Chapter 5: Ice Spirit (1) An ice crystal
In a blink of an eye, Zhang Ziyu has been living here for two days, although the stomach injury is not a big deal, but Brother Cheng and Ah Qiu are not at ease, and they don't let him go out and walk around at will, so that until now, the whole picture of the residence has not been seen.
"Are you feeling better today? Is there anything else that is uncomfortable? Brother Cheng pushed the door and walked in, he put the food on the table, looked at Zhang Ziyu who was resting on the bed and said.
Zhang Ziyu got out of bed, moved his muscles, and sat down at the table, "It's been okay for a long time, it's you who are too careful!" I've been sleeping with you these days, and I'm a little embarrassed to squeeze you to sleep somewhere else. ”
"It's okay, it's okay if you're fine." Brother Cheng smiled slightly, "The bedding in your new room needs to be dried, and it hasn't been cleaned up yet, so sleep with me first." ”
"Shopkeeper, there's something going on, you can come here." Ah Qiu pushed open the door and beckoned to Brother Cheng.
Brother Cheng glanced at Ah Qiu, turned his head and said to Zhang Ziyu: "Then you get familiar with the environment of our store after eating, and I'll go out." With that, he got up and went out with Ah Qiu.
Zhang Ziyu didn't raise his head and replied while eating: "Mmmm, you can go." ”
After a while, all the plates were bottomed out, Zhang Ziyu swallowed the last bite of food, drank two sips of water, and pushed the door open.
A dazzling ray of sunlight shone on his face, Zhang Ziyu squinted, blocked his forehead with one hand, and slowed down for a while before he could see everything in front of him.
This is the back garden of a courtyard, and there is a large tree planted in the yard, and the tree has dense leaves, looking at the thickness of the trunk, Zhang Ziyu speculates that the tree is hundreds of years old. There is a small rockery next to the tree, and under the tree is a small pond with a few goldfish, the water of the pond is clear and transparent, and the sunlight shines through the gap between the leaves in the pond, and a gust of wind blows, and the whole water surface is sparkling.
Zhang Ziyu looked left and right, thinking that he was blind anyway, so he turned to the left and walked forward.
The whole courtyard of the house is a wooden structure, dark brown doors and windows are carved with exquisite patterns, in the sun, these doors and windows look a little shiny, "all pulped, it looks like a while, this house." He muttered to himself as he touched the window of the passing room.
Zhang Ziyu looked left and right, walked around clockwise, and figured out the structure of this courtyard. This courtyard consists of a front yard and a back yard, separated by a wooden gate in the middle of the front and back yards.
There are five rooms in the backyard, there is a large pool on the side, the wooden door is facing Brother Cheng's room, there are two rooms on the left and right, behind Brother Cheng's room, is the small garden he just saw, Zhang Ziyu noticed that there is also a small room on the side of the small garden, and there are three strange charms pasted on the door.
And the front yard is the shop of the trading house, in order not to disturb their work, Zhang Ziyu did not approach the store.
He leaned against the wooden door at the junction of the two courtyards, and looked in through the open back window of the shop, only to see Ah Qiu looking down at something in front of the counter with his back to him, and there was a person standing on the other side of the counter, because the distance was too far, he didn't see the person's appearance clearly.
Sensing that someone was looking at him, Ah Qiu turned his head and found that it was Zhang Ziyu, grinned at him, and beckoned again, "Brother Yu, come here, there are good things." ”
"Huh? I won't bother you. Zhang Ziyu pointed at himself, hesitating to go over.
"No, come here." Ah Qiu beckoned, then turned his head to the person in front of the counter and continued to say something.
Zhang Ziyu stepped forward, opened the back door of the store, and entered the store.
It was a large room, with tables and chairs on both sides of the room for the guests to rest, and in the middle was an aisle, in front of which was a glass counter, with Ah Qiu standing at the counter and another person standing outside the counter.
Zhang Ziyu looked around and found that there were only the two of them in the store, and there was no figure of Brother Cheng, so he couldn't help asking, "Where is the shopkeeper?" ”
Ah Qiu raised his head and looked at Zhang Ziyu, "The shopkeeper is out, Brother Yu come here, this is the first order after you came." Ah Qiu shook the object in his hand.
"Here we go." Zhang Ziyu closed the door and walked to Ah Qiu's side.
"How long has it been with you?" Ah Qiu lowered his head and played with the things in his hand, and asked at the visitor.
