Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mysterious Old Man (Three More Requests for Collection)
On public leave, Yun Manman finally could lie in bed, so he was obviously used to waking up, but he still lay on the bed and enjoyed the leisure time of the holiday.
The sky was bright, and Yunbai got up from the bed. Yun Manman assigned him the task of running and exercising every morning, and he was still a little resistant, but under Yun Manman's domineering fist, Yun Bai quickly softened. Every day, I run a few laps around the park not far from here and come back.
Yun Bai shook his head a little groggily, and really wanted to climb into bed and hug Yun Manman and sleep for a while, but thinking of Yun Manman's exaggerated appearance of opening his teeth and dancing claws, the sleepiness disappeared in an instant. After a simple freshening up, Yun Bai glanced at Yun Yiyi and Yun Manman enviously, and prepared to go out with a bitter face.
Suddenly thinking of something, the cat walked to the side of the bed, lowered her head and kissed Yun Man's smooth face, and kissed Yun Yiyi's pretty face, and left satisfied.
Yun Manman, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, blushed with a pretty face, scolded a little pervert, and continued to sleep and recuperate. In fact, Yun Manman blamed Yun Bai, she would kiss Yun Bai every morning when she went out, and Yun Bai didn't know why, she just simply learned Yun Manman.
Yunbai ran around the park, sweating and wiping the sweat from his forehead. Suddenly, I felt a fresh breeze blowing next to me, which was extremely refreshing, and this gust of wind was not only comfortable but also familiar. He looked at the place where the wind was blowing, it was a hill outside the park, Yun Bai was a little resistant to running, and rarely set foot in places that were not outside the scope of Yun Manman's planning.
However, this gust of wind aroused Yunbai's curiosity, and he ran step by step towards the mountain along the artificially hewn dirt stairs, and the more he ran up, not only did he not feel exhausted, but he felt more and more strength, and the faster he ran, he soon reached the peak. Nothing could be seen except for the bare stone, and Yun Bai frowned suspiciously.
Soon, he noticed that the strange wind was coming from the trees that blocked his view, and he struggled to break through the trees that blocked his vision and footsteps, and soon saw a clearing surrounded by trees. At this time, there was an old man with gray hair and white clothes and white pants, exercising in the open space. The old man closed his eyes, sometimes jumped, sometimes squatted, his hands were constantly drawing regular symbols, the old man's movements were getting faster and faster, sometimes floating to this side, sometimes jumping to that side, Yun Bai was dazzled, his eyes were blown by the oncoming wind, so he had to close his eyes.
At the moment when he closed his eyes, he felt the movement of the wind, this gust of wind was like a pair of hands pulling him to move, Yunbai's movements were very slow, making a lunge, jumping up quickly, there was still some lack of strength, but this strange "wind" held up his body, his slightly immature body fluttered with the wind, doing incredible movements, his hands also started spontaneously, his arms danced like wheels, and his fingers continued to move back and forth, pinching out familiar and unfamiliar handprints. The speed of the handprint is very slow, usually the body has done hundreds of movements, and the arm has conjured thousands of afterimages, and the handprint on the finger only changes once.
Yun Bai didn't pay attention, his body also gave birth to a gust of "wind" like an old man in motion, although it was very weak, and he could only shake the nearby leaves clearly, but this weak "wind" echoed with the big "wind" created by the old man's movements, sometimes converging, sometimes confronting, sometimes attracting, sometimes repelling. Gradually, a small whirlwind collided between the two of them, and the whirlwind was only the thickness of Yunbai's little finger at first, and the speed of rotation was not fast, and it could only drive some leaves next to it to slide on the ground.
Yun Bai and the old man's feet touched the ground at the same time, and then jumped high, their hands changed gestures at the same time, and their bodies writhed in the air, and the movements of the two were exactly the same, as if they were models made by the same machine. The whirlwind in the center of the two of them also gradually grew larger, and after a while, it became as thick as Yun Bai's arm. The speed of rotation is getting faster and faster, and the pulling force is also increasing, and the leaves that fall on the ground are carried around the whirlwind. The branches in the distance were also pulled by this force, and the yellowish leaves that were about to fall off on the branches broke away from the branches and flew towards the center of the whirlwind. The nameless white flower in the distance, a petal was pulled down, floating high and low towards this side, landing on Yunbai's face, emitting a faint fragrance, and continued to drift towards the center of the whirlwind.
The old man's movements gradually slowed down, and Yun Bai's movements also slowed down, but the whirlwind between the two of them rotated faster and faster, attracting more leaves and petals to fly.
As the old man changed a handprint in his hand, Yun Bai also changed his handprint, and the two stopped at the same time and opened their eyes. The whirlwind in the center of the two of them stopped like an engine that had suddenly lost power, and the cyan green leaves and colorful petals that it had pulled over scattered and fluttered in the air. Rendering this open space into a colorful fairyland on earth, the two of them are like fairies at ease in the fairyland.
"Hahaha......" The old man looked at Yun Bai, who was curious about the baby, and laughed.
