"What do you mean?", I flipped back and forth a few times, and it was indeed something like that. The old man took the notebook from my hand, flipped to the first IOU and asked me, "Do you know who wrote this?"

I looked at it carefully again, and said uncertainly, "Han homework?" The old man nodded with satisfaction, closed the notebook and said to me: "Your father and I have been friends all my life are basically here." ”

I scratched my head, and when the old man said this, I could understand that there were IOUs and contacts in this book. What I'm wondering about is that your Zhang family, Li Jiaxiao, and the daughter-in-law of the Wang family are shameless about me. Could it be that I can still take these IOUs and ask people for accounts?

That's useless, the old man is eighty years old, whether the account owner is still alive or not is a matter of two things. Besides, twenty catties of rice can't report my train ticket home, and if I go to collect this account, I will have to lose face.

The old man leaned against the head of the bed and beckoned to me, and asked me in the tone of a spiritual teacher: "I see that I am thirty years old, and I don't have a daughter-in-law yet." In the past few years, do you feel that your little life is very boring?", "It's very exciting, if you don't nag me about getting married, you can be more energetic." ”

The old man laughed, "Seek truth from facts, these days, the material life is very fulfilling, and the spiritual life is too scarce." It's a shame that I'm old, or I'm going crazy. "I'll admit that you have a point, but I'm still satisfied. Not everyone has to go to battle with a gun, right? ”

"It's such a reason, I'd rather be a peace dog than a troubled world. Life is too exciting to do any good, but it's too dull and boring. The old man shook his head and summed up. "No, what do you want to say, don't put up such a big score with your level of education. ”

I made the old man a little irritable, knowing that life has been so difficult, can some things not be dismantled? I took out half a box of peonies from my pocket, and pulled out the temporary ashtray soaked in perfect tonic wine from under the bed.

The old man looked at me with a blank look, I stretched out my head to look out the door, and the nurses were all in the guidance table if they didn't do ward rounds or medicine. I put a cigarette on the old man's head, took out a lighter and lit it for him, and he also stretched out a hand to cage the fire, and lit it twice on the back of my hand to express his gratitude. After a long puff of cigarette, he glanced at my lighter, "You don't have a life like you." ”

It's so angry. I pretended to get up, "I'm going to ask the nurse when I'm going to take my medicine." The old man grabbed me, "Look at you, you're annoyed when you say a few words." I sat back in my chair and unscrewed the bottle to him, and the old man expertly smashed the ash into the bottle.

"If you don't have any money like him, your quality of life is definitely not as good as others. But I can help you. I squinted my eyes and shook my head again and again, "Don't don't, don't don't, I just don't have any money as him, it's not that I don't have money, it's not appropriate to take you." ”

"Who said I'm going to give you money. The old man leaned back in an exaggerated manner, as if I could pounce on him and snatch his coffin in the next second, quite pompous and contrived. It's very uninteresting, it's all what he says.

I just watched him perform quietly, and the old man also felt that he had acted a little too much, so he came up and beat the ashes and said, "Although I can't help you improve your material life, I can help you improve your spiritual life." ”

I glanced at him and thought to myself that there was still a spiritual life, and that was a few G's in my hard drive, that was not a spiritual life?

"You, you've been chattering since just now, and finally called me back, just say what you have to do, I'll be with you at home for two days, and when it's over, you should walk and I should move bricks. ”

The old man hummed for a moment, and suddenly asked me, "Komaki, do you believe that there are monsters in the world?"

I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't pay attention to the old man asking such a question, and seeing his rare seriousness, I thought about it carefully and said, "Believe it or not, I haven't seen it before." ”

I'm not an extreme person, I don't like to be too absolute in what I say and do, the main thing is that I am easy to slap my face, and then twice your reputation will be ruined.

"What would you do if, I mean, if you had?" the old man asked me, holding the cigarette butt, "give him a cigarette, talk to him, ask how the villagers are doing, how are the villagers? ”

I've simulated this scene many times, and I guess it was also mistaken by a lot of weird novels on the market. The old man smiled and said You are quite a bachelor, I said that what can you do, no one owes anyone for no reason, there is no contradiction that wants people's lives, why can't you have a good chat for a while, right?

The old man threw the cigarette butt into the water bottle and made a "snort", and then said very seriously: "Actually, there are really monsters." ”

I looked at him with a smile, slapped a cigarette ash and asked, "Did you see it? What did you see when you went up the mountain this time? That monster is not old, why is it still bullying you at your age, so I am not afraid that you will be falsely accused?"

