Chapter 148: Natural and Man-made Disasters
Hearing this, the old man's expression softened, and his tone softened slightly: "Since that's the case, then you should get out of here quickly." ”
Several people were still standing still, waiting for Ye Yutai's decision.
"May you ask why you are in such a hurry to get us away?" Ye Yutai asked politely.
The old man was helpless, most of the villagers behind him were elderly, and the group of people in front of him didn't look like ordinary people.
"Our village was hit by a rockfall a few days ago, and there have been rubble rolling down for several days, and I don't know when the next time will come, so if you don't want to be affected, you can leave quickly."
Although the old man's tone was cold, Su Qingcheng could hear that he still had no ill will towards their group.
The reason why he was in such a hurry to drive them away, on the one hand, was that he was really worried that as he said, an outsider would enter and anger the mountain god and bring disaster to the village.
On the other hand, he is also concerned about them, because of the suffering that the village is suffering.
"We'll leave later, I wonder if the old man can tell us what happened to you? Maybe we can help you. ”
The old man sneered and snorted coldly: "If you can't help us, you city people can't bear any hardship." ”
And the curious young man beside the old man looked around for a while, and after looking Su Qingcheng up and down, his eyes lit up.
Quietly muttered in the old man's ear: "Village Chief, if you look at these clothes and fabrics they are wearing, one piece of clothing can be exchanged for one house for us, maybe it can really help us." ”
The village chief frowned, he had never been out of the village in his life, so naturally he couldn't see the identities of several people.
"Really, have you looked closely?"
The young man nodded hurriedly, and his tone showed excitement: "It's true, although I grew up in the village, I have also been to Qingshui City many times, and the rich people there wear this kind of material. We can snatch all the valuable things from them, and then the beauty over there ......."
The young man's eyes showed desire, he was an orphan in the village, he grew up eating hundreds of meals, and always longed for the world outside the village, and from time to time he went to Qingshui City to pretend to be a beggar to beg.
The moment he saw Su Chengcheng, he thought he had seen a fairy.
He originally thought that the Xiulian girl in Qingshui City was the most beautiful girl in the world, but compared to the beauty in front of him, it was simply a heaven and an underground.
And on the other side, plus the beauty, there are only five people, and there are more than a dozen people in the village.
The old man was furious, and hit him on the head with a cane: "You have such a dirty idea in your head!" Did you learn these nasty deeds when you went to Qingshui City? ”
The guy changed and begged for mercy: "The village chief, the village chief, spare your life, I'll say it casually." ”
Su Tingcheng's ears were excellent, and she vaguely heard the conversation between the two.
For the sake of this village, there is a dire need of money right now.
She smiled softly and seized the opportunity to say, "Presumably the old man is the village chief here, we can really help you." ”
"What are you going to do for us? Why are you helping us? ”
Su Qingcheng pulled Gu Huoyan over on the side: "He is the imperial physician Gu in the palace, and he is the person next to the saint." You see, he can help the injured villagers, and I have a way to restore the damaged houses to their original state in three days, and they can also resist falling rocks. ”
The village chief looked at Gu Huoyan with some surprise, and squinted his eyes: "He is the imperial doctor?" ”
Gu Huoyan took out his Imperial Physician token from his pocket and handed it to the village chief: "Yes, you look at this token." ”
The village chief was illiterate, so he called the young man from Fangcai.
The guy bit and touched the token: "It's true." ”
The village chief returned the token to him and bowed deeply to several people: "It's the old man who has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, please save us!" ”
"You tell us first, what's going on here, and I'll help you." Gu Huoyan said lightly.
The village chief sighed and shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Come with me." ”
The group followed the village chief to an old house.
"This is our village chief's house, the only one in the village that hasn't been knocked down by falling rocks." The young man was very enthusiastic about introducing them.
Su Qingcheng turned a blind eye and directly crossed him. Ye Yutai also followed, and when he passed by the guy, he exuded coldness.
After the village chief sat down, he was a little embarrassed and said, "If it was in the past, I would have made you a pot of tea." Now, after the rockfall that has been experienced here, there is no water left. ”
"It's okay, you can talk about it first." Su Qingcheng said gently.
"And it came to pass that a few days ago there was a woman dressed in red. Come to us and ask about things on the green hills. Our village has always been in the southernmost part of the green hills, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the stream flowing down from the mountains provides drinking water for our whole village, and some wild meat on the mountains can also be used for us to eat. ”
"Therefore, we have always believed that there is a mountain god on the mountain. The girl in red said that she would go up the mountain from behind us, but there was a taboo in our village that no one from outside the village was allowed to go up the mountain from the south, so as not to disturb the peace of the mountain god, but the woman in red said that she could give us some silver. At this, the old man became even more angry and slapped the young man next to him.
It was he who was greedy for money and told the woman in the fiery red dress the way up the mountain without permission. This annoyed the mountain god. ”
Soon after the girl in red went up the mountain, it rained heavily, and the mud and rocks washed down. Our mountain temple was also washed down, and the falling stones fell into the village. Our house has all collapsed, and there are many elderly people here, when will the environment be restored......
As he spoke, the village chief lowered his head and wiped his tears.
Now everyone also understood what happened, and the woman in the bright fire red dress should be the fire charm.
She was ordered by Ye Yutai to investigate the situation around Qingshan and found a small village here. So I came to investigate.
I found that this village has access to the inside of the green hills, and there are very few mechanisms on the road, which is completely different from entering from the north from the front.
So, she tried her best to get in from the village.
I just didn't expect that there would be rolling stones on the mountain.
That's why the village chief is so disgusted with strangers like them.
Especially when they entered the mountain for the purpose of going up, he felt that this was blaspheming the mountain god, so the mountain god punished them.
But Su Tingcheng doesn't think so.
She looked out from the village chief's house, and the houses that had been broken by the stones collapsed in the same direction.
It shows that the direction of these falling stones is too consistent.
If it were a normal natural disaster, those mudslides would usually come from all directions.
The topography of the village she observed, surrounded by mountains. There is a very small chance of a mudslide on only one side.