"Alas, I have been hiding more and more things from my father and mother, I know about the cause of my third uncle's death, I have met a co-worker, and I hate Mr. Wen Ziming...... I'm going to be a bad boy. Brother Ruthless shook his head helplessly.

He ran aimlessly underground, and now he suddenly came to his senses, and found that he had come to a very close place to the ground, and he could see the tangled roots of trees underground, and some small animals busy in their burrows, and some insects sleeping in the dirt, and a few seeds trying to sprout.

Brother Ruthless put his hand into a rabbit hole, tapped the sleeping rabbit, and then watched the rabbits of the whole family rush to the ground in a panic, and couldn't help but "giggle".

"It's fun, just go up and have a look. "He scratched his head, maybe he could observe the humans, which would also help him learn spells. He made an excuse for himself, and slowly emerged from the ground, the clan rules did not allow children to go to the ground alone.

At this time, it is night on the ground, the moon is in the sky, the season is early spring, the green is full, and the air is filled with a fresh breath. Not far away there was a babbling stream, shining silver in the moonlight, and the stars were reflected in the stream. With a gentle breeze and a gust of waves, it was a truly charming night.

This is the third time that Brother Ruthless has come to the ground, of course he can't understand all this, he looks around stupidly, carefully distinguishing these things that have only been seen in books and pictures.

The surroundings are very peaceful, with trees, flowers, streams, the moon, stars, sky, ...... Not as noisy and chaotic as the previous two visits to the human town, the moon here is soft and clear, much better than the scorching sun.

The ground feels so good. He walked around the neighborhood and finally sat down under the tree, ha, the grass was soft to sit on, much more comfortable than the rocks and earth underground. It's not bad to come here to practice spells, to ensure that the clansmen can't find themselves, Brother Ruthless thought proudly.

The air was filled with an unfamiliar smell, and from time to time there were gusts of "wind" that could not appear under the earth blowing in his ears, and Brother Ruthless still remained calm while enjoying his leisure, in this environment that he did not know at all, he was careful to guard against possible dangers.

"Ahh......h

It let out another long cry and walked towards him. Brother Ruthless immediately bowed down and assumed an attacking posture.

"Ahh......h

"Stop!" a reproachful voice came from behind him, "the child nowadays is really, why would he bully a donkey for no reason!"

"Donkey? You say it's a donkey? I've eaten donkey meat, and I've seen the donkey in the painting, how can a donkey be so big! Isn't that an animal that looks like a rabbit?" Brother Ruthless desperately took his eyes off the animal in front of him, and looked in the direction where the voice came from, and he believed that the owner of the voice was lying to him.

"Hehe, it turned out to be the child of a tribe who lives underground. The owner of the voice laughed when he saw him clearly. He himself walked out from behind the tree and walked out into the moonlight, and Brother Ruthless also saw the man clearly.

This is an old human man, with a clear face, pale hair loosely tied into a bun, pinned with a wooden hairpin, a wisp of white beard, wearing a blue robe, and walking towards Brother Ruthless with a smile: "Child, are you going up to the ground for the first time?

"I don't know whose donkey is lost, let's go home. So saying, he went up to the donkey and stroked it, and the donkey barked meekly. The old man touched the donkey's head with his hand, and the donkey immediately nodded obediently, and walked slowly out of the woods in the direction he pointed. Brother Ruthless thinks that he used some kind of spell to allow the donkey to find a home on his own.

"Child, don't move!" the old man suddenly said to Brother Ruthless again, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Brother Ruthless, and a red light rushed in, touched Brother Ruthless's shoulder, and disappeared in an instant.

Brother Ruthless opened his mouth wide in surprise. Of course, he would not be "obedient" when a stranger used a spell on him, but this old human man did not give him a chance to "move" at all, and before he could react, the spell had already hit him.

Brother Ruthless hurriedly looked himself up and down, not knowing what the other party had done to him. He found a small insect on his shoulder, the eight-legged creature that had shrunk into a ball and died. Brother Ruthless's shoulders moved slightly, and he rolled into the grass underground.

"Spider?" Brother Ruthless still recognized the animal, and called its name accurately.

"That little thing is not the same as a donkey, it is poisonous," the old man told Brother Ruthless with a kind smile, "it is poisonous, it will not be fatal, but it will make the place where you are bitten red, swollen, itchy and painful for several days." ”

"Oh, I've read in books that some spiders are poisonous. After he knew that the old man had no ill will towards him, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge suppressed everything, and he was anxious to know more about the ground, "What kind of thing is it called, and what is the way to distinguish it?"

"Hehe," the old man stroked his beard and laughed, patted Brother Ruthless's shoulder and asked, "Little friend, do you want to come and have a drink with me?"

"Have a drink?" Brother Ruthless's brain automatically added the word "wine" after "drink a glass".

He had a rare opportunity to drink the fine wine on the ground, and the elder invited him, how could he, a descendant, refuse? He immediately found an excuse for himself to drink, and nodded with a smile.

