Chapter 116 Secret Talk on Late Night
"…The evil witches burned to ashes, Hansel and Gret, who ate in the candy house, and stuffed their pockets and aprons with pearls and gems from the witch's room.
They returned to their familiar homes, rushed into the room, and threw themselves into their father's arms.
Their father, since he left his child in the forest, has never been happy for a moment, and his wife has also died. The family of three has lived a happy and happy life with the treasures brought back by the children…”
Listening to Poluo's story, Lake, who was standing beside him, smiled quietly.
She blinked, looking at the stars in the night sky.
"Is the house formed by candy? That's a good story!"
Lake's fingers pressed against his white chin, thought for a while, and then asked, "Are the two children in the story also called Hansel and Gret?"
"Yes, so they may also be derived from a fairy tale."
Poluo added, he stretched out his hand, and a golden light was gradually combining into a page.
"But this time, with us helping them, with money, those two children should not experience those dangers again, right?"
Lake smiled slightly, "Their parents don't seem to want to abandon their two children - they cried with excitement when they saw the two little guys!"
"Yes, it's really a good thing if our help can save a family in advance."
Poluo nodded too.
Although in his opinion, that pair of parents were not very competent.
But in such a poor situation, morality is not so important compared to physical hunger.
So far, every fairy tale that I and Lake have experienced has undergone great distortions.
If there really is such a witch in the forest...
With just two children themselves, the chance of survival is almost nothing.
"I just hope that the couple's previous emotions are from the heart."
Poluo shook his head, and the new fairy tale pages in his hand also condensed his body.
On it, there is a small house built with chocolate, cakes, candies, biscuits and other desserts and delicacies.
【Ringular Return: Candy House·Dessert Feast】
【Fairy Tale Power: Unknown】
【Unlocking ceremony: Find the candy house hidden deep in the jungle and taste the food combined into the candy house】
[Description: The stomach is so hungry that it is so painful that it is spasm and thrilling. In a trance, you pass through a forest again. Finally, you see - that sweet paradise! 】
"Is the Candy House real?"
Lake looked at the pages in Poluo's hand, revealing a hint of surprise.
"There will be an old witch in the candy house that eats children? Alas, if such a witch could be a good person, how great would it be."
Lake sighed, but then she thought of something again, swallowing slightly with a swan-like neck.
"Poro, if there is really a house with so many candies and cakes... how good would it be? That must be delicious, right? And chocolate, what is that?
If the Candy House really appears in front of me, I must have a big meal! ”
"But there are so many desserts that will definitely cause bad stomachs and tooth decay..."
"I just say it, I eat very few desserts."
The girl frowned slightly, "When I was in the forest, there was only one time. When my grandmother went out to wipe out a group of foreign bandits, she brought me two candies.
The taste...I've forgotten it now.
But at that time, I thought that it must be the best food in the world! ”
After hearing this, Poluo's eyes looked at Lake became much softer.
He didn't react for a moment just now. Although he was a wolf, he was a modern person in his previous life. He often ate these cakes and candies.
But Lake is different.
This girl has lived in the forest since she was a child. Even now, she has never spent money to buy snacks other than those meals.
These...the things that rich children often eat are extremely unfamiliar to Laike.
"That's it, I just made a joke."
Poluo patted the girl's head lying on her side and said with a smile, "We are rich now. When we arrive in the next city, we will buy a lot of cakes, candies, and chocolates to eat!
We eat as much as we want! ”
"Huh? Didn't you just say that it would damage your teeth? It would also damage your stomach..."
"Don't worry, with your current physique, you just eat some desserts. What's the matter?"
Poluo approached the girl's smooth cheeks and blinked gently, "Besides, you are the great hero who saved the Kingdom of Boren, the savior's savior's snacks, what's wrong with eating some snacks?
I think who dares to stop the Savior from eating snacks? ”
"Hey! Big Bad Wolf, why are you kidding this again!"
Lake said with a pout, but her expectant and yearning look in her eyes could not suppress it.
Outside the carriage, the night wind blew across the forest and rustled.
Poluo looked at the sleeping girl next to her, with a quiet smile on her face, as if she had eaten delicious food in a dream?
"It's okay, Lake, we have money now, and eat whatever we want."
Poluo walked out of the carriage and it was time to watch.
Poluo, Lake and veterans have always been in rotation to watch the night, and today, Poluo is the first to watch the night.
The smell from all directions drifted along the forest wind.
