Chapter 9 The Secret of Cao Village!
The words "Caocun" made everyone stunned.
These people are all writing novels, and now it is an extraordinary period. When you see the word "Cao", you immediately think of the person in your heart: Cao Mao!
"Can this village have something to do with Cao Mao?" Qian Lin said: "If this is the case, our luck would be great!"
Wu Xiaojun smiled and said, "Even if this village has nothing to do with Cao Mao, we can transport this big stone back, and maybe we can sell it for a good price!"
"Fatty, you really treat yourself as a tomb robber! You are also playing with buying and selling antiques and cultural relics in the country!" Li Ting slapped him again, asking Wu Xiaojun to hide, but he slapped him in vain.
"It's two o'clock now, let's take a break!" Guo Hui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm really tired, I have to supplement some nutrition!"
Everyone sat on the ground, took out some snacks and water, and ate for a while. Because they were afraid that the sky would get darker, they hurriedly got up and set off again.
Walking further forward, the terrain became lower and lower again. After walking for about an hour, the road became narrower and narrower, and both sides were blocked by high mountains on both sides, just like a "line of the sky". Everyone could only follow one person in a row. Fortunately, there was no danger on the road, otherwise it would be a bit troublesome.
After walking for half an hour, the road began to gradually become smooth and wide. Slowly, a wide road appeared at everyone's feet. After walking forward for more than ten minutes, a small village suddenly appeared in front of everyone!
"I really didn't expect that Cao Village is so far away from that stele of characters!" Xiao Jingwen grabbed her waist with both hands and smiled bitterly: "I thought it was coming soon!"
Wu Xiaojun smiled and said, "Let's go! Enter the village! I'll eat hot rice and big meat at night!"
Everyone entered the village with laughter, but found that all the villagers passing by were looking at them with a strange look. Of course, Xiao Jingwen and the others also looked at each other with the same look: These people are so special! They were wearing the coarse cloth clothes from decades ago, with no accessories on their bodies, and their faces were all waxy. You could tell they were malnourished at a glance.
After walking a few steps into the village, a middle-aged man in his fifties rushed over with a look of surprise and stopped everyone: "You! Who are you? Why did you come here? How did you come to our village?!"
Qian Lin and Wu Xiaojun were about to talk, but the man reached out to them to stop talking, waved his hand, and asked them to follow him.
Everyone looked at each other, but hurriedly followed the middle-aged man to turn a few turns on the street and walked into a relatively large brick and tile house. The village has a somewhat ancient appearance, and it can be said that it is too poor. Most people still live in thatched houses or turban houses. There are only a few brick and tile houses that look pretty, located in the center of the village.
There was nothing in the room, a bed, a table, and there was nothing big anymore.
The middle-aged man greeted a young man to bring some small stools for everyone and let everyone sit down.
"My name is Cao Feiyun. I am the only person in this village who has been to the outside world. What about you? Why did you come to our Cao Village?" The middle-aged man named Cao Feiyun was still surprised: "We have not been here for many years!"
Wu Xiaojun glanced at Qian Lin: "We went out for a trip, but I didn't expect to walk here from the Yellow River!"
"Really?" Cao Feiyun looked at everyone with some doubts: "This place is not that easy to find!"
Qian Lin nodded slightly: "Yes, it's a coincidence, but we do have some secrets. We are all colleagues, but recently many people have died inexplicably, and their deaths are all related to the clay sculptures in their novels! And these all point to a place, the ancient city of Luoyang! In other novels, we are connected to Cao Mao, so Cao Mao in Luoyang has become the place we are looking for!"
After hearing these words, Cao Feiyun was stunned: "Cao Mao?! What exactly are you going to do?!"
Qian Lin had a general understanding in his heart that this Cao Village is definitely related to the Cao Wei family. If he could tell the truth from the beginning, he might win the favor of these people! Besides, he is almost a dying person, and lying is useless and meaningless.
"We don't know what we are going to do!" Xiao Jingwen took over the topic. She didn't want these people to know about the Miao Village: "It's just that we will always encounter some clues by chance. Following these clues, we came to Caocun."
Cao Feiyun frowned and said, "Well, you are still telling the truth, so you can stay here now!"
After saying that, Cao Feiyun got up and wanted to go out, but Wu Xiaojun, who had not spoken, stopped him: "Hey! Brother Cao, don't leave! You have to tell us about your affairs here!"
