All Chapters_Chapter 4: The Earth Dragon Rolls Over
I'm not happy and I don't know why Grandpa is giving what belongs to me to these cops.
Grandpa didn't care about my emotions, he took me home with a few policemen. My dad and my mom haven't come back yet, and I don't know where they went, and the house is empty.
Grandpa asked the policemen to sit in the hall, and he went into the room, and after a while he came out with something. My eyes were sharp, and I saw that although it was also a turquoise mask, it was not the same as yesterday's one.
The mask in Grandpa's hand is smaller, the degree of bulging eyeballs is not as obvious as yesterday's, and there is no ornament with a phoenix bird in the small hole in the middle of the forehead of the mask, which looks hollow.
I covered my mouth and snickered, it turned out that my grandfather still had a small one, and he gave this fake to the police, while mine kept it.
Before Grandpa could sit down, the four-eyed policeman let out an exclamation and snatched the turquoise mask from Grandpa's hand, his glasses almost touching the mask, his face full of excitement.
"Zhang Xiaoyong, what's wrong with you, do you recognize what this is?" Squinting eyes, Lin Yaowu saw that the four-eyed policeman was so excited, and hurriedly asked.
That Zhang Xiaoyong gathered his glasses and said excitedly: "I saw it in the magazine, this is a cultural relic unearthed in Sanxingdui, Guanghan!" It's almost as long as in the photos! ”
"Guanghan Sanxingdui." The cold-faced policewoman said softly, she seemed to be recalling something.
"Look at this bulging eyeball, this is a typical sign of Sanxingdui unearthed cultural relics, this is a national treasure-level thing, it is said to have a great relationship with the ancient Shu civilization, and it is of great value!" Zhang Xiaoyong spat and said with a flushed face.
Lin Yaowu took the mask from his hand and looked at it carefully, the expression on his face became more and more solemn.
"The question is how can things from Sanxingdui in Guanghan appear here with us, Guanghan is in Chengdu, hundreds of kilometers away from us." The policewoman's slender fingers tapped on the table, her face puzzled.
Lin Yaowu put the mask on the table and said, "Xu Menghan is right, and since the Sanxingdui thing is related to the ancient Shu civilization, it will be at least a thousand years, or even two or three thousand years. But this mask was taken from the white coffin under the temple, and the temple was only more than 300 years at most, and the time was completely incorrect. ”
"Could it be a temple where a coffin is buried first, and then repaired?" The policewoman Xu Menghan brushed her loose hair and said in a low voice.
Lin Yaowu shook his head, he didn't speak, just looked at my grandfather, and a pair of Mimi's eyes flashed with a strange light.
Grandpa ignored him, and waited for Mei Zizi to take a puff of dry tobacco, and then said slowly: "Don't look at me, my old man is uneducated, what you are talking about Sanxingdui, Gu Shu or something, I don't understand." Anyway, this thing is for you. ”
In the end, the three policemen didn't ask for anything useful from the grandfather's mouth, but they were able to get a mask that was suspected to be a Sanxingdui object here, and it was enough for them to explain to the above.
I watched the policemen leave in a hurry, ready to ask my grandfather about today's matter, but before I could speak, my grandfather made a silent gesture to me, and then he said: "Good grandson, there are some things that you will naturally know when the time comes, what should be yours is yours, this is your life, and it is also the life of our Chen family!" ”
I don't know why Grandpa said this, especially since the phrase "It's your life" has been said several times in a row, and I was tempted to ask him what he meant, but seeing the tiredness on Grandpa's old face, I swallowed the words that had already reached my mouth back into my stomach.
I believe that grandpa will not harm me!
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the seventh day after the demolition of the Snake Monarch Temple, in these few days, Lin Yaowu and others came to the village several times, but no matter how he inquired and investigated, he did not get any new clues.
Later, when he came to the village for the last time, he told my grandfather that the county seemed to be giving up the investigation and attributed the deaths of Li Daoscar and others to an unsolved case of supernatural beings.
On the night of the incident, Li Daoscar and others were all in the county town more than ten kilometers away from the scene of death, and everyone was in a different place, but the next day they all ran to the Snake King Temple, coupled with the terrifying power that twisted people's heads alive, basically ruled out the possibility of human crimes.
"Of course, if this thing was done by humans, then this person is not something that a little cop like us can mess with." This is what Lin Yaowu said to my grandfather when he left, and I saw that his eyes were staring at my grandfather when he said this, and his eyes were burning.
