Bai Huo bowed and said, "If we have time, we will definitely pay him a visit."
Biscuits were specifically mentioned in the rules, but Su Qingyu didn't dare come to taste them.
The old lady was still selling enthusiastically.
Su Qingyu said a few polite words.
They came to the village committee.
Surprisingly, the village chief is a young man.
He had no limbs and was sitting in a wheelchair with bandages all over his body. He was pushed behind him by an old lady with pale hair.
The old lady claimed to be the village chief's mother.
It is said that the village chief was bitten by a monkey on his limbs when he went into the mountains. Later, the wounds festered due to improper treatment and had to be amputated.
The village chief wrinkled his nose and said: "Is this the first time for the two forest rangers to come to our village? Did you go directly to the mountain, or did you come from other villages? Forgive me for my disability in limbs, and I cannot stand up to greet them. Bit."
Su Qingyu answered truthfully: "We are from other villages."
"Oh? Since you can come from other villages, it's not easy. It's really not easy!" The village chief seemed a little excited. He twisted his body, but was held down by the old lady pushing the wheelchair behind him.
The old lady smiled and said in the village chief's ear: "Village Chief, don't be too excited. Being excited is not good for your wound recovery."
The village chief calmed down. He stared at Su Qingyu and said, "Madam, please come over and help me push the wheelchair."
"Okay." Su Qingyu walked over.
The old lady behind the village chief refused to give up her position. She waved her hand and said, "The village chief is my son, so let me push him."
"Mom, since you are old, you should go and rest. I want to talk to these two forest rangers about work matters."
The old lady refused to give up. She held the wheelchair firmly with her fingers, and her whole face became gloomy.
Su Qingyu put her hands on the wheelchair. Although her tone was easy-going, her attitude was tough: "Grandma, since the village chief has spoken, please give in. He is your son, and he is also from this village. Village chief, regarding work matters, you should respect your son’s ideas.”
"this……"
Bai Huo directly stretched out his hand, grabbed the old lady's arm, and "invited" her aside.
"Oh, oh, oh, my old bones, young man, please don't pull around." The old lady screamed.
Bai Huo said: "Let the village chief and my friends handle work matters together. Grandma, I know how to read palms. Do you want me to help you?"
After saying that, Bai Huo couldn't help but spread out the old lady's palm.
He originally just wanted to attract the old lady's attention, but he didn't expect that the moment he saw the old lady's palm prints, his pupils shrank and he raised his head in disbelief.
The old lady's palms were soft and weak, with multiple horizontal lines near the lifeline.
This kind of palmistry is short-lived and will not live to the age of the old lady.
However, those horizontal stripes continue on the lifeline one by one, as if they are extending the short-lived lifeline, which is very weird.
"Young man, how's my palmistry?" The old lady put her head very close, leaving only one finger away from Bai Huo's face. Bai Huo turned his head slightly and could clearly see the old lady's wrinkled skin and Red bloodshot eyes.
Bai Huo felt the turbidity in the old lady's breath. He instinctively hated the turbidity and took a step back.
"Grandma, this palmistry of yours will live a long life, and you will be happy in your old age."
The old woman opened her dark mouth and laughed.
Su Qingyu followed the village chief to the workshop, and the village chief directed him to take out the latest punishment sheet.
“The last ranger worked very well, but one day he suddenly announced that he would no longer work. They settled in this village and aged rapidly.
Without the rangers, these fines just pile up here, and no one has dealt with them. Many fines have not been collected yet. "
Su Qingyu found this a bit strange, and asked, "Why do people in this village age so quickly?"
The young village chief spoke eloquently.
“It is a strange disease, and the village has not found a solution yet.
As you can see, our village is full of elderly people, and many of them are sick.
The wish of the elderly is to be safe and live a long life.
The people in the village originally believed in the old monkey god, but I don’t know who took the lead. They said that the old monkey god was not allowed to bless the people in the village, so they rioted and destroyed the monkey temple.
Not long after, the villagers invited new monkey statues from other villages and enshrined them in their homes, saying they could prolong life.
Strangely, after believing in the new monkey god, the aging rate of the people in the village accelerated. The villagers suspected that the old monkey god was causing trouble, so they invited Taoist priests to seal the monkey temple. "
Su Qingyu continued to ask: "Has the new monkey god solved the aging problem of the elderly in the village?"
The village chief shook his head: "It has not been solved, but no villager has questioned the new monkey god..."
The village chief was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said very fast: "The old lady who just helped me push the wheelchair is not my mother at all. My mother passed away long ago. She doesn't look like that. "
"Is she trying to do something to you?"
"I don't know, she hasn't harmed me yet." The village chief paused and shook his incomplete limbs, "She often asks me if I want a healthy body, but I'm already like this. If you want to be healthy, that’s a pipe dream.”
The village chief talked a lot with Su Qingyu, and Su Qingyu learned from the village chief that there were actually young people in their village, but those young people stayed at home, and only old men and old ladies would go out.
The former ranger suddenly quit his job as a ranger and settled down in the room of the dead old man and old lady. At first, they locked themselves in the house, and later, when they also grew old, they went out.
Su Qingyu saw the village chief talking more and more. Later, she just listened one-sidedly and said nothing more.
[Monkey God Mountain] Ranger Rules (2) Article 2.
[Please do not talk too much to the villagers, and do not stay overnight in their homes.
You are not allowed to wander in the village at night. Please persuade the village chief to let you stay overnight. 】
There are two pitfalls in this rule.
The first trap is that the village chief also has the identity of a villager, so Su Qingyu cannot have too many conversations with the village chief. Later, the village chief talks more and more, and Su Qingyu only listens unilaterally. Not too much "talking".
The second trap is that this rule can easily mislead people. The first sentence is about not staying in the villagers’ homes, and the second sentence is about persuading the village chief to let them stay overnight. This combination can lead to misunderstanding. Trialists can stay overnight at the village chief's home.
However, this understanding is wrong.
Because the village chief is also a member of the villagers.
You can't stay at the village chief's home either.
