The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 407 Young Town (Fifteen)

Stone Town, with its old stone walls, is actually a dilapidated town with no name.

The population of the town is about a thousand households, and the total number of townspeople is 5000. Because the town has water and fields, everyone lives a traditional farming life, day after day, year after year.

So there is nothing special about this town.

But the strange thing is that the town is full of young people and children, and elderly people are very rare.

Judging from the average age of the people in the town, this can be considered a young town.

The rare phenomenon of the elderly in the town, in fact, hides a not-so-secret secret behind it, that is, the tradition of paying tribute in every household.

The people in the town no longer remember that this tradition started hundreds of years ago. People only know that it is a practice handed down from their ancestors.

But if someone really wants to check the history of the town to see if there is such a custom and tradition, they may not find anything.

Because this town has no history and no so-called "tribute" tradition.

It all started with a punishment and a lie.

In front of the ancestral house in the north of Stone Town, Mayor Zhang, dressed in black, was solemnly telling the townspeople in front of him the real history of the town in the past.

"You may not know, but after careful calculation, the town where our ancestors have lived for generations has a history of nearly 800 years. You may only know that the ancestral house behind me is the old man who brought his tribe to migrate here. The ancestors built the houses they lived in."

"But what you don't know is that our ancestors didn't flee here, but were expelled here by the gods who created them in the first place.

The gods said that people don't know why, not only have their own thoughts in their hearts, but also have a greed that can never be satisfied. Now it is no longer possible for people to live with the gods in the sky.

Since then, the gods have exiled people to the earth.

Among them, our ancestors happened to be the worst branch of human beings, so they were sent to this barren land.

At the beginning, our ancestors also worked hard and struggled hard, and created a small foundation here.

But there are not many people living here, and other people from outside hardly come here.

Seeing that the other clansmen living here are getting old and the newborns are young, and the days of starvation are unsustainable, the ancestors gathered together and used their remaining spiritual power to do a big thing together. "

The mayor said a lot of words in one breath, and the townspeople below all looked up at him.

Most people looked at him with doubts in their eyes, as if they were doubting that the mayor was telling them a story, or if the words in his mouth were true history?
After taking a short breath, the mayor continued, "The method the ancestors came up with is actually very simple. It is to find a way to let the older people enter reincarnation earlier, so that the young people of the next generation can give birth to children sooner." Come, wait for the child to grow up and give birth to another child, and when the child is old, he will be reincarnated and become a child again, so that there will be endless descendants.”

Hearing what the mayor said, a young man hurriedly asked, "Then what kind of spiritual power, do we still have it? Can this thing turn out gold, silver, treasures and big girls?"

The mayor glanced at the second son and said, "It's gone, let alone you, this power has been gone since my grandfather's generation."

When the other townspeople heard this, they burst into laughter immediately.

This laughter made the young man blush with shame. He only thought that he had said something wrong, but he didn't know that most of the others were laughing at him for taking the story told by the mayor as the truth.

But what the mayor said next made these people stop laughing.

"That's why I said at first that the ancestral house is not a place for the ancestors, but a place for the townspeople to reincarnate.

But those who are sent to the wooden house, or those who enter the ancestral house at night, have all reincarnated.

The aging parents of every family in our town were not taken away by their ancestors, but became the daughters and daughters of unknown families.

So the matter of paying tribute is just a fib lied to us by our ancestors.In fact no one has ever been able to bless us somewhere..."

As soon as he said this, some people were not willing to listen to it.

"Mayor, you are so good at making things up! Can parents become our children? Can we still be children when we are old? Aren't you talking nonsense!"

"Don't say that. I listened to what the mayor said. It's quite reasonable. Isn't there an old saying that raising children and raising daughters are all debt collectors? It's not that we owed our parents in the previous life, and we have to give them to our parents in this life." Is your mother a ox or a horse?"

The meaning of the person who answered the words sounded like he was agreeing with the mayor, but his tone of voice was in tune, and he was clearly mocking the mayor for making up nonsense at the moment.

Seeing that everyone was about to disagree again, the mayor interrupted everyone's discussion and said, "Whether there is any ancestor's blessing, let's not talk about it for now. The reincarnation is because the ancestors didn't think about it back then, so generations after generations Afterwards, the people of future generations are indeed getting worse and worse.

Tell yourselves, over the years, do you feel that you have been filial to your parents when you were children?

Do you look at your parents more and more like you are looking at your enemies?
Also, look down at your children.Take a closer look and see if there is any truth in the eyes they look at you..."

Many people in the crowd immediately looked down at their children after hearing this.

After a closer look, it was discovered that there was a strange dodge in the children's eyes, and their eyes were not so clean and pure, as if they were adults at all.

Liu Quanshuan, who was also standing in the crowd, suddenly had an empathetic understanding of what the mayor said.

He remembered that he had been inexplicably mature and sensible since he was a child, and his mother had always loved him for being obedient and obedient.

But he knew that he was not the good boy he pretended to be. He felt that there was another self living in his body, a mature self.

After he also became a parent, he found that his eyes were all on the child, and in his eyes, his parents were objects that could be sent to pay tribute for God's anointing at any time.

His indifference to his parents who gave birth to him was so indifferent that even he himself couldn't believe it.

Whenever he heard that people of the same age forced his parents to pay tribute as soon as possible, he was not surprised at all.

Perhaps, as the mayor said, the people born after generations of reincarnations have become worse and worse.The debt owed in the previous life must be repaid in this life, and if you owe the debt in this life, you will not be able to escape in the next life.

What Liu Quanshuan didn't know was that Father Liu who was standing not far from him was thinking the same thing as him.

