Chapter 358 Chapter 97 Earth Temple

The village chief seemed to see the reason for Shandaofeng's frown, and explained with a smile: "You must have smelled the smell of traditional Chinese medicine! I brewed it. My wife has congenital heart disease. I am the only one in the village. Chinese medicine, so..." "Old man, where did you put the pork from the day before yesterday?" came the voice of his wife who had experienced vicissitudes from the next room. "Oh! It's under the cabinet." The village head replied simply. "But there's nothing under the cabinet!" the village head's wife asked anxiously.

"What a stupid bitch." The village head scolded, and then said to them with an apologetic expression, "I'll help my wife find it, you wait here for a while." After speaking, he got off the kang and walked into the back room. "Why, it's not under the cabinet?" "Look for it yourself!" My wife replied confidently. Then it was quiet inside. "Yin Hui, why do I always feel that this place is weird." Shan Daofeng said with a frown. "Well, yes! I feel the same way," Ghost said. "Well, you must hold your breath." Yin Hui nodded: "I also think there are many weird things in this village, but we are here this time to help the Dragon King recall the soul, so many things have to trouble this village. The people in the village, there are too many things about them that we don't know."

Hearing what he said, everyone nodded, their expressions became more stable. "I kept you waiting for a long time." The village head came in from the back room not long after, and said with a smile, "My wife has bad eyesight, I'm so stupid." He sat on the bed and poured tea for them.But none of them drank, so he just added a little symbolically. "Village Chief, there is something we need to ask you." Yin Hui finally decided to cut to the chase. "Oh? What's the matter?" the village head asked curiously. "I just want to ask, do you know what happened to that cat of unknown origin? Why can it still bite people when its head fell off its body? Has something like that happened in the village before?" Yin Hui asked curiously asked.

"Oh! This kind of thing has never happened before." He shook his head: "We don't know where the cat came from, but I can ask for you to see if the cat is from somewhere. The villagers raised it secretly." "Well, I'll trouble you then." Yin Hui replied with a polite smile. "Crack, crack!" At this time, the door suddenly rang, and there was a rhythmic knocking sound. "Who is it?" the village head asked impatiently. "It's me, the village head, I'm here to deliver food to you." "Oh! Come in!" The village head responded.

Soon, a girl who seemed to be in her early twenties walked in from the outside. She was wearing patched clothes, but she was washed clean, and her hair was tied into a braid, hanging behind her head. But it exudes a youthful breath. Yin Hui was a little surprised, he thought there were only old people in this village, but he didn't expect there to be such a young and beautiful girl. "Aju, what are you?" The village chief asked, looking at the half bowl of red meat in her hand. "Oh! This is the meat of that cat." She lowered her head shyly in front of strangers: "What a pity! I caught that cat from Nanshan. I didn't expect...it's only been a few days. Time is dead like this." She shook her head and gave a wry smile, then put the half bowl of red tamales on the table, turned around and wanted to leave.

"Miss, go slowly." Yin Hui suddenly stopped the girl, and then asked curiously: "You said that the dead cat belonged to your family?" "Well, yes!" The girl stopped, then turned her head to look at him curiously and asked, "What's wrong?" "Where did you catch it?" "From Nanshan!" The little girl replied seriously with her eyes wide open. "Nanshan?" He was a little confused. "Nanshan is an unavoidable mountain." The village chief quickly explained: "Aju, what are you doing in Nanshan? Didn't I stipulate that you are not allowed to go there?" The village chief scolded sullenly.

"Village chief, it's all my fault." Aju suddenly knelt down on the ground with a sad face: "Yesterday I found this cat in the wilderness, and in order to chase it, I inadvertently broke into Nanshan. Village chief, don't punish me! !" "Well, get up! It's fine if you're fine." The village chief didn't make things difficult for Aju. Aju nodded repeatedly, then stood up from the ground, and patted the dirt on her knees. "Village chief, I want to let him accompany me to go around the mountain tomorrow. I don't know if it's convenient or not." Yin Hui asked, looking at the village chief.

