Extraordinary Pioneer

Chapter 180 Little Puppet

Master Dahan handed the letter and package to Li Ye, and then left directly.

Li Ye opened the letter, and there were trembling handwriting on it.

It took a long time before Li Ye folded the letter again and sighed slightly.

In the letter, Granny Xie taught Li Ye some techniques for manipulating the puppets. At the end of the letter, she also had a premonition that the crisis was coming, but she said she had no regrets.As for the package, it was the puppet thread and tools carefully prepared by Granny Xie, and it was reserved for Li Ye.

"Forget it..."

After Li Ye put the package back in the room, he returned to the courtyard again and practiced his chopping.

In his current state, Li Ye already felt that he was on the verge of comprehending the second level of artistic conception. It seemed that he could break through at any time, but after all, the time had not come yet. He could only wait for an opportunity.

click!
Another piece of wood was split in half by Li Ye.

"The ax seems to be blunt a lot..."

Li Ye picked up the ax and took a closer look in front of his eyes. He found that the original sharp front of the ax had unknowingly become smooth, and there were small jagged cracks.

"I remember there is a hardware store not far away, go and change it."

Although Master Dahan is set to be an excellent carpenter, here, Li Ye has only seen the ax in front of him.

……

hardware store.

It was afternoon, the weather was a little hot, and the climate seemed a little dull.

The door of the hardware store is open, but covered by a curtain
Li Ye raised the curtain and walked in.

As soon as he entered the hardware store, Li Ye felt a chill, as if he had entered an air-conditioned room in the scorching heat.

"Ok?"

However, this coldness seems a little unnatural.

Li Ye frowned slightly, looked around, but found that there was nothing special in the store except for a circle of hardware supplies.

"What do you want to buy, sir?"

At this moment, a 50-year-old man came out from the back room of the store. He was dressed in coarse clothes and had a beard at the corner of his mouth. He seemed to be the shopkeeper of the hardware store.
"Buy an axe."

Li Ye said casually, while also feeling the source of something wrong.

"Which one are you looking at?"

The shopkeeper asked with a smile.

"This..."

Li Ye pointed to a seemingly good-looking ax and asked the shopkeeper to take it down.

The shopkeeper always had a smile on his face: "This ax is good, and the price is not expensive, as long as..."

Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, he heard the cry of a child in the back room.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper looked at Li Ye with a little apology: "I'm sorry, guest officer, my mother-in-law went to her mother's house, and the child was put to sleep just now. I don't know why he woke up. I'll go over and comfort her first. You should be more patient..."

"It's alright, let's go."

Li Ye waved his hand, not paying much attention.

The shopkeeper trotted all the way back to the back room.

Immediately afterwards, the cry of the child disappeared.

"Guest officer, you have been waiting for a long time..."

Soon, the shopkeeper came back from the back room, but this time, he held a puppet in his hand.

The puppet was very roughly carved, and it was barely resembling a human being. Compared with the puppet made by Granny Xie, it was like heaven and earth.

But after seeing the puppet, a strange look flashed in Li Ye's eyes.

"Guest officer, I'll give you the ax."

The shopkeeper wiped the dust off the ax and handed it to Li Ye.

After paying, Li Ye looked at the puppet on the side of the counter and asked, "Is this your child's toy?"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper nodded and said: "Yes, my mother-in-law bought it from the roadside for her children two or three years ago. She never thought of it as a good thing. She kept it in a corner. She just dug it out a few days ago and gave it to her child. Yes. But it’s strange to say that the child has been crying since he got this, and I don’t know why..."

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper showed a trace of fear on his face: "The child cried again just now, and the puppet was next to the child at that time. I felt something was wrong, so I planned to throw the puppet away."

"threw?"

Hearing this, Li Ye said, "Why don't you give it to me, I'll throw it for you on the way out."

"Then trouble you."

Seeing this, the shopkeeper responded directly, he really didn't want to touch this puppet again.

Li Ye grabbed the little puppet into his hand and held it in front of his eyes for a closer look.

The little puppet seemed to be able to sense something, and the brush eyes that were already blurred seemed to blink.

Li Ye smiled and walked out of the hardware store with an ax and a puppet without saying a word.

"Weird..."

The shopkeeper looked at Li Ye's leaving back, and suddenly felt that the room, which was originally cool, became a little hotter.

"Is it because of the summer heat?"

The shopkeeper scratched his head.

……

After Li Ye returned to his residence, he didn't continue to practice chopping wood, but went directly into the room.

He put the puppet on the table, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it down.

"Are you thirsty?"

In the room alone, Li Ye suddenly asked.

No one responded, the house was silent, but there were a few cicadas chirping outside.

"I asked you if you were thirsty, why didn't you speak?"

Li Ye repeated it again.

But still no one answered.

Li Ye showed a slightly helpless smile, sat in front of the table, stared at the puppet: "Pretend to me again, believe it or not, I will set you on fire."

"..."

"No... thirsty..."

Suddenly, the little puppet's expression changed unexpectedly, and it made a milky, girlish sound, with a vibrato in it, as if it was a little scared.

"No... Thirsty..." Li Ye was amused by the puppet, "After such a long sound, are you thirsty or not?"

"I……"

The facial features of the little puppet were not exquisite, but when Li Ye threatened him just now, his tone was anxious. It seemed to be two consecutive words forced out: "...not thirsty."

"So timid?"

Li Ye touched the little puppet's head with his hands, and he could clearly feel that the little puppet's body was stiff and did not dare to move.

"That's not the case when you frightened the child just now?"

Li Ye's tone was playful.

When he saw this little puppet for the first time, Li Ye could already tell that this little puppet had already activated its spiritual intelligence and had life in it, but it was born not long ago and was still very immature.

From its body, Li Ye didn't perceive the slightest bit of malice, and it was just a naughty heart to scare the shopkeeper's child.

"I……"

The little puppet was held back again, unable to speak.

"Look at you, you look so ugly..."

Li Ye flicked the puppet's face with his fingertips, and the puppet froze in fright.

But when Li Ye said that he was ugly, the little puppet's eyelids drooped, looking sullen.

"Well, how about I make you look good?"

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Li Ye's mouth.

"really?"

The little puppet suddenly raised its head, its eyes flashed brightly.

(End of this chapter)