55. Dragon and the Secret of Dolltown(1/2)
Canglan had never seen a baby who praised her like this. She silently took back the doll in her hand and promoted her little doll to other customers with her sister.
Carlo's eyes bent slightly, he looked at the narcissistic little dragon cub and touched his head.
"Then let's eat it first. I'll make milk for you later. This time I add half of the fire crystal and water crystal each." Gru dug a spoonful of big meat sauce and spread it on the rye bread, lowered his head and said to the fat cub.
Long Ming nodded. He was actually not hungry yet. When he saw everyone eating, he obediently stood on the chair.
The girl soon sold the doll in her hand, and the farmers and travelers were also very happy. There was only the worn-out minstrel. Seeing someone paying attention to him, he looked up and saw a baby in a small cloak, revealing only a pair of big golden eyes, which was quite cute. The minstrel thought, and started to sing the organ, and the elegant melody filled the town instantly.
It was almost noon, and fireworks were also rising in Townsend Doll Town. Long Ming saw several dolls running out of the wooden house and playing games with playmates. Some were big and small. The older ones were probably five or six years old, and the younger ones were only two or three years old. A group of small radish heads passed by in groups in the tavern, each holding a small doll in his hand.
This scene is a little normal, not unlike other villages and towns.
Long Ming carefully observed the children playing not far away and found that they were all cute and exquisite.
One of them probably saw Long Ming, so he walked to his chair and looked up at him: "Little brother, do you want to play too?"
"We have shuttlecock kicks, flower balls, hide and seek, and play every family here." The chubby little doll pulled his fingers and tried to think about the name of the game.
"Do you want to come down to play? It's so fun here."
"Yes, yes, we can also slide."
A group of little radish heads immediately rushed to Long Ming and kept chattering. Long Ming hurriedly hid his tail. His cubs were so popular. Last time in Satoye, a child wanted to play with him.
Oreo wiped his hands with a hot towel and looked at the fat little cub: "Do you want to go?"
Long Ming's eyes lit up: "Can you go?"
"I'll follow you and take a look at the secrets of this town." Oreo said, casting a "successive eye" to the little guy casually."
Long Ming was ready to move. Seeing this, Oreo carried him to the ground. Carlo thought for a while and followed.
"Let's go, let's go on an adventure today." Several children were even happier when they saw a new partner joining. One of them directly pulled Long Ming's sleeve and ran forward.
"Today we are going to take the adventure at the strangest Grandpa An's house." Long Ming followed them and listened to them discussing how strange Grandpa An was.
"His clothes are covered with dirt, not as clean as his parents."
"He is not good-looking either, but Sister Rose is pretty. I like Sister Rose."
"I like it too, but my parents don't like it, so we don't want to go to his house."
Long Ming couldn't help asking, "Why don't they like Sister Rose?" Rose should be Xingna. Long Ming followed a child and walked around to the front of a dilapidated wooden house.
"Shh, I don't know either."
"But we actually like to play with Grandpa An, although he is not good-looking."
Oreo looked at the cabin and felt the sea god in his pocket warm slightly.
"Grandpa An, are you at home? We're here to play with you!" The child knocked on the wooden door and woke up. Long Ming followed them. He saw that the wooden door opened after a while. A gray-haired old man walked out of the door, followed by Xingna.
Xingna was also surprised when she saw Long Ming and Carlo Oreo behind her.
"Grandpa An, why are your clothes so dirty today?" A little carrot was disgusted with her breasts, but she still ran into the house with other children.
Long Ming also went in and saw a small lamp lit in the dim room. The house was very messy, with clay, plaster, and models everywhere, but not human-shaped models, but small animals and the like. Grandpa An sat back on the bench. His vicissitudes of face seemed unexpectedly friendly to Long Ming. His eyes were wrinkles when he smiled. His thick hands kept working hard, pinching clay, and after a while he made a little rabbit.
The children were not wrong. Grandpa An was covered in clay and his messy hair looked a little dirty. Long Ming walked up to him and saw many small animal dolls in front of him, which were vivid and cute.
"Well? You are from another place, why did you come here?" Grandpa An wiped his hands on his apron, squinted his eyes and saw clearly that there was really a strange baby in front of him.
