Chapter 39
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The closer they got to the city, the more uneasy he felt. It was too big. Most film and television studios were not this big. Not to mention that a film and television studio did not just have one scene, but many scenes gathered together. They passed through two villages along the way, both with the same style, and there were no cameras filming.
He was completely dumbfounded. Even though he had seen corpses and had fought with others before, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart that he could go home and that he had not traveled through time. But now his heart was getting heavier and heavier, as if he really could not go home. Moreover, he traveled to a poor village where no one lived.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Shen Yuntang took out a small cloth bag from his arms and opened it to reveal a handful of small red fruits.
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"When I was a kid, my dad and I went to the city once. The road was bumpy and I felt dizzy. My dad gave me this wild fruit he picked from the mountains. Eating this made me feel better."
He directly fed one into Cheng Yeran's mouth and said, "Try taking one."
The fruit has a sweet and sour taste, without the sourness of ordinary wild fruits. It is quite delicious, but Cheng Yeran now finds everything he eats tasteless.
He just went to participate in a reality show, how did he travel through time? He wants to go home!
After entering the city, he became even more desperate, because even if this was a set built by the program crew, they couldn't make the details so perfect. At most, they made the outside look similar, but the inside was very casual. The houses that could be photographed were carefully decorated, and the houses that could not be photographed were left empty.
He had filmed a big-budget movie before, and the sets there were not as elaborate as this. A reality show doesn't need to cost so much, and there isn't enough money for them to spend.
After entering the city, he kept looking for flaws, but he couldn't find any. There were no modern products, it was completely ancient.
Later he simply looked up at the sky, trying to see a passing plane. His eyes became sore from looking at it. There was nothing else in the sky except the birds flying by from time to time.
The villagers who came into the city with them saw Cheng Yeran like this and laughed at him, saying it was as if he was coming to the city for the first time. They told him to be more restrained and not be laughed at by the city people.
An uncle even asked Cheng Yeran, "Don't you have a relative in the city? I remember when your parents were still alive, they brought you to the city to visit relatives. Why do you act like it's your first time here?"
Cheng Yeran was thinking about something and didn't hear what he was saying at all. Shen Yuntang was afraid that he would reveal the truth, so he quickly pulled Cheng Yeran to the other side and said, "Those were things from childhood. How could he still remember them?"
"You don't even want to visit relatives in the city?" The uncle shook his head. "If your parents were still alive, it would be great. They would lead us into the city and we would have a place to rest. Now we don't even have a place to drink water. You are really worse than your parents. You can't do anything and you don't even visit relatives."
Cheng Yeran was still daydreaming and didn't hear what he said at all. Shen Yuntang heard everything and felt very uncomfortable. Wasn't he deliberately bringing up other people's sad stories and poking at Cheng Yeran's heart?
Shen Yuntang was angry and wanted to reason with him, but then he remembered that every time he got anxious and angry, it was impossible to reason with him, and he might even get so angry that he would cry, so he simply looked at Cheng Yeran who was standing beside him for help.
Cheng Yeran came back to his senses and looked at Shen Yuntang with a puzzled look. Before Shen Yuntang could say anything, the uncle repeated, "I said you are not even half as good as your parents. It's true that you can't live without a father and a mother. If your parents were alive, they would definitely be very disappointed in you."
"Uncle, your parents must still be alive. They must hold you in their arms and kiss you and call you what a great baby every day, right? Otherwise, how could you be so old and unable to speak a word? People like me know that one should be polite. We are going over there and we won't talk to uncle anymore." After Cheng Yeran finished speaking, he smiled at him and led Shen Yuntang away.
"Are you going too far by saying that?" Shen Yuntang was a little worried. After all, they had offended Uncle Zhang last time, causing Uncle Zhang's dissatisfaction and his intentional revenge on them. In the end, the matter became so big that they might not be able to get away with it unscathed if it happened again.
"Your quality needs to be improved. He says that I have no parents, so how can I spoil him?" Seeing his cute look of nodding vigorously, Cheng Yeran really wanted to bully him. There must have been many people with bad intentions who deliberately bullied him since he was a child. What should he do if he is not by his side and there is no one to help him quarrel?
