Watanabe

The sun had set on the western mountain, and before the sky was completely dark, a faint white crescent had already hung in the sky in the east.

When it was close to seven o'clock in the afternoon, Uncle Gong called them to prepare to enter the village.

Within 10 minutes, it was already completely dark, and they walked through the wilderness and fields to the village.

The red paint on the pillars at the entrance of the village has all fallen off, leaving only a faint trace of the bright red of that year. On the pillars is an equally old wooden signboard with three big characters "Taoyuan Village" written on it.

The slanted "village" on the far left is an abbreviation, and it is lined up with the word "Taoyuan" in the thick and ancient style, just like old grandparents leading a naughty little grandson.

The village head of Taoyuan Village is surnamed Liu. After Song Zhuo and his party waited at the village for a few minutes, the village head Liu came. After handing over to Uncle Gong, he led Song Zhuo and the others into the village.

Village head Liu politely invited Uncle Gong into the village for a quick meal, but Uncle Gong didn't seem to want to stay here at all, so he left in a hurry after speaking.

Walking to the village, Song Zhuo found that Taoyuan Village was different from other rural villages. Although it was already night, the houses on both sides of the village road were lit with lights, and the dark blue sky seemed to have faded.

These houses are all made of earth, scattered on both sides of the village road, interspersed with the yards of several houses that have collapsed.

Village head Liu led them, "This is an old village, few people live in it. The village was connected to electricity two years ago, and you can see that all the lights were connected at that time. Further on, there are brick houses built with aid from the county. It’s much better than these dirt houses, where most of the villagers live.”

Everyone else was listening quietly, only one girl asked curiously, "Since no one lives there, why are there lights on at the door?"

Village head Liu paused as he led the team, smiled honestly, and did not speak.

The boy next to the girl gave her an arm and motioned her to stop talking nonsense.

After walking for a while, they came to a row of brick and tile houses, and saw many villagers coming and going between the houses, and some villagers were walking to the fields with hoes and lamps on their shoulders.

Pointing to the row of houses, the village chief introduced, "The earthen houses before were prone to collapse and were unsafe. The county paid to build these houses, and the villagers now live here."

Bypassing the row of houses, the village chief took them into a compound, which is the village committee of Taoyuan Village, where Song Zhuo and the others were arranged to live.

The wife of the village head is also a simple rural woman. She seems to have just come out of the kitchen, and while wiping her hands, she said to the guests from afar, "I just started to prepare, you wait a while, and there will be something to eat in a while. There is nothing good in our backcountry, so don't hold it against you."

Chu Sheng is the leading teacher of Genetics and Song Zhuo's senior, so he is naturally the leader of their group. "Where is it? We are bothering you."

The village committee is behind the row of brick houses, and there should be few people here at ordinary times, and the surroundings are surrounded by weeds.

But after they arrived, villagers kept coming to watch. The villagers looked outside the fence, but no one came in to talk to them.

After eating a simple meal, the village head only told them to have a good rest today and talk about everything tomorrow night.As for why we can't talk about it tomorrow, it's because, in this Taoyuan village, you can't go out during the day.

The village committee didn't have many rooms. After dinner, a few girls happily chose a room and put their luggage in. They also warmly invited Yue Mingjiao, who was also very gregarious and agreed to live with them.

The rest of the room was shared by a dozen other men. Song Zhuo and Song Ke, plus two male students from the School of Psychology, lived in one room.

While the two students were washing up, Song Zhuo grabbed Song Ke and chatted, "Didn't you say that Xiao Liao came with you? Why is it Yue Mingjiao now?"

Song Ke didn't seem to hear the suspicion in his words, and said calmly, "Originally, we planned to let Xiao Liao's apprentice, Zhou Wendi, take Xiao Liao's class for a while, but before leaving, Xiao Liao still didn't trust him. Apprentice, I went to invite Yue Mingjiao. Xiao Liao must be in charge of the entire Bishui City during this time, so he should be quite busy."

Song Zhuo rubbed his chin and nodded, "That's a hard work for Xiao Liao. But, there is a question I can't figure out."

Song Ke looked straight into Song Zhuo's eyes, curled his lips, and signaled him to continue asking.

"You are my second uncle. You are worried about my safety, so it is reasonable to come to this ghost place with me. But Xiao Liao and I are not relatives, and we have only known each other for a month, so you just fuck me like this Is it a bit strange to be over-minded? Especially now that there is Yue Mingjiao, and I have only met her a few times, how can we let her put down her work and follow us into the mountains?"

