At six o'clock in the evening, the back gate of Yucheng No. 1 Middle School.
A Santana stopped in front of me and Li Yuan.
Niu Bi rolled down the window.
"Brother Wu, you didn't wait long, did you?"
I waved my hand.
"No. Open the trunk first. Li Yuan has brought his luggage."
…
After getting in the car, I introduced him again.
"Lao Niu, this is Li Fang, Boss Li's cousin, Li Yuan. He is also a classmate of mine at school. I also told you on the phone about the ancestor worship in his hometown."
Li Yuan nodded quickly with respect in his tone.
"Hello, Master Niu."
Niu Bi quickly shook his head.
"No! In front of Brother Wu, how can I call myself a master with my trivial skills? Isn't this a joke? Since you are Brother Wu's classmate, just like him, call me Lao Niu."
this……
Li Yuan was a little overwhelmed and looked horrified at the same time.
"Is Angkor so powerful?"
Niu Bi chuckled.
"Brother Wu is so powerful that ordinary people like you can't imagine it."
I was a little embarrassed and said quickly.
"Lao Niu, please stop flattering me! And Li Yuan, just call me after me... If you're not used to it, you can just call me Uncle Niu."
"Oh, hello, Uncle Niu."
In the end, Li Yuan didn't have the courage to call him "Lao Niu" and followed my suggestion.
Niu Bi asked while driving.
"Brother Wu, can you let my brother show up?"
I said.
"You have to ask Li Yuan... By the way, Li Yuan, are you afraid of ghosts? Good ghosts who won't harm anyone."
ghost? !
Li Yuan didn't know why we suddenly asked so, so he answered cautiously.
"If it's a good ghost... I should, maybe, not be afraid."
As soon as he finished speaking, Niu Deheng's translucent body slowly emerged from the air. And smiled at him.
"Hello, I am Niu Bi's younger brother, Niu Deheng."
Ghost! ! !
Li Yuan shouted, his whole body trembling.
At this time, a voice sounded in everyone's mind again.
"Tsk~ You're too cowardly. Just like a sissy!"
"Who? Who's talking."
Li Yuan was shocked again and again.
Madoka, who was standing in the middle seat in the back row, let out a squeak of disdain.
"Little one, open your eyes and see clearly. It's me, Lord Bird! Right in front of you, the noble, powerful, king of eagles soaring in the sky, I am Lord Bird!"
ah? !
Li Yuan blurted out.
"Aren't you a fat hen? I thought you were the fat hen brought by Brother Wu and Uncle Niu... I thought chickens were needed to conquer the ghosts in my hometown."
I:"……"
Niu Bi: "..."
Niu Deheng: "..."
Madoka: "Damn it! I'll kill you little thing."
Xiao Yuan was so angry that she pecked and scratched Li Yuan crazily with her sharp beak and claws, making him scream.
Of course, Xiao Yuan, this damn fat bird, still knew the severity of the attack - it caused Li Yuan a lot of pain, but he was not injured. Otherwise, no stone can withstand its sharp beak and claws!
Amid Madoka's scolding and Li Yuan's screams, the car drove all the way out of the city...
At that time, the distance from the main urban area of Chongqing to Yunwu Tujia Township in the south of Fengjie County was about 600 kilometers, and most of it was rugged roads - even if expressways and spacious roads were built more than ten or twenty years later, There are still more than 400 kilometers left.
Niu Bi and Niu Deheng drove alternately, and finally arrived at the entrance of Lijiagou at noon the next day.
Li Yuan pointed to a six-foot-wide dirt road on the side of the road that extended toward the mountains.
"Angkor, follow this dirt road and walk about seven or eight kilometers further to reach Lijiagou."
I thought to myself, looking at this distance, it might be even more remote than Wujiacun!
Moreover, Wujia Village is located in the western Chongqing and eastern Sichuan areas, which is a hilly area, basically consisting of hills. Although the mountains are rolling, they are not big in size. Most of them are over a hundred meters high.
