Chapter 5: The defeated village, vegetables eaten by ghosts
Uncle Li’s home was in front of Yang Fan’s house. He quickly went home and got the key, followed by an old lady who belonged to him. My wife, Grandma Xu.
"How did you open it?"
Uncle Li was surprised to see her opening the door and entering the yard without a key.
Yang Fan pointed to the door lock and said without blushing, "The door is unlocked, so I came in."
Uncle Li: "Old lady, did you forget to lock the door yesterday?"
Grandma Xu retorted, "You were the one who came over to clean the yard yesterday, so it was you who didn't lock it."
Did I leave it unlocked?
Uncle Li looked at the lock on the door and thought, was I the one who cleaned the yard yesterday?
"Okay, what else do you want it to do? It's normal to not remember that when you are old." Grandma Xu patted Uncle Li, turned to look at Yang Fan, and looked at her carefully. There were many emotions in her eyes that she couldn't understand.
Yang Fan is tall and thin, standing a head taller than her when standing in front of the old man.
She smiled and greeted Grandma Xu, "Grandma Xu, long time no see."
Yuan was very good-looking, with bright eyes and white teeth, coupled with Yang Fan's unique elegant and noble temperament, which made her Grandma Xu was in a daze for a moment.
"...Long time no see. Why have you become so thin now? Your face has no color. You haven't eaten well in recent years."
Old people always pay attention to their children. Did you eat well?
She took Yang Fan's fleshless arm and walked out, "You don't have anything at home now, so go to grandma's house to eat something first."
"Come all the way back, you must not have eaten anything yet."
Grandma Xu said and glared at Uncle Li complainingly, "Old man, you are serious, there is nothing to eat at home, and you don't bring children home."
Uncle Li :...
Didn’t he want to bring people back to have a look? Why is it his fault?
Yang Fan did not resist and followed Grandma Xu.
In Yuan’s memory, she also grew up eating Baijia’s food, because her uncle Yang Xiuwen worked outside all year round, and it was not until Yuan was in high school that she returned to the village and stopped working.
Yang Fan looked at the big white houses standing everywhere in the village, and each house had words such as farmhouse and summer resort hanging on it.
The original person has not been back for several years, and the whole village now is completely different from the village in the original person's memory.
She followed Grandma Xu for about three minutes and arrived at her house.
Grandma Xu’s house is also a three-story building, with the words Fangfang Farmhouse written on the door.
Yang Fan looked at the large house with envy in his eyes, "Grandma Xu, when did your family open a farmhouse? It's really amazing!"
Opening a farmhouse must be very profitable. money.
Why didn’t the original uncle build a farmhouse? If there was a farmhouse, she could easily make money by running it now that she was back.
Hey, I just set up a post station.
"Stop talking," Grandma Xu complained. "At that time, we said that the village should vigorously develop tourism and build a farmhouse and summer resort to let people from other provinces come to escape the summer heat. In the end, there was no one."
Yang Fan didn't understand why there was no one in such a good environment here.
Shangyuan Village is surrounded by mountains and has a cool climate. The weather in the urban area is currently as high as 35 degrees, but the temperature here is only 25 or 26 degrees.
Green mountains and green waters, fresh air, the fragrance of birds and flowers, and unique climate conditions make it a summer resort. There is also the Sanqing Mountain Scenic Area nearby, so no one should come.
“You haven’t come back these years, so I don’t know. Let me tell you.”
Grandma Xu told Yang Fan all the changes in the village.
Because of the unique climate conditions here, and with the strong support of the government, in the past few years, every household has borrowed money to build a large house, a summer resort, and a farmhouse. .
I thought it would attract many people from outside to come here to escape the summer heat, but I was disappointed. No one came to the village to escape the summer heat at all. The village is also thinking of ways to promote it, but still no one comes.
Seeing that the summer business could not be done, and they still owed money to repair the house, all the young adults in the family went out to work and took their children to school outside.
In just a few years, there were only a few elderly people left at home in the village.
Grandma Xu sighed, "Your uncle also wanted to develop tourism. The village is far away from the town, and it is inconvenient for tourists to pick up express delivery, so he invested in an express delivery station. As a result, now No one.”
Yang Fan suddenly realized that this was the reason for his creation.
Grandma Xu’s children all go to school and work in other provinces, and they are the only two people at home.
Just as he was talking, Uncle Li walked in, holding green beans and cucumbers in his hand, "Old lady, you can't eat the green beans and cucumbers this year."
Grandma Xu took the cucumber in his hand and took a bite. Then she spat it on the ground with a look of disgust, "Bah, bah, bah, it's really unpalatable."
This cucumber is so delicious when you put it in your mouth. It's like eating wax, it doesn't taste like cucumber at all, it tastes terrible.
“I don’t know what went wrong?” Uncle Li looked at the green beans in his hand with a sad look on his face.
Obviously they were grown according to the previous planting method, but why are the vegetables grown now so unpalatable?
Yang Fan saw something was wrong with the green beans and cucumbers at a glance, "Grandpa Li, let me take a look."
She took the green beans from Uncle Li.
Sure enough, she was right.
On the surface, the green beans look fresh and green, but in fact they are purple and lifeless, with a little bit of black air on them. Apparently, these green beans have been eaten by ghosts.
Even the cucumber is the same.
There is a ghost here.
Yang Fan asked Uncle Li, "Grandpa Li, are all the vegetables you grow like this?"
Uncle Li: "They are all like this. I don’t know what has gone wrong in the past few years. The vegetables grown in the village are all like this." The vegetables that come out are like this.”
“The vegetables that are grown look good but taste bad!”
The vegetables grown in the whole village are like this. They are not ordinary ghosts. .
Yang Fan became a little interested, she was curious about what kind of ghost it was
Grandma Xu threw the cucumber and green beans in the trash can, "Pigs won't eat these things."
Yang Fan: Well, pigs will definitely not be happy to eat things that have been eaten by ghosts.
The crops that have been cultivated so hard can’t be eaten. People like Uncle Li, who have been cultivating the land all their lives, feel a little heartbroken when they see it.
Yang Fan saw their expressions in his eyes, lowered his eyes and did not finish, thinking about going out at night to see what kind of ghosts even eat the vegetables grown in the ground.
It is three o'clock now, before dinner time, Grandma Xu cooked noodles for Yang Fan and fried two poached eggs for her.
The noodles are smooth, cooked just right, moderately soft and hard, and topped with the pickled chili sauce made by Grandma Xu herself, which is sour and spicy, very satisfying.
Yang Fan only said two words, "It's delicious!"
Then he ate hard, sucking and sucking, eating quickly and elegantly.
Seeing her like this, Grandma Xu felt a little distressed, and touched her head with pity, "Eat slowly, if you don't eat enough, Grandma Xu will make it for you again."
Just one If he eats a bowl of noodles like this, this kid must be having a hard time outside.
Uncle Li sighed repeatedly beside him. It is not easy for a girl to live outside.
(End of this chapter)