Chapter 42 The Best House
In the crowd, an old man heard Song Liyun speak softly and earnestly. He thought that the Song Zhenping brothers were thin and indeed came from a poor family.
He couldn't help but think of his children and grandchildren who were kidnapped by the Di Lu people.
His life or death has been unknown for several years. I wonder if he is also stranded in a foreign land like this.
Suddenly, tears welled up in her eyes and she sighed, "Girl! Suijin Town is a dead place. Those who can walk have fled, and only those of us who can't walk are left. How come you, at such a young age, come here to make a living?
You can see that there are so many empty houses in such a big town.
You can choose where you want to live, no one will stop you. The wasteland outside the town is also under the management of the military camp, and the soldiers have the final say on whether to plant crops there."
Seeing that he was holding a stick in one hand and the other hand was broken at the wrist, Song Liyun knew that he was a survivor of the tragedy, so she asked him about the housing requirements she wanted.
When the former residents of the town saw that Song Liyun was really going to settle down in Suijin Town, they told her about the situation in the town.
Only then did Song Liyun realize that the number of people who died in Suijin Town was not hundreds or thousands as rumored by the outside world, but more than thirty.
People are money, so the Di Lu people did not kill people indiscriminately. Instead, they tied people together with ropes, took them back to the grasslands and sold them as slaves, or waited for ransom.
Suijin Town is located deep in the mountains, where information is not easily accessible, and this incident is too horrifying.
Coupled with the spread of false rumours by big mouths like Song Dekui, Suijin Town was portrayed as a ghost town with corpses everywhere.
The vacant yards in the town now are the ownerless properties left behind after their owners were captured.
"Miss Song, the best house in Suijin Town is not in the town itself, but by the Huangsha River to the west of the town."
"Yes, there was the best house there... but it was burned down and became the most haunted house."
When the natives of the town mentioned the house, they all looked horrified.
Song Liyun was a little confused.
Although the death toll in Suijin Town was only over thirty, it still filled up the small streets. Talking about it now is still horrifying and unforgettable.
But when these people talked about the town, they were very calm and indifferent, and they no longer felt anything about the dead.
When the house outside the town was mentioned, everyone became excited and said it was haunted.
What erratic black shadows and strange cries during the full moon.
That ghost still wants to hurt people.
Many people initially wanted to find something in the house, but if they went there during the day, they would be hit by stones that flew out of nowhere. If they went there at night, it would be even worse, as they would be killed directly.
When people discovered it, they could only see torn bodies outside the house, which was a horrific sight.
After two people died in succession, no one dared to go to the house anymore.
Xue Xiaoqi stood aside with a gloomy face, listening to these people talking to Song Liyun about wronged ghosts and ghosts, and couldn't help but said angrily: "What are you talking about? When a person dies, he is just a pile of dirt, where are the ghosts?
If dead people can still cause trouble, then how many ghost soldiers and generals would the Zhenbei Army have?"
The Zhenbei Army guarded Xishi Pass for more than 20 years and fought countless battles, both large and small.
Countless corpses and blood have been waded through there, and countless Dilu heads have been chopped off. If there were ghosts, Xishi Pass would be filled with them.
Song Liyun also didn't believe in the story of a haunted house.
Before the end of the world, Blue Planet had a population of 10 billion.
The destructive power brought by high-tech warfare is astonishing. Several nuclear explosions have directly destroyed the common home of mankind.
In just a few years, the harsh climate and high-intensity nuclear radiation caused the population to drop from tens of billions to 200 million, almost leading to extinction.
On the outskirts of the city, mutated plants and animals that have been irradiated dominate the landscape, and most people can only hide in the heavily guarded cities.
Song Liyun saw with her own eyes how living people were turned into dust.
Ten years passed and she didn't see a single ghost.
In her opinion, every dead person was once the most sincere concern of others.
If ghosts really exist, they will definitely protect their loved ones and prevent disasters from happening again.
Based on Song Liyun's experience, the haunted houses mentioned by these indigenous people should be the nests of some creatures, and those strange noises are just the howling of animals.
She...is not afraid of dealing with wild beasts.
The house has not been chosen yet, but the land has been chosen first.
Following Xue Xiaoqi's suggestion, Song Zhenping selected ten acres of land by the Huangsha River, which was convenient for water diversion and relatively close to the military camp.
After running for the whole afternoon, the group returned at dusk.
Xue Xiaoqi kept getting closer to Song Liyun to talk.
After spending an afternoon together, he felt that the girl became more and more beautiful. When she smiled, she had dimples at the corners of her mouth. The anger in his heart had long since disappeared.
This Miss Song is good in every way except that she is disobedient and won't listen to advice. She will go west if you say east.
If she becomes my wife in the future, I will have to carefully correct her temper.
Getting married was the decision Xue Xiaoqi made in half a day.
There's no way around it. Even the mosquitoes in the military camp are male. It's rare for me to stay with a girl for two hours. As a normal, thoughtful man, it would be strange if I didn't have any other thoughts!
The Zhenbei Army has been stationed at Xishi Pass. The Zhenbei General is strict in his military discipline and forbids harassing women.
When the soldiers occasionally went to Hecheng, they could only secretly find a private brothel to relieve their sexual desires.
But Xue Xiaoqi has been in Suijin Town for the past few months and has no chance to return to the city.
He also received news that he would most likely be stationed here in the future.
Naturally, he was concerned about finding a wife.
At this moment, Song Liyun only wanted to find a suitable residence as soon as possible to settle down her three siblings, and she didn't care about Xiaoqi, who had already had ulterior motives.
She was busy looking for a house and land outside in the afternoon, and in the evening she returned to the shed where the laborers lived to eat and sleep.
Because she had never seen her working, Aunt Guo, who was unaware of the situation, asked her what she was doing.
Song Liyun didn't say much, just said that she had asked for leave for something.
Seeing that Captain Luo agreed and that there were people from the military camp accompanying him, Aunt Guo didn't say anything more.
When I just mentioned arranging work for the afternoon, Xu Yaner and her daughter asked several times, careful that they might cause trouble.
As a result, when Song Liyun was having dinner, the problem really came to her.
Aunt Cui held the steamer and said with a dark face, "Miss Song is going to join the army, so why should she come and eat the food of us migrant workers?"
She had already received news from her superiors that Song Liyun didn't have to work and could come here for food and accommodation.
This made her, the "manager", very unhappy. Although she only had three or five people under her, they were of different sizes.
Song Liyun comes and goes as she pleases, without even saying hello to me. This shows that she doesn't take me seriously.
Anyway, they will go their separate ways in the future, so Mrs. Cui also put on a brave face and wanted to embarrass Song Liyun.
Preparing a home is not easy. Even if the house is ready, you still need to prepare tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans, bedding and food.
It will definitely take ten days or half a month to fix it, so I just keep beating her and wait and see how Song Liyun can eat it with such a shameless face.
When Song Liyun heard Mrs. Cui ask her if she felt embarrassed, she felt very embarrassed.
Captain Luo has given the order, and there is no joking in the army. She doesn't believe that Mrs. Cui would dare to withhold her multi-grain steamed bun and half a bowl of millet porridge.
Song Liyun slowly and methodically removed Mrs. Cui's hand from the steamer lid.
She took a steamed bun from the steamer and picked up the porridge. She looked at Mrs. Cui and said calmly, "This is Captain Luo's order. If you are not satisfied with anything, you can ask the captain to revoke his order."
(End of this chapter)
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