Chapter 11 Traders from the Left Bank
What the third master said was not wrong, Kira was not embarrassed by the Criminal Affairs Department, and he quickly found Ji Aman, who had just come out of Kira's Wanshi House.
Wanshiya was sent out by Jiqing as a condition for returning Kira and Griffith, and Kira sighed and felt distressed, and at the same time felt that the matter of saving a dowry for his sister Jiqing became more slim.
After confirming that Griffith was in good health, he thought bitterly and bitterly:
"Aman, we're homeless now. I was caught stealing, and I was so unlucky, but I think the main reason is that you have short arms, and you get old when you steal.
Hey, forget it, life is too short, you've been hit in the head, I can't blame you anymore, then again, if only I had been wiser beforehand and took your physical condition into account.
I often hear people say, a slap doesn't make a sound, although you are a pig teammate, but if you think about it carefully, my plan probably seems to be a little bit not perfect, maybe there is still a little room for improvement. ”
Kira touched Griffith's brain with a vicissitudes of life, and he searched for the reason for the failure of this theft, and finally found himself, and then suddenly felt inferior, so he said again:
"You don't think your brother is particularly useless, don't you, I raised you so big and you dislike me?!"
Griffith really didn't bother to pay attention to him, and under the honest appearance of his big head, he was thinking about the young man named Wang Tuntun in a happy mood. The cultivation of the causal beast does not care about matter or time, what it needs is something that is more nihilistic and closer to the origin of cause and effect. Wang Tuntun has a habit of cleanliness and loves to take a bath, which makes him smell a faint smell of apple pie.
"Third master." Griffith licked his lips and muttered to himself.
"What...... What the? Kira was still babbling in fragments, and vaguely heard Griffith seem to be saying something, and asked rhetorically with some uncertainty.
The short and fat boy with the bandage on his head cracked his lips and smiled like a sunny smile. When the young man named Kira saw the other party's appearance, he sighed heavily and became sad again.
The sky is already a little wet and cold this season, and it is time for the sun to set when the northern swallows are still nesting.
Jiqing followed behind Griffith, half a step behind, and with his head down, he was guilty of giving away the deed of the old mansion 'Kira Wanshiya' without permission.
Kira looked at the sky, his face desolate, thinking about dinner and sleep tonight. Kira Manshiya has changed their surname to 'Wang', which means they have lost their kitchen, bedroom, and a qiē thing that would allow them to live a peaceful life.
"Forget it, I still have more than 30 shell dollars here, which was originally left for Sister Xiu as a dowry, so I can only take it out first and solve today's dinner."
Griffith followed behind Kira and was silent, the original Griffith was originally a little stupid and silent because of the lack of personality, so Griffith's behavior at the moment was also decent.
Because his memory has fully awakened, he can already stand on his own, and he doesn't need to follow Kira and Jiqing to make a living.
But after being incubated and taken care of by Kira and Jiqing for more than ten years, Griffith owes the other party a lot of cause and effect. He is Griffith, a causal beast, feeds on cause and effect, and his racial characteristics make him care more about the causal cycle than any other creature, so what he owes in the first ten years will eventually have to be repaid.
In addition, Griffith's subjective impression of the brothers and sisters Kira and Jiqing is not bad, and there is nowhere to go, so it is better to accompany the two silly little guys for a walk.
Through Guò Giaman's memory, Griffith recognized that this was a lower-middle plane of civilization, with trains, muskets, aristocracy, metropolises that had been rapidly pushed forward in the process of commercialization, and vague and loose social structures that ran counter to aristocracy.
There are not many things in Jiaman's head, his personality is incomplete in the previous ten years, coupled with his remote location and one-sided understanding of the world situation, Griffith intends to spend a period of time by Kira's side to make up for many missing worldviews.
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For dinner, there were six medium-sized buns, two for each of them, which I bought from the steamed bun shop next door to Kira Manjiya, the same one where the two brothers, Kira and Griffith, practiced in the morning.
The buns of the Kira Yoshikei brothers and sisters are vegetarian, and Griffiths takes extra care of a meat-filled bun because he is sick and needs nutrition.
After dinner, Kira took the two siblings to the stone slab bridge in Beishui. The slate bridge is a magnificent arched structure, with a graceful arc of gentle transition from east to west, and under the bridge are a number of small semicircular arcs connected from end to end, arching the bridge deck.
The stone slab bridge in Beishui is the only building in the town to discharge the floodwater, and the arched structure and wide base surface allow the water to flow unimpeded.
However, the recent drought has been repeated, the flood has not been there, and the grain harvest has not been good, and over time, the bridge has become a place for beggars to rest.
Because Kira was the owner of Wanshiya in his early years, he used broken copper and iron to do some small business with the beggars here, but he met a person named 'Ah San' here.