There was no beastly storm, just like the previous few nights, just as Poluo looked at the crescent moon in the sky and yawned, he suddenly heard-
Not far away, a slight sound suddenly came from the small house where Hansel and Grett brothers lived.
"Huh? Do those people don't sleep at night?"
Through the night, Poluo noticed that the somewhat broken wooden door of the wooden house suddenly opened a small crack, and one of the figures flashed by.
With one eye, he glanced at him and others, and then quickly closed the door.
The movement is very small, but it cannot be hidden from Poluo, who has a sharp perception.
"Is it Hansel and Gret's parents? I was so excited to sleep after getting the gold coins? Or..."
Poluo narrowed his green wolf eyes slightly and approached the wooden house with the night light.
He remembered what he saw in the evening, the stepmother of the Hanselgret brother and sister, and the expression of the woman, for some reason, which made Polu feel a strange sense of hypocrisy.
It's like wearing a bad mask.
"Since you haven't slept, I'm not sleeping either, then I'll listen to what you are going to do?"
Poluo walked to the corner of the wooden house and pressed the wolf's ear against the wall, with a hint of red light in his eyes.
He used the power of the "crazy dancer" to bless his hearing. In an instant, the sounds coming from the house became much clearer.
It was the voice of the couple.
Even in the house, he tried his best to lower his voice. If the eavesdropper was not Poluo, if it were an ordinary person, he would probably not be able to hear it.
"Did those people sleep?"
The woman's voice.
"I'm asleep. What do you want to say to me? Why do you have to wait until the children fall asleep with these people before talking to me?"
The man's voice seemed a little confused.
"Hmph, I'll send you a little farther next time, don't let them come back!"
The woman lowered her voice and said, revealing dissatisfaction in her words.
"Uh, you...what did you say?"
"Hansel and Gret, the place you chose this time is still too close. Can't you do this?"
"Yes, but they are my children after all. How could I give up on them again?"
The man's voice seemed a little surprised, "And, aren't we rich now? Those gold coins have been enough to eat for a long time, and wait until the crops grow..."
"You, you, you are such a coward!"
The woman lowered her voice and said, "Why are your two children, such young children, who are so young, still able to come back in the middle of the night when they are thrown into the forest!? Think about it carefully!"
"Ah? Why?"
"They must have died long ago and were possessed by the evil spirits deep in the forest! They are no longer your children!"
The woman's voice gritted her teeth, "After so long, have you never heard of the monsters in the forest?"
There are also those people, I think most of them are not good things! ”
"Ah? Why? Are the gold coins they gave real?"
"Do you think those big men can give you gold coins? Those gorgeous landlords in the town can stop at the door of your house, so just give you gold coins? If he doesn't steal your copper plate, you'll be glad!
Look at those people, their clothes, how could they look like nobles?
Have you ever touched such a gold coin in your life? ”
"Ah? What should I do?"
The man's voice sounded more and more confident in women's words, and became a little panicked.
"Hmph, what if you weren't a coward? Kill them?"
The woman's voice suddenly changed, "They have these gold coins, so there are more. As long as we start first, we can get more!"
"However, but kill someone?"
"You cut trees every day, is Bai Chang's strength?"
The woman raised her tone a little bit, and then became a little more relaxed, "I am also for our future. In this world, I am the only one who is really and wholeheartedly doing your good."
The woman squeezed out a soft tone, "You think, when we get the money on hand, we will send the deviled child away, and go to the city to buy a new house, a few pieces of land...
They can give these gold coins, and they will definitely have a lot of money on hand—
If we hire a few more long-term workers, we can also... be rich masters for the rest of our lives! ”
Inside the room, the sound of a man swallowing, as if he was moved, but he still asked:
"But, but those people have swords, and they seem to have bows, and they look very powerful..."
"Are you stupid? Did I ask you to fight them head-on?"
The woman's voice was filled with the semantics of "I hate it but I can't make you stronger", and she said hatefully, "Isn't there a lot of rat poison left in our family?"
Tomorrow morning, I will take the remaining rice, cook some porridge, and put the medicine in it!
Then you say that to thank them for sending the children back, treat them to eat, and wait for their stomach pain to be unsatisfactory - at that time, weren’t you doing whatever you wanted? ”
It seems that he is still a little hesitant when he sees his own man, and the woman's voice is taking advantage of the victory and chasing him.
