Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 1038 [White Snake Theory] ([-]): Wandering into the dust web by mistake

Chen Yan didn't know why he was telling her this. What could a three-year-old understand?

Who would have thought that Sandfly is actually quite smart, and he makes himself look like a human being, completely losing his cuteness like a girl.

The two cripples limped onto the road and joined a fleeing team. After Chen Yan inquired about the news, he learned that the team heading east was to reach a provincial capital where there was no war. There was a war in the west and a war in the east. It's safe, so head east.

Chen Yan disguised his gun as a crutch that looked like a tree branch. It would be difficult for anyone who had not touched the gun to see it. It happened that there was an old man in the team who had served as a soldier. He saw his disguise at a glance and invited him to be a long-term worker. Feed two Wowotou a day so that he can help the family during this long journey.

Chen Yan had a job, which could save two people from starving to death.

But he also saw that Lao Cai had bad intentions, so he was vigilant day and night and never dared to show any signs of neglect.

As the team headed eastward, they were driven away by rioters as expected, and many people died in the chaos.

The limping Chen Yan almost risked his life and killed several people before saving their lives.

Fortunately, Sandfly lived up to his expectations and remained silent when caught in the chaos, never causing trouble for Chen Yan.

When Chen Yan found Lao Cai in the pile of corpses, Lao Cai was holding the body of his youngest son, panting "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and all the flesh on his face was paralyzed. He didn't look like he was crying, but he looked sad. Too bad, Chen Yan stood aside holding the gun wrapped in rags again, his throat choked and speechless.

It wasn't until Sandfly limped forward and hugged him that Lao Cai finally breathed out and cried out.

Lao Cai said that his only son originally planned to go to the provincial capital in the east and rely on the little money he saved to make a comeback and marry his son a wife.

Lao Cai said that he dreamed day and night that he knew how to make a fortune. When he arrived in the provincial capital, he would be a rich man and live a good life in a few years.

Lao Cai said that his wife committed suicide after being humiliated and her son was gone. She had nothing to think about in her life, but she was afraid of death, so she lived in such pain.

Lao Cai said, if he couldn't breathe like this just now, he might die from suffocation. You are my saviors.

Lao Cai said, I don’t have a son now, so you can be my son.

Chen Yan knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, becoming Lao Cai's son.

The hungry skinny man took the two cripples on the road.

Every day on the road, Chen Yan used stones to carve a white mark on the butt of his gun. When he carved the three white marks of No. 60, a huge walled city finally appeared in his field of vision.

Lao Cai bribed the guard with the last piece of silver he had hidden in his body, and the three of them entered the city under cover of night. Lao Cai found relatives he had never told them about, and settled in the provincial capital.

Although the situation in the provincial capital is tense, it is still much more relaxed than outside. People in the city do not need to worry about their lives anytime and anywhere, and most of them can even drink hot soy milk in the morning.

When Sandfly drank the hot soy milk for the first time, she burned herself so much that she screamed, but she still didn't let go and just drank the hot soy milk. When Chen Yan saw her like this, she knew she should The two should stay here.

In the next few years, Chen Yan became an apprentice to Lao Cai's relatives. During the day, Chen Yan carried sandflies on his back and worked with Lao Cai's relatives. He received food, accommodation and no wages, but fortunately, the food was good, and he could even have one meal of meat a month.

He worked on her back during the day and watched her sleep at night. Lao Cai slept in the next room. Chen Yan only went to bed when he heard Lao Cai snoring every night.

Although the life was hard, it was better than being frightened every day and night in the wilderness. Chen Yan and Sandfly settled down for the time being.

Lao Cai is indeed a Lao Cai. He quickly made money with the little vision accumulated by his ancestors. As a result, Chen Yan was able to move into a new house, and Sandfly also had his own bed.

Even so, Chen Yan never threw away the gun. The gun seemed to have become some kind of psychological defense for him. As long as the gun was still there, the defense would not be lost.

Life did not just go on in such an ordinary and hard-working way. As Sandfly grew older and became more and more intelligent, the secret of gender could no longer be hidden soon. At this time, Chen Yan also accumulated some money. With some money and some connections in the provincial capital, he simply dressed her up like a girl.

