The witch looks at her moves

Chapter 31 Moonlight this evening
  Today is Thursday.

It had only been a week since the rainy night chase, but Su Zhen felt as if he was in another world.

He walked through the door, but the plaque behind him was not "Old Craftsman's Office", but "Ankang Community Clinic". He stood on the cement road covered with sycamore leaves, and the girl with ponytail waved to him, wearing chiffon Her long skirt fluttered like clouds in the wind.

At this moment, the world is quiet and the sun is bright.

Only he knew that he was stepping on the land of the old craftsman at the same time, and a terrible curse had been entangled with it and would not end.

When his father came out of the clinic carrying a plastic bag, it was not the first time they met, and Shao Xiaoxiao was still a little cautious.

"Dad, my legs are almost healed. You don't need to take them away. You can go and do your own business." Su Zhen took the medicine from his father's hand.

"How can you go back without me seeing you off?" My father was surprised.

"I'll take my classmate's car back." Su Zhen said, "Your car is a little bumpy."

Su Zhen's family has a car. It was bought five years ago for 100,000 yuan. At that time, his father made a small fortune. The family was discussing whether to buy real estate or a car. His father argued against everyone's opinions and said that there was no use in having too many houses. If you can't live here, why not buy a better car, which will be convenient for traveling and gain face in the town.

Nowadays, housing prices are skyrocketing, and my father's car is becoming less and less valuable. It is not even enough to pay for the house. Only my father still cherishes it.

Today, when I heard that Su Zhen was disgusted, my father, who had not wanted to say anything, felt a stab in his heart and said, "No matter how broken my car is, it can't be compared with a bicycle, right? This car has good shock absorption, and I don't feel any shock when driving on a stone road." , your legs are fine, you’d better take the car back.”

"No."

Su Zhen said firmly: "I lay in the hospital for several days and was almost suffocated. Your car is more stuffy than the ward. What a great bicycle. It has an open top."

Of course my father knew that this was not a problem with the car at all.

Su Zhen asked about her mother's condition. Her mother's condition was stable recently, her complexion was good, and she could eat. Her father said that she would definitely get better. Su Zhen was silent for a while and said that he believed so too.

Then, the father supported his car and watched his son and the beautiful girl pushing the bicycle go away.

"Isn't this impolite?" Shao Xiaoxiao felt a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, I was going to do rehabilitation training." Su Zhen leaned on the cane and smiled.

"Classmate Su Zhen is so optimistic." Shao Xiaoxiao also laughed.

"Those people haven't come to trouble you again, have they?" Su Zhen asked.

"Trouble? Um..."

Shao Xiaoxiao took the plastic bag containing the medicine from Su Zhen and hung it on the handlebar. Then he smiled and said, "It is indeed a bit troublesome."

"What's wrong?" Su Zhen was nervous.

"That Tong Qiaoyu was so attentive. She brought me breakfast and bought me drinks. My classmates thought I had something to do with her. I asked her not to give it away, but she was very obedient. She really didn't come. I I thought she had calmed down, but that day after school, she took Ran Xiaohong and waited for me in the garage. When she saw me arriving, she slapped Ran Xiaohong twice in the face. Xiaohong immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and kept saying, Sister Xiaoxiao, I was wrong. , there were other students there at the time, and they were all frightened." Shao Xiaoxiao said this in a relaxed tone, but frowned.

"Isn't this ruining the reputation of classmate Shao?" Su Zhen couldn't laugh or cry.

"Yeah, others thought I was also forming a clique and being the eldest sister." Shao Xiaoxiao pursed his lips and chuckled.

Mentioning Ran Xiaohong, Shao Xiaoxiao's face showed uncontrollable disappointment. Su Zhen knew that they were friends since childhood and didn't know how to comfort her. However, Shao Xiaoxiao had already figured it out. After a brief loss, his face turned from gloomy to clear:

"Although I lost a false friend, I gained a true friend."

Su Zhen turned her head and met Shao Xiaoxiao's eyes. Her eyes were as clear as water, shining brightly in the September afternoon.

"you're right."

Su Zhen thought of Nan Chang. Before the truth was revealed, trust was so slow, which always allowed ugliness to take advantage of him.

He didn't want to recall this and changed the subject: "By the way, shouldn't you still be in school today? Why did you come to pick me up from the hospital?"

Shao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I asked for leave."

"Why did you invite me?"

"Get ill."

"I didn't expect that classmate Shao would also pretend to be sick."

"I'm a very good liar, and most people can't tell."

