Chapter 25: The Lotus Basin (III)

I moved a stool and said, "Come on, big sister, sit down, have a good natter with brother me. This Niangniang Temple, what's going on?"

It is said that the big sister of the Northeast bold, but we are not bad in the Central Plains, she directly picked up a cup of wine said: "This brother, I still have to be busy, do not sit down, this cup of wine I when is to make amends, you have to say that this temple of the Maiden, it is the beginning of the absolute not called the Maiden Temple, called GuanDi Temple, which honors GuanLaoLi, the temple since ancient times incense is not good, said that because of the inside of the immortal pressure simply do not The temple has not been popular since ancient times, they say it is because the gods inside are simply not spiritual, so later the destruction of the Four Olds time to smash after ah, a long time are deserted. Later, some village elders said that the temple can not be deserted, to make up for the repair, inside the beginning, not even a statue of God, no incense where the money ah? Later, when it came to a few outsiders, I do not know why, you say strange, that a few outsiders seem to have style, to even find the village of the old man Song it, but also recognize what relatives, and then later, the few outsiders on the repair of the temple of the Queen, the village of those who took the few outsiders as a wrongdoer, but also thought that the few outsiders to repair the temple is as an investment in it, and then the incense money is a return. The incense money is even a return. Everyone is still laughing at this a few outsiders this money is sure to hit the water, who knows that a few outsiders in the original Guandi Temple on the repair of this temple, which honors a name can not say the name of the Queen, before at least Guan Er Master it. Now the gods do not spirit even if, the name do not know, so this temple of the Maiden incense, is worse to the grandmother's home, just accept to stay a little beggars and so on, the days of these years is good. Beggars also no one to live, as for those few outsiders, fixed the temple on the go, never came back. So you ask me who is enshrined in this Maiden Temple, where do I know? No one in this entire Lotus Basin probably knows."

We chatted with this big sister a few more times, and I could probably tell a vague line. If my guess was good, the ones who came to Lotus Basin to look for Song Xiaoguang were none other than Li Jianfeng's people, it's just that what I don't understand is, even if they came here to look for Song Xiaoguang, why would they want to make a temple here? I looked at Fatty and Lin Baqian, they both seemed unable to give me an answer either. What is the truth of the matter, it seems that we still need to go find this Song Xiaoguang.

After eating, we each went back to the room to rest, not a moment later, the fellow found me, this young man is very eye-catching, the work does not need me to account for, when the future of this four words, he said to me: "three two brother, I have asked, is the Luoyang Liu family, I entrusted the Luoyang Liu family of the brothers to find out, that side of the people say Liu family this time to Lotus basin children, is a very prestigious person in Beijing entrusted, come, is to buy away this lotus basin village under the surface of the stone, specifically what stone, do not know. It seems to be some kind of statue."

I patted the fellow's shoulder and asked, "Young man, what's your name?" –I have to say, I really appreciate this fellow very much, really too resourceful.

"Brother San Liang, my name is Xu Lei, just call me Lei Zi." He said.

I nodded and said, "Young man do a good job, you go back first, have a good rest, tomorrow we are going to enter the village, it's best to find out a little bit more specific information about the person who is looking for this Liu family to do the job."

Lei Zi said goodbye after leaving, while I found the fat man, said to him Lei Zi found the problem, Beijing people looking for the Liu family to come, in fact, Beijing this prestigious people should be able to guess who is, that is Zhuge Qingfeng, he listened to the conversation between me and Li Dangguo, I was delayed because of Lin Bachan's things, so his people came a little faster than us.

"Don't be too uptight, I asked Lin Bachiqian, what he said to me means that it's best to avoid dealing with Zhuge Qingfeng, no one is offended, of course, not because Zhuge Qingfeng's special background does not dare to offend him, but to say that it is, there are some things that we would rather have more than less, the political level of things, less involved is better." Fatty said.

I nodded, not commenting on Fatty's words, or rather, my attitude is basically the same, for example, Fatty told me about the matter of the Bashu Dragon Land, I estimate that if I really get involved in it, I will be immediately pulverized.

-Rested the night, the next day, we went into the village, this Lotus basin is really lively, a few so-called big family, because of a few stones, but also a big fight, the countryside this side of the matter, a fight is a clan type, the police are not good enough to make. This is not, early in the morning on the dry up.

This is a piece of stone, pressure is not a statue, is a simple stone, put in the road teeth, wind and water rain do not know how many years, it is what we do not know, the only use may be the village people occasionally cool time to sit down.

The result is now someone to collect it, at first said to give 10,000, now the countryside is also monkey fine monkey fine, a piece of broken stone to 10,000? Change our understanding must be sold immediately, this must be sold ah, but this just started on this stone "ownership" of this family is too smart, this piece of broken stone to 10,000, this thing is certainly not a stone so simple answer. The reasoning of the odd one out is that everyone understands. So he did not sell, directly asking price: "one hundred thousand! To pull away, do not negotiate, this stone, but my family's ancestors have eighteen generations of good things."

