At about 4 p.m., we finally walked into this legendary town, if I hadn't known the legend beforehand, if it weren't for standing on the hillside, I couldn't have felt the death of the whole town, and just walked in, I would have thought it was just an ordinary, dilapidated town.

Just like the countless small towns that have existed and disappeared in the history of China, no one can stop this footstep except for making people feel desolate from the heart.

In late autumn, the 4 p.m. sun is no longer warm enough, and in this town, where the northwest wind blows from time to time and rolls up the wind and dust, the sun is even more blurry.

There are not many traces of the times here, everything is like an old photograph that appears in front of us, typical buildings of the fifties and sixties, blurred slogans on the walls, and even slogans left over from special periods are still in this town.

As the driver said, after walking in this town for more than ten minutes, we didn't see a few young people, most of them were old people with slow pace, and occasionally a few children, and in the afternoon, except for a few shops, there was not even a single restaurant open in the whole town.

"Where are you going to stay tonight?" Brother Chengxin didn't have any hope of finding a hotel or something like that in this place.

"Let's spend the night." I also said helplessly, in fact, I really want to take a look at the shack where the legendary Lin Jianguo lived, he did such a mysterious thing in it, I really want to explore it and see if I can find any clues, even if so much time has passed, it should be a pity that although this town is not big, there are many dazzling lanes, I don't know where Lin Jianguo's shack is, so it is even more impossible to find it.

In fact, I don't know if it still exists after all this time? It was only when I saw how old this town was that I moved this thought.

Now that we had decided to stay overnight, we didn't wander around the town anymore, but really wanted to find a family to spend the night, but in this town we encountered unprecedented difficulties because no one wanted to let us stay overnight, even if it looked like a big house, with a yard.

The people in this town seemed to be very defensive, and even an old man said to us, "There are hardly any outsiders in our town, and there is nothing to see, so you better find a car to go somewhere else." There are hardly any outsiders who spend the night here. ”

Even when we touched the nails, we felt embarrassed, and on the other hand, we felt even more strange in our hearts, and even Brother Chengxin couldn't help but scold: "Why are the people in this town so strange? Don't you even have relatives in other places? What should I do if my relatives come? Did you drive it away too? ”

But he didn't want this to be heard by an uncle who didn't look too old, so he said coldly: "Still relatives, if you want to have relatives in other places, and you can think of a way to get out, they all go out, who stays here?" The peasants have a land to live on, what is here? ”

This sentence shows the sadness of this town, which should have been supported by the timber dispatch office before, but now don't talk about it, even if there are not a few timber dispatches in the whole of China, this town has lost the biggest support, and it has not even seen other industries develop, so there are reasons for the defeat.

However, this gave me an excuse to talk, and it was clear from the fact that the uncle was not as defensive as the rest of the people in this town, so I said, "Uncle, do you make any money?" Let's spend the three of us overnight and give a hundred a day? ”

"Are you bad people?" The uncle looked at the three of us a few times, but fortunately, the three of us are also human, at least it won't make people think that we are bad people.

And Ruyue said with a smile: "Uncle, do you think we are alike?" ”

The uncle didn't know what he was thinking, he pondered for a while, and said: "Forget it, anyway, I'm a lonely old man, with no children, no daughters and no money, and you can't figure out anything from me, make a few of your money, and buy wine and drink, just go to me." ”

"Really, thank you so much, uncle." Ruyue was very happy when she heard that the matter of staying overnight had finally been settled.

But I always felt that the people in this town smelled of decadence even when they spoke, and they were very weird, and they were very defensive, but that kind of defense just didn't want you to get close to their lives, not curious about what you were here for, who are you? They are indifferent, and even their curiosity about people is almost gone.

How did the people here become like this? At least in the story, I think this is just an ordinary town, and the people in this town are also very ordinary people, and they don't exist in this state.

I was puzzled, but this kind of thing is not something that can solve the puzzle in a while, and at this moment, the old man who was leading the way in front suddenly turned around, looked at us a little mysteriously, and said, "Since you want to live here, I can't stop it." But first of all, I want to say that the night here is different from other places, so don't make a fuss. ”

"Huh?" Brother Chengxin, who was walking beside me, was taken aback, not because of how scary these words were, but because of the old man's sudden turn, and then his mysterious expression, which made people surprised.

But after the old man said this, he didn't allow us to say more, nor did he allow us to ask more, so he walked straight ahead with his hands behind his back and slightly on his back, and the three of us could only look at each other and helplessly follow him.

After all, he was a native of the town, and this old man was unusually familiar with the town, and those crooked and winding alleys seemed to him as if they didn't exist at all, and we could hardly keep up with his steps when we were fast, and we had to stop several times before we young people could keep up.

However, there was a small episode on the way, that is, the old man seemed to have met some kind of acquaintance, and when he saw him walking in the town with the three of us, his face immediately became gloomy, and he pulled the old man aside to speak.

The dialect here is very strong, and we basically communicate with the people here in Mandarin, and they can barely speak clear Mandarin, but once they talk in dialect and avoid us, we can't understand what they are saying at all.

It's just that I've traveled to many places, and although I can't understand what they're saying, I can barely understand one or two sentences in their dialect, and I've always heard well, so in this case, I even heard two vague sentences, and under my own brain, I came up with such a short conversation.

"Why do you promise anything to make money."

"I'm not like you have a child or relative, what do I have to worry about as a lonely old man?"

"You have no conscience."

"What has no conscience, I don't take them in"

I only heard this little conversation, and I really couldn't hear the rest, but the more I listened, the more confused my heart became, and dared to take us in from the mouth of another old man, is it a wrong act?

They talked for about five or six minutes, and I don't know what the old man who promised us to stay overnight used in the end, but in any case seemed to convince another old man, who looked at us with strange eyes, and then walked away a little stupidly, without saying anything more.

And the old man, who had promised us to stay overnight, looked at our expressions, made sure that we did not understand the conversation between them, and that there was nothing unusual in their expressions, and then walked ahead and led the way.

How can everything be so weird here? In the story, this is obviously a normal town! Along the way, I didn't have a chance to tell Brother Chengxin and Ruyue, and I found out about the content of the conversation, so I could only wait to see if I could find time to tell them quickly.

In his thoughts, the old man finally stopped, and in front of a courtyard that looked a little gray, like a scrapyard, he turned to us and said, "Here we are, my house is here, there are enough rooms, you can live as you like." There are two things to remember, the first is a hundred dollars a day, and the second is that no matter what happens during the night, don't make a fuss about it, don't trouble me. ”

What the old man said, emphasized again, made us baffled, but we had seen a lot, and we didn't say anything.

And on the first day of the town, it began.