Chapter 178: Who Splashed Ink on Colored Paper
Xu Shuo was stunned for a moment.
Are all the people in the room all thieves?
Although he was a little surprised in his heart, Xu Shuo still shrugged his shoulders on the bright side and said, "I'm also a thief." ”
"I know, it's just that some thieves would mind being around other thieves."
"Thieves mind thieves?"
"Do you think it's strange, there are a lot of people like that, but since you're not, you're welcome."
As the two were talking, a figure squeezed in from outside the crowd.
"Is Mrs. Pia here? It's really rare at this time, is something wrong...... Ah, you! ”
Xu Shuo heard the sound and looked over, and found that the leader of the mountain bandits who took the lead in robbing them this afternoon, the young man who was playing with a big knife was pointing at him with a surprised face - this person was not very surprised to appear here Xu Shuo, after all, he had already seen other little ghosts just now.
"What's the matter, Toshio, do you know each other?" Bai Yu asked.
The young man called Junxiong ignored Bai Yu, but came to Xu Shuo in three or two steps, and whispered in a panic, "What do you want to do?" Want money? I can give it back to you. I didn't know you knew Mrs. Pia, and you didn't say it, but you came at me today, don't embarrass the others! ”
Junxiong stood too close, and when he spoke, his breath came to Xu Shuo's face, and Xu Shuo noticed that this guy had a pair of sharp tiger teeth.
"Stop, stop, what a mess." Xu Shuo pushed Junxiong away, "You think too much, Aunt Pia is something we just met, and I'm just here to spend the night today, don't be so nervous." ”
After hearing this, Junxiong blinked his eyes several times, reacted and hurriedly suppressed his voice and said, "You didn't tell anyone else about that afternoon, did you?" ”
"What, are you afraid that others will know?"
Xu Shuo glanced at Bai Yu not far away.
"Anyway, don't say it, it's just a misunderstanding! I'll explain it to you later! ”
After Junxiong told Xu Shuo, he repeated it to Lilian and Miao Zhen.
"Toshio?" Bai Yu's face was a little ugly.
"Huh? What's that, no, I don't know them, it's just that we didn't go out hunting this afternoon, and I met these people halfway, which is a one-sided relationship, haha, a one-sided relationship. Junxiong smiled flatteringly at Bai Yu.
"Really?" Bai Yu stared at Junxiong suspiciously.
"yes, I don't believe you asked anyone else, right, Xiaotian?"
"yes, yes." A boy with a small head snorted and said, "But I don't know, I was pooping at the time, so it has nothing to do with me......"
"Needless to say,! I'm going to have dinner later! Toshio yelled.
Everyone laughed, Bai Yu seemed to believe Junxiong's words, nodded, and said to Xu Shuo and the others: "This can be regarded as a kind of fate, just as we are going to have dinner, you can come together, I will let people clean up a house for you to live in a while, the small place is a little simple, I hope you don't mind." Mrs. Pia is coming along, right? ”
Pia smiled and waved her hand, "I don't need to, I still have something to do in the town, so I'll go back first, and I'll come back tomorrow and bring you some flour." ”
"No, Mrs. Pia, we ......"
"See you tomorrow, goodbye, see you tomorrow!"
Bai Yu wanted to refuse, but Pia didn't wait for him to finish, so she quickly said goodbye to everyone as if she had run away and plunged into the forest.
Bai Yu sighed softly and said to everyone: "Okay, let's go back to eat, don't stand here, Mr. Xu Shuo, please come along." ”
"Okay, then we're welcome." Xu Shuo said.
Following the boys and girls, Xu Shuo and the others walked into the largest wooden house in the village - it was the largest, but it was not very big, but there were no tables, chairs, bedboards and other utensils in it, so it was spacious. In the middle of the room was a cauldron, a barrel, and a basket of wooden bowls.
When Xu Shuo entered the door, he noticed that there was a blazing firewood under the cauldron, and not far away, the ground on both sides of the house was covered with thatch, and this was a wooden house, so he felt that it would cause a fire if he was not careful, and the safety hazards were quite deep.
Maybe I can mention it to the village chief later, he thought.
The cauldron was filled with vegetable soup, and the wooden barrel was filled with pimple packets, and when everyone entered the house, they took a wooden bowl from the basket, put a bowl of soup in the cauldron, and then took a lump bag from the wooden barrel, and then sat on the ground.
Xu Shuo originally planned to eat his own food with Lily Enmiaozhen, but thinking about the fact that everyone here eats so plainly, if they take out bread or something, it will inevitably be a little too out of place, and it will make people think that they look down on people, plus Bai Yu also invited them to eat just now, so he simply followed the customs, took a wooden bowl to serve soup, with a pimple bag, and then found a corner to sit cross-legged.