Originally is a fraud, who knows Luoyang Liu's family of these people are really willing to pay, said 100,000 on 100,000, we can pull the stone away, this family immediately backtracked, his mother's you guys buy so fast, the old man must be saying less, half a million! The price of one bite, the counter-offer do not come.

Liu's people although disgusting, but said into, half a million, can not be more, more we do not want, this time the people did not regret, said half a million, take the money to the stone pull away, this Liu's people to the money to bring ah, pull the stone, gave things.

Five hundred thousand ah, that is a huge amount of money, who fucking not red? The family originally had ownership of the stone, but the so-called ownership of this stone is close to his home even if it is his family's things, but others have been to this can be sold for half a million, immediately quit, said I fuck, this is my grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's things, how to become your family's it?

This popped up, there is more than one, either his grandfather, or Mrs. Grandpa's, in short, my family's things, anyway, dead no proof is not? This stone will not answer that I am whose family, right?

So all of a sudden on the stalemate, the Liu family would like to give more money to take it, these families do not do, the more you give the more fierce fight, who want this money in the hands of others? So, originally a piece of broken stone, to the present, but also became a big treasure to break the head.

We went to the village, a few families are still cross swords, separated by a long distance, we saw the stone on the roadside, the stone is four square, the head is not small, but how to say it, it is just a big stone. How also not worth so much money ah.

"Master Fatty, see anything?" I asked Fatty.

"No, what is Zhuge Qingfeng up to?" Fatty is also very puzzled.

"It should be that there is something inside the stone, this stone is not a treasure." Lin Bachan said.

The few of us were like bystanders looking at the noise over there, but that wasn't our purpose, I smoothly pulled a kind looking aunt next to me and asked, "Auntie ah, how do I get to Song Yaguang's house?"

"You're looking for Song Yaguang, turn left and go straight. See the only earthen house there, that's Old Man Song's house." Auntie pointed the way.

I said a word of thanks, then the four of us walked towards Song Yaguang's house, I was still a little bit inexplicably excited to be about to meet that Song Xiaoguang who had the guts to dare to carry the goblin on his bed. We hadn't taken two steps when we heard the aunt behind us say, "This Song Xiaoguang has quite a few relatives, how come the people who came to see him all look quite rich?"

Along the road pointed by the aunt, we found a dirt house, this may be the house when the country was built, before the tile house, the roof is still put with thatch, the yard is tied with a fence, inside the chickens and ducks are there, there is also an old hair loss of the big black dog.

chapter xxvi – song xiaoguang

The yard can't be clean when there are poultry in it, and of course, I wouldn't be a stranger to such a yard. Because I'm also a native of the countryside, a child who grew up in Locked Head Village, standing at the door, I called out to the inside, "Is Grandpa Song there?"

I called after this sentence, the inside answered a sentence, and then walked out of an old man, before I inquired about the Song Yaguang is a widowed old man, I would ideally be relatively unkempt, but after this person out, younger than imagined, at most fifty or sixty years old, dressed up quite a spirit of a small old man, clothes to wear is also clean and sharp.

He saw us, froze for a moment, asked, "You're looking for me?"

"Yes, Grandpa Song, my grandfather's name is Guo Gengchen, I, from Luoyang lock head village, my name is three two, these three are my friends." There are no outsiders around, of course I opened the door, all the signs indicate that this Song Yaguang, is the Song Xiaoguang who came out of the Lockhead Village er back then.

"May I ask who you are looking for? I don't really understand what you're saying." This old man, however, scratched his head and laughed at this time.

I instantly froze, I am Guo Gengchen's grandson ah, how can you not recognize me? I did not die and said, "Could it be that you are not the Song Xiaoguang who came out from the Locked Head Village er back then?"

"No, my name is Yaguang, not Xiaoguang." He said.

Now I was puzzled, looking at this old man, I couldn't seem to tell if he was lying or not. Because he looked rather wooden and simple, just the look of a simple old farmer, he shouldn't be able to lie.

"By the way, in the past, there were a few Beijingers who also came to find me, and also asked me if my name was Song Xiaoguang, I said I wasn't, and they left." At this time, this old man said.

–This time I'm completely depressed, is it really my side of the eye? What had been thought to be right all along was actually not right. It can be said that what I had planned all along was all messed up by this old man's denial.

Finally, in the fat man's signal, we had to say goodbye first, because some people have already gathered around to watch the fun, and our trip, at this time also have to deliberately keep a low profile, we have no place to go, we can only say that temporarily back to the Westlake Hotel where we stayed, walked to the village entrance when a large truck pulling the stone to go away.

Lei Zi said, "Brother San Liang, it looks like the Liu family made this deal."

I actually want to chase after this stone now and cut it off, what secrets could be inside a stone that the Liu family, also known as Zhuge Qingfeng, is so crazy about wanting? But Lin Bachan has been shaking his head, this guy ironically does not get involved with Zhuge Qingfeng, make me very depressed, to the hotel, I can not help but whine: "If this is so dry then we simply go away, the stone was taken away, this side of the old man is not Song Xiaoguang, what is the point of us staying here?"

