Chapter 170 What to do for a living
With quick eyes and quick hands, Shen Dinghai took the three girls and hid in the shrine immediately, but he regretted just after squeezing in.
"This shabby place is too small! No one else needs to get close to see it, they can tell from a distance that the four of us are squeezed in!"
"No, no! We have to find another place to hide!"
In panic, Shen Dinghai kicked the incense table with only a thin layer of dust, and immediately heard the sound of the heavy black stone base slowly moving away.
Everyone looked at each other in shock and confusion for a moment.
"Who would have thought that this black stone is equipped with two mechanisms!" Shen Dinghai complained dissatisfiedly.
Ran Ran quickly glanced at the various simple arrangements inside, frowned and said: "But the incense table should be thought of."
"All the furnishings here are covered with a thick layer of dust, but the dust on the incense table is still light, indicating that someone will move it from time to time..."
Wu Pannan interrupted Ran Ran ruthlessly, "Can we talk about the timing? We are about to go up the mountain, but you still have time to chat..."
After saying that, she took Dongsheng's hand and got into the hole first.
Ran Ran glanced at Shen Dinghai and motioned for him to leave first.
Under the cave entrance was a narrow staircase with a steep slope, which gave Shen Dinghai the illusion that he was crossing a dangerous terrain.
He followed closely in the footsteps of Wu Pannan and Dongsheng, and walked down a dozen stairs fearfully. When he looked back, he found that Ran Ran had not followed!
He was so anxious that he immediately walked back, only to see a white face stained with dust appear at the entrance of the cave.
Shen Dinghai's heart immediately settled down.
He lowered his voice and said urgently: "Cousin, please don't be so slow anymore. Your slow movements almost scared me to death!"
"I thought you were discovered by those people!"
Ran Ran chuckled, "I know, but I didn't mean to be slow just now."
"I was hiding between the gap between the base and the wall to listen to them. This was a necessary part of the listening process."
Shen Dinghai led Ran Ran down slowly bit by bit, "What are you trying to find out? Cousin, have you found out any key information?"
Ranran said softly: "No, I just want to make my guess more accurate. I just hid there just to know the attitude of the men in the village towards the evil god."
Shen Dinghai licked his lips and felt a little nervous, "How is it?"
Ran Ran smiled and rolled her eyes, "It's basically consistent with what we speculated."
"When the men in the village faced the Evil God Hall, they didn't have the piety on the faces of the women. Instead, they were disgusted. They recited different spells from the women, but they were still full of malice."
Shen Dinghai immediately became happy and transformed into a praise machine.
"My cousin is very smart! When the situation is so unclear, he can string together various clues to make bold guesses, and the conclusion he draws is basically the same as the real situation! Great!"
Ran Ran's eyes curled up after being praised, but Shen Dinghai suddenly turned serious.
"Cousin, you are so powerful. Don't worry about trivial matters like not guessing the secret hall mechanism."
Ran Ran was stunned and speechless for a moment.
She was surprised that Shen Dinghai was so sensitive to her emotional changes.
Shen Dinghai sighed, "I know cousin, you are very powerful, but don't always think of shouldering everything on your shoulders. We are all here."
Ran Ran felt as if these words suddenly echoed and kept repeating in her ears.
After a moment of trance, she lowered her eyes and said in a low voice: "Okay."
The group of people descended an unknown number of stone stairs, and their eyes suddenly became clear.
Shen Dinghai opened his eyes unconsciously. At this moment, he deeply understood what Ran Ran said about having a different world.
They are now standing on a wide flat land!
In front of him is a long corridor that can't be seen at the end, extending forward to the end where there is no light.
"Oh my god, did the people in Good Village hollow out the entire mountain?"
There was some echo immediately in the empty cave, and Shen Dinghai was so scared that he quickly covered his mouth.
Ranran spoke softly, "According to what Dongsheng said, Yunxiang is not from this village. If she follows the village's customs, she will get married." "When you get married, you must have a starting point, and that place is most likely here."
Shen Dinghai nodded suddenly and said angrily: "I'm just telling you, cousin, how could you be sure that the bride was nearby!"
"Yunxiang has no relatives in the village, and since the joyful voice came from here, it's natural to assume."
Ran Ran looked at Shen Dinghai, "So assuming this is true, so many people in the procession of sending off relatives were in this cave, but we didn't hear any sound, then they shouldn't have listened to every move we made. "Clearly."
Shen Dinghai opened his eyes in confusion, "Huh? So what?"
Ran Ran smiled helplessly and said: "I want to say, second nephew, you don't need to keep your mouth shut or speak with breath."
"We can't hear them, and they can't hear us."
Shen Dinghai was a little embarrassed, "I told you all, cousin, you just want to tell me this."
Ran Ran said matter-of-factly: "Second nephew, you like to talk so much, how uncomfortable it would be if I couldn't let you talk comfortably."
Shen Dinghai watched Ran Ran wink at him and knew that her words were teasing him, but he still couldn't help but be moved.
"What should I do when I get in?"
Looking around slowly, there is unfathomable darkness at the end of the corridor.
"Of course it's better to explore everywhere and find something."
Dongsheng, who had been silent all this time, said hoarsely, "We need to find Yunxiang."
The relaxed atmosphere of seeing the novel scene for the first time disappeared in an instant, and everyone lost the desire to talk.
Only Shen Dinghai was thinking about enlivening the atmosphere.
He approached Dongsheng and said mischievously, "Do you really know nothing about the Shen Tang?"
Dongsheng shook his head.
"The people in your village dug such a big hole in the mountain. It shouldn't be something that only one generation can do. Is it the effort of generations?"
Shen Dinghai pondered, "But why dig a cave for no reason? Is there a mine in this mountain?"
Shocked by his thoughts, he blurted out, "Your village may have the genes of a gold miner!"
Wu Pannan sneered, "If there was a gold mine in our village, would my father still have to sell me for some meat?"
"Gold mine..." Dongsheng thought for a while, "I really haven't heard of it."
Shen Dinghai, "That's really strange. Since Gude Village does not produce minerals, how can we make a living?"
Dongsheng walked lightly like everyone else. She was very anxious and wanted to find Yunxiang quickly, but she knew she couldn't rush.
"The village can basically be self-sufficient. If you really lack something, you can ask Master Ruan to get it."
Ran Ran's eyes flashed, and it was Master Ruan again. It seemed that this person was almost closely related to Gude Village.
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "But there is a wide road at the entrance of your village. For such a remote mountain, transportation is quite convenient. I thought you would use that road to do business?"
"I don't know if there is any business."
"The road was built with the help of the government based on the poverty alleviation policy. When there was no miasma at the beginning, there were not many cars coming and going, and after there was miasma, there were almost none."
Ranran captured the key words.
"Almost none? That means there are still some." She looked into Dongsheng's eyes.
"I'm very curious, apart from people like us who came here by accident, who else would come to such a remote mountain."
Dongsheng's face suddenly turned pale, her lips trembled, but she couldn't make any sound.
This reaction made Ran Ran certain that they were finally getting close to the truth.
This mountain village hidden in the fog, Gude Village, will finally reveal its true appearance.
