Chapter 868 Mortal (3)

Author: Binary Sword Fairy

Chapter 868 Mortal (3)

After finishing everything, it was already early morning.

When Chen Yan returned to the boat, she thought she would sleep peacefully after a fulfilling day.

He was wrong, so wrong. The nightmare once again occupied his brain arrogantly. This time it was the same strange dream as last time... This kind of dream was more like some kind of parallel world that only existed in fantasy.

In this strange dream, he did not follow his father's arrangement to study abroad in the coast, nor did he go to the empire after completing his studies, but stayed in Baihuyuan.

The war soon broke out, and Baihuyuan became a purgatory. The Chen family gave up their fields and ancestral home and hid in the mountains. However, the mountains were not a good place either. Bandits who called themselves Green Forest Bandits robbed all their belongings.

They had to build their own wooden house, rely on the "Old Black Gael" single-shot filling pistol hidden by their father, hunt wild animals in the mountains, and live a life of almost no hair and blood.

After a year in which it was better to live than die, a distant cousin went to the mountains to collect herbs. By chance, he met my father and told him that the war was over and a new military marshal had arrived in the county.

, is a blond and blue-eyed foreigner. Foreigners do not require grain, but only require the villagers to grow black fruits.

Three thirds of an acre of land can produce enough black fruits for a whole year. The villagers who survived the war are only responsible for planting and harvesting. When the black fruits mature, Marshal Bingwu will send people to harvest them, just like all the soldiers in the past.

Marshal Wu is different. Marshal Wu, a foreigner, is paid to collect black fruits, weighed by kilograms.

Only a year has passed since the war, and the surviving villagers are living a good life relying on the wages given by the new soldier Marshal Wu.

The Chen family came out of the mountain and found that the old house had collapsed. They built a new house on the ruins of the old house, and at the same time used the wasteland allocated by the village to plant seeds that could produce black fruits.

After a few years, the villagers became rich, could wear clothes for four seasons a year, and could eat three full meals a day.

Big chimneys have been built in the countryside, schools have become free, cement roads have been paved to eight villages in ten miles, railways have reached the countryside, and the train station is only ten minutes away from home. People's food and clothing expenses have been reduced by cheap and easy-to-use industries.

The products are full, but no one thinks this is wrong. Everyone's life has improved, and the foreigners who came to the hometown to open the show have made money, a win-win situation.

Everything seems to be getting better.

Black fruit is a delicate thing, and if you want to grow it with good quality, you need to take more care of it. Watering, weeding, and pest control are not sloppy. Water more in dry weather, and go to the greenhouse when there is more rain. The village explains that black fruit

The fruit needs direct sunlight, so the villagers do not dare to use greenhouses to cover the fields all the time.

On this day, Chen Yan was weeding in the field when a lame voice suddenly came from the edge of the field in front of him:

"Fellow, how is the harvest this year?"

When Chen Yan looked up, he saw that the person speaking bad Tianshenzhou dialect was actually Klein Justus, who was wearing a traditional Tianshenzhou rich man's satin cotton suit.

Why is Klein here?

Chen Yan subconsciously thought so, but it was just that. He was too confused in his dream to think about what he was facing now.

He nodded and bowed in a flattering manner:

"My lord, if the weather is good this year, the harvest will be good."

Klein Justus nodded and left with satisfaction. Chen Yan looked at his back, listening to those familiar Imperial dialects, and probably heard him saying to the accompanying foreigners, "This year's output value will reach...

...", "It will be very happy up there...", "We can also go further..." and so on.

He only vaguely heard a few words, which were not clear, nor could he understand the complete imperial sentences. His distant memory was no longer enough to support him in understanding those complicated inverted sentences.

When Klein Justus walked away, he squatted down and started weeding again.

Two years later, the village built a road leading to the county town. He was too old to get a wife, so his father spent a lot of money on matchmaking and finally arranged a marriage for him in the next county town.

Chen Yan didn't even meet the girl, so he went to court and got married in a daze. It wasn't until the night of the wedding, when he lifted up his red hijab, that he felt that the marriage was right.

Although the girl is not very beautiful, she is very kind to him and is very skillful with her hands. She can cook five flavors of rice in one pot, and everyone will praise her when they meet her.

Girls like to wear fairy-like white clothes. Although Chen Yan doesn't know why, he still buys them for her.

For the next two years, Chen Yan lived an ordinary life like all farmers. He worked in the fields during the busy farming season, and wrote some short books during the slack farming season, and asked his cousin in the county to help print them out, and sold some copper coins to subsidize the family.

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Two years later, their child was born.

Life suddenly started to speed up after having a child. After a few months of turbulence at the beginning, everything got back on track. In addition to working, Chen Yan took care of the child and was busy all day long. But in reality,

I didn't even bother to come up with anything fancy.

