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Chapter 38 The cause and effect between the old locust tree and the locust village

Su Ting did not panic because of Wang Qiang's words. She moved closer to some beds to see the village chief's situation clearly.

The villager who had been taking care of the village chief raised his hand to block Su Ting.

Su Ting stopped, looked up at him, and then looked back at Wang Qiang.

"If you don't let me see clearly, how can I help you solve the problem?"

Wang Qiang's eyes fell dangerously on Su Ting, and the two faced off silently for a moment.

Wang Qiang's eyes flickered and he waved his hand to the person who blocked Su Ting.

"You better really have a way, otherwise..."

"Otherwise, you'll kill me. I know, I know, you've said it so many times." Su Ting interrupted Wang Qiang impatiently.

He turned his head and approached the bed, bending down to carefully observe the condition of the village chief.

The village chief's eyes were closed tightly. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest that could still be seen, it would really look like he had lost his breath.

But looking at Su Ting's condition, he was almost no different from a dead person.

Almost everything on his body was hardened.

From the neck down, the skin is all keratinized into hard lumps.It looks like pieces of bark.

Su Ting reached out and touched the village chief's horny skin. It was rough and cut, and it really felt like touching the bark of a tree.

She put her hand on the village chief's heart and felt his weak heartbeat.

Behind her, Wang Qiang's eyes were fixed on Su Ting the whole time, not missing any of her movements.

Until Su Ting straightened up, he hurriedly asked: "How is it?"

Su Ting turned around and frowned: "The situation is very serious."

"What?" Wang Qiang's face turned pale.

Su Ting said: "You yourself should be very aware of the consequences of this. This is not the first case in your village, right?"

Neither Wang Qiang nor the people around him answered Su Ting's question.

But the silence said it all.

Su Ting continued: "I know even if you don't tell me, the reason why you don't leave the village is because you have no way to leave. Once you leave for a long time, your body will become like the village chief. That's why you Had to stay in the village.

Including your children, even if they go out to study and work, or start a family and start a business in another city, they still have to come back in the end, otherwise they will become mature in advance. "

What Su heard made everyone in the room fall silent.

Su Ting looked at Wang Qiang and said, "Do you know why this is?"

"why?"

"This is what it's telling you, it's time for the fallen leaves to return to their roots."

"What?" Wang Qiang's eyes widened with fear.

"Ahem..." At this moment, the village chief on the bed suddenly coughed.

Everyone's attention was attracted.

Wang Qiang hurriedly came to the bedside, "Dad! How are you?"

When Su Ting heard Wang Qiang calling the village chief dad, he just raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them, not surprised.

When she saw the village chief's face just now, she could tell that there was a father-son bond between the village chief and Wang Qiang.

"I...I'm fine." The village chief found it difficult to speak, so he could only lie in bed and wait for death.

"Who...is here?" the village chief asked.

Wang Qiang replied: "Dad, she is from the program team who came here to inspect before. This woman said she could help us solve the troubles in the village."

When the village chief heard this, he turned his head with difficulty and looked at Su Ting beside the bed.

The look in his cloudy eyes was dim.

Su Ting understood that this old man's life was coming to an end, and if nothing else happened, it would be in the next few days.

"Hello, I'm sorry for neglecting you. I can't entertain you in my current physical condition." The old man gasped.

Su Ting was a little surprised. The village chief seemed very polite and easy to talk to.

But his son Wang Qiang has the temperament of a bandit, and he looks like he has several lives in his hands.

But just by looking at him, Su Ting knew that he had never done anything illegal, otherwise he would have dealt with this scourge long ago.

"You're welcome, old man, I can entertain myself." After saying that, he found a place for himself to sit down.

He didn't regard himself as an outsider at all.

Wang Qiang glanced at Su Ting, his eyes looked a little cold, but he didn't say anything.

The old village chief smiled and was not unhappy because of Su Ting's behavior.

"Okay, little girl, don't go outside. If you need anything, just tell Qiangzi. You're welcome."

"Okay, I won't be polite."

Everyone else was a little confused by Su Ting's unobtrusive behavior. Why is this woman really not afraid at all?

Even the young people in the village were frightened when they saw the tree-turned villagers for the first time.

This woman is so brave.

The village chief took a breath and asked Wang Qiang: "You just said that this little girl can solve the village's problems. What did you mean?"

Wang Qiang explained: "She knows the situation in our village and she said everything right."

The village chief's expression changed slightly and he asked, "Is everything correct?"

"Well, she knows that we can't leave the village, and that we will end up like you. She also said that there is a way to solve our problems."

The village chief looked a little excited.

"You said... what you said is true?"

The biggest knot in Wang Jianmin's life is the curse of the village.

It should be said that this is the knot of everyone in the whole village.Generation after generation, each yearns to lift this curse.

But even today, as he is about to leave, this curse still exists.

If he could see the curse being broken before he died, he could die in peace.

