At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we finally walked into this legendary town. If we hadn't known the legend beforehand, and if we hadn't stood on the hillside and inexplicably felt the lifelessness of the whole town, I would have just walked in.

You would think this is just an ordinary, run-down town.

Just like countless small towns that have existed and disappeared in the history of China, except for making people feel desolate from the heart, no one can stop this pace.

In late autumn, the sunshine at 4 o'clock in the afternoon is no longer warm enough, and in this town where the northwest wind blows from time to time and stirs up dust, the sunshine seems a little blurry.

There are not many traces of the times here. Everything appears in front of us like an old photo. Typical buildings from the 1950s and 1960s, vague slogans on the walls, and even slogans left from special periods.

Still staying in this town.

As the driver said, after walking in this town for more than ten minutes, we didn't see many young people. Most of them were old people walking slowly, and occasionally there were a few children. In the afternoon, except for a few canteens,

There wasn't even a restaurant open in the whole town.

"Where are you going to stay tonight?" Brother Chengxin gave up hope of finding a hotel or anything like that in this place.

"Let's stay overnight." I said helplessly. In fact, I really wanted to take a look at the legendary shack where Lin Jianguo lived. He did such mysterious things in it. I really wanted to explore it and see if I could

It would be a pity to find any clues even after so long. Although this town is not big, it has a dazzling number of alleyways. I have no idea where Lin Jianguo's shack is, so it is even more impossible to find it.

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In fact, I don’t know if it still exists after all this time. It was only when I saw how old the town was that I got this idea.

Now that we have decided to stay overnight, we no longer wander around the town, but sincerely want to find a family to stay overnight. However, we have encountered unprecedented difficulties in this town because no one is willing to let us stay overnight.

, even if it’s a house that looks very big, with a yard, I don’t want to.

People in this town seem to be very defensive. An old man even said to us: "There are almost no outsiders coming here in our town, and there is nothing to see. You should find a car to go somewhere else. Here."

Almost no outsiders stay here overnight.”

Even those of us who hit a wall felt embarrassed and strange at the same time. Even Brother Chengxin couldn't help but cursed: "Why are the people in this town so strange? Don't they even have relatives in other places? Then come the relatives."

What should I do? Drive him away too?"

But he didn't want his words to be heard by an old man who didn't look too old. He suddenly said: "To return relatives, you need to have relatives in other places. Those who can find a way to get out have all gone out. Who stays here? The farmers."

After all, we all have a land to live on, what is there here?”

This sentence actually expresses the sadness of this town. In the past, this place should be supported by the timber transportation office. Now let alone this place, even if there are not many timber transportation offices in China, this town has been lost.

The biggest support is that no other industry has developed, so this is also the reason for the failure.

However, this gave me an excuse to strike up a conversation. From the way the old man answered our conversation, it could be seen that he was not as defensive as other people in this town, so I said: "Uncle, can you make money if you have money?"

Earn? How about letting the three of us stay overnight and give us one hundred a day?"

"Are you bad people?" The old man looked at the three of us several times. Fortunately, the three of us looked human-like, at least we wouldn't make people think we were bad people.

Ruyue said with a smile: "Uncle, do you think we look alike?"

The uncle didn't know what he was thinking. He pondered for a while and said: "Forget it, anyway, I am a lonely old man with no children and no money. You can't do anything to me. How much money can I make from you?

If you want to drink, come to my place."

"Really, thank you very much, uncle." Ruyue was very happy when she heard that the matter of staying overnight was finally settled.

But I always feel that the people in this town have a sense of decadence even when they talk, and they are very weird and very defensive, but that kind of defensiveness is just because they don’t want you to get close to their lives, not because they are curious about who you are.

What are you doing here? Who are you? They are indifferent and have almost lost all curiosity about people.

How could the people here become like this? At least in the story, I think this is an ordinary town, and the people in this town are also very ordinary people, and they do not exist in this state.

I was confused, but this kind of thing cannot be solved in a short time. At this moment, the old man who was leading the way suddenly turned around, looked at us somewhat mysteriously, and said:

"Since you want to live here, I can't stop you. But I want to say first, the night here is different from other places, so don't make a fuss."

"Ah?" Brother Chengxin, who was walking beside me, was startled, not because of how scary these words were, but because of the sudden turn around of the old man and his mysterious expression, which surprised people.

But after the old man said this, he did not allow us to say more or ask any more questions. He just put his hands behind his back and walked forward. The three of us could only look at each other in confusion and helplessly followed.

Fucked him.

After all, he is a native of the town. This old man is extremely familiar with the town. Those crooked alleys are as if they don’t exist in his eyes. We can hardly keep up with his pace because of our fast pace.

Several times we had to ask him to stop and wait for us young people to keep up.

However, there was a small episode on the way, that is, the old man seemed to have met an acquaintance. Seeing him walking the three of us in the town, his face immediately darkened, and the old man seemed to have met an acquaintance.

The uncle pulled him aside to talk.

The dialect here is very strong. We basically use Mandarin to communicate with the people here, and they can barely speak Mandarin clearly. However, once they talk in dialect and avoid us, we can't understand them at all.

What are you talking about?

It's just that I've traveled to many places. Although I can't understand what they say, I can barely understand one or two sentences in their dialect. In addition, my hearing has always been good, so in this case, I actually heard two mock sentences.

From the vague sentence fragments and my own imagination, I came up with this short paragraph of conversation.

"Why do you agree to anything just to make money?"

"I don't have children or relatives like you, so what do I, a lonely old man, have to worry about?"

"You have no conscience."

"What's so heartless? I won't take them in"

I only heard this short section of the conversation, and I really couldn't hear the rest clearly. But the more I listened, the more confused I became. It was a wrong move to accept us from another old man's mouth.

Already?

They talked for about five or six minutes. I don’t know what method the old man who agreed to stay with us finally used. In short, he seemed to have convinced another old man. The old man looked at us with a strange look, and then became a little resentful.

He left without saying anything more.

The old man who agreed to stay the night with us took a look at our expressions to make sure that we didn't understand the conversation between them and that there was nothing unusual about our expressions, and then walked ahead to lead the way.

How could everything here be so weird? In the story, this is obviously a normal town! Along the way, I didn’t have the chance to tell Brother Chengxin and Ru Yue about the conversation I discovered, so I could only wait and settle down.

Can you please take the time to tell them quickly?

In the midst of his wild thoughts, the old man finally stopped. In front of a yard that looked a bit dusty and looked like a scrap collection station, he turned around and said to us: "Here we are, my home is right here. There are enough rooms. You can stay wherever you like."

"There are only two things you must remember. The first is one hundred dollars a day, and the second is that no matter what happens at night, don't make a fuss and don't cause any trouble to me."

What the old man said was emphasized again, which puzzled us, but we had more experience, so we didn't say anything.
Chapter completed!