Guanqingzhai

What I see is not what I think, and what I see is not my old friend.People are me and not me, and people are not people.

"The so-called people are not sages and sages, and there is no way to improve. Brother, do you think this is the case?"

"Hehe, brother Chu... just kidding, you are superior in chess, I am just inferior to you in tricks. What's wrong?"

"Brother, what you said is wrong. You are only in Lushan Mountain, so you don't know the real face."

"Brother Chu, who has seen the true face of Mount Lu, can you tell Brother Yu a little bit?"

"No."

"Ha ha……"

"Because the secret has not arrived yet."

"God, what is the secret?"

"The secret cannot be leaked..."

"Ha ha……"

"My dear brother, don't always sneer, it's too disturbing."

"Hehe, you can go back."

"It's raining heavily outside, dear brother."

"There are coir raincoats outside the house, Brother Chu, please help yourself."

"Then let's just take a gamble. Win or lose is determined in one game. If I win, I will stay and shelter from the rain. If I lose..."

"Brother Chu doesn't need to go back, just tell me who the last person is."

"Okay, it's a deal."

"No regrets!"

One game went into three shifts, there was no win or loss, but it made Chu Jue spend another night in Guanqing Zhai.It has to be said that in terms of scheming, Chu Jue always has unexpected tricks, but some problems have slowly produced subtle changes between the two of them.But this made Hu Yue even more confused, because if it was him in the past, he would definitely walk away with such a problem, and leave a letter to do all the courtesy.Even at such a critical moment, Chu Jue 'carried' him back to Guanqingzhai almost arbitrarily and domineeringly.Perhaps Hu Yue should have directly used him as a pawn to win a deeper and more important game.Don't care about the other party's wealth and life at all.

But, he didn't leave.The original strategy was hesitant, and Hu Yue, who was left behind, tried not to think about it, because her heart was empty, but there seemed to be something choking.Chu Jue was indeed the only one who had been feeling this way for so long.

Hu Yue didn't have time to think too much about these things in the past few days. On the contrary, he wrote lyrics more diligently, and sent out a lot more calligraphy and paintings than before. , used to pay the silver taels that Hongqiao advanced a few days ago.

Hong Qiao didn't refuse either, she knew Hu Yue's temper, although she was greedy for good wine, she was quite proud.Even with Chu Jue, apart from living in Guanqingzhai, he almost relies on himself for all food and daily living.I am poor, wearing old cloth robes that have faded after washing and washing, and have never forced anyone on yellow and white things. I rely on my own ability to obtain everything, and sometimes even help some poor people showgirl.Of course, some singers and prostitutes would give some cotton clothes and daily necessities, and Hu Yue could reciprocate as much as possible.So everyone knows among the prostitutes that even though Hu Yue is so poor, he is an upright gentleman.So even though Hu Yue didn't have much fame and was poor, they all called him "Young Master Hu" coquettishly.

Hongqiao wanted to keep Hu Yue for dinner, but Hu Yue said he had something to do and couldn't stay for long.Hongqiao asked Xiaoying to prepare some realgar wine for summer, calamus mugwort leaves sachets and other things as Duanyang gifts, and personally handed over a folding fan to Hu Yue.

Hu Yue said with a smile: "The heat will prevail during the Dragon Boat Festival, Qiao'er should also pay attention to her body."

Hongqiao fanned the incense fan slightly, and she said: "Living on a boat, it's just that the summer is a bit tough, and mosquitoes are inevitable. No, I dare not open the windows. Xiaoying burns some wormwood and smokes some medicines from time to time. Scum. But it may not be useful."

Hu Yue said: "It's not difficult. I will prepare some new spices for you tomorrow. You can burn them. It will be more useful than burning those medicine residues."

After finishing drinking the cooling plum tea in the bowl, he got up and left.Hongqiao got up quickly and returned a blessing.

Hu Yue stuffed the things Hongqiao had given her into the rucksack, and with a pot of realgar wine in her hand, she rushed to another restaurant.

