After being stunned in the rain for a long time, Zoe suddenly leaned towards the old man in the shed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The old man had just clearly seen that he had sold a woolen sweater, and his face was a little unbearable. But his stall is here, and it's not easy to run, so he simply sits in place.

"If you don't have money, you won't give your life."

Zoe was stunned: "What money?" ”

"Don't pretend, you must have come to me for the bet I just made. Anyway, I'll tell you, old man, I just don't have any money. The old man's face tensed.

That's when Zoe remembered that there was another bet. But he didn't have time to care about the thirty copper coins now, compared to the shock he had just sold a woolen sweater to the witch, the thirty copper coins were really nothing.

"Isn't it just thirty copper coins, I don't want it." Zoe continued leaning back towards the old man, "I just wanted to ask you something." ”

When he heard that Zoe didn't want the thirty copper coins, the old man's face softened a lot. Happy to let Zoe squeeze into his shed, he picked up his pipe again, and smoked it gracefully, and a curling white mist drifted through the shed.

"What's the matter?"

"Something about witches."

The old man's hand shook, the pipe deviated, and the burning tobacco fell out of the pipe and fell on the old man's bare thigh, causing the old man to cry out in pain. A minute later, he looked at his burned thigh, his face tangled.

"Why do you ask the witch?" The old man put on his pipe again.

"Because I just saw it."

The old man's hand shook again, and this time Zoe was quick and helped him hold on to his pipe, so as not to repeat the tragedy just now.

"You, you, you, did you see it?" The old man didn't care about the pipe anymore, and looked at Zoe with a look of horror, "Did you see the witch?" ”

"Uh, no, just kidding."

Zoe thought about it for a while, but decided not to tell him about the sale of a woolen sweater to a witch just now. Subconsciously, he felt that it would not do him any good to talk about it.

"Is it okay to make such jokes?" The old man gave Zoe an angry look, and was about to pick up his pipe again. But perhaps it was the words of Zoe that had cast a shadow on the old man the first two times, and he hesitated for a moment, but put away his pipe anyway.

"Why can't you open it?"

"Nonsense, where is this? The Aranthor Empire, the city of Cather! This is the realm of the church and the knights, how can you talk about the great rebellion of witches. There was no cigarette, and the old man had to smack his lips wistfully, reminiscing about the aroma of tobacco that had stayed in his mouth before.

"Is the witch really, that scary?"

Zoe recalls the little red-haired witch just now, and she really can't equate such a cute girl with the legendary horror being.

"Who knows, I've never seen a witch kill someone anyway." The old man thought for a moment and said, "But since the church has advertised it like that, it should be about eight or nine or ten." ”

"The legends of witches are all propagated by the church?"

"Then who else." The old man then smacked his lips, "I've heard that outside of the Aranthor Empire, witches are legal. Only in the Aranthor Empire are witches who should be sent to the gallows, I don't know the specifics, I've only heard. ”

"Are there any other empires besides the Aranthor Empire?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Maybe it was the sudden rainstorm that made the old man a little lonely, but at this moment, there was finally someone to talk to, and he was also a little excited, and told Zoe about what he had seen, "The continent where we are located is very big. The Aranthian Empire only occupied a small position in the southern part of the continent. ”

"Very small location."

"Well, the Duchy of Wilson in the center, the Great Forest of Ludwiel in the west, the United Nations of Chestan in the east, and the Extreme Cold Lands in the north." The old man said with a yearning expression, "This continent is really big. ”

Zoe was infected by the old man's last words. Growing up in that small village, he had never heard so many place names. In his eyes, the world was originally only the distance from the small village to Cather.

"Have you been to all of those places?" Zoe asked.

The old man's eyes suddenly fell a little lonely, and he reached out tremblingly, took out his pipe from his arms, and put it to his mouth. He took a hard breath, then exhaled softly, and the smoke turned into a white curtain in front of his eyes.

"I thought about it when I was younger." The old man whispered, "Who doesn't want to go to those places, when I was young a troubadour came to our town and told us that there was a wonderful world outside. That's when I made up my mind that I had to go outside. ”

"And you went?"

"Not really."

"Why?"

"That day I packed all my things, took my donkey, and walked to the entrance of the town."

"And then?"

"And then it came back again." The old man's cloudy eyes stared into Zoe's clear eyes, "Because I can't just go like this, I still have my fiancée, and my elderly parents, if I go like this, they'll be finished." ”

Zoe was silent.

"At that time, I thought, when I have sent my old parents away and settled my wife, then I will set off." The old man took his pipe and hammered it on his shoe, shaking the tobacco out of the pipe, "But by the time I had settled everything, I was too old to walk." ”

Zoe was touched by the old man's words. The lonely old man he looked at seemed to be able to understand his feeling of wanting to travel the world, but having a weak heart. He must be in pain, he has great dreams, but his body can't keep up.

Just when Zoe was sentimental, a sharp "Law enforcement team is coming!" It resounded through the streets.

The old man's face turned sideways, and he pushed Zoe away and put away the shed in the blink of an eye. Then he jumped on the donkey cart nimbly, slapped the donkey's buttocks fiercely, and the little black donkey rushed away into the rain curtain with a scream, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Zoe stared blankly at the scene in front of her, and the old man's sentence echoed in her ears: "I'm getting old, and I can't walk anymore." ”

Is this Nima unable to walk? It's going to be faster than anyone else.

Zoe looked like "I was deceived by the world", and she also drove her donkey cart, patted the little black donkey's buttocks, and ran away before the law enforcement team came to close the stall.

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