Text Chapter 4 What a store
The evening in the back mountains always seems extraordinarily quiet, and the setting sun casts a large afterglow on the wilderness, and the world is peaceful for a while.
At this moment, Cher was surprised to find a white dove on the latticework of the old man's house, with a slender body and wings constantly fluttering, causing a few wisps of grass growing in the dust on the window to fall straight to one side. The little girl's eyes flashed, could she improve the food tonight?
"What a fat pigeon!" thought to him, and a lot of saliva was already dripping down.
Luo Tian casually untied the yellow silk on the pigeon's legs, and threw the big white pigeon into the air under the angry gaze of the little girl. Looking at the neat handsome small characters on the yellow silk, I couldn't help laughing. "On the third day of March next year, we will see you in the capital."
"Xue'er, clean up, we're going to go far away!
The mountain path is quiet and empty, only the sound of stepping on the ground again and again comes to mind.
"I said Xue'er, we don't need to bring so many things!" Luo Tian carried a big package, the appearance was cloud-white, lattice-shaped, and occasionally there were a few black and white patches, and he could faintly smell the disgusting smell of sweat, Luo Tian became more and more suspicious that this was the bed sheet that the old man had slept in for half his life. As for what was in the package, Luo Tian didn't know, Xue'er only let him carry it on his back in the past few days, and never let him see it.
"What can it be?" Luo Tian was really puzzled, there didn't seem to be anything of value at home! The old man's cabinet had been open for several years.
The little girl still didn't say anything, and a little bead of sweat appeared on her forehead.
No one would have imagined that in this very place where the birds do not poop and the chickens do not croak there will be an inn, although it is only a few loose rows of thatched huts, a mast standing straight in front, and a broken flag snorting in the wind. The flag is very simple, and it reads "a good shop"
It's funny, Luo Tian took off his mud-stained shoes and fell on the tree, and the little girl couldn't wait to run over.
"Guest officer, I'm really sorry, this, there is only one room left. The shopkeeper stood crampedly to the side, with a rag full of oil stains on his shoulder, and a cyan square hat on his head, looking a little nervous. Luo Tian slowly put down the teacup, raised his head, and let the tea moisten his throat for a while, then turned to look at the little second brother beside him, "We want a room"
"Huh?" The shopkeeper's eyes suddenly widened, and they were about to bulge, and then he hurriedly looked at Xue'er on the other side, yes, the female guest officer obviously didn't put her hair in a bun.
Although the children of the rivers and lakes are informal, they are upright, but the second child of the poor shop has been here for more than ten years, and he has never seen such a thing today. Don't say that a woman has no marriage match, even if she has a marriage contract, she can't sleep in a room alone before marriage, not to mention that the two people in front of her look very accustomed to it.
The shopkeeper led Luo Tian to the backyard, and a pair of eyes never left Luo Tian on the way. In the disdainful, weird, and envious eyes of the shopkeeper, Luo Tian and Xue'er walked into the room. The shopkeeper looked at the closed door, "This is a real man! Be a man and be a son of Luo!" thought about it again, and thought that he was in his twenties and hadn't yet asked for his mother-in-law, and sighed deeply.
It's always cold at night, especially in such a barren mountain range. But I don't know what's going on, Luo Tian, who has always had a good quality of sleep, has insomnia, and a picture always comes to mind: on the lush mountains, a stream goes straight down, constantly lapping the rocks on both sides, splashing water splashes, crystal clear, fresh and charming, and there seems to be bursts of laughter, "It's fun, come on" "Come on!". The picture is very blurry, but it seems to be real, which makes Luo Tian unable to sleep for a long time.
"No matter, everything is fate", for Luo Tian, who has no heart and lungs all day long, except for eating or sleeping or squeezing the little junior sister, since he can't figure it out, he doesn't want to, since he can't sleep, then he doesn't sleep, he simply closes his eyes, and walks out of the room with that trace of feeling in the dark.
In the middle of the night, the dew was already very heavy, and the courtyard was not large, messy but not chaotic, silent, but there were people. Luo Tian really couldn't move forward, and he bumped into it any further, not a wall, but a person, a very tall person, with a dark complexion, broad shoulders, gray clothes and short sleeves, holding a long knife, a dragon pattern on the back of the knife, a dark red blood groove, domineering and frozen for thousands of miles. Of course, it doesn't matter, Luo Tian is interested in the narrow burden on his back, and the picture in his mind is becoming clearer, and that feeling is not only joy, but also longing.
