Chapter 57: Qingshan Town 2
An autumn rain and a cold, Xu is the rain of the first few months has all been saved, and it will be endless, since the last time he separated from the two girls, Gong Yujing found an inn in the town to stay, and he didn't move for several days.
Xiao Li was bored with him, and occasionally went downstairs for a stroll.
The rain fell day and night, and the people in the town were also bored at home, so they couldn't stay anymore and sat in the teahouse inn with an umbrella, listening to the merchants talk about what they had seen on the road, or chatting with the people in the town about the daily life, so as to pass the time.
Xiao Pear's temperament also loves to be lively, and he is idle and listens to the crowd, who cut new clothes the day before yesterday, and yesterday the old Liu family child in East Lane naughtily knocked over the small stall of the sticky candy man, and the syrup of the yellow orange and orange splashed all over the ground, and it was not clean, and it was sticky to walk from there for several days.
It's all trivial things, usually everyone is busy, and in this rainy day, they take it out as a gossip and chat a few words, a bunch of people sit around the table, some people start to talk, and some people follow, and it seems to be happy to come and go.
"The lord of the Lin family in the south recruited his daughter Cailou, so it's only been these two days, right?"
"Not really." The lady at the other table spit out two pieces of melon seed skin, and quickly answered: "Look at this rain, the sky is not beautiful." ”
The topic apparently piqued the interest of most of the people present, and soon someone continued her words.
"After that incident two years ago, I saw that their daughter was not quite right, thinking that I was afraid that she had attracted evil spirits, and now it is raining heavily, presumably God warned us!"
Fang Cai's aunt was not happy, and as soon as the melon seeds were thrown on the table, she began to reprimand him: "Bah, bah! You old thing, you can't say something auspicious! ”
"That's a reminder to me." A woodcutter dressed as a woodcutter at the next table suddenly stood up, "Last month, I went to deliver firewood to their house, and I was fortunate to meet Miss Nalin. ”
"What's wrong?" Everyone asked
The woodcutter was a little proud when he saw that his words had poked at people's rare ideas, sat down and took a sip of tea and continued: "That's really beautiful! ”
"Hey!" The crowd roared in disappointment.
"Miss Lin's appearance is famous in our Qingshan Town, and you still need to say this!"
As soon as these words fell, the rest of the people followed suit.
"I'm not done yet!" The woodcutter slapped the table, and when everyone quieted down, he had a little doubt on his face, "At that time, the daughter was sitting on the show floor, the window was very open, and I didn't see it very clearly, she was holding a cat in her arms, snow-white hair, and it looked dazzling under the sun." ”
After he said this, some people below began to make a commotion.
"When Master Lin went to the goods, he entrusted someone to bring the ruler jade flying practice, don't say you haven't seen it."
"That's it!"
The woodcutter was so angry that he slapped the table again: "You wait for me to finish!" ”
The crowd shut up again and motioned for him to continue.
"That cat didn't look unusual in the past, but I really felt that something was wrong when I saw it that day......" said the woodcutter's original impatient expression faded, his eyes swept over the people present without blinking, and his voice couldn't help but be lightened, "The cat's eyes are red." ”
As soon as these words fell, the inn suddenly fell silent.
"Won't it?" Someone couldn't help but question, but no one answered her.
Someone continued to go back to knock melon seeds, the shopkeeper on the counter yawned, his mind was all on the account and he didn't listen much to the chat of the other party, the rain outside became louder, hitting the leaves like a lullaby, making people drowsy.
Xiaoli was happy to hear it, and when she saw that the scene was cold all of a sudden, she was a little puzzled, and she was hesitating whether she wanted to ask the reason too, and when she looked up, she saw Gong Yujing waving to her upstairs.
She cautiously walked up the stairs around the crowd, and for a moment everyone at the bottom acted as if nothing had happened, what should they do, but no one brought up the topic again.
"What are they doing here?" Xiao Li was puzzled, these mortals occasionally like to talk about ghosts and gods, and there are not a few cowardly people, but it is the first time to see them like a snake and scorpion.
Gong Yujing raised her eyebrows: "You don't know? ”
"Know what?" Xiao Li was even more puzzled, thinking that she didn't know what else was involved.
Gong Yujing didn't go around in circles with her, and looked at the people below: "This Qingshan Town is Yucheng sixty years ago. ”
“……”
Seeing that Xiaoli was silent, Gong Yujing chuckled: "Sixty years is not a long time, but it is enough for these mortals to reproduce in this land again, birth, old age, sickness and death have changed a generation, and most of the people who knew about the things of the year have died, and now people only mention it as a legend that the old man in the family is delirious and casually nonsense." ”
Xiaoli doesn't believe it, it's really like this, it's too strange that this group of people doesn't take it out as a story.
"Ten years ago, there were monsters here, and Yan Xi passed by and took them, maybe the monster was only a little the same as the one sixty years ago, and the people here gradually began to believe that the legend was true."
"Then why didn't they move out?"
Gong Yujing turned his head and looked at Xiaoli like a fool, and finally couldn't help but knock on her head.
"What are you hitting me for?" Xiao Li covered her forehead and asked.
"Anyway, you've been in the world too, why are you so stupid?"
Always scolded like this, the rabbit is in a hurry to bite, but this person in front of her is not a person, she may break her teeth when she bites, Xiao Li huffed and put her arm on the railing, and she didn't plan to take care of him anymore.
Gong Yujing saw that people couldn't be messed with anymore, and he also learned her to lie on the railing, and explained to her while looking downstairs: "After the Yucheng City was gone, the imperial court ordered the re-establishment of the city in this place, and encouraged relocation, the fertile land was owned by the people, and those who came here were exempted from all taxes. ”
Speaking of this, he paused, afraid that the little kraken in front of him still wouldn't understand, so he added: "Even if you come to die, you will no longer have to worry about food and clothing if you can stay, and those who are brave will be the first to come, and the rest will follow when they see nothing happening, and the old man Lin in the mouth of the gang below is one of the first people to come to Qingshan Town." ”
Xiao Li listened quietly, Gong Yujing said in detail, she always felt that something was wrong, meditated for a long time, the gloomy sky outside became darker, everyone knew that it was dusk, and after saying goodbye to each other, they each took the rain gear and left one after another.
Gong Yujing saw that there was no fun to see, so he straightened up and wanted to go back to the room, when an inquiry came from behind Leng Buding.
"Gong Yujing, how do you know so clearly about Qingshan Town?"