Chapter 166: The Old Past of the Town (Part 2)
Seeing that the resident was relieved, I wanted to take the opportunity to come forward and ask, and seeing that he was older than me, I called my eldest brother and said, "May I ask who is the sanctity of this Allah you are talking about?" ”
When the resident saw that I was more modest and not hostile, he changed his fierce expression and said to me kindly, "Young man, you don't know that this town is not very peaceful, and if you are passing through here in a hurry, you should go quickly......
"Why is that, can you tell us more about ......?"
After hearing this, the local resident looked at us, and seeing that we were not robbers or robbers in our faces and clothes, he hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't think you are bad people, so let's come to my house, it is not convenient to talk here, and it will be bad if the mayor sees us......" As he spoke, he turned and beckoned to us, and took the first step towards a small alley at the intersection. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
I turned back to Li Zhisheng, and the Dead Apostles glanced at them, and they nodded at me, as if they thought this person was okay and could follow.
Seeing this, I hurried to follow the footsteps of the resident, followed by the other four. We walked all the way into the alley, which was neither wide nor narrow. There are some residents scattered on both sides of the alley, and some sundries are piled up at the door, making the already small alleyway even more narrow.
We followed the villager around the alley, and when he came to a dark gray door, he stopped, turned back to us, and said, "Here we are." ”
After listening, I looked up and saw that it was a single wooden door, and the cement walls on both sides of the door were still mottled Spring Festival couplets, and the original red Spring Festival couplets had become white.
I thought to myself, isn't this almost the New Year? Why don't you change the Spring Festival couplets, even if you are poor, you can still buy them...... Aren't they too old?
As he muttered, the resident had opened the door to his house, and he smiled politely at us and motioned for us to enter. I politely responded and walked in first.
As soon as I walked in, I smelled a somewhat uncomfortable musty smell, as if the place had been uninhabited for a long time. The set of black chairs in front of him stood out, but the table was already covered with dust.
"Big brother, how long have you not lived here, why are you all dust."
He listened to my question, sighed and said: "Alas~ It's all old, my house was built when I got married a long time ago, and now I am the only one left in the family......" He led everyone into the house and said: "Since a merchant came to the town, it has not been peaceful, and I don't know how many bad things the merchant has done, and even the town will suffer with it......"
At this time, Yaolong behind him saw him mention the merchant, so he stood up and said bluntly: "I won't tell you, I have been here once before, and I have probably heard about the things here, but I was in a hurry at that time and knew very little, if you are willing, can you tell us about it......"
Hearing Yaolong speak, the resident looked back at him and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you should have heard the rumors of this town, so let's find out what is true, right?" ”
"Well......" I asked, "But, by your meaning, it seems that someone else has been here before?" ”
"I've had several groups of people here, but none of them made it back alive, and all of them died here. What is the so-called come to explore, there are passers-by, and there are people like you who come to join in the fun. He replied, taking us up the stairs on the side of the room all the way up to the second floor.
When I came to the second floor, the air in the house instantly improved a lot, and it looked relatively clean and tidy, as if this resident lived on the second floor by himself on weekdays. He took us to the living room on the second floor, found us a few wooden stools, poured glasses of water one by one, and continued: "If you just want to come and see, I advise you to leave quickly after reading it, otherwise you may not be able to get out alive." ”
Hearing this man say that this town was extremely dangerous, not only did I not flinch, but I was even more convinced that this was the Oni Mound, otherwise it would never be so dangerous.
Thinking about it, I picked up the glass in front of me and was about to drink it, but I found that the water in the quilt was actually yellow, and it seemed to be mixed with some dirt, which looked dirty.
Seeing this, I put the cup down again, and the other four didn't dare to drink the glass of water in front of them. "Don't worry, we'll be leaving soon, just passing through here." Then, seeing that the man did not answer Yaolong's question directly, I asked again, "Then can you tell us what happened to the merchant after he came, and what happened to the stele?" ”
The resident poured himself a glass of water that was also muddy, sat down beside us, and said, "It's a long story, if memory serves, it was more than twenty years ago, when I was a ......teenager," he said, picking up the glass he had poured and drinking it down.
Hu Fang and I watched him drink the water that didn't seem to be clean, and I couldn't help but swallow my saliva. But we didn't show it in particular, but listened to him continue with great interest.
It turned out that this person was also surnamed Hu like Hu Fang, and they originally lived here as a family, although the town was not rich at that time, but it was not enough for everyone to starve to death, not only to be self-sufficient, but also to divide some of the food they grew and then take it to the city to buy some money. It's not much, but it's enough for the children at home to buy some new clothes and buy some daily necessities, which can be regarded as living and working in peace.
However, the mayor here is not satisfied with this situation, he is very ambitious, and constantly goes out to attract investors. At first, the merchants he recruited were all doing business in their own right, and they did provide a lot of convenience to the town, and everyone was very grateful to the mayor.
But later, the mayor seemed to be carried away by the profits, and began to collect money from those black-hearted merchants, and then brought some black-hearted businessmen with bad intentions to this town, which was not rich in the first place.
Slowly, the mayor became richer and richer, not only renovated his family's small building, but also bought a car, and finally even bought a few apartments in the city.
The people of the town, on the other hand, are often sick because of the shoddy food and other goods sold by the shady merchants. Not only are some young and middle-aged laborers unable to work in the fields, but there have even been fatal incidents due to some inferior medicines.
However, due to the modern era at that time, everyone's legal awareness was weak, and the town was relatively far away from the city, and there was no means of transportation, so basically the mayor of the town had the final say on everything in the town. After the accident, the black-hearted merchant who sold counterfeit drugs casually stuffed some money to the mayor, and the matter was confused.
But that wasn't all, until one time, an investor who seemed to be particularly wealthy came to the town, and the whole town was cheered up.
At that time, everyone hoped that this was a good businessman, and hoped that he could give everyone more convenience and wealth. But as soon as the merchant arrived in town, he said that there was a problem here, and he couldn't do anything here.
But the mayor of the town definitely disagreed, seeing that the "fat sheep" in his hand was about to arrive, how could he run away like this. So he desperately tried to keep the merchant, saying that he wanted him to stay.
Under the persuasion of the mayor, the merchant finally agreed to stay, but he put forward a condition, that is, he must find a feng shui master to change the feng shui here, otherwise the village will be ruined sooner or later......