Chapter 13: The Three-Eyed Statue

Under the temptation of Fang Rui's repeated pleas and two pieces of chocolate, Dong Sheng finally nodded and agreed to take Fang Rui to see the three-eyed idol in the village.

"The normal way to the idol is in the village chief's bedroom, and I don't usually get in." Dongsheng took Fang Rui to the back of the village chief's stone house and said, "But there is actually another way, which I accidentally discovered when I was playing peek-a-boo with others when I was a child. ”

After saying this, Dongsheng seemed a little unhappy, and his eyelids drooped, like a child who had lost his beloved toy.

"What's wrong?" Fang Rui asked with concern.

"It's nothing, just remembering a person who is no longer there, and the little brother who played with me when I was a child." After Dong Sheng finished speaking, he forcibly squeezed out a smile and said, "After he left, I gradually stopped playing peek-a-boo, and I didn't use that channel much." Speaking of which, apart from me and him, you are the third person to know about this passage! You come with me! ”

With that, Dong Sheng took Fang Rui into a small wooden house, which was filled with baskets of radishes, sweet potatoes and wheat, which seemed to be a simple small warehouse for storing food. There was a plank on the ground in the middle of the hut, and Dongsheng lifted it, and there was a cellar underneath.

Descend a rudimentary wooden ladder down to the cellar, surrounded by some stored food. Dongsheng came to a corner of the cellar, where there were bags of burlap containing sweet potatoes.

"Help me move out." After Dongsheng asked Fang Rui to move the sweet potatoes away, Fang Rui saw a small hole.

"Drill through." Dongsheng pointed to the hole.

"Ahh Drill the past? Fang Rui looked at this small hole with some worry.

"Rest assured, drill the past! Hurry up! After Dong Sheng finished speaking, he took the lead in crawling over, and Fang Rui could only follow him through the hole like a dog.

After drilling through this hole, Fang Rui found that he had actually entered a passage again, and Dong Sheng moved the big stone that he had pushed away before back to its original position, so that he couldn't see the small hole he had just entered.

After Fang Rui followed Dong Sheng around the bend in the passage for a while, his eyes suddenly opened up a lot, and a tall stone statue next to the rock wall appeared in front of Fang Rui's eyes. The statue is about three meters tall, with three heads and six arms. The stone statue is surrounded by two one-man high bronze oil lamps, which makes the light in the cave not very dim.

Nezha? This was Fang Rui's first reaction, after all, the three heads and six arms had always been Nezha's most famous Dharma Body. However, a closer look revealed that it was wrong, the three faces of the stone statue only had one eye in the middle, and Nezha was not a one-eyed. The craftsmanship of the stone statue is very exquisite, and the folds of a robe are realistic and make people feel as if they are fluttering in the wind. One of the faces in the center is expressionless, the one on the left is kind, and the one on the right is glaring angrily.

"This is what you call the three-eyed eye portrait?" Fang Rui asked Dongsheng.

"Well, yes, it's very powerful!" Dong Sheng looked at the idol with a look of adoration, "These three-eyed eyes are like the protectors of our village, and there has always been a saying in the village that when the three-eyed elephant opens its three eyes, it is the time when the village is liberated." ”

"Open your eyes? Isn't it open now? Only then did Fang Rui pay attention to the eye carving of the three-eyed eye portrait, which was relatively simple compared to the folds on the clothes, just a small circle that was concave.

"Now you see, the eyes of the stone statue are gone." Dongsheng explained.

"It turns out that there are still eyeballs in the eye sockets!" Fang Rui pondered that this small depression was probably the location of the original eyeball, for no reason, the ruby-like eyeball found from the hand of the one-eyed infant corpse inside the corpse ball flashed in front of his eyes. That bead seems to be the right size to fit in! However, since it is a stone statue, why do the eyeballs appear in the hands of the one-eyed infant corpse?

"Why are the stone statue's eyes missing?" Fang Rui asked.

"Originally, there was an eye on the right side of the face, but unfortunately it disappeared decades ago. The village didn't know where it went, but I think the village chief knew, but she wouldn't tell me. The eyeballs of the other two heads have not been there. Dongsheng replied.

