13. Departure
I didn't wait for Liu Yan to come back before I received a call from Zhang Ming, who told me that our destination was Xi'an, and it would take about 14 hours by train. I thought about it for a long time before I called Daigo and Liangchi and asked them to accompany me, but fortunately, they didn't postpone it, and asked me when I left and how long I needed to stay.
The big dog is good to know why I went. It just took a moment to explain to Liangchi, and he didn't say much.
Before leaving, I remembered what I told Dean Liang about sharing a house, shook Yun Ning who was sleeping, and stopped Wang Ling, who was about to go out.
"I'm going out for a few days, can you think about what I said about sharing a house."
Wang Ling nodded, Yun Ning responded with a "yes", and asked me where I was going, I replied Xi'an, and when they asked me what I was going to do, I didn't know how to answer, and I thought for a long time before answering a "private matter". They were too embarrassed to ask anything more.
When I arrived at the place Zhang Ming agreed, Zhang Ming was already waiting there.
I walked up to him and asked him the question I hadn't asked clearly: "Where are we going in Xi'an?" ”
Zhang Ming looked at me with a little dodgy: "Yes...... It is a ghost city in Xi'an. ”
"Xi'an ghost market?" I looked at him with a slight frown.
Zhang Ming nodded, and was about to say something when I heard a familiar voice calling my name, and as soon as I turned around, I saw Liangchi walking towards us with a small black suitcase. His high-spirited appearance is very different from the sickly appearance he used to have.
When Liangchi walked up to me, I said, "Did you secretly drink Red Bull?" The spirit is so good? ”
Liangchi smiled at me, his handsome face was filled with warm light: "No, that Qingyun Daoist gave me a book, and after reading it, I don't know what happened, and I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I feel a lot calmer in my heart and a lot more relaxed in my body." ”
I asked curiously, "What book?" ”
Liangchi replied: "Qingjing Sutra." ”
I was stunned: "What scripture?" ”
Liangchi really thought I didn't hear it, so I repeated it again, and I immediately thought of the woman in Tsing Yi who called him Taoist in the dream of Liangchi last time, so I quipped: "I think you must have been a Taoist priest in your last life, Liangdao Chief." ”
Liangchi looked at me with interest: "Why do you say that?" ”
"That book has been with me for three years, and if I don't agree with my master, I will be asked to recite it to him, and I have not had the effect of you after three years of memorization. And last time, that woman called you Dao Chang, you must have known each other in your last life. What do you mean by 'you promised me' when she says 'you promised me'? Did you promise to marry someone else in your last life, but you broke the appointment? ”
Liangchi still smiled: "My intuition tells me that it's not. ”
I let out a somewhat boring "oh", and I saw that the big dog didn't know what to smoke and ran towards us, and I couldn't help but tease him before I got to us: "What's wrong with you today, one drank Red Bull, and the other ate a pound of jumping candy?" ”
The big dog's dog face was pulled down at once: "What a pound of jumping candy, isn't it because I'm happy?" ”
I asked, "What's so fun about it?" ”
The big dog's face burst into a smile: "Because I'm going to travel with Ah Yi!" ”
I looked at him expressionlessly: "Travel? Who told you you were going on a tour? ”
The big dog still smiled: "Didn't you go to Xi'an?" ”
I looked at the stupid appearance of the big dog helplessly: "It's going to Xi'an, but it's going to Xi'an ghost city!" Ghost City! Listen to the name and know it's not a good place. ”
The big dog froze when he heard the smile on his face, probably remembering the matter of being grabbed by Wang Wan, and unconsciously glanced at the foot that was grabbed by Wang Wan and shrank back, and when he raised his head to look at me, the sunny and handsome face was already gloomy.
Liang Chi frowned beside me: "Xi'an ghost market? ”
I twisted my head at him: "What? You know? ”
At this time, Zhang Ming's search and rental car had stopped in front of us, and Zhang Ming said, "Let's get in the car first." ”
Liangchi stretched out his hand and took the bag and red candle umbrella off my back and took them into his hand: "Get in the car first, get in the car, and then talk." ”
After we got in the car, Liangchi told us about this ghost city in Xi'an.