The village head was startled for a moment, then nodded: "Okay then! Aju, you will accompany this guest to the mountain tomorrow." "Well, okay." Aju looked very happy, glanced at Yin Hui a little shyly, and then secretly ran out happily. Seeing his strange expression, he suddenly remembered that the words just now might have misunderstood her, and hurriedly explained: "Village chief, I just asked her to take me to the place where the cat was found, I think there is something wrong with that place. " "Well, I know, I know." The village chief nodded again and again, as if he really knew: "Hey! To tell you the truth, there is only one girl in our village, our generation! We are all old, no If it’s used, I still have to rely on you young people!” After the village chief finished speaking, Zi’er drank the wine in the cup on the table in one gulp.

Then he put it on the table with a snap, and his face was a little rosy: "Young man, come and taste our homemade rice wine, it's definitely delicious." The village head put the cup in front of Yin Hui, poured a glass of rice wine, and told him Drink, Yin Hui looked at it, and said with a smile: "Village Chief, I think it's better to forget it, we don't drink, and we are not hungry now. I want to take them outside, so you don't have to worry about it We are." After speaking, he got off the bed. The rest of the people who had been suffocated on the bed for a long time also stood up in a hurry, and then took the initiative to walk towards the door.

They can bear this hardship and live in this environment for a year or so.But if it is not necessary, they still don't want to be tortured like this.The smell here is really bad, let alone eating under this smell, even if they sit under this smell for a while, they will feel a little disgusted. "Oh! That's it!" He thought about it carefully, and then said, "Okay then! I'll let someone accompany you, Aju, Aju?" The village head shouted loudly. The village was not big, and Aju had just walked out of the house, so she heard the voice of the village chief, and hurriedly turned back, looking at the few people who were about to leave and the village chief with an anxious face, she asked curiously: " Village Chief, what's the matter?"

