Chapter 98 Mysterious Stone House
“I’m sorry to bother you.”
“Sit down, please.” The speaker was a man wearing black cloth with bare arms. , an uncle with white hair and beard, and a bald patch in the middle of his head. He found four wooden stools and chairs, each with a different shape and style, and sat them down.
Ween and his group sat down around a wooden table, and the white-bearded uncle took out a large cut watermelon from the room for them to eat.
Xia Na was not in a hurry to eat, but asked: "Uncle Aigilusi 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 uncles have many children living here?" Still It was Shana asking.
Ween had his mouth full of watermelon water, squirted the seeds and said: "The house here is so small, how can there be many children. Stupid Shana!"
"Idiot, I think you are stupid You must be the one!" Xia Na cursed him secretly and thought: "You just eat this person's food without knowing his identity. What if he is a bad person and sells you to him? I don’t even know.”
Pipikan saw that except for Wayne and Hesmingfen, the other three people didn’t eat fruit, so he said: “You must be wondering why I live here and why I am here. Do you wonder why there are so many stools? Haha, you should be wary of me. It’s really suspicious for an old man to live here.”
"No, no." Shana laughed dryly.
Pipikan said: "I have no children and live here alone. I just feel that it is quiet here and no one disturbs me. I have lived here for several years. When I am bored, I carve wood carvings and make Here are some handicrafts for you to sit on." He said and ate a piece of watermelon on the table.
"Sorry, sorry." Shana said with a 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’ll be more careful if I’m outside. That’s why I live in seclusion here.”
Only at this moment 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'll die if you don't say anything!" It wasn't so embarrassing originally, but when Wayne told him, 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. I couldn’t remember it for a moment.”
Wayne smiled: “ The uncle must be a very powerful person if he lives in Datam Canyon. It’s not surprising that he is famous. Teacher, don’t think about it. In short, the uncle is not a bad person.”
Xia Na 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. He burped and praised: "What a sweet watermelon. I really want to eat another one, but it's a pity that I can't."
Pipikan laughed.
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 in the wilderness and forest around her and sighed: " It’s not easy to live here for ten years. Uncle, have you never left in these ten years?”
Pipikan said: “No. Yes, I sometimes go to Salamander City to buy some things, but most of the time I never leave 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."
"I'm 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?" asked Wayne. 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.
Little birds were chirping in the forest and flying around among the trees.
Pipikan smiled and said: "Sorry, 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 the fourth grade. 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 Kulantin 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 for you to find me here. You haven't eaten yet, try my food." Craftsmanship."
"How embarrassing." Crab also got up.
Ween quickly grabbed the teacher and said, "What's wrong with this? Teacher, we haven't had a decent meal in more than ten days."
Xia Na pressed her head and couldn't bear it. 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. Although he was full of watermelon, during the cooking time, he peeed a few times and turned the watermelon juice into waste water and urinated cleanly.
Pipikan rarely sees people. Seeing that they are satisfied with their food, he is also 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: "Yes. No matter what, 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 your college's exams, it doesn't matter if you just stay here for one day."
Ween immediately said: "Yes, yes, I was born in Datam." The exam didn’t say we should keep looking for battles. We’ve been tired for so many days, so let’s take a break.” Hesmingfen agreed, but he didn’t agree. Wayne's opinion is that he just doesn't want to see those terrifying monsters.
Crab looked at the two female students and seemed to be interested in taking 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 Wen followed Pipikan around to the bamboo forest behind the stone house. , It turns out that there is a small wooden house in the bamboo forest, and you can smell the aroma of wine wafting from the wooden house from a distance. Hesming Fen found a small mound a few meters away from the wooden house and asked: "Uncle, that is..."
"Well, my wife's grave."
The grave is not very good. The large, stone tombstone was covered with a layer of green moss that looked like it was several years old. 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 large glass in his hand. He had already drank several large glasses in a row. His face was flushed and he said with a shaky smile: “Uncle, the wine you brew is really good. It’s delicious. It’s sweet, just like drinking juice.”
The two girls drank a little more reservedly, but they drank a lot and fell to the ground drunk without realizing it.
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 over quietly.
(End of this chapter)