87 Chapter 87
Chapter 87
After crying for a while, Mrs. Fan finally controlled her emotions. Seeing the panicked look of the person on the other end of the phone, she finally took the time to ask what was going on.
"Are you a ghost now?"
Looking at the figure opposite, despite trying his best to maintain his posture, he could still see the objects behind him through his body, transparent...
"Well, I'm a ghost now. I was able to return to the human world because of Rufeng. Now I'm not strong enough, so I can only maintain my current appearance and cannot leave my current position."
Seeing that his wife had stopped crying, Brother Fan breathed a sigh of relief, but when he saw the person opposite him with red eyes and tears in her eyes, he did not dare to hide anything and explained his current condition clearly.
He was afraid that if he spoke too slowly, his wife would think he was deliberately not coming home and would start crying again if she thought about it too much.
Ever since he brought his wife home, apart from making her worry about him going on missions, he has never let her worry about anything else.
But now, seeing his wife across the street struggling to make a living because he had to leave, Brother Fan felt a little distressed.
"This is a job my sister-in-law next door found specifically for me. It's dangerous out there now, and I can't do my old job anymore. I don't have any special skills, and I still have to eat, so I wanted to earn more money. It's not tiring, and I can stay at home every day, so I have plenty of time to rest."
Seeing Brother Fan opposite her looking at her hand, Mrs. Fan subconsciously put the things in her hand behind her phone, explaining in a relaxed manner.
But she didn't pay any attention to her face when she spoke. She looked very embarrassed because of sweating before and crying afterwards.
After hearing what his wife said, Brother Fan looked at her deeply. He knew that she was just pretending, but he had no better way. He could only pretend to believe it and did not continue to talk in depth about this topic.
The two chatted for a while and told each other about their current situations. Of course, this was all beautified.
They didn't want to make each other worry so much, so in the end it was just like this.
Despite this, they can guess what the other party is hiding based on their respective personalities in the past.
After hanging up the phone, Brother Fan looked at the frozen phone with his eyes lowered for a while. When he heard the sound coming from outside the door, he got up and walked out.
As soon as I went out, I saw the village chief and Captain Qingzhi throwing something into the pool outside the village office, and Tang Rufeng was directing them on the side.
"Why don't you just pour it in?"
Seeing this scene, his heavy mood relaxed a little and he asked with a smile.
"The village chief didn't allow it. He complained that I didn't pour it evenly enough."
Upon hearing this, Captain Qing turned his head and glanced at his face. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with him, he continued speaking.
Even though the time was short, Tang Rufeng had just spent a short time with him, and after just a few words, he knew a little about this brother. Seeing that he didn't take the initiative to mention anything, he didn't ask much and waited for the other party to speak himself.
"Hey, you're just relying on your ability to fly. Look at what you dumped before, it's all piled up. How can it look good?"
The village chief was also nearby. When he heard Captain Qingzhi say this to him, he stretched out his finger and pointed at a pointed pile of waste spirit stones that had just emerged from the water in the pool, motioning Captain Qingzhi to look at it, with a look of complete self-righteousness on his face.
"Did I pour this?"
Captain Qing looked in the direction of his finger and was speechless.
"If it's not you, then who else could it be? Anyway, it's you. Throw it away carefully. I'll go back and find a spade to smooth it out later."
The village chief had no idea that he had created this small pile. After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked back to the field.
Now that the waste spirit stones around my godmother have been dealt with, the village chief should go to the fields to see if the crops have been harvested.
The crops were harvested today, and all the farm tools were placed in the fields. Even if he wanted to use some farm tools now, he could only find them in the fields.
Fortunately, it was not troublesome. Besides, he had only been watching over the work in the fields before, and he did not need to work in the fields.
He went to see how the villagers were doing, and if there was nothing wrong, he would come back and continue to work on his pond.
Thinking of this, the village chief quickened his pace.
Because I was in a hurry, I didn't see anything from Brother Fan who came out of the office, and I didn't find out what happened to him in time.
Fortunately, Tang Rufeng can handle Brother Fan’s affairs by himself, and it will not have any impact on the people in Daxi Village.
"Brother Fan and sister-in-law have finished talking?"
Tang Rufeng was relieved when he saw that he looked relatively natural and without much emotional fluctuation.
"Well, she's doing OK now. She lives in a safe area designated by the government. Her life isn't in jeopardy, but she does have some issues with her daily life."
Brother Fan felt very distressed when he thought about how hard his wife worked to make a living.
When he was still alive, he never made the other party worry about these aspects. Although life was not rich, there was no lack of quality of life.
But now, in order to support herself and the children, the wife has to do such heavy and tiring work. From the looks of it, it seems that it is handicraft work that she brings home specifically.
"It's true that daily necessities are a bit scarce in cities outside right now, especially food, which is much more expensive than before."
Hearing this, Tang Rufeng thought of what he had recently seen on the Internet about the outside world and recounted what he knew.
"After all, it's the early days of spiritual energy revival and the changes in the world. Many plants and animals have mutated. In our village, although there is no shortage of food, we have to start making some daily necessities ourselves using the recipes passed down by the older generation."
As Tang Rufeng spoke, he couldn't help but think of the soap his grandmother was making in the morning.
These cleaning products are consumed in large quantities and are mostly used in daily life. Although the younger generation in the village brought a lot of them down the mountain last time, there was very little left after they were distributed to each household in the village.
By now, almost every household has reached a stage of material shortage.
"Fortunately, there's still some paper. There's a small paper mill in the town down the mountain, and you can still buy some."
