There was light snow falling in the sky that night. Qin Nan was still a little unsure of his driving skills. When he was about to get on the highway at the highway intersection, he asked Wu Haotian to drive.
After driving for about an hour, a few people arrived at the entrance of Shennong Village. At this time, the village had already been decorated with lanterns. Basically every household had a string of colorful lanterns hung up.
There are several large red lanterns hanging on the big tree in the village committee, which looks very festive.
However, it was already midnight and there was no one in the village. This reminded Qin Nan of the previous two times he returned to the village. Both times he encountered some strange things.
Fortunately, I didn’t encounter any of those strange things when I went home for the Chinese New Year. Wu Haotian parked his car outside the Qin family compound, and when he got out of the car, he saw two big red lanterns.
There are also some rubbish red paper from firecrackers at the door, which looks very festive.
After Wu Haotian opened the door, several people took out the things in the trunk one by one. Although there were indeed many things, luckily they took them all down at once.
No matter how many things there are, they are not as heavy as that big bunch of cabbage...
At noon the next day, grandma called Qin Nan up, because she always felt that young people should not be so lackluster, so she asked him and Zeng Li to pick vegetables in the fields.
Zeng Li was unwilling in every way, but her grandma had been talking in her ears since early in the morning, either about going to the city to work with Chen Huan or about going on a blind date, which made her very excited.
upset,
So I went to the fields with Qin Nan to pick vegetables.
In the evening, grandparents, Aunt Qin Mei, and Grandpa Wu all gathered around a table to eat. While eating, they watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV.
This made Qin Nan feel very happy. He had longed for such a life when he was in the orphanage, but he didn't expect that it would come true in another way this year.
…
At this time, in the suburban villa, Heifu, her wife, and "Clown" were sitting around a table eating dinner. Sun Yu has been with them every year since he was adopted by Heifu.
Spring Festival,
Heifu's family is very simple. It seems that they are just two people. He has been a member of the family since more than ten or twenty years ago. Although Heifu is his adoptive father, he always feels that Heifu is a bit strange to him.
I don’t know the reason, but Hei Fo’s wife makes Sun Yu feel like a mother.
There are more than ten or twenty dishes on this table, which are all prepared by the chef at home at five o'clock in the afternoon. The whole villa also looks very festive.
However, there is always a feeling of emptiness.
"Come on, Sun Yu, eat more shrimps." Heifu's wife smiled and put the shrimps into Sun Yu's bowl, and Sun Yu also showed a happy smile.
He looked at the Black Buddha. At this time, the Black Buddha was looking at the TV expressionlessly. It seemed that Sun Yu was not there. Sun Yu also lowered his head after seeing it.
Heifu watched a sketch on TV, which was about the journey of a kidnapped child returning home.
"Alas, I wonder where we are and whether he is doing well or not..." Heifu said with emotion.
The clown felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this, but he also knew what kind of identity he was. In the past two years, he had also been inquiring about the whereabouts of the Black Buddha child, but there was no news, as if he had never been to this world.
generally,
But in his heart, he also hoped that he could not find the so-called child. He believed that sooner or later, Heifu would treat him as his own child.
"You will always find it." The clown looked at Heifu and her wife with a smile and said...
At twelve o'clock in the evening, Qin Nan and the others set off firecrackers in the yard. Grandpa and grandma also told stories about their past. Qin Nan and the others listened with great fascination.
For Wu Haotian and Zeng Li, grandparents tell the same story every year, which is indeed a bit cliché for them...
In the next few days, Qin Nan and Zeng Li lay in bed and played with their mobile phones every day. They ate and slept as they were doing, but their sleep was not very clean because matchmakers would come outside from time to time.
door-to-door,
Going on a blind date with Zeng Li, Mo Dan and Wu Haotian made the three of them very irritable. Qin Nan knew that his body was already quite old, but his actual mental age was only in his twenties.
Moreover, he was also very disgusted with this method of blind date. Whenever the matchmaker and matchmaker were dismissed by Qin Nan and Zeng Li, someone from the village would come to visit him.
