Sure enough, news came from the village that Aunt Zhang had passed away. Aunt Zhang is an empty nester who lives alone, and her husband Lu Zijin died before her a few years ago. Aunt Zhang's son and daughter-in-law bought a house in the city and settled down, and once took Aunt Zhang to live in the city for a year, but Aunt Zhang was not used to life in the city, and could not integrate into the family of her son and daughter-in-law, so she returned to her hometown in the countryside to live alone.

Aunt Zhang is usually in good health, there is no major problem, and she often works and grows vegetables in her own land. In the past few days, Aunt Li in the village did not see Aunt Zhang go out, so she went to her house to chat with her. There was no movement when I knocked on the door, and there was a foul smell coming from the door. Aunt Li went to call someone, broke into the door, and found that Aunt Zhang had been dead at home for many days, her mouth was open, her eyes were not closed, as if she was dead. The whole body has decomposed, and the corpse has maggots. Aunt Li couldn't accept this fact and fainted.

This phenomenon is not uncommon in rural areas, and there are many empty nesters who live alone and die at home unknowingly until their bodies are decomposed. Even some celebrities, after they were down, they died at home in desolation before they were discovered, which is a later story.

The people in the village hurriedly informed Aunt Zhang's son and daughter-in-law to go home, and on the one hand, they went to invite the Taoist master to do the work, and on the other hand, they went to rent an ice coffin to preserve the corpse. Several aunts in the village came to help Aunt Zhang collect the body. The body was already decomposing, and they carefully cleaned her of maggots, washed her whole body, and changed her into clean clothes. The villagers took the bed where Aunt Zhang slept outside and burned it. The people in the village were sad, on the one hand, because Aunt Zhang usually chatted and played with them, but who knew that this person would be gone if he said no; On the other hand, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and some people in the village thought that they would die in the future, and they might also die very desolately, so they couldn't help but cry. The dead are the greatest, and there are dead people in the village, and people will spontaneously organize themselves to help without being instructed.

Lu Zisu put down his work and rushed to Aunt Zhang's house. The expedition team and Mrs. Zhang's family are not related to each other, but when Professor Wu went on a field trip, in addition to scientific research, he also had to investigate the local customs and customs, so he took three graduate students to Mrs. Zhang's house to have a look. When Professor Wu went, he encountered another investigation team.

This investigation team is a summer social practice team of U City University of Technology, led by Hu Kehao, and the team members include class leader Li Hengyang, Youth League secretary Zhang Xiaoqiang, study committee members Song Huiqin and Chen Qiuhe and other more than ten people. In accordance with the requirements of the Youth League Committee of U City University of Technology, college students are encouraged to go out of the school, go deep into the grassroots and the masses, carry out social surveys, and actively participate in poverty alleviation activities. Calamus Township, S County, is a very poor township, Hu Kehao led the team to come here, visited the village to conduct investigations, and obtained a lot of first-hand information about the elderly and left-behind children in rural areas. The causes of poverty among the villagers were investigated, some of them were poor due to illness, some were poor due to studying, some were poor due to overbirth, and some were poor due to laziness and laziness. Today, I came to Banpo Village, Calamus Township to visit and investigate, but I unexpectedly encountered the death of Aunt Zhang and the scientific expedition team led by Professor Wu.

There were very few people left behind in the village, and many young and middle-aged people went out to work. Professor Wu and Hu Kehao combined, and there were more than a dozen people in their two teams, who happened to help Mrs. Zhang's family handle some funerals. Although their task is poverty alleviation and scientific research, it is also natural to help ordinary people's families do things. Under the command of the experienced elders in the village, the summer social practice investigation team led by Hu Kehao and the scientific expedition team led by Professor Wu helped them build a mourning hall, and some students followed to buy coffins.

Professor Wu and Hu Kehao went to offer incense and worship to the deceased. Mr. Taoist, who did the work, had not yet arrived, and a goddess in the village had arrived first. After Aunt Li, who was the first to find out that Aunt Zhang had died, woke up, she thought that Aunt Zhang did not close her eyes when she died, and asked the goddess: "What else does Aunt Zhang have on her mind?" Can you find out? ”

"I have to go down to the yin once and ask her." The goddess often goes down to the yin and asks the deceased about unfinished matters in her heart.

The goddess muttered a few words in her mouth, lying straight on the ground, her eyes rolled, her whole body stiffened, Aunt Li went to touch the goddess, and found that she seemed to be dead, but in fact she went to the yin. The goddess entered a state of suspended animation, and her soul instantly entered the fourth-dimensional Planck supernatural space, or the underworld, which can also be said to be a "dream", to find Aunt Zhang and communicate with her. In the fourth dimensional Planck's supernatural space, as if in a dream, the goddess did not know that Aunt Zhang was dead at this time, and they chatted as they wished as usual.

