Chapter 692: Strange Smell
There were some villagers working on the Dulong Rock Beach, and these people looked at us with cold eyes, and some even looked at us with anger.
Although they hide it well, this emotion is clearly visible to us.
It seems that Zhou Wen has indeed changed, otherwise, with his identity, he would not have disgusted so many villagers.
Disgusted and fearful, that's how the villagers look at us now.
Most of these people are fishermen, and it is the month of May and June, and although the catch is not much, they can make a living.
The geographical location of Dulongyan determines that the area of cultivated land is very small, and there are a few pieces of cultivated land that are finally sorted out, and the ones planted on them are also some grains and the like.
Zhou Wen received us very warmly, unlike those strong men in black clothes.
At this time, Zhou Wen is already very different from the Zhou Wen I saw a year or two ago.
He was wearing clothes that didn't look cheap, and he didn't have a brand, and I never cared about that, so Zheng Fatzi muttered a word of English in my ear, and I didn't understand what it was.
He wore glasses with gold legs, and the lenses reflected a purple sheen in the setting sun, so I didn't see his eyes clearly.
"Since Daoist Mo is here, you will treat this as your home. Zhou Wen smiled and let us into the house.
This is the best house on Dulong Rock, it is built far behind the village, close to the hillside, unlike ordinary bluestone houses, Zhou Wen's house is more like a villa.
His home is extremely luxurious, and after entering, you will not feel that this is in a remote mountain village, or even that this is the home of the CEO of a listed company.
As soon as we entered the door, we smelled a rather tempting aroma, originally I wanted to ask first, what was the matter with Zhou Wen coming to me, but Huang Bawang was aroused by the greedy insects, so I had to put this matter down first, and wait until it was time to eat, or after eating.
Zhou Wen has been smiling since he saw us, however, I feel that his smile now is far less sincere than his smile two years ago.
Zhou Wen also called a delicate woman, saying that it was his secretary, and the call I made to him before was answered by this woman.
In addition to this woman, Zhou Wen also called a tall, thin man with a big head, who had a pair of triangular eyes, and he didn't want to be good when he looked at it.
Zhou Wen introduced the identity of this tall and thin man, who was a manager in his factory.
I didn't ask much, just watched Huang Bawang rush ahead of everyone and flip his chopsticks to sweep the food on the table.
This made me a little embarrassed, but Zhou Wen smiled and motioned for everyone to move.
There are a variety of fish on the table, as well as some mountain delicacies, which are lion's mane mushrooms freshly picked from the mountains.
During the period, Zhou Wen also gave a general introduction to his own industry.
Because the geographical location of Dulong Rock is very unique, the cone-shaped landform can hold some fish, so there is no worry about fishing here.
But the road to the outside world is very difficult to walk, and the fish caught are difficult to transport, some are dried and pickled, but some are left to rot.
Zhou Wen took a fancy to the catch here, so he opened an aquatic product processing factory, although there is no way to build a mountain road for the time being, but through the waterway, it can be transported to the outside village, and it can also be sold to the outside world, so he made some money.
I inadvertently asked about the attitude of the local villagers towards us, and after hearing this, Zhou Wen smiled bitterly:
"Hey, how can I say it, I've seen through it in the past two years, people are like this, I don't know gratitude, I don't know satisfaction. ”
After Zhou Wen sighed, Zhengse said: "Recently, business has been difficult to do, and it is not only our family that has a wild fish signboard, not to mention that it is not easy for us to transport goods abroad, and it is also risky to take the waterway, so I lowered some of the receiving prices and wanted to use the money to repair the road, but these villagers... Hey, let's not talk about it, eat vegetables. ”
Zhou Wen's explanation doesn't seem to be wrong, there is only one processing factory in Dulongyan, and he has mastered the regulation of prices, so it is normal for the villagers to be afraid of him.
After figuring this out, I felt a lot more relaxed.
After eating and drinking, I asked why Zhou Wen came to me.
He was in a hurry in his emails and on the phone, but now that I'm here, he's not in a hurry.
Hearing me ask about this, Zhou Wen led us out of the house and walked to the village.
He walked in front, we followed behind, the river wind blew in my face, and I vaguely smelled a fishy smell.
The smell was very light, I looked at Zhou Wen in front of me, but shook my head again, this smell may have come from the river.
As I walked, Zhou Wen told me about the specific situation.
In his words, there was a villager who, for some reason, suffered from a rather strange skin disease.
This disease is very tricky, and it is not like an ordinary disease, that person is not very sick now, so Zhou Wen thought of me.
Dulongyan Village is not big, and it only takes more than ten minutes to walk from front to back, so it didn't take long for us to arrive at the door of a villager's house.
Standing outside the house, I seemed to smell that fishy smell again, which made people feel a little sick and sick to my stomach.
This time, the smell came from inside the house, Zhou Wen stepped forward and knocked on the door, and it didn't take long for someone to open the door.
As I walked inside, I noticed that there didn't seem to be any domestic animals in the house, not even chickens and ducks.
The family is not doing well, the house is old, the humidity is very heavy, and there are black spots on the walls and no one has cleaned them.
The smell came from this room, and the few people who were traveling with me covered their noses.
Lao Bai didn't come out with us at all, so he wasn't bothered by this smell.
The person who opened the door to us was a woman with very dark skin who looked like the kind of person who had worked all year round.
Her complexion is very bad, her face has a lot of wrinkles, and her hair is mostly white, so she can't tell her exact age.
The man didn't say anything, opened the door and left on his own.
A man in black led us inside.
When I entered the back room, in addition to the strange smell, I also smelled a rather strong smell of Chinese medicine.
The clay pot of decoction was sitting on the stove, and the woman was sitting on a small stool, fanning the wind hard.
Stepping on the wooden stairs, we trembled up the stairs, and the wooden planks that served as steps creaked, and I was afraid that the Yellow Overlord would break them when he came up, but fortunately this did not happen.
As soon as I was about to enter the house, I saw a charm on the threshold, and I couldn't tell what the charm was doing, because the whole charm was already soaked with water, and the lines were no longer clear.
The source of the weird smell was in this room, and I pushed open the door and walked inside.
(End of chapter)