Strange Tales of the Ghosts - Chapter 429

[Chapter 429 Mask Country (8)]

Wang Chuan shook his head gently. He didn’t know why the woman was wearing a mask, so he looked at Luo Yan in front of him. Luo Yan climbed on the side of the courtyard and looked in, only to see that the people inside seemed to be opening a little bit. door, looking out.

“Did we scare her?” Luo Yan felt that the people inside seemed to be scared.

Li Wenyu was splashed with water, and his stomach was full of fire: “She splashed me with water, and we still scare her? It’s funny, are we ugly? It’s only possible if she’s ugly, otherwise why wear a mask Be a human!”

“Shh.” Luo Yan turned back and reminded: “This is someone else’s territory, you should be polite, don’t be ignorant.”

“Sister Luo, ignore him, he is a big idiot and deserves it. Unlucky to be splashed with water!” Xiao Ying jumped to Luo Yan’s side and peeked with Luo Yan.

This family is the first family that Luo Yan and the others met after they came to the Mask Country. The woman just now was also the first person they saw. Luo Yan didn’t want to just give up the good opportunity, so she wondered who would knock on the door. Explain, at least you have to find out something. It seems that Luo Yan didn’t think of the right one. Wang Chuan is too cold, and his face is cold, like someone owes him money. Xuehu is too beautiful. Luo Yan thinks that the woman wearing the mask is really not very good-looking, it will hurt people’s self-esteem, what about Xiao Ying? It’s too rash, maybe he will talk nonsense, as for Li Wenyu, he doesn’t want to, he is rash, and he speaks without thinking. After thinking for a long time, Luo Yan decided to go out in person.

After Luo Yan confessed to Xiao Ying, she walked into the yard and went in to take a look. The things in the yard were very simple, and the objects displayed probably looked like ancient things. It was not clear which dynasty it was. It was always a question, and the best person to answer the question was, of course, someone who lived here, so she knocked on the wooden door lightly.

“I’m sorry to disturb you, we were passing by, I’m a little thirsty, can you give me some saliva to drink?” When Luo Yan spoke, she tried her best to follow the tone of the ancients. It was too modern, and she was afraid that the people inside would not hear it. Understand. The people inside didn’t seem to respond, Luo Yan was close to the door and didn’t hear any sound, so Luo Yan hurriedly explained: “Don’t worry, we are not bad people, we are from another country, this time we are here to see the mask country. Queen’s.”

When the people inside heard the words ‘Queen of the Mask Kingdom’, they gently opened a crack in the door and asked cautiously, “Is what you said true?”

“Of course it is true, if you don’t believe me, you can watch Look, let’s see if we look like bad people.” Luo Yan waved his hand and motioned Wang Chuan and the others to come in, but after Wang Chuan and the others all came in, the people inside still didn’t say a word. Seeing this situation, Xuehu took out a piece of silver and walked over to Luo Yan’s door, handed out the silver, and said softly, “Please rest assured, we are definitely not the people who robbed the family, we just passed by and wanted to beg for a bowl of water. Drink, this money is the money to buy water from you, please accept it.”

Xuehu’s words were still valid, and after he finished speaking, a hand stretched out from the crack of the door and took the money in, and the people inside used it. After biting his teeth, he found out that the silver was genuine, and then he opened the door. After the door opened, Luo Yan saw the woman who had splashed Li Wenyu with water just now. The woman’s face was under the mask. I don’t know if it was a smile or something. Her voice sounded much more peaceful.

“Sit inside.”

“Thank you, auntie.” Xuehu nodded and walked in first.

Only then did Luo Yan understand why the woman wearing the mask didn’t believe in her, because the clothes she was wearing were too unfamiliar to the woman wearing the mask, and Xuehu’s appearance was similar to that woman’s. Fortunately, Wangchuan and the others were able to enter. After sitting down, the woman took out a few tea cups, poured tea, put them in front of everyone, and said with a smile, “I thought you were bad people just now, so I closed the door. It was really negligent, but I didn’t know the guests and you. Where did you come from?”

“We come from a far-off country, and I may have never heard of Auntie.” Xuehu replied with a smile.

After taking a sip of the tea, Xiao Ying exclaimed, “It’s so fragrant.”

“Well, it’s very fragrant.” When Luo Yan smelled the tea, she also felt that the tea was incredible, so she asked, “Auntie, what kind of tea is this?”

” We poor family, we don’t have any good tea to entertain you, this is made from the leaves of the ‘anxiety fruit’ that I picked on the hillside in the spring, you can drink it.” After the masked woman answered, she put the kettle on on the table.

Luo Yan was stunned for a moment, and became even more curious. She had never heard of an annoying fruit, so she asked, “Auntie, what is an annoying fruit?”