As soon as I got to the door, I saw a person being kicked out.He collided with Hu Yue, and almost knocked his wine to the ground.

Hu Yue hurriedly protected the wine jar in his hand. At this time, the child standing at the door put his hands on his hips and yelled: "Who knows you? Go talk nonsense elsewhere. You still call yourself Tie Duan Life and Death, I think a fortune teller should talk more Good words, if you go on like that, you won't even have this meal."

In front of Hu Yue was an old man. His clothes were dirty, his head was full of white hair, and his face was covered with dirt. Hu Yue reached out to support him. The old man looked up at Hu Yue, and then showed a surprised expression. With a very hoarse and deep voice, he said, "You...I have seen you, and you have seen me."

Hu Yue snorted, and was about to ask, but was immediately stopped by Xiao Er, who said, "Don't, don't, Mr. Hu, don't talk to him! This old man is a jerk, he knows how to beg for drinks on credit, isn't that right?" He hasn't paid for food and drink for several months, and the shopkeeper wants to ask him to test his only son. Who would have thought that this old dog couldn't spit ivory out of his mouth. He just said some unlucky and depressing words! Bah! "

Hu Yue said, "Oh?"

Xiao Er pushed the old man again, and the old man backed away tremblingly.Hu Yue held out his arms again.

The old man looked sideways at Hu Yue, and said the second sentence: "You haven't changed at all...it's been so many years...you haven't changed at all."

Hu Yue's eyes sank, but the old man was already walking outside with the white cloth hexagram in his hand.Hu Yue yelled, but was dragged into the restaurant by Xiao Er.

As the old man walked out, he said: "I see what I think is not what I think, and I see that the old man is not the old man. People are me and not me, and the old man is not the old man?"

Hu Yue stopped, and the old man had disappeared into the bustling market.

Xiaoer said: "Why did Mr. Hu come here alone today? Where is Master Chu?"

Hu Yue said: "He has other business. Today I came to find Mengling girl who came to sing with you. I sent her a song."

Xiaoer's face suddenly turned ugly, and he said, "Miss Mengling..."

Hu Yue sat up straight, and Xiao Er stood beside her and whispered in Hu Yue's ear, "It's gone."

Hu Yue asked: "Ms. Mengling has been singing here all the time, why did she suddenly disappear?"

Xiao Er said: "I haven't seen her for a long time, but..."

Hu Yue looked at Xiao Er, and seeing no one around, Xiao Er continued, "It is said that she would fetch water a few days before she disappeared."

Hu Yue opened the fan and ordered the table.Xiao Er continued to make tea for him and continued: "It's really strange, she doesn't need to do these things here, but every night she will take a wooden bucket to hold water, and she will indeed bring back the water afterwards. But what's the use No one knows, it's just that it's so weird that other people do it for her, and she doesn't say anything. After that, they just disappeared."

Hu Yue waved his fan and said, "But if this happened, the government office would naturally intervene, but there is no movement now, which shows that this statement is not true."

The child had foreseen that Hu Yue would say this, and immediately gave Hu Yue the last warning, he said: "That's true, but recently there have been rumors that her ghost is killing her! That's why there is such a saying, but death If there are no dead bodies or people, the yamen is not willing to take over."

Sure enough, this completely aroused Hu Yue's interest.But just when Hu Yue wanted to ask, the shopkeeper called Xiao'er to do some work.

The child shook the white cotton towel on his shoulders, winked at Hu Yue, and Hu Yue nodded to him.He originally wanted to hand over the words to Mengling, but Mengling suddenly disappeared, so naturally he couldn't send it.

Hu Yue drank alcohol contentedly, and began to recall when and where he had seen this old fortune-teller.

Of course, Hu Yue cocked his mouth and looked into the restaurant, when suddenly there was singing in the restaurant.

As soon as the song came out, although the people in the hotel didn't hear anything unusual, they just thought it was a wandering singer, but Hu Yue immediately recognized that it was Meng Ling's voice, but he had never heard the lyrics.