"Those people, looking at the large number of people, are they not that difficult to deal with! They are all humans - can they still take rat poison without any harm?"
As the woman said, she began to describe her "strategy".
"That dog looks fierce. Then you can take some black dough, dip it in some lard and apply medicine to the beast, and you can make that stupid beast fall down in a few minutes!
Among those people, there were red cloaks and the woman in the frame, with fine skin and tender flesh, those swords and bows - they must be scary!
There is also the thin man who looks like a pole and looks like a dying man.
You just need to kill the gray-haired guy with a stronger gray hair and a stronger guy, and cooperate with rat poison. The other few, can you still not deal with the axe?
I promise that if you cut them with an axe, it will definitely be faster than cutting trees!
At that time, we will bury the body into the forest, ride on their carriage, take the money and leave, who can know? ”
"Well, what if... they are really good people?"
After a while, the man said another sentence.
"Where are so many good people coming from this world?"
The woman's voice, the disappointment was exposed, "Even if it's a good person, have I beg them to save them?"
You are too cowardly and dare not do anything, so you can only cut down a tree for the rest of your life! ”
The woman continued, "My sister, the guy he married, at first, you said he was idle and lazy and didn't even cut trees-
But what happened later? He picked up his knife and made a few orders, then made a lot of money and bought a house.
You see, is anyone going to cause trouble for him now?
And you? ”
In the words of women, it seems to be thinking about men, and it seems to be a bit of excitement. "The world is so sad now. No matter how kind you are, you are still hungry and nothing is there?
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Do you want to be a poor person for the rest of your life, or may you be a villain at this moment?
What's more, these people are probably not good people.
Of course, I am considering you, not forcing you, you would rather be poor for the rest of your life, and I have no objection..."
The man took a breath, and he didn't say anything.
But Poluo, who eavesdropped on the wall outside the house, understood that most of the time, such silence often means agreement.
He heard a few subtle sounds inside the house again.
It was like a man took off the axe from the wall and began to wipe it.
"Ha!"
After a while, Poluo suddenly laughed in anger.
He looked at the dark sky outside, and there was a murderous intent deep in his dark green eyes.
Stupid, greedy...
It was fully displayed in this couple.
Get one gold coin and want more?
If you even want to use rat poison, how many of them will you kill yourself?
Sure enough, Hansel and Gret, the poor brother and sister, had such a pair of parents, even if they had gold coins, they would probably be inevitable - the fate of being thrown into the forest and being forced to take risks!
In the current situation, I am afraid that this cruel and greedy stepmother will die like in fairy tales.
Only their stupid father can reflect on it slightly and find the "family affection" they have lost for a long time?
But Poluo hasn't been so angry for a long time.
Of course, this time the anger was a little different from those who killed giants, witch hunters, and bishops who controlled their minds...
He also felt a deep sorrow.
"Sure enough, you still have to kill this man's wife like in the fairy tale and plant some fear in the man's heart. He will understand that doing evil will also cost you!"
Poluo licked his lips.
He saw that if there was no woman's instigation, this somewhat stupid, cowardly and unintentional lumberjack would probably not be able to abandon children or kill them for money.
As for dealing with such things, there is no need to let Lake participate.
After all, the girl was just happy that she had used a few gold coins to change the fate of the Hanselgret brother and sister.
Let Lake rest for a while in the dream brought by the "Candy House"!
Besides, they are just two ordinary people.
Now, Poluo can guarantee that even the man lumberjack, who was holding the axe and chopping against him in front of him, wouldn't be injured at all!
This is not difficult to understand. I have fought with a giant and learned magic.
No matter how much role it played, Poluo was not afraid when facing a few ordinary people who had evil thoughts.
"If it's morning, they will have to waste white porridge, so let's do it now!"
Poluo thought this way, popped out his sharp claws, licked his sharp teeth with his scarlet tongue, and then possessed himself, ready to jump into it through the window of the wooden house.
But at this moment, a sharp breaking sound broke through the silence of the night!
Poluo was stunned, stopped, took a few steps back, and looked at the source of the sound—
At the beam of the wooden house!
"Click—Click—"
The clearer and more violent sound was more obvious than the previous first sound!
And Poluo also saw a slender and deep crack spreading everywhere at the support of the roof and walls of the wooden house!
At the beginning of the crack, there are several small holes that are not conspicuous.
It is probably because the walls of this wooden house have been emptied by ants or other insects, and coupled with the erosion of rain, it has long been a bit difficult to support...
