Chapter 35: East Corner Town
The three of them were joking with each other at the entrance of the village, and suddenly heard a noisy sound of footsteps in front of them, and when they looked up, they saw a crowd of people in front of them, and more than a dozen people came out of the village in a short time, all holding harpoons and hoes, which are used for daily work, and some of the hoes have a lot of dirt on them.
Although these dozen or so people were babbling, holding these so-called weapons, their expressions were still quite frightened, and an old man who was dressed more decently was surrounded by them, pointing in this direction.
Lin Yizhi, Guan Dekuan and Nangong Yijin couldn't help but be stunned, and glanced at each other, not knowing what this group of people had to do.
The three of them were hesitating to themselves, and the group of people had already arrived in front of them. A strong man who looked like a fisherman was bold, and he pointed at Nangong Yijin tremblingly and said to this old man dressed differently: "Mayor Town, it's him, it's him who just shouted......"
This old man is not too old, his beard is black and white, he looks about sixty years old, his expression is calmer than these people, he nodded, looked at the three of them for a while, Fang Yi arched his hand and said: "Judging from the clothes of the three of them, they look like outsiders!"
Lin Yizhi hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Uncle is polite, the three of us are indeed foreigners, going to the Zen realm of no idiot, passing by your land...... I don't know what to call the old man?"
The old man nodded when he heard this, as if he was thinking about something, and said after a while: "It's just that I don't know something, and I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”
Lin Yizhi hurriedly said: "Uncle has something to say, please speak." ”
Only then did the old man say, "Just now we heard this Taoist chief among you calling for help, saying that there was a ghost, and I waited until I hurried here, but I don't know where the ghost is?"
Guan Dekuan laughed and said, "Ghost, isn't this it, I'm a bald ghost!"
One sentence frightened the group of people into changing color, and they retreated several feet away.
Lin Yizhi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't panic, my brother likes to joke, but he is just joking." ”
When the old man heard this, he was skeptical: "Is this true?"
Lin Yizhi said: "It's true!"
The old man was puzzled: "That's ......."
Lin Yizhi glanced at Nangong Lao Dao, and said with a lively look: "I have to ask this Taoist chief......
When Nangong Yijin heard this, he pretended to be profound, stroked his white beard and said slowly: "I did say that there are ghosts, but I haven't seen the ghosts yet, I just counted them, and you have also seen my dress, Daoye, what I am best at is to ask the good luck and the murderer, and catch ghosts and detain ghosts." Seeing that you have ghosts here, I warned you......"
Lin Yizhi, who said it in one sentence, rolled his eyes widely, and secretly said that this Nangong Yijin was full of nonsense, and he was really thick-skinned.
It's just that after listening to Nangong Yijin's words, this group of people all looked at each other and looked at the old man in unison.
The old man's face was gloomy, and his brows were furrowed, as if he had something on his mind.
His abnormal expression, Guan Kuan and Lin Yizhi didn't care, but that Nangong Yijin is a seven-clever and exquisite heart, and his eyes are old and spicy, and he looks at it squarely, and thinks in his heart, looking at their expressions, isn't it really what I said? Hehe, this is a good opportunity to make money.
After a while, the old man's brows were relaxed, his expression returned to naturalness, and he smiled and said, "I see, but I misunderstood......
Lin Yizhi hurriedly arched his hand and said, "It's also that we acted inconsiderately and offended the elders, but we just dare to ask the old man what he is calling here?"
As soon as the old man arched his hand, he showed the bearing of the head of the family and said: "We are here in the east by the mountains, so the east is by farming, the west is by the sea, so the west is by fishing." Because of the topography, our town is called Dongyu Town, and the little old man is the chief of this Dongyu Town, surnamed Xue, and named Xianzong. ”
Lin Yizhi was busy clasping his fists to salute, but Nangong Yijin still maintained his dusty image, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was not polite.
The more he did this, the more it made these townspeople feel that this person was unfathomable, and he really attracted a lot of attention.
Lin Yizhi and Guan Kuan were too lazy to expose him, Lin Yiyi hugged his fists and said: "It was Xue Lichang, I was presumptuous, but I was passing by the treasure land, it was getting late, I don't know if I can bother here for one night......"
When Xue Xianzong heard this, his face was embarrassed, and he stopped talking.
Guan Kuan was quite straightforward, and said loudly: "Xue Lichang seems to be quite difficult, you can rest assured, we will stay here for one night and give you more money!"
Xue Xianzong waved his hand hurriedly when he heard this: "No, no, no, you have misunderstood, it's not that I don't want you to come to my town, it's just that ...... Alas!"
