Chapter 7: The Old Man
The next four-day final exam forced the two to put the matter aside for the time being. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After the exam, Su You was still sitting by the window, and his eyes didn't know where he fell in the distance.
The people in the school have also dispersed one by one, and the former bustling campus has gradually lost the hustle and bustle of the past. Occasionally, one or two people would walk by in a hurry on the forest path, and reluctant goodbyes came from the school gate from time to time.
In the end, there were only a handful of people in the entire school, and Su You and Dalong were two of these few people.
Everyone indulged in the joy of going home from vacation, and no one ever noticed that there was such a boy in the window of the 317 dormitory, who didn't know where his home was, and his eyes were indescribably lonely. Why didn't he want to go home? It's just that that home is not his own home after all, he is just a tenant, after all, he is not surnamed Su.
"Ayou, are you sure you're not going home this summer?" Dalong interrupted Su You, who was in a daze at the window.
"Well, I already said hello to my aunt, and she just said that I wanted an internship, and she agreed." Su You has always wanted to be independent, and the life under the fence is really not easy, even if his aunt's family is not bad to him.
"Hehe, you won't be lonely this holiday, I also said hello to my family, stay with you." Dalong looked at Su You with a hippie smile.
"Pack up and go home, I don't need you here." Su You's tone was very cold, he was not afraid of losing, and there was nothing he could lose, but as a brother, he didn't want Dalong to wade into this troubled water with him.
"Ayou, you promised me to allow me to accompany you to find your uncle, and the manly man must be the one who speaks." Dalong's attitude has also become serious, for so many years, Su You has borne too much alone, and whenever he wants to share it for him, he is always turned away by him, such a Ayou is very distressing.
Su You sighed, there was really no way to take the person in front of him, "Whatever you want." ā
"Ayo, where are we going?" Dalong, who was pulled out of the bed by Su You early in the morning, yawned and looked at the person in front of him, puzzled.
"Didn't you say you were going to fight back? Of course, get some useful things. Su You didn't look back, just walked in front.
"Oh, what's going to be in the supermarket? Garlic? Peachwood's axe? Or is it a brass mirror letter? ā
"Who said we were going to the supermarket?"
"So where do you go if you don't go to the supermarket? Is it difficult to go to the vegetable market? ā
"Yes."
"Huh? Market? You must know that Young Master Ben has never been to the vegetable market, and when it is over, this precious first time will be given to you like garbage. The dragon followed, whining.
"You also know that your first garbage is as worthless? Pretty self-aware. Su You was in a good mood today, so he didn't snub Dalong as usual, "I'll go and see what prices are available in the vegetable market, it just so happens that my buddy has been a little tight on money recently, so you can sacrifice it." ā
"Su You! You're not a fucking human..."
Su You continued to walk in front, completely ignoring the roar of the big dragon behind him.
While laughing, the two went to a large vegetable market, and the shouts of buying vegetables and the noise of bargaining were endless.
Su You frowned slightly, he has always been quiet and quiet, what annoys him the most is noise, but he has already taught him how to endure under the fence for so many years, so this disgust was not expressed, but the big dragon on the side couldn't help it, while blocking his ears with his hands, he looked at the small traders who sold fruits and vegetables, and kept shouting: "This is the legendary vegetable market, they are arguing and arguing so much that my brain hurts, oops, don't you quarrel, it's annoying!"
Su You, who was walking in front, turned his head sideways, a hint of playfulness appeared in his eyes, and said, "Do you believe it or not, if you call it again, I will make you a target, eh?" ā
Even in the noisy shouting, Su You's words were really heard by Dalong, and Dalong shrunk his neck, and then stopped a lot.
After walking for a while, the two came to a corner. Dozens of tools were neatly arranged in the toolbox, and on a small stool next to it sat an old man, who was obviously an old man repairing shoes.
"Grandpa Yin, I've come to see you." As he spoke, Su You bowed shallowly, with incomparable admiration and piety.
Perhaps because this is the closest corner of the entire vegetable market, the light is not so bright, so that the big dragon behind him does not see the old man's appearance clearly. However, Ayou's behavior really surprised Dalong, Su You, who has never had the slightest warmth for others, will have such respect for an old man who repairs shoes without relatives today, and even for a moment, Dalong mistakenly thought that it was not an old man who repaired shoes sitting there, but Grandpa Su!
"It's been a long time since I've come to visit Grandpa Yin, how is Grandpa doing?"
"It's Ayou, come to see grandpa again? Hehe, I'm really tired of worrying about you, old man, I'm in good health, let's play a game of chess with me in a while, hahaha. When the old man heard Ayou's voice, he raised his head, but he couldn't see what kind of expression it was.
"Grandpa, in fact, I came today to ask for something."
What the? Got something to ask for? Dalong on the side wondered very much, what could such a shriveled and bad old man ask him for? What kind of medicine is being sold in Ayou's gourd! While constantly complaining in his heart, he didn't dare to speak out, for fear of disturbing Ayou's business.
"Ayou, I've been waiting for you all along, come with me." With that, the old man got up and walked to a room in the corner.