"I don't like you because you've made Ruri very restless, and this is the first time in a month that this has happened. The long knife had already turned over, and it seemed that Luo Tian was taking a step forward, and the long knife sealed his throat.
"Actually, it's the first time in sixteen years that I've been so restless" Luo Tian smiled very self-deprecatingly, but his eyes never left the burden on the big man's back, and the closer he got there, the more eager he became.
"How did you do that?" the big man stared at Luo Tian with a pair of tiger eyes, his brows furrowed slightly, puzzled, and more exploratory.
"I want to know too, really" Luo Tian raised his right hand very slightly, looked at the big man, and stopped in mid-air, swaying slowly, like an excited greeting, and like an intimate touch.
But with such a simple action, the big man clearly felt that the glass on his back was trembling and roaring, as if he was breaking free from some kind of restraint.
The big man's brow furrowed even deeper, his eyes sparkled, and the corners of his mouth closed tightly, as if he was making some big decision.
So at the time of the third watch, which was already a little weird, there was an even more strange scene in the courtyard: a big man in black turned his knife outward, standing straight, but his brows were sometimes tight and sometimes loose. Immediately opposite stood a young man in blue, leaning forward, his right hand as if he was rubbing something, his eyes were misty, and his breathing was short. The courtyard is lonely, the moonlight is slightly visible, the shadows are tilted, the quiet is the scene, and the heart is moving.
"If you help me, I can lend you the glass for three days. The big man's brow finally relaxed, his face full of composure, but his hand was clenched into a fist.
"I need it, you can feel it. Luo Tian's expression did not change at all.
"I'm sorry, Ruri is Miss's, three days is the limit. Although the fists below are clenched, the big man is especially resolute at this point.
"Deal. ”
"Huh?" Although he very much expected Luo Tian to agree, Luo Tian agreed so quickly that the big man was very surprised. "You don't ask what needs to be done?"
"Don't, don't say anything, I'm afraid I'll regret what you say, I can't stand the temptation, and I can't stand the fright. Luo Tian straightened his body and returned to his daytime appearance, with a casual expression on his face.
It's hard to think of how focused the face of such a seemingly lazy person was just now.
In the morning, Xue'er finished washing, gently wiped off the footprints that Luo Tian accidentally left on the blanket last night, rolled up the cover on the ground, took out a few pink triangular leaves from the bag as usual, mashed them, poured a cup of hot water on them, and poured a bowl for Luo Tian. "Luo Tian, you cough less and less. ”
"Actually, it hasn't been broken at all, and you know that this poison was incurable back then. Luo Tian took a big sip, looked out the window, and spit out a large piece of brown heat at the morning sun, and a faint "snort" sound floated up.
"However, I clearly noticed that you only coughed once on the way here. Cher suddenly remembered a bridge on the road when she came.
The bridge is a chain bridge, like an iron lock across the river, but unfortunately it is not a river that is horizontal, just a river in the mountains, the river is seven zhang wide, the water vapor is filled, like the fog is steaming, the water flow is rapid, the water splashes up, and the stone is broken. I don't know what the river is, but the chain bridge on the river has an extremely loud name - "King Bridge", the inscription stands at the head of the bridge, and there is no name. The iron chain is rusty, hidden dark yellow, and there are a few wooden planks loosely laid on it, and walking on it always makes a "creaking" sound, which can only be described as trembling. The mountain wind blew, the bridge swayed, the chains clanged, and sometimes the small planks were flipped up and fell into the water, and before they could splash a splash, they were swept away by the whirlpool.
On that day, Luo Tian and Xue'er stepped on the chain bridge, Luo Tian coughed when he passed by the stone monument, and finally spit out a mouthful of mucus with great difficulty, which was slightly black, fell into the stone body, and sneered endlessly.
At this time, on the other side of the mountain, a big man in black with a long knife climbed to the top and looked into the distance, happened to see this scene, and was shocked, and the narrow package on his back loosened a corner, and it made a chilling sound in the wind.
From that day on, the "King's Bridge" was renamed "Jade Bridge", and the world was puzzled.