Chapter 76 Wedding and mourning (7) (1)
The TV in the room was still playing a program, and noisy sounds came from it, which made the atmosphere between the two people in the room who didn't speak to each other even more awkward.
The middle-aged man sat on the sofa while greeting Yan, but he himself was fidgeting. He subconsciously glanced out the window, with fear in his eyes that he was trying hard to hide.
Like being afraid of something outside the room.
At this moment.
When the middle-aged man wanted to know the current situation of his friend from decades ago, he felt danger all around him, as if ghosts were waiting outside the window and at the door, waiting to devour anyone. Only this small locked room was safe.
Yan Shixun watched the middle-aged man's reaction calmly, while also observing the furnishings in the room.
It was a typical room for a person living alone. Although it was tidy, it didn't have many personal belongings. It looked like the owner of the room didn't put too much energy into his life, but just simply maintained his life.
But in sharp contrast to the pitifully few clothes and other items are the religious ornaments that are everywhere in the room.
There was not only a small shrine on the table, with a Maitreya Buddha statue inside that looked ferocious without a smile, but also a huge portrait of the Horse King hung on the wall behind the TV.
Commonly known as "Lord Horse" among the people, he is revered in Taoism as Ma Lingguan, the Great Emperor Huaguang, one of the four guardian saints of Taoism, and is good at using fire to suppress evil spirits.
Yan Shixun remembered the well in the backyard that he had seen through the window when he was downstairs.
At that time, the young man said that it was used to ward off evil spirits, but actually it was used to ward off evil spirits.
The well is filled with water, but there is no water in it.
Ma Lingguan is good at fire, but water overcomes fire.
One ghost, one god, one water, one fire, they counteract and confront each other.
Obviously, this middle-aged man believed that there were ghosts around him and was extremely afraid of them, so he hung a portrait of Ma Lingguan at home, hoping to use Ma Lingguan's power to protect himself.
Moreover, in Buddhism, Maitreya Buddha is the future Buddha, who smiles all the time because he is in the Western Paradise, and often gives people a friendly and interesting feeling. However, what Yan Shixun saw now was that the Buddha statue had lost its kind and benevolent look, and was no longer in the Western Paradise, but had become ferocious and angry.
What did this Buddha statue see?
Not only that, Yan Shixun looked around the room and saw many decorations besides the two statues of gods and Buddhas facing him, belonging to Buddhism and Taoism respectively.
Like the Bagua mirror hanging next to the window, the two peach wood swords hanging crosswise above the door frame, the magic mirror placed above the bedside, and the yellow Taoist talismans posted everywhere.
There were also miscellaneous items in the room such as copper coins, wooden fish, gourds, cinnabar, etc. The room of the middle-aged man did not look like a bedroom at all, but rather a display of all the items in Buddhism and Taoism that could exorcise ghosts. Yan Shixun frowned when he saw it.
What happened to the friend of the breakfast shop owner after the boss fled far away that made him become so weird, despise his own life and fear ghosts?
"Yang Guang..." The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "You said you know Yang Guang. Are you Yang Guang's friend? How is he doing now?"
"And Yang Hua, is she okay now?"
Yan Shixun turned his gaze away from the decorations in the room, looked at the middle-aged man, and said calmly: "Yang Guang is fine now, but Yang Hua is dying."
“Crack!”
The cup slipped out of the middle-aged man's hand and fell to the ground, breaking into pieces.
The man, who originally wanted to hide his nervousness and anxiety by drinking water, almost jumped up from his chair in fear, completely ignoring the water spilling all over himself and the glass fragments at his feet, and rushed directly towards Yan Shixun.
"What did you say?" The middle-aged man's voice was obviously trembling, and he wanted to hold Yan Shixun's shoulders with trembling hands, but Yan Shixun dodged by slightly turning his body.
"How could Yang Hua die? It's impossible! Her sister is still alive. She shouldn't be allowed to die!" The middle-aged man did not care about Yan Shixun's reaction, but was eager to get an answer to prove that what Yan Shixun had just said was a lie.
The caution and gentleness he had shown in front of the younger generation were now completely gone.
The man, who is already over 40 years old, seemed to have returned to the fear of decades ago. He was still the young boy who was powerless to change anything and could only watch all the tragedies happen without being able to stop them.
