Chapter IV. Three o'clock in the afternoon
If it were me, I would have opened the door and left as soon as I played someone else. Otherwise, it will still be easy to get beaten. In other words, if Senior Qin didn't turn around and walk away after saying this, I might beat him.
But he didn't do it, but laughed happily as he reached out and stroked the neck of the snake of "Ganmu", and the stupid snake had an expression of great enjoyment, shouldn't the snake be a cold-blooded animal? Seeing that the other party was a master, and he brought a big snake, and he was an old man, I tried hard to suppress my anger and said, Senior Qin, you tease a junior like this, do you really think it's good? If you don't know, just tell me that you don't know, forget it, I'll spend more time looking for it, and I won't waste any more time on you, but what do you mean by that?
Actually, I think he still knows Master's whereabouts. Because what he just said was "just" and not telling you, this subtle tone particle made me think that he must know something, but he deliberately didn't tell me. Sure enough, after I finished asking this sentence, he gradually stopped laughing, and then said, Little baby, don't blame me for not telling you, now it's just that you are saying that you are Lin Qishan's apprentice, do you have evidence? How do I know if you're really or not, and what if you're his enemy and want to use me to find out the news and do something bad?
Although I think what he said is reasonable, but if you want me to prove that I am my master's apprentice, how can I prove it? So I asked him, I can prove it to you, but I don't know the way, you just ask the question, I'll answer.
Senior Qin patted his thigh and said, Okay! Readily! Young people deserve praise for being able to hold down the fire! Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, I will wait for you at home with the door open, remember, you must pinch the right time, not a minute early, not a second late, otherwise I promise you that you will never see me again in your life, and you will never know the whereabouts of your master.
After a pause, he said, remember, eat early, don't expect to come to me to eat. I snorted coldly in my heart and said, this is too contemptuous of people, although I am not a rich man, I am afraid that having a meal is not a problem, I am not familiar with you, who wants to mix your food. But I just thought about these words in my heart, and didn't say them, but this person was born from my heart, and I am afraid that my eye-rolling action at that time was also seen by him.
After saying that, he stood up, walked to the curtain where he had been hiding at first, and picked up a bamboo basket from the ground. I realized that there was such a thing on the ground, and he put the bamboo basket on my bed, and then said "tsk tsk!" to "Ganmu". After hearing the news, Ganmu obediently climbed into the bamboo back basket. Only then did I understand that it was because Ganmu was domesticated very well by Qin's predecessors, and he could already fully understand the master's instructions, and Qin's seniors lived in a simple place on weekdays, and their style of doing things was not according to routines, which was very weird, so even if Ganmu was kept at home and went out into the bamboo basket, for so long, it was never discovered.
The implication of Old Qin's words can be regarded as giving me a chance, but I need to verify my true body. So a farce of his late-night visit was a bit rewarding, even though I really couldn't like this weird old man.
When Ganmu got into the bamboo basket, the Qin seniors covered the lid of the basket and tied a knot with a rope. The basket is windy, so you don't have to worry about snakes suffocating, which is a good idea, and if I wasn't naturally afraid of snakes, this trick would have looked pretty cool.
I turned sideways to get out of the way so that Senior Qin could pass by me. As he passed, I took a closer look at the character on his left temple, a black figure about half an inch in size, which must have been imprinted for a long time judging by the shade of color and the degree of dipping around the edges. It was a character I didn't recognize, but it was a little different from the mantras I used to see, or Sanskrit, more like a pictotem, like a word, like a painting, and I couldn't tell what it was. But I didn't ask him, because at the moment I felt that every word I said was likely to bring shame upon myself.
As he walked to the door, he reached for the doorknob, but when he approached it, he suddenly stopped, and then looked at me with a smug look on his face, and then he interlocked his outstretched hand and snapped his fingers, and the door creaked open, as if by magic, and then he winked at me, and left my room with a smile. Until he disappeared around the corner of the stairs, I was still stupid, wearing an ugly pair of boxers, staring at the open door in a daze.
After a long time, I came back to my senses, closed the door and stood by the bed, and when I saw the slimy thing left on the bed by the spare money Ganmu, I suddenly felt nauseous, and I was frightened all night, and I was afraid that I could not continue to sleep. So he got dressed, packed up the bag that had been turned over by Qin's seniors, and began to sit in the room in a daze.
