Chapter 110: Old and Not Dying is a Thief

The golden sunlight fell from the eaves, and the sky was bright. Feng Yushu put her phone back in her pocket and stood up from the stone dare-not-go-against-it under the tree at the village entrance.

Ji Taimei's shadow disappeared shortly after entering Sheep Prison Village. Perhaps it happened to walk into the shade of a tree, or perhaps it hid in a house. The thick dark clouds ate the moon, and Te Rang could no longer find his trace.

For the sake of insurance, she chose to inform Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe of the previous encounter first, and after waiting at the tree at the village entrance until dawn, she would go deep into Sheep Prison Village to continue the search.

The bright daytime was her home field.

Feng Yushu gently placed her hand on her chest. The 3 life-buying coins given to her by Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe were worn on her neck with a red rope and buried in the groove. This was her safety guarantee for this trip.

Walking into the village entrance, the first thing that came into view was a crossroads. The layout of Sheep Prison Village is very interesting. If you use a drone to take aerial photos from above, what you see is a 'Sheep' character hidden in the greenery. The village entrance where Feng Yushu entered is the last vertical line of the 'Sheep' character. Going up, it is the crossroads.

The area of Sheep Prison Village is not large, and you can try one road after another. Feng Yushu first walked toward the fork on the left of the crossroads and saw an old grandmother who got up early, stooping, standing on the steps of the house door, shaking the lever of the pressure well with both hands, laboriously pumping water from the ground to wash vegetables.

Such pressure wells are very common in rural towns in southern provinces such as Qinzhou. Yun Province belongs to the Central Plains region, and relatively less groundwater is easy to exploit.

Feng Yushu noticed that even though the pressure well was equipped with a labor-saving lever structure, the old woman's action of shaking the water was still very laborious. It seemed that her body had aged to an unrecognizable state.

Looking at her petite figure and stooped waist, she should be at least an old man in his seventies.

An old man of such an age, still getting up early to wash vegetables?

In this kind of place, any tiny detail is worth noting. Feng Yushu walked over carefully. Her sandals clicked on the hard concrete road. The pressure well on the side of the road was laboriously shaken by the old man, and the aging lever made a fatigue groan of metal friction, giving her an indescribable strange feeling.

Creak—creak—the old woman silently rocked the water, splashing the green vegetables in the basin, letting Feng Yushu walk past the center of the road in front of her without lifting her head to look even once.

This is even stranger. Even if she didn't see her coming over at first, now that she heard the footsteps and knew someone was approaching, the reaction of a normal person should be to look up. Even if she was too lazy to look, there would be some subtle reaction.

But the old man in front of her had no reaction to Feng Yushu's arrival, as if she didn't exist at all. She didn't see the figure walking in front of her, nor did she hear the click-clack sound only a few meters away. She just shook the water on her own, lowering her head without raising it.

Feng Yushu hesitated for a moment, didn't continue to walk forward, stood in place, stopped her footsteps, and watched the old man's laborious movements silently.

The water level in the wooden basin gradually rose, submerging the two bundles of green vegetables, but the old man's action of shaking the water still didn't stop. The clear groundwater was still being pumped up from the pressure well continuously, filling the entire wooden basin, and finally overflowing from the edge of the basin.

Splash, the water overflowing from the edge of the basin wet the cloth shoes worn by the old man. This time, she finally reacted that the water was full. Her withered hands hurriedly loosened the handle of the pressure well clumsily, squatted down stiffly, and put both hands into the basin, as if she was about to start washing vegetables.

As the old man no longer lowered her head and shook the water, Feng Yushu finally saw the old man's face, and the next moment, her expression froze.

What kind of face was that... On the old man's face, you could no longer see even a little fat or collagen. The withered and thin skin was like a piece of plastic wrap covered on a human skull specimen. The thin and dry skin clearly outlined the shape of a skeleton. In the deep eye sockets was a pair of withered and necrotic dehydrated eyeballs, which were clearly blind. This old man was blind.

Her ears might also be deaf, because she had no reaction to Feng Yushu's footsteps at close range.

"Mom—?"

"Mom? Where did you run to again..."

Suddenly, a thick male voice came from the house behind the old man. Feng Yushu saw a man in a short-sleeved long pants and a crew cut poking his upper body out of the window on the second floor, frowning at the blind old man washing vegetables downstairs: "Why are you looking for trouble again? It's not work you need to do, you secretly do it, what are you trying to do... I fuck..."

The crew-cut man muttered, looked up, and suddenly his eyes lit up. Only then did he see a beautiful, jade-like beauty with bright clothes and a plump figure standing in the middle of the road, curiously looking up at him. The man's face turned red, and he ran downstairs in one go, grabbed his old mother's hand, and dragged her into the house.

While dragging, he said in a low voice: "Let you stay at home, let you stay at home, why do you have to go out, what if outsiders see you..."

The crew-cut man hurriedly pushed his blind old mother, who looked like a dried corpse, into the house, closed the door, smiled shyly, and walked a few steps closer to Feng Yushu: "Big sister, you are not from our village, right? What are you doing standing at my door early in the morning?"

"..." Feng Yushu frowned and said: "I'm looking for someone. Do you know where the family that married their only daughter to Yun City is?"

"Know, know, Old Uncle Mu, right?" The crew-cut man grinned happily: "Old Uncle Mu's family is at the east end of the village. There is a two-story building in a bamboo forest. That's it. Big sister, you come from outside, you definitely don't know the way. I'll take you there, shall we go?"

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"Thank you, I'll go myself." Feng Yushu politely declined the crew-cut man's eagerness to show her the way and turned around without any hesitation, returning the same way, and returned to the crossroads just now.

Feng Yushu didn't want to stay in that place for a moment longer. Because just now, when she asked the crew-cut man for directions, the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of a black lacquer coffin covered with a snake-skin bag under the eaves behind the pressure well.

A black coffin more than two meters long was placed by the door, covered simply by a few snake-skin bags for urea. Through the crack of the door that was not closed tightly behind the village man, Feng Yushu saw a pair of deep eye sockets, and two withered and shriveled eyeballs looked here blankly through the cracks in the door panel.

Feng Yushu trotted back to the crossroads. The houses along the way were all ordinary residential houses. Every few steps, she could see black coffins placed casually on the side of the road, or covered with waterproof cloth, or placed under a shed, or parked in a small house built with cement bricks... Coffins were placed in the open without any avoidance near every house in Sheep Prison Village.

Sheep Prison Village is full of coffins. Coffins placed in the open.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 111 =====