Chapter 581 Changing Flowers and Grass 1

Chapter 581

In the morning, the mountains and forests were full of fog with a trace of chill.

Xue Xiaobao left the ancient temple with guilt and uneasiness. The road down the mountain has long been overgrown with weeds, and I can't see it clearly. The sheep intestine path leads to the foot of the mountain. Xue Xiaobao walked very slowly. He recognized it carefully and was worried about going the wrong way. He is a road idiot. If he gets lost in this forest, he will be depressed to death.

Fortunately, the road to the bottom of the mountain is not completely covered with weeds. Xue Xiaobao came to the town at dusk. It's better to say it's a cottage than a small town. The cottage is not big, and it is located between a valley, surrounded by mountains and isolated from the world. There is only one mountain road leading to the outside world. Look at their clothes. They are Dong people.

Xue Xiaobao saw a group of children playing by the field, so he came forward to ask. A group of children couldn't help but be confused when they saw Xue Xiaobao. Generally, outsiders would not come here.

Seeing strangers, these children are more curious than confused.

"Are you from the county government?" A bold child asked.

"Me?" Xue Xiaobao pointed to his nose and then smiled and said, "Ha ha, I'm not from the county government, but I'm also a national cadre."

"Oh. That's right. The people who come to our Zhanli Village are all officials.

"Who told you?" Xue Xiaobao asked rhetorical when he heard the words.

"My parents said that there are no outsiders in China, only officials come once a year." The child said seriously.

Xue Xiaobao finally determined his idea. This cottage is really isolated from the world. Few outsiders have set foot here. He asked again, "Children, can you tell me the way out of the mountain?"

"Yes, it's over there." The child was about seven or eight years old. He raised his hand and pointed to it. There was a rugged mountain road in the southwest corner, which led to a valley.

Xue Xiaobao stared at it and said, "Thank you, I'm leaving."

"Wait... It's getting dark. You can't go out now. The mountain road is very dangerous. There are rules in our cottage. We don't go out of the mountain at night. As the child was talking, a Dong girl ran over and shouted as she ran. It's a local dialect. Xue Xiaobao didn't understand a word, but the general meaning seems to be that the child is going home for dinner.

The girl is not old, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a handsome appearance, a round face, big eyes, and two small dimples smiling very cutely.

She saw her brother talking to an outsider and seemed very nervous. She pulled her brother back, stared and said, "Who are you?"

"I, I'm a national cadre." Xue Xiaobao smiled.

The girl looked at Xue Xiaobao carefully, looked strangely, and said suspiciously, "You are so young, which unit do you work in?"

"I'm not a local, although it's not convenient to say. I want to go out of the mountain, so I'm here to ask for directions. Xue Xiaobao didn't want to entangle with this little girl and wanted to leave here.

"You can't go. There is a rule in the cottage that no one can go out of the mountain at night. The Dong girl said in a tough tone.

"I'm not allowed to go out of the mountain at night. Where will I spend the night tonight?" Xue Xiaobao spread out his hands and asked.

Liu Mei, a Dong girl, frowned slightly, lowered her head and meditated for a moment. Then she looked up at Xue Xiaobao and said, "You go home with me. Let's go!"

The Dong girl was very simple, so the more simple the person was, the more direct she was. She took Xue Xiaobao to the cottage. Along the way, the people in the cottage were not strange and curious about him, an outsider. But Xue Xiaobao was extremely shocked. When night fell, the children who were playing went home, but one thing was very strange. It is also a strange thing that shocked Xue Xiaobao. Each family in the cottage has two children, a man and a woman. Every family is like this.

"Girl, you... Why do every family have two children in this cottage, but they are all a man and a woman." Xue Xiaobao pointed to the child playing at the door and asked.

"Huh! Don't you know? Do you come to our cottage for any other purpose besides changing flowers and plants? The Dong girl stared and asked harshly.

Xue Xiaobao doesn't know what to change flowers and plants, and he doesn't know what's the use of changing flowers and plants. But when he saw that every family in the cottage had a son and a daughter, he couldn't help but associate this matter with changing flowers and plants.