Hu Yue wanted to hear the complete content in the song that sang three sighs, but Hu Yue found her lyrics, even he, who had written the lyrics for so many years, couldn't understand what she was singing. .

While lighting the fan in his hand, Hu Yue supported his head with his hands, as if fascinated.When Hu Yue was about to pour wine, suddenly a pair of jade hands stretched out from the opposite side of the table, holding a jug in their hands, pouring wine into Hu Yue's cup.

Hu Yue looked up and saw that Meng Ling was already sitting opposite him, smiling warmly at him.

Hu Yue said: "It's been a long time, Miss."

Meng Ling didn't answer, she pointed to herself, then to Hu Yue, and then wrote a reply on the table with her finger dipped in the wine.

Hu Yue looked up and saw that there were still people there, but there was no news about the words on the table.

Hu Yue looked at the word playfully, and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

He said softly, "Interesting."

Hu Yue drank for most of the day, and didn't get up until the dead of night to leave. He held a jar of wine in his hand, and kept pouring wine into his mouth with the wine jug that he carried with him.

Passers-by saw this and just regarded him as a drunken alcoholic.Hu Yue staggered, he looked up at the sky, as if it was going to rain heavily, the sky was already stuffy.I won't be able to go back for a while.And he actually didn't want to go back.

Hu Yue laughed at himself, then walked in another direction, not intending to go back.

"Where are you going?"

"Take shelter from the rain."

Hu Yue stopped, and he turned his head to answer the man, but there was no one behind him.

Hu Yue snorted lightly, disapprovingly, and continued walking forward.The sweltering weather makes people sweat profusely without taking a few steps.But Hu Yue didn't feel any sweltering heat at all. Instead, there was a faint breeze blowing from behind him and blowing on his neck, making him feel a strange chill.

It's cold, but it's not cold, but it makes people feel creepy.Also full of an indescribable sticky feeling.

Hu Yue went straight ahead, and suddenly saw a stone well, but in his memory, there was no well on this road, because the side is a tributary of the Jinshui River.

Hu Yue said, "Is there really a ghost?"

"There are no ghosts, and they are not human."

Still did not see anyone, but only heard voices.

Hu Yue stopped and asked, "Then what is the purpose of this well?"

When Hu Yue asked this question, she didn't give the same answer as before.Hu Yue continued: "Could it be that Miss Mengling wants me to go down into the well to have a look?"

Hu Yue said this, but there was still no sound.

But Hu Yue knew that there was already a person standing quietly behind him.But he didn't look back, because he felt a strong blood from the person behind him.

Hu Yue didn't look back, the man didn't move, the well in front of him that shouldn't exist here seemed to block Hu Yue's way.

Hu Yue felt that his feet were a little wet. He glanced at his feet from the corner of his eye, and found that there was a person crawling beside his feet. This person grabbed his feet. He seemed to have just landed from the water. , her hair was drenched like algae, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but she looked up at Hu Yue with a pair of hateful eyes.

If it was an ordinary person, maybe this scare would be enough to scare the nerves out of their wits, but although Hu Yue was shocked and didn't make much movement, he shook his feet slightly.

The person lying on the ground immediately felt Hu Yue's movement, and shrank back like an animal. At the same time, the person standing upright behind him also moved. He stretched out his hand towards Hu Yue, trying to grab him neck.

This series of movements was very fast, Hu Yue had only the opportunity to dodge to the side, and when he stood still and moved, the people behind him had long since disappeared without a trace, but Hu Yue clearly felt that at that moment, behind him The man was full of hostility and murderous intent.If it wasn't for his quick movements, he would have been grabbed by the neck instead of dodging, and there might be no chance of escaping.

However, Hu Yue didn't have the chance to be thankful for his swiftness, because the well began to bubble continuously, and the turbulent water kept gushing out.

