In your forties? Aged like this? My thoughts fluctuated violently, and I could barely resist blurting out a question: "How are you doing?" I mean, you're just looking old and your longevity is the same? Or is it that even Lian Shouyuan has become short-lived? ”

No, I don't know what to call him now, he's only in his forties.

He glanced at me with a wry smile: "Are you so old?" How old do you think you'll live? Few of us live past the age of fifty! In fact, this town is where these people are stopped, when it was prosperous in the past, there were always thousands of people, but now it has become like this. Those who walked are gone, and the rest are either crazy or half-crippled like us. ”

"Half-crippled?" I don't quite understand the title.

"Aging so fast, almost after the age of thirty, he loses the ability to work, isn't it half-disabled?" The old man laughed at himself, didn't want to say more, just sighed deeply, and then walked ahead and led us on.

But my heart can no longer be calm at this moment, longevity, life, luck and other things are almost heavenly things, that is a taboo that human beings cannot interfere with, the so-called can't interfere, it's like an exam you can't get good grades by cheating, that's a violation.

However, if you have reviewed your homework beforehand and achieved good grades, it is definitely allowed under the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

For example, if a person is kind, upright, and not stingy with compassion, the Heavenly Dao will give you a number of grades, or reward longevity, or the original destiny can be changed in a better direction, or luck becomes smooth but with other means, such as the forbidden law of the Taoist family, the price of being found is that the original score will also be cleared, which is a great sin.

I really can't think of any existence, dare to take so many people's longevity so unscrupulously, and by what method to seize the longevity of others, Taoism of course has the technique of borrowing longevity and blessing, but this kind of large-scale stroke, I am afraid that my ancestor will not dare to do it, right?

These thoughts shocked me, and at this time, looking at this passage with oil lamps again, my mood suddenly became extremely heavy, and I looked at the backs of these two men, and I was inexplicably a little sad.

The passage was not long, but there were about ten rooms on either side of each other, all of which were single-room rooms, the holes were open, but no one existed, and the footsteps of the two men did not exist in any room, but walked straight to the end.

How could there be no one? Despite my doubts, I resisted them and followed the two men towards the end of the passage.

There was a separate room there, and before I walked to the door, one of the men said to me, "Uncle Wei Jun is inside, and when we came back yesterday, I explained some information to him, and he has been waiting for you." As he spoke, he knocked on the door at the same time.

Hold on and wait for me? Is Liu Weijun's situation bad? I calculated the time myself, the story told by Uncle Ge took place in the fifties, Liu Weijun at that time was the youngest son of Liu Erye, and he had not yet married a daughter-in-law (people at that time generally married early), that is to say, he was twenty years older than me, and he was also in his 50s according to the situation, and almost everyone who talked about him said that he was in a bad situation? What kind of serious law is it?

Could it be that he was also deprived of his longevity like these people?

I thought wildly, the door of this room had been opened, and it was Old Man Liu standing at the door, and when he saw me, a very old smile appeared on his face, and then he said, "I have seen you coming downstairs, hurry, come in quickly." ”

The three of us walked into the room in silence, only to find that this room was a little different from the others, not a large single room, but a suite of rooms, in which the door of the inner room was closed, and the small living room outside was crowded with people at this time.

There were men and women, about twenty of them, and when they looked up, they were all old people, the youngest, who looked like they were in their sixties, and they were all frail old men.

There was no furniture in the living room, there was a thick layer of cushions, and these people sat silently around the wall, sitting on this mat, and there was a big pot in the middle, boiling something, and an old woman-like woman was stirring in the pot at this time, very focused.

The room was filled with a choking smell, for under the pot was a coal stove, not natural gas, and in this crowded and cramped room, even with the windows open, it would naturally be filled with the smell of coal.

"Let you see the joke, our health is not good, cooking is a burden for many of us, it is unrealistic for each family to cook their own food and can only eat together, you also eat some?" Looking at my surprised gaze, Old Man Liu explained a few words to me on the side.

