Chapter 313 Meeting Dumb for the First Time
Liang Yan was stunned for a moment, but he came to his senses the next moment and followed Ning Wantang's footsteps towards the entrance of the village.
"Miss Ning, you are back!"
An old man in gray clothes who was over seventy years old stood at the entrance of the village. When he saw Ning Wantang approaching, he asked with a smile on his face: "Have you found what Miss Ning wanted?"
"Found it, Uncle Xu!"
Ning Wantang smiled sweetly, pointed at Liang Yan behind his back and said, "Thanks to this boy's 'help'!"
She emphasized the word "help" very hard. Liang Yan naturally knew that she was talking sarcastically, so he didn't answer immediately. He just smiled and stood silently beside her.
However, the old man obviously didn't hear what Ning Wantang meant. He kept praising Liang Yan, saying that he could tell at a glance that Liang Yan was a loyal and honest person.
Ning Wantang didn't seem to want to listen to the old man's nagging. He stuck out his tongue secretly, stretched out his hand to pull Liang Yan, and said to the old man: "Uncle Xu, we have something else to do, so we'll leave first. By the way, you know Where has our Dumb gone?"
"Oh, Dumb." Uncle Xu stopped talking, pointed towards the back of the village, and said, "It's right at the back of the village. It seems that Xiaohu and Xiaoyun were dragged to play."
"What! It's Xiaohu and the others again!"
Ning Wantang's voice suddenly rose a little higher, and he shouted: "My dumb guy doesn't like to play, these naughty kids."
As she said this, she stamped her feet and immediately ran towards the back village like a wind and a cloud. Liang Yan was stunned for a moment. He was curious about what kind of animal this dumb was. Being led to play with the children in the village would actually make Ning Wantang furious. So he also raised his feet and chased after Ning Wantang.
The two of them ran out of the village in an instant. Ning Wantang stopped for a moment, listened carefully, and then suddenly turned around and ran towards a small forest behind the village.
Liang Yan's six senses were sharp, so he naturally heard the sounds of play in the grove, and rushed into the grove almost at the same time as Ning Wantang.
As soon as he pushed aside a few branches blocking the road, he saw a group of children surrounding him not far away. These children were both boys and girls. The oldest ones were only in their early ten years, and the youngest ones were probably only six or seven years old. age. At this moment, they were all excitedly circling around a dark object, as if they were celebrating something.
"You! What are you doing?!" Ning Wantang shouted at the top of her lungs.
This sound was extremely loud and full of anger. It was actually three points more angry than before when Liang Yan took away the Qian Yuan Fruit.
When the baby bears heard this angry shout, they all turned their heads and turned pale when they saw the person coming. One of them, a little boy about ten years old who seemed to be the leader, actually screamed in fright and ran out of the woods without looking back.
When the remaining children saw their "boss" running away, they naturally didn't care about "brotherhood" and ran out of the woods one after another.
Dozens of children who had gathered together dispersed in an instant, except for a six or seven-year-old girl who couldn't run fast at first. She tripped over a branch and fell as soon as she raised her feet. At this moment, Sitting on the ground.
With her pink face, she first looked at the direction in which the "brothers" were escaping, then turned to look at Ning Wantang, who was walking towards her, and immediately said "Wow!" and howled as if the floodgates had been opened. burst into tears.
At this time, Liang Yan and Ning Wantang had already walked closer. He glanced around and realized that the dark thing was actually a person!
This man was wearing a slightly old black clothes, holding his head in his hands, squatting there silently. His head, back, and hands were all covered with pig dung and cow dung. As soon as he got closer, a pungent smell came out, which made Liang Yan frown slightly.
After seeing this person's appearance clearly, Ning Wantang's eyes widened and she could almost burst into flames. She didn't care that the girl in front of her was only six or seven years old, and shouted at her sharply: "Who told you to do this? ?!”
"Wow!"
The little girl cried even harder. It took a long time before she blinked her eyes and said in a very aggrieved tone, "It was Brother Xiaohu's idea. He said he would bully Dumb while you were away today."
"Why!"
Ning Wantang's eyebrows were raised and her tone was extremely stern. The little girl glanced at her secretly, immediately lowered her head, and said softly: "Brother Hu'er said that this Dumb was a monster and confused my sister. Since he came, sister Ning has not come to the village to play with us for a long time. Already."
Ning Wantang never expected that she would say such words, and she didn't know how to vent her anger. After a long while, she took a deep breath and said, "You're talking nonsense from a kid! Next time If I find you bullying Dumb again, I will never come to see you again!"
"No!" The little girl took a step forward, hugged Ning Wantang's thigh tightly, and said with a cry: "Sister Ning, don't ignore us, we don't dare to do it anymore!"
Ning Wantang was annoyed by her crying and rubbed her head helplessly. Finally, she patted the woman's back gently and said softly: "As long as you don't bully Dumb, sister will not ignore you. You Now go back to the village and talk to your brothers and sisters. If you let me find out next time, my sister will punish you!"
After hearing this, the little girl nodded heavily, stretched out her hand to touch the tears on her face, then stood up, spread her short legs, and ran towards the outside of the woods.
After all the children left, Ning Wantang raised his hand and used magic to clean up the dirt on the man squatting on the ground. But even though the filth was removed, there was still a suffocating stench surrounding it.
Ning Wantang turned around and said to Liang Yan apologetically: "Please wait here for a while, I will take Dumb to clean up."
"So he is Dumb?" Liang Yan nodded slightly.
"Dumb, get up, I'll take you to wash up." Ning Wantang called to the man in black, her tone extremely soft.
Upon hearing this call, the man in black, who was squatting on the ground with his head in his hands, curled up into a ball, immediately trembled, slowly put down his hands, and stood up from the ground obediently.
Only then did Liang Yan see his full face, and saw that he was a young man of similar height to himself, about twenty-six or seven years old, with a face that was clearly carved by a knife or an axe. His appearance can be considered extremely handsome, but there is a long and narrow scar on his left eye, which runs from the center of the left eye to his cheek, making this originally handsome face even more distinguished.
On his back, he also carried a long strip of cloth wrapped in coarse cloth, about seven feet long, and he didn't know what was wrapped in it.
Liang Yan took a rough look, and inadvertently met this person's eyes again. For a moment, Liang Yan felt as if he had fallen into a world of change.
The end of all the hardships and the joys are yet to come. Sobering up tonight is a sign of separation. The joys and sorrows of the world seem to be in this person's eyes. What has this person experienced and what has he endured? Liang Yan actually became curious and wanted to find out.
"Hey! What are you doing in a daze?"
Just when Liang Yan was deeply in the eyes of this person, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder, causing him to wake up suddenly. He turned around and saw Ning Wantang looking at him with a puzzled expression.
"nothing."
Liang Yan smiled slightly and turned around to look again, only to see that Ah-Dai's eyes were cloudy at the moment. It was clear that he couldn't be more ordinary.