After climbing the mountains and entering the village, the houses here retain local characteristics, but the villagers did not wear ethnic minority clothing as I thought. Most of them were dressed like those in the town at the foot of the mountain, T-shirts, jeans, and shirts.

The B&B I booked is the tallest building in the village, with a total of three floors and about ten rooms, including green mountains, wooden houses, and chickens and dogs. The difference between it and the paradise in the book is that there are electrical appliances here, and the B&B room has water heaters, air conditioners, and TVs.

I took a few photos at will, picked out a photo of an ancient tree and posted it on WeChat Moments. This trip was not a secret operation, and there was nothing to keep in mind.

Zeng Shan liked me the fastest time and said in the comment, "I like this place so much, it's so beautiful."

Her strange tone aroused the curiosity of Baozi, and asked me why Zeng Shan was on a business trip with me?

This matter is a long story, and I started to talk about it a few days ago when I accompanied Zeng Shan to have a big meal.

The free meal was actually her blind date banquet. She has been urged by her family in recent years. She has arranged a lot of blind dates of all sizes for her. She was so annoyed that she was unwilling to meet the man alone, so she brought me as a "staff officer".

During the meal, she only talked to me and tried not to communicate with the man, and the intention of neglecting should not be more obvious.

But the man was completely different from her and pursued her passionately, and went downstairs to her house every night to wait for others.

Zeng Shan is a staunch celibate, but there are a bunch of people in her family who are impatient to "betray" her information, mobile phone number, address, get off work time, and rest on the day, the man has already mastered it.

In order to avoid the other party, she lied that she was on a business trip and told him not to wait at home for free at night.

In fact, she planned to stay in a hotel for a few days, and just happened to be on a business trip, so she asked me to disguise myself as a trip of two people.

I asked her why she didn't explain it to her family directly. Zeng Shan had no choice but to say 10,000 times, but those elders didn't know where the confidence came from, and they were sure that she was ignorant and did not understand the true meaning of life and would definitely regret it in the future.

Others almost went to the duo of Tang Monk, especially her parents. Fortunately, she moved to a place close to her unit after work, so she could go home for a day on weekends without overtime.

Our clan has no elders and relatives, and I can't understand her troubles, but it's definitely okay to help. The room is a standard room, with two beds, and slippers are placed at the bathroom door, and two pairs are placed on it.

I went out to order two servings, took a photo before I could eat, and took another photo after I finished eating.

Then send the prop photos to Zeng Shan, and she can do whatever she wants to do in the future.

On the first day when I went to the village, I mainly wandered around and walked the tourist route.

The next day I moved to the ruins, where there was only a shallow pit left, buried by fallen leaves.

On the third day, I chatted with the elderly who were enjoying the cool air under the big tree, only talking about ordinary things and not asking anything else.

On the fourth day, I went directly to the home of an old man in the village. The old man had never left the village in his life. Fifty years ago, she was eighteen years old and had just booked someone else's house. Her husband was a carpenter from the same village.

The old man is very talkative and likes to talk about the past. I brought some canned cigarettes and wine to the door, and she enthusiastically kept me for lunch.

I showed off my fake identity as a magazine and said that in order to write articles, I have visited many villages and asked about strange stories or legends.

The old man said that their village also has its own legend, so I have asked the right person.

Just talking about the village name, it all has its origins. I was thinking about asking for information, so I couldn't help but listen to some prelude to read novels and chapters. I could just listen to her talk about something irrelevant.

In fact, when I talk about the name of the village, I also felt that it was different when I read the archives. I once heard that the golden phoenix flew out of the mountain valley, but their village was called Wufeng Village.

It makes it difficult for me not to think of black chicken and some kind of pills related to its name.

The old man said that their ancestors came here from a very far away with a black phoenix.

Therefore, the ancestors of the village were not locals, and they might even come from the Qinling Mountains.

The people who chased the black phoenix chased from the mountains to another mountain. After 49 days and nights, they finally killed the black phoenix and shared its meat.

I was surprised and lamented that the ancient gourmets left their hometown just to eat in one bite, slept in the wind and hung out in the open, went through hardships, and fought with the Black Phoenix for 49 days. This determination and pursuit are really hard to surpass later generations...

