It was already past nine o'clock in the evening when Qiao Yanzhou and Gu Zixing arrived in Xiqiang Ancient Town. However, as City S, which has already stepped into the peak tourist season, nine o'clock is the beginning of nightlife.
The two of them wandered around the ancient town for a long time, and finally wandered slowly to the shore of Wangjun Lake. Compared with the ancient town, the sudden sense of comfort by the lake made Qiao Yanzhou feel a little uncomfortable.
To be honest, Qiao Yanzhou is not really interested in things like visiting ancient towns to buy handicrafts and watching performances. He has been to S City more or less a few times and he has been to many similar ancient towns. Now Qiao Yanzhou is the only one Interesting, is the Wangjun Lake behind the ancient town.
Once Qiao Yanzhou and his friends came to S city to play, and they have been to almost all places, big and small, but only Wangjun Lake, Qiao Yanzhou wanted to come several times, but was delayed because of big and small things.
This time, he finally found another chance to come here, but when Qiao Yanzhou was really brought here by Gu Zixing, he felt something was wrong in his heart.
The colorful lights are constantly changing on the lake. Walking across the bridge, inside the ancient buildings facing Gehu Lake, some are bars, some are handicraft shops, and they are quite lively from a distance.
"Isn't it a little gay for us two big men to walk by the lake... Look, there are a man and a woman beside you." Qiao Yanzhou still held a few skewers of charcoal-grilled saury just bought from the ancient town in his hand, while After looking around while eating, I concluded this sentence.
"It's nothing to do with me, I'm the one who leads the way..." Gu Zixing shrugged and threw the blame on Qiao Yanzhou.
"And there are so many people, even the bridge can't be crowded..." Qiao Yanzhou smacked his lips while taking the pot, "We can only hang around by the lake."
Gu Zixing couldn't help but smiled: "Then you should be careful."
"Why?" Qiao Yanzhou didn't understand.
Seeing that they were approaching the Jungui Bridge ahead and there were a lot of people, Gu Zixing and Qiao Yanzhou didn't want to squeeze any more, so they simply stopped by the lake and leaned against the fence.
"Little Qiao, do you know why this place is called Wangjun Lake?"
"I don't know." Qiao Yanzhou shook his head and waited for Gu Zixing to explain, while lowering his head, he picked a place on a bunch of saury that he hadn't bitten, and handed it to Gu Zixing to let him have a bite.
Gu Zixing is not used to this kind of charcoal-grilled saury, but it's okay to have a bite once in a while.
After taking a small bite, Gu Zixing turned around and pointed to the other side of the lake, and continued, "It is said that hundreds of years ago there was a village near this lake, and there was a woman named Sui in the village, who was very beautiful."
"A village flower with the surname Sui." Qiao Yanzhou summed it up.
"Almost," Gu Zixing nodded, "But later, because other women in the village were jealous of the beauty of this Sui family in this village, they teamed up and designed a trap to frame this Sui family."
"Come on, such a bloody stalk," Qiao Yanzhou instantly looked disgusted, "Rotten vulgar palace fighting drama."
"Listen to me," Gu Zixing smiled, but he actually thought it was bloody when he said it, "Because the Sui family's husband was taken away by the officials at the time and sent to the army, these women deliberately set up a trap to say that The Sui family has an affair with a lunatic named Wang Wu in their village."
"madman?"
"The lunatic is good, no one listens to the lunatic." Gu Zixing said, "According to what those people said at the time, the Sui family's husband was not around, and Sui's indiscretion caused him to become addicted to sex. Even the lunatic in the village want to."
"..."
"Then this group of people made up their minds and tied up Mrs. Sui and soaked it in a pig cage at random while the matter was not exposed."
"..." Qiao Yanzhou paused, "Did you just dip into this lake?"
Gu Zixing nodded: "So from then on, whenever a man passes by the lake alone, he will clearly hear the voice of a woman singing underwater, and the man who is bewitched by the singing will jump into the lake and commit suicide, and go to the lake to accompany the Sui family. gone."
Qiao Yanzhou listened intently and finally understood: "Oh, so this is a ghost story."
"Folk legend."
"Are they all the same?"
"However, it is said that if someone who already has his own heart walks by the lake, he will not be bewitched by the singing." Gu Zixing leaned on the railing by the lake and raised his head, "Little Qiao?"
"Um?"
"Be careful of being caught by a female ghost."
Only then did Qiao Yanzhou understand why Gu Zixing told him to be careful, so he was waiting here.
Although he knew that Gu Zixing was joking with him, Qiao Yanzhou couldn't help being stunned for a moment.
"What about you? Are you afraid of being taken away?" Qiao Yanzhou asked back.
"Female ghosts are not interested in gay guys." Gu Zixing smiled and turned to look at Qiao Yanzhou, "Besides, I have someone I like."
"Oh... yeah."
Gu Zixing has someone he likes.
This wasn't bad news for Qiao Yanzhou, but it really made Qiao Yanzhou unable to laugh.
Qiao Yanzhou turned his head and glanced at Gu Zixing, only to find that Gu Zixing was also looking at him.
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul. This sentence can be said to be true for Qiao Yanzhou, because Qiao Yanzhou is the type who can't keep things in his heart.
But Gu Zixing is different, Qiao Yanzhou will never notice anything from his eyes, or he doesn't want you to notice it at all. No one can guess what Gu Zixing is thinking, his eyes are always smiling but it is difficult for people to feel how close they are to him.