The old man was originally on a lawn with flowers, under a flowering bauhinia tree, and a pot was placed on a big mountain stone, and he was drinking alone with the moon, so he saw the scene of the ruthless brother fighting the donkey.

He led Brother Ruthless over and made him sit on the stone. There is a small brass stove next to the stone, burning the scented wooden blocks. The ruthless brother looked at the wind stove greedily, wondering why this warm wine didn't taste at all?

The old man looked at the fire and asked the ruthless brother, "Child, what is your name?

"My name is Brother Ruthless, and I am the son of Emperor Zhuan. I...... Just walking, haha, walking. ”

The old man didn't seem to know the rule that the children of the ruthless tribe were not allowed to go to the ground without an adult, and of course he didn't understand what the embarrassed laughter of the ruthless brother meant, he just asked, "You rarely come to the ground, right?"

Brother Ruthless felt that he was laughing when he asked this, and he probably remembered how he was fighting against a donkey, so he said a little dejectedly: "This is the second time." ”

"Come on, you can drink. The old man did not continue to ask the subject, he lifted the small clay pot, filled a small cup not much bigger than the belly of his thumb with "wine", and stretched out his hand to the ruthless brother to make a gesture of invitation.

There was a light, plant-like smell in the air, and Brother Ruthless was not sure whether the smell was from the surrounding trees or from this glass of "wine", and his nose was not very good at distinguishing the smells on the ground, but if "wine" tasted like this, it would definitely not taste good, right? Brother Ruthless looked at this glass of wine, picked it up and poured it in.

"Woo!" Brother Ruthless's eyes suddenly burst out, and he froze there with that mouthful of "wine" in his mouth, he really couldn't swallow this kind of thing, but in front of the elders, he couldn't spit out the things in his mouth rudely, he tried to squeeze his mouth hard, and it took a long time to squeeze it into his stomach little by little.

He finally opened his mouth, and immediately shouted at the old man: "Senior, why are you giving me medicine?"

"Medicine?" this time it was the old man's turn to widen his eyes, "You haven't had tea, have you?"

"Tea?"

"This is a good tea that a friend just brought me, come and try another one. ”

Brother Ruthless shook his head vigorously, and said with a bitter face: "Don't drink it, it's too hard to drink." ”

"Hehehe," the old man no longer forced him, and poured himself a drink.

So this old and one young, next to a stream in the breezy mountain forest, a few cups of tea, the two sat without talking, and the artistic conception of this meeting was quite good.

Brother Ruthless gradually got used to the emptiness around him, in the air, between heaven and earth, the smell of grass and trees became more and more comfortable, and even the occasional wisp of floral fragrance that entered his nose was not so strange.

"Would you like another drink?" the old man poured tea for him again.

Brother Ruthless licked his lips, grabbed the teacup as if he had made up his mind, tilted his head, swallowed it in one gulp like drinking medicine, and then wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "How can human beings get used to drinking this kind of thing? I've read from books, human beings drink every day, right?"

"Drinking tea is not tasting tea," the old man poured it for him again, "Human beings drink tea every day, and tea tasting depends on the time, place, mood, and the other party." ”

"Eating and tasting a bite, the difference is ......" Brother Ruthless understood.

"Hahaha, you kid is so interesting," the old man laughed, and said as he tasted the tea in the cup shallowly, "you probably haven't learned to become a human yet, have you?"

"Huh, how do you know?"

"Hehe, kid, if you could become a human, maybe you wouldn't think like that. ”

"I ...... I can't learn that ......" Brother Ruthless didn't know why, but blurted out so. Maybe it was because he was in an unfamiliar environment, and the old man in front of him was so amiable, so Brother Ruthless couldn't help but feel close, so he immediately told him what he refused to tell his parents.

"You can't learn it, that's because you don't know what humans look like, right?"

"Of course I know, isn't it just a nose and two eyes, no tail and no hair......" Brother Ruthless immediately recited the human mantra he had written.

"Hahahaha, you kid ......" the old man leaned back with a smile. He finally stopped laughing, shook his head, and said, "Son, you can't just look at one thing from the outside." ”

"I just need to be human on the outside, not all I need to be human. Brother Ruthless pouted, he always thought that the creature with a gorgeous thick fur was the most beautiful.

"Child, do you know why a monster, a living being, must first learn to 'be' a person if he wants to achieve positive results?" the old man drank another cup of tea, looked at Brother Ruthless and asked, he especially emphasized that it was "doing" rather than "changing".

"I don't know," Brother Ruthless replied honestly, "I don't want to achieve positive results at all." ”

"As long as human beings are thoroughly understood, there is nothing that cannot be understood, experienced and accepted, and human beings are the most complex and elusive creatures in heaven and earth. ”

"Yes, according to this statement, not all human beings can achieve positive results. Brother Ruthless pouted unconvinced.

"Son, do you know everything about your people?"

"Of course!" said Brother Ruthless raised his voice.

The old man didn't say anything, he looked at him with a smile, and the ruthless brother became cramped and uneasy under his gaze, he scratched his head and thought for a while and said, "Now I'm still young, and when I grow up, I'll ......"