He didn't say a word.
Lin Yizhi and Guan looked at each other with wide faces, but Nangong Lao Dao saw this situation in his eyes and couldn't help sneering.
Lin Yizhi hurriedly said again: "Xue Lichang, if it's not early today, if you don't leave us waiting, we have nowhere to complain, this barren mountains and mountains in the east, wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, and the vast sea in the west, we have nowhere to go, I hope that Xue Lichang will be accommodating, so let's do it, I have a gold ingot here, and as compensation for the three of us, how about giving Li Chang more money when we leave?"
When Xue Xianzong heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I can't help it, I can't help it......" He didn't accept the gold, and sighed and said: "Okay, everyone come with me!"
Lin Yi was overjoyed and hurriedly gave gifts. The three of them followed Xue Xianzong towards the east corner of the town.
However, among these three people, Nangong Yijin is the most prominent, and no matter where he goes, there are people pointing at him, and he is full of envy.
Nangong Yijin still made a dusty appearance, with compassion on his face, and he was compassionate and compassionate.
Along the way, Lin Yizhi secretly looked at the scenery of this east corner town, the town is not very big, and there are two bluestone streets before and after, perhaps because the more you go inside, the more you rely on the sea of burial, the bluestone streets begin to become damp and smooth at some point, and moss faintly appears between the gaps inlaid with bluestone bricks in the small streets.
There were not many shops on either side of the street, only a grocery store, a grain store, a restaurant, and not even a lodging shop.
With the exception of the slightly sturdier houses facing the street, with the occasional brick or wooden house, most of the houses in the town are low thatched houses.
Those low thatched houses are meandering, some along the east side of the mountain, built against the mountain, and some are built on the west side, sparse in length and width.
In the thatched houses on the east side, hoes, plowshares, and other farming tools used in the fields are placed or hung in the courtyards and walls of each house, while in the courtyards of the houses near the sea to the west there are many fishing nets for drying.
One town, two lives in harmony. But it is also a rare situation in the mortal world.
It's just that there are few thatched houses in the east and west, or in the side streets, and even if you occasionally meet a few, they are in a hurry, and there is a common characteristic that the face is abrupt and the expression is sad.
Lin Yizhi even noticed that these people didn't even raise their eyes when they saw Xue Xianzong, the head of a town, and even said hello.
And Xue Xianzong seemed to be quite helpless when he saw these people, so he bowed his head and sighed a few times.
No matter how stupid Lin Yizhi was, he also found that the atmosphere in this village was more or less wrong.
It's just that Xue Xianzong doesn't say this, and it's not easy for him to ask.
Everyone walked for a while, and most of those townspeople gradually dispersed along the road, and finally only Xue Xianzong was left alone to lead Lin Yizhi and the three of them to stop at a slightly spacious mansion.
Lin Yizhi's three people looked at it in a flash, and there were two big characters on the plaque in the middle door: Xue Mansion.
Xue Xianzong said that the three of them were led into a wing room on the right side of the Xue Mansion, and then arched his hand to the three of them and said: "Three, this is my courtyard, the humble house is really lazy, the three of them take a short rest, I will order to go down, and wait for the back row to set up a banquet and feast for the three of them." ”
Lin Yizhi hurriedly clasped his fists and smiled: "Xue Lichang is polite, I'm tired!"
But Na Guan Kuan laughed loudly: "The banquet, this is exactly what I want, but Xue Lao Han Mo wants to slam the door, good wine and meat!"
Nangong Yijin actually thought in his heart and was as wide as he was in charge, and when he saw that his mouth was about to go out, he simply continued to pretend that he was unfathomable.
Xue Xianzong squeezed out a smile when he heard this, and then said, "This is natural...... Wait a minute. ”
Saying that, he arched his hand and went out, and when he was leaving, he actually looked deeply at Nangong Yijin.
After Xue Xianzong left, Guan was wide and rushed to Lin Yidao: "Brother is sent by the gate, why are you so respectful to this old man, you see his sad face along the way, just now I said a good wine and good meat, he almost cried, as if we want to rely on him for money!"
Lin Yizhi sighed and said: "Brother doesn't know, I grew up in the village before I was ten years old, and the people of Fanchen lived a difficult life, this is also a lieutenant chief, living here is already good, if we change to those ordinary people, it is estimated that we will only be coarse grain and gruel......"
Guan Dekuan sighed and said, "It's just that I'm really unhappy!"
Suddenly, he looked up and saw Nangong Yijin who was closing his eyes in front of the bed on the side, and he came to the spirit and said: "Hey, I said the old way, haven't you forgotten that you promised me to make a divination for me?"
