July 22, Great Heat, Hangzhou.

At nine o'clock in the evening, it was not long before dark.Just as Gu Jinzhong was about to close the door, he went into the house and took a lantern after thinking about it, and then walked into the mountain.

He doesn't like to use flashlights for lighting. He thinks the light is narrow and harsh, and it doesn't suit the atmosphere of strolling. He bought a dozen or so lanterns from an old craftsman in the village and changed them according to the season.July 22 counts as the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the flower leaders are lotus, hosta, and jasmine, and there are guest ministers, envoys, and so on.Today we are talking about jasmine, and a bunch of jasmine flower balls are also hung on the handle.

Hello Hangzhou, at this time, the lotus leaves meet the sky, and the river flowers win the fire.In the morning, there are often lotus-picking boats carrying lotus leaf pods, which are sold by the broken bridge in a pool of water mist, and they disappear at sunrise.Some early risers just caught up and filled the car basket and back seat with lotus leaves.Gu Jinzhong also went to such a morning market. He opened a restaurant in the mountains and often got some flowers and plants for decoration.

It was cooler in the mountains than in the city. After walking along the mountain road for a while, he felt that all the sweat he had sweated in the house was gone.While walking, he thought that he would get up early tomorrow to buy lotus flowers. There were many trees and deep grass in the mountains, and mosquitoes would gather after walking for a while. He fanned the cattail fan left and right to repel the mosquitoes, still thinking about what to do tomorrow.

As we walked deeper and deeper, the same people who came for a walk gradually disappeared. Gu Jinzhong didn't bring a watch, so he could only judge by the height of the moon that it was already past ten o'clock. He had to get up early tomorrow morning, so he turned around and decided to go back.Just as he turned his head, in a place where the lights couldn't find it, there was something that didn't exist before, which was suddenly spit out by the deep darkness in the mountain.

Gu Jinzhong didn't see anything, but a strange feeling made him realize that something suddenly appeared where he couldn't see.His whole body froze, as if a ray of light had penetrated the air, and somehow he felt that something had penetrated him too, not only the flesh, but even the soul seemed to be seen through.

There were a few rustling sounds in the depths of the grass, and he froze in place, his heart beating faster involuntarily, and he heard someone call his name slowly, as if he had just learned to speak: "Gu... Jinzhong."

Gu Jinzhong's restaurant is close to the Oriole Singing in the Willows, hidden in a forest, it is not very eye-catching during the day, and it is even quieter after the time of play.The restaurant has two floors with an attic. He usually lives in the attic, and every time he comes back from a walk at night, he goes directly to the attic through the back door.Today he opened the door of the restaurant again rarely, and turned on two palace lanterns with mica patterns, and then he invited people in and sat down nervously, served tea and some snacks, and sat down nervously opposite.

One of the two people brought back by him laughed: "Don't be afraid..." He thought for a while, and then changed to a more suitable way of speaking: "Don't be afraid."

Gu Jinzhong still felt cold sweat dripping down his back, so he calmed down: "I don't know the names of the two of you?"

The one who spoke first couldn't help laughing, "The surname is He, the single name is Pu, and the character is Shanyou." Then he motioned to the other person: "This is Ye Daoyou."

This is the second time Gu Jinzhong heard him make a sound tonight, such as Linglong blowing, and the sound of Zheng Cong: "My surname is Ye, and my name is Guhong."

This night was extremely long, and when the night in the mountains was about to end, Gu Jinzhong finally realized that Ye Guhong and He Pu came from another world. Today, there have been so many people who have used this bluff to deceive him, and he can't quite believe it.

He glanced at the clock again, and it was about to arrive at the lotus leaf morning market on the broken bridge. Although he had a headache and eyestrain after not sleeping all night, he couldn't close the shop for no reason, so he said, "I've been busy all night, why don't you two go upstairs to rest and wait for a while?" There are people in the store, so I'm afraid it will be inconvenient."

