I was startled by Li Yuan's sudden move and felt confused.
"What do you mean? If you have something to say, please say it! There is no need to kneel down."
I lifted him up from the ground.
In fact, I have already vaguely guessed a little bit, but he has to explain the details himself...
"Kor Angkor, my dad, my uncle, my cousin, they may have all been captured by ghosts! I am very scared now. Originally, my brother said to find Master Niu, but I think it is more useful to find you. Please help me. Let them."
When Li Yuan spoke, his whole body was trembling, and he had completely lost his usual playboy look.
I patted his shoulder, and at the same time quietly injected a ray of Qi into his body, which calmed his mind and calmed his mind. Then tell him.
"Li Yuan, don't be anxious. Speak slowly and tell me the ins and outs of the whole thing in detail. Only after I understand the situation at hand can I know how to save your father and the others."
To be honest, although Li Yuan is a playboy, he still caused trouble for me before. But I had come back with a fierce revenge, and if his brother Li Fang hadn’t introduced Niu Bi to me, I would never have had the chance to partner with Niu Bi.
When it comes to life and death matters, it doesn't matter if you help.
"That's it, Angkor. A week ago, my dad and uncle said they wanted to go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors..."
Li Yuan told me everything in detail.
His hometown was originally Fengjie.
Fengjie County is located in the southeastern region of Chongqing, bordering Enshi, Hubei Province. It has a typical mountainous landform. The mountains are undulating and the ravines are crisscrossed.
The area above one thousand meters above sea level occupies nearly 90% of the county. The forest coverage rate is very high! The natural environment is very good.
But if you put it another way...the economy is relatively backward.
So in the 1980s, Li Yuan's father and his uncle brought their family from Fengjie to the main city to work hard for development. Over the years, I have finally found a way and made some achievements.
When he left Fengjie, Li Fang was almost ten years old, but Li Yuan was not born yet.
Therefore, his impression of his hometown is relatively lacking.
Only when my family's business gets better and better and I get richer, will I go there more frequently - after all, Chinese people are very particular about "returning home in rich clothes".
Li Yuan's hometown is in a place called "Lijiagou" in the mountainous area south of Fengjie.
Generally in the Sichuan and Chongqing area, villages with the word "gou" in them are obviously located in valleys where several small mountains meet.
Li Yuan was actually born in the urban area and can be considered a standard city dweller. And he is still a "rich second generation".
So every time I went back to Lijiagou, I was exhausted.
What troubles him the most is ancestor worship!
Lijiagou is already remote, but the graves of the Li family ancestors are even more remote. Starting from the village, you still have to walk half an hour on a mountain road. Li Yuan often has blisters on his feet before he can get there...
Along the way, you have to cut the grass with a sickle to clear the way. Sometimes the thatch grows much longer, and it is easy to cut your face and hands, leaving bloody marks.
But ancestor worship was a top priority for the Li family, and he didn't dare say not to go.
This year, it’s time to worship our ancestors again!
This is also a strange time for the Li family to return to Fengjie to worship their ancestors. It turns out that it is neither the Qingming Festival, which is common across the country, nor around the Spring Festival, which is common in Sichuan and Chongqing, but in May.
After all, Li Yuan is sixteen or seventeen years old, and he is almost an adult. Naturally, I was curious about this matter. I asked my cousin Li Fang once, but the other party hesitated and didn't explain clearly.
Li Yuan was not originally a person who wanted to know the truth, not to mention that he didn't think this matter was important. Anyway, he just went back once a year and followed the elders' instructions.
Unexpectedly, this year seems to be a little different...
About half a month ago, one night.
Li Yuan got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and found his father talking on the phone in the living room. Out of curiosity, he hid in the distance and eavesdropped for a while.
Li Yuan's father seemed a little anxious and spoke in a hurry. He told the other party on the phone that he must be careful when worshiping ancestors this year. If something went wrong, it would be over. Moreover, the matter of moving the tomb must be put on the agenda and cannot be delayed any longer...
After listening to a few words, Li Yuan knew that his father should be talking to his uncle on the phone.
It's just that he didn't understand why he chose to beat him secretly in the living room in the middle of the night without telling his mother?
Although the Li family does not include female relatives in ancestor worship, Li Yuan's father would not deliberately hide some related matters from his wife.
He originally wanted to eavesdrop a little longer, but his father Li Youde had already stood up and was walking around the living room talking.
Li Yuan was worried about being discovered again, so he could only go back to the house to sleep.
What happened that night has always made him a little curious, but Li Youde has always been strict with his son, so Li Yuan didn't dare to ask more - otherwise, knowing that he eavesdropped on the phone that night and didn't come out, he would definitely be scolded or beaten. .
That's it, a week ago.
Li Youde is going back to his hometown in Fengjie from the main city to worship his ancestors.
According to usual practice, he would come forward and tell the school in person, asking Li Yuan to take a few days off from the school and return to Fengjie Lijiagou together.
But this time, something has changed!
Because Li Youde actually told Li Yuan that he did not need to take leave to go back to his hometown during this year's Lijiagou ancestor worship ceremony. He could just stay in Chongqing and continue to go to school.
Just Li Youde, his eldest brother, and Li Fang, the three of them can go back.
Li Yuan felt strange and abnormal, so he asked his father what was going on.
But Li Youde just said it was okay and told him to leave it alone and just follow the family's arrangements. And he asked him back, saying that he had never liked worshiping ancestors. Aren't you happy that you don't have to go back this time?
That being said, it’s true…
But this year's ancestor worship was full of weirdness, which made Li Yuan both curious and inexplicably uneasy.
Intimidated by his father's authority, he did not dare to say anything.
So Li Yuan secretly went to his cousin Li Fang to ask.
