For a moment, all three of us tensed our nerves. org

Through the torrential rain, we looked at the pale-faced strange man in the car, and lightning kept passing in the distance, and the explosion was like thunder, which made people's ears hurt.

"Brother Ji, will it be ...... again?"

Li Yi's voice trembled a little through the sound of the rain, and he must have thought of what we told him about meeting a paper dummy on the road.

"Virtue!" Lao Dao despised Li Yi's timidity, but his own face was also very ugly, so he leaned over and asked me, "What now?" This thing, which I don't know if it's a human or a ghost, will it have taken my gun? ”

At the stall where Li Yi and Lao Dao hesitated, I had already seen clearly that the strange man in the car, although his face was a little scary, but his eyes were as vivid as the paper dummy conductor on the bus did not have.

I made up my mind, strode towards our car, and shouted, "Who's in the car—get out!" We are from the police department! ”

I shouted twice before the door opened.

The man in the car stretched out a hand and waved at us: "Don't, don't catch me!" I didn't move anything! ”

Listening to the voice, it was an ordinary old farmer, and with a local accent - we all breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that people are not ghosts, and we have not heard of ghosts talking with an accent.

The rainstorm was so heavy that the people in the car only poked out half of their heads, and they were choked by the rain so much that it was difficult to even open their eyes.

It is only now that we can see clearly that this man is wearing dark blue trousers and a shirt, and he clearly looks like a middle-aged peasant.

He was drenched, his hair was all over his head, and he was shaking with his arms crossed—all three of us couldn't laugh or cry, because his pale face was actually cold and frozen from the rain!

The old knife asked: "Who are you and how did you get to our car?" ”

"I'm a good person! I'm from Heijiaping nearby, comrade police, listen to my explanation: I was originally going to the highway for a stroll, but I didn't expect it to rain so hard all of a sudden, my body was weak, and I couldn't get drenched in the rain, so I saw a car parked on the road, so I came to hide from the rain - I called you, but you didn't hear it, and the car door was open by itself...... I can't stand the cold......"

"But we didn't see anyone all the way, where did you come from?" The old knife carefully inspected the other party up and down with his eyes, and then nodded slightly to me and Li Yi, indicating that the gun should still be safe.

"Comrade policeman, look over there, there is a fork in the road over there, which leads to our village."

We looked in the direction of his finger, and it was the inner side of the winding road, right between the two peaks, and in the shade of the trees, there was a dirt road that could only be passed by one car—it was already raining heavily when we passed, so it was no wonder that we didn't notice.

Lao Dao asked a few other questions, and the other party answered them all right, and our doubts were dispelled.

"I see that the mountain seems to have collapsed in front of me, or you go to our village to hide from the rain, this rain will not stop for a while." Seeing that the hostility on our faces had subsided, the other party had the courage to propose.

I know that the climate in the mountains is often impossible to speculate on by common sense, and the people who live in the mountains certainly know more about the climate in the mountains than we do, so I don't doubt his words, but the rain is too long, what about our capture mission?

Seeing that I frowned, the other party said, "Really, comrade policeman, this rain is going to fall until tomorrow, so let's go to our village...... That's going to send me over by the way. ”

I guess the last sentence is what he really thinks.

The old knife glanced at him: "It's not over for you to mess with the police car, don't kick your nose and face - sit in the back!" ”

We all got into the car, and the old knife first took out his gun from the storage box under the passenger dashboard and inserted it back into the holster behind his waist.

When he saw the gun, the man was even more silent, and he knew everything about our questioning.

He said that his name is Hei Fengshun, he is forty-one years old this year, and he is the eighth in the family, so he is generally called Hei Ba, and the village where he lives is called Heijiaping, which is just behind the mountain in front of us, and it is less than ten miles from that small dirt road.

The three of us glanced at each other: If this rain really has to stop tomorrow, then we really have to go to this Heijiaping for the night, because it is a bit dangerous to go down the mountain from here to the Tangludong urban area, braving such a heavy rain and continuing to drive on the winding mountain road, and this winding mountain road, is it just this landslide in front of us?

After consulting Cheng Cheng's side through the walkie-talkie, we unanimously decided to go to Heishuiping to take shelter from the rain.

"The younger people in the village have gone out to work, I froze when I was a child, fell ill, and couldn't do heavy work, but fortunately the village committee took care of me and contracted me a few acres of fruit forests next to the village, otherwise I really don't know how to live as an old bachelor...... Well, it's the fruit forest I contracted over there, the rain is too big, I can't seem to see clearly, it's good if the rain stops tomorrow......"

"How many people? There are only a few old people and children in the village now, probably less than a hundred people, and all the young people have gone to work, if it weren't for this illness, I would definitely have gone out. ”

"At night you can stay in the ancestral house in the village, which is a big place and has ready-made rooms...... Don't bother, don't bother, you're a policeman, I'll talk to the old village chief, just do it. ”

Along the way, because I sat in a row with Kurohachi, I talked to him without a pair.

After this guy warmed up a little in the car, he opened the conversation box, starting from the history of the village and continuing to the parents in the village......

Although the path was dirt, it was quite smooth, less than ten miles, and the car didn't drive for long, and sure enough, I saw a village in the distance.

