Ding Yun's wisp of spiritual energy stayed with the two brothers for nearly twelve hours, but she didn't glean much information. She only learned that their former village was called Datian Village, everyone in the village was surnamed Tian, and they were mostly self-sufficient farmers. The clan forces were relatively united, and the land in the entire Datian Village was mostly used for farming.
This allowed them to barely keep their respective lands.
It prevented them from being annexed.
However, even so, their village eventually could not afford to form a defense team, or build a castle to defend against enemies. This gave the nearby bandits an opportunity. They poisoned the village's only sweet water well with laxatives, rendering all the villagers, young and old, unable to resist. The village was then brutally slaughtered.
All the families' stored grain and silver were looted.
Even the village was burned to the ground.
The two children, Tian Dashuan and Tian Xiao'er, were primarily saved because their home was at the foot of the mountain, and their parents had dug the cellar deep and far, extending all the way into the mountain. There was also a ventilation shaft, which ultimately saved their lives, preventing them from suffocating or burning to death in the smoke and fire.
After the fire in the village was extinguished, they only dared to drag their parents' corpses into the mountains to bury them, and then hid in the mountains. They took refuge in a cave where their father used to hunt, and they continued to live in the cave.
When they were hungry, they tried to hunt as much as possible, or dig for wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, and so on. However, the two children's abilities were limited, and they had to worry about their next meal. Coupled with the gradually cold weather, the number of wild vegetables and fruits constantly decreased, and they naturally became thinner and thinner, even on the verge of death. Just when they were about to starve to death, Tian Dashuan suddenly disappeared while leaving the cave and entered the world Ding Yun was currently in. He cautiously dug out some rotten vegetable leaves from a trash can to satisfy his hunger.
Ding Yun only understood this much information. As for any further information, or information on a larger scale.
Let alone whether these two children would discuss it.
It was a question of whether they even knew.
This amount of information was too little, and Ding Yun was unwilling to return just like that. So, she quickly left a mark on these two children and then manipulated her wisp of spiritual energy to quickly scout for information in the most populated areas nearby to gain more knowledge.
...
Meanwhile, in the hospital ward.
Niu Zhu wolfed down three normal meals' worth of food. For the first time, he felt full and then began to have a deeper understanding of his current predicament.
And he started to consider what to do next based on the information he had.
How could he stay here.
That's right, although the language in their world had some differences from the language here, the differences were not so significant as to be completely incomprehensible. At most, it would be a little difficult to distinguish.
The accent was heavy, with a special intonation.
There were also some dialect slang mixed in.
Niu Zhu had deliberately only spoken in dialect slang before, which made the public security personnel think he was not a local, or even not from this country. Da Feng Novel Network.
He didn't know where he had arrived, whether he had been kidnapped, or what had happened. He also didn't know if it was safe or dangerous here, so he could only pretend to be foolish to ensure his safety as much as possible.
After understanding his current situation.
Then he could make other plans.
And now, Niu Zhu had a very clear understanding that he had arrived in a place that was like a prosperous era.
It was peaceful, safe, and orderly here.
Resources were abundant, and the people were healthy and happy.
Even in this place clearly meant for treating patients, he hadn't seen anyone as sallow and thin, or as raggedly clothed as himself. If he could settle down here, it would undoubtedly be excellent, so Niu Zhu quickly made up his mind.
He would pretend to have amnesia, as the doctor suggested.
Although he had never experienced amnesia, he had heard of soul loss, so pretending to have it shouldn't be difficult.
Therefore, when the language experts and psychologists came to cooperate in questioning him, Niu Zhu appropriately put on an act. For example, when speaking, although he still mixed in dialect slang, he also spoke some official language that was closer to the local Mandarin, so that the linguists could understand a part of it, so as not to be completely unable to communicate.
As for pretending to have amnesia, it was even simpler. He just said he didn't know, he didn't remember, and if asked further, he would get a headache. No one had dared to guarantee that they fully understood problems related to the brain. Although the psychologist felt he might be hiding something, she was too lazy to waste her time on it. Moreover, his unfamiliarity with many things was not feigned.
Therefore, he smoothly got past this aspect as well.
Everyone's conclusion was that this person likely came from a remote, or even isolated village. Why he ran out, whether he had amnesia originally, or if he lost his memory after being hit by a car, was hard to say. Furthermore, this person was an unregistered resident, and no household registration could be found.
How to register him was also a problem.
However, Niu Zhu didn't need to worry about these things, and the public security bureau didn't need to worry either. They directly submitted the relevant situation to the civil affairs management department to handle it.
...
At this time, Ding Yun's family remained largely unchanged compared to a few days ago. Her parents still went to work as usual. Jin Cuihua felt that she had been paid half a month's salary in advance, and even though she had submitted her resignation, she had to work for another half month to receive her full salary.
Even if she had money now, she couldn't waste it.
So, she intended to follow the resignation procedure.
Work for another half month.
Ding Hai was currently halfway through renovating a house for a friend's introduction. It wouldn't be good to abandon the job now, so he also intended to finish this job first.
And Ding Xiang didn't even know about this yet.
So, their family was no different from usual: those who worked went to work, those who studied went to school. Only Ding Yun was idle at home, cleaning and cooking. This time, Ding Yun had notified her father in advance, telling him not to buy any more preserved food and just come home empty-handed.
Everything else basically went on as usual.
Until the evening, when Ding Xiang returned.
As soon as he came back, he asked with a troubled expression:
"Mom, Sis, have we had any disasters nearby, or any refugees? Today, Xiao Xi and I talked about those two children in class, and several classmates said that near their homes, there seemed to be similar people appearing, but they didn't pay much attention. Then we inquired in other classes, and it seems that in other districts, one or two people who looked very thin, ragged, and pitiful have appeared more or less.
Didn't the news report any disasters nearby?
Could it be that people can still conceal disaster situations in this era?"