CHAPTER XXXI

As the sun sets, the tired birds return to the forest, the sky full of burning clouds is behind them, and the lonely master stands on the top of the mountains, looking down on the living beings at his feet...... If you ignore the behavior that he is talking on the phone, there is really a little artistic conception, and the melody of "The Lonely Shadow of Heaven and Earth Let Me Go" suddenly appeared in Yue Youran's mind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It's okay anyway, she slowly walked there, wanting to see what kind of person it was.

There will always be such and such strange people on the journey, some will become the laughing stock after dinner, and some will become unforgettable memories in this life.

I wonder what this person would be like? Yue Youran's heart was suddenly full of expectations, she never disliked the measured contact with strangers, life is alive, multiple friends, even if it is just a netizen, it is a very interesting thing.

The ground of the bluestone slab is uneven, polished by the years with a shiny luster, Yue leisurely's high heels are knocked on the stone, making a crisp sound, and faintly echoing in the deep alley, several courtyards here are homestays, now the night in the ancient town has not really begun, tourists will naturally not come back so early, although it is very close to the arch bridge, but it has not met a person along the way. The surrounding antique courtyards maintain the style of the past, and the dogs and petunias planted in them climb on the bamboo fence, red and pink, and they are lively.

The high wall here blocked the view, and Yue Youran stood in the middle of the path in a daze, she couldn't find which house the person was standing in just now. She was a little depressed and wanted to go back, but found that she was already in a deep alley and didn't know the way back. At this time, the sun had completely set, and the red lanterns at the entrances of several inns along the alley were lit up one after another, and at that moment, Yue Youran felt as if he was standing at the gate of the bathing city opened by Granny Tang in "Spirited Away", and he didn't know what gods and ghosts he would encounter.

At this moment, someone suddenly appeared in front of her and startled her, thinking that it was a wall, but she didn't expect it to be a fork in the road. The man also seemed to be startled, and quickly calmed down and looked at her: "Hey, did we meet in the mansion during the day?" Yue Youran looked at him carefully, yes, it was indeed the man who laughed at him during the day.

Met again and again, I have to say that it is fate.

"You live here too?" The man asked.

Yue Youran shook his head: "I'm lost." ”

She looks like a schoolgirl who is studying, with a pure and innocent face.

"If you walk out of the alley, there is a Fengqiao, and you will know you there, right?" The man raised his hand and pointed forward, a straight road, and at the end of the road there were many people walking around.

It's strange, I obviously went around here a lot just now, why didn't I see such an obvious exit? Yue Youran has always had confidence in his "woman's intuition", why is he so unenlightened today.

"Okay, there are friends waiting for me, I'll go first." The man waved his hand and went in the opposite direction.

Ay? Why did you just leave like this, it really came and went in a hurry.

However, seeing that Yue Ran took a few steps forward, he remembered something again, turned around and asked, "Were you standing on the roof just now?" ”

"yes, what?"

"Can you see anything different from standing on it?"

"No, the signal in the house is too bad, I'll call up." The man was very upright.

“…… Goodbye...... "The melody of the lonely shadow of heaven and earth was replaced by the quack of the crow flying.

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Wandering around for a long time, the night gradually enveloped the whole ancient town, the current ancient town is not like many years ago, it will be quiet in the night, now it is full of the hustle and bustle of bars, tourists are weaving, even the simple stone arch bridge, are hung with colorful neon lights, when lit up, shining, it looks like some kind of strange fairy cave. Yue Youran originally wanted to go back to the hotel, but he met a few colleagues on the way and was dragged to a bar. Pushing open the door of the bar, the melodious saxophone sounded in her ears, Yue Youran breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately there was no heavy metal rock, every time she heard this kind of music, she felt that her heart was also beating with the rhythm, and the shock was very uncomfortable, and some colleagues pulled her before, but she politely refused: "I will go when I need to use a pacemaker in the future." ”

The lights in the bar are very dim, fortunately there are not too many people, colleagues began to shake the dice to play, Yue Youran is really not interested in this activity, and she doesn't know how to drink, she is not very lucky, she shook it three times and drank it three times, and soon she said that she was not strong enough to drink, and she wanted to rest for a while. Colleagues didn't care either, and started playing again.

