Seven Evil Slips:

Yan San fell asleep in the car, and slept lightly all the way, dreaming a lot, dreaming that he returned to Wuzhu Village, the villagers either did not recognize him, turned a blind eye to him, or just stared at him With the canthus tearing apart, he used a knife and a stick, and he was beaten so hard that he ran away with his head in his arms.

Look, he will never have a good dream about this village: For him, there are only four words.

That **** place.

But as the old saying goes: dreams are reversed.

When the car bumped along the bumpy dirt road and arrived at the entrance of the village at the dawn of the third day, Shisan suddenly froze.

There is no familiar cooking smoke, no lively human voices, no chickens crowing, no dogs barking, it is as quiet as the end of the world, when you get closer, you can see those dilapidated houses, some with padlocks, some with doors wide open, inside All that was left was the bulky belongings, and with a whoosh of a mouse, it scurried from behind the door to under the bed.

This looks like a *.

One thousand three turned pale, and shouted at Luo Ren: "Where are the people in my village? Where are the people in my village?"

At the end of the roar, he knelt down with his head in his arms, and began to cry.

Worse than a dream, "that ghostly place" has really become a ghostly place.

Luo Ren let Yi Wan get into the car, and retreated to the nearest village he passed along the way to inquire.

——"Wuzhu Village? It's gone, it was gone a few years ago. Nothing happened, just moved away."

——"They live by fishing for pearls. There are no pearls in the sea. Of course, they can only go out to make a living. They don't go all at once, but go one after another."

There are very few outsiders in this village, and the idle villagers enthusiastically and vividly told them about the Wuzhu Village by the sea.

"I heard that one year it was so evil that they robbed a village on the same seashore for land. As a result, a man fell into the sea and drowned. Knowing that the ship capsized just after arriving in the middle of the sea, and the more evil ones were yet to come. In the mid-autumn festival of that year, the old mussels were enjoying the moon, and fearing that the neighboring villages did not come to retaliate, they all burned down."

"That year, the whole village didn't pick a single bead, and the villagers also felt that it was bad luck, and they pinned their hopes on the next year. The sacrifice to the God of the Sea in March was more grand than ever, who knows..."

The villager sighed again and again: "That piece of sea has become a hen that does not lay eggs. Wuzhu Village has been fishing for pearls for generations, and can't do anything else. It has not made a living for several years, and it can't survive. This is not true. At the beginning, only one or two families went, and then more and more people went, and it became an empty village a few years ago.”

He also said: "However, it may be that you have found a good life outside. People go to high places. If there are no pearls in that sea, it will become a barren mountain and a bad river. It is meaningless to guard."

13,000 listened all the time: "What about the old patriarch, has he left too?"

The villagers seem to have just remembered, and slapped their thighs: "Oh, oh, yes, I forgot to say, the old man has integrity, so he won't leave, saying that the ancestral hall is here, and the soul of the ancestors is here, so he can't say anything Go."

The old patriarch would not leave. Whenever someone persuaded him, he would close his eyes, and two lines of old tears dripped down the gray beard on his chin along his old face full of gullies.

"Our Wuzhu village was established when Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan and set up Xiangjun. For generations, a piece of sea has nourished the whole village for thousands of years. You can't leave just because you don't produce pearls for a few years." Zhu Return the pearls, return the pearls, return the pearls, I told you."

It is said that the old patriarch has ink in his stomach, and he tells historical stories to people in his spare time, citing scriptures and allusions with well-founded evidence.

The story of "Pearls Migrating and Pearls Returning" comes from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Biography of Xun Officials". It is still about the legend of Hepu. They all migrated away. Later, Meng Chang served as the prefect of Hepu. He was an upright official and benefited the people. He had not been in office for a year, and the old mussels with pearls came back one after another.

Actually, from the current point of view, this is just the inherent law of growth and decline of pearls. Meng Chang gave the old clam a sustainable development time to recuperate. In this way, he firmly believes that the old clam will come back.

13,000 asked softly: "And then?"

"Then, the number of people in the village became less and less. One day, the old man became bewildered, took out all the ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall, put them into the pearl boat, and rowed out to sea. He said, look For the sake of the ancestors, the sea cannot cut off the road of the village."

13,000 seemed to see that in the misty morning, the tablets that usually received incense were dumped in disorder in the cabin. Lie Zong is superior..."

Thirteen actually felt desolate for him, with an unknown bitterness in his chest: "And then?"

