Under One: The Dragon's Wife

Chapter 230 Village Guardian (2)

Their dialect is similar to mine, and they were not too far away, so I felt very cordial, and said in Shuchuan dialect: "It's nothing, just kidding."

Bai Yufei was taken aback: "Are you also from our Leli?"

I nodded: "I'm from Longyan Village."

Bai Yufei immediately became less restrained in front of me: "Well, they are fellow villagers, they are all from Shuchuan, and they are not far away, so we have found the right person."

I smiled and said nothing. After more than two hours of driving, I finally arrived at the village where they lived. It looked like a small town, but it was named after the village in batches. There was only one main street, and there were densely packed houses on both sides of the street. , generally no more than five floors.The population here is not bad. There is also an elementary school and a middle school. There are two kindergartens, both of which are children from nearby villages. There are even children from a little further away in the middle school, and their accents are different from here.

There are two coal washing plants and a chemical fertilizer plant that have long been bankrupt and abandoned around here. Large trucks can often be seen passing by on the street, setting off a burst of coal ash. The environment is not very good. I regret wearing white clothes. You can see a lot of soot on the clothes, it's pitch black.

Bai Yufei's family built a small villa here by themselves. They imitated people in the city and built a large yard. They also planted a lot of green plants. The land circled outside the house is much larger than the area of ​​the house.His house was built on a half-slope below the elementary school. To get to the elementary school, he had to climb very high steps. The middle school was at a higher place, and there were many mountains around here.

The small town formed by these villages is not so backward. There are pharmacies, hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants, etc., but they close earlier at night, and there are not many restrictions on what you want to eat during the day.

When I was walking on the street with Bai Yufei, many people were standing on the side of the street watching. Everyone had frowns on their faces. They looked at me as if they saw hope, but also had some doubts.

Suddenly, an old man who didn't know where came from ran straight towards me. I was knocked over and the old man fell down.Nalan Chun became vigilant, and I signaled him not to be violent, because I haven't figured out what's going on yet.

Bai Yufei hurriedly helped the old man and me up, and he said to the old man, "Uncle Liu, don't make trouble, I'm looking for someone to watch over our village."

The old man looked to be in his seventies, his hair was all white, but he was in good spirits, and his figure was not bent. When I fell, I was covered in dust.

The old man seemed mentally disturbed, and his hair didn't seem to have been cut for a long time, it was disheveled, he was talking nonsense, and he kept moving towards me.

I asked, "Uncle Liu, do you have something to tell me? Are you the village guard here?"

Uncle Liu was taken aback, nodded sharply, and moved closer to me, but after all, he was still crazy in the eyes of others. Bai Yufei dragged him, fearing that he would hurt me again.

My intuition tells me that this old man is not easy. He is so crazy that he is almost aphasic, and he can't even speak a Hulun word. Bai Yufei explained: "Uncle Liu was ill a while ago, and he can't speak clearly. He is even crazier than before. gone."

I nodded: "Uncle Liu, let's go, go to Bai Yufei's house, let's chat."

Bai Yufei looked at me suspiciously: "Why are you talking to him?"

I didn't speak, and I'm not a normal person, maybe I can understand Uncle Liu's meaning.

When we arrived at Bai Yufei's house, Uncle Liu fidgeted like a child who was anxious because he lost his toy. He found that he couldn't tell me why, so he went to find Nalan Chun, and he could see Nalan Chun!

In the eyes of others, he was talking to the air. Bai Yufei was terrified, but fortunately, Nalan Chun understood what Uncle Liu meant: "He said he was going back to heaven to return to life. There is not much time left. Something big is going to happen here. Son, please let us settle the matter for him, so that he can go away with peace of mind."

I said to Uncle Liu: "I see, I will help you, don't worry."

Uncle Liu finally calmed down. I took a closer look at his face. In fact, he is not too old. The righteousness between his brows is something that most people don’t have. It seems that the legend is true. Every villager is a god who came down to protect the safety of the village. Well, this kind of person is born with a very special personality, and a hundred ghosts cannot invade, but after all, after reincarnation, he is a mortal body, and without mana, there will always be things that he can't solve.

Bai Yufei asked me quietly: "Who was Uncle Liu talking to just now? Maybe there is a ghost?"

I thought for a while and said, "I brought a helper, you can't see it."

I obviously saw Bai Yufei tremble, and was immediately amused by him: "Don't worry, it's my fairy."

He was relieved when I said that: "Black people are very... I just said why Uncle Liu is talking to the air..."

After taking a nap for a while, I asked Bai Yufei to take me around again. It was really an exaggeration. The land was all deserted, and the land was cracked by drought. There is a barrenness everywhere, and the scene here looks more barren than in winter, not even a single grass can be seen, and some trees and vegetation that were originally evergreen are dead, and there is nothing.

In the past three years, the rice and vegetables that people in the village ate were all purchased from other places in a supermarket on the street. Because of this, the consumption level was much higher. Many people went to work in the city or went to other places, and the permanent population was reduced. less.

There is also a big problem with water use. All the wells have dried up, and the water level in the river has dropped by nearly half. Drinking, no one dares to eat the fish in the river.

According to Bai Yufei, the bottled water in the town sells very well every day, and some people drive back from the city to fetch water. If this continues, sooner or later no one will live here.Those who could afford it all moved away, and those whose families were poor could only spend their lives here.

Bai Yufei's family is rich, so the reason why they didn't move out was because the small villa had been built for a few years, and his old man refused to leave, so he insisted on living here.

When we were talking, Uncle Liu was prostrate on the ground, his face pressed against the ground, his face was full of sadness, his eyes were full of tears, I don’t know why, but looking at him made me feel very distressed, as if he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders...

A man covered in pitch black passed by us. Bai Yufei greeted the man and said a few words. I accidentally saw that the man's exposed skin had many red bumps, which were bleeding pus when they were scratched. With the black soot on his body, he looked particularly disgusting.

After the man left, I asked, "What's the matter with that man? It seems that the skin disease is very serious..."

(End of this chapter)