Chapter 38 Friends
Arrived? If I told me that this is the mountain gate, I think I would be very disappointed.
On the train, Old Man Yun brags to me more than once how awesome the mountain gate is. When asked how awesome he was, he looked unfathomable and shook his head and didn't say anything.
If it were just this farmyard, I think I would be very disappointed. After all, the psychological gap is too big, but even here, I have no choice. Since I have already followed you.
Forget it, dogs don’t dislike poverty in their families, and children don’t dislike ugly mothers.
I have always been good at comforting myself. Old Man Yun put me down and held my hand, as if he had seen through my mind. He took out his pipe and knocked on my head, saying, "Why don't you have a brain? I told you on the way. Now I want to walk to the mountain gate. That's your dream. This is my friend's house, stay here for one night, thinking that since I've come out of the mountain, I'll take a look at him."
While speaking, he glanced at the small farmyard with the closed door, held my hand and walked there.
I was dissatisfied, but when I thought that there might be "ghosts" around me, I didn't dare to offend Old Man Yun too much. I could only mutter in a low voice: "I always knock on me, and I'm not afraid of breaking your precious pipe."
He turned his head to look at me, looked thoughtful, and then praised me and said, "You are still smart, but I reminded me. I won't need to knock on you in the future, just have a stone with you."
""I looked at Old Man Yun speechlessly. I had never seen such a "shameless" adult, and I had to fight with children. I also deeply felt a "self-hard work" that was tied up in my own cocoon.
Old Man Yun smiled "hehe" and looked like he was successful. As he spoke, he had already taken me to the door of the farmyard and then raised his hand to knock on the door.
In the quiet night, the sound of knocking on the door was particularly harsh, and it seemed to be far away in the quiet snow.
Soon, there was movement in the courtyard. A relatively light footstep walked to the door and opened the door with a very simple creak.
There was dim light in the courtyard, and when I looked up at the people in the courtyard, I couldn't help but be scared. The person in front of me was a woman. Judging from her figure, she looked like a young woman, neither hunched nor an old-fashioned posture. She was wearing blue, as if she was a little old-fashioned plain cloth, and stood at the door.
It was actually nothing. What made me scream was that she was wearing a mask with a white background and a touch of red around her eyes, which was so simple.
It may not be scary, but I was scared by Old Man Yun once before, and then on this night, without being mentally prepared, I suddenly had such a face. Who is not afraid?
Old Man Yun did not comfort me, but instead smiled exaggeratedly, pointed at me and said, "Coward."
I sighed angrily, and suddenly felt that it seemed to be quite hard and embarrassing to follow such a person. I once again sympathized with Brother Zhengchuan. It must be very hard to follow Old Man Yun over the years, right?
"Are you here?" Faced with the two of us, the owner of this small courtyard didn't seem to care much. He just spoke up and said, "You're here," as if he had expected Old Man Yun would come.
After getting used to it, I also felt that her mask was not very scary. I looked at her with my head tilted and felt that her voice was very strange. It was obviously the figure of a young girl, but why did she speak like an old lady, but it was not right to say that it was an old lady's voice, just because her tone did not look like an old lady, but it was just that kind of vicissitudes of life.
"Well, here I'm here, I'm here to ask for two things." Old Man Yun seemed to be very familiar with this woman, but just answered simply.
The woman seemed to be thinking. Although she was wearing a mask, I felt that her eyes were also falling on me. I also looked at her naturally, feeling that I had been following Old Man Yun for a day or two and my skin became thicker.
What's more, I just think this woman is actually very good, and I don't know why?
"Is this child?" Just looked at me, the woman asked Old Man Yun.
"What do you think?" Old Man Yun asked back.
The conversation between the two of them made me confused, but the woman didn't answer Old Man Yun anymore. She just looked at me and sighed softly. It was originally inaudible, but the echo generated by wearing a mask made the sound obvious.
"Come in." She just said simply, then moved away.
But Old Man Yun held my hand without hesitation and walked into the yard openly.
As soon as I walked into the yard, I felt that the yard was very messy, with a lot of things piled up, with messy wood and some bamboo. What was strange was that there were bowls of rice placed in the yard with three incense sticks on it.
