Chapter 15: A Conversation with Zheng Xiuren
As soon as the little creatures saw someone coming, the birds flew out of the door first, and the snakes swam out of the way, and the other little animals avoided the old man, or slipped in the corner, or hid under the furniture, and ran away at the door. I saw the hairy-legged buzzard circling around the roof a few times, and when it saw the broom waving in the air, it also flew out of the house.
The little monkey took advantage of the fact that he drove everyone away, quietly hid under the sofa opposite Wei Xiaoyu and hugged the sofa legs, watching all this. The little clouded leopard was not very afraid, bared his teeth and showed a fierce face at the old man, and after a stalemate for a while, he also took a few steps back, turned around and ran away. When the little monkey saw the clouded leopard turn around, he also jumped out from under the sofa, climbed onto it, and the two of them quickly disappeared into the doorway.
The old man held the broom in his right hand and crossed his waist with his left hand, and watched them all run away, before he turned around to look at Wei Xiaoyu, walked to the wooden sofa opposite her, sat down, and said, "The girl is not scared, is she?"
Before Wei Xiaoyu met, the old man and those cultivators also had translucent outlines, guessing that he was not a human being, so he asked, "May I ask who you are?"
The old man replied: "My surname is Zheng, my name is Shou, and I am the grandfather of the boss here, that is, the grandfather of the young man, who grew up in this house since he was a child. ”
Wei Xiaoyu has a lot of questions at this moment, will people not enter reincarnation after death? How can they still be in the original house? What about the cemetery? And the most strange thing is that he and they are translucent?...... There were so many questions she wanted to ask for a while, she didn't know where to start, and she felt that it didn't seem polite, so she blurted out: "What's going on?"
The old man shook his head slightly, and said solemnly: "This house has not encountered this phenomenon since I died. These cultivators have always been at peace with us, and the world outside is big enough for them to be free, and occasionally there are one or two curious mischievous ones who go the wrong way, but they will not collide with the people in this house. ”
Wei Xiaoyu thought that when he went out in the morning, the shadows that flashed behind him might be them, and said, "But why did they come, or in broad daylight?"
The old man said, "Ever since I saw you and the bird in this house, I have felt that my temperament is extraordinary, and I can't say the specifics." It seems that there is something that is not in the ordinary world, nor is it an item in our cultivation realm. ”
Wei Xiaoyu was still thinking that the "cultivation realm" in his mouth corresponded to the "cultivation of things" he just said. So Phoenix and Mr. Xiao came from the "Spirit Forest", and what is the relationship between them and the cultivation world? But I haven't heard Mr. Xiao say anything about it all the way. At this time, the old man seemed to have suddenly discovered something, looked at Wei Xiaoyu's right ear and asked tentatively, "Girl, this feather on your ear seems to be ...... It doesn't seem to be ordinary, it's just something that makes them curious!"
Wei Xiaoyu was reminded by him, and remembered the phoenix feather that Mr. Xiao had put in his ear yesterday morning. She looked at it in the parking lot window, but she didn't look at it carefully at the time, and then she forgot about it when she got used to it. But she had to comply with Lingpo's request to "keep it a secret", and she couldn't tell the fact that Ah Qi gave her this feather, so she said, "Oh, this is...... I picked it up. ”
The old man laughed and said, "The girl doesn't have to be embarrassed, she must keep such a special treasure, and there must be some unspeakable secrets." ”
Wei Xiaoyu was grateful for his understanding, and apologized for having to hide the truth, saying, "Thank you for saying that, but I don't know what's going on. Although this sentence does not explain the cause and effect along the way, it is also an indisputable fact, and she really doesn't know much.
I only heard the old man continue: "For as long as I can remember, plus I have heard of it, there are not many human beings who can communicate with us, and you are the only one I have really seen. So no matter what, it's fate. But my cultivation is not high, and the house is not big, if the girl has something important to do, it is better to find a safe place to be safer. ”
At this time, the little gentleman, who had not seen a shadow all afternoon, flew in from the door, landed on the armrest of the sofa on the left hand side of the old man, and shouted, "You old man!
But when the old man saw the little gentleman, he seemed to be afraid of this short-tempered bird, showed a jealous look and quickly explained: "The two of you are rare guests in my house for hundreds of years, but they are just ...... The girl also saw it in the afternoon, if these repairs were not gone by themselves, I would not be able to cope with the decay. ”
The little gentleman tilted his head, looked at Wei Xiaoyu, and asked, "What are they doing here?"
Wei Xiaoyu briefly recounted the wonderful experience in this room in the afternoon, and the little gentleman said disapprerovingly: "I thought something big had happened, that's all, they have already followed all the way." ”
When Wei Xiaoyu heard it say this, he was dumbfounded in surprise and asked loudly, "You already knew, why didn't you tell me?!"
The little gentleman said calmly and innocently, "Why do you say it?
Wei Xiaoyu thought, even if you are not surprised by these wonderful things, but I am only the second day, not to mention whether there will be any danger, just surprise can also scare people! Remembering what Ah Qi said yesterday, "life hangs by a thread, wait for the day", she couldn't help but shudder slightly, could it be that it has only been two days, and she is about to start worrying about her life? She regretted that she had been convinced of Mr. Xiao all the way, and it seemed that she still had to worry about her own safety.
At the same time, she also wondered if the little gentleman knew about the sound of "killing that pigeon" all the way, and then she realized that she seemed to have hidden some secrets that she had not said. "Where did they start following us?" she asked.
The little gentleman replied: "Is it near the pet hospital? As soon as I entered the city, but there were not as many as you said at the time, it seemed that there were only one or two, yellow, yellow, green and green things, right?"
Guessing that it was talking about the little monkey and the clouded leopard, Wei Xiaoyu asked, "Why are they following us?"
The little gentleman replied, "Because we are good-looking!, well, because we have ...... on us," he lowered his voice, covered his head with his right wing, and turned to the dangerous little fish and said mysteriously, "Linglin thing." ”
Wei Xiaoyu remembered that the old man had guessed that her Ah Qi feathers had recruited them just now, but why did they follow the things of the "Spirit Forest"? Before she could continue to ask, the little gentleman raised his wings at her and said impatiently: "Okay, let's talk about something later." ”
The old man who sat on the side found that when the pigeon came back, he had no initiative in his conversation. But it still insisted on expressing its thoughts, so it said, "For the sake of the two, of course...... It is also for my family, my father has an old cultivator who knows him well, and he has a place in the mountains. It's a little shabby, but he knows the environment there very well, and it has been guarded by many mountain spirits for hundreds of years, and it is very safe, if you don't dislike it, ...... you."
The little gentleman raised his scalded left paw and waved it in the air, saying, "Don't go! Don't go! You old thing, you want to drive people away!"
Wei Xiaoyu thought to himself that the old man's worries were not unreasonable, if there were really other places to settle down, it would be good not to disturb them. She wondered if she could persuade Mr. Xiao, but before she could organize the language, Mr. Xiao looked at her and said: "In those places on the mountain, the one that can have a ruined Taoist temple is a mansion! There are many broken tree holes and bluestone piles, I want to go to you, I don't want to bathe with dew every day!"