When they went to exchange the silver, Cheng Yeran kept looking around. If it was fake, there would be flaws, but the more he looked, the more disappointed he became.
Shen Yuntang saw that he was in a low mood and asked him: "What happened to you today?"
"Besides this city, are there other cities outside?" Cheng Yeran suddenly asked him while looking into the distance.
"Of course, the world is big, but we may not have the chance to go out and see it." Shen Yuntang said it euphemistically. He felt that they would never have the chance to go out and see the world in this lifetime. He was also afraid of the kind of life of displacement and just wanted to live a stable life in his own little home.
"I want to go out and take a look," Cheng Yeran said sullenly.
Shen Yuntang felt something was wrong, but he couldn't guess what it was. He had been observing Cheng Yeran's condition. Until he returned home at night, Cheng Yeran was normal, but when he woke up in the middle of the night, Cheng Yeran disappeared, and he didn't come back the next morning.
He anxiously searched the whole village, and when the villagers heard about it, they also enthusiastically helped to look for him.
Some people said that there were wild animals in the mountains a few years ago. Could it be that a wild animal came down the mountain and took Cheng Yeran away?
Some people also said that it was the Zhang family who came to lock the soul?
Some people even said that they saw him eloping with a woman, and it sounded so true that Shen Yuntang believed it.
After all, Cheng Yeran had disappeared in the middle of the night before, and Cheng Yeran also said that he liked women, so maybe he really eloped with someone.
He felt like he had lost his soul. Before getting married, he hoped to be a widow. Now that Cheng Yeran had disappeared, his heart felt empty as well.
On the third day after Cheng Yeran disappeared, several relatives of the Cheng family came to talk to him, saying that he had just married into the Cheng family and had no children, so the family property could not be given to him. If Cheng Yeran really had an accident, he would move out immediately.
Shen Yuntang's eyes turned red with anger. "You are all his uncles, why don't you wish him the best?"
A group of people surrounded him and argued, telling him not to pretend to be affectionate and that he was angry with everyone just because of the Cheng family's house and fields.
Shen Yuntang couldn't win the argument with them and could only cry.
As she was crying, the door was pushed open from the outside. Cheng Yeran, who had disappeared for three days, came back. He looked at the people in the room and asked, "Who died? Why are you crying like this? Was it my second uncle or my third uncle?"
When the second uncle and the third uncle heard him say this, their faces turned black, but Cheng Yeran immediately smiled and said, "Second uncle and third uncle, you are all here. I'm sorry, I fell down the mountain while cutting firewood a few days ago, and I just came back when I woke up. My eyesight is not very good, so I didn't see you clearly."
"Did you fall from the mountain?" Several relatives immediately gathered around to see. They saw that Cheng Yeran had disheveled hair, was covered in dirt, and his clothes were torn. It was exactly as he said.
Just now they were fighting over Shen Yuntang's property. When she thought that Cheng Yeran might have heard all those words, her face turned red. "Hurry up and take a good rest. Let your husband apply some medicine to you. I have medicine at home. I'll get some for you."
"I'll get you some eggs to replenish your body."
"I'll get something too."
All the relatives ran out in a swarm, leaving Shen Yuntang with swollen eyes from crying alone.
Shen Yuntang glared at him, turned around and ran into the room, leaving a sentence before leaving, "What are you doing back here? Why don't you die outside!"
He went to the mountains to look for her, but didn't see anyone. Also, why would anyone go out to chop wood in the middle of the night? It sounded like an excuse. He must have been dumped by that woman and that's why he came back.
Cheng Yeran hurriedly chased after him. He knew he was in the wrong. That night, his hopes were completely shattered, which he could not accept. He had to go out in the middle of the night to take a look. Maybe if he changed direction and left the village, he would see the modern world.
But when he passed through a village, he saw another village; when he passed through a mountain, he saw another mountain. There was nothing he wanted to see.
He finally gave up completely, and traveled through time, becoming an orphan villager and marrying a man who could give birth to children.
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