To be honest, I'm really a little worried, I heard that when people get old, they are easy to get that Hemmel disease, which is Alzheimer's, I think the old man looks a bit like this.

"Do you think I'm sick? You see you're a good dragon. I said a cigarette just now, but now I almost didn't call the doctor. "I laughed a little, the old man is not sick, and the Alzheimer's brain is not so bright.

I pinched the cigarette butt and snorted, "What do you mean, you want to tell me that you are a monster? If you are a monster, then my son must be too, then I will not run away." Now everyone is a monster, talk about what you want to eat at noon, I'll ask my mother to make it for you. ”

"I am. The old man said to me very seriously.

I took a hard puff and dropped the cigarette butt into the bottle. "Has it always been, or is it all of a sudden?" I tried to chat with the old man in a more normal tone, but the mineral water bottle that I couldn't tighten in my hand still revealed my panic.

There are two possibilities for me to accept this fact, one is that my grandfather is a monster, and it is obvious that I can't accept it. The other is my grandfather's Alzheimer's disease, which is in the advanced stage, which I can't accept.

"What are you wondering, of course it has always been, or I can still be your grandfather. I pretended to be calm and nodded, "So you have been diagnosed?

The old man nodded, and then said with some disgust: "What is the name of the diagnosis?" ”。 "Okay, if we're a monster, then what are we? and what are we capable of?"

"You don't believe me. The old man pointed at me and smiled, "Yes, it's strange if you can trust me." "It seems that the old man is not stupid, and the logic is clear.

He picked up the notebook again, opened it and handed it to me, "This IOU was not written by a human, it was written by a monster." It is the embodiment of the demon power of the monster and the Tao. Now, let's make a little game. "What do you always want to do?" I considered whether I wanted to play with the old man for a while, or call the doctor quickly.

"This IOU was written by a monster using demonic power, and you can see it because you're also a monster. You take it out and ask the nurse, or you ask any person, and you ask them if there's a word on it? And not only this, but many more. ”

I'm a little unsure when he makes this out.,I'm most afraid of this.,You say one, I'll answer and I'll fool each other and make fun of each other.,It's over.。 But when the other party suddenly came up with something that could be proven, you were a little confused and caught off guard.

I was hesitating, but the old man waved his hand and said, "You go and try it, and it doesn't cost you anything to try." "I thought about it, and it didn't cost me anything to try. As soon as I got up, the old man shouted a cigarette to leave for me, go and come back quickly, the lighter is lighter.

Ten minutes later, when I got back to the ward, the good old man had started to order a second stick. I snatched the cigarette case from his hand and lit one for myself. After taking a few puffs, he smiled shyly: "Say, where did you learn the trick?"

The old man slowly breathed out the smoke ring, "Trick, do you believe it? I can make that word disappear anymore, so that only you can see it and others can't see it, you become one, and I will give you five dollars." ”

"Youkai?" I puffed out another puff of my cigarette, as if asking him, as if asking myself. Finally I began to accept the old man's statement a little, but I just accepted it, and I had to be completely convinced that it was unlikely for a while.

"Tell me, then, what kind of monsters are we?" I slapped the cigarette butt on the mouth of the bottle, splashing a lot of ash and landing on my pants, and I quickly stood up again and patted it.

"Tengu. ", the old man said quietly.

"What the hell? the one who eats the moon?" I suddenly got a little excited, and even if, I mean, even if we're a youkai now, it's worth thinking about if we're a famous youkai.

"No, not that. The old man waved his hand, and I thought for a moment, "Tengu, I remember that there seems to be this thing in the Book of Mountains and Seas." The old man nodded, and I wondered, "Isn't that just eating the moon?" ”

The old man thought for a moment: "Did you bring any money?" I couldn't keep up with his rhythm, took out my wallet, took out a red ticket, and handed it to the old man. The old man took the money and said to me, "It's a piece of money." Then he touched the bottom of the pillow and found a crumpled piece of five and handed it to me, and I reached out to take it. The old man said, "It's also a piece of money." Okay, I'll pay you back. ”

I was stunned for a moment, threw five dollars at him, and pulled it under his pillow, "I just gave you a big ticket!"

The old man slapped my hand and said, "That's right, big tickets or small tickets, it's not all money." Tengu is a species, and there is not only one. I'm also a tengu, and so are you. ”