Chapter 9: The Little Dumb

I was taken aback by the sudden voice, for the source of the native language was neither bald nor dumb like a hook, and I could even conclude that it was not the voice of anyone I knew well.

The constant invasion of moisture from the nearby waterhole accumulated in the dense forest, forming a shallow cloud mixed with the dark night, so that I could not see anything in the direction of the sound, but the sound was objective, and I heard it very clearly!

"Who are you?" As soon as the words came out, I realized that I was bare-handed, and I didn't even have a guy around me who could copy it in my hand, so I immediately pulled up a short tree root on the ground to fill it;

But before I could stand up, there was another "help me" in the darkness;

The sky was a fierce black, almost a desperate color, and the dense canopy of trees overhead made the world devoid of moonlight and starlight, as if it were covered by a black cloth.

I tentatively took two steps forward, but the center of gravity never left my right leg, as long as the situation was not right, Lao Tzu would throw out the guy in his hand and run away!

But when I had gone five or six paces further, I still found nothing in the darkness, not even half a figure;

"Who's there?" My legs trembled a little, and I asked again about the source of the voice.

But this time no one answered;

I was so nervous that I casually flicked the roots of the tree in my hand around the darkness, I cursed the strange creatures of humans, we did not have the almost blind sight of lizards, nor the astute sense of smell of dogs hundreds of meters away, we did not even have the perception of ancient creatures like bats, but we ruled the world, thanks to our cooperation;

But now, within a radius of dozens of meters from Lao Tzu, who am I looking for to cooperate? In this environment, for human beings, it is waiting for death;

"Bald... Tiger girl...", I shouted around with my neck pulled, my voice trembling slightly;

"Help me~", the miscellaneous voice was loud again, and from the direction, it seemed to be a different angle!

I hurriedly struck the short tree roots twice in the direction of the sound, but touched nothing but a few sharp leaves of the bush;

This grandson must not be a good one! If the other party really suffered a catastrophe and fell to the point of shouting for help, how could he change his direction in such a short period of time? And, most importantly, listening to that voice, it felt like the other person was circling me!

But then I thought, could it be that the person we were chasing just now was seriously injured... But it doesn't dare to show up now, afraid that I will do something to it?

While thinking, I asked: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, I know Chinese, 日本語もわかる, Não sabe português, Also understand English, Auch Deutsch";

In desperation, I threw all the languages I could speak, could speak, almost forgotten and forgotten, whether Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, English or German, to the other party, and if he was really a modern man as I judged, and had fallen here with my fate, how could he find a recognizable language or two to communicate with me;

But... After a long time, the other party didn't make a sound, which made me feel like a fool being teased. But Lao Tzu can't recall how to say "I know Korean" in Korean!

I took a few more steps forward: "Are you a human or a ghost?" If you are a person, you will come out, and I swear to Lao Tan that I will never hurt you! It's a ghost..."

Before I could finish speaking, the short tree root in my hand suddenly hit something in front of me, and it flew away with a snap, and my wrist was in pain as if it were out of place with the violent vibration of my hand.

In terms of strength, I may have hit a giant tree, but I didn't dare to take two more steps forward to see what was going on, just when I wanted to turn around and run for my life:

"Little mute?";

The voice came again, this time, the other party changed the word, but to my ears, it was like falling into a thousand-meter ice cave in an instant, and the whole person was frozen in an instant;

Because the language of these three voices... It's Chinese!

This should have surprised me enough, but compared to the other thing, this surprise seemed insignificant, because the three words "little dumb" happened to be my milk name;

It was an accident for my father when my mother gave birth to me, as I said eight years ago, that time has passed so long, and many memories have blurred, but there is one thing I have never mentioned, because it is not so expressive to me.

I guess it wasn't until I was in elementary school... No, it should be a nursery school like a military compound, yes, it's a nursery school, because I didn't know Lao Tan at that time! If I get into school... On the first day of school, he, a big man a few years older than me, was already standing by my side and became my personal bodyguard;

So, it must be the tail time of the nursery, it should be the age of four or five years old; I've been born until this time, and I still haven't been able to speak!

I don't know why, my parents even took me to visit famous doctors all over the city, all kinds of films, all kinds of medicine, but the doctor said that my vocal cords are fine, and the pituitary gland and language tissue nerves are also intact... There was even a time when the old antique in my family scolded the "veterinarian" and smashed the office of a hospital, and was later dragged out by my mother and my sister in a dead rage.

To be honest, my own dad can't get out of tune! As soon as his own son was poked in the throat and in the eyes by the doctor and pressed on the bed for a while, he said that he was a veterinarian!

So, when I was more than four years old, I couldn't speak, and I became a big heart disease in the family, and my father and mother even gave up the treatment for me altogether, but my mother said to me with tears in her eyes every day: "It's okay, if you're dumb, you're dumb, and your mother doesn't dislike it";

I don't remember much at that time, but my mother remembers this sentence to me vividly, because the old man has been saying this sentence to me all day long, and he has said it too many times... It's hard not to remember;

But in a place like the military compound, who and everyone is looking down and not looking up, this little bad thing in our family can easily become the talk of every family after tea and dinner;

So, even if my nickname of "little mute" is honest, over time, even my unreliable father actually calls me that! This nickname became my nickname;

The only one who never called me that was my grandmother Ge Linqing, who would accompany her to and from the nursery every day, and when the neighbors called me that, she would always crouch down and look at me and say, "I know you can speak, but it's still early, child, don't worry, everything will be fine";

Afterwards, as my grandmother expected, Lao Tzu could speak! Before going to elementary school, Lao Tzu was already able to stand at the gate of the compound to see who and who to recite "Goose Goose Goose Goose Neck Song to the Sky"!

It didn't take long for Lao Tzu to go door to door, and those who called me a little mute when he saw the heavens scolded the street at their windows!

My father said afterwards, "If you know that I am like this, it is better to be dumb for the rest of my life!" ”;

All of this was supposed to be buried deep in my heart as something I didn't want to remember, so I treated the really dumb guy on the gentle slope differently, and regarded him as my confidant and my entourage!

But now, just a few meters behind me, someone called out the name of the breast that I had almost forgotten again! It's still Chinese!

Who the hell is this?