“Are all taxi drivers in Yuzhou just like Lei Feng?”
Ye Chen scratched his head. It was dozens of kilometers from the airport to Wenjia Village. Does this count as taking a Bawang car?
However, he soon realized that something was wrong with this village!
It is obviously a village, but except for a stone gate erected at the entrance of the village, the village is completely silent. You can't even hear the barking of dogs and the crowing of cows in ordinary villages.
It's so quiet, so eerily quiet!
Ye Chen walked into the village alone. It was noon at this time. The farmers should be cooking at home, but among the low village houses in front of him, there was no smoke coming from the roof!
What's even weirder is that along the way, Ye Chen found that every door here was closed, and the entire village was deserted!
"Damn it! Did the driver lie to me?"
Ye Chen was speechless. This place was rarely populated. No matter how effective the Taoist temple was, no one would come to pray, right?
While walking, Ye Chen came to the foot of a mountain, and the scene in front of him surprised him!
There is no farmer around, only a dilapidated small courtyard isolated here. What is even weirder is that the courtyard is surrounded by red Hibiscus flowers, which makes it look creepy!
Bana flower, also called Manzhushahua in Sanskrit, is a flower that blooms in the underworld. It is said that this flower is a flower that leads to the underworld and can evoke the memory of the deceased.
Although beautiful, Hibiscus japonica is also regarded as an ominous flower by many people. Who grows so many Hibiscus japonicas?
Just when Ye Chen was suspicious, he accidentally saw a little kid wearing crotchless pants climbing out of the adobe wall of the courtyard.
thump!
The child is young but very agile. He must be a 'habitual offender' of climbing over walls!
"Kid, come here!"
Ye Chen smiled slightly and raised his fingers at the little kid.
"Who are you?"
The little kid looked at Ye Chen warily and grabbed a handful of sand from the ground!
Seeing this, Ye Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Suddenly, he had an idea and took out a cream biscuit brought from the plane from his pocket and said with a smile:
"Little guy, do you want to eat cookies?"
"eat!"
The little kid was "reserved" for a while at first, but when Ye Chen opened the bag and the aroma wafted into his nose, he couldn't help it anymore!
"Kid, why is there no one in your village?" Ye Chen handed the biscuit to the kid and asked.
"I don't call you a child, my mother calls me a dog!"
The child ate the biscuits happily, especially when Ye Chen took out another piece of toffee, the dog immediately barked:
"Brother, you are so kind!"
"Well......"
Ye Chen was speechless. The little guy looked honest, but he was actually very smart!
"You haven't answered my question just yet!"
"Because there are ghosts in the village, we rarely go out!"
"ghost?"
Of course Ye Chen didn't believe it and continued to ask: "Gouzi, are there any adults in your family? Are they at home?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden door next to him opened with a creak, and a woman's head popped out. When she saw Ye Chen with the child, she rushed out and hugged the child, looking at Ye Chen with horror on her face.
Chen:
"You, who are you and what do you want to do?"
"Madam, please don't get me wrong. I'm not a bad person, I just heard that there is a Taoist temple here, so I wanted to visit it!" Ye Chen hurriedly said with a smile.
"Oh I got it!"
The woman seemed much relieved when she heard that Ye Chen had a foreign accent.
"Mom, the candy my brother gave me is so delicious, I've never eaten it in my life!" Gouzi said in a sweet voice as he was held in the woman's arms.
"Don't talk nonsense, this is uncle!"
The woman scolded Gouzi and looked at Ye Chen apologetically: "I'm sorry, sir, my child is ignorant and barks randomly!"
"It doesn't matter!"
Ye Chen smiled faintly and asked, "I'm a little thirsty, can I go in for a drink of water?"
"This..." The woman hesitated slightly upon hearing this.
"Mom, please let me in. I ate his candy, so I can't be ungrateful!" Gouzi said seriously.
ungrateful?
Are all children nowadays so precocious? Ye Chen was almost amused by Gouzi's words!
"Then...please come in!" The woman hesitated for a moment, looked around and found no one, so it was easy for Ye Chen to enter.
After walking into the wooden door, Ye Chen realized that it was a shabby little yard, but the woman should have taken care of it carefully. It was surrounded by green vegetables. A small yellow native dog was wagging its tail vigorously in the yard. When he saw Ye Chen barking
Several times.
"Xiao Huang, shut up!" Gouzi scolded.
The little yellow dog was very obedient. He ran over and rubbed the dog hard with his furry little head.
"Xiaozizi, let your husband sit in the main room for a while, and I'll get some water!"
"Brother, come with me!"
Gouzi picked up Xiao Huang from the ground and brought Ye Chen into the house with a smile.
Ye Chen followed him into the room. He wanted to wait for the woman to come and inquire about the Wen family, but when he entered the room and saw the furnishings in the room, he couldn't help but be stunned!
In the main room of ordinary farmhouses, there is a memorial tablet like "Heaven and Earth Clan Master", but in the woman's house, there is a portrait. What makes Ye Chen even more speechless is that the person in the portrait looks so familiar!
"Brother, this is the portrait of my ancestor!" Gouzi explained very 'considerately'.
"Is he your ancestor?"
Ye Chen took a closer look and finally remembered, this man looked so much like Wen Batian, he was almost carved from the same mold!
"My mother said that, but actually I don't know him either!"
After Gouzi finished the last bite of toffee, he swallowed hard, looked at Ye Chen eagerly, and said, "Brother, your candies are so delicious, can I trade one with you for a green vegetable?"
"Give you all!"
Ye Chen touched Gouzi's little head, took out the last piece of chocolate from his pocket and gave it to Gouzi.
The dog happily took the chocolate and was about to eat it when he suddenly stopped.
"Why don't you eat?" Ye Chen asked with a smile.
"My mother hasn't eaten yet, I want to leave it to her!" Gouzi sniffed, and he sucked back the snot that was about to flow out...
"Gouzi, how old are you?"
"I'm five years old!"
"..."
Looking at the sensible dog in front of him, Ye Chen felt inexplicably moved in his heart.
"Sir, I've been waiting for a long time!"
At this moment, the woman came in with a big steaming tea bowl in her hand, and said with a blushing face: "There are no tea cups at home, sir, please make do with it!"
"Thanks!"
Ye Chen took the tea and took a sip, and suddenly a light and elegant fragrance of tea bloomed in his mouth.
"The tea is good!" Ye Chen praised.
"I grow the tea myself, as long as you don't mind it, sir!" the woman smiled awkwardly.
Ye Chen put down his tea bowl and chatted with the woman. During the conversation, he learned that a new Taoist temple was indeed built in the village two years ago, and the Taoist priests there were indeed capable and helped the villagers with a lot of things.
But gradually, more and more strange things happened in the village...