Yang Hua’s sister?
Yan Shixun developed a strange feeling in his heart because the man mentioned Yang Duo.
According to Yang Guang's narration, Yang Duo was buried alive by villagers decades ago, and he also saw Yang Duo turned into a vengeful ghost with his own eyes. There is no possibility that Yang Duo is still alive.
If that was the case, then why did the man sound as if Yang Duo could still play an important role in protecting her sister? Where did this certainty come from?
Yan Shixun temporarily put his doubts aside and looked at the anxious man: "Calm down first. Aren't you afraid that the people outside the door will hear such a loud noise?"
These words hit the mark of the man's fears, and he seemed to suddenly realize something. He nervously turned his head to look at the door behind him. When he heard no sound from outside, he relaxed his tension.
Seeing that the man was calmed down and barely kept his sanity, Yan Shixun spoke again: "Don't worry, Yang Hua is not dead yet. It's just that she is in danger now."
"Also, you just mentioned Yang Hua's sister? Excuse me, but I'm afraid she can't protect Yang Hua. It was Yang Duo who caused Yang Hua to be in such a dangerous situation now."
The middle-aged man murmured: "How is it possible... Yang Duo, Yang Duo is a good child."
"I'm afraid that even the best child will become completely different from what you remember after being dead for decades."
Yan Shixun said: "I want to confirm with you first, do you know that Yang Duo is dead? Why did you just say that Yang Duo would protect Yang Hua?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and shook his head slowly: "I know. But, Yang Duo's condition, how can it be called dead. They say that the best thing to do is to rest in peace, but..."
He sighed, his voice choked, and as if he was avoiding something, he couldn't continue.
Yan Shixun noticed the middle-aged man's expression. He knew that he couldn't push him too hard now. The man didn't trust him yet and still had reservations. Moreover, the man's mental state was on the verge of collapse. If he pushed him too hard, it would only backfire.
He just deliberately revealed Yang Hua's critical condition.
Because as soon as the middle-aged man opened his mouth, he asked Yang Hua after asking Yang Guang without waiting for him to say anything. It seemed that compared to Yang Guang, whom he knew well since childhood, Yang Hua made him more worried and guilty, so he couldn't wait to know that Yang Hua was safe and sound, so that he could continue the conversation with peace of mind.
Yan Shixun wanted to get more information about decades ago from the man, and know what happened in the village party secretary's family, which is why he built a ghost-suppressing well in the backyard and placed so many ghost-exorcising ornaments in the man's room.
Therefore, he chose to start with the thing that the man was most worried about, and when the man was still on guard against him when they first met, he quickly broke the man's mental barrier, causing the man to lose his rationality in panic and reveal more information to him.
And the man's reaction also told Yan Shixun——
There is a problem with Yang Duo.
Even after Yang Guang fled the village with Yang Hua, in addition to the things that Yang Guang told Yan Shixun, other things happened to Yang Duo that Yang Guang didn't know about.
Otherwise, the man would not mention "rest in peace".
Yan Shixun thought about it and said, "Yang Guang and I are friends. After Yang Hua got into trouble, Yang Guang was busy taking care of her and couldn't leave, so he asked me to come to the village to find a way to save Yang Hua. Yang Guang found someone to see him, and the master said that the problem lies with Yang Hua's sister. The person who tied the bell must untie it, and we must go back to the village to find a way to save Yang Hua."
"But, not to mention that Yang Hua is too weak to go out now, Yang Guang has no time to come back to take care of her. As Yang Guang's friend, you should also know that in their situation, returning to the village means death. It's too dangerous."
Yan Shixun lied without blushing or getting nervous, and his expression was so calm, as if what he said was right.
From the man's reliance on exorcism items, Yan Shixun could sense the man's respect and reliance on the master who could exorcise ghosts. If he wanted the man to tell him what he wanted to know, he had to give him a fulcrum that he could feel at ease on and rely on.
But this fulcrum cannot be him, who is not trusted by the man yet, but a third party.
So Yan Shixun did not tell the truth, but changed his statement to one that would be more convincing to the man.
The middle-aged man had no doubts, and looked at Yan Shixun with more trust: "The one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it..."
Yan Shixun took the opportunity to pursue and said, "He and Yang Hua depended on each other in another city and lived a very good and happy life. You should know that if something happened to Yang Hua, Yang Guang would not live alone. By then, the two people who had finally escaped from the village would both die, and their original happiness would be completely destroyed."