He frowned and looked at the outsider who suddenly appeared, his voice was old and unhappy: "Xinna."
Xingna curled her lips, looked at the other outsiders in the room, and complained: "Grandpa, they have to come here to play."
"We'll leave in a day." Oreo looked at the messy environment and couldn't find what he wanted.
"Grandpa An, can we play slides in your room?" One of the little radish heads walked to the old man and asked.
Grandpa An was stunned for a moment. This time he squinted his eyes for a long time, as if he was recalling something. His old big hand touched the girl's head with a flower bud, and stood up with a hunched back: "Okay, Xiao Momo."
"My name is not Xiao Momo. I changed my name, Cha Cha, Grandpa An, you have recognized the wrong person." The little girl pouted and angrily: "Grandpa An, I will be angry next time I admit my wrong person."
Grandpa An's eyes were complicated for a moment, and he didn't refute. He walked to the corner and took off the black cloth, revealing the small slide hidden inside and some toys and small toy horses. These were obviously prepared for these children.
"Wow."
"Thank you, Grandpa An."
"Grandpa An is so nice."
A few children gathered around instantly and started playing happily.
Long Ming had sharp eyes and found that there were dolls on the long wooden table in front of the wall, which were in the form of a child. He walked over and found that the little dolls had not beautiful faces, most of them looked ordinary and ordinary, wearing different clothes, including boys and girls. Each doll had a small wooden sign hanging around its neck.
"Xiao Momo." Long Ming looked at one of the little dolls wearing floral skirts and pronounced his name. He looked at the beautiful little girl who was having fun in front of the slide, and always felt that he had discovered something shocking secret.
"Do you need help? The village and town cursed by 'lucky'." Oreo suddenly spoke out, and he walked to the old man whose face was pale in an instant, and took out the sea god shell.
It is emitting a bright white light.
Long Ming didn't understand and pulled his mage's robe. Carlo picked up the curious little dragon cub, and felt a little strange. Could it be that the girl became a doll? But why can't he see that in his eyes, the one named Nana, is really a human cub, breathing and heartbeat, except that she is too beautiful, it should be said that everyone in this village has a stunning appearance, which is very wrong.
"You, what do you know?!" Xing Na pulled her grandfather back, her beautiful eyes filled with panic and fear.
"You probably know your secret." Oreo put the shell in the hands of the curious fat little cub. His silver eyes pierced into the eyes of the two people opposite him. His handsome face was still smiling, but it was not enough to reach his eyes.
"I smelled the breath of the Sea God Baby on everyone in this town. The curse of luck is on your skin." Oreo took a step forward, stretched out a hand, and gently stroked the girl's delicate cheeks. Xingna took a step back in horror and hid behind her grandfather. Long Ming saw that there was a powdery white light on Oreo's fingertips, which was exactly the same as the Sea God Baby's light.
"This, this respected magician, please don't hurt my Xingna. I am the only relative." Grandpa An hid his granddaughter behind him, his hands trembling, which attracted the radish heads not far away.
"Grandpa An, what are you doing?"
"Grandpa An, the little Trojan horse is so fun. Can you make one for me secretly? I won't let my mother know."
Long Ming looked at the group of radish heads and came up with a solution. He lowered his head and threatened them: "It's already noon. If you don't go home for dinner, I will tell your parents that you will come to Grandpa An to have fun today."
The little carrot heads instantly looked at their new partner with incredible eyes.
Long Ming was a little guilty when they were unanimously accused.
Carlo glanced at the human cub on the ground, and suddenly cried a few of them and left. The remaining few ran out, and the room became clean in an instant.
Oreo looked at the little dolls, then looked at the old man and the girl: "Now, you can tell it truthfully, it's still time." After a pause, he added: "At least, the child has time."
"They are innocent, aren't they?" Oreo looked straight at the old man.
Long Ming immediately started crying when he saw Grandpa An. He shed tears silently, and tears slid down his wrinkled face, like a helpless child, his hands trembling even more violently. He pulled Xing Na, who was hiding behind him, begging the mysterious and powerful magician: "My granddaughter, Xing Na, Xing Na, she is also a good child. Please save her and save her. I will kowtow to you, please." After that, he knelt down.
