Ouyang Yuyou clearly remembered the person who appeared near the Ji family's mansion that night and finally got into the van, his face was almost exactly the same as Jiatang's brother.

She denied that the person was him countless times in her heart, because she didn't believe that Brother Jiatang, who had always been strong and vigorous, would be a strange man with a limp and a cane.

Could it be that on the day she was robbed, he reappeared?

Ji Linchuan said that eight or nine are inseparable from ten...... It should be him.

He, if he is still alive, why doesn't he come back?

Doubts popped up one after another, and Ouyang Yuyou suddenly remembered Chen Jiatang's melancholy and silent face.

He has always been like this, although he has a gentle personality, humble and kind, but he always seems to have a lot of words in his heart, if he has experienced that car accident, he is lucky enough to survive, where will he be in the past two years?

What kind of life do you live?

Is it still the same Jiatang brother who promised to take her away?

Ouyang Yuyou knew that Ji Linchuan had found clues, and would definitely send Molly to find him.

But that year, it was Molly's encirclement and interception that forced him to have no way out, will today's Jiatang brother show his face in front of her?

He won't ......

Ouyang Yuyou thought that she had to find him first.

So, who else will he see when he comes back?

The next day, before Ouyang Yuyou could make an excuse, Ji Linchuan had already said that he wanted to go back to the old mansion.

Obviously, he also thought of it, Aunt Chen, Uncle Chen.

Ouyang Yuyu wanted to go back together, Ji Linchuan looked a little surprised, "You haven't recovered yet, what are you going to do with you?"

"I want to eat the dumplings made by Aunt Chen. She wore a high-necked, sleeveless black knit blouse that just covered her neck, and prepared to go out together.

"If you want to eat, I'll bring it back to you. ”

"Don't worry, I'll go back and promise not to quarrel with them. ”

Ji Linchuan looked at her suspiciously, and when he saw that he couldn't resist her, he turned around and went to the cloakroom, came back and put a black wrist sleeve on her injured hand, and explained: "You also know Aunt Chen's temper, more things are better than less, if you have any angry words, don't listen to them." ”

She nodded, knowing that Aunt Chen couldn't get close to her, and she could only go to Uncle Chen when she went back this time.

In the morning, Mrs. Ji was eating, but she didn't expect the two of them to come back together, so she hurriedly asked Aunt Chen to make a few more breakfasts, Ji Linchuan asked Sister Li to go to the kitchen and tell Aunt Chen to prepare fennel-filled dumplings, Mrs. Ji hurriedly said, "If you want to eat, let her pack more and bring it back for you." ”

Ouyang Yuyou saw Uncle Chen and Ji Fanlin playing chess in the yard, so she walked quickly and sat on the stone bench on the side.

Uncle Chen shook his head, "He played chess too badly, and he wanted to run for a long time." You're going to try it?"

Ouyang Yuyou learned the rules of chess from adults when she was a child, and when she saw Uncle Chen set up the chessboard on both sides, she moved a soldier slightly, and asked softly, "Uncle Chen, how is your body recovering from the hospital last time?"

"Oh, it's been fine. He patted his chest to prove that his body was very tough, and said, "I scolded your Aunt Chen in the hospital, and she did something with you again, I'm old, and I can't do it when I meet two hairy boys, so I can't suffer a loss."

Ouyang Yuyou picked up a horse and pushed it diagonally, and whispered, "If Brother Jiatang is still here, he will definitely not let you suffer this kind of loss......

Lao Chen's face pale after hearing this, he sighed heavily, and said, "What ifs, if it's gone, it's gone." ”

She raised her eyes to look at Uncle Chen, he slackened his shoulders, supported his knees, and turned his face away, the grief that came out of his heart was not pretended, Ouyang Yuyu hurriedly shook Uncle Chen's forearm, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I won't mention it again." ”

Compared with this clumsy temptation, Ji Linchuan is obviously much smarter than her, when eating, he slowly picked up the dumplings and dipped them in the sauce in the small plate, and asked Mrs. Ji casually, "How much is the lunar calendar today?"

