Chapter 251

"A long time ago, or maybe not that long ago, I saw a story, or maybe it was a story, and someone told me.

Of course it could have been a book, but you know I'm too old now and I can't remember clearly.

That person or that book told me that somewhere in the world there lives a group of mentally ill people.

It was a knight in clothes, holding a white sword in his hand, which seemed to be made of silver. His hair was golden and looked like a bunch of straw. He wore a hat and looked like a scary monster in a museum.

He knocked on the door on a snowy day and told me that he wanted to come in and rest for a while.

I asked him to open the door himself and come in, and then he closed the door himself. It was snowing hard outside, and he had to use a lot of effort to close the door.

After he closed the door, there was a layer of wind and snow at the door, and it was very cold.

He stepped on the snow, shivering and hugging his arms as he moved closer to me. There was a stove behind me, and the closer he got to me, the closer I got to the stove, and water began to drip from his body.

Wet, as if just crawled out of a pond.

He asked me for a stool or a chair.

I told him to sit anywhere.

He brought out a very short stool from the corner, sat in front of me on the bright red carpet, leaned against the fire, and said he wanted to tell me a story.

He said that story was his reward for my rest here.

He also said that the story would make us less bored, so I agreed to listen to his story.

He said that his story was told on the road, and that it was a very faraway town. This time I was very sure that I remembered it correctly, and that was the faraway town he was talking about.

He walked in because he was lost. There was a huge forest next to the town. He thought he could catch any prey in the forest, but he didn't.

He had no choice but to walk out, thinking he was taking the way home, but when he walked out he found that it was completely different. It seemed that he had gone the wrong way, but by then it was almost dark.

He could only find a place to stay in that town temporarily, otherwise he would have to grope in the dark to see if he would get lost again if he entered the forest again.

He thought he would get lost if he went into the forest now, so he didn't go in.

He found the nearest family in town and asked for help. After listening to his request, the family let him live in their home.

He should have known from the beginning that this family was not normal, but he didn't think too much about it at the time, so he stayed in that house.

That night he heard people arguing outside, so he got up from bed and leaned against the door to eavesdrop.

He had fallen asleep, but was woken up by the noise of quarreling.

However, after he got out of bed, the people outside seemed to have heard the sound of the bed, so they consciously lowered the volume of the quarrel. It was difficult for him to hear, but he still heard some of it.

The hostess of that family held her second son in her arms and sobbed, "I'm sorry, my child, please don't leave me. Don't take him away, just take me away. If you take my child away, I will die. I want to be with my child forever."

After arguing for half the night, it finally quieted down outside. He lay back on the bed and fell asleep. But not long after, in the morning, during the day, someone came knocking on the door.

He opened the door and saw that the person knocking at the door was the first child in the home, a girl wearing red clothes. Let's call her Red Dress.

Red Skirt is the eldest child in the family and the only girl.

The girl in the red skirt came to call him to have breakfast, and he followed her out, but inexplicably felt that he was walking towards a thief's den and would die if he ate something poisonous.

Maybe it was an illusion, he convinced himself.

Until he saw the breakfast that the girl in the red dress was talking about.

It was white porridge with pickled vegetables, without even peanuts or vegetables. He thought I was a guest and shouldn't ask for too much, so I didn't even give them any money.

When he thought about the fact that he had not given out a single cent, he felt that it didn't matter what he ate, even if it was just air mixed with water, since he didn't give out any money anyway.

He sat down and started eating. He quickly finished all the food. The children around him looked at him eagerly, as if he had stolen their food.

He looked carefully and found that there was indeed no other food on the table.

He quickly added water to the bowl and drank up the remaining contents. The bowl he had used was now clean.

The girl in the red skirt came over and took the bowl away, saying that we could go out for a walk when we had time, as there were some interesting places here.

He asked what was so fun about the red skirt?

The girl in the red skirt pointed at her younger brother. The boy in the yellow shirt said to him, "If you want to find somewhere fun, go find your younger brother."

He took a fancy to the man in the yellow shirt, and the man in the yellow shirt nodded.

He took out some money and gave it to the man in the yellow shirt, asking him to take him out to play. The man in the yellow shirt took the money and took him out to play for the whole day, and then they went home together to have dinner, which was the same as breakfast.