Lao Cai has really treated Chen Yan as his son these years. When he gets something delicious, Chen Yan always has a bite. He is also good to Sandfly. If he encounters any strange toys outside, he always brings a portion to Sandfly. Chen Yan The wariness of him slowly diminished, but never disappeared.

A few more years passed, and the war outside was over.

Chen Yan heard from travelers who passed by that he didn't know how the battle was fought. It was obviously a melee between warlords, but the emperor was killed in the fight. The remaining people saw that there was no point in fighting anymore, so they went their separate ways. Withdraw the troops and recuperate.

After the battle, Chen Yan's new troubles came - the sandfly suddenly and without warning reached the age of blooming, and Chen Yan's threshold was broken overnight by the matchmaker who proposed marriage.

Although the sandfly was lame, its appearance completely made the matchmakers ignore the "trivial" "minor problem" of lameness, and even did not mention it at all during the matchmaking process.

Now that Chen Yan has taken over the shop owned by a relative of Lao Cai, he has become a boss. Now that he has gained some knowledge, he also wants to find a good and well-matched family for Sandfly.

But no matter who the son is, he looks more and more angry and uncomfortable.

Whose son is worthy of my sandfly?

He had completely forgotten what he had asked Sandfly to be his child bride ten years ago.

Chen Yan told Lao Cai what he was thinking, and Lao Cai laughed loudly and said that all fathers have this mentality, otherwise he would send Sandfly to a foreign school to see the world, have more of his own ideas, and liberate his mind. ——This is very popular now.

Lao Cai suggested that she is now 13 years old and has just reached the age of marriage after finishing her studies. It will not be too late to find someone by then. Maybe she will have her own ideas by then and you won't have to worry about her.

Lao Cai relieved Chen Yan's knot, and Chen Yan toasted Lao Cai with five glasses of wine. He was extremely happy, and later became very drunk.

Chen Yan sent Sandfly to a foreign school. At first, she was worried every day, thinking that after all she was lame and different from ordinary people, she was worried that she would be bullied there. Later, she heard that this school was a girls' school, and the students in it were The girls are all very kind-hearted, and the foreign woman who teaches her treats her completely as a normal person, without paying too much attention or looking down upon her because of her disability.

Chen Yan's fear suddenly disappeared - the news cured his month-long insomnia.

Chen Yanben worked hard as his craftsman. Although the work was hard, the income was pretty good. The most important thing was that he could afford Sandfly's school expenses. Although he was tight, he was fortunate to prepare for Sandfly. The tuition and living expenses are sufficient - he feels comforted by this.

A few years later, a large number of cheap industrial products appeared on the market. The value of Chen Yan's handmade tables, chairs and benches skyrocketed overnight, and they became rare items that only gentlemen could afford.

Chen Yan made money, but Chen Yan was not happy because Sandfly graduated from a foreign school and she told him that she also wanted to study abroad.

Chen Yan felt uneasy, not because she wanted to continue studying, nor because of money, but because she was afraid that no one would take care of her if she went out as a cripple.

Sandfly hugged him, and he suppressed his inner trepidation.

After all, Sandfly failed to find a well-matched family in the provincial capital. She left home at the right age for marriage. The two lame men limped their luggage onto the conveyor belt of the ferry. One lame man looked at the other lame man. Limping alone, I boarded the ferry heading east.

The sound of the turbine almost deafened Chen Yan. When he put down his hands covering his ears and looked at the ferry again, he could no longer see the sandfly among the dense crowd.

Chen Yan returned to the provincial capital with an empty heart.A few years passed in the blink of an eye, and Chen Yan lived an almost unchanged life. Except for the dull pain in his lame leg on cloudy days, Chen Yan's life remained almost unchanged from before.

Sandfly often sends something called a postcard to Chen Yan, which initially contains hand-drawn pictures and some local scenery where she studied abroad.

He knew that she had applied to a good university and encountered many difficulties while studying.

He knew she was annoyed by the different languages, going crazy with all the dialects and slang.

He knew that male classmates often asked her out, but she said she came here to study, so she never attended parties outside.

