Chapter 51 A deserted ghost village
The Wu family class took a slightly detour this time, and the original plan to return home within half a month was ruined.
However, everyone in Wu's class was not depressed, but was very happy.
After all, fortunately, I met the salesman and got the general situation of Weihu Mountain. Otherwise, if there was a head-on collision, Wu He would not be able to escape, and most of the other Wu family members would not be able to escape.
Of course, although the salesman had merit, Wu He had no intention of letting this guy go.
Let's not talk about how many people this guy has killed. Let's just say that letting this guy go may, or even very likely, tip off Weihu Mountain and let the group of guys who are suspected of practicing evil arts come to surround him. Wu There was no way Crane would let him go.
As for why everyone in Wu's class believed so much in the words of the salesman whose neck was broken by Wu He.
That is naturally because "hearing is false and seeing is true".
After Wu He and others walked through the villages near Weihu Mountain, all they saw was an empty ghost village.
Not to mention human figures in those ghost villages, not even a mouse or even a bird or even an insect could be found. It was as if the silent god of death quietly walked through here and took away all the lives here. .
Even without any bloody feeling of blood and viscera, the oppressive and suffocating atmosphere still made Wu Jiaban not dare to stop for a moment, and he rushed through several villages at high wasn't until we reached the area of Mingyue Town, the outermost village of Mingyue Town and Qingfeng Town, that things improved...
Stopping in a small village that was full of people, Wu Yu, who was sitting next to Wu He, said with a somewhat unattractive expression:
"There is no one in three or four villages, and there is not even a trace of a fight. With so many people missing, doesn't anyone from the government come to investigate?!"
In response to Wu Yu's complaints, the old man Wu Sheng took a puff of dry cigarette, smacked his lips, and then spit out a white line and said:
"Government? Government? Haha~, don't take those officials too seriously. There are a few conscientious officials. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so what if a few people at the bottom are missing? Even if people in several villages are inexplicable So what if I disappear, as long as I don’t make too big a fuss and make it difficult for everyone, the officials are too lazy to care about it..."
"But but..."
"What about taxation? There are so many fewer people and so many tax officials. Don't you care at all?"
Hearing that his grandfather did not hesitate to reveal the reality of the world, Wu Yu couldn't come up with an explanation for a long time. It was his first time to help out and had more contact with simple farmers. He really lacked some understanding of the cruelty of the world.
In comparison, Wu Yan is doing much better. Unlike Wu Yu, who is more interested in science, stares at the math problems written by Wu He every day, and is more sensitive to accounts and taxes, as an older brother, he prefers to listen to Wu He's various lectures. Wu Yan, who told various humanistic stories and even told them to children in other villages in exchange for food, knew more about these and clearly saw them more thoroughly, and said:
"Taxation is important, but the only thing that matters is the taxation itself."
Wu Yan's words were meaningless. Wu Yu was speechless for a while and had no idea what he can only put a big question mark on my forehead.
Seeing Wu Yu like this, Wu Yan was speechless for a while, and then he explained:
"What's so difficult about this? As long as you have money, that means taxes are in place, and your own interests are protected. The higher-ups can also use money to deal with it, but it's just hundreds or thousands of people missing, so what's the point?"
"Even if the Dong Chuang Incident happens, will there still be Weihu Mountain? At worst, it's just Liang Zhi again. Once the dragnet is on the mountain, it's just a bunch of chickens and dogs..."
The first ones are all influenced by Wu He's teachings. As for the latter ones, they should be attributed to Xie Qian. When Xie Qian followed the Wu family class, it was natural that he could not just focus on Xie Qian. Naturally, other people also had their own ideas. it was from the other party's mouth that Wu Yan learned more about the true face of the world that even Wu He did not have here. It was precisely because of this that he could see the current situation so thoroughly.
Looking at the triumphant Wu Yan, Wu He was also speechless. He reached out and patted the heads of these two guys, and said speechlessly:
"Okay, okay, I know what you two are capable of, there's no need to show off here."
……
There were no people in those villages before, and not even a bird's laugh was heard. It was really strange. Even though this place should have been out of scope, the lives of the villagers in the nearby villages were quite normal. Farming should be done, and farming should be done. The rice cook.
But it's not really safe here.
Who knows if Weihu Mountain will continue to arrest villagers from other villages after searching the villages around the mountain.
Wu He really didn't want to face this group of guys who practiced sorcery. After all, thinking about facing a lot of Liang Zhi, Wu He felt a chill from the soles of his feet to the scene was really like the underworld, and it was really unimaginable for Wu He.
The old man Wu Sheng obviously had similar considerations, so after replenishing some physical strength, everyone set off on the road again.
Before leaving, Wu He turned around and took a deep look at this small countryside, so that he could imprint everything here into his mind, and then he continued to move forward with Wu Jiaban.
After returning to his hometown this time, no matter what the purpose is, Wu He will undoubtedly still go to Anyang County through this road. When the time comes, Wu He will come here alone. When he comes to this place, he doesn't even ask about the village's name. .
It's just that Wu He has a hunch that when he comes here next time, the end here won't be much better than the previous villages.
Of course, someone might ask when thinking of this, since they had a premonition, why didn’t they notify the villagers to flee?
"Oh, who believes it..."
Turning around and raising his arm, the luck pulse instantly blew the wings of a hovering bat in the sky. Wu He slowly walked to the side of the falling bat and looked at the bat, which had no other abnormalities except for one broken wing. , Wu He trampled it to death with one kick, and then looked up at the sky.
Returning to the normal forest from the extremely quiet environment, if Wu He didn't have any nerves, it would definitely be a lie.
"Isn't it the so-called blood bat controlled by evil magic?"
"That's right, even if they need to use human blood and human flesh to practice martial arts, they shouldn't be tracking these three or five people. If they have this kind of skills, wouldn't it be good to kidnap a few people from other villages?"
"This mentality must be changed, otherwise I may suffer from persecutory paranoia in the future."
Patting his face and getting rid of all the messy thoughts in his mind, Wu He raised his feet and followed the Wu family's team and got on the carriage...
Only this time, Wu He kept scanning his surroundings with his eyes, no longer daring to be as careless as before...
(End of this chapter)