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Chapter 13 Three Eyes Portrait

Under Fang Rui's repeated begging and the temptation of two pieces of chocolate, Dong Sheng finally nodded and agreed to take Fang Rui to see the three-eyed statue in the village.

"The normal road to the statue is in the village chief's bedroom, and I don't usually go in." Dongsheng took Fang Rui to the back of the village chief's stone house and said, "But in fact there is another road that I accidentally discovered when I was playing hide-and-seek with others when I was a child."

After saying this, Dongsheng seemed a little unhappy, his eyelids drooped, like a child who lost his beloved toys.

"What's wrong?" Fang Rui asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I just remembered a person who was no longer here. When I was a child, I was with the little brother who brought me to play with me." Dongsheng said, after he forced a smile and said, "After he left, I gradually stopped playing hide-and-seek, so I didn't use that passage very much. Speaking of which, besides me and him, you are the third person to know about this passage! Come with me!"

As he said that, Dongsheng took Fang Rui into a small wooden house, which was piled with baskets of radish, sweet potatoes and wheat. It seemed to be a simple small warehouse for storing food. There was a wooden board on the middle ground of the wooden house. Dongsheng lifted it up, and there was a cellar below.

Following a simple wooden ladder to the cellar, there were still some stored food around it. Dongsheng came to a corner of the cellar, where there were bags of sweet potatoes in burlap.

"Help me move it away." After Dongsheng asked Fang Rui to move the sweet potatoes away together, Fang Rui saw a small hole.

"Crawl through." Dongsheng pointed to the hole.

"Ah! Can you drill through?" Fang Rui looked at the small hole and was a little worried.

"Don't worry, you can get through! Hurry up!" Dong Sheng said that, and crawled over first. Fang Rui could only follow him and crawled through the hole like a dog.

After drilling through this hole, Fang Rui found that he had entered another passage. Dong Sheng moved the big stone he had pushed open back to his original position, so that he could not see the small hole he had just entered.

After Fang Rui followed Dongsheng around the passage for a while, his eyes suddenly became much wider. A tall stone statue next to the rock wall appeared in front of Fang Rui. This stone statue is about three meters high, with three heads and six arms. There are two bronze oil lamps one person high around the stone statue, which makes the light in the cave not very dark.

Nezha? This is Fang Rui's first reaction. After all, three heads and six arms have always been Nezha's most famous Dharma body. However, when you look closely, you find something wrong. There is only one eye on the three faces of the stone statue, which is not a one-eyed eye. The carving craftsmanship of the stone statue is very exquisite, and the wrinkles in the robe make people feel like they are floating in the wind. There is no expression on the face in the center, the face on the left is kind and the face on the right is glaring.

"Is this what you are talking about in the three-eyed image?" Fang Rui asked Dongsheng.

"Well, it's not bad, it's very majestic!" Dong Sheng looked at the statue with admiration, "These three eyes are like the guardian gods of our village. There has always been a saying in the village that when the three eyes open its three eyes, it is when the village is liberated."

"Open your eyes? Isn't it open now?" Fang Rui then noticed that the eyes carving of the three-eyed figure is relatively simple compared to the wrinkles on the clothes, just a small concave circle.

"What you see now is that the eyes of the stone statue are gone," Dongsheng explained.

"So there are eyeballs in the eye sockets!" Fang Rui thought that the small depression was probably where the eyeballs were inlaid. For no reason, the ruby-like eyeball found in the hand of the one-eyed baby corpse inside the corpse ball flashed in front of his eyes. The size of the bead seemed to be just right inlaid! But, since it was the eyeball on the stone statue that appeared in the hand of the one-eyed baby corpse?

"Why are the eyes of the stone statue missing?" Fang Rui asked.

"Originally, there was an eyeball on the face on the right head, but unfortunately it disappeared decades ago. The villagers didn't know where it went, but I think the village chief knew, but she just didn't tell me. There were no eyeballs on the other two heads." Dongsheng replied.

There has never been one? Wouldn't that never have a day to open your eyes? Which one of them was originally there, would it be the one you discovered? What is the origin of the abandoned village in the Black Bamboo Grotto? It would bury the bodies of so many deformed and freakish babies under the stone house? In addition, could the lost life book be hidden here?