“It grows on the opposite hillside.” The woman in the mask used her hands One finger pointed at the hillside where Wang Chuan and the others rested last night.

Xuehu and Xiaoying glanced at each other, and quickly asked, “But that tree with only one apple?”

“What is an apple?” The masked woman asked Xuehu in turn.

Luo Yan understood. Maybe this place didn’t call apples apples. If she guessed correctly, the apples on the apple tree on the hillside were what the woman called the fruit of trouble. No wonder they were so fragrant. “Auntie, why is that fruit called Anxinguo?”

“What the Queen said.”

“Queen?” Luo Yan glanced at Wangchuan and asked with a smile, “Why did the Queen call it Anxinguo?”

“The Queen said , In life, there will always be unpleasant troubles, just like the fruit on the troublesome fruit tree, if you pick it, it will grow again, endless.” The woman wearing the mask replied. Xuehu

hurriedly asked: “Then do you have a lot of trouble trees in the masked country?”

The woman wearing the mask shook her head and replied, “Only the one next to the Lake of Tears.”

Things in the mask country are a bit new to us, so we ask so many questions.” Luo Yan had a smile on her face, for fear that this woman would be overhearted and drive them out.

After Li Wenyu finished drinking tea, he looked at the furnishings in the room and asked boredly, “You are the only one living here?”

“Yes, I am not married, I am an old girl, so I stayed here alone. ”

Strange, this place is so big, but no one seems to live nearby, what’s going on?”

“You don’t know, this lake of tears will rise every year, and it is not clear when it will rise. When the water comes, the people nearby are scared and run away, so no one wants to live here, only me. I can settle down here without relatives and no reason.”

Luo Yan nodded, sighed, and asked, “Then why is this lake called Tears Lake?”

“We little people don’t know much about the name given by the queen.”

“Oh.” Luo Yan looked at the woman wearing the mask, and couldn’t feel that the other party was lying. According to this woman, the names of things in this country seemed to be related to the queen of the mask country, completely according to her thoughts and wishes. Come here, few countries can be like this. From ancient times to the present, countless dynasties ruled by emperors who go their own way will be destroyed. Luo Yan is really curious. Could it be that these people will not resist? So he smiled and asked: “This time we are here to see the Queen, but we don’t know the Queen very well, and we don’t know what kind of person the Queen is?”

“The Queen is a very good person, and she treats us ordinary people very well. Easy-going and rarely loses his temper.” The masked woman stood up and took down a wooden sign hanging on the wall. “Look, this was given to me by the queen.”

“What brand?” Li Wenyu took the wooden plaque and looked at the front and back. He didn’t find anything special. There was neither lettering nor shape, just like A random piece cut from a tree stem.

The woman wearing the mask saw Li Wenyu’s thick hands and feet, and hurriedly took back the wooden sign, and said stingly, “Don’t break it for me.”

“Auntie, what does this wooden sign represent?” Luo Yan instinctively said. She felt that this wooden sign must represent something. Even if it didn’t, she could understand why the woman didn’t let Li Wenyu touch it. In a country, for a common person, the leaders rewarded themselves, that’s an extravagance precious.

After the masked woman hung the wooden sign on the wall, she looked at Luo Yan and replied, “This is a tax-free card. In our country with masks, all orphans, widows and mothers can get a tax-free card given by the queen. We don’t have to pay taxes if we sign the sign.”

“I see.” Xuehu couldn’t help but glance at the wooden sign.

Luo Yan said so much, and she was a little thirsty. After drinking the tea cup, she filled the tea cup with water. At this time, Wang Chuan asked coldly, “Auntie, why are you wearing a mask?”

“…” Luo Yan and Li Wenyu looked at Wang Chuan, they both wanted to know but couldn’t bear to ask, but let Wang Chuan ask, Luo Yan thought the woman would be very angry, but who knew that the woman would sit like nothing He came down and replied softly: “Our mask country is like this, everyone wears masks on their faces.”

“Then how do you distinguish everyone?” Li Wenyu choked on the tea, thinking that he might see a city Everyone in the room was wearing a mask, and he had a headache.

The woman wearing the mask listened and laughed: “You foreigners don’t know about this. Every mask in our mask country is drawn by the queen herself, and each one is different, so it is not difficult to identify.

” Do you wear such a mask as soon as you are born? Or when you reach a certain age?” Luo Yan had a lot of questions in her heart at this moment, not to mention whether the queen was very hardworking, but in terms of quantity, one person is responsible for the masks of a country’s people. Drawing, this workload is probably not completed in a lifetime, and, with such a big country, how can the queen count them all? Luo Yan felt that the Queen of the Mask Kingdom was getting more and more magical. In the eyes of women, the Queen of the Mask Kingdom seemed to be impeccably good, but as far as Luo Yan was concerned, that was not necessarily the case.

[End of This Chapter]