Chapter 2383 Gossip in the wooden house
The wooden house is a cross-shaped structure. When you walk into the middle door, it is deserted. On the right is a small bar. The male owner was bored behind the bar and flicked his fingers when he saw an outsider coming in. There was no warm reception, he just rolled his eyes and glanced at him, as if it didn't matter to him whether the guests came or not.
On the left is a small restaurant. A girl in her teens or 20s is wiping the already very clean plates. Her eyes widened when she saw the guests coming in, as if she hadn't seen outsiders here for a long time. There was a customer in the restaurant, who must be a regular customer. He was sitting at a small table against the wall, eating fruit, drinking beer, and a piece of hand-shredded dried meat. Squatting on the table was a little guy who was probably his pet, a little cat-like monkey with pink fur, holding an apple and looking at the visitor with the same curiosity.
“Is there anything to eat here?” Ruola asked softly, for fear of disturbing the peace here.
"Ah, yes, yes." The girl who was cleaning the dishes came back to her senses, and then she remembered to entertain the guests: "Please come in and sit here. What do you want to eat?"
Bing Zhixie and the four of them took their seats, and Alice asked: "Where is the menu?"
"Well, we don't have a menu here. Because most of the people who come here are regular customers from nearby, so we didn't prepare a menu." The girl showed a smile With an apologetic smile, he introduced: " I have finger meat, milk tea and..."
"Just bring what you usually eat here, it will be enough for four...five people," Alice looked at it. Ilyich also came and asked him to sit down next to him.
The girl agreed repeatedly and went to prepare food. After Ilyich sat down, he took a look at the decorations in the room. There were some objects hanging on the walls around the room. They were all parts of various items. There were also some bull heads and sheep heads, and even two pairs of white skulls hanging on the wall. It was so white that it looked like it was made of porcelain. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it was a real skeleton, just made into a decoration. It seems that the skull hangings here are a custom here, because not only this room, but also the bar next door and opposite. If it were a vicious black shop, they wouldn't display these things in plain sight.
After the food was served, Alice took the girl and asked about the bones here. Sure enough, the girl said that these were decorations and that the skeletons were real and it was a local custom.
Ruola was curious as to why there was such a strange custom and where these bones came from. Are they all from nearby residents?
The girl told them that the burial custom here is high sky burial, that is, the deceased relatives are transported to the top of the highest mountain to receive natural burial. As for the bones, they were left behind by strangers from other places who died for no reason, and more often by gravediggers from outside the plateau.
Alice didn't understand: "What do gravediggers do? I've only heard of it in novels. Why do they dig up corpses?"
Ruola answered this question for her: "Gravediggers dig graves and excavate corpses because some hospitals or doctors want to do human anatomy research, including pathological trauma. Usually because there are too few body donors and there are not enough corpses, they will hire some people to steal other people's bodies. cemetery , to collect corpses for use. They usually dig up fresh corpses that have just been buried. Sometimes archaeologists will also use some remains for experiments."
The girl nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's right. . Many years ago, there was a strange doctor who lived here. After doing research, he would always throw out some bones and skeletons. We are not taboo about this here. Many people collected them and used them as decorations.”
"Ah~!" Alice is not afraid of skeletons now, but it still sounds weird.
"The doctor is still here now?"
The girl shook her head: "He has been gone for a long time, and there are no gravediggers to deliver the body here anymore. You can eat slowly, I will go Busy."
Alice and the others looked at the finger meat on the plate, thinking about the strange doctor who stole the autopsy just now. They were obviously very hungry, but they didn't seem so hungry now.
Two more customers came into the store. They were both locals. They looked at Alice and Ruola who were dining and asked, "Are the white horses and balloons outside yours?" "Yes." Ah, that's not a hot air balloon, it's an airship," Alice replied and explained.
"They are all the same. I thought it was Dalia's." The two went to the bar next door to drink and chat with the boss.
While eating, Humea said: "Alice, Ruola and Mr. Celeste, I will say goodbye to you after this meal. Thank you for your kindness to me during this time. "Help, let me treat you to this meal."
Alice was very talkative. Hard, but when it comes to parting, she is infinitely reluctant: "You can walk with us for a while, and wait until we are in a more suitable place, such as a crowded and lively town, before we say goodbye. It will be safer and better. Right, Master .”
“Ah.”
Humea said happily: "Alice, thank you for your kindness. I have my own journey. As a church shrine, I have tests that I must go through. Soon I will leave to return to the church as the head teacher. , that will determine which shrine becomes the saint, and I... still have many mission goals to complete." She glanced at Bing Zhixie secretly, knowing that this man could not be her mission target.
Alice held her forehead in distress and said unhappily: "My uncle and aunt belong to your church. Your church is so strange that it makes me very uncomfortable."
Xiumi Ya chuckled: "My church believes in procreation. Pregnancy under certain conditions is a very honorable thing. One of my tasks on this journey is to conceive a child." She touched her belly and said happily: "I don't know who will inject it into my belly. Life..."
Alice was speechless.
After eating the mutton and fruit plate, Bing Zhixie held the milk tea cup and walked to the shelves stacked with groceries facing the center of the main entrance. He looked around, trying to find something useful that could be used to replenish the flight. Empty boat stuff. He flipped through it casually, and found that some screws seemed to come in handy, and he could buy a few more water bags, and he could also buy some medicines for diluting potions...
There was the sound of animal hooves outside the wooden house, and a majestic tall horse stopped at the door. Immediately, a postman came down, pulled a not very heavy cloth bag and threw it in, almost throwing it on Bing Zhixie.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't scare you." The postman came in panting and shouted: "Boss, this half month's newspaper has arrived, and there are a few letters."
Store The boss chats with customers at the bar Uncle, he pulled his neck and shouted: "Daughter, put the newspapers away and see whose letters are there, and deliver them to people later."
The girl was washing dishes behind the house and ran quickly when she heard the greeting. Come to the front, your hands are still wet. She found a dry towel to dry her hands, deftly opened the bag and took out the newspapers and letters. The newspapers were sorted and inserted on the shelves dedicated to newspapers and magazines in the store. She looked at the envelopes of the letters again, took them out, got on the pony, and went home. Letters were delivered door to door.
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(End of this chapter)