Perhaps the fortune teller was too sincere in telling the truth. After the man in the corner ended the card game with a jackknife, the two young men stood up and gave up their position.
Bu Suanzi then pulled Wang Xiaohua to sit on the card table.
Wang Xiaohua never thought that she would actually go to the table to play cards.
Moreover, he did not hold the old Taoist's hand and sat across from him. The little Taoist boy who was not afraid at first finally became a little panicked.
"I can't see...and I can't fight."
Wang Xiaohua said with great fear.
Bu Suanzi said: "You can touch and hit them as you like, but they can't defeat you."
Wang Xiaohua hesitated for a moment and then said softly: "Okay."
It's just that Wang Xiaohua couldn't see it after all, so the game was still going on stumblingly.
After struggling to touch the cards and randomly playing cards, she heard the fortune teller's voice coming from the opposite table.
"You're crazy."
Wang Xiaohua was stunned for a moment.
I thought that the fortune teller was talking nonsense again, but it was obviously true, because the three of them had already started pushing and shuffling the cards.
Wang Xiaohua sat there blankly, thinking, could my dog really win a lot of money if he came up?
The second game started quickly.
This time Wang Xiaohua's luck may not be as good as before.
But the two people who had been silent before started talking nonsense while touching the cards - this is what Wang Xiaohua heard.
"Senior brother, actually I don't believe it."
This is the voice of the person sitting on Wang Xiaohua's right, and he sounds habitually lazy.
He is talking about senior brother. Who is his senior brother? Is it a fortune teller or another person?
When Wang Xiaohua was thinking this, she heard another person's voice.
"Whether you believe it or not, I have never been to Yaofeng."
The voice was a little deep, maybe it was a man of serious words.
It seems that the two of them should be brothers.
Yaofeng Wang Xiaohua knows that it is a place on the other side of Daze, but believe it or not, what is it talking about?
"Seventy thousand." The man with a lazy voice was playing cards. Perhaps it was because he wanted Wang Xiaohua to hear, but the two people in this round actually announced the cards. "I haven't been there, so why have you been hiding in the East China Sea?"
"bump."
Another voice said calmly, followed by some sounds of picking cards from the deck.
"This is not hiding. I have always been here. It's just that you didn't find me, Santong."
The lazy voice smiled and said: "Yes, I thought you would run outside the human world, so I went to the East China Sea and walked through the territory of 490,000 miles step by step, but I didn't expect that you would be here. play cards."
"After all, this is your world. Wherever you want to go, you will naturally go. I used a hidden word, which is obviously not suitable, but senior brother...it's your turn to draw the card, Wang Xiaohua."
Wang Xiaohua was listening attentively when she heard the lazy voice mid-sentence, and suddenly it came to her, and she realized it.
There was no time to think about why this person knew that she was called Wang Xiaohua. He just hurriedly touched the card and rubbed it twice randomly. From the vague circular patterns, he felt that it should be a tube.
You shouldn’t need this card in your deck?
Wang Xiaohua is new to the poker table and only vaguely knows some of the rules.
So he hit it out and said as quietly as possible: "One tube."
The card table was like an ancient well deep in the mountains. A card that no one wanted naturally caused no disturbance.
The owner of the lazy voice was probably touching his cards, and continued talking very slowly.
"But senior brother, if you don't dare to expose some things openly, it shows that you have something evil in your heart. You may not be hiding from the world, but you are hiding from me, Yaoji."
The meaning in this sentence seems to be a bit deep.
Wang Xiaohua felt a little uneasy when she heard this. She was always worried that the two of them would turn over the card table while they were talking.
But before the other person's voice came, the fortune teller at the opposite table chuckled and said, "touch."
So the conversation at the card table was temporarily interrupted.
Only the sound of some number plates was rustling.
Wang Xiaohua listened attentively.
The conversation on the card table was interrupted for a long time as the fortune teller touched the cards, and continued boringly.