He Pu smiled, he couldn't tell that this person still had doubts about their origin, but it didn't hinder him, and said with a smile: "I've been bothering you all night, it's time to say goodbye."

Ye Guhong also got up, the mountain wind was blowing, and the two of them had arrived at the edge of the forest in a short while, Gu Jinzhong couldn't help chasing them out: "You two... immortals, how will you find the fairy trail in the future?"

He Pu smiled, and raised his hand to touch the lantern on the tree. A gray-headed sparrow leaped onto the painting, scratched its head once or twice on the flower branch, and then condensed into the painting.Gu Jinzhong was dumbfounded, and when he realized it, there were no traces of the two of them.

After spending a day in such a distraught manner, even the restaurant employees couldn't stand it, and those who had been with him for a long time simply joked: "Could it be that the boss met a vixen last night?"

Someone next to him answered: "By the West Lake, it is clearly the White Snake Spirit."

"The White Lady belongs to Xu Xian, I guess it is the Green Snake Spirit."

"Rabbit essence is also good."

"It's fine if it's not the centipede spirit and the toad spirit." The topic of the few people went awry, and Gu Jinzhong didn't answer at all, only thinking about the lanterns placed in the attic, and it was the first time that he hoped that it would be dark earlier.

After eight o'clock, the customers and employees were sent away one by one. Gu Jinzhong went upstairs with some excitement, took a shower solemnly, shaved his beard again, changed into the long gown that he bought today, suppressed his mood and lit up. Lanterns go to the mountains.In the past, some people saw him wearing a long gown and carrying a lantern, thinking that he was an old man again.

Now Gu Jinzhong doesn't care about what others think at all, his heart is burning with rage, and he has to pretend to be calm on his face.I jumped all the way to Yuxian's place last night in a daze, looked left and right, and listened carefully for a while, then raised the lantern up, and whispered to the painting on the painting, "Sparrow... Envoy, how do I get down here?"

The painting was motionless, if it wasn't for watching the little bird enter the painting with his own eyes last night, Gu Jinzhong would almost have thought he was dreaming.He asked again in a low voice, and after a while, the jasmine clump shook on the screen, and the head of a tit came out of it, opened its mouth and croaked silently, and then the whole bird jumped out of the flower clump and came to the flower branch. He jumped back, flapped his wings, and flew out of the painting into the air.

Gu Jinzhong hurriedly chased after him, the lantern shook, and the light and shadow on the ground kept shaking.Fortunately, the chickadee was not flying fast. He ran while staring at the chickadee, not noticing that he had left the mountain road.

In the middle of the night, the shadows of the mountains were heavy, and in summer the vegetation was luxuriant. Seeing the tits leading Gu Jinzhong to run, they hurriedly avoided.One bird and one person ran in the mountains for a long time, Gu Jinzhong was out of breath, and suddenly saw a white wall where the vines hung in front of him.When you get closer, you can see that it is a ruined wall.

Hangzhou has been romantic for thousands of years. I don’t know how many people have built gardens in the mountains by the lake since ancient times. Maybe their families died, or the country was destroyed. How many homes were left behind in the mountains and forests.I don't know which abandoned garden I see now, the houses have all collapsed, and only half of the walls are covered with vines.

The little sparrow flew to the wall and "tweeted" a few times, and saw two people coming out through the vines, holding the lotus lantern in their hands and lowering it.Gu Jinzhong was tongue-tied, not knowing whether he was in the world or in a dream.He was led forward by two beautiful women in a trance, and when he came to the wall, he felt his eyes froze slightly, and in the blink of an eye, he was already behind the door.

In front of you is a garden, with winding corridors surrounding a pool of clear water, dotted with stone peaks beside the pool, and a small bridge across the narrow part of the pool, but the place to go is hidden behind a green shade.He was led away for a long time in a daze, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and the lights in the small pavilions facing the water were shining brightly in front of him, and the doors suddenly opened one after another when people came, and fifteen or sixteen girls with long hair came out, "The guests are here. "

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