Chapter Twenty-Three: Six Families
Something big is wrong.
The old village chief's face was ugly and looked like a dead man.
But instead of yelling, he called the heads of several large families over, and a bunch of people gathered around to discuss.
"Today's festival goes on as usual."
The old village chief looked back behind him, and the most uneasy thing he was about these young people whose hearts were still unstable.
"No one is allowed to say what happened in the ancestral hall, do you remember everything?"
"Remembered ......"
The old village chief swept over everyone with a pair of old eyes, and then said to the head of the Wang family: "You will preside over this year's festival, remember, the fairy sheep must be retrieved......
The head of the Wang family was overjoyed, and there was no appearance of two young people who had just died in their own family.
"Yes, I'll do it! Chief! ”
"Go ahead, I'm old, I can't take care of these things......"
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It was dawn, and Qin Manjiang opened his eyes on time at half past seven.
"You're awake, classmate Qin, come and eat something." It was Liu Jingqing who spoke.
"Where's everyone?" Qin Manjiang glanced around a few times, except for Liu Jingqing, everyone else was gone.
"They went to the village just after dawn, saying that they wanted to do more research during the day." Liu Jingqing replied.
"This is instant noodles that we brought ourselves, you can eat some." As she spoke, Liu Jingqing brought a bowl of instant noodles, "I heard that in a certain strange talk game in the past, the strangeness came out of the water source of the building, because everyone drank the water in the building, and in the end they were all killed by the ghosts in the water who came out of their stomachs." ”
She put the instant noodles in front of Qin Manjiang and said, "So from then on, everyone has prepared their own food and water, and it's better to save food than to eat something suspicious." ”
Qin Manjiang looked down at the instant noodles, picked them up, and asked, "Aren't you going?" ”
Liu Jingqing shook her head slightly, and said seriously: "I'll go, you will be alone." ”
Qin Manjiang didn't ask any more questions, after eating instant noodles quickly, he washed up, and the two of them also left the hotel where they were temporarily staying.
But as soon as he pushed open the door of the hotel, he bumped into a girl.
She wears round glasses, a braided braided back of her head, a simple white shirt on the top, and white-washed jeans on the bottom, which is very clean.
Whether it is the dress or the appearance and temperament of the whole person, it is very clean.
After seeing Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing, she seemed to be stunned for a moment: "Hello, are there only the two of you?" ”
Liu Jingqing asked suspiciously, "May I ask ...... you are?"
The girl with round glasses hurriedly said, "Oh, just call me Xiao Ran, I was arranged by Uncle Chen to come and take you to visit the village." ”
As she spoke, she glanced into the inn, "What about the others?" Uncle Chen said there were five of them. ”
"They've already gone out first, so we'll trouble you, Sister Xiaoran." Liu Jingqing estimated her age and felt that this girl was about the same age as Qin Manjiang at most, and it was most appropriate to call her sister.
"No, come with me! This village is huge! I'll take you to take a good look. Xiao Ran said with a smile, and as soon as she turned her head, the ponytail was raised smartly.
Qin Manjiang glanced at Xiao Ran thoughtfully, didn't speak, and followed.
Walking all the way to the center of the village, the road is getting better and better, and even the floor tiles are paved.
Today's Xianyang Village is even more lively than when I arrived yesterday, and every household has come out, wearing the best and cleanest clothes, and all of them are beaming with joy on their faces.
"This piece is the Wang family, the Wang family is one of the big families in the village, the house surrounded by high walls and like a villa is where the Wang family lives, it's beautiful!"
Xiao Ran pointed to the big room that looked very expensive on the side and said.
"That's the Zhang family, like the Wang family, it's also a big family, there is the Li family, and next door to the Li family is the Sun family...... Opposite the Sun family is the Xie family......"
"This road is facing down, sitting north and facing south, the mansion with the best location is the village chief's house, the village chief's family name is Chen, and these six are the most magnificent in the village!"
Xiao Ran's tone seemed to hide the envy that he tried to hide.
Qin Manjiang asked, "What kind of business do they do?" So profitable? ”
Xiao Ran shook his head, and suddenly said as if he remembered something: "I think it must be the sheep fairy who is blessing them!" ”
Sheep fairy?
These two words were particularly sensitive in Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing's ears, and Liu Jingqing immediately asked, "Sister Xiaoran, how do you say this sentence of Yang Immortal's blessing?" ”
Xiao Ran led them forward and asked strangely, "Aren't you also here to participate in the Sheep Festival?" On the triennial Sheep Festival, a lucky person will be drawn to pretend to be a three-day sheep fairy, and then, a lucky person will be drawn to make a wish to the person who plays the sheep fairy, and finally the person who pretends to be a sheep fairy and the person who is selected to make a wish can realize their wishes! ”
"Chen, Wang, Zhang, Li, Sun, Xie, these six families have all made a wish to the sheep fairy, they have become richer and richer in the past twenty years, it must be the blessing of the sheep fairy!" Xiao Ran folded his hands reverently and muttered, "I hope I can be selected this year, please...... Let me make a wish, too. ”
Liu Jingqing leaned into Qin Manjiang's ear and whispered: "This strange talk, it is very likely that someone pretending to be a sheep fairy has an accident, if so, the six people who have made a wish to the sheep fairy will definitely usher in revenge......"
Qin Manjiang nodded, and at this time, Xiao Ran suddenly pointed forward again and said, "Look! There is the ancestral hall, the place where the sheep fairy is enshrined! ”
"The village has existed until now, everything is the credit of the sheep fairy, and this ancestral hall is specially for the sheep fairy!"
Following Xiao Ran's fingers, Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing looked at the ancestral hall, the five-meter-high white wall surrounded the entire ancestral hall area, and the place where they entered the door was made into a circle, if the door was completely pushed open, it would be like a hole.
"I was put in a dark and narrow hole, and I couldn......'t hold light in my eyes anymore," Liu Jingqing muttered.
This ancestral hall, judging from the description, is simply a dark and narrow hole in the opening speech.
But...... No matter how you look at this ancestral hall, it's not dark and narrow, right?
Black or not, another thing, such a large area, must not be narrow.
"Let's go, let's go to the 100-meter banquet, the person who can make a wish to the sheep fairy is also selected at the 100-meter banquet, go over!"
The 100-meter banquet in Xiao Ran's mouth refers to the fact that each family has some specialty dishes, which are placed on the square in the center of the village, and the tables are all full, saying that they can stretch for 100 meters, which is quite spectacular.
However, the originally lively crowd in the village suddenly became a little noisy, and there were faint cries.
Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and the two crossed Xiao Ran and ran towards the center of the village square, where the hundred-meter banquet was held.
Sure enough, although I hadn't yet fully arrived, I heard the frightened chatter of the villagers, and the howling of a woman:
"Son, get up quickly!"