Section 14: The Book of Life (4)
Gu Li took her to another place after leaving Jinjiang Bay, but she didn't notice where she was taken by him along the way, until Gu Li pulled her out of the car, and when the two came to the gate of the funeral home, Ning Siyi came back to her senses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The funeral parlor is located on a hill on the outskirts of the new city of G City, backed by green mountains and opposite the Xincheng Reservoir. However, for the living, this is a taboo place, except for the Qingming Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, most of the time the funeral home is full of doors.
Ning Siyi was not taboo with ghosts and gods, she couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Gu Li was selling in the gourd: "What are we doing at the funeral home?" β
"Oh, you're finally willing to talk to me? I thought you'd be angry for a long time. Gu Li smiled like a spring breeze.
Ning Siyi couldn't refute it, she was really angry just now, she deceived herself, and she just knew the whitewashing/Taiping behavior, but she didn't expect the other party to see it in her eyes, and she was played by him, and finally it was exposed, she was just angry and didn't turn her face, she was already very face-saving, if she didn't have nowhere else to go, she wouldn't stay in this weird wolf den.
"When did you find out?" Ning Siyi glanced at Gu Li angrily. She thought she was hiding it well, and sometimes she couldn't help but think that she was really just living in an ordinary library.
"From the time you make your second meal." Gu Li put one hand in his trouser pocket, and gently stroked the broken hair on his forehead with the other.
Ning Siyi chuckled, sure enough, he knew the strangeness of his discovery of the library from the beginning, thinking of this, she began to feel uneasy, what would Gu Li do to her next? She discovered something she shouldn't have discovered, something that even completely upended her worldview, and she suppressed her fears, afraid to dig deeper, lest she knew so much that she would lose her last place of refuge.
The second meal Gu Li said was the breakfast the next morning when she moved to the library, and it was a coincidence that she accidentally broke a plate when she was preparing dinner in the kitchen the night before, and she wanted to apologize to Gu Li that night, but in the end she forgot about it, until the next morning when she was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, she found that the crystal fruit bowl was intact in its original place.
At that time, she was directly confused, she remembered that after she broke the plate, she obviously poured the pieces into the trash can, thinking about when to go to Xincheng to buy a new plate and come back and confess to Gu Li, as a result, she turned over the trash can, and it was empty, and the broken plate was intact and placed in its original place. Later, she didn't tell Gu Li about it, but she comforted herself that maybe Gu Li found out about it, secretly poured out the pieces and replaced it with an identical plate, so as not to embarrass her. The reason is far-fetched, but it can barely be explained.
However, she could convince herself of the plate in this way, but what happened after that could not be disguised by any logical reason. Because she discovered one thing that can't be explained by common sense at all, and that is that the ingredients in the kitchen seem to be inexhaustible all the time.
There is a 4-door large cold storage in the kitchen, which is full of all kinds of ingredients, from fresh vegetables and fruits to all kinds of meat, since she stepped into the library half a month ago, she has lived a life of isolation and isolation, and she has never taken a step out of the door, let alone going out to replenish the ingredients, and Gu Li, the pampered young master, is even more impossible.
However, from the time she cooked her first meal to today's breakfast, she consumed three or four meals a day, but the things in the cold storage never decreased, and the rice bowl of his house was also magical.
I can't help but remind Ning Siyi of a mythical story that her grandmother once gave her, the story is that there is a sacred tree growing on the moon, and it will drop three leaves to the mortal world every year, and one day an old couple living in a poor country burned the leaves in front of their house to keep warm, and found that there was a leaf shining and very beautiful. The old woman liked it very much, so she picked up the leaf and stored it in the cabinet at home, but when she opened the cabinet the next day, she found that the wardrobe with only a few torn cotton jackets was stuffed with clothes, and the old woman quickly told her wife, who was very happy, and thought that the old woman had picked up the leaves of the legendary moon, so she took the leaves and put them into her empty rice bowl, and the next day she opened the rice bowl, and sure enough, it was full of white rice. They hurriedly put the leaves into the money jar, and the next day the money jar was full of golden ingots, which could make the two old people happy, and they wanted what they wanted with the leaves of the sacred tree, and they were inexhaustible, and they had no worries about food and clothing. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, one day the old woman found that the salt at home was gone, she remembered her own magical leaves, so she took them and put them in the salt jar, thinking that tomorrow there would be a full jar of salt, but when she opened the salt shaker the next day, she did not see the expected salt, and more importantly, the inexhaustible magical leaves also lost their magic effect and turned back into an ordinary dead leaf.