Through the light of opening the door, Dalong found out what kind of old man this is: a water-blue sportswear has been washed and white, but it still looks very neat, the old man's face is full of wrinkles, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and the corners of his mouth are also smiling, which looks extraordinarily kind, and even walks with the appearance of fairy wind bones, it seems that he was a practitioner when he was young, which Dalong can be sure.
"Dalong, don't be in a daze, keep up." Without the slightest hesitation, Ah You followed the old man for a few steps, and found that the big dragon behind him did not follow, so he turned around and urged. When Dalong heard this, he came back to his senses, shook his head, and muttered in his heart: "It's strange, why just glanced at the old man, and the main consciousness seemed to be sucked into it, the evil door, the real evil door." Thinking about it, he followed Ayou into the small house.
This room is not big but it is quite neat, a table, a chair and a bed are all the furniture in the room, there are many yellowed and even blackened books stored in the front left corner of the table, all of which are neatly arranged, there is an open book in the middle, I don't know how many pages I saw, even if Dalong is curious, he just glanced at it, because he didn't understand the content inside.
The old man walked to the bed, patted the edge of the bed and motioned for them to sit down, and then sat down in the chair himself.
"Grandpa Yin, did you calculate that I was coming?" After they all sat down, Su You looked at the old man whose eyes fell on the open book on the table, and asked slowly.
The old man didn't look up, and didn't seem to intend to pay attention to Su You, just looked at the book intently.
"Grandpa, since you know I'm coming, you must know what happened to me recently. I am not a person who seeks the source, let alone a person who is afraid of death, today I just want to come to grandpa to ask for an explanation, even if he dies in the future, he knows how he died, not in vain I respect grandpa once, I don't know if grandpa can be fulfilled? Su You's speech was very slow, but he was extremely firm, his eyes were staring at the old man who was still looking down at the book, he was not afraid of death, he would die if he wanted to die, and the person in front of him could make him understand, he was sure.
The old man was still silent, but the big dragon on the side couldn't bear it anymore, and opened his mouth to shout: "You ignorant old man, Ayou pleads with you like this, what kind of attitude do you have?" He respects you, I don't want you, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was forcibly pulled aside by Su You, got up and bowed deeply to apologize. Dalong wanted to say something, but was glared back by Su You.
Su You maintained a bowing posture like this, and after a long time, the old man closed the book and sighed helplessly, "That's it, you all sit down." ā
"Everyone has a catastrophe, or life or death, or poor or cheap, life and death, the reincarnation of the world, wealth and glory, passing by the clouds, all things are born and restrained, after all, they still have to return to dust, no one can tamper with the number of lives, let it be at peace with fate." As he spoke, the old man looked at Ayou, his eyes full of love.
"Thank you grandpa for your enlightenment, there is still something for the juniors in the end, I don't know..." This kind of expression is something Dalong has never seen before, this person disguises his emotions too well, but he doesn't know that such a disguise is like a hard thorn in a cactus for those close to him, and it will stab those who love him one by one.
Looking at Ayou's appearance, Dalong was very distressed. Dalong knew that Ayou wanted to ask Su Zuoyi about it, and he also knew that Su Ayou was most afraid of being disappointed, afraid of cutting off the sustenance of continuing his life. He wanted to open his mouth to follow Ayou's words, but he didn't know where to start.
"You can see each other when the time comes, and remember not to force it." The old man on one side leaned back in the chair, his eyes slightly closed, and he had an expression of seeing off a guest.
Su You's eyes suddenly brightened, and they could meet when the time came, that is, one day, he would find his uncle, the relative he had been looking for for 10 years, and he would finally be reunited with him!
Su You raised his eyes and looked at the old man, and got up, "Grandpa, thank you for today." With that, he bowed again, and pulled the dragon out.
On the way back, the corners of Su You's mouth kept a shallow arc, and even he didn't notice it. The big dragon beside him couldn't calm down at all, "Ayou, what happened to that old man just now?" Why is the god babbling? ā
"That's my grandfather's old friend, I heard my grandfather say that he used to be a Taoist priest, and he lived by telling fortunes before liberation, but later in order to save his life, he had to throw away his old business and change his shoes, but he was very good." Ayou said slowly, but Dalong was even more confused.
"Ayou, did you understand what the old man just said? What the hell is going on here? ā
"This is a catastrophe, a catastrophe for miles of my life, I can't escape, I can't dodge, I can only face it hard."
"What about the cause? Can you find a way to break it? ā
"Grandpa didn't say it."
"Huh? Isn't this just waiting for us to run for nothing today! It's boring. ā
"It's still rewarding."
"What's the catch?" As soon as Dalong heard the word harvest, he immediately came to the spirit, and what can make Ayou call it harvest must be very important information.
Su You stopped talking, and looked up at the sky, "Dalong, let's go faster, it's going to rain." ā
Today's biggest gain is to know, in my lifetime, I can still see you, uncle, I will find you soon, waiting for me. Thinking about it, Su You showed a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time.