Chapter 3: The Old Man with the White Beard
Fortunately, it was already dark now, and there was no bone-eating voice from last night, so I wasn't too scared now, after all, there were no moths in the night, and it seemed that I was too nervous. Reflecting on myself, I found that if it weren't for Uncle Yang who told me such infinitely terrifying things yesterday, then I would definitely not be neurotic and sensitive to the point of scaring myself, maybe when I encountered the weird sound last night, it might have been the sound of a cat or a mouse.
Lying on the bed for a while, the sky had become brighter.
The mobile phone shows that the time is eight o'clock, and I haven't heard the movement of Du Hong getting up next door, needless to say, that kid must be asleep in the middle of the night! So I got dressed, put on my shoes, and hurriedly knocked on Du Hong's door.
"Brother Hong is up, it's already eight o'clock, and I won't be able to eat breakfast for a while."
After that, I trotted all the way to the bathroom to wash up. When I finished washing, the kid just walked out of the room, looking sluggish.
"Let's go, go downstairs and buy buns to eat."
I hesitated for a moment and said, "You don't have to wash your face when you wake up in the morning?" Just go out like that! ”
"How fresh, I don't sweat much in winter, my skin is dry, my face is not oily, I took a special photo in front of the mirror before I went out, which was good! Let's go, go downstairs and don't ink. After Du Hong finished speaking, he threw me downstairs.
I thought to myself, "Hey, when you meet this buddy, you will accept your fate!" ”
When we walked downstairs, I saw at a glance that the landlord boss, Uncle Yang, was cleaning up something like a pile of chicken feathers on the ground around the corner, and out of curiosity, I casually asked, "Uncle Yang, what is he pulling early in the morning?" Uncle Yang said with a sad face, "No, I thought that you two would rent the second floor of my house now, and I thought about cleaning the second floor in the morning, but I found such a mess in the kitchen." As he spoke, he pulled away the top layer of hard feathers, revealing a bloody pile at the bottom, and the blood clotted into a clump that looked slimy, and I felt sick when I looked at it anyway.
"Ahh I was slightly taken aback.
Seeing this, Uncle Yang hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter, Xiao Chen?" "I'm busy saying it's nothing.
Du Hong's kid saw that he had another chance to make a fool of me, so he hurriedly made fun of me and said, "Don't worry about him, he must have seen a bunch of bloody chicken feathers and coaxed him again." ”
I ignored him, recalled the voice I heard last night, and hurriedly asked Uncle Yang again, "Uncle Yang, was your chicken bitten by a yellow skin?" "That was my first reaction, and I think the oozing croaking sound I heard last night must have been the yellow-skinned beast chewing on the root of the bone!
Uncle Yang hesitated for a while and said, "Yes, yes, it's the chicken in my backyard, it must be the beast who dragged the chicken out of the chicken shed to the second floor to eat after biting the chicken to death. Uncle Yang shook his head and sighed.
After a while, Uncle Yang said again, "This winter is cold, and the chickens in my backyard are either lost or bitten, which is annoying!" ”
"Ah, there is this strange thing, then you close the doors, windows, chicken coops, etc., so that the beast has a hole to follow." I kindly suggested.
"It's useless, even if the house is locked all around, it will still be lost and dead after two or three days!" Looking at Uncle Yang's words, it seems that he has nothing to do about it. Just when the atmosphere was about to become dull, Du Hong said proudly and loudly, "Since you have to lose chickens no matter what, then you don't raise them directly, in that case, don't you have to make a fuss about losing chickens?" ”
"That's right, it's a good idea, it's still Brother Hong's brain!" I immediately patted me on the back. Du Hong also laughed complacently, "Offering ugliness, that's not a thing!" I immediately added another note and said, "Brother Hong, be humble." ”…
Just as Du Hong and I were joking with each other, I suddenly heard Uncle Yang's tone sink and say, "No, chickens must be raised!" Forget it, don't worry about my own business! With that, Uncle Yang raised his hand and buried himself in cleaning up a pile of blood-stained chicken feathers on the ground.
I said in my heart, "Uncle Yang, what's wrong?" ”
"Let's go, let's go, if you don't leave, it's too late to have breakfast." Du Hong eagerly urged me to leave, obviously he was choked by Uncle Yang's sudden words.
Du Hong and I hurriedly bought a large round bun on the lower street, and then went to the direction of the toll station on the street to eat while hurrying, but fortunately we arrived at the toll station, and the time showed 8:25. So we looked and found the stationmaster's office on the second floor.
"Knock knock" We knocked on the sleek oak door.
"Come in," a muffled voice came from inside the door
So Du Hong and I nudged open the oak door and basically said in unison, "Hello stationmaster, we are new to the station!" ”
"Oh, it's you," the stationmaster picked up the mobile phone on the desk casually, glanced at it casually, and said, "You guys are very punctual!" ”
We stood there in fear, and did not speak.
"So, let's introduce yourselves, um... My surname is Lei, and you will call me Lei in the future. Ray looked at us as he finished speaking.
"My name is Chen Tiankui......"
