Yin Meng retorted, "Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?"
Jiayi hastily waved her hand and said, "I rarely come back."
"That's the village guardian, almost every village has someone like this."
In the past, due to parents not caring enough and poor medical conditions, it was common to see people with mental issues in the village.
As they aged, with family members either passing away or growing old, these people gradually lost those who took care of them, and many were abandoned and left to wander early on.
Village guardian is a term with good wishes, though it is true there are extraordinary gifted ones where the line between genius and fool is blurred, but most are really just fools.
This term, along with the mythologized roles attributed to them, is a tacit agreement tying them to their village.
