Chapter Thirty-Eight: Old Man Gu
"In the past, there were troops in many ravines, far from people. For special reasons, the troops were transferred, and before leaving, the windows and doors were sealed with bricks, and then they left. In less than a year, such a place will be barren and uninhabited. Ghost markets are usually opened in such places. Shen Xing was talking to us as he walked, while Brother Chengxin and I strode forward.
I can't say whether I was excited or apprehensive, compared to Shen Xing's girl, she was much calmer, and she had the heart to explain to us all the way, maybe it was also the reason why she came once.
There is no road downhill, but there are obvious traces of human trampling, some steep, but judging from the traces, it is estimated that most people may walk on different paths in the mountains, but they all come down from this slope.
The road was a little steeper, but it was downhill after all, and we walked for less than half an hour before we finally reached the gate of the building.
The entrance of the building is very simple, a large iron gate, outside the iron gate is a sentry box, because it is separated by the iron gate, so it is not clear to see the scene inside the door, but the iron gate is overgrown with wild grass, and it looks a little desolate.
I lit a cigarette, calmed down, and took the lead to walk forward, Brother Chengxin followed closely behind me, and Shen Xing's girl walked at the end without saying a word.
But when I walked in front of the iron gate, I saw a big lock on the door, and I pushed it hard, but it didn't move.
"What for?" Just when I wanted to ask Shen Xing what was going on, a voice that sounded a little old suddenly appeared.
I turned my head to look, only to find that there was an old man in the sentry box, who was poking his head out of the window of the sentry box, staring at us with some unfriendly eyes.
I just glanced at him, and I was a little shocked in my heart, this old man is not simple.
You must know that the more advanced the skill, the brighter the eyes, that is the representative of soul power, if a person's eyes are cloudy, his spirit must be very poor, and even the soul is a little weak.
"Look at a Taoist, look at his eyes first, and his bright skills are generally not bad. Then, looking at his eyes again, you can see a little bit of heart. "This is what Master once taught me, but Master and his old man disappeared too early, and I probably didn't see the current contact lenses and makeup techniques, so as soon as I walked out on the street, I saw the street full of female high-ranking women.
It wasn't just me who found the problem, even Brother Chengxin also found it, and whispered in my ear: "This old man is estimated to be amazing, and he didn't even see his appearance clearly, but he saw a pair of bright eyes, and I don't know if he can reflect green light like wolf eyes at night?" ”
I ignored Brother Chengxin, but glanced at Shen Xing suspiciously, Shen Xing smiled faintly, and said, "What I didn't say on purpose is to let you remember not to be reckless in the ghost market." ”
This girl has a lot of thoughts.
Now is not the time to talk nonsense with her, Brother Chengxin and I walked straight to the sentry box, the old man had already shrunk back, and was sitting there leisurely fanning his fan, holding an enamel jar in his hand, and the fragrance of tea emitted from it made me, a person who drank a lot of good tea with Master, can't help but praise it.
Seeing me and Brother Chengxin coming, the old man didn't ask anything, but began to look us up and down.
At this time, I also looked at him carefully, his hair was a little gray, very long, tied with a rubber band at random, wearing a yellow robe, his chest was open, a little dirty, and the same dirty was his white cotton pants, only the ten square shoes on his feet were still clean.
And his facial features are very ordinary, just like my master, he doesn't look very old, and his eyes have returned to normal at this time, no different from ordinary people, his eyes are calm like a lake, and it is unrealistic to want to see his heart through his eyes.
This makes my heart 'chuckle' again, it's simple to put out, it's difficult to be introverted, at least I don't have this realm, I need my master, otherwise he has a pair of bright eyes, looking at beautiful women on the street, it is estimated that it will increase the probability of being beaten.
"Kill you, a typical example of your eyes shining when you see a beautiful woman." I guess people think so.