"And then..." The villagers suddenly became mysterious, looking left and right, as if they were afraid of who would hear it.

He stretched out his hand, with the back of his hand facing up, drawing a straight line in the air, and then swished it back to face up.

"Overturned, the boat reached the center of the water, overturned, remember I said earlier that a woman was rowing a boat, and she also overturned and died in the sea? People say that water ghosts are killing their lives, and some people say that it is a woman , dragged the old man down by his feet, it was very creepy..."

He shivered a bit, and frightened himself into a cold sweat.

***

After talking with Mudai, Uncle Zhang was also afraid that she would be paranoid, but after seeing it for the past two days, Yan Xiaoyan is well-behaved, which is fine.

But what exactly is Kiyo suitable for? Uncle Zhang used all the jobs he knew and heard about to apply to her one by one. He thought it was all right, but he always felt that something was missing.

When Kishiro University graduated, he said: "I'm not interested in working in an office. I'm going to college. It's for quality, basic quality."

I thought she was just joking, but it turned out not to be. When Huo Zihong was here, Uncle Zhang also discussed this topic with her worriedly. It's different, if Kiyo hasn't found her own way yet, just let her play, in this life, there are not many days when you can just play without distractions."

Since it was the proprietress who spoke, Uncle Zhang didn't say anything, he hummed and turned to leave.

He didn't hear Huo Zihong's next words.

"Maybe, if I want to go back to this kind of life in the future, I won't be able to."

***

This afternoon, Uncle Zhang gave an interview.

It's a real interview, ten thousand or three little **** leave as soon as they say it, Uncle Zhang can't understand those red and white drinks, Cao Pangpang yells hard, and he is a blind man when he enters the bar.

It was only at this time that I realized that ten thousand is really a technical talent.

The bartender sitting in front of him was introduced by the familiar bar. He has huge dark circles under his eyes, a dissatisfied expression on his face, he is sloppy, and does not sit well. Uncle Zhang gets angry when he sees it.

He coughed twice: "Which bars have you worked in? How many years have you been a bartender? Introduce yourself, introduce yourself."

Before the conversation was over, I heard Kiyo's cheerful voice: "Big Brother!"

Uncle Zhang was taken aback. At first he thought he was interviewing Kiyo's elder brother, but he didn't realize that he was going wrong until she went out to greet him bouncing around.

Uncle Zhang looked out curiously.

Kido's fellow apprentice? I have never seen it myself.

***

Another person whose blood was racing when he heard the word "big brother" was Cao Yanhua.

Senior brother, according to the legend, the senior brother who always makes the little junior sisters admire him from the dead to the dead and is as chic as the wind!

Like a giraffe with his neck outstretched, the smile on his face slowly froze as far as his eyes could see, and it felt like the smile had turned into ice, and when he hit it with a hammer, the ice shards would fall down with a clatter.

This is Kiyo's... big brother?

The person who came in was about forty years old, middle-aged and fat, his head had begun to bald, his back was hunched, and his clothes were loose. ah.

Kiyo came in joyfully holding the man's arm, and introduced: "This is Uncle Zhang, this is our bar helper, Cao Yanhua. Brother, you can call him Fatty Cao. This is my senior brother , surnamed Zheng, Zheng Mingshan."

Cao Yanhua has not yet recovered from the disillusionment with the senior brother, he was a little at a loss, and suddenly glanced at Zheng Mingshan's leg, and blurted out: "Senior brother...this leg...recovered It's good, hehe..."

Oops, how can you say that, Kiyo mentioned that the senior brother had his legs broken by the master because he was a thief. For those who learn martial arts, this must be a taboo that cannot be mentioned...

Cao Yanhua's face turned red and white with such a bad mouth.

Zheng Mingshan listened in a fog, looked down at his legs: Is there a problem?

Kiyo was afraid that he would be in trouble, so he pushed Zheng Mingshan to a seat: "Senior brother, sit down."

Come again and tell Cao Yanhua: "My elder brother likes to drink white wine, but the bar doesn't have it. You can buy Erguotou. If there are side dishes to go with the wine, you can also bring some peanuts and pig ears."

White wine, peanuts, pig ears? In such an exquisite and graceful bourgeoisie bar?

They are bars here, not roadside stalls!

Cao Yanhua couldn't hold back: "The soil is not soil, little master, everyone is coffee and cocktails, he sipped a little wine there, and chewed a couple of peanuts, it doesn't go well. There are more..."

