【Xue Xiao】Charcoal incense

Baling is not a poor and barren land like Yicheng. Teahouses and taverns are blooming all over the city, and the voices of people in the morning gathering can be heard from a distance. Just looking at the crowds of people in front of the pier can make the whole Yicheng full of excitement. Flatten.

Big brother Si Bo's deep and clear voice shook the blue waves, he was holding the boat up and down, his tongue couldn't be straightened a few times after saying a word, and he directed other small companies to lead the boat to unload the cargo, while he went to help get on and off the boat of boat passengers.

Xue Yang lost his temper in a quiet place, and suddenly returned to a noisy place like Kuizhou. He was still a little unaccustomed, and his brain suddenly hurt.

"Little Yaya, go over the side?" Si Bo's sweaty face appeared at the mouth of the canopy, oily and somewhat reflective, it seemed that he wanted to pull Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen ashore.Xue Yang responded, and turned to embrace Xiao Xingchen, but the Taoist dodged subconsciously without any suspense.

Xue Yang had expected this would be the case, and lowered his head with a smile, grinding his fangs, and said in a nonchalant tone, "Master Dao, there are so many people in Baling, they are not the same as Yicheng, they are delicious and fun. There must be a lot of them... Oh, there are still a few dolls throwing marbles by the river."

In Si Bo's eyes, Xue Yang is like a child who is acting like a baby to his elder brother, full of smiles, full of the joy of a street boy, so cute.But to Xiao Xingchen's ears, Xue Yang's every word was threatening and persecuting, extremely ferocious, and it hurt his nerves. He could even imagine the tragic situation of an innocent child lying in a pool of blood.

"Daozhang, shall we go ashore?"

Xiao Xingchen's face turned blue and white, he didn't know whether he was angry or frightened, he obviously looked unwilling, but in the end he submissively propped up his stiff body that had been frozen all night, and prepared to walk to the shore .

"Would you like to help?" Si Bo bent down, a little afraid that the blind Taoist would plunge into the water and make out with the freshly cast mandarin fish fry.

"No, I'll do it." Xue Yang jumped onto the plank before Xiao Xingchen wanted to grab the man's life-saving hand, and immediately clasped Xiao Xingchen's cold five fingers, not giving him any escaped gaps.Xiao Xingchen was staggered by Xue Yang, and almost rolled down the river to drink water, which frightened the sweaty Si Bo into a cold sweat. When he reacted, the dazed white-clothed Taoist had already been hacked. The young man in clothes was firmly wrapped in his arms.

Ouch, do not see evil.Si Bo thought about the appearance of the old teacher in Chengdong School, and with a red face, he silently read a few words about "Zhe Ye", bit the bullet and asked again: "Little boy, where do you want to put the boat?"

"Why don't you figure it out by yourself? I don't want it, I'll give it to you."

Xue Yang waved his hand generously, relying on the fact that the boat was not his own, he generously gave it away, while he led Xiao Xingchen towards the market.When he got here, he never thought of finding a way out for himself. When the Taoist priest's eyes healed, he would not care about anything. It was even more unnecessary to leave a broken boat like a burden.

Xue Yang emptied out a little bit of the [-] stuffed up in his mind, and dragged Xiao Xingchen, who was bitter and bitter, to feel the bustle and bustle that he hadn't seen for a long time.

He walked forward swaggeringly, and Xiao Xingchen could only be dragged by him pitifully, unable to see or hear clearly, and finally made out the sound of the wheels of the car, and was squeaked by the oil bubbles of fried pancakes on the street. He lost his direction because of the noise, and he had to be bumped by passers-by in two steps. This man from Huxiang has a strong body, so that Xiao Xingchen staggered to and fro, his shoulders hurt, and he could only follow Xue Yang's footsteps as if he was about to take off. Walking forward with eight crutches, the pace is not as steady as that of a hangover alcoholic.

Xue Yang must have known what was going on behind him. Out of revenge, he wanted to make the Taoist priest suffer, thinking that when the Taoist priest couldn't take it anymore, he would naturally tell him to walk more slowly, but seeing that the taverns and teahouses had already passed Several houses, Xiao Xingchen was still holding on and refused to make a sound, Xue Yang's face became darker and darker, and finally reached out his hand before Xiao Xingchen's pair of plain white boots were covered by the big feet of the past. Hooking Xiao Xingchen's waist, he grabbed the panting Taoist priest.

"You have such a hard bone, such a stubborn temper, I admire you." Xue Yang praised without distraction, "I really wanted to give you a few more touches, but bumped into each other, and I still have to get my things in the end. Xiu, it's really troublesome... I'd better let you go close to me after being wronged."

