Chapter 33 Chapter 4 The Missing Mountain

Xinhong and I just stepped into the museum with our tired bodies when a colleague came over and told us that a real-life clay sculpture was discovered in Shanxi, and it was much earlier than the one in northern Shaanxi. The important thing is that we were sent to Shanxi for investigation.I really didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to go to Shanxi so soon, but what we were going to investigate and study was a real clay sculpture.I think it's a bit scary. People have been dead for hundreds or even thousands of years. How come the corpses haven't decomposed, but instead they've been made into clay sculptures.Can't this be called a zombie?If it weren't for its age, I think it might as well be burned.

"Which place in Shanxi did you find the real clay sculpture?" Xinhong asked his colleague carefully. "It seems to be discovered by a village called Shui... Shui!" The colleague thought for a while and said. "Is it Xishui Village?" I asked tentatively, but I was muttering in my heart: It can't be such a coincidence, can it? "Yes, it's called Xishui Village!" My colleague said with a smile.Then he immediately reacted, and asked with a look of surprise: "You just came back, and the media hasn't reported it yet, how do you know?"

"Don't worry about it, when does the museum want us to go to Shanxi?" I asked with some concern, this kind of thing usually has to go very soon. "Tomorrow, the sooner the better. It's not the first day for you to do this work. If this kind of thing is done late, there will be nothing left, and important materials will be hidden. The curator originally wanted to ask you to go now .” The colleague seemed to be grateful that he survived the disaster. "Is there any mistake? We just came back, and our backs are sore!" I said angrily, and I guessed right in my heart, and I was going to work hard again so soon.

After we complained to our colleagues about our unhappiness, we returned home in a daze.It's not that I feel unhappy because I was sent to Shanxi, but because we haven't had a good rest for more than ten days, and now we have to rush to Shanxi again.However, it would be a good thing if we could find out the reason why Uncle Zou was murdered there.We didn't have time to take out our luggage just now, and now we just take it directly to Shanxi, which saves trouble.I asked Xinhong to rest first, and then I went to make a phone call to Teacher Ye.On the express bus just now, I was dialing Teacher Ye's cell phone all the way, but I couldn't get through.He can't answer this strange number because my mobile phone number has changed, right?I would like to ask him why there are so many relics of Emperor Yan in Shanxi. The important thing is that Teacher Ye teaches history. It is erased from history.

I called Teacher Ye more than a dozen times in a row, but no one answered.My eyelids are also getting heavy, so let's get a good night's sleep.I don't know what troubles are waiting for us in Xishui Village.In the early morning of the next day, we got everything ready, and Xinhong stuffed a compass and lighting equipment into the bag, as well as some ready-to-eat items.I looked at Xinhong's actions and said with a smile: "What are you doing? We are not going on an expedition, but a village. What dangers can there be in the village? Are you still afraid of getting lost in the village?"

Xinhong said with a serious face: "I still think it is more appropriate to make these preparations first." "Oh, we are not lost in such a big city, you don't have to be so nervous in a small village." I said with a smile. "You should bring these things yourself, just in case," Xinhong patted my bag and said, "Take it." "It's not going to Tianshan, I don't bring it, it's so troublesome. I don't believe it, a village can trap me to death?" I said disdainfully, "You think too much. Anyway, I don't bring these things , we are doing research, not exploring.”

We've all had a good night's rest and are feeling better now.Xinhong and I talked and laughed along the way, but we didn't feel that time was hard.We only transferred to the area of ​​Xishui Village in Jincheng City when we arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi.When I was in the car, I remembered that the peddler also went to Taiyuan by car. Could it be that his car journey was the same as ours, and he also transferred from Taiyuan to Xishui Village?On the way to Xishui Village, I tried to dial Teacher Ye's number several times, but I still couldn't get through. When we arrived at the county seat where Xishui Village is located, a fat middle-aged woman received us.She seemed quite kind and spoke softly.The middle-aged woman said that it was getting dark now, and she wanted us to stay in the government guest house for one night before going to Xishui Village tomorrow morning.Xinhong and I also took the car for a day, and we were indeed a little tired.We agreed to live in the county for one night first.It seems that these days we have been driving around in circles.This county is not so developed, and some buildings are still from the 1970s.However, this also happens to preserve many historical and cultural relics, presumably the same is true for Xishui Village.

