Bidding farewell to Master Feng, Yun Qi continued to walk towards the village, the trees, the houses, flashed in front of his eyes, fitting with the old memories one by one, and correcting them one by one, his eyes were full of tears, those familiar scenes were still there, but those familiar people, none of them could be seen.

From time to time in the village, some villagers would meet them, they looked at Yun Qi with a curious eye, Yun Qi walked in the familiar village, but there was a feeling of complete strangeness, this was obviously his home, but why was it so strange, he felt as if he was a layer of oil, this world is water, he just floated gently on the surface of the water, unable to integrate with this world.

Some children in the village saw that a stranger had entered the village, first they followed curiously from a distance, and slowly a few children approached with courage, a stocky little boy, with a dirty face and two tubes of green snot, followed Yun Qi for a long time, to see why this strange brother stopped and stopped, and from time to time stroked the big tree and the courtyard wall and lowered his head in contemplation, and later, finally couldn't hold it back, he shouted five or six steps away from Yun Qi: "Big brother, what are you looking for?" I know all the places in this village, I'll take you there, okay? ”

Yun Qi turned his head to look at the child, and suddenly remembered his former self, wasn't he like this before? When you meet a stranger, it's like discovering a new world, and it's so strange that you will run away with it. I was probably like this at that time, with a snot, a dirty face, but full of curiosity about the world, a bird, a worm can attract all your attention, at that time, I really feel that there is no sorrow in the world, there is no sadness, every day from opening my eyes, what I see is expectation, I feel that a new day, there must be something interesting waiting for me, there must be a good friend who will accompany me to play games, how come it has only been a few years, my mentality seems to be old? The child in front of him stared at himself with a pair of clear eyes, which made Yun Qi suddenly think of a poem "Children don't know each other when they see each other, and they ask where the guests come from?" I am not a young man who has left home, but the current scene really makes people in a trance.

Yun Qi squatted down, took out a handful of melon seeds and some candied fruits, and distributed them to the children who followed him. Several children shouted with joy, and Hula suddenly gathered around, and the little boy with a runny nose, probably the leader of these children, stopped everyone behind him, and said to everyone: "Don't rob everyone, I'll give everyone a share." Then, he took the things in Yun Qi's hand, took them, and distributed them to everyone. Yun Qi peeked and saw that this kid was relatively fair, and he couldn't help but be curious.

"What's your name, little one? Are you from this village? Key asked.

"Of course, I'm from this village, you just call me Little Stone." The boy straightened his chest, and then asked curiously, "Big brother, are you looking for someone here?" There is no place in the whole village that I don't know, whoever you want to find, I'll take you to find it. ”

Key smiled bitterly and said to Xiao Shi: "Xiao Shi, I came to this village to find a relative, but that relative seems to have moved away, I used to live in this village for a period of time when I was a child, so I want to take a look around this village to see what is the difference between the previous appearance and the present?" ”

"Wow! Big brother, it turns out that you have lived in this village before! Let's go, I'll take you for a walk around this village and see if these places have changed now. Xiao Shi exclaimed exaggeratedly, then waved his hand behind him, dispersed the group of children who followed, threw the honey stack in his hand into his mouth, waved to Yun Qi, and led the way in front.

Xiaoshi took Yun Qi around the village, and in a blink of an eye, he turned to the place where he used to be home, the home has completely changed, there is no original appearance at all, and a few new blue brick houses have been built on the old site at home, if it weren't for the fact that the surrounding environment is still very familiar, Yun Qi really can't recognize it, this is his original home. The fire of that year, probably burned their own home clean, the current house is newer than the original home, taller, through the courtyard wall of one person high, you can see a few big trees planted in the yard, Yun Qi looked up, the tall locust tree in the courtyard is still there, although the leaves have fallen a lot, it seems sparse, but Yun Qi still sees at a glance, this is his own locust tree, his tears can't help but flow out. Back then, I was on top of this locust tree, witnessing my relatives dying one by one, witnessing the whole village suffering a tragic disaster, and now, the big tree is still standing there, as if nothing has changed, but none of the people in this courtyard are gone.

After wandering around the village for most of the day, he went around almost every corner of the village, and he was deeply impressed by every tree, grass, house, and tile. Some places, exactly as in memory, still retain the original appearance, while some places have completely changed, and there is no trace of the original at all. As a result, my thoughts are constantly fused, transformed, and verified along with the scenery in front of me. Yun Qi's heart was stuffed full, and it seemed to be very empty, and countless new information struggled to rush into his mind, entangled with the old memories, shattering the past things one by one, and re-assembling them, and there were many memories, in the face of the cruel reality, gradually blurred, like a piece of residual iron, slowly floating into the bottom of the water, under the dim light, slowly losing its luster.

By the small river in the south of the village, Yun Qi said goodbye to the small stones, he leaned on the stone bridge alone, looked at the mottled patterns on the stone bridge, and saw that the river under the bridge was flowing quietly, and the lotus leaves in the river had withered, leaving only some yellow broken leaf stalks. Yun Qi somehow, suddenly remembered a poem: "Last year, in this door today, the peach blossoms on the human face were red, the human face did not know where to go, and the peach blossoms were still smiling in the spring breeze." There are no peach blossoms here, only a pool of residual lotus, and the scenery in the poem does not match everything in front of him, but Yun Qi only has this poem in his mind at this time, it is full of his heart, and he can't get rid of it, the trees are still the same, the bluestone is still the same, the small bridge is still the same, but the people are all gone, these flowers and trees that have stood countless spring and autumn seasons, I don't know if there is spirituality, they see so many joys and sorrows, I don't know if they will follow the joys and sorrows of the crowd?