There was a big table of people chatting around the table in the corner, and Yue was sitting leisurely not far from them, it sounded like those people didn't look like they had known each other for a long time, and calling each other more like a gathering of netizens. They were telling their own stories, and the words that drifted into their ears sounded interesting. She leaned back as much as she could, trying to listen more closely.

Now the storyteller is the long-haired girl who is called Ling'er, she happens to be sitting diagonally opposite Yue Youran, although she can't see her appearance clearly, but as soon as she speaks, her gentle voice makes people feel good.

She said what she saw and heard in Miao Village, talking about the mother-in-law who was over 90 years old but could still be praised as a "beauty", and talked about the vast smoke waves that lived in the stilted building by the river and opened the window. As he was talking, someone interrupted: "Hey, I've lived in that place too, there are so many mosquitoes, and I gave a bag that bites all my body." The crowd laughed.

Ling'er also laughed: "There were mosquitoes originally, but there were no more later." ”

"How long have you been here? Staying from summer to winter? ”

"It didn't take long, that's just ten days."

"Is it just in time for the big cool?"

"No, I went to a village where there were fewer people, and an old woman sitting at the door of a family pointed to me on the leg and was bitten a dozen red envelopes, and said a lot of things that I didn't understand, and then came into the house and gave me a bag of things I don't know what it was, I don't know what it was for, I didn't understand it at all, so she let me keep it, and then went into the house. I didn't know anything, so I took it, and the paper bag was full of messy stones and grass roots. ”

Someone interjected: "Why didn't you throw it away?" ”

"How can you throw away other people's minds." Ling'er laughed, "If you want to throw it, you have to throw it to a place that people can't see, so I took it back to the inn, and I didn't know where to put it, anyway, I didn't throw it, and then there were no mosquitoes in the house, otherwise in the dead of night, the mosquitoes flew like fighter jets." ”

After Ling'er's story was told, the girl sitting next to her asked, "Hey, then you didn't expect that the bag of things to have no relationship with mosquitoes?" ”

"I've thought about it."

"Then why didn't you get that bag of things back, how good it is to put it at home, it is more effective than a mosquito coil and a radar, it is natural and environmentally friendly."

"Who knows what it is, in case it's something more poisonous than dichlorvos, it's scary to think about it." Ling'er took a sip of tea, "Sanmao didn't pick up a stone or anything in the Sahara, and then he was seriously ill and dying, and he couldn't find out what the stone was, and finally the witch doctor said that it was a curse from the locals." Where was I? Miao Village! Blue Phoenix's Turf! ”

The girl asked curiously, "Why weren't you afraid when you took it?" ”

"What was so scary at that time, I was afraid of the mosquitoes when they died."

The flat-headed young man who interjected in between, said with a smile: "It is said that killing chickens to show monkeys, how to kill a few mosquitoes will scare you like this." ”

Ling'er also laughed.

Yue Youran realized that he didn't know when he was getting closer and closer to this table, so he could reach out and pick up his cup, and now he stretched out his legs and straightened his toes to touch the edge of the table.

Ling'er noticed her coming over and smiled kindly: "Do you want to join too?" ”

"Huh?" Yue Youran suddenly felt quite embarrassed: "Uh, I'm sorry, I listened to what you said was quite interesting, and I came over unconsciously." ”

"It's okay, sit down, where are you from?"

"Nanjing, what about you?"

"I'm from Hangzhou, they're from Shanghai, and I don't know about the two friends over there, hey, a beautiful woman asked where you came from."

A small flat head leaned forward: "Come down from Weihu Mountain." ”

Ling'er was stunned, although he knew that he was joking, but he didn't know what kind of allusion Weihu Mountain was, the corners of Yue Youran's mouth turned up: "The Heavenly King covers the tiger?" ”

Ling'er smiled: "I also know this, Pagoda Town River Demon." ”

The man in the darkness slowly answered: "Mohaha? "The voice is cold, without a trace of emotion.

