Strange Stone Part I (5)

"No need!"

Xiao Tao followed behind Bu Xing and lowered his head into the small door. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A strange musty smell wafted from the bunk bed inside. Under the low roofs of some of the houses, an incandescent lamp hangs. However, the eyes that had just come in from the outside, and had not yet adapted to the light here, could only barely see the things around them.

"This, Master Xiao! you, go boil some water, and let this Master Xiao come and see the kids! ”

Bu Xing stretched out his hand to push Xing to lie on the bed, dressed in shabby cotton clothes, a little unkempt, and his messy hair was tied back so casually. If someone says she's crazy, those who see it won't doubt it.

This is a mother who has been dragged down by her child, Xiao Tao sighed lightly. Watching the confused woman walk out of the door, there was a pity in her heart for the depressed woman who was indifferent to why she came here and what purpose she had.

"Qiang'er, Qiang'er! Master Xiao, come and see, my son has been like this for more than half a year! I don't know if I'm stupid, or I'm stupid! ”

Bu Xing called the name of his child lying in the bed a few times, and then with ardent expectation and depression on his face, he let go of half of his body and said to Xiao Tao who was standing aside.

"Well, it's not too bad, I'll prepare!"

Xiao Tao said as he put down the backpack behind him and took out a peachwood short sword that was less than fifty centimeters even if the hilt of the sword was counted.

The scabbard is also made of the same material, and it should be made from the same tree. Different from the various patterns engraved on the peach wood scabbard, the sword body is one front and one back, and only one peach branch is on each side. One side is yang, and the other side is yin. On the peach branch on the side of Yangwen, there are also two longevity peaches, one large and one small. On the other side of the Yin text, there are one big and two small, three lifelike peach blossoms. The peach branches on the sword's body are more winding and twisted than those that appear in ordinary pictures, very similar to plum branches and strange pines.

A faint smell of flowers and trees passed into the tip of Xiao Tao's nose. Two steps forward, looking as if he was asleep, lying there quietly, only eleven or twelve years old. The messy hair that has not been taken care of for a long time is indeed a bit messy. It's just that it looks very clean, which should be the reason why they wake up and wipe the child frequently.

"Three drops of fingertip blood, and cinnabar, prepare a basin of hot water, a basin of cold water, don't let people disturb!"

When Bu Xing on the side heard this, his face showed a little doubt. This is too simple to prepare for the masters I met before. However, he was also personally invited, and he was about to wake up in despair, and he had already begun to prepare according to Xiao Tao's instructions.

"Use this!"

Take out a small dark blue dish from the backpack, open a porcelain vase containing cinnabar, and pour some into the small saucer. Then he took out a beautiful dagger, the same dagger he won from a bet with Han Junwei. With a touch of two fingers on his right hand, a faint cyan mist lingered on the sharp blade of the dagger, and then he handed the dagger to Bu Xing, who was about to bite his fingers with his mouth.

"Don't make a sound!"

Xiao Tao didn't mind waking up and looking at him from the side, his means were not ordinary mortals who could see clearly.

There was no mantra, no fire, no dancing, shaking his head like a madman, and watching Xiao Tao just dip the peachwood short sword in his hand in the cinnabar with the blood of his fingertips, just like dipping it in ink when writing calligraphy. Then, in his suspicious and expectant gaze, he walked to the sleeping child by the bed.

As if sensing something, the child lying there opened his eyes suddenly. In Xiao Tao's shining green pupils, he saw a gray phantom, reflected in the depths of the child's eyes. With a whimper in his mouth, in the worried eyes of the side, the child leaned back and was about to reach out and pat Xiao Tao.

Break!

Xiao Tao opened his mouth silently, but a blue light suddenly wrapped around the peachwood short sword in his hand along his arm, and suddenly hit the child's eyebrows.

Wow! ――

In a cloud of gray mist, a black phantom was struggling to be stabbed by the tip of the sword, and then slowly dissipated along the sword body, until the blank face of a man about thirty years old inside was revealed, Xiao Tao shook the sword body, and grabbed the phantom that seemed to be glued there with his left hand towards the tip of the sword.

"Hadron, hadron! My son, what's wrong with you! "Qiang'er, Qiang'er, can you hear your parents talking?"

Xiao Tao on the side silently looked at the husband and wife who woke up, looking dazed like children who had just woken up, holding them in his arms while burying his head and crying. I woke up a little soberly, remembered Xiao Tao's advice, and hurriedly brought two basins of water on the side, hot water to wash my feet, and cold water to soak my hands. As if suddenly remembering something, the child threw himself into his mother's arms and wept.

Alas, you are blessed with bad luck, awakened in dreams, and great luck in misfortune! Xiao Tao glanced back at the door, with a comfortable smile on the corner of his mouth, and then walked out of the alley without looking back.

