Chapter 2 Birth and Departure
"This talisman is called the invisibility talisman, let everyone watch, but never take it out!" Old man Wei solemnly took out a black talisman from the mezzanine of the talisman bag, and under his calm breath, he looked at his nose and nose and heart, and silently recited words in his mouth, and in the attention of everyone around him, he pasted the black talisman on the center of his eyebrows.
"Hidden!" a burst of shouts came out of his mouth.
I saw a flash of black light, and the slightly hunched figure of Old Man Wei actually disappeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"Wow!" the crowd of onlookers suddenly boiled.
"It's really gone!"
"I didn't expect Old Man Wei to have this ability!"
"Wow, it's amazing, I can't see it!"
When the young man with a mole on his forehead and the young man in a blue shirt saw this scene, they glanced at each other, but their eyes were full of disappointment.
"Not the person we're looking for. β
"Three breaths at most. β
The two of them said casually, no longer in the mood, and were about to turn around and leave, when five breaths had passed.
"Hmph, let me help him show up!" The blue-shirted young man turned around abruptly and slapped at the place where Old Man Wei disappeared.
Hearing the sound of "poof", like a heavy hammer hitting the defeated floop, the figure of the old man Wei reappeared in place, and before he could stand firmly, he sat down on the ground, opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his face was as white as snow paper.
The young man with a mole on his forehead had a slight trace of unbearable in his eyes, threw out a money bag, and walked away with the blue-shirted youth.
"Wei Zhen, something has happened to your old man!
Wei Zhen, who was immersed in counting the harvest of trading in the morning, suddenly heard someone calling him from afar, and when he looked up, it was Du Suo's father, Du Locksmith.
"Old man Wei has an accident?" Wei Zhen only felt a "buzzing" sound in his head, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he threw the money bag and ran over.
The crowd of onlookers was overwhelmed by this abrupt scene, and the scene suddenly became dead silent, and no one noticed the secret action of the blue-shirted young man and the departure of the two.
"Old man Wei, how do you feel?" Zhao Houde's father, Zhao Langzhong, walked out of the crowd and stepped forward to hug Old Man Wei's trembling body.
Old man Wei only felt dizzy, and he barely froze his mind and saw the faces of the people who came.
"I'm dying, go find Wei Zhen, ...... quickly"
"The locksmith Du has already gone, you can support it for a while!" A trace of tears flashed in the corners of Zhao Langzhong's eyes, and his right hand pinched Old Man Wei's acupoint fiercely. As an old man, he can naturally see that the other party has reached the point where the oil is running out, and he is just holding on at this time.
"Don't you sleepβalas, you and I are both old, so why bother to compete with young people?" Zhao Langzhong was half relieved and half had nothing to say, for fear that Old Man Wei would not wake up if he fell asleep.
"Hehe-" Old Man Wei smiled bitterly, and before he could say anything, the blood from the corner of his mouth gushed up again.
"Everything is fate. He was powerless to argue, and his eyes became a little glazed.
A childish anxious voice came from afar-"Old man Wei, old man Wei, I'm here!" It was Wei Zhen who ran all the way and shouted and shouted.
"It's here!" Zhao Langzhong said happily.
"Okay, the little rabbit cub is finally here, and it's not in vain for me to raise him. Old man Wei was refreshed and sat up on the spot.
A moment later, Wei Zhen stumbled in from the crowd, threw himself down and hugged Old Man Wei tightly.
"Old man, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? Who made you like this? The young master went to burn down his chicken coop and dog pen tonight......
Wei Zhen said a lot in one breath, while carefully brushing the blood from the corners of Old Man Wei's mouth with his cuffs.
Old man Wei patted his little head and whispered, "Old man, I'm leaving, I'm going to a far, far away place, and I'll ...... later."
"Don't lie to me, I'm not a three-year-old child, you're going to die, you don't care about me anymore!" Wei Zhen shook his head violently, and this time he used all his strength to hug Old Man Wei a little tighter. Since he was sensible, he had been dependent on Old Man Wei for his life, and at this time, his true feelings were revealed, and he could see that the eyes of the surrounding people were a little red.
"You said that you want to see my master grow up and marry a daughter-in-law, and give birth to a few more little me, I haven't married a daughter-in-law for a day, you are not allowed to go anywhere, and you are not allowed to die!"
Even though he is still young, he also understands that in this world, he is helpless and has no relatives, only Old Man Wei is the closest person to him in this world, and he is unwilling to lose.
"Wei Zhen!" Old Man Wei's tone suddenly became stern, and his hands supported Wei Zhen's little face, but in the face of this red little face and the tears that were rolling in his pure eyes, his voice couldn't help but become soft the next moment.
"Silly boy, the old man is really leaving, and if he leaves, he will never come back. β
With a "wow", Wei Zhen finally couldn't help but cry, tears welling up.
Old man Wei didn't stop him, let him cry, vent the sadness in his heart, in fact, he was reluctant to leave.
