Just after taking a few steps towards the village, the black girl in Xiao Yi's arms screamed loudly and turned her head to look towards the village entrance.
Yi Xiaochuan also frowned slightly, and retreated to the entrance of the village with the big black and white cat in his arms. Not far from the parking lot, there stood a stone lion.
In Otogawa's impression, this stone lion seemed to have stood here when he was a child.
If you ask the old people, it seems that this stone lion was carved by a stonemason after the earliest group of Han clan members settled here and reclaimed the mountain land. It has been placed at the entrance of the village for more than two hundred years.
Due to erosion from wind and rain, and the fact that it was originally carved from ordinary granite, a layer of corrosion has occurred on it, and it no longer looks as majestic and domineering as it once did.
Stone lions should be stood in pairs no matter where they are, but in Xiaoyi's memory, there has always been only one standing at the entrance of the village.
In Feng Shui, apart from being asymmetrical and ugly, a single lion also has some very bad taboos.
In fact, stone lions should be in pairs since ancient times. If one lion is not there, the other lion will have no intention of guarding the house, and it will not achieve the effect of warding off evil spirits. Instead, it will cause the lone lion to roar and bring unrest to the home.
Hei Nuo jumped on the ground and faced the stone lion with her hair standing on end.
Xiao Yi's eyes were slightly closed, and when he opened them, they had turned grayish white.
In front of me, the stone lion has disappeared, and a male lion is lying in front of me, confronting Hei Niu...
"Is this the power of faith, the protection of our ancestors? Why is there only one lion? Where is the other one?"
"Xiao Yi, you're here!"
An old voice came from the village, and the old uncle came over from the village. He was a little old man in his seventies, with a hunched back, but still very strong. He was a lonely old man and a family member of a martyr. He had a son, but he died on the Laoshan front in that border war.
"Uncle..." When Xiao Yi turned his head, his eyes had returned to normal.
"What's wrong with this lion? I've been watching you for a long time."
"Uncle, there is a stone lion over here." Xiao Yi was thinking about the theft of his parents' ashes. He didn't want to waste too much time on this stone lion, so he got straight to the point and got to the point.
“The lions over here!” The old uncle thought for a moment and said, “It was in 1967 or 1968. During those years, the young soldiers with red armbands were going to take these two lions to fill the manure pit. They loaded the lion on the right first, but before they had walked ten meters… Look, next to that small pond, the lion fell over, crushing a leader to death, smashing his head, and the stone lion also rolled to the bottom of the pond. No one dared to salvage it in those years, and it must have sunk to the bottom of the mud. It’s been almost fifty years now!”
Yi Xiaochuan didn't expect this to happen. That scene must have been very exciting! At that time, the spiritual energy had not yet revived, and the stone lions had no spiritual meaning. Could it be that there was a destiny at work
Cities have their advantages, and rural areas have their strengths. The protection of ancestors should be able to protect the village from being harmed by evil spirits.
After looking at the mountain and the water veins, Xiao Yi calculated with his fingers and said solemnly to the old man: "Uncle, your words carry some weight. Ask the village captain to arrange for someone to salvage the stone lion and put it back in its original position..."
"Well, what do you have to say?"
The old uncle looked at Xiao Yi, who was counting on his fingers and looking at the terrain like a Feng Shui master, and was a little confused.
According to the younger generations in the village, the boy from the Yi family has become a great professor!
No one in the world has figured out what "Brother's Guess" is, but Xiao Yizi figured it out, which is amazing.
Just like back then, when Brother Yi came to the village to teach, he was very knowledgeable and was like the God of Literature from heaven.
Many people who are officials now were all students of Brother Yi in the past.
"Old uncle, you are right to listen to me. As long as the lion is here, we can get the protection of the Han ancestors! Now that the spiritual energy is revived, we must be scientific and idealistic. Foreigners believe in religion, and Chinese people believe in their ancestors. This is a truth, and both can get the protection of the gods."
"Is there such a thing? Some people in the village heard roars at night and were too scared to go out. Now the people in the village are in a panic. I heard what you said. Fortunately, there is the ancestral hall. The Hebian Group has a variety of surnames and no ancestral hall, but there have been several ghost incidents and people have died. Wait a minute, I'll go call the captain..."
Just as Xiao Yi was waiting, two police cars drove up on the village's cement road, and seven people came down with real guns and live ammunition.
"Hello, Mr. Otokogawa. I am Zhang Han from the Chicheng Emergency Response Team. I am a Sequence 9 warrior. I am here with my colleagues to protect your safety."
"Oh, thank you for your hard work!" Xiao Yi did not refuse. It was of course good to have a younger brother.
If I wasn't in a hurry and it was a private matter, I would definitely call Lao Liu.
Unfortunately, Jiangcheng is also very busy now. Lao Liu really wants to come, but he can't leave. After all, he is a registered ghost messenger of the state and has to accept deployment.
At this time, a group of people came trotting out of the village.
There are both men and women, but most of them are old people. There are few young and strong people in their twenties and thirties. Even if the spiritual energy has been revived, they still need to eat and work, so it is normal for them to go out to work and not be at home.
They are all familiar faces, after all, Xiao Yi comes here three times a year.
He looked at Xiao Yi first, but finally his eyes fell on the several fully armed policemen.
"Officer, what's up?"
The awakened person named Zhang Han was also puzzled when he saw the villagers gradually gathering with hoes, shovels and shoulder poles. They all reached out for the weapons involuntarily.
"What are you doing? Are you in any danger?"
Xiao Yi immediately explained: "It's okay, don't get me wrong, there is a stone lion that has sunk to the bottom of the pond, and they are going to have someone drain the water and fish it out!"
"Oh, Xiaochuan! I heard that you are doing well in Jiangcheng! I even saw you on the 7 o'clock news..."
"Are you really going to give me 300,000 for solving a problem?"
"Xiao Yi, you also grew up in the village. Can you talk to the higher-ups and ask them to take care of the village? Last time a wild boar came down from the mountain and injured seven or eight people, we have to equip the village with a few guns. Several retired soldiers have settled in the city and are now preparing to come back. If we have guns, we will feel at ease..."
"Uncle Xiaoyi, I want to apply to South Anhui University of Technology in the future!"
"Ahem, shut up. Xiaoyi, Uncle Jiefang asked us to salvage the stone lions. Are you sure it will work?"
"Let's see whether it's useful or not after we salvage it. Even if it's useless, it's good in terms of Feng Shui if it's complete. Uncle, I'll go up the mountain first, you guys are busy... By the way, Captain Zhang, please arrange a few people to watch over it! I'm going to my parents' grave..." Xiao Yi said.
"Okay, go ahead! Those tomb robbers who were struck by lightning were really bold and reckless. They caught me and cut me into pieces..."
Xiao Yi nodded and walked straight through the village...