"How is that possible? Only a fool can't see it. Teacher Jiang turns a blind eye because you are a good student."

"Humph."

Shao Xiaoxiao disagreed with Su Zhen's point of view and did not refute it.

The cart turned onto a sparsely populated road.

The plane trees are beginning to lose their leaves, the freezers outside the stalls are gradually emptying, and the clothing stores are running holiday sales. After a week in the hospital, autumn has officially arrived in Nantang.

The girl pushed her bicycle across the sidewalk covered with sycamore leaves, her long chiffon skirt becoming increasingly thin.

She wanted to treat Su Zhen to drink milk tea. Su Zhen curled her lips and said that Shao didn't have to spend money. It was all syrup anyway and he could just buy a bottle of Coke for two and a half yuan. Shao Xiaoxiao didn't listen. She spent five yuan to buy a cup. Pearl milk tea, I drank it by myself.

When Su Zhen was so greedy that he regretted it, Shao Xiaoxiao suddenly turned around, pulled out a new straw from his cuff as if he had planned it, tore open the plastic wrapper and handed it over.

Soon, two straws were inserted into the milk tea's sealing film.

The wild cat slept peacefully on the stone pier, and the fragrance of osmanthus drifted from the neighboring street. Su Zhen chewed the soft and waxy pearls in the milk tea, and the overflowing sugar melted at the base of the tongue and penetrated into the hollow body.

"Su Zhen, you always look tired. Did you not get enough rest?"

They rested in the small square in Nantang. There were not many people in the small square. There were only a few old men and women sitting there. The old benches surrounded the ginkgo trees. Shao Xiaoxiao held the ginkgo petioles and turned them gently in the wind. On the opposite bank, a new commercial district is still under construction, and no one else is visible except the construction team.

"I……"

Su Zhen really couldn't get enough rest. "I've been having nightmares these days, very long nightmares."

"Nightmare? What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed that I went to a strange world where demons and ghosts were rampant. I was first captured by a green-haired lion demon, and then chased by a boy covered in bugs. I was betrayed by a friend I thought I was close to, and then I was hunted by Being thrown into a cursed place where death is certain...in short, it's scary."

"Classmate Su Zhen, you have such a rich imagination."

While Shao Xiaoxiao was amazed, he also analyzed seriously: "I heard that dreams are the satisfaction of subconscious desires. Your usual thoughts may appear in dreams in various forms."

"Does Mr. Shao often have dreams too?"

"Who doesn't dream? Dreams are a necessary factor to ensure the normal activities of the body. Have you seen the mouse experiments in biology books? If you are not allowed to dream, the mice will also die."

"What will classmate Shao dream about?"

"I..."

Shao Xiaoxiao helped Su Zhen sit down on the bench in the square. She looked down at the toes exposed under her white skirt and thought: "I will dream about exams, I will dream about my parents quarreling, and I will also dream about my dad taking me there. Amusement parks… and of course, some weirder ones.”

"More weird?" Su Zhen asked.

"Well, I often dream about a Taoist priest. She is an old female Taoist priest. Her body is covered with yellow talismans and she is extremely thin. She always asks me a strange question."

"what?"

"She asked, did the emperor seek immortality?"

Shao Xiaoxiao recalled the frequent visitor in the dream and continued: "When I ignored her at first, she kept asking. After asking too many questions, I became less afraid, so I asked which emperor the Taoist priest was talking about. Taoist priests are very convoluted. After going around for a long time, I finally understood that it was Li Chun, Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty.

I said, Emperor Xianzong has been dead for more than a thousand years, and she murmured to herself, "It's impossible." I asked, "Why is it impossible?" She said, Shan Taisui was clearly sent back. If the saint dies, then who will be immortal? "

"Classmate Shao, are you telling a horror story?" Su Zhen saw her serious expression and found it cute.

"It's true."

Shao Xiaoxiao pursed his lips and smiled, then lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Furthermore, classmate Su Zhen, I went to check it out. During the Tang Dynasty, there was really a man named Lu Fang who brought many boys and girls to the Nine Looking for Tai Sui in Xiangshan."

"Tai Sui?"

Su Zhen thought of something and felt horrified. "Isn't there a case on Zhu'an Street last year? It was related to that Tai Sui."

"The corpse case on Zhu'an Street!" Shao Xiaoxiao answered immediately.

On April 2008, 4, the police received a report from residents of Zhu'an Street in Nantang County. They smelled a stench when passing by a house early in the morning. The police opened the locked door and found three bodies inside. , the corpse sat cross-legged, covering its eyes, ears and mouth respectively, like the image of the three monkeys on the Japanese sacred stable.

