Chapter 7 A man who is afraid of children

A man wearing a red baseball cap, sunglasses, and a khaki trench coat bought a ticket at the ticket office of Yongzuo Temple, and waited by the entrance of the temple and never entered the temple; This man leaned against the stone fence outside the courtyard gate, looking at the visitor from the high platform.

I saw this man with inch hair on his head and a medium but strong man, who took off his hat and played with it for a while, and buttoned it up again, but he didn't take off his sunglasses.

This person seems to have been waiting for someone who has not yet appeared, but he knows that the person who is waiting will come, so he looks at his phone, and then at the person who came up from the steps; Looking at the appearance of this person, it is obvious that this gate is the only way for visitors to enter the temple.

The man seemed to notice that the staff at the entrance of the temple were constantly glancing at him, and in order to avoid being noticed, he got up and walked around the door, pretending to look at the glazed dragon walls and stone lions on the left and right sides of the gate.

The temple is now a museum, and there are no monks in it. There are four major attractions here: twin towers, beamless halls, inscriptions, and peony gardens; Among them, the twin towers and the main hall as well as the meditation room and the guest hall are all buildings of the Ming Dynasty, in addition, among the many peonies in the peony garden in the Sanjin courtyard, there are seven peonies that are also plants planted in the Ming Dynasty.

Now is the season when the peony flowers bloom, and there are quite a lot of tourists, most of whom come to see the peony flowers.

A small child who came with his family ran up the stone steps first, reached the platform in front of the entrance of the temple, and used a toy bubble blowing gun to blow bubbles at the people who were still climbing the steps below; A gust of wind blew, and some bubbles floated on the face of the man standing beside the stone lion; The man drove away with his hands as he removed the sunglasses from his face towards the child.

The child chased the scattered bubbles, and when he looked back and saw the man waving away, he immediately mischievously turned the muzzle of the bubble blowing gun, as if to fire one more shot at the man; But just as he looked up at the man and was about to shoot, he saw a pair of fierce eyes shooting at him above the sunglasses, and the child suddenly seemed to be burned, trembling all over, standing there as if he was stupid, motionless, and stopped for a few seconds before turning his head and running down the stairs.

The man noticed the direction in which the child was running down, and several adults who were walking up reached out to pick him up, and some adults looked up along the child's fingers, and these people were probably the child's family members; The man immediately realized that he could not continue to linger at the gate of the temple, and immediately flashed into Yongzuo Temple—today's matter is too big to be entangled in miscellaneous matters.

This person entered the courtyard, at a glance he saw the corner of the wall behind a big tree on the right, and felt that it was very good here: some of the people who came in would be attracted by the inscription of "Introduction to Yongzuo Temple" on the left side of the entrance, gather around the stone tablet to see the introduction on the tablet, and some would go directly to the entrance of the second courtyard, stop in front of the door, and see the introduction of the broken arm stone lion. In the corner behind this tree, everyone coming in through the entrance can be observed without attracting attention.

There were a few small ants busy on the wall, and one climbed up the back of the man's hand holding on to the brick wall; The man slapped the ant to death, and then reached out hatefully and crushed the few small ants in front of him on the brick wall to death.

This man is very jealous of the little broken child.

The man remembered an incident that had happened when he was a child. I was about eight or nine years old that year, and I had to go to the back mountain every once in a while to cut firewood; One day with firewood on his back, just returned to the edge of the village, he was stopped by a big goose raised by the family at the edge of the village and did not let him pass, in fact, he could have bypassed the side, but the temper came up, no, people made way for it? How can this be! At that time, not only did I hate the domineering of this goose, but I also wanted to teach the slut who raised the goose a lesson, because there was a little broken child who loved to sue. The man saw that there was no one around, and a stick of wood was chopped off, and the neck of the big goose was immediately broken.

Just when he walked out in a refreshing mood, the abrupt cries of the goose ceased and led to the little broken child of the slutty family; When the little broken boy saw this, he immediately shouted, and ran back to pull out the adults of his family to see; Later, the family forced them to demand double the goose money, and they talked about it all over the village, ruining the reputation of this man and his family; In order not to leave a bad impression in the local area, the adults of his own family were beaten up in front of everyone. The bad thing is that little broken child! The man gritted his teeth and let out a long breath.

The man thought about the end of the incident again. A month later, strange things happened in the family, first the chickens and ducks in the family continued to decrease, and then the little broken child found that in a pit covered with leaves in the back mountain, those chickens and ducks stared at the bloody corpses, and died a miserable death; Judging from the behavior of those chickens and ducks being tied with their mouths and feet, tearing off their skins with their feathers, and then letting them slowly die of pain, the adults of the family understood that this was done deliberately; After a while, several snakes would appear at the same time in the courtyard of the family from time to time, or else they would be thrown into a hornet's nest behind the house, and they would not be at peace; The last time was when the older child of his family went up the mountain to chop wood, he was almost hit by a pile of rolling rocks and died, and those smooth stones looked like they were in the river, and no one carried up the mountain on their backs would not appear on the mountain at all.