"As a mutual friend of the happy couple Yang Guang and Yang Hua, is that the ending you want to see?"
The middle-aged man was greatly shaken by Yan Shixun’s words.
Finally, he gritted his teeth as if he had made a decision.
"Okay, what do you need to find in the village to save Yanghua? I'll help you."
The middle-aged man seemed to recall the past events, and sighed with nostalgia in his eyes: "It was Yang Guang and I who were careless back then. I didn't expect that the uncles would be so cruel that Yang Duo could not be saved. This is what we owe Yang Hua's family, and I will pay it back."
"I helped Yang Guang back then, so it doesn't matter if I help him again. At worst, I'll just die! There's no point in living like this anyway."
After the middle-aged man figured it out, the look in his eyes when he looked at Yan Shixun was no longer as wary as before.
Seeing that his goal was achieved, Yan Shixun's lips curled into a smile.
"I'm not familiar with the village, and I don't know what to find to help Yang Hua. But I listened to what the master said, and he pointed out a few characteristics. Why don't you just tell me what happened that year, so that I can match it with the characteristics the master said, and then we can determine how we can help Yang Hua."
The middle-aged man nodded and talked about what happened that year without any concealment.
The middle-aged man was Jiacun’s child, named Yang Han.
He and Yang Guang have been friends since childhood. Their relationship was so good that when they were working in the fields, they imitated the story of the Three Heroes of the Peach Garden told on the radio. They took a little girl of the same age from the neighboring village, and they went to a small mound in the field and stuck some straw on it as a statue and incense burner, and kowtowed together to swear brotherhood.
Yang Guang patted his chest and told him that after they became sworn brothers, they would be brothers closer than real brothers. If anything happened in his family in the future, Yang Guang would take over all the matters and told him not to worry.
Yang Han looked at Gan Yuntian's Yang Guang and was shocked for a moment, then he agreed immediately, saying that as long as Yang Guang needed help, he could just find him and he would accompany him even if he risked his life.
Then the children looked at each other, laughed together, and decided to give up their farm work, go to the market to have some fun, and then come back to "conquer the world."
At the market, the girl of the same age was attracted by the bright red pendants on the cart of a small vendor, so the children decided to pick out beads with their own names on them and weave them onto the pendants, one for each person, as a token of their brotherhood.
Yang Han solemnly took the braided red rope pendant from the girl and promised that as long as the pendant was there and the trust was there, they would always stand by each other.
At that time I thought it was just the nonsense of a young man, but I didn't expect it to be the real truth.
The imagined prosperous world did not come, and the young people encountered chaos first.
Yang Guang fell in love with Yang Hua and happily told Yang Han that he planned to go to Yang Hua's house to propose marriage after he built his new house.
Yang Han was very happy. He had never seen Yang Guang so happy before. Because of Yang Guang, he began to look forward to the scene of marrying his bride and imagined what kind of person his future bride would be.
Yang Hua’s sister threw herself into Yang Han’s arms. The little girl giggled and said that her brother was also thinking about the bride.
Yang Han's face turned red with rage, and he hurriedly stuffed a piece of candy into the little girl's mouth, telling her not to talk nonsense.
"Brother, will I be your future bride? If Brother Yang Guang marries my sister, does that mean you have to marry me?"
The little girl shouted for candy and looked at Yang Han with curious eyes. Every word she said seemed to have a hint of sweetness, which made Yang Han dizzy and lost.
However, the beautiful dreams of young people are ultimately just fantasies, and they cannot overcome the older generation who are in charge.
Especially in villages where clan customs are deeply rooted, the clan leader and elders are the ones who decide everything.
"Our family has been unable to give birth to a son for so many years, and we only have two money-losing goods. When I die, there won't even be anyone to burn incense for me. Can you elders bear to see me suffer like this?"
After Yang Hua's father was once again bullied by his cousins for not having a son, he could no longer hold back his anger and directly accused the clan leader.
The clan leader was persuaded by Yang Hua's father. After going to the ancestral grave to burn incense, he came back and said that the ancestor told him that the reason why Yang Hua's family had no children to carry on the family line was because they had sinned. When Yang Hua's father was young, he did not follow the clan's decision to marry a wife, but rebelled and married Yang Hua's mother, which angered the ancestor and the land god.