The police did not find any wounds on their bodies and only found a white sticky substance in their bodies. The three people, whose surname is Gu, are brothers. According to neighbors, they moved here from Watou Village. They were seen partying and drinking together last night.

The police did not detect what the white sticky substance was, and they could not figure out why they did what they did before they died. They only guessed that it was related to the cult. If this matter was normal up to this point, the police later The experience of visiting Watou Village can be described as terrifying.

The villagers of Watou Village said that the Gu brothers died a month ago and they watched the burial with their own eyes. The police pried open the buried coffin and found that there were no bodies inside, only an immortal tablet and a few pages of notes.

The note contained a passage that once ignited a heated discussion on the Internet:

"The God of Sui is still in Jiuxiang Mountain, in the underground of Turtle Palace. I ate the flesh and blood of the mountains. The deliciousness is better than anything else."

Jiuxiang Mountain...

It’s Jiuxiang Mountain again.

Su Zhen couldn't help but think of the advertisement about Sanhui Bodhisattva he saw on the old telephone pole that day, and a thought came to his mind: Is there really something hidden under the Jiuxiang Mountain?
  The two chatted about the case for a while and discussed a lot of rumors about Watou Village and Jiuxiang Mountain. It can be said that the rumors were flying all over the sky, and the more they were said, the more bizarre they became.

They chatted for a long time, and after the topic was over, the boy and girl had no intention of leaving the bench.

Shao Xiaoxiao offered to give him extra lessons, and Su Zhen readily agreed.

The girl took out her textbook on the bench, folded it up in an orderly manner, and told him about the course plan like a little teacher. Su Zhen listened attentively, and the girl in her eyes shimmered more sparklingly than Qiu Lake.

Shao Xiaoxiao explained it very well, and Su Zhen understood it after combing through it several times.

She also said that although textbooks are not used in classes now, the knowledge in textbooks is the most basic and important thing. Before every exam, I will read the textbooks to confirm that I understand these basic knowledge correctly. As a senior disciple, Su Zhen , saying that they will definitely inherit this fine tradition.

Ginkgo leaves fall one by one.

The clouds are getting greener and the sky is getting darker.

When Su Zhen looked up and saw the reflection of the red clouds on the artificial lake, her heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly thought of Lao Jun again.

It seemed as if the world would change again in the next moment, and he would leave Shao Xiaoxiao's side and go to the cursed place where he would surely die.

Fortunately, the dark night in Xijingguo has not passed yet.

The sunset fell into the lake, and the stars spread out on the dark blue sky. At this moment when the night was coming, Shao Xiaoxiao closed the book, held it in his chest, and suddenly said to Su Zhen mysteriously:

"Classmate Su Zhen, can we play a game later?"

"What game?" Su Zhen was confused.

"Close your eyes. You are not allowed to open them before I ask you to open them, okay?" Shao Xiaoxiao said in a pleading tone.

"Okay... okay." Su Zhen was a little confused.

"Then it's agreed." Shao Xiaoxiao gave him a high-five.

Su Zhen sat in Shao Xiaoxiao's back seat and closed her eyes.

At first, Su Zhen was a little panicked. He held on to the horizontal bar of the base tightly for fear of falling and injuring himself. But as the cool breeze blew on his face, Su Zhen suddenly remembered the evening when Shao Xiaoxiao took him home by bicycle. There seemed to be a flute sound in his heart, soothing and long. He gradually relaxed his body, quietly enjoyed these times, and tried to remember it.

He believes that these good memories can counteract suffering.

"Where are you taking me? Why are you so quiet?" Su Zhen asked.

"I'm going to kidnap you." Shao Xiaoxiao said with a smile.

"Then you should consider my friendship as a classmate and sell me to a good family." Su Zhen said.

The bicycle was riding along the mountain road. After a slight bump, Su Zhen heard the singing of birds in the forest. He seemed to have gone to an ancient forest. The wind blowing against his face was filled with the fragrance of vegetation. On the downhill section, Shao Xiaoxiao couldn't help but As she stepped on the pedal again, the young man unconsciously leaned forward and leaned slightly on her back.

The girl rode a long distance, and the clothes on her back were covered with light sweat, which was quickly dried by the cool breeze of the autumn night.

The bicycle stopped slowly, and Shao Xiaoxiao rang the bell happily. Amidst a series of crisp sounds, the wind suddenly picked up. Su Zhen heard the continuous rustling of bamboo leaves, and he also smelled the breath of water. It flooded the entire city and spread over him. The girl's voice sounded, very soft, like a fish breaking open on the lake. Dream.