In addition, tonight, their life span has unfortunately reached its end.
Just as the man who was the owner of the house had evil thoughts in his heart, the wooden house was finally overwhelmed!
"Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-
The sound of shattering that made people feel sour and spread to the entire roof instantly. After a few seconds, all the broken parts finally stacked, crossing a critical value!
"Boom!"
Poluo watched helplessly, and the wooden house in front of him collapsed instantly!
I only had time to dodge aside so that the wood thorns and gravel shot out would not rub my hair.
The wooden house... suddenly collapsed! ?
巨大的声响，让地面都震了一下。
It seems particularly obvious on the dark night!
"What's wrong? Poluo? What happened?!"
Lake and his men in the carriage were also very clear-headed and clear-headed. Ordinary people could hear clear movements. To them, they were even more like thunder!
A few seconds after the wooden house collapsed, Lake and the veteran were fully armed and unsheathed their swords and rushed out of the carriage!
They also looked astonished when they saw the collapsed wooden house and turned into ruins.
"Uh, I actually didn't react."
Poluo looked at the broken wooden thorns and beams beside him, shrugging, "I haven't had time to do anything yet!"
...
"Bang—"
Lake struggled to lift a beam as thick as his waist, threw it aside, splashing a piece of smoke and dust.
A hero...
Although you can jump onto the giant's back in a few steps, a sword can cut off the giant's neck.
But seeing such a slim and weak girl throwing out the thick beam like a wooden stick, Poluo still feels a little moved.
"Finished!"
Lake's eyes lit up, and his worried look instantly replaced him with a hint of joy.
The girl stretched out her hand and carefully pushed a few crisscrossing cross-bowls apart, revealing a triangular cavity.
"Hansel, Gret, don't be afraid. Grab my hand and crawl out carefully, don't hurt it."
The wooden house collapsed, but fortunately, Hansel and Grett's bedrooms were in a narrow corner of the house. Because of this, the collapsed beams formed an angle between the unfallen walls.
Although the two children were pale and still in shock, fortunately, except for some wooden thorn scratches, there were no serious injuries.
Hansel picked up his red-eyed sister and handed it to Lake.
Then he grabbed the beam of the house and climbed out.
He was also pale, but no tears came out.
"Well, I think their parents are probably really helpless."
On the other side, the voice of the veteran came.
Poro and Lek walked forward, which was the center of the roof collapse, and it was also the place where the couple rested.
The veteran said that there was no problem.
The woman was dead, and the tilted beam passed through her abdomen and pressed her against the wall on the other side. Her body was hanging in the air, and blood flowed and dripped along the beam.
Her hands hung weakly on the beam that penetrated her abdomen.
The sides of the beams were covered with bloody scratches.
Shortly after the collapse of the house began, several people outside heard the woman's howl, but now, before Po Luo could take action, she was obviously dead.
Not far away from her, the man was also lying on the side, covered in blood.
Poluo and the veteran walked forward.
The man's leg artery was also cut open by a whirlwind piece of wood, his arms twisted, and the broken bones extended through the skin.
With the amount of bleeding on the ground, for an ordinary person, he has undoubtedly been sentenced to death!
Seeing Lake and others, as well as Hansel and Grett who appeared later, a complicated expression flashed in his already dark eyes. His mouth was bleeding, opening and closing, as if he was about to say something.
Poluo took another step forward and heard what he said from the man's voice as thin as a mosquito and flies.
"Sorry...I'm really...I'm sorry..."
After saying these words, the last trace of the man's breath disappeared.
"Father...?"
Hansel and Gret, seeing this scene, wanted to run forward.
But preventing them from being hurt by the sharp wooden thorns and ruins in the space, Laike still grabbed them.
Unlike her attitude towards that woman, a teardrop flowed out again in the girl Gret's eyes, and she was sobbing all over her body.
Hansel, who was on the other side, patted his sister on the back. He wanted to turn his head, but his eyes also turned red.
"Your father, I just asked me to tell you to live well - be a strong person."
The veteran stood up, walked out of the ruins, looked at the two children with sad faces, thought for a while, squatted down, patted the two children's heads with their rough hands, and said in a deep voice.
For some reason, the veteran's hoarse voice could bring considerable comfort to the two children.
Hansel raised his head, faced the veteran's eyes, and nodded slightly.
"I... understand, thank you sir."
(This chapter ends)