Chapter 4: The Presence of the Dead
A fairy, a demon and a ghost in the room, that is, me, Lin'er and Guo Huanting, looked back at the figure at the door together, but the expressions on each of our faces were very different.
Zhang Linfan is still wearing a tight black long-sleeved shirt, a dark blue and black long open sweatshirt with a hat, a pair of black leggings, a pair of tall black Martin boots, and a huge shoulder of the same color. A slightly long supple hair, black and thick, oblique bangs faintly obscured the small half of his face, his face was still as pale as paper when he first saw it, and a pair of thin lips were bright red as vermilion!
"I'm coming!"
After simply spitting out these three words, he slowly sat down in front of me, and there was a slight smile on his cold face, just like the spring breeze melting the frozen river in February, and swept away the cold air in the store for a while.
The moment I saw him, my heart beat heavily, and I almost blushed on my cheeks. I finally suppressed these sensory emotions, I poured a glass of wine and handed it to him with a plain face, without saying a word.
Lin'er tilted her cute little head, looked at him and then at me, lowered her head and looked like she was thinking about something, as if she couldn't understand something.
Glancing at her, this time I couldn't help but smile: This girl, she must be wondering, our departure was decided in a hurry, except for Chang Jing Xianjun, no one knows where we are going, and besides, what I want to hide is actually this Linfan at all!
"Linfan, how did you find it?"
Putting away her doubts, Lin'er put on the appearance of the big horse golden knife again, and sat on the chair, the dissatisfaction in her tone could be heard by anyone.
Continuing to smile, Zhang Linfan nodded slightly, as if answering, picked up the wine glass and drank it slowly, while looking at Guo Huanting, who was standing on the side so nervous that her whole body was trembling.
There is an iceberg-like enthusiasm hidden under the coldness of his eyes, but it is not easy to be noticed, or it can be said that no one else can see it except me!
Lin'er naturally understood what he was thinking at the moment, and was afraid that he would hurt Guo Huanting, so she hurriedly took a few steps in front of her, raised her eyebrows and pulled out a long whip from her waist.
"She's not a ghost, she hasn't hurt anyone, you put away that unclean look for me!"
"He just wants to know what's going on with this Guo Huanting, and it's not without malice!"
Putting the wine glass in my hand on the table, I coughed lightly, waved at her, signaled to her not to worry, and gave her a hint that I was here, not to worry.
I have always believed in me, and this time Lin'er was no exception, and put the whip back on her waist, but the person did not leave, still blocking in front of Guo Huanting.
Turning back to look at Zhang Linfan, I cleared my throat, which was a little sticky because of drinking, and repeated what Guo Huanting told us to him from beginning to end, adding some sighs by the way.
Lowering his head and staring at the wine glass he was holding in his hand, he shook the wine slightly, and at a glance, he knew that he was in deep thought, and the expression on his face changed slightly, and he felt a little like he wanted to speak.
"You don't have to worry, I just want to help her meet Tian Chen, at least let Tian Chen know that there was such a person in this world who liked him, and it was fair to both of them, and after that, she will go to the underworld, and then she will have nothing to do with the past, and forget her thoughts, but now I don't have a guy in my hands, if I want them to meet, I can only let them use "Zhuang Zhoumeng" again, if that's the case, I'm afraid that Tian Chen will only treat it as a dream!"
This is really my worry, otherwise I wouldn't have delayed until now, but it was just taken as a dream, wouldn't it be better not to see it, so as not to increase my sadness.
After listening to me, Zhang Linfan bit his lower lip lightly, then took the pitch-black back of his shoulders, took out a palm-sized object from one of the side pockets inside, wrapped it in a piece of red gilt red silk, put it on the table and gently pushed it in front of him.
"You can try this!"
His voice was low, but firm, and there was a burning gaze in his eyes when he looked at me.
"What is this?"
Lin'er pulled Guo Huanting up and quickly came up, and stretched out a finger to carefully poke the round thing.
I slapped one of her little hands away, and I took it over, and lifted the silk that was wrapped around it, revealing the color of the object, which was a large round thing with a smooth surface like a mirror, but a soft texture, and a faint fragrance.
"Where did you get such a big piece of this incense?"
looked at me expressionlessly for a long time, Zhang Linfan shrugged his shoulders slightly, if he guessed correctly, he didn't know, maybe it was handed down by his ancestors!
"Princess, what is this?"
Lin'er didn't care what he meant, it seemed that she liked this piece of incense very much, and she brought her little nose to me and sucked hard and inhaled.