Where there are people, there are classes, there are nobles and commoners in the world, and there are also high and low in the beggars.
Griffith saw Kira being taken by Ah San to a tall thin man in green clothes three or four hundred meters away. The man in blue clothes was close to 1.90 meters, sitting in the most comfortable and dry place under the bridge pier, and on his left and right hands sat two or three middle-aged people who were relatively clean and elegantly dressed, counting Ah San, who was cold-faced, these people were the top class members of the small group of beggars.
The man in Tsing Yi is named Liang Guo, and he came to Shazhen, a poor mountain and water, three years ago. I heard that when he came, he broke his right hand and his right eye, as if someone had cut out his eye with a knife and cut off his right hand.
Liang Guo was penniless and disabled, and he barely survived by giving him some food, so he became a beggar.
Because of Liang Guoguo's hard work, he was ruthless and practiced his words, and soon became the boss of the beggars in Shazhen, who had not seen much on the market.
At this time, Liang Guo, who was accustomed to being taciturn, raised his only remaining eye to look at Ji Liang, pursed his lips and said a number, and then Ji Liang blushed and took out some shell dollars from his trouser pocket angrily and reluctantly.
Since Kira 'worshipped the mountain', the three members of the Ji family settled down under the stone bridge in Beishui.
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It was the third week that Kira's family had stayed in Kitazuishibashi.
Liang Guo sat alone by the river and recalled the past, and the bronze blade that had accompanied him for many years was placed at his feet, subconsciously rubbing.
A quarter of an hour later, he met a man.
When the man who changed his life quietly appeared in front of him, he could even hear the turning point of fate overwhelmingly making the sound of a gear crushing 'squeak'.
It was a man who called himself Griffith, and when his voice sounded from behind, it made people feel gentle and kind for no reason. He walked from behind him and sat down on Liang Guo's left hand side, naturally easy-going like a close friend he hadn't seen for many years. It is not only a sight of a friend who comes to the orange light and frogs in the twilight of old age.
"My friend, do you see that you are in distress and need any help?"
The man named Griffith squinted and smiled, wearing a black yarke hat that covered half of his cheeks. This man's eyebrows and eyes were like crescent moons, and half of his white teeth were slightly showing at the right corner of his mouth - he looked like an angel and a devil.
"My friend, tell me what you want."
After these words, Liang Guo's memory became a little confused, and there seemed to be a force that blurred the operation of his brain. So much so that he whimsically demanded that the other party restore his right hand and right eye—that was his deepest inferiority complex and despair, and it was unimaginable that he would speak lightly to an irrelevant outsider.
But what is even more surprising is that in one of the few memories, he clearly remembers the corners of the other party's mouth that shimmered like a fishhook, and in the dazzling arc, he lightly agreed to such a thing.
However, the whole universe is a huge cause and effect. If you want to gain, you must give something.
"My dear friend, as far as I am concerned, nothing is difficult in the world...... The question is what are you going to pay for it? ”
The wind on the riverbank blew away the soft hair of the man, and his gaze was clear, and he approached, gently caressing Liang Guo's blurred right eye and the severed arm that had regrown its flesh.
"I know that you are destitute and have nothing...... Well, you go and do one thing for me. ”
Memories fluctuated violently at this time, and Liang Guo knew that it was hope and fear sprouting and boiling. The man named Griffith whispered in his ear, but in tenderness he confided malice, and his candied mouth opened and closed softly, and he said some names.
But Liang eventually agreed to Griffith's request.
In return, Griffith will heal Liang Guo's lost eyes and arms, and the recovery process of Liang Guo's arms and eyes is like a dream, and he sees his arms sketched like a sketch of silver silk threads, weaving and embodying, and finally clear and complete, fleshy and glossy.
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The whole process is like a dream, and when Liang wakes up on the river embankment, his surroundings are already empty, and there is no trace of Griffith's past.
The impression of the man in my memory was blurred, as if he was in a huge mass of causal threads, and the silver-white silk threads that covered the sky and the sun were tied and hung down, confusing what could be seen and pondered. It's like a silk thread that has been caught at the beginning, and the part behind the thread is completely condensed in a messy silk knot.
Therefore, in Liang Guo's mind, the man's cheeks were clear and blurry, ugly and handsome, and he seemed to have seen his high nose bridge and elegant eyes, but he didn't seem to have seen it. He doesn't even know whether the other party is male or female, tall, short, fat and thin, or even an adult or a child.
Later, Liang Guo once asked his subordinates to interrogate the matter at that time, and the results he got were terrifying. People who have seen Liang Guo say that he stayed by the river alone for the whole afternoon, and Griffith was completely absent from the words.
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