"Really, I never lie to people." Unless it's not a person.

"You...you really have a way to help the village get rid of the curse?" Wang Jianmin wanted to sit up from the bed excitedly.

But his body had become severely denatured and it was impossible to sit up.

Finally can only give up.

"A curse?" Su Ting tilted his head, "Do you think this is a curse?"

Wang Jianmin and his son, as well as the villagers who were responsible for taking care of Wang Jianmin, were all stunned.

"Isn't it a curse?" the villager next to him asked impatiently.

"Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a curse." Su Ting thought for a while and explained, "It should be said that this is a deal between your ancestors and it."

"trade?"

"Yes. Counting the time, your ancestors first came to this place, probably more than 1000 years ago."

"So long?" Wang Qiang was a little surprised.

Although the older generation always says that they have lived here for generations, Wang Qiang feels that these "generations" may not be many.

After all, the entire Chinese civilization is only a few thousand years old.

Much of that time was spent experiencing various wars and displacement of people.

Many people may not have been aboriginal here at all, but moved here to escape the war.

Therefore, Wang Qiang felt that they might have moved here hundreds of years ago to avoid war.

But now Su Ting told them that their clan had lived here for more than 1000 years!
Village chief Wang Jianmin was also a little surprised.

“Has our village been living here this long?”

Su Ting nodded and looked at the village chief and his son, as well as the two villagers next to him, hesitating to speak, with some unbearable eyes.

Wang Jianmin saw that Su Ting was hesitant to speak, and said in an unsteady voice: "Young lady, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly."

Su Ting sighed and said, "Then I'll tell you straight."

The truth is cruel, but not knowing the truth is even more cruel to the people in this village.

"In fact, your village should have ceased to exist about 1000 years ago."

"What?" Several people stared in disbelief.

Su Ting ignored their surprise and continued: "It should be more than 1000 years ago, a war happened here, a very fierce war. The war affected this village, and the villagers suffered numerous casualties, and the blood spread to the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. under the tree.

That old locust tree had lived for more than 2000 years and had already developed spiritual wisdom. "

"You mean, we are like this now because of the old locust tree at the door?" Wang Qiang asked.

Su Ting nodded, "It is indeed because of it." "Village chief! I just said that old locust tree is evil! It should have been cut down long ago!" A villager next to him said angrily.

Su Ting sneered and said, "If you cut it, you really won't survive."

The villager's body froze, "Why? Isn't it the reason why we become like this?"

"But the reason why you are able to survive and thrive today is because of it."

What Su heard made several people show expressions of disbelief.

"That old locust tree has been standing there. It was practicing peacefully. Maybe it won't be long before it can achieve positive results.

But as the war spread, it saw the village it once lived in being affected by the war, and watched the children it had watched grow up die tragically one by one.

A tree actually felt sad and developed a heart of compassion. "

Several people listened in astonishment as Su heard about the old locust tree. They were shocked and couldn't believe it at the same time.

"When a tree has a heart, it has actually realized its own way. But the price is a bit high."

The price for Laohuaishu's enlightenment was to watch the children he had grown up with die tragically one by one.

"The blood of your ancestors has soaked the land where the old locust tree took root. The old locust tree used the blood as a guide and used its thousands of years of cultivation to sign a contract with your ancestors.

He resurrected your ancestors, but at the cost of being unable to leave the village, otherwise you would end up like him. "

Su heard this and pointed at Wang Jianmin.

"How could this happen?" Wang Qiang looked like he was greatly shocked.

The villager next to him retorted: "But many young people in the village have gone out, isn't it okay?"

"It's not okay." The villager next to him retorted, "Have you forgotten? Although they went out, they still had to come back to the village to die."

The others were dumbfounded.

Su Ting looked at them and asked: "Recall carefully, has this situation never happened before? A long time ago, almost all the people in your village lived a long life without illness or disaster. Isn't that true?"

Everyone subconsciously looked at the village chief Wang Jianmin. Almost all of his generation had never left the village.

In the end, it was because of some health condition that I had to return to the village.

In their memories, people in the village have been suffering from this strange disease for a long time.

Wang Jianmin's eyes were dazed for a moment, and he began to look through his memories, and then found the answer he wanted from the long-lasting memory bank.

"I remember."

Wang Jianmin's thick and hoarse voice sounded with nostalgia.

"That's true. I remember... my grandparents were very healthy. They were 80 or [-] years old, and they often sat around under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village to enjoy the cool air and chat.

Later, when my parents' generation came to the reform and opening up, the country's economy began to develop, and they also wanted to go out and find new ways out.We can't always stay in such a backward small mountain village.

Later, among the first batch of people who went out to develop, some succeeded and some failed.Regardless of whether they are successful or unsuccessful, they have basically made a home outside.

It seems that from that time onwards, people in the village began to suffer from strange diseases. "

Wang Jianmin said, getting a little excited.

