CHAPTER XXIV

The scenery at this moment is very beautiful, a man and a woman, walking on a country road full of rape flowers, the sun is very fragrant and warm, there are a few clouds floating in the sky, and the shadows are projected in the sea of flowers, like a huge fish swimming from the sky, covering the light that yearns for the clear water. In the time of being buried in this moment, the world seems to have lost its original voice, leaving only the silent call in the ears and the dull hypnosis in front of the eyes.

It's a pity that Ke Ke didn't seem to be intoxicated here, and his mind was not on the woman who looked like a flower in front of him. Although I haven't known natto for a long time, I have always been by my side since we met, and I have never gone far. I can say that I want to protect him, and it seems that I take it for granted that natto will follow me every step of the way. But now she has left her side on her own initiative and is still alone with a strange man.

"Childe, I heard that you and your master gave you a wild boar to ......" Chen Wan's words immediately interrupted the conjecture. After listening to it, she remembered that she had a lot of questions to find answers to everything that happened yesterday.

"Girl, don't listen to other people's nonsense, it's just that yesterday when we stopped at the foot of the mountain to rest, we were attacked by a wild boar, and we shot it. ”

"Oh, I see!" Chen Wan smiled secretly with her sleeve over her mouth.

"By the way, Miss Chen, there are a lot of questions below, I wonder if you can answer them for me?"

When Chen Wan heard that she could ask this, she stopped, glanced at it, and walked up again: "I know what you want to ask, since you have all come here, even if I don't tell you sooner or later, you will know." ”

"Here, by the way, here?"

"Wu Yuan!"

I could glance at Chen Wan with a slightly strange look, and felt that something important seemed to have happened here before, and the identity of the woman in front of her was not simple.

"A long time ago, people here got along very well, people never guessed each other, they never coveted each other, and they were all in the same society. Just a dozen years ago, two political parties suddenly appeared here, and since then the people here have also been divided into two parts, east and west, and the two sides of life are incompatible. At first, as long as there was friction, the people of the two parties would fight and not give in to each other, but after several times, the people of the two factions separated, and there was no communication at all, and then they gradually quieted down. But as soon as there is a dispute, the two sides are still deadlocked. ”

"The first dozen or so people you met were the Sunsetrs, who lived in the east, and the Sunrise who saved you later, lived in the west, just around here. ”

"It's really the sun coming out of the west," he could sigh inexplicably, "why is this happening?"

"This is a very long story, if you want to hear it, Childe, let's find a place, and I'll tell you slowly. ”

This undoubtedly aroused the curiosity in his heart, and he had forgotten the embarrassment just now and the flask he was holding.

"Well, okay!" So you can sit on the top of Rape Flower Mountain with Chen Wan, Chen Wan glanced at you politely, and began to tell the story.

"A long time ago, there were two families here, the Chen family and the Shen family. They are all very prestigious families here, not only famous, but also highly respected, and deeply loved by the local people. The friendship between these two families is very deep, and the generations are all men, and the women are worshiped as brothers and sisters, and if they are men and women, they are married, and they are passed down from generation to generation. ”

"But just a dozen years ago, there was a thing, a treasure, and both families wanted to take this treasure for themselves, and no one wanted to let it! It was from that moment on, the contradiction between the two families became bigger and bigger, and everyone was red-faced. Disasters do not go alone, man-made disasters and natural disasters come at the same time. That year coincided with a drought that had not been seen for decades, and all the crops died, and the original Datong society lost even the most basic food and clothing. There are more and more thefts, robberies, and killings, and those who have food are afraid that they will not have enough to eat, so they hide their food, and the other part of the people do not even have food, who will care about morality, who will have dignity!"

The Chen and Shen families were still fighting for the treasure behind their backs at this time, although on the surface it seemed that the two families were still on good terms. Until one day, the treasure was suddenly gone! The dispute between the two families was in full swing, and the contradiction was completely intensified, but strangely, no one admitted that they had taken the treasure. At this time, everyone knew about that treasure, but most of them didn't pay too much attention to it, because they couldn't even eat enough, and who would care about what only big families would have. ”

But the tragedy only began at this time, and the Chen and Shen families were originally on the east and west sides. Soon it began to rain in the east, but it did not fall in the west. Superstitious people think that it must be the Shen family who secretly took the treasure to get the blessing of heaven. The Chen family was also adamant, and even made trouble for the Shen family to search their mansion. The Shen family was naturally unwilling, and the two families fought on the spot, with countless casualties! From then on, no one from the Shen family came to the Chen family, and the same was true for the Chen family. Originally, the two families had close contacts, and whenever there was any difficulty in the east and west, the two families worked together to solve it. In order to take revenge on the Chen family, the Shen family put a canal and did not leave a drop of water to the west. The people in the east couldn't eat enough themselves, and they silently agreed with the shameful practice of the Shen family. And even more odious is to sell the rice he produces to the west at a high price, and refuse to allow the people from the west to relocate to the east. ”

This situation lasted for half a year, the people in the west became poorer and poorer, and the people in the east became richer and richer, and even the Chen family was living in poverty at that time. But he will still selflessly help those who are poorer, so that although the people in the west are poor, they are loyal to the Chen family. As a result, the differences between the East and West have grown, and both sides have forgotten their previous friendly relationship with each other, exposing the darkest side of human nature. The people in the east laugh at the poor in the west, and the people in the west hate the rich in the east!"