After the two of us briefly introduced ourselves, we only heard Lei Zhan smack and said, "In this way, I will rearrange the off-duty personnel in a while, and the two of you will start with the day shift internship today, go to the day shift for five days, and then work the normal day shift and night shift." ”
After speaking, Lei Station dialed the office phone and called the toll squad leader on duty in the lane today, and then we followed the squad leader Zhou to the lane for internship.
The day-shift internship is basically in the toll booth with the old toll collector to learn, everyone talks and laughs with each other, and the five days pass quickly.
Today is the first night shift, I was officially assigned to the first shift, and Du Hong was assigned to the fourth shift, tonight I took my class officially my first day day day internship Zhou squad leader, he is of medium height, wearing a pair of glasses, looks like a Sven person, but whether it is really like his appearance, then I have to wait for me to talk about it later.
Overall, the time since I arrived at the toll booth has been very peaceful, and I have not encountered any bad luck such as evil spirits and ghosts, and when I thought that everything was finally back on track, I never expected that nothing happened during the day but something happened at night, and that night finally came.
That night shift, I went to the entrance in the first half of the night to issue a card, the time was about half past eleven in the evening, there were few cars at the small station and it was a big night, so there was no car, I was leaning on the pavilion to doze off.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of horses' hooves rumbling from far and near,
I was startled and thought to myself, "Where did the sound of horses' hooves come from in the middle of the night?" And on the highway, you can't get pedestrians, let alone frightened horses! So I pushed open the glass window and looked out, so strong that a gust of wind blew my face almost numb, although there was a high-powered oven in my pavilion but it didn't seem to work, this strong cold wind not only numbed my face, but also soaked my whole body with cold.
Immediately afterwards, I saw that there seemed to be an ancient style of horse convoy not far ahead, in the toll station high pole light is more dim under the reflection, or can see clearly, the front is two by two together four open horses, the horse body is dark, the horse's head is purple, the horse is riding a mighty armored soldier on horseback, the specific face can not be seen clearly, but according to my judgment of more than ten years of yin eyes, this is not a group performance of acting, but a yin soldier aisle!
I knew that I couldn't just blatantly watch the Yin soldiers and horses passing by, so I closed the window, bent down, and peeked at the Yin soldiers in the aisle that made me scared and excited, and when I was ready to take a good look at the luxury of the **** sedan chair behind, somehow, I suddenly tripped over the wires of the stove in the pavilion, and came in a proper manner, the emperor's aisle, the posture of the people and courtiers kneeling on the ground, kneeling directly in the crowded pavilion. I felt unhappy for a while, and struggled to stand up, but I only saw the horse eyes of the yin horse behind the Yin soldier horse convoy, and the two bright lights shook violently, and I fainted directly.
In my dizziness, I noticed a "white-bearded old man" smiling at me in a blank space around me: "Young man, the Yin Soldier can't see it, be careful to take your soul away." The old man looked full of ambition.
"Do you want to care? Old man white," I said speechlessly.
"If I hadn't pulled you just now and made you fall to your knees, I'm afraid you wouldn't be talking to me here now, you would definitely follow the convoy to the underworld to report!" The old man still spoke slowly.
After listening to the old man's words, I couldn't help but feel an inexplicable feeling of gratitude and fear in my heart
"Who are you?" I asked again
"I'm here to tell you one thing, you don't care who I am, what I want to tell you is: you were born with yin and yang eyes, and your life is pure yin, and you are destined to have bad luck for a lifetime; And half a life expectancy, I pinched your Tianzhu Yang Shou only to three or five, and died early at the age of thirty-five! The white-bearded old man said in a straight voice.
This old man seems to be in charge of my fate, and he says everything word for word. I panicked and hurriedly said, "Grandpa, why did I only live to be thirty-five years old?" Can you save me? ”
"Close your eyes and return your life! Only by closing your innate yin and yang eyes can you live to seventy and seventy, perhaps longer; The nine things of the underworld are the saltiness of the underworld, the sweetness of the underworld, the law of the underworld, the darkness of the underworld, the treasure of the underworld, the source of the underworld, the fire of the underworld, the treasure of the underworld, and the wheel of the underworld. The white-bearded old man stroked his snow-white beard after speaking.
"What are those things? Where can I find them? I pressed on.
"Don't let it go! Let me tell you a person, if you go to him, you will naturally know everything, he should be waiting for you in Zhongnan Mountain, and he has been waiting for more than 20 years! Whether you can find it or not depends on your own fate, 'Fighting ghosts, fighting ghosts!' After saying that, the old man disappeared in an instant, leaving only a blank space.
"Toot, beet......" The rapid sound of the horn woke me up
"What are you doing? Knocking on your window and you don't respond, honking the horn can't wake you up, I've been waiting for you for a minute! The driver yelled angrily.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sleepy, I'm sorry!" I apologized to the driver while swiping my card.
The driver took the card, kicked the accelerator "woo", and disappeared into the vast night.
Am I asleep? I had a dream? I only have to live to be thirty-five?
By the way, the old man with the white beard didn't tell me the name of that person, how can I find it?