People in Terra, poor and weak but invincible

Chapter 952: Stage Play at Night

Another night.

Moushan Village, which is located in a remote area and lacks entertainment options, is like other poor settlements, and every household turns off the lights early.

The few remaining lights looked so pitiful in the dark valley.

Fang Xiaoshi sat at the head of his bed, without turning on the light, letting himself disappear into the darkness.

The hunter also sat on the wooden chair beside the bed and urged in a low voice:

"Go to bed and don't make any noise if you hear anything."

"Dad, why?" Fang Xiaoshi asked in a low voice.

"I told you, that money we ..."

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Fang Xiaoshi interrupted the hunter and said, "I can understand that we can't keep the money, but why should we still be worried even if we give the money away?"

"…Human hearts are terrifying." This was the only answer the hunter could give.

In the darkness, there seemed to be a gleam in Fang Xiaoshi's eyes.

He sat on the bed without any movement and whispered:

"Dad, you actually know in your heart how the villagers treat our family. You are not the kind of fool who cannot see through people's hearts. You know what your tolerance over the years has brought."

"What should we do after seeing clearly?" The hunter asked, "Are we going to tear our faces off with the villagers? We are just outsiders. What should we do if the situation becomes so serious that we can't live in the village?"

Fang Xiaoshi's voice rose several degrees uncontrollably:

"Then let's go outside. The world is so big. Can't we survive if we leave the village?"

The hunter didn't answer.

Fang Xiaoshi only heard a rustling sound in the darkness, and the hunter seemed to take something out of his arms.

Without him asking, the hunter took the initiative to speak:

"This is the envelope your mother sent back to you."

"My mother?" Fang Xiaoshi was actually not familiar with this name.

"Back then, I came to the village from outside, married your mother, and settled down there. I became the only outsider in the village."

The hunter's tone was filled with reminiscence: "In fact, I know that your mother married me because she had a heart that yearned for the outside world, but gradually, she found that I had no intention of continuing to venture out. After I used all my savings to buy our family's farmland, she finally believed that I came to this village not to rest.

Later...the day a peddler took your mother away, I chased him into the wilderness, but I only managed to snatch you back in time."

"she……"

Fang Xiaoshi wanted to say something, but the words were unable to come out.

The hunter stroked the wrinkled envelope with his rough fingertips.

He whispered, "She passed away a few years ago. She only sent me a letter, which took several months to reach me. There was only a sum of money in it, which was her death compensation.

It is with this money that I can help the village repair the ancestral temple that you blew up."

Fang Xiaoshi's body trembled uncontrollably.

The hunter continued to speak: "After she left, she followed the peddler to the mobile city, but returned to the wilderness half a year later, and then...

This letter passed through the hands of five or six couriers, so the message that came back with the letter was already very vague, but there was not much money in the envelope, so it was not difficult to guess how she had been doing over the years.

The hunter stood up, walked to the bed and sat down next to Fang Xiaoshi, and stuffed the envelope in Fang Xiaoshi's hand.

Fang Xiaoshi held the envelope which was still warm, feeling uncomfortable.

The hunter touched Fang Xiaoshi's head and spoke again with a hint of pleading:

“You and your mother are really alike. You both yearn for life outside, but you have been away from the village for more than a year, and you already know how difficult life is outside.

Although Lupert, who was called Qi Xiaobai, spoke strangely, he was also very straightforward. He did not lie. You have fallen to the point of cheating and even robbing people on the road. Are you really living like this? How can such a life last long?

Dad is old and may not live for many years, but you are still young. What Dad is reluctant to part with is not this house, nor that piece of farmland, nor this Moushan Village. "

Fang Xiaoshi clenched his teeth.

He felt that this was not right.

But before he could speak again, the hunter suddenly pushed him down on the bed, and then pulled the quilt over both of them.

Fang Xiaoshi felt a little nervous. The hunter covered his mouth with his hand and he couldn't speak, but he could hear a noise coming from his own yard through the quilt.

Fang Xiaoshi could clearly hear his own and his father's heartbeats, and could also vaguely hear the voices of the two people outside the yard.

"Keep your voice down, Fang the Hunter is a hunter after all!"

"I'm just a little...scared. Do we really want to do this? Are you sure Fang Hunter still has gems left at home?"

"I don't believe he can be willing to hand over all of them. If he really doesn't have anything... doesn't he still have a beast of burden at home?"

"You didn't say you were planning to take that beast of burden before you came here!"

"Keep your voice down! We've already taken such a big risk, are you willing to leave in disgrace again?"

The two stopped arguing and seemed to have completely convinced each other.

Fang Xiaoshi heard the door of his house being carefully pushed open. The old door hinges made a slight sound, which made Fang Xiaoshi's heart beat faster for some reason.

Hiding in the quilt, a feeling of stuffiness and irritability gradually surged into Fang Xiaoshi's heart.

He couldn't see, but he could clearly guess what the two men were doing in his home.

boom--

Suddenly, the sound of a wooden board hitting the wall echoed in the silent room.

Fang Xiaoshi could clearly feel the hunter's body tremble slightly.

But the hunter didn't move at all and still lay on the bed, as if he was an actor trying his best to cooperate with a drama.

The room was quiet for a moment, and Fang Xiaoshi heard another disdainful sneer, followed by the sound of rummaging through drawers, which became rapid and undisguised.

Fang Xiaoshi's heartbeat accelerated again and his body began to tremble.

This time, he was very clear that an emotion called anger was accumulating wildly in his chest.

To those two villagers and also to his own father.

He suddenly broke free from the hunter's hand, opened the quilt and shouted at the two dark figures in the room:

"Stop it! Don't go too far!"

The two dark shadows obviously didn't expect Fang Xiaoshi to suddenly explode. One of them spoke subconsciously, but before he could utter half a word, his companion covered his mouth and dragged him away.

Fang Xiaoshi broke free from the hunter, jumped off the bed and chased after him:

"Saturday, I recognized your voice!"

The fleeing black shadow in front was shaken violently, but was eventually dragged over the courtyard wall by his companions.

Fang Xiaoshi wanted to chase after him, but the hunter rushed up and grabbed him.

He wanted to continue speaking, but the hunter covered his mouth with force.

With the help of the dim moonlight, Fang Xiaoshi saw his father looking around the village.

Fang Xiaoshi gradually stopped struggling and looked around.

In the dark night, the village was silent, and everything that had just happened in this small courtyard seemed so abrupt.

But the houses whose outlines appeared in the darkness were like actors in a drama with their eyes closed. No matter how noisy the stage and the audience were, they just did their job conscientiously and completed their performance.