we are just monsters

Chapter 14
The orange-red setting sun hangs in the sky, and it will never set.

Gu Cheng walked on the road step by step in the afterglow of the setting sun, neither fast nor slow. Xia Xiaoman used to think it was safe, but now that he thinks about it, it may be a habit that he has developed slowly after living too long.

He can live forever, there is no need to hurry.

"What's it like to live for a long time?" Xia Xiaoman suddenly asked, claiming to be old, but he didn't seem to be old.

"Just like that, people I know die one by one, and then watch their descendants grow up, generation after generation, it's actually quite boring."

"Why don't you do something else? Be a...officer? Or be king in some remote corner."

"How do you know I haven't done it?"

"...You really did it?" Xia Xiaoman was a little surprised.

Gu Cheng shrugged, Xia Xiaoman didn't know if he was just making a joke or something.

But looking back, this guy has been alive for thousands of years. It is very possible to become an official if he is bored, and he will even make it big, and then he will be exiled by the emperor, or beheaded, and then he will run away...

Or maybe I didn't make it big, I was on the wrong team, and then I was sent three thousand miles away in a daze.

Otherwise, it should be worthy of bragging. It has reached the level recorded in the history books, and now it refers to history: look, that is me.He didn't do this, which is probably a bit embarrassing.

Xia Xiaoman thought about it, seeing that Gu Cheng was in a calm mood, he overturned his guess again.

Sending someone to reincarnate is not the same as watching them die completely.

"It's lonely, isn't it?"

Hearing Xia Xiaoman's question, Gu Cheng glanced sideways at her, walked a few steps forward, and then said, "Sometimes I still see two old friends to catch up with each other."

"That's not bad."

Xia Xiaoman responded, and was half a step behind him. The two walked along the road towards the city, one behind the other.

Much like when she was alive before.

The night gradually enveloped, and when it was completely dark and the street lights came on, Gu Cheng walked to the alley at the end of Nantang Road, opened the door and went home, then tidied up the room and tidied up the teaching materials, and then lay down and fell asleep.

The night was silent.

Xia Xiaoman sat on the roof and looked at the night sky. The night sky is not as bright as it used to be. She remembers that when she was alive, she could see not only the Big Dipper, but also the Milky Way. It was just like what was written in the poem. Autumn.

She would move a stool and enjoy the shade in the courtyard with Gu Cheng and Uncle Chen. At that time, Gu Cheng was still called Wang Aimin.

In the blink of an eye, it has been 50 years. Compared with Gu Cheng, her life span is really too short.

There were several noises in the next yard.

Seeing that Chen Hua next door stayed up most of the night and set up a small hot pot under the eaves, Xia Xiaoman stayed on the roof for a while before turning over.

Chen Hua felt very puzzled.

Obviously it was cooked well just now, and I was always happy to eat it, but now the heat in the pot keeps drifting towards him, making it hot and stuffy.

Moved the Maza and sat in another direction, just took a bite, the heat turned around again, and continued to float towards him.

? ?
Chen Hua frowned, got up and went back to the room and put an electric fan aside.

Now it's all right, eat while watching videos of hot girls dancing with your phone.

Two more mouthfuls of Laobaigan, hey~
Xia Xiaoman pouted while standing beside her, turned her head back to Cheng's house and went to watch TV.

Weekends are a time for sleeping in. Gu Cheng only woke up 10 minutes later than usual, and when he got out of bed, he felt inexplicably relaxed.

It turned out that no ghost came to make trouble, crawled in from the outside, or fell from the roof with a bang.

Opening the door, Xia Xiaoman was reading his books in the living room. Those books were very miscellaneous. Apart from some materials accumulated as a teacher, there were also many other messy things.

"It's good to read more books." Gu Cheng said habitually.

"What's the use of reading when you're dead?" Xia Xiaoman asked.

"At least...you won't be able to get other people's jokes."

"You don't read books just for that, do you?"

"of course not."

Going to the sink to wash up, Gu Cheng thought about it, changed his clothes and went out with his mobile phone, planning to find out if the person he met that day was an old friend.

The sun was shining on the weekend, and there were quite a lot of people on the street.

As soon as he walked down a street, Xia Xiaoman poked Gu Cheng's arm: "Look! There's a kid, save him."

Gu Cheng glanced over there. A little boy was sitting at the gate picking out his shoes. When he saw Gu Cheng looking at him, he ran in, "I know him."

There was an old lady at the door, who was pushing the stroller and shaking it. Seeing Gu Cheng looking over, she smiled and said, "Teacher Gu, are you going out?"

"Well, take a stroll."

Gu Cheng looked inside the door, then looked away, looking at the child in the stroller, the doll was smiling at him.

Gu Cheng also laughed, and teased her with his finger, "What's your name?"

"Shu Yi, Xiao Yiyi." Mrs. Wang shook the rattle a few times, then raised her head and said to Gu Cheng, "Is my Shu Fan okay at school?"

"Very hard, learn everything quickly."

Gu Cheng chatted with the old lady and left, Xia Xiaoman was still looking back frequently.

"That brat is also your student?"

"No, it's just a wild ghost." Gu Cheng didn't explain much, he had seen that little ghost being chased by dogs for rubbing sacrifices before.

Poor people who don't want to leave always have various reasons to stay in this world.

After wandering around until noon, he still didn't see the shadow that flashed away that day. Gu Cheng was not discouraged. Although Baicheng is not big, it is quite difficult to find it just like this.

Surprisingly, he saw the little girl he had met once before, the one who stumbled and stumbled across the road in the middle of the night, carrying a packed lunch box, still wearing a peaked cap, with a ball on the back of her head.

Seeing a man looking at her, the little girl turned her head, and then remembered, "It's you!"

"Hmm... I'm still wondering if I made a mistake."

"Oh, this is my business card. I have to go back to the store quickly. If you have any questions about that, you can contact me. The business is on the business card."

The little girl stuffed a business card over, Gu Cheng hesitated, took it in his hand and looked at it.

Zhou Xiaotian.

Contact number: 185xxx... (same number on WeChat)

The yellow business card looks like a small advertisement, with a gossip printed on it and a business introduction written on the back.

The calculation of the Book of Changes, the layout of the Yangzhai, the elimination of evil spirits, the auspicious day of the zodiac, the opening of the store, the naming of the company, the marriage of the zodiac...

Gu Cheng laughed when he saw it, and just about to throw it away, Xia Xiaoman next to him looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back, and said, "Such a tender girl would be a fart, even if you think of her as an old ancestor, she would think she is tender."

"Ok?"

Gu Cheng paused, "Why do I feel like you know her?"

"I know her? You can't just have a small name just to know her."

Xia Xiaoman straightened her chest, and faced Gu Cheng's gaze, she took a few steps aside and stood in front of him, "It's time for you to eat, there's a lot of food on the street over there."

Gu Cheng looked at the street behind her, the girl named Zhou Xiaotian had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)