Gu Jianlin took a deep look at the old man in the wheelchair.
He looked really old. His gray hair was neatly combed, his face was deeply wrinkled and his eyes were as warm and clear as jade. Even though he was sitting in a wheelchair, his back was straight.
Just like the cedars on the edge of the mountain cliff, they are tall and strong.
I have to say that this divination is not very professional. The divination is done in a very simple way. The interpretation of the divination is also very simple. It seems like an ordinary amateur.
But he still wrote down these words and thanked him.
"Um."
The old man nodded with satisfaction, his wise forehead wrinkles slightly raised, and then he put away the six copper coins.
"What, old man, can you tell me your fortune as well?"
Cheng Youyu came over, rubbing his hands and looking eager to try. He had always been so familiar.
But the old man didn't even raise his head and said calmly: "I won't let you count. Didn't you just say that I'm unprofessional?"
Cheng Youyu was shocked. He thought that old people were deaf, but he didn't expect that he heard all this.
Gu Jianlin felt a little guilty when he saw this scene.
Because he had a hunch that the old man was deliberately trying to tell him something through fortune telling.
At this time, a man in a suit and tie came over with three packs of warm babies and said with a smile: "Please take it and welcome your next visit. If you need anything, you can come back at any time. We will be closed tonight."
After speaking, he turned around, pushed the backrest of the wheelchair, and said, "Teacher, it's time to rest."
The old man hummed softly and was pushed into the back door by him.
Gu Jianlin watched these two people leave.
He hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes and used life perception on the two people in front of him.
In the quiet night, the rhythm of everything in the world echoed in his ears again.
After last night's contact, he was able to accurately identify the target in the noisy melody.
However, the result he perceived surprised him.
The rhythm of life of a man in a suit is like a fire, burning vigorously and blazingly hot.
As for the old man in the wheelchair, it was like a dead hollow, silent and extremely depressing.
"What are you looking at?"
Su Youzhu asked curiously while holding three packs of warm babies.
"nothing."
Gu Jianlin asked casually: "Speaking of which, do you also believe in hexagrams?"
Su Youzhu shook his head: "Just ask casually, you won't lose anything."
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After Gu Jianlin and Su Youzhu came out of the grocery store, they had a simple meal of wild wontons nearby and then returned to school.
It is worth mentioning that Cheng Youyu, a fat man, shamelessly followed along, talking and laughing along the way.
From time to time, they would also tell some gossip that the brother and sister didn't know.
By 10:30 p.m., the lights downstairs in the girls’ dormitory were basically turned off.
In the small garden downstairs, you can vaguely see some lovers whispering reluctantly under the trees, and some even hugged them and gnawed them. The rustling sounds came from the trees, which was quite exciting to watch. .
"Well, I'll just drop by here and you guys can continue."
Cheng Youyu smiled and paused, showing a connotative expression: "I won't be a light bulb."
Gu Jianlin knew that he had misunderstood, but it was too troublesome to explain.
Mainly, Su Youzhu had an indifferent expression on his face.
It seems that even if they are mistaken for a couple who will go into the woods later, it will not matter.
Seeing the situation, Gu Jianlin saw no need to explain more.
"Brother Lin, please leave me with the preliminary exam! If you are assigned to the same exam room, please help me!"
Before Cheng Youyu left, he suddenly reminded him with a serious face: "Well, Fengcheng is not peaceful recently. You must have heard about it, right? Many students screamed and went crazy. I got the news that recently, There are often people like this around the school, so you'd better not go out these days and stay at the school honestly."
He warned again: "Especially since there was a pervert who abused animals recently near the school."
Gu Jianlin's heart moved slightly. The fat man seemed to know something and was deliberately reminding himself.
"okay, I get it."
He nodded slightly: "Thank you."
After the incident was over, Cheng Youyu returned to his smiling face and walked away as if he didn't recognize his relatives.
Gu Jianlin watched him leave, turned around and said to the girl next to him: "Have a good rest these days. I will come to you on time to deliver brown sugar water. If you need anything, just tell me and I will go out and buy it for you."
Su Youzhu glanced at him and thought, can you also buy women's products?
"Anyway, just don't run around."
Gu Jianlin asked seriously: "Do you know?"
Since the arrival of Lu Zicheng, coupled with the gradual infiltration of investigators from the Ether Association into the school, coupled with the animal abuse incident just now, everything seems to indicate that something is about to happen next.
"knew."
Su Youzhu took off the coat she was wearing and handed it back to him: "Good night."
Gu Jianlin took it and said, "Good night."
The door to the girls' dormitory was closed, and Su Youzhu's figure disappeared around the corner of the corridor.
Gu Jianlin turned around and left with his coat. He walked through the playground and garden alone and returned to the boys' dormitory.
His dormitory is on the sixth floor, right next to the first one in the corridor.