"Master Xiao, you, I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to go back, I, my daughter-in-law and I, and my son, thank you for your great kindness, you, you are really a good person!"

"It's okay, since we met, this is my fate, let the child go back to school early, don't delay! Having the conditions to eat more things grown in his hometown can make him recover quickly! ”

"Okay, thank you, thank you so much, we will do what you say!"

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After hanging up the phone, Xiao Tao looked at the endless flow of vehicles and people outside the taxi, and sighed secretly. The encounter and acquaintance between people, perhaps really, is already destined in the dark.

More than an hour later, it was already around twelve o'clock in the afternoon. After Xiao Tao saw the message sent by Jin Wei after waking up on his mobile phone, he replied with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then according to his plan, he came to an antique archway shop.

Quanjude, a famous time-honored brand in China, was founded in 1864 (the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty)! With a history of more than 100 years, the store can be described as a well-known Chinese and foreign brand, and its reputation is also excellent.

After getting out of the car, Xiao Tao was carrying an ordinary backpack and an ordinary sportswear, dressed in an ordinary appearance, which seemed so incompatible with those who came in a car, wearing a suit and leather shoes and looking like a successful person.

"Taozi, come, here! Let me introduce you to you, this is Yan Xiaoru, my colleague, in charge of the north! It's also our beautiful police flower! This is what I said about Xiao Tao, who has helped me a lot, my brother's middle school classmates, my junior alumni! ”

Walking into the lobby on the first floor of Quanjude, Xiao Tao looked at Yuan Wei and a slender girl waiting on the stairs, and walked over. Yuan Wei stood between the two and gave them a brief introduction.

"Hello, I've been looking up for a long time, 'ghost detective' Mr. Xiao!" "Hello, Captain Yan!"

Xiao Tao's eyes flashed with a gleam, the one in front of him was dressed in a light green sportswear, one meter seven tall, and his short hair was dyed pale pink, and he was really dressed up and was not lost to those fashion models at all. Tall and long-legged, fair-skinned and beautiful, she doesn't look like a beautiful girl who stays in the Special Operations Group of the Police Force, but she is the captain of the operation who Yuan Wei admires in front of him, and is one level higher than Yuan Wei's title of deputy captain.

Yan Xiaoru also looked Xiao Tao up and down at the same time, although she was in professional habits, she didn't think that Xiao Tao was the slightest threat to her. But wearing ordinary casual clothes, they didn't feel much when they woke up, because their attention and sensitivity to details were not to that extent. But she understands that this is also a protective color in an unfamiliar environment, so that people do not pay attention to themselves, or disdain to communicate with themselves, deliberately reduce their sense of existence, and it is more beneficial to themselves to observe some subtle things.

"Well, the roast duck here is a must, I have to order one every time I come here, otherwise if I live up to the food, its sin will be unforgivable!"

Yuan Wei rarely joked, pulled Xiao Tao's arm, nodded to Yan Xiaoru with a smile, and walked towards the stairs on the side.

"Everyone, let me introduce to you, this is Xiao Tao, one of my cousins, in the next few days, please take care of me!"

Pushing open the door of a box, Yan Xiaoru introduced Xiao Tao, who was a little shy on his face, with a smile on his heroic face, to the dozen people inside. Yuan Wei let out a low laugh, greeted the boys who greeted him inside, and walked over.

The chairs next to the two round tables were full of people, Xiao Tao followed Yan Xiaoru with a shy face, came to the table where there were more girls, put down the schoolbag on his back a little stiffly, and then sat there silently, but his eyes seemed to be nothing, quietly looking at the seventeen or eighteen people in the room.

An hour later, Xiao Tao finally took a deep breath, looked at Yuan Wei who had a few smiles in his eyes, and Yan Xiaoru, who was sitting calmly on the side, looking up proudly and pouring a few large salivas into a row, with a hint of helplessness at the corner of his mouth.

"It's really bad acting, I don't know where you got these group performances!"

"Tell me, how many people are there?"

Yan Xiaoru naturally put her right leg on her left leg, screwed the bottle in her hand on the cap, then pinched the bottle with her right hand, and her left arm was across the back of the chair, looking at Xiao Tao and said calmly.

"There's no way, to reassure the above, I can only arrange this 'exam'! But people are arranged by leaders, and we only know one or two! ”

Yuan Wei pulled out a chair, sat on it and knocked Erlang's leg, with a somewhat teasing smile on his expression, looked at Xiao Tao and said.

Alas! Xiao Tao sighed lightly, stretched out his hand and rubbed his brows, looking at the two round tables in a mess. In addition to the roast duck that has only two duck racks left on it, there are also a lot of bits and pieces of food and fish bones.