Chapter 4: Ding Yan Zhai

The four eyes held the jar and walked around to the door of Zhou Mushu, smiling without hurry, and regardless of Gu Xianzhi holding a broom, he raised his hand very gracefully, and slowly uncovered a red cloth on the altar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Four-eyed said to himself, "How's it going?" Good bar. ”

It's a pity that Zhou Mushu and Gu Xianzhi are still students, and when they smelled this rather high concentration of alcohol, they just frowned, and Zhou Mushu pointed to a small well next to him, "No one in my family drinks, you want well water, you go and fetch it yourself." ”

Four Eyes shook and said, "I took your family's things, so naturally I have to make some returns, if you don't want to drink, then I can only buy some silver dollars." ”

Zhou Mushu was smiling bitterly at this person's brain, and was just about to say no, but Gu Xianzhi was already holding a broom and sneering, "Then you are out." ”

Siyan'er actually put down the jar slowly, went to pull out his sleeves with a smile on his face, just reached in and touched it twice and raised his eyes with a confused face, as if talking to himself, and as if to say to Gu Xianzhi, "Oh no, the silver was thrown into the box." ”

Gu Xianzhi rolled his eyes and said contemptuously, "Don't pretend to be serious here if you don't have money, stealing chickens won't make you lose rice, it will make people laugh." ”

This was actually a little ugly, but Siyan was neither annoyed nor ashamed, he flattened his sleeves, slowly turned around, paced in front of Gu Xianzhi, and looked him up and down carefully.

The four-eyed eyes are very large, which is very consistent with the age when he looks less than thirty, like water, when he is not glaring at people, he is delicate and delicate like a girl, but when he stares at people, he looks like a snake hidden in a dark pool, which will come out and bite people at any time.

Gu Xianzhi was stared at twice by him, and then he was furious, holding a broom and taking two steps back, jumping on the threshold, glaring and trembling, "What do you see?" Lao Zhou, say something, do you want to drive him away. ”

Zhou Mushu took out a stove from the kitchen in a sullen voice, removed the ashes and carbon from the dust, and didn't look at him, frowning and coughing twice, "This gentleman didn't come to borrow well water, what are you murdering?" ”

"Tut-tut." Four-eyed pushed his glasses and flattened his mouth, "Look at people." ”

Gu Xianzhi's eyebrows rose, he took a stand while holding a broom, and said angrily, "Don't think I won't drive you away!" ”

Four-eyed ignored him anymore, but lowered his head and went straight through the broom raised high to the mouth of the well, carefully rolled up his clothes and began to draw water, while fetching water, he also chanted a word, "Don't lift a broom when you have nothing to do, the broom is not a good thing, lonely and widowed, the stars in the other corner are superimposed, the yin and yang are wrong, and the punishment is terrible, but it is also together, such a life can also be a rich and noble appearance, hey." ”

The two pricked up their ears and listened for a while, and then glanced at each other inexplicably, but Gu Xianzhi couldn't hold his breath and shouted, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Huh?" Siyan had already filled a small bucket of water in less than a while, got up like a sigh of relief and didn't forget to dust off the dust on his body, and suddenly smiled, "This little brother, you should go home, if you don't go back, your grandmother will probably send someone to arrest you." ”

Gu Xianzhi's complexion changed suddenly, and even Zhou Mushu was stunned.

People on the whole street know that Gu Xianzhi's parents died early, leaving Gu family's grandmother and an only son to guard the family wealth, although Gu family's grandmother is a person with little education, she is very concerned about Gu Xianzhi's schoolwork, and even invited Mr. Teacher to come to the door twice in three days, so Gu Xianzhi has always been displaced, rubbing some food for some money and classmates in the east family, rubbing a bed for the buddies of the West family, Zhou Mushu grew up with him, and he played in the mud with his bare ass in the alley, so he naturally often helped.

Four-eyed is not a person in the alley, the two of them are sure of this, this face has never been seen, so even if they have heard about Gu Xianzhi, it is impossible to know who Gu Xianzhi is, after all, the gray schoolbag of the eldest young master of the Gu family at this time was casually thrown on the mud floor for the hen to squat and lay eggs, and his face was also dirty, and he was holding a broken broom, not looking like a rich man at all.

"Silly." Siyan was a little proud, but he was not polite, he took the bucket in his arms, picked up a bench and sat down, and sighed, "Eh, I know a lot of things, your ancestors have turned over three generations, I can calculate it for you." ”

Gu Xianzhi opened his mouth, suddenly gritted his teeth silently, there was a trace of coldness in his eyes, the broom in his hand gradually grasped, his four eyes pinched his fingers as if he didn't see it, closed his eyes, and continued to chatter.

"Don't look at me like this, it's useless to see me, let me tell you, the most dangerous place is not necessarily a safe place, just three or four melon skin hats have already grabbed the rope and entered the alley, you still have time to run now, you have to be caught back, so you have to kneel in the Buddha Hall again, the commandment stone of your Buddha Hall, I am afraid it is very uncomfortable to kneel for a long time."

