Star Architect

"You have some potential to be a detective." The janitor's eyes seemed to be full of water, and the cold draft blew on several people.

"Why did you notice me?" Qi Qiuran suddenly interrupted the silence.

"You look so much like my adopted daughter."

"I didn't ask this." Qi Qiuran shook the teacup.

"Oh, yeah, it looks like we've never met, but for you I somehow found you for no reason, so that's why you ask." The gatekeeper turned his head in the cold light.

"Go ahead if you want to say something." Qi Qiuran said calmly, and suddenly there was a hint of coolness in his ears——

"Hisssssssss--"

A slight sound accompanied by cold air kept blowing towards Qi Qiuran's right ear, and suddenly disappeared after a few seconds!

not good!Qi Qiuran suddenly realized that he forgot about Luo Pingxuan!

Maybe it was too cold to stay here, so Luo Pingxuan secretly took a few breaths to keep himself calm, the breath from his mouth happened to be blown onto Qi Qiuran's ears, which made Qi Qiuran's ears itchy, almost Shiver.

"Calling us here is not just to miss your daughter." Qi Qiuran said this, while raising his hand naturally and calmly, and passed the teacup next to Luo Pingxuan to Luo Pingxuan.

I go!It can be regarded as thinking of me!

Luo Pingxuan, who had been sitting on the side calmly, took the teacup and nodded with a smile on his face.

"You should have known it a long time ago," said the janitor with the corners of his mouth raised: "Time and space can be distorted. I don't know how you rushed here as soon as possible, and you didn't guess how I left it in the notebook. message."

Speaking of this, the gatekeeper and Qi Qiuran looked at each other, as if they understood something, they smiled together.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I shouldn't interrupt you." Luo Pingxuan interrupted suddenly, and the atmosphere seemed a little subtle.

"With you by this girl's side, her abilities will be superimposed. The stronger your ability is, the more multiplied her abilities will be. You two are really a frightening combination." The gatekeeper seemed to know Whatever Luo Pingxuan wanted to ask, he said something like this.

"Mr. is well-informed, but can we go and see your daughter? If we take the liberty to come here, we should say hello to her." Luo Pingxuan said tentatively.

"That's right, you two have never seen her since you came here, so you're asking that." The gatekeeper smiled slightly and continued, "Girl, how about picking up three buddhist incense sticks for you?"

Incense, slowly rising in front of a separate tombstone in the backyard.

"Mr. knows when our business started." Qi Qiuran, who was standing in front of the tombstone, turned around and faced the gatekeeper.

"I've been a janitor for 300 years.

120 years ago, the school near your shop was very simple.

The day before the Ching Ming Festival that year, when I went out and passed there, I saw a little girl of a few years old crawling outside the fence to watch the class inside.

There were always old-fashioned classic cars and even horse-drawn carriages passing by, but she kept watching so intently that she didn't know that I stood behind her for a long time.

When it was approaching noon, she seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around and bumped into me directly, then looked at me in shock, and quickly apologized to me. "

Qi Qiuran listened to the gatekeeper's words and closed her eyes, and the wind made a slight cry-like "woo-woo" sound lingering in her ears.

"One year later, on the day before the Ching Ming Festival, I passed by there again, and the little girl was still standing outside the fence, but she lost her focus at the time, and continued to look into the campus while secretly wiping tears.

At that time she was not as tall as my legs, very thin, and her clothes were dirty and old.

I thought about it carefully, and thought of the last time I saw her, although her clothes were also very old, they looked very clean.

At that moment, I thought of my job as a janitor at the gate of hell, and wondered if she had lost someone around her, so I quietly went to her and squatted down, and put the handkerchief next to her face.

It took a long time for her to find me, and she just whispered a thank you, and immediately squatted down and started crying. "

Speaking of this, the janitor sighed, and looked at Qi Qiuran with a sad smile: "Perhaps that child is as strong as you in his heart. He is enduring great pain but he is unwilling to tell anyone to help her share it."

"Please continue." Qi Qiuran gave the gatekeeper a calm reply with a smile.

"At that time, I saw that it was just noon, and there was no attention to her on the street, and I couldn't think of a way to comfort her, so I went to buy things for the Qingming Festival as quickly as possible.

When I returned there with two big bags of things while it was still daylight, the girl was still squatting in the corner in a daze, instead of leaving like last time, I walked over slowly and sat next to her without saying a word .

After a while, I said to her: "It's getting dark, and it's time for the students to leave school. You can go home and come back tomorrow." '

And she muttered something next to me, and I answered her with a smile: 'So I will accompany you back. 'Later she asked me how I could hear her saying that she didn't want to go back alone because she had no home, I just smiled, but I didn't hear what she said clearly at all.

But at that time, she just stood up, looked at the front and said to me: Uncle can't take her back. When it's almost here, please ask uncle to go back, she can find the way by herself.

It's just that she and I didn't think of it. She was walking and walking, and suddenly she squatted down and cried again when she saw something.

The bitter crying made me look around at a loss, and suddenly found that not far from her, there was an old woman with a boy who was about her age, talking and laughing about buying toys.

At that moment, I suddenly remembered that two months ago, there was an old woman with white hair who passed through the gate of hell, bowed to me three times without saying anything, then stared at me and said: "You too God, please help me tell Bodhisattva, bless that child, don't look at her like a boy, but she is a good girl, she has been taking care of me, an old mother! '

Speaking of which, the old woman's cold hand suddenly grabbed my arm, and the cold air hit my forehead, which made me very awake. Forced by helplessness, I slowly nodded to the old woman.

Thinking of this scene, I walked up to the girl again, handed her a handkerchief and said: 'I have seen your mother-in-law. '

After she finished speaking, she suddenly sobbed and raised her head to look at me, shaking her head vigorously: "Impossible, impossible!"I know where my mother-in-law has gone. It is impossible for ordinary people to see my mother-in-law. You can see the sun. You and my mother-in-law are not the same! '

I suddenly laughed 'haha', and I said: 'I guessed wrong this time, your height is almost in front of the mother-in-law's belly, the mother-in-law has big hands, but the fingers are short, and the speech has always been a bit hoarse, right? ? '

'Impossible, you can't see her! 'The girl still said that.

I suddenly rolled up my sleeves, and there were still light black marks on my arms. I said to the girl: "Two months ago, my mother-in-law passed by me and asked me to tell the Bodhisattva to bless you. I'm afraid I can't help my mother-in-law fulfill her wish." '

The girl looked at me in amazement, and I told her that I am the gatekeeper of the gate of hell, of course I am not afraid of light, and I can see my mother-in-law, then I stood up in her disbelieving expression, and said to her: "Let's go home, I'm still here." There's a lot to do."

She lived here from that day until her death 45 years ago.

The gatekeeper raised his head thoughtfully, the incense stick was already half burned.