Liang Yan was stunned for a moment, but the next moment he recovered and followed Ning Wantang's footsteps towards the entrance of the village.
"Miss Ning, you are back!"
At the entrance of the village stood an old man in gray clothes who was over seventy years old. When he saw Ning Wantang approaching, he asked with a smile: "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, and 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 kids don't like to play, these naughty kids."
As she said this, she stamped her feet and immediately ran towards the back village like a whirlwind. Liang Yan was stunned for a moment, and he was curious, what kind of animal was this dumb guy? He was led to play by the children in the village, so he actually offended this Ning.
Wan Tang was furious. So he also raised his feet and chased after Ning Wan Tang.
The two of them ran out of the village in an instant. Ning Wantang stopped for a moment, listened carefully, then 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 teens, and the younger ones were probably only six or seven years old.
At this moment, they are all excitedly circling around a dark object, as if they are 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 around. When they saw the person clearly, their faces turned pale. One of them, a little boy about ten years old who seemed to be the leader, actually screamed in fright and shook his head.
He ran out of the woods without looking back.
When the remaining children saw that their "boss" had all fled, they naturally didn't care about "brotherhood" and ran out of the woods one after another.
Dozens of children who were originally gathered together dispersed in an instant, except for a six or seven-year-old immature 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,
There was a pungent smell, 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 his 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 then, he has been here.
, Sister Ning hasn’t come to the village to play with us for a long time."
Ning Wantang never expected that she would say such words. She was so angry that she didn't know how to vent her anger. After a while, she took a deep breath and said, "Children's nonsense! 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 solemnly, 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 had left, Ning Wantang raised his hand and used magic to help the man squatting on the ground clean up the dirt on his body. However, even though the dirt was removed, there was still a suffocating stench surrounding him.
Ning Wantang turned around and said to Liang Yan apologetically: "Please wait here for a while, I will take Dumb to clean it 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. He saw that he was a young man of similar height to himself. He was about twenty-six or seventeen years old. His face was clearly carved by a knife and an axe. His appearance could be considered handsome and extraordinary, but he was
There is a long and narrow scar on the left eye, which runs from the center of the left eye to the cheek, adding an elegance to this originally handsome face.
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 joys and sorrows of the world are all in this person's eyes. What has this person experienced and what has he endured? Liang Yan even 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 man, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder, causing him to wake up suddenly. When he turned around, he 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.