He secretly pointed to Zheng Mingshan: "A part-time contractor? Did you come directly from the construction site?"

Kiyo glared at him.

"Fatty Cao, don't judge by appearance. Let me tell you, my elder brother is very powerful. He is a retired special soldier. Later, he worked as a bodyguard for rich people. He singled out six road bandits. "

Cao Yanhua's mouth opened, but it couldn't close.

"Also, my elder brother opened a martial arts gym, peaches and plums are all over the world, and all the disciples are spitting, and they will drown you, so hurry up!"

***

Cao Yanhua left in a hurry.

If there is something to do, the disciple will do his best, let alone the master's elder brother.

Kiyo first poured tea for Zheng Mingshan: "Senior brother, isn't the martial arts hall busy? Why come here when you have time?"

Zheng Mingshan started before Kiyo, and only studied for a few years. He was not very interested in light kungfu. After obtaining the master's permission, he switched to other techniques. I'm busy with my own affairs, and when it comes to the orthodox system of Shimen's kung fu, it's not as good as Kiyo.

So he opened a martial arts hall to teach, which is not regarded as a master's apprentice, and he taught everything about miscellaneous fighting and Changquan.

He doesn't put gold on his face: "What kind of martial arts school, that is, training courses, a few sessions are held a year, and the rest of the time is busy with my own... I just received your call, and it's not too far away. Just come by the way."

Go down with a cup of tea and get straight to the topic: "Why do you suddenly think of looking for something to do?"

Kiyo stammered: "Then... people live in this world, they have to find a way to support themselves. Brother, do you have a connection?"

Strictly speaking, when Kiyoshi was getting started, Zheng Mingshan had traveled far and wide and practiced for a long time. The two of them had never really "simultaneously" learned from each other. Many things about Zheng Mingshan were told to her by her master. In her heart, this senior brother is brave and knowledgeable, and has many friends, so after being mentioned by Uncle Zhang's words, the first thing she thought of was Zheng Mingshan.

Even if there is no connection, it is good to give her some advice, she is a junior sister.

Zheng Mingshan leaned on the back: "Yes, it depends on what kind of door you want. If you want to be stable, it's not difficult. I can ask someone to help arrange an office position for you at my friend's company, but..."

He looked at Kiyo for a while, and laughed to himself: "As far as your ability is concerned, it's a bit wasteful. It's okay to let you go to the martial arts gym as an assistant teacher, but I'm afraid that you will be chased away by bad-hearted boys within two days Already."

Kiyo was embarrassed by his teasing.

Cao Yanhua came back, put the wine cup on the table, and picked up two chopsticks to fry peanuts. Zheng Mingshan became interested and patted Cao Yanhua on the shoulder: "Thank you."

Good guy, the strength is really heavy, Cao Yanhua was almost knocked to his knees by him.

Kiyo pushed and pushed the plate of side dishes towards Zheng Mingshan: "Senior brother, actually, I want to be like you, with more experience and more experience. I always feel that after learning Kung Fu, I can still Not a master, a master is the kind..."

She held her chin, and racked her brains to describe the master in her heart: "It's the kind that has aura, looks cool, calm, calm and kills invisible..."

Zheng Mingshan knew what she meant.

Master told him about this little junior sister: "Child Mudai always asks me, Master, do I look good? Do I make people afraid? It seems that learning Kung Fu is for people to be afraid of, and I like to wear black clothes. clothes, and there is a skull on the necklace, but she will give up when she smiles, she is a little girl..."

Kiyo was still talking: "Brother, I just want to be that kind of girl. I don't want to be a little girl. I don't want others to drag me behind to protect me whenever something happens. It should be that there are tricky things Things, everyone thinks, well, Kiyo can handle it..."

This little girl who took it for granted, Zheng Mingshan smiled.

…

Senior brother seems to be in a daze, Kiyo stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes: "Senior brother? Senior brother?"

Zheng Mingshan came back to his senses, and wanted to say something, but he sighed lightly first.

He remembered a sentence his master once said.

——People who have never been in the rivers and lakes always dream of going through a journey of adventure, but they don’t know that the children of the rivers and lakes, the elders of the rivers and lakes, and those who can finally stand firmly against the wind have all washed their bones in the rivers and lakes, and took off their clothes. Layers of skin.

Yes, even an ordinary smile has the meaning of thousands of twists and turns.

Zheng Mingshan said: "If you really think about it, there is indeed something suitable for you here."