Chapter 5: A Yard of Strange Coffees
The words of the grocery store proprietress made me look miserable, you must know that I put down a lot of work at hand and asked for leave, just hoping that this Ma Yiao could help me, but her sentence of "neurosis" made me really a little confused.
What neuropathy am I talking about?
Seeing that my face was wrong, the proprietress probably came back to her senses, smiled awkwardly, and said no, nothing; By the way, how long have you known Ma Yiao?
I said that when we met, we were not friends.
The proprietress breathed a sigh of relief, saying so, alas, I'm not a long-tongued woman who likes to chew her tongue behind other people's backs, but Ma Yiao, that person, it's really a little weird, I've been here for more than half a year, I haven't seen him do anything serious, he shakes around every day, and then sees Tian'er lead a group of crooked melons and cracked dates, not into shape, the most annoying thing is to leave the address with me, thinking that I am the front desk of his company, specifically to help him with reception......
This old lady was chattering, I heard it at once, and hurriedly paid for it and bought a pack of expensive cigarettes, and then she smiled and pointed to the east and said, "It's the courtyard over there." β
I followed the proprietress and saw a small courtyard and a two-story low brick house.
I thanked the proprietress and walked to the closed iron gate of the courtyard, thought for a moment, and then knocked on the door and shouted, "Is anyone at home?" β
I shouted a few times, no one responded, remembering that the proprietress said that Ma Yiao went out of the house, very depressed, when I was about to leave first, the iron door squeaked, revealing a small slit, there was a small radish head poked out of the head, black and bright little eyes looked at me, and then asked, "Who are you looking for?" β
This little radish has a dirty little face, obviously small shabby clothes, five or six years old, and should be innocent, but he has a vigilant expression, which is very disobedient.
I hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Is Mr. Ma here?" β
Instead of answering my question, the little turnip head asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" β
I took out the yellow gold-rimmed bag from my pocket, handed him the note, and said, "I met Mr. Ma Pingshui, but he said that if I have any problems, I can come here and ask him for help." β
The little radish head took the note, checked it, and said yes, it was indeed Brother Ma's handwriting.
When he was sure, he took one look at me, then behind me, and then beckoned to me, "You can come in first." β
He opened the iron door a little, and I barely squeezed inside, and saw that there were still people in the yardβtwo sleepy old men lying on bamboo chairs in front of the house, a fat girl who weighed more than two hundred pounds standing by the water tank in the yard, and a strong man squatting in the corner of the wall and chanting wordsβthe buddy looked in his twenties, shirtless, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his pimple flesh was shiny in the sun, like a bodybuilder on TV.
But these people are in a somewhat eccentric state, immersed in their own world, completely ignoring me, ignoring me at all.
The little radish leader led me to the house, and then shouted to the two-hundred-pound fat girl: "Fat flower, there is a guest, go and pour a glass of water." β
When the fat girl heard this, she answered, looked back at me, and ran into the house very shyly.
If it's a beauty, it's very shy like this, but this fat girl makes me feel quite frightened, and when I walked through the water tank, I found that there was a thin girl in the big water tank with a mouth of one meter and a half.
This girl is about sixteen or seventeen years old, don't look thin and small, but her appearance is very delicate, and there are several charms between her eyebrows and eyes, which is very moving.
It's just that in broad daylight, a girl, wearing white clothes and soaking in the water, made me feel very strange, I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and she also looked at me curiously, I looked a little embarrassed, nodded to her, and said hello.
The girl also grinned at me, bared a mouthful of white teeth, and said hello.
I said, how do you soak in water?
The girl was stunned for a moment, and then replied very seriously: "I am a fish, so I should be in the water." β
Belch......
I laughed dryly twice, and remembered what the proprietress had just said, the people in this yard are really weird.
Just when I was quite embarrassed, the little radish head next to me glared at the girl, saying that she has no brains, and she can't speak.
He was quite prestigious here, and the girl lowered her head when she said this, and then dived directly into the water.
The little turnip head led me into the house, saying don't think about it, she's just in the water.
I didn't say a word, sitting in front of the sofa in the living room, the fat girl called Fat Flower brought a cup of boiled water, put it on the coffee table, and the little radish head greeted: "We have poor conditions here, only boiled water, don't dislike it, drink ......"
I had been on the road for a long time, and I was indeed very thirsty, so I said a few polite words, and then I took my cup and drank it dry.
