The old man of the Liu family is seventy years old this year, and the story he told about the Dragon King happened in the year he was born.

It was summer, and it had been cloudy since the morning, and the black clouds were very low, and the rolling thunder was churning in the clouds, but no rain came down.

At noon, a bright flash from the sky struck the paddy fields, steaming up all the water in the fields, and leaving a large black round pit on the ground. The people who worked were frightened, and then they had the audacity to look at it, and found that there was a dark green dragon coiled in the pit.

The dragon was covered with wounds, and his scales were bald in many places, and he lay motionless, his eyes were closed, and only the long beard on the side of his mouth was still moving slightly with his breathing, proving that he was still alive.

At first, no one in the village dared to approach it, but after a few days, more and more scales fell off the dragon's body, and even began to stink and rot. The people of the village could not stand it anymore, so some people went to sprinkle water on the dragon's body and covered it with an oilcloth to protect it from the sun.

In this way, people from the village came out every day to take care of Dalong. Throughout the summer and autumn, not a single drop of rain fell from the sky, the crops in the village were finished, and it was difficult for them to drink water, but everyone still insisted on taking care of Dalong.

Six months later, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Dalong finally recovered, and then he even opened his mouth to ask the villagers for food, saying that he had eaten enough to ensure that the wind and rain in the village had been smooth for fifty years. But Dalong doesn't eat chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, he wants to eat boys and girls, and later the village really gave Dalong a tribute to a man, a girl and two children.

After eating the tribute, Dalong flew directly into the sky, and since then the camelwaist village has been in good weather, and even when the natural disasters occurred for three years, the impact on the camelwaist village was very small.

This is the end of the story of the Dragon King's landing, and Old Man Liu's eyebrows are tightly condensed into a big pimple, obviously the matter is not over.

Sure enough, the old man then said: "The dragon lord blessed the village for fifty years, and now it has been seventy years, so the dragon lord wants to collect more tribute, and whoever is unwilling to pay tribute, the dragon lord will definitely be guilty." The few who died before were all suffering from the dragon lord, if the dragon lord really chose Jing Xiang, then there would be no tricks, for the sake of peace in the village and for the whole family, we have to sacrifice Jing Xiang. ”

When he said this, the old man's lips trembled, and it could be seen that the old man really felt sorry for his little grandson, if Jing Xiang disappeared, it would definitely be no different from ripping out the old man's heart.

I comforted the old man a few words, saying that I would definitely find a way to keep Jing Xiang.

The old man shook his head when he heard this, saying that he didn't let me interfere, and said that the story of the Dragon King should not be known to outsiders, and let me listen to it in the hope that I would not interfere in the affairs of the village.

In the past few years, I have come to their house for a few days every autumn harvest, so I know their family very well. Liu Jingyang's temper is stubborn, his father is even more stubborn, and his grandfather is simply a donkey, so I gave up my plan to fight with the old man and went straight out of the hut.

As soon as I came out, Qiao Wei followed suit, and called me out into the courtyard outside, and asked me mysteriously if I believed that there were dragons in the village.

Of course, I still have the same answer as before, I don't believe it.

To my surprise, Qiao Wei nodded in agreement, saying that he didn't believe it either.

I was about to praise him for this, but the boy immediately proved to me his stubbornness.

"It's not a dragon, it's a snake fairy! Before the liberation, there were a lot of animal fairies in the Northeast, you should have heard of Hu Huang Chang Python, right? This village should be a green-headed python fairy in cultivation, Xiaoqing in the legend of the white snake...... "Qiao Wei seems to be excited after listening to the old man's story, probably because the old man has a lot of taboos, so it is inconvenient to say this in person, so he dragged me out and asked me to be his audience."

He couldn't close the conversation box when he opened it, and he talked a lot about the cultivation of the green python immortal, and said that he was going to find the snake cave on the camel mountain, and asked me if I would go with him. I really didn't have any interest in running to the mountains in the middle of winter to find some impossible snake cave, so I decisively rejected Qiao Wei's invitation.

Qiao Wei clearly wrote the word "disappointed" on his face, then shrugged his shoulders and pouted, turned his head and walked out of the courtyard gate.

I, on the other hand, continued to investigate at my own pace.

