Chapter 343: The Outsider
The whole of Huizhou seems to be immersed in the wedding ceremony organized by Qingyun Mountain.
Tiannan Prefecture, a great Jiangnan under the pen and ink of literati.
Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet Jiangnan Lao.
Tiannan Prefecture, where Wanxianmen sits in town, is an out-and-out land of fish and rice, the scenery is beautiful and pleasant, the four seasons are like spring, the vassal and romantic literati all prefer this, one is to sincerely love the customs here, the road leads to all directions of businessmen, and you can read the customs of each state without leaving home while sitting in the south of the Yangtze River. And the second reason for this is the secret that all the men who linger in Jiangnan know.
Jiangnan women have a unique scenery.
The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is really like a woman, she changes when she says, she cries when she says, and a light rain falls in the slightly gloomy sky, and the raindrops are woven into threads along the tile-grooves where thin moss grows, flowing in the small alleys.
A thin girl in a goose yellow dress held an oil-paper umbrella painted with lotus flowers, jumped up and down in the alley to avoid the potholes with stagnant water, and the girl's energetic body jumped with joy, and soon came to an old house that was some years old.
The girl named Huang Bao'er cautiously walked up the steps, put away the oil-paper umbrella she regarded as a treasure, leaned to the side, patted the copper lock on the door of the house with a pair of immature but calloused little hands, and the knock on the door was heard far away in the silent alleyway.
Huang Bao'er is actually a timid girl, if she had been before, she wouldn't have dared to come to such a dangerous place alone.
This piece of old mansion far away from the bustling city, listening to the adults in the village, the people who lived here before for some reason, even the master and the servants up and down dozens of people died violently overnight, the whole courtyard is full of corpses, the corpse stinks, miserable to the point that no one dares to help them collect the corpses, if it is not for the last alarm to the government to come forward to clean up the remains, God knows how long the people who died in vain will have to expose the corpses.
However, as early as before the beginning of spring, an old man who didn't know where to hit seemed to fall in love with this haunted house that no one dared to approach during the day, and there were kind villagers nearby to remind the old man of the secret behind the abandoned house, but the old man went his own way, and the local government was happy to get rid of this hot potato, and transferred the title deed to the old man at a very affordable price.
The house has been abandoned for a long time, and the old man himself is not able to clean it after moving in, so he has to spend a lot of money to invite the brave workers and craftsmen to come to the door to rebuild it, and there are idle people who have nothing to do.
But what surprised people was that the old man who came out of town and was considered by them to be the wronged boss was alive and well after a few months.
Now those villagers with other ideas began to be a little nervous, such a large house, where did the old man take care of it alone, so there were villagers with unclean hands and feet who pretended to be robbers and entered the hospital late at night, intending to make him a lot of money.
As a result, there were three people who went, and only one came back, and he went crazy, and the gods were babbling nonsense about ghosts all over the yard, and he died of illness not long after.
After that, no one dared to attack the idea of the house.
Huang Baoer also happened to meet the old man who was bold enough to dare to live in the ghost house alone, and found that the old man was unexpectedly kind and talkative, the old man said that he couldn't hire a servant, cooking on weekdays, and relying on the fruits and vegetables planted in the yard can also deal with it, but if you want to buy those tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, you need to go to the market more than ten miles away to buy, for him an elderly man, it is really difficult for a strong man to do everything by himself, so he simply asked Huang Baoer to help him run errands, not to mention anything else, the generous old man gave an unusually generous amount of money for running errands, enough to make Huang Baoer, who has been learning to be a female celebrity subsidy family since childhood, and live a good life with hope。
Compared with the surrounding dilapidated courtyard walls, the paint-red courtyard door that looked a little abrupt and weird slowly opened, revealing the figure of the old man who was lying on his waist, and Huang Baoer, who was already familiar with the old man, hurriedly helped the old man up, patted the old man's back gently, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, you want Huang Bao'er to buy back the salt bags and needlework you bought." ”
The old man's face seemed to have been injured, and the potholes were like the undulating bluestone slabs in the alley, he took out half a silver from his waist pocket, and said with a kind smile: "Huang Bao'er has helped grandpa a lot again, and this errand money should be collected." ”
The well-behaved and sensible Huang Bao'er put the salt bag and sewing kit properly, but she didn't take the half of the silver that was enough for her family's expenses for half a month, shook her head firmly, and said crisply: "Grandpa, this can't work, this salt bag and sewing kit are not heavy at all, Huang Bao'er doesn't have to work hard to come and go, and she can't collect this money." ”
Although Huang Bao'er is thin, she has two very cute dimples on her cheeks when she laughs, "What's more, grandpa gave me a lotus oil paper umbrella not long ago, Huang Baoer likes it, Huang Baoer is not an insatiable person, grandpa gave Huang Baoer enough money, my mother taught Huang Baoer to know how to repay her kindness, as long as grandpa you are still willing to call Huang Baoer, Huang Baoer is willing to help grandpa run errands and buy things." ”
The old man smiled with doting, and did not insist, turned around and took a lot of vegetables and fruits he had planted from the yard, Huang Bao'er stood outside the threshold of the red courtyard gate and looked out, grandpa had warned her before, saying that this courtyard was indeed very yin, and she was easy to be infected with evil as a girl, but as long as she did not cross this threshold.
Through the crack in the door, Huang Bao'er could see that the spacious courtyard had been reclaimed by the old man and the fields were planted with all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables, and even some strange things that she had never seen before.
She looked up at the cornices of the courtyard again, and saw that on the corridor of the courtyard, there were black flags painted with teeth and claws, and the black flags fluttered in the wind, but if Huang Baoer looked carefully, she would find that the black flag was actually floating against the wind!
The old man handed a basket of fruits and vegetables to Huang Baoer, Huang Baoer happily accepted the fruits and vegetables, picked up her beloved oil-paper umbrella, and seriously made a graceful trip to her grandfather, and left the alley step by step.
The old man watched Huang Bao'er's jumping figure disappear into the distance, the smile on his potholed face also disappeared, and his stiff waist thumped, and it only blinked an eye before it returned to a straight appearance.
The old man walked slowly with his cloth shoes on his feet, and walked straight through the small field full of vegetables and fruits in the courtyard.
This is a phantom array that deceives the naked eye of mortals!
The old man with a potholed face looked up and looked at the ghost sail that covered the eaves and corners of the courtyard, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was cold.
"Huang Bao'er, Huang Bao'er, fortunately, you didn't think much about it and didn't ask much when you saw this Yin Soul Sail, otherwise even if you look like my granddaughter, grandpa, I wouldn't be able to save your life." ”