With the influx of people, the wooden house quickly became crowded, and it is no wonder that there is no furniture in this room, to accommodate so many people at the same time, there is not much space at all, everyone is either around the pot, or against the wall, all next to each other. However, after the crowd was crowded, the room gradually warmed up a little more, so I think they may have deliberately crowded into one room to eat.
Xu Shuo picked up the pimple bag and looked at it, this thing from another world looked black, a bit like a sweet potato, but it had no skin, and it was hard in his hand, like taking a short wooden stick, wet to the touch, it seemed to have been boiled in water. He took a bite of it, and it tasted like wood, and there was a smell of mud in it, which made him wonder if this was really a food that people could eat.
At this time, a little boy sitting next to Xu Shuo looked at him and laughed.
"Hahaha, what are you doing, this is not how to eat!"
"Huh?"
"Give it to me!"
The boy snatched the pimple bag from Xu Shuo's hand, grabbed both ends and pushed it on his knees, only to hear a "click", the pimple bag broke in half, revealing milky white flesh in the middle.
"Whoa! Eat these white ones. ”
"I see, thank you."
Xu Shuo took the pimple bag handed back by the boy, looking at the milky white flesh, it was still a little difficult to eat, the skin of this pimple bag was very thick, and the flesh part only accounted for one-third of the size of the entire pimple bag, and it was not easy to bite directly into the mouth, and it didn't look like it could be sucked out, after thinking about it, Xu Shuo dug it out with his index finger and put it in his mouth.
The taste of the pulp of this pimple package is very light, a little like a yam, but it is a little more sour than the yam, and the taste is like horseshoe sugar cane and firewood.
Xu Shuo took another sip of vegetable soup, which did not have any salty taste, just like boiled water dripping into ink, except for a faint bitterness.
He's not a picky eater, but the food does make people eat without expression, and even want to frown.
Suddenly, Xu Shuo felt a movement in his waist, and he turned his head to find that the boy was trying to pull out the short blade behind him.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
Xu Shuo wanted to stop it, but he had the soup in his hand, and by the time he put the bowl on the ground, the boy had already drawn a short blade and raised it above his head to let out an exclamation.
"Wow! What a handsome knife! ”
This shout attracted the attention of everyone present.
Bai Yu had just brought the soup to his mouth, and when he heard the movement, he put down the bowl and looked at the silver short blade in the boy's hand, frowning slightly.
Xu Shuo snatched the short blade back from the boy's hand and put it back into the sheath, and then reprimanded: "Little ghost, why are you messing with other people's things, this is a knife, it's very dangerous, do you know?!" ”
In the face of Xu Shuo's reprimand, the boy shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent.
"Your knife is good, how about I exchange three pimple bags with you?"
Xu Shuo laughed dumbly.
"Oh, let me tell you, even if a real man dies, he will be buried with his own weapon."
"Oooh! I don't understand it, but it seems to be very diao! ”
Xu Shuo chuckled twice, cold on the surface, but what he thought in his heart was that this proverb made up in order to be handsome was not bad, He suddenly realized the fun of his father pretending to be X in front of the junior in the movie, but what he didn't notice was that Bai Yu, who was not far away, looked at him with a sharp look.
"My name is Baozi, what's your name?" The boy asked.
Xu Shuo...... Steamed buns are a kind of food, right? Right? You have food called buns here, right? Xu Shuo wasn't sure if it was a coincidence.
"yes, I like steamed buns, so I call them steamed buns."
"You made it yourself?"
"Well, Brother Bai Yu said, if you want to be reborn, you have to use a new name."
"Reborn?"
Xu Shuo was curious, and was about to ask for an understanding, when suddenly a cry came from a corner of the room.
"No, I don't want to eat this kind of thing! I want to go home! ”
It was a little girl who looked to be only about eight or nine years old, who had knocked over the wooden bowl despite the dissuasion of others, and was crying.
Baozi glanced at it and shook his head as if he had come over.
"Alas, the newcomer is hypocritical, and it will be fine to starve her for two days."
Xu Shuo was a little confused, he had a bad feeling.
"That's, buns...... I noticed just now that your village seems to be relatively ...... Young. Xu Shuo lowered his voice and asked in a low voice, "Aren't there any elders here who are older than your village?" ”
"There used to be, but they all left a while ago, and now we are the only ones left." Bun said.
"Gone? Where did it go? ”
"You give me half a pimple bag, and I'll tell you."
Xu Shuo handed over half a pimple bag without pity.
Baozi took the pimple bag, hooked his hand at Xu Shuo, and motioned for him to come over with his ear.
Xu Shuo did so.
Baozi whispered, "They go to make a lot of money." ”
"Make a lot of money?"
"It's killing, burning buildings, and robbing shops, do you understand?"