This hoarse voice is like the feeling of a person who has a cold for a long time and has not recovered, and has coughed for a long time and has become ill, hurting his lungs and throat. And there is an obvious accent between the words, I have been here for a few days, and I have gradually mastered the rules of the local accent, and the feeling of this person speaking is not local.

I looked in the direction from which the hoarse male voice came, the window I had opened last night to let me breathe, my room was on the second floor, and it was easy for a man to climb up. So I asserted that he and the serpent must have entered the house through a window.

But I only heard the voice, but I did not see anyone, so I asked who was there talking, sneaky, come out to me! I tried to raise my voice to reassure myself, because I was so scared, and I was actually more afraid of the big snake in front of me than the voice of the invisible person.

At this time, the curtain moved slightly, and from behind the dark curtain, came out a man who was about the same size as me, but looked stronger and stronger, bald, with some gray hair, some messy white hair on the sideburns, a full beard, so much that he couldn't even see his mouth, and on the left temple, there seemed to be a tattoo of something, but I couldn't see it clearly from a little distance. The eyes are the same as ordinary people, except that the black kernel of the left eye seems to be covered with a layer of misty white, which can be clearly distinguished from the eyes. And judging by his dark skin and wrinkled face, this man was at least in his sixties.

People of this age, we carried a big snake in the middle of the night, climbed up to the window on the second floor, and when we were still finishing all this, I had to be amazed. And looking at the canvas bag I had placed next to the bed, the things had been turned over, which meant that he had checked the contents of my bag before I woke up. If he wanted to steal, he could have walked away quietly, and I wouldn't even wake up, and he hid behind the curtains and let the snake wake me up, and no doubt he didn't take me seriously in the slightest, even after he had seen my bag full of various metaphysical artifacts.

According to the description of the middle-aged woman before, I knew that the person who lived in that house was a bearded person, so when he appeared, I knew that he was the Qin seniors I came to find this time. And he met me in this way, and I have to say that the degree of this perverse and eccentric is really not ordinary.

So I said a little angrily, Senior Qin, you are also an old person, do you think it is appropriate to scare me a junior in the middle of the night? Originally, I used this sentence to express my dissatisfaction, and by the way, I told him that I already knew who he was. But the other party said disapprerovingly, this is strange, you came to me by yourself, and left your address, now I came, but you are not happy.

In a few words, I understood the strangeness of this person, and knew that if I continued, I would be the only one who suffered. So I stood up straight, and retracted my hand from the angle where I wanted to grab the boiling kettle, and I said to him, Senior Qin, since you are here, don't scare me so much. Could you please get rid of this big snake first, it's on my bedside, and I look very uneasy. When talking to these old rivers and lakes, I also have to pretend to be old-fashioned, otherwise others will think that you are a bully. But when I said this, he burst out laughing, and this laugh made me see for the first time his mouth in the middle of his beard, and a big mouth popping out of his black beard, not to mention how strange it felt.

Laughing, he walked over to my bed, sat down at once, and then held out two fingers and stroked the snake's head as if gently. And what's even stranger is that the snake actually looks very enjoyable and very cheap, just like Aunt Xu's rhubarb, every time I touch it like this, it looks very cool and stupid. Obviously, this snake has been domesticated by Senior Qin, and if it weren't for his instructions, the snake would definitely not attack me. When I thought of this, I was a little relieved, and turned my head to look at the big snake, which actually swam to the lap of the old man Qin very docilely, and gently leaned on the knee of the old man Qin as if it was leaning on a pillow, but it was still spitting out the letter and looking at me.

Qin seniors said, it is called "Ganmu", and it has been with me for thirty years, and it is older than you. A child like you, if Ganmu were to let you die, you wouldn't live long. I was a little scared in my heart, as soon as Senior Qin said this, I couldn't understand what his intentions were. It stands to reason that any two people who have not known each other before would never say such an unlucky thing as the death of the other person when they meet for the first time, and he did so, and judging from what he had experienced before, it seems that he had done it intentionally from the beginning, in order to frighten me and make me afraid.

