Chapter 2 Yuhe Village
"You're crazy!"
Seeing the woman cursing and pulling the child away, Li Taiyuan stood up and straightened his clothes.
I'm just curious.
Growing up, apart from "freak" and "crazy", the most common word he heard others use to describe him was pitiful.
But Li Taiyuan couldn't figure out how he deserved the pity of others.
My father often touched his head and murmured to the half-missed photo frame at home: Poor child, you don’t even know what your mother looks like.
When I was a child, my neighbor's grandma said: My child, you have been without a mother since you were born, and you are treated as an ominous person with yin and yang eyes and are ignored. How pitiful you are.
After school, the teacher said to his father: Because of his illness, some parents did not allow their children to play with Taiyuan. He was withdrawn and was ostracized by his peers in school. He was really pitiful.
When I went to the hospital, the doctor said: This child suffers from schizophrenia that is inherited in his family and needs to be hospitalized for a period of time. Even if he is discharged, he will probably be unable to live without medication for the rest of his life, which is quite pitiful.
After arriving in Huacheng, the landlord listened to him talk about the situation at home, and said with emotion: Your father is the same, and he can let you go out alone. Now you don't even have any relatives or friends to take care of you. You are so pitiful.
A key member of the organization once said that we live in fear all day long, and in order to gain a few years of life, we end up becoming neither humans nor ghosts. It is really pitiful and funny.
Liao Huarong also said that he did not think about how to survive, how to use the limited time to gain more benefits for his family, and enjoy life; instead, he wanted to explore the unimportant truth.
Does it matter what Black Tai Sui is? Can the curse be lifted by knowing the conspiracy behind Xingfu Group?
No.
So what if you knew everything?
"Everything you do is meaningless. You are so crazy and pitiful." Liao Huarong said.
Even today, even a child who is not familiar with the world can point to himself and say, he looks so pitiful.
Where is the pity?
Li Taiyuan has his own ideas.
It's a pity that his life is about to be annihilated. When the countdown comes to an end, he still has not explored the truth of the world and found the real joy of life.
It is indeed too pitiful to die in a state of confusion and ignorance.
Therefore, there is not much time left for yourself.
After carefully thinking about what happened just now, in order to confirm whether what he saw before was a hallucination caused by the illness, Li Taiyuan once again turned back to the stall selling red fruits.
"Handsome guy, are you back after shopping around? Did you find that the ones sold by other stores in the market are not as good as the ones I sell here?"
The boss recognized Li Taiyuan at a glance and enthusiastically handed him a fruit again.
"Well, weigh some for me."
After randomly selecting some fruits, weighing them and paying for them, Li Taiyuan ate a few more crab apples one after another.
As expected, the taste of these fruits is the same as before: a sweet and rich aroma, but also a strange smell of vicious rancidity.
Of course, if you are an ordinary person, you will never notice anything unusual.
Liao Huarong once taught him that only infected people who had taken Black Tai Sui and had their five senses strengthened would be so sensitive to death and supernatural auras.
If the planting area had not been surrounded by a large amount of corpse energy for many years, there would never be such heavy resentment in these fruits.
As for the source of the supernatural power that can affect the entire orchard, there is no need to think too much about it. It must be very exaggerated, even no less than the K109 train last night.
I don’t know if I am just too lucky, but I didn’t expect that just as my front foot got out of the task, something strange happened to my back foot.
It seems that Liao Huarong is right. The infected people have higher inspiration than ordinary people and are more susceptible to the influence of supernatural events.
Only then did Li Taiyuan understand. No wonder Liao Huarong had repeatedly told him to mind his own business before they separated.
Death is something that humans avoid and is ubiquitous. It is estimated that other infected people also encounter these strange things in their daily lives.
Perhaps in the eyes of other infected people, these resentful fruits have nothing to do with Black Tai Sui and are just an unexpected episode.
But Li Taiyuan didn't want to let go of any clues related to the weirdness.
He firmly believes that as long as he perseveres and touches each piece, he will always catch the real main thread and find the truth he wants.
So, he asked the vendor about the origin of this fruit.
"Shaxi Yuhe crabapple fruit, haven't you heard of it? This is a specialty of our Jiu'an. There are many sold under this banner on the Internet, but in fact they are not produced locally. The fruits you bought were all purchased by me from Yuhe Village.
It’s harvested from the hands of fruit farmers, and it’s incredibly authentic.”