However, what Tang Rufeng didn't say was that it was still very troublesome to go up and down the mountain, and it was even more troublesome to slowly move things up the mountain.
Daxi Village now has a team that specializes in going up and down the mountain to buy supplies. They are very familiar with the mountain roads, but even so, they still face various problems when walking on the mountain roads, which slows down their pace and prolongs the journey time.
"Rufeng, do you have a way..."
Brother Fan was a little hesitant when he thought that although the village was short of supplies, it seemed that there was still some food.
He wanted his wife and children to come to the mountains and live in Daxi Village.
Apart from anything else, during the time he stayed in Daxi Village, he had seen scenes of villagers getting along with each other.
Although this village is located in the surrounding villages, the people in the town at the foot of the mountain speak with some traditional colors, and their words are full of xenophobia.
But according to his observation, the reason why the villagers of Daxi Village were xenophobic was entirely because they wanted to protect the locust tree at the entrance of the village, their godmother.
From this starting point alone, it is enough to level out the criticisms they have received from people down the mountain in the past. Xenophobia is not a bad thing, and they are also protecting what they want to protect.
As long as they maintain the same stance and do not harm them, I believe his wife will definitely live a good life after coming here.
"Brother Fan wants his sister-in-law to come to Daxi Village?"
Seeing that Brother Fan was a little hesitant, Tang Rufeng thought about it and knew what he was thinking, so he finished what he had not finished saying.
Recently, outsiders who were not originally from the village moved into Daxi Village on the mountain. They are Dr. Fu and his family at the foot of the mountain.
They moved to the mountain after the doctors who had gone up the mountain to help a young family in the village give birth returned. They must have learned something from those doctors.
It just so happened that the eldest brother of the Wu family called again to ask, and they agreed.
There were vacant old houses in the village, and after they went up the mountain, the village chief arranged for them to live there. Now Dr. Fu and his family are the village doctors, providing medical care for the villagers and the teams going up and down the mountain.
There is an exception, such as Dr. Fu's family, who are not from the village but live in the village. Many people living at the foot of the mountain want to go up the mountain after learning about their current life.
Apart from anything else, food is not so scarce, and this alone is enough to attract people from the mountain.
"Well, I wanted her to come, but on second thought, I felt it was impossible. The distance is too far, and we can't get there. They are orphans and widows, and they haven't awakened any abilities, so they can't come here either."
Brother Fan frowned as he spoke. It was because of this that he swallowed the words back.
As long as his wife and children were at the foot of the mountain, he would have the audacity to tell Tang Rufeng that he wanted to seek protection for them.
Seeing that he was now lacking in ghost power and strength, he had no way of bringing his wife and children over, so he could only suppress this idea for the time being.
"We can find a way to do this."
Seeing this, Tang Rufeng lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then raised his eyes again and said this to Brother Fan.
“?!”
Brother Fan suddenly looked up and met Tang Rufeng's eyes. There was a strange light flashing in his eyes, which was surprise and expectation.
"Captain Gang Qingzhi went to the village entrance to move some waste spirit stones for Godmother. He talked to her for a while and could clearly feel that her strength had increased, so he asked her casually.
What the godmother meant was that her ability was now enhanced and she could extend the protection range to the upstream village.
If Mayor Xiao knew this, he would definitely want to bring the people from the town up the mountain. Even if it's impossible to get the people from the mountainside to live in Daxi Village or Shangyou Village, it's still possible to build an out-of-village village between the two villages."
As Tang Rufeng spoke, he didn't worry at all about whether Mrs. Fan and her son could live in the village. After telling what he knew now, he continued with what he had just said.
"I'll talk to Mayor Xiao down the mountain about this and ask him to help contact someone to escort Sister Fan over."
Simply put, the extra position in the godmother's protection circle will be given to Mayor Xiao in exchange for the other party using his family's resources to bring Mrs. Fan and her son over.
"...Will my godmother agree?"
After hearing this, Brother Fan's eyes, which had been hesitant before, lit up, and he seemed to have thought of something and asked a question.
“I’ll ask my godmother tonight, but she’ll probably agree.
Mayor Xiao has been coveting the mountain for a long time. Even if it's not this time, it will be the next time. Anyway, once he knows there is a place, he will definitely try his best to get there."
Thinking of Mayor Xiao looking for a way to make a living for the residents of the town at the foot of the mountain, a smile appeared in Tang Rufeng's eyes.
Ying Huai knew all the conversations between Tang Rufeng and Brother Fan.
After all, he is now more capable and it is a fresh start. He is using his roots to explore all the movements within the range he can protect. It is not surprising that he can hear these things.
Tang Rufeng guessed correctly. Even if it weren't for the incident with Mrs. Fan, Ying Huai would have agreed to let Mayor Xiao bring people up the mountain to build a village outside the village.
Because Mayor Xiao wants to build this village now, not to provide a good place for the residents of the town to live, but to farm on the mountain.
After experiencing the mutant bugs attacking the mutant crops, which caused the mutant food production in the town to drop, the first thing he thought of was the mountains.
Ever since he learned about the completely different food growing conditions in the two villages on the mountain, his thoughts began to spread.
Just throw away the idea of letting the townspeople live in the mountains. Nothing is more important than food!
The godmothers in Daxi Village can protect the food! This is very important.
If the village chief had not refused to rent the village land to the town, he would have spent a lot of money to farm the land in the mountains himself.
According to the village chief, the villagers don't even have enough land to cultivate themselves, so how could they possibly distribute the land for others to cultivate?
The mayor had no choice but to compromise, but he didn't let it go and was waiting for an opportunity to come back.
This time Ying Huai’s ability has increased, there is no way he will let him go.
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