Just after the new year, the suburban wilderness is still shrouded in a layer of cold air.
The sky is cloudy, not a good time for outing.
Tao Mo raised the curtain of the car and looked at the desolate scene outside where the vegetation was not growing, and asked in a low voice, "Where are we going?"
Gu She took black stones in one hand and white stones in the other, and played chess by himself, "On the mountain."
"What mountain?" Tao Mo remembered that Master Jin had mentioned nearby mountains, "Cage Mountain, Yunlin Mountain, Liguo Mountain?"
Gu She said: "Is there any difference?"
Tao Mo thought for a while and said, "Among the three mountains, Cage Mountain is the tallest, shrouded in clouds and mist, but the slopes are dangerous and the road is difficult to walk. Yunlin Mountain is a good place, but the feng shui is also good, so the ancestral graves of the people in Tanyang County are all there , also known as Wanguishan. Liguoshanju said it was a bald mountain with no scenery."
Gu She said: "In your opinion, which mountain should we go to?"
Tao Mo looked at his words, and couldn't tell if he really wanted to ask, or just asked casually, and said carefully, "In fact, both are good. Anyway, it's outing, which mountain is the same."
"Let's go to Yunlin Mountain!" Gu Xiaojia suddenly shouted outside.
Tao Mo shrugged his shoulders.
Gu She said: "Afraid of ghosts?"
Tao Mo said honestly, "I'm afraid."
"Is there something wrong?"
Tao Mo hesitated and said, "Yes, it counts as yes."
Gu Xiaojia laughed loudly and said: "Hahahaha... Then you have to be careful, ghosts like people who have done bad things the most, and they should take the place of dead ghosts."
Tao Mo raised his head, wanting to quietly see Gu She's face, but found that he was looking at him.
"You, are you guilty?" he asked.
Gu She said: "No."
Tao Mo envied: "You are so smart, you must think twice before doing anything. Naturally, there will be no wrongdoing."
"Whether you are guilty or not has nothing to do with thinking twice."
Tao Mo said: "If I had thought twice, maybe I wouldn't have lost my heart."
"Things that can be changed by thinking twice should not be called bad things." Gu She said.
Tao Mo was startled and said, "What's that called?"
Gu She said slowly: "It's called confession."
Tao Mo sighed softly, leaned against the car wall, and closed his eyes.
Gu She turned his gaze back to the chess game and continued to play against himself.
The speed of the car gradually stopped, until the carriage shook, Gu Xiaojia jumped off the horse, opened the door, "Master, we're here."
Tao Mo opened his eyes with hazy wetness. He quickly lowered his head and jumped out of the carriage while walking and crawling.
Gu Xiaojia waited for him to get off the car, then turned to help Gu She.
Tao Mo took the opportunity to quickly wipe the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.
"Young master. It rained a few days ago, and the soil on the mountain is still wet. Why don't we just sit at the foot of the mountain." Gu Xiaojia said.
Tao Mo looks at the mountains. The mountain is steep, soaring into the clouds, standing at the bottom of the mountain and looking up, it seems that the chest is out of breath. "This is... Cage Mountain?"
Gu Xiaojia tied the horse to the tree trunk with a grin, and said, "Do you really believe that we are going to Yunlin Mountain?"
Tao Mo chuckled and said nothing.
Gu Xiaojia took out the chessboard and chess jars from the car, wrapped them in a bundle and carried them on his back, and went to carry the stove and tea set.
Gu She looked at it and said, "You don't need to bring it."
Gu Xiaojia said: "If you don't bring a teapot, what would you like to drink?"
Gu She said: "There is a stream on the mountain."
Gu Xiaojia said: "The weather is cloudy and cold, so the water is probably freezing too."
Tao Mo said, "We can find firewood on the mountain to boil water."
Gu Xiaojia thought for a while and said, "Then I will only bring the teapot and cups."
Gu She said: "There is no need to bring the chessboard."
Gu Xiaojia said: "But don't you want to play chess?"
Tao Mo said: "It's also simple. When the time comes, we will draw a grid on the ground and use stones as chess pieces."
Gu Xiaojia pursed his lips and said, "You put it so simply."
Tao Mo hurriedly said, "Why don't I share some things for you."
Seeing that Gu She had gone up the mountain along the path, Gu Xiaojia threw the things into the carriage and ran up with the tea set in his arms.
Tao Mo asked loudly behind him, "What about this carriage?"
Gu Xiaojia didn't turn his head back and said, "Don't worry. Within hundreds of miles of Tanyang County, no one dares to touch your son's things."
