Chapter 259 The God of Fire, the Follower of Qu Snake
His parents were eaten by his god, and the child talked nonsense, childish words were unbridled, and he opened his mouth to say that he has no father and no mother.
Zhou Baqu looked at the child playing tricks with the poverty alleviation mobile phone, squatted down and asked him: "What's going on with this god?"
Child: "The village god of Nemen Village has a White Snake Temple in the back hill of the village. The adults always go to worship it. They say that there will be no floods, no locusts, and that they can eat up all the four pests in the fields. But we children are not allowed to go.
It is said that his god is greedy and loves to eat people. Many people in the village have been bitten by his god."
As the child spoke, he lifted up his clothes to reveal his belly. From his belly to his waist, there was a circle of scars left by repeated sores that had not been properly treated. Zhou Ba Wa looked at it and wondered if this was the snakebite he had with Jiang Xundao last night.
Child: "It hurts when God Qu bites someone. My parents had a fight last night. They went out in the middle of the night and never came back..."
"Erbao, what are you doing?"
While Zhou Bashi was listening, he was suddenly interrupted by such a sentence from outside, interrupting the child's speech.
The old village chief's wrinkled and uncomfortable voice, like scraping snake skin, sounded from behind. Zhou Bazhu and the others turned around and saw the squinting triangular eyes of the skinny old man, feeling inexplicably goosebumps all over their bodies.
When the child saw the village chief, he was so frightened that he dared not move. He was shaking with fear as if he had been caught secretly complaining. The old village chief came over, took the poverty alleviation mobile phone from the child's hand and said, "What are you doing, kid?"
, your grandma asked you to pick vegetables and you did it? Go home and stop being crazy outside."
The child did not dare to say no, so he turned around and went home. Zhou Bashi and others looked at each other and exchanged glances.
Zhou Baqu watched the old village chief return the poverty alleviation phone to his hand and said, "Village chief, do you have any opinions on the work of our team going to the countryside?"
The old village chief said: "Yes, yes, I am afraid that our expensive things will be damaged by our careless hands."
The old village chief was full of polite excuses, but everyone knew that they were just words, and what he actually did was completely different. He seemed to be trying his best to prevent the team going to the countryside from contacting the villagers of Yangzizhuang.
Zhou Ba Wa frowned and was about to say something to explain things to the old village chief, but suddenly a student from another group called:
"Brother Zhou, come back quickly, something happened to Teacher Zhang!"
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Zhou Baqi returned to Hope Primary School where the team went to the countryside.
Jiang Xundao was finishing treating the Youth League Committee teacher who had just suffered from vomiting and diarrhea and was weak and dehydrated: "Food poisoning, I guess I ate something bad last night."
Zhou Bashi heard this. He and his Youth League Committee teacher had dinner at the old village chief's house last night, but he was fine. He had a thousand illnesses that could not invade his body.
Zhou Baqi: "Can you send Teacher Zhang out?"
Jiang Xundao: "It's best to stop now. He's seriously dehydrated. It's best to rest for two days. The road here is difficult and the mountainous road is too bumpy. His current physical condition is fine if he rests. I'm afraid it will cause trouble if he collapses."
At this time, the Youth League Committee teacher also woke up for a while. He weakly told Zhou Bachu that he was too careless about his stomach and intestines. He just needed to rest for two days and told him not to worry. He was going to be troubled in the past two days. Help him take care of it.
Everyone from the team going to the countryside.
Zhou Baqi: "Okay, Teacher Zhang, please rest. I will keep an eye on the students on the team going to the countryside for the next two days. They will be safe."
The teacher from the Youth League Committee here took a break, and Zhou Bashi took over the task of leading the team. He turned around and other students from the team going to the countryside came to find him and told Zhou Bashi that they had encountered difficulties. In the same situation, the local villagers avoided them.
The township team was missing, and some classmates were splashed with water.
Zhou Baqiu: "Let's rest for two days first. The issue of poverty alleviation mobile phones is not urgent. You can relax for two days."
Zhou Bashi had just planned to find the old village chief, but now he saw that the Youth League Committee teacher was ill. After handing over the rural team to him, he, the person in charge, would not be able to quarrel with others on their territory. This remote place
In the village, what should I do if something happens to the students, so I gave the students two days off first, waiting for the Youth League Committee teacher to recover from his illness.
The matter of sending electrical appliances to the countryside to help the poor is stuck here for the time being.
Zhou Ba wax arranged the Youth League committee teachers and went out to get some fresh air.
