Chapter 245: Xie Xiangxi
Xie Xiangxi finally succeeded in dragging Yu Zhe back to the village.
This process is really indescribably difficult.
The place where the "corpse" was buried was already much farther than usual, and the people to be dragged back were taller and heavier than the ones they had dealt with before, and it only took ten minutes for her to walk, but she walked for more than a few hours today.
Of course, this was only after she went back to the village halfway and found a small cart with wheels, and she was able to complete the work in a few hours, otherwise she would not have been able to go back after dawn.
She threw Yu Zhe on the floor of the house at random, went back to the room and changed into a clean overalls that were exactly the same as the dirty clothes on her body, and then climbed on the roof boredly and looked at the sky in the distance.
The rain had long since stopped, but the smell of dampness wafted through the air, and the whole village was silent, except for the occasional bird call or two.
She folded her hands around her curled legs and lay crooked on her knees, her mind not knowing what to think, just a little melancholy in a daze.
Her name is Xie Xiangxi, she is eighteen years old, and she is in the prime of her youth, but she has to stay in a small village where she can't find a location on the map.
This small village is located at the junction of L and X cities, and once became rich by burning tiles for nearby towns, but the good times did not last long, because the scale was too small, and the rapid development of the surrounding cities, the tiles gradually ran out of sales, and people gradually could not even solve the problem of food and clothing.
Xie Xiangxi does not remember who his father was, and his mother is said to have lived in the village, and after giving birth to her, he left her here, went to other cities to marry, and never returned.
For as long as she can remember, there seemed to be no one in the village, and most of the young people could not stand the current situation of poverty, so they all went to the city to work hard, and most of them would take their parents to live in the city after they became famous, and only a few of them left and were never heard from again.
Gradually, there was only a group of old people left in the village, and the few of them could almost be counted on two hands, and Xie Xiangxi, as the only young man of the new generation, grew up to his current age after eating hundreds of meals in such an environment.
There is no Internet, no communication equipment, and her source of knowledge is only teaching books that have been left in the village in an unknown era, so that even though she is an adult, she still only has a junior high school education level.
However, sometimes, there will be some travelers who come into the village by mistake, and Xie Xiangxi can always see something new from them, mobile phones, computers...... She was curious about what was out there, but she felt that it was not time to leave, and that she had to wait...... Wait.
The village is really poor, the old people can't go out to work, the currency naturally has no value in this place, the only source of food in the village is the old people's self-sufficient small vegetable garden, but that can only ensure that everyone is not starved to death, the real problem of food and clothing still cannot be solved.
Xie Xiangxi has also been malnourished because of this, obviously he is an adult, but he is only less than 1.6 meters tall, and his body is completely thin and weaker than that of children of the same age, and he looks only fourteen or fifteen years old.
She hated it when people talked about it, but luckily she hadn't had much contact with people outside of the village when she was so old.
As time passed year after year, those old people gradually disappeared, and the only one left who could give them a funeral was Xie Xiangxi.
Of course, this may also be one of the reasons why Xie Xiangxi chose to stay in the village as an adult.
She couldn't remember the day, but she found an old man who had been taking care of her lying in bed and never woke up.
Maybe because of the environment in which she usually lives, she looks at death very indifferently, even if she looks at the death of the person in front of her who has taken care of her like a family member, she still feels unexpectedly calm in her heart.
The village burned tiles and left a tile kiln, which has been abandoned all these years, and Xie Xiangxi had no choice but to restart the tile kiln, burn the old man into ashes, and take it to the vicinity to bury it.
And the turning point of her fate began here.
The place to bury the old man was chosen in a cemetery that was first circled out in the village, and people here rarely had the habit of burning corpses before, and in recent years, it has been troublesome, and many corpses have not been buried without building tombstones, causing Xie Xiangxi to dig a pit, but he doesn't know that there is nothing under that land.
I don't know if it's too bad luck, she just dug a few times and dug up a corpse.
She was startled at first, but immediately calmed down, the corpse was badly decomposed, and she was afraid that she had been dead for a long time.
For some reason, she dug up the corpse completely, rummaging through it for anything that could be used.
In fact, most of the things may have rotted because of the time, but I found an old-fashioned mobile phone from many years ago in my pocket, but I may still be able to use it if I clean it up.
Xie Xiangxi once saw this thing in the hands of the people who returned to the village, and he always wanted it, but he never had it, and this time it was also a thing that fell from the sky, and the other party couldn't use it, so he simply kept it for himself.
