Chapter 82: Silkworm Girl Pool
Looking at the man's eyes, I think this could be a story of unrequited love.
"If I can help you find the girl you are looking for," I said, "can you give me some of the silk that has been drawn from this cocoon? β
"Well, yes, it's okay to take them all. The man didn't hesitate at all.
"Then I'm really a lion," I smiled, "Business can't do that, silk from the Wild of Oss is a treasure, and if you give it away hastily, you will lose a lot." β
"I'm a rough man, and it's useless to hold this silk..."
"Even if it's just ordinary silk, it was given to you by that girl, so cherish it. I said, "Don't tell anyone about this, there are many people who covet the field of Osi, although most of them are just here to ask for some silk like me, but there is no guarantee that there are no people with bad intentions." β
After saying goodbye to the man for a while, I continued to follow the direction of the map to find the silk country in the cross, but until the moon rose to no avail, and finally I was too tired to walk, so I sat down next to a big tree to rest.
It's been several days since the message sent by Loquat, and I still haven't received a reply, so when this matter is resolved, let's find a town to rest, and call Guan Qing by the way.
As I thought so, the sound of the water reached my ears, how could there be the sound of water in this big night? I searched for the sound, and found the source of the sound in an incomparably hidden river.
Silky silk of silver light hung from the branches of the trees by the river, and several girls swayed with silk, splashing with each other from time to time, and they were all dressed in clothes made of leaves, and their pale green hair was as soft as silk.
"Someone seems there?" I was still thinking about asking them about the Wild of Os, but one of the girls found me.
"Do you want to catch him? The person who peeked at us bathing should be netted and hung in a tree. Another girl said.
God, I really didn't mean to peek at you guys taking a shower...
"I'm sorry, I just passed by accident," I shouted, "I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have no ill will. β
"It's a man, it's a man!" said another girl, sounding like she had found some treasure.
"It doesn't look like a bad person," said the girl who found me, "and men aren't that scary." β
Why do you think these girls are seeing men for the first time?
"Thatβ" I tried to make my tone as friendly as I could, "Speaking of which, I'm passing through here just to find a place called Oz Wild, do you know how to get there?"
A few girls, you look at me, I look at you, but they don't speak.
It doesn't seem like a good way to greet each other.
"If you don't know, it's okay, there's another thing I'd like to ask, do any of your sisters have recently given a cocoon to a human man? I asked cautiously, the girls in front of me should be the legendary creatures called silkworm girls, they are not humans, but they are not monsters, they are a kind of half-human and half-demon existence, it is said that silkworm girls are changed from silkworms, the earliest is that they taught people to raise silkworms and draw silk, but there is very little information about them, except for knowing that they live in the field of Os, there is no more information.
"You said that, but the tall man who lives not far away grows alfalfa?" asked one of the younger-looking girls.
"There aren't many people living nearby, so you're talking about a person with me. I said.
The girls whispered for a while, and the younger one said to me, "The one who gave the cocoons is our sister, whose name is Aunt Silkworm, and if I want to see her, she will come here at the same time tomorrow night, and she should be here." β
"Thank you so much if you could do that," I said, "about the Fields of Oss...
"We can't tell you this," said the girls in a few words, "the field of Osi is a daughter country, and men are not allowed to enter, and it is normal that you can't find it." β
... Daughter Country, the Wild of Oss is a place without men?No wonder these girls are so surprised to see me.
"If there are no other problems, you can get out of here," said the girl who spoke to me at first, "and my sisters and I have to take a bath." β
"Uh... I'm sorry, I'm leaving. "It's really embarrassing, I quickly left here in three steps and two steps, if it was a daughter's country, that man would not have the chance to see the girl he wanted to see again.
The next night, I came here again, and after making sure that there had been no splashing for a long time, I removed the branches of the trees by the creek.
This time there was only one girl, the same green hair and delicate face, and the bad thing was that it was actually taking a bath...
"I'm sorry!" I quickly blindfolded and stepped back, "I didn't know you would be here..."
"You were the one who said you were looking for me yesterday?" the girl's voice was unfazed.
"Hmm... It's me, can you get dressed first..."
"It's no problem, open your eyes. β
I hesitated to open my finger a slit, and the girl who was bathing had come to the shore in front of me, and her clothes made of leaves were neatly dressed, and she was smiling like a peach blossom.
"Whew," I sighed deeply, "Don't you silkworm girls look around to see if there's anyone around you every time you take a bath?"
"This is the silkworm girl's pool, every night before the cocoon, the silkworm girl will come to bathe in this pool, because few people come, we don't care too much," the girl said, "I am the silkworm girl, yesterday those were my sisters, they are still young, they have never seen a man, do they scare you?"
"It's not too scared," I said, "but it's a bit unexpected, I always thought that silkworm girls just didn't like to appear in front of humans, but I didn't expect that the land of silk, the land of silk, was actually a daughter country." β
"There are many unexpected things in the world," said the silkworm girl, "and you are here for abundance." β
"Toyo Mao?" I was stunned for a moment, and it suddenly occurred to me that this might be the man's name, "Oh yes, it's him, I don't know his name yet, he really wants to see you again." β
"What can we do when we meet?" the silkworm girl kept smiling, it was very good-looking, "It stands to reason that silkworm girls can't talk to men, let alone give silkworm cocoons, it's a fruitless thing, even if they meet, nothing will change." It looked at me, "You know this better than I do." β
"He didn't want anything," I said, "he just wanted to ask why he would help him who he had never met." β
The silkworm girl was silent for a while, then put her hand on the trunk of the tree, and a thin silver thread flowed from its fingertips, and soon the silk was woven into the shape of a chair.
"Sit down and say," it said, "it's not a short story. β