A glimmer of light pierced the blue sky, smudging every corner of the ancient temple, the rain passed the early sunshine, the air was filled with the fragrance of earth, pushed open the creaking wooden door, grossly stepped over the threshold, and yawned lazily, "Dry rice! Dry rice! Hurry up and get up and cook dinner!"

The curling smoke rose from the stove room, and when the clear water and white porridge were naked in front of him, he also recognized the reality, scooped up his luggage and turned his head to leave, "Northern kite, people don't want to see us." ”

"Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, where did the emperor ask me to find the smoke and meat?"

"It's your business, not mine. ”

Seeing him leave and not stopping him, Chen Youliang at this time was still standing in place and did not see the intention of leaving, the little monk in the back of the left collapsed to the ground with a slump of arms, but his arms were propped up like a puppet, and he was accompanied by a phantom and merged into one place, "I'll go and check the status of the ban." ”

Turning his head and walking back, his eyes deliberately shielded him, the lining of Chen Youliang's placket had already been penetrated by beads of sweat, and his strong self-control did not expose this tension to his expression.

"If you weren't useful, you wouldn't be allowed to make your own decisions!"

Hua Qiubai got into the car bound for Chengshan Ancient Town, looking out of the window at the scenery that was still eye-catching, it took about forty minutes along the Shinkansen, and the bag of snacks he picked up was about to bottom out, "Don't you think there is anything wrong with them? ”

"The kid in the back isn't a carbon-based creature. ”

"One?"

"Yes, one. ”

didn't say anything more, the first thing I did when I got out of the car was naturally to take a deep breath of the fresh air around me, but as soon as I opened my arms, I was choked by a mouthful of smoke and coughed, and an uncle in brown clothes surrounded by him with a beard, and his face was dark and twilight, as if he didn't look angry, it seemed that he was an old smoker for decades, "How can you not stand this little bit of fireworks at a young age?"

Hurriedly waved his hand, blasted away the clouds and mist spit out around him, hung his face full of displeasure, and looked the man in front of him up and down, "You still have to smoke less, and you don't have much time left to look like you're about to die." ”

The index finger was on the cigarette handle, and the thumb and middle finger cut off the cigarette butt with a little force, and then extinguished the cigarette butt with his hand, and immediately changed his appearance. "It's not a good habit to be young and energetic. ”

Ignoring his black face and walking straight, the man didn't mean to stop there, and followed and stretched out his arms to hold him, "What the hell are you going to do." ”

"The ticket is very cheap, and it is really not good to be a tour guide. The attitude changed sharply, facing the old man's sudden smiling face, Hua Qiubai really wanted to complain about his lower limit, this kind of hypocrisy and resentment on an elderly person actually showed a bit of kindness, which made people angry.

"You know this place well?"

"Cooked, of course cooked, very cooked! It's easy to say that I've been in the little one for fifty or sixty years, and even if I'm a cripple, I should have walked through such a small place. ”

"A smoked chicken, a pair of cakes, and two taels of soju!"

The two wanted to find a place to chat, and walked into a narrow alley under the leadership of the man, and the refreshing aroma of wine came to their faces, and it took a while to find the façade of the house.

"Let's get the money for last month's wine first, or don't think about it. "The long reddish-brown hair is wrapped in a thin hairpin, the few pieces of hair are not neat, the thick eyes and light eyebrows and red lips and jaws are pointed, I don't know if it has been carefully dressed, and I don't know if it is deliberate, the pants are spread very high, and he does not shy away from it, and he takes out a stool and puts his legs up.

The man looked sorry, peeked at the plump thighs from time to time, and looked at Hua Qiubai who was sitting opposite him holding a teacup guiltily, "Even his previous accounts are counted on me." ”

"After all, it's a white prostitute, and you can pay for two or three meals a year at this time. The proprietress really didn't give him a good look, so she gave him a blank look and returned to the cabinet, holding her chin with one hand and flipping back and forth through her ledger with only a few pages.

"What age is it, and it is still booked in this way. ”

"This girl will pretend to be literary and artistic, and her mouth will be close to nature and away from the Internet all day long, and her brain will be big. After taking a sip of the pot of wine that the shopkeeper brought up first, the man's face turned red all of a sudden, and he hurriedly covered his dizzy head, for fear that he would be embarrassed.

"If you can't drink, don't touch it. Shaking his head, Hua Qiubai poured a cup into his cup, tilted his head and sent it into his throat, first choked, and then his consciousness was surged away, and he wiped his mouth forcefully, and then he fell headlong, and it was dusk when he woke up.

The old tree at the head of the house was faint, the whole town was dizzy, and the surroundings were full of gloomy, that kind of atmosphere was simply chilling, getting up from the head of the bed, it was obvious that Hua Qiubai still had not broken free from the strength of the wine just now, looking at the old man who was still sleeping with his head covered on the side, he didn't choose to wake him up, put on a piece of clothing to resist the cold brought by the environment, and casually smoothed a few things on the table, dragging a tired drunk body out of the door.

The night is as thick as ink, and you can't see the stars and moons when you look up. Just relying on the dim light could not make him clearly see the scattered figures on the road, and the sense of heaviness brought by the passage of time and time paved the narrow street with a veil of mystery, and his steps gradually became heavier as if he had been dragged by his legs, and in front of him were more and more misty eyes and an invisible road ahead.

"Don't wander around at night, I thought that when you woke up, why don't you mess around tomorrow morning. On the ground was printed the slender figure of the proprietress who was leaning on a locust tree with a cigarette pouch pot in her mouth, and at some point there was a clearing in front of him, and an old locust tree was standing in the middle of it, surrounded by some old houses with closed doors and windows.

"What people in this town don't like the most is that the light is on, and these few bits and pieces of street lights are still built to cooperate with the government's completion targets. ”

"This wine? ”

"The sake lees are left over from the older generation, and when I was a child, I didn't taste like this, but the taste changed from the time my generation started making sake, and I can't find it back. ”

"Can you give me a glass of water? I'm thirsty. ”

The waist and abdomen drove his body away from the trunk of the tree, and for a moment he was unsteady and supported himself with his hands, trying to maintain his balance, and walked into the only old house in the town with the lights on.

"The brewing spring water on the top of the mountain is all freshly picked on the same day. Carrying two glasses of water, he walked over and sat under the big locust tree, "I think I can still see the stars here, and I can talk to my sweetheart here under the tree. ”

The tears in her eyes were shining in the shadow of the street lamp, once upon a time Hua Qiubai also had this kind of body taste, but how could he arouse his depressed heart without bright stars. If empathy is said by a young man like himself, it may not make people joke about his superficial experience, "Do you regret it?"

"I regret it, my intestines are all repentant, and it is a lifelong regret that I didn't go with him at the beginning. ”

"Tell me more about me when I'm young, so that I can be a little more vigilant and take fewer detours. ”

"I can't see that you're still a gossip villain, but it's been about thirty or forty years, and he's never taken the initiative to look for me. ”

"Didn't you look for him either? ”

On the first day of his birth, most of the ancient walls on the city hill fell, and the fallen bricks rushed into the village with the downpour of mountain rain that day, wailing all over the wilderness, and the next day there were four or five cars that pulled the corpses, and everyone hid when they saw him, for fear that he was an unlucky thing and committed a taboo, and when he became an adult, he was driven out of the town to live outside. ”

"It's kind of an ill-fated person. ”

"Who says it's not, now that people are working in government agencies and developed, how can they have the leisure to take care of these people who have hurt him. ”

"Maybe he'll still be thinking about you. ”

"Borrow your auspicious words, go back and rest early, tomorrow is the ancient morning market." ”