Qingyunxian

Chapter 220 The Secret of Taoyuan
"Squeak."

A man in his forties pushed open the door and came to the yard. When he saw Hong Da and Liu Xun, his eyes were calm at first, but when he saw Liu Xun, he could hardly hide his joy.

"You are really a guest!" The village chief quickly opened the gate and said enthusiastically, "Come in and rest, come in quickly."

He turned to Hong Da and said, "Hong Da, go and inform every household to kill an animal to entertain the guests!"

If the people in the wild outside knew about such a grand welcome, they would probably feel ashamed.

Hong Da nodded repeatedly, rubbed his hands and went to prepare.

Liu Xun looked the village chief up and down. He looked 90% similar to the village chief he had met in his previous life who was too old to walk.

I didn't expect that he would become the village chief so many years in advance.

"Please take a seat, guest." Village chief Zhang Zhonggui enthusiastically helped Liu Xun to sit down, then he sat on the wooden bench opposite and called his wife to pour him a bowl of tea.

"Is the guest coming from outside?" asked Zhang Zhonggui.

Liu Xun nodded: "Yes."

Zhang Zhonggui seemed to have countless doubts. He pondered for a moment: "What year is it outside? Is the Fushan Sect still ruling this area?"

Liu Xun had been asked the same question in his previous life. At first, he didn't know which Fushan Sect Zhang Zhonggui was talking about. Later, when he went out and accidentally flipped through a book, he learned that Fushan Sect was a major sect in the north of Baiyu in the early ancient times. Later, it declined and disappeared. No wonder Liu Xun didn't know it.

From this we can know that the people of Taoyuan Village must have drifted here in the early modern times and have never had contact with the outside world since then.

Seeing Liu Xun shaking his head, the village chief, who was still in his prime, sighed. He didn't know how long his ancestors had been wandering here.

After asking about the outside world for a while, the village chief changed the subject: "How long do you plan to stay here?"

His eager and expectant eyes seemed to hope that Liu Xun would stay longer.

Liu Xun knew the intention behind his words, but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he smiled and said, "I'm sorry to bother the village chief for many days."

"It's not a big deal." Zhang Zhonggui smiled and narrowed his eyes.

A buffet was set up in the center of the village. The livestock slaughtered by each family were cooked into dishes and placed on the buffet to entertain Liu Xun, the guest.

Taoyuan Village hasn't had any visitors for a long time.

After eating and drinking, Liu Xun wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth and looked at the Taoyuan villagers who were also eating.

He was looking for the blind old lady who later became the temple priest.

The current temple keeper is not blind and should be the temple keeper of the previous generation before the blind old lady.

What Liu Xun is looking for should be a young girl.

But people change a lot when they get old, and it is difficult for people who are not close to them to tell their appearance.

Liu Xun was only familiar with the appearance of the blind old lady, but could not recognize her appearance when she was young.

Fortunately, Liu Xun knew the name, and he would be able to find it as long as he spent some time.

Liu Xun withdrew his gaze, clinked glasses with the village chief, and drank another glass of wine.

"I wonder what Xun'er thinks of the girls in the village?" The village chief Zhang Zhonggui burped, spoke with drunken eyes, and asked an inappropriate question.

Liu Xun thought that this was the point, so he put down the wine bottle, raised his eyes and said, "They are all good, simple and kind. Although they can't be called beautiful girls, they can make a living."

"Okay, okay!" Zhang Zhonggui put the wine bottle on the table, put his arm around Liu Xun's shoulder, and looked excited.

I don’t know if it was because he was excited or too drunk, but he stammered for a while but didn’t utter a word.

He clapped his hands and signaled the people below to come and support Liu Xun.

The two young girls looked at each other and came forward shyly. Zhang Zhonggui whispered a few words in their ears.

The two girls came over to support Liu Xun, their faces flushed with shame, as if they were very shy when they thought about what they were going to do next.

Liu Xun avoided the girl, raised the wine bottle, poured a glass of wine and started drinking.

Zhang Zhonggui was stunned. He was also a smart man and he could see that Liu Xun had seen through her intention, but why did he reject the girl?

"Xun'er, don't you like it?" Zhang Zhonggui suddenly laughed obscenely: "I know."

He clapped his hands again, and two women nearby suddenly stood up.

