Text Chapter 2 The Ancient Temple in the South of the City

"Yang Long, do you want to take this quilt to wipe your tears?" Li Hongji clapped his hands, as if he wanted to pat the dust away, and returned Yang Long's slanted eyes and looked down.

Yang Long removed his finger and glared at Li Hongji angrily, and was about to get up and fight again, only then did he remember that Li Hongji had learned to use guns and sticks, and he was afraid that he was not an opponent, so he hurriedly shouted to the surrounding guards: "Whoever takes the quilt, this quilt will be his in the future." ”

The guards did not dare to look at either Yang Long or Li Hongji, but they set their eyes on their tattered uppers.

Yang Long saw that everyone ignored him, and only said that the strength of the reward was not enough, "If anyone takes back the quilt, Lord Ben will reward him with one or two lines of silver." ”

"Yang Long, since you have two pieces of silver, why don't you pay us silver?" Li Hongji walked towards Yang Long step by step, his footsteps were so heavy that he shook the earth, where was he still like a person who hadn't eaten for three days?

Yang Long was terrified, "Li Hongji, don't come nonsense, I just talked about the silver reward." ”

"Oh, what does Lord Yang mean is to admit that he is deceiving his brothers?" Li Hongji smiled, "Lord Yang, do you want this quilt?" ”

Yang Long got up from the ground and glared at Li Hongji viciously, when he met Li Hongji's gaze, he was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his gaze and looked at the surrounding post guards, "Lord Ben wants to return the quilt, also for the post station, for you, since you don't want it, what else is Lord Ben fighting for?" A bunch of uncompetitive stuff! As he spoke, he ran away with a puff of smoke.

Li Hongji picked up the felt hat on the ground, put it on his head, and straightened the brim of the hat with both hands, "Lord Yang is good, don't send it!" He clasped his hands into fists and saluted around: "Old man, brothers, Li Hongji is gone, don't leave it here." ”

Seeing that Yang Long was far away, everyone hugged their fists and returned the salute, but they were silent.

Li Hongji turned around and went on the road, striding south.

From Ningxia Town to the south, across the Yellow River, about fifty miles is Lingzhou, Li Hongji hurried along the way, and finally came to Lingzhou City before the city gate was closed.

Seeing that the city gate was about to close, the people outside the city sped up, and Li Hongji followed this group of people and walked towards the city gate.

Penniless, in shabby clothes, and carrying a quilt that can wash half a catty of salt, Li Hongji looked like a homeless person, and the soldiers defending the city stopped him, "Who are you?" What to do in Lingzhou City? ”

"Me? Passing! Li Hongji was unhappy, so many people, why did they just stop Lao Tzu?

"Is there a way?" The soldiers defending the city obviously did not want to let him into the city easily.

"Yes." Li Hongji handed over the road guide and waited aside.

"Li Hongji? Ningxia post pawn? The soldiers defending the city looked at it from head to toe, and finally their eyes fell on the quilt behind Li Hongji, "Why do you look like a homeless person?" Are you really a post pawn in Ningxia? ”

"Lu Yin is here, will there be a fake?" Li Hongji replied angrily, he withdrew the road guide, and wanted to get up and enter the city.

"Does the inn also owe money?" The soldiers defending the city didn't care about the change in Li Hongji's tone, and seemed to be a little sympathetic to Li Hongji.

"In these years, except for Liaodong, where is there no arrears?" Li Hongji didn't want to talk nonsense with the soldiers defending the city, so he walked quickly through the city gate.

The soldiers guarding the city let Li Hongji go, but they still stared at the quilt behind him, "Li Hongji, if you can't afford to live in a hotel, there is a good temple at the south city gate." After that, he laughed loudly, it seemed that Li Hongji was asking for food.

Li Hongji didn't appreciate it, he secretly glared at the soldier and left quietly.

After entering Lingzhou City, Li Hongji began to worry about tonight's food and accommodation, he still has two nests on his body, and he will deal with it, there is no problem with dinner, but after a day's journey, he wants to ask for some hot water to drink.

It was already evening, and the tea shop had long been closed, but the tea shop was still open, but Li Hongji was penniless in his arms, and in desperation, he had to try his luck in the residential area.

It was the time for dinner, the pedestrians were very scarce, the weather in the north was cold, and most of the houses were closed.

Two mouthfuls of hot water went down to his stomach, and his stomach felt better, so he took out the dry and hard nest and nibbled on two bites.

The eldest lady looked distressed and sighed softly, "Hey, this world, this afterlife......" She turned back to the house and took out a small plate of radish strips, "How can you eat in the afterlife, how can you do it without salt?" Let's eat some salted radish! ”

"Thank you, auntie!" Li Hongji ate three radish strips in one go, drank a few sips of hot water, and solved the two nests, and he left the old lady with a thousand thanks to find a bed where he could stay.

Because he was penniless, Li Hongji didn't plan that any kind shopkeeper would take him in for one night, he tried to pick some corners with few pedestrians, as long as there was a place to avoid the night dew.

He has quilts, but he only lacks a piece of land where he can put quilts.

The sky is getting dark, and the pedestrians ten steps away can't see their faces clearly, Li Hongji is not familiar with Lingzhou City, and he can't find an ideal place for a while, and he is secretly anxious in his heart, if the sky is completely dark, he is likely to sleep on the street.

