Chapter 35: The Old Tree Blossoms
I was terrified, but I forced my composure and didn't look back until I opened the padlock of the courtyard door, then I turned around and smiled reluctantly:
"The Mirage Ghost Domain is a water jurisdiction, and it is easy for the Yaksha to want someone's life. But I sat upright, and I couldn't think of any reason for Yaksha to kill me. ”
"Makes sense." The fat man nodded in an old-fashioned manner, "Old friend, you have delayed these lives a lot, but you really didn't wait in vain." ”
I finally couldn't hold it back, and showed the yin and yang knife with my backhand, but it was tucked into my waist, and I arched my hand at the fat man with both hands in fists:
"Sir, have we met? It's a past life, it's this life, please explain. ”
Unexpectedly, the fat man rolled his eyes: "Who has met you!" ”
After saying that, he stretched his hands back again.
He himself seemed to feel embarrassed, and withdrew his hand self-deprecatingly, but raised a hand and waved it at me: "Flash aside." ”
I stepped aside, and he walked to the door, looked at me with a smirk, and made a gesture after that.
"Flutter ......"
I couldn't help but scoff.
That's because I could see that the other person was bending down as if he wanted to pick something up. His first half of his movements, including the glance at me, can be regarded as chic, but when he bends over, because of the obstruction of his stomach, he is like a blind bear picking up corn kernels, and he almost lost his balance, and the whole person fell forward.
"Isn't it funny?" The fat man tilted his head and glared at me fiercely, "You unlucky boy! ”
I couldn't help but laugh at his action, and blurted out:
"Uncle, just say you want to pick up things or tie your shoes, I'll help you...... Strike...... Hey, hey, hey, hey......"
The fat man's face did not change in the slightest, it was still pale and his pores were enlarged, like a dead corpse swollen by blisters.
However, at this moment, he was also embarrassed.
He didn't stalemate with me, but he didn't ask me for help, he just changed his body, squatted down, and stretched out his hand to scratch in front of the door, as if to say to himself:
"Unlucky copper egg, I'm bothered, don't you look at the face of an old friend? A turtle grandson, he actually laughed at me! You know what, if you stick to your hands, it won't work! ”
Listening to his voice, my eyelids jumped again, I took two steps back, and turned my head to look at the ancestral hall that I had just passed by.
Before I had time to retract my gaze, I saw Dou Dabao and the others standing about seven or eight meters away, and Dou Dabao was gesturing at me.
I glanced at the ancestral hall again and shook my head at him slightly.
When he turned around, the fat man was still squatting on the ground and scraping, but he had gathered some dirt on the left side of the door frame.
In this mirage, the passage of time is really incalculable, and in this moment, the signs of the flood have been extinguished many more.
However, the soil near the threshold was still wet, and it was a lump of cement.
The fat man finally stood up with one hand on his legs, but with the other hand he was holding the lump of mud, and smiled at me:
"Passing through the door is not hospitality. Come in, let the dolls come in too, come in and sit for a while. ”
When I beckoned Dou Dabao and the others to come to me, they walked into the courtyard together, but the scene in the courtyard changed.
The yard was still full of messes before, but when I look at it now, the yard is neatly cleaned up.
Dou Dabao looked left and right, leaned up to me and whispered:
"This patrol yaksha is godly, I just looked, the shovel, pickaxe, and pickaxe standing by the wall are all shiny! If you smell it, it seems that there is still the smell of steamed rice and stewed meat in this courtyard! That's right, it's a stew, stewed with dried beans! ”
"Can you stop talking?" Pan Ying directly grabbed him aside, swallowed his saliva, and said angrily: "I also smelled it, so you just say, is there still someone living here?" What are you doing with all that? What do you want to do? Don't you know that Lao Tzu is hungry now, why does he want to eat people? ”
This pair of happy enemies is a quarrel regardless of the time, but the words are true.
The small courtyard is neatly cleaned up, and the air is filled with the faint smell of food...... Just before and after entering the door, this courtyard really looks like someone has finished tidying up and opening a gang.
I whispered:
"It's getting more and more evil, but it's still under control. Don't act rashly, just wait and see. ”
The old and hoarse voice of the 'fat man' suddenly came from the main room: "Tsk, come in!" Don't stick to the door! Delay! ”
Dou Dabao's eyes rolled, "Dare to love this Yaksha is a ...... from Henan"
"Shut up!"
I patted him, and then I stepped across the courtyard and into the main house.
Dou Dabao and others followed in, and as soon as the group entered the door, they were all stunned.
The first thing I saw was not the fat man, but two other people.
It was a man and a woman, both about forty and fifty years old.
The room was cleaned up, and the man and woman sat opposite the table of the Eight Immortals by the window.
There was a pot and a plate on the table, and each of them had a bowl of rice in front of them, and each of them had a bamboo chopstick in his hand.
"Gollum ......"
Everyone's stomachs were drumming together, and the momentum was amazing.
Dou Dabao stood on tiptoe and poked his head to look at the dining table: "It's stewed meat with dried beans, and a plate of snow red, I smelled it just now!" ”
Pan Ying came up to me and stabbed me, and whispered to me:
"Woe to me, I have something from my heart...... Why don't you go over and 'cross' with this old couple? I'm so hungry I can't stand it. If it's really ghost food, as long as it's not a stone mud gaba, I'll admit it! I eat! ”
"I want to eat it too, but I have to eat it?" I touched my stomach, turned my face to Pan Ying and said, "Let's go to Ula to copy in, unless these two are deaf and dumb or blind, why do you think they can't see us?" ”
The truth is that the middle-aged man and woman really ignored us as if they were nothing, and they only prepared to eat face to face.
"Shhhh Come here! ”
I followed the sound, but it was the fat man waving at me.
This yard is very small, the main house is not big, except for the dining table by the window, there is only a big kang next to the wall, and there are two large wooden boxes piled up at the end of the kang.
At this moment, the fat man sat cross-legged on the kang.
I made a silent gesture to Dou Dabao and the others, and took the lead to walk to the side of the kang. He glanced the fat man up and down, and sat sideways on the edge of the kang next to the kang table in the middle.
"Old gentleman......"
As soon as I said three words, the fat man 'shh
"Don't worry, there's still time, listen to what they have to say first."
……
Judging by their age, the man and woman do look like two people.
But looking at each other's expressions, they looked a little strange.
I was wondering when Dou Dabao suddenly sat down next to me, leaned into my ear and said:
"Sensei, second marriage. It's still freshly knotted. Let me tell you, ten years ago, there were two families in our town, the old man died of his daughter-in-law, and the wife died and the head of the house. Later, the two of them were brought together, and I followed my parents to drink their wedding wine, and the expressions of the two were the same as these two!
I haven't been to school for a few years, and you know, because of my eyes, my classmates all treat me as a fool, and I can't get along with them. It's far away, just say now, I'll describe it to you.
You see, the man's eyes, with Y swinging in happiness, just thought about sleeping with his daughter-in-law early after eating for a while. Looking at the woman again, she is also quite happy, but there is a bit of a gain and loss between her eyebrows.
In a word, these two people are old trees blooming, and dead trees are in the second spring! ”