Half a year later, it began to rain in the west, and since then, the wind and rain have not worsened the tragedy in the west. However, the gap between the east and west has widened, and it is not possible to catch up for a while. Because of the friendship between the east and the west before, the families on both sides have a very close relationship, and many of them are in-laws, so the people in the west want to reconcile with the people in the east. Where do the people in the east remember this, they all regard the people in the west as savages. This is not unreasonable: the east is not without the poor, there are still people who farm and work. But the number of rich people is much higher than that of the west, so the east has become a place for the rich ****, and unconsciously there is a distinct hierarchy, dividing people into three or five classes! The number of poor people in the west is much more than that in the east, and people make trouble because of a trivial matter at every turn. ”

But the Chen family still thinks about that kind of treasure, because of their previous friendship with the Shen family, they hate them even more, thinking that all the tragedies are caused by them, and have been looking for opportunities to take revenge. Finally, one day, a man named Zhang Xuan came from outside, bringing with him the idea of 'all beings are equal', opposing the slavery system that has always been in place, believing that everything should be owned together, to be rich together, and to be poor together. The people of the Chen family seemed to see an opportunity to spread that man's ideas to all the poor, and intended to liberate the poor in the East and divide the property of the rich. The poor in the west did not look down on the people in the east, believing that their wealth had been taken from their side, and everyone took up arms and did it. When the people in the east saw the rebellion in the west, they were so angry that their faces turned green when they heard the reason! Since the family business that they had worked so hard to build up said that it would be divided equally, it was too naΓ―ve and whimsical!"

A few years of strife followed, which interrupted all the economic exchanges that still existed, and the east and west sides became completely independent! The people in the west called themselves the Sunrise Party, which was intended to pursue everyone's freedom, and called each other the Sunset Party, implying that they were conservative and corrupt. Fortunately, the last ten years have been relatively stable, but this does not mean that the endless strife has ended unconsciously. Both sides are like a lurking beast, and they seem to be waiting for an opportunity......" Chen Wan said so much, and finally stopped and sighed, looking at it.

There was always a question I wanted to ask Chen Wan, but she kept talking without a chance to interject, and when she saw her stop, she asked, "Then do you know what kind of treasure that is?"

Chen Wan thought for a while: "I know! It's called Qilin Fruit! It is a rare fruit that is rare for thousands of years, and it is said that you can live forever if you eat it!"

"Kirin Fruit!" can almost stand up in surprise when he hears this.

"What's wrong, Childe? Have you heard of it?"

"I didn't ...... There is no ......" I could touch the bead hanging from my neck, trying my best to suppress the anxiety in my heart.

"I haven't seen that thing with my own eyes, but I just heard what my father said, Childe, do you really have something that can achieve immortality?" Chen Wan frowned.

"This ...... I don't know......"

"Definitely not! How can there really be something in this world that makes people immortal!" Chen Wan suddenly shouted loudly.

Only then did she understand that she was not asking herself, but talking to herself. She hated that the reason why people ended up making a lot of trouble was because of such a vain thing. Perhaps what she doesn't understand is that it's not that kind of treasure that hurts both sides, whether it exists or not, it doesn't have the power to incite people to act. What is truly terrifying is the most realistic side of their humanity.

"Chen family?" Seeing that Chen Wan was suddenly so excited, she seemed to understand something.

Chen Wan glanced at it: "Presumably, the son should have guessed that the current successor of the Chen family is my father Chen Zheng! and the head of the Shen family is Shen Qin." ”

At this time, from the distant sky, a gust of wind blew, pressing the entire rape flower field, sweeping away the petals that were no longer strong.

When the wind was destined to come to Chen Wan's side, Chen Wan looked at the petals in the sky: "The trend of this era is like this gust of wind, you don't know where it comes from, and you don't know where it will disappear in the next moment." But even if you know it, it's unstoppable, it's so silent, it's gone. Then she had a melancholy expression, and looked at it and smiled: "I know I can't see the wind, but I really want to hear the sound of the wind, and I hope it tells me that it's coming, whether it's fierce or gentle." ”

I didn't know how to answer her, so I fell silent unconsciously. Instead, it was Chen Wan who broke the unknown tranquility: "Qi Gongzi, after listening to what the little woman said so much, she is about to delay her business!"

You can look at the wine jug in your hand and smile at Chen Wan: "Miss Chen, don't say that, I want to thank you for telling me this." It can be said on the surface that there are still many questions in my heart, especially why the unicorn fruit I have worn since I was a child has become the treasure pursued by people here, but when I heard Chen Wan say this, I no longer want to continue to ask.

Chen Wan got up and patted the soil on her body: "Son, then let's go to the street, otherwise your master will be in a hurry!"

You can get up and keep up with a hum.