Haven't been? Isn't that the day when the eyes will never be opened? Which one was there, could it be the one you found? What is the origin of that abandoned village in Heizhugou, which buried the corpses of so many deformed freaks of babies under the stone house? Also, Could the lost book of life be hidden here?

"Let's go!" Just when Fang Rui was still thinking, Dongsheng said, "The village chief may come down at any time, we can't stay for long." ”

Since Dongsheng said so, Fang Rui couldn't find any excuses to take a closer look, this cave was not very big, and at first glance there was no place to hide books. Fang Rui, who was a little disappointed, could only follow Dongsheng back to the ground.

"Okay, I've seen the idol too, so you should go back and rest early." Dongsheng instructed.

"Oh, okay." Fang Rui hurriedly nodded in agreement, and after saying goodnight to Dongsheng, he went back.

After returning to the room where he was staying, he found that Sun Xiaoxiao and Su Su had already slept, and only Li Lei was guarding the door and seemed to be waiting for him.

Fang Rui concealed the matter of the three-eyed eye portrait, and casually said that he and Dongsheng went to visit the village again. Li Lei didn't ask any more, and also told him to go to bed early.

Because there is only one bedroom in the stone house, four people sleep in one house. Lying down on the bed made of fur and hay, Fang Rui thought that he would toss and turn and couldn't sleep, but he didn't expect that within a few minutes, his upper and lower eyelids would fight, and his consciousness began to blur, and he fell asleep after a while...

In the middle of the night, the bonfire burning for heating in the room was getting smaller and smaller, Fang Rui seemed to feel the cold in his sleep, and he curled up with his hands and feet, he wanted to open his eyes... But he still felt sleepy, so he turned over and fell into a deep sleep, leaving only a bonfire that was about to be extinguished...

Dongsheng, who returned to the village chief's stone house, also fell asleep, and in a daze, he seemed to hear a cry from next door, was the village chief's mother-in-law crying? However, this cry does not seem to be like it, and when I listen to it again, there is no more... I'm too tired. Dongsheng didn't think much about it, and after turning over, he fell asleep...

And in the village chief's room next door, under the faint moonlight shining in from the window, you can only see the village chief's right hand covering his face and his left hand pinching... A red glow...

As soon as the sky was bright, Fang Rui and the others were awakened by the crow of a rooster. After a brief wash, Dongsheng came over early with some corn cobs, saying that it was breakfast for them.

After breakfast, Dongsheng said to Fang Rui and the others: "By the way, do you have any medicine around you that can cure colds?" ”

"Yes, what, is anyone sick?" Fang Rui asked.

"Well, it's a child in our village, Xiao Niu, who has been catching a cold for a long time and hasn't been cured, and the herbs that the village chief boiled for him can't cure him. I wonder if you will have a good cure for colds? "Dongsheng said.

"If the child has been cold for a long time, I'll go with you to see it, and we'll bring the medicine." Li Lei said.

"yes, yes!" Dongsheng thinks it's good to let them take a look at the child, maybe the people from outside are well-informed and can cure the child's illness immediately?

So, Li Lei and Fang Rui took the medicine and followed Dongsheng to see the child. After entering the child's house, Fang Rui found that the family happened to be a family of three, the child's father happened to be the hunchback who took care of them, and the child's mother was blind and lame, limping when she walked, especially when she still had a big belly. When they heard Dong Sheng explain that Fang Rui had brought the medicine over, they were very grateful and hurriedly took them to a bedside.

On the bed lay a child of seven or eight years old, also hunchbacked, with a crooked mouth, lying sickly on the bed, and his face was pale. Li Lei touched the child's forehead and found that there was a little low-grade fever, but nothing else was serious. After giving the medicine to the child's father and asking him to give it to the child, Li Lei and Fang Rui were ready to go back.

The child's parents are naturally grateful, and it seems that no matter where they are, they are pitiful parents all over the world! Just when the child's parents sent Dongsheng to the door of the stone house, suddenly, the child's mother clutched her stomach and cried out: "It hurts... Hurt.... The whole person fell to her knees, and at the same time a stream of liquid flowed out of her lower body!

No, is this ... Going to give birth? Dong Sheng, Li Lei and Fang Rui, the three boys, stared at each other and didn't know what to do.