Chapter 31 Chapter 6 Seven-Color Scales

I walked around in Xishui Village without a sense of direction. I remembered that the middle-aged woman said that there were still people living here, but why didn’t I see anyone living here? Could it be that all the people in Xishui Village had died long ago?I was walking around Xishui Village, and inadvertently found a strange place on the road in the village. None of these roads and alleys in the village are straight, and the straightest ones are only ten or twenty meters away.When I first came in, I felt that this design was a bit random, but after walking here for a long time, I found that I couldn't get out no matter what.

Obviously, I can tell the direction by the sun in the sky, but the small roads here almost turn every few meters. I wanted to go south, but there was no road in the south, so I had to turn to another place. Simply put, this is a maze . I couldn't help but feel anxious. Wasn't Xinhong brought to Xishui Village by a middle-aged woman? This place is obviously in ruins. Will he be in danger?However, the county government personnel all know the middle-aged woman, she has no reason to be a ghost or want to harm us. I tried to gently push open the door of a large courtyard. The wooden door may be old and decayed.It fell to the ground with such a light touch by me, stirring up a thick layer of dust.In this large courtyard, there is a deep well on the right. The place has long been empty, but the well water is still clear.The architectural features here are similar to those of the Qin and Han Dynasties, all of which are courtyard-style, symmetrical layout, and single shape.However, I found that there is a light yellow mark on the door of each wooden courtyard, which looks like the moon.

I am probably the only one here, so it is very quiet, if there is any movement, I can hear it clearly.At this moment, there was a sound of walking outside, and I immediately shouted: "Who is it!" The footsteps outside were quite leisurely, but as soon as I yelled, there was the sound of running away in a hurry outside.I chased out of the yard curiously, but I couldn't see anyone. The road here turned just a few meters away, so it was very easy to hide.Who else is there in this abandoned village besides me, probably not Xinhong, he has no reason to avoid me after hearing my voice.Anyway, I was already trapped in Xishui Village, so I just walked around at random, trying my luck, and people who lost their way are afraid of getting lost again.Even if I take a compass with me, I can't go out of this kind of place. I know the direction, but the road has to turn in another direction. I can't choose which direction to go.

I walked in the direction of the sound just now. In a dark alley, there was a seven-color scale on the ground.I feel a little surprised, this seven-color scale seems to have just fallen from something, and there is still a bright luster on it. I strolled over and picked up the scale. There was still some mucus on the seven-color scale, which obviously just fell from a living creature!This scale is very broad and thick, like fish scales but not like, I can't figure it out myself.When I was in the yard just now, I heard the sound of walking outside. Could it be the owner of this scale walking around.

Maybe there is only me and the owner of this scale in this dilapidated Xishui Village. What would the owner of this scale look like? Why is it still in the village when everyone in the village is gone? I originally thought I would be afraid, but now I am very calm. After the Tianshan Temple incident, I can calmly face these weird things.I put the scales in front of my eyes and observed them carefully, but no matter how I look at them, they look like fish scales, but can fish go ashore?But the important thing now is where all the people in Xishui Village have gone. People in the county say that there are still people living in Xishui Village. Why am I the only one here now, and I don’t believe that the dilapidated wooden houses here can still be used for people.

I took a deep breath and shouted to the sky: "Xinhong, big sister. Where are you?" However, no one answered me, and only my voice was echoing.The dilapidated yard trembled a little from my voice, making creaking noises.I walked aimlessly in the alley, and the strange village road here reminded me of a place called Qiangang Ancient Village in Taiping Town, Conghua, Guangzhou, which is famous in the archaeological world. The road of this village is quite similar to that of Qiangang Ancient Village. In 2000, several cultural and cultural experts discovered an ancestral hall that seemed inconspicuous at the time in the depths of a dense lychee forest. The location of this ancestral hall is Qian Ganggu Village.None of its alleys are straight, and the straightest one is only twenty or thirty meters long.