My surprise was all under my heart. The old man continued to preach. After eating the meat of the black phoenix, the ancestors suddenly became extremely powerful and were light and pulled the swallows. They only had one night to build a village, and there were hundreds of families in the village at that time.

The group of people stayed here for some reason, and they also found that they would not die if they were struck by lightning. After the struck, their bodies became stronger and they were several years younger.

It was originally an accident that was struck by lightning, but this accident caused the person to have a bold idea. Every time it was a thunderstorm, he would climb onto the trees and let the lightning struck.

As expected, the more I split, the younger I got, the younger I got. After a few times, the middle-aged man was split into a young man.

So the villagers followed suit, so that there were no elderly people in the village at that time.

But there are no women in the village. If they want to stay and reproduce, they have to marry from outside.

The married wives did not have the ability to maintain their youth with lightning strikes. Although the children they gave birth to can withstand lightning, the effect was reduced by half. And so on. In less than three generations, the special power brought by this black phoenix disappeared.

The villagers began to be obsessed with looking for the black phoenix. For a period of time, half of the men in the village wanted to pull out to find the black phoenix outside, but unfortunately they couldn't find it everywhere, so they gradually gave up.

They have hunted and collected herbs for generations, and lived a life of isolation from the world. For various reasons, many people have left the village. In recent years, only a dozen families have remained here.

"Has no outsiders ever come? Did no one find this place?" I asked instructed.

"Yes, a few people have come before, saying they are from the archaeological team." The old man said for a moment.

"In the back mountain, there is a strange place. Five people were killed in a row. I was young at that time, but I remember clearly that this was a major event that caused a sensation in the whole village."

"A strange thing was resolved?"

"They poached a box of things and it was fine. It might be because of the things left by their ancestors. They were too old and no one knew what that was."

"What a strange thing happened, there was an archaeological team?"

"Well...yeah, oh, yes, another person came later. At that time, unlike now, there were always tourists entering the village. When he came, everyone in the village came out to watch. The young man looked handsome and was a cultural person. He said he was here to collect research materials."

The village has a small population of foreigners. Fifty years ago, no tourists would come here, so suddenly, a cultural person with outstanding appearance and a bookish look should have a deep memory for a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old.

The person she was talking about was probably Ye Xiao. I took out the photos prepared in advance and handed them to the old man.

"Look, is it him?" This photo is Ye Xiao's college graduation photo, a seven-inch half-body photo, which is well preserved. Even if it is a black and white photo, there is no special effects or beauty, the person in the photo can still be called a handsome man.

"Oh yes, yes, it's him. I remember this mole on the corner of his eyes. These eyes are particularly beautiful."

The old man asked in wonder: "What are you?"

"Oh, I am his teacher's granddaughter. He has been missing for many years. My grandfather has been in poor health recently. He always talks about people and things from the past. He feels uncomfortable when he mentions this missing beloved disciple. I want to do something for him, but I come out to find this person."

"So that's the case. You are a filial and good kid, but this person only stayed in our village for three days, and he also chatted with the elderly, went to the back mountain to take a look, and then left."

"Leaving? Someone saw him coming out of the mountain?"

"That's not. His stuff is gone. He has left food coupons for Mr. Li's family who is temporarily living there. Isn't it just leaving?"

If others don’t know or see it, they must not have left during the day. The people in this village have no other place to go. Some people get up at dawn and cook, they are busy in the yard, and some people can’t escape their eyes when they leave the village.

If he walked quietly in the middle of the night, there was no need for this. The mountain road was difficult to walk, and no one would cross the mountains in the middle of the night, unless there was something extremely urgent, but Ye Xiao shouldn't have been so urgent at that time.

The biggest possibility is that he wants to go to the back mountain at night and doesn't want the villagers to know that the villagers couldn't see others the next morning, so naturally they thought he had left the village.

I didn't tell my guess and had lunch with the old man. All her children went out to work. My grandson also went to high school in the county this year. Because I had to live in the school, I didn't come back very much.

The old lady is the only one at home. Fortunately, she is in good health and can work in the fields. There are small vegetable gardens she grows in front of and behind the house.

The old lady kept me enthusiastically and wanted to treat me to supper.

I promised her to come again at night and I would go around the mountains during the day.

