Chapter 7: The tal Jungle
At this Di Tou stopped chewing for a second. Hell no. He was not getting sent to a village. He wasn't fond of the mandatory "volunteer programs" he had been forced to take in high school that essentially made him work as an unpaid farm hand for a couple of months during his precious sumr vacation back in the day and there was no way he was getting sent to so random village now that he was in this weird world.
Besides, it wasn't like he was from a village around here anyways, who would take him in! He was an old man with no blood relationship to anyone for heavens sake, ah! Who would be willing to take in an additional mouth to feed.
Di Tou didn't know how to live the villager life and even if he did… He was an eighty-year-old man! Even if he was in good health now, how long would he be able to sustain for himself. Heck, where would he even get the resources to start? He had no land, no seeds, no tools, no ho. Heck, based off of the weather it seed like it was the start of fall, so he even missed the planting season. Was he going to a village to die?
Pui! Nobody would even be around to buy him a coffin and burn paper money for him. This was not an acceptable outco.
"Ah well…"
"You villagers live a hard life though, huh, having to wake up early in the morning to do farm work. Ah, I rember when I lived in a village way back when. Laozhi was such a handso strong young man back in the day, that's where I t my wife…" At this Laozhi, no wait, he should be called Mu Di Bai now, anyways, Mu Di Bai's face darkened, rembering that his wife's wedding dress, one of the few ntos he had left of her had been burned.
Di Tou had wanted to interrupt, but hearing where the conversation was gone felt helpless. It was indeed his fault alright, ah! Could you please stop bringing it up. He was sorry okay!
"I, uh, I'm sorry. But I really didn't know. Where I co from wedding dresses are more often white, I really didn't realize."
"White huh? What a weird custom, are you marrying ghosts where you co from? Is your village a ghost village? Hmm… White… What a weird choice. No wonder you got sent all the way out here out of nowhere, you must have cursed yourself with a white dress. Haha! But as far as I know there are no villages nearby that have such a weird custom either, what was the na of your village again? Let try to see if I know where it's located."
Di Tou felt a vein threatening to burst on his forehead. Di Tou had always felt that he was a relatively patient person, sure he wasn't put into a lot of situations where it needed to be tested, but he felt like he had been raised into a relatively speaking understanding young man, but this old man. Haish.
"I. Am. Not. From. A. Village."
"Oh? Don't tell that you really are so rich old man who's from a city."
Well. It was true that Di Tou was from a city… But it definitely wasn't the type city that Mu Di Bai was thinking about. Suddenly Di Tou felt like making a joke.
"Where I co from… Can be called a tal jungle."
"Ah you must co from the Rong prefecture, I hear they have a tal jungle, I've always wanted to see it at so point. Tell about it, is it really true that the trees grow out of iron, and the leaves are gold? Hmm, that is really far away though, I don't think I'll be able to bring you ho."
Ah!? There really was a tal jungle? What sort of… No. What was important here was clearing up the misunderstanding first.
"No, no, no, not a literal tal jungle. I was trying to say that where I co from all the buildings and signs are made out of tal, so much that it's everywhere you look and sotis it feels like a jungle."
"Hmmm." Mu Di Bai looked at Di Tou quizzically, "What a weird place. What sort of king would waste so much tal on buildings, he could arm an army with such luxury. And they na their kids odd nas like Di Tou, and have their weddings in white, I really don't think I know of this place."
"I." Di Tou sighed, "I don't think I'll be able to go ho in a short period, if it's okay with you senior, could you take along with you for now? I can work or help. I need to pay you back for your help up to now anyways."
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