mortal clerk

Chapter 72

Li Qingniu put the sword into the large water tank next to the utility room, took off his coat, only wearing a bunt, and started cleaning the house vigorously.

The room, which was originally full of sundries, was dark and cramped. After moving out a pile of bottles and cans, dilapidated tables, chairs and benches, discarded wood panels, and even hoes and shovels, the space suddenly opened up.

I saw that the utility room was about two feet long, one foot two in width, and one foot in height. They were all brick and wood structures. , just pay attention to some disordered dust flying around.

"This is much better than my cowshed!"

Immediately there was another round of cleaning, washing, and wiping, and it was not until the evening that it was tidied up.

"Oops, no bed."

After searching around in the debris pile and the yard, I finally got together some bricks and planks, dug a hole and mixed some mud, and built a bed in the room.

After finishing all these tasks, Li Qingniu, who was originally in good spirits, suddenly felt extremely exhausted, and lay down on the newly laid wooden board to rest.Not long after, I heard my stomach growling.

"Oops, I've had some breakfast since I went out in the morning! Sigh!"

After staring at the beams and tiles of the roof for a long time, I missed my father, mother and second father.

"Mom, it turns out that doing housework is so hard!"

"Abba, the bed I made is okay!"

"Second Dad, don't worry, I will be able to support myself! I will also be able to make a career."

……

While talking to himself, Lao Shen came to the door with a lot of items on his back, panting and panting, and put it on the ground, gasping for breath.

"Stinky boy, hurry up and help, you, Uncle Shen, are exhausted!"

Li Qingniu got up with a wheel, took three steps in parallel, and arrived in front of him.

"Old Shen, do you have anything to eat? I'm starving to death!"

"Have you tidied up your room? Your pile of books is too heavy. The guards didn't allow horses to enter the yard, so I had to carry them up by myself. But you kid only wants to eat."

"Oh, thank you very much, Uncle Shen. If I go for so many things by myself, I don't know how many trips I will have to make."

"Boy, you don't know who we are. We are third-rank warriors anyway. It's not a trivial matter to move these things, but climbing the steps is tiring."

While talking, he took out two lotus leaf-wrapped foods from his arms.

"It's too dark! How to eat."

"I picked up an oil lamp today, and half a jar of vegetable oil, but unfortunately there is no fire book!"

"Boy, how do you survive in the wild without a source of fire?"

After finishing speaking, he pulled out the long knife at his waist, pointed at a pile of weeds, and with the back of the knife and the scabbard lightly stroked it, sparks burst out and ignited the pile of grass.

"Hey, old Shen, you are really amazing!"

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and light the oil lamp."

The oil lamp with a missing mouth was finally turned on, and the whole hut finally ushered in the long-lost light.

Old Shen looked at the clean and tidy hut, a newly built wooden bed, two relatively complete chairs, a low table with a broken leg and a brick pad, an old desk by the window and Some bottles and cans, I can't help but be amazed.

"Unexpectedly, you are still a bit capable, but you are barely like a kennel!"

"Let's review later, I'm starving to death!"

"Okay, let's eat."

After speaking, he took out another wine bag and said triumphantly:
"Didn't expect that, Uncle Shen, I have prepared good wine!"

Li Qingniu, who tore off a chicken leg and gnawed on it, didn't answer, so he took a sip from the wine bag and concentrated on gnawing on the chicken leg again.

"You brat, leave me a leg!"

"You'd better eat the chicken butt, so you can drink."

After a raging meal, Li Qingniu patted his chubby belly and hiccupped: "Oh! I haven't eaten such delicious roast chicken and beef for more than half a year! Sigh, I haven't eaten it before!"

Old Shen looked at Li Qingniu with a smile on his face, but said nothing.Seeing that Old Shen didn't answer, Li Qingniu asked again:
"Old Shen, where is my horse?"

"You boy, if you ask for something, you can call Shen Bo, and after eating and wiping it up, you can call Lao Shen. It is a real force. Your horse is tied up at the guard at the foot of the mountain."

Li Qingniu smiled awkwardly, and recalled the scene when he entered the gate of hell, and suddenly felt that he was making sense, and raised his chin and said:
"Ah! Old Shen, but you said it yourself, tell Old Shen to be kinder."