"...Since it's troublesome, wouldn't it be a good idea to get rid of it?"

"Of course not."

Xiao Xingchen spat at himself in vain talking to a lunatic, and twitched his right hand a few times, which was intertwined with Xue Yang's fingers. grid on his chest.

"Beware!"

Shocked, Xue Yang stretched out his hand to grab Xiao Xingchen who was about to fall into the pond.

"The owner of the fish pond is so stingy that he can't even pull a handful of hairs from his buttocks. He is not afraid that he will fall down and stink in the belly of the fish just by building such a dilapidated single-plank bridge."

"Don't talk nonsense." Xiao Xingchen stopped Xue Yang.

Xue Yang was already full of anger, and now he was reprimanded by Xiao Xingchen, so he directly directed the conversation at Xiao Xingchen again: "You Taoist priest, you really don't know what's good, but I'm helping you. If I didn't follow you , or before you get rid of today's evil, you will become a lonely soul in this fishy place!"

"How can I really fall?" Xiao Xingchen was helpless.

"Oh? You won't? It means your life is just as easy without me?"

Xiao Xingchen hurriedly defended: "Little friend, that's not what I meant..."

"The owner of the pond just gave you two crucian carp, but he dared to come and beg you to get rid of his evil spirits. He was obviously framing you! Is it possible for two fish to do something that would cost you your life? You are better off, You just agreed, what do you think of yourself?"

Xiao Xingchen couldn't answer for a while.Xue Yang was clamoring for fish a few days ago, and he had to spend money and there was not much left. Originally, even if he didn't accept the fish from the pond owner, he should do his best to get rid of the evil, but thinking about the coquettish boy, he also accepted this gift.Looking at it at a glance, it may really make people think that he is trying to subjugate demons and subdue demons for some misunderstanding.

"I……"

Xue Yang's tone was stern, but there was an evil smile on his face.

How could he not understand Xiao Xingchen's motive for removing the troubles of the pond owner?He just thought it was very interesting to see the tangled look of the Taoist priest who was obviously wronged but didn't want to tell the truth to embarrass the other party, that's all.

That's it.

"Master."

Xiao Xingchen seemed to have softened the other party's tone, raised his head and waited for the next sentence.

"The fish needs to be sweet and sour."

"……it is good!"

Xue Yang placed Xiao Xingchen on a bench, sat down on the opposite side, beckoned for the waiter, ordered porridge and side dishes for Xiao Xingchen, and ordered sweet tofu nao for himself: "Eat something to replenish your strength, and then continue on your way."

Xue Yang snorted and finished the things in his bowl, looked up and saw Xiao Xingchen still not moving, lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment, took a few coins on the table, murmured in his heart whether the Taoist would like to eat or not, moved the stool and got up to leave. Xi: "Forget it, I'll go by myself."

After walking a certain distance, Xue Yang turned his head and saw Xiao Xingchen picked up the porcelain spoon in front of him, raised his eyebrows, and hummed a little tune to ask for directions.

Containing the rascal air of the demon king in the world, Xue Yang is really a handsome and gentle man, who pleases little girls and grandparents, and it happens to be such people who sit in the booth.

The girls laughed and pushed their female companions, clearly wanting to have a few more words with this handsome man, but they pretended to be reserved and dodged again and again, their faces flushed with shame, Xue Yang didn't speak, they Just staring at Xue Yang with big eyes and small eyes, when Xue Yang opened his mouth, they screamed and commotion again, so that Xue Yang was forced to follow them around, and in the end he couldn't get a few useful information. Rolling his eyes to the sky, he tried his best to suppress the crackling sparks at the end of his nerves, emphasizing the need to take care of the overall situation countless times, before he could barely resist the urge to light this town with a torch.

On the contrary, it was an old couple who sold pancakes. After hearing Xue Yang's description, they thought for a moment, and their eyes suddenly lit up: "Ah, the little girl is talking about Wolong, isn't it, Jiang Jiachong, Wolong?"

"Yes! Where is this place, do the two elders know?" After being bombarded by chattering women for quite a while, the short and hoarse words of the two old men seemed so clear and refreshing to Xue Yang's ears that he even I have the illusion that I have to be moved to tears.

"Little boy, follow the widest main road in this town and go eastward...yes, go straight eastward, pass Langcheng and Yuancheng, it's about a hundred miles...Little boy, go there and do nothing ?”

"Go do some errands." Xue Yang pondered in his mind whether he should harness a horse at the nearest post station, or whether he should just worry about Si Bo returning to the boat he sent out with pride, and continue on the waterway. .

"Tsk tsk, that old man went there when I was playing with mud, and I don't know what it has become now. But don't worry, little boy, no matter how big the change is, the mountain made of stone and mud will grow on the ground. I can’t run away.” The old man smacked his lips, shaking his head as if he was recalling something extraordinary.

