There is an old saying in villages and towns - every village has a village guard. He was a congenitally idiot who wandered around the entrance to the village all day long, trying to ward off disasters for the whole village. If you prevent a disaster, you will lose a year of your life. This fool can't live without the village, and he will go crazy if he does. The village can't live without him, and without him, the whole village will have to bear the accumulated disasters.