One of the reasons they did this is that it is said that at the beginning of the establishment of Qiangang Village, an old man in the village (commonly known as "Pig Head Man") invited Mr. Geography to see Fengshui.Mr. Geography walked from east to west, and then from south to north, and drew dozens of lines with a compass, and finally determined that Qiangang was in the shape of a lotus root.Therefore, the villagers only need to act according to their own wishes when building houses, and extend them freely if there is space.In fact, there is another important reason, that is, this maze-like terrain was very conducive to protecting the villagers here in that era.

The ancestral hall discovered by cultural and museum experts is the "Guangyu Temple" that won the first place in the "2003 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Protection Outstanding Project Award".That ancestral hall worships Lu Xiufu, and the villagers in that village are the descendants of Lu Xiufu, the last loyal prime minister of the Song Dynasty! Since Qiangang Ancient Village made the village road in order to escape the pursuit of the Yuan Dynasty, is Xishui Village also avoiding something by establishing village lanes in a similar way?I feel that I have changed a bit, and I still think so calmly in this situation. If it was before, I would have been scared to run around.

I once went to Qiangang Ancient Village, and the locals told me a way to get out of the maze-like lanes, but I never tried it, so I don’t know if it works.I thought back to the method they told me, that is to close my eyes and use my body to feel which alleyway the air is coming from.I gently closed my eyes, and felt a cool breeze blowing slowly from behind, the exit should be not far behind me, leaning against the decayed wooden house, I slowly walked in the direction of the breeze walked over. This method really worked, because I felt the air flow was getting stronger and stronger, which meant that the exit was close!If I panic and tense for a while, I won't be able to feel the subtle changes in the air.At this moment, something seemed to be stepped on under my feet, and there was a click.I opened my eyes and saw that there was another seven-color scale with some mucus on it, which must have just fallen from something.I feel a little funny, it can't really be that the fish came ashore, because the scales are really fish-like.

It's very quiet here, and I can hear a little movement clearly. At this time, I heard the sound of someone walking again!This time, I controlled my excitement and calmed down to distinguish where the sound came from.Soon, I heard that the sound was coming from in front of me! I quickly chased after him. I don't know where I got the courage. Maybe I really grew up in the Tianshan Temple.The sound that came out seemed human, but he ran very fast.The alleyway is only one or twenty meters short, and every time I rushed to that alleyway, the thing turned to another alleyway.Turning around like this, I still didn't see what person or animal was making the sound.

Since I couldn't catch up, I stopped after a second thought and stopped catching up.I am not so stupid now, chasing that person will make a sound, walk slowly, maybe I can bump into him.I glanced at the two seven-color scales in my hand again, and was immediately puzzled.I still have some understanding of natural science. I have never seen anything that can run around on land and has scales on its body. I also remembered the ancient book of the Western Han Dynasty that said that the author of the ancient book once saw people in Xishui Village carving a statue outside Xishui Village. These two scales are too big. Snakes should not have such big scales. I still think it is more likely to be fish scales. The question is, are there any fish in this world that can jump on the shore? There was a slight sound of walking at the corner of the alley in front. I suppressed my slight nervousness, held my breath, and tiptoed to the corner. When that thing came over, I would catch him before he was ready!After a while, the sound of walking moved from far to near, and I knew that that thing was coming, so I involuntarily clenched my hands tightly, and slightly hot sweat emerged from the palms of my hands. In an instant, a figure appeared in front of my eyes, slightly taller than me.Because the distance was almost close together, I couldn't see him clearly at once, and there was only a black shadow in front of my eyes.This thing seemed to have been greatly frightened, he slammed into the yard surrounded by wooden boards, and rushed in.I stood there dumbfounded for a moment, and it took a second or two before I realized it, so I chased after him. At this time, I only saw a vague shadow jumping into the well in the yard, I hurried over to look into the well, the well water was not muddy, but there were splashes rippling back and forth.For a moment just now, the thing I saw seemed to be a person. I lowered my head and stared at the well, and was surprised to find that there was another seven-color scale beside the mouth of the well!