Putting down the water glass, I was just about to speak, but the little radish head broke away from the fat girl next to me: "You go to the yard and watch Heinie, lest she choke on the water and drown." β
After the fat girl brought the water, she stood opposite me, looking at me with a pair of eyes, and I was panicked, and the little radish head made me just breathe a sigh of relief, but the fat girl said, "Will she drown?" She soaked in the water for three days and three nights in one go, and it would be fine......
didn't wait for the fat girl to finish speaking, the little radish head turned black and said that if you want to go, why are you stunned? When my brother leaves, how do you explain it, who is in charge here?
He is not very old, but he has quite an aura, and when he gets angry, the fat girl trembles, sticks out her tongue, and hurries away.
Waiting for the fat girl to leave, the little radish head said to me like a little adult: "Hello, my name is Zhong Huang, it is the Zhong Huang who 'Zhongshan is pale and yellow, and millions of heroes cross the river', my brother Ma is out, I am in charge here, if you have anything, just tell me." β
At the beginning, I didn't take this little kid seriously, and I wanted to say hello to the adults here, but I didn't expect that after coming in, the two old men on the bamboo chair didn't move, the big man squatted in the corner of the wall to watch the ants, and the fat girl was submissive to him, so he let go of his contempt.
What I encountered was very bizarre and unusual, and the way this child spoke and behaved differently from ordinary people, which gave me a lot of trust.
With Ma Yiao's tips, I didn't hesitate too much, and I also talked to the child Zhong Huang about my affairs at the moment.
I was afraid that his comprehension was limited, so I made the details very clear.
As a result, after I finished talking about it, he said impatiently: "Okay, okay, I know, it probably means, you bumped into the evil, and then did something on someone's body, which happened to be seen by Brother Ma, he was busy at the time, and didn't tell you in detail, he gave you this trick, let you save your life first, and let you not figure it out, come over here, right?" β
I nodded, and said yes, yes, where has Mr. Ma gone, can you contact him?
Xiao Zhong pouted, saying that he had his business, and he was busy, besides, you don't need Brother Ma to do this, I'll help you get it done.
I was stunned and said you?
Xiao Zhong Huang saw my expression of disbelief, and immediately became annoyed, saying Hey, look down on people or what? Just your little bit of, Brother Xiao Zhong will help you do it directly, what's the matter, don't you trust people?
This little radish was in a hurry and smelled like a mouthful of bud rice stubble, and I wanted to laugh a little, but I still asked seriously: "Then tell me, how can you help me solve it." β
Xiao Zhong Huang stared at me and said let's talk about how much money you can give first.
As soon as I heard it, oh this routine, this little brat...... If it weren't for the good impression that Ma Yiao brought me before, I was really afraid that it would be a scam, so I thought about it and asked, "How much do you want?" β
Xiao Zhonghuang seemed to be a little nervous, touched his nose, and then asked, "When Brother Ma gave you tips, he asked how much you wanted?" β
I said no, I didn't ask for a penny, didn't I just say it?
When Xiao Zhonghuang heard this, he jumped up all of a sudden, and shouted in surprise: "Won't it?" It's impossible, do you know how precious what he gave you? That rune paper, produced by Longquan Mountain, Longquan Mountain, do you know where it is? And the bones, and the three whiskers of the Kunlun leopard cat, these things, do you know how much they are worth? β
I was stunned for a moment when the little thing said, and I was very confused, but I could probably understand that what Ma Yiao gave me was very precious.
I didn't know how precious it was, so I asked how much.
Xiao Zhong Huang said angrily, forget it, you don't understand it when you tell outsiders like you, don't talk about that loser, just say how much you can give here.
I tentatively stretched out a finger, and Xiao Zhong Huang saw it, and quickly shook his head, saying no, no, a hundred is too little.
Hundred?
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because the meaning of what I talked to him about just now was actually a thousand, but I didn't expect this kid to look honest and steady, after all, he was still young, and the asking price was not black, so I chatted with Xiao Zhonghuang for a while with the mentality of a customer, and talked about three hundred yuan.
After the negotiation, Xiao Zhonghuang began to say to me: "Let me tell you, in this matter, you found us, you can be regarded as finding the right person." β
I said what's going on?
Xiao Zhong Huang said that you are in this matter, you are colliding with evil, you know about evil, right?
I thought back to the events of that day, and I was terrified, and said what do you mean, I hit a ghost? In this world, are there really ghosts?
Xiao Zhong Huang said Bah, Bah, what kind of feudal superstition are you, what I said about fighting evil is different from what you think, I ......
Just when he was about to make a tirade, suddenly there was a sound of "Bang, Bang, Bang" from the iron gate outside the courtyard, and a woman shouted loudly with a broken gong: "Ma Yiao, Ma Yiao, you come out for me!" β