06 Berries
Mei Li suddenly lost her strength and knelt in the middle of the stone flower core.
Those little things that call themselves Moon Night Fairy look beautiful and harmless like blooming lily of the valley, but are actually very dangerous. Hesha has told her before that the monsters in fairy tales mentioned Moon Night Fairy.
In Hesha's description, the moonlit goblin is a monster that will introduce humans into the forest and make them lose themselves in the forest.
They especially like to confuse children because they are more innocent. Therefore, people will keep their children in their homes away from the large forest where there may be moonlit night fairies, because they are afraid that they will be taken away by moonlit night fairies.
Once taken away by the moonlit monsters, after they get tired of playing, the children lost in the forest will be buried in the belly of the beast.
Mei Li didn't expect that she would have such treatment.
She is over the age of being a magic girl.
Not far away, the swamp crossed, Meili stood up and shouted to the swamp monster: "Thank you."
As a result, the swamp monster who had been walking forward hunched over and heard her voice, raised his head and looked at her, suddenly turned around and walked towards her.
"...No need to come here, I just say hello and thank you, my friend, really don't need to..."
The hillside under her feet became wet, and she felt like she was stepping on the soft mud. Mei Li shut up her mouth dryly, watching the swamp monster get closer and closer, and put her head in front of her.
Well, what does this mean?
Mei Li looked at the wet gray hair in front of her eyes and fell into deep thought. She didn't know if this swamp monster was autistic or didn't want to speak. How should we communicate in this way?
He didn't move, as if he was a math problem that he didn't give a prompt, and she needed to solve it herself.
Is this posture trying to touch your head?
Mei Li tentatively placed her hand on her head in front of her and touched it. She touched the plaster with the smell of grass and earth in one hand. The swamp monster turned his head but still didn't move.
What does this mean?
Meili touched his head on the side again.
The swamp monster looked up at her, his gray eyes were confused, and Meili's confusion seemed to be in the mirror. He might have finally realized that Meili didn't understand what he meant, so he slowly raised his hand and touched his head and pulled his hair.
As he moved slowly, Mei Li finally discovered that a small white mushroom had grown on the side of his head.
Meili: "..."
So is this the previous fish that escaped the net, or the descendants of the large bush of white mushrooms, just growing?
"It's just that, I really don't need to pay it back."
Mei Li pinched the white mushroom the size of her thumb, a little worried that the swamp monster would continue to grow white mushrooms. So he would come over to return mushrooms every time, making her look like she treated them as a mushroom bun for raising mushrooms.
Conscience is condemned.
As before, after returning the white mushroom to her, the swamp monster continued the path she had just walked and walked along the edge of the forest.
It seemed that she had nothing to do, but Mei Li hesitated for a moment, picked up her skirt and chased her, and walked beside the swamp monster a meter away.
It is said that wherever the swamp monster passes, it will turn into a swamp, but after careful observation, Meili found that when he passes, the soil will become soft and will not immediately turn into a swamp. It will take a while to turn into a quagmire. If you want to turn the surroundings into a swamp, you may need to stay longer.
She was led here by those moonlit night fairies, and she was not wearing any shoes. She was hurt by the stones. Now when she was walking near the swamp monster, her feet turned into soft soil, and she felt very comfortable when walking.
The soft and cold soil has always been surrounded by rain.
She followed her for a while, and it seemed that the swamp monster found her following her. She turned her head to look at her. It was probably a confusion.
But he didn't drive people away, just took a look and walked forward without caring.
Meili followed up with impulse. Except for chasing Mrs. Peg that night, she had never walked so leisurely in the night because the night in the strange world was scary, but tonight, she only felt very quiet and leisurely.
The swamp monsters around me scared the moonlit monster away. The moonlight tonight is indeed very beautiful, suitable for walking.
She played with the small white mushroom in her hand, looked at the forest and the fields with her hands behind her back, took a deep breath, and felt her whole body relaxing.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
The swamp monster did not respond, and his pace was slow, dragging forward with water, not even looking at the road, and just lowered his head. Mei Li suspected that he was walking aimlessly.
Although I can't communicate with her, it's great to walk on such a quiet moonlit night.
"It's getting late, I'm going back."
"I was so scared when I first met you. I was sorry. The lantern fell on the side of the road, thanks to you who helped me find it back, and just now, thank you."
"I'm leaving, bye."
She waved her hand, regardless of whether the swamp monsters reacted or not, and walked towards the other side of the house.
Walking too fast, she didn't see the swamp monster stopping and looked at her back for a long time.
