Chapter Twenty-Eight: Reckoning
The young man hiding in the vacant seat of the shop looked at the beggar who was scolding and leaving, restrained his laughter, and beat his chest hard before he could barely hold back his smile.
"What's wrong, who hit you?" The angry young man ran from a distance, looked at Chen Changsheng with black green on his face, his face was full of grief and indignation, he kicked on the ground and shouted at the beggar next to him who had not gone far: "Is it you? We report to the police. ”
Listening to the roar behind him, the beggar's pace sped up, wanting to get rid of this chaotic place, and suddenly heard the young man say that he wanted to report to the official, and suddenly stopped: "I didn't mean to, this is your brother, I thought it was a beggar, we turned big things into small things, and small things into small things." ”
After taking a few copper plates from the beggar's tattered clothes pocket, the young man waved his hand and said, "Forget it this time, if you beat my brother next time, we will see you in the government." ”
"Humph!" Listening to the young man's high-sounding words, the beggar snorted coldly and walked towards the back door of the dining hall.
The money was used to eliminate the disaster, and I could only eat some leftover food to satisfy my hunger.
"I'm sorry, brother." The young man squatted down and picked up the scattered copper plates on the ground, and said with a guilty face: "I remember wrong, the person who played with you is coming tomorrow." ”
"Tomorrow, many people wearing cyan robes will come to our town, and when the time comes, you will pounce on it, and they will accompany you to the end."
Kicking the copper coin into the cloth bag, the young man thanked the beggar in his heart, and reminded himself of the immortal sect selection apprentice who will be held every ten years tomorrow.
As soon as he thought that Chen Changsheng pounced on him and was beaten into meat by the immortals, the young man felt a burst of comfort, and the corners of his mouth could not be suppressed.
Maybe it won't be then.
"I've got to leave beforehand." The young man tried his best to suppress the laughter in his throat, and with an apologetic face, he hurried out of the town gate.
"Hahaha!" Passing a few corners, the young man leaned against the wall and laughed loudly, shouting at the same time: "Let you scare me by hitting the water ghost!" Go to hell! ”
completely forgot that Chen Changsheng didn't say a word at the beginning, it was they who scared themselves.
Tired of laughing, the young man tossed the coins in his coat pocket and made a rattling sound, and then pressed his coat pocket with his hand with satisfaction.
"Sell medicine, sell medicine! The sound of selling penetrated the walls and spread all over the streets and alleys, Xiao Er shouted in the store, picked up a bag of swollen yellow paper bags, and handed them to the crowd in a long line, "Immortal medicine, if you eat it today, you can go to Xianmen tomorrow, and you will be able to glorify your ancestors!" ”
"Little Er, I'll also have a pack of immortal medicine." A handful of rancid copper coins were thrown on the counter, the smile on Xiao Er's face froze, and he raised his eyes to look at the visitor, and after confirming that it was not a beggar who would affect the business but a young man, the smile on his face returned to normal: "Take your elixir!" ”
"With this elixir, I will definitely become an immortal!" Holding the immortal medicine in his arms, away from the noisy crowd, the young man's solemn face was relieved, but his mood became low, and he said viciously: "It's all to blame for that stupidity, and I was also infected with a rancid smell, so that others thought I was a beggar!" ”
As he spoke, the young man took out the few copper coins that were left in his pocket, spat in his hand, and rubbed them vigorously.
It wasn't until the copper coin lit up in the sun that it seemed to wash away the rancid smell that was not there in the first place.
As the sun began to set, the noisy crowds in the streets saw the dawn of dusk, their faces full of anxiety, and they put on the thick clothes hanging from their arms and left the crowded streets.
"Poof!" The gray cloth covered the stalls, and the thriving shopkeepers dispersed the crowd and covered every corner of the stalls, while he hurried into the alley wearing a big hat and coat.
The originally lively street became deserted in an instant, and even the inn closed its door.
"Come from the village, hide quickly." The pleasant and cold street was particularly clear, and Chen Changsheng raised his stupid eyes.
I saw a girl in her twenties, wrapped in a heavy cotton coat, with large beads of sweat on her face, and met Chen Changsheng's eyes with compassion: "It turned out to be an idiot!" ”
With a sigh, the girl, who was a little bloated, turned into the alley in the distance and disappeared into the street.
"Who's going to play with me!" There was no half a figure in the empty street, the doors of the shops on the street were closed, and a sense of loneliness rose in Chen Changsheng's heart.
"Whew!" The dusk light sprinkled on the wide streets, and half of the sun fell on the cliffs, taking away the summer heat, and the cold wind blew all over the streets and alleys, as if it was autumn.
Curled up in the corner of the shop, Chen Changsheng shivered all over, his limbs wrapped around his chest, and his voice trembled and shouted: "It's so cold!" ”
The skin was cold, the fingers curled up in his body were still warm, Chen Changsheng gradually adapted to the cold weather, and just as he was about to stretch his limbs, a little drop of water fell on Chen Changsheng's raised face, which was cold and cold.
