After staying in Linjiacun for a few more days, Xu Guodong fully recovered his health and at the same time packed up his belongings at home.
During this period of time, the remaining members of the Lin family came to visit him, which also let Xu Guodong know that this Lin Family Village will really be just the Lin Family Village from now on, because the entire village, except for a few Lin family members, has been spared.
Except for the disaster, everyone else has basically died.
It is also possible that someone took advantage of the chaotic situation in the village to leave, but in this case, no one can confirm what happened here or who was missing.
Lin Juan's parents were not harmed in any way this time. They had also been to Xu Guodong's house before, but it was very strange.
They hardly said anything more. After a simple greeting, they urged Xu Guodong and Lin Juan to leave as soon as possible. At the same time, they sent some things and even prepared a house for them in Maple City.
But the strange thing is that Lin Juan's parents have no intention of leaving.
Xu Guodong and Lin Juan had both asked, but the old couple had no plans at all. They just said that Linjia Village needed someone to guard it, and then left in low spirits.
These two people gave Xu Guodong a very strange feeling, and the relationship between them and Lin Juan was also very strange. Rather than being parents and children, they were more like people of the same race. The family affection shown in them was extremely dull.
appearance.
Three days later, Xu Guodong and Lin Juan left Linjia Village, and the person who sent them away was a member of the Lin family.
According to Lin Juan, it was one of his uncles and nephews, a young man. However, this man was a taciturn person. He just nodded to Xu Guodong and didn't say a word after that. He was different from the people Xu Guodong had met before.
Like the weird Lin family, they look indifferent and expressionless.
Returning to Maple City again, Xu Guodong and Lin Juan were sent to a place that had been prepared for a long time. This was a small house, and surprisingly, Xu Guodong and Lin Juan were not only arranged to live there, but also Xu Guodong
All jobs have been found.
This time he is working as a teacher in a school in Maple City. Although the stipend is not high, it ensures that the two of them can live without any problems.
As for Lin Juan, her family still left some money. It is hard to imagine that a person who lives in Linjia Village and has almost never been out of Linjia Village would buy Lin Juan and Xu Guodong in such a short period of time.
Download these things.
In those days, one had to first become a teacher. Although it was not difficult, Xu Guodong was fully qualified with his qualifications and abilities, but being able to directly enter a school as a teacher without being examined by anyone was not a matter of words.
It can be done.
Obviously, the people in Linjiacun and the outside world
It is not that there is no communication, and even the relationship between Lin Juan's parents may not be simple.
But this had nothing to do with Xu Guodong and the others, and the two just settled here. Xu Guodong, who had been in Maple City for a long time, knew Maple City very well, and soon Lin Juan was completely integrated into Maple City.
in life.
Going to and from get off work, and occasionally finding some ghostwriting jobs to earn some money, Xu Guodong has returned to a normal life.
A teacher's life in that era was actually very simple and boring. Teachers at that time did not have much subsidies, and not all children were sent to school.
The two of them have lived in Maple City for a long time. During the two or three months, the weather here was generally very good. The two of them thought of going back to have a look. They both said that their parents were not traveling far away. At that time,
People still care more about family.
But when the two returned to Linjiacun, what they saw completely stunned them.
The place where Linjia Village used to be was actually empty!
Not to mention what kind of house it was, not even a single tile was seen, let alone the buildings in the village.
This place turned out to be an open space. No, it shouldn't be said to be an open space, but a large piece of wasteland. The wasteland was overgrown with weeds, and there was no trace of human habitation at all.
Both of them were confused and had no idea what the situation was. They walked in the wasteland and searched in the grass, but found nothing, no trace, and no trace left.
Empty, nothing!
Xu Guodong looked at Lin Juan with a chill in his heart. If he hadn't been very sure that the Lin Juan in front of him was a living person, a wife who had lived with him for more than three years, he wouldn't have believed that what he was seeing was actually happening.
of!
Where people have lived and built houses, even if the houses have been demolished, the foundations should still exist. But here, the grass is overgrown and very dense. The soil on the ground is the same as the surrounding soil. Even
Be a little deeper.
The plants on the ground are so lush that they don't look like they grew up within a few months. Under such circumstances, no one would believe that there once was a village here!
"This...what on earth is going on?"
Xu Guodong looked at Lin Juan blankly, and received an equally blank look.
Lin Juan has fallen into sluggishness. The place where she has lived since she was a child, where this brother has lived for more than ten years, has now disappeared.
I can't believe it, I can't believe it, but it really happened.
"Guodong, what...what's going on?"
Lin Juan was at a loss, her little face was full of panic. She wanted to find her family, she wanted to find some
There was evidence that there had once been a village here. She walked, ran, stumbled and fell to the ground in the wilderness, but she found nothing.
"Don't worry, let's look for it again. I remember that when my third uncle and I came out, we came out of a secret passage in an ancestral hall in the village. That secret passage connected the place where we once lived and other places.
It may change, but I remember that the entrance to the secret passage was a tunnel with stone bricks."
Helping Lin Juan up, Xu Guodong also wanted to understand the current situation.
Because of the heavy rain, the landscape around Linjia Village has changed, but some conditions can still be roughly seen.
After identifying this direction, the two of them walked to the place that was originally the village ancestral hall, but something even more surprising happened to them. This place, which was originally the highest point of the village, had turned into a pool.
The deep and small lake is not obtrusive here, and there is a stream on the side that is constantly injecting living water into it.
"this..."
The two of them froze on the spot, completely unable to imagine how such a strange thing could appear in front of them. Not only Xu Guodong, but also Lin Juan came out of the secret passage in the ancestral hall at that time, and she could vaguely
I remember the location here.
However, the pool in front of us does exist, and it is so real. We can still see aquatic plants in the pool, as well as some small fish that don't know where they came from.
"Gu...dong, tell me...did we go to the wrong place?"
Lin Juan suddenly fell to the ground, staring at the pool in front of her in a daze, not knowing what to say.
Xu Guodong stood nearby without saying a word. He had no way to give a reasonable explanation for the situation in front of him, but he said that the two people were in the wrong place...
That is completely nonsense. Lin Juan need not say it. She has lived in this place for more than 20 years and knows the situation here very well. Even if the surrounding landscape has changed dramatically due to landslides, it has
It’s not like I don’t even know where the village is.
And Xu Guodong came to this Linjia Village from Maple City and lived here for three years. Later, the two of them left this place for Maple City. No matter which one of them they were, they would not be affected by it.
I got lost and couldn't find the existence of Linjia Village.
It was a village, not a small house or a small valley.
Not to mention that the two of them came here together, there was no way to explain everything, and they didn't know where to look for the people who stayed in Linjiacun.
This village really just disappeared suddenly, without leaving any trace, as if it had never existed...