Hearing what Ge Lao said, I suddenly remembered that my understanding of the previous Lotus Village seemed to have come from Zheng Yuan.

And Zheng Yuan is obviously in the same group as Qin Zheng, how can he tell me the truth.

According to what Zheng Yuan said, Lianhua Village was due to a lack of water. When the gas bomb is dug up, all will break out of the terrible "plague". Then my father, Qin Zheng and others will go to Lotus Village to investigate the matter, and now listening to what Ge Lao said, the truth does not seem to be the case. Draw the edge table.

Seeing that I didn't say anything, Ge Lao asked again: "Who told you?" ”

"Yes, it was after Liu Zhiqiang and his gang were arrested last year, Zheng Yuan said to me......" I said.

"Do you believe me or do you believe him?" Ge Lao suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

But this sentence is very easy for me to answer, because I don't have to think about it, of course I believe in Ge Lao.

"Ge Lao, do you still need to ask. Of course I believe you. I said.

"Well, that's good!" Ge Lao nodded: "Do you know what your father's purpose was when they came to Lotus Village?" ”

"......" I shook my head and said nothing.

"They are here for the treasures under the Lotus Village." Ge Lao said slowly: "Do you know what the name of Lotus Village was before liberation? ”

"......" I shook my head again. Ge Lao likes to use this kind of question and answer form when talking to people, and I have long been familiar with this kind of Ge-style dialogue, so I can only listen patiently to him continue to speak.

"Before the liberation of Lianhua Village, it was called Gejiazhai, and there were many people in it who knew kung fu and made a lot of efforts to resist Japan. After the liberation, the government re-planned and changed its name to Lotus Village. When I was very young, I heard many adults talk about some ancient legends of Gejiazhai. When I was a child, I listened to it as a story, and when I grew up, I listened to it as a joke, and then I slowly forgot about it. It wasn't until I first came to the courtyard of the Guo family and saw the well that I began to believe that the ancient legends that had been handed down before were actually true. ”

"What ancient legend?" Ge Lao's words had already aroused my curiosity.

"Hehe......" Ge Lao smiled slightly, and began to say something to himself that I didn't understand: "Parchment, flowers in the mountains, dragons in the well, gold in the earth." ”

When Ge Lao said this, he stopped and looked at me thoughtfully, as if waiting for me to ask something.

I was indeed very curious about what this sentence meant, so I asked: "Old Ge, what does this mean, when I was lying in the coffin some time ago, I also heard Qin Zheng and Lin Zhenguo mention what sheepskins. ”

"Hmph......" Ge Lao smiled again and continued: "Flowers in the mountains always bloom. The dragon in the well is always there, and the gold in the ground is often buried. The flowers are lost, the wells are dry, and the gold is present. ”

"The flowers are lost, the wells are dry, and the gold is present?" Hearing Ge Lao explain this, I already realized what I meant by those words before.

"Hmm!" Ge Lao nodded: "The ancient legend of our Gejiazhai is intermittent, and there are many versions, but no matter which version, there are indispensable flowers in the mountains and dragons in the well. In particular, there is a poem that mentions a very strange well in particular. It is said that there is a coiled dragon in Gejiazhai, and the head of the coiled dragon is in the well; Don't ask the well water to fall at night, this is the Panlong drinking water. ”

I heard Ge Lao say that. My first reaction was to think of the well in the Guo family's yard.

His poem has been clear enough, and it is obvious that this is talking about the well in the courtyard of the Lotus Mountain and the Guo family.

The courtyard of the Guo family is not far from the Lotus Mountain, and according to the hint of this poem, I really feel that if I stand in the courtyard of the Guo family and look at the Lotus Mountain, the seven peaks of the Lotus Mountain seem to be really a dragon coiled there, and the hills from the Lotus Mountain to the courtyard of the Guo family are like a vein connecting the courtyard of the Guo family, directly leading to the hill behind the courtyard of the Guo family where many graves are buried. And in the end, this hill really seems to be the dragon's head.

I've heard people say before that the people of Guojia Village buried the dead on that hill, saying that the feng shui there was good, could it be because of this? Could it be that someone who understands feng shui saw that there was a dragon head.

Especially the last two sentences of the poem that Ge Lao said, it is clearly pointed out that the water of the well will fall at night. It's obvious that someone has known about such a well for a long time.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask: "Old Ge, when did the poem you last say start circulating?" ”

"This poem is circulated like this, I guess no one knows, what is certain is that my grandfather and great-grandfather had it at that time, maybe longer!" Ge Lao said slowly.

"Your grandfather, grandfather?" I was a little surprised.

