Yan Guoshan said.

I was surprised by these words, I didn't expect that Li Daochang would also come to this Luyuan Village.

Yan Guoshan was very surprised when he saw the expression on my face, so he asked me, what's wrong? I didn't say much, so I asked him to continue, Yan Guoshan nodded, and said: "Five years ago, the day after Xiaopeng's accident, the old Zhang Tou, who watched the ancestral hall, hanged himself in the ancestral hall. In those days, a man from our village came to ask for food, and on the night of Lao Zhangtou's death, he died at the bridgehead at the entrance of the village. ”

"That Daoist Li, did you say anything?" I asked.

He ...... I didn't say much. Li Daochang has always acted mysteriously, and we don't know how to ask, after he saved Xiaopeng, he left. Yan Guoshan said.

"Yan Shanshen, have you ever thought about linking Xiaopeng's matter with Lao Zhangtou and the death of that beggar?" I continued.

"Yes, the villagers have speculation. said yes, Lao Zhangtou wanted to kill Xiaopeng, but Li Daochang broke the law, so he was killed by the backlash. The day before Xiaopeng's accident, it was the day of ancestor worship in the village, and the whole village had been to the ancestral hall, and Xiaopeng was no exception. ”

"Everyone thinks that Lao Zhangtou conspired with that beggar to harm Xiaopeng. Because, at that time, the beggar had been following Xiaopeng and asking him what he wanted to eat. ”

After Yan Guoshan finished speaking, I asked again: "Yan Shanshen, what do you think about this?" ”

"I don't know about that beggar, but I don't think he will harm Xiaopeng. Lao Zhangtou is a man with a strange temper and a mysterious spirit, but he is very upright, and the ancestral hall has always been very clean and spotless by him. ”

After Yan Guoshan finished speaking, I also nodded.

Remembering that before, Er Pang and I went to the ancestral hall to investigate, so I asked, "Is there still a lot of cleaning in the ancestral hall now?" ”

"No, but it's almost time to worship your ancestors. Recently, the villagers were to be arranged to clean up. When Yan Guoshan said this, I said directly: "I guess, you don't need to clean it at all, I went to the ancestral hall to investigate, the ancestral hall is very clean, and someone has already cleaned it." ”

"Really?" Yan Guoshan was a little incredulous.

I nodded again.

"By the way, does Mr. Wu know about what happened back then?" I asked.

"You mean Ah Cheng in the temple?" Yan Guoshan asked, I nodded, and he continued: "He knows about it, but he has always lived in the temple, and I told him later, and he didn't know it at the time. ”

"Do you know the origin of Mr. Wu?" I asked again.

Yan Guoshan was a little puzzled by this question, he looked at me, but asked me first: "Mr. Lin, do you know something?" ”

"No, I'm just curious, I didn't see that Mr. Wu has a family, at his age, he must have a wife and children." I made an excuse.

"That's right. Ah Cheng came from other places, and at that time, his hometown of western Henan was hit by a disaster and fled from the famine. When he first came, he was only a teenager, and he followed me and worked in the temple. In the past, I tried to tell him about his family. However, he did not agree, and the matter was put on hold. ”

No wonder Yan Shanshen trusted Wu Daicheng so much. Today's Wu Daicheng is in his forties, and it is estimated that he has followed Yan Guoshan for thirty years. In the past 30 years, any suspicion and any estrangement can be washed away by time.

"During the day today, have you seen Xiaopeng and his uncle?" I asked, I thought of him suddenly, I had been busy with other things today, and seemed to ignore his biggest suspicion.