Fairy tales aren't just for children. - Lenin

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It's not Mu Yan bragging, against a creature like Lin Jing, he thinks he can rank in the top ten in the entire Luokan.

At the beginning, next door to the Morrowind Library was the Warcraft Research Institute, and the eldest sister named Lilian Yang of the Research Institute often came to the library to catch strong men in the name of lack of people, so Mu Yan, who stayed in the library every day, became her royal strong man.

Since Mu Yan is just an ordinary scholar, the task entrusted to him by the eldest sister is to take care of some relatively harmless magical beasts, among which Lin Jing is particularly typical.

This kind of race between intelligent creatures and demonic beasts, most of them are no more than half a meter tall, with a wooden body, local grass, occasional flowers on the top of the head, two black eyes are cute, and they are quite cute when they don't speak.

According to the research, the party also dug out a movie called "Guardians of the Galaxy" more than 60 years ago, pointing out that Lin Jing's design idea came from one of the superheroes in it, Groot, and this theme was also praised by the official.

But all those who thought of the creature as "kawaii" paid a terrible price for their ignorance – especially Mu Yan.

He still remembers that day, the sky was blue, the wind was a bit noisy, and as usual, he was captured by Lillian to the institute, this time his mission was to take care of a group of demonic beasts called Maple Leaf Forest Spirits.

It was the first time to see such a cute little creature hanging upside down on a tree, pretending to be a fruit that was about to ripen, occasionally opening his cute little eyes and looking at strangers timidly, Mu Yan felt that the whole person was healed, so he also made a special trip back to bring a book over, intending to enjoy a beautiful day quietly.

That's life, that's what he thought.

However, real life only began the moment Lilian closed the door.

This group of little ancestors, who are less than half a meter high, rushed down from the trees like hurdlers hearing the sound of the starting gun, jumping up and down around Mu Yan, pulling their hair and pulling their clothes, just like bear children seeing new toys as excited, especially when they were babbling and arguing, their voices were high and low, and they were young, like 100,000 sparrows flying in their ears.

Without paying attention, the book he brought was snatched away, and then in just three seconds, the parchment cover, a total of 366 pages, 167K total words, "The Collected Poems of Sawain" disappeared under his nose.

That day, Mu Yan fell into half blood for the first time in the safety zone, damaging a work clothes, a book, and countless brain cells.

Later, he learned that Lin Jing's agility is 15, but the strength, physique and intelligence are only 2, especially their IQ development, only to the level of 5-8 years old children, although they can grow up slowly through acquired learning, but considering their short life and not excellent learning ability, the most mature Lin Jing is close to adult thinking, so how to take care of the naughty Lin Jing has become a big problem.

For this reason, he specifically looked up relevant information - how to communicate with children. Then come to the conclusion that Lin Jing is mostly uncaring bear children, and all the pranks they do are to get your attention, like a group of mischievous race car drivers who bump into each other and play around without paying attention. So the best way to do this is to join the team perfectly, be the leader of the team and carry them along – even if it's in circles, as long as it piques their interest.

After some practice, Mu Yan finally mastered this skill of communicating with the bear child, which surprised Sister Lilian for a while, and also came up with the idea of inviting him to the research institute.

Now, it's time to pick up the old stuff.

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"Is it really okay for him to be like this?" Och's face was full of doubt.

"There will be no problem, trust him." Although Surya said this, she actually didn't know the bottom in her heart.

"It's just a mystery." Amacer snorted with his nose, although for some reason, he was still full of resentment towards humans, but when facing Mu Yan, he was no longer so confident.

Neither Tina nor Lucy, the other elf, spoke, but watched quietly.

In the courtyard surrounded by the wooden hut where the bears stored their honey, Mu Yan and Thorin were fiddling with some strange things.

The former first raised two earthen walls, and then used "planting" to attract a long gourd vine wrapped around the middle of the two walls, on which hung seven specially prepared hollow gourd scoops, dyed in seven colors in turn: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Thorin took on the form of a white-bearded old man, with a row of strange musical instruments in front of him.

"By the way, how did you know that I knew I would be Chalmers?" He asked curiously.

"I said it was Goddess Mia who told me, why don't you believe it?" Mu Yan replied while painting the gourd.

The Chalmers is a traditional dwarven instrument, similar to the chimes of the Celestial Empire, but with a smaller structure, which is convenient to carry and adapted to the size of the dwarves. Officially, it was an inspiration that the dwarves found in their long blacksmithing life, and it was usually used for ritual ceremonies, and the elders often improvised when telling stories to the children of the family.