Hei Hachi pointed to the road: "Did you see that big tree?" The biggest, the tallest, yes, yes, that's the ancestral house. The village is a stone road, and cars can't drive in, so just park outside the village. ”

On the left side of the village is a big river, it is the Luochuan River, it has rained heavily, the river water has risen significantly, we can be separated by hundreds of meters, we can hear the sound of water.

At the entrance of the village is a big banyan tree, and under the big banyan tree is a cement threshing field about the size of a basketball court, and our car is parked under the banyan tree.

The buildings in this village are basically the kind of old houses with blue bricks and tiles, which are not dilapidated, but look extremely cold.

Probably because of the torrential rain, we didn't run into a single other villager along the way.

The ancestral house of Heijiaping is a two-story building, and it is the tallest house in the whole village - the door platform is very high, engraved with the four big characters of "Fuze for future generations", white walls and green tiles, bucket arches and cornices, and the feng shui walls on both sides are towering, which looks very imposing.

Heihachi asked us to stand under the eaves of the ancestral house for a while, and he went to find the village chief.

In about ten minutes, Kurohachi and another old man in a hat suit arrived.

The old man, also surnamed Hei, is the village chief of Heijiaping Village, and after reading Cheng Cheng's police officer card, he took out a bunch of keys from his pocket and opened the door of the ancestral house.

As soon as the door is opened, it is a huge wall of three meters high, engraved with four big characters of "sheltering descendants", and the left and right sides are carved with coiled dragons and auspicious clouds.

When you look at the wall, you can see the high canopy of a large tree.

The village elder Heitou said that this is a large courtyard with three entrances, and a huge locust tree is planted in the courtyard courtyard of the first entrance, which is what we see now, and the second entrance is the house, and the third entrance is the ancestral hall.

I frowned slightly: "Old village chief, take the liberty of asking, which school of feng shui are you following here?" How can such a big tree be planted in this ancestral house......"

A big tree is planted in the courtyard, which is a "sleepy" word, according to Feng Shui, it is only a slight hindrance, not a big taboo, but I have never heard of doing this in the ancestral house - the ancestral house is often a place where a family places the ancestral spiritual position, worships the ancestors, does red and white ceremonies and discusses family affairs, the ancients believed that the ancestral house houses the soul of the ancestors, is the most sacred place of the family, such a place, so it is possible to artificially create a "sleepy" word pattern?

Isn't this tantamount to cursing the souls of one's ancestors to be "trapped"?

The old black man was leading us into the door, and when he heard me say this, he glanced back at me, but he couldn't hear that he wasn't angry: "I can't see it, you still know a little bit of feng shui - young people nowadays, there are not many people who know this." However, young people, you don't have to worry, there was also a feng shui master in our village back then, and this locust tree was planted by that master himself...... For hundreds of years, our village does not say nobles, at least it is safe and sound, and the wind and rain are smooth. ”

Hearing the word "locust tree", my face changed greatly, and I was about to speak, but I heard the village elder Heitou continue:

"The ancestral house in our village, the foundation is paved with huge bluestone strips, the house is built of bluestone, the outside is covered with blue bricks, and the stone pillars supporting the beams of the house are thousands of pounds of big round stones, everything is built according to the specifications of the 'temple', so this original 'ghost' locust tree is now the soul residence of our ancestors...... Look how good it looks! ”

We just bypassed the wall and stood in the courtyard of Yijin, a locust tree that needed to be tilted up to see the whole picture—it was the largest and most luxuriant locust tree I had ever seen in my life!

The locust tree is also known as the "ghost tree", feng shui is a very unlucky kind of tree, it turns out that there is a locust tree next to the ancestral hall to be cut down, not to mention planting one in the ancestral hall!

But the old village chief, as if he knew my confusion, came up with another set of arguments that I had never heard of.

Although I will be skeptical, the elders are present, and we have asked for others, so it is not good to say much.

The old village chief settled us in the courtyard of the second entrance of the ancestral house and found three rooms, two people lived in one room, and then said that they would prepare food for us at noon, we didn't even say no, but the old village chief couldn't resist it, so we could only thank the old village chief for a kindness, the old village chief told us to rest first, turned around and took the black eight and left.

Lunch at noon was brought to us by the old village chief, Hei Ba, and another middle-aged woman named Sister-in-law Li.

A large pot of stewed chicken with mountain mushrooms, plus some coarse grains of sweet potatoes and taro, we who eat it almost bite off our tongues - the most delicious is the stewed chicken with mountain mushrooms, with pine mushrooms, wild mountain mushrooms, dried mountain shoots, red dates, yellow flowers, and two free-range chickens on the mountain stewed, as soon as the lid is lifted, the fresh fragrance is rich, and the room is full of fragrance, especially the milky white soup, which is far from being comparable to the chickens raised in cages in the city and the artificially planted fungi.

We drove for most of the day, and we were hungry, everyone had a big appetite, and Li Yi even ate 5 big bowls of rice in a row, saying that this was the most white rice he had eaten in one breath in his life.

After the meal, the torrential rain still has no intention of stopping.

We didn't sleep all night last night, and now that we're fed, our sleepiness suddenly comes up, and we have nothing to do in the afternoon, so we confessed to the old village chief, and the six of us simply went back to our rooms to take a nap.

Of course, we said that we were going back to sleep, but it was impossible to sleep all, but to take turns on duty, the first post was Li Yi, who ate 5 bowls of rice, he stayed up for three hours, and the night duty could be placed in the second half of the night.

But this night, we slept very deeply.

When I woke up, it was already night!