Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 373
Xiao Ran followed behind the old lady, opening the courtyard door and driving the door, using the earnestness accumulated in two lifetimes to greet the old lady.Firstly, it was because respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue after all, and secondly, it was because of the wonder of fate that made him meet this legendary figure just like this.

Xiao Ran invited the old lady into the car and closed the door, and sat down in the front row himself.At this time, the leading bodyguard acted as the driver again, passed a strip of cloth to Xiao Ran by the way, and said without turning his head: "Blindfold your eyes."

Xiao Ran took the cloth strip, turned his head and glanced at the old lady in the back row, seeing that the old lady didn't look at him, but stared straight ahead expressionlessly, so he had no choice but to follow the instructions and covered his eyes.

After all, there is nothing to be condescended to ask for, and it is their secret old house to go to.

After he tied the cloth strips, he felt that the escort looked carefully at him before starting the car.Amidst the slight roar and shaking, the car slowly set off on the road.

It was dark in front of his eyes, and his ears and body were vibrating rhythmically. Xiao Ran felt a sense of drowsiness, and he actually dozed off amidst the wobbling.

He felt his body float up again, and then there was noise in his ears.When he opened his eyes, he was walking on that narrow road again, with invisible dark abyss on both sides, and a dark mist that made him fear but curious in front of him.

This time, he was closer to the fog, and he felt as if he was about to discover the truth hidden in it, and the four people with different clothes and appearances still tried their best to prevent him from going deep into the danger, but their strength was weaker than before a lot of.

Suddenly there was a sound like thunder, and at the same time, the numbness spread all over the body as if struck by lightning.Immediately after this burst of sound and numbness came again and again, he felt that the whole world was collapsing in the constantly flickering light, and he would be buried in this bottomless darkness.

At this time, he felt a chill coming from the back of his neck, which was stinging and cold like being pierced by an ice pick.He subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a pretty but expressionless woman stabbing the back of his neck with a steel needle in her hand.

He wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, so he waved his hands indiscriminately. Suddenly, the darkness in front of him was torn apart, and a burst of bright light shone into his eyes. , turned into the same expressionless old lady in front of her.

"you're awake?"

When the old lady's voice came, Xiao Ran felt a numbness in his wrist. Looking down, he saw that the vise-like hand of the bodyguard was tightly clasping his wrist.And his hand stretched forward, only one finger away from the old lady's neck.

Seeing that he was fine, the old lady signaled the bodyguard to let go.Xiao Ran flicked the wrist that was pinched, and quickly apologized to the old lady: "Old lady, I'm sorry! I'm having a nightmare. It's... thanks to your silver needle for saving my life..."

While Xiao Ran was apologizing, he saw that the old lady was holding a silver needle in her hand, presumably the coldness on the back of her neck in the dream just came from here, and it was this that saved herself from the nightmare.

The old lady looked at him meaningfully, then looked at the needle in her hand, sighed slightly and said, "Blindfold your eyes, don't sleep this time."

Xiao Ran nodded, and took a quick look around before blindfolding, and found that they had already driven to the outskirts. He thought that the Huo family's old house should be in the core area. After all, since ancient times, the old lady's old village should be in the The west district of the capital.

Maybe they have more than one house, ordinary people have some little secrets, let alone this kind of Jianghu family.

After he was blindfolded, the car started up again.This time he didn't sleep again, or he didn't feel sleepy at all, but he was refreshed. It seems that the old lady's injection really had a miraculous effect, and he deserved to be called a "fairy".

After driving for about ten minutes, the car stopped slowly.The bodyguard turned off the fire and said to Xiao Ran: "Here we are, take it off."

Xiao Ran took off the cloth strips in front of him, got out of the car and relaxed, and found that they were in front of a large old-style house, which seemed to be the wealthy area of ​​the former dynasty, but most of the houses were dilapidated, with a sign hanging on the door. Break the lock that prevents gentlemen but not villains.

Xiao Ran recalled it, if he guessed correctly, this should be the south of the capital.If there is no accident, this place will always be so relatively dilapidated, and it will always be worse than other places in the capital.

The bodyguard led the way at the front, the old lady walked unhurriedly in the middle, and Xiao Ran followed carefully.Turning around the small road between several courtyard walls, the three of them stopped at the entrance of a relatively new house.

The stone steps and the ground tiger carvings at the entrance of the courtyard are obviously cleaned frequently. Even the doors are different from the old wooden doors of other houses. They are two newly installed iron doors with a new keyhole on them. The ring is still quite ancient.

The old lady stepped forward, holding the door knocker, and knocked softly.

"Boom—boom, boom."

One long and two short voices, combined with the old lady's graceful movements, once again brought Xiao Ran back to the old days in his imagination.

But happiness is always short-lived. The door opened with a "squeak" and a head like a dry date stuck out, turning the scene in front of you into an old Chinese version of "Notre Dame de Paris".

"Yo! Miss is back!"

There was a hoarse sound, like a grinding wheel scraping glass.Looking at the appearance of the person inside the door, his eyes are cloudy and white, his face is thin and wrinkled, and his face is bronze-colored. There is a snow-white pigtail as thin as a rat's tail behind his bald head, and a humpback is raised on his back. He looks like a thief. The oily old rat has become fine.

Xiao Ran couldn't help but frowned. From the appearance alone, it's hard for this person to let others not have negative emotions.

