Chapter 10: A Twisted and Real World
The walls are ruined, and from time to time a tangled bush emerges from the withered yellow blades of grass. If a person lies in it, he will never be able to see him if he is not carefully searched. But there will never be a normal person who wants to lie in it. The vegetation here is so lush, it is all due to the nourishment of the past owner. Corpses, large and small, were scattered in the rubble. Some are relatively complete and can still be vaguely recognizable in size, while others are torn into large and small pieces, and only a little charred bone is left under the creation of wind, frost, rain and snow to tell people how fierce the fire burned back then.
If this is an ordinary small village, it is not unusual anywhere in the world. Passers-by come and sigh, at most to restrain the bones, but soon they will be forgotten, and they will become an indescribable past in their minds over time. However, the owner of a pair of feet will not forget how he got here.
This small village is really remote enough. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water, three mountains and one water six points of fields, it was a good feng shui, but unfortunately the mountain is too sharp, and the water is broken water, directly diving underground into a dark river, so this small village is not developed, on the contrary, the terrain is too rugged, and it is really inconvenient to communicate with the outside, so that the village was destroyed for a long time before it was known by the village under the mountain. In this way, the road, which was barren with the fields, refused the approach of the people with weeds, but it did not dare to refuse the owner of these feet.
The dusty hat has not been washed for a long time, and the last time the dust on it was removed was on a rainy day. As a result, the yellow bamboo leaves and the weeds on the ground blend together. The purple close-fitting kaftan has been carefully cared for and has no wrinkles, but some stubborn brown marks can't be washed clean after all. A whole piece of cloth was cut from the neck to the ankles with the slender waist of the owner.
The traveler who has lost his bonds does not know where to return, the soft socks are not suitable for the thorny road, and under the ankles are a pair of fine straw sandals. The laces made of thatch on top of the shoelaces strangled the Achilles tendon muscles on the feet as they rose and fell, making the traveler's footsteps look extremely firm.
Although the traveler can fly to where he wants to go in an instant, he still wants to walk back slowly. Because it allows him to think more and see more. As for whether we are looking at the ancient Mo desolation in front of us or the childhood in our distant memories, it is not for us to find out.
We know that the terrain here is very treacherous, and it is inserted into the Tianshan Mountains and dives into the water. This tends to make the yin energy in the center very heavy. However, due to the diversion of water, there is no bad thing about devil spirits. But that doesn't mean there's no harm here. People are divided into yin and yang, two gases burn three lights, and inside the three lights is a person's life fire. But once the balance of yin and yang is broken, something often happens.
The thick yin qi here has little effect on women, and it can be fatal for men who have been here for many years. Men in the homeland of travelers have never lived past the age of thirty, which is unimaginable in a world where life expectancy is hundreds of hundreds. But the men here don't want to leave, because this place is simply "paradise"!
Here, it is a paradise that is extremely disgusted by the traveler, and his fellow villagers and even his father do not want to leave for the rest of their lives. The excessive yin qi has led to the short life of men, but it has also made the birth rate of women remain high. At one point, the ratio of men to women was more than 1:20.
If you only lived 30 years old, would you care about a life sentence? If you don't have a tomorrow, you can't punish him with tomorrow, and you can't persuade him with morality or law. These hysterical men, these men immersed in sensuality, have completely broken the lower limit of humanity here.
The traveler once watched his neighbor's uncle discuss things with his uncle, who repaired farm tools, with a kind face. The content of the matter is that his daughter has no novelty, and he hopes to exchange daughters with Abo. In a completely closed world, how can anyone tell these ignorant villagers what is shameful?
There are also some young people who either intentionally or unintentionally went to the outside world, but most of them came back, this ridiculous world, after they learned etiquette, righteousness and shame, they abandoned etiquette, righteousness and shame. The men, who already knew what were wrong, dragged the ignorant girl into the house with a smile that the childhood traveler couldn't understand and was even worse.
The most valuable things in the world are useless things, such as diamonds, such as gold. And the more useful and precious it is, the cheaper it is, such as air, such as water. Cheap, readily available women, who do one hundred percent of their labor in this small village. Men are not required to do all the work.
But the status of women is much lower than that of men, not only because of the "preciousness" of men, but also because men hold the most reasonable thing in the world: force. The only martial arts cheats in the village, only men are allowed to practice, but unfortunately the talent requirements are too high, and it can't solve the problem of male lifespan, but it is enough for men to maintain their transcendent status.
As a result, older women are abandoned because they do not have the functions that men want. And women who make mistakes or are not popular with men are sold out. As for where to sell? Who cares? Buying men happiness for their deaths or misfortunes is simply the only bit of value for the ruling class.
The Traveler's mother was also the one who was sold. Unlike the foolish men and women in the village, the traveler's mother is an outsider. is a learned outsider. is a kind person, but even more a pathetic person.
She was an eighteen-year-old enthusiastic student girl, when she came here, carrying a portrait of her handsome master, holding a few books, wearing a white robe, combing a very long but silky braid, her lifelong dream is to be like a master, with her own knowledge to educate the world. When she came to this ignorant little village, the village that was normal during the day did not make her suspicious. On the contrary, she found the ideal place to practice, and she was still very excited and expectant.
The traveler had wondered countless times how good it must have been that the poor and naïve fellow hadn't set foot on the path he was walking decades ago. That night, the girl who was skilled in martial arts was surrounded by men from all over the village...... The white robes were torn and shredded into the dirt, and the silky braids were scattered and withered. The portrait that made the village man ashamed of himself has also become an unknown object in the toilet.
Two days after tearing the pink fairy tale into a black reality, the tired men leave one after another, leaving behind the girl who can't even cry. The rest of the women were jealous of the girl's appearance and extraordinary temperament, and even more jealous that she could be favored by such "adults". These adults, including the village chief, the elders, and the most handsome guys in the village......
So no one came to the aid of the helpless girl, until one of the oldest and ugliest old fellows in the village sneaked back and carried the girl back to his own home. The oldest and ugliest man naturally became the traveler's father. Although this so-called father often sits back and watches his wife being patronized by other men, although the traveler is definitely not an old man's species.