Guo Huanting also likes it, although she doesn't lean towards me like her, she also inadvertently inhales her nose hard, eager to inhale more flavor into her body.
After pouring another glass of wine, I turned the glass slightly, and slowly took a sip into my mouth, feeling the sweetness slip into my throat, and it felt very transparent.
At the beginning, there was the word "rhino Zhao", and there were some records in the dictionary for a long time, probably from a legendary story recorded in the thirty-seventh volume of the "Book of Jin" "Wen Qiao Biography", Qiao, swirling in Wuchang, to Niu Zhu alum, the water is unfathomable, there are many monsters under it, Qiao then burns the rhino horn and shines on it, and it is a moment, the water tribe comes back, and the strange shape is strange. Roughly speaking, it is Wen Qiao, a famous scholar of the Jin Dynasty, who happened to be in the cold night, saw that the water was unfathomable in Niuzhuji in Wuchang, so he burned the rhino horn and inspected it everywhere, and suddenly showed the phantom of the noon hundred in the water, floating with the waves, and scared a group of people to scatter!"
After hearing this, Lin'er and Guo Huanting were still in a state of ignorance, as if they couldn't understand it at all.
"You girl, where have you gone all these years in vain!" I pinched her slender waist with some anger, and I sighed heavily, "The rhino doesn't dare to burn, it burns with a strange fragrance, and it stains the clothes and belts, and people can communicate with ghosts!"
These words were spread among the people after the word "rhino zhao" was used in those years. However, some rumors are not unfounded and untrustworthy as modern people say.
"Oh, I remember, this thing is rhino horn incense, I remember there was a small piece of it, and then I used it!"
Her memory wasn't too bad, at least she remembered that she had a small piece and used it later. It's just that it didn't make any sense to use that time, and it didn't gain anything.
Hugged the large piece of rhino horn incense from my hand, Lin'er's eyes showed the light of a philistine, and the greedy appearance almost drooled.
This kind of reaction should be regarded as human nature, after all, this pound of rhino horn incense is worth more than a pound of gold, and the piece taken out of Zhang Linfan's backpack in front of him can be described as priceless. As long as he is still a mortal, a normal person who knows that money is a good thing and cannot treat money like dung, it is bound to cause greed.
"That's not right!" Guo Huanting looked at this piece of big rhino horn incense, and her face showed a suspicious look, "This rhinoceros is a world-class protected animal, how can its horn be made into incense?
What she said is not unreasonable, but it is also a little naïve, but it also shows that the stereotypical education of children in today's society is only those knowledge in books, and some strange things are really poorly known.
"Do you think that the horn of a stupid cow can be made into this incense?" Lin'er heard her say this, and her face suddenly showed a disdainful expression, and she quickly explained, "This kind of incense made of rhinoceros horn, although the smell of ignition is almost the same as this rhinoceros horn incense, the effect is different, and it is impossible for people to communicate with ghosts, because the rhinoceros that can have that magical power is called the Mochizuki rhinoceros, isn't there an idiom called 'Rhino Mochizuki'?
"Rhino looking at the moon" comes from "Guan Yinzi Wuxianjian", and the original text is depicted like this - "The rhinoceros looks at the moon, the moon is shaped into the horns, especially because of the knowledge of life, there is a moon shape, and the beginning of the moon is not in the horns." ”
This means that the horns of the rhinoceros are curved and grow on the front of the eyes, and the vision is affected by the horns, so the moon is also curved.
And this moon-gazing rhinoceros because of a certain spiritual rhinoceros looking up at the moon when the moon bends, and absorbing the essence of the moon, then gave birth to a white thread in the core of the horn, and because of this white line, the horn of this rhinoceros made incense, and after it was lit, it could have the miraculous effect of human communication with ghosts.
This chase made it clear that my mouth and tongue were so restless that I drank two glasses of potpourri to clear my mind.
"It turns out that there are really these strange things in this world that are said to be legends, and they are real!"
Guo Huanting's gray eyes flashed with a hint of clarity, and while muttering this sentence, it was a little funny. is really a simple child, he can turn from a human to a ghost, and he has seen a ghost and sent a yin, so what else is there in this world, is it impossible?
Instructed Lin'er to go upstairs to get the incense and lotus incense burner, carefully cut a small piece of rhino horn incense, put it in his hand and gently kneaded it into a triangular slice, and wrapped it on top of the incense.
Zhang Linfan stopped with the action of drinking, and looked at my eyes full of strangeness, the sparkling black pupils were like a bay of water, and at this time the silver light of the incandescent lamp was reflected, looking forward to the brilliance!