Chapter 35: The Doll Group's First Show of Strength

  There are many residential areas in the city, and next to the central green area, there is a cobblestone path. Usually, you can see old people walking back and forth on the cobblestone path with their feet bare. It's said that using this uneven road surface to directly stimulate the soles of the feet can effectively improve sleep quality. However, stones and cobblestones are clearly two different things. If we weren't wearing thick-soled sports shoes, I'm afraid that within a kilometer, the soles of our leather shoes would be worn through, not to mention walking barefoot. Probably for this reason, people from the mountains usually don't wear leather shoes; they prefer economical and practical rubber shoes or durable liberation shoes. Wang Jue said that if we enter the village wearing sports shoes and carrying backpacks, we will definitely attract people's attention.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, when we walked along the stone road to the village entrance, a group of Pan Dongzi-dressed little dolls rushed out from the forest at the village entrance, holding wooden stick "guns" and surrounding us in the middle.

  The leader of the kids was a tall, dark-skinned boy who held a "gun" and shouted at us: "Halt! This mountain was opened by me, this tree was planted by me. If you want to pass through here, leave some tolls!"

  Seeing their comical appearance, I held back my laughter, but a snorting sound still escaped from my mouth. Wang Jue pulled at my sleeve beside me. I turned to look at him and found his face stern, without any hint of amusement.

  He only saw him open his backpack, take out a bag of candy, pick one from inside and put it in his own mouth, then pick another one and hand it to the tall boy from afar. The boy saw that he ate one first, knew it wasn't poisonous, so he carefully walked over, took the candy from Wang Jue's hand and put it in his own mouth.

  No matter where, the temptation of sweets to children is always greater than anything else. The tall one tasted the sweetness of the candy and stretched out his hand to ask Wang Jue to give him the whole package. Wang Jue calmly squatted down, looked at the child and said: "If you can take me to find someone, I will give you this whole bag of sweets."

  Wang Jue asked him to take us to find the Miao girl. Although we had never met the Miao girl, based on the clues we got from Wu Zhuang, we could say that we roughly knew what she looked like. After Wang Jue's description, the child quickly understood who we were looking for. He asked Wang Jue to give him candy first and then take us to find the Miao girl. What a cunning little merchant, no different from Old Shao's style.

  Wang Jue handed the opened bag of candies to him and reached into his backpack to pull out another one, telling him that if he brought them to Miao Nü, this other bag of candies would be his too. Alas, why didn't I think of this method to deal with Old Shao earlier? To make a greedy person follow you, it's best to always maintain an attraction for him. It seems that Wang Jue is indeed a very clever person.

  This method was indeed effective. The tall child had a "fan club" following behind him, noisily leading us into the village.

  From the village entrance, counting to the fourth courtyard, the children stopped. The tall one pointed at the small courtyard, indicating that he had completed his task. Wang Jue handed over the reward candy to him, and a group of children surrounded the candy, making a fuss, and the child holding the candy instantly became the center of attention for the group of children.

  I and Wang Jue squeezed out of the crowd of dolls, standing at the gate of the small courtyard, carefully observing this place.