He felt very hungry and thought it necessary for me to go into the forest and grab something to eat.

But just as he was thinking about this, the man of the family came back and started knocking on doors, shouting for money and saying he wanted to gamble again.

He was in the room, just wiped his knife and was about to go to the forest. Before he could open the door, the man knocked on his door.

When the man knocked on the door, he knocked with too much force, and the door, which was rotten, old and aged, opened in an instant.

He and the male host looked at each other, and the male host screamed, turned around and ran away, disappearing in a flash.

He put the knife aside but felt uneasy, so he hid the knife and walked out. The hostess and her children heard the shouting and came over to check what was going on.

He told the hostess that the male owner had just knocked on the door and broke it.

The hostess didn't know whether she believed it or not. She nodded repeatedly, as if she wanted to cover up the matter.

He thought that maybe it was a family disgrace that should not be made public, so no matter what the situation was, the other party did not want to talk about it. He said he could understand, but he wanted to change the door to a room.

The hostess agreed, and the two children came to help, and the girl in the red skirt stole his money.

He went to ask the hostess, and the one in the red skirt had to take out the money.

But it was clearly the girl in red skirt who secretly took his money. When he went to ask for the money back, the girl in red skirt burst into tears and held the purse tightly, acting as if the money belonged to her.

It seems that others are the bad guys who steal money.

He thought that Red Skirt would just return the money to him and that would be fine, but at night Red Skirt seemed to think that he was asleep, so she secretly ran to the door of his room, squatted outside the door and scolded him.

Don't push your luck. Who do you think you are? If I want to, I can make you have diarrhea for a day and then die. Our family is so poor, and you still dare to live here. You have no conscience.

He kept scolding until late at night before leaving.

I really couldn't sleep that night, so I went into the forest to hunt with my knife before daybreak. Although I didn't catch any prey, I caught a rabbit when I was about to leave.

The rabbit had died by hitting its head against a tree, apparently trying to escape from an eagle in the sky. But he didn't see the eagle when he picked it up, so he just took it away.

He planned to pack up his things and leave quickly after this meal. This place really didn't seem like a good place, but when he carried the rabbit back, it was still daybreak.

He was passing by a river and heard shouting from the other side. He went to see and found that it was the host and hostess and their two children.

The man pulled a bag from the hostess's waist, which probably contained money, and slapped the girl.

The hostess and the host were pushing and shoving each other, and the two were arguing. The hostess suddenly kicked the host into the water.

The man tried to climb out of the water, clenching his fists and shouting, saying things like, "If I get out, I'll kill you all, and none of you will survive."

The hostess became even more frightened and started throwing stones into the water, but the host dodged.

At this time, the girl in the red skirt ran over, picked up a bigger and heavier stone, and smashed it on the man's head.

The man dodged one stone but failed to dodge the second one, and was hit to death by the two men.

The little boy seemed to have been given medicine and had not woken up yet. Then, the mother and daughter hurried home hand in hand.

When the body was found during the day, they were still crying sincerely.

Then I heard them planning to kill me too.

I had to leave without even eating the rabbit.

It's their fault for wasting such a good rabbit."

"Any other stories?"

"Yes, there is a story about an ungrateful, mentally ill man. But I will tell you this only if you promise that you will not learn anything from it."

"I promise I won't learn from the mentally ill people in the story. Tell me."

"There was a man who bullied his younger brother when he was a child. When he grew up, his mother and brother were sent to prison because they did not do things well. The whole family became prisoners."

"What happened next?"

"I don't remember. Just pick up a book and I'll read it to you."

"Then this one is for you."

"A woman was abandoned when she was young. She met a man and was drugged. They had sex and gave birth to a son.

Later he became a famous swordsman in the martial arts world, and was later kidnapped by bandits.

In front of the man and woman, the bandits tied up their son, cut his scalp with a knife, poured water into his head, and then poured mercury into his head.

The child died.

The man just cried, while the woman screamed and said she must take revenge.

The bandits then took the man's mother out and killed her.

The woman was still cursing, and the man wanted to die, so the bandits made the man into a stick, and then the man died.

In the end, the bandits tortured the woman.”

“Is there a detailed description in the book?”

"Yes, but the detailed description focuses on the last part, and I don't think you will like to hear it."