Since the body had been dug up, there was no need to bury it back, so she directly put the body in the tile kiln and burned it together.
After a long time, she began to consciously dig around there, and occasionally she could really dig up other corpses that had been buried for a long time, or some strange things, but unfortunately there was nothing worth using.
Until a few days ago, she stumbled upon a piece of land that seemed to be a little strange, so she subconsciously tried to dig it, but she didn't expect to dig up a body that looked like she had just died.
This is a bit abnormal, I always feel that it was just buried in it, and she must try to continue digging down, and when she digs up the whole body, she finds that it is a completely different corpse from before.
A hole was made in its head, and its expression was fixed on the frightened look before death, and the overall look was a little hideous.
Although some bones had been dug up before, except for the first time, all of them looked to have been dead for at least a few decades, which was also related to the fact that there were fewer and fewer people left in the entire village, and she never paid much attention to it.
And this time, no matter how you look at it, it is a person who died due to an accident.
However, this is actually the same in Xie Xiangxi's eyes, when people are alive, they may still be divided into high and low, but once they die, what is left is just a meaningless empty shell, it is better to leave useful things for the living, and burn all the useless parts.
She began to search for something usable on the corpse, and to her surprise, the corpse contained a small black purse made of canvas, which was opened to reveal a brand-new smartphone, a note with numbers written on it, and two neat stacks of bills......
"Eh, the kid on the roof, is this Wayao Village?"
Suddenly, a voice interrupted Xie Xiangxi, who was staring into the distance and recalling the "past" on the roof.
"**I'm not a child, I'm already an adult!" She was unhappy, what kind of unfortunate day was this today, she was poked in the sore spot by two people in a row, and she didn't look carefully who the person was, and she slid down the rope hanging on the roof in the morning, and she was bound to reason with the other party.
"Tsk, why is your mouth so unclean......" The person who came whispered to himself in his mouth, a little disgusted, but listening to Xie Xiangxi's meaning, it seemed that he was speaking abruptly, so he had to be patient and asked again, "Then may I ask this girl, is this Wayao Village?"
The moment Xie Xiangxi stood in front of him, the man sighed with emotion, fortunately, this was the other party's mouth, otherwise not only would he have to misidentify his age, but he would also have to admit his gender.
"This used to be Wayao Village, but I'm not sure if it's now. ”
Xie Xiangxi felt offended just now, and the tone of the conversation was a little yin and yang, but when he looked at the man in front of him carefully, his face was much more reliable than that of Yu Zhe just now.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Li Mo, I need to go to Wayao Village to find someone, if you can, can you take me to the place where this village is now?"
Li Mo came to look for Yu Zhe, just a dozen hours ago, he received a call from a stranger, and as soon as he came up, he threw him an address and asked him to save Yu Zhe.
He was a little confused, obviously he hadn't been in touch for a few months since the last time, and now he suddenly popped up again, and he was in danger and needed help.
He didn't plan to meddle in this matter at all, obviously he had said many times before that for the sake of Morin's face, it was the "last" time to help these two living ancestors, but once something happened to them, he finally chose to lend a hand in a righteous manner.
And this time, let alone whether to help or not, the attitude of these two little cubs made him angry, they didn't even show up, and found an irrelevant person to call him to inform him, which made him, who didn't want to interfere, even more disgusted with this matter.
He hung up the phone angrily, but after a while, the same number called again.
This time, the other party slowed down his tone, but it is estimated that the conditions are limited, so he can only speak in a suppressed voice.
The person on the other side apologized for his attitude just now, stabilized his emotions, asked him not to hang up the phone first, and asked him to listen patiently, and then briefly explained the ins and outs.
Li Mo, who knew the reason, couldn't calm down for a long time, what should have happened was still going to happen after all, in fact, he had long felt that in this world, or in other words, the people who had something to do with this incident were actually destined for a long time, and even after any effort, they couldn't change it at all.
He wants to return to a normal life, wants to draw a line with all this, but in fact, trouble will still come to him, and he seems to have the right to refuse, but in fact he has no choice at all.
Besides, in fact, in terms of his heart, maybe the relationship between him and Morin has reached the level of life and death, so since he is the person his best friend cares about, even if he doesn't admit it, he will inexplicably care about it.
In the end, he still compromised to the voice in his heart, and simply helped others to the end, if he could help these two little ancestors to fly away, and he still had his life alive, it was not too late to think about a normal life.
Maybe that's the end of it.