Chapter 39 Digging Wild Vegetables
"Manshu, what are you going to do? I'll go with you."
Qu Lian chased Huo Manshu from behind, but Wang Sheng suddenly jumped out of nowhere and stopped him in a panic: "I'm sorry, distinguished guest, I don't mean to offend you, but something strange seems to have appeared in my room. It must be The devil is coming to claim my life, please save me"
Qu Lian frowned, a monster appeared at this time, on a sunny day?
I was originally in the mood of watching a play, but when I looked in the direction of Wang Sheng's finger, I found a wisp of black air floating out of Wang Sheng's room and following the wind to his and Huo Manshu's rooms.
After only a second's pause, Qu Lian went into the room with a dark face.
A few seconds later, Qu Lian came out with a dark face again. Damn it for that lowly monster dared to challenge him.
When I was waiting to go out again and wanted to chase Homanshu, I had already lost sight of Homanshu.
After going out, Huo Manshu actually didn't go very far. She sat under the old tree at the head of the village with a small bench, digging wild vegetables on the ground with a small hoe, and listened to the gossips of other women enjoying the shade.
"I heard that Mr. and Mrs. Wang Sheng's family had a quarrel yesterday. It was quite a quarrel. That girl in his family, oh my, secretly cried again."
"That's right, it's not gambling that's a sin! Wang Sheng knows how to gamble!"
"You can't say that. Some people just like it, and it's okay to play once in a while. My family also likes it, doesn't it? Can't we live a good life?"
"Ms. Li's wife, this has not happened to your family. Is it just a matter of fun for Mr. Wang?"
Several women were quarreling over the topic of Wang Sheng's family. Huo Manshu was just digging wild vegetables quietly without interrupting.
"Pretty sister, what are you doing here? Do you like these weeds?"
Niu Niu didn't know when she came to Huo Manshu's side. She squatted down and curiously played with the wild vegetables that Huo Manshu had dug up.
"I guess I like it."
Huo Manshu spoke very briefly. Seeing that Niuniu was just a person, moving her hands constantly, she asked: "Those people didn't follow you?"
Niu Niu pouted, knowing who Huo Manshu was asking, and said unhappily: "They are so annoying. They always surround me. I didn't tell my mother and sneaked out."
Huo Manshu made a sound and concentrated on digging up her wild vegetables. The gossiping women around her kept talking about Wang Sheng's family as if they hadn't seen Niu Niu.
Niu Niu didn't seem to hear, she just hugged her knees and watched Huo Manshu digging wild vegetables without saying a word.
"Did you hear what those people said? Aren't you angry?"
Huo Manshu continued to dig wild vegetables at hand. Seeing Niu Niu staring at her, she said a few more words: "What's so interesting about digging wild vegetables?"
Niuniu didn't reply.
When Huo Manshu finished digging the wild vegetables around her and was about to leave, Niu Niu suddenly said, "It's useless."
Huo Manshu raised her eyebrows in confusion.
"It's useless to talk to those people." Niu Niu's voice was filled with tears. "They all say that I am a child and I don't understand adults' things."
Perhaps she was really too wronged, so Niu Niu sobbed softly, wiping her tears with her sleeves, her mouth depressed in grievance.
Only then did Huo Manshu understand that Niu Niu was answering the question she had asked her before.
Aren't you angry when you listen to those women talking about your family's affairs?
angry.
Obviously Niuniu was angry. She might have fought before, but she was ignored by these adults for the ridiculous reason that you were just a child.
Huo Manshu had never experienced it herself and did not understand Niu Niu's grievances. She was not afraid of teaching children bad things. She just said: "Since they all say you are a child, why don't you solve it in a child's way?"
Huo Manshu looked at Niu Niu in confusion, "Isn't it normal for children to behave and roll around? Maybe it's possible to accidentally scratch someone else's face."
Niuniu was stunned, her eyes wide open, and she asked Huo Manshu in a low and hesitant voice, "Are these okay?" "Of course."
Huo Manshu nodded as she should, without any consciousness of teaching bad children, "Don't they all admit that you are a child?"
Seeing Niu Niu's hesitant expression, Huo Manshu tilted her head in confusion. This was really a strange child.
However, she didn't care much about Niuniu's affairs. She stuffed the wild vegetables in her hand into the illustrated book, and Huo Manshu prepared to change places.
"Sister, do you still want to dig those wild vegetables?" Niu Niu called her from behind.
"If sister, you like those wild vegetables, there are many in the woods not far ahead. I have seen them."
Afraid that Huo Manshu wouldn't believe it, Niuniu timidly added: "I told you because you are a good-looking and kind-hearted sister."
Huo Manshu hummed, looked in the direction Niuniu pointed, and saw the forest rising up.
"Thank you."
After saying these two words briefly, Huo Manshu took her small bench and small hoe and went to the forest.
The trees inside are very lush, blocking the sun and adding a bit of a spooky atmosphere.
Huo Manshu looked around for two seconds, found the wild vegetables she wanted to dig on the ground, and then carried the small bench in.
After she entered, the forest seemed to be even more gloomy.
Huo Manshu felt quite comfortable. The sun was too strong outside, and it felt like an air-conditioned room in the forest.
Her little hoe never rested.
It wasn't until her eyes became pitch black and she couldn't see anything anymore that Homanshu put down her little hoe.
I just wonder if it got dark too fast today.
After thinking about it, Huo Manshu released the snack and prepared to let it hump her back to the village.
But after the snacks were released, I only heard the snacks croaking excitedly twice, and it suddenly became bright again.
Huo Manshu was confused and asked about snacks with her eyes.
Xiaoshi narrowed her big round eyes, licked her mouth with her long tongue, and exclaimed: "It's delicious! Snack! It's so delicious."
As he spoke, he also raised its frog webs to show Homanshu a comparison: "Such a big black mist demon is delicious! I know that you, Master, have always been thinking of me."
Huo Manshu blinked, this must be a beautiful misunderstanding.
But
"What is the Black Mist Demon?"
There is no introduction to this in the illustrated book.
"The Black Mist Demon is a mass of black mist."
Xiaoshi explained it like an uncultured toad, "It's not aggressive, but once trapped by it, you can't find a way out and will starve to death inside. Xiaoshi likes to eat it the most because it smells like rot." ”
Huo Manshu said oh, then looked at the wild vegetables on the ground, sat back on her small bench, and nodded the place next to her with a small hoe: "Snack, sit here, and eat more when the food comes later."
When the Black Mist Demon felt like vomiting after eating the snacks, Huo Manshu finally stopped, packed her things and went back.
Looking back at the forest through which a few rays of sunlight had filtered through, Huo Manshu thought to herself that she would probably see someone's disappointed face when she went back.
(End of chapter)