If you want to give birth to a boy, it is very simple. You must use Yanghua to sacrifice to the land, pay off the sins of Yanghua's father, and appease the anger of the land god. In this way, you can give birth to a boy.
Yang Hua's father happily agreed, and no one else in the village had any different opinions. Everyone was very happy, and when the uncles and aunts came to visit, they congratulated Yang Hua's father and said that Yang Hua marrying the god of the land was a great thing and a blessing for Yang Hua's father.
The only one who was unhappy was Yang Guang, who heard the news in his own village.
Yang Guang found Yang Han and wanted to ask him if this was true.
Because Yang Han's father was one of the clan elders, although he himself did not like this title, he always asked everyone not to call him that, saying that it was now open and they should call him village director.
But it is undeniable that Yang Han’s father was qualified to attend clan meetings and knew a lot of information in advance.
Yang Han was also shocked by the news brought by Yang Guang.
He eavesdropped on his father and mother's conversation and sighs, and heard his father say that it was a pity that such a good girl was going to die just like that. His mother tried to persuade his father, saying that he had tried his best to persuade and argue, and it was not his fault.
Yang Han felt like a bolt from the blue at that moment.
After knowing that this was actually true, Yang Guang was very anxious. He crossed the mountain to the neighboring village at night and took Yang Hua out of the house when everyone was asleep. He only had time to explain a few words to her before running out of the village at night.
Run, keep running!
Don't dare stop for a moment.
Early the next morning, Yang Han was hurriedly woken up by his eldest brother. After he told him something had happened, he realized what Yang Guang had done the night before.
"I thought Yang Guang would consider Yang Hua's family and know what kind of people in the village are like, so he wouldn't be so radical. So at that time, I was young and told Yang Guang everything I overheard without reservation."
Yang Han sighed and said to Yan Shixun: "Unfortunately, I underestimated Yang Guang's persistence in Yang Hua and the determination of the villagers."
"Over the years, whenever I couldn't sleep and woke up from a nightmare, I would think of the scene at that time, and deeply regretted that I told Yang Guang about the matter directly. We were too young and should have been more cautious. Unfortunately, none of us understood back then..."
Yang Han smiled bitterly and shook his head, as if he wanted to go back to the past and change what happened back then: "I often think, if it weren't for me, Yang Guang wouldn't know about this and wouldn't take Yang Hua away. In that case, maybe things could have turned around and Yang Duo wouldn't have died."
"I am a sinner, the indirect murderer of Yang Duo. However, Yang Duo is already dead, so nothing can happen to Yang Guang and Yang Hua who escaped with great difficulty. Otherwise, my persistence over the years will become a joke, and everything we have done will be in vain."
Yang Han slowly bent down, hugged his head with both hands, and his murmurs gradually became lower, as if he was completely immersed in the memories and pain of the past.
Yan Shixun looked at Yang Han like this and said calmly: "Yang Hua is very weak now because a ghost has possessed her. Maybe you know something? What happened to Yang Duo later?"
Yang Han did not hear Yan Shixun's voice. He was just immersed in his own world, mumbling words that no one else could understand.
Yan Shixun frowned, stood up and walked towards Yang Han. His slender fingers flexibly pinched the magic spell, trying to use a calming spell to calm Yang Han down.
However, the moment he stood up from the small sofa, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something flashing outside the window behind him.
Yan Shixun's eyes flashed and he quickly rushed to the window to look outside.
However, outside the window, there was only the dark night, the lights of the village not far away that could be seen from the fourth floor, and the village road vaguely illuminated by the dim street lights.
The branches swayed in the wind, and even the quilts that someone had left outside to dry and forgot to take in also fluttered around, casting elongated and ferocious reflections on the village road.
On the deserted village road in the middle of the night, it seemed as if a group of ghosts were about to come out and stalk the night.
Outside the courtyard, there are ghosts everywhere.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Yan Shixun, who was concentrating on looking outside, was startled. His heartbeat suddenly rose irregularly and then slowly fell back.
Yan Shixun took two last glances at the scene outside the window, but still didn't see anything unusual.
He then turned around and reminded Yang Han, who was still immersed in his memories, "Someone is looking for you, why don't you open the door and take a look?"
