Abyss of ignorance

He Zhongwen rode a battery car to Laoximen.

It carries the childhood memories of most Linzhou people. Just like what Lao Liang said, during the Chinese New Year, more or less people will be taken by adults to Laoximen to buy New Year's things.Lin Xiaodong was no exception. Grandma would hold his hand and walk among the bustling crowd.

Lin Xiaodong realized that he hadn't been to this place for a long time, decades passed, and everything here became very new, but it lost the heavy steadfastness.

"Now only the Chenghuang Temple sells authentic lotus cakes. My mother-in-law has a superstition that my children have to eat lotus cakes in order to get rid of all diseases." He Zhongwen parked the battery car, talking to Lin Xiaodong, while facing Go in the direction of Chenghuang Temple.

"Old people in Linzhou believe this. I also ate lotus cake when I was a child." Lin Xiaodong said, and the two of them had already walked to the gate of the Town God's Temple.

The Town God's Temple of Laoximen is facing south from the north, and the area is not large, but the gate, the second gate, the theater building, the main hall, the bedroom palace, and the east and west corridors are all available.It is a typical southern red wall and mud tile. It has been repaired in the past two years, with cornices and ridges, colorful rafters and painted buildings, and it looks brand new.

The place selling lotus cakes is at the gate of the Town God's Temple, and He Zhongwen walked straight forward with familiarity.

However, before he reached the door of the store, he suddenly stopped and froze on the spot with a confused expression on his face. Then he sniffed hard, and then looked at Lin Xiaodong with bright eyes.

The moment the two looked at each other, Lin Xiaodong suddenly walked over, put He Zhongwen's shoulders affectionately, with a smile on his face, and whispered in his ear: "Don't tell me anything, I bought lotus cake normally, and we'll talk about it when we go back." .”

He Zhongwen heard this, as if he had received some great task, inexplicably aroused his daydreamer part, quickly entered the role, changed his usual flustered appearance, and continued to walk in front of the shop calmly to buy lotus flowers Cake, and Lin Xiaodong left Laoximen together.

As expected, He Zhongwen's home was not far from the Town God's Temple, within a few minutes.

As soon as he entered the house and closed the door behind him, he finally uttered the words like peas: "That smell is from the Town God's Temple, I said it's so familiar!"

"You mean the smell of incense in the Town God's Temple?" Lin Xiaodong confirmed.

He Zhongwen nodded: "That's the smell, I've smelled it since I was a child, I can't be wrong!"

Lin Xiaodong touched his chin and said, "If it smells like incense, it might be another temple..."

He Zhongwen shook his head: "The Town God's Temple is different from other places, although I can't say exactly what's different..."

"Ahem..." At this time, He Zhongwen's timid mother-in-law came out of the bedroom. She heard their conversation and approached them for the first time. Will go to help, their incense is made by themselves, with wormwood added in, the aroma is different from others.”

He Zhongwen nodded vigorously.

Lin Xiaodong frowned, knowing that things were not simple.

"Who are they?" He asked He Zhongwen's mother-in-law.

"A Taoist priest from the Town God's Temple." The old lady said naturally.

"Since when are there Taoist priests in the Town God's Temple? Isn't there always only a security guard at the gate?" Lin Xiaodong was surprised.

At this time, He Zhongwen said: "Captain Lin, it seems that you haven't been to the Town God's Temple for several years. A few years ago, the old Ximen was remodeled once, saying that it was to promote traditional culture, and specially recruited Taoist priests. In the past two years, in June On June there will be a big event to celebrate the birthday of the City God, all organized by these Taoist priests."

"I see..." Lin Xiaodong murmured.

……

"Ah, Team Lin, you're finally back." In the Linzhou Public Security Bureau, Xiao Xu saw Lin Xiaodong early in the morning, and couldn't help saying happily, "Captain Yue has been thinking about you for the past two days, and I ask you every day."

"Nonsense, I'll just ask casually." Yue Jianfeng's voice came from behind Xiao Xu.

Lin Xiaodong smiled and pointed at the two of them: "How is the task assigned to you?"

After hearing this, Xiao Xu stuck out his tongue and muttered: "Slip away." He hurriedly hid back to his work station.

Yue Jianfeng took out a stack of reports, and pulled Lin Xiaodong to talk endlessly: "Team Lin, I have seriously completed the homework you assigned. It's those arrows. I went to consult the folklore experts of Linda University. The experts said This kind of handmade arrow is very similar to the kind used by hunters in the southwest plateau area, it can only be said that it is very similar in terms of craftsmanship, and we cannot be completely sure."

"The southwestern plateau area? Isn't that very close to the snowy area?" Lin Xiaodong thought immediately.

When Yue Jianfeng heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Xueyu? Team Lin, don't you suspect that person?"

Lin Xiaodong narrowed his eyes: "If you have no doubts, just ask her and you will know."

……

The roar of the motorcycle was mixed with the sound of the waves of the Chuanyun River. In the night, Lin Xiaodong found the parking place familiarly, and walked along the river bank in the direction of the Yusheng shop.

Maybe it was cool today, and the shop was always full of people and noisy, but it was deserted today, only Ye Mimi was sitting at a small table that seemed to be exclusive to her, waiting for his arrival.

Lin Xiaodong opened the stool and sat down, seeing Ye Mimi's expression was not good.

Ye Mimi was quite at ease, drinking clear water by herself, and asked first: "Show me something?"

Lin Xiaodong took out one thing from the bag, which was the arrow in the evidence bag.

At this time, the boss had already walked up to them and asked, "What would you like to eat today?"

It was rare for Ye Mimi to ask Lin Xiaodong for the first time: "Is there anything you really want to eat?"

Lin Xiaodong said helplessly, "Isn't there only Yusheng here? What options are there?"

"Then we have many kinds of fish, such as bass, grass carp, pomfret, etc..." the boss introduced, this is the first time Lin Xiaodong heard him talk so much.

"Okay, just have a sea bass." Lin Xiaodong said perfunctorily, after all, the purpose of his coming here was not to eat some raw fish, but to have something more important.

The boss finally left. Lin Xiaodong sighed softly, and continued to say to Ye Mimi: "I won't mince words with you. We have consulted someone about this arrow. It is probably from the Northwest Plateau area. That place , is already very close to your snowy land, don’t tell me, you don’t know anything about it.”

After hearing this, Ye Mimi smiled and said, "When I asked you to bring the things here, I already admitted that I don't know everything, so you don't need to emphasize it." Then, her eyes fell on the table, In the transparent evidence bag, the handmade arrow lay quietly, and the copper arrowhead was primitive and sharp...