Secrets from Longevity Village

Chapter 1 What's in Longevity Village

"Come, come, everyone, get off the car and be careful not to be crowded. I will take you to experience the simplicity and enthusiasm of the fellow villagers in northern Shaanxi in a while."

Zeng Youren yelled loudly with a loudspeaker, and a group of elderly people wearing yellow sun visors came down one by one from the tourist bus with large and small bags.

"Hey, Xiao Zeng, didn't you want to take us to see the cave dwellings in northern Shaanxi? Why is this an ordinary village?"

An old aunt from Shanghai looked at the lush forest not far away and the sign of Changshou Village at the entrance of the village, and asked curiously.

"Yes, Aunt Liu, don't worry, I have brought a group here several times before, as long as you pass through this Changshou Village, you can see stretches of the Loess Plateau. It's warm and cool in summer."

Zeng Youren accompanied Xiaoxin and said, but Aunt Liu was still relentless.

"Little Zeng, don't run the train with your mouth full. My son is a counterfeiter. If you lie to us old people, be careful and invite you to the police station for tea."

After Aunt Liu finished speaking, she turned her head and chatted softly with Aunt Li beside her.

After all the elderly people in the tour group entered Changshou Village one after another, the driver Guoqiang got off the bus with a thermos.

"Qiangzi, you didn't drive in the wrong place, I don't think this place looks like the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi."

Zeng Youren said suspiciously, but Qiangzi gave him a blank look.

"I have been driving the Sichuan-Shaanxi Expressway for more than ten years, and I can drive without making mistakes with my eyes closed. You are questioning my professionalism. Have you seen that bridge across the river is the landmark building of Lingxi County in northern Shaanxi? , isn't this within the territory of Lingxi County?"

After Qiangzi finished speaking, he also entered Changshou Village, but Zeng Youren felt that the sudden appearance of Changshou Village was a bit strange.

When Zeng Youren entered the village, he first went to the village head's house. The village head's house was a one-story house. The house raised pigs and planted trees outside the house. This was very in line with the general living habits in rural areas.

"You are the head of Yucun Village. I am so disrespectful and disrespectful. Our tour group first arrived in Guibao, and I hope the village head will take care of you."

Zeng Youren took Village Chief Yu's hand and said very kindly, Village Chief Yu may not look like a farmer, but he has a high-ranking stalwart body. Not only is the sky full and the ground is round, but the beer belly is much larger than ordinary people.

"Tour group? What tour group? We are a small closed village and never accept outsiders."

Village head Yu pulled his hand, looking very rude.

Seeing that Village Chief Yu is not easy to talk to, Zeng Youren went to make friends with Village Chief Yu's wife, Aunt Wang.

"Aunt Wang, you see all of us have come in, even if we don't arrange accommodation, at least prepare some lunch for us, we can't let everyone go hungry."

As he spoke, Zeng Youren took out a few packs of city napkins from his pocket, intending to bribe Aunt Wang.

"I said old man, I don't think Xiao Zeng looks like a bad person. At least he didn't fight and fight when he entered the village. I think it's convenient for them to let Lao Bai greet him. It's just that you have to do it before dark." You have to leave Changshou Village, or you will bear the consequences."

Aunt Wang peeled the corn cobs and said with a serious face.

Seeing that the wife of the village chief had spoken, Zeng Youren was very grateful.

When Zeng Youren left the village chief's house, he saw a patch of peach trees planted in the backyard of his house, and the peaches were much larger than ordinary peaches.

After lunch in Changshou Village, the tour group took another tour of the huge village.

In the east of the village lives Uncle Li, who burns boilers and provides free boiled water for the villagers. In the north of the village lives Lao Bai, who is hospitable and a peacemaker in the village. Li Tou is fine and likes to drag a thermos bottle around. Old Nan lives in the south of the village, and his family runs a breeding farm.

"Hey, Lao Bai, do you have any temples here? There are a few Buddhist friends in my group, and they offer incense and pray for blessings wherever they go..."

Before Zeng Youren finished speaking, Lao Bai shook his head again and again.

"Hey, don't dare, it was because there were statues of gods everywhere in Changshou Village, and then a group of outsiders came and said they wanted to break the feudal superstition, and they smashed them all up, and they smashed them into pieces, not even scum Let me tell you, who would dare to build a temple just like this?”

When Lao Bai said this, his eyes were filled with horror.

"So that's the case, Lao Bai, do you have any special products in this village? I'll let the people in our tour group pick up some by the way later, so as to boost the economy of your Longevity Village, right?"

Zeng Youren proposed to Lao Bai out of kindness, but Lao Bai still shook his head.

"Thank you for your kindness. We don't lack anything in Changshou Village. You should leave as soon as you finish your stroll. This is the greatest care for our Changshou Village."

After Lao Bai finished speaking, he pushed Zeng Youren's back, and Zeng Youren could only smile awkwardly.

Soon, the tour group left Changshou Village and headed to the next stop.

"I thought I could find rare items like silver dollars and antiques in Changshou Village, but I didn't find any, so I just bought such a travel bag of peaches when I left. You are welcome."

A wretched old man with glasses opened his travel bag, and it really contained a big bag full of peaches.

"I said, Xiao Ren, you are really generous. I paid 200 yuan for your radio and you were not willing to buy it from me. Why did you want to give it to the white old man?"

The driver, Guoqiang, was holding the steering wheel and asked Zeng Youren curiously.

Zeng Youren couldn't tell why.

"I guess I think Lao Bai is a nice guy. Seeing him as a loner, it's boring to be stuck in the village all day. If there is a radio, you can learn about the outside world at any time, and life will not be so boring."

When Zeng Youren said this, Guoqiang also nodded slightly in agreement.

"Xiao Zeng, why don't you have a peach, I've lived for decades, and I've never seen such a big peach."

The wretched old man also handed Zeng Youren a peach, but Zeng Youren politely declined, because he knew that the wretched old man must have stolen the peach from the backyard of the village chief's house. People in Changshou Village were born poor, so this wretched The old man also went to steal other people's fruits, which is really unethical.

Just when everyone was about to taste the extremely delicious peaches, the bus was suddenly swept up by a strange wind, and then fell heavily into the valley.

Zeng Youren didn't know how long he had been in a coma. When he woke up, there was already a mess around him, with the corpses of tour group members lying here and there, and he also broke his legs due to falling from a height.

"Help, is there anyone? What happened here!"

Zeng Youren lay on the ground and groaned in pain, but it made Tian Tian not respond, and the ground did not work.

The members of the tour group have been wiped out, only 28 huge juicy peaches are still scattered beside Zeng Youren.

Zeng Youren thought to himself that he might also be doomed.

In the next few days, Zeng Youren, who had inconvenient legs and feet, could only rely on the peaches beside him to survive his last breath.

He didn't know how long he had been lying in this valley.

All I know is that after many years and months, the world returned to chaos, and then a naked muscular man appeared, holding an ax and coming to him.

(End of this chapter)