After a long time, after Wang Xiaohua typed out a whiteboard, the lazy voice spoke again.
"Hongzhong, Qingxuanxu's arm bones, are they with you?"
This sentence carries a strong questioning meaning.
Wang Xiaohua's concerns were raised unconsciously.
It's just a pity that there is still no answer.
The fortune teller said in a timely manner: "You are being stupid again."
Wang Xiaohua thought back to her cards with some confusion. Was she really crazy?
But no one at the card table had any objections, maybe he was really crazy.
Wang Xiaohua pushed down the pile of cards and started rubbing the cards.
Only this time, after playing for a long time, I realized that I was the only one playing mahjong in the dark.
The other three seemed to be sitting there quietly, not moving.
Wang Xiaohua's movements stopped there, hesitating a little, feeling the solemn atmosphere on the card table, and asked cautiously: "Are you still playing?"
After a long time, the very deep voice slowly spoke.
"beat."
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
Then the sound of rubbing and counting cards sounded again on the card table.
After grabbing the cards again, the lazy voice laughed and pushed the cards down.
"I've been playing cards for so many years, and this is my first time playing cards."
Wang Xiaohua sat there blankly, what a fool?
Is this the end of this round?
"When celebrating the Chinese New Year, you always have to eat dumplings."
That person who may be serious in speech actually speaks very plainly.
"What's more, Tianhu on the card table is only on the card table."
The man pushed the cards, and the chair behind him made some creaking sounds, maybe he was leaning on it.
The lazy voice said calmly: "At least in the first moment of the thousand and four years of the Gale Calendar, destiny chose me."
The sound of rubbing cards sounded again, and Wang Xiaohua just followed it blankly.
His senior brother's voice was equally calm.
"You are all people who look at fate. In fact, you know better than anyone else that fate is invisible. You know better than anyone that God's will is not what man wants. Maybe God's will is indeed on you this year, but what about man's will? Qingxuanxu The arm bone is in my hand, and someone sent it to Huaidu. But you traveled far away, but you received a sword in the long river of time. God's will is on you, but man's will is on me."
The chair made a squeaking sound again, perhaps because the man sat upright again, so the sounds became closer.
"What's more, whether it's God's will or man's will, it's not important. Back then, the cripple chose Gouqian, and tomorrow my heart will choose Gouqian. Even Cong Zhongxiao is more optimistic about my childhood playmate. But that So what?”
"He chose to die by the Nanyi River many years ago, and who in the world could have imagined that it was me who changed this world?"
"The will of God and man is nothing more than external things. Your own decision is your destiny."
"Besides, you shouldn't call me senior brother."
"But Your Majesty."
The mahjong may have been coded, but no one is touching it anymore.
The card hall was very peaceful.
"Yes, so Your Majesty, it's time for you to return to the human world."
This sentence was not spoken by the lazy voice.
But a divination operator.
This second card game in a thousand and four years could not be played.
The whole house was silent.
Wang Xiaohua didn't know if they had left, but Bu Suanzi came to her side, held her hand again, and then walked towards the night snow outside the card hall.
There was no sound in the card hall.
Wang Xiaohua felt the cold snowflakes falling on her face again. Although it was not as warm outside as inside, she breathed a long sigh of relief.
Holding Bu Suanzi's hand, he followed the old Taoist as he walked through the snowy streets of the small town.
"So what are we doing here?"
Wang Xiaohua was a little confused.
Inexplicably, he got involved in a card game, and inexplicably played two cards.
Then there seemed to be some quarrel.
"Be a peacemaker." Bu Suanzi's voice was a little heavy.
"Are they going to fight?"
"I don't know." Bu Suanzi said slowly, "But I'm afraid they will fight."
"Will it hurt the human world? Doesn't it mean that when practitioners fight, they should be respectful to the human world?"
Bu Suanzi said softly: "After cultivating to their level, the human world cannot be polite. Unless they don't fight in the human world."
"If you're not in the human world, where are you going?"
