"Hey, is there anyone?" Standing outside the already tattered threshold of the He family's old store, Liu Tiandong mustered up the courage to call inside, and at the same time, he poked his probe slightly and looked inside.

Although the inn is dilapidated, the lighting is not bad, and he can almost see the situation inside clearly within his line of sight, plus the space is not large and the layout is very simple, so there is no need to look carefully at all.

There was no one in the inn, except for a person who was dozing off by the dilapidated counter, and the inn was not very good.

"Who?" muttered impatiently to the man behind the counter, not looking up at all, seeing that he was not fully conscious.

"Is there a spare room?" Liu Tiandong walked into the inn and asked again.

The guy seemed to be almost awake this time, and confirmed that someone was indeed coming, so he raised his head and looked at the person opposite for a long time with a puzzled expression, and said with a chirp: "What, what's wrong? You want to stay in a hotel?" He said this, although there were not a few words, but the meaning of the words seemed to be questioning Liu Tiandong's question, as if his inn had never been open.

"Hehe, ridiculous, don't live in a store, what are you doing here? Could it be that you are a black shop that sells dog meat with a sheep's head?" Liu Tiandong sneered.

When asked like this, the store was slightly stunned, and then immediately turned out from behind the counter and explained: "No, no, no, how can I be, it's just that my small shop has been old for a long time, and many customers are reluctant to come, and I am barely living, I was going to close at the end of this month, but I didn't expect you to come back." Hehe, please sit, please sit. ”

Glancing at the dusty benches on the side of the inn, Liu Tiandong shook his head and said, "Since you have a guest room here, find me a single room, I'm really tired from the journey and need to rest." ”

"Single, single?" the shopkeeper asked rhetorically, looking at the young man.

"What's the matter, there's no single room, so just find a room, there's always one, right?"

"This, this...... Hey, guest officer, let's be honest, my store is not only dilapidated, but ...... It's ......" This guy talks and stops, and at first glance, he looks like he has something unspeakable.

"And what? Isn't your store haunted?" asked Liu Tiandong unceremoniously.

Then the shopkeeper suddenly widened his mouth and glared, and asked, "Guest, you, how do you know......?"

"Hmph, it must be those long-tongued guys talking nonsense, no wonder business is getting worse and worse. He lowered his head again and muttered.

"Hehe, interesting, it seems that I really have to live in your shop! Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and clean up the room!" Liu Tiandong urged in an impatient tone, but he was amusing in his heart, and said in his heart, "It's this kind of trick to coax children again, if there is no previous experience, without Murong Hui, hmph, maybe I might really be coaxed by this kind of words, but now it's different, the more you guys are like this, the more it shows that there is something strange here, I just want to see what's going on." ”

"Guest officer, it's really inconvenient, can you please go to another house, even if the villain begs you, please ...... Eh, wait, how are you, you can't get in!"

This guy just didn't want Liu Tiandong to live in the hotel, however, since Liu Tiandong had made up his mind, how could he listen to him, so he walked to the inn regardless of the steps, and at this time, the store wanted to stop but couldn't stop it, and quickly followed behind and shouted.

"Hmph, it's just a message to the people inside! What can it do?" Liu Tiandong smiled secretly in his heart, and his steps were faster.

There is a small door at the easternmost end of the inn, only a gray cloth curtain is hung, Liu Tiandong picks up the curtain and enters, and finds that there is a hole behind the curtain, it is not as narrow and cramped as it looks outside, there is a boxy courtyard inside, there are a few pots of green plants in the patio, the ground of the bluestone slab is flat and smooth, there are several rooms distributed on the left and right and directly opposite, the corridor pillars are old, but they are not dilapidated, and there is a pair of couplets on the two pillars on the front.

"In my dream, I heard the song and looked for my soulmate, and I was drunk, and I woke up in the dream and finally found no return. ”

Standing in the patio, Liu Tiandong silently recited the words on the couplet in his heart, not because the handsome font attracted him, but for some reason, he was inexplicably moved by the sadness revealed in these two sentences.

These two lines of words seem to express some kind of parting pain, the pain of lovesickness, in the dream and the bosom friend to drink and talk, appreciate the sounds of heaven, but there is no feast in the world, a song is over, the person is gone, everything is empty when you wake up from the dream, and the rest is only gloomy and sad. It's like Li Qingzhao's artistic conception of 'knowing, knowing, it should be green, fat, red and thin'. Feeling it, the person who wrote two lines of words at that time can imagine the mood at that time. For some reason, even I, an outsider, felt a little lost after reading it. A little sadness. ”

"Guest officer, you really can't live! Why don't you believe it......" At this time, the shopkeeper also followed, and he also wanted to pull Liu Tiandong away.

But at this moment, I saw the door of a room directly opposite the two of them "creak" and was opened from the inside.

"Lin San, why is it so noisy?" Then a woman's graceful voice floated out with a bit of sadness.

When the shopkeeper heard this, he didn't care about Liu Tiandong, and hurriedly said to the room: "Master, it's all my fault for being lazy just now, and I was negligent enough to let people break in and disturb you, please atone for your sins, and I'll let him out." After that, he simply grabbed Liu Tiandong's sleeve and was about to pull it out.

Where is Liu Tiandong willing to let him, since he has come to this point, he has to see what the person in the house looks like, right?

"I said, what you are doing is really interesting, one time you say that the room is too dilapidated, and the other time you scare people and say that this place is haunted, what, are you really a ghost in the girl, because you dare not show up in broad daylight? Or are you actually doing something unseemly?" Liu Tiandong pulled his neck and shouted.

"Shut up, why is this person so rude!" the shopkeeper was even more anxious this time, and he was about to come hard.

"Lin San, you stand aside for the time being!" At the critical moment, that nice voice appeared again.

The shopkeeper named Lin San immediately stopped approaching Liu Tiandong, but obediently retreated to the side.

"Who are you, why are you here to make trouble?" Liu Tiandong couldn't help but turn around and cast his eyes, only to see a slender woman wearing a white dress and a veiled face appeared under the porch.

Although he couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, Liu Tiandong couldn't say that he had a sense of familiarity with her, but he couldn't be sure. The woman also seemed to be looking at the young man in the patio at the same time, and in an instant, she was even more obvious than Liu Tiandong, and her body actually began to tremble slightly.

"You, why are you ......" the woman's voice trembled.

"What do you mean, does she know me? Could it be that in the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years ago, there would be my acquaintances of the opposite sex other than Murong Hui? Who is she?" Liu Tiandong was completely confused by this scene, and he didn't know how to react stupidly, just asked himself randomly in his head.

But then the woman's words made him understand that this was actually a misunderstanding.

"It's been three years, it's been three whole years, you suddenly disappeared, there was no news, and now you suddenly appeared in front of me, this, what is this for?"

"I, this, are you ......"

"You don't have to explain, everything is fleeting, I won't pay attention to those rumors, now that you stand in front of me, it says everything, as for where you went and what you did, I won't ask. The woman didn't wait for Liu Tiandong to answer, and then said again.

This time, Liu Tiandong really had the feeling that the second monk was confused, and he knew in his heart that the woman must have misunderstood herself as another person, but is there really a person in the world who looks almost the same?

"Could it be that person again?"