Nangong Yijin slowly opened his eyes and said, "Take it!"
Guan Dekuan seemed to be really interested, and actually handed his right hand forward.
Nangong Yijin glanced at Guan Kuan, pretended to be unfathomable, and said: "The right hand is useless, the left hand is ......"
And he looked at him no more. I stroked my beard to myself.
"I ......" Guan Dekuan couldn't help but be annoyed when he heard this, but after all, he had to ask for it, so he had to glare at him fiercely, and stretched out his left hand again.
Lin Yizhi looked at it with a wide range of eyes, and looked at this Nangong old Taoist pretending to be a ghost, he was amused in his heart, and secretly wondered how this old Taoist acted.
Nangong Yijin reluctantly stretched out his hand again and put it on his wrist, which was not like a Xiangshi, but as if he was diagnosing his pulse.
Guan Dekuan muttered: "I said the old way, can you do it or not, everyone looks at palmistry or something, how can you be like a man." ”
Nangong Yijin frowned, closed his eyes slightly, didn't look at him, his voice was a little disgusted, and said slowly: "What do you know?
I was so bluffed that I hurriedly closed my mouth and didn't say a word.
Lin Yizhi held back a smile vigorously, looking at this old and young was also a lot of fun.
I saw Nangong Yijin hand on his wide wrist, as if he was diagnosing the pulse, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was silent for a long time.
Suddenly, Nangong Yijin suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were full of surprise and disbelief, and he looked at him as if he didn't know how wide he was, shaking his head and sighing while looking, and there were words in his mouth.
Seeing him like this, Guan Dekuan was really frightened into turning the light, and said eagerly: "Old Dao, what are you doing like a bird? You have to talk well later...... Don't say anything unlucky!"
Lin Yizhi laughed when he heard this, and he thought in his heart that this Nangong old Taoist deliberately wanted to be lenient.
Guan Dekuan said this, Nangong Yijin became even more intensified, and he no longer diagnosed the pulse, but suddenly got up, and paced left and right around Guan Dekuan. While pacing, he seemed to say to himself, "Strange, strange!"
Guan Dekuan finally couldn't help it, and shouted loudly: "Niu Nose, you bluff people like this again, be careful that I strangle you!"
Nangong Yijin didn't reply to his mouth rarely, and went straight to pick up his wrist with a wide tube, and repeatedly checked his pulse.
Only let the anxious person sweat profusely, and then Nangong Yijin slowly spoke: "Okay, that's the case!"
Guan Dekuan said loudly: "Old Dao, what is the real thing? Tell me quickly!"
Nangong Yijin glanced at the wide tube like a monster, and then looked back at Lin Yizhi, who was watching the bustle, and then said: "It turns out that you are not human!"
Guan Dekuan thought that he had said something unfathomable, but he didn't think that Nangong Yijin's first sentence would arrange himself like this, and he suddenly jumped to his feet and said: "Old Dao, don't you really want to be strangled?"
Even Lin Yizhi also felt that Nangong Yijin's joke was a bit big.
Nangong Yijin hurriedly shook his head when he heard this, and said seriously: "I'm not talking nonsense, you don't understand, the old Taoist has studied physiognomy for many years, and knows some numerology methods, everything in the world has its own unique pulse, the sky has a heavenly vein, the earth has a vein, people have a vein, and the beast has a vein, just now I look at your vein, I really feel that your vein is different from ordinary people, it seems that there are signs of a powerful beast vein mixed with human connections!"
Lin Yizhi didn't believe Nangong Yijin's words at all, thinking that he was just talking nonsense in order to justify himself. However, he is also truly convinced that he can tell the truth that all things have different pulses.
Guan Kuan listened to it, seemed to believe a little, and said word by word: "Then you say, do I have more human connections in this vein, or more animal veins?"
When Nangong Yijin heard this, he said without thinking: "The human network is thirty percent, and the beast pulse is seventy percent." Of course, there are more beast veins, so I said that you are not human, and the rhythm of your beast veins seems to be a certain demon beast in ancient times!"
Guan Kuan couldn't hold back any longer, and roared: "The ancient demon beast is a ghost!
As he spoke, he raised his fist and struck.
Nangong Yijin didn't dodge or dodge: "I told you that you don't understand, pull down and pull down, mortal with the naked eye, a few people can understand me! If you don't believe it, why bother looking for me to divination, if you want to fight, you can fight, if you punch me, I will tell one person that you are not human, you beat me ten punches." So I told ten people that you were not human......"