The two women were plump and had rosy faces, and they were not as shy as the two girls. They were experienced people, so how could they be shy about this?

The husbands of the two women were still sitting next to them, but they didn't think it was wrong and even looked at their wives with approval.

Seeing this, Liu Xun closed his eyes, feeling ridiculous.

"I don't like other people's wives." Liu Xun took a sip of wine and shook his head to reject the Taoyuan people's ridiculous behavior.

The girl is ridiculous, the woman is ridiculous, the man is ridiculous, and the village chief is also ridiculous.

But this is also related to Taoyuan Village.

In his previous life, Liu Xun lingered in this absurd place and saw many beautiful things there.

But he is rootless in this life. Maybe he can eliminate the influence of the rootless worms and return to his original state later, but there is no way at present.

Fengyue has nothing to do with Liu Xun for the time being.

This was not the purpose of his trip; his primary purpose was still the red rope.

The isolated Utopia allows the villagers to avoid danger, but it is also a kind of confinement.

A restriction on the continuation of life.

The ancestors of Taoyuan drifted here. They have different surnames and bloodlines, so they can continue.

But after many years, from ancient times to the present, the blood of Taoyuan Village has long become the same, and they can be called close relatives.

The offspring of consanguineous marriages are often handicapped, and there are very few children without diseases.

The only way to break this bad luck is to marry outsiders.

But Taoyuan is isolated from the rest of the world, so where did the intermarriage come from?
Therefore, outsider men like Liu Xun became the most distinguished guests!
The village chief did this only to continue the bloodline of the village. It would be best to let Liu Xun sow more seeds to change the situation of the disabled next generation.

In the past, there were several people like Liu Xun who accidentally entered Peach Blossom Land.

Otherwise, Taoyuan would not have survived to this day.

Liu Xun recalled a rumor he had read in his previous life when he was flipping through the volumes of Fushan Sect. In a city under the rule of Fushan Sect, there was a legend of the Peach Blossom Spring.

At that time, the landform outside Taoyuan was still a river, and there were villages and cities nearby.

The man was a fisherman from an outside city. He accidentally entered Taoyuan while fishing and ended up becoming a guest of honor in Taoyuan.

He spent every day wandering among the flowers and sowing seeds diligently. When he returned home, his health was not as good as before and he died of illness soon after.

When the fisherman returned, he told the city lord about the Peach Blossom Spring, hoping to exchange it for the means to be promoted.

When the city lord heard this, he became very interested and took his soldiers to follow the fisherman and set out on a boat to look for the Peach Blossom Spring.

However, when the fisherman and his men returned, they found that all traces of their previous passage had been erased, and it was difficult to tell which tributary they had entered the Peach Blossom Spring from.

The city lord felt that the fisherman was playing a trick on him, so he punished him severely. The fisherman's body, which had been hollowed out for a long time, could not withstand the punishment, and he soon died of illness on his bed, leaving behind only the legend of Peach Blossom Spring.

Liu Xun guessed that the chief of Taoyuan Village at that time was afraid that the fisherman would bring disaster, so he erased the fisherman's traces to prevent Taoyuan Village from suffering any more disasters.

The story of Taoyuan is true, and now it is Liu Xun's turn to experience it.

If Liu Xun told Zhang Zhonggui about Wugen's affairs, I'm afraid the Taoyuan village chief would immediately turn hostile.

Liu Xunzi couldn't be so stupid as to say that the purpose of his trip had not yet been achieved.

"It's not that I don't like it, but I'm a little tired from the long journey." Liu Xun was a man of romance in his previous life, so he could recite these words and phrases effortlessly.

After hearing this explanation, Zhang Zhonggui felt it was very reasonable.

That's right, which man doesn't like romance?
Maybe the guest is just tired and not in the mood.

Zhang Zhonggui smiled more and more, patted Liu Xun on the shoulder and said, "Then go to bed early, and we'll talk about it later, we'll talk about it later."

Liu Xun put down the wine bottle and smiled happily: "I'm sorry to bother the village chief these days."

"No problem, no problem, hahaha." Zhang Zhonggui didn't look like he was in trouble at all. He even hoped that Liu Xun would make more requests.

It’s best to have romantic requirements.

(End of this chapter)