"What the hell are you..." Gu Xianzhi's face finally turned blue, but half of his words were stuck, because there were already two or three sparse calls outside the courtyard, the sound was not loud, but it was like thunder in Gu Xianzhi's ears, and when he hit his head, he even threw the broom aside, Zhou Mushu hurriedly stood up, wiped his hands on his pants, and very skillfully drove away the old hen, threw the muddy schoolbag into Gu Xianzhi's hand, and did not forget to sweep his eyes at the door like a spy and shouted in a low voice, "Go to the backyard chicken coop!" ”

"Hahaha." The four eyes trembled with laughter, and the yard was full of chickens and dogs, but Gu Xianzhi didn't have time to blow his nose and stare at him again, because the voice was getting closer and closer.

"Hurry up! If you catch it, don't say it's at my house! Zhou Mushu leaned against the wall and shouted in a low voice.

Gu Xianzhi climbed this piece of the wall countless times, climbed the chicken coop familiarly, and then raised his legs to the wall and jumped into an old aisle, grabbed his schoolbag and started running, and did not forget to turn around and scold Zhou Mushu while running, "ungrateful!" ”

Zhou Mushu couldn't help but laugh and dusted off the mud on his body, took out two handfuls of chicken food, and then walked to the front, and there were already three or four fierce guys in the yard.

Four-eyed didn't know when he was already sitting by the medicine stove, Zhou Mushu glared at him and he didn't care, just humming a little song and fanning the pu leaf fan to add medicine to it, his movements were extremely skillful, as if the tense atmosphere in the courtyard had nothing to do with him.

The guy at the head looked around, and then glanced at the four eyes of the decoction suspiciously, and then said with a smile, "Young Master Zhou, have you seen the little knife in my house?" ”

"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen his shadow since school today, I guess I went wild with other classmates, you can't get anyone from me, do you want to go to Zhengyangmen Street in the opera garden to find him?" Zhou Mushu habitually answered smoothly, and he didn't look at them after answering, threw the chicken food on the ground, and walked to the medicine stove to look at the four eyes of the decoction.

Four-eyed and white, like a literati holding a pen and writing hand, skillfully crushed the raw rehmannia and burnt asters into the clay pot, and raised his eyes and smiled at the courtyard is still not at ease, and the guy who is looking around said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have to fry this medicine for a while, there is a lot of smoke here, I am afraid of smoking you." ”

The guys glanced at the inner room with the door wide open a few more times, and then retreated with an apology full of disappointment, seeing them walking away, Zhou Mushu breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Gu Xianzhi the half of the sentence that he didn't finish, "What are you doing?" How do you know so many things. ”

The commandment stone is actually an uneven stone, embedded in the ground to punish the younger generations who make mistakes, Gu Xianzhi's kneeling Buddha Hall, everyone knows it, but this commandment stone is extremely rare, the Gu family Buddha Hall can only be entered, after all, the kneeling stone is not a glorious thing, so only a few of their good brothers know that this four-eyed child can understand so well, it is indeed strange.

"I'm a pharmacy owner, so by the way, I can show people my face, so I can naturally calculate it clearly." Four Eyes covered the "gurgling" medicinal soup, and the question was answered directly and calmly.

"The pharmacy knows how to look at it?" Zhou Mushu said.

"Of course." Four-eyed nodded.

"It's amazing." Zhou Mushu sighed, "No wonder he sees Lao Gu clearly." ”

Four-eyed suddenly raised his finger and pointed out of the house, "I said that we are neighbors today, have you seen Ding Yanzhai?" How about coming to me to buy medicine, everything is available, plus a ticket for boiling medicine at the door? ”

"Ding Yan Zhai?" Zhou Mushu read along, and suddenly woke up, "That's your shop?" ”

"It's my shop from tomorrow onwards." The four eyes patted his chest proudly, "Tong Su is not bullied, and the price is cheap." ”

"Then where did Boss Duan of Rongchang Teahouse go?"

Zhou Mushu only remembered that this tea tube has been there since he was a child, although Boss Duan is a bit greedy for money, and he also hates loneliness, but he is still very good to the surrounding children, and he will walk around the street when he has no business on weekdays, and when he meets children, he will call them over, and take out some halva from the cloth pocket to distribute, although Zhou Mushu has long passed the age of asking for candy on the street, but he remembers all the kindness of others to him, and he does not fall behind.

"There is something in the underground of this teahouse, and he can't stop it, so he took me a sum of money and went to Suzhou with his son to retire." Four Eyes took out a cyan handkerchief from his arms, wrapped it around the clay pot, slowly poured out some, dragged it to his lips and tasted it, frowned and put it back on the stove, and stuck out his tongue like a dog, "It's still a while." ”

"It turns out that he also has a son." Zhou Mushu didn't care about his embarrassment at all, just nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "Can't hold it?" What is it? Ghosts? ”

"Ghosts?" Four Eyes stood up, blinked mysteriously, and said strangely, "I said that I'm a half-fairy who looks like a half-fairy, and you children still believe this?" But looking at your attitude towards Gu Xiaoyou just now, you don't seem to believe it. ”

Zhou Mushu shook his head suddenly, and there was a strange expression on his always indifferent face, "I don't want to believe it, and I don't bother to listen to those strange forces, but there is a reason for this." ”

"Oh?" staring at the medicine jar with four eyes, he shook a side face against the light to him, but the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose, "Let's talk about it." ”

Zhou Mushu is actually very afraid of ghosts, although he sees it very rarely, he can be frightened every time, and he is always much more sensitive than others when it comes to places with strong yin qi.