It was sunny in the morning and it was sunny in the afternoon. The mountains were suddenly covered with clouds, and all tourists returned to the village. I just deviated from the tourist route and walked into the back mountain with denser plants.

Fifty years have passed, and even if Ye Xiao has been here, he may not be able to find the traces he left in the forest.

There was a rumbling thunder above my head, as if someone was slamming the metal plate on my head, and lightning was like a flash light under the sky. I didn’t know what to look for, but I just walked around casually. It didn’t matter if I was wind, rain, thunder and lightning were all the same. I was even more thunder than the ancestors of Wufeng Village.

I have been living in Wufeng Village for the past few days. Today, the rain came suddenly, and it was time for me to find clues. At first, I didn’t find any rules of lightning. After walking for a while, I found that the tails of lightning in the nearby sky were all aimed in one direction.

It was like a signpost, indicating me to move in a certain direction.

I came to a clearing in the mountains surrounded by short trees. I said it was a short tree, but in fact it was a big broken tree. Delicate branches grew on the remaining trunks, so they looked like small trees.

All the trees around this open space were chopped through. I watched lightning strike the open space and recalled the time I was in the center of the magic circle.

The soil and dead leaves were hit by lightning, leaving burnt pits on the ground.

The heavy rain lasted for about an hour. I knew that electronic devices could not be used in this kind of weather, so I couldn't use my phone to kill time. It was nothing to chop me, and it wouldn't work to break my phone.

The heavy rain turned into light rain, and finally turned into drizzle. I looked at the burnt pit in the open space and found that it was quite round?!

The charred pit formed a circular ring shape. I don’t think it was the magic of nature, so I quickly used a hook and stick to dig the pit on the ground.

Lightning will not appear in the same place repeatedly. Although there are occasional situations, it cannot be many times unless something specifically attracts lightning.

The pits on the ground were filled with fallen leaves, and there was nothing unusual. The blow of lightning made the burnt pit reveal its original appearance. They were originally a pit, and lightning just struck the filled dead leaves and floating soil.

As the number of lightning strikes increases, this pit should be a bigger slash.

After digging an inch deep, I put away the hook and stick, took out a small shovel, dug down about one meter deep, and finally dug something.

There was an iron bowl buried underneath, and there was something else in it, not a metal mixture I had seen in the mud bowl, but a small ball.

I looked at the sky, accelerated my movements, dug all the other eight burnt pits, and dug out all the iron bowls and small balls buried underneath and put them in sealed bags.

As soon as I put the last ball up, a sudden shout came from behind me: "Stop!"

I turned around and saw an old white-bearded man wearing an old-fashioned military green raincoat standing under a tree not far away. He waved his hand and ran towards me quickly.

The pit has been dug and the scene has not been cleaned up yet. I have asked someone to catch it, but what I dug is not an antique cultural relic. Those iron bowls are not too old, they should be something from fifty years ago.

"You, you... who are you? Why are you here? Put things back quickly!" The old man with white bearded blew his beard and stared at me.

"I…"

"What are you? I saw you dig out the things and put them back immediately. Yes, you are going to have a big trouble."

The old man with white beard looked older than the old lady who likes to tell stories. Her teeth were almost gone, and her eyebrows and beard were all white.

"I'm useful to these things." I tried to explain that it was related to finding someone, but the old man didn't give me a chance, interrupted me again, and even came forward to flip through my backpack.

"Wait, uncle, wait for a moment, you can tell me first, what will happen if the things are not put back? Maybe I have a solution." I covered my backpack and took a step back, avoiding the old man's hand.

The old man with white beard refused to say that he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, but he couldn't snatch me. He tried to rush up to grab my backpack several times, but I avoided it.

Before I knew it, I retreated to the center of the Jiao Crack and felt that the ground seemed to be vibrating.

The rain has stopped, and there is no thunder or lightning, so how could the ground be shaken?

However, the tremor quickly disappeared, as if something had turned over underground and fell asleep quickly.

"Oh, you--" The old man with white beard had no choice but to do anything to me. He slapped me twice in anger. He didn't use all his strength, and even slapped behind the shoulder, so I didn't hurt at all.

At this time, a teenager ran over and called grandpa. The boy was born with a terrible head and brain. His two thick eyebrows were twisted into pieces. He thought I was bullying his grandpa, so he rushed up to protect the old man behind him.
Chapter completed!