"Second uncle!" A young and energetic voice came from outside the door. It was the voice of a young man that Yan Shixun was familiar with before.
He remembered that the young man's name was Yang Tu.
Yang Tu was still knocking on the door: "Second Uncle, you should not be asleep yet, right? Hey, don't I know you? If you are not asleep, then don't pretend to be asleep. Come down and help. Grandpa asked us to make the quilts for the guests, and we don't have enough people."
Seeing Yang Han still sitting on the chair, holding his head in pain and mumbling nonsense, he showed no sign of waking up. The knocks on the door became more and more urgent, and even the door handle was turned, making a rattling sound. Yang Tu outside became more and more anxious, but he couldn't push the door open because it was locked.
Before figuring out the situation in the village, Yan Shixun couldn't allow himself to be suspected.
But Yang Han was in this state, and there were only him and Yang Han in the room. If Yang Tu came in, he would definitely suspect that he had done something to Yang Han.
No matter what he did, Yang Tu's perception of him would plummet. Once he was on guard, it would be difficult to lower it. If he needed to ask Yang Tu something later, it would be difficult.
Yan Shixun immediately made a decision that he must not let Yang Tu see Yang Han in this state.
He glanced at Yang Han who was still whispering, and strode towards the door.
"Strange, why did Second Uncle lock the door? Is he asleep? That shouldn't be the case. It's only what time now. It's not even time for Second Uncle to go to bed. Isn't he watching TV..."
Yang Tu was standing at the door, muttering in confusion to himself, when he saw the door suddenly open.
But the person who came out was not his second uncle, but someone from the program crew whom he had just met.
"Are you here to see your second uncle?"
Yan Shixun smiled, deliberately softening his eyebrows and eyes, making himself look easy to get along with: "He just said that he was very angry about your nonsense downstairs tonight, and he doesn't want to talk to you today."
Yan Shixun raised a slender finger in front of his light red lips, making a "shut up" gesture, and then raised his finger to point at the door that he had half-closed behind him after he came out, like a friendly gesture of consideration between friends, and whispered to Yang Tu: "You'd better not mess with your second uncle today. He seems very angry with you and looks like he wants to beat you up. He is holding back now, but if you appear in front of him again, it may not be the same."
Yang Tu, who grew up in the village, was a simple and cheerful person. He had never seen someone like Yan Shixun who could tell lies without blushing or getting nervous, and even control his facial expressions perfectly.
Because Yan Shixun's expression was so gentle and intimate, and his words were very similar to Yang Han's usual style, he became more convincing.
So Yang Tu did not doubt anything, but just lowered his head dejectedly, feeling a little regretful: "It is indeed my fault. I knew clearly that Uncle Yang Guang's matter was a blow to Second Uncle, but I still spoke out without restraint. It is reasonable for Second Uncle to be angry with me."
Seeing that Yang Tu believed it, Yan Shixun closed the door naturally, then raised his hand and put it on Yang Tu's shoulder, and half-dragged Yang Tu away from the door naturally without Yang Tu suspecting anything.
Yan Shixun said, "Didn't you say you wanted to make the bed? We can handle our own affairs, so there's no need to bother you."
Yang Tu replied blankly: "But, Grandpa said..."
"Hush." Yan Shixun touched his lips and said with a smile, "Then don't tell him. I'll do it with you and keep it a secret from him."
Yang Tu nodded subconsciously, not noticing anything was wrong.
Because when the program crew was dividing the rooms just now, Yan Shixun was paying attention to Yang Han's footsteps, so he did not participate in the division of the rooms.
But it just so happened that since he hadn't finished asking Yang Han all his questions, he might as well stay in the room on the fourth floor. This way it would be convenient for him to come find Yang Han when no one was around.
Yan Shixun changed his mind and casually pointed to the vacant room opposite Yang Han and said that he lived there.
The program crew were still eating and playing games in the living room on the first floor. From time to time, loud laughter broke out from downstairs, making the small building, which originally seemed empty, become much more lively.
Moreover, since many of the guests were experienced people who had been in the entertainment industry for many years, they were very smooth in dealing with people. When they wanted to praise someone, it was difficult for the other party to have a bad impression of them. Therefore, the village party secretary and his wife were also amused by the guests and became closer to them.