"Open your eyes." Shao Xiaoxiao said.

Su Zhen opened her eyes.

The whole world came crashing down on me.

In front of him was an old railing. The wind wrinkled the iron sheet of the railing and turned the rust into a pale red. Beyond the railing was an entire lake. There was a man-made island in the middle of the lake. The island had not yet been developed, and it looked like a dark place. Sleeping snail, the urban area is on the other side of the lake. The lights of the city flow neatly in the dark night. It is like a lighthouse, absorbing all the flow of people and vehicles. Their voices were very far away, as if they were separated by an entire era.

Su Zhen raised his head and saw the full moon in the sky. Tonight, it was extremely bright and huge, and it still seemed lonely.

Shao Xiaoxiao struck the match against the wind, and Su Zhen's eyes lit up. When she turned around, Shao Xiaoxiao had already lit the incense stick and handed it over. The weak firelight illuminated her face vaguely.

"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival." she said.

"Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Su Zhen was so confused in the hospital that he didn't realize that the holiday was coming. He suddenly realized and said, "Isn't today a holiday to begin with?"

"Yes."

Shao Xiaoxiao smiled brightly and said, "I'm a very good liar, but you still don't believe me."

Su Zhen thought of his smart remarks and couldn't help feeling ashamed, "It turns out I'm the fool."

Su Zhen took the incense stick and inserted it into the soil together with Shao Xiaoxiao. This is a special kind of incense. It is also composed of thin bamboo sticks as the main body, but it is much thicker and more fragrant than the incense in the temple. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tang Dynasty, people would place incense sticks around the lawn, and get up early the next morning to pull them out. The more people pull out, the more blessed they will be.

"is it beautiful?"

Shao Xiaoxiao said: "This is the place I loved to come to when I was a child. People still lived here before."

"so beautiful."

Su Zhen felt at a loss for words.

Tonight, the whole city was silent and unknown in the lights. He listened to the hustle and bustle of the wilderness, and his eyes gradually grew cool.

Shao Xiaoxiao leaned on the old railing. Su Zhen reminded her not to scratch her hand, as it could lead to tetanus. She smiled and said it didn't matter, opened her arms to the lake, and her long skirt fluttered against her body, like white waves. Su Zhen thought of the classic scene from Titanic and had the urge to hold her waist, but his hands and feet were injured, so he could do nothing even if he had evil intentions.

Shao Xiaoxiao seemed to have the desire to shout and vent, but she suppressed it. When she looked back, her long hair was messy and her smile was bright, as if a bird that had been caged for a long time was finally free.

The wind was blowing.

The girl passed him.

She said, go. Su Zhen asked where to go, and Shao Xiaoxiao said I would take you for a drive.

The wheels drove across the road, and the trees on both sides were covered in darkness.

Shao Xiaoxiao said that there used to be many fireworks factories here, and they would sponsor fireworks performances every holiday. She had seen them when she was a child, but unfortunately they have all moved away now, and the Mid-Autumn Festival night sky also looked particularly lonely. She said that when she was a child, there was a dragon dance performance in the county town. At that time, the county town was brightly lit, gongs and drums opened the way, firecrackers and firecrackers were deafening, and the rising smoke obscured the moonlight. The crowd chased the dragon, which was dozens of feet long. If a living thing.

This is her unforgettable childhood memory.

Su Zhen thought in his heart, how great it would be if this moment could last forever, but the voice in his heart gave him a cruel response:

"Su Zhen, I'm going to show off, cheer up!"

The sound of wind and firecrackers were leaving him.

"They said that if you join the old craftsman, you will definitely die. Is there any way for me to survive?" Su Zhen asked.

"It's up to you. As long as you endure hardships and work hard, you can survive anywhere." Yu Yue said enthusiastically.

"My godmother, your tone sounds like a black-hearted foreman." Su Zhen said.

"Not at all."

Yu Yue said calmly: "It's just an old craftsman's house. The place I stayed in before was much more difficult than this. That was the real hell. There was no life or death. I crawled out. What are you afraid of?"

"Hell? Is there still hell in Xijingguo?" Su Zhen asked.

"There are gods and demons, but why is there no hell?"

Yu Yue answered matter-of-factly and said with a smile: "But even if you fall into hell, there is no need to be afraid."

"why?"

"Because they are all my partners in hell." Yu Yue's voice gradually became softer.

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