Chapter 158 The sun and moon change the sky
Shen Dinghai wrinkled his face, "Stop talking... After what I experienced with Tao Yao, I now have wedding PTSD. The village chief has made such a big fuss and is strictly guarding against us. His son's wedding must not be simple."
Ran Ran nodded.
The village chief looked at his "masterpiece" and smiled with satisfaction, "I know that little girl like you is also a mage, but there is a gap between a mage and a mage!"
"You are just a little-known girl. How can you compare with our Heavenly Master? Don't even think about struggling."
After the village chief finished speaking, he was about to leave, but he bumped into someone at the door.
It was the black-haired boy who said nothing.
The village chief waved his hand with disgust, "Stay away from me! What a bad luck!"
The black-haired boy took a few steps back when he heard Mo Mo, looking like he had long been used to it.
The village chief had already walked away a few steps, but then turned back as if he suddenly remembered something.
"Dongsheng! Did you let the outsider in?!"
Ran Ran and the others were separated in the room by Huang Fu. Although they were a little far away from the village chief, he did not deliberately lower his voice this time, and even raised his voice out of anger.
Ran Ran and the others heard it clearly.
Shen Dinghai smacked his lips, "This village chief is also very smart. It was indeed this young man named Dongsheng who brought us in."
Ranran's eyes looked at Dongsheng from a distance.
"Dongsheng is not an ordinary person, he is a special child..."
The anger of the village chief outside the house continued, "You have no brain, right?! I want you to bring more people in, but did I also say that you don't need to do this during this period?!"
"Now is an important period. You can put everything aside for a while! Don't wander around the village entrance to pick up people these days. Just stay at home!"
"Watch these three people!"
Ran Ran looked at the dead trees in the yard and realized that where they were was Dongsheng's home.
That old woman is probably Dongsheng's mother or grandmother.
The village chief's words also made them understand that this young man named Dongsheng's usual duty in the village is to attract people.
If he met someone who couldn't enter the village, he would show up and lead them in.
"I thought he was a good kid! I didn't expect him to be the village chief's accomplice!" Shen Dinghai's face was full of anger, as if his trust had been betrayed.
Ran Ran's expression was calm, "He never said he was here to help us."
"We followed ourselves, so we can't blame him."
Shen Dinghai was speechless.
Wu Pannan, who had been silent, finally spoke, "Then what should we do now?"
"Not only Huang Fu, but the village chief also sent two people to watch us. Can we leave at night?"
Ran Ran didn't answer immediately. She stared at Dongsheng who was approaching after finishing the conversation with the village chief. The other party was still expressionless and silent.
Ranran suddenly called him.
"Dongsheng! I have something to tell you."
The old woman who had been silently tidying up in the room stopped, and she raised her old face to look at Dongsheng.
Dongsheng seemed not to have heard anything, and walked straight towards the house, just as his feet were about to cross the threshold.
Ranran stretched out her hand, pointed at the dead tree in the yard, and said with a smile: "Is this tree the kitten's home?"
Dongsheng paused and raised his dark eyes to look at Ranran.
They are a pair of extremely cold and calm eyes, which when looking at people will give the person being looked at the illusion of being seen through.
Both Shen Dinghai and Wu Pannan couldn't help but tense up, but Ran Ran, who was being looked at directly, seemed not to feel anything and was still smiling.
"Where is the kitten now?"
Dongsheng looked at Ran Ran quietly, his lips moved, but still did not make any sound.
Finally, it was the old woman who spoke, "Our Dongsheng was seriously ill when he was a child. His throat was injured and he couldn't speak." Shen Dinghai hissed softly, "He is actually mute... He is so good-looking. It’s a bit of a pity.”
The moment he finished speaking, he despised himself in his heart.
This kid is the evil village chief's helper. Being mute can only be said to be retribution, and it's just that he can't speak, which gives him an advantage!
The smile on Ran Ran's face did not change, "If you can't speak, you can always listen to us. Just now I saw that there is no inconvenience for the village chief to communicate with him."
The old woman put her old bark-like hands into the cold mountain spring water, and carefully washed the wild vegetables in her hands.
"If you want to talk to a mute, you might as well talk to me, an old woman."
"The night is still long."
The orange light in the sky disappeared without knowing when, and without the afterglow of the sun, the sky gradually darkened.
It's almost night.
Ran Ran blinked, "I'm talking to Dongsheng because I have something to ask him. Besides, don't you have to go to work at night?"
The old woman was silent for a while, "Miss, she knows a lot about the village. She doesn't look like someone who just came to the village."
Ranran smiled and said: "I just listened carefully when everyone was talking. I didn't play any tricks, and the magician's tricks are even more useless."
The old woman sighed, "It is the best choice to listen to the village chief honestly, otherwise you will only have the worst ending."
Ranran wrinkled her nose, looking innocent and naive.
"I don't think there's anything worse than staying in the village."
"Especially for women."
When she said this, her eyes swept over the old woman's silver hair, wrinkles, and bark-like hands.
The old woman stopped cleaning the wild vegetables, and when she raised her eyes again, her old eyes seemed to be filled with unresolved autumn water.
Silence slowly spread in the room.
The old woman's lips trembled, "What exactly are you here for?"
"Before, it was just to help my friends fulfill their wishes." Ranran stopped smiling, "Now I want to find out more about this village."
The old woman pinched the vegetables and shook the water, but her hands holding the vegetables were a little too strong.
"After washing, I'm going to make some food. My house is simple, and I only have these things to entertain you."
"Dongsheng, help my mother collect some firewood in the yard."
The so-called firewood is the dead branches fallen from the dead trees in the yard.
Ran Ran raised her lips with satisfaction, and she watched the black-haired boy silently bending down to pick up branches in the yard.
Shen Dinghai murmured and sighed, "She is actually Dongsheng's mother. Judging from her appearance, she must be a grandma!"
Wu Pannan answered, "It's normal for women in mountain villages to work hard and look older than they actually are."
Shen Dinghai nodded reluctantly, "But I still feel that the gap is too big. Dongsheng looks like a teenager, but his mother already has silver hair. She is simply a weathered old man."
"When she was talking to the village chief just now, I thought they were of the same generation."
When Shen Dinghai looked at the focused Ran Ran, he became confused again, "Cousin, what on earth were you and the old lady talking about just now?"
"I know what each word is, but together I don't understand it."
Ran Ran stared at the black-haired boy intently, "To put it simply, I am gaining the trust of this lady."
"And so far, it seems to be quite successful."
"She has agreed to take a gamble with us."
"Ah?" Shen Dinghai rubbed a piece of green hair into a bird's nest, "When did you agree? Why didn't I hear it? Why is she betting with us?"
Ran Ran's eyes flashed with confusion, "I can't understand why she agreed to us so easily."
"Perhaps people have been in despair for a long time, and they want to grab a little bit of hope, even if they know that the price of failure in the bet will be heavy."
"The content of the bet is also very simple."
"Let's see if we can transform this ancient village into a new one."
