Chapter 175: The Night (1)
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The river meanders along the North Plain.
At the end of the Luobei Plain, there is a natural barrier. A green peak stood as if it had come from the sky, standing on the vast plain as far as the eye could see.
Qingfeng stood for 10,000 years, and later had a name.
Its name is Liangshan.
There is a small village at the foot of Liangshan Mountain.
The village is not big, and it only takes an hour to walk back and forth from the east to the west, and then from the south to the north.
At the head of the village, there are three apricot trees planted in an unknown year, and there is an abandoned stone millstone disc under the tree.
At this time, a young man in a single coat sat on the stone grinding plate.
The boy was no more than eight or nine years old, and the cuffs of his trousers were pulled up, revealing a calf and arm. He was a little thin, so his clothes looked a little empty, and with the cuffs of his trousers rolled up, he looked like a child stealing the clothes of an adult.
In fact, the teenager is indeed a child.
At this time, he was sitting quietly on the stone grinding plate, his legs hanging quietly in the air, not moving.
The sunlight shone down through the shade of the trees, and fell on the young man's dirty face, as if solidified, and it did not move at all.
"Behold, the fool is in a daze again!"
A child holding a sour apricot hanging on a tree and pointing to the child under the stone millstone.
"What's there to see. Fools are in a daze every day!"
As he spoke, a hairy head sprang out of the verdant foliage. This is the child of a group of children, Wang Liuzi, he is about eleven or twelve years old, and his lips are a little thick. As he spoke, his thick lips flew up and down, and after a while, he picked up a round mouth. A clean apricot kernel flew out of the round mouth and rolled down the trunk with a snap.
"What does he have in his hand and why does he keep staring?"
The little third son hanging on the tree changed one hand, most of his body was swinging in the air, he covered his eyes with one hand, and looked at the child on the stone grinding plate not far away and asked.
"Who knows, what can a fool see? Don't it be an ant on a tree that has fallen, he looks stupid when he looks at itβ"
The mud monkey lay on the tree nonchalantly.
"Hahaha~"
Listening to the mud monkey's explanation, all the children found it interesting and couldn't help laughing.
The boy was still sitting on a stone millstone in the shade of a tree, staring motionless at his palm.
His palms were covered in mud and he didn't know what he was looking at.
After playing around for a while, the sun gradually grew up.
When the children had enough of eating and making enough fuss, they jumped down from under the tree.
The three apricot trees are all very large, one in the east and one in the west, one in the north. The apricot tree in the east bears the sweetest, the one in the west bears the largest but ripens late, and the one in the north is close to the village, I don't know if the roots have been crushed by the stone millstone, and it does not bloom and does not bear fruit every year, but it is just a long leaf that rubs and rubs.
"Fool, you're waiting for your mother here again!"
Liuzi said, moved his mouth quickly several times, then took a breath, pursed his mouth, and poofed, and spit the apricot kernel towards the mud in front of him.
The child sitting under the stone mill did not answer, still staring at his palm in a daze.
"Hey, fool, talk to you!"
The mud monkey had the hottest temper, and when he saw that the child was blindly sitting stupidly and ignoring people, he couldn't help but raise his voice and shout.
Only then did the child react and look at the person in front of him with dull eyes.
"Hey, forget it, I'm talking to you idiot. Is. Don't wait, your mother won't come back to pick you up. β
The mud monkey was looked at by the dull gaze, and suddenly the fire in his heart disappeared, he pouted, and walked over boringly.
"My mother will come and pick me up. β
After a long time, I heard a low response.
But by this time, the group of children had already walked away laughing.
On the second day, the child was still sitting motionless on the stone grinding plate early.
At the hottest time in the afternoon, yesterday's group of children swept through the entrance of the village like a gust of wind, shirtless, and ran to swim in the river.
As the sun began to set in the west, the children came back laughing and laughing, and there were still undried droplets on their honey-colored skin.
Liuzi skewered a string of fresh fish in his hand, and at this moment, the fish was still full of vitality and flicked its tail.
The clouds of laughter drifted away again.
Night is falling.
After waiting for a day, the child finally drooped his head in discouragement and slowly walked towards the village.
As the child's figure disappeared, the inky night engulfed the entire village.
On the third day, the stone mill was empty.
A group of monkeys frolicked in the trees, pinching and nibbling two bites of sour apricots to attack each other, and soon, the whole apricot tree was boiling.
Laughter and scolding came from between the shaking branches and leaves.
Xiao Sanzi inadvertently glanced at the apricot tree to the north, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Look, that fool didn't come today!"
"If you don't come, you won't come. What's so strange!"
The mud monkey deftly climbed on the branch and threw a sour apricot at Liuzi, not caring at all.
The six sons rolled over and dodged, and their shining eyes peeked out from among the branches to look under the tree.
"Nothing will happen. That fool doesn't wait under that tree every day. β
Suddenly, the noisy tide receded, revealing a silent sandy beach.
"Otherwise, let's go check it out. β
Xiao Sanzi hesitated to suggest.
In a few moments, three shadows slipped down from between the swaying leaves.
Before he could get under the stone millstone, he saw a thin and empty figure slowly walking from the village.
Several of the children stopped at once.
"Hey! It's okay, I'm worried!"
The mud monkey pursed his lips and snorted, ready to walk back. But when he raised his foot and was about to fall, he couldn't help but pause when he saw that his two companions had not left.
"What's wrong?"
The mud monkey asked.
"Brother Monkey, let's take a look again, the fool shouldn't be sick, right?
Little Sanzi said.
Although the mud monkey was too happy, he didn't say anything against it, clasped his hands, and looked at the people who were about to approach.
"Are you alright?"
Rokuko asked, looking at the obviously weak young man in front of him.
The young man did not answer, as if he had not seen the crowd, walked over by himself, wiped the stone with the placket of his clothes, faced the main road at the entrance of the village, and sat down.
"Are you alright?"
Xiao Sanzi walked closer and asked again.
The boy still did not answer, and sat quietly as usual.
"Hey, fool! What's the matter with you! We kindly asked you what you mean by shutting up and pretending to be dumb!"
At this time, the mud monkey who had been standing in the distance couldn't stand it, shook his hands on his chest, and pointed at the young man angrily.
The boy remained silent.
"Let's go. The sixth son glanced at the boy and beckoned the two companions to leave. Since there is nothing to do, and people don't want to pay attention to them, why bother to ask for suspicion.
Xiao Sanzi looked at the fiery mud monkey and stretched out his hand, ready to drag him away.
"Don't pull me, I'm going to teach you how to be a fool today!"
The mud monkey was angry, shook off the hand of the little third son to stop him, and went over to push the boy.
Who knows, with such a gentle push, the boy fell like a reed.