The drizzle was falling, but Chen Changsheng stubbornly stayed where he was, letting the rain wet his clothes, but muttering: "Someone will play with me tomorrow, I can't go." ”
With the support of the mind, time passed little by little, and the remaining half of the sun also disappeared into the cliff, taking away the last rays.
"Smack! Smack! The sound of the rain gradually became softer, and little by little it was replaced by snowflakes in the sky, falling on Chen Changsheng's already soaked clothes, and disappeared in an instant.
"Snow!" The snowflakes falling all over the sky fell and the tips of his fingers melted into rain, Chen Changsheng shouted anxiously, waving his arms around, like a child who had never seen snow.
The warm body temperature melted away all the snowflakes, and the night was about to rise, and the bright moon was in the sky, and the snowflakes became larger and larger, and soon accumulated a thin layer around them.
The snow had completely absorbed the heat accumulated during the day, and Chen Changsheng was unable to chase the snowflakes, so he curled up in a corner, letting the snow cover the ends of his hair.
"Click, click!" There was a sound of things smashing in the distance, continuously, shaking off the snow on the tips of his hair Chen Changsheng looked up curiously, and saw milky white particles falling one after another in the air, smashing on the ground and turning into ice ballast.
The cold wind continued to blow through the streets and alleys, and the hail in the sky became bigger and bigger, from the size of an ant to the size of a dragon's eye, smashing on the ground and making a huge movement.
"Smack!" The tiles on the ground shattered, and a large amount of ice ballast burst out, splashing onto Chen Changsheng's body.
"Hide." Stupid and stupid eyes flashed with fear, Chen Changsheng looked at the approaching hail and cowered, and tried to hide under the eaves with his hands to support his body, but he was suddenly stunned in place, and said stubbornly: "No, there will be no one to play with me if I go." ”
The hail smashed on Chen Changsheng's body, blue and purple, Chen Changsheng tried his best to protect his forehead with his hand, his eyes were still stubborn.
The weather will not be touched by people in the end, as the night gradually deepens, the cold wind is even more biting, drilling through the cracks of Chen Changsheng's clothes, like a knife scraping flesh.
"Crackling" hailstones the size of a dragon's eye never left, smashing on every part of Chen Changsheng.
"Snow!" In the middle of the night, the hail in the sky gradually receded, and Chen Changsheng, who was covered in black blue and had red and purple cheeks, let go of the arms that were protecting his head, and he was already blue and red, but he excitedly pointed to the scattered snowflakes in the sky and shouted.
The style of "huhuhu" blowing in the face is no longer cold, like a warm spring breeze, taking away the ice ballast all over the ground and the snowflakes that are still falling in the air.
The snowflakes dissipated, the gentle breeze left, the night parted, the distant cliffs revealed the morning glow, and the smoke rose from the dining hall.
One day and one night are the four seasons, and this is the town of the four seasons.
"Is the person I'm playing with coming in?" The noisy street woke up the sleeping Chen Changsheng, rubbing his hazy eyes, Chen Changsheng found that there were many more people standing around him, dragging his family and mouth, looking out of the town with hope.
"The Immortal Chief is coming." A gong-like voice came from outside the town, and a dwarf shouted his arm and shouted to the crowd standing at the gate of the town: "Get out of the way, the immortal chief can't go anymore!" ”
Hearing this, everyone stepped back one after another, it was a matter of the immortal chief, they didn't want to be a little sloppy, in case the immortal chief was unhappy, the next time it would be ten years, and the people had a few more decades.
Everyone's footsteps stepped backwards one after another, and Chen Changsheng got up from the ground with a single bone, his face full of excitement, and he whispered: "Someone is playing with me!" ”
"You're Four Seasons Town!" A distant voice came from afar, and Chen Changsheng squeezed into the crowd and saw four immortals in green clothes teleporting towards this side from a distance.
"Immortal Chief, this is Four Seasons Town, and the contemptible person is the mayor of Four Seasons Town." A fat man in a brocade robe walked out of the crowd and bent down and said politely.
"We're not monsters, so Mayor Mare doesn't need to be so afraid." A fairy with a pill head helped the bent mayor with a weak hand, and said with a smile: "We still want to pick some seedlings of immortal cultivation from you." ”
Hearing this, there was a commotion in the crowd, and they all gently pushed their children forward.
"Don't worry, anyone who is far away can enter my immortal gate." The female fairy said with a smile, her eyes swept to Chen Changsheng, who was squeezing out of the crowd.
"Are you the one to play with?" Looking at the kind female fairy chief in front of him, Chen Changsheng shouted excitedly, and rushed towards the female fairy chief with a flutter.
"Presumptuous!" A deep male voice sounded, and Jiang Hui, who had a disciple of the inner courtyard tattooed on the back of one of the four, shouted, and his sleeve robe was about to fall down.
"Senior brother is just an idiot!" The female fairy elder stopped Jiang Hui's behavior with a loud voice, glanced at the senior brother, turned her head to look at Chen Changsheng, who was smirking in the distance, and said kindly: "Well, I'll play with you, are you willing to join our immortal sect?" ”