Chapter 21 ……
“…”
Chen Chigui could tell at a glance that Gu Jinli was wary of him. He narrowed his eyes and stared at her face for a long time.
"Is there a stutterer in our village?" She suddenly turned to ask the person next to her: "When did it happen?"
"I've been stuttering for years! At least five or six years!"
The person being asked was the boy who had just come to her. The boy puffed out his chest and said as if he was presenting a treasure: "The village chief found her under a pear tree. She was nearly frozen to death when he found her. After she woke up, she was dumbfounded and could not speak. Later, she could barely speak... but she had a severe stutter."
"Over the years, this little stutterer didn't like going up the mountain, but liked to snatch food from the dogs in the village... He has barely survived until now."
Judging from Gu Jinli's body, she looks only about eight or nine years old.
She was surprised to learn that she had been in this village for so long.
"Is that so?"
Shen Chigui doesn't care about these things.
She did not take her eyes off Gu Jinli, but instead looked her over from head to toe as she spoke.
After a few seconds, she sneered.
"Interesting. There's one more person coming out."
After saying that, Shen Chigui retracted his gaze, got up from the ground and left the thatched hut.
“…”
After watching the heroine leave, I saw the boy chasing after her.
Gu Jinli stayed there and hesitated for a while, but finally followed secretly.
The words the heroine just said made her a little concerned. She was sure that the other party had no memory of reality, so the "abnormality" mentioned by the heroine was very likely related to the illusion.
In order to break the illusion as soon as possible, she must go and take a look.
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Facts have proved that even if she has lost her memory and become a completely new 'person', the heroine is still the heroine, and anything she doesn't want to be exposed will never be exposed.
Gu Jinli soon lost the person in front of her, but judging from the direction he disappeared, the other person seemed to be heading towards the village.
In the village...
Almost immediately he remembered the half dry biscuit that was snatched away from him. Gu Jinli rubbed his stomach hungry and hesitated.
She only had a vague understanding of the situation here, and she didn't want to be teased by those kids again.
If I had known earlier, I should have gone to the mountains with Nangong Jinyao to find some food...
After thinking it over in her mind, Gu Jinli did not leave immediately. Instead, she walked around the outskirts of the village, keeping an eye on others while collecting as much information as possible.
An hour later.
Gu Jinli sat down under a pear tree at the back of the village with weak legs and sorted out the information he had collected.
This village was indeed not that simple. When she walked around the village, she found that the houses were built very strangely.
The 'door' of each mud house seems to be facing the same direction - the center of the village.
Even if Gu Jinli didn't understand any metaphysics, this obvious abnormality was enough to show that there must be something in the village.
Is this village worshipping something?
A bunch of guesses popped up in her mind instantly. As a modern person who is well-read in novels and loves surfing the Internet, she is very familiar with these common routines.
As the saying goes, villages, barren mountains, old people and children, this kind of configuration is most likely to have ghosts!
Without some evil gods or something... it's simply not worthy of such luxurious configuration.
Plus, I heard the heroine say "there's one more person" before, which is almost like "there's a supernatural incident" written on her face.
No, she will definitely ask when Nangong Jinyao comes back.
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Accompanying a group of little kids, Nangong Jinyao returned to the hut in the evening.
There wasn't much food in the basket she was carrying, but she still called Gu Jinli over and stuffed her with a green apple that was not even as big as her palm. She asked cheerfully, "How's your rest, Xiaowu? Does your injury still hurt?"
“…”
Shaking her head to indicate that it was okay, Gu Jinli accepted the apple that Nangong Jinyao stuffed into her hand, tugged at her sleeves, pointed at the village outside, and said, "This, this, this..."
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Finished.
How could she forget that she is now a severe stutterer who can take half a day to finish a sentence.
It would be a bit too difficult to ask Nangong Jinyao under such circumstances.
What should I do?
Asking if there are any offerings in the village... How can I say this briefly?
"Village, village, village...village after village..."
It was just a short sentence, but I couldn't finish it after struggling for a long time.
Gu Jinli was dumbfounded when she felt for the first time how serious her stuttering was. She opened her mouth and waved her arms anxiously while speaking.
A few minutes later, Nangong Jinyao saw that she hadn't finished her words for a long time, so she asked very considerately: "Xiaowu, do you want to say something to your second sister? Don't be anxious, talk slowly."
Speak slowly?
It's already like this, why are you still slow...
“…”
The corners of his mouth twitched wildly. It was the first time that Gu Jinli was worried about the difficulty in communicating with others.
She pointed at herself and then at the village outside, scratching her head anxiously.
Finally, she simply used sign language, gestured out a house, and continued haltingly: "Yes, yes, no, no, no..."
Are you offering something? !
Before she could finish the last word, the previous words had already made her break out in a cold sweat.
Gu Jinli had never found speaking so difficult.
"Is it something?"
The disadvantages of severe stuttering were fully demonstrated at this moment. Even though Nangong Jinyao tried very hard to distinguish and guess, she still didn't understand what Gu Jinli meant.
So one guessed while the other performed the actions haltingly, and the two of them talked at cross purposes for a long time. In the end, Gu Jinli gave up first.
Damn it!
There is no way to express what you mean this way!
Even if Nangong Jinyao gave her time to speak, such incoherent words...she couldn't get anything out of her.
Is this the reason why I retain my memories?
A stutterer, even if he discovered something, would not affect anything at all.
Gu Jinli is emo...
"Is Xiaowu still thinking about what happened this afternoon?"
Seeing Gu Jinli pointing at herself and talking about the village outside, and making the "human shape" gesture, Nangong Jinyao thought for a long time and could only think of Xiaowu being bullied in the afternoon.
“No, no, no…”
No way!
Feeling that even refutation was difficult, Gu Jinli shook her head with tears in her eyes and refused to say anything more.
She had figured it out, and even if she tried her best to say this, it would be hard to explain why she paid attention to these things.
Besides, with her current stuttering condition, she couldn't even fart for a long time... It was a good thing that the other party didn't make things worse.
"Xiaowu, Second Sister knows that you are unwilling to accept this."
Nangong Jinli thought that he had guessed correctly. He sighed slightly and said earnestly: "If you don't have me to accompany you in the future, you'd better go to the village less often!"
“…”
Gu Jinli nodded speechlessly, knowing that the other party had misunderstood her, but she couldn't explain it, so she could only find a place to sit down silently.
She has decided to talk less in the future!
Just pretend you are a mute!
Maybe being a mute is better than being a stutterer, at least it doesn't require so much effort.
Half an incense stick later, the hungry Gu Jinli took out an apple from her arms and bit into it hard.
"Hiss~"
So sour.
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