Next to him, Bao Chunhua's eyes were full of weirdness. In his eyes, there was no goddess in palace attire, only the sudden sluggishness of this young reporter.
"Nothing."
The Taoist priest replied casually, and then looked inside the shed. Bao Zhiyun hugged the statue and huddled back, but the clay Bodhisattva in his arms had lost its previous divine essence.
Li Changan exhaled and recalled the fantasy he had just seen. Could it be the last guidance given by this ignorant god?
He looked at the direction the goddess pointed before, thoughtfully.
At this time, Bao Chunhua opened his mouth again with a smile.
"It seems like I can't ask anything, so your trip will be in vain."
From this tone, he told Li Changan to go back and forth from wherever he came.
But at this time, where can I just walk away?
The Taoist priest's mind was racing, and he quickly thought of an idea. After thinking about it for a while, he smiled and said:
"It's not in vain. In fact, in addition to interviewing Mr. Bao Zhiyun, I have another task here this time. Isn't your place a red grass planting demonstration village?"
Bao Chunhua remained calm.
"right."
"Our editor-in-chief thinks that the Red Mao Company is very interesting in promoting rural development, so he asked me to do a field survey."
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"Hongmao Group is a great company. It has helped our farmers a lot and led everyone to get rich."
"Mr. Hong is a good person. He took the lead in building the roads and primary school in the village."
"There are many poor households in our village, and households with five guarantees are living in difficulty. Mr. Hong distributes daily necessities to them every holiday."
"It used to be that I had to work hard in the fields for a year just to grow some food. Now I can relax every day. In addition to dividends and wages every month, whether you love me or not, does Mr. Hong want to get it?!"
…
Li Changan asked from door to door along the road, and all he got were praises for the red grass.
However, this is not unexpected. According to Yuan Xiaochuan, the Hongmao Group has been entangled in the local area for many years. If it had no ability, it would have been uprooted long ago.
The Taoist priest sent away an aunt who stuttered after reciting her lines, and Bao Chunhua came up next to her with a shy belly. This person is like a candy, clinging to Li Changan, but you still can't get rid of him, because this guy is actually from Fengshun Village
The village chief.
At this time, his face was full of pride.
"How is it? Are you satisfied with the result of the interview, Mr. Li?"
"satisfy."
According to what they said, you great benevolent people are about to complete your merits and ascend in the daytime. Li Changan rolled his eyes in his heart.
"After hearing so much, I realized that your Hongmao Group is not just selling medicinal wine, but also selling charity and conscience."
"The enemy."
As soon as Bao Chunhua nodded, he felt that there was something wrong with what he said, but he hadn't tasted it yet.
There was a burst of laughter from the side.
"Fool."
Hey!
Village Chief Bao turned his head angrily and glanced at him, but he became even more angry and frustrated.
The man who laughed at him as a "fool" was hiding in the bushes on the roadside, with hair like a chicken coop on his dirty face, but he was a real fool!
Bao Chunhua picked up a stone and threw it at it.
"You stupid bitch, get out of here."
But this fool refused to obey.
"If I don't quit, I still want to be interviewed."
This sentence made Bao Chunhua amused, but Li Changan next to him was a little surprised.
Mother-in-law.
"female?"
To be honest, it was impossible to tell the difference between a man and a woman when she was so dirty. However, the "chicken coop" on her head was quite short, so Li Changan always thought she was a man.
Next to him, Bao Chunhua listened and explained to Li Changan:
"This is a girl in our village. When she was a child, she had a high fever and burned her head to death. Later, during the earthquake that year, her mother-in-law, grandfather, father and mother were all buried by landslides. It was pitiful to be left alone like this. Normally, all
She relies on each family to send her some rice, grains and vegetables, otherwise she would have starved to death long ago. As for her hair, it may have been cut off by a hairdresser."
At this point, he changed the subject.
"The interviews here are almost finished, shall we go to the next place?"
The Taoist priest shook his head.
"Where is the interview finished?"
He pointed at the fool.
"Isn't there another one?"
Bao Chunhua was in disbelief.
"She is a fool."
"What a fool."
Li Changan smiled.
"There are some things that only a fool would dare to say."
…………
"What's your name?"
Li Changan handed over a mint candy.
"Bao Xiaohui."
A pair of dirty hands took the mint candy, peeled off the wrapper, and put it into the mouth where the front teeth were leaking. Then, the same dirty face raised up and showed an unprepared smile.
The Taoist priest carefully looked at this face. Under the disheveled hair and dirt on the face, the soft facial features and contours of a young woman were indeed hidden. But beauty and delicacy could not be mentioned at all. It could only be said to be something given by the twenty-something years.
