Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 114 I hope my dear brother is relaxing properly.

Lin Fan originally intended to grab Su Ran by the neck and question him about whether he was human.

Fortunately, he is calm enough now and has realized that this is not his original world.

Lin Fan's chest rose and fell slightly as he tried to remain calm, saying, "Don't bring that up again. Do you think that's all you think about, that outsider?"

Su Ran was about to say, "Of course!" "It's not like I'm here because it's cheap. Would a stranger from out of town come here?"

However, Su Ran also realized how abnormal this person was. Even if someone told Su Ran that this person was possessed by an evil spirit, Su Ran would immediately believe it. In short, Su Ran had never seen such a neurotic person.

The doctor told Lin Fan to come here to relax, but Lin Fan felt even more tense here, and felt like he was going crazy.

"Why are the people here like this? Why don't you like to work and prefer to do those shady jobs?"

Su Ran already knew this man was strange, so she casually replied, "What kind of work? Going to work in the city? Those shopkeepers there are very stingy; sometimes they simply don't pay wages. For someone like me, who's not quite an adult, if I do the same job, they only pay half the money!"

"What about that kind of land? Why do you live here? There shouldn't be so many people in Xintai County that there's no land left to cultivate, right?"

Su Ran now fully understood that this person was not only not from this village, but not even from Xintai territory. She replied impatiently, "Of course it's because of wild animals."

Lin Fan was puzzled. "You're afraid to farm because of wild animals, but does hiding here mean there are no more wild animals?"

Su Ran shook her head. "No, actually it's because the county government said there were wild animals and it was unsafe to farm, so they took away our land and drove us here."

Lin Fan was furious upon hearing this and frowned, saying, "How can that be? Won't you starve to death if you lose your land? The county government wouldn't act so recklessly, would it?"

Su Ran seemed to have been given a chance to talk, and quickly explained, "The county government said that the imperial court gave us money to buy food, and told us to stay here in peace. They said that once the pests are eliminated, they will return the land to us."

"Have you given us our rations?" Lin Fan asked anxiously.

"They gave it to them, but I heard that the county government gave them silver, and the silver was given to the Li family."

Lin Fan's lips trembled slightly, "And then the Li family didn't give you any food rations?"

Su Ran looked around warily and nodded cautiously. "At first they did give us some grain, but later the officials started to provide work relief. Many of the able-bodied people in our villages went to work in other places. Each family would give one portion of grain for every person they sent."

Lin Fan's mind went blank for a moment. He grabbed Su Ran's shoulder and asked, "Has anyone gone to Bailin Village?"

Su Ran looked at Lin Fan with his big, dark eyes. His shoulder ached a little from Lin Fan's pressure, and an unease emanated from him. "Yes, my parents went there, saying they were going to raise mulberry trees and weave cloth. They haven't come back for several years. But now that Master Li is here again, no one is willing to go to other places. After all, those who went to other places before never came back, and no one knows if they are alive or dead. The masters of the Li family say we are lazy and unwilling to work, and they refuse to give us any more food because they won't give us any more opportunities."

As Su Ran spoke, her voice grew softer and softer, because her parents were among those who hadn't returned.

In Bailin Village, Lin Fan understood that all the laborers from other places who came to Lin Fugui's area were from this place, from raising mulberry trees and weaving cloth.

Lin Fan subconsciously avoided Su Ran's gaze, muttering to himself, "So that's how it is, so that's how it is. The wetland people are lazy and gluttonous, and the men are thieves and the women are prostitutes, so that's how it is."

Upon learning this, Lin Fan felt extremely depressed. He felt he would go crazy if he didn't do something. "Su Ran, how many people are left in your family?"

"And me, my sister, and my grandma."

Lin Fan pulled a silver ingot from his pocket and quickly stuffed it into Su Ran's arms. Then he said viciously, "Take this. Don't let anyone touch your sister. Consider it money I bought for her. Find her a good family when she grows up. Also, if you dare to tell anyone that I gave you money, I'll kill your whole family."

Su Ran was stunned. He couldn't even imagine how much taels of silver was in such a large piece, and it felt burning hot to the touch. Lin Fan sensed that the emotion in him wasn't greed, but fear.

Su Ran wanted to return the money, but Lin Fan's hands were like iron clamps, and his eyes were so cold they looked like he wanted to kill someone. Su Ran even felt that his words about killing his whole family were not an exaggeration at all.

Su Ran had no choice but to say, "Alright, sir, I understand. I will make my sister wait for you to come and marry her."

"What the hell? I've never even seen your sister, how am I supposed to marry an egg?"

After releasing Su Ran, Lin Fan fell silent again, listening to the low breathing of a man and a woman coming from the stilted house behind him. He knew he could never adapt to anything here.

Even after doing this, Lin Fan didn't feel much better. He felt that by doing so, he was just a sophisticated egoist, selfish, and self-satisfied saint.

How can I integrate into this world?

I really want to go home.

Boom boom boom!

A gong sounded, and Lin Fan immediately stood up alertly. "What's going on?"

Su Ran picked at the mud off her body, not caring at all, and tried to pull Lin Fan to sit down again, saying, "It's nothing, it's just that some pests have come."

Lin Fan had already drawn his black knife. "Isn't it dangerous here?"

"Danger? We've already been driven here. If it were still dangerous, what would we be doing here? Master, this is none of your business. Just wait patiently."

Caravan wagons.

Dr. Lei lay in the empty carriage. He usually felt it was too crowded and he couldn't sleep well, but today it felt too spacious.

I hope my dear brother is relaxing properly and doesn't have a mental breakdown before going back. People in that world live in the light, and I imagine he finds everything here very distasteful.

As soon as Dr. Lei lay down, his eyelids started to droop. Unfortunately, before he could fall asleep, a series of footsteps broke into his half-awake state.

A group of people dressed in black moved among the carriages. They had informed the caravan manager in advance, and the caravan ignored all warning measures, allowing them to rummage through the carriages.

The sleepy-eyed Doctor Lei was pulled up, and the man in black asked, "Who are you? Why are you in the caravan?"

Still half-asleep, Dr. Lei instinctively replied, "Doctor, follow the caravan."

Many caravans have accompanying doctors, so the man in black didn't suspect anything. The key was that this person didn't look like the target at all. The instructions from above were that, apart from the target, all other suspicious persons should be ignored.

The man in black stealthily pulled out a corner of a portrait from his clothes.

Dr. Lei's drowsiness was instantly dispelled; if it weren't so dark, even the man in black could see his wide-open eyes.

The portrait depicts Lin Fan, the young and handsome boy whom Dr. Lei first met.

Dr. Lei's heart nearly skipped a beat. Thank goodness, his younger brother wasn't here today. How did these people get his photo, and why are they looking for him?

"What? You know this person?" The man in black asked suspiciously when he saw Doctor Lei staring at the portrait for a long time.