The latter's idea is even more radical than that of Liu Quanshuan.Because Liu's father couldn't find the meaning of living, he even decided to die in Liu's mother's place.Apart from death, he couldn't find any other way to escape, as if one day of life would only lead to one more day of pain.

However, there were only a few townspeople who responded to the mayor's words, and most of them were unwilling to even use their brains a little bit.Regarding what the mayor said up to now, they just thought they were listening to the story, and they didn't think about it at all.

Some people even urged him impatiently, "Okay, okay, you called us here today to tell these stupid stories? I said, have you finished all the stories? Can everyone go back to their respective houses?"

"That's right, mayor, you said that you called so many people to this place, but you didn't mention anything serious. Do you really think that everyone is full and looking for work?"

"I think everyone should go home separately! It's getting dark, and the ancestors are going to come out for activities at night. Don't stay here to hinder the interest of the ancestors..."

The mayor, who realized that no one would believe him after telling the truth for a long time, had no choice but to look for help to the little girl behind him who had never said a word.

The sun is fading, and night is coming, covering the world with darkness.

Turning around, the mayor saw an oil torch in the little girl's hand at some point.

She picked up a handful of torches that were on the ground, and lit the torch not long after.

The beating orange-red light of the flame was particularly dazzling in the fading twilight.

The townspeople who were about to disperse were immediately attracted by the flames.

They followed the light of the fire and saw a short girl holding a torch as long as an adult's arm, with her back to the crowd and walking towards the ancestral house standing in the darkness.

Many townspeople were almost scared out of their wits by the scene they saw.

Someone ran and yelled, "Stop! That little girl in front of you, stop! Put down the torch!"

"Well, whose child is so ignorant!"

"What is she trying to do? Could it be that she wants to burn down the ancestral house?!"

The fast men rushed forward to stop Lin Shu from burning the ancestral house.

The rest of the women were spinning around in a hurry, stomping their feet angrily, for fear that the men would be too slow to snatch the torch from the little girl's hand.

However, Lin Shu, who was very close to the ancestral house, only walked a few steps before throwing the torch in her hand towards the ancestral house.The main room of the house was filled with haystacks and dry wood during the day, and poured with kerosene. Now when it meets an open flame, it burns extremely fast.

After the fire started, the people who came to stop it barely stopped in front of the ancestral house.

Seeing the flames burning inside, the dozen or so men who rushed forward were unable to advance or retreat for a while.

It was still an elderly woman who shouted, "It's burning, it's really burning! It's a short life! What are you guys doing? Why don't you find a way to get water to put out the fire!"

As soon as she finished speaking, several people reacted and quickly ran to the well under the big willow tree to get water to put out the fire.

But they just stood by the well, and when they looked into the well, the reflection of the ancestral house appeared on the water surface at the bottom of the well in front of them.But in a short time, the people who suddenly felt dizzy fell into the well one after another with a "plop".

This scene frightened many villagers to scream, and some children were frightened and cried.

Not far away, the mayor, who saw this tragedy happening, shook his head helplessly.

I don’t know what went wrong with the spiritual powers left behind by the ancestors. Now, as long as someone approaches the land of the ancestral home, anyone may have an accident.

What's more, he didn't lie. The new generation in the town is really not as good as the previous generation, and each generation is worse than the previous generation.

It's a pity that although he told the truth about the ancestral house under the instruction of that "little ancestor", there was nothing he could do about it because everyone didn't believe his words.

He is awake, others are not awake and do not want to wake up, who can wake up a group of people pretending to be asleep?

How to go next depends on the arrangement of the "little ancestor".

In front of the ancestral house, as the fire burned more and more intensely, the raging flames illuminated Lin Shu's face standing in front of the threshold.

Ever since she was killed in this town for the first time, she knew that some people in this town were scarier than ghosts.It wasn't until she saw the truth of the ancestral house for the second time that she realized that the horror in human nature had been brought down from the root, and would even be passed down from generation to generation.

There was no better way to break this terrible cycle than to burn the root of the evil in front of her with a fire.

The mayor is a sober man.

It's a pity that no one listened to what he said, the truth he told.

At this time, Lin Shu's fire burned down the ancestral house. Seeing that the fire could not be extinguished, many people sat on the ground and cried because their faith collapsed.

There were also some old people who were approaching the tribute day, but now they breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were lucky to have escaped.

There are still some people who feel empty in their hearts. They are afraid that if there is no ancestral house in the future, how will the people in the town live? Who will protect everyone and protect future generations?

This fire has not only illuminated people's hearts, but also illuminated the various states of beings.

In the dark night, the flames burning from the inside of the ancestral house engulfed the whole house in a short time.

Accompanied by the thick smoke covering the sky and the crying and wailing of the crowd, this ancestral house that had been passed down for hundreds of years and worshiped by the townspeople for hundreds of years finally collapsed completely with a click.

"Ancestor! Our ancestor!"

Some people couldn't bear the blow in front of them, and they fainted directly after crying heartbreakingly.

An elderly woman even wept bitterly, "The ancestral house is gone, the ancestral house is gone just like that...God, old ancestor, who will tell me why all this is?"

The other people heard her cries, their faces were also full of sorrow, like a mourning concubine, silent and speechless.

When the ancestral house completely collapsed, the mayor himself knelt on the ground with tears in his eyes.Even though he knew the truth of the matter and knew that the ancestral house should be burned, at this moment, he still felt that he was a sinner.

Lin Shu, who was standing not far in front of him at that time, looked at the night sky with flames and sparks in front of her, but said in a low voice, "No, the matter is not over yet."

Just as her words fell, the ancient well that swallowed several living people just now and the big willow tree beside the well suddenly trembled violently, as if they were about to come out of the ground, and even brought the surrounding space together. and twisted up.

Seeing this scene, Lin Shu's face couldn't help but become slightly solemn.

(End of this chapter)