Chapter 18: Descending the Mountain

Yang Shoucheng's body was parked at home for three days and then hurriedly buried, but the turmoil caused by this incident in Yanhe Town has not subsided, and stories about him are still circulating on the streets and alleys.

"Have you heard, the shopkeeper Yang of Yuhe Restaurant is dead!"

"Are you from our Yanhe Town, just got out of that mountain crevice? It's been eight days since everyone died, and the grass on the graves has begun to grow! ”

"Well, I only moved here last year, so it's a bit of a mess! But I heard that he was hooked by a powerful ghost before he died, is it true? ”

"Qi, nonsense!"

"But that's what the Cao butcher in the town told me!"

"Cao San's, he knows what a fart, and everyone is the same! Zhang Shiyi of Yuhe Restaurant lives next door to my house, and his mother-in-law told me yesterday that the shopkeeper Yang was sucked dry by a female goblin, and when he died, the whole person was only skinny and bones! ”

"So powerful, huh? Tell everyone about it! ”

"What's there to talk about this? Okay, okay, since you all like to listen, then listen to it! Here's the thing, half a month ago, a young woman came to Yuhe Restaurant to buy wineβ€”β€”"

"Is that goblin really so tempting?"

"If it's not tempting, can Shopkeeper Yang be sucked dry by her? There is a saying that 'peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic', do you understand? (This sentence is from the Yuan song "Drunken Xi Shi", which is used here, and the reader does not have to take it seriously.) οΌ‰

"I still feel worthless for Shopkeeper Yang, he has such a large amount of money, what kind of woman in Yanhe Town can't marry, but he just died in the belly of a female goblin! I heard that he also has a nine-year-old boy at home, and his parents died at a young age, poor thing! ”

"It's not, the most important thing is that he still has a rogue brother, he is dead, who will not necessarily fall into his family wealth, his boy's life will be miserable in the future!"

"Hmph, a knife on the head of the color word harms others and yourself, whoever can't think of it will die!"

"Hey, you bastard, what are you spraying in your mouth!"

At this time, the Tianchi Waterfall of Taibai Mountain is sunny, Zhou Hongxian is sitting on the edge of the waterhole fiddling with a square and colorful thing, Tu Shanke felt novel, so he asked: "Honggu, I see that you have been playing for most of the day, what is your newly transformed play?" ”

Zhou Hongxian stopped and said, "It's called the Rubik's Cube, it's a kind of intellectual game!" ”

Tu Shanke smiled: "Another intellectual game? Oh, how do you play this thing, can you teach me too? ”

Zhou Hongxian seemed a little unhappy, and said, "You also want to learn this?" ”

Seeing Tu Shanke nodding solemnly, she said in a cold tone, "Okay." In fact, the principle is very simple, it is to turn it around like I did, but not to take it apart, and finally make each of these six sides exactly the same color. With that, she directly threw the Rubik's Cube to Tu Shanke.

After Tu Shanke took it, he looked at it over and over again, and said, "Well, it's quite simple!" ”

Zhou Hongxian suddenly felt so unconvinced, she couldn't help but say: "Don't look at its simple principle, but it's still a little difficult to play, and it takes me more than ten minutes to complete it every time!" ”

Tu Shanke has been in contact with Zhou Hongxian for so long, so he naturally knows what the concept of "minute" is, he smiled: "Okay, I'll try to play it too, it takes less time than anyone else!" With that, he began to turn the Rubik's Cube, and after about three minutes, a completed magic cube appeared in front of Zhou Hongxian's eyes.

Zhou Hongxian looked a little straight, but Tu Shanke still didn't finish: "The first time I played was a bit handy, I think I can be faster!" With that, he scrambled again, but this time his hand was so fast that it took less than half a minute. Then, he threw the Rubik's Cube back to Zhou Hongxian, and said with a smile: "It's really simple, you can actually play for most of the day, it's really a lot of perseverance!" ”

Zhou Hongxian really wanted to smash the Rubik's Cube on Tu Shanke's smiling face, and she scolded in her heart: "Damn, is there still a game that can be played?" ”

At this time, Tu Shanke didn't care about Zhou Hongxian's slightly gloomy face, and only said: "Aunt Hong, don't waste any more time on this, come and massage me, and just chat with me!" ”

What does it mean to deprive others of the joy of life? That's it! But Zhou Hongxian could only pout: "Okay, here it is!" ”

As soon as she stepped onto the stone and sat down, Tu Shanke immediately set up the most familiar and comfortable lying position he was most familiar with, and rested his head on her lap. However, dissatisfaction in her heart turned into dissatisfaction, and when she really started to do things, Zhou Hongxian was still single-minded, so she started from Tu Shanke's temples in a familiar order.

However, this time, not long after Zhou Hongxian's hand was pressed, Tu Shanke reached out and grabbed her hand.