Mrs. Ji couldn't think of it for a while, so she turned her face to ask Sister Li next to her, and she muttered, "Lunar calendar, it seems to be July 28." ”

At this time, Mrs. Ji suddenly remembered something, gathered the shawl on her shoulder, and said cautiously: "No wonder your Aunt Chen can't lift her spirits these days, in a few days it will be Jiatang's child's longevity, right?"

Ouyang Yuyou was also taken aback, and in a blink of an eye, she saw Ji Linchuan chewing slowly, nodding slightly, and saying, "It seems to be." ”

Mrs. Ji shook the pearl earrings and whispered, "She cleaned up the house yesterday and saw the peace charm of the previous years and said that she went to the temple every year to ask for one for Jiatang, but she forgot about it in those two years, and blamed herself for mentioning this, and wiped her tears in his room for a long time." ”

Ji Linchuan ate silently, and Ouyang Yuyou was even more silent, but he knew in his heart that neither Uncle Chen nor Aunt Chen had ever seen Chen Jiatang.

After leaving the old mansion, Ji Linchuan drove quickly, and Ouyang Yu looked at the street signs, wondering where he was going?

Two hours later, the car drove up a steep uphill slope and turned into a wide, leafy road, where she immediately recognized the place with steep red-tiled eaves and incense in the distance.

Many years ago, the two families always came to this Hongfa Temple to donate incense around the Spring Festival, and there was an old banyan tree at the entrance of the temple, surrounded by a flower bed full of rhododendrons, so thick that the three children could not hold hands.

Now the incense in this temple should be more prosperous than before, but fortunately, it is a working day, and there are fewer people and it is clean.

Ji Linchuan got out of the car, someone from the temple came out, he whispered a few words, and the person asked them to go inside.

Ouyang Yuyou asked him, "What are you doing here?"

Ji Linchuan said, "If there are many disasters and difficulties, I will ask you for peace." ”

Her eyes almost popped out when she heard this: "When did you start believing in this?" In the past, he had atheism on his lips, and he talked nonsense in this temple, but he was not less criticized.

Ji Linchuan said with a solemn expression, "I suddenly remembered one thing, and I kind of believed it." ”

Ouyang Yuyou waited for him to speak, but Ji Linchuan picked up the incense provided at the door, lit three and handed it to her, and didn't say anything more.

He always has no beginning or end when he talks now, and he chooses what he likes to say.

Ouyang Yuyou walked into the main hall, followed him with incense in both hands, knelt on the futon with his back straight, and closed his eyes.

The two raised their hands and feet, full of tacit understanding, many habits were developed together when they were young, no need to deliberately maintain, bend down religiously, kneel down, open their eyes, and even get up to insert incense.

Ji Linchuan got up and walked to the inner hall, saying that he wanted an ever-bright lamp to pray for.

Ouyang Yuyou walked alone to the open space in the temple and caught a glimpse of a gray wall covered with wish cards, which were blown by the wind, and the long wooden blocks were full of blessings and visions.

She asked the monk on the side for a piece, sat on the steps, and wrote: May the king's heart flow more and more, and the years will be long.

After writing it, he walked and hung it in the corner of the very edge, looking at the wish card in a daze.

Ji Linchuan lit the lantern, came out of the inner hall, strode over from afar, stood beside her, and asked her if she remembered the sign that Chen Jiatang begged for on the mountain behind the Hongfa Temple.

Suddenly mentioning this, Ouyang Yuyou was a little stunned, they had only been up to the small temple on this mountain once.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year that year, Ji Fansen and Ouyang Tengyuan came to donate incense as usual, plus Chen Jiatang and Ji Linchuan were about to take the college entrance examination in the summer, and the people of the Ji family paid more attention to it, so Ji Fansen and his wife, Lao Chen and Ouyang Tengyuan, with their three children, drove here to eat fasting and chant Buddha, and stayed for a few days.

Ji Linchuan thought that the temple was deserted, and often took Chen Jiatang and her out for a walk.

