Jiang Tang asked Lao Yu: "Haven't you figured out why this happened in the past six months?"
Lao Yu and his group felt a little embarrassed.
"Master Jiang, we've racked our brains, but we still can't figure out what's going on."
"Yes, our village has held several meetings for this matter, but every time we held a meeting, we achieved nothing."
"Moreover, our children who were away from home, as well as the young people who were originally in the village, left the village after learning about these strange things in our village and are unwilling to return."
"If this continues, we old guys will be the only ones left in the village. In a few years, our village will be completely destroyed!"
Old Yu wiped his face, looking unwilling: "Our village has a long history, three or four hundred years ago."
"This village has not declined for hundreds of years, and now it is about to fall into our hands. We are too embarrassed to face our ancestors!"
Netizens were shocked to hear that Lao Yu’s village has been passed down for three or four hundred years.
Is this village so awesome?
Jiang Tang smiled after hearing this and said, "Then let me ask you, is there anything that has been passed down in your village that is no longer there?"
"Is something missing?" Old Yu turned around and looked at the villagers.
"It seems that the things that have been in our village for generations are still there, right?"
Others replied.
"Of course they are. They are valuable things. They are all kept in the village ancestral hall. They are watched by our ancestors, so they can't be lost."
"As for other things, apart from some old antique houses that are no longer habitable, there really doesn't seem to be anything left."
"Well, our village is so small, with only about a hundred people. How can we have so many things? The things we have are well kept and won't be lost."
Among this group of people, there was a white-haired old man who hadn't spoken a word. He squinted his eyes and kept thinking with his somewhat confused mind about what else was in the village.
Thinking and thinking, suddenly!
A figure appeared in his mind.
The old man immediately opened his eyes wide, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
"I know, I know!" the old man slapped his thigh and shouted loudly.
When the people around him heard his voice, they looked at him curiously.
"Grandpa Liu, what do you know?"
"Do you know the truth about this matter? Tell us now! I want to see who dares to bully our village!"
Grandpa Liu didn't look at the chattering people in front of him. He waved to Lao Yu. Lao Yu walked over with his cell phone and sat down next to Grandpa Liu.
"Grandpa, if you have anything to say, just say it. Master Jiang is here."
"Okay, okay." Grandpa Liu is very old, and everyone didn't want him to come over, fearing that something might happen.
But he had to come, so everyone had to take him with them and pay attention to his safety at all times.
I originally thought that Grandpa Liu was just there to make a cameo appearance, but I didn't expect that he would become the key figure in this incident.
It is true that an old person in the family is like a treasure.
Old Yu pointed the camera at Grandpa Liu, and Grandpa Liu saw the ginger candy.
"Jiang, Master Jiang..."
"Old man, I just remembered that there is something that has been following our village until now."
"That's not right. I heard my great-grandfather say that it seemed to have been here since our ancestors settled here."
"I heard that our ancestors decided to settle here, and it seems there was a reason for that."
Hearing this, Lao Yu and the others were stunned.
Grandpa Liu said, no?
Old Yu asked Grandpa Liu directly: "Grandpa, you are not talking about the big peach tree from before, right?!"
Grandpa Liu nodded and said, "If there's one thing that truly brought our village to where it is today, it's that peach tree."
"If my great-grandfather wasn't lying, we were latecomers to the peach tree. This is its territory, and we came here and made our home."
Everyone's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the peach tree was the cause of their village's current state?!
Old Yu looked at Jiang Tang and continued what Grandpa Liu said.
"Master Jiang, the peach tree that Grandpa Liu mentioned is very tall and large, but it never produces more than a hundred fruits each year. We haven't figured it out yet, so we've stopped thinking about it."
"How many people are there in your village at most?" Jiang Tang asked.
Old Yu opened his mouth and said, "The most is never more than 100, basically around 80 or 90."
Jiang Tang sighed and said, "That peach tree only produces less than a hundred peaches a year, and there are only a hundred people in your village. Besides, all of you eat one peach every year, right?"
"This..." Old Yu suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Our village has always had a rule that no one is allowed to pick peaches before they're ripe. Once they're ripe, each village chief leads the villagers in picking them and then distributes them to every household."
"As for the remaining peaches, they will be taken to the ancestral hall as offerings to our ancestors."
"Master Jiang, is the current situation of our village a revenge of that peach tree?" Old Yu couldn't help but ask his concerns.
Strawberry, who loves pineapples, said: [Revenge? What did you do to the peach tree to make you say it's taking revenge on you?]
I'm a pure child: [I heard that trees over a hundred years old are still alive, let alone a tree that's three or four hundred years old. Did you cut it down?!]
A bowl of bunny biscuit lovers: [The peach tree bears less than a hundred fruits, yet your village has never had more than a hundred people. Isn't that amazing? I really want to eat the fruit from a hundred-year-old peach tree. It must be delicious.]
Lao Yu felt very ashamed when he saw the comments from netizens.
Are peaches delicious?
Of course it’s delicious!
The most delicious peaches they have ever tasted are those from the old peach trees in the village.
It is big and full, crisp and sweet when you bite it, and the fragrance lingers in your mouth after eating it, leaving you with an endless aftertaste.
If it didn't produce so few fruits a year and each person could only get one, I believe everyone could eat four or five a day and never get tired of eating them every day.
However, they would never see or eat such an ancient peach tree and such delicious peaches again.
Jiang Tang looked at the ashamed Lao Yu and the others and said, "It wasn't you who cut down the peach tree. You don't have to feel too guilty."
Old Yu opened his mouth and said, "But it was because we didn't take it seriously that someone chopped it down. It's our fault!"
"Master Jiang, actually when those people came to our village and said they wanted to cut down the peach trees to make furniture, we refused. But they took advantage of us sleeping at night and actually cut down the peach trees with an electric saw."
"By the time we heard the noise and woke up and went out to check, the peach tree had already fallen to the ground and broken in two."
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