Yun Bai figured out the situation here, although he didn't know what happened just now, but when he woke up, he was full of energy and refreshed, and he seemed to have inexhaustible strength all over his body, and shouted with his mouth open: "It's so comfortable!"
"Little doll, what's your name, and why did you come here alone?"
Yun Manman repeatedly told Yun Bai not to talk to strangers, Yun Bai listened to this sentence, and when he saw the kind old man on the other side asking questions, he didn't answer, but pretended to be serious and looked at the old man carefully, as if he wanted to see him through.
"Little doll, what do I ask you?"
"I said I don't talk to strangers, I haven't seen you, you're a stranger, so I don't talk to you. ”
The old man was slightly stunned and frowned, this handsome young man who looked seventeen or eighteen years old, how could he talk like a child, could there be something wrong with his brain. The old man asked tentatively, "But you have already spoken, even if you have spoken to a stranger, how will you explain it when you go back?"
"Ahh ”
Seeing that his child's mood was not pretending, the old man shook his head, sighed slightly, and said, "Since you have already talked to me, then I am not a stranger, and I will not scold you when I go back." ”
Yun Bai's eyes lit up, and he felt that what the old man said made sense, but he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Suo let go of his mood and said: "Yes, what you said makes a little sense, we are no longer strangers, so it's okay to talk to you, and you won't scold me." ”
When the old man saw that he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he was full of childishness, and he felt a trace of affection and curiosity in his heart, and said, "You haven't answered my question yet, what is your name, and why did you come here?"
Letting down his guard, Yun Bai replied unambiguously: "My name is Yun Bai, why did I come here?" I don't know, I feel that the wind here is blowing very comfortably. ”
The old man said again, "How old are you?"
"How old are you?" Yun Bai scratched his head and said with a headache: "Manman said that I am seventeen or eighteen years old, and Yiyi said that I am only four or five years old, and I don't know how old I am?" What just happened? I feel so comfortable. ”
Hearing him say this, the old man was a little surprised and said, "You really feel very comfortable." ”
Yun Bai nodded: "Yes, it's very comfortable, I still had a lot of sweat just now, and now my whole body is full of strength." After speaking, he compared his own arm.
The old man stared at Yun Bai with a serious expression, and when he raised his foot, he didn't see how he moved, and the whole person suddenly appeared next to Yun Bai, which startled Yun Bai. The old man pulled up Yun Bai's arm, and Yun Bai only felt a stream of heat pouring into his body from his arm like water, and his whole body was as comfortable as soaking in a hot bath.
After a while, the old man let go of Yun Bai's arm and looked at Yun Bai with a complicated expression, as if looking at a piece of treasure jade and as if looking at a monster.
The feeling of feeling comfortable all over the body disappeared, and Yun Bai immediately shouted unrelentingly: "Why did you let go, it was so comfortable just now, you pinch me again, pinch it again." ”
The old man patted his head amusefully and said, "Do you want to be so comfortable every day?"
Yunbai hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, yes, you help me pinch it again, as soon as you pinch it, I will be so comfortable." ”
"This can't work, you can only pinch it once a day, you come over at this time tomorrow, and I'll help you pinch it again." ”
Yun Bai looked at the kind-eyed old man in disappointment and said, "It's so troublesome, you can only pinch it once a day, it's really annoying." ”
"If you come here on time every day, I'll pinch it for you every day, so that you can be comfortable once a day?" the old man was like a wolf grandmother with candy coaxing Little Red Riding Hood to open the door.
Yun Bai opened his big black eyes and said, "Really, you don't lie to me? ”
The old man was blushing when he was seen by Yun Bai's pure and immaculate eyes, and he felt like a trafficker who coaxed children, but it was all for his good, and the old man used such a reason to convince himself.
The old man stretched out his hand and pulled Yun Bai's boy together, and said, "The hook is not allowed to change for a hundred years." ”
"How do you speak, you are not allowed to speak when you pull the hook, do it again. ”
The old man could only smile bitterly and pull the hook again, secretly wondering in his heart whether he was outdated, and the current children don't play the same set as when they were young.
Yun Bai smiled with satisfaction: "In this way, we are good friends." ”
"Yes, good friend. However, you are not allowed to mention today's matter to anyone, otherwise I will not help you pinch. ”
Yun Bai bit his lip and said, "Can't you say Manman and Yiyi?"
How did the old man know who he was talking about, he only thought that this matter could be kept secret, and nodded: "Well, good friends have their own secrets between each other, and they can't let anyone know." ”
"Yiyi also said this when she was doing bad things for a long time, are we doing bad things?"
The old man was choked by his childish words, and patiently explained: "Of course it's not a bad thing, it's just a secret between us, and only the two of us can know." ”
Yun Bai thought about it, felt that it made sense, and nodded in agreement. Then he suddenly reacted, turned around and ran, and said as he ran: "I'll go back first, Changman knows that I'll scold me if I'm late, I'll come back tomorrow and let you pinch it." ”
The old man looked at his figure and fell into deep thought. This kid isn't easy.