Chapter 153 Taste
‘The location of Zanju Town seems to be very good, and it is also close to Taoyuan City. Why is it abandoned? ’
A purple barrage crossed the screen, which was posted by a VIP user who boarded the ship in this live broadcast room.
“It’s deserted just because it’s close to the city.”
It’s impossible not to answer the donor’s question. Tang Xin changed her hand to hold up the selfie stick, walking with light steps. Walking through the dilapidated courtyard, he said softly: "The years when Jiuzhou's economy developed most rapidly were also the years when rural towns like Gubei and Zanju experienced the most serious population loss.
The process of urbanization continues to siphon the rural population into economically developed big cities. Most of those sucked away are young and middle-aged laborers and highly educated intellectuals, leaving only the elderly and children. "
Tang Xin thought for a while and then said: "Before Zanju Town was completely abandoned, the education department conducted a survey in the town's primary schools. Among the approximately 1,200 students in grade 5, more than 900 For left-behind children, the remaining students are mostly raised by a single parent, that is, one parent works in the city and the other parent raises the child at home. ”
Looking at the entire Zanju Town, the actual number of children raised by both parents does not even exceed three figures.
The situation in Gubei Town is better, but not many.
"The education problem of young people has never been a small problem, so 'let children grow up with their parents' has become the guiding spirit of Taoyuan City in those years. The city expanded the school and converted the original Zanju The establishment of town primary schools was abolished and merged into urban areas. ”
As she said this, Tangxin felt that this topic was a bit dangerous, so she made a long story short:
"This method cannot be said to be completely useless, it can only be said that the effect is very little. It is true that the children have arrived in the city, but the busy work Parents still don’t have time to take care of their children, and they still need the help of the elderly at home. This has not changed.”
The next thing is very simple.
Children follow their parents, and the elderly follow their children. In just a few years after the merger of schools, the population of Zanju Town was lost as fast as if it were a four-wheel drive. It soon grew from a town larger than Gubei Town. The slightly smaller town turned into a lonely place with only a few dozen families of lonely old people left.
When the last dozens of elderly households left one by one over time, the deserted Zanju Town was completely abandoned and became what it is now.
"Look, the house in front is where the lonely old man who once stayed in the town lived."
Tangxin moved the camera to show a two-story building with a still intact structure in the live broadcast room. In front of the audience, one side of the wall of the house has collapsed, like a piece of cake that has been cut into pieces. The sight can directly see the building structure inside through the cross-section.
Due to the fact that she had done her homework before coming here, Tang Xin was somewhat familiar with the situation of this house. She walked forward and said, "The former owner of this house was a lonely old lady named Wu.< br>
Old Mrs. Wu’s wife died early, and her daughter married to Yongzhou. Her son worked as a sailor in Yanzhou. He came and went in the wind and waves. He never returned home in a year or two. The old mother is left alone in the town, living alone.”
The financial conditions of Mrs. Wu’s family are actually not bad, and her children do not treat her mother materially, and her married daughter returns home every other year. The family celebrated New Year's Eve, and the son, a sailor, simply used his mother's bank card as his salary card. All his savings were deposited in his mother's card, leaving only basic living expenses for himself.
But the old lady never touched her son's savings and kept them peacefully for him. She only hoped that one day she would save enough money to marry him and start a family.
“However, Mrs. Wu finally failed to wait until the day of her son’s wedding. On August 24, 2008, an ordinary evening, she made dinner and planned to take a bath while cooking. , but fell down in the bathroom and never got up.”
Tangxin shook her head, walked to the bottom of the half-collapsed building, and pointed the camera at the wooden door frame that was already covered with mold: "An old lady living alone fell to death in her bathroom. The family members in the live broadcast room felt that How long after her death was discovered? "
'About a week? ’
‘It won’t last more than a month at most. Although there are few people in Zanju Town, if a big living person suddenly has no news at all, someone will always notice it’
'I think 3 days at most'
"All wrong." Tangxin looked at the barrage floating in the live broadcast room, shook his head and said: "The correct answer is 14 months, that is - 1 year and zero 2 months.” No one in Zanju Town discovered Mrs. Wu’s Death, because she was the last resident in the increasingly deserted town. Her unknown death did not attract anyone's attention. It was not until the ocean-going fishing boat carrying her son finally returned 14 months later that he heard from the unreachable phone call. I sensed something bad.
When the son rushed home in a hurry, his mother was so rotten that even her bones were broken.
‘So what does this story have to do with today’s adventure? ’
"That's a big deal." Tang Xin smiled sweetly, came to the door of this half-collapsed residential building, and said mysteriously: "According to bloggers who came to Zanju Town to explore before, they passed by this building in the evening. When you are in a residential building, occasionally, occasionally, you will hear a 'plop-' sound, as if someone fell upstairs."
Before I finished speaking, there was a muffled sound. It sounded quietly from the second floor above Tangxin's head.
The sound was dull, but also a little crisp. It was the sound of water-soaked flesh and flesh slapping heavily on the tiles.
Or to be more accurate - it was the sound of a person who had just taken off his clothes and was about to take a shower, falling on the wet tiles of the bathroom.
Suddenly, Tang Xin’s face turned extremely pale.
‘Damn it, anchor, don’t scare me! ’
‘Is it the program team? It must be the program team, right? Anchor, say something! Damn it...'
'But half of this building has collapsed. It's a dangerous building! Who would be a good person to arrange such a thing in a dangerous building?'
The barrages on the screen suddenly became denser, and the popularity of the live broadcast room also began to rise rapidly, but this sudden traffic failed to reveal the sweetheart in front of the camera. A slight expression of joy, because no one knows better than her, who is one of the organizers of this live PK:
There is no program group in this town to create program effects.
The barrage in the live broadcast room refreshed rapidly, and Tang Xin, who was in a mess, had no energy to watch. At this moment, her pale face was paler than the foundation painted on her face. A bright white moon hung quietly in the night sky. It illuminates the smiling and kind face of the Erawan Buddha.
“Ouch…”
“Ouch…”
“…Hey, ouch…”
Weak moans , slowly floated out from the window on the second floor, and with the cool night breeze penetrated into Tang Xin's cochlea, she seemed to have seen a dying old man fall into the bathroom, wailing towards the already empty place. The town cried for help.
In the live broadcast room, intensive barrages were refreshed rapidly. Tang Xin's breathing suddenly became rapid, and her heart was beating in her chest.
She couldn't believe what she heard, and she didn't dare to think about what she would see if she went upstairs now. Only the wails with sobbing sounds floated in the silent night.
"Calm down...calm down..." Tang Xin patted her chest, adjusting her chaotic breathing.
She frantically put her hand into the small leather bag hanging on her waist and groped for a while, trying to find a piece of chocolate - Tang Xin had a problem with hypoglycemia and always carried a pack of hard candies with her. Or chocolate, which is convenient for temporary relief when you are emotional and dizzy due to overuse of your brain.
But she put her hand into her bag and groped for a while, but found nothing. She clearly remembered that she had brought five peanut chocolate bars in her purse, but now she couldn't find any.
Not only the chocolate, but also the lollipops, milk candies, brown sugar plums... all the snacks in the bag were gone.
(End of this chapter)