"Go to the depths of the desert, 490,000 miles to the East China Sea, to the edge of the Styx River, and to the endless ocean." Bu Suanzi said in a very long-winded way, but he really started to sound like a nagging old man.
"Only when there is enough buffer space can the world be truly blessed."
Wang Xiaohua turned around and looked over there.
But in fact, I couldn't see anything, it was just a sign of confusion and fear.
Naturally, she understood a lot of the last words in the poker room.
The man with the deep voice is the current human majesty, Demon Emperor Kamigawa.
The owner of the card shop who went home for the New Year probably didn't know that two seemingly homeless people and a Taoist priest who suddenly arrived with a little girl would be the highest in the world of spiritual practice today. Several.
"Are they still there?"
Wang Xiaohua asked very uneasily.
"exist."
"Then if we leave, they will start fighting."
That kind of panic prompted Wang Xiaohua to ask the question again.
Bu Suanzi was silent for a long time, looking quietly at the end of the long street.
In a place where Wang Xiaohua could not see, there were two young men who had passed away from each other.
"Maybe, because this time, they probably really had a falling out."
"Why? Because of that bone?"
"Yes."
Bu Suanzi said softly, holding the little Taoist boy's hand and heading out of the town.
"But we can't control it, and we can't persuade it. If the people on the cliff are still there, we might be able to persuade them, but now that the people on the cliff are gone, no one in the world can persuade them."
"What about the human world?"
"Pray, pray that the two of them can solve some problems peacefully."
This old man, whom the world calls three feet away from his destiny, speaks the weakest words in this windy and snowy town.
Wang Xiaohua squeezed the fortune teller's hand.
The two left town.
Just like the Taoist said.
.......
Chen He’s sizzling tofu is truly one of a kind.
Chen Huaifeng felt that even the orthodox ones from Huangliang would probably be spicier at best.
But for someone like Chen He who travels around the world in a leisurely way, the tofu he makes is fragrant and tender. Although this is because the tofu he bought from nowhere is really good, the wonderful seasoning is the tofu itself. cannot be given.
On this New Year's Eve night, Chen Huaifeng ate four pieces of tofu in one go and drank two pots of hot wine with a strong sense of guilt about his health regimen.
Chen He just sat aside with a smile, drinking and watching.
Probably the greatest achievement for a cook is to finish the soup he made.
Although Chen He is not a cook, he still has this sense of pride.
The two of them were drinking wine and eating all kinds of food comfortably under the eaves of the snowy street.
More than just sizzling tofu.
Chen He just went to buy some tofu, but as he said, renting a house would really mean celebrating the New Year alone. If he stayed on this windy and snowy street, the whole town would celebrate the New Year with him.
So in the streets where the fireworks were gradually rising, people from the town would come with food from time to time and run over to deliver food to the two people sitting across from each other on the snowy street.
There were reunion meatballs, which were more than enough every year. The two of them ate quite sumptuously while facing the wind and snow on the street.
Xu Chunhua from Zhenwei Restaurant also brought them two pots of warm wine. She probably guessed that this person who came down from the mountain to chat with Chen He from time to time would probably accompany him to celebrate the New Year.
They had probably already had the New Year's Eve dinner at home, so Xu Chunhua was not in a hurry to go back, and accompanied the two of them to watch the snow and fireworks under the eaves for a while.
This small town girl was wearing the floral skirt from that day again, holding a small white umbrella, standing under the eaves, and quietly looking at the splendor of the sky.
"Where do you think he is celebrating the New Year now?"
Chen He drank wine and said with a smile: "How do I know such a thing? You yourself didn't ask where he was going."
Xu Chunhua thought to herself that I was so angry at that time, why should I have the patience to ask?
But of course he didn't say such words. He just looked at it for a long time, lowered his head again, looked back at Chen He who was sitting under the eaves opposite the stove, and said with a smile: "Happy New Year."
Chen He smiled slightly and said, "Happy New Year."
