In a daze, the old man heard someone calling him. He opened his eyelids with difficulty and saw the boy from the baker's family. I think his name was Ronnie?
The old man is not sure, and he doesn't care about this. Now that he has been woken up, he is ready to grab Ronnie and drink with him.
"Hiccup—" the old man stood up and hiccupped at Ronnie.
The strong smell of alcohol almost made Ronnie faint.
"How much alcohol have you drunk?" Ronnie quickly took a few steps back and waved his hand in front of his nose, trying to get rid of the smell of alcohol.
"One bottle? Two bottles? It doesn't matter, kid, come here and drink with me."
It seemed that the old man was still drunk. The boss on the side looked at him and didn't want to come over at all. To be honest, he had the urge to throw the old man out now, if it weren't for the fact that he was an old man.
On the other side, Esther couldn't stand it anymore. He strode over and prepared to sober up the old man. A magic power was poured into the old man's body, dispersing the remaining alcohol in his body.
After a while, the old man woke up and lost the effect of alcohol. The old man's mood suddenly became depressed. He was still immersed in the sadness of his son's death.
"What are you doing here? Do you have anything to do with me?" the old man asked Ronnie.
Ronnie glanced at Esther and thought, It's not that I have trouble with you, but that he has trouble with you.
After all, the old man was young, and by looking at Ronnie's eyes, he knew that the young man next to him was looking for him. He looked very handsome, and if his son had not died, he should be like him.
The old man thought sadly.
"If you come to me for a drink, I'll accompany you. If it's for other things, I can't do anything." The old man turned around, looking like he didn't want to communicate with Esther.
"Even if it's about your son, do you still want to ignore it?" Esther said calmly.
These words pierced the old man's heart. He raised his head, looked at the young man Esther again, and said in a bad tone: "What do you know?"
"I don't know anything yet, so I hope you can tell me what you saw or heard. Maybe I can help you."
After Est said this, the old man's eyes flickered. Est knew that he had guessed correctly. The old man had indeed seen something and escaped from the village.
"Stop joking, how can you help me?" the old man said harshly. He did not believe that the young man in front of him could do anything to help him.
As soon as the old man finished speaking, the wine glass in his hand suddenly turned into a mouse. The old man saw that a living creature suddenly appeared in his hand, and he was so frightened that he quickly let go of his hand, and the mouse in his hand also immediately
Ran away and disappeared.
Of course this was done by Esther, it was just a small transformation spell.
"You..." The old man looked at Esther in shock.
Esther also said at this time: "This will help you."
"Turn the cup into a mouse? This will really help me." The old man said sarcastically after being surprised.
"If you don't want to cooperate, I can turn you into a mouse." Esther said unceremoniously.
The old man fell silent, and then said after a while: "Come with me." He stood up from the bar of the bar, but because he had been sitting here for too long, his legs and feet were a little weak, and he almost fell to the ground when he stood up.
Fortunately, Ronnie stepped forward in time to support him.
Finally, with Ronnie's support and the bar owner's eyes moved to tears, the old man left the bar.
The old man has always lived in his own house in the village. It can be said that he has lived in the village for most of his life. Now he ran to the town alone and used the savings that he originally planned to leave for his son to work outside.
I bought a small house.
The house is very small. After entering, there is only a bed and some broken furniture, and there is not even a toilet.
However, this can already express the attitude of the old man. He will never return to the village again. Esther is curious about what the old man saw that made him so determined to move away from the village.
"I just want to leave that sad place."
"Did you want to leave the sad place, or did you run away because of fear?"
The old man sat on the bed, glanced at Esther dissatisfied, and began to tell what happened that day.
"I remember it was that morning, I took my son, Pani, to check the harvest of this year's crops. Because the growth this year was good, I wanted to go deeper into the fields and have a look. Maybe I went with Pani at that time.
I didn't realize that Pani was gone at that time, and when I found out that Pani was missing later, it was already too late."
"At first, I didn't care. He knew the way home, and I wasn't afraid that he would get lost. But when I went back, I found that Pani had died on the road." The old man held his head in his hands and couldn't help crying.
stand up.
Esther did not disturb him and waited calmly for the old man to calm down.
After a while, the old man continued: "The first thing I thought of at that time was that Pani had been killed. His body was covered in blood and his face was covered with bruises. I thought they were from the fight.
"
"I knew that the murderer of Pani was nearby, and he couldn't run far away, so I hid, thinking that the murderer would definitely come back. In this way, I stayed beside Pani's body and waited from day to night.
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"I don't know what time it was at night, but I remember that the moon was very bright that day, allowing me to see the road ahead clearly." The old man seemed to be recalling horrible things, and his body was shaking slightly.
"Just when I was about to give up, that guy showed up."
Esther narrowed his eyes and asked: "Who?"
"I don't know. He was wearing a very tattered cloak, and his whole body was huddled in the cloak. I only saw two red eyes under the cloak, like the eyes of animals. He walked to Pani's body. I don't know.
I knew what he wanted to do, but the moment he turned his back to me, I rushed out, picked up the blunt instrument in my hand and hit his head hard."
"I swear, I heard the sound of bones breaking, and after he fell, I saw blood seeping out of the tattered cloak. I thought he was dead and wanted to look through the cloak to see this guy.
Who is it?"
"But, but!"
Esther knew that what the old man was going to say next was the key, so he listened attentively.
"But the guy didn't die. He got up from the ground. I saw something crawling under his cloak. He was like a monster. I was so scared that I didn't dare to move while I was standing there.
I moved, but that guy didn't attack me, he ran away, just escaped from my eyes!" After saying this, the old man seemed to have spent all his strength.
His tone became tired, "The next day, the coroner came and he said that my Pani died of an infectious disease. He said that there were traces of rat bites on Pani's body, so he should have died from the plague, but
I know that the coroner lied, because just the night before, I saw with my own eyes that monster in a cloak appearing next to Pani, and it was he who killed Pani!"