, it has not been completely wiped out by the harshness brought about by hardship.
"Do you know Hongmao Company?"
Li Changan handed over another candy. The bag of mints in his hand was bought at a nearby small store just now. The Taoist priest made an appointment with Bao Xiaohui to give her one for every question she answered.
She took the mint candy and put it in her mouth. Then she clapped her hands and sang some messy tunes:
"Wear new clothes and a new hat. If you want to make a fortune, shovel the loquats and plant red grass. The red grass is deep and the red grass is high. As soon as you fly to the Li Family Temple..."
To be honest, it's incoherent and unclear.
But Li Changan still waited patiently for her to finish speaking, then handed over another one and asked a new question. Bao Chunhua did not leave, but just looked on with his hands folded, not as enthusiastic as in the previous interview, or that
, so vigilant.
It’s not surprising when you think about it.
How can ordinary people understand what this fool says? How can they believe it?
For example, Xiao Hui, with mints wrapped in her mouth, rambled on for several long paragraphs.
Fragmentation, fragmentation, jumps, incomprehensible words, inconsistencies, and other problems are all accounted for. If you are a villager in this village, you know everything about the village and the neighbors, and you may be able to guess it from a few words.
Something.
But how could Li Changan, a foreigner, understand him?
But.
If the Taoist priest can't understand, why can't there be someone next to him who can understand?
Ever since.
Li Changan used candy to lure Xiaohui and kept talking, but secretly observed Bao Chunhua's reaction.
When Xiaohui said, "Wear new clothes," Bao Chunhua's face lit up with joy.
Well, this information is useless, skip it.
When Xiaohui said, "The loquats have been shoveled," Bao Chunhua's eyes showed a little anxiousness.
Very good, this is useful, please ask again!
After a while, Bao Chunhua's face turned black, but the notebook in the Taoist's hand was filled with several pages. It was all information summarized from Xiao Hui's words based on the changes in Bao Chunhua's complexion.
One of them is worth noting:
The red grass planting base that Li Changan visited earlier was actually contracted to an orchard owner to grow loquats in the early years. Later, people from the red grass came in and asked for a transfer at a low price, but of course the orchard owner refused. They decided to use this method
Bao Chunhua convened a villagers' representative meeting. Each family was given 100 yuan, agreed to rent land at a high price, and passed a unilateral contract transfer resolution. Then, they shoveled their fruit seedlings.
However, the next year, the rent was reduced, even lower than that of the orchard owner. The villagers made a fuss for a while to no avail, and were punished several times. They watched the thatch grow taller and taller, and then tried to plant other crops.
It was also very troublesome, and one by one they died out.
This is a gangster who ran into a bandit. There is nothing to say. But it is worth noting that during this period, a certain leader of the troublemaker disappeared for a while, which was very similar to Bao Zhiyun's situation...
Li Changan took advantage of Bao Chunhua's failure to react and continued his efforts.
"Xiaohui, do you recognize Bao Zhiyun?"
He asked Xiaohui, but his eyes looked hard at Bao Chunhua's face.
Xiaohui nodded.
Her mouth was now full of candy, and she could only cover it with her hands while speaking inarticulately:
"The host grandpa wanted to avenge the Salt Water Empress, but was attacked by the monster in the quarry..."
That’s it.
Li Changan suddenly noticed that Bao Chunhua's expression suddenly changed.
"You silly bitch, what are you talking about? Where did the monster come from!"
He cursed and even tried to hit Xiaohui. Li Changan had quick eyes and quick hands and grabbed his wrist. Bao Chunhua's fair and fat face suddenly turned red, but this time it was not from anger, but from pain.
.
When the Taoist priest let him go, his wrists were already bruised and swollen. But he was also aware of current affairs and rolled to the side in despair, not daring to fart.
But Xiaohui was so frightened by him that she couldn't hold her mouth full of candy and squirted out all the candy. Now she was picking up candy on the ground and stuffing it into her mouth. When the Taoist priest saw her, he quickly stopped her and grabbed a handful of candy.
Hand it to her.
"Go on, what about the monster in the quarry?"
Xiaohui returned the candy in her hand to the Taoist priest, leaving only one.
"One question, one candy."
She said solemnly, then peeled off the candy and kept it in her mouth.
"The monsters in the quarry want to eat people's souls. Their heads are colorful and scary! Many people are caught by the monsters, eat their souls, and spit them out, just like..."
She didn't say anything, she just curled up with her hands on her knees, an exaggerated look of sluggishness on her face.
