Chapter 94: The Secret Village
Shengli and Xing entered the Great Green Forest in two days and Xing was surprised to see how ginormous that forest was. The more they got in, the more thicker it became and after sometime, even the sunlight didn’t reach the ground as the trees were that dense.
Xing could not make left or right and held on to Shengli who was pretty used to that place. He wasn’t even using a map to navigate.
Xing knew that even a person with good directional sense would be lost here as they cannot see the sun and all the trees looked the same. No wonder this place is deemed as mysterious.
As they reached further and Xing felt like they might have walked in for almost a day, they entered a place with tall trees and Xing was surprised to see many houses built on the trees connected by rope bridges.
Xing was curiously staring at everything around them when they were met with an elderly man and some others. Xing knew there were myths about a barbaric tribe secretly living in these forests and never would she had imagined that these tribes were real and they were as cultured and well-dressed as the people outside.
The Elder who is the Cheif of the village welcomed them in and Xing was taken aback by the fact that they were speaking the Guyu language,every one of them. So they live segregated here for almost a millennium? Xing was astonished.
Xing who thought she knew everything learned for the first time that there are things weirder than what she knew out there. There were an entire community of people living there from old to young and they treated both of them as equals.
For some reason the people were under the impression that Shengli and Xing were married and Shengli didn’t correct them and Xing just followed suit.
They were given a sumptuous meal that was full vegetarian but that didn’t lose to the royal banquet dishes. They even had arranged a hanging room that looked like a weaver bird’s nest for their stay. The entire area had many more hanging rooms and Xing only realised this area was segregated for newly weds later on.
Xing and Shengli got in the room and there was only a single bed given the fact that they were thought to be married and the room looked kind of ambiguous.
After cleaning themselves up, Xing and Shengli lied cuddling on the bed with Xing being the small spoon.
Both of them just quietly enjoyed each others warmth.