The four roommates in the dormitory were lying on the bed, and they kept complaining:
"It's really unlucky. Even if the cafeteria in the school is terrible, there isn't even a supermarket."
"Yeah, the aunt who cooks the food has her hands shaking as if she has Parkinson's disease. I'm really impressed by this old lady."
"Which of you went out to the supermarket to buy something? Give me some snacks, I'm starving to death."
"What the hell, that 24-hour convenience store outside is closed too!"
As soon as Gu Jianlin came back, he heard their conversation, then sat down on the bed and asked in surprise: "That convenience store was closed, but wasn't it changed into a grocery store?"
As soon as these words came out, the roommates were stunned for a moment.
"What grocery store? Didn't that convenience store go out of business and be rented out?"
The roommate said blankly: "The rolling shutter doors are all closed, and there is such a big rental advertisement posted on it."
Gu Jianlin was stunned: "No way, there is a grocery store."
The roommate was confused again: "I just came back from there ten minutes ago. Brother Lin, tell the truth, is it because your brain is not clear after the car accident and you have memory problems? If there really is a grocery store, I will stand on my head and eat it." !”
Gu Jianlin fell silent. He once again thought of the unusualness of that grocery store and couldn't sit still.
He immediately stood up and walked to the rooftop on the seventh floor, using the lights in the night to look at the street across the street.
Just for a moment, his pupils shrank violently, and the hair on his body stood on end.
The 24-hour convenience store across the street reappeared at some point. The red and white signboard was still lit, but the store door was locked by a rolling shutter door, and there was an advertisement for rent posted on it.
As for the grocery store I saw before, it mysteriously disappeared.
Sure enough, his feeling was correct.
It was indeed no ordinary grocery store.
Including the old man in a wheelchair and the man in a suit, they seemed to be no ordinary people.
Gu Jianlin was silent for a long time, planning to go over and take a look after school tomorrow.
At this time, a message came in on his WeChat.
Su Youzhu: "I just returned to the dormitory and found someone placing a love letter in front of my window sill."
Gu Jianlin was slightly stunned. What the hell was this? Someone actually expressed his feelings in such an old-fashioned way.
However, the girl's dormitory is on the first floor. If she bypasses the dormitory aunt, it can be done.
Nothing new.
Gu Jianlin replied: "Oh, is someone chasing you?"
Su Youzhu: "I thought so at first, but after I opened it, I found that this letter was for you."
Gu Jianlin was stunned.
Just when he was puzzled, a picture was sent to WeChat.
For a moment, Gu Jianlin's eyes narrowed, and his subconsciously clenched palms made a crisp sound of bones.
Compared with the content of the love letter, the signature at the bottom is more eye-catching.
Because it was a strange, pale, clown's face painted with colored pencils.
On the glowing screen, the clown's smile was thick and sinister, and his scarlet lips grinned almost to the base of his ears.
Just looking at it makes people feel uncomfortable.
"The day after tomorrow at six o'clock in the afternoon, we will meet you at the warehouse in the back playground."
"This is our secret, please don't tell others."
"Otherwise...you know."
After a long time, the phone screen automatically turned off, and the cold wind blew from the rooftop.
Gu Jianlin put his left hand in his pocket and held the phone tightly with his right hand. The coat on his arm was rustling in the wind.
"Give the letter to Yuzhu instead of giving it directly to me."
He whispered softly: "Is this a threat?"
Under the flying forehead, the young man's eyes gradually became dead, as if melting into the night.
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Late at night, the lights were still on in the grocery store.
The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, playing with the six copper coins in his hand, and suddenly said: "Jing Ci."
The man in a suit held a handkerchief and carefully wiped the blue and white porcelain bottle in his hand.
"Teacher, I'm here."
He asked without raising his head, "Is something wrong?"
The old man said calmly: "Am I really that unprofessional in telling fortunes?"
Jing Ci smiled bitterly and said: "You are not a fortune teller, so why do you have to deal with fortune tellers? Could it be that you have been grudges since you lost the bet with the guy from Laojun Mountain last time?"
"If you are on the Gua Master path, then I, as a teacher, will no longer be lacking in ostentation outside."
The old man sighed regretfully: "Speaking of which, the kid I met tonight was quite interesting."
Jing Ji paused while wiping the porcelain bottle and asked with a smile: "Are you saying that he saw the clown's abnormal evolution at a glance, or did you mean that he noticed something abnormal in our grocery store?"
The old man thought for a while: "They are all there. Do you want to make a bet on whether he can survive?"
"Then I'll bet he lives."
Jing Ci put the blue and white porcelain vase on the antique cabinet and said, "After all...you reminded him like this."
"It's one thing to be reminded, it's one thing whether you can realize it, and it's another thing how to deal with it after you realize it."
The old man threw six copper coins on the table: "Then I will bet that he will die."