So the small town girl holding a small white umbrella and wearing a small floral skirt walked away towards the small town in the wind and snow amid the large fireworks.
Chen Huaifeng didn't say anything, he just held the sword and the wine bottle, and looked at it with a smile on his face.
Although Chen He knew that Chen Huaifeng was definitely not thinking about anything serious, he ignored his weird smile and just drank wine, pinched a meatball and threw it into his mouth.
Probably the family who gave Chen He the meatballs steamed the meatballs with the chicken, so there was something wonderful in the meatballs.
While eating the meatballs, I heard Chen Huaifeng say regretfully: "I can see that she is no longer interested in you."
Chen He shrugged and didn't care.
It's just that I find Chen Huaifeng's inexplicable regret very strange.
"This has nothing to do with you, what do you regret?"
Chen Huaifeng was drinking and making tea, and said with a soft smile: "Why do theatergoers like to watch theaters? Because they like to be a part of it, otherwise there would be nothing to watch."
Chen He thought for a while and said, "Then what will you do?"
Chen Huaifeng took a sip of wine and said: "I don't know, I'm not such a person, and I won't say things that make people happy. On the contrary, I often do things that make people unhappy, so I probably won't. Things like this are going to happen.”
Chen He thought about the big pot that Qingtian Dao was carrying, and thought that more than just making the world unhappy, if Qingtian Dao hadn't been so good-tempered now, and that you were a member of the Human Sword Sect, I would have sent you to the River Styx long ago. .
"But it's hard to say this kind of thing. Don't people in the world like to keep it in mind, and there will be repercussions? If I sincerely think about a wife, I might meet a sad girl in a rainy alley one day."
Chen Huaifeng started to tell his own jokes while drinking.
Chen He also smiled softly and said, "Maybe so."
The two were drinking. It was probably the last moment of the end of the year, and the town began to become more and more lively.
There are constant fireworks in the world.
Perhaps because it is not far from Huaidu, although there are not as many fireworks in this small town as in Nanyi City, there are all kinds of fireworks, which are very gorgeous and charming.
Chen He looked at it with a smile, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chen Huaifeng also smiled, but was a little distracted.
He was probably thinking of the distant Nanyi City and some of his fellow juniors in the city.
The two of them looked at each other for a long time, then lowered their heads, smiled at each other, and clinked the wine bottles in their hands.
"Happy New Year."
This is the most sincere and beautiful wish in the world.
Just like a long time ago, Chen He stood on the listening platform, overlooking the bustling Nanyi City, and said brightly and wantonly that I wish I could always be happy and leisurely in this bright world.
Short and long words.
It's all the same passionate emotions.
Whether you will always be happy and comfortable in this world, whether you will be truly happy in the New Year, are actually unimportant.
When everything starts again, there must always be some good wishes.
The two drank all the wine in the pot, and then quietly watched the fireworks in the world with smiles. There seemed to be a brighter skylight in the distance.
There is Huaidu.
Even though they are separated by mountains and rivers, you can see the light shining brightly on the sky in both places at night.
On the long street of the town, a young man wearing the old Qingtian Taoist robe was walking over with a smile. It wasn't until he stopped under the eaves that he raised his hand to sweep away the snow on his shoulders. He looked at Chen He and Chen Huaifeng and whispered softly. Said: "Happy New Year."
Chen He replied with a smile and said Happy New Year.
Of course, good wishes should be said over and over again.
"The town at the foot of the mountain is indeed much more lively than the one on the mountain." The young Taoist named Jiang Shanxue smiled and stood on the street with the two of them, looking at the scene in the town. "I saw it on the mountain."
There are rarely such lively times in the world late at night, except in some big cities, such as Nanyi City and Huaidu.
But it’s rare that during the New Year, I can say some blessings, and the town is also not dark.
Jiang Shanxue said, looking at Chen Huaifeng aside.
"It's just senior brother, it's time for you to go up the mountain."
