Chapter 8 elves never lie

Seeing Wilbur's bewildered face, the girl smiled. She stood up, dragged the clanging shackles, stretched out her hand, and patted the back of Wilbur's hand: "If you don't understand, it's only because you haven't met Too lucky. Or, to be more specific, you don't know what luck is." Wilbur immediately asked, "What is luck?" "Lucky, it's an elf's name." The girl sat back slowly, looked at Wilbur, and told the story. It is said that there is a village in a desolate place. Due to the barren land, drought and little rain, there is often no harvest.The villagers lived a life without enough food, which was unspeakably miserable.Finally one day, the villagers got together and said: "This kind of hard life can't go on anymore. Our village is an unfortunate village. The lucky elves never want to set foot here. We should pray, pray for the lucky elves Come here and save us from misery."

So, the villagers prepared sacrifices and went to pray together.After praying for three days and three nights, the lucky elves finally heard their call and came to the village. The Lucky Elf is a girl, wearing a beautiful red dress, wearing a bun with double rings, big round eyes, and a chubby face. Everyone who sees her has an indescribable liking for her.No one doesn't like Lucky, and she's always the most popular elf.Seeing her coming, the villagers cheered thunderously: "Good luck elves, please bless us." "Okay, I will not deny luck to anyone." said the lucky elf, "tell your wishes, and all your wishes will come true."

Residents in the east of the village said: "We hope that the sweet potatoes planted will have a good harvest." A resident in the south of the village said: "We hope that the pigs we raise will be fat and strong, and there will be no swine fever." Residents in the west of the village said: "We are hunters, and we hope to catch more prey." Residents in the north of the village said: "I am not as materialistic as they are. I have no taste or interest. I long for exciting love, the hot kind." The lucky elf said: "Okay, luck has come to you, and everyone's wish can come true."

After the lucky elf said it, luck really came.The sweet potato harvest in the east of the village is about to be harvested, and the villagers are so happy that they wake up from their dreams.The fat pigs in the south of the village are full of round meat, so they will definitely fetch a good price. The fat pig in the south of the village ran around in the village, and ran to the east of the village. With its long mouth, it pushed all the sweet potatoes out of the ground, destroying a year's harvest just like that. The residents in the east of the village were extremely angry and chased and beat the fat pig.The fat pig ran into the mountains and happened to meet a hunter in the west of the village. When the hunter saw such a fat prey, he shot the fat pig to death.

The hunter carried the fat pig back home and said to his wife, "Come on, stew the pork, I want to have a good meal." Okay, the docile wife agreed, and started to cook the meat.When the meat was stewed until fragrant, she poured arsenic into the bowl and served it to her husband.The hunter devoured it voraciously and died. The hunter is often not at home, and his wife has long fallen in love with the young man in the north of the village.After poisoning her husband to death, she invited her lover home, lit candles, ate fat meat, and sang cheerful songs, but accidentally knocked over the candle, the house burned, the fire spread, and burned down the whole village.

The villagers cried and howled, escaped from the fire pit, and huddled in the wilderness, complaining: "Lucky elves, why did you deceive us? We clearly prayed for happiness, but you brought disaster for us." The lucky elf said: "Did you make a mistake? You blamed me. What I bestow on you is luck. The elves never lie." The villagers asked: "Then how can we explain the disaster we encountered?" The lucky elf said: "It looks like this. Have you seen my shadow? Yes, elves have shadows too, and my shadow is also an elf, but she is a bad elf named Misfortune. Where am I going?" , she will follow wherever she goes, as long as there is light in this world, she will run out, I will give you luck, and she will bring you misfortune, this is to maintain the balance of the world."

The villagers shouted angrily: "Go back to your underground cave, we would rather not have temporary luck than encounter disaster." The lucky elf was very sad: "You won't really let me go, will you? Can we discuss it again?" "Go away!" the villagers shouted. The lucky elf left crying and hid in a deep cave underground.Only in the darkness where there is no light can she not be seen—unfortunately.It's just the desperate loneliness that makes the lucky elves cry every day. The girl finished her story, and in Wilbur's bewilderment, she leaned over and said in a low voice, "Now listen, I've called you here to tell you the following, which will Let you benefit for life."

Wilbur hastily widened his eyes and listened intently. I heard the girl say: "Let me tell you a secret, this world is balanced, good and evil, right and wrong, each is the shadow of the other. There is no good and no evil, and there is no right and wrong. Because of the existence of evil, there is If there is no kindness, the greater the kindness, the stronger the evil. There is no great good without great evil, and there is no great right without great wrong. As a human being, you must clarify your limitations, do not pursue goodness that is higher than human nature, and do not indulge in The evil of human nature, both of which mean disaster, will only detonate the opposite force."

Having said this, the detective came in and took Wilbur away.Wilbur turned his head step by step, watching the girl's figure disappear into the dark cell.What the girl said to him, he engraved it in his heart word by word, and he never forgot it in his life. At night after returning, fierce artillery fire suddenly sounded outside the city, and an armed force launched an attack on the city.Strangely, all the artillery fire from the attackers was aimed in the direction of the cell. The defenders in the city put up a tenacious resistance, and the gunshots rang out all night. After dawn, the attackers retreated. No one knows where this armed force came from, and the reason why they attacked the city is even more a mystery.People only know that when the war ended, all the prison cells in the city had been destroyed by artillery fire, and the houses and buildings were reduced to ruins.None of the prisoners and guards in the prison escaped, and all died in the artillery fire.

This incident left a deep impression on Wilbur, and there were too many mysteries that hung in his heart and could not be solved.That's why he has been a policeman all his life, and he only hopes to find out the identity and origin of the mysterious girl, so as to solve the confusion in his heart.Unexpectedly, 70 years have passed, and Wilbur is getting old, but all the mysteries are still shrouded in the smoke and dust of the years, and it is impossible to find out. After finishing his story, Wilbur fell into deep thought.I sat quietly on the side, and when Wilbur let out a feeble sigh, I said, "Wilbur, this is an unsolved case that you have never solved in your life. It really is full of doubts. Can you let me take a look at it?" The picture of the mysterious girl? You showed me that picture before, and I want to see it again to satisfy my curiosity as a young policeman."

Wilbur handed over the broken album in silence. I took it, opened it, and felt my heart beating wildly. In the album, there is only one photo, which is a beige color of 70 years. The figure of the girl in the photo is very blurred. It is almost exactly the same as the photo of Ye Li, which has been placed on my desk for a week. Take two identical photos of the same girl at the same time. Looking at the old picture, I said, "Wilbur, you don't even know the girl's name." Wilbur shook his head: "I asked the detective back then for her name, and wrote it on the back of the photo." I turned the photo over and saw two words scrawled on it: Ye Li! Ye Li! I sigh, time has passed 70 years, but life is eternal. Of course, as Wilbur said, there are no ghosts in this world, and there are no monsters that can live for thousands of years.