Chapter two hundred and fourteenth accidental figure
After leaving the farmhouse, the two of us walked around the village again, trying to see if there was anything suspicious in the village.
Without the guidance of the old village chief, this time we wandered around the village at will, choosing the path that the village chief had not taken before. Although we still found nothing along the way, we unexpectedly found a village in the end.
's ancestral hall.
At that time, we didn’t know that this building was an ancestral hall. We just felt that its appearance was very different from other buildings around it, so we were a little curious and walked around outside. Just when we were wondering if we could go in and have a look, an old man came from
He came out and asked us what we wanted to do.
After asking around with the old man, we found out that this building is the only ancestral hall in the village, and it contains the ancestral tablets of every household in the village. And this old man is the gatekeeper of this ancestral hall.
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Out of curiosity, I tentatively asked the old man if I could go in and visit. Unexpectedly, the old man immediately nodded in agreement.
After entering the ancestral hall, we looked carefully inside and out. While inspecting the ancestral hall, the old man also introduced the origin of the ancestral hall.
He told us that the people in their village were originally descendants of refugees who fled from Jiangxi to escape the scourge of war. Although they have followed the local customs, they now live in stilt houses that are common among locals, but they only worship the memorial tablets of their ancestors.
In this place, the people in the village still insist on using the original architectural style from Jiangxi.
After walking around the ancestral hall, we didn't find anything wrong. But just when we were leaving, I heard Lin Qianyi suddenly turned around and looked at the wall of memorial tablets in the main hall of the ancestral hall, which was a little strange.
He asked the old man: "Grandpa, there is something I don't quite understand. You said you all fled here a hundred or two hundred years ago, but when I look at it, why are there not many tablets in the ancestral hall? I have seen them before.
In the ancestral halls of some big families in Guangdong, they have inherited and accumulated more memorial tablets than you do in just a hundred years."
"This..." The old man was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "This is because the population in our village has never been prosperous. It may be that everything has pros and cons. Although the environment in our village is good and it is easy for longevity stars to appear, but
But it’s not easy for women living in the village to get pregnant.”
"Is there such a thing?" I asked curiously, "Is there some source of pollution in the village? Didn't you ask anyone to come and check it?"
The old man sighed and said, "Why not? Some university professors once heard that we were a longevity village and came here to study it for a while, but in the end they found nothing at all."
I said "Oh..." and walked around the ancestral hall a few times with Lin Qianyi. Except for the tablet wall, which was surrounded by a wooden fence and couldn't get close, we looked carefully at other places.
, and did not find anything we wanted to see, so we reluctantly said goodbye to the old man and walked out of the ancestral hall.
After we came out, Lin Qianyi asked me, we basically looked at all the places we should see in the village, but found nothing and didn’t know what to do next.
I was somewhat at a loss regarding the current situation. When I was at my wits' end, I suddenly saw a tourist passing by me, and an idea came to my mind. I suggested to Lin Qianyi to find the tourists in the village and ask.
Ask them if they know anything about Mr. Xu and his wife? This village is not big, and tourists here should have seen Mr. Xu and his wife.
Because other than that, I couldn't think of any other good directions for investigation, so Lin Qianyi accepted my proposal. We wandered around the town and saw tourists who looked like villagers, so we went up to ask them
Have you ever heard of Mr. Xu?
However, after all, what happened to Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu happened a week ago. This village is not a large tourist attraction. Basically, there will be no tourists staying here for a week, so we asked all the way.
I didn't get any useful information at all.
Just when I was feeling a little discouraged, I suddenly noticed a very familiar-looking figure at the bottom of a stilted building in front of me.
Seeing that figure from behind, I immediately patted Lin Qianyi and said, "Sister Lin, you won't believe who I saw?"
"Who is it?" Lin Qianyi turned around and asked me.
"Wu Tian, Director of the Intelligence Department!"
"Uncle Wu?" Lin Qianyi's eyes suddenly widened, "How could he be here? Where did you see him?"
"Right there..." I just wanted to point the direction to Lin Qianyi, but my fingers suddenly froze in mid-air, because just when I was talking to Lin Qianyi, the familiar figure disappeared.
Lin Qianyi looked around and found nothing, then said to me: "Sijiu, did you see it wrong?"
I shook my head and affirmed: "You can't be wrong. The back I saw just now, from hairstyle to height, looks exactly like Wu Tian."
"But Uncle Wu is still in the East China Sea? Besides, how could he, the director of the Intelligence Department, come to this place?"
I thought about it and felt that what Lin Qianyi said made sense, but the back view just now seemed to be stuck in my heart like a fish bone. I felt uncomfortable until I understood it.
So I took out the satellite phone from my bag and called San Pang.
On the phone, I asked the third fat man if he knew where Wu Tian was? He said to me inexplicably: "Wu Tian? Please, I am no longer from the Intelligence Department, why are you asking me this?"
I asked the third fat man to stop worrying so much and quickly check for me whether Wu Tian has taken leave recently? I have something urgent to confirm.
After hearing this, the third fat man insisted that I tell him the reason first. I had no choice but to tell him that I seemed to have seen the shadow of Wu Tian in that longevity village.
After hearing the news, San Pang immediately became interested. He asked me to wait for a while and then hung up the phone.
Almost a few minutes later, Sanpang's call came back. As soon as I answered the call, Sanpang told me very excitedly: "Hey, boy, you really got it right. The people in the intelligence department said, Wu
Tian recently took leave and went out, and I don’t know where he went. Anyway, no one has any news about him now!"
After hearing the news, I finally put my heart back in my stomach, thinking that if this was the case, then the background I just saw was probably Wu Tian himself. It was just Wu Tian, the director of the Intelligence Department, how could he suddenly become so big?
Come all the way from the East China Sea to us?
On the other end of the phone, Fatty Three was still asking me if I had seen what Wu Tian was doing. Because I wanted to find Wu Tian’s whereabouts quickly, I said a few perfunctory words, and regardless of Fatty Three still complaining on the phone, I hurriedly
Hang up the phone.
At this time, Lin Qianyi, who had listened to the entire conversation, also looked curious. She wondered: "Why did Uncle Wu come here? Could it be that he was traveling?"
I shrugged and said, who knows? But since Wu Tian himself is here, then we should all say hello to him, and I also have an idea in my heart, that is, Wu Tian is an intelligence officer
The director of the department is very knowledgeable. Maybe we can get some useful suggestions related to this incident from him.
After that, the two of us looked in the direction where I saw Wu Tian's back just now. But what disappointed us was that when we arrived near the stilted building, we didn't see anyone who looked like Wu Tian around us.
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Even so, I thought that this village was not big. If Wu Tianzhen was really here, I would be able to find him as long as I searched patiently. So I took Lin Qianyi and continued to search all the way there.
As I walked, I saw an old man sitting in front of his stilted building, smoking a hookah leisurely. I saw that the old man was facing the road, and the pedestrians coming and going would be in his sight, so I stepped forward and thought.
I want to ask him if he has seen Wu Tian.
Unexpectedly, after asking about it, the old man told us that no stranger like Wu Tian passed by him just now.
I sighed in disappointment and was about to go back and tell Lin Qianyi the news when I accidentally saw a man leaning out from behind the wall at a corner one or two hundred meters behind Lin Qianyi.
I looked at Lin Qianyi. The man looked familiar to me. I felt like I had seen him somewhere before, but I couldn't remember. But what was certain was that that man was not the Wu Tian we were looking for.