Mantra

Chapter 192 Chapter 42: Photo Details

One photograph in the American expedition files quickly caught my attention.

That photo was taken by Jonson before he set off to search for Helanbo City, and the shooting location was at the Temple of the King of Medicine we were about to visit.

In the photo, with the eaves of the temple gate as the background, Qiao Enxun was wearing a British gentleman's sportswear and riding boots, riding a tall horse, standing in the middle of the crowd, bending over and smiling, it was the moment of high spirits.

In stark contrast to him, the seven Chinese woodcutters under him were all ragged, dark-skinned, old or weak, showing the face of China in decline at that time.

The reason why I find this photo interesting is because I found some details on the temple behind Jonson.

There are circular patterns on the tiles on the eaves of the temple. Although I can't see the patterns clearly because of the pixels, I still feel very familiar with them.

I don't know why, but I feel that the pattern on the tile house is very similar to the draft of the old monitor's Miaojiang Goddess Flower.

Out of curiosity, I enlarged the photo to the maximum, then took out my monitor's notebook, and compared the two carefully.

After a long time, I am sure that the pattern of the tile in this photo is [-]% similar to the Mianjiang Goddess Flower, and also somewhat similar to the fuzzy pattern on the kitchen knife bestowed by the Zhao family.

Excited, I hurriedly told Hongye about this amazing discovery.

Facing my excitement, Hongye just smiled lightly and said, "When we get to the temple, let's take a closer look."

Hearing this, I nodded and put away the tablet.Quietly looking forward to the next journey.

The village where the Yaowang Temple is located is called "Furongchuan Xuerong Village", and the specific location is in Dalou Mountain in the northwest of ZY City.

I have to say, that place is really hard to find.After we arrived in the urban area of ​​ZY, we walked along the winding provincial roads and simple mountain roads for another day, and we barely reached the remote "Xuerong Village" until evening.

After getting off the car, I looked at the dimming sunlight and the hazy villages, and immediately realized that the best time for observation had passed.

Therefore, I suggest that you find a place to sleep first, and it is not too late to go to the Yaowang Temple tomorrow to find out.

Although Hongye is excited, she can't be blind to the facts, so everyone thinks it's better to go to Xuerong Village and find a place to live.

So we parked three cars at the entrance of the village and let the brothers Agou and Amao from Thailand look after the house, while we followed Lin Shaosong and Golden Fleece into this strange Miao Village.

After entering, I suddenly felt something was wrong.

This stockade is not big, and the buildings are all brick and tile buildings, with no ethnic characteristics. If the cow dung is ignored, the streets are still clean.

But I always feel that this village is lifeless.

The reason for this feeling is that occasionally when a villager passes by us, they will look at us with strange eyes. Before we can ask anything, the villagers will hide like seeing a plague god. Children quietly threw stones at us.

And when the last bit of the sun disappeared from the sky, the only trace of vitality disappeared completely.

It seems... they don't welcome outsiders very much.

Facing such an embarrassing situation, Lin Shaosong was calm and composed, and he knocked on the wooden door of a family of Miao people casually.

After half a sound, the door opened a crack, and then a pair of vigilant eyes looked out.

Facing the other party's unkind eyes, Lin Shaosong immediately handed over a hundred-yuan bill, and then said confidently, "Brother, can you do me a favor? Is it okay to stay for one night?"

The man showed two beady eyes and didn't take the money.

Facing the vigilance and hostility of the villagers, I thought Young Master Lin would give up, but at this moment, Young Master Lin sneered again, put away the hundred-yuan bills, and took out a green knife.

Lin Shaosong stuffed the dollars into the villagers again and said, "Is it okay this time? We will only stay for one night."

Looking at the dollars, the villagers suddenly opened the door a little wider, then reached out and snatched the banknotes from Lin Shaosong.

After Lin Shaosong was robbed of tickets by the villagers, instead of being angry, he turned his head proudly and said to us: "See! Who would have a grudge against money?"

But when Lin Shaosong was complacent and was about to enter the villager's house, the villager suddenly threw the dollar back in Lin Shaosong's face, and at the same time slammed the door hard.

Under Lin Shaosong's surprised and angry eyes, the doors of the villagers in Xuerong Village were not being opened, and the people inside just cursed "Get lost" bluntly, without saying a word.

Young Master Lin, who hit the nail, was in a very bad mood. He scolded "Baga!~" and turned around, saying to us in embarrassment: "It's okay, let's change another house, someone will always let me stay."

While Lin Shaosong was speaking, Hongye, who hadn’t said a word, suddenly came over. Without saying a word, she picked up the dollar that was thrown on the ground by the villagers, and showed it to us.

In the display of Hongye, we found that the "human head" painted on the dollar had been smashed by the villagers, and the eyes and mouth of the head on the hundred-dollar bill were smashed by the villagers, leaving only three The empty hole swayed slightly in the wind.

Each of us fell silent.

I don't know why the villagers poked the heads of people on the coins, but in my opinion, it's more like a ritual or a rule, or...the pattern on the dollar reminded the villagers of some bad memories.

Puzzled, we didn't waste time. Before the afterglow all fell down the mountain, we knocked on the doors of almost the villagers one after another, but the results were not very good.

In this Xuerong village, it seems that Lin Shaosong's money policy is no longer effective. He is either rejected by the door, or scolded in the local dialect. The banknotes sent in are thrown out by the villagers without exception.

To be honest, what happened to Young Master Lin is quite sympathetic, but the problem is that the behavior of the villagers is too weird. This is the first time I have seen a place and people who hate money so deeply.

If you don't let them live, don't let them live. What does it mean to waste money?

After hitting a wall many times, we had no choice but to withdraw from the village.

After returning to the car, everyone held a meeting and agreed that they could only spend the night in the car, but facing the hostility of the villagers, even mercenaries still had to worry about their own safety.

As a result, the focus of the discussion became the question of where to drive the car overnight.

At this time, Lin Shaosong, who had run into a wall, suddenly stretched out his hand, pointed to a building on a distant mountain outside Xuerong Village, and said, "Instead of spending the night in the wild, why don't you drive to the Yaowang Temple, where there are still walls and rooms. And we have to go there tomorrow."

While he was speaking, all of us turned our gazes to the low building on the opposite hill.

(End of this chapter)