After being silent for a few seconds, the old man reached out and picked his scalp, and under the dandruff flying, he suddenly smiled, and then his eyes directly bypassed me and Brother Chengxin, and smiled at Shen Xing: "You little girl, here again?" ”
Shen Xing pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Hello Grandpa Gu, I didn't come this time, I came to help Master Liu bring two friends." I don't go into the ghost market, I just wait for the market to disperse on the periphery, and then we go together. ”
"It's good not to go in, it's good not to go in. It is not enough to pray to God, let alone make a deal with ghosts. He happily said a word to Shen Xing, and then turned his gaze to me and Brother Chengxin, and said: "Report your name, teacher, if you don't have a teacher, you will take out one or two small skills to prove that ordinary people can't enter this ghost city." ”
Ordinary people can't enter, so how did Shen Xing enter? I was puzzled, but when it came to Shen Xing's private affairs, I couldn't argue with the old man, so I said: "Chen Chengyi, under the tutelage of Jiang Lichun, we don't have a name in this lineage, just call Lao Li Yimai." ”
As soon as I spoke, the old man's eyes lit up suddenly, and there was a hint of shock in his eyes, but his expression towards me was much softened, and at this time, Brother Chengxin also spoke: "Su Chengxin, the teacher of Chen Liren, is in the same vein as him." ”
The old man sighed twice after hearing us say 'tsk' and 'tsk', and said, "This is a rare guest among rare guests, wait for me to see." ”
I didn't know what he was looking at, and I was wondering, but I saw him take out a white booklet covered with black fingerprints from the drawer, and began to look through it, and after a while, he looked up and said, "If it's really Lao Li's lineage, what kind of wind is blowing here, and two of them are blowing, and one person pays a thousand yuan, go in." ”
"Still having to pay?" Brother Chengxin asked casually while taking out the money.
The old man snatched the money from Brother Chengxin's hand, and muttered angrily: "Why don't you pay the money?" You go in and live, and you use water and electricity, which is not money? If it weren't for the fact that you were Lao Li's lineage, Lao Tzu wouldn't have bothered to scold you, and would have beaten you back directly. ”
Brother Chengxin didn't dare to reply, he was quite helpless, his gentle and gentle face that anyone had a good impression of had no effect on this old man, the old man shook the spittle star, counted a thousand yuan out, and then threw the rest of the money back to Brother Chengxin.
When he looked at me, I dared not slack off, and quickly handed over the thousand dollars, and then he nodded with satisfaction, and threw two thin, poorly printed pamphlets from the drawer, and then threw the key and lazily went to open the door.
When the rusty iron door opened, it made an ugly sound, but the old man Gu didn't care, and said to us while opening the door: "Before 12 o'clock in the evening of the 12th, you can't go out of this gate, of course, you can stay until the 13th." ”
With the door closed, I glanced at the old man Gu, and always felt that in him, I might also know something about our old Li lineage, but this old man didn't get some oil and salt, and he didn't bother him, so it must be very difficult to find out anything from him.
Standing inside the door, what you can see at a glance is a cement road, leading directly to a large dam, there are two red brick buildings on both sides of the dam, separated by a distance, and I don't know if anyone is there.
It wasn't as lively as I thought it would be, but there was no shadow to be seen, and if I hadn't seen someone moving on the hillside, I'd have suspected that I was in the wrong place.
After arranging my backpack, I said, "Let's go." ”
But Shen Xing said: "You and Chengxin should look at the booklet in your hand before you go in." ”
I knew that Shen Xing would not be untargeted, so I opened the poorly printed booklet in my hand, but I didn't expect that at the beginning, he introduced in detail the locations of the 21 ghost markets, and the next part focused on the fifth ghost market.
After reading this part, I finally knew why there was no one here, it turned out that there are strict requirements for entering here, where to live, and where you can move, and the reason for this is to avoid people and ghosts colliding, or something bad happening.
In short, I just knew that everything here was under supervision, and this time there were originally two organizations in charge of supervision, one of which was temporarily formed by a certain party who was idle and not very born, so it was referred to as the Ming organization.
The other organization is composed of some people who were born, but it doesn't seem to be very clean, so let's call it a dark organization.
After reading this, I realized that I was really a frog at the bottom of a well.