Of course, the reason why he knew about Thorin's specialty was also because of that mission.

"Only by believing in you can you have ghosts."

Thorin no longer answered, anyway, as long as the problem was on Mia, he would have no way to deal with the other party.

"Are you ready? They should be coming soon. ”

"Then I'll have to try my hand." The dwarf moved his shoulders as he spoke, picked up two drumsticks, and remembered the melody that Grandma Dori had played when she was a child telling stories to herself, then relaxed, closed her eyes and began to beat.

A soothing and cheerful melody sounded, and the characteristic crisp sound of Chalmers was like the tinkling of spring water, and like a lark singing in the woods.

Mu Yan listened quietly, as if he had returned to the quiet and peaceful days when he stayed in the morning breeze......

It didn't take long for many naughty little heads to poke out of the windows of the wooden house, on the roof, behind the stone tables and stone benches on the ground around them, and even in the holes dug by the moles. A few of the brave men came over and gathered around the dwarf, listening quietly.

Mu Yan saw that the time was almost up, so he chose to speak when the melody was the weakest.

"It's time for storytelling, does anyone want to listen to it?"

He waved his wand, and the breeze blew, and seven brightly colored gourds swayed on the vines.

Many forest spirits were attracted to it, and a naughty guy reached out to pull the gourd down.

"Naughty little one, if you do this, everyone will have no story to hear." Mu Yan said softly, and at the same time looked at him complainingly.

The forest spirit looked at Mu Yan, then at the expectant eyes of his companions around him, and withdrew his hand stupidly.

"Thank you, little one."

Lin Jing looked at him in surprise, grimaced, and then rushed into the crowd.

"Our story is called 'Hulu Brothers', and it's about a group of magical elves.

"Once upon a time, there was a miraculous plant called 'the most obedient gourd vine in the world'. Why is it called that? Because this gourd vine can grow the most obedient gourd elves in the world.

"They were all Mia's children, and they slept quietly in the gourd.

"On this day, the first gourd ripened."

He pointed his wand at the red gourd, and with a flick of it, the red gourd opened a slit.

"Now which little actor will help me play the first gourd elf?"

The forest spirits who were originally staring at the red gourd and whispering suddenly quieted down, and they looked at Mu Yan vigilantly, and no one wanted to be the first to step forward.

The scene was very embarrassing for a while, but Mu Yan was not nervous at all, which was also the situation he expected.

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"Childish." Amacer squeezed a comment from between his teeth, completely forgetting how invested he had been listening.

Sulia sweated for Mu Yan.

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It didn't take long for the forest spirit from before jumping out.

"I remember you, little one." Mu Yan said with a smile.

Lin Jing winked at him, jumped up, then got into the gourd, broke a small slit and looked at him.

"On this day, the first gourd ripened."

He waved his wand, and the gourd opened again, and the forest spirit jumped down from it, landing gracefully.

At the same time, there was a cheerful melody from Thorin's side.

With the sound of the melody, the small flowers and grass around the forest spirit began to grow taller slowly, clustering around the forest spirit like a hero.

The first obedient gourd spirit was rewarded by the plants, and they gathered around him as if in celebration. In response to the celebration, he sang happily. ”

After speaking, Mu Yan looked at him with encouraging eyes.

Lin Jing hesitated slightly at first, but soon his desire to show his cowardice overcame his cowardice, and he hummed wildly along with the melody.

"Bah...... Babbling and babbling......"

At first, his voice was very small, but with the cooperation of Thorin, he sang more and more devotedly, his voice became louder and louder, and he sang a song, and finally excitedly made a posture of kneeling on one knee to bathe and cheer.

The surrounding forest spirits exploded, and they all cast envious glances at him while chattering.

……

With a "click", Amacer pinched off the branch in his hand. Tina's face was a little surprised, but she quickly regained her composure.

"Weak people can only use such opportunistic methods."

She thought to herself, holding a scroll in her hand silently.

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With the first person to eat the crab, the rest went smoothly, and there were even two forest spirits scuffling together over who came up to perform.

"A forest spirit who fights with his own hands can't become an obedient gourd elf."

As soon as Mu Yan's words came out, Lin Jing, who was scuffling together, suddenly separated and stood obediently, like a schoolboy who had made a mistake. One of them also quietly straightened the small flower on the other's head, and the other took advantage of the chaos to glue the fallen leaves on the ground for the other party.

"Very good, the forest spirit who knows how to apologize can become a gourd elf." Mu Yan smiled, and then used the "Mage's Hand" to hug the two little guys at the same time.