"I remembered that it was at that time that when those who went out came back, some of their bodies had changed. Their skin became like tree bark. I went to the doctor outside and they only said it was a skin disease, but nothing happened. There is no cure.

These people have no choice but to come back and ask the elderly at home if they have a history of similar diseases.

But something strange happened. Within two days of these people returning to the village, their stiff skin slowly began to improve. "

"Yes, those of us who have been outside will immediately return to the village once skin lesions appear. After recovering, we will leave again. Every once in a while, we have to return to the village."

"In the past, there were people who did not believe in evil. Their bodies had become diseased and they would not come back. In the end, they completely transformed into trees within two months of being outside."

The villagers talked in a few words about what happened in the village before. Su listened and found that what these people said was similar to what he had calculated before.

After listening to what they had to say, Su said, "You think it was the old locust tree that harmed you, but you don't know that without the old locust tree, you wouldn't exist at all."

Everyone looked at Su Ting with complicated expressions.

They resisted this result in their hearts, but with so many facts put together, they had to believe it.

"Actually, strictly speaking, you do not exist. If it were not for the old locust tree, your ancestors would have died in the war more than 1000 years ago. Then naturally, you would not exist today.

The fact that you cannot leave the village is not because the old locust tree deliberately restricts you. It is because once you leave the shelter of the old locust tree, it will no longer be able to provide you with vitality.

Without its vitality supply, you are like a small tree that has lost its nutrients and will eventually die. "

This is why they eventually turn into trees and die.

"If this is what you said, then we are back now, why is it still like this in the end?" Wang Qiang asked.

Su Ting got up and came to the window.

Looking out from the window, you can just see the towering old locust trees.

It has stood there for thousands of years, quiet and reliable.

It promised the ancestors here that it would always protect their descendants, and it has kept its promise to this day.

only……

"People are subject to birth, aging, illness and death. When their energy and energy are exhausted, they will die. The same goes for trees."

Wang Qiang's eyes suddenly widened.

"You mean, the old locust tree wants... to..."

"Well, it's going to die." Su Ting's voice was so light and insubstantial.

Wang Qiang even thought he was just hallucinating.

"How is that possible? Didn't you say it has lived for thousands of years? How could it die if it is so powerful?" The villagers nearby could not accept this result.

If the old locust tree dies, what about them?

what will happen to them
Panic spread in the hearts of several people.

Su Ting turned around and looked at them with cold eyes.

"In order to protect those of you who have gone out these years, he has almost exhausted all his energy. Otherwise, why do you think you can live outside the village for so long?"

After listening to Su Ting's words, several people had a shocking guess in their minds.

Village chief Wang Jianmin closed his eyes.

He remembered that their ancestors had always told them not to leave the village.

But as time goes by, the ancestral rules are gradually forgotten, and young people take these rules less and less seriously.

Times are developing and the whole world is getting better and better. Why do they have to guard such a backward small mountain village?

They thought they were protecting the village and the old locust tree.

It turns out everything was wrong.

They are not guarding it, but it has been guarding them.

Wrong, all wrong.

What Su heard was like a heavy hammer, hitting their hearts hard.

"If it hadn't been protecting those young people who have gone out these years, it wouldn't have spent its cultivation on you.

Originally, given its cultivation, if you stay in this village peacefully, it will have no problem protecting you for hundreds of years.

If there is a chance encounter, I may be able to protect you for a longer time.

But there have been too many young people out there in the past few years, and its cultivation has been greatly depleted, so naturally it cannot continue to protect you.

He couldn't even hold himself up anymore. "

Su Ting wanted to ask the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. Is it worth it to put herself in it for the sake of these people who shouldn't exist in the world?
Is it worth it for humanity?
"Is there any way to save it?" Wang Jianmin's voice sounded tiredly after a while.

He looked at Su Ting with hope in his eyes, expecting an answer that might save everything.

Wang Qiang still didn't want to believe this, "Dad, how do you know what she told is the truth? What if she made it up to deceive you?"

Wang Jianmin looked at his son with tears in his eyes.

"But what if what she said is true?"

In fact, Wang Jianmin believed Su Ting, because many of the things Su heard were things that it was impossible for a human being to know.

Moreover, why did Su Ting lie to them?

This village is already like this. If there is no miracle, it will just be the same as him now.

Life is better than death.

Wang Qiang looked at Wang Jianmin and couldn't refute.

Su Ting looked at Wang Jianmin and said, "You should understand that there is no best of both worlds in this world, let alone perfection. The so-called perfection is nothing but a bigger shortcoming."

What Su heard made the hearts of the people in the room sink a little more.

So, is there no hope?

But Su Ting said again: "If you want to live, it must die; if it wants to live, you must return to its destiny."

What is destiny?
The destiny of the people of Sophora Village was written more than 1000 years ago, but it was changed without authorization by a Sophora tree spirit who could not bear to see the tragedies of the world.

(End of this chapter)