Seeing that things had become clear, Chen Zhi didn't say anything more, but silently returned to the table and continued to sit and chat with everyone, listening to their simple words and feeling the peaceful moment.
Yingzi is very interested in people like Chen Zhi and others from outside the mountains, and is full of curiosity about the world outside the mountains. She always asks questions. Fat Wei likes to chat with Lolita the most, and he always brags about how awesome he is in the city.
B, told Yingzi a lot of new and interesting stories, which made Yingzi giggle.
"Yingzi, in your village, do you have an ancestral hall to worship your ancestors?" Chen Zhi asked pretending to be casual while everyone was eating.
"Of course!" Yingzi put down his chopsticks and looked at Chen Zhi with clear eyes and replied,
"Our Hongding Village has been passed down for many generations from ancient times to the present, but what about the older villages~~~~~
There are many ancestors enshrined in our ancestral hall, do you want to go and see it? If you want to go, I will take you to see it together after dinner~~~"
"This..., oh! We are all outsiders. Is it appropriate to go to your ancestral temple?"
Fat Wei did not expect Yingzi to agree so happily. He turned to Chen Zhi and blinked, and continued to say to Yingzi:
"Even if you agree, can other villagers agree? We don't want to be shot like hedgehogs~~~~~"
"It's okay! Our ancestral temple is not a shameful place..."
After Yingzi finished speaking, he turned to look at the other villagers on the table, "Uncle and uncle, do you think so?"
"Yes! Yes! If you want to see it, go and see it. What are you afraid of~~~~~~"
The villagers were very easy to talk to and agreed without any hesitation.
"I'll take you there after dinner..." Yingzi said crisply,
"It just so happens that the ruins you are going to see are also next to the ancestral temple. We will go see them together later. Aren't you just here for that one? I don't know what is good about it. It's just a ruined temple.
The ruins..."
"Do you know what that temple originally worshiped?" Chen Zhi asked.
"I don't know~~~~",
Yingzi shook his head while picking up vegetables.
"I heard from the old people in the village that this temple used to be the temple of some ancient god, but then there was a sudden thunder in the middle of the night, and the temple collapsed.
This incident caused a lot of commotion at the time. Many people came up from the mountain, shouting that the mysterious villa had disappeared. Many people were missing! I don’t know how funny it was~~~~
If there really is a mysterious villa on this mountain, why should we stay in this village and suffer!"
After Yingzi finished speaking, all the villagers laughed. The villagers' smiles were so simple and not tainted with any secular atmosphere!
Looking at these innocent and sunny faces, an indescribable feeling filled Chen Zhi's heart. In fact, sometimes lies are needed in this world. Lies can cover up many regrets. But the truth is the cruelest thing. If you don't know the truth, these
The simple villagers may continue to live happily like their ancestors.
Amid a burst of laughter, Chen Zhi and the others had a very sumptuous and delicious lunch. After the meal, Yingzi followed the other village women to the backyard to wash the dishes. She told Chen Zhi and the others,
Let them sit here for a while, and after clearing away the dishes, take them to the ruins on the top of the mountain to have a look.
The women in the yard chattered like sparrows. Yingzi kept scooping water from the well and washed the dishes diligently. The bright water drops splashed on her fresh short hair, which was very cute.
Fat Wei leaned against the window, looking at Yingzi's unique girlish figure, and shook his head with some regret.
"Oh! Chengzi, you said this girl is too pitiful. She has no relatives and no friends here, living with these paper figures, neither humans nor ghosts~~~
Otherwise, when we leave, we can also take her away! Take her back to Fate Hall and wear bracelets for us..."
"How are you so sure those people are paper people?",
Chen Zhi looked at Fat Wei with a smile, "Did you also pay attention to those footprints?"
"Tch! What kind of footprints... I know they are not normal people even if I don't even look at them...",
Fat Wei replied disdainfully:
"In this day and age, there are so many liars everywhere. There are not enough idiots out there. Those who can be as stupid as the people in their village cannot be human at all, so they must be fake people~~~~"
"I'm afraid it's not just people who are fake...",
Chen Zhi looked at Yingzi and sighed: "It is estimated that everything in this Hongding Village has turned into the scene in the painting more than a hundred years ago!"
While Chen Zhi and the others were talking, Yingzi from the backyard had already packed up the dishes and walked in with a smile: "Let's go, while it's still early, let's go early and come back early~~"
After Yingzi finished speaking, he went to the mirror and combed his hair behind his ears with water. He looked very playful. Then he took off the bow and arrow on the wall and waved at Chen Zhi and the others.
"Let's go!"
Chen Zhi's team followed Yingzi all the way to the back of the village. The ruins were not far from the village. After entering the woods behind the village, they immediately saw a large blank space.
There was no grass growing on the ground, not even a single weed, and in the middle of the open space, there was indeed a very large ruin.
The ruins were full of broken bricks and tiles, covered with moss and bird droppings, but the former scale of the building could still be seen among the ruins.
This is not an ordinary folk building, but a building built according to professional architectural drawings.
Ancient Chinese folk buildings are all similar. Most of the residential houses have the same pattern. If a family wants to build a house, the craftsmen will give you some fixed patterns to choose from, and they will not specially design it.
Even the government offices are all the same, but there are some special buildings that can be built through drawings drawn by the palace's construction department, such as Gongqi Temple, West Lake Summer Resort, etc...
Judging from the style and materials of the building in front of us, all the building materials are imported, and the workmanship is very particular. There is still yellow official pulp on the faults of each stone brick, and there are many round shapes among the rubble.
The tiles are all in the style of the Song Dynasty royal family.
"Let's go! I'll take you to see the ancestral temple first..." Yingzi pointed to the front. Next to the ruins, there was a very small temple, which should be the "ancestral temple" that Yingzi mentioned.
Yingzi moved very briskly, running towards the temple in three steps and two steps, and stepped into the ancestral hall in one step. Chen Zhi and the others followed behind.
And when Chen Zhi entered the ancestral hall, he felt that it was time to end the performance...