Chapter 11: The Old Man Who Guards the Grave
Xiao Lu said hello to Zhang Lei and the team members and prepared to go home. Gu Tao stopped him, and Xiao Lu walked up to Gu Tao. Asked, "Uncle Gu, is there something wrong?"
"Little Green, Uncle asks you something, and you must answer honestly. Okay?" asked Gu Tao very seriously.
"Well, okay, uncle, excuse me, Xiao Lu will answer truthfully. ”
"Okay, you're such a good boy, do you have eyes that you can see something that others can't?"
"Yes, uncle, I don't know what's going on, anyway, my eyes are different from other people's, and my tears are green. Listen to my grandmother, I was like this when I was a child. ”
"Can you give me an example, for example, what you saw when you were a child?"
Xiao Lu thought for a while and said, "Oh, by the way, when I was about five years old, when my grandmother "fed" her dead relatives on Qingming Festival, I hid behind the door curiously
Peeked through the cracks, and I actually saw them. ”
"Have they eaten?" Gu Tao asked curiously, and the others did not make a sound, but listened carefully.
"Eat, but they didn't sit, but stood, bent down to take a bite of the food, got up and walked to the hall and stood, and waited for the grandmother to burn all the paper money to ashes
Just left. I told my grandmother that I had seen the elders, but she never believed me, saying I was dazzled. ”
"Okay, Midori, thank you for telling Uncle this, it seems that you really have a pair of eyes like no other. You can go back first, and Uncle will take you to play when you are free, okay?"
"Okay," Midori said, turning around and leaving.
Zhang Lei asked Li Dong: "Teacher Li, we want to know about a person from you, the old man guarding the tomb in the back mountain, can you tell us about his basic situation?"
Li Dong said: "Captain Zhang, let's not hide it, we don't know much about this person, we only know that there is such a person since I can remember, and he lives in the center of the Houshan cemetery."
in a big house. Usually we don't go to the back mountain when we have nothing to do, and we only go there every year when we sweep the tomb during the Qingming Festival, but for so many years, I have only seen him once, and it is just the back
He seemed to have just entered the door after returning from somewhere, and when he entered the door, the door closed automatically. He was a very tall man, at least more than two meters tall, and he hadn't seen him in years
, I don't know if he is dead or alive. We called him, but no one answered, and his two doors seemed to be closed forever. ”
Zhang Lei said: "So that's the case, it seems that he is indeed a very strange person." ”
"That's true," Li Dong replied with a nod.
Zhang Lei and the team members originally thought that they could learn about the basic situation of the old man guarding the tomb at Li Dong's house, but according to Li Dong's answer, it seemed that they had not gained much. It seems that I can only try it myself
I can't see this old man anymore.
Back mountain, the door of the old man guarding the tomb was still closed, Zhang Lei and the team members walked directly to the door, Zhang Lei knocked on the door and asked, "Is anyone there?" The other team members also asked: "Yes."
Is anyone at home?" but after knocking for a long time, there was no response, and just as he turned around and was about to leave the door, he suddenly heard an old man's voice: "Who is outside the door?
It was an old man's voice, Zhang Lei's eyes lit up, and sure enough, there was someone, presumably he must be an old man guarding the tomb.
"Old man, we are at the foot of the mountain, and we just want to ask you for some doubts, can you open the door?" Zhang Lei asked tentatively.
"Old man, I haven't been down the mountain for decades, and I don't ask about the worldly things, I can't answer your questions if I think about it, please go back, there are graves everywhere, if you don't have anything big
If so, you really shouldn't come to a place like this. ”
"Old man, we don't want to disturb, we really have a few doubts that need to be asked by your old man, you listen to my questions first, if it is inconvenient to answer, we will leave immediately, and we will never fight
Disturb, can you see if you can make it easier?"
There was suddenly no sound in the door, and after less than a minute, the two doors slowly opened an opening, and an old man stood in front of Zhang Lei and the team members, all the team members
They couldn't believe their eyes, because they had never seen a face like this before. He stared at the old man stupidly and didn't say a word. This old man is indeed as Li Dong said
, a tall man of more than two meters, wears a green robe up to his heels, and wears a pair of cloth shoes on his feet. The most special thing is not what he wears, but the face, which is just to look at
A face that you will never forget at a glance. His face and even his entire facial features are green, and by the way, his long hair is also green, and the hair of the elderly will turn white when they get old. And his hair was all green. This can't help but make people feel strange, fortunately it's not dark, if you see such a person at night, you will definitely be scared of three souls and seven souls. namely
Even so, Zhang Ying and Liu Qing were still taken aback, opened their mouths wide, and didn't say a word.
