Jiang Yao sat slumped against the uneven wall, his eyelids drooping slightly, and he briefly inspected the cellar. The children were very smart. They were worried about the lack of oxygen and built many vents. The temperature underground was low and the ground was covered with thick tattered cotton cloth.
This tunnel was not something they could dig in a short time. It would take a long time for adults to dig it, let alone their group of underage children.
Jiang Yao responded: "Okay."
Cui Guoguo asked curiously: "Are you planning to dig a tunnel to escape from the village?"
Before, she thought that these children had been brainwashed and only knew how to study and perform well for the villagers. Unexpectedly, not only were they not brainwashed, they also found their own way to survive.
None of the children answered her. Only Xiaohong said impatiently: "Shut up. If you talk again, I will kick you out."
Cui Guoguo was over level 50 and was still capable of dealing with these children, but she still obediently shut her mouth and said no more.
A Dong took out a sticky note and wrote words of thanks.
The children listened to Xiao Hong and didn't even look at her.
A Dong sighed.
She hadn't eaten for a day and bought food from the mall. As soon as she opened the package, she attracted the attention of many children.
'Cuckoo'
"Cuckoo"
Someone's stomach growled, and it kept coming.
A-Dong bought more than ten box lunches and a lot of snacks for them.
Wrote a sticky note.
'Thank you for taking me in, this is our thank you gift. '
The piece of paper was taken away by Xiaohong, torn into pieces, and said coldly.
"unnecessary!"
She was about to throw away her things.
A Dong was a little anxious and opened his mask to speak. Jiang Yao took the things in his hand, took a bite of each portion, and then placed it on the ground.
"Eat."
Seeing the stalemate in the atmosphere, Xiao Yan stepped forward and distributed the lunch boxes to each child, and the snacks were also distributed according to each child.
"Sister Xiaohong, I'm hungry, let's eat together."
Xiaohong is very defensive and deeply hostile to outsiders. Especially after exposing their identities, the things they sent were like poison in her eyes.
Xiao Yan was completely opposite to her temperament. She gently tugged on Xiao Hong's sleeves and acted coquettishly.
"Sister Xiaohong~"
Xiaohong snorted coldly and sat down.
With her taking the lead, the greedy children picked up their lunch boxes and started eating.
The dishes in the lunch box included ribs, river shrimp, and squid, which they had never eaten before. Their bellies were bulging after eating, and they did not forget to lick the soup out of the lunch box.
"belch"
Hiccups kept coming and going.
Xiaohong didn't eat much, Xiaoyan ate her own share and helped her eat her share.
A Dong collected the empty lunch box, packed it into his backpack, and prepared to throw it away when he went out.
As soon as she sat down, a child next to her carefully moved to her side and tugged on her clothes, lest Xiao Hong heard her and asked in a small voice.
"Are you a fairy?"
A Dong, the kid who talks, knows Xiao Wang, who is studying poetry. He raised his curious eyes and stared at her, his eyes shining brightly in the dark cellar.
A Dong's cheeks turned red when he heard this, and he quickly took out a small notebook and wrote something for him to read.
'I am not a fairy, I am a mortal like you. '
Xiaowang is literate, but not very literate, but she knows all the words she writes.
"What is a mortal?"
A Dong explained to him.
Xiaowang barely understood it and became even more curious.
"Then why can you bring out so many delicious foods?"
A Dong's act of taking out food out of thin air made many children curious.
She didn't know how to explain it, and was so nervous that she felt at a loss.
Xiaowang thought for a while and asked, "Does anyone outside know this?"
A Dong nodded.
Xiaowang held his chin, his eyes curled up, and said with a smile: "I will be able to go outside soon. Then I will no longer be afraid of being hungry, and there will always be food to eat."
His wishes are simple.
A Dong's eyes were sore.
She has a soft and gentle temperament, and several children came to sit next to her and curiously asked her what the outside world was like.
Ever since A Dong awakened his talent, he rarely spoke.
Worried about making rules for no reason, and also, after her parents passed away, she didn't want to talk much. As time went by, she often brought a small notebook with her, and each word on the paper replaced her words.
She always closed herself off and never sat down to chat with anyone again.
Maybe it was due to her childhood experiences, or maybe she was an only child and her parents had special professions, so she had very few friends. Until now, she doesn’t have any friends.
Her mother once taught her that if she meets someone she wants to make friends with, she needs to open her heart and exchange her sincerity for sincerity.
A-Dong looked at the expectant and curious eyes of the children and finally made a choice. She took off all her masks and told them what was going on outside in a gentle voice.
The year spans nearly a hundred years, and earth-shaking changes have taken place outside.
Even Xiaohong herself didn't realize it, she was listening with her ears pricked up.
Jiang Yao rested for an hour and felt better.
A-Dong was still talking, and the children gathered in front of her listened happily.
Cui Guoguo came closer, lowered her voice, and said to Jiang Yao, "I just discovered something terrible. Do you want to listen?"
Jiang Yao: "Say."
Cui Guoguo pointed at Xiaohong and Xiaoyan across from them, and then retracted her fingers without leaving a trace, her voice trembling slightly.
"I saw that their hands had no skin or flesh, just bones."
Cui Guoguo discovered that when she was bored. Xiaohong and the others had always hidden their hands in their long sleeves and never took them out. Not long ago, when Xiaoyan was adjusting her sleeves, Cui Guoguo saw a small part of her hand. .
Jiang Yao glanced at her silently.
Cui Guoguo continued.
"Have you ever heard of skeleton beauties? They were deformed beauties created by some mentally twisted rich people a long time ago. They chose those beautiful children and scraped off the flesh on their two arms when they were very young. Let them learn to sing.
Dancing on the stage, his sleeves were thrown out, revealing his bones. "
After Cui Guoguo finished speaking, she patted her head in annoyance.
She should have thought of it when she heard the words 'acrobatic troupe'.
When he came back to his senses, he saw that Jiang Yao was not surprised at all, and couldn't help but be startled.
"You already knew?"
Jiang Yao only found out today.
I heard what Cui Guoguo said about human body performance.
If Wu Qiao had performed ordinary acrobatic performances such as wrapping a wire around his neck, crushing rocks on his abdomen, etc., he would never have been loved and famous by so many audiences.
Then combine it with the teaching in the school after entering the dungeon. Every child learns too much, and each learns his or her own thing, such as dancing, reciting poems and singing, and even singing opera, etc.
Villagers in Jiangtan Village have established schools to provide children, both male and female, with a place to learn.
The purpose is obvious.
These children are all tools provided to the Wuqiao Acrobatic Troupe for human performance.
And when they leave the village and go to the town, that's when they go on stage to perform.
The reason why so many children were buried in the back mountain was because of the performance method. In this era of underdeveloped medicine, only one out of ten children could succeed.