Outside the walls of Hope Primary School, in the depressing countryside, there is a lively chat. The doors of every house are closed. Occasionally, there are cloudy eyes and wrinkled old faces staring at the team going to the countryside strangely through the cracks in the door.
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Suddenly, Zhou Baqi inexplicably felt someone watching him. He turned around and saw a little girl running away in the distance.
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In the afternoon, Zhou Bashi was wandering around the village and met Wang Qingming who came to him with some photos in his hand. But he still remembered why Zhou Bashi signed up to go to the countryside.
Wang Qingming: "Let me tell you, during the day today, I compared the photos my dad took when he went to the countryside to perform. It seems that this Yangzizhuang is not the Yangzhuang back then."
Zhou Ba Wa: "So? Sui Huang Huoqi?"
Wang Qingming: "I'm afraid we have to look for other clues."
Zhou Baqu: "Your uncle."
Wang Qingming: "Don't worry, we're all here. I actually asked about it before going into the mountain yesterday. In Shangqiu, the hometown of the God of Fire and the ancestral land of the three emperors, there is a Quebotai Festival every year during the first lunar month to worship Huozheng. I think
At least we are on the right track."
Zhou Bashi raised his foot and kicked him away. Wang Qingming sent him away and left the photo with Zhou Bashi. He took it and asked Jiang Xundao. He really knew.
Jiang Xundao: "You mean Yangzizhuang? Indeed, this Yangzizhuang was rebuilt at the end of the last century twenty years ago. There was indeed another earlier Yangzizhuang before, but the village was buried by a landslide.
The current Yangzizhuang was rebuilt on the site of the old Yangzizhuang."
Zhou Baqi: "It's such a poor and inconvenient remote place, why not just relocate it."
Jiang Xundao: "Rustic sentiment, not to mention the thinking of people decades ago."
While the two were talking, Zhou Baqi inexplicably felt someone watching him. Looking back, he saw a figure in the distance, which seemed to be the little girl from yesterday.
What did Zhou Baxin say? When he walked over, the little girl quickly turned around and ran away, but this time she left a message before running away:
"Come on, you guys, God Qu is going to eat people!"
Zhou Ba wax frowned upon hearing this.
After finishing today's work, the next day, Zhou Baqi went to see the teacher from the Youth League committee who was feeling much better. He planned to tell him tomorrow about the obstacles in distributing poverty alleviation mobile phones in the village. However, accidents always happened one after another.
In the afternoon, when Zhou Bashi was helping Bai Xi'er prepare ingredients and help in the kitchen and harass the girl, a student from the team going to the countryside came to Zhou Bashi anxiously and said that Sun Nian was missing.
"Last night, Sun Nian said he went out to a hut, and then never came back. I thought he had gone somewhere, but I still don't believe him, and he can't get through on his cell phone..."
Zhou Ba Wa frowned and followed the students to the hut. He saw messy footprints on the muddy ground at the door of the hut. In addition to shoe prints, there were also footprints of wild beasts. The wet mud geology of Yangzizhuang made it easy to leave traces. He followed the footprints to find them and left the village.
Direct access to the back mountain.
The mountain behind Yangzizhuang is exactly where the White Snake Temple of Qu Shen Ye is located, as Zhou Ba Wa heard from the kid Er Bao yesterday.
Chen Lulu: "I'll go, don't you think there is some kind of village god with a smug face, just take him away and eat him?"
Everyone was making a fuss, and the students from the team going to the countryside were a little scared. The village had been very depressed in the past two days. The villagers were strangely staying at home and pouring water on them. Some students had sores, and the power was turned off at every turn. , and the scary-looking village chief, who made it look like a rural horror movie, and now someone suddenly disappeared...Many students were frightened and told Zhou Bawa that they wanted to go home and go back to school.
Wang Qingming: "Let's find a way to find someone first."
Zhou Baqu also thought the same thing. The disappearance of a student in this wilderness is not a trivial matter. Then he turned around and saw the elusive old village chief, who had squeezed in among the students at some point. His wrinkled face was indescribable. Weird and a little scary.
Zhou Ba wax: "What are you doing here?"
The old village chief: "I heard that some students were lost, so I came to see if I can help..."
Before the old village chief finished speaking, a little girl suddenly rushed out from behind the crowd. It was the same girl Zhou Bashi had seen yesterday. When the old village chief saw her rushing out, his face changed drastically.
The little girl rushed in front of everyone in the team going to the countryside, pointed at the old village chief and shouted: "He is looking for food for God Qu! Give your people to God Qu to eat!"
