At night, the two of them were lying on their backs, and the stone slept on Cang Ji's chest, going up and down with Cang Ji's ups and downs. It fell asleep, but Jing Lin was awake instead. The fresh rain outside the window, and the sound of spring thunder.
Jinglin listened to the rain and pondered, and was waiting to close his eyes to rest when he heard the sound of bells looming in the rain. His thoughts were led and wandered by the bell, and he gradually came out of the inner room to see another scene.
It's still raining heavily.
Barefoot children emerged from among the bamboo fences, jumping into the thatched hut with fat leaves on their backs. The room was dark and smelled like dirt. The child stepped on the mud mark and ran to the inner room. On Chen's couch was a man sleeping, with a sallow appearance and a thin, scrawny appearance.
Zhi'er knelt down on the edge of the couch, her eyes brightened by the rain. He took out the oiled paper from under the thin cloth, pulled it apart layer by layer, and inside lay a sugar cake the size of his palm. Looking at the sugar cake, he couldn't help swallowing a few saliva and pushed the man.
The man's eyes are closed.
The child whispered: "Dad, eat cake."
The man was deaf.
The child pushed the cake to the man's pillow, got up and ran out. He just stepped over the threshold, turned around and ran back, rubbed the sugar cake residue with his fingers, and sent it to his mouth to taste. Before the sweet taste could be recollected, I heard footsteps outside the door.
"Kawako." The woman took off the damp square towel and showed her face. She was not born beautiful, and she was stronger than others, so she could carry firewood and hoes, and support her husband and children. She wiped the rain off her face, sat under the door to rest her feet, and waved to the child, "Why don't you wear shoes."
The child giggled and stretched out her muddy feet to show her. The woman's face was hidden in the shadows, and Jing Lin couldn't see it clearly, but only noticed that the child took a few steps forward, fell into the woman's arms, and affectionately called "mother". The woman hugged him and talked with his head to head. Those words were disturbed by the sound of rain, and Jing Lin couldn't hear them clearly. The child raised his arms around the woman's neck and acted coquettishly.
Jing Lin seems to be watching from the sidelines, he doesn't have a mother, so he doesn't know where the fun is. He saw the child getting more and more excited, and then leaned into the woman's arms and fell asleep. The woman hugged the child, put one hand on his back, looked at the rain outside the door, and hummed a song to lull him to sleep.
The rain is getting worse.
Jing Lin sank on his back and was almost pressed into the quilt. He woke up suddenly, and turned over with difficulty in the quilt, Cang Ji's face was close to him, and he was falling asleep.
Jing Lin took out his hand and kneaded his eyebrows. Cang Ji sniffed suddenly, closed his eyes and said, "Let me take a bite while the night is dark and rainy."
"You can swallow a hundred things now, and you can use food." Jing Lin fumbled around the pillow with his backhand, but couldn't find a fan.
Cang Ji raised his hand to open the folding fan, whistled it a few times, and said, "I don't care about food that can only be put on the stomach. You just dreamed, didn't you?" He opened his eyes a little, "You just called your mother."
Jing Lin said, "It's not me."
"It came out of this mouth." Cang Ji suddenly sat up, and fanned a few times, "It's humming, like a milk cat."
His voice fell, and the little stone man who fell from his chest hit his forehead. Cang Ji watched as it leaned back on its head and rolled back a few times before listening to Jing Lin's answer.
"Where did I come from, mother?" He replied a little lazily, and the little stone man stretched his limbs and was also lazy in the quilt. Jinglin didn't even want to move. He said, "This bell is cunning. Every time it takes me to see the scenery, it borrows my strength."
"What do you mean." Cang Ji tilted his head, "Is that Gu Shen's dream? But what exactly is it asking us to come to?"
"I don't know." There was a thin wind on Jinglin's face, and he said, "It's expensive to see it once."
He just glanced at it a few times, and now he was already drowsy. The dryness of the depleted spirit sea seems to be weak, and he is now struggling to follow the copper bell. The last time I brought Cang Ji it was better, and this bell would still watch people order the dishes.
