Chapter 24: The woodcutter cuts wood in the middle of the night, and his strange voice is intriguing

Soon, on the branches, Zhu Ruowei couldn't calm down for some reason. He felt bored in the house and pushed open the small door alone. At this time, a slight sound seemed to be only heard by him.

He simply walked around here without any trouble.

The cool breeze blew on his face, which made him feel much more energetic. He walked along the mountain road. The night was intoxicating and the stars were like songs. He walked for a long time without realizing it.

Suddenly, he saw a square object, which was very eye-catching under the moonlight. When Zhu Ruowei walked closer, he saw the chill from his fingers reminding him of the stele forest, and in front of him, the same material, the same size and thickness.

It's just that it's alone.

"How could such a thing be here!"

While curious, he looked at the grass and trees everywhere, without any shadow of the second stone tablet.

Just as I was thinking, I heard a slightly dull knock in my ears, which was very special in the quiet place. Then, the second and third sounds, very rhythmic.

Zhu Ruowei was curious and followed the sound and looked towards the sound. The closer he walked, the louder the sound, and there were a few shouts from time to time, as if he was singing, which led Zhu Ruowei to listen while walking.

Cutting down the wood, empty eyes

No sight in the eyes, no trace in the heart

Right and wrong, big right and wrong

Right and wrong, right and wrong

...

A long section quietly floated into Zhu Ruowei's ears until he stood there staring at a figure for a long time before he suddenly realized something.

It was a thin man with a bamboo hat. He held the trunk with one hand and waved the hatchet with the other. Every time he cut, a crisp muffled sound drifted out. The singing quietly left from the bottom of the bamboo hat under the moonlight.

It just makes people feel at ease when listening. It is a pleasure to watch the other person’s movements and listen to the other person singing under the moonlight.

I don’t know how long it took, the voice stopped.

"My little master, are you going to be a woodcutter, too?"

The other party turned his head to look at Zhu Ruowei who was ecstatic and asked softly. Under the moonlight, his face was covered by a wide hat brim. He only looked thin and his outline was full of hardships.

"ah!?…!"

Zhu Ruowei did not react and quickly waved his hand to signal.

"Ha ha ha ha"

The other party raised his head and laughed with a generous temperament. Then he threw the hatchet next to the trunk of the fallen tree, and left to himself, "The moon is full and haggard, and the moon is lonely..."

Zhu Ruowei watched the other party disappear into the forest. Under the white moonlight on the ground, the hatchet with a cold light was quietly lying on the cold ground. On the side of him, the mottled traces on the tree trunks were not cut off a trace of wood chips.

He walked forward in disbelief and reached out to touch the cold tree trunk. There was nothing else except the concave and convex marks of the knife. However, the hatchet on the ground was faintly shining with a light blade, and the sharpness would be sighed at just one glance.

After standing for a while and looking for a while, Zhu Ruowei quietly realized that his heart was as calm as a lake, and his mood was not much better. He felt refreshed for a moment and felt happy in his heart.

On the second day, Zhu Ruo was taken out by Xiaodou yesterday, and the two of them came to a pool, about under the clear water deep in their thighs. Four or five black fish were flying through it, safe and contented.

"Come on Ruowei, you will catch fish with me today!"

Seeing Xiaodou roll up his clothes and gently enter the water, the fish under the water seemed to be ignorant and was completely indifferent. Zhu Ruowei also looked puzzled, but when he thought about it, he knew that the boy in front of him might be the person with dull qualifications mentioned by the other party, but the two of them did not support practicing martial arts, but instead caught fish here, it was really shameful. But when he thought about the boring practice, he was not as fun as catching fish.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them had already entered the water half of their bodies. The powerful buoyancy made Zhu Ruowei unable to stand firm, especially whenever he took a step, his body was swaying back and forth by the turbulent water surface.

The big black fish, thicker than the thigh, swam unscrupulously beside them, not taking the two of them seriously.

"If you want to catch it quickly, grab it quickly! Just behind you, if you catch it, you will roast it tonight!"

Xiaodou pointed at Zhu Ruowei happily and shouted. Zhu Ruowei turned around and saw that a big black fish with smooth head was only a slap from him. The playfulness in his heart made him slowly twist his body, fearing that he would scare the other person away from him. Then his hands slowly entered the water, just as his eyes were staring at the other person's bare and seemingly silly head. His hands were almost pressed on the scales on the other person's body.

