The next morning, Frodo and others were lazy in bed without any accident. As for the reason why they were lazy in bed, it was very simple.

Most of the time I spent sleeping in the night was intimidated by the dream demons in the nightmare. Even if I was as tough as Frodo, my sleep quality was extremely poor. As for this, it was enough to tell from the same dark circles as the panda with his eyes standing up after he got up.

In addition to Frodo, the other two Pipin and Merry, who were also troubled by nightmares last night, were not much better. Or, these two adventurers who have been used to the peaceful and peaceful atmosphere of Charles and the Bucks over the past few decades have never thought that they would suffer from evil and difficult willow persecution during the day and suffer from nightmares at night.

Such a bad experience of being mentally sucking makes the two Hobbits look jealously at the only one of the foursomes who can't help but have no nightmares, and the happiness bubbles that keep snot in their sleep are enough to tell that he has a great sleep quality last night.

Yes, as a carefree hobbit, Sam's reason for being lazy is different from the other three partners' lazy beds.

His lazy bed was just a habitual oversleeping!

As for the reason why the four-person team knew that they had overslept in a lazy bed, it was thanks to the kind-hearted owner of Kang Ran's house, Tom, who used the noise of cleaning in the morning, and heard the crackling sound that was as annoying as fried fried cakes, which made the listener irritated. Even the sleeping Hobbits would wake up from the sleep they had finally obtained.

However, when Frodo and others just poked their heads out of the quilt with anger, the owner of the house was Sam with a little guilty face. "Sorry, friends. Is it too loud for me to clean the morning? But maybe it's time for you to get up too! Half an hour ago, Jinberine prepared breakfast for everyone. Okay, if you get up now, I will tell her to help you warm up the breakfast first."

Seeing the owner of the house apologized so politely, he realized that his lazy bed behavior was somewhat inconsistent with the Hobbit's "polite" approach when he was a guest. Frodo nodded guiltily.

"Of course, thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Tom! May the hills and flowing waters always be by your side!"

"Oh, thank you, Mr. Frodo. It seems that you really understand some of the primitive customs of the woodland residents in this area. Although I do not need the protection of the woodland hills, thank you for your blessings anyway!"

Despite denying his relationship with the forest and hills, Frodo could still see Tom, who received his blessing, with a smile on his lips, and seemed to be humming his cheerful tune again in a happy mood.

After telling Frodo and others that toothpaste, toothbrush and other toiletries were placed in the bathroom, Tom walked away with brisk steps.

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They jumped out of bed with a refreshing spirit. Frodo immediately rushed to the east window and found himself facing a small vegetable garden covered with morning dew. Perhaps the nightmare he had last night made a psychological shadow of the scenery outside the window quietly rise in his heart. Anyway, when he almost opened the window and watched the scenery outside, his fingers unconsciously entered the pocket of his shirt and coat, where the golden ring was placed.

Frodo's feelings for the Lord of Rings are complicated. After all, the Lord of Rings forced him to leave the bottom pit and leave Charles, the hometown where he had lived for decades. For himself and for the Hobbit people in his hometown, they could avoid the war because of their departure. Also for all the good creatures in the entire Middle Earth continent to avoid the control and invasion of the evil demon king, he must embark on this path full of suffering and danger with his only few loyal companions.

However, at the same time, as the adventure continues to deepen, Frodo himself also noticed that his sense of dependence on the Lord of the Rings in his hands is deepening. As the heir of Bilbo Baggins and Frodo who has been used to Frodo's adventure stories since childhood, he actually guessed from Gandalf's previous advice to him how Bilbo got rid of danger several times back then. The Ring! This ring that can make the holder invisible is almost the only prop Frodo can save his life when facing difficulties.

Especially since yesterday, Pipin and Merry had been hypnotized and imprisoned by the evil old willow tree for a short time, it helped Frodo recognize the cruel fact that these Hobbits were not good at fighting.

What if the kind-hearted Tom Bombardier missed the elves' reminder and didn't happen to arrive near the old willow tree? Would their group be wiped out because they were isolated and unable to fight the strong old willow tree?

Or, can I really be like Bilbo, who used his wisdom and the rings to escape danger and save his companions with his sword in times of danger?

Even Frodo, who was troubled by this problem, couldn't grasp this point.

He needs a wise and knowledgeable wise man like Gandalf and a guide who can point him in the direction and lead him to a useful path. If this is a luxurious New Year's wishing session, Frodo will definitely make a sincere wish that God will give him a few more powerful force, at least next time he meets a warrior who can stand up and fight with him when an evil creature like the evil willow tree strikes an attack. He no longer wants to see disaster come, and he will run away quickly except for escaping. As Bilbo told him in the past, when disaster comes, you may be able to escape for a while, but you cannot escape for a lifetime.

Only by standing up to face difficulties and solving suffering is the correct way to permanently resolve difficulties and achieve victory...

Pipin looked out from the window to the west and saw a large cloud of fog. The whole forest was covered in fog, and it felt like looking down at the rolling sea of ​​clouds. The place where the Willow River passed brought the fog out a passage; it flowed down from the hills on the left and flowed into the forest covered by fog. Outside the window was a small garden, next to it was surrounded by a fence made of silver nets, and outside the fence was neat grass covered with dew. There were no willow trees nearby.