The next day was not yet bright, and it was raining heavily. Gu Shen put on his mino jacket and a bamboo hat on his head and mounted the horse again. He was aimless, just wandering among the mountains, peeping at the slightest familiar feeling. The year he left home, he was still too young, so now, apart from the bamboo fence in front of the thatched hut, he can only remember the strong smell of medicine on a wet and rainy day.
Cang Ji watched Gu Shen's back disappear into the rain curtain from the window, and said, "When he is looking for it like this, when will he find it."
"Endless." Jing Lin also watched the shadow disappear.
"So persistent, what do you want?" Cang Ji said, "You can be at home wherever you are, why do you have to go there."
"It's different after all." Jing Lin splashed broken rain between his fingers, he said, "He will be in his prime. He is still alone, even if he is used to being alone, he may not be willing to be alone forever. He always lost himself."
"I don't understand." Cang Ji rolled over and sat at the window, "It's really hard to understand. What if he finds it, how short a person's lifespan is, even if he finds it back, his family may not still remember who he is. , I can only get around by myself, and the family is burdensome, so don’t worry.”
"So you are not human." Jing Lin wiped the water, "I am not human either."
"You and I are the most suitable people." Cang Ji raised his finger and hooked it in the air, he didn't care, and said with a wave of his fingertips, "Since he made a special trip here, it can be seen that he still has a purpose. Just follow him. ,Right?"
"I don't know the purpose of the bell." Jing Lin said, "Follow."
"Then before I go out, I still have to fill my stomach." Cang Ji patted his knee and motioned for Jing Lin to come over.
The rain outside the window was eager, mixed with some painful sighs. But seeing Jinglin's four fingers resting on the edge of the wooden window, loose and fastened, the trimmed and rounded fingertips soaked in rainwater and became moist and cool.
Cang Ji finally only ate half full, because Jing Lin lacked qi and blood, he was bitten and sweated. Cang Ji was afraid that he would be bitten to death with all his strength, and in the end he only reluctantly licked around the bleeding place a few times. Since swallowing the spiritual energy of the Drunk Mountain Monk, not only has his cultivation improved, but his appetite has also grown a lot. His greed is becoming more and more like an arrow on the string, and he has a posture that he has to send.
Neither of them noticed that Cang Ji was sleeping in the sea of spirits, the koi carp curled up his body, and the linoleum on his forehead quietly pushed out two bulges.
Gu Shen's horseshoe print stretched out from the winding mountain road to the depths, passing through the deserted and uninhabited steepness, and he could see that the open side was flat in an instant. This is a mountain town located in the north, overlooking from a high place, you can see the high-rise buildings lined up in an orderly manner.
Cang Ji and Jing Lin entered the city, Shitou sat on Cang Ji's shoulder and sneezed. Cang Ji also rubbed the tip of his nose and said, "The demonic energy is soaring to the sky."
They just stepped in the door, and the prying eyes around them gathered. Not only Jing Lin, but Cang Ji was also coveted. Looking around, there are monsters in human skins all around.
"I know how the city came from among the mountains." Cang Ji's fingertips brushed his lips, showing a pure and harmless smile to all around him, but what he said in his mouth was, "Enough to feed me."
Jinglin held an umbrella and said, "There is also a god in charge here."
"Does the Division of Boundaries also take care of the demon city?"
"It's their duty. However," Jinglin looked at the market, "with such a leak of demonic energy, most of the gods in charge here are still hibernating."
"Apart from that Dongjun, can't others wake up?"
"It depends on luck." Jinglin said, "Dongjun... If you see him, you will know why you want him to do such errands."
"Could it be that he is born with three heads and six arms, and is afraid of monsters?"
"On the contrary." Jing Lin said, "He was born very well."
The two of them whispered under the umbrella side by side, where Gu Shen had already dismounted and went to the store. He ate some food in the hall, and when he saw a barefoot child staring at him, he broke off the steamed bun and handed it over.