Once, three people walked up the stone steps, the bamboo forests on both sides were dense, the stream was murmuring, and they unexpectedly found that on the top of the Hongfa Temple, there was a lonely small courtyard, which was also dedicated to the statues of gods, and the bamboo sticks were placed on the desk of the main hall, and there were few people, and there were almost no tourists.

"Master here, you are about to take the exam, each of you will draw one and count it. Ouyang Yuyou smiled and handed them the sticker.

Ji Linchuan looked around, put his hands in his pockets, and said, "Feudal superstition." ”

Chen Jiatang raised his mouth and smiled, took one from the bamboo tube in her hand, and came to the unsigning place at the side door, where the paper unsigning form was hung on the wall.

The sign-unifier sitting at the table, with a mustache and white hair, looks like he is sixty years old, and he looks like he is not afraid of wine and meat, and he really does not have the image of a monk.

He said, "Young man, this forty-sixth lot." The signature said that the bridge has been broken, the road is impassable, and if it is to be opened, it will be ...... in the middle of the three or five years."

"Grandpa, you explain it plainly, we don't understand. Ouyang Yuyou's voice was very sweet.

"Don't call me grandpa!"

“……”

"Come, face stretch out, I'll show you the face. ”

Chen Jiatang stretched his face indifferently, causing Ji Linchuan to shake his head on the side, and turned back to Ouyang Yuyu and said, "Two little superstitions." ”

The grandfather who unsigned said seriously: "You are a life that dies first and then lives." ”

Death before life? A strange and scary sentence, Chen Jiatang just let out an oh when he heard it, and the old man squinted at him with a smile, "You don't want to know more?"

"I don't want to. ”

The old man pretended to be deep, stroked his beard and said, "Misfortune and fortune are relied on, blessing and misfortune are lurking, anyway, it is fate, it is better not to ask." ”

At this time, a dark-skinned little boy suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and when he saw the old man who had unsigned, he hurriedly ran over and grabbed him, "Grandpa!"

"Don't call me grandpa!" said the old man again.

Ouyang Yuyou and Chen Jiatang had black lines on their faces, it turned out that they were not allowed to call him grandpa, this was a mantra.

"Why are you sitting here with Master again?" the little boy asked the three of them very apologetically, "Did my grandfather confiscate your money?"

They quickly shook their heads.

The little boy said, "My grandfather is a little confused, don't take what he said, the master who unsigned the sign has just gone out, if you are willing to wait, I will go to him immediately." ”

That little episode didn't leave a deep impression on them at the time, and Ouyang Yuyou didn't know what Ji Linchuan was doing at this time.

He walked down the steps of the main hall, leaned against the stone pillar, his face was solemn, and said, "Chen Jiatang...... Should still be alive. ”

Should?

In Ouyang Yuyou's place, she never believed that he was dead, so she just nodded slightly and said, "But you don't know where he went?"

Seeing her flat reaction, Ji Linchuan looked at her distantly and said, "Maybe you know." ”

"Me?" she was stunned.

"Why did you go to the old mansion today? Don't think that Lao Tzu can't see it, so you won't go back to eat some dumplings. ”

She turned around and said lightly, "Like you, there is something I want to inquire about." ”

Ji Linchuan was slightly startled, pressed her shoulder, slowly approached, and whispered in her ear, "You really know...... Was the handkerchief he bandaged that day? You've seen him again, haven't you?"

"What handkerchief?" Ouyang Yuyou turned his head suddenly, what did it mean to see him again?

Ji Linchuan looked at it for a while, making sure that she wasn't lying, she really didn't know that someone had bandaged her wounds before he arrived there.

He immediately said, "Don't meddle in this matter in the future, Chen Jiatang I will send someone to find it, and don't care about it if I know there is danger here! The next time I see someone like him, you just have to tell me, you know?"

Ouyang Yuyou knew that Ji Linchuan was worried that something would happen to her again, but let Molly go to find it, even if he could really find the trace of Jiatang's brother, he would not show up, and he would not come back, and he would only hide deeper.