"Good morning, friends!" Tom opened the window to the east. A cool breeze blew in, smelling a scent of heavy rain. "I think the sun will probably not show off for too long today. As soon as the sky is dawn, I was walking outside, with dewdrops on my feet and a wet sky on my head. I woke up Jinberries with singing under the window, but I dared not wake up my guests so early. These little guys will wake up in the middle of the night, of course, call them Luo! Dingdang! Get up, happy friends! Forget the sound of last night! Dingdang, dear friends, if you move faster, breakfast will be on the table. If you move too slowly, there will be only grass and rain to eat!"

Although such threatening words seemed just a cheerful joke to Frodo and others, they were hobbits who had been hungry for half a night. Before embarking on the road of adventure, Frodo and others had to have five or six meals a day and afternoon tea when they were at home!

Everyone who had been hungry was almost drinking happily on the dining table, and ate happily until all the dishes were cleared before leaving the seat.

Neither Tom nor Jinberry appeared at the dining table. Tom was walking around inside the house, and they could hear him tidying up and down the stairs in the kitchen, singing around in the house and outside the house. After everyone had finished their breakfast, the sound of sparse raindrops floated into the house from the window, and then everyone noticed that it was raining outside.

When they looked at the heavy rain outside the window, the clear singing of golden berries came from the upstairs as if raindrops fell.

Jinberry sang a song that praises the greatness of rain nourishing all things, and its cheerful tone made the guests feel deeply infected and cheerful.

As soon as he heard the song, Frodo was happy from the bottom of his heart. The rain meant that they had an excuse to rest here for a while or learn more useful information from Tom. From getting up, the idea of ​​embarking on the journey again was like a heavy burden that made him breathless. Fortunately, from the current situation, they should not need to continue rushing today.

The west wind temporarily stopped, and more dense dark clouds poured the rain on the endless hills. The scenery around the house was shrouded in a water curtain. Frodo sat at the door, watching the white path outside the door gathering a lot of rain, becoming a milky white stream flowing to the valley. Tom Bombardier also walked into the house with a song horizontally. He sat in a high chair and signaled that the guests would sit next to him.

"This is the day for Goldenberry to wash away," he said, "and it is also the time for her to wash away the autumn. It's too wet for the Hobbits, so take the opportunity to have a good rest! I know that all the guests must have had many questions since they met me. Now, please let me tell some stories first and give you a good start."

Then he told many wonderful stories, sometimes as if he was talking to himself, and sometimes suddenly looked around the crowd with his glittering blue eyes. Tom's behavior was always so free and unrestrained, and the content he told was something Frodo urgently wanted to know, for example: he told everyone the laws of the growth of trees and the various strange creatures living in the forest, some kind and evil, some friendly and some hostile to outsiders, some cruel creatures, some gentle creatures, and some secrets hidden in the bamboo forest that are unknown to outsiders.

Slowly, they began to understand the principles of everything in the forest, but the hidden truth made the Hobbit people who really knew this place for the first time.

After the whole conversation, the evil old Willow Tree is almost a frequent visitor to Tom's story. Usually, every time he tells about the historical origins and current situation of Lao Lin, Lao Willow Tree will make a guest appearance. Of course, sometimes Lao Willow Tree will even become the protagonist of the story. Frodo knows more than he is willing to know.

Indeed, after listening to this story, Frodo had to admit that it was a dangerous dark story that was enough to scare the listener.

At the beginning of the story, Tom frankly and directly spoke out the thinking patterns of these trees: their thoughts are not understandable to ordinary creatures, and these old trees are full of resentment towards animals walking freely on the earth.

It is not unreasonable for this forest to be called Laolin. It is a ruin of an ancient forest, in which there are old trees that have been watching coldly for generations. They have experienced an era in which trees dominate everything. These countless years have filled them with wisdom, pride, and resentment.

Among them, the most evil and cunning one is the evil old willow tree that once attacked Pipinmeiri. Similar to its other tree brothers and sisters, the old willow tree has a corrupt and evil heart. Even if compared with all the trees in Laolin, no big tree can act more cruelly and greedy than it. Using roots and corrupted tree tumor branches, the old willow tree has already secretly controlled a part of the underground root space of Laolin.

After talking about the evil old man, Tom seamlessly entered the beautiful hills and stone hills in the old forest without much effort. They listened to the passing of these green hills, the circle of stones above and the dark valley between them. The goats were in groups, and the green and white walls were built one after another. There were condescending fortresses on the high ground.

It is also as the continuous changes of terrain such as hills and hills, that Tom also interspersed and explained many cruel stories that had been fighting each other in history, which eventually led to the disappearance of the dust of history. The goats wandered on the hills and ate grass, and then disappeared without a trace.

The situation is not optimistic at the moment. Tom asserted that the distant demon shadows rushed up, and even the defeated people in the ancient tomb continued to recover and even cause disaster. The tomb corpse monster with the ring began to move and wandered in the wind. Under the moonlight, the circle of stone turned into sharp teeth in the grim mouth.

The Hobbits felt a chill. Even in Charles, they all heard about the legends of the Tomb Demon and the Tomb Stand. Even if they were by the warm fire in the distance, it would not be enough to help them gain the courage to fight against these evil subjects. The four suddenly remembered something that they had forgotten because of the joyful atmosphere: Tom Bombardier's house was located under these terrifying hills.

Thinking of this, Frodo and others no longer dared to look out the window. They were afraid that a disorganized vision would attract some evil and hideous corpse monsters to attack them.
Chapter completed!