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, if things over here can be dealt with so quickly, then Li Jianfeng wouldn't have disappeared from here for decades at a time." Lin Bachan said.

-Actually want to investigate this Song Yaguang is not Song Xiaoguang, this problem is good to solve, I let Lei Zi to check, this Song Yaguang, in the end, is this village's natives, or that just a few decades ago to move over, this timeline, basically on the identity of the control.

This news is good to check, too good to check simply, not long Leizi came back, excitedly said to me: "three two brother, you really did not see the wrong, this old man is lying, he is later field to this side of the time is two or three decades ago, he lived in that house, is also the former this side of the village committee, and then the village committee relocated, this side of the people to see his poor, left him, I asked those old people know the village of Song Yaguang, or said decades ago, basically can be checked against the identity of this timeline. I asked the old people if they knew where this Song Yaguang came from, and the old people vaguely recalled that it seemed that Song Yaguang said when he first came here that his family was in Luoyang, and that he had suffered a disaster and fled over."

Leizi said this, I can basically be sure that this Song Yaguang is Song Xiaoguang, heck, this old man met my grandfather's own grandson are going to lie? Not taking the old captain of the year seriously anymore? I grabbed my jacket on the table and went out, called up Lin Bachan and Fatty Liu and rushed to Song Xiaoguang's house once again.

On the road, I said to the two of them Song Xiaoguang's situation, they did not say anything, but at this time I have an uneasy feeling in my heart, always feel that this time back to the estimated people are gone, Song Xiaoguang surely can think of us easily can be pierced through his lies, since we are not ready to recognize us, where will wait for us to go back?

As expected, when we returned to the old house, those chickens and ducks are still there, just the old teeth of the black dog has disappeared, and this earth house, has long been empty, the house is simple some old furniture, it is estimated that he picked up the furnishings.

In addition to this, the most conspicuous, is the bed over there hanging a picture of a beautiful woman, see this picture of a beautiful woman, I feel very familiar, because this picture of a beautiful woman, with the mountain Niangniang temple enshrined in the statue of a god is almost exactly the same.

Can be hung by Song Xiaoguang in the bedside, my speculation that that idol is Bai Zhenzhu is getting stronger and stronger, from my grandfather's notes I can know that part of it is that Song Xiaoguang is really very good to Bai Zhenzhu, it's almost like the current version of the Liaozhai.

Bai Zhenzhu is a goblin is not false, but also a big beauty of the city, I believe that if Bai Zhenzhu really appeared in this lotus basin, the villagers will not be unaware of it, and a goblin's life expectancy, how can not be shorter than a person, not to mention, back then, when Song Xiaoguang went out, but also with his old mother.

But why, he would leave behind his old lady and his wife who is as beautiful as a heavenly fairy, and run here to live in seclusion?

I took down this picture from the wall, I don't know why Song Xiaoguang dare not recognize me, but I really don't have the slightest bit of bad feelings for this old man, this picture is very important to him I thought to help him keep it.

Who knows, in the back of this picture, the wall was hollowed out a hole, and the hole, then put a black altar, this altar is very common in the old family pickles altar, but placed behind the wall, which is obviously hidden. I hurriedly took it over. Wanted to pull off the lid stuffed in the mouth of the altar.

"Don't move." At this time Lin Bachan suddenly said.

"Huh?" I asked.

"There's something in here." Lin Bachi said with a guarded face. He such a picture of the expression immediately put me also stunned, Lin eight thousand speak than the fat man is much more reliable, I all of a sudden holding this altar is not to throw, open is not very embarrassing.

At this time, Lin Bachian took the altar from my hands, looked around, he gently unscrewed the lid of the altar, I was scared by him, subconsciously back legs a few steps, for fear that something suddenly drilled out.

But after the altar was opened, a putrid smell came out, quite unpleasant, making people want to vomit, Lin Bachan's face became even more gloomy, holding the altar with one hand, the other hand reached into the altar.

And next, he violently pulled his hand out of the altar, his hand, grasping a black black thing, fat man cursed a fuck on the side of the child, and I was not scared by that thing, but was scared by the fat man to once again back a few steps, and so I stabilized the shape of a look.

Lin Bachian hand grabbed, but is a very small, the child, so to speak is a child, a dead baby like a child.

All over the body is as if soaked in ink inside the same black, but still can be clearly seen from the shape, This is a baby, very small baby.

"What the hell is this? A ghost baby? Or is it a little ghost raised by Song Xiaoguang himself?" I was surprised to ask, this Song Xiaoguang really fucking than Li Bold are bold ah, goblins dare to sleep even if, spermatozoa when encountered a big beauty, hit a dead are cost-effective, but in their own bedside to raise a small ghost, this has to be how big the courage?

"This thing was born early, it is a ghost baby, the same as that uncle of yours in the lock village child, in other words, this is something invited from the netherworld." Lin Bachan said.

Said, he broke the neck of this black child, I thought he was superfluous, because this thing was already dead, you then come so, perverted ah? Who knows, when he snapped his neck, I saw the baby struggle a little.

There was even a clear cry.