Chapter 382: The Story of Sand City
"My story begins when I was a child. ”
Du Lengqiu was patient, and he said lightly: "The old man speaks slowly, I just hope that you don't be like Mr. Storyteller, come to one at a critical moment and listen to the next breakdown." ”
The old man made another bowl of wine, and finally started satisfied, "When I was seven or eight years old, my family suffered a famine, and I had to follow my father and brothers in my hometown to fall into the grass and become a ringing horse blocking the road and robbing. ”
"At that time, it was really happy, and it was in response to that sentence, eating meat in large pieces, drinking wine in large bowls, earning food with swords, and throwing away people when they died, and letting God bury them. ”
There was a little more indescribable taste in his faint old eyes, as if he was reminiscing about the past.
"But the court sent soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress us. Isn't it ridiculous? During the disaster relief, I couldn't see the shadow of the adults of the court, but at this time, the adults of the court came out. ”
"We are no match for the imperial army, and we will soon die and be wounded. But the more dead and wounded, the more horses we had to spare, and finally we had two horses, or even three horses, coming and going like the wind on both sides of the river, and his grandmother went to the imperial capital to play a circle, happy. ”
"In the end, the court recruited us. Isn't it funny, I turned into an official soldier. ”
"Although it is an official army, the court is guarding us in the end. ”
"We were constantly divided, some were sent to the north to defend the border, some were sent to the west to suppress bandits, and some got on ships and went all the way south. In short, everyone is on a different path. ”
"At that time, I was still in a mess, and the court let me fight desperately, but as a result, the officials became bigger and bigger, which is ridiculous. I don't know a single word, but I actually became a big official. ”
"At that time, I was competing with foreign heroes on the battlefield, looking for life and death on the sword, which was clear and happy. ”
The old man poured another bowl of wine, this time, he was careless and only poured half a bowl, and he was no longer very arrogant, but tasted it slowly.
"Later, we finally returned victorious, and returned to the dynasty in victory. ”
"I was named the Marquis of Dingyuan. ”
"I don't know what Master Hou is, but many people have come to congratulate me. ”
"But at this time, someone finally remembered that I had been a rebel before, and that it was a, well, a ringing horse. ”
"I haven't had time to go to the fiefdom, and I have been impeached one after another, I don't know what it is, in short, there are many crimes, dozens of them. ”
"Soon, I was stripped of all official positions and sent home. ”
"After decades of tossing and turning, I'm finally back to square one. ”
"You may have guessed where my hometown is. The old man looked around, his eyes full of emotion, "My hometown is here." ”
Du Lengqiu waited quietly, obviously there was a story behind.
The old man drank slowly, occasionally eating a kidney bean and chewing half a dried tofu. Seeing Du Lengqiu sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, the old man smiled: "Young people are so patient. In the past, when I told my story so far, most of them left scolding. ”
Du Lengqiu smiled and said nothing.
The old man said: "The story is here, it should have ended. I went out or worked as a bandit and became an official, but I didn't save any money, and I came back empty-handed, so I had to grow some melons and fruits on the land left by my parents to sell. is in response, that sentence, and now selling melons and grass, and the sideburns are white. ”
"Back then, the whole village made ringing horses together, and I was the only one who came back. ”
"The whole village is deserted, I don't even have a person who can speak, and I can only tell the ghost fox the story full of stories. But at this point, it's time for a turning point in all stories, and mine too. ”
The old man said lightly: "I still remember, it was an afternoon. I was going to pull melons to a distant town to sell, but in the blink of an eye, the melons I planted turned into sand. Not only melons, everything is changing, trees, houses, everything has turned into yellow sand in the snap of a finger, only I am not the slightest abnormal. ”
Soon, a sand city sprung up. I wandered around the city in a daze, year after year. I don't need to eat, I don't need to drink. I came here to drink in Ruyiju, but I just miss the taste of drinking back then. ”
"When people are old, they like to miss. ”
"Young man, do you know how many years I've been in Sand City?"
Du Lengqiu shook his head slightly.
The old man said blankly: "It's probably 1,800 years old. I don't live or die in the sand city, but I can't get out, I can't leave. I also begged for help to take me away. But no matter how far I go, at the second sunrise, I will definitely return to this sand city. Everything was like a dream. ”
"Young man, do you say that there is meaning in living like this?" the old man's words were full of sadness
Du Lengqiu didn't nod or shake his head, and empty words of comfort were even more meaningless.
He just picked up the wine jar, slowly filled the old man with wine, and said, "This is really a good story." The old man drank another bowl. ”
After speaking, Du Lengqiu shouted: "Shop." ”
Xiao Er ran over with a smile, "What else does the guest officer need?"
Du Lengqiu said: "Give the old man another ten jars of wine, and settle the bill by the way,"
Xiao Er heard it, this is big business. Hurriedly said: "Wait for a while." After speaking, Xiao Er left with a cigarette, and then took another guy to carry the tray and carry ten jars of wine.
Immediately, Xiao Er smiled and said: "Guest officer, Chenghui, three money sands." ”
This world is like this, full of malice, any store, you have to pay with Sands.
Du Lengqiu was not surprised, he smiled casually and said, "Jinsha doesn't have it, just use this to settle the bill." As soon as he stretched out his hand, a four-colored ring of blue, blue, gold, and white appeared in the air, each of which took up a quarter of the ring.
In the middle of the ring, there was a soul standing, it was Mu Kun.
"This soul is also considered a strong man. Maybe it's enough to use it for drinking. ”
Xiao WZHI trembled, his face was full of horror, and said: "Big, big, adult, don't joke about the small ones." What's the use of this?"
Du Lengqiu said abruptly: "Isn't this worthless? It seems that your business is not big." It's far from the Heavenly Mall. ”
Immediately, Du Lengqiu patted his head again and said with a smile: "Heh, I think about it, it's okay to use this offset." He casually took out the three-star World Destroying Wheel he had obtained from Mu Kun.
The magic vessels of the Temple of the Gods have a feature, they are all made by the incense refining method. The lower limit of this magic weapon is very high, but the upper limit is very low. Therefore, the name of this three-star world destroying wheel is blowing up, but in fact, it is just a treasure weapon, not even a Taoist weapon, and Du Lengqiu dislikes it very much.