Chapter 400: A Strange Village
Senior Bai, have you ever been to this village, this village...... It feels so weird. ”
As soon as I entered the village, I had a very uncomfortable feeling, but Bai Chengfeng smiled very calmly:
"Oh, doesn't it feel strange, it seems that your kid has really made a lot of progress, let's find a place to live first."
It is a very small village, there are only two or three hundred people in the whole village, the village is not rich, and the life of the villagers is even a bit primitive.
I have no other than any household appliances, and it seems to be cut off from modern civilization.
Bai Chengfeng is very accustomed to this place, he took me to find a random villager, put forward a request to spend the night, the villager enthusiastically agreed, saying that their village has not come for a long time, we can stay as long as we want.
When I stayed in a villager's house, he brought out good food and wine to entertain us, but I felt restless.
I always feel that this villager is a little too enthusiastic, just two strangers, there is no need for this.
The smile on his face made me extremely uncomfortable.
After I was full of wine and food, Bai Chengfeng took me for a walk in the village, and I saw that the road was full of villagers.
Some of them are carrying hoes to work in the fields, some are repairing their yards, even a dog is seriously digging holes and burying bones, everyone has something to do, but the whole village has no sense of vitality.
I don't know why, but such a normal village makes me feel very weird.
"Senior Bai, does your friend really live in this village?"
Bai Chengfeng nodded and said:
"Of course he lives here, but I haven't seen him for years, and I'm not sure where he lives now, so why don't you help me find the villagers and ask?"
I thought about it for a while and nodded, and then I went to the villagers and asked the address of Bai Chengfeng's friend, whose name was Zhang San, a very popular and even strange name.
I asked seven or eight villagers in a row, including farmers in the fields, aunts selling vegetables, and children playing on the side of the road.
The answers they gave me were all the same, they didn't know Zhang San, they had never heard of it, and there was not even a single surname Zhang in the whole village, and then they went to work on the matter at hand.
I could only go back and tell Bai Chengfeng that there was no Zhang San in this village, but Bai Chengfeng shook his head and said:
"No, Zhang San lives in this village, I'm very sure, but those villagers don't know."
"But you kid is so clever, the glorious task of finding Zhang San will be handed over to you."
"The old man is going back to rest for a while, if you can find Zhang San, maybe there will be some rewards."
After saying that, Bai Chengfeng went back to the villager's house to sleep, leaving me alone outside, and I knew that this was a test for me.
But why did you ask me to find Zhang San, I don't know this, I can only keep looking for it in the village.
The village is very small, and I walked around it quickly, and I didn't see Zhang San, but I found some clues.
"I felt very strange from the moment I came into this village, but I couldn't tell what the fault was, but now I finally know that this village is so normal."
"All the houses are the most ordinary rural earthen houses and brick houses, and there is not even a color steel house in the whole village, and even Sanniu Village has a lot of houses with color steel roofs."
"Every house in the village is inhabited, and all the villagers are busy, they have things to do, and there is not a single idler......"
The weirdest thing about this village is that it is so normal, it meets all the imagination of a remote mountain village, and there is nothing special about it, and you may not remember anything when you go around this village.
I remembered which family lived in each room in the village, but it didn't work at all, and there really wasn't a single family in the village with the surname Zhang.
Until dark, I still couldn't find Zhang San, so I could only go back in a huff, and Bai Chengfeng was already having dinner at this time.
"How about boy, have you found my old friend Zhang San?"
I shook my head helplessly, and asked the villagers who took us in again, if there was a person named Zhang San in the village, but the eldest brother of the villagers shook his head again:
"Young man, I have lived in this village for forty years, and there is no one surnamed Zhang in our whole village, how can there be any Zhang San you said, let's come and have a meal."
Picking up the dishes and chopsticks, I didn't have the heart to eat at all.
Bai Chengfeng doesn't need to trick me, he won't let me find a person who doesn't exist, but there is really no surname Zhang in the entire village, can Zhang San change his name here.
Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked Bai Chengfeng:
"Senior Bai, what does the senior Zhang San you asked me to find look like, and what characteristics does he have, so it will be easier for me to find."
Bai Chengfeng put down his rice bowl and looked at me, then smiled:
"It's not stupid, Zhang San...... Looks mediocre, not fat or thin, not tall or short, and has an ordinary temperament, he is the most ordinary person at first glance, but you will recognize him when you see him. ”
After speaking, Bai Chengfeng continued to eat.
Before going to bed at night, Bai Chengfeng said to me:
"Today, I told the villagers who took us in, we will only stay in the village for three days, and if you don't find Zhang San after three days, we will leave, but your reward will be gone."
Reward...... I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, I am already in the Qi Refining Realm, and I am practicing the mental method passed down by the ancestor of Wuyun, there are dragon slaying swords, artifacts and spiritual power incarnations on foreign objects, I can say that there is no shortage of anything, and this set of things can continue to be used when I break through the True Master Realm.
What kind of reward is it, it is worth mentioning twice a day in a day, and he specially brought me to this village to find it, this reward must be related to the village.
I thought about it all night, and the next day I didn't wander around the village, but went directly to the village chief and talked to the village.
I think the old village chief, who is in his seventies, may know something, maybe he can tell me who Zhang San is.
The village chief, like everyone else in the village, also likes to chat, but I don't know if it's because of his age, the village chief always says a few words about this, and then the topic jumps to another thing, and I can't interrupt, so I can only listen to him tell me about the history of the village.
The village chief told me about the history of the past 40 years, from how the houses were repaired in the village, to which villagers moved first and which villagers moved later.
Originally, it was just a small village of a few dozen people, but many villagers moved here, and the village gradually prospered, and everyone worked very hard.
After chatting with the village chief for most of the day until the evening, listening to the history of the village in recent years, I finally realized that something was wrong.