Feng Guang stood quietly behind Nan Ke, still slowly processing the matter. There was a village deep in the mountains, and a man with mental problems was so popular with children... She could easily accept this information if it were about an ordinary person, but it felt somewhat incongruous when it was about him.
A child asked expectantly, "Village chief, did you bring us any food?"
"I brought it." Nan Ke smiled slightly, then tugged at the rope, pulling Feng Guang closer to him. He said, "This is your food."
Fengguang: "..."
The children: "..."
The two, one big and one small, looked at each other for a few moments, and then, without prior arrangement, they both turned their gaze to Nan Ke.
Nan Ke looked at the children, a slight hint of doubt in her voice, "Weren't you hungry?"
"Village chief...you're telling us...to eat people?" a seven or eight-year-old girl asked uncertainly.
“You don’t have to see her as a human being.” Nan Ke smiled slightly, a smile as warm and intoxicating as the March sun. “I saved her, and she said she was willing to be my slave. When I went out of the village to buy things, didn’t your parents also say that cattle and horses are edible?”
"Village chief!" a boy cried out in disbelief, "Are you kidding me?"
The girl also shouted, "Even if you say that, we can't just treat such a beautiful woman like a cow or a horse and eat her!"
Another child said, "Village chief, we can't eat people!"
Feng Guang silently raised her hand to cover her mouth, she was so moved that she was about to cry. Fortunately, apart from this man, the other people in the village still had normal values. If these people could accept being eaten by her with a smile, she would be the one questioning her life!
She had only thought that this man intended to treat her as a servant or slave, never expecting that he planned to have the people here eat her. At this moment, these innocent children were truly adorable!
Nan Ke remained silent for a while, then asked with his last hope, "Is it really not okay to eat it?"
"No!" This time, all the children answered in unison.
At this moment, the villagers who had finished their work also came over. "Village chief, you're back."
"Dad!" A girl with two pigtails ran to a man carrying a hoe. "The village chief brought back a woman and said we should eat her!"
"What!?" Even the adults were greatly surprised by these words.
Nan Ke was still there expressing his doubts, "Is it really not okay to eat her?"
He always felt that being picky about food was bad, so he just ate whatever was available.
The scenery… she remained silent.
The girl's father stepped forward and said, "Village chief, how can we eat people? That's wrong! Oh dear, I told you it wasn't right to go out to buy things. You still have so many things you don't understand!"
Another villager said, "The village chief has only been awake for a short time. There are still many things in the world that he doesn't understand. We should have let Wenxiu go with him in the first place."
This man named Wenxiu is the little girl's father.
The group chatted briefly, all expressing regret for letting Nan Ke go out to buy things alone. They felt that they should have let him take a child with him, even a five or six-year-old child, who would have more common sense than Nan Ke.
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