Real World Simulator

When Fang Yu and the others returned to the village, it was already dark.

But in an open space near the entrance of the village, the lights are still brightly lit at this time.

On the open space, torches were hung at this time, and a bonfire was lit, and a group of people were digging something in the dark.

Fang Yu and the two were just passing by. Considering the contents of the carriage, both of them kept a low profile and did not talk to each other, but went home first.

After pulling the carriage back home in the dark, Huang Mei had already prepared meals and waited for them.

Pull the carriage into the yard, and then Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo put all the rice, oil and salt they bought back into the house.

The stuff in one compartment directly fills up a corner of the room.

A torch was lit on the wall, and with the light of the fire, Fang Sanduo looked at the pile of supplies in the corner, and felt that his whole heart was at ease.

It's not just Fang Sanduo who is down-to-earth, Huang Mei is also constantly touching these supplies at this time, her face is full of joy.

There are not only rice oil and salt here, but also some pickles and some flour that I bought.

With these substances, let alone a month, two months is enough to save some food.

It's just that Fang Yu and the others didn't buy firewood for firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Because Fang Yu has decided that starting tomorrow, he will resume his old job and continue to cut firewood.

I borrowed the hatchet from Sanzhuzi next door. When I went up the mountain to cut firewood, I could see if there was anything else to eat and get it back together.

Although the mission goal is to survive for one month.

But Fang Yu remembers that this main task is to survive for five years!

If there is really a plague of locusts here this time, it is really uncertain how long the famine will last.

After putting everything away, Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo went to the dining table.

Simple porridge, some wild vegetables, and some pickled vegetables exchanged with the villagers next door, such a simple meal, Fang Yu and the three ate like delicacies from mountains and seas.

It’s just an ordinary meal, but in the house I bought, surrounded by family members, and the house is full of supplies, I drank a warm bowl of porridge under such a sense of security, accompanied by Serving a few mouthfuls of delicious pickled vegetables, for the three of them, is a matter of great happiness!

The meal was eaten very quickly, and when it was all eaten, it was in a wooden basin in the room. Huang Mei simply put the bowl over the water, and then put it upside down on the stove in the kitchen next door.

Although this is just a room, there is still a kitchen separated from it.

There is an earthen wall between the two rooms, and a door opening in the middle is separated by a curtain.

Huang Mei clasped the bowl, and when she returned to the room, Fang Sanduo and Fang Yu were already sitting by the bed.

Well, before Fang Yu's house was built, the three of them slept together.

This bed is made up of two beds, Fang Yu sleeps on one, and Huang Mei and the others sleep on the other.

Seeing Huang Mei coming in, Fang Sanduo thought of the torch-lit place at the entrance of the village that he had seen before, and asked Huang Mei involuntarily.

"Ah? What are you talking about?"

Huang Mei first set the dried mugwort leaves on fire in a small basin in the corner.

The unique smell emitted when the wormwood is burning slowly spreads in the room.

Then she climbed onto the bed, didn't change her clothes, just put on her clothes, leaned against the wall, crossed her legs, and said to Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo.

"Before the village chief said, the matter of the locust temple has been decided. That location is the locust temple. After the matter is settled, the village chief arranged for people to start working. Just now someone came to ask me if we want to go there Well, I told them that you were ill, so I didn’t agree to them.”

"No, they were digging the foundation overnight. I heard that the village chief will build it within three days, and then invite the Locust God into the temple."

Fang Yu's uncle and nephew suddenly realized.

I see.

"Then tomorrow, Goud... Forget it, Goud, you should go chop firewood. I'll go and help out tomorrow."

Fang San thought for a while and said.

Fang Sanduo was not interested in building the locust temple.

Of course, the confidence here is all given by the materials in the corner.

He has no land here, and he has enough to eat. As Fang Yu said before, there is really a plague of locusts, and it has no effect on him.

Since it doesn't affect him, his desire to pray to God and worship Buddha will fade away.

People are like this, what they believe in the most is always themselves and the real things around them.

Only when there is absolutely nothing you can do, will you choose to pray to God and worship Buddha.

And the more desperate they are, the more sincere they are.

Because they have no choice but to trust in these miracles.

Most people in the village are like this.

Everyone is a farmer, and most of their property is the crops in the field. If the locust plague really comes, it will undoubtedly be tantamount to bankruptcy for them!

That's why they were so concerned about the Locust Temple, rushing to work in the middle of the night.

If they don't build the temple and burn incense sticks sooner, they won't be able to sleep at ease!

But Fang Sanduo and the others obviously don't have this scruple.

After buying something, the three of them, uncle, nephew and aunt, don't mention how secure they are when they sleep at night.

In the air, besides the smell of wormwood, the grains of rice and pickles are also constantly exuding their own unique charm.

