Chapter 14: Bedtime Stories
"Okay, bedtime story."
Li Tong now finally knows the hard work of being a parent, scratched his forehead, thinking about what to tell, I don't know what kind of stories children like, it is better to pick a story from a previous life Hans Christian Andersen or Grimm's fairy tales to deal with, and choose the most classic Little Red Riding Hood.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he grimaced.
"There was a little girl, she was kind and lovely, and she liked to wear a red velvet hat given to her by her grandmother, so people affectionately called her Little Red Riding Hood......"
At the end of the story, the children became even more excited, eagerly asking about the rest of the story.
"Only the sleeping good child can hear the story."
The children immediately closed their eyes.
Coming out of the bedroom, Li Tong breathed a long sigh of relief, a little headache, not knowing that these children had to be taken care of for a few days.
There was a strange sound of yin and yang beside the stove.
"Your level of storytelling is ...... Pleasure. ”
In terms of tone, it was not a compliment, Li Tong casually picked up the knife on the cabinet and shook it gently, smiling playfully.
Benjamin immediately jumped to the window and quickly changed his tune.
"Well, I'm complimenting you, I swear."
It's just a joke, of course, and now being able to understand animals can always feel like killing their own kind, which is uncomfortable.
He put the knife back down, sat down by the fire, reached out and flicked the firewood, and by the way, turned the clothes hanging above the stove to avoid ignition.
"Benjamin, do you know what animals can be seen now?"
Benjamin was sure that there was no danger before jumping off the windowsill, jumping onto the desk and crouching, keeping eye level with the seated young man, wagging his tail and being silent for a moment.
"Any animal?"
"Of course"
"Of course there is a way if you don't care about the type of animal."
Li Tong became excited and stared at the little guy on the table.
"Now find one for me."
Benjamin leisurely licked his paws and rubbed his head, the animal had previously been washed by a cat.
"What's in it for me?"
I even negotiated terms with myself...... However, it is more important to confirm your abilities.
Li Tong thought for a moment.
"That way, there's a portion of beef for breakfast every day."
Benjamin was obviously not stupid, licked his paws, and his eyeballs enlarged a lot.
"How much is a serving?"
This guy actually kicked his nose in the face, and bargained with himself, and he didn't want to think about whether he had the ability to bargain, so he had to teach him a lesson.
The corners of Li Tong's mouth rose.
"Or turn you into a piece of meat on the dinner table this afternoon?"
Benjamin stopped licking his paws, wagged his tail, made a "meow" sound, jumped to the ground, and stepped on the cat to the door.
"Open the door."
Opening the door and watching Benjamin leave the snow, Li Tong returned to the table and recalled what had happened in the snow before.
"It stands to reason that I have already awakened, so I should be able to understand what Benjamin is saying the first time I see this cat, but the reality is that I didn't realize what was going on until there was no one in the snow."
Thinking back to the situation carefully, when I said "Ronin Austin", superpowers appeared.
"Do you have to say your name in this world?"
After thinking about it for a while, Li Tong decided to use this name, and in the future, he will no longer be Li Tong, but Ronin Austin, and it is time to accept the new identity, regardless of whether the matter in front of him is related to his name.
Add some firewood to the stove to keep the house warm and prevent the sleeping children from catching a cold.
Then he got up and walked to the shelves to check the pill bottles, and since he had accepted the new name, he had to accept his career as well, that he was a witch doctor.
I opened the bottle and smelled it, most of them were some chemical agents, including alcohol, gasoline, white phosphorus, mercury, and water made from plants, and there were still some plant residues in it.
When I was about to close the cabinet, I suddenly found that there seemed to be a secret door on the inner wall of the cabinet.
"What's going to be here?"
After hesitating, he stretched out his hand to open the secret door, and after seeing the things inside, Luo Ning's heart almost jumped out.
A transparent bottle the size of a winter melon, filled with a transparent liquid with a yellowish color, and a ...... in the liquid Infant corpse ...... The corpse was perfectly preserved, almost intact, as if it were alive, and the liquid inside must have been formalin.
After swallowing two mouthfuls of saliva, Luo Ning quickly closed the secret door, and then closed all the outer doors of the cabinet, leaning against the cabinet, feeling a little difficult to breathe.
"Witch doctors are really perverts."
Luo Ning was about to cry......
There was a slight knock on the door, and someone was coming.
I couldn't let others know, so I quickly adjusted my mentality, pretended to be calm, went to the door and straightened my hair, and then opened the door.
Benjamin jumped in.
"So fast?"
Luo Ning breathed a long sigh of relief, closed the door and turned around to find that Benjamin had a large mouse full of twenty centimeters in his mouth.
Jumping on the desk to loosen his mouth, Benjamin crouched next to him and licked his mouth.
"Here's what you wanted."
Should have thought of it a long time ago...... Cats and mice are the best at catching mice, and it should be this thing that he brings, and he is not particularly disgusted with mice.
Walking to the table and looking at the big mouse lying motionless on the table, Luo Ning was a little helpless.
"I want living things that can communicate, dead things can't speak."
"Don't worry."
Benjamin tilted his head, then stretched out his paw and fiddled with it a few times, then stepped back to the other end of the desk, curled up in a ball, and stared at the motionless mouse.
Sure enough, after keeping his distance, the big rat immediately got up and tried to escape.
Benjamin quickly jumped up and hugged him with both paws, and re-held it in his mouth, and then the big mouse lost its movement again.
"The rat's ability to pretend to be dead is really good."
Ronin motioned for Benjamin to back down and lie down at his desk and look at the big mouse.
"Don't be afraid, as long as you answer my questions seriously, I can let you live."
After waiting for the big mouse that was originally pretending to be dead, he slowly got up, and his body couldn't help but tremble, revealing a pitiful look.
"Please spare me, your loss of bread here has nothing to do with me, I swear."
Ronin was ecstatic, now completely certain that it was not Benjamin who could speak, but that he was indeed able to understand the language of animals.
Should learn something about this world from these guys, anyway, they won't doubt their identity like people, Luo Ning thought for a moment and cleared his throat.
"How much do you know about Crowtown?"
"I know everything here, such as Wazon having an affair with Mrs. David, they secretly go on a date at the saltwater river outside town almost every week, and Yennifo always likes to hide his money under the third floor of the door, and I'm willing to tell you anything if you let me go."
In order to prove that he really knew a lot about the things in the town, the big rat said a lot like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, and turned his nose to sniff Benjamin, who was staring at him not far away.