Chapter 12: Into the City (Seeking Collection)
Just half-asleep and half-awake, Shen Xi suddenly felt a blur in front of him, his thoughts became erratic, at first he didn't notice these changes, when he woke up, the world was already a chaos, hazy and hazy with no end in sight.
Shen Xi also experienced an illusory dream after his death in his previous life, feeling that he had turned into a nebula, wandering all over the world, like a wandering soul, I don't know how many years had passed, and later, after constantly devouring other nebulae, he slowly grew stronger, and his consciousness gradually became clear, and finally by chance, he possessed Shen Xi, who fell from the peach tree and lost consciousness.
Not to mention these, Shen Xi's eyes were empty at this time, just like when he had just died in his previous life, the only difference was that his thinking was extremely clear at this time.
After being surprised, Shen Xi calmed down a little, stared at a pair of eyes, and carefully observed everything around him.
Looking at it, a red light suddenly flashed in the distance, and after concentrating slightly, Shen Xi immediately noticed that the red light was not blood red like lightning, but an elegant light red, and subconsciously condensed his eyes to look at it, and the objects in front of him became clearer and clearer. Shen Xi found that his spirit seemed to be able to penetrate the mist, so he concentrated his eyes on it, and the result was unexpected.
A lotus seed appeared in front of him, and the red light that Shen Xi had just seen was the faint red on the top of the lotus seed. The majestic lotus seed in front of him seemed to be approaching in his direction, Shen Xi was puzzled, and stretched out his hand to touch it, but he couldn't touch it.
Just as Shen Xi's mind was full of all kinds of chaotic thoughts, there was a push on his body, and he felt that his consciousness began to fall, and then it was pitch black in front of him.
"You...... Brother...... What happened to you? ”
There was a childish and anxious voice in his ears, Shen Xi hurriedly shook his head, tried to open his eyes wide, only to feel that his eyes were sour and blurry, and he was about to stand up, but he felt that his body was extremely weak.
Shen Xi tried his best to get rid of the shock on his face, blinked and saw Lin Dai's little hand that was shaking his sleeve, and then looked at the worry and worry that emerged on her pretty face, and secretly said Could it be that this little girl is the lotus seed she saw just now?
It's not scientific!
However, unscientific does not mean that it does not exist, and the experience of his past and present lives is the best proof, unless all this is just Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly!
Shen Xi didn't dwell on this question, because there was never an answer. The whole person was extremely tired, Shen Xi stood up strongly, and smiled at Lin Dai: "Very good, you will call me brother in the future, understand?" ”
"Oh, brother, what's wrong with you just now, your face is not bloody at all, as if you are sick."
Shen Xi subconsciously licked his lips and shook his head in denial: "No, I just thought about things a little too deeply...... Okay, I'm sleepy right now and want to sleep. ”
Lin Dai looked at Shen Xi who took off her shoes and climbed onto the bed and lay down against the crook of Zhou's arm with a puzzled expression, frowning tightly, her pretty little face was full of confusion.
Shen Xi was lying on the bed, and did not fall asleep immediately, his heart was turbulent, but he couldn't talk and express, pondered for a long time, and speculated if the lotus seed he saw just now was Lin Dai's body?
Although the fact that people have an ontology sounds quite mysterious, Shen Xi was well-read in his previous life, and he knew many unknown things, among which a certain biography of the hunting class introduced a person with the ability to see the ontology of others.
All the doctors believed that the psychiatric man was mentally ill, that everything he saw was a conjecture and a hallucination, but the author of the biography was adamant that the psychopath was indeed able to see people as they were, because whoever they were, they could tell exactly what they were by meeting them, even if they were complete strangers.
Shen Xi didn't believe it originally, just took it as an anecdote, but in his previous life, when he died and became a nebula, Shen Xi understood and firmly believed that anything could happen and anything could exist in this world.
"Can I see other people's bodies?" Shen Xi thought secretly, but when he opened his eyes and looked at Zhou, there was no vision, was it really an illusion?
Impossible, everything is too real, if it is an illusion, Shen Xi should consider whether to doubt life.
What does the reddish lotus seed represent?
Shen Xi kept asking himself, but at this moment his spirit was getting more and more tired, and gradually, he sank into sleep.
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The next day, until the sun had just jumped over the mountain, Zhou took Shen Xi and Lin Dai on the road, and the three of them headed towards the county seat.
Halfway down the road, a kind man who sent firewood to the county saw that it was not easy for Zhou to walk with the two children, so he let the three of them get into his tattered ox cart.
"Big niece, are these two dolls your children? It's so beautiful. ”
The old man driving saw that although Shen Xi and Lin Dai were from poor backgrounds, they were indescribably cute, and asked with a smile while waving a whip.
