Nobody understands cardboard people better than me

Chapter 169 Teahouse Listening to the Book

"It's natural. Whether it's his background in the sect of cultivation or his act of making decisions for us ordinary people, he has won the respect of the people of our city, and we especially believe in them." The man surnamed Lin nodded.

"So, we will not comment on the Chiyang Sect at will, let alone tell the story of the Chiyang Sect."

After listening, Huang Chengyang looked at the old man on the stage again, and then asked a question that had nothing to do with the call that the man surnamed Lin just said:
"How is this old gentleman blind?"

The man surnamed Lin froze for a moment, then frowned.

"Speaking of which, I really don't know that."

"Or maybe no one in the whole city knows."

"This old gentleman was not from our city before. When we saw him, he had been blind for a long time. I don't know how he came to us from another place as a blind man. "

Huang Chengyang nodded noncommittally, and didn't ask any more questions.

Because the old gentleman on the stage finally started to enter the whole question.

"The story I'm going to tell next, I believe many people in the city have heard of it."

"A few months ago, there was an uproar about the monster beast incident outside the city. Although it was finally resolved, everyone must not be clear about the cause and effect of the incident. Today, I will explain it to you in detail."

"As for the protagonist of the incident, everyone should know that it is a monster with horns and a body like a python."

"The name of the monster is no longer available. We are short-sighted, so let's call him a horned snake for now."

Hearing this, Huang Chengyang stopped eating melon seeds suddenly.

Listening to the old man's description of the monster's appearance just now, he thought it was called the Sky Blue Bull Python, but in the end you gave me the name of a bull-horned snake-bodied beast?
That's it?

Sure enough, one can't expect a mortal to be able to name such a tall monster. After all, this world is different from Blue Star. Everyone has accepted the baptism of the Internet, and their brains are surprisingly big. It is not too simple to choose a name that fits its characteristics and does not lose its arrogance.

Naturally, the old man on the stage would not know what was going on in Huang Chengyang's mind.

He sat on the stage, crossed his hands flat on the crutches, lowered his head slightly, and began to tell his story without any ups and downs in his tone.

"To say that this ox-horned snake-body beast looks like a behemoth, and it looks particularly scary, but it is not yet an adult."

"From its horns, we can tell that the monster is similar to its close relative, the buffalo. It likes to stay in the water, and its favorite food is aquatic plants."

Huang Chengyang stopped eating melon seeds again. His face was expressionless, and he even wanted to laugh. Are your monsters and buffaloes close relatives?Apart from a horn, there is no other similarity at all. What a ghost!

However, although he was madly complaining in his heart, he still had the quality not to interrupt the old man's narration.

He's not a construction site braggart, so why be serious, just listen to it for fun and it's over.

On the stage, the old gentleman's narration did not stop because of Huang Chengyang's thoughts.

"It just so happens that there is a very clear river outside our city. The monster lived along the water and lived not far from the city."

"There is also a family living next to the river."

"If it weren't for being too poor, no one would be willing to live near such a humid water."

"Sleeping in bed without even drying the blanket underneath."

"But the farmer in that family had no choice. He and his wife had eight children in total, and the burden was too heavy."

"They are also reluctant to throw away their children when they are just born like other people, so they can only barely live."

Hearing this, Huang Chengyang fell into a strange silence.

He carefully looked at the expressions on the faces of the people around him, but found that when they heard such a passage, none of them showed any sad expressions, as if they had long been accustomed to such things.

Along the way, he also has a better understanding of this big world of comprehension.

Because there are so many cultivators, and there are monsters stalking them, ordinary people in this world are living very hard.

Moreover, everyone aspires to be a high-ranking cultivator, and cultivators hardly pay attention to the most basic livelihood issues, so hunger and poverty are the main tone of mortals in this world.

Except for a few wealthy people, other people are usually fine and can barely survive, but when encountering some natural disasters, or encountering monsters attacking the city, or even more unlucky, just in the scope of the cultivator's war, Not to mention the failure of grain grains, it is very likely to take their own lives. It can be said that they are living in dire straits.

Compared with this world, the upper limit of military strength is not high, but the ordinary people of the Great Xia Dynasty, which is considered comprehensive and martial, live a much happier life than here.

At least the leaders of the Great Xia Dynasty knew how to develop people's livelihood, how to increase grain production, how to develop medicine, and how to seek welfare and survival for the people.

In this world, the chances of ordinary people getting pregnant are extremely high.

However, under the influence of cultivators, the development of medical skills available to ordinary people is extremely slow, and many minor diseases that are considered to be fatal to ordinary people here in Great Xia and Huaguo.

In order not to harm the mother's body, she usually chooses to give birth if she is pregnant.

But many families can't even afford to eat, so how can they afford to support so many children.

So there is no way, they can only find a place where there is no one to throw away after the child is born.

The surrounding audience didn't react to it because it was the norm in this day and age, so they didn't have any qualms or feelings of condemnation.

But Huang Chengyang was different from them. He was from the prosperous Huaxia, and he still couldn't bear such things.

But he is not a saint, he is just a passer-by in this world, and naturally he doesn't have the heart to ask the mortals in this world to change their thinking.

Huang Chengyang sighed, stopped thinking about it, and quietly listened to the old gentleman on the stage continue talking.

"Then first their children discovered the monster while playing by the water."

"When the adults are away, the children get along very well with the monster. They play together, and the monster splashes water from time to time to amuse them."

"But one day, the hostess of the house discovered that the children were with the monster. She didn't know that the monster was playing with the children at first, and she thought the children were being attacked by the monster. "

"Mother's instinct inspired her courage, she took the hoe at home and rushed over to fight the monster."

"The monster didn't want to hurt people, so when the hostess swung the hoe, it dodged and went straight back into the water."

(to be continued.)

(End of this chapter)