Chapter 44 Coming
The chirping sounds came from far and near, attracting Shang Wan's attention.
She threw the broken screen aside with a bang, straightened up and looked at the entrance to the forest at the foot of the mountain in the distance that had been trampled by humans.
"Sister, what's wrong?" Shitou wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to look in the direction where Shang Wan was looking.
"There are monkeys." Shang Wan frowned slightly, "There are many."
As she finished speaking, an old monkey with white hair took the lead in grabbing the vine and swinging out from the entrance at the foot of the mountain and landed on the branch.
It turned around and chirped into the forest, raising its arms to gesture with something.
But for a moment, Shitou watched helplessly as the bare tree with new buds was covered with monkeys of all sizes.
Later, the monkeys could no longer stand, and monkeys began to grow on nearby trees. It was as if the monkeys in this mountain had come down to have a party, and they were chattering lively.
Yuanyuan was so happy that she clapped her little hands and repeated in a soft childish voice, "Come...come..."
"Yuanyuan, what did you say?" Lu Chengjing leaned closer to listen.
"Come!" Yuanyuan said one word crisply.
Lu Chengjing was confused, what's coming?
The next second he knew what was coming. A group of brown-haired monkeys ran towards them in a swarm, chirping, and if they looked closely, they were even in formation.
Lu Chengjing:? ? ?
Monkeys can hurt people. Shitou subconsciously picked up the wooden board at hand. Xiaohuan simply held the kitchen knife he had just found in his hand and stared warily at the group of monkeys that were approaching.
"Don't be nervous." Shang Wan glanced at his particularly excited cubs and said in a complicated tone, "They should be here to help."
"What?" Shitou suspected that he was hallucinating.
Xiaohuan asked: "Sister, did you recruit me?"
Shang Wanxin said that she didn't have that ability, and the real master was over there slapping her.
"Come on!" Yuanyuan's big eyes shone with excitement, and the clapping of her little fleshy hands became louder and louder.
Lu Chengjing's eyelids were twitching, and he had an intuition that if he allowed Yuanyuan to continue, something uncontrollable would happen.
"Yuanyuan." Lu Chengjing grabbed one of his daughter's little hands, shook it gently, and said warmly, "Daddy will tell you a story, okay?"
The movement was interrupted, and the brilliance in the round eyes disappeared. He was surprised to find that his little hand was in great pain, and he quickly raised it in front of his father, with tears in his eyes, "It hurts! Whoops!"
Lu Chengjing followed his words and gently blew his hands in front of him, but out of the corner of his eye he was observing the group of wild monkeys that had come to his house.
The monkeys happily joined the cleaning team. Even because there were too many monkeys and not enough space, the old monkey ran over and drove Shang Wan and the others out of the cleaning area.
Under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys had a clear division of labor. They moved, carried, picked up small objects, and flexibly shuttled among the ruins.
The three of them, Shang Wan, went from being the main cleaning force at the beginning to helping the monkeys distinguish whether the things they were holding were still usable.
Put the ones that are intact in one pile, put the ones that can be used after repairing, put the ones that can be recycled, and put the ones that are completely unusable.
Shitou and Xiaohuan were a little awkward at first, always feeling that it was strange to command a group of monkeys. Later, they gradually got used to it and communicated with the monkeys more and more smoothly.
Shitou even learned a few words of monkey language without any teacher and danced along with the monkeys.
Xiaohuan covered her face to show that she didn't see anything.
Shang Wan carried two good wooden buckets to the well and fetched two buckets of water. By fidgeting with the water, he dropped two drops of spiritual spring water into each one, which was a favor for Yuanyuan to give to the monkeys.
She waved to the old monkey and pointed to the two buckets. The old monkey ran over, looked at Shang Wan and then at the bucket, stretched out his paws to fish out some water, put it into his mouth, smacked it, and then fished out some more.
Visible to the naked eye, the old monkey's hair that turned white due to old age has returned to light brown like dyeing.
The old monkey felt the benefit and stretched out his paws to get two more mouthfuls of water.
In just a moment, the wrinkled skin on the old monkey's face became smoother as if it had been ironed.
Seeing that the old monkey still wanted to stretch his paw towards the bucket, Shang Wan grabbed its arm and said in a low voice, regardless of whether the old monkey understood or not: "It's not a good thing to be greedy, let's share it together."
The old monkey knew that the human in front of him was not easy to mess with. Seeing Shang Wan looking at the group of monkeys busy in the ruins, he instantly understood what this human meant.
He grinned and chirped at the monkeys, receiving numerous responses.
Shang Wan let it go and saw that under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys came one after another to get saliva after putting things away. After drinking, they left, and when they finished their work, they came again to get saliva.
The effect of Lingquan water on the young monkeys is not as obvious as on the old monkeys, but the benefits should be there, otherwise the monkeys would not work harder and harder just to get water from the bucket.
Seeing that the second bucket reached the bottom, the old monkey looked at Shang Wan eagerly, holding his paws together humanely and bowing to Shang Wan to please him.
Seeing that the monkeys worked hard and helped a lot, Shang Wan filled two buckets and followed the same pattern.
Lu Chengjing, who was watching everything, certainly did not miss the changes in the old monkey. He suspected that Shang Wan had added the elixir to the water to treat his injuries. In fact, he had always been curious about where Shang Wan's elixir came from.
Lu Chengjing's probing gaze was noticed by Shang Wan, but she was unprepared to confess to Lu Chengjing now, and she didn't make up a lie, so she could only pretend that she didn't notice, and let Lu Chengjing worry about it.
Monkeys in large numbers are powerful. With the help of the monkeys, the work that originally took several days to complete can be completed in less than half a day.
That is to say, the thatched house is far away from where the villagers live, and everyone is busy cleaning the house and has no time to visit everywhere. Otherwise, the monkeys would have been discovered by the villagers long ago if they were so noisy.
The monkeys had no work to do. They were taking naps one by one and fluffing their fur, with no intention of leaving.
Xiaohuan looked at Shang Wan, "Sister, do I have to treat them to a meal before they leave?"
If you hire someone to work, you have to pay the salary and take care of the food. It should be the same for monkeys, right?
To this day, Xiaohuan still thinks that these monkeys were brought in by Shang Wan.
Shang Wan glanced at Yuanyuan, who was sleeping snoring in Lu Chengjing's arms, walked over, reached out and poked the little guy's bulging cheeks.
Yuanyuan pursed her lips, turned over, turned her head to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly.
Shang Wan continued to poke.
Being disturbed again, Yuanyuan wrinkled her little nose, raised her little hand and waved it impatiently, muttering: "Bad...play, let's go!"
As soon as the word "go" was pronounced, the bored monkeys, led by the old monkey, ran towards the mountains and forests, as if they had received some collective instructions.
With a stone against the head of the chicken coop, he reluctantly waved his hands to a few familiar monkeys and shouted: "Next time, I will help you flip your feathers!"
Everyone: "..."
"Yuanyuan...what's going on?" Lu Chengjing looked up at Shang Wan, instinctively feeling that Yuanyuan's strangeness had something to do with Shang Wan.
Yuanyuan was too young, and she had supernatural powers but didn't know how to hide them. She was just an outsider. Shang Wan had no intention of hiding it from his family.
But, not now.
She turned to look outside and saw a small figure running towards her. Li Xiaoshan shouted as he ran: "Sister! It's not good! Something happened!"
(End of chapter)