Since most of these dwarves were born in the 1930s and 1940s, most of them are still in their sixties and seventies. Because of her short stature and poor family, she can't get married and have children. Therefore, "men are single and women are lonely" is extremely common. However, the slightly elderly dwarves without offspring have to be taken care of by the local government and live in the nursing home in the village.
Old people, recalling the summer more than 60 years ago, it seems that a sudden strange disease attacked this quiet and peaceful village overnight, and the inexplicable joint pain that was caught off guard and did not seem to stop began to spread mercilessly in the village. From people in their fifties to children in their early years, frightened villagers have been attacked by this terrible strange disease for several years.
The pain caused by the disease made the villagers miserable, and many adult patients were lame. The most terrible thing is that the joints of those sick children gradually thicken and deform and stop growing, and their height is always fixed at the height at the time of onset.
Since then, Yangmingsi Village, where "dwarves come forth in large numbers", has a new name-Dwarf Village. In these dozens of villages in Fiona Fang, dwarves with a height of only 1 m can be seen everywhere, of which the shortest is only 73 cm. What is even more puzzling is that this disease is strange not only in the affected areas, but also in Yangmingsi Village, which is several hundred kilometers away from Fiona Fang, Zizhong County.
No one in the village adjacent to Yangming Temple has this disease, and there has never been a dwarf as tall as a child. The same land, the same water, the same world, but why is this horrible strange disease only raging in Yangming Temple Village? Moreover, not all people in the village are short, and some people can grow up healthily. Therefore, the reasons for this phenomenon are puzzling. What is even more puzzling is that the parents of the sick dwarf are all normal in height, and no dwarf can be found in previous generations.
There are records in Zizhong County: 195 1 year, a strange disease was found in Yangmingsi village. Patients with short limbs and short stature are called "dwarf disease" by locals. By the census of 1985, there were 1 19 cases. In just a few years, hundreds of dwarfs have appeared in Yangming Temple Village, and many families have fallen into endless distress.
The atmosphere of terror has shrouded this once quiet mountain village for a long time. Some people have chosen to leave their homes and move their families in order to stay away from this deeply frightened land. Fear makes the outside world flinch from the dwarf village, and fear also makes all kinds of rumors about strange diseases pervade the countryside. Some people say that it is because the feng shui in this place is not good; Some say it's because the ancestral graves of sick people are not buried well; Some people say that it is because of the construction of roads and railways that the dragon god has been cut off; Others say it's because the ancestral temple was burned down. ...
There is a saying that many villagers believe it: a long time ago, a villager named Wang found a turtle buried under a rock when he was repairing his house. The tortoise's limbs look strange. Some villagers suggested that the tortoise be released from the rocks, but most people opposed it. They suggested that the soft-shelled turtle should be stewed to nourish the body. The huge turtle was stewed and eaten by the villagers that day.
After the strange disease happened, some people said that if the tortoise was released, the dwarf village would not be so unlucky. Others speculated that Japanese soldiers invaded here and cast some kind of poisonous gas, but this speculation was quickly denied by the villagers because the Japanese had never been to Yangmingsi Village.
Although many people are afraid of the strange diseases in the gnome village, researchers from relevant national institutions are still deeply attracted by the "gnome mystery". They have removed all kinds of fears and concerns and entered this gnome village hidden between hills and mountains. They extracted the daily drinking water and soil of the villagers in the dwarf village and took them back to study. In order to dig out the real murderer thoroughly, they also sampled and tested the blood and hair of the villagers. The final test results let the "road to chasing the murderer" see the dawn.
The researchers found that from the 1920s to the present, the samples of well water extracted from the ancient wells in Dwarf Village were extremely deficient in trace elements such as calcium and phosphorus, and the contents of essential substances for human growth and development were almost zero. Experts believe that there is a problem with the water source in Yangmingsi Village.
Experts learned from the investigation that in the mid-1920s, many villagers in the area of No.7 Brigade in Yangming Township now felt earthquakes from time to time, and some people speculated that it was an earthquake. This disturbing vibration lasted intermittently for more than a month, and in the following years, the villagers inexplicably suffered from strange diseases.
Geological experts found through on-the-spot investigation and in-depth analysis of historical data that the whole village of Fiona Fang in Yangmingsi Village is located in the middle of the valley because it is full of rocks within several kilometers. The crustal movement caused by the earthquake is very likely to make some harmful minerals in the deep underground penetrate into the ground and pollute the local water source and soil.
The mystery is revealed bit by bit, and the conclusion that crustal movement causes water problems has basically been unanimously recognized by relevant experts. The fog of strange diseases that once pervaded the village gradually dispersed. By the 1980s, the local government began to improve water sources.
1988, the local government specially built a water diversion project, which was officially put into use in 199 1 year. Since then, the production and living water of the villagers in Yangmingsi Village has been solved. However, what are the harmful substances that seep into soil and water? Relevant experts are conducting further research, hoping to find out the real culprit of the dwarf village disaster.