Ling'er couldn't take it anymore, so Yue leaned back in the chair: "A delicate tower, facing the green belt and leaning back against the sand." ”

"So, you're here to join the third master?"

"Yes, it was Brigade Commander Xu who sent me to the mountain carving this hundred chicken feast."

The other young people didn't know what kind of dumb riddle they were playing, and Ling'er even wondered if these two people had actually known each other for a long time and made an appointment to hand over some secret items here.

"Hahaha." The person who originally spoke in a tone like Gu Long's characters suddenly became a young man, and Yue Youran was a little uncomfortable, he said: "The mountain carving ...... Hahaha...... If Yang Zirong was killed as early as you, wouldn't it be good? ”

Yue Youran also laughed: "Otherwise, how can you say that heroes are not something that everyone can do." ”

The man sat up and moved his chair forward, and the lamp on the wall reflected his silhouette, with a high nose, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a smile that was very sunny. When he saw Yue Youran, he suddenly pointed at her: "Ah, it's you!" ”

Yue Youran also recognized him, he had met people once in the mansion and in the depths of the alley, Ling'er asked curiously, "You two have known each other for a long time?" ”

Yue Youran smiled and said: "In the evening, I saw him standing on the roof by the arched bridge, oh yo, that image is not too windy, you think, there is a tiled house around, there are no wires in the sky, and there are no high-rise buildings behind, it looks like a martial arts movie male protagonist, but guess why he went up?" He's up to find a signal, hahaha. ”

In a burst of laughter, Yue Youran was already sitting in the middle of this group of people.

"What do you call this beauty?"

"Red Sleeve Knife." Yue Youran naturally knew the rules of coming out to play, and no one would have anything to do to expose his real name to strangers, just to find a code name and know who was who.

"Wow, what a cool name, my name is Ling'er, but it's a pity that I don't have the surname Zhao." She smiled again and asked, "Looking for the signal hero, what about you?" ”

"Just tell me to find a signal."

The flat head next to him said, "He's called Kaka." ”

Yue Youran was stunned: "It's good to play football?" ”

"What, the mobile phone and computer that he touched didn't take long to become very stuck, and it was useless to toss it, so I could only endure it and throw it away for a new one."

"I see." Yue said with a smile: "The signal of that inn is blocked by you." ”

It was very easy and pleasant to chat with these people, and Yue Youran knew that they really only met here, either staying in the same inn or living next door, so they came here together.

"Sleeve, it looks like you're a frequent go-out, too." Ling'er's eyes flashed.

Yue Youran nodded: "It's a pity that office workers, they have money but no time, time and no money, they are all squeezed out in the cracks." ”

"We plan to go to Yandang Mountain tomorrow, will you go with us?"

Yue Youran silently turned his head: "I can't go, I'm going back to work tomorrow." ”

"Ah, in such a hurry?"

She looked up at the ceiling at 45 degrees: "Life is so helpless. ”

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On the way back, Feng Ying said, "How can you talk so happily with strangers?" ”

"It's, anyway."

"You're not afraid that they're bad guys, cheating you out of money or something."

"That's all I'm good at, stingy, you can talk about anything, don't talk to me about money."

Yue Youran's mobile phone sent a push message, just now Ling'er has actively set up a WeChat group, adding all the people who chatted just now, this is the first message in the group, Ling'er said that everyone is not far away, where to play in the future, you can have a companion or something.

Yue smiled leisurely and didn't respond, she understood too well that the people she met on the road, the input of the conversation at that time, it wouldn't be long before the relationship quickly changed back to the state of strangers because of differences in different places, personality hobbies and even three views, so there is a group called Lu Yu in her WeChat and QQ software, and every time she goes out, there will be a few more people, and then in addition to passing photos to each other, there will be no more contacts, until she becomes a stranger in the QQ group, Until you can't remember who corresponds to this ID at all, then you can delete this number.

Back in the city, sitting in the office, this is the real life, 90% follow the rules and follow the steps, it seems how important the 10% freedom is to be in the sea and the sky. And the colleagues around her are 99%:1%, so they don't understand Yue Youran's casualness, and they yearn for her casualness.

It's just that even Yue Youran didn't expect that this chance encounter would change everything after her.