According to the most conventional and effective detection theory: one person is killed to find a motive, and many people are killed to find contact. The situation in Humpwaist Village clearly falls into the latter category, so I believe that in addition to the fact that they are all twelve or thirteen years old, there must be other connections between all the disappeared children, and these connections will lead me to the truth behind the weirdness.

So I spent nearly two hours persuading Liu Jingyang, his father, his uncle, and other parents who held a criticism meeting at his house, hoping that they would spare Liu Jingyang, and let him take me to the families who had lost their children in the past ten years to ask about the situation.

It is estimated that I completely outperformed the whole family of the old Liu family in terms of stubbornness, so I succeeded, and they finally agreed to my request.

He said that he believed that there were dragons in the village, but he was very unaccustomed to the practice of the villagers giving tribute to the dragons for the sake of profit, so he would give up farming and go to the county to open a restaurant.

Regarding me, he said that he originally wanted to take Jingxiang to run by himself, but his family looked at him very strictly, so he begged me for help. His original jihua was that I picked up Jingxiang first, and when the family saw that he was relieved, he went to the city to find me, taking care of me to prevent me from having an accident, but before I arrived, the phone was confiscated by his father.

Because I don't believe in death, and I don't really have anything going on, I don't blame him. Probably because Liu Jingyang was a little ashamed and wanted to compensate me, so he was very enthusiastic to help me introduce and ease the atmosphere every time I went to a house. Thanks to him, the process of visiting and investigating has also become very smooth.

Because I knew the taboos of the people in the village, I didn't say a word about the dragon, but only asked about the situation of the children and the relationship between these families. The people in the village were also very cooperative, and they answered almost everything I asked. When the sun was about to set, I visited all the families who had lost their children in the past 12 years.

In terms of connections, I didn't gain much, because there are too many similarities between missing children, but these similarities also exist in those children who have safely passed the age of 12 or 13, so there is not much investigative value. On the contrary, it was one thing that Old Man Xie said that made me care a lot. Although this incident does not sound very related to the disappearance of the child, if I analyze the doubts in this matter, I feel that I have taken a big step towards the truth.

Old man Xie is in his eighties and almost ninety this year, and he is the second fat grandfather.

Er Fat is one of the six children who lost it when he went up the mountain with Liu Jingyang in 01, I think this is the source of the strange thing, so I asked in detail. When I asked if his family had any grudges with anyone, the second fat parents, uncle, and uncle answered very simply, saying no, only the second fat grandfather frowned!

I asked the old man if he knew anything.

Erfat's grandfather replied: "The village has always been peaceful, and the big guys are also harmonious, and there must be no hatred or grudge." If there is anything, that is, before the liberation, the family in the village suddenly moved, and I heard that it was a little awkward with others, but I can't remember what the situation was, and what the family's surname was. ”

After leaving Lao Xie's house, I asked almost all the old people in the village about the family who moved away, and to my surprise, no one knew about the family's move except for Erfat's grandfather, but vaguely said that he remembered that there was a major incident in the village, but no one could say what the specific major event was.

After Liu Jingyang and I returned home, I also asked Mr. Liu, but he didn't know anything big at all.

At this point, my curiosity was completely aroused.

What is the contradiction that can make a family suddenly move out? And what is the big event that the old people in the village have a vague impression of?

I can only speculate and hypothesize about this by the few words I have.

Before the liberation, the whole village lived well, but a family moved out of the place where they were used to living because of conflicts, which absolutely does not make sense! The only plausible explanation is that the family did not move out, but were driven out of the village.

There must have been children in the family of the disappeared family, and the children were playing together every day, and suddenly there was no one left, and the other children would definitely go home and ask questions. The adults were unwilling to tell the truth, so they used moving as an excuse to prevaricate, but they couldn't prevaricate, so they simply made up a set of stories about the dragon king eating boys and girls to deceive the children.

Gradually, the child forgot about the family that disappeared, and memorized the story of the dragon king. Later, the child became an adult, and told his child the story of the dragon king, and zuihou became a kind of totem worship in the village.

At this point, it seems that everything has become clear, and the disappearance of the village child for no reason is completely revenge! It was a revenge on the entire village by the descendants of the disappeared family.

But what about Weishenme's revenge only for twelve- or thirteen-year-olds? The most important thing is that Weishenme: Can some children survive the age of 12 or 3 safely? Just when I thought I was getting closer to the truth, it seemed that a thick door was in front of me, making it difficult for me to move an inch, and the special connection between the missing children must be the key to open this door.