Duan Qingxi noticed that the girl who brought in the food and medicine seemed very hostile to her, and looked at her with particularly displeased eyes, as if... she was some kind of slutty bitch.
But Duan Qingxi didn't think much about it. After she ate and drank her fill and the medicine, she suddenly felt much better.
The girl came in again and took the empty bowl out. Before leaving, she rolled her eyes at Duan Qingxi and snorted in disdain.
Duan Qingxi felt speechless, but she didn't say anything.
After the door was closed and she and Xiaodai were the only ones left, she turned to look at Xiaodai and asked, "Hey, what exactly is this place? Butterfly Valley... I don't think I've ever heard of this place."
Xiao Dai said, "There are so many places you haven't heard of. Besides, this is just a dream. Who knows if these places really exist?"
Duan Qingxi: ...
After a pause, she asked again: "Then how did I get here?"
Xiao Dai said, "Didn't that guy just say that? He left the valley, found you lying on the riverbank, and rescued you."
Duan Qingxi was puzzled, "But that doesn't make sense. I saw that guy wearing a mask all day long. When I opened the door just now, I took a quick look and found that most of the people passing by were wearing masks. Besides, Butterfly Valley sounds unfamiliar and not very famous. They shouldn't welcome anyone in casually. He brought me back like this. Isn't he afraid of being punished by the Valley Master?"
Xiaodai opened his mouth, but in the end, he probably didn't know what to say, so he simply kept silent.
However, after staying here for two or three days, Duan Qingxi had a general idea of this Butterfly Valley.
Butterfly Valley is indeed a very mysterious place. Like many strange places, it also has many strange rules.
For example, the men here have to wear masks since childhood, and everyone has the surname Ye, and it is only a single character, like the man who treated him was called Ye Xiu, and everyone would call him Xiu.
Women don't need to wear masks, but they don't seem to have surnames. They are just called randomly, such as Ahua, Alian, Xiaoqing, Xiaolan, etc. They are either named after the A generation or the Xiao generation, and there is no pattern. Young and old are all named randomly like this.
It is not known whether Butterfly Valley was cursed or had such a strange rule from the beginning, but their ancestors had stipulated that women could not leave the valley at will, but men could leave the valley at will. However, men who left the valley had to wear masks. If the mask was lost, they could not re-enter the valley.
Moreover, not everyone can enter the Butterfly Valley. It is said that some people come to the valley in groups. It is possible that all of them can come in, or it is possible that only one or two people can come in. It all depends on fate.
Butterfly Valley actually welcomes outsiders, but their welcome is useless. Whether you can enter the valley depends on fate.
However, what Butterfly Valley welcomes most are girls, because there are many men in this valley, but very few women, with a ratio of about ten to one. It is said that in order to reproduce more offspring, the previous valley owners even went out to buy girls back, but none of them could come in, and in the end they had to let the girls go.
There are men in the valley who go out to find girls to marry, thinking of bringing back children after they are born. However, as long as they meet a woman outside the valley, even if they have not lost their masks, they will not be able to enter the valley again.
Men who cannot return to Butterfly Valley will have a very short lifespan of seven or eight years and will soon die.
There is no reason, no cause can be found...
After learning this, Duan Qingxi still felt quite surprised. She had never heard of such a magical valley. Could it be that they hid it too well, so people outside didn't know that there was a Butterfly Valley here?
Seeing her studying this thing with such interest, Xiao Dai's mouth twitched and he said speechlessly, "Is this the time to worry about these things? What we should be most concerned about now is how to leave this place, how to find your friends, how to get to Yeling Mountain, how..."
Before it could finish its words, it felt someone walking in. The man and the beast turned their heads suddenly and saw Ye Xiu standing at the door with several sets of folded clothes in his hands, looking a little embarrassed.
He smiled, walked in, and said, "I'm sorry, I saw the door was not closed, so...did I disturb you?"
Duan Qingxi saw Ye Xiu put the clothes on the box specially used for storing clothes and asked in confusion, "What is this?"
"These are some new clothes I asked the embroiderer in the valley to make for you. I see you've been wearing men's clothes all the time. After all, you're a girl, so you'd probably feel more comfortable in girls' clothes."
Hearing this, Duan Qingxi looked down at her clothes and suddenly looked embarrassed.
Ah, this is a very tactful way of saying it. Actually, it is to remind her that she hasn't taken a bath for many days and her body must have become smelly, right?
After Ye Xiu rescued her, he kept her here to rest. When she woke up, she was not feeling well and had too many things to think about, so she forgot to take a shower. She was still wearing the men's clothes she was wearing when she fell into the water. She didn't know why she had never thought about this.
A bit embarrassing...
However, Ye Xiu did not mean that. He simply felt that it was not convenient for her to wear the same clothes all day long. What if she wanted to take a shower and change clothes one day? She would have no choice. So he took the initiative to make her a few new clothes.
After Duan Qingxi thanked him, he saw that he was still standing there and had no intention of leaving, so he politely asked, "Would you...would you like to sit down and have a cup of tea?"
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