Aoba Office

Da da da……

Squeak——

"Uncle, the things are here."

"Oh, cough cough cough... give it to them, show it to them... cough cough cough..."

Squeak——

clatter.

"This is it. These are our family's previous land deeds and house deeds, and this is the genealogy. There are no famous people, so this thing is not valuable."

"You guys, cough cough... look at this... this... cough cough cough..."

"Uncle, are you okay?"

"fine."

"Half your family's generation changed their names?"

"Yes. It's this generation. You put the names together and the words together."

"Xishu, Dongxiang, Sanbai...is this a route?"

"Yes, the big tree in the west, walk three hundred steps eastward...ahem..."

"The main point is the cave where the stone Buddha is hidden?"

"Yes. That's where... our ancestors kept a secret. That generation, the generation whose name was changed, was the older generation at that time. This is to remember the kindness. If one day, one day there will be peace , when it is safe, we will announce this matter, invite all the masters to come out, and offer sacrifices... They are the benefactors of Qingcha Village... They are all the benefactors of Qingcha Village..."

"Mr. An, what do you mean by this?"

"Alas...it happened at that time...At that time, Qingcha Village was not Qingcha Village. There was a big temple built here and it was very popular. The abbot of the temple got a high-ranking official. The high-ranking official at that time People value...I don't know what's going on, it's been too long...I heard from my great-grandfather that there was a tea tree in the temple, an old tea tree, and the monks in the temple were very careful. Taking care of it, as well as the tea farmers sent by the high officials, the tea trees were moved here and they were growing well. It must have been two or three generations. The tea trees in the temple were already growing well, and there were some more tea seedlings at that time. , the income from farming is not much, and as you can see, the environment here is actually not suitable for growing crops... Our family was a big landowner at that time... ahem... Although our family was a big landowner at that time, it was not. It’s not enough. Let alone the farmers below. The abbot of the temple discussed with our ancestors not to farm, but to plant tea trees instead. Those masters taught us how to grow tea and gave us tea seedlings. He also helped us contact buyers from outside. Qing Tea House...that's how it started..."

"Mr. An?"

"Oh, oh... people get distracted easily when they get old... Here, tea has been grown since then. We didn't get rich all of a sudden, at least we had more options. It was at this time that the then emperor ordered to kill Monk. We ordinary people didn’t know what was going on. Those officials suddenly broke into the temple and arrested people. Our family also ran to help, but there was nothing we could do... It was too chaotic at that time. Some monks escaped and some were not caught. But, unfortunately, some general came here and surrounded us after hearing about it. Get up. They surrounded our county and wanted to find all the monks. My great-grandfather said that those officers and soldiers were all covered in blood and were very arrogant. They were not soldiers of our country, but rogues. When they search people, they will take away valuable things in the house. If they see a beautiful woman, they will arrest her... Look, this one is crossed out... This is a daughter-in-law of our family. , cough cough cough... was, was taken away, and when he was found, he was in a terrible state... The rules at that time were that people were removed from the family and could not enter the ancestral graves at home... cough cough..."

"Mr. An, please have a sip of tea and take a rest."

"It's okay, it's okay... Huh... It's just like this... It's so miserable... No one thought that those monks should have run away. But it turned out that they stood up on their own... Our family, This thing has been secretly circulated until now... Oh, Xiaoba and the others have never heard of it. Xiaoba and his generation don't know. Our generation, the generation before us, have all heard this story since they were young. Those masters came out on their own and asked the general not to harm the people. They were taken away voluntarily. The day after they came out, the general... ahem... that man forced the whole town. The people who came here came to see them cutting off the heads of the monks one by one...the ground was covered with blood...the place where the heads were beheaded was the location of the tea mountain in the tea garden. The corpses of the monks were thrown there and no one was allowed to go there. Move. Several of them rotted little by little..."

"Did your ancestors start carving Buddha statues at that time?"

"It was not carved by my ancestors. That mountain was where the temple was originally. It was set on fire. It was originally planned to erect a monument and a statue there. But the officers and soldiers have not yet withdrawn, and no one dared to do this. The people in the town worked together to pretend that they were going to dig up a mountain and picked that hill. Every day, the officers and soldiers just looked at it and didn’t take it seriously. There was a skilled stonemason and other craftsmen who carved the stone Buddha. There were a total of sixty-seven monks, large and small, in the temple, and they were ready to carve sixty-seven statues. Everyone on the street is thinking about what each monk looks like, drawing them one by one, and then carving them according to them. Ahem... Not everyone is united and thinks of them... Some people dislike them. Some people were afraid of trouble and did not want to cause more trouble. In the end, there were not enough sixty-seven carved... only more than thirty, and more than twenty were carved. The stonemason died and his son was unwilling to continue and looked for more. It’s inconvenient for people from outside to come. That’s it… ahem…”

"After that, there was no temple in Qingcha Village. People in the town made a living by growing tea, and this period of history was also forgotten, right?"

"Ha... No, I haven't forgotten... In fact, no one can forget it. My great-grandfather said, everyone heard it that day... The day the old stonemason died, no one continued to carve Buddha statues, and the town decided to end the matter. That day... everyone heard the sound of Buddha... the sound of 'Amitabha'... That night, everyone dreamed of those masters. They thanked the people in the town for letting them live a good life. . They would keep praying for the people in the town... I always thought it was a story. When I heard it from my great-grandfather, I always thought it was a story... When I was young, I thought those monks were really good people. Later, I thought it was all made up stories. When I stole The Buddha's head...cough cough cough...cough cough cough!"

"Uncle, please slow down, don't be anxious. I'll pour you some water. Hiss——"

"You have found the Buddha's head...can you, can you give me a chance to atone for my sins? I want to send it back, send the Buddha's head back..."