The extremely ordinary days remind him every day that he is just an ordinary person, using his ordinary life to experience the ordinary life that ordinary people experience. Such an ordinary life has never changed under the sun.

Just like this, more than ten years have passed.

The children have grown up, and the village has changed a lot from what it was more than ten years ago. Every household has built a foreign-style building, and a civil airport has been built in the wilderness not far from the county seat. Black fruit was banned a few years ago.

After that, Chen Yan began to work at a civil airport, mainly doing some physical work of moving cargo. The wages were not bad, and besides supporting his family, he also had a surplus.

The child went to school far away. Chen Yan and his wife discussed it, otherwise they would not let the child come back. There was no industry in his hometown, so he would have more opportunities in a big city.

In the next few years, the child continued to go to school outside. Later, he went to sea and never came back. He only heard messages on the phone and only received large packages of gifts from his children during holidays.

A large number of postcards allowed Chen Yan and his wife to learn about their children's life over the years.

It is also very difficult outside, and children are also living a life that ordinary people must experience - passing the exam, studying, graduating, being unemployed, finding a job, finding a girlfriend, being unemployed again, and finding a job again...

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Later, when smartphones became available, Chen Yan quickly learned to use them, but they didn’t use them much because the children were busy most of the time. They had to work overtime, catch up on schedule, study in their spare time, and take exams... Life was like a car that stopped.

Even if you want to stop, the inertia will carry you forward.

Chen Yan and his wife lived an ordinary life together, which was not particularly hard. As they grew older, they could be regarded as supporting each other.

After his hair turned white, one day, Chen Yan fell ill. He was lying in bed with a high fever in his brain. In a hazy state, he only heard his wife telling him that she was not a human being, but a monster or a snake.

Demon.

He smiled dazedly and touched her face, telling her what nonsense she was talking about.

She rubbed his hand and said that she lived hundreds of years longer than him, and the reason she stayed with him all her life and gave birth to his children was to repay him for the kindness of nature.

Now she was leaving, taking away all the disasters in his life with her. She told him that according to his original situation, this serious illness would take away his life, but she pitied him and took the incurable disease with her.

Take them together.

When Chen Yan woke up, the high fever had gone away.

There was no trace of his wife.

Chen Yan felt sad. He thought about seeking death, but he didn't have the courage to hold the knife. He was as cowardly as every ordinary person.

A few months later, he packed his luggage, went to burn incense on his parents' graves, contacted his children, and went to sea. After a long sea journey, he arrived in the city where his children were.

The child welcomed him warmly. His daughter-in-law was a beautiful woman with black hair and blue eyes. She could not understand the Tianshenzhou dialect. If she wanted to communicate, she had to speak and gesture.

The city where the child lives has six months of winter a year, but Chen Yan's body became very good after the serious illness, so he was not hit by the cold.

He planted a vegetable garden behind his child's yard to offset the pressure of life caused by high vegetable prices. After he had a grandson, he helped take care of him. In the first few years, he changed diapers and played with him. Then he took his grandson to school and read with him.

Teach your grandson to speak Tianshenzhou dialect.

Many years later, the grandson had a child. The grandson happily put the child in Chen Yan's arms. Chen Yan hugged his great-grandson and looked into his eyes, feeling that the world was so wonderful.

He touched his great-grandson's forehead, and his great-grandson smiled at him.

A few years later, on a cold night, Chen Yan was wrapped in a quilt and sitting by the burning fireplace. In a daze, he saw his wife.

She is still so beautiful.

She kissed him on the cheek and put her hand on his chest, holding his heart.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the next journey."

The moment his eyes fell into darkness, Chen Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

"Grass!"

He stared blankly at the silver-gray ceiling of the cabin, breathing in the cold air that smelled of the sea. Then he suddenly took out his mobile phone from under the pillow and looked at the time and date displayed on the mobile phone. His tense body gradually relaxed.

'It's just a dream...it's just a dream...'

He sat up and felt that the quilt was soaked with sweat, so he took off the quilt, put on his pajamas, went to the bathroom, and stuffed the quilt into the drum washing machine.

As the washing machine was started, Chen Yan leaned against the washing machine with empty eyes, still unable to recover from that incredibly real dream.

'Is it really just a dream...'

Chen Yan didn't know.

'Perhaps... I should try Miao Shuisheng's [Lucid Dreaming]? If you master lucid dreaming, you can explore in dreams while awake...'

Chen Yan hesitated for a long time, shuddered hard, and gave up the idea.

'Why bother yourself? It's just a nightmare...a nightmare that makes no sense.'

He leaned against the washing machine, feeling the vibrations from the washing machine, and slowly calmed down.

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At this moment, the mechanical hive, Area A, Ah Wei’s home.
To be continued...