Chapter 30: The Past Revisited
They didn't speak, and everything they shouldn't have said had already been finished, and everyone fell into an awkward situation for a while.
The room was surprisingly quiet, and I felt a little uncomfortable.
"Well, although I'm an outsider, I still hope you can talk to me, after all, the most important thing now is to solve the problem."
"Little coffin, there are some things we don't know how to tell you, can you give our brother a little time? We'd like to discuss it ourselves and give you an answer. ”
I took a deep breath, though I really wanted to fix this quickly. But they are like this, and I can't urge them, so I can only agree in the end.
I told them to think about it first, and I'll come back in the evening and ask them for answers.
After that, they sent me out, and I went back to the village alone.
Lao Liu saw me and hurriedly asked how the situation was, I could only tell the truth, he just smiled awkwardly after hearing it, and didn't ask more.
Now that the person who was supposed to come back had returned, I waited for two people to give me an answer, and then I began to do nothing.
Taking advantage of this time, I chatted with Lao Liu Dong sentence by sentence, and unconsciously talked about the Misty Forest.
"Actually, that misty forest is not only in your village, but even several people in our village have entered and never come out, so everyone is very taboo now."
"Village Chief Liu, our village chief said that the misty forest was normal when he was a child, so you should be the same when you were a child! Don't know if you've ever entered? ”
The village chief and Lao Liu are the same age, so if the village chief hadn't become what the misty forest is like now when he was a child, Lao Liu must have been the same at that time.
And now that I had nothing else to do, I began to study the situation in the Misty Forest.
So I also hope to get some news from Lao Liu.
Lao Liu nodded, "Don't say that I really used to play when I was a child." But there are some old woods in there, and there is nothing curious. ”
"Then when you went there before, didn't you see any wooden houses or anything like that? Or rather, there is no one living in it. ”
Listening to Lao Liu's meaning, where is just an ordinary forest, there is nothing special at all.
But that's not what I saw a few months ago!
Whether it was what the black cat told me at the beginning, or the style of the wooden house, I could tell that the wooden house was old.
The village chief shook his head, "How can there be people living in that kind of place!" It's like we used to play, but it's also because we can't find other places, plus there are so many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the forest there, so let's give it to the people who live there! ”
I frowned, if it wasn't at that time, could it have been sometime between that time and now?
I wasn't talking, but Lao Liu was full of curiosity about my words.
"Little coffin, I found that you seem to be quite interested there, could it be that there is something strange there?"
Hearing Lao Liu's question, I hurriedly shook my head.
I haven't figured out your matter yet, and I don't know how much danger there is, so I don't want to reveal it in a short period of time.
After all, curiosity is everyone's curiosity. If anyone knows about it and is curious, it won't be good if something happens to them in the past.
"What can be weird there, I'm just idle and have nothing to ask."
Lao Liu nodded and didn't say anything more, and then the two of us chatted a few more words, and when someone came to him, he left first.
Left alone, I had nothing to do, so I fell asleep with my head propped up.
When I woke up, it was already evening, I went to the village chief's house for dinner, and then came to Zhang Laohan's mourning hall again.
The two brothers had finished their meal and were sitting in front of the coffin in a daze.
Seeing me coming, the two of them came to their senses.
"The little coffin is here!"
I nodded, "Can you two figure it out now?" Would you like to tell me what you think? ”
The two looked at each other and nodded.
"Little coffin, this matter is not the turn of a person, and no one can understand the suffering in it, in fact, our two brothers also have hardships."
The two of them slowly opened the chatterbox, and you told me one by one a thing buried deep in their hearts.
It turns out that the Zhang family has stayed in this village for generations in order to fulfill their mission, and in order to reproduce and continue their mission, every time they reach a certain age, there will be elders who will find wives for their juniors.
And when it came to Zhang Laohan's generation, when Zhang Laohan's father went out to buy daily necessities, he happened to meet a trafficker.
Seeing that the eldest girl in the hands of the traffickers was handsome, she felt pity and wanted to help her redeem herself, but she was reluctant to pay, so she finally compromised and bought it back to Zhang Laohan as a daughter-in-law.
The eldest girl was originally a knowledgeable student from other provinces, and she was naturally unwilling to be sold to such a place.
However, it was found that Zhang Laohan's family had no malicious intentions, and even agreed to her to leave when she expressed her unwillingness.
This made her have a change in her opinion of this family, so she stayed, and with a deeper understanding, she finally took the initiative to marry Zhang Laohan.
and then gave birth to two children for Zhang Laohan, which should have been the finale of a harmonious reunion.
But after a long time, something went wrong.
How can children who are away from home feel homesick, not to mention that their mothers are still abducted and trafficked.
As she grew older, she missed her hometown more and more, so she discussed with Zhang Laohan, hoping that Zhang Laohan could follow her home to see.
At that time, Zhang Laohan's parents had already died, and their mother hoped that Zhang Laohan could move to her hometown with the family.
But as soon as this idea was spoken, Zhang Laohan rejected it, and the reason for the rejection was naturally only because of their family's mission.
As for their family's affairs, Zhang Laohan never told his wife, and when he refused, he also found other reasons.
And at that time, even the two children did not know their mission.
This creates some estrangement between the two people.
And their mother became a little depressed between the two people's disputes, and after a long time, it became a heart disease.
Some time later, she died of a heart attack due to a serious illness.
After that incident, the two children felt that Zhang Laohan killed their mother, so they had some complaints against Zhang Laohan.
Even after Zhang Laohan told them about their family's mission, the two of them still couldn't let go.