While the vendor was busy working, he said cheerfully: "Even though Yuhe Village is a remote place, I don't know why, but its kind of fruit is the most delicious. I guess it's because it's close to a sand stream, and the water quality and soil are better than other places.
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"Yuhe Village..."
Li Taiyuan silently wrote down this information and casually chatted with the vendor for a few words.
He was really surprised that if he had weird information about Yuhe Village, Liao Huarong could not have left without saying anything. The only explanation was that even the organization did not discover the strangeness of this place.
Surrounded by such deep resentment, has there been no reports of any hauntings in Yuhe Village for so long?
To Li Taiyuan's disappointment, he did not extract any valuable information from the vendors.
Yuhe Village is located near Rifeng Mountain, and its economic development is relatively backward. Although the scenery there is beautiful, the villagers are very xenophobic. They never welcome outsiders to visit, and they always conflict with tourists who travel nearby.
"That's a lot of broken local rules, and the villagers are also nagging about it. If it weren't for business, I wouldn't want to deal with them," the merchant said.
Li Taiyuan learned from the other party that Yuhe Village is about four or five hours' drive from Jiu'an County, and he needs to take a car in the county seat and then walk there.
Anyway, he had nothing to do. After thinking about it, Li Taiyuan decided to go to the village to investigate in person to see how weird it was.
He hadn't eaten anything in the morning and had just vomited all the remaining food in his stomach. Li Taiyuan decided to fill his stomach first.
Under the enthusiastic recommendation of the vendor, he came to an unprepossessing breakfast shop near the east exit of the market.
This shop looks to be dozens of years old. Although it is not big in appearance, it is well-known in the local area because of its cheap prices and good taste.
At this moment, the seven or eight tables in the store were already occupied, and there was a long queue outside the store. The few benches that the boss moved out were obviously not enough, and many diners sat on the curb with noodles in their hands, enjoying themselves.
I ate the noodles.
The hungry Li Taiyuan ordered some food. Just when he was about to follow the example of others and find a place to eat, the landlady quickly cleared an empty table and called him in time.
"Little handsome boy, come on, come on, sit down and eat."
This was the first time that Wang Cuiping saw such a good-looking young man. In the past, the people who came to eat at her house were older locals and nearby vendors. There were very few customers with such outstanding temperament and handsome appearance as Li Taiyuan.
Everyone has a love for beauty, so after seeing the other person, Wang Cuiping made an exception and found him a seat, and also gave him some extra side dishes and snacks.
"Boss boss, you are partial. Be careful of your boss getting jealous."
"I've been eating at your house for so many years, but why haven't you seen us delivering pickles?"
"Fuck you, be careful when you talk nonsense and bite your tongue!"
Wang Cuiping has a cheerful personality, and she never forgets to talk to the diners around her while holding the dinner plate: "This guy is from a big city, so he must try our local specialties!"
She walked up to Li Taiyuan, put down a bowl of steaming wontons and pot helmets, and said with a smile: "Eat and drink well. If it tastes good, remember to help us promote it."
The snow-white wontons floated on the surface of the soup, round and light, like small jellyfish: the outside was translucent, and the meat filling inside was reddish. Li Taiyuan took a bite, and the fragrant lard residue and chopped green onion added to the delicious flavor of the soup.
After hanging it up, he ate a few wontons and paired them with the pickles sent by Wang Cuiping. It was so beautiful that his eyebrows almost fell off.
The outer shell of the Pork Guokui with Umeboshi, Vegetables and Pork is roasted until crispy, tightly wrapping the fillings inside. When you take a bite, your lips and teeth will be fragrant, filling and delicious.
The strange taste left in his mouth after eating the crabapple fruit just now was gone. Li Taiyuan devoured it, thinking that this trip was not in vain. While he was eating and thinking about how to get to Yuhe Village next, a familiar figure appeared.
Appeared in the breakfast shop.
As soon as the young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes walked into the room, he called Uncle Liu and Aunt Wang to the boss and his wife who were busy on the stove.
Wang Cuihua, who was originally busy, was stunned for a moment. After careful identification, she immediately greeted the young man with a smile. She patted the young man on the shoulder and said warmly: "Who am I supposed to be? It turns out to be the second girl of the old He family! The last time I saw you, it was your father.
When I take you to the city to go to the market, right? I heard a few years ago that you joined the army, oh, how did you become such a big young man in the blink of an eye!"
Chapter completed!