According to Aunt Zhang, a few years ago, her daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter in the city, and her son invited her to take her granddaughter into the city. Aunt Zhang caught a few chickens and went into the city, and her daughter-in-law was unhappy when she saw that she was full of white hair, the clothes she was wearing were rustic, her back was a little hunched, her eyes were dull, and the hardships of rural life were hidden in it. Aunt Zhang was going to hug her granddaughter, and her daughter-in-law said that she was dirty all over her body, and there were a lot of bacteria, what should she do if she got her granddaughter sick? Aunt Zhang wanted to kill chickens to make up for her daughter-in-law, and her daughter-in-law said that what to do with such dirty chickens, it is not impossible to buy them in the city. The daughter-in-law said that this was in the city, not the countryside, and asked her to change everything in the countryside. Aunt Zhang lived in her daughter-in-law's house for a few months, and the electrical appliances and washing machines at home were not very good at use, so everything did not go well. Once, the laundry did not separate the colored and colorless clothes, and as a result, a piece of high-end clothing worth thousands of yuan was washed by the daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law beat her down fiercely. Later, Aunt Zhang couldn't live in the city anymore, so she returned to the countryside. Although she said that she was not worried about food and clothing in the countryside, she was lonely and lonely, and died suddenly of a sudden illness a few days ago, which may be a cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and the only thing she was worried about was to see her son and granddaughter again, so she did not close her eyes when she died.

After listening to this, Aunt Li sighed, and two lines of old tears flowed down again. She seems to be crying for such a large group of lonely old people in the countryside, and she also seems to be crying for her own future. Soon, the Taoist master came, beat gongs and drums and chanted scriptures to do the rituals. Aunt Zhang's son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter also came back, crying profusely. Aunt Li saw the appearance of Aunt Zhang's daughter-in-law, and scolded in her heart: "Aunt Zhang was originally in your house, you are not filial to her, blame her everywhere, what's the use of crying now?" ”

Professor Wu and Hu Kehao gave gifts, but it was inconvenient to stay for a long time, and they went to busy with their own affairs. Lu Zisu didn't have many rooms, only two spare rooms were vacated, Lin Xueyi lived in one, and Professor Wu lived in one. Dong Yucheng and Wu Jianjun slept in the tent.

The next day, Professor Wu led the expedition team to the Golden Glory Valley, where he found some shiny things on the Reclining Buddha, and finally figured out the mystery of the Reclining Buddha's luminescence. This mystery is not the manifestation of the Buddha, it is still the laws of nature at work, and it can still be explained by the basic principles of physics. It turns out that the stone on which the Buddha statue is carved is volcanic rock, like the beads and pillars. Buddha beads and stone pillars are rocks formed by magma erupting from the earth's surface, while rocks where Buddha statues are carved are formed by magma underground. When the magma erupts close to the surface but is not fully exposed, it is slowly cooled to form lumpy rocks. Due to the long-term deep burial in the ground, there has been no weathering and denudation, and the rock texture has not been affected. Later, the rocks were exposed to the ground due to crustal movements, soil erosion, etc. Skilled craftsmen skillfully use the original shape of the rock to process, and after careful carving, the rock is transformed into a vivid reclining Buddha.

Professor Wu found that the stone Buddha has many feldspar crystals, and each feldspar is like a small mirror, reflecting when exposed to sunlight. Far away, you can see the sparkling phenomenon from different angles. When it rains, the rain washes away the dust from the Buddha's body, and the crystals in the rocks reflect the sun's rays better. After the rainbow appeared in the sky, the spotted crystals on the Buddha statue reflected the colorful light in the rainbow, and the people nearby thought that the Buddha statue was shining and manifesting. These are the later words, and they are the secrets that Professor Wu discovered later.

On the way back from Jinguang Valley, Lin Xueyi felt sick to her stomach. It's no wonder that Lin Xueyi herself is delicate, and she was drenched in rain yesterday, coupled with a long journey, maybe there are reasons such as unsuitable water and soil or unclean food, her stomach hurts very much. "I can't stand it anymore, I'm going to make it easier." Lin Xueyi said to Dong Yucheng.

Dong Yucheng saw the vast mountains and forests, and was afraid that something would happen to Lin Xueyi, so he said to her: "Go quickly!" I'm watching over you. ”

Lin Xueyi looked around, saw a mountain col in front of her, and ran over, Dong Yucheng followed closely to protect her. When she came to the mountain col, Lin Xueyi saw the beautiful scenery around her, like a paradise, and her mood was relaxed. The mountain col was overgrown with weeds, and Lin Xueyi was afraid that snakes would come out of the grass, so she found a slippery stone and saw that there was no one around, so she took off her pants to make it easier. There was a croaking in her stomach, and she leaked a lot, feeling comfortable all over. Squatting on the ground was very boring, Lin Xueyi picked up a branch and scratched it on the stone. Scraping through the dirt, she saw some strange writing on the stone, like oracle bone inscription, and tadpole inscription, which she probably only knew by paleographers. Lin Xueyi suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach again, and felt a stream of liquid-like things flowing out. She looked at the ground, and it turned red, it turned out that her period had been advanced, and it was no wonder that she had been trekking hard and eating irregularly in the past two days.

Blood spread across the slate, into the strange writing. The words sucked the blood, and each stroke was thick, like an open mouth of blood. Then, Lin Xueyi heard a rumbling sound from underground, as if high-temperature and high-pressure magma was rushing underground but could not find an exit. Lin Xueyi felt scared, wiped her ass and was about to get up, but her hands holding her pants couldn't pull them up, she felt a huge force pulling her, and she slowly fell down, as if she had fallen into the mud.

Lin Xueyi shouted: "Help! ”

Her echoes of fear resounded in the Valley of Golden Light.

Dong Yucheng heard the shouting and hurriedly ran over, and there was no one in the place where Lin Xueyi was squatting just now. A gust of wind blew, leaving only a pool of red and yellow residue and nothing else. There are ancient poems as evidence:

A wisp of incense and soul dispersed with the wind, and the three sorrows fell into a dream.