Sick beauty loses horse in thriller game

Chapter 546 Pingguling 5
The village head's wife moved very skillfully.

Before long, she brought the cooked dishes to the table.

There were several dishes on the plates on the table, and each dish exuded a strange smell.

The fried bean sprouts gave off a rotten smell, the potatoes smelled of mud, and the vegetable dish had completely lost its original green color and turned dark and shiny.

The village chief's wife placed a coarse porcelain bowl with a small chip on it and two chopsticks, one long and one short, in front of the village chief. Then she secretly glanced at Jiang Lai and the others, and turned back into the stone house.

"You have come such a long way, you must be hungry, right? I'm sorry, the economic conditions in the village are limited, and we can't offer you anything good. We only have these simple farm meals. Please make do with what you have."

As the village chief spoke, he picked up the bowl, picked up the chopsticks, carefully picked up a piece of potato and put it into his mouth.

His brows frowned slightly, but he quickly regained his composure.

It seems that he has long been accustomed to such diet.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in from outside the yard.

Through the half-open gate, the not-so-bright moonlight shone into the yard.

Under the dim light, the village chief's slightly hunched figure looked even more eerie.

As he ate his dinner, he seemed to be conducting some kind of mysterious transaction with the food, and all this was just the beginning of a strange and terrifying night in this farmhouse.

When the village chief started sitting at the table to eat dinner, other villagers in the village also started to go out.

At this moment, there was only a hairy moon in the sky that did not look bright.

Under the dim moonlight, Jiang Lai could only vaguely see countless black shadows staggering on the country road, appearing and disappearing.

In the house far away, under the light of candlelight, dark red shadows were cast on the windows, like devils from hell waiting in the wings, emitting deadly energy fluctuations that made people feel deeply uneasy.

There is an ancient big tree opposite the village chief's yard.

The branches twisted upwards, looking incredibly weird, and the dim moonlight made the tree look even more eerie.

Jiang Lai was observing the tree when he suddenly heard the village chief's somewhat sinister voice.

"You are all unwilling to honor me with some food. Do you think our family is not hospitable enough?"

"It's not a question of whether you entertained us well or not." Jiang Lai said, "Although we have lost our memories, our body's instinctive memory is still there. You know, we are all students studying in the city, and money is very expensive. We usually don't eat these foods. We can't eat these things either."

"We have brought our own food. Uncle Village Chief, why don't you tell us about the general situation of Pingguling so that we can have a general understanding of the place. Then, please help us arrange accommodation." Jiang Lai said.

At this moment, Jiang Lai behaved exactly like a delicate and somewhat willful city girl.

Although she didn't eat the food that looked hard to swallow, the village chief just looked at her, frowned slightly, took his big pipe, tapped it on the sole of his shoe twice, and didn't say much. "Let's go, I'll take you around the village and see if there's anyone willing to let you stay overnight." The village chief stood up and said.

Jiang Lai was just wanting to take this opportunity to see the situation outside the yard and inside the village, so he stood up without any hesitation.

The same was true for Lu Zhou, Li Wei and seven other players.

Only NPC Niu Lingling looked at the food on the table and swallowed her saliva somewhat unwillingly.

Jiang Lai saw the whole scene but said nothing. He just followed the village chief and walked outside.

As soon as they walked out of the yard, they heard bursts of humming sounds.

An owl flew in from somewhere and landed on the old tree opposite the village chief's yard, breaking the silence of the night with its cry.

Compared to when they entered the village before, there are actually more people in the village now.

One by one, the elderly people were holding small lanterns and walking tremblingly on the country road outside.

"Uncle Village Chief, why do these old people go out with lanterns at night?" Jiang Lai asked, looking very curious.

"Ah, as people get older, they can't help but suffer from indigestion after dinner. So most of the elderly people living in our village have the habit of going out for a walk at night. As the saying goes, if you take a hundred steps after a meal, you can live to ninety-nine!" The village chief Tokutomi replied with a smile.

Careful Li Wei thought about it and asked a question.

"Uncle village chief, the purpose of our coming to Guibaodi is to provide education. But after entering the village, all we saw were elderly grandparents. Are there any young people in the village? Are there any children who need to go to school?"

Hearing Li Wei ask such a question, the village chief Tokutomi seemed a little unhappy, and replied in a somewhat unpleasant tone:

"How could the village be full of old people without young people and children? There are many children in our village, enough for you to teach. But now it's dark, and the children are all sleeping at home. When it gets light tomorrow, you will be able to see the children in the village."

"Uncle village chief, please don't be angry. After all, we are here to teach, and it is normal to want to understand the relevant situation." Meng Fanchen said.

Listening to Meng Fanchen's gentle tone and seeing her polite attitude, the village chief's attitude finally softened a bit. He brought Jiang Lai and others to a house and knocked on the door.

Not long after, the gate was opened by a middle-aged woman.

She stood behind the door which was half open, so Jiang Lai and others outside could not see her face clearly. They could only see that she was very thin and had long gray hair. The long hair covered her skinny face.

"Sister, many teachers have come to our village to teach today. As the village chief, I need to arrange accommodation for them..." said Tokutomi.

Unexpectedly, before he could finish his words, the middle-aged woman rejected his request on the grounds that her husband was not at home these days and it was inconvenient at home.

Looking at the cold door that was tightly closed in front of him, the village chief Tokutomi couldn't help but frown.

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