"Is that the case? I don't have a picture. Hahaha"

After the two chatted, Lao Shen suddenly looked at Li Qingniu seriously.

"Xiao Niu, I'm leaving, the rest of the road depends on you!"

"Hey, you're going back so late? Why don't you leave tomorrow morning, I can make do with this bed."

"It doesn't matter if it's late, I said I'm leaving Guimen County."

"What? Aren't you not going to Shendu? And the Mu profiteer has already left."

"No, I'm not going to Shendu, but to Nanhai County."

"Nanhai County? So far? How long?"

"I'm afraid it will be a long time. It will take a year just to go anywhere."

"Why are you going to Nanhai County?"

Old Shen was silent for a while, sighed, and said with high spirits:

"Actually, I also want to thank you. Over the past six months, I saw a foolish boy who walked out of the mountains, saw your simplicity and kindness, and saw your experience of studying thousands of miles away.

I see the shadow of me in you, and your bravery and determination inspire me. "

"I'm going to Nanhai County to meet someone. A very important person."

Li Qingniu looked at Lao Shen who was sometimes sad, sometimes confused, and sometimes excited, and thought of Lao Shen's mysterious behavior since he entered the gate of hell.

"The Snow Ganoderma lucidum you bought, which can heal damaged souls, is for him, right?"

Old Shen was slightly surprised.

"If I'm not wrong, you have to meet that person is your old lover, or the person you love all your life."

Old Shen was even more puzzled, thinking to himself, could it be that I got drunk one time and slipped my tongue?
"You boy, how do you know?"

Li Qingniu said seriously:

"Guess it! You're almost fifty, and you're still alone."

"Well, I didn't expect you to be quite smart, so I can leave with peace of mind."

"But I don't understand why I'm going to Nanhai County all of a sudden."

Old Shen took another sip of wine, and said a little casually:
"She also followed to Nanhai County."

"Follow? Could it be that the person you love is someone else's wife?"

"Eh, you can guess all of this, but don't inquire about such embarrassing things. In short, I'm leaving, and maybe I'll be back in two or three years, maybe. Sigh!"

Seeing that he only spoke half of what he said, Li Qingniu probably guessed it, and said puzzledly:
"Since it's dangerous, why go there?"

"I just said that under your influence, I must go to her to clarify, and to ask about some things back then.

Before that, I endured it secretly for 30 years, but I never had the courage to face it, so I worked as a guard outside all the year round and rarely came back.

But when I came back this time, I found that she had gone to Nanhai County with her husband. Until now, I realized that I must go, I must find her, no matter what the result is.

Do you understand?kid. "

"It's like me. I didn't understand the meaning of studying in the county at first, but after experiencing so much, my second father died, so I have to come to study no matter what, regardless of whether it is promising or not? Is this the feeling? Uncle Shen. "

"It's about the same, but love and ambition are different. When you meet that day who can make you willingly give up your ambition, can make you fight hard without everything, and can make you feel miserable, even though life is still dead, you may be that person. will really understand."

After the two were silent for a while, Li Qingniu took a sip from the wine bag.

"Old Shen, let's go, I will take care of myself! Ride on my old horse! Although you run slower, you can always reach your destination."

"Good boy, you, Uncle Shen, I like your free and easy personality! It's not like me, if you were more free and easy back then, maybe it would be different.

Forget it, it's not too late now.This is the key to my yard, you can take it, Xiu Mu will still have a place to stay when he goes back, please help me look after it. "

Li Qingniu took the key and asked with a smile:

"Are you not afraid that I will lose my tuition and sell it?"

Old Shen chuckled and didn't answer, but he thought in his heart, I don't know if I can come back after I go, and I have no children, so let it be your inheritance.

"Okay, it's getting late. I'm leaving. You can pack these luggage and books by yourself."

Old Shen said that he would leave.

"Wait, Uncle Shen, I don't know your full name yet!"

Old Shen didn't turn his head back, only leaving a sentence: "Shen Boju" jumped up and disappeared into the night.

　When life is doing addition, it is often also doing subtraction!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)