Chapter 70 Medical Miracle
Jiang Liyue was unaware that in the eyes of the viewers, she was already close to becoming the village tyrant of Paper Doll Village.
She felt that she had been behaving exceptionally well-behaved and obediently.
As I left the ancestral hall, I encountered several households, all of which had their doors tightly shut.
Looking through the paper window, the room seemed completely dark.
It looked as if no one had lived there for a long time.
But clearly, the white paper flowers stuck at the door of every household still looked brand new.
The longer Jiang Liyue wandered around the village, the more pronounced that strange feeling became in her heart.
If it weren't for the paper flowers and paper figures that can be seen everywhere on the roadside.
This place seems to be an abandoned village that has been desolate for many years.
No one lives there.
Jiang Liyue didn't encounter any of the passengers that Wang Cuifen had told her about being rescued from the bus.
When they reached the end of the village, Jiang Liyue finally saw a living person in front of a dilapidated house.
He was an elderly man with gray hair who looked to be in his eighties or nineties. He wore a patched blue cloth shirt, and his skin looked wrinkled and covered with age spots.
At this moment, he was sitting under the eaves, hunched over, making paper figures.
Jiang Liyue wasn't embarrassed at all. She walked into his yard and greeted him familiarly, "Grandpa, are you making paper figures?"
The old man looked up at her, and Jiang Liyue then noticed that his eyes were dull and devoid of any light.
It turned out to be a blind old man.
"Grandpa, I just arrived in the village yesterday. You can call me Yueyue." Jiang Liyue didn't feel embarrassed at not receiving a reply and continued to talk to him on her own.
The blind old man opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing, and continued with his work with his head down.
This was the first time Jiang Liyue had ever been ignored like this.
Whether before or after transmigrating into the book, she could easily win the favor of most people with her pleasing appearance and her ability to speak to people in a way that suited them.
Older people, in particular, find it hard to resist her.
What's more, she also has the aura of seeing and loving strange creatures, and can even charm the weird creatures that treat humans as food.
However, Jiang Liyue never took these things for granted, so she didn't feel unhappy.
Instead, he went to the eaves, pulled up a small stool, and sat down next to the blind old man, praising him sincerely, "You're amazing! You can still make paper figures even though you can't see."
This wasn't just idle talk; the old man's movements as he made paper figures were anything but slow.
If Jiang Liyue hadn't seen his empty eyes, she wouldn't have believed that he couldn't see anything at all.
“I’ve done too much,” the blind old man finally spoke.
His voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time.
"So it's true that practice makes perfect?" Jiang Liyue exclaimed.
"Yes," the blind old man sighed, "you only need to touch it, and your hands will naturally know what to do."
“We’ve done too much,” he remarked cryptically, as the paper figures in his hands gradually took shape.
Jiang Liyue was seeing this kind of craft for the first time, and she was eager to try: "Grandpa, can I give it a shot?"
She has always enjoyed learning all sorts of things, and she learned many skills while filming, including making lanterns.
She became interested in watching the blind old man make paper figures.
The blind old man didn't speak, but simply pointed to a pile of materials under the eaves.
Jiang Liyue knew that he meant he agreed, so she seriously started making paper figures, just like the old man.
The viewers in the live chat were shocked to see Jiang Liyue suddenly start making paper figures.
Wait, how did I suddenly end up in the craft channel?
[Yueyue is probably the first player to learn how to make paper dolls in a dungeon.]
Aren't you afraid the paper figures might suddenly come to life?
[I've seen this dungeon before, but the blind old man clearly can't speak; he can only gesture at most. So, isn't he actually mute?]
Is this what they call a medical miracle?
Is it possible that they weren't actually mute, but just didn't want to talk to other players, haha?
[It's confirmed that Yueyue's wife is lovable]
[To other players: Aba aba; To Yueyue: Do this first, then do this]
Is this what they call double standards?
Although the old man didn't speak, Jiang Liyue could sense that he had slowed down his movements, deliberately letting her learn.
Making paper figures is an extremely patient task. Jiang Liyue sat here for more than an hour and only managed to make a rough skeleton.
But the blind old man stopped what he was doing: "Time's up."
Without saying what time it was, he simply stood up, holding the paper figure he had made and the half-finished product Jiang Liyue had made, and turned to walk into the house.
After he stood up, his hunchback became even more pronounced, like a flickering candle in the wind, exuding a sense of desolation as if he were about to go out.
Jiang Liyue subconsciously stood up with him.
We walked into the blind old man's house.
His room was darker than outside, with only a faint light coming in through the window.
Perhaps because he was blind and didn't need light, there weren't even any candles lit in the room.
He walked inside as if on flat ground, and Jiang Liyue barely kept up, carefully examining the layout of the room.
She discovered that the old man's house was filled with countless finished paper figures.
They were similar in shape to the paper figures she had seen in the ancestral hall, but in greater numbers.
The only difference is that the paper figures inside the ancestral hall all have a pair of pitch-black eyes.
The paper figures in the blind old man's house, where the eyes should have been painted, were completely blank, just pale white paper, with no eyes painted on them at all.
Perhaps because she had no eyes, Jiang Liyue didn't feel like she was being watched by many people in front of these paper figures as she did last night.
The old man led Jiang Liyue further inside, where there was another room.
Rural houses are like this, one room connected to another. Jiang Liyue had seen them before when filming, so she wasn't surprised.
But the further you go in, the more paper figures are piled up.
One can imagine the blind old man making paper figures day after day, and then piling them all up inside the house.
The old man finally stopped when he reached the third house.
He placed the paper figures he had made and the half-finished Jiang Liyue beside him, and bent down to rummage through the wooden box at his feet.
After a long while, he finally found a paper effigy the size of a palm and handed it to her.
This miniature paper effigy has eyes, but they are painted red with red paint.
"Is this a gift for me?" Jiang Liyue blinked twice.
The blind old man simply shoved the small paper effigy into her hand.
Once I was sure she had it, I started pushing her arm outward with both hands.
His voice was still hoarse: "Let's go, let's go."
"You shouldn't have come." He paused, then repeated, "You shouldn't have come..."
Seeing his insistence, Jiang Liyue had no choice but to turn around and walk out of the house.
But before she left, she glanced at the old man again. Even though he couldn't see, he was staring straight in her direction.
He was almost one with the paper figures surrounding him.
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