Chapter 12: Flowers on the Tablet (1)
At dusk, a strange old man came to the used bookstore at the end of the alley. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Bai Sang sat crookedly, looking at the old man who was arranging the flower branches with an expressionless face, biting his lower lip lightly with his teeth, and did not dare to speak.
"Hey, if you want to laugh, you can laugh." The old man had a small blue flower, and he took care of it properly.
"No...... Poof~ Haha, hahahahaha" Bai Sanggang wanted to say whether he was smiling or not, but he couldn't help but laugh.
"I think it's good!" The old man pulled off a flower branch and gently touched the flower that was a little smaller than the finger of the newborn milk doll.
"Good-looking, good-looking!" Bai Sang echoed and said, his left hand moved, his right hand hit his left hand, and his mouth moved.
"Hey, you want to touch it!" The old man moved up to him and handed him his head.
"Don't touch, don't touch! Haha, hahaha" Bai Sang pushed his head away in embarrassment, "This flower is quite chic, where did the old man get it?" ā
"I have it, you see, I have it on this beard too." The old man held up his gray beard and pointed it out to him, and sure enough, there were a few small flower seedlings on it, but there were no flowers.
"Hehe, hehehe......" Bai Sang moved his position awkwardly and asked, "Where did the old man come from?" ā
"I don't know, I was in a daze, as if someone was guiding me, and when I woke up, I found that I was in front of your door, and I came in."
"The old man's name?"
"I don't know!"
"Old man Gui Geng?"
"I don't know." The old man just shook his head, and at the end, asked, "Does the little brother have tea?" Or maybe you can give the old man a drink? ā
"What does the old man remember?" Bai Sang got up and made him a cup of tea and handed it to him.
"This cup is beautiful, but it's not suitable for making tea, and the water is not very good, so it's a shame to lose the tea." The old man was not afraid of the heat, holding the glass in his hand, staring at the floating tea leaves with a good eye.
"Would you like a change?" Bai Sang thought about what the boss had told him not to snub when he left home.
"No need, trouble!" The old man took a sip and smacked his lips, "I remember one year during the Qingming Festival, I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers, and I saw a young man put a bouquet of flowers in front of my grave and made a gesture. The rest only remember a rough idea, and I can't even remember the description. Just ask which emperor is the little brother now? ā
"There is no emperor anymore!" Bai Sang looked at the old man in front of him in a round-necked linen robe with narrow sleeves, but he had a shadow under the lamp and could eat the tea of the world, Bai Sang was a little confused, sat upright, and then said to him: "Old man, don't make fun of me." ā
"Hey, how can I make fun of you, ask you seriously." The old man was in a hurry, and all the flowers on his head turned red.
"What are you doing here? Is there anything I can help with? Bai Sang said in his heart, don't meet a madman.
The old man rolled his eyes, pouted, looked pitiful, and said after a while that his stomach hurts, don't drink this tea, change it.
Bai Sang couldn't, so he could only drag out the small stove, boil the stone spring water stored by the boss, change a cup of Mo Shanghua for him, and make a cup for himself.
"This tea smells!" The old man sniffed, "With the fragrance of books, it has no taste." ā
"The old man can talk now, right?"
"Say what?" He held the cup, sniffed the tea, and took a sip.
"What do you want me to help with?"
"I tried to find a way, but I couldn't! Ordinary people can't see me, you can see me, it can be seen that it's not an ordinary person, can you help me find that way, I want to go back. ā
"Which road leads to your home?"
"I don't know, I just think there's someone waiting for me at the end of the road."
"Then what are the characteristics of that road?" Bai Sang suddenly became interested.
"It's dark, I can't see the slightest light, on the left side of the road is a river, which is full of red lotus, I have walked back and forth along this road many times, and I remember that there was a huge mulberry tree on the side of the road, and when I saw that mulberry tree, I was almost there." The old man slowly recalled, and the flowers on his head slowly turned from ice blue to pure white. It's like snow.
