With a "boom" sound, the tricycle hit a big tree that could only be hugged by two people. This seemed to be the only way for the tricycle to stop.
"Ouch! You didn't even say anything when you stopped! My nose!" said the golden monkey, covering his nose that had already shed two nosebleeds.
The eight of them were now disgraced and coughed as they got out of the car.
Tang Gaopeng opened the car door and coughed twice, "Ahem, we're finally here, Dragon King Village!"
This is Haolong's hometown, a very small village. Facing the village, Haolong took two deep breaths of air, "Ah - the air in my hometown is better."
"Yes! There is also a faint smell of cow dung!" Yellow Ox added
"Ah! This is Brother Long's village! Why does it look so poor?" Fang Tai said.
"Poor people are poor, but don't you feel the feeling of being integrated into nature?" Hao Long said.
Tang Gaopeng checked the three-wheeler. On the surface, everything was fine, but his heart was really bleeding. The only remaining one-eyed headlight in front of the three-wheeler was also smashed. Now he had to pay for it again. I felt really distressed.
"Mayor Tang, what's wrong? I feel your heart is twitching?" Haolong said.
"Ah? No! No way! Let me take a look at the car. Aren't you already here? It's time for me to go back. If I'm dragging, it will be dark." Tang Gaopeng was about to leave and had already returned to the third wheel.
"Mayor Tang, aren't you going to have a cup of tea?" Hao Long asked.
"No, no, Chun Niang is still waiting for me." Tang Gaopeng started the tricycle, reversed and said to Hao Long, "Brother Hao, don't forget the important matter of building Shama Town!"
Haolong looked at the tricycle going away. He shook his head and smiled. He really couldn't imagine how this silly Mayor Tang became the mayor, and how did he become such a beautiful woman as Chun Niang?
"Let's go too." Haolong was really excited. He hadn't seen his relatives for a long time! I wonder how grandma is doing now.
"Brother Long!" At this time, Hei Tan forcefully called Hao Long.
Haolong looked back, and the expressions on the faces of Heitanqiang and Birdman were very sad, "Do you want to see your parents? It's okay, let's go together and burn incense."
Haolong did not go back to see his grandma first, but followed Heitanqiang and Birdman to the cemetery of Longwang Village. All the dead people in the village are buried here.
A few people gathered outside the village and walked straight to the cemetery. Surprisingly, they didn't see anyone. The village seemed very desolate.
Finally, after more than half an hour, low mounds of soil came into view. Hei Tanqiang and Bird Man walked to their parents' graves with tears in their eyes.
It's been a long time since I've been here. The surrounding area of the grave is covered with weeds, which are about to cover up this small mound of soil.
"Ah - father - mother -! My son is back to see you!" Hei Tanqiang knelt down on the ground with a loud thump, and knocked on the earthen grave without even a tombstone for more than a dozen times.
A ring
The birdman was the same way, just kowtowing on the ground.
Haolong asked someone to pull them up, and then everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times respectfully.
"Clean up this place," Haolong said
There is really too much grass here. It took several people more than 20 minutes to pull out all the weeds. Then they took out a lot of paper money, gold ingots and other things from a big bag on the grave.
The front door was open and burned. It had not been burned for a long time. This time it was fixed immediately!
The scene was very quiet when the paper was being burned. There was only the sound of paper being burned. Hei Tanqiang and Bird Man knelt in front of the grave for two or three hours, until the evening.
"Okay, it's time to leave. I'll come back often to accompany them in the future." Haolong lit a cigarette and took two puffs, then put it on Birdman's lips. He also gave Heitanqiang a cigarette.
The two of them stood up after smoking, sweeping away the gloom in their hearts, "Okay, Brother Long, let's go to the village and see. It's been a long time since I've eaten the date cake made by grandma." Birdman forced a smile.
Hehe, talking about date cake, Haolong’s grandma’s cooking is really delicious! Haolong was so stimulated that his saliva flowed out, and he kicked the birdman, “Damn! I made you arouse my desire.
Appetite!" Then he raised his arms and shouted, "Let's go!"
"It's really strange, why don't we see people in the village?" Haolong scratched his head, "Scalper, have there been fewer people in the village?"
"No, there are quite a lot of people. Who knows why no one came out today?" The scalper was also very puzzled.
Longwang Village is just a small village, with 200 households and a total population of less than 1,000 people. But now that he didn’t see anyone, not even a child, Haolong felt something was wrong.
"By the way, should we go to the temple and have a look?" said the golden monkey
"Yes! Let's go! Go to the temple!" After saying that, he changed direction and walked towards the Dragon King Temple.