"Hahahahaha." Song Ke laughed a few times, and then said meaningfully, "Didn't I say it all? You are the life of the savior. Isn't it for world peace that they came to protect you?"

Seeing him joking, Song Zhuo knew that he would not reveal anything more, so he changed the question again, "How did you know that Chu Sheng?"

"Business contacts," Song Ke said proudly, "Your second uncle has business contacts with most of the prominent people in Bishui City, but don't worry, these network resources will belong to you in the future."

"you……"

Song Zhuo still had something to ask, but a sudden noise in the yard interrupted their conversation.Song Zhuo had no choice but to put down many doubts, exchanged glances with Song Ke, and walked out.

There are many villagers around the fence gate of the village committee yard, some of them are carrying lamps, some of them are holding flashlights.Song Zhuo took a closer look under the glare of the light, and found that the expressions of these people seemed to be very angry.

After Song Zhuo, other students, as well as Chu Sheng and Yue Mingjiao, also left the room.

Chu Sheng is the leading teacher of Genetics and Song Zhuo's senior, so he is naturally the leader of the investigation and research team. If something goes wrong, it is natural for him to go out to negotiate.

"Fellow folks, we are an investigation group from Bishui University who came to our village, and there will be more interruptions in the next few days." Chu Sheng walked over and said with style.

Just after Chu Sheng finished speaking, the 60-year-old man who took the lead in the village also shouted loudly, "I don't care who you are, we don't welcome you here."

Afterwards, the voices of the nearby villagers also responded and cheered one after another, "Yes, you are not welcome." "Please leave, we do not entertain outsiders in Taoyuan Village." "If you want to die, hurry up!"

The unwelcoming attitude of the villagers made the students worried, and Chu Sheng was also a little irritable, but he still tried his best to suppress his temper and maintain the indifference of a scholar. "Everyone be quiet, listen to me, we are just here to experience the customs of our place, we will not cause trouble to you, let alone hurt you, we also brought a lot of outside gifts to the villagers, I believe it will be ok Help everyone."

It was still the leading man in his 50s who spoke first, and he snorted coldly, "Won't it hurt us? That person is here, and he said he won't hurt us?"

In the mixed lights, the old man's fingers pointed firmly at Song Zhuo.

"It's him. It's him who caused our whole village to become inhuman and ghost-like. It's him who caused us to have normal activities at night. He's back now. What? It's what caused us to return to the village. Not enough, is he willing to let the whole village die?"

Following his words, everyone's eyes turned to Song Zhuo.

For the first time in his life, Song Zhuo was stared at as a prisoner, so he had no choice but to spread his hands, "I have never been to this place."

"Teacher, haven't you been here before? What about them?" Wang Cheng was standing next to Song Zhuo. Like other students, he was in a daze.

Song Zhuo didn't say anything more.

The villagers didn't listen to Song Zhuo's excuse at all, and they still shouted, "Get out!" "Get out!"

Just as the villagers became more and more excited and were about to rush in to chase them away, the village head who had already returned rushed back to the village committee.

When Village Chief Liu came, he said a few words of apology to Chu Sheng, and then started working with the villagers, "These are teachers and graduate students from Bishui University, and they were contacted by the county. We all know that the outside world is better than us There are too many developed ones, and the county asked them to come for the development of our village. You don’t want our sons and grandchildren to be trapped here in the future, right?”

After Village Chief Liu said this, he pulled the man who took the lead in trouble, "Uncle, you have always been reasonable, why are you messing around with everyone today?"

The man who took the lead shook off the village chief's hand, "You are the one who is messing around! Do you know who he is? He is the scourge who yelled to kill our whole village 30 years ago. It is because of him that our whole village is talented. With this strange disease, how can you let him into the village? Do you want to kill us all together with him?"

Village head Liu was surprised, "He is that person? How is this possible? My father said that person died 30 years ago! And even if that person is alive, he should be about the same age as you now? Look, He is so young, only in his twenties!"

The village chief's uncle continued, "But he looks exactly like that man, I can't remember it wrong, it's really exactly the same."

"Hey, it looks like you! Uncle, you are also a highly respected student in our village. How could you make such a mistake?" Village Chief Liu raised his uncle's arm in a funny way, "Everyone heard, this is A misunderstanding, it's all gone, gone."

Afterwards, Village Chief Liu and Chu Sheng signaled, and helped his uncle to leave first, "Uncle, I'll take you home, and Xiaobao will learn to read with you later."

After they left, the other villagers also slowly dispersed.

The students breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to wash and prepare for bed and rest.

Only Song Zhuo, the conversation between the old man and the village chief just now echoed in his ears repeatedly, and it lasted for a long time.