I must say that his purpose has actually been achieved, and if this person and snake in front of him want to take my life, I am afraid it will be easy and pleasant. But why? Didn't I come to find my master, why did I die in this shabby guest house so inexplicably? So I hurriedly said, Senior Qin, I haven't lived long enough, I came here this time, in fact, not for anything else, I just want to find my master. Because the family teacher mentioned in the letter before, he made a special trip to visit you, but there was no news after that, and I was a little anxious as an apprentice, so I asked our local sources to inquire about your current residence, and it was really a bit abrupt to visit rashly, and I also hope that the old Qin seniors will be ignorant when I am young and raise my noble hand.

I bowed deeply, but he laughed again. I was half-hunched, and when I heard the laughter, I froze there in embarrassment, and I didn't know what to do, in principle, the junior saluted the elder, and if the elder didn't speak, I didn't dare to get up. So when he laughed, I could only stand in this position, although I had heard of this rumored perverse person for a long time, and now that I was able to see it, I found that those rumors were not accurate enough, and this person's strangeness can be explained in a few words.

Senior Qin laughed for a while and said, you don't have to bow over like a cat, stand up quickly, your master is much tougher than you! His last sentence, with a slight sense of reproach, seemed to say that I was less courageous and not as good as my master. The same sentence also tells me that my master has indeed met him, which means that if I can find out at least some of Master's whereabouts through his connections.

I stood up, and Senior Qin asked me, are you Lin Qishan's apprentice? I said yes, the only apprentice, and I emphasized the word "one", indicating that my roots are red. Old Qin said, why do you think I will know your master's whereabouts, maybe now I don't know where I have traveled, I have fun, and I didn't tell you. I was shocked and asked, do you mean that my master is no longer here now? I haven't heard from him for almost two years, and the last time I heard from him, it was coming to you, and that's why I'm here too.

But Senior Qin said with a gloating smile, That's not necessarily, maybe your master doesn't want to contact you anymore, then maybe, whoever accepted such a straw bag apprentice is not anxious, it is better to play and disappear, and from now on everyone will live their own lives.

I have to say, this person really doesn't like what he says, straw bag apprentice, naturally he is talking about me, and I begin to regret the only two words I just emphasized. So I asked, you climbed over the wall like a thief in the middle of the night to find me, could it be just to ridicule me and make a special trip to say these inexplicable words? I am young and vigorous, and it is not easy to hide my edge on weekdays, but now I am washed by an old man in front of me, how can I feel embarrassed? So my words also carried my displeasure with his previous words, and at the same time I said it politely.

Qin's predecessors said, over the wall? You still don't believe that you are a straw bag, you look at me as an old man, can I still climb over the wall? I walked in through the door in the open! I turned my head to look at the door, a little incredulous. Because this guest house closes around twelve o'clock in the evening, only one staff member is left at the reception on the ground floor, and none of them are receiving guests, but sleeping. If Senior Qin wants to walk in directly, he needs to ask the other party to get up and open the door for him, but at this point in time, he is an old man with a big beard and a big snake, I don't think anyone will open the door for him.

Although I don't know how he got in, I still believe that he has a way, but I can't guess for such a master. So I asked, why couldn't I open this door just now? He smiled and said, "Didn't you run away when you opened it?" Now that I'm all in, can I still let you out?

I stopped talking, and he stopped talking. After a while, he suddenly spoke, "Aren't you going to inquire about your master?" Why don't you speak? I was angry all of a sudden, I didn't say angrily, I inquired just now, but I was ridiculed by you, you said that my master went elsewhere, and refused to tell me where he was, and now you come to ask me why I don't inquire, you are really not an ordinary strange here, others say that you are unfathomable, your whereabouts are secretive, I see that you are simply withdrawn and unable to integrate into the circle, no wonder a snake can accompany you for thirty years, you don't even have a living friend.

When I said this, I was actually a little reckless, but I don't care, I'm not an opponent anyway. But he was not angry, but smiled all over his face, and looked very comfortable, which was the same as the snake. Then he smiled and said, I'm already here, if you don't ask me, then I'll leave.

With that, he stood up and made a gesture to leave. So I endured it, afraid that he would really leave, and asked angrily, Okay, Senior Qin, please tell me where my master has gone now.

He laughed out loud with a successful plan, hahaha, I won't tell you!