It's just so painful that I don't want to live anymore.
It wasn't until I suddenly felt like someone picked me up from the ground and walked me for a while that the feeling of losing my hands and feet slowly disappeared, and my vision gradually recovered.
The old smoker's voice also appeared in my ears.
"do you understand?"
I collapsed on the ground and was silent for a long time, unable to speak.
The old smoker was not in a hurry, he just sat next to me and smoked quietly.
It wasn't until a wild dog ran next to me that I came back to my senses and asked the old smoker: "Can you tell me about Niang'er Village?"
"I would like to know."
The old smoker glanced at me.
"Knowing too much is not a good thing."
"I want to know." I emphasized again, and then said: "I don't want to be a fool, nor do I want to slowly become a madman."
The old smoker thought for a while, then put out his cigarette, and then said: "If you want to know, just marry that girl."
"Why do you have to marry her?" I don't understand.
"The City God has noticed you. If there is no accident, he will take your life soon." The old smoker said seriously: "The only one who can save you is that girl."
"If you don't marry that girl, it's useless no matter how much you know."
"Why does it have to be her?" I don't understand even more.
The old smoker looked at me helplessly, and then said: "She is the woman that the City God likes, and she is also the woman that the old madman once dedicated to the City God."
"Marry her."
"With her blessing, you can at least live a few more days."
I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a little bad.
Since she is the woman that the City God likes, and I am the village guard chosen by the City God, then if I rob the woman from the City God, wouldn’t that be more courting death?
I couldn't help but look at the old smoker and wondered: "Is there no other way?"
"Robbing a woman with the City God doesn't mean that I will die quickly enough?"
At this time, I already believed eighty-nine percent of what the old smoker said.
There is no longer much doubt about my identity as the village guardian.
Although I still remember the words of that young lady in my mind, I couldn't leave Niang'er Village, even if I wanted to. I didn't want to try that feeling of losing all consciousness again.
At this time, the old smoker also shook his head.
"There is no other way."
"There's not enough time."
"Although there is a lot of risk in snatching a woman from the City God, once it succeeds, the City God will not take action against you in person for a short period of time out of face. As long as the City God does not personally target you, then your hope of survival will be lost.
Much bigger.”
"When you become a true village guardian and the Fairy Queen who guards this Niang'er Village, even the City God will no longer harm you at will."
"What about failure?" I asked again.
The old smoker looked at the direction of Yan Niang'er Village, thought for a moment, and then said with a smile: "An extra solitary grave in Niang'er Village doesn't take up much space. An old man like me..."
"You can also leave this hellish place as soon as possible."
"It's all death anyway." I sighed, feeling a little desperate.
I can't live without Niang'er Village. According to the old smoker, the fact before me is just the difference between dying early and dying late. In this case, I have no other choice.
All I can do seems to be to listen to the old smoker.
"Then what should I do?" I looked at the old smoker.
The old smoker pointed to the big horse not far away.
"Ride it."
"Get the bride!"
I gave a helpless smile and finally chose to walk over. At this moment, I suddenly missed the past eighteen years. Although I was alone, at least I didn't need to think so much.
And now.
I think too much, but I don’t even have the power to choose.
Or maybe it's because I'm afraid of death.
The word death sounds easy, but when it comes to it, not everyone has the courage to face it calmly, at least I don't. If I did, I think I wouldn't choose to listen to the old smoker even if I couldn't leave the village.
if.
Soon I walked to the big horse.
The big horse seemed to understand human nature. After I walked to it, it knelt on the ground. It wasn't until I sat on it that it stood up straight again.
At the same time, the eight 'people' behind him lifted up the sedan chair.
The people carrying the burden also followed at the same time.
Not only that, but there was singing, which was full of festive feeling.
Then the old smoker also came over. He held Da Ma in one hand and smoked a cigarette in the other, and led me and those 'people' towards Niang'er Village.
What I didn't expect was that just a few steps away, I would see a brand new Niang'er Village, which was strange yet slightly familiar.
What was strange was that Niang'er Village suddenly changed from a dry village. At first glance, it was bustling with people, and there were beautiful women everywhere, laughing and playing, and they were extremely beautiful.
It's familiar.
This seems to be the Niang'er Village that Liu Ming and Zhuang Yue were talking about.
There are girls everywhere.
It also seems to be the Niang'er Village that I have seen in my dreams.
There is style everywhere.
I was a little dazed for a while, and I didn't come back to my senses for a long time. It wasn't until the old smoker seemed to notice my state, and raised his hand to pat the big horse under me, that I woke up to the sound of the big horse's cry.
The first time I asked the old smoker, "Is this the real Niang'er Village?"
The old smoker glanced at me.
I added: "I saw a lot of people, and they were all women."
"What else?" The old smoker then said.
I looked around, thought for a moment and said, "But they didn't seem to see me."
The old smoker was silent for a while and then said: "Then just pretend you didn't see anything."
"The current Niang'er Village..."
"That's not the case."
At the same time, his eyes glanced around, and there seemed to be a hint of complexity in his eyes.
I was stunned for a moment, and even more confused.
Isn’t this a real Niang’er Village?
So what does the real Niang'er Village look like?
Before I could ask any more questions, we had already stopped in front of a house, and I recognized at a glance that the house in front of me was where the young lady in the dream lived.
The old smoker had also walked to the house, knocked on the door three times, and then shouted loudly: "Young Master Li Xuantian of the Li family, come to welcome the bride!"
But there was no movement in the room.
It's like there's no one inside.
Seeing this, the old smoker knocked on the door three times again, and then shouted repeatedly: "Young Master Li Xuantian, come to welcome the bride."
This time there was finally movement in the house. The door opened a crack, and a piece of red paper slipped out from the crack, with a coffin drawn on it.
I didn't know what it meant, but I could only tell that it was probably a sticker from the City God, but the old smoker picked up the red paper with a smile, and knocked three times again after closing the door.
Then he continued to shout: "The young master of the Li family, Li Xuantian, is here to welcome the bride!"
Seeing the old smoker's reluctance, I couldn't help but blush a little, and at the same time I felt a little disappointed.
The door was closed three times in a row.
No matter how you look at it, you are not willing to marry me.
As expected.
As the old smoker shouted for the third time, a voice finally came from the room. The voice was very soft, but with a bit of anger, and it only contained two simple words.