This is just a folk myth, the real moon has no hair except for gravel and gravel, but Ning Siyi felt for a moment that there might be a moon leaf hidden in the kitchen of Gu Li's house, otherwise how could she explain these strange phenomena?
In addition to the kitchen, there are other strange phenomena, such as: the garden tools that always return to their places for no apparent reason, the big tree in the yard that never sheds leaves, the floor, tables and chairs that are always dusty, and so onγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»
In short, everything in the library has an indescribable weirdness, but it's not the kind of eerie and terrifying sense of haunting, it's more like being installed with a reset button, and when she wakes up, everything is back to factory settings, in fact, if she hadn't broken the crystal fruit plate, maybe she wouldn't have found out the clue so quickly, however, where did the world come from, in fact, she did break the plate, and she did find the unusual thing about the hometown library.
She didn't leave because the Hometown Library was impeccable except for some otherworldly places, and it didn't hurt her, and because she was homeless and had nowhere to go. So, whether it was to protect herself or find a reason to stay, she ignored all the strangeness in the library, convinced herself that she didn't know anything, didn't see anything, and stayed in peace to live a peaceful life.
But she didn't expect that Gu Li suddenly tore open the thin veil after tolerating her self-deception for half a month, well, maybe it can't be said to be tolerance, with his upright and gentleman's dark and cunning character on the surface, it is more likely that she will continue to live a good life after seeing her jokes for half a month before exposing the truth.
Thinking about it like this, Ning Siyi couldn't help but be full of resentment, who did she recruit to provoke whom, and it was so difficult to have a peaceful birthday?
"You didn't have anything you wanted to ask?" Gu Li approached her eyes, and his deep eyes were full of starlight, and there was an indescribable bewitchment.
Ning Siyi nodded, she was indeed full of doubts, not only the strange phenomenon of the library, but also the person of Gu Li, she couldn't see him clearly from beginning to end, Ning Siyi thought that compared to the strange phenomenon that happened in the library, Gu Li, who had always behaved like ordinary people without any sense of disobedience, was the biggest puzzle. Before, she was reluctant to delve into it, but now that Gu Li obviously didn't allow her to continue pretending to be stupid, then she needed to know everything.
"You're going to tell me?"
"Sure, but we'll have to settle the matter first.
Gu Li entered the door first, Ning Siyi couldn't figure out his intentions, and he didn't bother to think about it, in short, he just followed without landing a step.
The funeral home really lives up to its name, and you can still feel the coolness when the heat is unbearable and the sun is blazing, and even the air conditioning fee is saved. The two walked through the main hall to a row of small rooms next to the hall, with signs hanging on the doors, and then the office, the duty room, and the storage room.
Gu Li knocked on the door before coming to the office, and soon the door was opened, and a middle-aged uncle wearing a vest and pants appeared pulling flip-flops, the uncle obviously hadn't woken up yet, his face was full of impatience, and he opened his mouth and scolded: "You mm, which demon ran to the funeral home on a hot day to harass the uncle to sleep!" β
Gu Li didn't mind, and raised his gentle and polite signature smile to communicate with the uncle: "Hello, I want to go to the back mountain to worship a friend, what procedures do I need?" β
As the saying goes, if you don't hit a smiling person, the uncle is impatient, but he restrained the fierce expression just now, skillfully took out a register and said to them: "Sign here, pay some incense and candle money, and go over there to get a sacrifice." β
Gu Li happily paid and signed, and the uncle took a look at the roster, pointed to the name filled in the column of the object of worship and asked: "Yo, it's him again, sure enough, the rich are different, they have been immortals for a month, and they are still worried about every day." β
"Is there anyone else who comes to worship him?" Gu Li asked casually.
"It's not, there is a strong guy, in recent days, almost every day at noon, every time he stays in front of this for a few hours before he is willing to leave, more diligent than my attendance and punch in, I thought it was the filial son of this family, but when I asked, I knew that this had no son at all, and he was his student, and he had been instructed." The "this" that the uncle said in his mouth was the object they were about to worship - Qi Yu.
Qi Yu is a business elite, an outstanding entrepreneur in G City, and has been invited to give lectures at universities many times, and it is not surprising that some of his subordinates respect him and take him as a teacher.
Ning Siyi didn't think so, but Gu Li's eyes were bright, and his narrow eyes were slightly open, as if he had found something interesting.
"How...... What's wrong? Faced with Gu Li's strange appearance, Ning Siyi felt a little hairy in her heart, every time Gu Li showed this kind of expression, her legs and stomach trembled, and she always felt that someone was going to be unlucky.