Why is my master always lost and swollen? !

Ah Lin lived and worked in a large bookstore. He helped with housework on weekdays. When the store was short of manpower, he would receive customers and sell books. Sometimes he would go to the engraver to order templates for engraving and printing.

In Ah Lin's opinion, woodblock printing should only be used for things like books.That is, the practice of carving articles and pictures on wooden boards, brushing them with ink, and then reprinting them on paper.

In fact, there is also a letterpress printing method, but Ah Lin doesn't like it.It is a printing method that burns and casts movable type in advance, and then arranges them to form a template.

Simply ridiculous!

There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, and there are many common characters and variant characters. If they are carved and cast one by one, then there will be an innumerable pile?Besides, all the text has become a font style, which is too uninteresting.As for wood crafts, each craftsman's carving has its own unique charm. Whether it is Chinese characters or illustrations, it will blend in harmony and form a seamless whole on paper.

If you want to print a book, you must go to woodblock printing!

Ah Lin was flipping through Mr. Baohe's manuscript, thinking about the printing process in his mind, when he suddenly heard the master call from the room: "Ah Lin, come here."

"Come on!"

In this way, Ah Lin met Mr. Baohe, the author of "The Book of Travel".That year, he was 20 years old.He was 30 years old when he was caught in the smoke of the fire and died.So what I'm talking about here is ten years ago.

"Although it was ordered by the teacher, thank you very much."

Walking on the mountain road, Mr. Baohe sighed.

During this trip, Ah Lin played a role similar to that of an attendant, mainly helping to carry luggage.Although his figure is not very strong, compared to Mr. Baohe, he still looks a bit strong.The arms with exposed sleeves are not as delicate as Mr. Baohe's.

"What's the matter, sir, I'm too happy to travel with a writer like him." Ah Lin said with a smile, "Besides, I really hope to soak in the hot spring."

"I hope I don't get lost." Mr. Baohe muttered in a low voice.

Ah Lin glanced at Mr. Baohe who was walking in front.I saw him walking lightly, as if he didn't feel tired at all, the ends of his bundled hair were braided, swinging back and forth.

"If Mr. is here, even if you get lost, you will definitely reach your final destination." Ah Lin didn't know where he got his self-confidence.

On the fifth day, in the afternoon, the two of them lost their way.Going around and around, I can't always get around the same place.

"Sir, we must have encountered ghosts hitting the wall, right?" Ah Lin felt a little headache when he thought of the strange stories that were widely circulated in the market.

"You will inevitably encounter some strange things when you go out, just get used to it." Mr. Baohe comforted, "Take it as a collection of strange stories."

"Do you like strange stories, sir?" Ah Lin asked curiously.

"It's not like I like it, but when I write a book, it will inevitably involve this aspect of content." Mr. Baohe thought for a while and replied, "However, if there is a chance, I always want to play Hundred Stories."

"Hundred Monographs?" Ah Lin was the first to hear this word.

"Hundred Monogatari is a small game in Japan. Light a hundred candles and blow out a candle after telling a story. It is said that when all the candles are extinguished, ghosts will come." Mr. Baohe explained.

"It sounds creepy." Ah Lin couldn't help shivering.

Mr. Baohe smiled and said nothing.

It may be that the chat made people relax involuntarily. During the conversation, the two unknowingly walked out of the battle array just now and came to a village.

The local villagers are very warm and hospitable. When strangers come, they take the initiative to entertain them with food and arrange accommodation for them.

"By the way, have you heard any strange stories before?" Mr. Baohe asked while tidying up the bedding.

"Ghost stories... When I was young, my mother was afraid that I would go out and run around, so she told some stories about ghosts and monsters to scare me. However, after my mother passed away, no one told me ghost stories anymore. Mr. What strange talk?"

"I haven't heard many strange stories, but I've been rumored to be strange stories recently."

"Mr.'s experience is indeed bizarre."

Ah Lin thought about the rumors about Mr. Baohe, and smiled.

"To be honest, those who spread rumors about me don't know what they think." Mr. Baohe buried his face in the quilt, and said in a muffled voice, "It's obviously that kind of orthodox travel journal."

As soon as Ah Lin turned his head and saw Mr. Baohe's childish behavior, he laughed and said, "Sir, why bother with those people, just do what you want."

"I know too... It's just that I can't help asking other people's opinions every time." Mr. Baohe sighed and said, "Stop talking, go to sleep, we have to hurry tomorrow morning."

"Okay." The young man responded, went to bed and turned off the lights to go to bed.

Silent all night.

The next morning, after waking up, Ah Lin went for a walk in the village.It is the most beautiful season of rice, and the fresh and tender rice leaves are endless, swaying with the wind, which is the ordinary rural scenery that can be seen everywhere.

Ah Lin caressed the rows of rice leaves that looked like sword blades, his palms were itchy.

Looking at the cabbage butterflies dancing in the field, Ah Lin recalled his hometown.

As a child, he lived in the countryside with his family.He still remembers that there was a field of flowers behind the house, and there were always butterflies flying around.Sometimes they fly into the house, Ah Lin will chase and play.It sounds like it was the morning of the disaster.

After the disaster happened, Ah Lin became an orphan with no relatives, no reason, and no one to take him in. Therefore, under the introduction of his fellow villagers, he came to a bookstore in the city to help.If it weren't for this job, Ah Lin would have been reduced to a beggar long ago.Therefore, even though the work is very trivial and hard, he never gets bored, and does everything arranged by the boss well.

After taking a walk, Ah Lin returned to the place where he stayed, and went to the village chief's house for breakfast with Mr. Baohe.Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he saw someone rushing out of the house in a panic. After asking, he learned that a certain grandson of the village chief had a strange illness.

Mr. Baohe and Ah Lin were mixed among a group of villagers and stood in front of a certain house.Everyone was looking around, peering in through the wide open door.

I saw a young boy lying in the room with his eyes closed, foaming at the mouth, and his body twitching constantly.There is no doctor in the village, and people can only watch the boy being tortured by illness and helpless.The boy's family stood beside him and kept wiping away tears.

Above the heads of the crowd of onlookers, a small white butterfly fluttered up and down, flew into the dark room, did not land anywhere, and was still floating in the air with flickering wings.None of the villagers paid attention to this situation, and it seemed that no one cared about it.Only Ah Lin's eyes followed it, remembering the morning when the disaster happened.

My father seems to have this disease too!

Ah Lin suddenly remembered that at the beginning, because his father often fell ill, everyone in the family carried medicine with them in case of emergencies.

He returned to the place where he stayed, took out a small purse from his bag, and ran back again.

"This, please use it, it should be effective."

Ah Lin handed the purse to the village chief.

To be honest, it takes courage to give away the contents of this purse.This is a relic left to him by his deceased family members.

The village head looked into his purse, took out a small pill, and put it in his palm full of vicissitudes.

Although this is the last precious grain, Ah Lin feels that it should be used at this moment.

The village chief put the pills into his grandson's mouth and watered him down.

"Sir, do you think that medicine still works after so long?"

They were supposed to leave this morning because they were worried about the boy's condition, so they decided to stay in the village for an extra night.

"Relax, you have already helped if you can. Next, it depends on the child's fortune."

After finishing speaking, the two fell into a long silence.

The moon is white, shining on the pine trees in the courtyard, and the insects chirp quietly...

It was probably because of the pill that it took effect. Before the two of them got up early the next morning, a villager came to report that the child's illness had recovered.Although he still couldn't get up and get out of bed, his mind was clear, and he knew to open his eyes to see people when his name was called.

"Great!" