Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 4 The Earth Dragon Turns Over
I'm not happy, I don't know why Grandpa is giving these policemen things that belong to me.

Grandpa didn't care about my emotions, he led me home with a few policemen.My father and my mother haven't come back yet, and I don't know where they went. The house is empty.

Grandpa asked the policemen to sit in the main room. He entered the room and came out with something after a while.My eyes were sharp, and I saw that although it was also a turquoise mask, it was different from yesterday's one.

The mask in Grandpa's hand is smaller, and the eyeballs are not as bulging as yesterday. Moreover, there is no phoenix ornament in the small hole in the middle of the mask's forehead, making it look hollow.

I covered my mouth and laughed, it turned out that grandpa still had a small one, he gave this fake to the police, but mine kept it.

Before grandpa could sit down, the four-eyed policeman let out an exclamation, and snatched the turquoise mask from grandpa's hand. His glasses almost touched the mask, his face full of excitement.

"Zhang Xiaoyong, what's wrong with you, do you recognize what this is?" Lin Yaowu squinted and asked quickly when he saw the four-eyed policeman so excited.

Zhang Xiaoyong closed his glasses and said excitedly: "I saw it in a magazine. This is a cultural relic unearthed at Sanxingdui in Guanghan! It looks almost the same as the photo!"

"Guanghan Sanxingdui." The cold-faced policewoman said softly, as if she was also remembering something.

"Look at this bulging eyeball. This is a typical symbol of cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui. This is a national treasure. It is said that it has a great relationship with the ancient Shu civilization and is of great value!" Zhang Xiaoyong said with a flushed face, spitting everywhere.

Lin Yaowu took the mask from his hand, looked at it carefully, and the expression on his face became more and more serious.

"The question is how did things from Guanghan Sanxingdui appear in our place. Guanghan is in Chengdu, which is hundreds of kilometers away from us." The policewoman tapped her slender fingers on the table with doubts on her face.

Lin Yaowu put the mask on the table and said: "Xu Menghan is right, and since the things in the Sanxingdui are related to the ancient Shu civilization, they are at least thousands of years old, or even two or three thousand years old. But this mask is from the white coffin under the temple. The one from Li, the temple is at most more than 3000 years old, and the time is totally wrong.”

"Could it be that the coffin was buried there first, and then the temple was built later." Policewoman Xu Menghan smoothed her loose hair and said in a low voice.

Lin Yaowu shook his head, he didn't say anything, he just set his eyes on my grandpa, and there was a strange light in his pair of Mimi eyes.

Grandpa ignored him, and waited until he took a puff of dry cigarette happily, and then said slowly: "Don't look at me, my old man is uneducated. I don't understand what you are talking about, Sanxingdui, Gushu, etc. Anyway, this thing is Here you go."

In the end, the three policemen didn't find anything useful from Grandpa's mouth, but getting a mask that was suspected to be from Sanxingdui here was enough for them to explain to their superiors.

I watched the police leave in a hurry, and I was about to ask my grandpa about today's affairs, but before I could speak, my grandpa made a silent gesture to me, and then he said: "My dear grandson, some things are about time." You will naturally know that what should be yours is yours, this is your life, and it is also the life of our Chen family!"

I don't know why grandpa said this, especially the sentence "This is your life" has been said several times in a row. I really wanted to ask him what he meant, but when I saw a touch of sadness appearing on grandpa's old face Tired, I swallowed the words that had come to my lips.

I believe that grandpa will not harm me!

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the seventh day after the Snake Temple was demolished. During these few days, Lin Yaowu and others visited the village several times, but no matter how much he asked and probed, he did not get any new information. clue.

Later, when he came to the village for the last time, he told my grandfather that the county seemed to have given up on the investigation and attributed the deaths of Li Daobao and others to unsolved cases of supernatural beings.

After all, the death of Li Dao Scar and a dozen of his subordinates was really strange. On the night of the incident, Li Dao Scar and others were all in the county town more than ten kilometers away from the death scene, and everyone was in a different place, but in The next day, they all ran to the Snake Monastery. Coupled with the terrifying force that twisted people's heads off, the possibility of human crimes was basically ruled out.

"Of course, if this thing is done by humans, then this person is not something we can mess with." This is what Lin Yaowu said to my grandfather when he left. I saw him staring at my grandfather when he said this. The eyes are burning.