The water was filled with an indescribable stench. Hu Yue stepped back, and the crisis behind him disappeared, but Hu Yue ran away without turning around. He found that something rushed to his feet along the water.

Hu Yue kicked the thing, and he kicked the thing into the air. Hu Yue also jumped up, grabbed the thing in the air, and then turned sideways. He jumped directly over the strange well, and when he landed, Looking back, there was no one there, even Ishii disappeared.

Hu Yue took advantage of the dim light.In his hand was something like a tortoise shell, but it was very soft and moist.It is completely different from ordinary tortoise shells.

There was a strange flash in Hu Yue's eyes, as if he would definitely get this thing.Then he even smiled and said, "Everyone says that troubles are brought on by themselves, but I think troubles can be very picky sometimes."

Then he stuffed the weird tortoise shell into the bag and rushed to Guanqingzhai.

It was not Chu Jue who waited back, but Xuan Mingzi. Xuan Mingzi sat on the stool with his feet crossed, and opened the altar to get wine on his own, without treating himself as a guest at all.

Seeing him like this, Hu Yue rushed over, grabbed the wine jar and said, "Put it down! This jar of champion red is only willing to use when I hide the wine shortage. Why are you so rude?"

Xuan Mingzi wiped his mouth, straightened his sitting posture and said, "It's just a jug of wine, and what I brought you is worth more than it."

Hu Yue snorted and said, "What advice does the national teacher have?"

Xuan Mingzi didn't waver at all, he patted his clothes slightly and said: "It doesn't matter whether the national teacher is the national teacher or not, to put it bluntly, I have something to ask, you have something to think about, but at this stage our goals are the same. So I am willing to provide a little help to you poor brother, don't be too grateful to me, I am a good person and I know myself."

Hu Yue sneered: "Oh, it depends on whether your help is really helpful or not helpful."

Xuan Mingzi ignored his taunt, he leaned forward to Hu Yue and said, "Old fox, do you still remember Yun?"

Hu Yue said, "You were straightforward, but I don't remember."

Xuan Mingzi looked into Hu Yue's eyes, seeming suspicious.Hu Yue said: "You are also a person who is good at planning. If you were me, would you choose this passive situation?"

Xuan Mingzi was silent for a moment, then replied: "Make a plan and act."

Hu Yue laughed loudly: "There must be a plan. Now I am at most a soldier to cover up water and soil. How can I make a plan. Now I may be the most passive person, even worse than you and the person who joined forces with you." Be passive."

Xuan Mingzi's eyes flashed coldly, but he quickly returned to his original state. He crossed his legs and said, "What about Chu Jue? What about him?"

Hu Yue said: "He met a person, but he didn't want to tell me about this person. Only he knows this person, neither you nor I. This situation is difficult to solve because of Chu Jue."

Xuan Mingzi said: "Then have you ever thought about what if he hadn't met that person? There is reality in the fiction, and there is fiction in the reality."

Hu Yue said: "But I can be sure that there is such a person."

Xuan Mingzi looked at Hu Yue, and Hu Yue said: "The reason is very simple, because the person who set up the situation was earlier than me and you. Although his purpose is not clear, it is certain that my memory and He knows the reason why he cannot die naturally, or it has something to do with this cloud."

Xuan Mingzi waved his hand and said, "It's all on the table, what I want is the clues from under the table."

Hu Yue spread his hands and shrugged: "Then only Lao Guoshi can investigate, there is nothing I can do."

Xuan Mingzi said: "I have investigated everything I can, now it's up to you."

Hu Yue moved his lips slightly, but swallowed back what he wanted to say. He rolled his eyes and said, "If you are bad for him, I won't stand idly by."

Xuan Mingzi said: "It's bad for him? I know how much weight I have. I can't move that Buddha. I'm not like you. I'm just an ordinary person. I will die. But you are the only one who can be bad for him." , because he puts his love on you. Even if you put a knife in your chest, he still won't let you go."

Hu Yue was silent for a moment, then he said, "Tell me your plan."