In this way, the two of us visited more than a dozen halls in one morning.
When we got to the last one, the person who opened the door was an old man, looking at me kindly.
"Who are you looking for?"
I looked down and saw a little boy with a watermelon hairdo, staggering and holding the old man's hand.
I looked startled, then hid the ax behind my waist, and then laughed a few times.
"Ah, you went to the wrong place."
After saying that, I dragged Ji Canghai and turned around to go downstairs.
When I got downstairs, I threw the ax into the trash can and said, "Let's go back."
"What about this one just now?"
I took a long breath: "One old and one young, don't be frightened, that's it."
I checked carefully and found that there were 17 families in total, and only one survived.
When I arrived at the teahouse, it was still lively and full of people drinking tea and chatting.
Uncle Ya sat in the hall with a smile on his face and watched the people coming and going in the audience with a smile on his face.
I took a few steps forward and whispered: "Uncle, this teahouse..."
"This business can't stop." Uncle Ya sat up a little straighter and said, "It's not about making money."
"These old neighbors are used to it. If I close my shop, they won't be used to it."
In Uncle Ya's heart, these old friendships are what he values most.
But today is different from the past.
I hesitated for a moment, then bravely told the truth.
"I smashed the entrance of the old immortal from the Hui family."
"Smashed a lot."
Uncle Ya just nodded slightly: "I know."
"ah?"
He patted my shoulder and pulled out a chair from behind: "Sit down and speak slowly."
"Where are you at your feet?"
Uncle Ya suddenly said something, which made me startled: "It's a teahouse."
"For tea drinkers, it's a teahouse. For me, it's my workplace. For you..."
He poked the table with his fan: "To you, this place is an intelligence station."
"As long as I sit here, I can have a panoramic view of what's going on outside."
This is true.
Whether they are drinking tea, playing chess, or even sitting in the doorway basking in the sun, they are all old acquaintances of Uncle Ya.
Everyone can tell each other what happened in Monan County.
"Now is indeed a special period, you..."
Uncle Ya waved his hand unhurriedly: "The more turbulent it is, the more you need to have sharp ears and eyes. This teahouse will be your ears."
"Don't panic, I'm still here."
There seems to be no word anxious in this old man's dictionary.
Now he knows exactly what is going on, but he can still sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.
Maybe he was prepared?
This afternoon, I didn't dare to run around and stood behind Uncle Ya like a door god.
With so many people gathered here, if the old immortal from the Hui family gets into trouble, something big will happen.
However, the day passed uneventfully, without any abnormalities at all.
With the character of the Hui family, they will surely retaliate and will not give us too long.
Seeing the sun in the west, I felt increasingly unsure.
This kind of uneasiness didn't end until closing time at night.
Everyone tacitly understood each other, but no one said it explicitly. After eating, everyone went back to their rooms.
Even Xiaobai stopped chirping and turned off the light obediently.
The golden cat has not yet woken up, which makes me even more worried.
Before going to bed, I put red string around it and hung a bell on it.
After doing all this, I went to bed anxiously.
The next morning, when I was half asleep and half awake, I felt the sun was a bit dazzling and the surroundings were a bit noisy.
I opened my eyes in a daze, and what I saw was not the ceiling, but the blue sky and white clouds.
A breeze blew by, and my whole body suddenly trembled.
I looked around and saw that the walls around the teahouse had disappeared, leaving only a few wooden beams in the entire building.
Looking up we can see the blue sky, looking down we can see the first floor, and even the concrete slabs beneath our feet have disappeared.
A bed was like walking on a tightrope, trembling across the wooden beams. If it shook a little, I could fall to the second floor immediately.
People say that a family has only four walls, but now we don’t even have walls!
Now it can be said that we have no roof over our heads and no feet to stand on.
I looked down again and saw that my clothes were in tatters, my vest was torn into a rag, and even my underpants were not spared.
The holes in the clothes had obvious signs of gnawing. Needless to say, it must have been done by these rats!
