Ye Yuwei followed Gu Juexi to the door of the restaurant. She watched Gu Juexi reach out and knock on the door, and heard the unhappy words from the store owner.
Ye Yuwei looked at Gu Juexi. There was only a deep coldness on Gu Juexi's face. She could not see anything else.
The door creaked open, "Who is it? It's closed so late." The boss opened the door, and the first thing he saw was Gu Juexi, and then his eyes fell on Ye Yuwei. His steps softened, like He took a step back.
Gu Juexi had already led Ye Yuwei through the door of the restaurant when he stepped back.
Ye Yuwei felt that besides looking like a human, his behavior was no different from that of a robber.
The old man was also woken up in the middle of the night, but Gu Juexi didn't apologize at all.
The old man was wearing shaky clothes, the lights in the room were not very good, and the stools were made of wood. Gu Juexi had no intention of sitting down, so Ye Yuwei stood beside him.
The old man was helped by his son and sat down at the table, "Are you a girl from the Ye family?"
Ye Yuwei glanced at Gu Juexi, then nodded.
"She looks so much like your grandma." The old man said, lighting up the dry smoke again. The smell was a bit choking.
"Do you know them?" Ye Yuwei asked.
"Someone came to ask about Ye Shu last time, but no one answered. Do you know why?" The old man knocked on his pipe and asked his son to turn on all the lights, and the room finally became brighter.
Ye Yuwei looked at the old man in front of her. He seemed to be in his eighties, and he should be about the same age as her grandparents.
"Why?" Ye Yuwei asked.
"If we want to talk about why, we have to start with the plague forty years ago." The old man said and asked his son to go out first.
"plague?"
"Yes, the plague." The old man said, looking at Ye Yuwei again, "At that time, your grandparents were famous miracle doctors in these ten miles and eight villages. Your grandparents saved many people during the plague, but In the end, the plague was not under control.”
"Plague? After the founding of New China, except for the large-scale SARS, where has the plague come?" Gu Juexi interrupted the old man's words in a deep voice.
The old man paused while shaking his pipe. Gu Juexi sat down directly opposite him and pressed his hands on the table. "Old man, we are all here. It will be boring for you to continue like this."
After listening to Gu Juexi's words, the old man's hands that were shaking at first calmed down.
"Why didn't anyone say it before, but now they are willing to say it? Why don't I tell you, because that person is willing to let you say it, isn't it?" Gu Juexi said in a deep voice, "I, Gu Juexi, am here, listen. You tell a story, so why don’t we be honest and sincere, let’s tell a real story.”
The old man was still puffing on his pipe, "The plague is real, old man, I didn't lie."
Gu Juexi tapped his fingers on the table gently, and Ye Yuwei put her hands on his shoulders, a little nervously.
"Where is Ye Shu?" Gu Juexi said bluntly.
Ye Yuwei's body became more and more tense.
"After listening to this story, let's go find him." The old man said, knocking out all the tobacco inside.
Gu Juexi reached out and pressed Ye Yuwei's hand, "Please, sir, I am all ears."