Zhang Ziyu saw the appearance of the person in front of him clearly, the person in front of him was a man, with a flat head, about thirty years old, wearing a very thick black down jacket, with a layer of frost on his hair and face, there was no blood on his face covered by frost, and there were deep bags under his eyes, and it seemed that he had not slept well for a long time. His face was expressionless, and his eyes looked directly at Ah Qiu, and Ah Qiu's attention was on this small object, and he didn't notice it.
"Big brother, wear a down jacket in this weather...... And you're on this head? After all, it was already May, and seeing such a strange dress, Zhang Ziyu couldn't help blurting out.
The man didn't pay attention to Zhang Ziyu, his eyes moved away from Ah Qiu, and he turned his eyes to look at the object in Ah Qiu's hand, his expression was a little indescribable, his mouth opened and closed, but he didn't make any sound.
The man tried several times, and finally reluctantly let out a "ten" from his mouth. ”
"It's been more than ten days, so why did you just come here, uncle." Ah Qiu glanced at the man, lifted the object in his hand, held it in the sunlight with both hands, and studied it carefully.
Zhang Ziyu noticed that this was an irregularly shaped object the size of a palm, all the edges and corners had been ground into a circle, it was transparent, and under the sunlight, several black silk threads could be faintly seen inside.
"Is this transparent spar crystal? You see there's flocculent stuff in it. Zhang Ziyu pointed to the black silk threads and said to Ah Qiu.
"Brother Yu, take a closer look." Ah Qiu put the spar in front of Zhang Ziyu's eyes, Zhang Ziyu wanted to take it easily, but was stopped by Ah Qiu, "Brother, don't touch this." ”
Zhang Ziyu withdrew his hand and stared at the spar boy carefully, and after a while, the expression on his face changed.
"I'm going, alive?!" Zhang Ziyu looked at the slowly twisting black silk thread in the spar in front of him, looked up at Ah Qiu, and asked.
"yes, brother." Ah Qiu withdrew his hand, held the spar in his hand, raised his head and said to the man in front of him: "It, we have taken it from the trading house, and we will find a way to find your body, but before that you have to tell us what happened." ”
The man didn't seem to hear what Ah Qiu said, and still stood motionless. Suddenly, he looked pained, as if he was trying to restrain something, and he clenched his hands into fists and slammed them against the glass of the counter.
"Tom!"
After a two-second pause, the man raised his head and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "See you again." ”
Zhang Ziyu subconsciously raised a hand in front of him, but the glass was not broken, he put down his hand and looked at Ah Qiu, and found that Ah Qiu was still standing calmly in front of the counter, and the expression on his face became serious, "Who are you." ”
The man's expression returned to his previous expressionlessness, his mouth was closed one by one, and he still couldn't make a sound, he slowly lowered his head, and the frost in his hair was a little more.
Ah Qiu looked at the person in front of him, his brows tightened, he lowered his head to look at the spar in his hand, and then looked at it at the sun, only to see that the black silk thread on it had increased a little.
"This ice crystal is absorbing his aura." Ah Qiu put down his hand, turned his head and said to Zhang Ziyu.
"What should I do?" Zhang Ziyu asked.
"Everything in the world happens for a reason, and now we don't know what happened between this spirit and this uncle, and we have no right to get rid of either of them." Ah Qiu said with a pout.
"Please." The man raised his head to look at Zhang Ziyu, then turned his head to stare at Ah Qiu's face, his eyes wet.
"Big brother, big brother, don't cry, all you cry and fall is ice ballast." Zhang Ziyu couldn't see others crying the most, especially the old men, who hurriedly reached out to wipe away the man's tears.
Seeing this, Ah Qiu hurriedly pressed Zhang Ziyu's arm. "Brother, don't touch him, the little heart is transferred to you."
Hearing Ah Qiu say this, Zhang Ziyu withdrew his hand and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, we will definitely save you." ”
"Save. Save. He. The man's expression softened, and he seemed to use all his strength to squeeze out three words intermittently.
"He? Who is he. Save whom? Knowing that there might not be a way to receive a decent reply, Zhang Ziyu still asked.
"No, I'm fine." Suddenly, a complete sentence came out of the man's mouth.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhang Ziyu's heart straightened, this guy can't be a schizophrenic, right?
But Ah Qiu looked very calm, "Who are you?" Can you let him go. ”
"Leave anyone alone? Are you going to stop us? The man continued.
"Forget it, whoever you are, if you're going to hurt a human, we'll only have to destroy it." Ah Qiu lifted the hedron and pretended to destroy it.
"You won't. I am him, and he will not live if I die. The man seemed to see through Ah Qiu and didn't dare to do anything with this spar, he raised his eyes to look at the spar, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, "Soon, we will soon become one." ”