I have a magical tree

In the early morning of the next day, Keling Village, which had been somewhat dead, seemed to finally come to life. Countless women pushed carts and pushed their belongings out of their homes.

The smaller children were placed in the car, and the older children followed beside them, helping to hold the handlebars, even though in fact this did not have much effect at all.

There wasn't much communication, but these people all gathered together, helping and pulling each other away from their homes and gathering at the entrance of the village.

Liang Zuo was already waiting here. He led a group of officials and set up several large pots here. The pots were full of hot rice porridge, and the basket next to them was filled with meat cakes.

When he saw someone coming, he would have hot porridge and meat cakes delivered to him.

"It's easier to walk after you've eaten! It's a day's journey to Qingyun County!"

Many women looked at him in surprise. After a few days of interaction, they knew that this was a different official, but they did not expect that this man would be so attentive.

In fact, most of them had eaten before, and Liang Zuo seemed to know that.

"If you are not hungry, drink the rice porridge and leave the bread on the road to eat!"

His eyes searched the crowd, and after a long time, he asked with some worry, "Where are your ancestors?"

"It's not here yet, don't worry, someone has already passed by!"

Liang Zuo nodded and waited for a while. Finally, unable to sit still, he handed the place over to his subordinates and went straight to Granny Wu's house.

Only he understands that it may not matter if he is missing among these people, but if Granny Wu doesn't come, she may not be able to leave today.

That mother-in-law has become the spiritual leader of these people, and the reason why they are willing to drag their families and show up here is because they only learned from him that their ancestors are willing to move away, that's all, and it is not because of him. face.

The so-called prestige of officials is of no use here.

That is, he gave these women and children some face. As for the other officials who followed him, they had always been too lazy to talk to them.

Liang Zuo came to the courtyard and saw several women helping Granny Wu pack her luggage, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let me help you!" Liang Zuo took a few steps forward and wanted to help Granny Wu put the things on the table, but she was stopped by Granny Wu.

"I'll do this myself!" Granny Wu refused.

Liang Zuo looked at the wooden carving on the table with a vague human figure in surprise. He guessed that it might have been carved by the old man for his husband as a souvenir.

If so, it's not surprising that he is so cherished.

So he went to help other women load Granny Wu's luggage onto the bullock cart.

But he heard the whispered conversation between the women.

"My ancestors didn't sleep all night yesterday."

"How can this be done? How can my body hold up?"

"You shouldn't have agreed to our ancestors making that statue!"

"But... we can't stop it. How can we manage what our ancestors decided?"

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Liang Zuo turned around and looked at Granny Wu. He was in a hurry and didn't look carefully. Now when he looked carefully, he found that Granny Wu was actually a bit older than when he saw her yesterday.

You know, it's only been one day. But if he remembered correctly, the old man's hair was originally gray, and there were some green hairs in the white hair, but today, the proportion of white hair is even greater. Even the wrinkles on his face are a bit more numerous.

But he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't even persuade these people who were close to the old man, so how could he do it.

Liang Zuo finished loading all the luggage into the car in silence, and found that there were not many things. The elderly people personally said that they don’t want many things.

"Just leave those things here. The old man can take a look when he comes back. If they are all emptied, he will probably complain."

Granny Wu was helped into the car. She looked back at the small courtyard with reluctance in her eyes. For people of her age, it was the most difficult to leave her homeland. Because she knew she could never come back here again.

Liang Zuo personally led the ox cart. Seeing the old man's eyes, he couldn't bear it and comforted him: "Actually... there is still a possibility of rebuilding Keling Village!"

Everyone turned their eyes to him, even Granny Wu was surprised.

"Pioneering order! If the county issues a land reclamation order again, Keling Village will be rebuilt!" Liang Zuo took a deep breath, "However, I don't know when the next land reclamation order will be."

The luster in Granny Wu's eyes was much weaker, but she still smiled and said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day, but you are still young and have a chance! But... I'm afraid that by that time, you may not be willing to come back. This is the place!”

"No, we will definitely come back, if that happens one day!" A woman shook her head.

"Ancestor, I can't bear to leave this place!"

After hearing these words, Granny Wu just smiled and shook her head. Of all the words, only promises are the paleest, not to mention that these words are not even promises.

She knew that once she settled in the county, the longer time passed, the slimmer her hope of returning. Even when they say these words now, they all come from the heart.

Leaving a place where you have lived for decades and facing a new and unknown place, at this time, the nostalgia for your hometown will be magnified to the extreme.

But when they settled down in the county town and lived a stable life again, even a far more stable and beautiful life than here, everything changed.

But even if this is the case, they can't be blamed, because this is human nature.

"Let's go. It's a long way to the county town. We have to work hard today to get there before nightfall!" Grandma Wu waved her hand.

Liang Zuo led the ox cart and moved forward slowly.

When Grandma Wu's ox cart arrived, the huge flow of people that had gathered at the entrance of the village finally began to flow again.

They followed the ox cart spontaneously and slowly extended forward along the road at the entrance of the village.

They used all the power they could, such as oxen, mules and horses. If they didn't have these, they would use manpower to drag and push.

As they stepped out of the village, countless women stopped for a while and looked back at the familiar village with sadness in their eyes.

Everything that belonged to them was buried here.

Only the children could not understand this feeling. Instead, they cheered and were happy because of such a grand trip. For them, this was no less than the New Year and festival.

They walked through the caravan, calling friends and companions, with crying and laughter mixed in, finally making the caravan more lively.

Some officials wanted to stop them, thinking that the noise of these children would seriously affect the speed of the convoy.

But Liang Zuo stopped them, "Slow down, slow down!"

"But if the journey is delayed, the last section of the journey may take until night!" The official was not unreasonable, but just out of practical considerations.

"No problem, I'll find a way!"