The younger generations were driven over by the happy and enthusiastic village party secretary and asked to do the work.
Yan Shixun mingled among a few young people, listening to their conversations, sorting out some of the situation in the village from their dialogues, and occasionally saying a few words to guide them towards the topics they wanted to know.
The young people did not realize Yan Shixun's purpose and smoothly talked about the situation in the village.
Just like what the program crew saw when they walked through the village just now, because it is close to the road, the leading village party secretary has accepted new ideas and studied the books issued by the organization, so his thinking is very active, and he leads the villagers of Jiacun to actively contact people from outside.
Especially for those who were transporting goods on the road, the village party secretary enthusiastically led them to introduce their own agricultural products. Because the price was low and the quality was good, some merchants happily reached cooperation with the village, so that the crops in the village were sold smoothly. And because there was no agricultural trade station to earn the difference, the villagers also earned much more money than other villages.
Therefore, Jia Village developed smoothly, and organized the villagers to learn from the merchants and sell the goods in the village directly outside. As a result, many middle-aged and young people in the village saw the outside world and were exposed to new ideas that they had never known before.
Gradually, Jiacun, which was originally located at the outermost edge of the Yang clan, became increasingly detached from the original clan's way of thinking and behavior patterns and developed its own ideas.
The people of Jia Village began to feel that it was time to change their way of life. Instead of listening to the so-called dreams of ancestors and the words of the clan leaders and elders, and not following the clan rules completely, they should abide by the laws of the city outside.
Guarding the road and getting the mind active will allow Jiacun to live a good life.
Moreover, for the other villages that still maintain traditional clan thinking, during major festivals and ancestor worship, when the people of Jia Village meet with people from other villages, they will mention the trends in the outside world and advise them to learn from the mountains and the world outside the clan, and not to live by clan rules that have been around for hundreds of years, while being as rotten as a corpse even though they are still alive.
However, most of those villages scoffed at the idea of the people in Jia Village, thinking that they were really stupid and that their ancestors did not bless them.
As time went by, the people of Jia Village, whose kindness was taken for granted, stopped talking about these things. However, during ancestor worship or major festivals, they became less willing to see the people of those villages.
"You came from outside, you didn't hear what they said. My dad couldn't stand it, let alone you. It's disgusting like an old zombie. If the ancestral hall and the family tree weren't together, who would be willing to go see them."
One of the young men rolled his eyes and said to Yan Shixun with some anger and disdain: "Anyway, I haven't been back home for more than ten years. It doesn't matter if no one cares about small shrimps like us. They think we are annoying, but we think they talk disgustingly, like old zombies who survived from the previous era."
"Don't say that. He is still a clan elder after all."
The companion next to him shook the quilt and nudged the young man with his elbow with a smile: "But I won't go home either. My mother said, out of sight, out of mind. My sister was only ten years old at the time. Every time I went there, those people said they wanted to marry my sister off. They also asked my mother to be kind and marry my sister to the lonely old man in the next village. My mother was so angry that we haven't been back since then. Haha, aren't you happy eating and playing cards at home during the Spring Festival? Why would you go back and find someone to do it?"
"But Yang Tu can't do that."
One of the young men said.
Then several young men turned their eyes to Yang Tu, who was sweeping the dust on the other side.
"As the eldest son and grandson, you have to go back home. Every year, you have to be dragged by your grandfather to participate in the ancestor worship. It's so pitiful."
A young man said, "And because Yang Tu still doesn't want to get married, he got scolded a lot. One year I even saw him crying because of that."
"Well, it doesn't matter. Anyway, when we return to our village, it will be Grandpa who is in charge. Isn't the village secretary more powerful than the clan leader? I've never heard that clan rules are more important than the law."
Another person shrugged: "Besides, isn't this a fine tradition of our family? Second Uncle won't get married, and Yang Tu won't get married either. Anyway, their father has no objection to this matter, so other people are nothing!"
Yang Tu, who was mentioned by name and felt pity for no reason, looked back blankly. It took him a long time to react and he immediately laughed and scolded: "You are a bunch of gossipers."
"I really don't want to get married. Whoever wants to get married can do so. Anyway, I don't intend to harm other people's good girls." Yang Tu shrugged: "We won't do anything that will harm others and ourselves."