Hearing this, Zhou's face was full of pride, nodded and said with a smile: "You see which of the two of them is my biological birth?" ”
Shen Xi rolled his eyes fiercely, Zhou glared at him, only to hear the old man who was driving the car smile and said, "Do you still need to guess, of course it's that kid, and there is a girl who is your family's adopted daughter-in-law, right?" is so handsome, the price must not be low! ”
Shen Xi frowned when he heard the old man's words, but he couldn't deny this fact, Zhou chuckled, hugged Lin Dai lightly, and said with a smile:
"She, it turned out to be a beggar on the side of the road, I saw that she was pitiful, so I adopted her, but I didn't expect such a good thing, no, I now raise her as my own daughter, haha."
After speaking, Zhou pinched Lin Dai's little face with great satisfaction, and couldn't help laughing.
Lin Dai is very close to the Zhou family, and likes to talk to her the most, but every time she talks to Shen Xi, she stammers and looks very nervous.
All the way, Zhou Shi and the old man talked and laughed, and before they knew it, it was already afternoon, and the sun in the sky began to tilt to the west.
After sitting in the bumpy ox cart for most of the day, Shen Xi only felt that his whole body was about to be torn apart, and his butt was hot, and it hurt more than Zhou's hundred beatings.
"It's the first time the two children have come to the county seat, right? A little further on, there is the city gate, old man, I will not enter the city, just say goodbye here...... Hey, two dolls, how do you feel in the car? ”
Zhou took the two of them out of the ox cart, thanked them a lot, and saw the old man go away from the fork in the road, Shen Xi rubbed his ass a little awkwardly, and shouted pain.
Zhou couldn't help but sneer: "Why don't you call it pain?" After getting out of the car, did you get sick again? ”
Shen Xi puffed out his mouth and explained dissatisfiedly: "Mother, our family is a scholarly family, and the old man is kind enough to bring us, if I still complain that his ox cart is too bumpy, the old man will definitely feel uncomfortable." ”
Zhou snorted when he heard Shen Xi say this: "Count your kid as talking." ”
Shen Xi smiled evilly, set his eyes on Lin Dai, and the smile on his face became more and more narrow: "Mother, my daughter-in-law's buttocks must have been upside down, I'll rub her ......."
Before he finished his words, Lin Dai had already hid behind Zhou, timidly pinched the corner of Zhou's clothes, and poked her head out to look at it with a blushing face.
"Call you nonsense!"
Zhou lifted Shen Xi's collar, and then twisted his little ears and made a ninety-degree rotation, and Shen Xi suddenly screamed miserably.
Lin Dai covered her mouth with her little hand and laughed secretly.
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Zhou held Shen Xi with one hand and Lin Dai with the other very solemnly, and kept telling while walking towards the city gate: "Hanwa'er, Dai'er, there are many people in the city, you must follow your mother for a while, don't get lost, you know?" ”
Shen Xi nodded absentmindedly, and Lin Dai replied very obediently: "Okay, mother." ”
Zhou looked at Shen Xi's careless appearance, and secretly said strange in his heart, thinking that when he was still a yellow flower girl, he didn't sleep well for three days before entering the city, and he didn't know how happy he was, this stinky boy was good, like a nobody.
After thinking about it, Zhou couldn't help but say: "Han Wa'er, after entering the city, if you dare to shout and lose the face of your mother, go back and see that I don't cut you." ”
The three of them walked hand in hand for about a quarter of an hour, and then they saw the city gate, which was not tall and majestic in the distance.
Shen Xi's eyesight is excellent, under the gaze, I saw two large seal characters engraved above the city gate "Ninghua", Shen Xi's predecessor was a university professor after all, and he was rich in five cars, and he was no stranger to the two seal characters. At the same time, Shen Xi had gone to Ninghua to collect cultural relics for a period of time in his previous life, and he had a little understanding of the history of this place.
Ninghua has a long history, Tang Qianfeng two years to Huanglian Town in Huangliantong, Kaiyuan 13 years to promote the county, later renamed Ninghua County, in the early Ming Dynasty belonged to Fujian Province Tingzhou Mansion, Shenxi memory of Tingzhou at this time, a total of eight counties, Ninghua is one of them.
"Stinky boy, look stupid, right? Is this city tall or not? When the old lady entered the county for the first time, it took a long time to react. ”
"It's a pity that we are not from the city, we have to be careful when entering and exiting the city gate, those officials are easy to come over and ask for guidance, if they don't, they will ask to pay the city gate tax. You say that we are not businessmen, and we are in a panic when we go to the city to pay taxes? ”
Zhou talked endlessly about his old past.
Shen Xi really wanted to tell the Zhou family that if it was a few hundred years later, it would be a county seat, and even ordinary towns would be much more magnificent than this county seat. Not to mention the busy traffic of high-rise buildings, even ordinary buildings, it should be the Qionglou Yuyu in the mouth of the poet in the world, right?
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