At that moment, Ning Qiushui felt a constant chill on her back.
He vaguely felt that something terrible might have happened in the village during the severe drought that year...
While Ning and Bai were observing the portrait carefully, Liu Chengfeng came to the side and checked the annotations on the portrait.
"Sure enough, it's a severe drought... Hey, come and see!"
Liu Chengfeng seemed to have discovered something, his expression changed, and he shouted to the two people next to the portrait.
The two came over immediately, and when they saw the direction of Liu Chengfeng's finger, they were stunned.
There... a new name actually appeared.
Guang Xiu.
"Your surname is Guang? Could it be related to Guangchuan?"
Ning Qiushui's eyes brightened and she quickly browsed the annotations of this picture.
The annotation roughly means——
About 120 years ago, there was a severe drought in Qiyu Village for three years. The streams dried up. Not only did the crops fail, but even the flowers, plants and trees on the mountains were completely dead.
At that time, the entire village's water supply relied on an ancient well dug by predecessors.
But the severe drought was followed by famine. Seeing more and more people starving to death in the village, some villagers went to the home of Wai Guangxiu, the only member of the village at that time, hoping to borrow some surplus grain from Guangxiu. eat.
But after those people left, they never came back.
The other villagers noticed something strange, so they quietly went outside Guangxiu's house and lay on the wall. They discovered that Guangxiu had killed the villagers who came to borrow food from their house, chopped it up and fed it to the dogs!
After this incident was exposed, the whole village was furious!
Led by a middle-aged man named Ruan Kaihuang, the villagers broke into Guang Xiu's home and chopped Guang Xiu into pieces on the spot. His wife and children were imprisoned in Yanyu Temple.
The Yanyu Temple is a rain-seeking temple built by Guangxiu by collecting the property of the whole village. The villagers offer tributes every year and pray to the land for good weather every year.
But in fact, that temple was just a means for Guang Xiu to make money.
Strangely enough, it rained the night Guangxiu was chopped into pieces.
The Yanyu Temple was struck by lightning and caught fire.
Someone saw that instead of extinguishing the fire under the heavy rain, it burned more and more fiercely. So Guangxiu's wife and children were burned to death in the Yanyu Temple.
The villagers all said that this was God's opening of eyes, and the evildoers were punished by God.
Finally, under the leadership of Ruan Kaihuang, the villagers gradually returned to a stable life.
In order to commemorate Ruan Kaihuang's contribution to Qiyu Village, later generations cast a miniature version of his portrait in gold and built an ancestral hall.
The above is the entire content of the annotation.
"It seems that the person holding the sickle in the painting is Ruan Kaihuang, and the people tied on the ground are Guangxiu and his wife and children."
"If you say so..."
Ning Qiushui immediately took out the tablet in his hand, looked at the word Guangchuan on it, and said with excitement:
"Guangchuan... could he be the son of Guangxiu who was burned to death?"
Bai Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement.
"Most likely so."
As she spoke, she seemed to have discovered something, and said "Huh" in her mouth. She walked up to the annotation, looked up and down, and took out a small flashlight from her body to shine it. Her voice suddenly became serious. Quite a few:
"There is something behind this comment!"
When Ning and Liu heard this, they immediately came forward.
"what?"
The light in Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes flickered.
"I don't know, but there is a large space in the wall behind the annotation."
"You...get out of the way first."
The two knew what she was going to do, Liu Chengfeng glared and stopped him:
"Sister Bai, don't mess around. Didn't the old man who swept the floor say that things here can't be touched?"
Bai Xiaoxiao said calmly:
"Don't worry, I know what's going on."
Seeing that she insisted on doing this, they both took a few steps back. Bai Xiaoxiao was not polite at all. She took out a few coins from her pocket. She picked a coin from it and fiddled with the annotation box for a while. The screws on it It was unscrewed!
"Damn it, you can still tighten screws like this!"
Liu Chengfeng was dumbfounded.
As the screws on the annotation box were unscrewed, Bai Xiaoxiao carefully took off the annotation. As expected, there was a large inward groove on the wall behind!
The terrifying sight inside the groove made the three of them freeze on the spot!
I saw two extremely twisted corpses squeezed into that small groove!
This groove is about a 50*50*50cm cube. It is hard to imagine how such a groove can accommodate the bodies of two adults!
The expressions of the two corpses were extremely horrified, as if they had seen something terrible before they died. They were entangled with each other, and their two pale faces were staring out of the groove...
"It's them?!"
Ning Qiushui secretly shouted.
The two looked at him.
"Brother, do you know them?"
Ning Qiushui nodded and replied:
"Do you still remember what the old man sweeping the floor said just now? Two tourists came to this place between 8 and 9 o'clock last night..."
"I just entered the Blood Gate yesterday and gathered in the open space. Although I didn't see everyone's faces clearly, I can roughly remember their clothes. These two people are just like us, both from outside the Blood Gate!"
"I was curious this morning. Why were there three missing among us when there was only one body in the open space outside?"
"Now it seems...the other two missing people are here!"
As Ning Qiushui finished speaking, Liu Chengfeng swallowed:
"You think...what turned them into what they are now?"
Both fell silent.
Theoretically, it is impossible for humans to do this.
At least it was impossible to knead two corpses into dough and stuff them into such a small space without seeing blood!
So...what exactly is it?
Just when the three of them were silent, a voice that made their scalps tingle suddenly came from behind them!
"Didn't I tell you... not to touch anything in the ancestral hall?"
"you……"
"Why don't you listen..."
pS: There is one more update, I will post it later.