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Chen Yan still felt uncomfortable, not because of her leaving, but because the only way he could help was to go to the post office to send a sum of money every month, paying expensive postage fees, and worrying about whether the money would be stolen every day. service.

Suddenly one day, there was a slight disturbance in the peaceful life——

Lao Cai fell ill.

As Lao Cai's nominal son, Chen Yan would take care of Lao Cai's bedside after finishing his work every day, taking care of his food and cleaning up his feces and urine himself.

Lao Cai is too old. Even if he takes good medicine, he cannot fill his life.

One night, as he was dying, Lao Cai had a word with Chen Yan.

Lao Cai said that the most correct thing he had done in his life was to accept him as his son. He felt that he was worthy of Chen Yan and Chen Yan was worthy of him.

Lao Cai said that he actually felt guilty because when he first brought them to the city, he encountered a lot of setbacks, and his life and business were almost unsustainable several times. Once, he really planned to sell them for money. Yes, I even contacted them, but when I saw them, I still softened my heart, gritted my teeth, and didn't do anything that was unconscionable.

Lao Cai said, Fortunately, God has an eye, and my kindness has been rewarded, and I have made a lot of money.

Chen Yan just smiled and told Lao Cai that in fact he knew everything.

Lao Cai also smiled. He patted the back of Chen Yan's hand with a trembling hand and said, "Good boy."

Lao Cai's smile remained on his face.

Lao Cai died a good death, and Chen Yan, as the head of the family, arranged the funeral. After being busy for half a month, it was finally a success.

On the day when Chen Yan finished his work, a woman wearing western clothes, sunglasses, and high heels suddenly appeared at the door of his workshop.

Chen Yan squeezed his eyes hard and saw clearly that this woman was actually Sandfly.

She didn't mind that there were wood chips all over his body, so she rushed up and hugged him.

He was not used to it, panicked, annoyed, and reassured.

Chen Yan asked her that the provincial capital was not a good place. Not only did it not have all those fancy foreign gadgets, but it also had to deal with all kinds of annoying worldly affairs. It was not as good as outside, so why not go out and get a foreign doctorate? He could afford her schooling.

But Sandfly stayed without hesitation, used Chen Yan's money to open an academy, and became the first local female teacher in the provincial capital.

Sandfly was already quite old at this time, and Chen Yan was anxious to find a match for her. The death of Lao Cai made Chen Yan panic inside. Although he was not yet that age, what should he do if he suddenly died suddenly?

Find a man to marry and wait until he dies so that we can take care of each other.

At this time, Sandfly, who had been trained by society to be sharp-tongued, asked him, he was only 40 years old and in his prime, why didn't he find himself a companion?

Chen Yan couldn't answer and was speechless for a moment.

Sandfly said to him jokingly, we two cripples don't despise each other, how about we get a companion and live together in the future?
He slapped her on the head angrily, just like he did every time she did something wrong when she was a child.

He was taciturn, she was busy with work, and the days became dull again day after day.

There are always a lot of rumors about the two of them around Chen Yan. In this three-acre land of the provincial capital, it is a violation of heaven to not marry if you are of the right age. It is a trivial matter to be gossiped about behind your back. Using this as an excuse to attack the business is also a big deal. It's normal.

The outside world has undergone earth-shaking changes. People who gossiped quickly disappeared into the tide of the times. Chen Yan's carpenter shop also opened and closed.

Sometimes life falls into a trough, and sometimes it gets better quickly due to luck. Things often go against people's wishes, and people just struggle to survive in the torrent, and seize the time to take a breath every time they surface.

The sandfly stayed with him like this, and decades passed by unknowingly.

On his deathbed, Chen Yan looked at the old Sandfly and said as if reflecting on his past memories:
"I...I seem to have seen you somewhere."

Sandfly stroked his wrinkled forehead and asked:

"So, do you understand?"

Chen Yan's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion:

"I do not understand."

Sandfly held his hand:
"Then, we'll see you in the next life."

……

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[My view of him has changed somewhat. 】

[How does such a thing...that cannot even be called life possess the beautiful emotions of life? 】

[He also obviously noticed the change in him, so He no longer arranged a step-by-step life for him - He wanted me to help again. 】

[I will help Him, this is the meaning of my existence. 】

(End of this chapter)