26 Chapter 26
◎The mayor's ability◎
Chapter 26
The village chief heard his words and turned around with a smile. "Look familiar, right? I had it custom-made. The locust tree leaves look a lot like our village, don't they?"
“…”
I can't see why the locust tree leaves look so similar to Daxi Village.
The mayor was speechless, but seeing that the village chief was really planning to fool him without telling the truth, he couldn't help but feel annoyed.
"Your village chief has been doing some unreliable things all day and still refuses to leave the mountain. Tell me, what's the reason?"
He felt that if he continued to beat around the bush and test the waters bit by bit, the old man would lead him to the edge of the world and would not reveal to him anything he wanted to know.
After listening to the mayor's words, the village chief stopped, turned around and looked seriously at the very young mayor, then turned around and continued walking forward.
"What do you mean by not speaking?"
When the mayor saw the village chief's expression, he felt that he didn't want to communicate with him. As a young man, he couldn't really do anything to the elderly village chief, so he couldn't help but frown.
It's difficult.
"If you don't want to cooperate, I think you're old enough to retire."
As the mayor spoke, his eyes fixed on the village chief. His meaning was very clear: if he didn't find out something today, he would not be able to go back with peace of mind.
If we go back like this, it will cause trouble for the village chief.
For example, apply for the village chief to retire and send a younger person under his command to be the village official in Daxi Village.
It just so happened that Daxi Village was remote for many years and the basic cadre setup in the village was insufficient. He just stuffed a few people down there. Daxi Village could defend against one person, but it was not known whether they had the strength to defend against several at the same time.
The village chief understood the meaning of his words, withdrew his gaze from the town mayor, turned around and walked forward. It seemed that he didn't want to communicate with the town mayor and others today.
"Just think about it, let's walk around the village at night."
Mayor Xiao followed behind the village chief. Looking at the slightly hurried footsteps of the person in front of him, he knew that the village chief was not as calm as he appeared.
Hearing his last words, the village chief paused, turned around and looked at the young mayor, and said incoherently, "You have no moral integrity. I'm so old, and you still try to provoke an old man like me. Be careful or I'll sue you!"
"You're old enough, so you should just rest early. I'm not bullying you."
The mayor said this without changing his expression. If he didn't find out anything today, he would have to go home in the evening and start applying to his superiors without waiting for work hours.
"Okay, what time are you leaving tonight?"
The village chief waved his hands impatiently at the mayor, not wanting to listen to him anymore.
In the past, the villagers were xenophobic. Even after the previous village party secretary left, their village still hadn't sent any village officials from outside. He knew that this was because the higher-ups didn't care about Daxi Village, so this was the result.
After all, among the surrounding villages, Daxi Village is not a rich village, nor is it a poor village. It is very mediocre and self-sufficient on weekdays. Most of the time, the documents issued from above can be implemented normally.
Therefore, even though people in the surrounding area and even in the town knew that there was a village called Daxi Village in the mountains that was very xenophobic, they did not pay attention to their village until it affected them.
This time it was different. While the surrounding villages all felt that this was an official benefit and were actively responding to the arrangements in the documents above, Daxi Village had always followed the actions above.
Such a seemingly inconspicuous village has gone against the norm. Knowing that there is something unusual in the mountains and that it would be dangerous to continue living in the mountains, it still insists on not moving and wants to continue staying in the mountains. It is inevitable that everyone's attention will turn to Daxi Village.
In the end, the mayor turned his attention to this village and personally took action, and is now even making verbal threats.
Now listening to the old man's words, the mayor keenly heard the looseness in the village chief's words.
"Okay, let's go around again. This time, no one will come out to show us where anything interesting is, right?"
The mayor nodded and smiled.
Hearing what he said, the village chief thought of those messy people who had no idea what to say and could be fooled just by asking them to learn how to fool people, and he became furious.
"No, just go wherever you want."
The village chief turned around and walked forward.