As for the mask that is suspected to be a Sanxingdui cultural relic, they have been sent to the research institute in Chengdu, where various identifications and tests will be carried out. And the most bizarre white snake skin in this incident, that is, the snake skin turned into by the white coffin, the police searched all the possible places where Li Dao Scar could be stored and found no clues, as if it had evaporated from the world.
The village seems to have calmed down, and the death of Li Daoscar and others is gradually no longer discussed, and after the Snake Jun Temple was demolished, there were already people who surveyed the terrain and prepared to build a road, and the few businessmen who wanted to contract the planting of Tibetan tea in the back mountain also signed a land contract agreement with the villagers.
Everything seems to be going to be normal, but that's just a prelude to the storm. The first contradiction that arose was what my grandfather said to the villagers on the day he demolished the Snake Monarch Temple, not to go up the back mountain until he opened his mouth.
In this Tsing Yi village, whether it is a farmer or a hunter, the significance of the back mountain is very important to them, as the so-called relying on the mountain to eat the mountain and rely on the water to draft water, even if the land is now contracted to the tea merchants, but before the Tibetan tea base was built, most of the villagers still habitually run to the mountain every day, or pick wild vegetables, mushrooms, or put sets to catch hares.
But my grandfather blocked their hope of going up the mountain with a word, they were naturally not very happy, maybe the clansmen surnamed Chen would still care about the words of the patriarch of the grandfather, but those villagers with foreign surnames couldn't manage so much, after all, grandpa was only the patriarch of the Chen family, and he had no right to order them.
The villagers with foreign surnames did not listen to their grandfather's words, and those who should go up the mountain went up the mountain, and the clansmen surnamed Chen saw that these people with foreign surnames not only had no accidents on the mountain, but also caught fat hares and picked rich mushrooms and wild vegetables, and they suddenly felt unbalanced and very dissatisfied with their grandfather.
After all, this era is different from before, with the spread of foreign ideas, the Chinese family society under the patriarchal system is gradually disintegrating, and the status of the patriarch and clan elders in the family is gradually declining, especially the new generation of young people are affected by free thought, and they are more dissatisfied with the grandfather's right to make a statement, and even rebel.
When a group of people rushed into my yard, my grandfather was lying on an old-fashioned bamboo chair, fanning his fan while telling me stories about his youth.
As soon as a shirtless sturdy man came in, he shouted loudly: "Uncle Youcai, why don't you want us to go up the mountain!" You see, those people with foreign surnames have not gone up and down the mountain these days! ”
"That's right, why don't you want us to go up the mountain, you see that the boss of the house next door caught a pheasant on the mountain yesterday, and the dog's return is still showing off in front of me."
"That's it, why don't you want us to go up!"
……
The courtyard was in a lot of chaos with this group of people, and I was a little irritated and looked at them unhappily.
Grandpa saw that I was not happy, a pair of eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, he stood up and yelled at the clansmen in the yard: "Mom, what is the trouble of your turtle sons, if you want to go up the mountain, go by yourself, but the ugly words are ahead, you go up the mountain to play lanterns in the thatched hut - look for death!" Don't come to me if something happens! ”
The people in the courtyard were all frightened by Grandpa's sudden anger, after all, Grandpa had been the patriarch for decades, and he was still extremely intimidating in their hearts.
"Uncle Rich......"
A young man seemed to want to say something, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by my grandfather, who said coldly: "The words have been made clear to you, and those who want to die will go up the mountain!" Alright, now you all get out of here, don't bother my good grandson! ”
A group of people reluctantly walked out of the yard, and I don't know if they finally listened to my grandfather.
"Grandpa, you are so crooked (equivalent to "fierce, powerful" in Sichuan dialect). I laughed, and it was funny to see a group of people yelling at my grandfather.
Grandpa sat down on the bamboo chair again and sighed: "I'm also for their good, if it's bad luck, you won't be able to run away from the mountain." ”
I asked curiously, "Why can't you run away, there are tigers on the mountain?" ”
When my grandfather heard my words, he laughed and said, "There are not only tigers in the mountains, but also bears, leopards, jackals, and many, many things that eat people." ”
I thought what my grandfather said was true, and I couldn't help but get a little scared.
When my grandfather saw me, he touched my head and whispered, "Wait, wait!" ”
"Grandpa, what are you waiting for?" I asked, blinking wide-eyed.
Grandpa lay on the bamboo chair, looking at the direction of the back mountain, there was a rare trace of worry on his face full of vicissitudes, he said in a heavy tone, and said slowly:
"Earth Dragon Turnover!"