The village chief's voice was very gentle, but it echoed for a long time, and when the last aftersound disappeared, most of the people nodded, turned around, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard, the sound of rustling sounded in my ears for a long time, and I stood in place in a daze, a little overwhelmed for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the end, like the children in the village, I was dragged home by the adults.

I sat on the only reserved Taishi chair in the house, the place where my hands were holding and leaning back, because of the long-term contact with the clothes, it looked round and smooth, my hands were used to stroking back and forth on it, my mother saw my action on the side, she couldn't help but shake her head, showing a trace of bitterness, she knew that I was entangled in what had just happened, but there was nothing I could do.

Although she knew something about this matter, she couldn't intervene at all, for no other reason, her mother didn't die.

Her mother's name is Cheng Cuihua, she was married in the village on the other side of Longshu Mountain, and she only knew that it was a very important thing for the village chief to dig up something just now, and although the village chief did not say it explicitly, the tradition in the village told her that whenever this time, there must be something in the village that has endangered the survival of the village, and at this time, people with foreign surnames are not allowed to interfere.

This tradition is very similar to the family system of the old society, when it comes to certain occasions, such as sacrifices, only the direct blood of the family is allowed to participate, and everyone else is directly excluded.

"Mom, do you think I'm going to take a look?" I thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out what the village chief said about "sacrifice" and "what to dig out", so I ran to the kitchen and asked my mother, who was washing the dishes.

My mother's movements were noticeably stagnant, and she recovered immediately, but the speed of washing the dishes was noticeably slower, and I saw that she frowned, as if she was thinking about something.

After half a ring, my mother washed the dishes, carefully put them in the old cupboard, then turned her head, looked at me and said, "It stands to reason that you have reached your age, but your father has not come back from out of town, and I don't know much, if you want to see it, you can do it, but you have to be careful not to be found by other people in the village, otherwise you may be punished by the village chief."

"Really?" I was so excited that I almost jumped.

"Slow down" my mother hurriedly grabbed me and said angrily: "They are all such adults, they are still like children, what if they fall down?"

"Remember to be safe," my mother shouted from behind me before I left the door.

I trotted all the way towards Ambergris Mountain, and as I passed through the village, I found that some people's homes were closed, and it seemed that they had gone.

At this time, it was already dusk, not as hot as noon, always accompanied by a cool breeze, and it was unusually comfortable when it blew, but once it passed, the body immediately returned to dry heat.

Soon arrived at the head of the village, the big stone stood there like a doorman in the village, not far away, standing with the ancestral hall, like two comrades-in-arms who cherish each other, and like enemies who oppose each other.

I compared the two, and my thoughts drifted unconsciously, and the matter of Ambergris Mountain seemed to have nothing to do with me. Suddenly, I saw a figure flash in the ancestral hall, which instantly pulled me out of my imagination.

"Leper Li" I yelled, running towards the ancestral hall, the figure just now was very similar to Leper Li, at least in terms of figure, it was so obscene.

When I entered the ancestral hall, I didn't see anything. Or does this leper Li really have immortal skills?

After searching to no avail, I had to continue walking towards Ambergris Mountain.

Ambergris Mountain is not far from the village, and after leaving the village, it is a short walk along a small river in front of the village.

Ambergris Mountain is the highest mountain within a radius of ten miles, lush vegetation, sounds like it can stimulate the interest of mountaineering enthusiasts, but in fact, there are big roads on the mountain, winding down from the top of the mountain, it is very much like a green steamed bun caught by fishing nets, the mountain road is open and flat, and the grass does not grow all year round, just like the relaxation road that was tamped in the Qin Shi Huang period, there will not be an arbor on it after hundreds of thousands of years, and it is the flat mountain road of Ambergris Mountain, it has become a place where I often go.

I climbed up the main road, and after a while I was halfway up the mountain, and it was getting dark, and although the mountain road was relatively open, my face was still covered with beads of sweat, and my back was wet. I looked around and noticed a fire not far away, and immediately became vigilant, and my speed decreased considerably.

As I slowly approached the location of the fire, some cacophony followed, shouts, and the clashing of pickaxes against stones, as if I were opening a mountain.

Pushing aside the bushes in front of me, I risked being bitten by a snake and worm, and I stuck my head out and looked at the light source.

I saw that some people with dead surnames in the village who had passed the year of standing were gathered here, and as for some other young people with dead surnames who were similar to me, they didn't come, it seems that my mother's worries are right, I silently thought, what are the village chiefs going to do?

Next to the original pile of rubble, a platform was temporarily erected, the people in the village continued to carry the stones in the pile of rubble, and a strange stone statue was enshrined on the wooden platform, the stone statue was half a meter high, the face was hideous, the big eyes were wide open, the nostrils were particularly large because of the upturned up, the muscles on the arms of the red stripes were bulging, the beast skirts on the waist fluttered, and some of them looked like two lifelike dragons on the legs of the ox.

The scales on the dragon's body are fine, and the dragon's whiskers are flying around the sides of the body, and the whole statue looks particularly powerful.

I was a little stunned for a moment, and when I met the eyes of the stone statue, a strange feeling enveloped my heart, and my body seemed to be boiling, and sweat was dripping from my body.

"Village chief, dig up" An excited shout made me wake up, and when I looked at the stone statue again, I didn't feel anything, the evening breeze blew, and the heat taken away by evaporation made me feel a little cold, and I couldn't help but shiver.

I stretched out my head, only to barely see that there were two identical stone slabs under the moist loess in the deep pit, and there was a small stone head carved on each slate, and the sheep's head was toothed and ring, and the whole thing was a stone door.

Why is there a stone door here?

"Get out of the way" The village chief walked out of the crowd, holding a torch, the firelight illuminated his face red, he slowly thought about the stone gate and walked away, his eyes were firm, the surroundings were already silent, and even the insects were no longer calling, and there were no ants on my body lying on the ground.

The sonorous footsteps of the village chief became louder and louder in the silent night, my heart was beating faster and faster, and my breathing was obviously a lot shorter, "ding, ding" two crisp sounds came from the door knocker, like a soul bell, I saw the village chief's footsteps obviously stagnant, but his steps were still moving forward, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead, I don't know whether it was hot or nervous.

Finally, the village chief arrived at the stone gate, and in the process, the knocker did not ring again.

"Nuggets dig jade, the god of fire returns, suppress demons, rise" The village chief who stood still suddenly roared, and the sound of soaring made me cover my ears.

As soon as the village chief finished shouting, seven strong men standing in different directions had been prepared around the stone gate and began to excavate, and after a while, some people dug up some gold ingots and jade ornaments one after another, and when I saw them, I was surprised, these things turned out to be the same as those things in the ancestral hall of the leper Li.

I counted it, and found that until the excavation was completed, a total of six people dug up things, and one person didn't dig anything, it seems that Leper Li's things got from here, but why bury these gold and jade here? I don't understand.