Yunqi walked out of the village, and then, looking back again and again, it was not only nostalgia, but also goodbye, goodbye, my village, goodbye, my past, although geographically it is still my hometown, but psychologically, it is not, I probably will not come here again in the future, there is no trace of nostalgia here, a hometown without relatives is no longer called a hometown, this has become the hometown of another group of people, not their own. From now on, one's hometown can only exist in the heart, that remote corner, no one can know or touch.

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Wanzi County, originally an important economic town in eastern Zhejiang, because here is east of the sea, north of the Feiyun River, water transport is particularly developed, since the Tang and Song dynasties, Wanzi County has always been one of the important ports in Zhejiang, every day ships come and go, the voice of people is boiling, hundreds of thousands of people are concentrated in this land, the spices of the South Seas, ivory and so on are transported into the mainland, and the silk, tea, porcelain of the mainland are transported overseas, a small county town, countless workers have gathered, and the division of labor is very fine, every day, there are always people with various skins here, Bargaining here with various accents, and then dividing them into the east and west, there are people from the East and the South, as well as dark-skinned Kunlun people, and of course, the most are merchants from all over the country. However, since the promulgation of the Taizu ban on the sea, until the Jiajing period, the ban on the sea has become more and more severe, Wanzi County has gradually declined, the wharf for shipping has long been dismantled, and the large sea ships have disappeared.

As the saying goes: "Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea", the people who rely on the sea can not go to the sea, they can only find food from the shore, but Wanzi County because of the sea side, so there are many drawbacks, such as a lot of fields in the east, but many are saline-alkali land, can not be planted, the south is mountainous, and the sea often blows typhoons, the wind is so strong that people can not stand, lift the house and blow the tiles, every time the residents of eastern Zhejiang suffer huge losses, not to mention the grain that farmers have worked hard to plant, as long as the typhoon comes, those crops must be blown to the ground, The most desperate thing for farmers is that this typhoon does not mean that it only comes once a year at a fixed time, it has no regularity, and it will even come many times a year, so farming is simply a nightmare for these farmers by the sea, never expecting any harvest, planting grain in the field, most of them are just a psychological comfort - I am not lazy, I have not let the land be wasted, as for whether I can receive food, it is left to fate.

After some years of suffering in Wanzi County, many people have tried to change careers, most of the original shipping business, changed to the Yangtze River shipping business, and some people simply went ashore and started the inland transportation business, only a very small number of people insisted on opening some small shops in the local area, they are really difficult to leave, and they do not have the courage to go to a strange foreign land to work hard. And those coolies, laborers, and cooks also lost the opportunity to work because of the evacuation of the big bosses one by one, and they scattered to find a chance to live.

The former prosperous Wanzi County market has now become crowded and sparsely populated, only those tall archways and wide roads are still telling the pedestrians about the prosperity of the county in those years.

The time is close to noon, early in the morning in the street stall fortune teller Yang Daochang sighed sadly, looking at the empty street, this morning and there is no business, for several days, a single business has not been received, thinking about the year, he is here is also an iron mouth, broke a lot of fame, looking for their own fortune tellers need to make an appointment in advance, how majestic they were back then, the average person does not look at it, less than one or two silver do not look at it, who would have thought, feng shui rotation, now even eating is a problem.

Hey, it looks like I'm going to change cities.

Yang Daochang sighed, and was about to put away the hexagram flag, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a young man walking far away on the other side of the street, holding a rattan cane, carrying a small burden behind his back, a dusty appearance, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, this young man looked like a foreigner, because he was wearing a cyan shirt, the style was completely different from the locals, and when he got closer, he found that this young man was really not very old, no more than fifteen years old, he looked thin and thin, slightly thin, but his nose was straight and square, and his complexion was fair. The most is that pair of eyes, black and white, clear and transparent, at a glance, it seems to be like a crystal, the book cloud, the eye is the window of the heart, you can see a person's temperament and character from the eyes, Yang Daochang couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and finally a guest came.

The person who came was Yunqi, after coming out of Shannan Village, he thought about it again and again, and felt that if he wanted to find the answer to the slaughter of the village that year, he still had to go to the county seat to find it, because the people who went to handle the case before were all masters from the county seat, no matter what evidence or clues they verified, they would definitely concentrate on the county, and they finally came to the conclusion that the perpetrator was a widow, which turned out to be correct, maybe they really found something, as long as they searched with their hearts, they would definitely be able to find some clues back then, although the county order was not here, but there are other officials in the county, and there are so many arrests, all the personnel who handle the case may know some clues, and these clues may be what they need most.

I am ashamed to say that although I am a person from Wanzi County, but when I was a child, I lived in Shannan Village every day, and all the world and earth were only a few miles away, Wanzi County really had never been here, and there were dozens of miles from Shannan Village to the county seat, anyway, I was not in a hurry, so I walked while walking, I walked for a long time yesterday, and walked for half a day today before I walked to the county seat.

In this county town, Yun Qi has no relatives and no friends and relatives, so he has been thinking all the way, how to catch the line of the official government, how to find out the clues he wants quietly, and he was thinking while walking, when suddenly a shout came from the side of the road: "This little brother, please go slowly." ”

Yun Qi was stunned, did you call me? Stopping and looking at the place where the sound came from, I saw a Taoist priest sitting in front of a hexagram stall, holding his beard and looking at him with a smile on his face. He hurriedly bowed his hand and asked, "Did Master call me?" ”

"Exactly, this little brother, I see that you are in a hurry, why don't you sit down and rest, I will count a few hexagrams for you, if it doesn't work, you can just listen to it as a joke, how about it?" Daoist Yang smiled.

"Thank you, Master, I don't want to tell the hexagram." Yun Qi shook his hand and wanted to leave.

"Little brother, do you know that you are about to face a catastrophe." Daoist Yang said with a straight face.