Xue Yang caught the expression in those wrinkles, and couldn't help asking curiously, "What's wrong there?"

"The old man can't remember too much. I only know that the elders used to say that people who go to the mountain will have no good end. They also said that there are ogres on the mountain, which are terrible. But in recent years, I haven't heard any rumors. I don't know what happened."

Xue Yang panted lightly and straightened up.It is nothing more than strange stories about mountain spirits, ghosts, demons and evil gods. Over the years, Xiao Xingchen has met eight hundred if not one thousand. Now that he has come here, no matter how bizarre the rumors are, they can only be heard as stories, let alone this one. The rumors, which were so endless that he couldn't even describe the faces of ghosts, made him struggle to hold back his laughter.

Just as he was about to leave, the old man picked up the bamboo colander next to the frying pan and shoveled the fried oil cakes in the frying pan.As soon as the oil cake came out of the pan and came into contact with the low-temperature air, it absorbed the heat floating on the surface into the crispy shell like a treasure. With a crisp sound, the scallion on the cake surface is broken, and the spicy smell of oily noodles is drawn out, which seduces the tongue and stomach of passers-by.

After Xue Yang went out a few steps, he walked back along the same path backwards, stared at the golden pancakes in silence for a while, and finally made a nervous "two" with his fingers:

"Two."

The old lady responded with joy, and wrapped Xue Yang with three warm pancakes in oiled paper, and gave him another piece of oiled paper for him to grab and eat. She showed her two rows of incomplete teeth and smiled kindly: " Don't want the money from the little girl, give it away for nothing."

Xue Yang froze in his footsteps as usual, as he was going to make a fool of himself. He looked stunned, and for a moment he had nowhere to show his vicious energy, and suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.

"why?"

"Little Yaya looks good-looking, like our fourth son." The old lady's face was flushed, looking happy, and she added, "It looks good when you smile."

It looks good when you smile.

Looking at Mianshan.

This is the funniest thing Xue Yang has heard today.

On the way back, Xue Yang didn't smile all the way, absent-mindedly ate off one piece of pancake, and even licked a few gaps on the second one.Then I went to the pier again and asked Si Bo for his boat—the land road is tortuous, and the horse has its limits. Although the water road is short, it cannot compete with horseback riding, but once the distance is long, the water road will go in the same way as the old man at the pancake stand pointed out. Almost the same, the advantage will still be better than riding a horse.Na Si Bo didn't take his words seriously at all, wiped off his sweat, and said, "You are a young man with a disposition, you don't think too much about what you say, while leading him to the corner of the harbor, the boat he and Xiao Xingchen took is being secured." Placed in a corner that is neither wide nor narrow.

This city is so different:

Fireworks don't choke the nose, hair hanging down the water doesn't make people upset, hawkers don't make too much noise, fishermen go home on poles without making people tired, and even the prostitutes standing in front of the brothel are not so coquettish that makes people sick to the stomach.

Orange candles are burning in the paper lanterns under the flying eaves, the sun is setting slowly to the west, and the afterglow like gold shrouds everything in a hazy lingering, it seems that even the autumn wind around the body is enough to warm the body.

Xiao Xingchen was sitting in his original position, with a cup of tea in front of him, a long-lost smile on his lips, and he was talking with the shop owner in harmony, Xue Yang's pupils fluttered, and he was in a trance——

The plain clothes were covered with a golden red shimmer, which added a bit of color to the boring white Taoist robe. It was not as overbearing as black, but a soft, warm, and somewhat dazzling color, which dazzled Xue Yang's eyes. Pantothenic acid, as if to cry.

Suddenly, Xue Yang's scalp exploded, he remembered something, he stepped forward quickly, and took Xiao Xingchen away when the shopkeeper was stunned and Xiao Xingchen's smile suddenly disappeared.

"It's best that you didn't ask others for help, Xiao Xingchen." Xue Yang's face was sullen, with a familiar treacherous smile on his lips, "Otherwise, what you have seen and what you have never seen today, as long as it is here No one in the city can even think about living."

Xiao Xingchen's steps were messy, his face was pale, and the simple and honest rural accent that the shopkeeper was clumsily asking him for tea-making skills in his mind hadn't dissipated, so he had to lower his emotions, take a quick breath, try his best to stabilize his tone, and said with care: " No."

Xue Yang slowed down a little, and the hand holding Xiao Xingchen relaxed a little, and he stopped smiling.

The pair of pupils dimmed under the low eyelashes, mercilessly rejecting the love of the setting sun, are out of place in this city full of hot fireworks.