"You remember, in the ......" When Wei Zhen stopped for a while, Old Man Wei hugged him tightly into his arms, and gave him a detailed explanation, then his eyes opened and closed, and his dry head tilted down.
"Ahh......h
Wei Zhen cried heartbreakingly, his little body suddenly twitched, and he fell unconscious in an instant.
Two days later, on a remote hill outside Wild Dog Town, there were graves and wooden signs erected everywhere. In an inconspicuous corner, there was a low grave, the color of the earth fresh and moist, apparently a new grave.
In front of the grave, a wooden sign more than a foot high was erected, on which were written "The Tomb of Old Man Wei" with five ink characters, and Wei Zhen, who was dressed in plain clothes, leaned quietly in front of the grave.
"Old man Wei, I'm coming to see you again! I brought your favorite roast chicken, baked potatoes, and wild vegetable porridge. β
"Don't be angry, come out quickly, I've slept enough, it's a big deal, I, Xiao Zhenzi, listen to you in everything, don't make you angry......"
He was talking to himself, and he didn't know how long.
In the distance, two fat and thin figures ran towards this side, it was Wei Zhen's two little playmates, Zhao Houde and Du Suo.
"Wei Zhen, my dad said you were leaving Wild Dog Town in a few days, didn't he?" Du Suo asked in a soft voice, his voice like a girl's.
Wei Zhen's eyes darkened, and he nodded after a long time.
"How long are you going?" Zhao Houde, who was tiger-headed, snorted vigorously and scratched his eyes.
"I don't know. Wei Zhen paused and continued. "But I'll definitely come back to see you, Old Man Wei is here too. His voice was unnaturally lowered.
"Well, then we can play together again!" said the two playmates.
The three of you say a word to me, and talk nonsense from east to west, after all, children's hearts, where do they understand that the world is changeable, and people are like dogs.
"Wei Zhen, shall we dig out the bird's nest?"
"If you don't go, I'm going to accompany Old Man Wei more, he will be very lonely when he is alone inside. β
"Oh, let's go first. β
After the two playmates walked away, Wei Zhen reclined down again, and while continuing to tell Old Man Wei about some of the broken locks in the wild dog town and their broken house, he played with the jade bead the size of a little finger that had grown around his neck.
This bead seems to be made of jade, but it is not exactly, there is a faint mist in it, and even the well-informed Zhao Langzhong does not know it. In the last letter in the corner of the bedside wall, the old man Wei said that this bead was a token left by Wei Zhen's father and mother, and he was placed in swaddling clothes when he picked him up, and he was afraid that he would accidentally lose it, so he never dared to let him take it.
In addition to the letter, there were three pieces of bark-like object and an accessory half the size of a palm, which had only a very simple rune carved into it. Old man Wei used to ask Wei Zhen to learn, but he would rather die than obey, so he didn't know what it meant after watching it for a long time. Before he died, he told him to take this accessory to a city called Jiaozi City, and give it to the shopkeeper of an inn in the city, and someone would naturally take care of him in the future.
This is all that Old Man Wei left behind after his death.
"Do I have my own father and mother? Where are they? Why did they leave me?" Wei Zhen's eyes fell on the mist in the jade bead at some point, and his little head was full of thoughts, causing him to lose his mind for a while.
In a trance, he didn't know where he had come, it was empty, he couldn't see the sky, the earth, or a single figure, and a faint mist floated in the air.
"What kind of place is this?" Wei Zhenqiang couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, looked around, took a deep breath, a trace of mist entered his nostrils, this mist did not know whether it was poisonous or not, he inhaled it, his spirit lifted a little, and even the fear in his heart calmed down a little.
"Anyone?" he bolded, aimlessly walking through the emptiness, asking aloud questions to embolden himself.
I don't know how long he walked, how far he walked, and in the distance he seemed to see a phantom of a tree in front of him, and under that phantrum, there seemed to be a human figure.
"Old man Wei, is that you?"
Wei Zhen was pleasantly surprised, his pace couldn't help but speed up a little, and he got closer and closer, and he finally saw clearly, there seemed to be a ...... sitting under the tree
"Wei Zhen!"
I felt that someone slapped him on the shoulder from behind, Wei Zhen turned around suddenly, woke up, opened his eyes, and looked up, but the person standing in front of him was Zhao Langzhong.
"You kid, why did you sleep in this place, and you weren't afraid of being bitten by wild beasts!" Zhao Langzhong pulled Wei Zhen up, patted the mud and grass grains on his body, and pulled him towards the direction of the town.
"Someone is going to Jiaozi City tomorrow, and I have entrusted that person to take you there. Zhao Langzhong said.
Wei Zhen hadn't fully woken up at the moment, and he didn't understand in his heart whether everything just now was true, or was it just a dream?
It wasn't until he was about to walk down the hill that he thought of Old Man Wei again, and suddenly looked back, only to see that Old Man Wei's short lonely grave seemed more and more lonely in the corner of the setting sun.
"I'll be back, Old Man Wei. He said silently in his small heart.