"What's your name?" Xue Xiaobao asked.

"I won't tell you." The little girl of the Dong nationality has a lot of personality and directly rejected Xue Xiaobao.

Xue Xiaobao smiled awkwardly and said, "My name is Xue Xiaobao. Just call me Xiaobao."

"Outider, you'd better be honest." The Dong girl warned.

Xue Xiaobao is not talking, because the Dong girl is very biased against foreigners, and saying more will only make her more disgusted. The cottage houses are all made of wood. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is suitable for living.

The Dong girl turned to look at Xue Xiaobao and said arrogantly, "You will stay in our house tonight. Please leave early tomorrow morning."

Xue Xiaobao looked down at the child beside him and smiled, "What's your name?"

"Ati!" The child said seriously.

"What's your sister's name?" Xue Xiaobao continued to ask.

The child named Ati wanted to say her sister's name. The Dong girl hurriedly stopped him, took Ati into the house, and then taught her younger brother in the local dialect.

Atty shouted and quarreled with his sister. Xue Xiaobao was quite embarrassed. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. He wanted to turn around and leave. When he turned around, he found a middle-aged man staring straight at him. The middle-aged man was wearing Dong clothes, with dark skin, a hat on his head, and a sickle and a hoe in his hand. It seemed that he had just come back from the field.

"Are you?" Xue Xiaobao asked softly.

"I'm the head of Zhanli Village. What are you doing in our village? The village head asked blankly.

"I...I..." Xue Xiaobao hesitated and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The village head nodded slightly and said, "The flowers and plants in our village are not sold. Please come back."

Xue Xiaobao heard "changing flowers and plants" again. I can't help but be more curious about this grass, more like figuring out what it is to change flowers and plants. He said, "I think you misunderstood. I'm not here to change flowers and plants, but to get lost. I was about to leave here when a girl said that there were rules for cottages, and no one was allowed to go out of the mountain at night, so she took me here for the night. I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

When the village head heard the words, he frowned and then asked, "Are you a fugitive?"

Xue Xiaobao shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I said no. I don't think you will believe it. Well, you can call the police station now and ask them to come and arrest me."

The village head ignored Xue Xiaobao, but looked at him carefully and said, "You can stay here tonight." After he finished speaking, he walked into the house and waved to the sisters in the room, signaling them to go to the backyard.

Xue Xiaobao sat at the gate and looked at the children playing by the roadside. He had been thinking about changing flowers and plants. Is the secret of this village that every family has a man and a woman? Changing flowers and plants may be the key to unlocking this secret.

The fragrance of rice came from the backyard. Xue Xiaobao looked back into the room and saw Adi coming with the food. He handed it to Xue Xiaobao and said, "Eat it."

Xue Xiaobao took the meal and smiled, "Have you eaten?"

"No, Dad said, you are the guest, you eat first." Atti said.

"Thank you. Atty, can you tell me what it is to change flowers and plants? Xue Xiaobao looked into Ati's eyes and asked softly.

Ati shook his head and said, "I don't know. Dad won't let me talk to outsiders.

"Oh, okay, you go to dinner." Xue Xiaobao nodded.

After Adi left, Xue Xiaobao swept away the food in the bowl. He couldn't help thinking of the ancient temple and the Taoist monk. Xue Xiaobao put down the bowl and chopsticks and sighed, "Oh! It seems that I have this fate."

Xue Xiaobao has been sitting at the door in a daze. After Atty's sister took a bath, a faint fragrance emanated from her delicate body. When she got close, Xue Xiaobao could smell the body fragrance on her body, sniffed gently, and was relaxed and happy.

"Outsiders, what are you thinking?" The Dong girl looked at him in a daze, so she asked.

Xue Xiaobao looked up at her and smiled, "Your village is really weird. Why does every family have two children, a man and a woman?"

"This is the rule of our cottage. Each family can only have two children, one man and one woman. If anyone has one more child, the copycat people will kick him out. No one can break the rules of our cottage. The Dong girl explained.