As soon as he said this, I noticed that the people who were leaning against the wall were waiting with a bowl in their hands and a pair of chopsticks.

I couldn't help but take a look at the pot, it was that kind of porridge, with some sweet potatoes in it, and maybe very small meat grains, the amount was not too much, I was inexplicably a little sad, and looked up and asked Mr. Liu: "This is the weight of all people?" ”

Old Man Liu sighed and said: "Yes, there is not much rice, there are some sweet potatoes, and the meat is not easy to come by, there is no electricity, and there is no way to store it for a long time, these are cured meats." We are not physically strong, and the people in the town, you know, refuse to sell anything to us, and besides, we have no labor force and have a lot of money to buy food and drink? These are support from outside, brought in by some people who have left the town every once in a while. In addition, I made a few plots of land behind this building on weekdays and planted some food. ”

I stood up in silence, and then walked to the window, which was on the side facing away from the street, and I saw that there were about ten neat vegetable patches downstairs, and there were walls around the vegetable patches, and three old men were standing outside the walls, as if guarding the vegetable patches.

At a glance, I knew that they were guarding against the people of the town to wreak havoc, and these vegetable patches were their treasures!

At the same time, I am also a little sad, looking at the wall, it should be that they tried their best to build it, right? Glancing at the distance and seeing the rushing water of the Yellow River, I suddenly thought of a possibility and asked, "You live here?" Is it because it is on the outskirts of the town and can grow vegetables? ”

"It's not all like this, in the suburbs of the town, the damage and impact are smaller, after all, they all live in the town, and they have formed two groups of people who are incompatible, and we have few people, even if we have the protection of the guards, we have to hide some." Old Man Liu said very calmly.

But Ruyue, who was standing behind him, already had red eyes, and couldn't help but say, "Since it's so difficult, why don't you leave here?" To insist on living a life like this here? ”

Old Man Liu was silent, and did not answer us for a while, and after a long time he said: "This town must be guarded by some people, and there is a reason to stay, and the guards will tell you all the reasons later." ”

Liu Weijun? I just remembered, after so long in the house, I haven't seen where Liu Weijun is? Could it be in a locked room?

"Can you meet Liu Weijun now?" The room was so oppressive and heavy, and my heart became inexplicably anxious, and if I could, I would have known everything at once, and then save the town, the children who had been sent to an unknown place, and the poor old people.

"No, the guards can't see you yet, but he's been waiting since morning. But it's not a coincidence that you only came at this time, and the guards can't at this time" Old Man Liu didn't continue, moved his lips, and looked a little bitter, and then said: "But it's okay, there are about forty minutes left, you can see the guards, eat first." ”

I looked up at the ceiling, holding back the sadness in my heart, but my body did not move, and we did not eat in the morning, and our stomachs were a little hungry, but how could I bear to eat their pitiful rations.

Similarly, Brother Chengxin and Ruyue didn't move, Ruyue even had red eyes, she bit her lower lip, and suddenly said, "I'm going to go out, third brother, Brother Chengxin, you are with me." ”

Then she said to Old Man Liu: "Wait for us for a while, and you will definitely come back before Liu Weijun sees us!" ”

After saying that, she couldn't help but pull me and Brother Chengxin out of the house.

When I went downstairs, I couldn't help but ask Ruyue, "What are you going to do?" ”

Brother Chengxin sighed and said, "Chen Chengyi, you are really dull, like the moon, you are typically going to buy things for these people!" ”

"But can they sell it to us?" I can't think of a reason why the people of this town are kind to us.

"If you don't sell it, then force it to buy, and I don't mind being a robber this time." Ruyue's voice echoed throughout the stairwell, and I suddenly smiled, laughing happily.

I didn't expect that one day I would be a 'robber' in my life, and I would be willing to be a robber so happily.