When he found this, he was only six or seven years old, Zhou Mushu was not a native of Beijing, but moved from Hebei at a very young age, at that time, Zhou's father had not returned to the west, and he was called Zhou Xiucai, that is, he carried a book bag in a robe and a horse coat, and drove a donkey cart with a whip, and took their mother and son into this gardenia alley.

In fact, the northern gardenia is not easy to raise, the wind is strong and the soil is dry, the leaves are yellow in autumn, and there are two days left to be skinny like the branches that have stripped off the clothes, and this alley is strange, can grow a large piece of gardenia, in the corner of the flower pot, not only beautiful, and fragrant, the smell of fragrant people want to smell desperately, and then keep the smell tightly in the lungs and smell for a lifetime.

The summer night is hot and dry, there are a lot of mosquitoes, Zhou Mushu often rolls around on the straw mat, and when it is hot here, he goes to find the cool one, and the cool one is hot, so he rolls again, but he himself is like a stove, rolling to where he bakes, and it is often difficult to fall asleep in the middle of the night.

What day was that day, Secretary Zhou Mu didn't know, only knew that he was hugged to bed by Aunt Zhou early, put out the oil lamp to sleep, the strange thing is that the mat was not covered with heat anymore, but cold and cold, so comfortable that people squinted their eyes, and when he slept until dawn, he was in a daze and shouted to pee, but the voice became a cry as soon as it reached his throat.

The gardenia in the courtyard used to have a plate of pastries that were left of the pastries, and a girl in a white dress was squatting at the end of the pancake and stuffing the pastries into her mouth, and when she heard him cry, she turned her head and glanced this way.

The girl said that she was pretty, but no girl could stand the black lines that crawled all over her face, and those lines were like vines that completely covered her entire face, revealing an extremely clear blue-black, and when she looked back and saw that it was a child, the girl actually grinned, revealing a mouthful of blue and white teeth, turned around and twisted her waist stiffly, and quickly disappeared into the gardenia.

Over there, Zhou Mushu in the window was already crying like a fool.

"Hahaha." After hearing this, the four eyes laughed again, and this time they laughed out of breath, slapped their thighs, and almost kicked over the medicine stove.

Zhou Mushu raised three fingers with some annoyance, "I can swear, I didn't talk nonsense, there have been a few times like this before." ”

"I didn't ...... Didn't say you were talking nonsense. Four Eyes smiled and coughed twice, "Did you tell your father and mother?" ”

Zhou Mushu squatted on the side in distress, "I said, but no one believed it, no one believed it at the time, because there was a broken pot under my gardenia, which was full of burned shredded paper, and they all said that I was dazzled, and I saw the gardenia as a person, you said that no one believed it at the time, and no one believed it today, and said that Lao Gu still regarded me as a madman, no, even you don't believe in half of the gods, laughing at this virtue." ”

"Ahem, no, no." Siyan was busy, and he had already picked up the medicine jar and carefully poured it into the bowl, the medicinal soup was warm and mellow, much better than Zhou Mushu's.

"This ghost, it's not necessarily a bad thing, you said she folded and twisted her waist before leaving, like what?"

"Like what?" Zhou Mushu looked at his eyes inexplicably, "Like a ghost." ”

"Hey, no, no, look at me." The four eyes moved to the side, the cyan handkerchief was still in his hand, and he threw it back to his shoulder, and made a charming gesture, although this action was quite weird on the man, Zhou Mushu suddenly widened his eyes, and suddenly realized, "She is in the Tao Wanfu!" ”

The four-eyed "hehe" smiled, looked up at the almost dark sky, and sighed, "The child can be taught, but I am afraid I can't talk to Xiaoyou today, but the coming day will be longer, remember my pharmacy, three steps away." ”

"Okay." Zhou Mushu only felt that this person didn't seem to hate it so much, and when he looked back, he saw that the jar of soju was still sitting at the door of the kitchen, and said, "Take this wine back, I and my mother are at home, and no one drinks." ”

"Don't." Four-eyed pushed his glasses with one hand, picked up the wooden barrel and said, "Wine warms the stomach and lungs, it is not good for tuberculosis, but I added two flavors of medicine, you remember to add a spoonful of decoction in the future, it is better to be faster, it should be a thank you gift for well water." ”

"Got it!" Zhou Mushu replied, and was stunned after answering, when did he actually start believing in such a four-eyed man, and he was led by the nose for two paragraphs, thinking about it, he felt favored, and he also learned to pretend and said, "I haven't asked Mr. what is his name?" ”

The four eyes had already walked away, and only a sound echoed in the short stone alley.

"In Xialu Yuanyan."