Ye Xin walked and stopped, looking around this rather old village.
To be honest, this village was not as good as she had imagined. The inside and outside were completely different.
The village entrance outside looked presentable, with the ground paved with stones in a uniform pattern, and a few wild flowers could be seen in the cracks.
But once inside, I saw that the village roads had been in disrepair for a long time, with gravel and sand everywhere. If an outsider wasn't careful, their shoes would be filled with sand.
Even the houses beside the road were in the same condition as the ground. The stone walls had cracked, and there were several large holes on the roofs of the houses. Tiles were randomly piled up in the yards, which showed that their owners had no intention of repairing them.
It's not just this house. Almost every place within Ye Xin's sight has this layout.
She held her chin, a question flashing through her mind. If it was just one courtyard, she could understand it was because the owner was gone, but if it was everywhere, it couldn't be anything but a coincidence!
Ye Xin suddenly felt a little excited. Just from hearing the sound, this fishing village didn't look like it was deserted. If there were people, there would be a village chief. With a village chief around, the village wouldn't be so dilapidated.
To put it another way, even if you really don’t have the money to repair the house, at least you should clear the weeds!
In this case, it can only be said that it is not a coincidence but a deliberate act. The villagers deliberately abandoned this place and went to great lengths to make the village look deserted.
According to normal logic, if anyone passes by here and sees the dilapidated state of the village entrance, most people will give up the idea of entering. But according to abnormal logic, people nowadays have a rebellious mentality. The more unreasonable you are, the more interested they will be.
Ye Xin smiled playfully. This kind of person was exactly her! She was very interested in exploring abandoned villages. She might find something unexpected!
She continued walking towards the village, and her thoughts were indeed verified as she walked along the way. She was right, the houses outside were really just for show.
The further she went into the village, the denser the houses became. These houses were no longer the shabby ones at the entrance of the village, but large tiled houses in every household.
The houses were surrounded by stone walls, wide and neatly arranged on both sides of the road. Every household had a few dried fish hanging in their courtyards, and some even dried fish on the entire roof.
Ye Xin saw figures from a distance. Several little boys around five or six years old were sitting under a big tree, watering an ant nest.
As soon as a pot of water was poured, the ants inside ran out like crazy and fled in all directions.
Hai Xiaoyu threw away the water bowl in his hand and took the stones he had prepared in advance to block the fleeing ants. He laughed as he did so.
A relatively large black ant was blocked by stones and had no way to escape. It was so angry that it bit Hai Xiaoyu's hand.
A slight pain came from the back of his hand, making the boy whine.
Hai Dalang, who was standing next to him, quickly picked up a wooden bucket, grabbed Hai Xiaoyu's hand and pressed it into the bucket.
When he took his hand out of the bucket, several crystal clear bubbles appeared on it.
The back of his hand was itchy and painful. Hai Xiaoyu couldn't resist the itch, so he had to say goodbye to his friend and ran home.
Seeing that the ant nest under the tree had been destroyed and the ants had all run away, the rest of the people could only carry their buckets and follow Hai Xiaoyu home.
They climbed up the small hill next to them and saw Ye Xin standing in the middle of the road at a glance.
The children who were smiling just now stopped instantly when they saw the stranger.
Hai Xiaoyu stopped shouting, took a few steps back, and looked at Ye Xin nervously with his friends.
Hai Dalang's heart was pounding. He slightly concealed the wariness in his eyes and pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Big sister, who are you? How did you get to our village?"
Ye Xin looked at Hai Dalang with great interest. This kid was quite interesting. He was so alert at such a young age. Could it be that this was innate?
Seeing the boy's increasingly nervous expression, she jokingly replied, "Of course I walked in, otherwise I could have fallen from the sky!"
Walking in...
Hai Dalang's expression changed instantly, and he quickly looked behind Ye Xin.
Could it be that someone has moved into those houses at the entrance of the village?
Hai Xiaoyu seemed to realize the seriousness of the matter, and ran away while Ye Xin was not paying attention.
“Sizzle!”
A slight sound of clothes tearing behind him made the boy running the shield stop in his tracks. A chill ran down his back and buttocks, and he turned his head stiffly.
Ye Xin's powerful clutches tore his sturdy and durable clothes in two at the back. His entire back was now exposed, and the sea breeze made him shiver.
I don’t know if he was scared by Ye Xin’s rough behavior, but he immediately covered his butt and didn’t dare to make any noise.
Hai Xiaoyu's appearance made Ye Xin feel very embarrassed. She didn't expect things to develop like this.
She really didn't mean it. She had been holding back a lot of strength just now. Who knew that the dress was so fragile that it broke in two with just one pull.
Ye Xin secretly groaned in her heart, but still looked nonchalant.
"Why are you running? I'm not going to eat you. I'm lost at sea, and your village is the only one I can see within a hundred miles, so I'd like to stay here for the night."
Ye Xin lied calmly, leaving the group of kids stunned.
I don’t know whether Hai Dalang believed it or not, but Hai Xiaoyu did.
This strange-looking older sister had just given him a tael of silver as compensation for the loss of his clothes. Although he had never been out of the village, he knew that this amount of silver could be exchanged for many sets of clothes.
Driven by money, Hai Xiaoyu immediately forgot his previous unhappiness and enthusiastically took Ye Xin to find the village chief.
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