Chapter 138
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"Gary...you're here." Lian Yun smiled and gave him her seat very naturally.
"How is it? Have you arranged the people? Are there any difficulties?"
Gerry glared at her.
Don't hit someone who smiles at you, so Gary could only calm down and sit down.
"You still remember to ask me?"
"Unfair!" Lian Yun raised his hand to the sky and swore, "This time, Fang Suo acted on his own initiative... No, last time they brought it back without asking my opinion, but isn't this a good thing?"
"They brought their own food, so they're staying here for a while. This can also help strengthen the relationship between the two cities."
"I know!" Gary interrupted, "That's not why I came here."
Lian Yun: “?”
"I'm asking you, do you really want to go to Buli Lake City?" Gary's face was serious.
Lian Yun rarely saw him so serious. She said helplessly, "You all are so serious. I feel like I'm about to enter some kind of dangerous place."
"But Gerry, do you know anything about Buli Lake City?"
Otherwise, why would he have such an expression?
Gary has been the village chief for decades. Even though he rarely leaves the village, he still has some understanding of what is happening outside.
"I heard it all from Garin. I've already sent someone to call him over. You can ask him about the situation there later."
Lian Yun: "I'm sorry to have caused you so much worry."
Gary looked at her and sighed, "Ask us more about these things. We can help you find solutions and give you some advice. Don't try to handle everything by yourself."
Lian Yun was stunned.
Gerry's words hit home with her.
She really didn't want to tell them.
If the negotiations in Buli Lake City fail this time, she and the town will be in a much more disadvantageous situation.
But compared to the loss of a small town and several alliances, perhaps it would be better for her to bear the consequences alone.
If she fails...
Gerry would take over the town.
"Nonsense!" Gerry's voice became nervous.
Although he had not been very optimistic about this young lady lord from the beginning, over the past few days, he had become increasingly convinced that Lian Yun possessed qualities that no one else, including himself, possessed.
This position of lord must belong to her.
Even if he could do it, he wouldn't want to!
"I never thought you had such thoughts." Gary clenched his cane. "Don't say that again."
Perhaps seeing Lian Yun's silence, he felt his words were a bit harsh, so he sighed and softened his tone: "Look, how about I go for you?"
Lian Yun shook his head stubbornly.
Gary knew very well that although everyone in the town, including Lian Yun, tacitly accepted his position as the second-in-command and even managed more affairs than anyone else, the people in Buli Lake City did not know.
They need a formal representative who is also the legitimate owner of the town. Even if Gerry wants to go, people will think that Gerry is not qualified and will doubt the sincerity of the town.
"Besides, I won't let you take any risks." Lian Yun said firmly, "You are so old, you should stay in the small town. There are still a lot of people to support. We can't do without you."
Gary suddenly felt a little sad.
Can't we do without him?
It would be the same even without Lian Yun.
"Alright, this is just a small negotiation. With Lanna by my side to protect me, even if the negotiation fails, it will be impossible for the other party to capture me and claim credit for the main city."
"I can advance and retreat freely, so what's there to worry about?" Lian Yun said lightly, "Besides, this is just the beginning. If a real fight breaks out, won't you all make me a figurehead?"
Gerry looked at the girl's expression, which showed no sign of worry, and then looked at Lina and Lana.
He finally asked the question he had been hiding for a long time: "Son, what are you doing this for?"
Lian Yun paused.
Gerry's brow was heavy. "You said you didn't have to go this far in order to complete the mission, whether it was the so-called will of God or a mission from somewhere else."
Lana also stared at Lian Yun closely.
He has had this question for a long time.
For him, he would naturally complete everything adults wanted to do unconditionally.
But ever since Lian Yun saved Gerry's village, he realized that Lian Yun was silently suppressing something in his heart.
She was not an ignorant girl. She understood her status as a lord. Even if she had nothing but Lanna, she could give orders to any resident.
No need for affinity or extra tolerance.
But Lian Yun seemed to have had a vague feeling for this group from the very beginning.
Some of what she did was more like...
make up.
But she had never seen this village. Lanna even suspected that even the original town, Lian Yun had only been there a little longer than him.
He had no intention of delving too deeply into the adults' past.
She is free, and Lanna only wants to help her do what she wants.
But Lana couldn't control his worry about Lian Yun.
Why would he feel the urge to make amends to Lian Yun, who was more unfamiliar to him than anything else?
Lian Yun looked at the looks they gave her, bit her lower lip, and seemed to be struggling with something.
After a long moment, she smiled with relief.
never mind.
Since they wanted to know, what did she have to hide?
Besides, after so many years, it’s time for her to find someone to talk to.
Lian Yun sat down next to Lana, put his arms on the table, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"When I was a child, I grew up in an ordinary small village just like Lina."
