Chapter 127: Ban'er's Hiding Place
It turned out that the friends couldn't find Ban'er, so someone went to tell Widow Zhou that Ban'er was missing.
The loss of the chickens at home was already heartbreaking enough for Widow Zhou.
Now the child is gone too.
Widow Zhou was so anxious that she just wanted to scold the child, but she was more worried about the child's safety.
"Village head, I beg you, I've searched everywhere in here, but I can't find my son. Why don't you let me go out and look for him alone?" Widow Zhou held onto the stone wall, cold sweat pouring down her face, her whole body trembling, and she almost knelt down to Village Head Yu.
"this……"
Yu Lizheng looked embarrassed: "Xiao Zhuanzi just came to report that someone entered the village. Although we only saw a woman, what if there is an official here? What should we do with the villagers?
For the sake of love, Yu Lizheng really wants everyone to go out and help look for it;
Logically, he was the village head. What would happen to so many of them if they were discovered by the authorities? Evading military service and grain taxes would result in imprisonment, and as the village head, he would be the first to bear the brunt of the punishment.
"Yes, Widow Zhou, you can't let all of us take risks just for Ban'er."
"If we are discovered, all of us men will have to serve in the army, and our food supply will be lost."
"Get out if you're dissatisfied!"
A group of people were making a lot of noise.
Widow Zhou was crying and looked so pitiful.
Such noise naturally attracted the Shen family.
Chen Xinli listened for a long time before she realized that Ban'er was missing.
But Ban'er just went out early in the morning, how could he go out again?
Chen Xinli thought for a long time before slowly asking Widow Zhou, "Aunt Zhou, do you know who was the last one to see Ban'er? And where did they see him?"
"How...how would I know?" Widow Zhou felt powerless. She grabbed a child playing hide-and-seek and squeezed his shoulders. "You guys were playing with Ban'er. Tell me, where did he go? Where did he go? Hurry up and tell me."
Widow Zhou's increasing strength frightened the child so much that he could not speak. He could only whisper in a trembling voice, "No... I don't know."
Seeing that Widow Zhou had completely lost her composure, Chen Xinli asked the head of the village to gather all the children in the village.
After asking around, I heard Xiaoqianzi say in a low voice, "I just saw him. He's hiding in a crack in the big stone room in front."
Widow Zhou hurried in the direction he pointed.
A group of people also hurried over to look for him.
However, Widow Zhou had already found that place, but Ban'er was nowhere to be found.
Widow Zhou was greatly disappointed.
Recalling that before coming in, Mrs. Wang said this place was ominous, she immediately looked at Shen Fugui, Chen Xinli and others who were watching and said,
"It's all your fault. You were the ones who told us to hide in the stone chamber. Now look what happened! My board is gone. It's gone. Ahhhhhh."
The whimpering and wailing sounds inexplicably added a sense of depressing atmosphere to the stone chamber.
Yu Lizheng frowned and said, "Widow Zhou, you came here voluntarily, how can you blame others? If I were to ask you, Ban'er must have fallen asleep somewhere. We should go and look for him. Will your son be found by blaming others here?"
"That's right, that's right. My little Zhuanzi often hides from me and falls asleep, which scares me so much that I look for him everywhere." Wang Po also agreed.
Mrs. Wang's words gave Widow Zhou great comfort. Perhaps Ban'er fell asleep in some corner of the stone chamber.
Yu Lizheng asked everyone to stop what they were doing and help find Ban'er.
A few villagers cursed and refused to go, but Yu Lizheng reminded them, "Today, Ban'er is missing, but what if next time it's your own child who's missing?"
Everyone began a new round of exploration in the stone chamber.
Chen Xinli didn't take Aunt Zhou's complaints to heart.
The mother who lost her child has gone crazy, and the key thing now is to find Ban'er as soon as possible.
But what secrets does this stone house hold?
A question came to Chen Xinli's mind.
When she went in with her brother Shen Jinlin that day, she only felt that the underground space was very large.
There are also two corridors, one extending to the lower left, and the other is frighteningly long. Apart from some stone chambers that you pass by at the beginning, there are winding corridors behind them. When you walk to the end, you actually reach the village entrance.
From this perspective, this underground stone chamber seemed to have connected the mountains on three sides. Chen Xinli constructed the structure of the stone chamber in her mind.
Gouxiong Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Apart from the North Mountain opposite, there are two high mountains in the east and west.
Compared with it, the back mountain does not look like a mountain, at least it is half as short. The villagers call the back mountain Houling.
“At the entrance, there are two tall black rocks.”
"Mrs. Wang said this place is ominous and that black rock looks like a toad."
"Toad?"
Chen Xinli talked to herself, trying to find some ideas.
Indeed, those two black rocks squeezed together look like a toad with its mouth open.
It is true that the stone looks like a toad, but it also looks like a snake head. Chen Xinli had already walked to a stone pillar in front of her, and the snake head mark on the top suddenly woke her up.
Also, the flat rock that opens the entrance is as big as half the door and is long and narrow.
The village head said that the cracks in the ground were closed because the heavy rain washed away the soil.
When my father and I explored for the second time, we found that there were circular stone steps under the flat rock, from which we deduced the location of the entrance.
Dad and my second uncle dug away the mud and sand on the top, and the flat rock opened automatically.
"Then, that flat rock does look a bit like a snake's tongue," Chen Xinli felt as if she was getting a little closer to the truth.
She observed the huge stone chamber and looked up at the light on the dome.
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