Chapter 351 Dragon King Temple
Everyone's curiosity was aroused by Miao Ji, and they all put down their chopsticks, stopped eating, and just stared at him.
“What’s wrong?” Li urged anxiously.
Miao Ji stood up, talking and gesticulating, "For example, this area is the mountain that was excavated, and next to the stream is the Dragon King Temple. A circle of ditches was dug around the Dragon King Temple to divert water, and the stream flows from top to bottom. When we get here, we are forced to change the route. We first go around the Dragon King Temple and then continue downstream. Do you think there is something wrong with this? "
Li Shi nodded repeatedly, "Indeed! And they said they were from the government. Which government would do such a stupid thing!"
Miao Ji patted his thigh, "No! If we weren't locals, we wouldn't have been able to see that the stream had been changed.
In the past, I guess there were people guarding it, cleaning up the mud and removing the stone blockage, and everything was fine.
I don’t know what’s going on. All the people who dug the mountain in the past two years have disappeared. The government has sealed the mountain so that no one can touch it. No one cares about the Dragon King Temple anymore. Maybe the mud and rocks fell and blocked the ditch. We found that The ditch surrounding the Dragon King Temple was cut off in the middle, and the entire stream poured directly into the hollowed-out mountain. It was not known how deep the mountain was, and water could not be filled even if the water was poured into it. I don’t know if this has anything to do with the drop in water levels here. "
Old man Yang stood up suddenly, with an excited look on his face, "It does matter! It's most likely the Dragon King Temple you mentioned that caused the trouble! Good boy, I'm so grateful to have met you today, otherwise we would still be thinking about it, and we wouldn't know how to find the Year of the Monkey, the Horse and the Moon. Only then can we find the Dragon King Temple.”
Miao Ji did not expect that he would be able to help if he came here today, so he was both happy and fortunate.
The next day before dawn, Old Man Yang asked Yang Laosan to take Miao Ji to the workshop to pull bricks and tiles. He ran to the village chief and told him the situation.
The village chief directly called Yang Yong, Yang Jun, Yang Han and others, and almost a dozen people went back with Miao Ji.
Because there were so many people there, everyone helped Miao Ji pull two carts of bricks and tiles.
Miao Ji was flattered.
Miao Village is really in a very deep mountainous place, even more mountainous than Pingshan Valley. The oxcart cannot move halfway, and the bricks and tiles have to be carried in manually.
Yang Laosan and others' minds were buzzing. In order to find out the truth, they had to bite the bullet and go into the mountain.
This time, they feel that the hardships they suffered in the first half of their lives are nothing.
Looking at the two people who were leading them, everyone felt a little bit bitter in their hearts, and they continued to help them deliver their things to Miao Village.
As soon as a few people appeared outside the Miao Village, people from the village came out to help them.
When the village owner learned that Yang Laosan and the others were selling bricks and tiles and checking out the Dragon King Temple, his attitude suddenly became much more enthusiastic, and he even asked a middle-aged man from Miao Kang to personally lead them there.
The place leading to the Dragon King Temple was overgrown with thorns. Miao Kang, speaking in a strong mountain voice, took a machete and chopped a few branches while walking, and said: "The Dragon King Temple is so strange. It has everything, but no one worships it. I don’t know what those people are doing.”
Yang Han asked expressionlessly: "How do you know no one is worshiping you? Didn't the village owner just say that you have been working under those people for more than ten years?"
Miao Kang grinned, showing his big yellow teeth, "I did work there for a long time, but we could only dig mountains, and we couldn't go anywhere else. We even ate, drank, and defecated in the cave. We could only go home during the Spring Festival every year. Two days later, I have to go back to work. I haven’t been to the Dragon King Temple in the past ten years. I didn’t find this out until I took someone in to check it out recently. The temple is not big, and the incense burner on the altar table is empty and there is nothing. "
Originally, they wanted to take the opportunity to pick up some cheap ones, but the result was so disappointing. While talking, the group saw the shadow of the Dragon King Temple.
Miao Kang pointed to the Dragon King Temple and said, "We have to go around. The road here is flooded."
When they arrived at the Dragon King Temple, they discovered that it was exactly what Miao Kang said. The palm-sized temple was empty and empty. It seemed that everything was weird, but there was nothing wrong with it.
Yang Laosan reached out and touched the most conspicuous incense burner and wiped it with his big hand. He used too much force and accidentally touched the mechanism of the secret door. A large hole suddenly opened under the altar. Everyone was dumbfounded. .
Only Yang Han looked normal and said calmly: "Report to the official!"
—
Xie Yucheng has been very melancholy recently. He can't figure out which **** he has offended. He was about to be promoted, but something went wrong at this moment.
It was the Chinese New Year, and all the officials in the county government were on vacation. He bit the bullet and asked Dong Ze to call Gao Yong and Niu Yiwu to Miaojiazhai.
Gao Yong and others were about to set off when they saw Xie Yucheng getting into the carriage with a face.
“Sir, are you going too?” Gao Yong asked.
Xie Yucheng depressedly opened the car curtain and let out a long sigh of relief, "I don't want to go, but my eyelids keep twitching and I always feel like something is going to happen again. Can I not go?"
"Bah, bah, bah! Sir, you don't want to say these unlucky words during the Chinese New Year!" Niu Yiwu's expression was hard to describe.
Xie Yucheng sneered and said: "You are a writer and you still believe in ghosts and gods! Come on, stop talking nonsense!"
The group of people hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly arrived at the Dragon King Temple, only to find that many people had already gathered here, including people from Rongshu Village and Miaojiazhai.
It seems that human nature is the same, and they will join in wherever there is excitement.
Dong Ze pushed aside the crowd and opened a path for Xie Yucheng. Standing outside the Dragon King Temple, the group could see the dark and bottomless hole under the altar.
“Has anyone been down there?” Gao Yong asked after looking around.
Everyone shook their heads.
Niu Yiwu took a deep breath and consciously asked his brothers to prepare the tools for going down the hole.
The first time the four people went down, they all eagerly waited for news on the shore. Almost two hours later, Niu Yiwu became disgraced. He came to Xie Yucheng angrily under everyone's gaze and reported: "Sir, Jia Pengju That turtle grandson was so cunning that he was smelting ore under the Dragon King Temple. Everything was sealed in boxes, and the boxes were all packed inside. No wonder the imperial court sent so many people but couldn't find it!
In addition, my subordinates suspected that there were many traps set up below. Ordinary people would die if they went down there. My subordinates did not dare to touch them. They only took a general look and came up. "
Several old officials who came up behind Niu Yiwu nodded in agreement, "There is indeed an agency, and it should be a huge group of agencies. There are even barrel mines, so that the water is not enough to fill them. This situation is very abnormal. Sir, I think you need to report it. The court is waiting for the emperor to decide, but we can’t do it.”
Who would have thought that there is something else going on beneath an inconspicuous Dragon King Temple? Even Huang Zhengyang and the others did not suspect that there was something wrong with the Dragon King Temple even after several visits.
Xie Yucheng's expression was extremely serious for a moment, his sharp eyes swept over everyone present, and he ordered sternly: "Come here, seal this place for me, and no one else can come near!"