Chapter 18: Old Things in the Village
The trail is not much hidden, and it can be seen that people have been using this trail all along. At the other end of the path is a small forest, which looks like the villagers of Luming Village are going to pass by when they are cutting firewood.
"If we don't make it to the village tonight, we'll have to camp in the woods here, but luckily I still have some insect repellent and a flashlight with me, so it's okay to spend the night outside. Chen Lao looked at the forest over there and said, "It's strange to say, how can it get dark so quickly here?" β
Shen Qingming glanced at his watch, and it was just after four o'clock.
Lin Sheng said, "Don't you still be in the shadow moon, right?"
Chen Lao was a little weak-hearted and said, "It stands to reason that there is no place that can last for a long night for a week, but everything here is really difficult to understand with common sense. If it's really still in the shadow moon, it's not necessarily too bad, and this kind of wonder can be seen several times in a person's life. β
I really don't know whether to say that Chen Lao is optimistic, or that he is a little lacking in heart......
Yang Xu said: "After arriving in the village, let's go to the health center for a day, this kind of village does not look like a hotel, just there to inquire about the situation of the missing doctor." β
"Poor mountains and bad waters, do you think the doctors and the first expedition team will be detained by them? In order to protect some terrible secrets, the villagers caught and killed all the outsiders. Shen Qingming began to think crankily, "I watch a lot of TV series that act like this." β
Lin Sheng was disdainful and said: "In the twenty-first century, where are there so many people, if any of them dare to touch a single hair of my hair, I promise to let them all go to my hair with secrets to bury me the next day." β
It's really the temper of the eldest young master. Rich and powerful, you can really do whatever you want.
"!" Before Lin Sheng finished speaking, he stepped on something, which frightened him so much that he took a few steps back on the spot, and his little face turned pale.
"It's just a dead dog. Qin Yeyou said lightly.
"Don't make a fuss, it's normal to have such dead dogs in the countryside. Chen Lao was not frightened by the dead dog, but was taken aback by Lin Sheng, "When I was moving bricks in the countryside, I relied on this kind of dead dog to make meat." β
Lin Sheng coughed twice and calmed down, and said, "I'...... I just hate dogs, not scared. β
The darker it gets. Shen Qingming didn't bother to complain along the way, after all, this time he was just working with the people in Yuecheng, and he didn't have to work as hard as the last time he was looking for a child, it would be better if he could scare Young Master Lin to go home, anyway, he was talking about returning from Luming Village safely, and he didn't say that he would definitely find something.
Xiling silently examined the dog's corpse, frowning slightly.
"What's wrong?" Because of the previous profile, Shen Qingming paid special attention to Xiling Heng's every move.
"Tut-tut, do you care so much about other people?" Yang Xu quipped on the side.
The woman was more delicate, and Xiling said, "No...... It's nothing, there are no fatal injuries on this dead dog, it feels a little strange, it is very likely that it was poisoned, I thought too much. β
Yang Xu was obviously a lot lazy this time, so he didn't continue to ask, saving his strength and continuing to hurry.
"Now, it's almost there. Xiling said. The long trek in the fog almost exhausted the patience of the group, and finally saw a little hope in the distance, where there are lights, it means that there are people, not far from Luming Village.
There is also a deserted stone monument at the head of the village, and Chen Lao came up with interest and stopped to watch it in the same place. It is all ancient text, which ordinary people can't understand. On the contrary, when the village was close at hand, a group of people were not so anxious, and they stayed in place to accompany Chen Lao to pass the time.
Although Chen Lao is old, his mentality is very young. He pointed to the stele and said: "This text is also a bit old, it is a common foreign script in the Miao Xinjiang area in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, fortunately it brought me, otherwise this stele will be missed by you." The stele often records the major events that took place in the village. If we can read it, it will help us a lot in the future. β
"Then you'd better read it quickly. Yang Xu said.
Chen Lao said: "Look at this stone stele, the word Luming is written in front of it, which is the name of their village. The lowest nominee, hmm...... is called Fu Yuan, and he is the magistrate in charge of this place in Yongle Dynasty. Zhu Di should have passed through the Qincheng area when he was cutting down Jianwen, which was the change of magistrates caused at this time, maybe there was some celebrity in Luming Village, and after returning to his hometown, the magistrate personally visited him here in order to show respect, and by the way, he re-mentioned the name of the village. β
A feeling of an old professor's lecture came to my face, and I returned to the university campus when I was eighteen years old in a trance.
"The stele usually records the major events that happened in the village, so I'll take a look. This village was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was affected by the war and became an ownerless deserted village, until the founding of the Ming Dynasty during the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang shocked Siyi and forced a group of Miao Jiang people to move here to live, and then ...... Then ....." The more Chen Lao spoke, the lower his voice became.
Yang Xu asked, "What's wrong?"
"The people of this village ..... after a shadow moon All disappeared, Fu Yuan invited Fang Shi to see, said what is the Miao Jiang demon art, and then Fu Yuan summoned this generation of large and small heavenly masters to come here to find out, and found a purple-black Danshi in the village, since then although there has been a shadow moon, but there has never been a large-scale disappearance, he dedicated the Danshi to Zhu Di, and he was promoted to the local magistrate, during this period he also pursued the so-called shadow moon puzzle, the most believed one is that there is a gate connecting yin and yang life and death in the village 100 feet underground, the shadow moon is the wonder of covering the sky when the gate is opened, and there is a messenger of balance hidden behind the gateγ When he wrote this inscription, he was already dying, and he might not come again in this life, so he left this stone tablet and recorded everything that happened here, hoping that the descendants who wanted to come here would be what the so-called Shadow Moon was. Chen Lao laboriously translated all of them.
Lin Sheng didn't understand what was going on: "What is the gate of yin and yang life and death? what is the messenger of balance? Why is what this person writes covered by clouds and mountains?"
Shen Qingming didn't understand very well: "This Fu Yuan also uses Miao Wen, it stands to reason that he should also be a member of the village, how did he survive from the shadow moon at that time?"
Before entering the village, there was already a lawsuit, and after entering the village, I am afraid it will only become more complicated.
"Young Master Lin, if you don't just ask someone to sweep this village away. Shen Qingming really didn't want to go in, so he had to joke with Lin Sheng.
Lin Xue ignored him and turned around and walked towards the village.
"It's such an adult, it's still a child's temper. Chen Lao shook his head and followed Lin Sheng into the village with Zhang Ge's support.
Yang Xu said: "Okay, you don't have to say a few words, and whoever makes the boss angry will settle the bill for you." By the way, did you bring the piece of old jade that Ye Jinghan gave you before?"
"Brought it. β
"Even if you kid is a little careful, let's go into the village. β
Before Shen Qingming noticed, the piece of jade had become a little warmer.