But the southern part of Fengjie is a real mountainous area!
The continuous mountains and forests are more than a thousand meters above sea level, or even close to two thousand meters.
To be honest, Li Yuan, his father and uncle were able to come out of this environment and create a career in the main city. It is indeed quite admirable.
Li Yuan sighed.
"Actually, Lijiagou is said to be my hometown, but I'm actually not familiar with it. I was born in the main city, and after I grew up to seven years old, I would come back every year during ancestor worship. Basically, I would just sit in the village for a while. , and then we have to walk a long way to worship our ancestors in the mountains."
Niu Bi looked at the road and said.
"Look at this road surface. It wasn't recently repaired, right?"
That's right!
Li Yuan nodded and told us.
His father and uncle invested a lot of money the year before last and spent a lot of effort to build this small two-meter-wide dirt road leading from the outside world to Lijiagou.
Before that, if the villagers in Lijiagou wanted to come out, they had to walk through the mountains and ridges for a long time on a trail.
This small dirt road is only two meters wide, which greatly facilitates the villagers!
Although I can't drive, I can still ride a motorcycle. If there are no motorcycles, some villagers can ride on oxen, which is much more convenient than climbing over mountains and ridges...
Even if you walk with your legs normally, the time will be several times shorter than walking over the mountains and ridges on a narrow path.
I nodded slightly.
"Your dad and the others are pretty good. This can be considered as repaying your hometown."
In the past two years, the higher authorities have begun to promote the idea of "building roads first if you want to get rich", hoping that transportation levels can be improved in various places.
Therefore, some wealthy people will also spend some money to build roads in their hometowns. It seems that this is the case for Li Yuan's family.
Madoka asked, fluttering her wings on my shoulder a few times.
"Little Lizi, if you keep going along this road, you can reach Lijiagou, right?"
"Yes, Brother Yuan."
Li Yuan quickly answered.
"Then let's go first! I'll wait for you in the village. Why don't I walk slowly with you stupid humans? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
This dead fat bird monster laughed a few times, then jumped into the air from my shoulder with a cooing sound, and flew forward along the dirt road.
Well, without it causing trouble, maybe we could walk faster.
It took about an hour to walk on the seven or eight kilometers of mountain roads.
In fact, if Niu Bi and Li Yuan hadn't been in poor physical condition, it would have been so slow to give them the "paper man borrowing power" spell. If I were alone, even if I didn't borrow any magic and just relied on physical running... I could get there in more than 20 minutes.
At the end of the dirt road, a small village appears in a huge valley.
The surrounding forest is dense, there are birds chirping, and there are even calls of unknown beasts in the distance...
Niu Bidu was a little surprised.
"This is the first time I have seen such a village in the mountains."
Li Yuan explained that his father said that people in this village migrated from the Central Plains hundreds of years ago to avoid the war in the late Ming Dynasty. Hiding in this deep mountain, gradually arrived today.
This is quite normal. There are many villages like this in the south.
In fact, Wujiacun, where I was born, has somewhat similar origins.
I move forward.
"Let's go and check out the situation in the village. Your father and the others are here to worship their ancestors. The villagers who are still in the village must know the situation."
At this time, Madoka also landed from the sky and stood on my shoulders again.
"Boy Wu, I have flown in and observed this village. It looks quite normal, and there are no traces or breath of evil spirits in the village. In other words, this guy's matter should have nothing to do with the village itself. It may be them. What’s wrong with the family’s grave?”
I have also looked at it using Feng Shui techniques. Although there is nothing wrong with the Feng Shui pattern in Lijiagou, it is not very good either.
Just average, quite satisfactory.
This also means that under normal circumstances, relying solely on Lijiagou's Feng Shui, it is unlikely that two rich men would be born at the same time in Li Yuan's father's generation.
Moreover, they happen to be two brothers!
The only explanation can only be that the ancestral graves of the Li family have some unknown secrets...