The boy took the steamed bun and took a sip. Gu Shen tapped the vacant seat on the opposite side and said, "Use it together."
The child climbed onto the table, but did not touch the chopsticks, just stared at Gu Shen on the opposite side, saliva almost overflowing. Seeing that he was so greedy, Gu Shen gave him some steamed buns.
The daughter in the store was holding a plate of wine, smiled at Gu Shen affectionately when she bent down, pushed the child, and sat beside Gu Shen as if she had no bones, holding her face and staring at him, and said emotionally: "Where did the strong man come from?"
Gu Shen was eating the vegetables: "South."
The daughter's apricot eyes blinked slightly, and she got closer: "The south is prosperous..." Her face froze, and she laughed again.
The embroidered shoes under the table flickered and kicked the child who was under the table. The child stumbled to the ground, baring his fangs silently at the lotus feet.
The daughter continued: "The slave lives in the mountains, and I haven't seen the boat yet."
Gu Shen took a few sips and wiped his mouth to drink. The daughter's soft and boneless hands squeezed under Gu Shen's shoulders and arms, inch by inch, that firm sensuality made her more attentive.
"There are very few people in the city, and the slave family has never seen such a marvelous character as a strong man." She held her heart shyly, "My heart is still beating at this moment."
Gu Shen squeezed her hand, looked at her for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "This face is so beautiful, did your parents teach it?"
His daughter's expression changed immediately, Gu Shen took out a talisman from his arms and swallowed it together with the wine. Her daughter's grasped hand immediately turned into hairy claws, and she quickly covered her face with a whimper.
"Irrational! Hugh wants to peep at me!"
The surrounding diners were terrified.
Gu Shen let go: "I don't want to disturb your practice, so don't miss my time."
The daughter hid her face and cried and stepped back. Gu Shen saw the people around him looking at him and ignored him. He just pulled the child out from under the table and stuffed a few silver beads into his hand.
"This shop is run by a monster, go beg somewhere else."
The kid was speechless and stammered, "Demon, monster, monster!"
Gu Shen patted his head: "Ordinary monkey spirits don't harm anyone. Don't be afraid, go ahead."
The child was so frightened that his teeth were fighting when he was slapped on the head, he hugged the silver beads tightly and turned around and ran away. Gu Shen put the money and went out to lead the horse, preparing to find the inn again. He passed the bustling street market and noticed that the rain was about to stop. It's just that he didn't know that wherever he went, everyone raised their heads to look at each other, and their heads followed him.
The child fell and rolled out with a sluggish head. He hurriedly picked it up again, put it in his hand and said to the others in surprise, "I met a god! Not only did he see Hou Niang's original body at a glance, but he also gave me money!"
"Money!" The radish heads with braids in the sky surrounded him, "Brother! Brother! We want money too!"
The child took out the silver bead and handed it to his younger brothers. He pressed his head up, his fluffy ears squeezed out of his hair and shook, and said, "The gods even touched my head."
The radish heads immediately opened their eyes in unison, and all jumped on him, scrambling to touch his head.
"Brother!"
Xiao'er climbed onto his body with his younger brothers, and rubbed his head one by one with joy and cherishing, and said, "If you touch your head by a god, you will be touched by a fairy! It will be different. If mother comes back, she will definitely find us."
"Then we should follow the immortals." A braid appeared in the sky, plausibly said, "Mother said she went to the immortals, and the immortals must know where she is!"
"Brother!" They danced excitedly, "Let's follow him to find his mother!"
Cang Ji was about to ask how Dong Jun was born, when he saw a group of radishes rushing towards him, and then passed under the umbrellas of him and Jing Lin like the wind, and ran barefoot to the other end, blowing their sleeves and robes flying. .
Cang Ji stared at it for a long time, and Jing Lin asked suspiciously, "Do you like children?"
Cang Ji rubbed his stomach: "Looking at Xian and tender, I just didn't see any monster."
Jinglin said: "Except for the mouse at the head, the rest are all little wild ghosts."