The ghost market, as the name suggests, is not a bright market, only do things secretly, do "business" unconsciously, because it is mostly an unsightly business, people call it "ghost market".
The ghost market is located in the alley of the east gate to the north, every day is bustling with people's heads shaking, the start time is said to be early morning and night, no one comes to check during this time period, and there is no industrial and commercial tax person to come to the door to find trouble, doing business can be safe.
The ghost market is said to be a market, but in fact, it is a street stall with all kinds of goods placed on the ground at will, for you to choose and buy. The goods are complete and the samples are abundant, and more are clothes and bedding, in short, there are all kinds of daily necessities here. The ghost market is famous because of the abundance of goods here, the key is that it is cheap, and some items are cheap that you dare not imagine. Why is it cheap, there is a cat in it.
It is said that most of the goods here come from bad sources, and many of them are stolen things, and because they are stolen things, thieves are in a hurry to exchange them for money, so the good things are even exactly the same as those in the market, but they are much cheaper than the market.
Some people who are greedy for cheap and some people who come to live in Xi'an temporarily often come here to buy daily necessities. The ghost market has developed rapidly, from an inconspicuous alley to the north and west, and gradually there are storefronts and counters, and the locals are blatantly doing it. The larger ones are tens of square meters.
Up to now, in addition to these things, this ghost market also has antiques and even newly unearthed funerary goods.
There is also a saying, there are actually two ghost markets in this city, what I just said is the "ghost market" seen by ordinary people, and there is a ghost market in the same place, but it is another space, where it is more complicated, both yin and yang are open, and the people inside are wearing all kinds of masks, you don't know whether the people behind the masks are ghosts or demons or immortals, and the things sold here are extremely expensive, and they are not extraordinary. There are also various ways to trade, such as money transactions and bartering......
Speaking of this, we have arrived at the train station, the big dog jumped off the car excitedly, because I and the big dog have not been on the train and bullet train, so I can't book tickets online, Liangchi booked his own tickets online and then accompanied us to the window to buy tickets, along the way like a big fool who didn't know anything about looking around.
Finally, after completing the formalities, everyone sat in the waiting hall and waited for the bus, I took out my mobile phone and flipped through it a little boringly, my mother's phone called, I was a little stunned, and suddenly remembered that she told me about pregnancy, I didn't call her, and I didn't go back to visit her.
I adjusted my voice and picked up the phone: "Hello? Mother? ”
My mother's voice on the other end of the phone seemed a little cautious: "Ah Yi, it's Mom, have you eaten?" ”
I replied succinctly: "Yes." ”
"Ah Yi, are you angry with your mother?"
I was puzzled: "What are you angry about?" ”
My mom was silent on the other end of the phone for a long time: "I, I'm pregnant." I see you haven't even called me, you must be angry, right? ”
I quickly denied it: "No, no, I'm training in the military, I'm tired from training all day and night, so I don't have much time to call you, and I'll come back to see you when I'm done." ”
I heard my mother's slightly heavy breathing: "Well, okay, let's do this first, tell me in advance when you come back, and I'll ask your dad to make you something to eat." ”
I answered, "Okay." My mom hung up the phone with confidence.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand my strangeness with my mother, I was brought up by my grandmother since I was a child, our family was poor at that time, my father was a truck driver who often traveled, sometimes a few days and nights can not close his eyes, my mother is afraid that my father is tired of driving and will accompany him out of the car, with me very little time, and then the family has a little money to open their own factory to do the boss to engage in the transportation business, I went back to my hometown, and encountered that kind of thing again.
Actually, my parents came to see me a few times at that time, but then they didn't come. I know why, so I've never blamed them.
Because that time, I overheard Master say to my parents, don't come again, the blame is on you, it is what you owe her in your previous life, and to put it simply, she was born to your family to collect debts. Her life is cold, and you and her are all compatible......