Artifact

Village Chief Dong is an honest countryman, in Touxiang Village, the position of the village chief is also a rare official in the village, after all, this is a poor village, many thankless things have to be done by the village chief, and the villagers are too late to make money, who has the heart to care about others!

Dong Laosan has been the village chief for 18 years, and now, he is also an old man who is almost 80 years old.

However, the old man's body is quite strong, and apart from the long-term work that has made him hunched over, he has never had any serious illness.

Under the leadership of the village chief Dong, everyone visited the current situation of the village along the way, and it has to be said that the whole village is still relatively well preserved, and some old adobe houses and stone houses still retain traces of nearly a hundred years ago.

Deep in the mountains, surrounded by mountains, green forests and peaks, the air is fresh, the humidity density is also very high, and there is a small stream from the mountain stream through the middle of the village, which adds to the rural wilderness.

However, the withering is also obvious, the whole village looks like there are 100 families, but 10 rooms and 9 empty, and now there are more than 20 families still inhabited, either the elderly or left-behind children, and there is only one strongest adult in the whole village, that is, Dong Laosan's daughter-in-law, Qian Dani.

As he walked, Night Thirteen suddenly stopped in front of a house and looked in.

Vanilla grabbed Night Thirteen's hand: "Uncle Thirteen, is this your home?".

Night Thirteen nodded and pushed the door open.

As soon as the hand touched the courtyard door, I heard a "click", and the door panel fell in response to the sound - but unexpectedly did not make too much noise, it turned out that the small courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and the door panel was supported by wild grasses and wild flowers, leaning obliquely.

In the courtyard, two adobe houses were mostly collapsed, the roofs were glowing, and all kinds of strange plants crawled all over the few remaining walls.

Old man Dong walked over: "This family, hey, I was originally a famous barefoot doctor in Sili and Eight Townships, and I don't know what I did in my previous life and gave birth to a freak!"

Everyone who said these words was stunned, and Ye Thirteen asked, "Freak?"

"You don't know, this incident was a big trouble in the village at that time, and I heard about it. It is said that the child born to this family killed all the pigs and chickens in the family the night before!".

You Long'er interjected: "Such a small baby, where did he get the ability to kill the livestock? This can't be someone making up rumors, right?"

"Nonsense?" Village Chief Dong shook his head: "How is this possible? This is what my cousin saw with his own eyes, he was one of the first few people to rush to the courtyard of the Ye family, and it is said that the palm-wide adobe wall was cut horizontally like tofu, and the whole piece collapsed, crushing the two pigs and the chickens in the whole chicken coop!"

Yi Qing continued to use his words: "According to this, isn't it true that everyone in the village is going to die?".

Village Chief Dong squinted his eyes and looked at the two dilapidated houses, as if looking for clues in his sallow memory, and said:

"The head of this family is surnamed Ye, called Ye Dongsheng, it is said that the ancestors have practiced medicine for generations, and I don't know what method he used, but he actually cured this freak. The people in the village relied on his face, and the child grew up day by day, and there was no more accident, so everyone stopped talking about this strange thing. "

Ye Thirteen couldn't help it: "Village Chief Dong, according to what you said, the one surnamed Ye is a divine doctor?

"It can also be said that before the town medical station was opened, people from all over the country would come to Ye Dongsheng to see if they were sick, and it was said that he could even cure sheep epilepsy and hysteria...... Why? This boss seems to be interested in this?".

Yi Qing hurriedly accosted: "Village Chief Dong, we have a friend who also has a strange disease, if this miracle doctor is alive, it would be good if I could ask him to take a look!".

Village Chief Dong shook his head: "It's a pity, he died decades ago." "

Everyone sighed for a while, and followed Village Chief Dong to continue walking.

Yi Qing couldn't help but complain about Ye Thirteen: "The first priority of reconnaissance is to understand the whole situation first, how can you go straight to it like you!

Night Thirteen saw that Yi Qing was angry, and he couldn't help but reflect on himself, he really couldn't deal with people.

Vanilla whispered on the side: "Uncle Thirteen, don't worry, there will always be a chance in the next few days, and we can check this old house when the time comes!"

You Long'er also said: "Yes! Anyway, there are all the tools on the car, I have all prepared them before leaving, if the prescription is still there, we will also find out three feet into the ground!"

The group walked and chatted, and unconsciously came to a mountain col.

This col is particularly strange, there are two large mounds in front of it, the top of the mound is not exposed to the sharp base rock, and in the middle of the mound is a deep hollow, the end of which is backed by the mountain, and the front looks like the face of a tiger.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most famous attraction in Touxiang Village. It used to be a copper mine, known as Tiger Copper, and later after digging out the mud Bodhisattva, a Bodhisattva temple was built on the mountainside. "

Village Chief Dong pointed to a mountainside about three or four hundred meters away, with a drop of about dozens of meters, and there was indeed a small ruined temple over there.

It seems that due to the relationship between the movement in those years, most of this temple has collapsed, there is a large area in front of the door by the traces of smoke and fire, and the mud bodhisattva enshrined in the small temple has also been exposed to the wilderness, experiencing wind and sun, and the surface is covered with a thick layer of lichen.

Due to the depletion of copper mines and the dispelling of superstitions, even the locals do not often go here, and only some old people occasionally go to the small temple to burn incense.

Seeing that everyone had no desire to visit, Village Chief Dong said: "Since the bosses don't want to go to the copper mine and the Mud Bodhisattva Temple, then I'll tell you some stories here, old man, when a few bosses from other places came to play, they were particularly interested in what happened here." "

The "several bosses elsewhere" mentioned by Village Chief Dong are naturally the scouts sent by Queen B in order to investigate the details of Night Thirteen.

Old man Dong didn't know this, in order to arouse the interest of the bosses, he told the story of the year vividly.

"I saw it with my own eyes, I was only five or six years old at the time, and I followed the adults all day to pick up copper ore, and then I heard that the mud was dug up in the mine, so I followed the group to join in the fun. "

"I didn't think about it, I just walked to the entrance of the mine, Hula ran out of the mine a large group of people, there are men and women, most of them are miners, and some are hired porters, according to the people inside, digging out the mud Bodhisattva is true, but this mud Bodhisattva actually spoke!".

Only the nearest people heard it, and then all the kerosene lamps in the mine went out. As soon as they panicked, the others followed, and a few of the unlucky ones fell and broke their bones. "

"According to those people, the mud bodhisattva said two words, 'What about people?', and then a strange wind came out, and all the kerosene lamps were extinguished! Later, a bold man went down and carried the mud bodhisattva up, and then he realized that when the mud bodhisattva was dug out, there was actually an empty seat in the mud bodhisattva that was exactly the same!"

"In other words, there were originally two mud bodhisattvas in this underground, but God knows what's going on, there is only one left!".

Village Chief Dong's words couldn't help but arouse Yi Qing's curiosity, she was originally from the Tinder Reconnaissance Unit, so she was naturally very sensitive to this kind of thing.

"Uncle Dong, did you see this mud bodhisattva when it was carried up?"

"Isn't that true? Although I am young, I will never forget it for the rest of my life! The flowers carved on the mud bodhisattva's body are dyed in seven colors, and they are very beautiful! The old uncle who died a few years ago in the east of the village is said to have seen the mud bodhisattva wink at him!"

"Did you see the one in front of you?"

"Front?".

Village Chief Dong couldn't understand it, and looked at Yi Qing suspiciously.

Yi Qing smiled: "I mean that strange wind, do you see it?"

Village Chief Dong's face changed.