Chapter 056: Lantern Riddle
The maid's fingers, which had been cut off by the stick, were crushed under the blanket and did not have time to take them away. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After the official left, a layer of sweat the size of a bean appeared on the old man's forehead, and he wiped his forehead and said, "Clean it up."
Then several maids helped him back into the room.
The house slave cleaned up the courtyard and didn't care about anything, only one of the house slaves noticed that something was wrong, and when he took away the blanket, he searched carefully, but he didn't find the maid's broken finger.
He didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that someone else had cleaned it up.
After another two days, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household put up lanterns, hung lanterns, and tied lanterns. The courtyard is decorated with red lanterns inside and out, creating a joyful scene.
At that time, a very elegant way of playing was popular, called guessing lantern riddles. This activity is still popular and urbane to this day.
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the lord of this big family took the main house and side house to go shopping in the market and guess the lantern riddles. In order to adjust the atmosphere, he also ordered the house slaves to write lantern riddles on their lanterns and leave them to be solved when he returns.
After strolling around the noisy street for a long time, the old man was very satisfied, and indeed guessed a few answers, very proud, and when he returned home, he saw that the courtyard was full of red lanterns.
And the red lantern was indeed full of riddles, but he couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at it.
The education level of these house slaves is too low, and the lantern riddles they write are simply unsightly, and almost a three-year-old child can guess them.
Just when the old man felt bored, suddenly Aunt Zhengfang pointed to the lantern hanging on a peach tree in the middle of the courtyard and said: "Look, sir, this lantern riddle is good!"
When the old man heard the sound, he looked at the big red lantern, circled around, and couldn't help but recite the riddle on it.
"Outstanding people cover the king, jewels and jade mounds fall from the sky, the family is dedicated to reunion, and all evil intentions are empty daggers."
After the old man finished speaking, he paused in place, stopping to watch. From time to time, I reached out and touched my chin, squinted and thought for a long time, but I didn't understand what it meant. But I can't stop praising this riddle!
From the literal meaning, this lantern riddle is about the talent of the family, the wealth of the people, the family reunion, peace and security.
After a while, the old man turned his head and asked these house slaves: Who wrote this lantern riddle? How to guess?
A group of house slaves were dumbfounded, and the old man asked: Who wrote this lantern riddle? Embarrassed to admit it?
One of the house slaves said: "Master, this riddle was told to me by a ragged old man just now, I was worried that I couldn't write a riddle, he passed by our door and told me this riddle.
The old man was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: The old man in tattered clothes? How can it have such a background? Where are the others?
The house slave pointed to the door and said, "I haven't been gone for long."
The old man hurriedly chased all the way, followed the direction pointed by the house slave, chased for a long time, until he reached the river, and there was no trace of the old gentleman, so he asked the children who put lanterns next to him, and asked them if they had seen an old gentleman in tattered clothes just now.
The group of children pointed to the river and said, "Just now he walked to the river and jumped straight in."
The old man was shocked, pointed to the river, and asked tremblingly: Jump... Jumped into the river?
It is said that children are unscrupulous, children do not deceive, and children sometimes say very exaggerated words, which always makes adults unpredictable.
The old man came home and asked the house slaves about the old man. The house slave said: After the old gentleman said this lantern riddle, he didn't ask for anything, but just asked for the turtle shell that our family ate two days ago.
When I heard this, I was shocked, and immediately asked the uncle in the suit: What is that old man doing with the turtle shell?
Uncle in a suit and I have already walked to the old temple at the entrance of the village, after entering the temple, he said: Just find a place to rest, we will rush back tomorrow morning, after you go back, you must remember to pretend that nothing has happened, continue to drive the last train of No. 14, I will help you in secret, get rid of those ghosts.
I nodded, mumbled, and said, "Go ahead and finish telling me the story."
The uncle in the suit was stunned for a moment, and said with a dumb smile: Are you still addicted to listening?
I was also stunned and said, "Yes, don't tell me, you made it up yourself, right?"
The uncle in the suit shook his head and said: No, I didn't make it up, this is what really happened, the story behind is too long, I will tell you when I have a chance to tell it later. I'm sleepy, go to sleep.
After speaking, the uncle in the suit tightened his collar, hugged his hands together, and fell asleep leaning against the altar. I found that after receiving the cleansing of the sacred tree of Brahmana, he became more like a normal person, and he would also get sleepy.
In the past, I thought he was in a state of chicken blood every day, and he looked like everyone owed him money.
I leaned against the edge of the altar, wrapped my clothes, and fell asleep.
When we woke up, it was already morning, and we had something to eat at the villager's house, and rushed to the city to buy tickets directly.
On the train, I filtered things through from start to finish.
At present, Daoru is a complete mystery, and if I have a chance to meet Ge Yu, I must ask her to see if she knows what Daoru is all about.
As for Haibo, I can't see through it completely, and they all say that people are dying and their words are good. When Daoru was dying, he said that I should be careful of that sea, I think it should be Haibo.
After all, among the people I know, there doesn't seem to be a sea in their name. The world of dicks is like this, and there are no friends at all. For so many years, I have been alone, repeating the life of eating, sleeping, and going to work every day.
As for Feng Po, although she raises yin and yang to guard the palace, I don't think she is a bad person. The uncle in the suit said that the chickens raised in her yard were four-eyed doormen trained by secret techniques. I haven't checked this either, but the second time Haibo took me into Feng Po's house, we didn't bring a dog. After breaking the Yin and Yang Guarding Palace, I successfully entered Feng Po's house, so I think that the four-eyed doorman should be made up by the uncle in a suit, maybe there is really one in history, but Feng Po's family must not be.
In the end, it was the ghost I met on Longhu Mountain, at first he wanted to kill me, I calmly asked him if he had a grudge against me, he said no grudge, since there is no grudge, it should also be for the hundred-year curse I carried!
But the crux of the matter is, why did he leave as soon as I mentioned Heber?
In my opinion, there may be three points.
First, he was afraid of Haibo, and when he heard me say Haibo, he thought that I had something to do with Haibo, so he didn't dare to do it.
Second, he knew Haiber, or even friends, and since he was a friend of a friend, he was also a friend of his own.
Third, maybe that ghost is Heber himself!
I remembered that when I invited Haibo to dinner, Daoru suddenly said that he had three shadows.
I have no soul now, and I have no shadow, combined with this theory, that is, Haiber has at least three souls?
Is this still human?
A flash of lightning flashed through my brain, and I suddenly thought that the ghost who was talking to me in sign language might be one of the souls of Haiber!
But thinking about it this way, if Daoru was with Haibo, why did she expose Haibo at that time?
I shook my head, just didn't think about it, and fell asleep on the train.
It's strange to say, although I have no heart and soul, but I should eat, sleep, just like a normal person, I also asked the uncle in the suit about this, he didn't say anything else, just said: In this world, there are many things you don't know.
When I returned to the passenger station, Chen Wei asked me if I was having fun, and I smiled and said: It's not bad, Brother Chen, how are you doing in the past two days.
My subtext is, how did you feel about driving the last train these two days.
Chen Wei was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: It's okay, let's go, let's make a fuss.
When I was pulling me to drink, I remembered that Chen Wei couldn't draw blood out of his body, and his physique reminded me of Uncle in a suit. Before the uncle in the suit was washed by the sacred tree of Brahmana, his physique was also like this. I'm not sure if the two of them are going through the same thing, but I think there must be a lot in common.
However, if the uncle in the suit did not have blood in his body, how could he squeeze the blood out of his fingers when he encountered a ghost hitting the wall in the cave? Where did his blood come from?