It's already more than half of noon, Ah Lan and the white-haired rickety old man have also drunk three rounds, and both of them are good drinkers, this drink, more than a dozen jars of farmhouse wine have been drunk by these two people, a white-haired old man, a young man, the two of them just poured on the edge of this wine table, and the big men in cloth clothes behind the old man, those men who were called eight ghosts by the white-haired rickety old man, are now staring at these two big and one small two living treasures dumbfounded, no one would have thought, In this way, two people could drink a large bowl of wine for each of the whole group, but they could only express their horror but could not say anything, and still stood respectfully behind the white-haired rickety old man.

Ah Lan drank the wine and said as if opening a conversation: "Ouch, old man! You can't do it, you're drunk. ”

The white-haired rickety old man patted his face, which had become red because of drinking, and said with a smile: "Yes, there is no way, I may be really old, let me tell you, when I was young, I didn't know what it meant to be drunk." ”

Ah Lan squinted at the white-haired rickety old man and said, "But you, you know that you can say this, then you are not drunk!" ”

The white-haired rickety old man smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, whether it's really drunk or fake drunk, what does it matter?" ”

Ah Lan nodded, looking very much in agreement with what the white-haired rickety old man said;

The old man turned his head to look at Ah Lan, his cloudy eyes suddenly became clear, and he said slowly: "There are areas in this world that we can't touch, some ......."

The white-haired rickety old man said, looked up at the sky, looked like he wanted to say something, looked at the sky surrounded by a huge scorching sun and said: "Just like this sun, all of us can know its existence, but we all know that we can't have or even get close to it after exhausting our lives, some goals that we can't achieve with a lifetime of hard work, we have paid infinite hope for it, but in the end we are extremely disappointed, life is like this, society is like this, no one can change ......"

Ah Lan looked at the eight ghosts behind the rickety old man, they were still standing behind them with expressionless faces, and then looked back at the rickety old man, sighed and said, "This is the reason why you are still staying in the white wooden boat!" ”

The white-haired rickety old man didn't pick up Ah Lan's words, and continued: "So, whether you are drunk or not, what does it have to do in such a life? ”

Ah Lan drank another big bowl of wine and said, "What a bowl of potpourri!" This is no ordinary wine! So do you, old sir! ”

The white-haired rickety old man still didn't pay attention to Ah Lan, he continued to say to himself: "People will never know whether Bai Muzhou is a shelter or a cage, and even I don't know now what is trapping us in this world!" ”

The white-haired rickety old man looked at Ah Lan and smiled, showing a strange expression, he waved his hand, and beckoned to the eight ghosts behind him, the eight ghosts nodded, and they dissipated like ghosts, Ah Lan clearly knew that even if he was not drunk, in his peak state, he might not be able to see when and how these eight ghosts disappeared, this is an unscientific existence, and it really happened in front of Ah Lan's eyes.

The white-haired rickety old man shook his head, refused the wine handed by Ah Lan, said that he couldn't drink it anymore, and said: "Now I'm alone here, I'm happy, your goal has been achieved, I'm really drunk if I drink it again, just ask whatever you want, I won't accept your questions, but only this time!" ”

When Ah Lan heard this, her drunken face immediately disappeared, and her face became serious, and she asked, "Why don't you ask me why I'm here?" Aren't you curious at all? ”

The white-haired rickety old man didn't seem to care at all, half-squinted his eyes and crossed Erlang's legs and said: "Everyone comes to Baimuzhou, there is a purpose, there are people who farmed there before, and there are also people who are selling fish on the other side, I don't need to ask one by one, I also have the same purpose for me to come to Baimuzhou, and asking questions is a kind of consumption in itself." ”

Ah Lan frowned, stood up, and said, "I thought you would want to know, or you wouldn't have bothered to bring me here for a drink!" ”

The rickety old man suddenly seemed to be in the spirit again, his eyes looked at Ah Lan like a goshawk seeing prey, and said, "Then I will ask, what is the purpose of your coming?" ”

Ah Lan looked at the rickety old man's gaze as if he had met a person he hadn't seen for a long time, so profound, so indescribable, but Ah Lan finally suppressed the restlessness and fear in his heart, and asked: "Since you asked, then I also want to ask you, where is the flower basket of Guangtong God?" I'm here for it. ”

The old man looked at Ah Lan's gaze, laughed, and said, "Sure enough, you still said the purpose, didn't you?" ”

Ah Lan laughed when he saw the rickety old man laughing, sat down while laughing, picked up the last bowl full of wine, drank it with a head up, and said: "Old man, although you have never exposed your true strength, but the speed of the bowl of wine I handed you just now is completely unclear to me, just a few drops of wine were spilled, but you can easily see that I handed you wine, and turned sideways to dodge, your strength must be above me, and those who are above me are all great people in this world, A great man must not have had any thoughts on the flower basket of the gods. ”

The white-haired rickety old man stood up with a smile and said, "Or maybe it's a coincidence, in fact, I don't know anything at all, in fact, I don't have any strength at all, or do I just have thoughts about the flower basket of the gods?" ”

Ah Lan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and looked at the rickety old man blankly, and the white-haired rickety old man said: "You are very smart, but how do you know if I am pretending, and how do you know that I am not one of the eight ghosts to replace me?" As soon as the words fell, the rickety old man had lost his trace, Ah Lan looked left and right and didn't find the old man's figure, suddenly a force on his shoulder, Ah Lan turned around suddenly, subconsciously punched out, and hit the big tree next to the old man, and Ah Lan's fist marks were clearly visible on the trunk;

Ah Lan looked at the face of the white-haired rickety old man and looked at him in surprise, Ah Lan knew that if his punch was not deliberately out of position when fighting, this punch would definitely hit the rickety old man's face, Ah Lan also knew that as long as this punch continued, the white-haired rickety old man would definitely die!