The Dragon King Temple is located in the center of Longwang Village. People in the village go to the Dragon King Temple to pay their respects on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month and other major festivals. But what happened today? It’s not the first day of the lunar month or the tenth day of the lunar month.
Five, it’s not even a major holiday.
You can hear the noise of the villagers from far away. It turns out that the villagers have gathered here. Outside, there is a group of children chasing each other with small sticks in their hands.
"Brother Long, what's going on?" asked the golden monkey
Haolong didn't know either. The Dragon King Temple could be said to be the most respectful place in the village, and it was also the most serious place. Why did the villagers dare to make a noise here today? Aren't they afraid that the Dragon King would be angry? You know, he usually doesn't even
I don’t dare to say a word loudly.
"Go over and have a look." Haolong took the lead and walked forward.
…
"What's wrong, what's wrong! You think the Dragon King will bless you if you build such a ruined temple! It's all superstition, superstition! You bunch of uneducated villagers! Get out of here! I'm going to demolish this ruin today.
Temple!" shouted a voice
Haolong finally knew what happened. That bastard was so bold that he dared to demolish the temple! He must not be from Longwan Village. People in the village would not and would not dare to do such a thing. Their belief in the Dragon King Temple is no less than
A pure Christian belief in Christianity, Longwang Temple has long been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the villagers of Longwang Village.
"Hmph! You bunch of outsiders have come to my Dragon King Village, and we are kindly entertaining you! I didn't expect that you would ruthlessly demolish our temple! I, Wang Laogui, will risk my life today. I don't think any of you dare to
Demolish!" The old man in a country coat simply sat down on the ground, looking like he would have to step over my body if he wanted to demolish the temple.
"That's right! There are six to seven hundred people in our Longwang Village! You only have a dozen of them. Let me see how you demolish the temple!" shouted a young man from the village.
"Hmph! One Wang Laogui fell, and thousands of Wang Laogui stood up! Village chief! You should say something!" Wang Laogui shouted at a man in his fifties.
Hearing this, Haolong smiled, Wang Laogui, Wang Laogui did not tease him less when he was a child, and he often mixed explosives into his cigarettes. However, Wang Laogui never blamed him, and Haolong listened to the gossip.
News: Wang Laogui also liked his grandma when he was young.
Haolong had basically figured out the situation. There were about twenty people surrounded by the villagers, all holding hammers and crowbars. It seemed that they had to be demolished today. The man who looked to be in his forties should be the leader.
, I really don’t know why he came here to demolish the temple.
And the head of Longwang Village didn’t say a word for so long! There must be something wrong!
"Hey... this man! He is so blind! Choosing such a person as the village chief is such a disappointment!" said an old man in a gray tunic suit.
Haolong took a look and wondered, isn't this the village chief? When he left, he was still the village chief, why is he not the village chief now? Thinking of this, he walked over and asked, "Village Chief Cheng? Are you not the village chief now?"
The village chief’s full name is Cheng Shijie, a good name. When Haolong and the others were young, they often heard stories told by him. The ones he told most often were the legends of heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He also often said that he was a descendant of Cheng Yaojin, which made Haolong a child.
They listened with suspicion
Cheng Shijie looked curiously at the young man in front of him who looked like he was from the city. "Hey, little brother, why do you look so familiar to me? I seem to have seen you somewhere, but I just can't remember." Then he looked behind Haolong.
The golden monkey, the birdman and the oxen
After pointing at the scalper, he said, "You... aren't you a natural born of the old Wu family?"
The scalper chuckled and said, "Yes, village chief."
Then Village Chief Cheng pointed at Haolong and the others, "Who are they?"
"Hahaha, I didn't expect you, village chief, have such a bad memory." Haolong laughed and said, "I am Haolong." Then he pointed at Jinhou and the others, "Aren't you little monkeys, Guojin, and Xiaoqiang!"
Village Chief Cheng's mouth opened into an "O" shape, "Oh oh oh...it turns out to be you!"
Haolong smiled, "The rest are our brothers from outside."
Village Chief Cheng looked at the well-dressed appearance of Haolong and the others and sighed, "Hey, you troublemakers have really returned home in glory."
At this time, the crowd started to quarrel, and then they heard a "bang" sound, like a wall being hit hard.
Village Chief Cheng frowned, "Oh! It's bad! Those grandsons started to demolish the temple!"
"This temple cannot be demolished! This temple cannot be demolished!" A very old voice sounded, which made Haolong tremble in his heart. What a familiar voice it was!
Haolong pushed aside the crowd and looked inside, and his eyes instantly became moist. Who else could that old woman be if she wasn't his grandmother? But Haolong didn't rush to recognize her, but looked at his grandmother in a daze.