"The fourth and fifth gourd elves are a pair of good friends, and they have flowers on their heads and grass on their heads."

With a "bang", the green and blue gourds cracked, and the two people who had scuffled together just now fell to the ground, hugging and waving, as if to prove the concept of "good friends" in Mu Yan's words.

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"The last obedient gourd elf is the weakest and youngest of them all, he is not as lively and active as the other six brothers, he always stays in the most inconspicuous part of the crowd, silently watching others play and play......"

As Mu Yan described it, the melody gradually became lower, and the forest spirits focused their eyes on the shortest guy.

As Mu Yan described, he stayed in the most inconspicuous place, silently watching others play and play.

All because he only had one leg, he was a deformed child, he could only jump and jump when he walked, and he was born extremely thin.

Mu Yan stood up and walked over slowly, and the forest spirits along the way made way for him.

He picked up the little guy, but the other man didn't seem to appreciate it, kept struggling, and spat on him.

Saliva floated two centimeters away from him and stopped—the passive of "Casting Spells without a Wand" was mastered by him at level 20.

Then Mu Yan grimaced at the little guy.

"Slightly—"

The saliva flew straight back.

"Babble!!" The little one seemed angry, but his companions laughed.

Mu Yan walked to the last purple gourd with him in his hand, picked off the smallest gourd and handed it to him.

"The last gourd elf is the child chosen by Miya, and Miya wants to tell him that as long as he is a good and obedient boy, there will definitely be unexpected gifts."

It's a pity that the "cultivation technique" is only known to the grower (life occupation) and Gu De, otherwise he would have been able to heal this little guy's leg, he thought regretfully.

After being placed on the ground, the little guy holding the purple gourd of just the right size looked sluggish, and he looked at Mu Yan in a daze, not understanding why the other party did this. But this did not prevent him from treating the gourd in his hand as a treasure.

At this point, the seven most obedient gourd elves were born! They lined up, singing, and against the backdrop of flowers and green grass, they praised Mother Mia loudly—"

The melody reached its climax at this moment, Mu Yan released the "Birth Technique" with all his might, and a vibrant spring scene appeared in the small courtyard shrouded in winter.

The forest spirits surrounded the seven lucky friends among the flowers, as if celebrating the birth of the seven heroes.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mu Yan asked the village chief of Aoqi if he could borrow him some honey with his mouth, and the latter nodded and agreed. So he crept to the door of the wooden house where the honey was stored, took the five jars of honey, and then went back to the yard again.

Mia's mother was so happy to hear the children's praise that she decided to give them food for the winter!

"That's—sweet honey!"

He waved his wand, and the five pots of honey were lined up one after another, and the forest spirits jumped up and down excitedly, holding hands around the honey pots and babbling and singing unknown songs.

It's like this when the bear kids come crazy, as long as you stir up the atmosphere, they are happier than anyone else.

This cheering lasted for about a few minutes, and Mu Yan looked at the gradually darkening sky in the distance, signaling that Thorin's music could slow down.

Then in the gradually softening melody, Mu Yan spoke again.

"The good day is coming to an end, and night is about to fall, and the obedient gourd elves take their rations and return to their lodgings. They would stay at home all winter, singing the songs they had learned today, tasting sweet honey, praising Mother Mia loudly, and looking forward to the next spring.

"At that time, everyone was an obedient gourd elf.

"This is the story of the gourd elf."

Lin elves, you look at me, I look at you, and finally look at the sky in the distance, obediently lift the honeypot and run in the direction of home. The rest of the little guys who had nothing to do turned around and waved desperately at Mu Yan, babbling as if saying goodbye.

Mu Yan also smiled and waved at them.

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Amacer looked at the interaction between Mu Yan and Lin Jing with a complicated expression, and he was about to say something, when he suddenly felt a wave of magic fluctuation - although it was faint, it could not escape the elf's innate keen perception.

He hurriedly turned his head.

"Tina, you ......"

He looked in horror at the elf he had decided to protect for the rest of his life, and the other party was actually preparing to use magic secretly, and the scroll was quietly torn in half.

"Shhhh

Tina motioned for him to be quiet.

In order not to attract Surya's attention, she carried out the operation in stealth, and if it weren't for the elves' natural sensitivity to the elements, Amacer would not have been able to detect her.

"This guy is quite capable, but Lin Jing is afraid of fire, as long as they riot, what beautiful fairy tales, what obedient gourd elves, no longer exist."

Tina sneered, "We had the patience to listen to him finish such a childish story, really—"

However, before she could finish speaking, a silver light flashed, and the scroll in her hand fell in two and fell to the ground.