The smell of these various smells mixed in the room is not pleasant.

Fortunately, there is a chimney in the room.

But when Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei smelled this smell, they couldn't be more at ease, they fell into a deep sleep after a while.

Although the smell is weird, the sense of security it brings to people is enormous.

Even Fang Yu felt that the smell in the air was so "sweet" at this time, and he felt relaxed and his stomach was rolling when he smelled it...

Forget it, go to sleep, if you smell it, Tiewei will rebel!

Fang Yu turned over and heard the familiar "buzzing" sound in the air...

"Crack!"*2

Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo almost slapped on the top of the bed almost back and forth!

The buzzing sound disappeared, and the hearts of the two felt instantly relieved.

Huang Mei, who was sleeping next to her, muttered in a daze.

"Everything is good here... but this bug is so annoying..."

Fang Yu also sighed in his heart when he heard it.

This kind of situation of being so cared for by mosquitoes has not been experienced since he entered junior high school in modern society.

Now that I experience it again, I feel very nostalgic...

Shit! ! Die to grandpa! !

"Snapped!"

During the month of coming to Taguchi Village, every night, the three of them fell asleep with the sound of crackling.

It's fine now.

In the first few days when they moved in, Fang Yu and the others could hardly sleep at night!

The mosquitoes here are too fierce!

Although there are mosquitoes in Jiaoling County, compared with here, it is simply a world!

At night, the bug kept buzzing in my ears like crazy.

In the past few days, Fang Yu felt that he had never been so powerless when facing Mana!

Even if he was superior in force, facing the almost endless mosquitoes, he still felt bursts of irritability and impotent rage.

After that, I asked the people in the village for advice, burned mugwort leaves, and poured mosquito repellent water. It lasted for a week, and finally let these mosquitoes know whose territory it is.

Afterwards, they were able to get a good night's sleep after applying mugwort leaves every night and manually repelling mosquitoes.

But when I wake up the next day, it's very normal to have a few red envelopes on my body, so I get up and apply some wood ash, that's all.

Wood ash water, that is, alkaline water, can be disinfected and sterilized by applying some alkali-containing substances to mosquito bites.

Anything like soapy water.

Under the pressure of the locust plague, the villagers of Taguchi Village broke out with unprecedented motivation.

It really only took three days. Dozens of villagers, including Fang Sanduo, worked together to build the Locust Temple in one go.

Even the village head thinks that this is the first time he has felt the enthusiasm and efficiency of the villagers in the past few decades as the village head.

The temple was built in the morning, and at noon the ribbons were laid, tables and tributes were placed. In the evening, a group of god-inviting teams wearing red and green ribbons slowly entered from the entrance of the village.

There were two other people in front of the team holding torches, and walking around the village with the Lord Locust who was sitting on a wooden frame behind him, shouting while walking.

"Grandpa Locust God's night parade, the gods in Taguchi Village stay~"

"Grandpa Locust God."*N

"Magic power drives away gods and insects, and blesses the grain fields and rice fields~"

"Magic power." *N

Every household will light a fire and burn incense in the yard when the locust statue passes by their yard, and then start praying, praying that the locust god will remember themselves and protect his family's property from infringement.

And this begging and begging was originally just to bless the property, but inexplicably these people began to ask for other things tacitly.

Like those who beg for the health of the old mother at home, some who beg for their own wealth and luck, and some who are indiscriminate and want to beg the God of Locusts to let him cast a spell to repel insects and eat up all the property he hates. .

In short, since worshiping God, there is no reason to ask for the same.

At this moment, these villagers selectively forgot that the locust god was only responsible for expelling locust plagues, anyway, it was in their understanding.

God is omnipotent, so it is also reasonable to ask for other things.

Therefore, Fang Yu was very speechless watching his aunt burn incense to God Locust respectfully, and then began to mutter in his mouth that he would bless Fang Yu with good health, find a good family as soon as possible, and give birth to a big fat boy.

In just two minutes, the locust god was crowned with blessings, marriage, begging and other priesthood.

However, Huang Mei didn't mention a word about her job of repelling locusts!

Oh, forgot, we don't have fields, that's fine.

However, even so, Fang Yu's mouth twitched as he watched.

If he were the God of Locusts, if he really had the ability to repel locusts, he estimated that the village would be eaten by these locusts tomorrow.

What's the use of asking God if your mind is dirty?

Of course, Fang Yu's complaints had nothing to do with Huang Mei, it was only because his hearing was better, and he was also a member of the shrine bearer, so he could hear the unreliable prayers of these villagers.

Yes, because Fang Yu has relatively good physical strength and great strength, plus a little bit of timing, he was confused by the village chief and appointed as a member of the shrine.