Zhu Ruowei was overjoyed, and with a smile on his face, he surrounded his hands. The big fish rose up in response, but Zhu Ruowei obviously overestimated himself in front of him. The four words "like a fish in water" were accompanied by an incredible angle and a crisp slap in front of him, and the big fish ran away from under his legs.

Seeing that he was empty, he hurriedly wanted to turn around before he could escape, but he was anxious and unstable, but he still caught the fish tail in front of him. Seeing that he was about to fall into the water, he still didn't want to let go.

But the stickiness and slippage of the fish's body exceeded his imagination. As the fat body twisted and turned sharply, the whole fish took off his hand. Only Zhu Ruowei stood up from the water and wiped away the water from his face, looking as if he was humiliated.

"Hahaha!"

Xiaodou, who was standing beside him, laughed at him, advised him not to be discouraged, and threatened that he had been arrested for several years.

The two of them were busy from morning to night and finally caught two, and they were so tired that they were half tired.

At night, taking advantage of the starlight and Xiaodou lit the fire, he taught the other party how to grill the fish. Then, the two teenagers talked about many things, all kinds of strange experiences, and all kinds of bizarre encounters. When the fish body was roasted by Mars, the two of them hugged and ate without hesitation.

As he was eating, Zhu Ruo asked while muttering delicious fish in his mouth.

"Xiaodou, do you know the woodcutter who cuts trees this night?"

When Xiaodou heard this, she shook her head quickly, but the flesh in her mouth kept stopping. So Zhu Ruowei said what she saw yesterday, but the other party said it was impossible. Seeing that the other party didn't believe it, Zhu Ruowei didn't say much, but he thought that it was probably because he had read it wrong.

The two of them ate and chatted until very late.

When he returned to his residence, Zhu Ruo was sitting quietly on the bed alone, as if he couldn't sleep. He began to miss his master, but no one expected that he would part again after seeing him for a day. But this time, the other party took the initiative to send him away. When he thought of this, he remembered the sentence of the center of gravity that night, hoping that he would become the person in the eyes of everyone.

For some reason, since the last time I lived in the Songlin, when I saw the center of gravity again, I seemed to have lost a little. It was obviously my persistence, but when I met, I had a little bit of peace, except for a touch, and I had a lot of peace out of thin air.

Is it because I have grown up?

The wind outside the window brought the bright moonlight to the window. He gently stretched out his right hand to the cold light, and his hand was so white that it was scary. Looking at his palm, he suddenly became a little strange. He gently turned his hand and a slender horizontal line separated the palm from left to right.

This seemed to be the first time he was quietly looking at his hand, and the first time he realized that his hand was like this.

He gently hooked a few pale fingers, slowly held their hands together, and then slowly stretched out, without a trace of feeling in his mind.

Suddenly, a faint knock sounded.

He slowly raised his head, followed by the second and third sounds. The same sound as last night came rhythmically at this moment.

The slow voice hit Zhu Ruowei's heart, which was calmer than Ye Se, little by little. He stood up slowly and gently pushed open the door.

A feeling in his mind told him that he would meet that person tonight.

He stopped at the door and wanted to call Xiaodou, but he looked at the darkness everywhere and couldn't bear to disturb the other party. Moreover, he was just a new arrival, and it was still possible to say whether the other party liked him or not. Although the fish they had caught for a long time were still talking and laughing, they were not very familiar with each other, and there was a slight sense of estrangement that was elusive.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ruowei looked up at the moon, the jade plate was hanging high, the stars seemed drunk, and the sky was filled with guests. In front of everyone, he gently stepped on a path. The mountain wind moved, and the leaves rustled, as if a boy was leading the way, or like the sound of a man who was seeking life in the underworld.

Unconsciously, Zhu Ruowei came to a bamboo forest. Unlike yesterday, when the sound of today came here, it turned out to be particularly ethereal, rising everywhere, and missing everywhere. In a daze, it seemed to be hidden in countless towering bamboo bodies in all directions.

The wind blew over the head, and the swaying of the branches urged the fallen leaves to be free and easy.

It was not the first time that Zhu Ruowei was walking in the night, nor the first time he entered the dark forest. But this time, he felt a slight discomfort in his heart. For some reason, he looked around and the knocking sound gradually weakened, as if gradually shrinking into the ground under his feet. A fear brought by the unknown quietly caused him to shivering suddenly.

"This place is so weird!"

(End of this chapter)
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