Chapter 024: Beggar Grandson
After a while, I saw an unkempt little ghost popping out of the temple, it should be said that it was a little girl.
Her entire head was almost covered in cobwebs, but it didn't make her uncomfortable at all, she didn't even feel it. She tossed a charred branch around, a cheerful smile on her face. Hee-hee-ha, with words in his mouth, he looks like a crazy and stupid Hanako.
Although this woman named Hanako looks sloppy, her face is black and dirty, and she is completely covered by cobwebs, but when she laughs, she is very aura, cheerful and innocent.
She has a big mouth, a big nose, and equally big eyes.
The big eyes narrowed into a line when they laughed, and even the big nose was wrinkled with laughter. The big mouth muttered some words that Bai Luoshang didn't understand very well, although it didn't make people understand, the girl still said very happily, and I saw that she couldn't help but gesture with her hand.
This was supposed to be a lively person, but in this dilapidated deserted temple, it looked like there was a creepy feeling.
She seemed to be very interested in the fire that Bai Luoshang had raised, so she jumped over directly, poked the fire with a branch, and laughed as she ate.
The flying sparks seemed to be stained on Bai Luoshang's body, so hot that he immediately jumped up, walked quickly to the broken wall, untied the horse rope, and was about to go out of the temple.
He walked the rivers and lakes alone, and there were three kinds of people who were most unwilling to offend, one was a woman, one was a monk, and the other was a beggar. According to his past experience, whenever he has anything to do with beggars, something big must happen. So at this time, he looked like a beggar, and he chose to leave here immediately without even thinking about it.
"Why did Childe go?"
He had only taken two steps when he heard an old, dry voice coming from behind him.
Such an environment is uncomfortable, and such a sound is also uncomfortable.
Bai Luoshang pretended not to hear and continued to bury her head and walk forward.
The voice shouted creepily behind him: "Childe, doesn't you look down on Hanako?"
Bai Luoshang sighed, but could only stop and look back.
An unkempt old man, carrying a wooden cane, walked from the hall of the ruined temple, his bony body swaying in the wind, and walked into the courtyard trembling step by step.
When the old man got closer, Bai Luoshang could see his appearance more clearly.
It was a rickety old man, in his seventies and eighties, with a dark yellow face wrinkled and wrinkled.
Although the old man is old, his eyes are shrewd, and they are sunken in their sockets, but they can still be as bright as the stars in the night. Under the light of the fire, it looks brighter and brighter.
Generally speaking, the eyes of an ancient person must be cloudy, but these eyes are unusually bright, like the eyes of a wolf, and they can see clearly in the dark.
These eyes did not match this face, because the eyes were the eyes of a young man, but the face was that of an old man.
Is it a change of face?
It only takes two glances to be sure that this person is by no means easy to see. It's that he really has a seventy or eighty-year-old face, and a pair of eyes in his twenties.
What made Bai Luoshang even more concerned was that although this person was a beggar, he did not have the sour smell that a beggar should have.
The old man used his sparkling eyes to take care of the white dress, and then used his right hand, which seemed to be unable to bend even his fingers, to make a move to the little girl.
The little girl's face was full of joy, she looked at Bai Luoshang, then at the old man, and then jumped into the old man's arms, squeaky and whining didn't know what to say, and the old man helped her tear off the cobwebs on her head one by one.
The two men were dressed in tatters and sloppy, looking like a pair of beggars. But they all have a strange smell of beggars, which is definitely a strange phenomenon.
Bai Luoshang led the horse and stood there motionless.
The old man looked up at him tremblingly: "Won't the prince come in to rest? This temple is broken, but it can still shelter from the rain and wind. ”
Bai Luoshang hesitated a little, he suddenly felt that he shouldn't have stayed just now, because he didn't really want to stay here for the night.
The old man glanced at the sky, and said: "Look at this sky, it is estimated that it will rain tonight, if the son misses this boarding point, I am afraid that he will not find a place to hide from the rain before leaving the mountain." ”
Bai Luoshang also glanced at the sky, it was gloomy, and it looked like it was indeed going to rain. There is also a hint of cold in the wind, and the humid and cold weather is indeed not suitable for camping.
Subconsciously pulled the collar, Bai Luosheng knew that the old man's words were not wrong at all. Except for this ruined temple where you can temporarily shelter from the rain, there is no place to borrow from the rain.
It's just that he really doesn't want to step into this dilapidated temple door. Because it was very uncomfortable for him to suddenly be here, and a place where one could feel uncomfortable would definitely not be a good place.