Zhou Hongxian was a little surprised, and said, "What's the matter, have I used my strength again?" ”

"No, Honggu, your hands are very soft and very comfortable to press, it can be said that your craftsmanship has surpassed anyone else!" Tu Shanke suddenly said such an inexplicable sentence, and his voice was also a little inexplicably gentle.

Zhou Hongxian didn't know how to answer, and after thinking for a long time, she remembered the last sentence that the eldest sister gave her when she went to do a foot bath with her colleagues in her previous life, so she smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment, your satisfaction is the greatest support for me!" ”

Tu Shanke suddenly laughed, he moved his body, changed his side posture to a back posture, looked at Zhou Hongxian's eyes and said, "Honggu, you smile very sweetly like this, and you speak very gently, if only you could keep doing this!" ”

"What do you mean, is this a further compliment to me? Why did he talk like this today, it makes people feel so uncomfortable! Zhou Hongxian's head lit up with a big question mark.

"Aunt Hong, why don't you speak?" Tu Shanke looked at Zhou Hongxian's eyes and continued.

"Well, I don't know what to say for a while, wellβ€”I'll say thank you again!" Zhou Hongxian scratched his head and smiled.

Tu Shanke's eyes were faintly dissatisfied, and he said, "Why do you have to be so polite all the time?" ”

"I've always been very polite, not to mention you, a big guy, which tendon did you make the wrong one today?" Zhou Hongxian said secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, so he smiled: "Is there one?" Being polite is a good thing in itself! ”

Tu Shanke suddenly reached out and put his hand on Zhou Hongxian's neck, pulling her face closer to himself, his eyes were brighter than usual, and said, "Aunt Hong, don't be like this with me in the future?" ”

Zhou Hongxian only felt that the faces of the two sides were too close, and it was uncomfortable to look at each other like this, but Tu Shanke had been powerful to her for a long time, she felt that she must have annoyed Tu Shanke, and Tu Shanke deliberately found fault and taught her a lesson, so although she deliberately pulled her head high, she didn't dare to react too violently, she replied to Tu Shanke's words: "That-how can it be called not a score?" ”

Tu Shanke suddenly smiled again, and said in a very gentle voice: "I have to stay in this Tianchi Waterfall for more than nine hundred years, in fact, I am very lonely in my heart, you can talk to me more in the future, don't fiddle with your toys when you have nothing to do, okay?" ”

"So you're blaming me for playing games! But those are my good off-duty hours, and you're too lenient, aren't you? Zhou Hongxian thought so in his heart, but weakly retorted in his mouth: "Oh. But I'm staying here, except for massaging you every day, and then learning spells from you, I'm bored the rest of the time, how can I pass the time without playing with these things? ”

Tu Shanke's eyes suddenly showed a trace of anger, and he said coldly: "Isn't it boring to talk to me?" With that, he pushed Zhou Hongxian away.

Zhou Hongxian was startled, she couldn't help but think of her experience in her previous life when she worked overtime in the first company after entering the society, when her boss happened to pass behind her, saw her working diligently, and asked her with a smile: "Xiao Zhou, are you tired of working overtime?" Without thinking, she replied, "I'm tired!" Then, the project commission that he should have had that month was simply gone, and the reason was that he was passive and slacking off.

I can't imagine that now that we are separated by a lifetime, she still says whatever she wants, this is really no growth! She couldn't help but be a little scared in her heart, thinking that Tu Shanke wouldn't refuse to teach me spells in the future, so my previous hard work would be gone? Isn't more than ten years of service in vain? She felt that she couldn't give up on herself, but that she should do something to save it, so she said, "Actually, it's not because I think it's boring to talk to you!" ”

"Oh?" Tu Shanke was stunned and couldn't help asking, "What's the reason for that?" ”

Zhou Hongxian tried his best to put on a low voice and said: "Actually, it's because my knowledge is too shallow, and I can't talk to you!" Then she secretly glanced at Tu Shanke, and thought, "I don't even want face, you should be angry!" ”

However, Tu Shanke clenched his fists, and suddenly a word popped out of his mouth: "Get out!" ”

"Moody, did I offend you in my last life?" Zhou Hongxian also sulked, and then she got up and stood up, silently walking towards the outside of Tianchi Waterfall.

Tu Shanke watched her walk away, and he was even more upset for no reason, he wanted to borrow wine to drown his sorrows.

At this time, Tu Shanke's cold voice floated from behind Zhou Hongxian: "My daughter is red and I have finished drinking, you will go down the mountain and get it for me today!" ”

Zhou Hongxian stopped after hearing this, and thought to himself at first: "Paralyzed, what are you asking me to do, really when I have no temper?" But when she turned her head, she suddenly became happy again, and said to herself, "How stupid am I! Hmph, as long as you don't quit drinking, you will never be able to leave me, and I'm afraid of you! So she went down the hill with joy.