As for what the mayor and his companion will see in the village later, that is something the village chief can control.
However, now that the villagers know that the mayor and his group of outsiders have come to the village, they will probably be more cautious in their words. It is not so easy for the two of them to find out anything just by walking around the village.
The mayor and his companions obviously knew this, and they did not place their hopes on the villagers.
Seeing the village chief leave, he turned around and set his destination on the locust tree at the entrance of the village.
"If we go to the village entrance, will the villagers come out and beat us?"
The secretary followed the mayor and asked softly after seeing the direction the mayor wanted to go.
"No, the old man told us to walk around the village as we please, and the villagers won't come out to stop us."
The mayor listened to his secretary and shook his head.
The old man still has this point.
As the two talked, they walked towards the village entrance.
The village itself is not big, and they had spent some time walking around in the village before, so they had a pretty good understanding of the layout of Daxi Village. Now, they could tell the direction just by thinking about where they wanted to go.
After a while, the two arrived under the locust tree at the entrance of the village.
Looking up at the tall locust tree, the mayor tilted his head to observe.
"This doesn't look like a mutation..."
The secretary followed the mayor's gaze and began to observe.
Ying Huai just watched the two people circling around him, their eyes seemed to want to stare a hole in him so that they could continue observing him.
"It doesn't look like it's mutated. It's just that the villagers like this tree."
After following the mayor and observing for a while, the secretary's eyes fell on the steps at the side, where there was a burner for burning incense and some fresh-looking fruits and vegetables.
"Um……"
The mayor stared at the treetops and nodded slightly, as if agreeing with his secretary, then turned around and asked with a frown.
"Did you feel anything just now?"
"What?"
The secretary looked up and followed the mayor's gaze, looking at the treetops.
"Nothing at all."
"This tree is a bit dazzling, don't you think?"
Seeing that the secretary didn't understand what he meant, the mayor turned around with a look of disappointment in his eyes.
"It's so obvious, can't you see it?"
"Mayor, is it because we are looking up that the sun is shining into our eyes? It's dazzling."
The secretary looked up to make sure he really didn't see anything. Instead, he felt a little uncomfortable because he kept looking up and the sun in the sky was dazzling his eyes.
"Um?"
Listening to the secretary's words, the mayor lowered his head and realized that his vision was foggy.
"Maybe I was blinded by the sun. I was thinking, when I first entered Daxi Village, this tree looked normal. How could it be so bright now? It's my fault."
The mayor said this, shaking his head in self-mockery, speechless that he was actually seeing things.
He was also confused by the unusualness of Daxi Village. He wanted to observe everything to see if there was anything wrong.
"Mayor, the time is up. If we don't go back now, we won't have enough time."
Hearing his words, the secretary chose to avoid the topic.
If a leader makes a mistake, he can speak for himself, but if he follows what the leader says, it will hurt the relationship.
"Well, let's go to the old man's house."
The mayor looked down at the time on his watch and nodded in agreement with his secretary.
It just so happened that they had observed for a while but couldn't figure out anything. Now that the village chief had spoken, they could go back and listen to the answer.
Ying Huai just watched the two of them turn around and leave, then looked down at the bird that had landed on his branch, smiled and shook his head.
"It's amazing that it can actually see good and evil."
Ever since the changes in heaven and earth and the revival of spiritual energy, Ying Huai has become more and more interested in this world.
This world is similar to the world of cultivation yet completely different from it. Those abilities look so interesting that Ying Huai wants to keep the person and observe him more carefully, just like the mayor and the other two just did.
Thinking of this, Ying Huai looked around, sensed with his roots, and began to observe other interesting phenomena that might occur in other places in Daxi Village.
【Author’s words】
I've been procrastinating on typing today, and I've only finished this bit so far. I made up for it in the second half of the night, so it's a bit late. Don't wait, my dears, you can read it tomorrow morning when you wake up ~ Hug ~
Corrected the typo.
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