As for the mask suspected to be a cultural relic of Sanxingdui, they have already sent it to the research institute in Chengdu, where various identifications and tests will be carried out.As for the strangest piece of white snake skin in this incident, that is, the snake skin that was transformed into the white coffin, the police searched all possible places where Li Dao Scar could be stored, but found no clues, as if he had evaporated from the world. .

The village seems to have calmed down. The deaths of Li Daoba and others are gradually no longer discussed. After the Snake King Temple was demolished, some people have gone to survey the terrain and prepare to build roads. Also signed a land contract agreement with the villagers.

Everything seems to be getting back to normal, but this is just the prelude to the storm.The first conflict that arose was what my grandfather said to the villagers not to go up the back mountain until he spoke on the day the Snake King Temple was demolished.

Whether it is a farmer or a hunter in Tsing Yi Village, the meaning of the back mountain is very important to them. As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to eat water. Even if the land is contracted to tea merchants now, the Tibetan tea base has not been built. Before, most of the villagers were still habitually running up the mountain every day, or picking wild vegetables and mushrooms, or setting traps to catch hares.

But my grandfather blocked their hope of going up the mountain with a single sentence. Naturally, they were not very happy. Maybe the clansmen with the surname Chen would care about the words of the patriarch, grandpa, but those villagers with other surnames can’t control so much. Grandpa is just Chen after all. The patriarch of the family has no right to order them.

The villagers with foreign surnames didn’t listen to their grandfather’s words, and those with the surname of Chen went up the mountain. When the people with the surname Chen saw that not only did these people with the other surname not have any accidents on the mountain, they could also catch fat hares and pick abundant mushrooms and wild vegetables. Balanced, very dissatisfied with grandpa.

After all, this era is different from before. With the spread of foreign ideas, the Chinese family society under the patriarchal system is gradually disintegrating, and the status of patriarchs and elders in the family is gradually declining. Especially the new generation of young people is impacted by free thinking. , he was even more dissatisfied with his grandfather's unyielding rights, and even became rebellious.

When a group of people rushed into the yard of my house, my grandfather was lying on an old-fashioned bamboo chair, fanning himself, and telling me stories about his youth.

As soon as a shirtless, strong man came in, he yelled loudly: "Uncle Cai, why don't you want us to go up the mountain! Look at those people with foreign surnames who have gone up and down the mountain these days, and nothing happened!"

"Yeah, why don't we go up the mountain? You see, the boss next door caught a pheasant on the mountain yesterday, and he showed it off in front of me when he came back."

"That's right, why don't you want us to go up!"

……

The courtyard was noisy with this group of people. I was a little irritable and looked at them unhappy.

Seeing that I was upset, Grandpa frowned immediately. He stood up and yelled at the clansmen in the yard: "Damn it, what are you bastards doing? If you want to go up the mountain, just Go by yourself, but the ugly words are in the front, you go up the mountain and light the lanterns in the huts - courting death! When something happens, don't come to me!"

The people in the yard were all frightened by Grandpa's sudden anger. After all, Grandpa has been the patriarch for decades, and he still has an extremely deterrent effect in their hearts.

"Uncle Cai..."

A young man seemed to want to say something else, but he was interrupted by my grandpa before he finished speaking, and the grandpa said coldly: "I have explained it to you, and those who want to die should go up the mountain!" Now, you all get the hell out of here, don't bother my grandson!"

A group of people walked out of the yard obediently, and I don't know if they listened to my grandpa's words in the end.

"Grandpa, you are so crooked (Sichuan dialect is equivalent to "fierce, powerful")." I laughed and said, seeing a group of people being yelled at by my grandpa, I found it very interesting.

Grandpa sat on the bamboo chair again, and sighed, "I'm doing it for their own good. If you're unlucky, you won't be able to escape after climbing the mountain."

I asked curiously: "Why can't I escape? There are tigers on the mountain?"

After hearing what I said, Grandpa laughed loudly and said, "There are not only tigers on the mountain, but also bears, leopards, jackals, and many, many things that eat people."

I thought what grandpa said was true, and I couldn't help feeling a little scared.

Grandpa saw my appearance, touched my head, and whispered: "Wait, wait!"

"Grandpa, what are you waiting for?" I asked with my big eyes blinking.

Grandpa was lying on the bamboo chair, looking at the direction of the back mountain, a rare look of worry appeared on his face full of vicissitudes, he said in a heavy tone:

"Earth Dragon turn over!"

(End of this chapter)