Yan Shixun raised his eyebrows in surprise at the young people's clear aversion to the clan.
Jiacun is indeed open-minded.
However, not only Yang Han, but even Yang Tu hates marriage. It can be seen that what Yang Guang and Yang Hua's family experienced back then had a great impact on the two of them, even on their descendants.
From this point of view, what happened to Yang Hua's family back then was definitely not small, and it was very likely far more horrifying than Yang Guang knew.
Yan Shixun's gaze fell on Yang Tu.
The impact of Yang Hua's family incident on Yang Han was greater than he expected. If Yang Han had a breakdown and couldn't ask what happened tonight, he could consider asking Yang Tu.
After all, judging from Yang Tu's reaction and the harmonious relationship between the uncle and nephew, Yang Han must have told Yang Tu most of what happened back then.
Because Yan Shixun had been in deep thought for a long time, his gaze caught Yang Tu's attention.
Yang Tu turned his head and looked at Yan Shixun blankly, not knowing why Yan Shixun was looking at him.
But because his companion just mentioned Yang Han, Yang Tu suddenly realized...
"Why did you go to Second Uncle's room just now?"
Yang Tu was surprised and said, "My second uncle actually let a stranger into his room. This is incredible. Did you know my second uncle before?"
Hearing this, the relaxed conversation and laughter of the young people came to an abrupt halt, and they all looked at Yan Shixun with surprised eyes.
"Doesn't Second Uncle hate people entering his room? How come?"
"My second uncle never opens doors or windows in the summer. The window facing the backyard is even sealed with glue. How could he meet a stranger?"
"I have never been to my second uncle's room. When I went in as a child, he beat me out. The scary expression on my second uncle's face scared me so much that I peed my pants when I was a child."
"Yang Han is a very nice person. I met him upstairs and chatted with him for a while."
Yan Shixun said calmly: "Maybe it's because I've read a few Taoist scriptures before, so Brother Yang Han invited me to have more exchanges. But it didn't take too long, just a few minutes. I was about to go downstairs when Yang Tu came to find me."
Yang Tu blinked and thought that according to his uncle's personality, if someone really had read books, or something Taoist, he might like it more. After all, his uncle liked to collect these things. Every time they went to the market, his uncle asked them to bring back some Taoist things, and when someone left the village, his uncle would ask them to do it.
Although he had just met Yang Han today and did not know him well, Yan Shixun still roughly guessed Yang Han's character from the layout of Yang Han's room and the conversation between several young people, and gave a reasonable explanation.
So, although the young people were a little puzzled, they all accepted this statement.
"Okay, we've finished laying out the quilt on this floor. Let's go upstairs." Yang Tu said to Yan Shixun with a smile, "Remember not to tell grandpa, or I'll get beaten."
Yan Shixun smiled: "Don't worry."
How could I alert the enemy?
…
Outside the small building filled with laughter and noise, the village under the night sky was eerily quiet.
There was only a rustling sound coming from far away, like the sound of a wooden stick hitting the concrete floor.
But it was more like the hollow muffled sound made when human bones were struck.
All the places not illuminated by the lights had sounds coming from the fields full of crops, from the back of the courtyard, and from the corners of the houses.
On the deserted village road, the dim lights illuminate the empty space.
Only occasionally, a pale toe bone would step into the edge of light and shadow and then quickly retract.
The sound is getting closer and closer...
After eating and drinking, Bai Shuang stood up contentedly. After greeting other guests with a smile, he wanted to go upstairs to pack his luggage.
After all, there are few girls in the program crew, just her and a few staff members, so it is better for them to take showers at different times.
The variety show star who was happily chatting with the village party secretary waved his hand, then turned his head and listened attentively to the village party secretary telling stories about the mountains.
However, when Bai Shuang was distracted when she stood up, she felt as if she saw something.
So she subconsciously turned her head and looked out the window again.
But the light in the small building was sufficient, so she squinted her eyes for a long time but still couldn't see what was outside. She could only think that she was blinded by the incandescent light, and that when she suddenly looked into the dark place, the previous image remained in her eyeballs, causing hallucinations.
After all, she vaguely felt that the thing she had just seen seemed to be a slender white thing.
Now that I think about it carefully, it seems to be similar to the pale and cold light tube next to it?
Bai Shuang was puzzled for a few seconds, then
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