River Tuluo Xian

Chapter 10 The Weird Scholar

Go forward and turn left for three hundred steps.

Jiang Ling took the yellow dog and walked along the route pointed by the platform, and he really saw a huge courtyard standing in front of him.

It's just that when we got here, it was a little desolate.

The surrounding shops have been closed, and there are few people on the streets.

However, as long as there is a free place to stay, whether it is desolate or not, there is nothing to be picky about.

"Wait a minute, boy, are you really going?"

Just when Jiang Ling was about to come to the door, a clerk from the inn suddenly ran over from behind, panting: "To tell you the truth, if it is not necessary, don't go, then don't go.

Then Zhujiazhuang..."

He wanted to stop talking, but he seemed to have something hard to say, "Anyway, don't go, my family manager said, if you have little money, the firewood house will count you twenty yuan a night. Do you want to live?"

Jiang Ling laughed, the head of the inn can be chased by the staff to dissuade him, which shows that he is not bad.

"From your point of view, Zhujiazhuang is weird, right?"

But the guy seemed to be jealous of this side, hurriedly walked a few steps away, and signaled not to talk nonsense: "I have already brought the words, if there is any problem with you, it has nothing to do with us."

"This Zhujiazhuang looks good to me. Since it's free here, I might as well just save the twenty coins. You can go back."

The clerk was speechless, and snorted: "Are you poor and crazy? Forget it, if you want to stay, you can stay. This is your own choice. If something happens, don't blame others."

While speaking, he trotted back.

Jiang Ling looked at the dilapidated gate of [Zhujiazhuang] without any worries.

'So what if it's weird?No matter how weird it is, can it be weirder than Lanruo Temple? '

He can stay safely for one night in Lanruo Temple, so it must be no problem here.

Going up the stairs and stepping over the courtyard gate, Zhujiazhuang is indeed not small.As soon as you enter, you can see that there are sixteen double-row bedrooms in the front yard.

Looking back from the main hall, you can see the length of the three entrances.

There were dead leaves all over the courtyard, and the dust was very thick, as if no one had been here for a long time.

'I don't know what's weird about this place, so that such a big and nice house was abandoned like this! '

Just as he was looking at the surrounding layout, the yellow dog suddenly became vigilant, its tail, which was wagging before, was caught under its legs in an instant, and its mouth was still whining from time to time.

"Have you discovered anything?" Jiang Ling asked it unexpectedly.

He entered the door until now, but he didn't find anything wrong.

And the yellow dog's ability to react drastically in such an instant also shows that some of the perception of the dog is indeed much better than that of humans.

"Wang Wang~"

The yellow dog suddenly barked twice in the direction of the second entrance hall.

Jiang Ling glanced up at the sky, the sky was blue and the sun was bright, everything was coming, so why be afraid?
Then he walked into the second hall,
Footsteps on the dust can burn a row of clear footprints.

As soon as he entered it, a shaking shadow suddenly appeared in the corner, and he couldn't help but startle him.

When he looked closely, he saw that the figure was just a person.

He was rubbing sawdust in his hand and inlaid it on a small wooden stick. Judging from the technique, he was making sandalwood.

This person's age also looks very young, about [-] years old.

Wearing a gray gown, with a square scarf on his head to tie his hair, judging from his appearance, he should also be a scholar.

When Jiangling looked at him, he also looked at each other in this direction, speechless.

"Excuse me……"

"go out!"

Jiang Ling just opened his mouth to say hello, but he only blurted out two words, and he was ordered to leave the guest.

'This man is very rude. '

Seeing that he was not easy to get along with, Jiang Ling didn't say much, turned around and went back to the front yard.

After looking around at the wing rooms on both sides, I found a room with a slightly complete window, opened the door, and entered. There were beds, tables and chairs.

There is well water available in the courtyard, just a little tidying up, no matter what, it is more than a firewood house. '

He started to move the tables and chairs outside, and the yellow dog also helped to grab some small pieces of wood from the room.

After one person and one dog worked together for an hour, the room was tidied up.

When night fell, he took the yellow dog out and bought some food.

Because there is not much money, I can only buy a few white buns and deal with them at will.

After eating and returning to his residence, Jiang Ling saw that strange scholar standing in front of the room he was cleaning before entering the courtyard.

He called out to him.

The scholar turned his head and saw that it was him, so he asked, "Do you want to live here?"

"Yes."

"Who let you live in?" The scholar frowned, his tone unkind.

"Could it be that I can't live?"

"This is not something you can live in." The scholar didn't say much, just waved his hand and turned to leave.

"Just live, so what?"

Jiang Ling pushed open the door, but didn't pay much attention.

The scholar walked away a few steps, and suddenly said: "If you don't leave, don't regret it. If someone asks you who you are at night, you must answer "Hurry up". If you ask other questions, you don't want to Answer. Don't open the door either. It's up to you to listen or not to listen, so you can do it yourself."

Jiang Ling laughed,

Hearing what he meant, could there be a ward round tonight?

The so-called "runners" are people who run merchants, also known as "errand runners". Merchants' homes usually support such people.

Why do you answer this way?
Entering the room and laying down on the chair, Jiang Ling closed his eyes and took a nap, lying down, unconsciously fell asleep.

When the night was getting dark, the cool wind suddenly picked up outside the house, blowing Zhujiazhuang everywhere.

The swaying leaves, the cool wind pouring in from the rotten windows, the two phases are intertwined, making it extremely noisy.

I don't know when it was, but half asleep and half awake, Jiang Ling heard a dog barking.

He knocked on the table to signal Da Huang not to bark.

The yellow dog is indeed very human, and when he shouted, he immediately shut up.

However, although it didn't bark, it stood tensely in the room, with its tail tucked between its hind legs, and looked at the broken window without blinking.

dong dong! !
Suddenly, someone really knocked on the door.

It was his door that knocked.

Jiang Ling was in a deep sleep, thought it was the scholar, so he didn't want to pay attention.ignore it.

But the man knocked a few more times, and said something - "Which one lives in it?"

Her voice is hoarse and old, like a grandma who is over sixty years old.

Jiang Ling heard that it wasn't a scholar knocking on the door, so he slightly opened his eyes, and wanted to open the door to say hello.But I also remembered the scholar's reminder.

Xindao: Are there many people living here?

In the middle of the night with the door?

Then he answered casually: "Hurry up."

The person outside the door paused for a while, then asked again: "It's a rush, have you seen my grandson?"

(End of this chapter)