Cao Feiyun turned around and looked at everyone, suddenly smiled slightly, turned around and sat down: "Okay! Our Cao Village is indeed the one that appeared after the death of his ancestor Cao Mao. After Cao Mao's death, Sima Zhao summoned many descendants of Cao Wei across the country. These descendants were all sub-branches of Cao Wei. After several generations, although their surname was Cao, their blood relationship was not that deep."
"Why are you looking for?" Wu Xiaojun asked.
Cao Feiyun's face returned to a serious state, and his face always made people feel a state of surprise: "We don't know. But from that time on, there were this Cao Village, and few people could find this place. Only the village chief in every generation of Cao Village can go out and see the outside world!"
As he said that, Cao Feiyun stood up and pointed out the window: "Look, there are not many people who are sick now. This Cao village has existed for more than a thousand years and is about to disappear..."
Everyone also stood up and looked out the window. Indeed, few people in this village can see healthy people now. The long-term marriage and childbirth in the village have made these people more and more sick, their lifespans are getting shorter and smaller, and the number of people is getting smaller and smaller.
"Why did Sima Zhao let you stay here? You won't let go out!" Wu Xiaojun looked at Cao Feiyun with his small eyes open and asked, "Do you want to protect something here?"
Cao Feiyun looked at Wu Xiaojun and smiled: "I said it, I don't know... Come with me, I found a room for you, you will stay today, but I will tell you, our Cao Village does not welcome you! You stay here for one night, and leave tomorrow!" As he said that, he waved his hand and asked everyone to come with him.
After coming out of the brick and tile house, Cao Feiyun took everyone around and walked to another street in the village, and opened a courtyard where no one lived: "You go in, there are some cooking guys inside, don't walk around in the village. Don't blame me for anything happening! You can leave tomorrow morning!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Everyone looked at each other and walked into this house that was unlimited with a wry smile.
There was some dust in the house. After cleaning it, several people found a place to sit down: there was nothing in the room. The guy Cao Feiyun mentioned was just a few small pots, which seemed shabby in the dark room.
"I thought I had big meat to eat! This is fine, I can't even drink hot water!" Wu Xiaojun sat on the bed like Maitreya Buddha, squinted his small eyes and looked at the dark room, and said a little decadently.
"You guys say, does this Cao Feiyun really know nothing?!" Li Ting continued: "I think that Cao Mao's tomb must be here! Otherwise, how could Sima Zhao let this group of people watch here!"
"If you have a secret in your heart, it is still a secret that concerns your life and death, will you tell others? Still a stranger!" Xiao Jingwen said: "This Cao Feiyun must know the secret of the Cao Wei clan, but we can only find where it is!"
Qian Lin smiled bitterly: "It's six o'clock in the afternoon now, and it's only one night to find this secret! If we can't find it tomorrow morning, we have to leave!"
Wu Xiaojun suddenly smiled and said, "I can guess where that tomb is!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this: "Do you know? How do you know?!"
"I guess! According to Feng Shui!" Wu Xiaojun said seriously: "I don't understand! But that's what I think. When I entered the village just now, I paid special attention. This village is a circle, one ring after another, and each ring is intertwined, with three to four streets in the middle, and this place is a small mountain village among mountains. I think it should be in the middle!"
"Isn't this the same as not saying it!" Guo Hui smiled and said, "I'll guess it like this if I'm a person!"
"Wait!" Qian Lin suddenly interrupted, "If you say the middle, I have noticed that the middle of this village is the place where we just talked to the village chief Cao Feiyun!"
"Yes, that room!" Wu Xiaojun said to Guo Hui: "You didn't look closely, but I looked carefully! That room is the only house in this village without a courtyard. Isn't it very strange?"
Li Ting whispered: "Then why did Cao Feiyun bring us there? Could it be that he did it on purpose and gave us a clue?!"
"It's very likely!" Wu Xiaojun said: "Don't this happening in this series of things! Then let's eat something casually, and when it gets dark, we'll go!"
Everyone had no objection. Seeing that the sky was getting darker outside, there was only a kerosene lamp in the house that I had not used for a long time, everyone simply stopped lighting the lamp and ate some food in the dark. When it was dark outside and there were no people on the street, they took the prepared ropes, knives and other things and quietly walked out of the door and walked to the house in the middle of the village in the dark.
Wu Xiaojun and Qian Lin walked in the front, with Xiao Jingwen and Li Ting in the middle, Guo Hui and Ge Shichao cut off the back. The six people walked to the door and were about to push open the door, but they heard a man's voice coming from inside: "It should be here, look around!"
Chapter completed!