Chapter 23: The Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger in Jiankang City (2)
When Guo Pu returned home, it had already begun to rain.
The taste of autumn rain is always refreshing, and it does not fall straight to the face, without the softness of spring rain.
The rain crackled on the sycamore leaves, like some kind of strange tune, which made people tempt to stop and listen.
In this quiet and beautiful season, life seems more and more moving, and a picture that belongs to oriental aesthetics is spread out in people's world.
It's just a pity that few people pay attention to such a beautiful scenery.
A hurried homeward man ran beside him, and Guo Pu watched the man's splash stretch from under his feet to the end of the alley.
The children who are playing and playing are not afraid of the rain. They were still alive, running through the narrow alleys that were a little crowded, covered in pleasant muddy water.
Next to the alley, the scrapped ox cart cart has become a concentration camp for children to play, which seems to be their fortress, making the word "play" even more unhindered.
The woman next door poked her head out of the crack in the door with a half-worn oil-paper umbrella, and shouted her child's name in a voice that didn't want to fit her body.
If your clothes are stained with muddy water, you will inevitably be beaten and scolded.
The children scattered like birds and beasts.
This is a breath of life, alive and distinct, different from the silence of the mountains and forests, and even more different from the ethereal cultivation of immortals. Guo Pu looked at the scene in front of him, almost stupid.
This is a life he has never experienced, he has grown up in the mountain gate since he was a child, and the kind of light life like ink painting is familiar to him.
The world, how much smoke and dust, but how can it make people nostalgic like this......
"Mother, look! The man was standing in the rain, but his clothes were not wet! ”
When the child's voice reached his ears, Guo Pu was startled, and found that he had subconsciously opened the aura shield around him in the rain, so he quickly withdrew his breath, and the rain quickly poured down on his body.
"What do you say! It's really a nonsense with your eyes open! Why don't you hurry up and get back, did you fight with someone again today and tore your clothes? When your father comes back, he won't beat you to death!" The woman took a look and saw Guo Pu covered in rain, so she only thought that the child was lying, and pulled her ears to carry the person home.
"Oops! It hurts, it hurts! Mom, I really didn't lie! The child's cry was dragged back to the courtyard, and nothing could be confirmed.
Guo Pu flicked the water trails on his body, apologized to the kid in his heart, and walked to his door.
This is the most common kind of alley in Jiankang City, and most of the people living in it are ordinary people. Among them, there are small traders and traders, and there are small craftsmen, who get up early and return late every day, earning a small income.
Guo Pu also mingled with the group, wearing a linen shirt with a wine jug pinned to his waist. Such an image, if it appears in Wuyi Lane, it is called a sparse and down-to-earth famous teacher. can throw people into such an ordinary place, and they will become ordinary middle-aged men who are in the market, unkempt, and down. The difference is just identity......
Guo Pu's heart naturally didn't get in the way of this kind of thing, he took a sip of wine and continued to move forward, not looking in a hurry.
"Hey, borrowed!"
The young man's slightly arrogant voice came from behind him, and Guo Pu was not annoyed, and turned sideways to avoid it.
The young man was wearing ordinary clothes, but he stepped on an official boot on his feet, and a long knife straddled his waist, and when he walked past Guo Pu, he looked at him very scrutinically.
Guo Pu looked at the boots, and suddenly saw the blood stains on the boots, as well as the things contained in them, and was shocked.
"Little brother......" Guo Pu subconsciously spoke, but he already regretted it as soon as he opened his mouth.
"What's the matter?" The young man was Xu Zhefeng, he was a little annoyed that the unit stopped, and his face turned around with a deep frown, but it was not the grievance of the woman in the boudoir, but simply expressed intuitive emotions: Why are you bothering the master!
Guo Pu smiled and took a sip of the wine jug: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person."
This young man has a ghost aura on his body, and even the ghost aura begins to wander between his eyebrows, thinking that he is being targeted by a ghost.
In this matter, exorcism is not a troublesome thing. But now that he is hiding from the mountain gate, he is incognito, so he should not risk being exposed, and do this kind of thing.
Guo Pu thought like this and didn't say much.
"Cut, drunkard old man!" Xu Zhefeng rolled his eyes fiercely, turned around and left, and after a few steps, he turned right and walked into the small courtyard.
Guo Pu was slightly stunned when he saw this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. What kind of practice is this, it's just a matter of keeping yourself incognito to avoid trouble, and now he has arranged a young man who was possessed by a ghost to be his neighbor.
What do you care about this matter? What should I do?
"Guo Lang, I'm still wondering why you haven't returned home yet." Xianglan, holding an umbrella, stepped out of the threshold and stood in the distance.
Guo Pu smiled and hurriedly greeted him: "Let's talk about it when we go back."
Coarse cloth clothes, still can't hide Xianglan's beauty, she nodded shallowly, lifted her skirt and entered, but the faint silhouette next to an old wooden door is enough for people to stop and watch.
The five colors are blinding...... Guo Pu sighed softly, raised his hand and looked at his wine jug again, thinking to himself how to not let people linger in such a mortal world.
Walking into the house, Guo Pu was not in a hurry to say important things, but talked with Xianglan leisurely, like an ordinary young couple: "I originally bought a roast chicken, hehe, who knew that if I didn't pay attention, I was taken away by a little gluttonous cat." What about you? Wouldn't you be bored at home? ”
"How come, Sister Xu came to accompany me for a while today, and taught me the pattern of both hands, and when I go to the street tomorrow to buy cloth, I can embroider when I come back." Xianglan stroked the broken hair next to her ear and smiled slightly, quiet and elegant. "Guo Lang wants to eat meat? Why did you still buy roast chicken? I'm going to buy some meat tomorrow and I'll make it. ”
"Well, it's okay, you can make up for it yourself." Guo Pu thought thoughtfully, "The sister of the Xu family you are talking about, but the family next door?"
"Yes, the sister of the Xu family is also a hard-working person, not to mention the death of both parents when she was young, and her husband also died early, and now she only has one son. That son was also not in the climate in his early years, and he almost stabbed to death several times in fights with others. Now I have touched the doorway and found a job to guard the door, and this time it can be regarded as a turning point. ”
"Do you want to turn around...... Guo Pu sighed softly, if that young man is allowed to be bound by the ghost qi, it is only a matter of more than a month to want to die......
"Guo Lang, what is the good news you said?" The two husband and wife generally walked into the room with a smile, Xianglan turned around and closed the door tightly, looking at Guo Pu's eyes with hope.
"Hmm." Guo Pu chuckled, "I've found their traces." ”