Ah Lan asked in surprise, "You...... Why don't you dodge? ”

The rickety old man smiled and looked at Ah Lan and said, "I said, I'm too old to hide!" ”

Ah Lan said: "Impossible, you can suddenly appear behind me!" How could you not hide from it? ”

The white-haired rickety old man said: "Anyway, believe it or not, I said my answer, okay, now I'm leaving, the next time we meet again to ask questions, you need to pay questions, you have to know clearly how many questions you have!" The price of a meal is a problem, weigh it yourself. After the rickety old man finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, leaving Ah Lan alone with a puzzled expression.

The rickety old man staggered while shaking his head while leaning on crutches, and said, "Isn't it very good that you saved two lives with this action!" ”

Ah Lan frowned, looked at the back of the rickety old man and said, "I saved you and myself?" ”

The old man nodded and continued to walk forward: "No, if I die, no one will kill you!" ”

Ah Lan touched his chin and said, "What about the eight ghosts, if they make a move, I think I will definitely die!" ”

The rickety old man shook his head and said, "The premise is that I am not dead, if I die, they will not kill you, and maybe, they will offer you as a benefactor!" ”

After listening to this, Ah Lan realized that it turned out that a single tribe on this white wooden boat would have such a complex relationship.

Ah Lan paused suddenly, and asked slowly, "I wonder why they never called your name?" ”

When the old man heard this, he turned around, looked at Ah Lan and said:

"Because, asking my name also consumes a question, and a question for something so inconsequential, no one thinks it's worth it, and naturally no one knows my name after a long time."

Ah Lan asked, "You've been here for a long time?" ”

The old man replied, "I think it's been a long time, long enough for the world to forget me!" ”

The old man turned around and walked over and continued: "The eight ghosts will send some more wine over later, you can drink it or take it away as you like, and the next time we meet, if you have a hundred powers to ask questions in your hand that can be used to pay, it will be when I will take you to find the flower basket of the Guangtong gods!" ”

Ah Lan said silently in her heart: "But I only have ten days left!" ”

Ah Lan looked at the old man's back and asked, "Can I know your name?!" ”

After hearing this, the rickety old man suddenly froze his body that was about to go away, suddenly turned around, and shouted: "Stop, eight ghosts!" ”

Ah Lan seeped out when he heard this cold sweat brushing the ground, and he realized at this time that the group of cloth-clothed men beside the white-haired rickety old man had appeared beside him at some point!

Ah Lan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his hands clenched into fists, ready to exert force.

It's not impossible to fight, but that must be under the condition that the combat ability is almost the same, and now Ah Lan is like a strong man with bare arms, completely exposing his chest in front of the other party, and the other party is like a horse as fast as thunder and lightning under him, holding a sharp sword in his hand to compare Ah Lan's breast, such a battle must not be triggered, so Ah Lan can only defeat and drag himself into the abyss, so Ah Lan stopped his hand, but still looked around vigilantly, Finally, he fixed his eyes on the rickety old man.

The rickety old man stared at Ah Lan for a long time, for a long time, sighed, coughed and said, "You don't need to know, I came to Baimuzhou to forget my name." After speaking, the old man waved his hand, and the eight ghosts followed in an instant, and the old man disappeared from Ah Lan's field of vision little by little.

Ah Lan had no clue again, so he had to sit down stupidly, picked up the wine that the eight ghosts had just brought, and drank it into his stomach in a big gulp, the hot feeling surged from his chest through his throat to his mouth, and poured into his heart, Ah Lan smashed the cup, he knew that he was drunk, yes, the rickety old man was right, this world is like this, what can it matter if you are really drunk or fake?

Ah Lan wanted to indulge himself so much, the sun was almost down the mountain, and the small village of the tribe here seemed to have no electricity, and there were very few places to use electricity, so there were no street lights on the side of the road at all, and only the fire-like sunset and the stars in the night sky could illuminate, so the people here have a good tradition of not leaving home at night.

Ah Lan lay on the wine table made of stone, looked at the last trace of the remnant sun that was about to disappear, sighed, and muttered: "The sunrise works, the sunset rests, that's all, it's good."

Ah Lan narrowed her eyes and wanted to just fall asleep......

"You're so tired, let go of these baggage." A gentle voice said.

Ah Lan raised her head, but her chin was still on the stone table, and she opened her eyes that were about to squint, and looked at the source of the voice in front of her suspiciously;

Dressed in plain clothes, white simplicity, white moving, flowing long black hair, a pair of eyes that can penetrate everything, Ah Lan looked at it, the sun had quietly fallen into the darkness, and the bright moon didn't know when it rose, but now it was hanging high in the sky, Ah Lan just stared quietly, staring at .......

As if thinking that he would be in a dream, Ah Lan said slowly, "Why are you here?" ”

"Where will I be if I'm not here?"

After receiving a specific answer, Ah Lan raised his head, his chin finally left the stone table, and said, "But weren't you taken away?" ”

After speaking, Ah Lan looked around, "Don't look for it, I'm alone here, and I'm sitting across from you." ”