Fang Yu didn't know, but the village head felt that Fang Sanduo's actions were money before. In the eyes of this village elder, the Fang family seemed to be a family with a story.

Therefore, out of some kind of gesture of goodwill, the village chief gave Fang Yu the position of carrying the sedan chair, which was half-contested among the villagers.

In this era when everyone respects gods and fears ghosts, what an honor it is to carry the palanquin for the grandpa of the gods?

This not only means that you can get close to the gods to get some luck or divine power, but also means that doing things for the gods is likely to gain the attention of the gods and gain the blessing of the gods!

Therefore, for the matter of carrying the sedan chair, everyone was overwhelmed.

The reason why the village chief was able to appoint Fang Yu was actually because of a small accident on the way.

At the beginning of lifting the sedan chair, a villager was a little unstable. When he stood up, his shoulders slipped, and the whole locust statue almost fell from the sedan chair and smashed to the ground!

If this is really smashed, it's hard to say what it means.

The unstable villager didn't say he was imprisoned or anything, but a beating, coupled with follow-up scolding by the village, was inevitable.

If a plague of locusts really happened later, then this person would be doomed even more, and life and death would really be uncertain at that time.

After all, in this case, as long as there is a reasonable excuse, so what?

What's more, they didn't mean to kill people. This was called redemption, this was called sacrifice, and this was called appeasement of God's wrath.

Therefore, when the villagers were shocked to the point of fear, Fang Yu subconsciously supported the statue, preventing Fang Sanduo from being knocked down by the statue.

This god is made of clay, fired, painted with various water paints on the outside, and then put on a god's clothes. It is 1.5 meters high and weighs about two to three hundred catties.

Unprepared to prevent the fall, under Fang Yu's strength, he did not use excessive strength, and only relied on his strength to hug the statue, and then exhaled, and put the statue firmly on the ground.

The people next to him looked at Fang Yu's thin and small figure, and after hugging the statue as thick as two of them and slowly putting it down, they looked at Fang Yu with the look of "Lin Daiyu pulling the weeping willow upside down" Sense of sight.

But then, the village head stepped forward to watch for a while, and found that the statue was not damaged, and then severely reprimanded the villager who missed it.

The village chief was tall and burly, and he shrank when he was scolded by the village chief.

People around also went up and condemned this man one after another, which made him feel bitter but dared not speak out.

But fortunately, no unforgivable mistakes happened, so the village chief didn't say much later, but when he turned his head to look at Fang Yu, his eyes overflowed.

Then, the village chief may have suspected that Fang Yu had a bit of divine luck because Fang Yu took over God Locust by such a coincidence, and secondly, considering his consideration, he asked Fang Yu to replace the previous person carrying the sedan chair.

Although the man had a rather unwilling face before, he also knew that he almost dropped the locust god, and it was obviously impossible to continue to carry the sedan chair, so he could only shrink back resentfully in the end.

But Fang Yu originally wanted to refuse.

But looking at the envious, surprised and somewhat complicated eyes of the people around him, he suddenly realized that at this time, it might be a little inappropriate for him to say no, and it would make himself too conspicuous.

Considering that they still have to deal with these villagers in the future, Fang Yu didn't want to stand out from the crowd, so she finally carried it.

Anyway, for him, this weight is just that.

So, Fang Yu carried God Locust around the village for a week.

Borrowing his position, he successfully saw the various poses and expressions displayed by the common people in this era when facing the gods.

This kind of experience made him feel that his trip was worthwhile.

Finally, after a successful parade, it is time to send God Locust to the temple to let the god return to his place.

At this time, there was already a person waiting in the temple. He was quite old, but he was wearing temple clothes.

I heard from people around me that this old man used to be a fortune-teller, but then he accidentally broke his leg and became disabled, his wife died again, and he was old and childless.

He basically committed all the five disadvantages and three deficiencies.

In modern times, such a person is undoubtedly a poor old man who needs support.

But here, this old man committed such a crime, and because of what he said, everyone generally believed that this old man was punished for "leaking the secret".

Therefore, after he became disabled, there was an endless stream of people looking for his fortune-telling.

And this uncle does not know whether it is really smart or for marketing.

He doesn't receive too many fortune-tellers, and the fees are not high, just maintain the situation where he can have enough food and clothing to be a little richer.

To the outside world, he said that he would not reveal too many secrets in order to save his life, and everyone agreed.

And after inviting God Locust this time, the village head immediately thought of this master.

So I personally invited him to "go down the mountain" to do this temple blessing.

The uncle declined again and again, but finally agreed.

Now, this old man is sitting cross-legged on the futon in the temple, looking from behind, he really has a bit of inscrutable and a hint of immortality.

This was the first scene Fang Yu saw when he stepped into the Locust Temple.