Long Ming suddenly remembered Gru when he looked at this scene for some reason.
Oreo supported him, let the old man sit on the chair, and looked at the girl who was crying silently beside him.
"There is only one chance, just tell me the truth and where the Sea God is."
"So, is it called Sea God Bell?" The old man sat on the chair with his eyes a little distracted.
"Let me say, grandpa doesn't speak clearly, I know the source of all this." Xingna wiped her tears. Long Ming saw that the place on her originally flawless skin was rubbed by Oreo's fingertips, revealing a pale complexion, no longer like porcelain skin, but more like a fair skin with flesh and blood.
But in just a moment, the white porcelain muscle instantly returned to her face.
Seeing that everyone in the room looked at her, Xingna reached out to cover her right cheek, showed a bitter smile, and finally said: "I didn't look like this before, it didn't belong to me."
"I'm not that beautiful."
She took a deep breath and told the truth: "Our town used to be a small animal doll, and also made some dolls, dolls, etc., but in recent years, the dolls in the town have not been very effective. Everyone has lived a very hard life, so they put down their beloved dolls and planted some food and vegetables to eat by themselves."
"About a year ago, the mayor who went out to buy fruit and vegetable seeds suddenly brought back an extremely huge thing. At first we didn't know what it was, nor did we know where the mayor got it from."
"I knew the mayor was very excited that day and told us that the good days in our Doll Town are coming."
Long Ming listened very seriously. Carlo stared at the cub's big golden eyes and gently weighed his weight. He was very satisfied, it was a little heavier than before.
Oreo's eyes were half-hugging and listening to the girl continue.
"He told us that he had found another thing that could make the doll more beautiful. As long as it was added, no one could resist the cuteness of the doll. We were also very excited when we heard it. The mayor gave each person and each family a small bucket of white luminescent powder, and focused on telling us that this is doll paint, which is very precious. You have to treat it with devout devotion to make a good-looking doll."
Xingna wiped her tears and continued, "So we started making dolls. At the beginning, it was indeed the case. As long as we used that bucket of powder, no matter what dolls were made, they were very beautiful and sold very quickly. Everyone became more enthusiastic and just wanted to make the most beautiful doll."
"Even to the point where every time I make a doll, I will pray devoutly to the bucket of powder."
"After three or four months, a doll dealer came from outside. He was disappointed after visiting our doll town. He felt that the dolls were so beautiful, but the owner of the makers was vulgar and ugly. The mayor was hit hard that day, and the next day he actually came up with a way to apply the white powder on his body, calling on us to apply it together."
"My grandfather didn't agree to do this, so he didn't wipe it. Out of curiosity, I wiped it for a few days and found myself becoming beautiful."
"Later, when I wiped it again, my grandfather stopped me, but the others in the village found that after applying it, they would really become beautiful and more enthusiastic. The powder seemed to have a magic power, which would make people less and less satisfied, as if they had planted a beautiful spell."
"After three months of erasing, there were magical changes in everyone." Grandpa An took Xingna's words and continued: "The people in the village have been reborn in just a few months. The old man has become young and the young man has become beautiful. They began to pursue beautiful faces frantically, and even the children did not let go. In their eyes, they were still the same, but they became much more beautiful. They even put the name they had given to the dolls before on themselves, so that they became as beautiful as the dolls made. Their eyes and hearts were covered, and they didn't know that their faces had become another person."
Long Ming took a breath of air conditioning. There was such a magical powder. It would be something evil black magic.
"Their eyes are already blind." Grandpa An pulled his granddaughter over, his voice trembling: "Xingna, Xingna loves beauty. She has only applied it a few times before. Can you turn her back? I beg you."
"I don't want Xingna to become a stranger. This place is no longer the original doll town."
"Then where is the mayor now?" Long Ming felt that this was an important clue.
"The mayor lives behind the amusement park. I have helped him divide the pastry several times before. Later, he refused to let me go and asked the villagers to get it at his house and bring him the water bucket. The mayor said that if there is no, he would go and get it, and let everyone not be polite."
"Now I suspect that the mayor is no longer our mayor, but we only have two people, and they are useless in small words."
"The people in the town also began to exclude us because of my appearance and Xingna's unwillingness to be like them."
To be continued...