Chapter Thirty-Seven: Three Men Become Tigers
Gu Chao and Ling You stood in front of the hall, looking at the surrounding walls and pillars, there was still a remnant of the breath of the old life on them, and they could vaguely see how lively this place used to be.
Looking up, the window paper that should have been snow-white is now full of moth-eaten spots and holes.
There were also overlapping yellow marks, and the wood was rotten, and the tiles on the roof were smashed and shattered.
"This place is much more dilapidated than I imagined, when did the owner of this black river house die?"
Ling You observed the grass growing in the cracks of the ground, and replied while playing with one hand:
"I don't know the specifics, but it's always when the emperor first ascended the throne."
"It's been so long?"
Gu Hao looked around carefully, stroking these old things.
In the middle of several pillars in the courtyard, there were also a lot of wood paint chips falling to the ground.
She leaned over to see the workmanship and wood of the pillar, but found that there were many knife marks on the pillar, and then she looked the pillars up and down.
The wood of this pillar is excellent, and the skill of the lacquer worker is also very good, and it stands to reason that this is only the past seventy or eighty years, how did it fall off and become like this.
And these pillars are all intact except for the middle one, and the upper and lower parts are intact, which is a strange thing.
When she looked closely, she found that the paint in the middle had been cut off by a knife, and there were traces of rubbing. Looking at the ground, there is still a little bit of broken hemp.
The knife marks on this pillar looked new, and the broken linen on the ground was still bright brownish-yellow, not the black and old-fashioned color.
She turned her head and saw that Ling You was still obsessively observing all kinds of plants on the ground, so she called him over.
"Lingyou, didn't you say that no one usually comes here except for the sick anymore? Will the sick come here? ”
"That's the case, no one will come here on weekdays, as for those patients, some of them have a hard time even standing up, this is a long way away from the room where they lived, who would come here to wander around, and the people in Qingcheng County know the legends here, who dares to walk around here, and not to visit the garden."
"But, you see, these traces are all new."
Gu Chao pointed out those traces one by one to Lingyou.
"Look at the place where the knife marks are recessed, the wood is still new, and it doesn't look weathered."
"This ...... Maybe there are people who don't know the legend of Heihesuo and can't afford to stay in an inn, so they come here to stay overnight? ”
"But isn't the best place for people to live in Heihe just now the rows of rooms, why do they have to walk so deep and come to live in this leaky place on all sides, and stay in the accommodation, what are they doing with this pillar?"
Although Ling You was pulled over by Gu Chao, he still thought about the peculiar grass he had just seen on the ground.
So he didn't bother to think about what Gu Chao said, originally he came here, first, thinking that when he came last time, he saw a few strange plants here and wanted to come and see.
The second is to let Gu Chao see this old place with many legends, and he can also tell her some anecdotes about this Heihe Institute and the previous owner, who knows that she didn't think about it in this way, and she didn't ask a word.
Now for Gu Chao's series of off-topic questions, Ling You really can't resist.
"I don't know about this, maybe they led the horses to tie them here, and when they were about to leave, they took a knife and cut the rope?"
This seems to be very reasonable, she originally wanted to go and see other places, but Ling You urged.
"At this time, my master has probably finished treating them, let's go back, lest the master see that I am gone, and look everywhere."
This black river is really big, the two of them went back and walked for a while, pushed the door in, and sure enough, the old gentleman rested against the wall, saw them come in, and slowly stood up.
"You're finally back, and I wish you hadn't come back, I'd slept here today."
"That's not possible, then the master should die in a hurry."
The old gentleman smiled, and at first glance, they had a good relationship between husband and wife, and the old gentleman couldn't help but laugh when he thought of his wife.
"Sir, I'm going to go to the Guanxi Inn later, and I'll pass by your Huichun Hall, and today I want to thank Lingyou for showing me the way, and I'll return to the road to send you and Lingyou back."
"Thank you then, kid."
On the way back, Gu Chao talked and laughed with them, and the old gentleman also shared a lot of health regimens with her.
When the old gentleman got out of the car, he also invited her very warmly, if she was free, she could come back to the spring hall to play, saying that she practiced martial arts all the year round, and she could also show her if there were any shortcomings, and prescribe her a few doses of medicine to replenish her body.
happily said goodbye to the old gentleman, and when Gu Chao returned to the Guanxi Inn, he found that Chang Yu and they still hadn't come back. After a long day of running, she was also tired, but now she didn't have much appetite to eat, so she simply went back to her room and went to bed to lie down.
And over there in the Song family's oil shop, Master Song heard that Wei Linghao wanted to know about the Li family, so he thought about it for a while, and then quickly spoke.
"I only know that Li Zhuyan, the daughter of the Li family, is really unorthodox, she is swaggering everywhere on the street all day long, and in order to splash dirty water on us in the past few days, she has not shown her face on the street, making noise, which is really embarrassing."
"Uh, what about the rest?"
Huai Xuan squeezed out a polite smile.
"I don't know about this and this, I don't know anything else, I don't have time to pay attention to what their family is doing."
While he was talking, there was a noisy movement outside.
It turned out that Leap Moon had returned, followed by his brother Runlang.
As soon as the little girl came in, she chattered.
"Dad, master, you don't know that I made Li Zhuyan lose a lot of face!"
"Eh, don't worry, don't worry, you speak slowly. What the hell is going on? ”
The leap shopkeeper persuaded.
Li Zhuyan was shameless, saying that the pawnshop took her friend Zhang Lin'er's things at a low price, and raised the price for them to ransom. In fact, they took a fake gold hairpin, which I snatched and folded. ”
"Folded? How can you fold it? So many people are watching, isn't this a reality? ”
The leap shopkeeper was in a hurry.
"Alas, Dad, listen to me. I folded the hairpin, and it was copper, and rubbed my hand with copper powder. I'll just say, since Miss Li is your close friend, why didn't she give you a turnover when you were in trouble, and let you fall to the point of being a fake hairpin, and now she is pretending to seek justice for you. ”
"Maybe Miss Zhang is fake? just listened to Li Zhuyan's instigation, and she didn't really want to be a thing. ”
Huai asked questions.
"Yes, yes, so I just said it, no matter whether you are really a thing or not, and whether this thing is successful or not, it is you Zhang Lin'er who has no face anyway. Look, aren't you everyone's joke now? ”
The more he talked, the more energetic he became:
Then Zhang Lin turned her head angrily and left, and glared at Li Zhuyan with a white eye, I see, she wants to give Li Zhuyan a big ear scraper! Li Zhuyan also lost her face on the spot, and slipped away by herself. ”
"Why did the pawnshop accept Zhang Lin'er's hairpin in the first place? Can't they see that something is fake? ”
Chang Yue asked.
"Because, because Zhang Lin'er's family background is really bad, the shopkeeper over there took pity on her, so he gave her a few dollars, who knew that she was designed with Li Zhuyan to slander the pawnshop over there."
"The matter is settled, but you are too impatient, why don't Brother Lang stop it?"
After the leap shopkeeper's evaluation, he turned to look at his son.