"Let's go!" Dongsheng said while Fang Rui was still thinking, "The village chief may come down at any time, and we cannot stay for a long time."

Since Dong Sheng said that, Fang Rui could not find any excuses to look closely. The hole was not big, and at first glance there was no place to collect books. Fang Rui, who was a little disappointed, could only follow Dong Sheng back to the ground.

"Okay, I've seen the statue of God, and you can go back and rest early." Dongsheng instructed.

"Oh, okay." Fang Rui nodded quickly and agreed, and then said good night to Dongsheng and went back.

After returning to the house where he stayed, he found that Sun Xiaoxiao and Su Su had already fallen asleep, and only Li Lei seemed to be waiting for him at the gate.

Fang Rui concealed the three-eyed look and casually said that he went to visit the village with Dongsheng again. Li Lei did not ask any more questions and told him to go to bed early.

Because there is only one bedroom in the stone house, the four of them slept in the same house. Lying on the bed made of fur and hay, Fang Rui thought he would toss and turn and couldn't sleep, but he didn't expect that he would fight his eyelids in a few minutes, and his consciousness began to blur, and he fell asleep in a short while...

In the middle of the night, the bonfire used for heating in the room became smaller and smaller. Fang Rui seemed to feel the cold in his sleep, and curled his body with his hands and feet curled up. He wanted to open his eyes... but he still felt very sleepy, so he turned over and fell asleep again, leaving only a bonfire that was about to be extinguished...

Dongsheng, who returned to the village chief's stone house, also fell asleep. In a daze, he seemed to hear the crying coming from the next door. Is it the village chief's mother-in-law crying? However, the crying didn't seem to be like, and when I heard it again, it was gone... Is he too tired... Dongsheng didn't think much about it, and after turning over, he fell asleep...

In the next village chief's room, under the faint moonlight that shot in from the window, I could only see the village chief's right hand covering his face and pinching a red glowing object in his left hand...

As soon as the sky was dawn, Fang Rui and others were awakened by the crowing of the rooster. After a simple wash, Dongsheng came over with some corn on the cob very early, saying that it was a breakfast prepared for them.

After breakfast, Dongsheng said to Fang Rui and others: "By the way, do you have any medicine around you that can cure colds?"

"Yes, why? Is anyone sick?" Fang Rui asked.

"Well, it's a child in our village, Xiao Niu. He has been catching a cold for a long time and has not recovered. The herbs cooked by the village chief cannot be cured. I wonder if you have any good medicine for colds?" Dong Sheng said.

"If the child has been catching a cold for a long time, I'll go and have a look with you. We will bring the medicine with you." Li Lei said.

"Well, okay!" Dongsheng thought it would be better for them to see the child. Maybe the people who came outside could cure the child's illness immediately?

So, Li Lei and Fang Rui took Yao to see the child with Dongsheng. After entering the child's house, Fang Rui found that the family happened to be a family of three, and the child's father happened to be the hunchbacked man who had taken care of them. The child's mother was a blind and a lame man. She limped when she walked, especially with a big belly. When they heard Dongsheng explain that Fang Rui and the others came over with Yao, they were very grateful and hurriedly took them to a bed.

A seven or eight-year-old child was lying on the bed. The child was also hunched, his mouth was crooked, and he lay sick on the bed with a pale face. Li Lei touched the child's forehead and found that there was a low fever, but nothing else was wrong. After giving the medicine to the child's father, the hunchbacked man, and asked him to take the child, Li Lei and Fang Rui were about to go back.

The child's parents naturally thanked him very much. It seems that no matter where they are, they are pitiful to all parents! Just when the child's parents sent Dongsheng and the others to the door of the stone house, suddenly, the child's mother covered her stomach and screamed: "It hurts... it hurts..." She said that all the people fell to the ground, and at the same time, a stream of liquid flowed out from her lower body!

No, is this... going to give birth? Dongsheng, Li Lei and Fang Rui three boys stared at each other, and were at a loss...
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