It's probably because people are not used to changing places, and the people in the village who are chirping insects at night are really panicked, Jiang Yu can't sleep.

Yu Wenhong seems to be very accustomed to this, and he sleeps sweetly.

Jiang Yu closed his eyes and counted the sheep until midnight, but in the end, the person still did not fall asleep, but held the trumpet out.

Jiang Yu couldn't bear it a little, and stumbled up from the bed. Yu Wenhong seemed to be woken up by her movements, opened his eyes tiredly, looked at her lazily, and asked, "Why are you not sleeping yet?" After speaking, he closed his eyes again, turned around and pulled the quilt and fell asleep again, as if the opening of his eyes just now had never happened.

It was frighteningly dark outside, except for the dim moonlight. Jiang Yu was a little afraid to go out alone, and originally wanted to wake up Yuwenhong to go out with her, but looking at his sleeping appearance, he finally gave up.

got out of bed with his shoes on, found a fire fold and lit a lantern and went out of the door, and then shouted in a low voice: "Gu Yi." ”

But no one responded, and even Gu Yu didn't stay outside the door and didn't know where to run.

People have three urgencies that they can't bear, and Jiang Yu has no time to find someone again. I had to carry the lantern and touch it outside, and found the thatched house to solve the internal emergency.

When he came out of the thatched house, Jiang Yu couldn't help but shiver when he heard the whining of the wind outside, and he couldn't help but slow down his feet and wanted to go back to the house quickly.

But when I was halfway there, I suddenly saw a flickering candlelight shining in a corner of the courtyard. Along with the dim candlelight, there were flickering shadows.

Jiang Yu suddenly had goosebumps, and even his hair felt erect. All kinds of thoughts flashed through my mind, and the pictures were all Sadako, curses, and headless ghost stories that I had seen in the movies.

Jiang Yu was scared, and while carrying a lantern, he carefully followed the candlelight, and whispered: "Who, who is where?"

But all that answered her was the eerie cold wind, like a ghost wind.

Jiang Yu became more and more afraid, so he had to give himself courage, and said, "Hey, no matter what you are, I'm not afraid of you." Let me tell you, I'm very powerful, I cultivate, I can draw talismans and catch ghosts, I'm not afraid of any demons and monsters......"

As a result, I turned a corner, and saw a dim lantern hanging under the tall banyan tree, and in the chaise longue under the tree sat a rickety figure, which seemed to be staring at her with a hideous and evil gaze.

Jiang Yu didn't see it clearly for a while, and was suddenly startled, screamed "ah", and even threw the lantern in his hand on the ground. As a result, the lantern thrown on the ground burned, and only then did the face of the person in the recliner shine clearly, and it was Mr. Bai. He looked at Jiang Yu, his face was calm and indifferent, and he said faintly: "Don't be afraid, it's Lao Suo." ”

Jiang Yu patted his chest, suddenly became a little angry, and reproached: "Old man, what are you doing sitting here without sleep in the middle of the night, it's scary." Then he saw the lanterns burning on the ground, and feared that the weather would dry up and cause the candles to burn the house, so he couldn't help but step on it with his feet, but he didn't put it out.

Old Mr. Bai stood up faintly, walked over tremblingly with a kettle, and said as he walked: "Don't step on it with your feet, be careful about burning." As he spoke, the water in the kettle was poured out, and in a short time the burning lantern was extinguished.

Then Mr. Bai walked back to the chair tremblingly, and asked Jiang Yu, "Niangniang is so late, why haven't you slept yet?"

Jiang Yu said: "I? I naturally came to the thatched house." ”

Mr. Bai nodded, and asked again: "The cottage is simple, can the mother sleep in it?"

Jiang Yu said: "It's a little bit unaccustomed. ”

Mr. Bai said: "Since you can't sleep, Niangniang is willing to talk to Lao Suo." ”

Jiang Yu thought about it, thinking that he wouldn't be able to sleep anyway, and he didn't worry about Mr. Bai sitting here alone in the middle of the night at such an age, so he walked over and sat on an empty chair on the other side of Mr. Bai.

Mr. Bai took the cup and wanted to pour a cup of tea for Jiang Yu, but when he lifted the teapot, he remembered that the water in the teapot had just been poured out by him, so he couldn't help but put down the teacup and teapot, smiled apologetically, and said: "Look at Lao Suo, this person is old, his memory is not good, and he forgets what he has done in a blink of an eye." can only grieve the mother, and I don't even have to drink tea. ”

Jiang Yu said: "It's okay, I don't want to drink tea either." He asked the question he had just asked again, and said, "Why is the old gentleman sitting here in the middle of the night?"

Mr. Bai sighed and said, "I can't sleep, I haven't had any relatives come back here for many years." ”

Jiang Yu sympathized with him a little, so he comforted him and said: "The emperor is filial to the old gentleman, and he has always remembered the old gentleman in his heart. ”

Mr. Bai said: "Lao Su knows that the saint is a filial king. ”

Jiang Yu couldn't find the words to say for a while, and Mr. Bai was just lying on the recliner looking at the sky with deep eyes, with an expression on his face that he didn't know what he was thinking. There was only the sound of the whirring wind around, and it was so quiet that people were a little unaccustomed.

Jiang Yu was speechless and asked: "I heard that the old gentleman used to be a champion, and he was shocked, how could he live in seclusion here without going out of the court to become an official? If the old gentleman was willing to join the government back then, he can now be supported by the emperor in the court." It is the old gentleman who is indifferent to fame and fortune, loves this pastoral pleasure, and his talents cannot be displayed in the society, but it is also a waste. ”

Mr. Bai couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and said: "Lao Suo is not as noble as Niang Niang said, Lao Suo was also greedy for fame and fortune when he was young, and loved wealth and wealth. Lao Suo was born poor when he was young, without a father or mother, and he learned a few words by eavesdropping on the lectures of his husband in a rich and noble house, and later secretly taught himself a few books. Later, the Xixi of the big family saw that I was pitiful, and freed me from my shackles and taught me to read when I was resting.

At that time, he was young and vigorous, and he wanted to change his destiny by getting ahead, so he worked hard and worked hard, just for the sake of fame. I have some talent in reading, I was admitted to Xiucai at the age of 16, I was selected to lift people at the age of 20, and I was ready to go to Beijing to take the exam at the age of 21. But my family is poor, and I can't even get together to go to Beijing to catch the exam. Later, it was my wife, who went out to sell silver day and night embroidery, and made up a coil for Lao Suo, urging Lao Suo to go to Beijing to take the exam. ”

He paused as if he was recalling something, and continued: "Lao Suo's wife was originally a girl from a large family in Lao Suo's hometown, but she was kicked out of the house because she insisted on marrying Lao Suo, and she broke off the relationship with her mother's family. She has not touched the spring snow with her fingers since she was a child, but because she married Lao Suo, she untied Huaqun and put on cloth clothes, and since then she has washed her hands and made soup, coarse tea and light rice, and lived in poverty. ”