148. The events of the year
"Since you need to guard it, you can just form a team to guard the mountain, and change a group of people at a fixed time, isn't it the same?"
Lin Fan was speechless.
Even if there are people who want to stay here and guard this mountain.
Then you don't need the whole village to stay here and stay here, right?
Just like today, wouldn't it be nice to just take some people and guard them here?
Every half a month, or once a month, it will not make these younger people look outside.
"We want to, too.
But there are so many places that need to be guarded.
There is no way at all.
Even if it is a rotation, almost half of the village has to stay here to be able to complete the work of guarding.
Otherwise, it's all just talk. ”
After Lin Fan heard these words, he suddenly felt a toothache.
What is there in this poor and remote ghost place that is worthy of these elderly people to miss so much?
Even if it's an ancestral precept.
It's been so many years, if you don't know why, how can you stay here all this time?
"Why don't we take a step to talk?"
Lin Fan looked at the old man who had just spoken, and when this person spoke, the others were more or less paying attention to him.
If you can deal with this old man, maybe all the problems will be solved.
What Lin Fan didn't expect was that as soon as the old man moved, there were actually three or four young adults behind him, who followed him as if they were protecting him.
"King Kong is not bad Dazhai Master"
"These ......"
"You guys just stay here, I think of Mr. Li's friends, and they won't hurt us."
The old man said a word to the young man behind him, and then walked towards Lin Fan.
"You come down, I'll talk to him about something."
Lin Fan also turned his head and said to Hong Hui beside him.
This kid never got out of the car from beginning to end.
"Can I sit in the back of the line?"
"Fuck off.
Wait until I'm done talking to him. ”
Hong Hui reluctantly got out of the car and gave way to the old man.
When the old man is in the co-pilot's seat, sit down.
The Guardian's exterior suddenly activated environmental mimicry.
In the blink of an eye, the whole car disappeared out of thin air in front of everyone.
"What about people?"
"Where did they go?"
"He's not going to take the patriarch away, is he?"
"We shouldn't have left the Patriarch!"
Seeing this, the surrounding villagers immediately began to talk about it.
"You really don't know it, the car is still there.
It's just that we can't see it. ”
Hong Hui sneered at the villagers.
Poof-
A palm-sized rock smashed directly into the area where the Guardian was just now.
It was the dull sound of hitting the ground, which directly made Hong Hui unable to laugh.
The Guardian is no longer in place!
Air.
"You're still the first to get on the Guardian and there's no reaction."
The Guardian's mimicry, as well as its lift-off, did not avoid the old man beside him.
It's just that Lin Fan was a little surprised that the old man didn't show any surprised look from beginning to end.
It's as if all this is a common sight.
"What kind of reaction should that be?
An old antique like mine is almost buried in the ground.
What exactly is going on out there is something new to me.
There's not much difference either. ”
"What you said needs a lot of people to protect, can you tell me why?"
"If we all leave here, or don't have enough guards left, we'll die a curse."
The old man's words directly made Lin Fan stunned.
There are still people who believe in such a thing as a curse?
"I know, you might be a little unconvinced.
When I was your age, I happened to encounter a good era, and everyone's minds were liberated.
I didn't believe it at the time. ”
The old man looked at Lin Fan's expression, and immediately understood what Lin Fan was thinking.
After all, when he heard this reason after he came back from outside, he couldn't believe it.
The old man's face gradually revealed a wry smile and a thoughtful look.
"At that time, I was probably not much different from what Swa, or the current village chief, did.
is also a vigorous one, desperately persuading the whole village to leave this broken place.
In this ghost place in the poor and remote countryside, sometimes you can't eat enough, and there are fierce beasts and poisonous snakes and the like, which threaten everyone from time to time.
Why not relocate elsewhere?
The world is so big, where can't it be home? ”
The old man seemed to have invested in that memory, and the smile on his face suddenly became a little bigger.
"By then, it had already been a hundred or two hundred years.
Because of an ancestral precept, everyone has lived here for generations, and the so-called curse has never taken effect.
At the beginning, there were a little worries and considerations, but later on, even the elders in the family didn't believe it.
So, we planned to move our family out of this place. ”
Lin Fan looked at the old man in front of him intently.
In Xiao Hei's database, no record of this paragraph was found.
These people in the mountains don't seem to have any contact with the outside world.
Or on the way to relocation, they suffered some unexpected circumstances that caused them to turn back halfway.
"The day after we left here, both the older and the younger ones started to show some symptoms.
At first, we thought it was just a cold or something like that in the woods.
Nobody cares about any of this.
But everyone was happily discussing the future after they went out.
But from the third day onwards, these people's conditions worsened, and even young adults began to have certain problems.
At that time, we had only walked less than 20 kilometers in the mountains because we dragged our families with us.
As a result, everyone began to disagree.
Some people say that this is a curse, and we must go back quickly.
Some people say that we may have some kind of infectious disease, and we need to go out of the mountains as soon as possible to seek treatment.
It's okay to have different opinions, but take a certain amount of time to unify your views.
But the illness cannot be delayed.
So everyone unanimously decided to throw away the baggage and unnecessary things.
Get out of the mountains as much as possible.
But it was precisely because of this decision that the number of people in the village dropped by one-third this year.
And when we finally decided to turn back, everyone's condition actually improved a lot in a short period of time. ”
The old man's face showed a look of loneliness.
"For many years after that, I often saw them in my dreams.
They were there watching me too.
They didn't blame me......"