Qin Nan and Zeng Li were also forced to go out to receive guests. What troubled them the most were the children. Before they came, they didn't know if they had been taught well by the elders at home. As soon as they came to the door, they were given red envelopes to wish them good fortune.
Zeng Li also borrowed more than 1,000 yuan from Qin Nan. He also knew that his cousin would not return it to him. In less than two days, plus what Zeng Li had given, Qin Nan had just lost more than 3,000 yuan.
It flew away, which made him particularly annoyed.
At noon on the third day of the Lunar New Year, after Qin Nan and the others saw off the family, Zeng Ligang hurriedly pulled him and Wu Haotian aside and said:
"No, there's no way to go on like this. Although we don't have any relatives, the village doesn't seem to treat us as outsiders. We might as well go out and hide."
"Where to hide? Is there anything fun nearby?" Qin Nan asked.
Qin Nan and Zeng Li thought about it for a long time, but could not think of a suitable place. At this time, Wu Haotian, who had been silent on the side, said three words:
"Grandma's Temple."
Zeng Li couldn't help but frown after hearing this. When Qin Nan saw it, he asked:
"Let's go, it's just a place, no matter what, just hide if you can!"
"This place...how do I put it..." Just as Zeng Li was thinking, two old people and two children came not far away, seemingly preparing to come to their home to pay New Year's greetings.
Zeng Li secretly said something bad, so she took Qin Nan to the back door of the yard and hid behind the wall outside the yard.
"Tell me, what's wrong with this place? Is there a problem? Is it a temple?" Qin Nan asked breathlessly.
"It is a temple but not a temple. There is something evil about this place..." Zeng Li frowned, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long while, she said:
"This is a story my grandma told me, a story that happened in the early twentieth century..."
…
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were only a dozen households in Shennong Village, and each household was relatively far apart. At that time, many outsiders came to Shennong Village.
Miss Yan, Xue Nv's family, the Liang family who were housekeepers of the imperial officials, etc. At that time, Shennong Village was like an outdoor peach garden, and the people in the village had no idea what dynasty was outside.
I don’t know what guns or artillery are, but with the arrival of these people, the people in the village have a certain understanding of the outside world, but their ideas are relatively feudal and narrow.
Just before Miss Yan's accident, a mysterious organization came to the village, and the villagers called them Yin people.
The reason why they are called Yin people is because the villagers have never seen anyone's true face. They only know that they wear black linen clothes and pointy black hats.
They also walk very slowly and are all hunched over. These people do not go out during the day and only go out for activities at night.
As for what these people were doing out at night, the people in the village were also confused. Until one day, the newborn baby of a certain peasant woman suddenly disappeared at night.
Later, the village chief led people in the village to search everywhere, but could not find the whereabouts of the child. Of course, they also went to Miss Yan's home and the Liang family who had just moved here, but found nothing. At this time,
Suddenly someone in the crowd said: "By the way, we haven't gone to that place to find anyone yet."
"You mean those 'yin people'?" the village chief looked at that person in astonishment and said.
"Yes! That's it!" said the man.
At this time, there were noisy voices from the crowd, and it seemed that no one was willing to go to that place to find someone, but the woman and her husband said, "Since everyone doesn't want to go, I won't embarrass you.
If something happens to my wife and I, I hope everyone can take care of my parents!"
After saying that, the man took his wife, picked up the hoe and knife not far away, and walked in the direction of Yinren.
"I, I will be with you, big brother!" At this time, a young man who was almost an adult said, and then walked towards the man with a hatchet. At this time,
The few people standing here began to hesitate, thinking about whether or not to follow. The village chief looked at the sky. It was already approaching evening and felt that it was very dangerous for the three of them to go like this.
So he sighed and said to everyone: "Our Shenyang Village has been hidden in the world for hundreds of years, and we have always helped each other. This time I hope everyone can unite as one, and can you come with me to see the origins of those people!
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(The events of this chapter take place on the third day of the Lunar New Year)