He asked me to go at three o'clock in the afternoon, and I have to say that this person was full of strangeness, and even made me feel that this person was very fond of pranks, as if he would be very happy to see others angry and unhappy. But for the craft, although it did not show itself in front of me in a short period of time, from those few tricks, I still admired it from the bottom of my heart. And the time of three quarters in the afternoon also makes me faintly feel a little uneasy, you know, in ancient times, three quarters of the afternoon was the time to ask for the cut, never auspicious time, this time to go, is it a sign of something?
I thought about it all night, after dawn I went out to find something to eat, and when I went downstairs, I passed by the location of the access control, and found that the guest house staff on duty last night was getting up from bed yawning, so I asked, what happened to you here last night, why is it so noisy, it seems that someone has broken in, right? The man said in a daze, no one had entered or left since the door was closed at night, so how could anyone break in. He laughed at me instead, you dreamed, didn't you? I didn't pay attention to him anymore, thinking that a master like Qin Laosao wanted to freely enter and exit a place that was not heavily guarded, and I thought that he had his own way.
I finally managed to stay up until it was close to noon, and it was not far from the time I had agreed with Senior Qin. At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was almost 11:45 a.m., but I didn't eat lunch, because I had thought about a lot of things, and I had eaten enough breakfast, and I was really not hungry. I arrived at the entrance of the alley outside the door of Qin's predecessor's house about 5 minutes in advance, and I saw from afar that his green wooden door had already opened, and it should be waiting for me. Gesturing my finger for the time it would take me to get to the door, he waited.
I didn't miss the appointment, I appeared at the door of Qin's senior at three o'clock in the afternoon. He was also standing inside the door, waiting for me. Because the light from the outside was far brighter than the interior, when I was at the door, I couldn't see the situation in the house clearly, but I saw that at the end of the room, there seemed to be a shrine and a candle was lit, but the flame of the candle was very strangely red.
Seeing me appear at the door, Senior Qin smiled and said, The young man is very good, on time, you have already had lunch, right? I didn't answer him, but clasped my fists and saluted, as much as I did for a junior. Then I asked, Senior Qin, since I'm already here, you can make the question. He nodded and said, yes, straight to the point, open! Save those messy rules. After saying that, he beckoned to me, meaning don't stand at the door, come in. So I walked into the house, and as I stepped into the room, he snapped his fingers again, and the door behind me slammed shut.
Although I knew that he was deliberately showing off his skills in front of me, if I had ordered the soldiers and horses in advance, I would have been able to do it, but it was not necessarily as handsome as his movements. If you have this mind to show off with a junior, why don't you do magic. After closing the door, the environment in the room darkened, but the eyes quickly got used to this environment, I quickly looked around, I was standing in the foyer, like most families, there was nothing special here, and there was a small door on the wall to my left, but there was no door panel, only a blue and white curtain was hung, through the gap I could see the furnishings inside, it should be the kitchen, but the floor was full of dust, it seemed that no one had been cooking in it for a long time. And directly in front of me stood Old Senior Qin, and behind him was a darker room, and there was the shrine in that room. Just as I was about to take advantage of this short time to observe, suddenly a thick, white thing sprang out from under his feet, and it was Ganmu, the great snake.
Although I had expected it, even though I had seen it last night, when I saw Ganmu at this moment, I couldn't help but feel a tingling in my scalp. In front of me, the bald Qin seniors and Gan Mu are in a picture, very similar to a play I watched when I was a child, called "Water Man Jinshan", Fahai beat Bai Suzhen back to its original form.
Senior Qin walked up to me, and Gan Mu also swam over with him, and I couldn't help but dodge a little. Senior Qin took out a folded piece of red paper from his arms, handed it to me, and then said to me, there is an address on it, it is not far from here, I will not tell you anything, you find it yourself, dig it yourself, you have a day, tomorrow at this time, you come back and tell me the result.
I asked, what address? Is it Master's address? So he stretched out his hand and took it, opened it and saw that it said Hankou XX Road XX No. He shook his head and said, this is the question for you, your master's ability, my old Qin knows, if you are really your master's apprentice, come back and tell me the process, I will know as soon as I hear it. I asked a little anxiously, "Why don't you tell me what you're trying me to do?"
Senior Qin smiled coldly, then turned around and walked towards the inner room. Ganmu, as he had done last night, crossed his body, then raised his head high and looked at me, as if he wanted me to leave quickly and not talk nonsense. Just as Senior Qin stepped into the door of the inner room, he snapped his fingers again, and the door behind me creaked and opened again.