Before dawn the next day, Xinhong and I urged the kind middle-aged woman to take us to Xishui Village.The middle-aged woman told us that there is no road in Xishui Village, and if you want to go in, you have to walk in with your feet.This made my feelings about Xishui Village more complicated. A village without roads in the 21st century must be very old and must have preserved many historical relics. "By the way, big sister," I asked the middle-aged woman, "Why don't you build a road to Xishui Village?" "Of course we want to repair it, but the people in Xishui Village don't want to. I don't know why. The people in their village are very conservative. Those who go there to be the village party secretary leave without sitting on the bench. Now there is not even a village cadre there. No." The middle-aged woman spoke so fast that I almost didn't understand.

"Didn't your government send someone to enlighten them? Make a road to get rich!" I said with a smile. "You're getting rich! Xishui Village doesn't even have an electric light, and they don't have electricity there. What do you think I kept you here last night? I'm afraid you won't see anything when you get there at night!" said the middle-aged woman. . "A village without electricity? Is this village still so backward?" Xinhong also asked curiously. "It's not that they are backward, it's that they don't want to use it. Besides, this village was only discovered in the woods several years ago. Who would have thought that there is a village in such a remote place, and almost no one from their village came out!" The middle-aged woman was very talkative, and we all listened to her nagging obediently. She said, "If the clay sculpture you saw was accidentally discovered by a young man who went to sketch in the woods, it would have caused a sensation in the county for a long time! "

"What a sensation, what do you all say?" Xinhong looked at the middle-aged woman and asked. "You know, there is a person in that clay sculpture! I heard that it is a person from a thousand years ago, and it should have been ashes after so long. Everyone said that the people in Xishui Village believed in a cult, and what they were doing was not clean. s things!" "Cult, how come? I heard that clay sculptures of real people were found in northern Shaanxi. Why didn't they say that the people there also believed in cults? You people can really talk nonsense and bully people because they are backward?" .

"Look at what you said, are we like that? There is a basis for what you say." The middle-aged woman lowered her voice when she said this. I thought to myself, it must be fabricated by these three aunts and six wives.So, I asked copiously: "Is there any evidence for this? Is it just the real clay sculpture?" "No, you all know Erlang Shen?" The voice of the middle-aged woman became even lower. "Of course we know Erlang God. Isn't it a man named Yang who has three eyes on his head? There are worshipers in many temples now," I said with a smile, "Is this related to Erlang God?" "Yes, that's right, it's because there is a temple in their village that worships Erlang God!" The middle-aged woman said every word with great force. "No way, there are several Erlang Zhenjun temples in my hometown. Is it possible that I also believe in a cult? You people are too good at talking, but you still work in the government." I said with some contempt, these people When he is full and has nothing to do, he loves to gossip. "Young man, listen to what your elder sister has to say. You yourself said just now that Erlang God has three eyes, but only the Erlang God worshiped in Xishui Village has only two eyes! Do you think it is evil?" "Two eyes?" Xinhong seemed to be shocked by something, he asked again, "Do you really only have two eyes?" The middle-aged woman nodded affirmatively. What she said should not be blown out.I work in museums, and I often come into contact with history from all over the country. It seems that all Erlang Zhenjun temples only enshrine the three-eyed God Erlang. How can Xishui Village enshrine two-eyed God?As expected, Xishui Village is in a very remote place, the path turns and turns, and there are more and more weeds and wild trees, it seems that no one has ever been here.However, the environment here makes me feel that there is something wrong.Although it is very flat here, like a plain, but the forest here is surrounded by dense dense forests, and it is very difficult to see what is on the opposite side.The middle-aged woman told us that Xishui Village was just ahead and told us to hurry up.I feel more and more that there must be something wrong with the environment here, and I think hard.What is the problem?By the way, didn't Uncle Zou get pushed off the cliff and fell to his death?I finally knew there was something wrong with this place.Since Uncle Zou fell to his death from a very high cliff, why is this place flat without a single peak?