"My grandfather used to be a minor official in the Qing Dynasty, and I heard this poem from his mouth." Ge Lao Dao.

Ge Lao is almost sixty years old, and it is not unusual for his grandfather to be an official in the Qing Dynasty. I'm curious that if that's the case, that is, the poem has been around for at least a hundred years.

Thinking of this, I said with some excitement: "Old Ge, according to what you said, wouldn't someone already know about the well in the Guo family's courtyard hundreds of years ago?" ”

"Not necessarily, I also have grandpa and they don't know the well in the Guo family's yard. Maybe it's because Gejiazhai didn't have much contact with the outside world at that time! I heard my grandfather mention that at that time, they thought that they were absolutely not allowed to go out of the village without the permission of the owner of the village. At the time, I thought it was because of the war, and I was afraid that my people would be in danger when they went down the mountain without permission, but now it seems that this is not the case. ”

"Ge Lao, what do you mean by the clansmen you just said?" I asked.

"Oh, that's the case, before the liberation, all the people in Ge's village were surnamed Ge, and they could be regarded as all members of a big family. After the Japanese hit here, many people fled in to take refuge, and then there were people with foreign surnames inside, and then there were more and more people with foreign surnames. In addition, during the liberation period, Gejiazhai was attacked by the Japanese several times, with heavy casualties, and there was not much left of the real Ge family, so it was not gradually forgotten. ”

"Why haven't I found out about the previous affairs of Lotus Village in the county records of Baiqu County?"

"The previous county chronicles are estimated to have been destroyed during the war, what you see should have been rebuilt after the war, and don't forget that Wang Feilong is the person in charge of the county chronicles, he lurks there, haven't you thought about what the real purpose is?"

Hearing what Ge Lao said, I suddenly opened: "Could it be that he sneaked in there to revise the history of Lotus Village recorded in the county annals?" ”

"I don't know!" Ge Lao is this temper, he never deduces things that he is not sure about, and will only send you three words very simply - I don't know.

"Old Ge, are there any other legends you heard?" I asked again.

"No, that's pretty much it." Ge Lao shook his head: "But I know now that the tragedy in Lotus Village was jointly directed by Lin Zhenguo, Qin Zheng and others, and their purpose was that parchment. ”

"Is that the parchment you just mentioned?" I was a little shocked.

Obviously, this parchment must have a lot to do with the secrets of Lotus Mountain. Half a month ago, when I was lying in the coffin, I also heard Lin Zhenguo and Qin Zheng mention this parchment.

Judging from their conversation at the time, the parchment should have been taken by Lin Zhenguo, and Lin Zhenguo seemed to have seen a lot of things from the parchment. Qin Zheng's purpose in looking for Lin Zhenguo was obviously for the secret in this parchment.

"Well, I also heard that the owner of Gejiazhai has a parchment book in his hand, and the things recorded in the parchment book involve the lives of all people in Gejiazhai, and all the Ge family members must take it as their responsibility to protect this parchment. At that time, I was still young, and I just listened to it and forgot about it, but now I understand that the thousands of lives in Lotus Village are all because of this parchment, but I knew too late, if I had known that the parchment book would cause such a big killing, I should not have told it......"

"What, you still told me about this?" My head buzzed.

"At that time, Qin Zheng and Lin Zhenguo came to the mountains as guests, and my father was the last owner of Gejiazhai, although there were only forty or fifty people left in our Ge family at that time, but it still continued the system of keeping the parchment book by the owner of the village. One day I was poured a lot of wine by Lin Zhenguo and Qin Zheng, and they suddenly asked about some legends of Gejiazhai, when he was young and vigorous, he loved to show off, although I didn't want to say it at first, after all, it was a secret in the village, but they provoked me to say it in a few words. Later, they told me to go to my dad's to sneak it out, but I didn't agree. Then they played in the stockade for a few days and left. I never thought that those who had lost their conscience would not long after they smuggled a few poison gas bombs into the village and threw them into the village, woo woo woo woo ......"

When Ge Lao said this, he suddenly burst into tears, but it was a handful of snot and tears.

"Ge Lao, I'm sorry......" I knelt in front of Ge Lao with a puff. Although I already hate Lin Zhenguo, I feel that I also have a certain responsibility for this debt. I'm not following any "father's debt repayment by son", but I feel that this is more than blood debt, my father participated in directing, I feel very uncomfortable, and I feel a little ashamed of Ge Lao.

What I didn't expect was that Ge Lao was crying and crying, and suddenly he didn't take a breath, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly twitched.

As he took his last breath, he took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to me: "This is the parchment I remember......

Ge Lao swallowed his breath after saying the last sentence.