Gu Zixing's eyes were still staring at him.
Every time he and Gu Zixing looked at each other like this, Qiao Yanzhou always felt a little unfair.
Because although Qiao Yanzhou couldn't understand Gu Zixing, Gu Zixing had already seen his mind from the inside out, and this feeling was really uncomfortable.
"Little Qiao..." Gu Zixing was about to say something when his phone rang.
He took out his phone and glanced at it.
Qi Chen's phone call.
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Around eleven o'clock in the evening, Qiao Yanzhou was brought by Gu Zixing to a bar named Ruxi near the ancient town.
This is the place Qi Chen was looking for, in fact it was not only Qi Chen, but also Fu Xiaohai, Tang Xuan, Yao Le, Zhao Qin and Qin Xiangnan as accomplices.
"If I had known you brought so many people, I wouldn't have bothered you..." This was the first sentence Gu Zixing said to Qi Chen when Qi Chen ran out to meet Gu Zixing and Qiao Yanzhou.
Ruxi is a relatively well-known bar in S City, and sometimes the EG team will come here for private celebration parties and the like.
There are performances in the bar every night, the scene is very hot, and the content of the performances is different on different days.
Today's performance is pole dancing. As soon as Gu Zixing and the others walked in, they saw five or six beauties in sparkling three-point styles forming a circle on the stage, each twisting a steel pipe, oblivious to the joy of themselves.
"Boss Gu is late, hurry up and go!" Tang Xuan had already poured wine for Gu Zixing as soon as he brought Gu Zixing and Qiao Yanzhou in.
Gu Zixing smiled, picked up the wine Tang Xuan had poured and drank it down without sitting down.
"Come on, Xiaozhou!" Zhao Qin also started to talk over there.
Qiao Yanzhou was a little confused. To be honest, although he had very little chance to get in touch with people like Tang Xuan and Qi Chen so far, how should I put it? It is completely two states.
Qiao Yanzhou looked at Gu Zixing with some embarrassment, but he didn't expect that Gu Zixing had already taken the wine glass poured by Zhao Qin first.
"Little Qiao can't drink, I'll take his place."
"Boss Gu, don't!" Zhao Qin was taken aback, seeing that Gu Zixing was drinking, he quickly filled a glass himself and drank it down with Gu Zixing.
The bar was very chaotic, and a few of them sat in a semicircular booth, and they happened to be able to watch the performance on the stage.
"Xiao Hai's eyes are straight, wipe away the drool." Qin Xiangnan couldn't help laughing, "Isn't it just a few beautiful girls!"
"Go, go!" Fu Xiaohai pushed Qin Xiangnan, then turned his gaze back, and shook the upside-down cups on the table, "Come on, whoever wants to play dice."
"Don't play, Gu Zixing's game is too scary," Tang Xuan quickly waved his hand, "The last time I played with him all night, I drank to the bottom of the table, but he drank a total of two bottles."
Gu Zixing smiled, but said nothing.
"Then Xiaozhou came to play for Boss Gu, and Xiaozhou lost to Boss Gu to drink!" Qi Chen started to come up with bad ideas from the side.
"Come on, come on, then I'll play!" Upon hearing that Gu Zixing didn't want to play, Tang Xuan immediately regained his confidence.
Qiao Yanzhou panicked and turned to look at Gu Zixing.
Feeling that Qiao Yanzhou was looking at him with a guilty face, Gu Zixing smiled and leaned into Qiao Yanzhou's ear and said, "I feel isolated."
"Why don't you protest," Qiao Yanzhou also laughed. "I'm afraid I'll carry you back later."
"No," Gu Zixing narrowed his eyes, and said to Qiao Yanzhou deliberately coyly, "I want the princess to hug me."
"Crazy." Qiao Yanzhou cursed with a smile, and reached out to take a dice cup in front of him.
"There is one more, who will play it!" Tang Xuan asked while shaking the dice cup in his hand.
"I come."
Yao Le, who had been silent all this time, suddenly got up from the sofa in the booth, reached out and took away the extra dice cup.
Although Yao Le was still expressionless as usual, his face was flushed red, probably because of drinking.
I saw Yao Le shaking the dice cup in his hand, pointing to the wine bottle in his hand and saying: "A bottle and a half, do you want to play or not?"
"No problem, no problem!" Tang Xuan agreed without thinking.
Qiao Yanzhou was not good at playing dice, basically he just guessed. He also played with friends in KTV before, anyway, every time whether he opened it by himself or was opened by others, he lost.
Qiao Yanzhou has always classified this situation as bad luck, and at first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
"Other than Boss Gu, Yao Le is the best player here."
While they were playing, Tang Xuan asked a question.
"I have received the true teaching from Boss Gu," Qi Chen smiled, "Come on, eight six."
"Twelve sixes." Yao Le followed without thinking.
"Do not believe… "
When Qiao Yanzhou hesitated to say the word "letter", Gu Zixing had already picked up the wine bottle.
"I have five sixes, can Tang Xuanqi and Chen Xiaohai make up seven?" Yao Le asked after opening the dice cup.
"I have four."
"The three of me."
Yao Le raised his head and passed Qiao Yanzhou, looked at Gu Zixing who was sitting on the side, and curled his lips.
"drink."