The old man saw that everyone didn't speak, and knew in his heart that his appearance must be a little scary, so he said apologetically: "I'm really sorry for the young master and young lady, the old man's appearance must be frightened."
of you. “
Zhang Lei couldn't help but be surprised, and said calmly: "The old-timers don't mind, the old-timers are really old and strong, full of energy, the old-timers, the juniors want to ask, I came here last night."
, I saw a ghost, you have been guarding the tomb here for many years, have you seen it?"
"Haha, little brother I'm afraid I'm dazzled, I've never seen any ghosts for so many years, but I've heard a lot of strange sounds, if you're interested, the old man can give it to you."
Let's tell a few ghost stories. Without waiting for Zhang Lei to answer, Zhang Ying interjected: "Okay, okay, I like to listen to ghost stories the most, please tell us a few." Liu Qing also dotted
Head, the other members of the team also seemed to be curious, and they wanted to hear what the ghost stories told by the old man at the grave were like.
The old man smiled slightly, opened the door, and said with enthusiasm on his face: "Everyone, please come in, the humble house is shabby, please take a seat." "Let's go into the house.
Zhang Lei said: "The old man doesn't have to be polite, but there are many disturbances, and we really don't want to go." After that, he followed the old man first, and the other team members followed him into the house. that
The house is very spacious, the entrance is a large courtyard, the yard is full of flowers and plants, there is a pine and a bamboo in each of the four corners of the yard, and in the center of the yard is a bowl-sized snow plum, which is blooming. Poetry has
"The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. "It's true. The old man beckoned Zhang Lei and the others to the west wing and sat down, made tea for a few people, and the old man took a sip of tea himself. said, "Everyone
Miss Young Master, this tea is a bitter tea made by the old man, and it is refreshing and refreshing to drink a sip. Ladies and gentlemen, my humble house hasn't been so lively for decades. "Everybody
I picked up the teacup and took a sip, sure enough, it was bitter tea, and I couldn't open my mouth bitterly, but when I swallowed it, I suddenly felt a cool feeling. Everyone praised it as a good tea. "Tea is good tea,
The teacup is also a good teacup, and it seems that the old man is proficient in the tea ceremony," Zhang Lei praised. The teacup was a transparent stone cup, and it was the first time Zhang Lei had seen such a stone cup.
"Little brother has won the prize, this teacup is just carved from a few waste stones. The old man said very modestly, Zhang Lei knew that the cup was extraordinary. Gu Tao stared at a few murals on the wall,
The figures in the mural seem to be all tall and have different expressions, but one thing is the same. It's all green skin, green hair.
The old man seemed to see Gu Tao's expression, and said with a smile: "That is the failure of the old man who has nothing to do, which makes the little brother smile." ”
Gu Tao seemed to react half a beat slower, and hurriedly replied: "Where is it, the old-timers are really versatile, this painting is so expressive and vivid, it makes the younger generation open their eyes and think about it late."
I also loved painting and calligraphy in college, but after reading the paintings of the old-timers, I realized that I was just a child painting and playing, and I was really heartbroken. "Gu Tao once had a few paintings that he was proud of
The work once won the gold medal of the Provincial Painting Exhibition with a pair of "Baicheng Landscape", but when he looked at these murals, he suddenly felt that the old man used the pen skillfully, and the portrayal was expressive
It is difficult to reach one in 10,000, and it will inevitably increase a little sadness.
Zhang Lei looked around, and suddenly found that on the side of the wall corner of the mural, there was a guqin, which looked like there was no dust at all, and guessed that the old man must have played the piano often. Took a sip of tea
said: "I don't know if the old-timers can play a song, so that the younger generations can enjoy a good ear, the old man smiled slightly." This guqin is very fond of it, and it is dusted every day, but it has not been touched for ten years
Strings, today's rare distinguished guests come to the door, and the old decay will present an ugly song. ”
"The seniors are too modest, please. ”
The old man walked to the guqin and sat down, shaking his hands slightly, his fingers gently holding the strings, and the moving melody followed, and everyone gradually followed the moving sound of the qin
Intoxicated. The sound of the piano seems to tell a moving story, is telling the story, the sound of the piano seems to come from the distant sky, through thousands of mountains and rivers, rivers and lakes, sometimes giving people to gallop in Liao
The wide prairie sometimes gives people the feeling of spreading their wings and flying in the Haohan galaxy. The sound of the piano stopped, and everyone seemed to be still intoxicated. It was the sound of the piano that they had never heard before, with the phrase "This song is only for the sky."
Yes, it is rare to hear it in the world" is not an exaggeration to describe.
"The tea is all gone, don't waste the old man's time, I'm going to listen to his old man's ghost stories. Zhang Ying's voice broke the brief silence. Everyone seems to be doing it
A beautiful dream, but running around in the dream, it was so tired, Zhang Ying's words just fell, and everyone woke up like a dream. I couldn't help but applaud the old man.