145 Nanfeng Ghost Village (4)
Refugees? What is he talking about? Chen Yi was completely confused, why did he get more confused the more he talked, did he create a generation gap? Wait, Chen Yi recalled what the old man said just now, he said, "We are Nanfeng Village", what is the situation? Am I "crossing" again?
After Chen Yi pondered for a moment, he felt that this must be another ghost illusion, and he needed to go to Nanfeng Village to inquire about the situation.
So Chen Yi said to the old man: "Yes, the war outside is so serious, a few friends and I plan to go into the mountains to hide for a while." ”
After listening to Chen Yi's narration, the old man said to him with a smile: "You don't have any tools, it's difficult to survive in this mountain, it's better to go back with me, you work in the fields with me, and I'll help you solve the problem of food and clothing." ”
Chen Yi was stunned, he didn't expect that before he could say it, this old man helped him pave the road, is this what the plot needs? It's good to save yourself the need to find a reason.
Chen Yi got up and said, "This couldn't be better, by the way, I still have four companions, I don't know if you see the old man?" ”
In order to win the favor of the old man, Chen Yi directly began to use honorifics, after all, he didn't know what the old man's surname was.
"No, we only saw you lying here alone." The old man shook his head and said, then asked, "Young man, what is your name?" ”
"My name is Chenyi, I don't know what the old man is called?" Chen Yi replied honestly.
The old man's family lacks a strong man who can work, Chen Yi can promise him that he is naturally in a good mood, he laughed and said: "I belong to the oldest generation in the village, the second, if you don't dislike it, you can call me the second master." ”
After a brief touch, the second master took Chen Yi and his granddaughter to Nanfeng Village.
Chen Yi knew a lot along the way, it turned out that this period was a hundred years away from the period in which he lived, in short, Chen Yi was back a hundred years ago.
The second grandfather's family has a few acres of farmland, and after his son went down to the mountains to participate in the war in the early years, he lost contact with the family, leaving only himself and his granddaughter Erya, and a daughter-in-law who worked at home.
In the past two years, the second master obviously felt that he was getting older and older, and his labor could not keep up, so he wanted to call a young descendant to help him work in the fields, and Chen Yi came at the right time.
After Chen Yi was convinced that this was an illusion, he kept thinking, the four of them didn't stay with him, did they enter another illusion? Or is it just in there, but I haven't found it yet?
The second master led Chen Yi into Nanfeng Village, and along the way, he kept greeting the villagers and introducing them to this offspring who had been picked up.
When they passed by the largest courtyard in the village, Chen Yi skimmed through the crack in the door, and the purple gold stick was still hanging in a more conspicuous position above the lobby, which was the former Nanfeng Village that had not run away.
Walking up the stairs further, there is the second master's house, which is also a courtyard, slightly smaller than the courtyard where the purple gold stick is placed, and there are many large and small bamboo plaques in the courtyard, on which all kinds of grains are dried, and a peasant woman is busy going back and forth.
As soon as he pushed open the wooden door of the courtyard, the second master shouted to the peasant woman: "Ah Lian, there are guests coming to the house, I'll go make a bed and come out, you remember to cook more for dinner." ”
"Okay, Daddy!" The peasant woman named Ah Lian stopped looking at the living morning in her hand, and then readily agreed.
At the dinner table in the countryside, there will always be some gossip, and the second master's family is no exception.
During dinner, Ah Lian said quietly: "I heard Xie Kun, the son of the uncle's family, say that they went down the mountain to buy salt today, and saw that the door of the tavern in the town was closed, and they were all sealed. ”
The second master asked while picking up the dishes, "Which tavern?" Did you commit something big? It's a sensitive time outside, so we won't be going down the mountain anytime soon. ”
Hearing the second master's question, Ah Lian became even more energetic, her voice was lowered, and she said mysteriously: "It's the tavern of the Bai family!" Even the Bai family's compound was sealed, Xie Kun sneaked in at that time to see it, and the dead people lying inside were all lying all over the place, that tragic situation, tsk, did you say it was last month......"
With a "snap", the second master put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and there was a great movement, and he said solemnly: "That has nothing to do with us, no one is allowed to mention this matter again." ”
The second master, who has always been kind, actually reacted like this, Chen Yi couldn't help but think about what this matter had to do with what he was going to deal with next, and did Nanfeng Village move away because of this in the future?
Early in the morning of the second day, Chen Yi followed the second master to work on the mountain, during which he wanted to inquire about what Ah Lian said yesterday many times, but he was fooled by the second master, this is definitely an old man.
Chen Yi's physical strength is not covered, he started in the field at seven o'clock in the morning, and worked until eleven o'clock, he didn't shout that he was tired, and he didn't stop his work until the second master called him down the mountain to eat.
They went down the mountain and passed the big courtyard again, and found that there were many villagers gathered there, Chen Yi asked curiously, "Why are so many people gathered here?" ”
"I don't know, I'll go and see." The second master said, and also stood at the back of the crowd, craned his neck, and looked towards the courtyard.
The door of the compound was full of people, and he didn't know what was going on inside, and at this time, Chen Yi saw that the second master's daughter-in-law, Ah Lian, was also in the crowd.
Chen Yi walked up to Ah Lian and asked curiously, "Sister Lian, why is this so lively?" ”
Ah Lian turned around and saw that it was Chen Yi, so she said: "This Xie Kun doesn't know where to invite a monk to do it inside!" Everyone had never seen a monk, so they all came to join in the fun. ”
Monk? Method? Chen Yi's first reaction was to think of Master Haiguang, during this time period, there were wars everywhere, and the monks in the temple were closed, and it was difficult to see a monk.
"Eh, why do you do that?" Chen Yi asked as he pretended to be surprised.
Looking at Chen Yi with a puzzled face, Ah Lian's gossip heart was blazing, she felt that there were many people here, it was not appropriate to say more, so she pulled Chen Yi to go home first, because the villagers were all gathered in the big courtyard, there were few people on the road, Ah Lian then opened her mouth to tell Chen Yi.
"Do you know the Bai family under the mountain?" She asked about Chenyi first.
Chen Yi shook his head, indicating that he had not heard of it.
Ah Lian popularized Chen Yi and said: "This Bai family is a big family under the mountain, and there are taverns, tailor shops, and pawnshops in the town, and they are considered to be famous local landlords. ”
"What does the Bai family under this mountain have to do with our village?"
"This has to start with a woman named Xie Qiao, this Xie Qiao is also a poor fate, when she was eight years old, her father died of illness, and her mother left her and ran away shortly after her husband died......
Chen Yi listened silently and stopped talking.
"The head of our village, that is, the eldest of the older generation, we all respect him as the uncle, he knew about this and organized the villagers to help Xie Qiao, about 30 families in the village, Xie Qiao went to a family once a month, you can solve the basic problem of food and clothing."
"Time flies quickly, Xie Qiao has grown into a slim girl with the help of the villagers, she began to be self-reliant at the age of fifteen, and now at the age of twenty, she can free up her hands to help the villagers go to the fields and cut seedlings."
Ah Lian said this, and sighed faintly: "Originally, this is a good thing, many villagers praise Xie Qiao for this girl is sensible, whoever can marry this girl in the future must be a blessing from the ancestors for eight lifetimes." ”
Chen Yi is silently savoring her words, Ah Lian is pitying Xie Qiao, this time the monk was invited to do something related to Xie Qiao, maybe there is an unjust case in this Nanfeng Village, and even the big family "Bai family" under the mountain, this is the clue that Chen Yi has so far.