Chapter 10: The Stone Gate
Old man Zheng's personality is very similar to the old man, it is the kind of character that belongs to an old child, if it weren't for this, he would not have promised the villagers to go down and have a look.
In the final analysis, it was all his curiosity that was to blame.
"The clothes those villains are wearing are all sackcloth, I don't know what material it is, it looks like linen." Old man Zheng sighed: "When they saw me, they didn't feel scared, but crowded to the door and studied me like a giant panda." ”
"Do they talk?" Chen Qiuyan asked cautiously.
"No, it won't." Old man Zheng said with certainty: "They can only roar, which is very similar to the roar of our living people." ”
"What about the two villains?" Chen Qiuyan asked again, her face full of curiosity: "Could it be that I learned it from you?" ”
Old man Zheng snorted and said, they couldn't speak at first, they could only roar, and they had learned it slowly in recent years.
"I have to say, their brains are not stupid, and they learn to speak very fast!" Old man Zheng suddenly laughed, and that kind of relieved expression was quite a sense of hoping that his son would eventually become a dragon.
As soon as the words fell, the expression on Old Man Zheng's face froze very abruptly, shook his head, and continued to tell the story.
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The seven villains who came out from behind the stone gate were not afraid of Old Man Zheng at all, but seemed very curious, and studied around him for a long time.
As for Old Man Zheng, he didn't dare to make a noise, for fear of scaring away these little guys, so he stood still patiently, not even daring to speak, only daring to observe them carefully.
After about ten minutes, the villagers who helped him pull the safety rope at the wellhead also wondered, thinking that this old guy didn't come up for a long time, could it be an accident?
"Lao Zheng!! You're all right?! ”
"It's fine!" Old man Zheng replied loudly: "I'm safe!" ”
"Did you find that door?" The villager asked again, his tone full of curiosity.
"Found it!" Old man Zheng didn't hesitate, and shouted excitedly: "I saw those villains!" ”
Upon hearing this, the villagers gathered at the mouth of the well were stunned.
At first, they all thought that Old Man Zheng would not find anything when he went down, at most he would find the legendary stone door, as for the villain...... How could such a thing exist?
But now the news that Old Man Zheng brought them was that they had found those villains, which made them a little surprised, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
"Did you really see the villain?"
"Really! I'll show you! ”
As he spoke, Old Man Zheng squatted down and stretched out his palms to those villains in a friendly manner, motioning for them to stand up.
To say that the seven villains had no brains, they climbed up along Old Man Zheng's hand, but they were not stable enough, so they deliberately grabbed Old Man Zheng's cuffs.......
When he returned to the ground with these villains, the village had already exploded, and no matter whether it was a ten-year-old man or a two- or three-year-old child, they all rushed to the wellhead to see the excitement.
At that time, the people in the village were quite friendly, and they were very kind to greet the little people, and they fed them cooked rice.
God knows how hard these villains live in the underground, as soon as they eat the cooked white rice, they are instantly shocked, and they eat directly to death like a starving ghost reincarnated.
The friendliness of the villagers, the atmosphere of the little people, it seems that everything seems so harmonious.
But the friendly communication between the two species is limited to this.
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"Since the seven villains came out, the stone door below has been closed, and they haven't gone back, and the generous ones have settled in the village, and the runners have eaten at their houses every once in a while." Old man Zheng smiled, with a look of reminiscence, and the feeling of this memory seemed to be very warm: "The people in the village like them very much, whether they are adults or children, they all like them. ”
"And after that?" The old man couldn't help but ask curiously: "Are you dealing with Lilliputia?" ”
"Sort of." Old man Zheng said with a smile: "But it's just dealing with those seven villains, the real Lilliputian has never even shown us faces......."
"Sir, when you first met these villains...... Do they dress like modern people? Chen Qiuyan asked with a serious face, holding a pen and notebook in his hand, as if he was taking notes.
"Modern man? Not like, right? Old man Zheng said: "The long-sleeved robe looks like an ancient." ”
"What do they bring out?" Chen Qiuyan wrote in his notebook without raising his head and asked, "In addition to those torches, what other tools are there?" ”
"No tools, no weapons, just the torches." Old man Zheng said with a smile: "If you want to say that those torches are unusual, they can be burned at the bottom of the well, but they will be extinguished when they are placed on the ground, and if you throw them into the well, they will be lit again immediately!" ”
"So strange?" The old man was stunned: "What is the fuel for those torches?" ”
"I don't know, maybe it's a special oil." Old man Zheng shrugged his shoulders: "Those torches look very simple, just a rotten wooden stick, with a few circles of linen wrapped around the top, looking wet and tasteless." ”
At this moment, Qibao turned his head sharply and shouted at the wooden box, "You two hurry up and answer!" What the hell did you get those torches?? ”
"Oil!" The rough-throated villain shouted.
"What's the oil?" Qibao asked funny, "Lard?" ”
"It's called oil!" The little man replied again.
Qibao was about to ask again, but Old Man Zheng stopped him and said helplessly: "Neither of them knows anything, they don't remember, and it's in vain for you to ask." ”
"Don't talk about this!" The old man looked at Old Man Zheng very gossipsily, took the initiative to hand him a cigarette, and asked, "Old Zheng, are the remaining five villains still staying in your village?" ”
Hearing this question, Old Man Zheng froze for a moment, and his expression instantly became complicated.
"If I'm not mistaken...... It should still be waiting......" Old Man Zheng muttered, his eyes were a little evasive when he spoke, and he didn't dare to look at us directly: "It should be regarded as staying...... It's kind of ......."
"What do you mean?" The old man looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"You should have heard me say that I ran away from Mao'er Village ten years ago...... Any idea why I'm running out? ”
When Old Man Zheng asked this, his face was full of bitterness, and the speed of smoking was obviously accelerated a lot.
"I don't know." Qibao squatted next to him and looked at him like a curious baby: "Why did you run out?" Got in debt or what? ”
Old man Zheng didn't speak, was silent for a while, and then turned to speak.
"Ever since I was a child, my dad has told me stories, especially those stories of Lilliputia."
"He said that these little people are kind, simple-minded, and friendly to everyone, but they are afraid of animals, because they have a smell that no living person can smell, and when animals smell them, they will run to eat them......."
As soon as I heard this, I suddenly realized, looked at the rat, and said in my heart that no wonder this beast is so greedy, it is those villains who have their own attributes to attract animals for a long time!
But what animals smell...... What does it smell like? As for being so gluttonous?
"My mother died early, and my father single-handedly pulled me up, so I believe everything he says, just because of his words, my attitude towards villains has always been very friendly." Old man Zheng sighed: "Plus they also stick to me, since they left the well, they have settled in my house, basically treating me as their own family......"
Speaking of this, Old Man Zheng's eyes turned red again, wiped his tears, and then continued: "They treat me as a family, and I can't treat them as outsiders, I have no family in my life, I didn't marry a daughter-in-law when I was young, and I don't have children and grandchildren to honor when I'm old, only they can accompany me." ”
"Lao Zheng! Don't cry! We're still here! ”
"yes, yes! We're with you! ”
The two villains also cared about Old Man Zheng, and when they heard him crying, they immediately comforted him.
After two minutes, Old Man Zheng calmed down a little, wiped away his tears, smoked a cigarette and continued to talk to us.
"The reason why I escaped from that village, the reason why I fell out with them, is because of these villains."
"What do you mean?" The old man asked.
Old man Zheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and looked at us with red eyes.
"They eat villains."
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