The family of the little broken child became alert, and finally listened to the persuasion and moved the family away.

After the family moved away, every time this man came back from chopping wood from the mountains, passing by his empty courtyard and dilapidated house, he would unload the firewood and walk around his house once or twice, accompanied by a few words of contempt between his teeth: Little broken child!

Since then, this person has been rumored to be "cold-blooded" for some reason, so that fewer and fewer people have interacted with him.

It doesn't matter what they like to call it! Whenever he heard others talking about "cold-blooded" behavior, this person always secretly scoffed: "That is also called cold-blooded? I haven't seen the three eyes of Lord Ma! A sneer appeared on the man's face.

The man noticed that the little boy who was blowing bubbles had entered the monastery with his family, holding the adult by the hand, but his eyes were looking around, as if he was looking for something. The man became alert, lowered his head and took two steps back into the corner, turned the dark blue lining of his hat out, put it on, and took off his trench coat and put it in his hand.

This man tightened his teeth, and today is a little broken child again! But then he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and warned himself that today is different, the assigned thing has not been done yet, and it can't be smashed in the hands of the little broken child like this!

Last night, in the small restaurant that was picking up the wind for this man, he sat opposite him with his back to the light, and his face was a little unclear, which made this person feel that his mind was difficult to understand.

After a few brief conversations, he walked up to the man, leaned down, and whispered in his ear about today's mission.

As the man looked back at him in astonishment, he straightened up and went out to answer the phone on his own.

After a while he came back and said, "I have something to do, I have to go first, and when I'm done, we'll find time to talk." As he spoke, he took out a stack of money and a mobile phone from his bag and put them in front of this person's desk, "The money is for your living expenses these days, if it's not enough, come back to me, the mobile phone is used for the two of us to contact, don't look for me if it's okay." After saying that, he glanced at the man who was staying there, and went out.

The man sat there staring at what he had laid down for a long time before he came back to his senses; It seems that he meant that obedience and disobedience must be followed!

Unexpectedly, meeting with him did not get his wish as originally envisaged, and he took on this task more! The man sat for a while, thought silently for a while, and finally shook his head, knowing in his heart that there was no other way to realize that long-cherished wish than obedience! Then he put away the stack of money with a sad heart, got up and settled the bill, and went out to the rented house.

Just as he was thinking, this man turned his eyes and suddenly saw the little child he wanted to dodge, staring at him on the side of the path not far from his family.

Looks like it's going to get entangled today! Looking at the child's appearance again, it seems that he is still in doubt, and may not be able to fully recognize himself; This man was so heartfelt that he immediately put on a trench coat, turned around and walked towards the small courtyard to the west.

This man knows that curiosity is the nature of a child, and once he recognizes what he wants to explore, the more you avoid him, the more he has to come up to see what is going on; This person decided that if he can shake it, if he really can't get rid of it, it is better to have a quick knife to cut through the mess, and ask him to open his eyes to see what Ma Wang Ye is!

There is a public toilet in the small courtyard on the west side, and there is a wall in front of the public toilet, which is facing the round arch next to the second courtyard.

After entering the hospital, this person quickly came to the public toilet, and when he looked back, the little broken child followed, and his adult did not follow behind! The man hurriedly took advantage of the photo wall in front of the toilet to hide, but it is estimated that the little broken child has already seen it.

Listening to the footsteps of the children trotting all the way closer and closer, then the little head probed over the wall to look; The man stretched out his hand and grabbed the child by the neck and dragged him to a nearby corner. The child was about to cry, but the man covered the child's mouth.

The child and this person looked at each other, probably seeing the cold light of the sword again, and suddenly turned pale with fright, the child probably had never seen such a fierce appearance, and a stream of heat flowed down the trouser leg.

This man was about to make another ruthless move, so as to completely cut off the idea of the little broken child's tracking, when he suddenly heard the shouts of the adults calling the children, and he whispered to the children: "Close your eyes!" ”

The child trembled and closed his eyes obediently. The man turned the child around, faced the corner, and whispered, "Don't turn around!" ”

Then, this person quickly entered the second courtyard through the side round arch, walked a few steps, and then turned left and returned to the first courtyard from the main gate of the second courtyard.

The man waited in a different place, and the new place could both notice the visitors entering the door and observe the people coming out of the small courtyard on the west side; This person knew that, according to his previous experience, the little broken child should be afraid of entering the hospital, and he would not dare to come back here alone.

In the small courtyard to the west, there was a faint sound of the child's cry and the sound of the adult's counting.

Again, the man told himself that he couldn't waste any more time on this little broken child, because what he was going to do today was so important! The man gritted his teeth not only at the thought of the whispers on his cheek from the man he had assigned to do the matter last night, but also at the thought of a great opportunity that he had become aware of that was coming. After looking at the time, it was almost nine o'clock, and the people who were waiting should come.

There are two people to wait, this person has seen one of them named Zong Zhenlei, and the other person should be a woman, walking with him.