I was a little scared because after looking carefully with the dim light, the rice was a little different from the rice we usually eat. It seemed that there were black and red things inside, and I don’t know what it was.
Old Man Yun just glanced at it and said lightly: "It's still so lively. You are here with such peace of mind. Although you don't understand what you are thinking, you have accumulated a lot of merit."
The woman didn't answer, but just pushed open the door on her own. The yellow light inside was not dim, and there was a hint of warmth. She said, "Who cares about those merits? It's just the passing of boring years. I am a dead person."
After she said this, I felt a chill from the bottom of my heart. My innocent and kind little heart must have believed her words. I couldn't help but hug Old Man Yun. Can a dead person still talk and walk?
When Old Man Yun noticed my reaction, he was stunned at first, and then he smiled shamelessly and leaned back and forth. I wanted to bite his stomach, but in this place, he was my only support and I dare not offend him.
At this moment, the woman's voice suddenly became gentle and she said to me: "Little baby, don't be afraid. A person's mind is dead, even though he is alive, it is no different from a dead person? What I mean is that I am a dead person, not me, really a dead person."
Her voice had a more stable power than Old Man Yun. As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and said to me: "If you don't believe me, please touch me?"
I blinked a few times and really reached out to touch her hand. It was soft and had a warm temperature, but I also felt a little rough. Sure enough, she was not a dead person.
"You are not bad to this brat." Old Man Yun seemed a little proud. As he spoke, he touched my head, but I "disliked" him and turned off. I didn't know who laughed at me like this just now.
But he even shamelessly forced my head with his hands, pretending to be very loving and touching him! I scolded him a thousand times in my heart, but unfortunately I didn't dare to scold him.
The woman seemed to think these things were very interesting, and suddenly chuckled softly, feeling that the laughter made people feel happy in her heart. There was snow outside. She said to us: "Are you cold? Come in quickly."
I was so cold that I couldn't stand it anymore. I took advantage of this gap and broke free from Old Man Yun and rushed into the room with yellow lights.
I didn't know what kind of charcoal fire was burning in the room, but it didn't choke. Instead, there was an indescribable fragrance. It made people calm down and warm. My originally stiff hands and feet also regained their feelings and became warm.
I breathed a long and comfortable breath, and then I saw the house clearly. After taking a look, I felt a little confused, turned around and ran outside the house, and just happened to run into Old Man Yun.
He pulled my clothes and dragged me into the room to sit down, and said to me, "What have you run away? What's wrong with you? Forgot that when I was a child, I also tied paper people for you? This is a good folk craft, an amazing craft. What do you say you run away?"
I don’t know why, but when Old Man Yun said this, my mood gradually calmed down. I thought it was right, just what is the paper man to be afraid of?
But when I entered the room before, I saw so many lifelike paper people piled up in the room, as if they were looking at me, and I suddenly felt a little scared.
While talking, the woman also walked into the room, sat down beside us, and slowly began to pack up some messy things on the table. I looked at it carefully and saw that the table was full of pieces of paper cut into various shapes, including paper clothes, paper pants, and something else. In short, the craftsmanship was really a coincidence.
In addition, there are some bamboo strips, which are densely painted with words that I can't understand. The symbols are written on them in red. I feel a little uncomfortable and a little shocking.
On the contrary, Old Man Yun picked up a bamboo strip with interest, looked at it carefully, and made a "tsk tsk" sound from his mouth. I don't know if he was amazed or appreciated?
The woman calmly took away the bamboo strips from Old Man Yun's hand and said, "Stop looking at it, you can't learn it even after reading it, so why waste time?"
"I didn't say I had to learn it, but I just lamented that even with the same method, the Taoist inheritance is full of wonderful and unique features, and the effects produced are the same and different. Isn't this a magical thing?" Old Man Yun said with a shaking head.
The woman didn't say anything, packed up her things and put them in the inner room, but came out and said, "My method is normal, just to relieve some resentment and expect more good results in this world. Just like I am destined to regret, I don't want more regrets in this world."
When facing the woman's words, Old Man Yun didn't say anything, and was very silent. I didn't understand what they were saying. I just looked at this and that.
At this time, Old Man Yun suddenly spoke, "Cook some food, right? I'm still a little hungry since I walked in the afternoon."
Chapter completed!