"Accompany them for a walk outside! Show them the scenery here." The village chief said in an orderly tone. "Well, I see." Aju nodded with a blushing face, then walked in front of them, and said with a smile: "Follow me." Yin Hui and the others looked at each other, and then followed. It wasn't until they left this unconsciously melancholy small village that they took a heavy breath. Now they were on a glorious prairie, with nothing to block their sight except for a few small dirt hills not far away. "Aju, why hasn't such a large area been cultivated into fields?" Yin Hui asked curiously. "Because the labor force in our village is not enough, as for more than a dozen families, all of them are elderly, so we only reclaimed a few acres of land not far from the village. Besides, we don't have enough food, and we can't leave too much Too many seeds," she said. When she said this, Yin Hui became interested and asked curiously: "By the way, I see that there are old people in your village. What's going on?" "Hey! I don't know. When I first came here, I asked the village chief. The village chief said I don't care about this matter. I saw the village chief's attitude was very stiff, so I didn't ask any more questions." "You said when you first came?" Everyone focused on Aju, and they heard that her accent had changed a lot, and her voice was close to Mandarin. "Aren't you from this place?" "No, I came later." "Oh? When did you come?" Yin Hui asked curiously. "This...it was probably a few years ago! I was only a teenager at the time." Speaking of the past, Aju was visibly agitated, as if the previous events had traumatized him too much: "I don't know how I got here In this place, anyway, as soon as I opened my eyes, I was here, and the village chief and the others took good care of me and recognized me as their daughter." "As soon as you opened your eyes?" Yin Hui was surprised: "Where did you live before?" "I don't know." Aju shook her head: "I don't remember my past, as if I lived here on the first day I came to this world. But I know that this completely strange place is not the place I grew up in. Go to the place where the big people live. Although I thought about going out before, but because the woods are too weird, I didn’t continue to try after several failed attempts.” The corners of Aju’s mouth twitched, and it was obvious that some previous Things made her very sad. "That forest? Can't you go out?" He thought for a while. When they came in, they didn't seem to expend too much energy. It was just a little bit of trouble on the way, but he solved it easily Now, apart from the shock of the ghost on Dandaofeng's body that shocked Yin Hui, there was nothing that left a deep impression on him. Until now, he was still thinking about what happened to the ghost, how could there be such a coincidence in the world. "Yes! The village chief and many villagers have tried before, but they couldn't get out no matter what." Aju shook her head helplessly: "Then they gave up this idea and lived in this village with their duties. inside." "None of their ancestors have ever gone out?" Yin Hui asked. "Ancestors? There are no ancestors." Aju even smiled faintly: "I asked the village head before if any of their ancestors had gone out, but the village head just shook his head and didn't speak, as if he remembered What's the same." Yin Hui looked at Aju, her face was pious, it didn't look like she was joking, Yin Hui felt that there must be a lot of meaning in it, and there was an idea in his mind, could those people be like Aju, and they were all At a certain age in my life, I was thrown here after my memory was taken away. If that's the case, then he feels that this matter is too involved, because high-tech products that can take away people's memories must be available only to national-level researchers.Could it be that this matter has something to do with the country and the government? "Yin Hui?" Shan Daofeng spoke suddenly: "Come on, let's go back and ask the village chief." He glanced at Shan Daofeng's eyes, firm and cold, as if he had guessed his own thoughts. What they can think of, they will naturally think of.And this conclusion is very likely, no wonder they can think of it. "Well, let's go." Yin Hui nodded, and took the lead to walk to the village chief's house, while Aju looked at them with some worry, and then followed. ... At the other end of the village, there is an abandoned small temple of the Earth God. More than a dozen villagers collectively bowed to the statue of the Earth God in the small Earth God Temple. Since there was no incense burner and incense, they used a pile of sand and a few burning sticks instead: "Grandfather, Grandpa, thank you for giving us the opportunity to breed our offspring." Like fire." After speaking, he bowed down. The rest of the villagers also kowtowed in admiration. Standing behind them, Yin Hui, who had a panoramic view of the scene, looked at them calmly.When the village chief stood up, Yin Hui smiled coldly: "Tell me! What's going on." The village chief didn't seem to be surprised by his appearance, he didn't even look back, as if he didn't hear what he said, he stuck the three wooden sticks in his hand into the sand, then turned around, looked at the worshiper The villagers said: "Get up! Grandpa Zushen has received our prayers." After listening to him, the villagers who knelt on the ground piously stood up, then turned around, looking at Yin Hui and his companions with a gratified smile on their faces. That look is like the kindness of a father looking at his son. "It's time to tell you the truth." The corner of the village chief's mouth rose slightly, and then he smiled and signaled the villagers to get out of the way. The villagers obediently moved out of the way, and the village chief came up with a smile like a monk who had just attained enlightenment, patted Yin Hui on the shoulder and said, "Young man, bow down to our god!" "Our god?" Yin Hui looked at the little dwarf, the father-in-law, and shook his head: "Is he the god in your mind? He's just a dwarf." "You will bow down sooner or later, because Grandpa Zushen will let you know how powerful he is." The village head smiled: "Do you think this place is strange? Why are all the people in our village old?" "Yes!" He nodded, feeling that he was getting closer to the truth. "Quite simply, it's because we're not fertile." "A bunch of trash." Shan Daofeng cursed in a low voice, which almost made Yin Hun laugh out loud. This little girl is really becoming more and more humane, and she knows how to make witty words. "Why?" Yin Hui looked at them and asked. "Do you know where we came from?" The village chief with white beard looked at Yin Hui and asked mysteriously. "I don't know." "Let me tell you that it was Mr. Earth God who sent us here." "Grandpa Earth God? Hehe! What do you say?" He looked at the group of ignorant villagers who recognized a dwarf as their father with interest, and couldn't help laughing. "We come from the soil, and we will be buried in the soil when we die. When I came to this world, I was already fifteen years old. I have no memory of the past, nor any memory of this place." The village head finished. , and glanced at Yin Hui.