The old lady was a little more kind than others, and she replied softly: "Deng Bo, I'm already old, how can I still be a lady..."

"Miss will always be Miss. I think back when I first entered the mansion in Gengzi Year..." Deng Bo said.

Gengzi year?Xiao Ran remembered that the most famous Gengzi Year was 1900, looking at the old man who looked like a dry date, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

"Dun Bo, let's go in and talk..."

The old lady interrupted Deng Bo's words, and Deng Bo suddenly realized that he let the three of them into the yard, still muttering: "I'm old, I'm old, I'm confused, I've lived enough..."

Dun Bo invited the three of them into the living room of the main house, where the stove was lit, making the room warm.Judging from the cleanliness of the house, Dun Bo maintained it very well.

Several people sat down at the big table in the middle, and the bodyguards lined up in front of Dumbledore oiled paper bags, which contained Zhaojing's famous time-honored snacks, two roast chickens and a large bag of peanuts, and finally put A bottle of Erguotou.

Dun Bo stretched his neck and sniffed, then grinned his toothless mouth, his face beaming with joy.The old lady smiled and said: "It's all for you, let's eat it, there are still..."

As if he had heard the order, Deng Bo skillfully pried open the wine bottle and took a big gulp, then grabbed two pieces of Shaqima and stuffed it into his mouth.

For the next ten minutes, Xiao Ran watched a live "eating and broadcasting" like a big eater with a face full of surprise.Compared with him, Dumbledore's appetite and eating speed were exactly the same. His mouth with few teeth was like a black hole that could swallow everything, and quickly emptied everything on the table.Especially when he was eating chicken, he saw a whole chicken leg stuffed into his mouth, and with a twitch of his cheeks, a whole white bone spit out onto the table.

After a while, there were only some snacks left on the table and clean bones that could make a dog mad, Dumbledore poured the last sip of wine down his throat, and then burped a long way: "Comfort! "

This sound was full of breath, completely gone from the weak and weak look when he just opened the door, even his cloudy eyes seemed to have light, and his stooped back seemed to straighten a bit.

Xiao Ran looked like the old lady in surprise, but was even more surprised to find that although the old lady was smiling, there was a slight redness around her eyes.

"Miss, you came all the way to see me, did you run into any trouble? Did someone bully you? I'm going to save my old bones..."

These words are coherent and powerful, and indeed the old and weak just now are gone.The old lady blinked slightly to restore her eyes to normal, and said with a smile: "Deng Bo is here, who dares to bully me. I'm here today to return a favor..."

Deng Bo turned his head to look at Xiao Ran, took a closer look, and suddenly said with a smile: "I see, is it that kid from the Xiao family? Like, really like. Yes, the favor should be paid back, and I have lived enough .Thinking back in the year of Gengzi..."

Xiao Ran was originally curious about what kind of favor they owed their second uncle, but he didn't expect that Deng Bo would not be able to stop once he opened his mouth, and Xiao Ran would not be able to get in the conversation, so he just listened, and only then did he know Deng Bo's background.

It turned out that Dumbledore was really born in the former dynasty. He was originally a pawnbroker. With his sharp eyes and ears, he was eager to learn, and quickly mastered a lot of skills in appraising treasures.

Later, Gengzi suffered a catastrophe, and the pawnshop was burned and robbed by foreign devils, and he was also seriously injured.Fortunately, he was rescued by the Huo family. Out of gratitude, he took his own ability to vote for the Huo family, which was exactly what happened back then.

Nineteen years later, Mrs. Huo was born, and Deng Bo was already the housekeeper of Huo's house.The old lady was smart and cute since she was a child, so she was deeply loved by Deng Bo. In addition, due to some special reasons in the old lady's family, the old lady lacked more fatherly love than children of the same age, so the love given by Deng Bo surpassed the old lady. A special kind of father-daughter relationship developed between the two when they got along day and night.

Later, when the previous head of the Huo family passed away, Mrs. Huo was naturally involved in the family strife.And in this internal struggle, Deng Bo has always firmly stood by the old lady's side, tried his best to secure internal and external relations, and finally sent the old lady to the position of head of the family, which can be said to be dedicated.

Until more than ten years ago, the Huo family was dug out during the movement at that time. In order to protect the old lady, Deng Bo took all the blame for himself. Naturally, the pain of flesh and blood was not less. Internal and external injuries broke out together, and it seemed that he would die soon.

The old lady used all the connections in the family to try her best to treat Deng Bo during that precarious period, but it could only be delayed for a while.

Just when Dumbledore was about to pass away, a young man appeared, giving Dumbledore and the old lady hope.And this person is Xiao Ran's second uncle, Xiao Changkong.

"That boy from the Xiao family has extended my life by ten years. I am content to be able to stay with Miss for a longer period of time. Now, it is time to pay it back..."

After Dun Bo finished speaking, there was a calm smile on his face, as if he was about to unload some burden.On the other hand, the old lady's eye circles turned red again, and the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

Xiao Ran did not expect that the kindness that the old lady mentioned was so great that it could be said to be a kind of "graciousness to save the father". Spend so much time on the little boss.

But what does the old lady bring him here have to do with his affairs?How could repaying favors bring up such a heavy topic of whether or not to continue living?
Just when the three of them had their own thoughts, a painful and frantic cry suddenly came from the yard: "Kill!"

(End of this chapter)