Bai Sang stood up suddenly, stared at the old man for a long time, and said with a smile: "You lie, that road doesn't exist." ā
"Yes, I've come a long way, a long way, and now I just want to go back to that road. In a daze, the man clearly said, my way exists, just go forward, it will always come. The old man became excited, whimpering and crying, and the flowers on his head were put together for a while, turning from white to gray.
"Who's that man?"
"I don't know, I don't know!" The old man burst into tears, "If I knew, I wouldn't be here, I want to go back, I want to go back!" There's someone waiting for me at the end of the road! ā
"What's that man's voice?" Bai Sang panicked in his heart, in addition to his most fearful boss and double scissors, he was also most afraid of this kind of person who would cry when he didn't agree with him.
"I can't tell the difference, it's fluttering, like it's from the Nine Hells." The old man took a sip of tea and cried for a while, but he would not be thirsty.
Bai Sang saw that the stove was empty, so he took out the wine utensils and listened to him while sifting the wine.
"Why should a man be hot when he drinks? Drink it cold, Fang shows manhood. The old man stopped crying and stared.
Bai Sang also felt troublesome, so he said: "You can come by yourself, you don't drink!" ā
"Hey, you little brother, you don't know how to eat good things!" Then he wiped his face, took a sip of the flask, and praised, "It's a mellow taste, give it to me, give it to me!" ā
"Old man, I've drunk the wine, you just tell me what's going on, I won't shirk if I can help you!"
"Yikes! When did the white mulberry boy become so responsible? A swallow flew out of the window, landed and turned into a human, walked in front of the old man, looked at it for a while, and then found a seat and sat down.
"The boss is still coming back in some days, and I told me to watch you, and tomorrow, go to the alley to pick up the child named Wanwan, it's also pitiful, and tomorrow will be without relatives and no reason."
"What's wrong?" Bai Sang originally wanted to say a few words, but when he heard him say this, he hurriedly asked.
"Can't ask, can't ask, this is a heavenly opportunity!" Shuangjian talked to the old man again and asked him where he came from.
The old man couldn't remember anything.
"How much do you remember when you were alive?" The double scissors walked around the table, and one desk was full of food.
It's full of bugs!
"Sorry, I got it wrong!" As he spoke, he waved his sleeves and replaced the one in front of Bai Sang with a few plates of sweets, while the old man in front of him was an urn of wine, a plate of beef, and two plates of fruit.
Bai Sang was in a hurry, and wanted to ask, Shuangjian glanced at him, he instantly lowered his head, didn't speak, took a board of Wahaha prepared for Wanwan, and drank alone.
"What a big person!" Shuangjian said hatefully, "I don't know how Bai Sang raised you!" ā
"Eh, brother, the child is not taught like this, according to me, I will punish him for copying the "Book", copy it several times, and never dare to make a mistake again!"
Bai Sang felt that this old man had a bad stomach!
"Hey, it's so troublesome, just give it a beating." Shuang Scissors held the palm-sized writhing insect in one hand and gnawed, and gave Bai Sang a chance with the other hand.
Bai Sang was aggrieved, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he took the snack to the back of the counter and sat down.
"How much do you remember about the events before your death?" Double Shear asked the old man.
"When I was about to lose my breath, I heard someone next to me shouting a few times urgently, Brother Yuanzhen, probably calling me."
"What about the rest?"
"In the first year of Yongtai, there was a serious illness."
"The trees return to early autumn colors, and the river grows late and sets." Shuangjian suddenly read a sentence.
"Familiar." Old man Yuanzhen took a sip of wine.
"He doesn't remember, what is it really about?" Bai Sang was left out in the cold and muttered angrily.
Double Shear looked at him again!
Unexpectedly, Bai Sang didn't eat this set this time, and was still saying: "There is no place where you want to go, don't anyone lie to you, right?" ā
"Nonsense, I really remember that the flowers in the river would shine, and the mulberry trees on the side of the road were so big that dozens of people couldn't surround them." Yuan Zhen stood up, "I remember clearly, what could be wrong?" ā
"And what's your name?" Not to be outdone, Bai Sang also stood up, like two children being angry.
"I ......"