"Come on, please sit down." The person who spoke was an uncle wearing black cloth, with two bare arms, his hair and beard were all white, and there was a bald patch in the middle of his head. He found four wooden stools and chairs.
The shapes and styles of each handful are different, let them sit down.
Wayne and his group sat down around a wooden table, and the white-bearded man brought out a large cut watermelon for them to eat.
Shana was not in a hurry to eat, but asked: "Uncle Agilusi Pipikan, did you make these stools? They are so beautiful."
Agilusi Pipikan smiled and said: "Yes."
"These beautiful little stools must be for children. Do you have many children living here?" Shana was still asking.
Wayne had his mouth full of watermelon water, squirted the seeds and said: "The house here is so small, how can there be many children? Idiot Shana!"
"Idiot, I think you are the stupid one!" Shana secretly scolded him and thought to herself: "You just eat this person's food without knowing his identity. What if he is a bad person and sells you?"
have no idea."
Pipikan saw that except for Wayne and Hesmingfen, the other three people did not eat fruit, so he said: "You must be wondering why I live here, and you are wondering why there are so many stools, right? Haha,
You should be wary of me, a half-old man living here really makes people suspicious."
"No, no." Shana laughed dryly.
Pipikan said: "I don't have children. I live here alone. I just think it's quiet here and no one disturbs me. I've lived here for several years. When I'm bored, I carve wood carvings and do handicrafts. You guys?
Just take a seat." He said and ate a piece of watermelon on the table.
"Sorry, sorry." Shana said with an apologetic smile: "Uncle, don't mind, I'm not experienced in the world, so... I have to be a little cautious."
Pipikan waved and smiled: "It's okay, I will be more careful if I am outside. It is because of this that I live in seclusion here."
Only then did Wayne react: "Oh, Shana, you suspect that uncle wants to harm us!"
Shana punched him in the face and shouted: "Eat your watermelon or you will die if you don't say anything!" It wasn't so embarrassing in the first place, but when Wayne said it, it made her even more uncomfortable.
"Teacher Crab, what are you thinking about?" Emma couldn't help but be curious when she saw that Crab had been thinking about something.
Crab still looked like he was thinking about something, and shook his head: "Ah, it's nothing. I just feel... I feel that I have heard the name of Agilusi Pipikan somewhere, and it is very familiar, but I can't remember it for a while.
.”
Wayne smiled and said: "Uncle can live in Dattam Canyon. He must be a very powerful person. It's not surprising that he is famous. Teacher, don't think about it if you can't remember it. In short, uncle is not a bad person."
Shana said: "How do you know that uncle is not a bad person?"
"Are you saying you still think uncle will harm us?" Wayne asked.
"No, it's not..." Shana glanced at Pipikan, lowered her head and said, "Forget it, I'll stop talking."
Wayne patted his bulging belly, burped, and praised: "What a sweet watermelon. I really want to eat another one, but it's a pity that I can't."
Pipikan chuckled.
The crab asked Pipikan: "Have you lived here for many years?"
Pipikan thought for a while and said, "It seems to have been almost ten years. I can't remember clearly."
"Ten years!" Shana looked at the scene of the surrounding wilderness and forest, and sighed: "It's not easy to live here for ten years. Uncle, have you never left in the past ten years?"
Pipikan said: "No, sometimes I go to Salamander City to buy some things, but most of the time I haven't left here. I remember the last time I went to Salamander City was about three years ago."
"Three, three years ago!"
Emma asked: "Uncle, have you been living here alone for ten years?"
"No." Pipikan suddenly said sadly: "My wife and I have been living here. She died of illness three years ago."
"sorry."
Pipikan smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter, it's all in the past."
"Then uncle, aren't you going to go out again? I mean you will always live here from now on?" Wayne asked.
Pipikan nodded: "I'm tired of the outside world. From now on, I want to stay with my wife's grave until the day I die."
"..." Everyone sighed and stopped talking.
Birds were chirping in the forest and flying between the trees.
Pipikan smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I said this unknowingly. I know you are all students and teachers of Kulantin College who come to take exams. The last time you came here was four years ago."
"Four years ago." Everyone looked at Crab.
Crab scratched his head and smiled: "Don't look at me, I don't know very well. I didn't teach at Kulanting four years ago."
Pipikan stood up and sighed: "I haven't seen anyone for several years, and no one has come to my place in the past ten years. It's rare that you can find me here. You haven't eaten yet, try my food."
craft."
"How can this be so embarrassing?" Crab said as he also got up.
Wayne quickly grabbed the teacher and said, "What's so embarrassing about this? Teacher, we haven't had a decent meal in more than ten days."
Shana pressed her head and couldn't bear it and said: "Really, you don't know how to be polite."
Emma smiled softly, and the others also laughed.
Sweet and delicious food, hot fresh deer milk, I haven't eaten such delicious food in more than ten days, everyone ate a lot. The one who enjoyed the meal the most was Wayne, even if he ate watermelon
I had to hold on, but while I was cooking, I peeed a few times and turned the watermelon juice into waste water and peeed cleanly.
It was rare for Pipikan to see people. Seeing that they were satisfied with their food, he was very happy: "Oh, by the way, I also have some homemade fruit wine. Do you want to drink some?"
"Okay, I want to drink!" Wayne shouted first.
Crab pressed Wayne's shoulder and said to Pipikan: "No, thank you. It's not good to be drunk in Dattam Canyon."
Pipikan said: "What does it matter? The nearby monsters are afraid of me and don't dare to come over. Haha, just drink up and I'll get the wine."
"This, this is not good..."
"What's wrong?" Pipikan said, "I know about your college's exams. It doesn't matter if you just stay here for one day."
Wayne immediately said: "Yes, yes, in the Datam Survival Test, we didn't say we should keep looking for battles. We have been tired for so many days, so let us take a rest."
"Yeah." Hesmingfen agreed. He didn't agree with Wayne's opinion, but he didn't want to see those terrifying monsters.
Crab looked at the two female students and seemed to want to take a day off, so he had to say: "Okay, anyway, it is you who are taking the survival test. The power to decide how to act is yours. I am just accompanying you."
"Yeah!" Wayne and Hesmingfen jumped up happily.
Pipikan said: "Okay, you two young men come and help me get the bar."
Hesmingfen and Wein followed Pipikan around to the bamboo forest behind the stone house. It turned out that there was a small wooden house in the bamboo forest. From a distance, they could smell the aroma of wine coming from the wooden house. Hesmingfen discovered that
There was a small mound a few meters away from the wooden house. He asked, "Uncle, that is..."
"Well, my wife's grave."
The tomb was not very big, and the stone tombstone was covered with a layer of green moss, which looked like it had been there for several years. Wayne couldn't help but feel a little sad for this cheerful and enthusiastic uncle.
Wayne and Hesmingfen moved a barrel of cider together, and Pipikan took out a wooden cup from the house and drank with them.
"Hey!" Wayne put down the big glass in his hand. He had already drank several large glasses in a row. His face turned red and he said with a shaky smile: "Uncle, the wine you brew is really delicious. It's sweet.
, just like drinking juice.”
The two girls drank more reservedly, but they also drank a lot, and before they knew it, they were so drunk that they fell to the ground.
The laughter and laughter in the forest gradually dispersed, leaving only Pipikan sitting alone. He put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at them one after another, and finally picked up the two girls on the ground and walked into his stone house.
After a minute or two, Crab suddenly sat up from the ground, looked at the open door of the stone house, picked up his weapon and walked quietly over.