Let's talk about it, hugging my arms, looking like you can't help me.
is full of redness, but he is a person who loves face very much, and when Nangong Yijin said this, he was really helpless against him.
Nangong Lao Dao ignored him, and suddenly saw Lin Yizhi's stealing fun, it seemed that Fang Cai's divination was a little unpleasant, so he smiled at Lin Yizhi and said, "Is Yizhi's little brother interested, let Dao Ye I give you a divination?"
When Lin Yizhi heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, no, no. Nangong Yijin didn't relent: "Isn't it possible for me to send you a hexagram?"
Lin Yizhi still wanted to shirk it, but he was relieved that no one had the same fate as him, and now he finally pulled someone who was sick with him, and couldn't help but break up and dragged his hand to Nangong Yijin and said with a smile: "Old Dao, you can take a look......"
Nangong Yijin was not polite, so he reached out and put it on Lin Yizhi's wrist.
Lin Yizhi suddenly had a bitter gourd face.
After a while, Nangong Yijin withdrew his hand. Guan was busy and said: "Old Dao, is it another ...... who is not human?"
Nangong Yijin glanced at Guan Dekuan with disgust and said, "How can there be so many people who are not human...... But ......"
When Lin Yizhi heard this, his brows furrowed, and he secretly asked in his heart if this old way was going to stink again.
Nangong Yijin smiled and said: "There is no misfortune in the hexagram, but there is still a happy event!"
When Lin Yizhi heard this, he was puzzled: "Happy event?"
Nangong Yijin nodded and said, "I calculated that the kid recently committed a peach blossom, isn't it a happy event?"
Lin Yizhi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "If you want to commit peach blossoms, then someone has to commit them, where did I get the peach blossoms?"
Nangong Yijin stood up, picked up the rag and said, "The secret of heaven must not be leaked, it is really boring here, I will go out for a walk!"
As he spoke, he walked out.
The manager said loudly: "Old Dao, don't go too far, maybe there is something unclean in this town that will take you away!"
Nangong Yijin was stunned, and muttered as he walked: "That wood is a lover, but the pulse of this white-haired guy is really too weird......
............
The sky was dark, Lin Yizhi and Guan Dekuan had been cross-kneeling pranayama, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in front of the door, Lin Yizhi raised his eyes and looked out of the door, only to see a person who looked like a small maid, carried a red lantern, came to the door, and arched his hand at the two of them and said: "Two, go with me in the front hall, the master has prepared wine and food!"
Hearing this, he jumped off the bed and walked out. After taking two steps, he remembered that Nangong Yijin didn't seem to have come back yet, so he turned his head and asked Lin Yizhi: "Brother Yizhi, why hasn't Niu Bi come back at such an hour?"
Lin Yizhi also shook his head. Guan Dekuan waved his hand and said, "Regardless of him, let's go eat first, and if we wait, we will starve to death......"
The two of them followed the little guy towards the front yard.
Along the way, turn left and right, the corridor is deep and the trees are secluded, and there is an indescribable sense of darkness. Only the red lantern in the little girl's hand, emitting a little red light, diffused to illuminate the road ahead.
The sun had set completely, but it had not yet completely darkened, and the moon had not yet appeared.
The group was walking forward, and suddenly a white shadow flashed in front of them, and the walking team suddenly stopped.
Lin Yizhi and Guan Dekuan looked up and saw that a young man in a moon-white satin shirt in front of him was walking opposite his group.
This young man has a fair complexion, is unusually handsome, but he can't feel the slightest aura of cultivation, and he looks like a scholar when he looks dressed.
The white satin shirt of the moon was particularly clear under the blackened sky, and the gusts of wind passed, and the clothes flew away, and the body looked a little thin.
I saw that the leading little guy saw that it was this young man, and hurriedly said, "It turns out that the son is back......"
As he spoke, he had to pay respects. This month, the young man dressed in white satin hurriedly held him up and said, "No need to be polite. ”
As he spoke, he looked behind him, and saw Lin Yizhi and Guan Dekuan, so he asked the little guy, "Are there any guests in the house?"
Lin Yizhi and Guan hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "I'll wait for Tang to come suddenly, I've seen Gongzi!"
The young man smiled kindly and said: "I am my father's only son Xue XVII, the two of you are both my father's guests and my own family, don't be polite, go to the front hall quickly, I will be there in a while!"
After that, he gave up his hand again and went away.
Lin Yizhi whispered to Guan Dekuan: "This seventeenth prince is really a handsome character!"
And Guan Dekuan just smiled, as if looking at the white figure of Xue Qiyue in the distance......