In the night, the girl's white nightgown flew up with her running, and the hazy moonlight draped on her body.
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"Melly!" Hesa stood outside the garden with a basket in her arms, greeting her loudly.
Meili was standing in the vegetable garden with her sleeves and skirt rolled up and was standing in the watering ground. When she heard this sound, she put down her skirt and opened the yard door.
Hesha came here to play a few times and is now very familiar with it. As soon as he entered the yard, he chattered: "Let's pick berries. At this time in previous years, many berries in the woods had ripe."
"Okay." Meili was quite interested in the daily activities of local girls.
Life here is too monotonous. If you don’t find something to do, it will be boring to stay at home every day.
This time, the two girls made an appointment to go out. This time, they also chatted hand in hand while chatting. The chat contents added a lot of legends under Meili's conscious guidance, which allowed her to accumulate a lot of relevant knowledge.
"...The monster we often talk about, Rudendore, is a very ugly goblin. They will replace their children with newborn babies in order to let humans raise their children for them. Therefore, some ugly people will call them "Roddendore", which means the children of Rudendore's goblin."
Hesha said, giving an example: "Aren't there anyone in the market often lying beside the square and doing nothing? The pig has big nose, big ears, small eyes, and protruding teeth. It is said that he is also Ruodenger."
Meili: "That's just an ugly ordinary person, right?" At least she didn't notice anything wrong with that person.
Hesha: "I don't know, I can't recognize him, but he is not only ugly but also lazy. Ruodeng'er is also very lazy."
After discussing Ruodeng'er, she talked about other monsters: "The Lissy is the daughter of a fox. She will confuse young women, so if you go to the forest and see the red fox, you must not pay attention. If you can't resist the temptation and talk to her, you will have to exchange identities with her."
Hesha is also a brave girl, with a child-like adventure nature hidden deep in her heart, and she is well aware of all kinds of magical legends and strange fairy tales.
She was telling stories, but Mei Li remembered them all. After all, she could see them, and maybe she would meet them all one day.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, it is definitely correct to learn more about it.
In addition to these widely circulated monster legends, Hesha is more familiar with the surrounding groves. She knows clearly which grove has something delicious.
"There are many shrubs in the grove here, and the most berries are. I know which berries are the sweetest." Hesha just said flauntingly, but the two of them entered the grove and found that there were not many mature berries inside, as if they had already been picked.
"Ah, why is this happening? I've been picked up first!" Hesha shouted unhappily, but soon, she comforted Meili again, "It's okay, I know that there are a lot of raspberries growing there, let's go there."
Hesha took her to a wild area I had never been to before. There were many thorns and the road was difficult to walk. Hesha told her on the road: "There are often children going to play in the woods, and they probably picked them off, but this side is close to the south forest, and children don't come here often to play here, so there must be a lot of berries."
What greeted them were empty branches and picked fruit stems.
Hesha was upset: "I took you to pick berries, but I haven't picked it at all now."
"No! Let's change another place!" She clenched her fists and walked on another road angrily.
"Hesha, let's go into the forest again."
"Yes, just go into the forest. Children cannot go into the forest, so the berries in the forest must not be picked!"
"Didn't you say there are a lot of goblins in the forest?"
"No matter what, it's all a lie to the children, and I haven't seen it before. And we are only on the periphery and cannot meet large beasts, so there is definitely no problem!"
Hesha was destined to be disappointed. When they entered the forest, the few raspberries they found were empty, and the sporadic small yellow fruits were obviously not ripe.
"What's going on? Have the berries all been picked this year?"
Hesha buried her head among the bushes and searched without giving up. Meili looked sideways and watched a red raspberry falling straight from the branch beside her, and was caught by a pair of round little hands.
The little thing that caught the raspberry looked different from the moonlit fairy, chubby and round, wrapping her body with leaves.
A few small things were hiding behind the leaves, shaking the branches, and when the ripe fruit fell, they came forward to catch them. A raspberry was the size of their entire head.
The arrival of Hesha and Meili bothered them, and the little guys whispered a few unhappyly, and each of them disappeared from under the leaves with a raspberry in their arms.
Meili squatted down, picked up a red raspberry they fell, and heard them saying something about "Goddess Party" before leaving.
Hesha was still muttering why there were no ripe berries. Meili stood up and pulled her, saying seriously: "The berries were picked by the fairies in the forest, and they were going to hold a party."
Hesha was stunned, holding the tree trunk and laughing.
"Merry, you'll be kidding~"
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Chapter completed!