She lost her parents shortly after she was born, and her grandparents also passed away long ago.
I was able to grow up safely and healthily thanks to the food provided by hundreds of families in the village.
Perhaps because of the local customs, her village is very harmonious and warm, and no one is an exception.
From the time she was left alone until she grew up to be old enough to go to school, she would go to live with her aunt, uncle, or grandparents in the village for a period of time. Over the years, no one had ever shown the slightest disdain for her.
Every household treated her as their own child.
When she reached school age, every household shared the cost of her tuition.
But things slowly started to change.
She needed to go to school in a town outside the mountain. People there heard about her family situation. Gradually, there were simple but cruel children there, and they would come in groups to laugh at her for having no parents.
When the villagers sent people to deliver her tuition, they would "secretly" talk about her being a "big cancer" and a burden in the village.
At that time, Lian Yun didn't understand what they meant, but he gradually developed a feeling of guilt and shame.
But when she returned to the village and saw the adults who warmly welcomed her and the steaming hot meals, the young Lian Yun suppressed her feelings deep in her heart out of shame and treated them as before.
Lina stared blankly at Lian Yun who was speaking calmly.
She is very similar to her sister, but also different.
She has lived in the village for as long as she can remember. She and her brothers and sisters grew up in the village, and no one has ever said that they are a burden to the village.
Or rather, they won't hear it.
But this was only the first time she heard it, and she felt sour and bitter in her heart, and there was also an unignorable sense of shame and anger.
And what about my sister?
She has listened to it for so many years.
Lian Yun smiled at her reassuringly.
"This feeling lasted until I went to college."
“It’s a kind of higher education institution.”
But her grades were only good enough to get into an ordinary first-class university to study the agriculture major she wanted.
Although her grades were good enough for a student from the village.
But she still felt guilty and embarrassed about her grades for a long time. She was the hope of the whole village, but she didn't get excellent grades.
Especially the surprise and joy of the villagers after seeing her admission letter.
She had a heartless smile on her face, but her heart was broken and she wished she could crawl into the ground.
The village chief touched the hair of Lian Yun, who was now taller than himself, and his eyes narrowed into slits as he smiled.
"There's a college student in our village."
Lian Yun smiled obediently.
The hand behind me dug into my flesh, trying hard to hold back my tears.
It should be that there is a useless waste in the village.
Later, until she was in college for a few years, she would return to the village for festivals, but she never asked herself the question - would everyone be disappointed in her?
In fact, Lian Yun could guess their reaction without asking.
How could that be?
She really is the child of each of them.
"It's me who can't get over this." Lian Yun smiled, but tears welled up in his eyes.
"Until the end, I still couldn't ask that question."
That question already has an answer.
One night before she was about to graduate, she received a call on her cell phone from the town.
The tone of the person on the other end of the phone was urgent, but hesitant, as if it was difficult for him to speak.
In the end, the other party only left one sentence: Come and check the news in your village.
Lian Yun was wearing thin pajamas, but he broke out in a cold sweat for no apparent reason.
On an autumn night, she ran to the balcony where the cold wind was blowing and the rain was pouring, holding her cell phone high in the air to search for a signal, not even noticing that her shirt was soaked.
The news page finally jumped out, and the first line of bright black characters suddenly jumped out, making her cry uncontrollably - a mudslide occurred in xx village in the mountains tonight, and the mountain broke off and slid down.
No one in the village was spared.
…
When she arrived, there was only ruins.
The rain never stopped.
From landslides to the point where rescue is difficult to carry out.
Her loved ones were under those piles of earth and bricks.
She stretched out her hand and mechanically repeated the action of digging out the broken bricks and soil with her hands.
Until rescuers pulled her away.
"There's nothing much to say about what happened next." Lian Yun shrugged.
It's just that she never recovered from the experience, got a diploma and then just sat there doing nothing. It was not a glorious experience at all.
If the system hadn't chosen her, she might still be lying in bed, thinking of her loved ones every night, and crying until her eyes were too swollen to go out the next day.
It has no effect at all.
It would be more accurate to say that all these experiences saved her rather than that she saved Gerry and the others.
After Lian Yun said this, he noticed the look Lana was giving him.
Lanna said nothing, just looked at her quietly, without pity or regret.
He seemed to tell himself with his eyes that he just knew a fact.
Learn more about Lian Yun.
But in the past, there was nothing to regret.
Grimaud stroked his cane and smiled faintly: "Good boy. We are all proud of you for being able to make it through."
Lina was still in a daze recalling why Lian Yun sternly told her that she must cheer up when she saw the village destroyed.
She still has family and friends.
At that time, Lian Yun lost everything.
"Gailin, you're here."
Garen leaned half of his body in from outside the door, looking at the strange atmosphere among the crowd and hesitating whether to step in.
Fortunately, Lian Yun saw me.
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