Tao Mo was stunned, thinking: What if someone from Tanyang County, hundreds of miles away, passes by? Everything in that car is a treasure, and it is hard to guarantee that others will not see the money. But since he dared to do this, he must have nothing to fear, right? He thought about it twice, and then put the matter behind him.
The mountain roads are narrow, rough and slippery.
Tao Mo fell twice before taking a few steps, with mud marks on his chest and buttocks. Gu Xiaojia also fell down because he gloated at seeing him stumble. After that, the three of them walked in silence.
When I reached the mountainside, I saw a pavilion like a thatched shed.
There are two wooden boards on the left and right of the gazebo, but there are no couplets on them.
Tao Mo asked suspiciously, "Why are there no couplets?"
Gu Xiaojia said: "My son doesn't write, who dares to write?"
Tao Mo said: "Then why didn't Young Master Gu write?"
Gu Xiaojia said again: "How can such a broken pavilion be worthy of my son's inscription?"
Tao Mo said: "Then isn't there no couplet in this pavilion?"
Gu Xiaojia said: "It's called: Young master be humble, who dares to be the first."
"Isn't that overbearing?" Tao Mo muttered in a low voice.
Gu Xiaojia stared at him and said, "Who said my son is overbearing? My son has never said that he is not allowed to write an inscription on this pavilion, and he has never said that he will write an inscription on this pavilion. Just showing off in front of you."
Tao Mo hurriedly apologized with a smile.
Gu She suddenly turned around from the pavilion and asked, "What do you think is a good word for this pavilion?"
Tao Mo hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I don't understand this."
Gu Xiaojia was surprised and said: "My lord, do you really want to write an inscription for this pavilion?"
Gu She said: "It's all right."
Gu Xiaojia said: "Even if it's a question, it might be stolen by someone within two days."
Gu She said: "I wrote that no stealing is allowed."
Gu Xiaojia silently cast a glance at Tao Mo who was still confused, put the tea set on the small square table in the pavilion, and turned to look for firewood.
Gu She said, "What would you like to write?"
Tao Mo thought for a while and said, "Why don't we just write about Mo Daoting."
"Mo Daoting? Mo Daoting..." Gu She smiled and said, "Not bad."
Tao Mo said: "It's a pity that I didn't bring a pen and ink."
Gu She said: "It doesn't matter." He took out a small knife from his pocket, removed one of the wooden boards, and wrote the words "Mo Daoting" horizontally.
Tao Mo couldn't read, but he could tell that his handwriting was good by looking at the iron and silver hooks carved on his knife.
"Good." He praised lowly.
Gu Xiaojia hugged some firewood he picked up, and sneered, "Can you see what is good?"
Tao Mo blushed.
Gu She glanced at him lightly.
Gu Xiaojia shrank his head, not daring to say any more, and ran over to look at Gu She's words. "Mo Daoting, what a good name."
Gu She said: "Tao Mo started."
Gu Xiaojia said in surprise: "Hey. It's hard for you to come up with a decent name."
Tao Mo said shyly, "It was Mr. Gu who started it."
Gu She was taken aback.
"Didn't Mr. Gu say that you want to write that no stealing is allowed? I think that no stealing is allowed..."
Gu Xiaojia turned around speechlessly to light the fire.
Tao Mo looked at Gu She with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong?"
Gu She leaned over and wrote next to the word "Mo Daoting": "Mo Pirates" in two small characters, and then engraved the signature.
Tao Mo tilted his head and followed his saber, reading word by word: "Gu Sheliu?"
"No. My words." Gu She put away the knife and said calmly, "Gu Xianzhi."
"Gu Xianzhi..." Tao Mo felt vaguely familiar, and couldn't help repeating it several times.
"Okay." Gu Xiaojia clapped his hands and stood up, "I'll fetch water."
Tao Mo turned his head to find the small wooden stick, and then drew a grid on the ground.
Since the Go board has nineteen vertical and horizontal lines, he only realized after drawing the horizontal ones that if he wanted to draw the vertical bars in the middle, he had to enter the board. "Uh… "
Gu She had been waiting by the side for a long time, and at this moment he silently handed him a longer wooden stick.
Tao Mo blushed, took the stick and continued to draw.
When he finished drawing the grid, Gu Xiaojia just came back from fetching water. Holding the teapot and looking at the fire, he suddenly looked at Tao Mo and asked depressedly, "How do I put the teapot on it?"
Tao Mo pondered: "Carry?"
If possible, Gu Xiaojia really wanted to pounce on him and punch him hard.