He suddenly remembered the joke of the soldier at the gate of the city, maybe the temple in the south of the city could really stay.

Li Hongji made up his mind and went straight to the south of the city.

There is really a temple in the south of the city, what kind of temple it is, it is not clear now, but the temple is quite dilapidated, and even the two wooden doors are not known to have been removed by anyone, and only the empty doorway remains.

Li Hongji crossed the threshold, lit the fire, and by the faint light, he glanced around the temple, the ground was overgrown with weeds, because it was already winter, the weeds had already withered, only the yellow grass stems, and the open space was spacious, worthy of two large beds.

Opposite the main entrance is a bodhisattva, with a big mouth and a wide nose, ears close to the shoulders, and the soil on the surface has fallen off a little, obviously no one has taken care of it for a long time.

Li Hongji held the fire fold, came to the back hall, and found that behind the Bodhisattva, there was a small platform, behind the platform, is the back wall of the temple, he touched the platform with his hand, the dust on it was very thick, obviously it had not been cleaned for a long time.

This is supposed to be a temple that is close to desertion, and there is usually no one to give alms, and no one comes to offer incense or make vows.

Li Hongji extinguished the fire, and the temple was suddenly shrouded in boundless darkness, and he hated that the ground was not clean, so he pulled out some weeds from the ground, wiped the platform clean in the dark, and then spread out the quilt, half of the mattress underneath, and lay down on the kimono, and covered the other half of the quilt on his body.

With nothing to do in the dark, Li Hongji remembered his experience during this time.

His original name was Li Wen, and he was a third-year student at N University, and his grades were not excellent, but there should be no problem with mixing up a degree certificate, but his parents' divorce stimulated him.

His parents were secretly operating and had originally concealed this information from him, and when Li Wen accidentally discovered the secret, he was furious.

Li Wen wants to escape from this world from now on, he is obsessed with online novels, especially the time travel class, he has a feeling in his heart that he will be like the protagonist in the novel, can travel to another world.

In order to maintain this feeling, he not only reads novels day and night, but also collects various skills for coping with the new life on the Internet in order to become a rich man in the new world.

Li Wen was too busy at night and had a serious lack of sleep, and was repeatedly criticized by Guo Yong, a counselor and history teacher.

For the sixth time this month, Guo Yong stood in front of Li Wen angrily, "It's the third grade, and others are busy preparing papers and looking for jobs, look at you, you don't look like people and ghosts, and your face is as white as ......."

Guo Yong couldn't scold anymore, he suddenly found that Li Wen, who had always turned his face and continued to sleep, suddenly had blood on his pale face today, it should be that the blood was surging, even the pupils were bloodshot, and the blood-red eyeballs became bigger and bigger......

Li Wen was fed up with the teacher's insults, his hands had already been raised, and he was about to pinch the teacher's neck, and he was even imagining what it would be like to suddenly lose his breath in the middle of the teacher's words.

The blood continued to surge uncontrollably, and Li Wen felt that it was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't help but plant himself on the teacher.

Li Wen didn't reach the teacher's neck, he fell straight in front of the teacher, and at the moment when consciousness stopped, he strangled the teacher's legs, thinking that it was the teacher's neck.

When he woke up, he was lying on the broken bed of the Ningxia Post Station, covered with a tattered quilt that exuded a strong manly atmosphere - he really crossed over.

From the chatter of the old grandson, he knew his identity - a post guard of the Ningxia Post Station who had been dismissed.

What made Li Wen want to cry without tears was that he had to bear Li Hongji's poverty with Li Hongji's body, not only did he lose his job, but he didn't even have the money to go home.

Lying in bed for the past two days, the memories are like a tide, not only the memories of the future generations are still there, but even the memories of the body at the moment have been awakened one by one, so when he heard Yang Long's words that were more ruthless than the cold winter, he got up tremblingly.

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After walking fifty miles on this day, Li Hongji was a little tired, and he had just eaten Wotou and drunk hot water, so he was no longer hungry in his stomach, so he fell asleep unconsciously.

I don't know when, Li Hongji was awakened by the slight footsteps outside, he thought it was a dream at first, after rubbing his eyes and his brain was completely awake, the footsteps became clearer, he raised his head slightly, wanting to see what time it was, but it was dark outside, and he couldn't see anything, thinking that he had slept for a while, the time should not be shallow, "This is more in the middle of the night, is there still someone like me who can't stay overnight?" ”

Li Hongji was bored, lying in the quilt and listening, there should be two people outside, the footsteps stopped at the temple gate, hesitated for a while, and finally came in.

"Let's see what they're going to do." Li Hongji didn't quite believe that the two were staying overnight, he lay on the platform, not moving.

When the two men came in, they sat down on the dead grass at the door, did not light the lamp, and were silent for a while, and finally spoke.

"Big brother, is the two-horned sheep still fat tonight?"

"Not fat," the eldest brother sighed, "These days, there are fewer and fewer fat sheep, I want to ...... back then"

"Back then...... I was all excited by my eldest brother's words, but it's a pity that ...... I didn't have this blessing back then," the voice paused slightly, "Big brother, how fat is the sheep tonight?" ”