Li Changan nodded silently.
Li Changan doesn't really believe in monsters or anything like that.
After all, in this age of Dharma, it is difficult for monsters to dare to cause trouble in human society. What's more, the Taoist priest didn't smell the slightest smell of monsters on Bao Zhiyun.
But the quarry... there may be something fishy in it.
…………
Bao Chunhua was already covered in sweat.
Half of it is painful, and half of it is urgent.
Gou Rili, whose surname is Li, has such strong hands; Gou Rili, a silly woman, has a poor mouth.
The expression on his face changed for a while, but he still gritted his teeth and shouted carefully:
"Teacher Li?"
"What?" The Taoist priest looked back and smiled, "I was anxious just now and didn't pay attention to the seriousness. You have nothing to do with your hands."
"It's okay."
How strange!
He had already scolded the eighteen generations of Taoist ancestors in his heart, but he still asked with a smile:
"I have a call coming in, can I go to the side to answer the call?"
After saying that, he stared at Li Changan nervously, fearing that the other party would forcibly detain him and prevent him from contacting the outside world.
Unexpectedly, the Taoist priest didn't take it seriously at all.
"Don't worry about me, you go and do your work first."
"Okay, let's talk first."
Bao Chunhua ran for several hundred meters before he stopped his fake smile and glared at the Taoist priest fiercely.
"No wonder I can understand the words of a fool. It turns out they are a pair of fools!"
He took out his cell phone and dialed a number.
"Sure, something happened, I was exposed."
"Everyone in the village has been angry, and they have been taught how to say it, but who would have known that he would run off to interview a fool."
"That silly woman just runs around all day without any trouble, and no one cares about her. She always accidentally sees her one day."
"Yeah, yes. Don't worry, I will hold him back."
…………
Not long after.
Bao Chunhua left and came back.
Li Chang'an repeated his old trick, but found that Bao Chunhua's face was very straight and steady, whether because he had figured it out or for some other reason, which made the Taoist's method useless.
But fortunately, he had basically understood what he needed to know. He packed up his things and stood up.
Xiaohui is obviously still reluctant to part with the remaining mints:
"No interview?"
"No more interviews."
The Taoist smiled and handed her the remaining bag of candies.
"I've given them all to you."
"give me?"
Xiaohui tilted her head and looked at Li Changan, then nodded slowly.
Then, he turned around, lay on the ground, and skillfully raised his buttocks to face the Taoist priest.
"come on."
She turned back to look at Li Changan, her eyes clear and clear without a trace of color. Then she picked up a piece of wood and bit it in her mouth.
"Come here."
He called again indistinctly.
The Taoist priest was shocked at first, then angry, and then he had a complicated look on his face.
Bao Chunhua next to him was much simpler and more straightforward. He was so angry that he was shaking all over.
"You shameless bitch!"
He scolded and kicked him, but the Taoist stood up and blocked him.
Li Changan asked Bao Chunhua to shut up, and turned to look at Xiaohui, who was cowering up in fear. Thousands of words rolled around in his mouth, but he couldn't get out of his mouth. Finally, he just said softly:
"Get up. You don't need to."
"unnecessary?"
"unnecessary."
Xiaohui said "Oh" and peeled off another candy and put it into her mouth as if nothing had happened. She didn't realize at all that the scene just now made the people next to her emotionally ups and downs.
a long time.
Only then did Li Changan speak again.
"Xiaohui?"
She looked up.
"Do you want to go to an orphanage?"
"What is a welfare home?"
"A place where you can have a lot of friends to play with, and a lot of delicious food, and you won't be allowed to do what you just did."
She cocked her head and thought for a moment, grinning and letting out snot bubbles from her nose.
"Oh, I know."
She suddenly pointed at Li Changan.
"You are a human trafficker!"
Then he jumped up, grabbed the candy bag, and ran to the opposite field ridge before shouting across the paddy field:
"Grandpa said I can't go with the traffickers."
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I visited several more village communities.
The Taoist priest estimated that time was almost up.
"Village Chief Bao."
"Teacher Li, what do you want to say?"
"I think today's interview is almost finished. It's hard to catch a car here. Could you please call a motorcycle for me?"
"No problem."
Bao Chunhua agreed very simply, and the car he called for arrived very quickly, but it was not a motorcycle, but a van.
With a "swipe", the car door opened, and a dozen big men jumped out and surrounded Li Changan.
"Mr. Li."
Then, a polite scumbag with slicked-back hair came out.
"We meet again."
yes.
Li Changan looked at Yang Sanli in front of him and the dozen or so big men around him.