When the old man saw that he was reluctant to speak, and did not leave or enter the door, he asked, "Does Childe think that it will be inconvenient for Childe to stay here?"
Bai Luoshang didn't know whether to answer yes or no.
The old man sighed and said, "Do you think that talking to the old man will make you feel uncomfortable?"
Bai Luoshang couldn't nod his head, because it was too unreasonable, so he could only shake his head and cough, trying to make his tone not sound uncomfortable, "Uncle is serious, I don't mean anything like this." ”
The girl looked up at Bai Luosheng, then at the old man, and suddenly struggled, and walked vigorously to Bai Luosheng's side, but was dragged by the old man like a chicken.
The old man grabbed the girl and said to Bai Luosheng: "Our ancestors and grandchildren also have nowhere to go to live here, if the son doesn't dislike it, let's go together." We'll rest next to here, and we'll never disturb Childe. ”
Bai Luoshang didn't respond to the old man, just stared blankly at the girl who was waving her teeth and claws at him. Bai Luoshang suddenly felt that this girl's eyes seemed to be able to speak, but unfortunately he couldn't understand the words in her eyes anyway.
I only heard that the girl was eating and laughing at Bai Luosheng, while muttering something as if she had been enchanted, her eyes flashed with inexplicable light, even if she was dragged hard by the old man, she still stretched out her hands to Bai Luosheng.
Gradually, the old man began to look a little struggling, after all, he couldn't support his weight with a wooden crutch at all, but he still warmly invited Bai Luoshang into the temple to rest.
Bai Luoshang still hesitated, neither advancing nor retreating. In his mind, he was also struggling with whether to go in or not. He was a little embarrassed, and looked at his horse, neither to go nor to stay.
If he didn't go in, he would have no way to find a place to hide from the rain, and if he did, he would have to share one roof with two beggars.
It's not that he hates beggars, but he knows very well that every time he gets involved with beggars, he will get into trouble. What's more, these two beggars still have some ......
"Could it be that Childe dislikes our grandfather and grandson for being sloppy and unwilling to spend the night with us," the old man said in his slightly vicissitudes of life: "Childe really looks down on Huazi." ”
Bai Luoshang touched his nose and thought to himself, everyone else said so, and it would be too rude to go again, so he shook his hands, leaned over, and said in a loud voice: "The old man is serious, I am the one who disturbs. ”
As he spoke, he laughed again, then led the horse and walked back with a smile on his face.
The old man took the girl by the hand, and when he saw Bai Luoshang walking back, he laughed happily twice. His sallow face was already full of deep wrinkles, and when he smiled, those abrupt wrinkles became even uglier. The orange fire struck his ravine-crisscrossed face, making people reluctant to take a second look after one look.
Bai Luoshang subconsciously stretched out his hand to his face and touched it.
Where did these two people come from?
Could it be that they were all hiding in the main hall in the first place?
Bai Luoshang sighed helplessly, no wonder someone said that there are many ghosts in broken temples, and you can't easily enter this kind of long-abandoned temple unless you have to.
The old man staggered to the fire, holding on to the wooden crutches.
Bai Luoshang could only lead the horse back and put it on again, it was just a reins that had been put on countless times, but it took a long time to get it done. This has been done countless times, but this time it just didn't work well.
For half a pillar of incense, Bai Luoshang was repeating the action of the noose, and he was silent and did not speak, twisting his eyebrows, as if he was worried.
The girl pursed her lips and hung her head sullenly.
The orange light of the fire cast a circle of fiery shadows above her messy head.
The old man sat on the ground on his knees, put the wooden crutch in front of his legs, and saw that Bai Luoshang hadn't come over for a long time, so he couldn't help but laugh: "Childe's horse rope seems to be more difficult to put on than others." ”
Bai Luoshang said embarrassedly: "Maybe this wood is too slippery." ”
The old man chuckled quietly.
Bai Luoshang also laughed in a low voice, thinking that he inevitably had some cup bow snake shadow. Even if you spend the night with a beggar, you don't necessarily have to get into trouble. Not every time you meet a beggar, you will have an accident, perhaps, this time will be an exception.
Thinking like this, Bai Luoshang simply bundled the horse rope on the stake, turned to look at the two of them, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid I'm going to disturb the two of you tonight, and I hope to bear with me." ”
The old man grinned and said: "Childe is polite, this temple is not ours, as long as Childe does not dislike it, he will stay if he wants to." ”
Bai Luoshang couldn't help but glance at the old man again, and always felt that the old man's speech and demeanor were more like a beggar.