Late at night, the whole town was quiet.

John pushed the wooden cart with Roger, who thought he had been tied, and then left the town in a long circle through the secluded street at the urging of the woman.

The town's main streets are still lit with dim street lamps, and after leaving the town and entering the forest, the surroundings become dark and silent.

There was a faint wolf roar in the distance, and John trembled with fright, several times. He even almost overturned and dropped Roger above.

Roger was tied up with hemp rope by John and lay on the car, the whole process was not easy at all, the planks were stuck to the bones, and he had to endure John's poor driving skills.

"Is it there? Why hasn't it arrived yet? ”

The woman next to her had already lost her soul in the fright just now. At this time, when I looked at the woods, I always felt that there seemed to be some monster hidden in the darkness.

"It's coming, it's supposed to be coming!"

The man took a pebble out of his pocket and threw it on the ground.

Under the moonlight, the pebbles glowed white, as if touching an unknown energy, and something in the dark woods echoed with the pebbles on the ground, flashing and shining.

John pushed the wooden cart to the place where the light shimmered, where an identical pebble was quietly placed.

The woman looked back in the direction of their afterlife.

The original light is gone.

John reached out and touched the pebbles on the ground, and the light disappeared, followed by a faint light in the distance.

Repeatedly, the two pushed the wooden cart and gradually came to the depths of the woods.

There were trees all around them, and they couldn't tell where they were at all.

A little moonlight sprinkled on the faces of the two through the faint gaps, and in this dark environment, the faces of the two were reflected in a miserable white.

They didn't even dare to look at each other, they just whispered, "It's coming, it should be soon, when we hand over this man, we can get a lot of jewels." ”

"I won't have to live like this again."

As she walked, the woman suddenly stopped, and she trembled and pointed in a direction in the darkness.

"Listen, is there any sound coming from there?"

"What sound?"

John's face was gloomy, holding his breath and listening.

But nothing happened after a while.

Enraged, John raised his hand and slapped the woman in the face.

"Damn, do you know what you're talking about?"

"Do you want to scare me to death?"

"Ahh

The woman let out a scream, "Don't hit me, don't hit me, you listen, there really is a sound, it seems that two children are laughing!" ”

"Giggle......

"Come and get me."

"If you catch me, I'll give you candy."

John's cold hair stood on end, and the cold sweat on his face flowed down at once.

"Hallucination, this must be an illusion."

"It's that woman urging us, we're breaking our oath, she's going to be angry."

"Hurry up, hurry up, if it's late, she might come straight to the door!"

John mustered all his strength to push the cart forward with difficulty.

Roger squinted at the moonlight shining through the trees, and he wondered if he should just stand up and help John take the pressure off the car.

Forget it, Roger thought about it for a while, but gave up on this plan.

"Honey, do you think it could be Jenny?"

"It's her ghost who has come to us."

"Shut up!"

John let out a low roar, "What does that stupid kid know?" ”

"Stupid and ugly, because of her, we have become the laughing stock of the whole town, if it weren't for the promise to that woman, even if this child was eaten by a wild beast, I wouldn't be sad at all."

"We can have just one."

"Give birth to a pretty, smart boy."

John wisted.

"When we have the money, we will move into a big house immediately, you don't have to work, I will hire a lot of servants, you just need to attend the banquet every day, and then take care of our children."

John's eyes sparkled with happiness.

"What about you, dear?"

The woman's face changed slightly, "You can't be like the squires in the town. ”

"I don't know what you men are going to do?"

"When my belly grows, you have a good chance to with those beautiful maids!"

The woman sneered, "You won't succeed, if you dare to betray me, I will tie you up and hand you over to that woman when the time comes!" ”

The expression on John's face became a little unnatural, though his wife apparently didn't notice it in the dark.

"What are you worried about, in order to make you happy, I don't even want my own children."

As the distance approached, the distant voices gradually became clearer, and in addition to the faint sound of frolicking, there was also a faint sound of singing.

"One, two, three, four, five."

"Blindfold and dance."

"Candy Hopping ......"

"The head of the candy picker rolls down."

Pushing aside the branches in front of them, the two seemed to enter another world.

In the middle of an open woodland stood a cottage made of sweets, bread as its roof, chocolate-coated chimneys, and even the smoke picked out had a faint sweetness.

In front of the house, there are many delicate toys, and a group of children dressed in gorgeous costumes are holding hands and playing games together.

When you are hungry, you bow your head and take a bite of the Trojan horse on your body, and the soft bread enters your mouth, and the wheat fragrance can be easily smelled even from a long distance.

There was also a table of hearty food on the table in front of the door.

Dessert grilled chicken bacon, sausage cheese, large glasses of milk, and many other delicious foods that you have never seen before.

John couldn't help but swallow his saliva, he had been busy all day, and he hadn't eaten anything since he came home, and he and his wife had long been hungry and thirsty.

The children were still playing on their own as if they couldn't see the three of them.

John stepped forward boldly, "Ms. Gretel, are you there?" ”

"As promised, I brought a ...... with me"

John rubbed his hands together and looked cramped, "I'm sorry ma'am, but on the way to drop off my daughter, the dead kid ran around alone and was eaten by a brown bear. ”

"Don't worry, although the child is gone, I still have a replacement for you."

As he spoke, he frantically glanced at his wife.

The woman struggled to push the cart forward and leaned forward.

"Put people there."

A voice came from the room.

"After walking all this way, are you already hungry?"

"There's food on the table, and if you don't mind, you can enjoy it to your heart's content."

A flash of surprise flashed in John's eyes.

"Kudos to you, generous Lady Gretel."

He said hello and quickly brought his wife to the table, and he didn't care about choosing, so he directly reached out and stuffed the food into his mouth.

A countryman like him, where he knows what pre-dinner etiquette is, it's good to stuff his stomach with things.

Squeak.

The cheese-made wooden door was pushed open, and an old woman in a gray robe stepped out of the room.

"How? I'm pretty good, right? ”

"It's just delicious."

John didn't look up, his mouth was full of food, and he said with a big heart.

"Oh......"

The old woman smiled contentedly.

"Do you know what my food is made of?"