Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 424 Words of Silence
"There is a sign posted there saying that outsiders are not welcome here. Are you blind?!"

The visitor was a stout middle-aged man in his fifties. Before he arrived, he pointed at Gong Shuji and me from a distance and shouted:
"Get out! Get out!"

Underneath his hoarse voice, his face was shaken, and he was obviously very angry.

The roar penetrated the entire rocky mass, and for a moment, I couldn't tell whether the reeds around me fell due to the wind or in response to the sound.

The middle-aged man may have caught too many people like us. When he saw that we didn't run away immediately, a look of disbelief suddenly appeared on his face.

That expression turned into anger after a few breaths, and he came in front of me with a meteoric stride, taking a few steps that could kick out sparks.

Gong Shuji barely hesitated and stood in front of me in an instant.

Gong Shuji apologized and said:
"I'm sorry, I walked in by accident. I'll leave immediately."

The middle-aged man did not reply. Instead, he bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone from the rubble and held it in his hand.

He waved the stone and shouted again in a strange tone that was so loud that it was almost outrageous:
"roll!"

"roll!!!"

"Get out of here! Don't enter Longhu Village!"

Needless to say, the destructive power of the stone goes without saying. Gong Shuji and I retreated continuously, narrowly avoiding the stone swung in the man's palm several times.

Gong Shuji frowned repeatedly:
"Uncle, let's leave now."

No one responded to him.

The middle-aged man’s waving movements still didn’t stop, but I keenly discovered another thing——

Gong Shuji and I retreated continuously to avoid the middle-aged man's attack. We were in a state of embarrassment. However, the middle-aged man stepped on the unequal piles of rocks and walked on the ground as if he were on the ground.
What does this mean?

This means that this middle-aged man is more familiar with this rocky beach than we imagined.

It means that if the other party really wants to catch us, it is not that difficult to catch us.

Meaning
I moved the wood link on my hand:

"Gong Shuji, he is deaf."

"His voice was clearly affected by the inability to hear others speak and the inability to hear himself speak, so he was unable to control the tone of his voice."

"He was just trying to get us out of here."

Gong Shuji was stunned and stopped explaining.

I quickly took out a pen and paper and jotted down a few words:
"We're looking for someone."

The middle-aged man waved his hand and knocked the note from my hand:

"No one, get out, get out!"

His voice was still loud, and the white paper blew like a piece of paper money, drifting into a large reed swamp with the wind, and completely disappeared.

Unable to communicate.

The middle-aged man also refused to communicate with anyone. He just wanted to force us to leave.

No, in other words, he wants to force everyone who comes here to leave.

Gongshuji pulled me back again and again:
"Would it be better to tell the other party that we are here to see the Qing siblings?"

I looked at the middle-aged man in front of me and felt a little silent for a while.

For people whose emotions dominate everything, I have always been more cautious and difficult in making decisions.

They cannot use common sense to infer that the body is faster than the brain, like a turbulent wave, and it is easy for people to overturn.

If we tell the other party that we are here to find the Qing family siblings, there are no two of them in the village.
Then there is a high probability that we will be suspected for naming people who do not exist.

The opponent has been very emotional and may break the last string.

"This man can't understand what we are saying, and he has no way to communicate." I looked around and my eyes stopped somewhere:

"We retreat in that direction."

Gong Shuji looked wherever I looked and understood what I meant instantly.

The two of us relied on the fact that the middle-aged man couldn't hear our voices, so we shouted for help while retreating. The middle-aged man pressed us one after another.
Successfully retreated into Longhu Village.

That's right, Longhu Village.

The middle-aged man didn't have much foresight, and he was eager to drive us away from the original Long Lake and the current pile of rocks. He didn't even notice the direction in which we were retreating.

Longhu Village is silent, but quite crowded.

In front of many people's wooden houses, bundles of newly woven wooden baskets, bamboo baskets, and brooms are piled up.
These items were tied tightly with red rope and neatly stacked. They were obviously items for sale.

Very ordinary, an ordinary village appearance.

But weird things continue.

We shouted all the way and retreated past several houses whose doors were open and the smell of cooking was obvious in the house.
But no one came out to check the situation.

The nearest old man to me was even half a meter away from me, pulling weeds in his small yard.

When he raised his head while holding the green onions, he clearly saw the chaotic situation of the three of us, but he was not panicked at all, but smiled happily at us.
I shouted to him a few times, and he smiled, nodded, and actually waved his hand towards me.
How to express this weird feeling?

For a moment, I had a strange illusion, that is -

We are not being threatened with stones to back away.

But on an ordinary afternoon, I greeted the old man and asked him if he needed anything or if he wanted to come home for dinner, but the old man smiled and declined the invitation.
I withdrew my gaze and said:

"Everyone in this village seems to be deaf."

Naturally, this has not been verified yet, but looking at the current situation, it is definitely not bad.

Humans are a voyeuristic race.

Most people, especially a village collective that is out of business, will definitely have a mixture of good and bad.

Even if some people are used to such scenes, there will definitely be people who hear the sound and take a second look.

Regardless of the life and death of other foreigners, even if it is for the sake of your neighbor, you still have to see if the other party is at a disadvantage, right?

But, neither.

The people here are calm. Our shouts resound throughout the village, but our voices are like waves on the seashore, hitting the silent rocks.

All the villagers in the village were silent.

I can't think of a more consistent logic other than 'the whole village is deaf'.

But this will give rise to a new question: Why are all the people in this village deaf?
And, the most critical question, where is Longhu in Longhu Village?
This is far different from the 'village shrouded in pagan cults and mysterious and mysterious' that we originally guessed when we came here!
Gongshuji is looking at me
He is always looking at me.

I guess he wanted me to make up my mind.

But I really can't predict what happened in this village.

Thoughts flashed in my mind, and I finally settled on the middle one among the three options: upper, middle and lower. Just as I was about to speak, in my peripheral vision, a figure flashed out of the room next to me, blocking the middle-aged man and us. .

The figure looked to be about the same age as the middle-aged man with an extreme personality, but he looked much more elegant and had a pair of old-style black-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Like a teacher.

This was my first instinct.

The man wearing black-rimmed glasses and plain clothes was holding chopsticks in his right hand. He obviously came in a hurry. As soon as he appeared, the middle-aged man stopped waving stones randomly.

The middle-aged man panted heavily and said in a voice that could not accurately control the volume:
"Teacher Chen, the two of them entered Longhu."

"They must be here because of that monster. We have to drive them away."