Taoyuan Little Miracle Doctor

Chapter 402 In the final analysis, it’s because of poverty
After hearing this, Wang Chen and Yao Ruyi finally understood the origin of the curse in Gorin Village.

When listening to Uncle Zhang's story, they felt a little scared.

But after listening to it all, I felt a little disapproving.

It's not that this story is absurd, but that this curse does not pose a real life threat to Yao Ruyi and Bai Ruyan.

In the story told by Uncle Zhang, among the four people who entered the mountain, only the first one died in an unknown way. The others were attacked and died by wild beasts. This is not actually a curse, at most it is It's just a disaster or disaster that people can understand.

After all, the content on the stone tablet was not only too fantasy-like, but also had little to do with the actual situation.

Although the stone tablet records that if you enter the mountain, you will die, but you can't define all the people who died in the mountain as being killed by a curse, right?

It's not logical at all.

After thinking about this, Wang Chen's tense nerves suddenly relaxed.

Geng also lit a cigarette, and while smoking, he smiled at Uncle Zhang and said, "Maybe it's because the death incident coincided with the appearance of the stone tablet, so you connected the two together. I think, This should be a coincidence and cannot be completely compared.”

As he spoke, he paused slightly, and then changed the topic: "What's more, the stories you told are just the dictation of the survivor.

He was probably frightened at the time. When his mind was not very clear, he was not only prone to hallucinations, but also talked nonsense due to the secretion of dopamine and insanity. "

Hearing this, Uncle Zhang shook his head.

“I know that you young people find it difficult to believe and understand the stories I told you. In fact, when the villagers learned about this, most of them thought the same as you.

However, what happened after that made us all deeply realize that it was not a story, but a fact, and the person who told the facts was not just nonsense after being frightened! "

Wang Chen frowned slightly and asked, "Why are you so sure?"

Uncle Zhang looked directly at Wang Chen and said with a somewhat complicated expression: "Because the only survivor who came back alive from that trip into the mountains was my biological father!"

"what……"

Hearing this, Wang Chen and Yao Ruyi suddenly looked surprised.

Uncle Zhang shook his head and continued: "And the forbidden curse recorded on the stone tablet is not a coincidence with what really happened.

Because, over the past 40 years, this kind of thing has happened seventeen or eight times in succession."

Speaking of this, Uncle Zhang asked Wang Chen: "One or two times may be judged as a coincidence, but if the same situation occurs seventeen or eighteen times, can it still be a coincidence?"

Wang Chen was speechless for a moment and found it difficult to refute.

Yao Ruyi couldn't help but ask: "What else happened next?"

Uncle Zhang continued: "On the day the stone tablet appeared, most people in the village fell ill, with symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea, but only my father and the man who was saved half his life by him were the two of them. Nothing happened.

In that case, everyone thought that we had offended the evil spirits in the mountains by rashly entering the mountains, and they were punishing everyone in the village.

So from then on, the older generation firmly believed in the curse, and at the same time, because of the events that happened one after another, the whole village fell into panic.

Fortunately, after two days, everyone's symptoms disappeared, which made the panic subside a little. However, the village also ordered that no one was allowed to enter the mountain without special circumstances. "

Wang Chen interrupted Uncle Zhang and asked: "That's not right. If it is really punishment from evil spirits, it should be to punish your father and the other half of the people. After all, they came out of the mountains, but why did all the villagers come up?" I have vomiting and diarrhea, but nothing happens to your father and that person?"

Uncle Zhang smiled bitterly: "It's not that nothing happened to them, but their retribution came later than others.

At noon that day when the villagers' symptoms disappeared, half of the people who were rescued by my father died. When they died, their eyes were wide open and their mouths and noses were full of blood.

As for my father, he suffered from a high fever that day and lasted for half a month. Although he recovered, he was completely paralyzed on the kang and never got off the ground to take another step until he died. "Hearing this, Wang Chen apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention your sadness. "

Uncle Zhang waved his hand: "After so many years, I have long been relieved."

"You just said that similar things happened before? Haven't the mountains been closed to prevent people from entering? How could something happen again?" Wang Chen returned to the topic.

Uncle Zhang smiled and said: "Before I answer your question, think about it first, what was the current situation in our country 40 years ago?"

Wang Chen scratched his head, 40 years ago was around 1970.

At that time, the current situation in the country could be described as being full of waste and waiting for things to be done.

All walks of life have just begun to emerge, and there is still a long way to go before the booming 80s.

At that time, people in first-tier cities lived in poverty, let alone rural areas.

Wang Chen was not from that era, but he had heard many things about that era from his grandfather.

People in that period were very poor.

How poor are you?

A piece of clothing may be worn by two or three generations next to each other. After the grandfather wears it, he sews patches on it and passes it to his father. After the father wears it, he sews it and mends it again, and then maybe gives it to his son.

A family of five or six people live in two very small mud houses.

What I eat is miscellaneous grains, and the kind that I don’t have enough to eat, not to mention big fish and meat, just dumplings, I’m afraid I may not be able to eat them twice a year.

That might be a little too general.

If we compare it with several of the more prominent phenomena now, I believe many people will understand it at a glance.

For example, getting married now means a house, a car, and a betrothal gift ranging from tens of thousands to 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands.

At that time, before 1970, it was basically enough to have a house where people could live. If the conditions were a little better, two new clothes were purchased. The clothes were not bought directly to wear, but were bought from fabric and made with a sewing machine. of.

After the 1970s, some relatively fixed objects gradually emerged. Many older people like to talk about the three major items.

These three big items are a little strange to the north and the south, but they can be roughly described as: tape recorders, televisions, bicycles, and sewing machines.

It can be said that if the family had several thousand yuan at that time, they could be considered a wealthy family in the village.

Getting married and spending hundreds of dollars is extremely luxurious.

For another example, going to school may cost tens of thousands of yuan to attend a kindergarten.

At that time, the total cost of a five-year primary school was less than 200 yuan.When you are at your poorest, the tuition fee may only be a few yuan or even a few cents. Sometimes you can't afford the money, so you can exchange a few eggs for a writing pad.

One can imagine how poor and poor the domestic conditions must have been at that time.

Thinking of this, Wang Chen lamented: "The word that best describes that era is probably poor, right?"

Uncle Zhang nodded and said: "Yes, that era was too poor, and people would often go hungry because of poverty, and even be driven crazy by poverty.

So, do you think that in that era, which was more important, the so-called taboos, or was it more important to go into the mountains and find some food to fill your stomach? ! "

(End of this chapter)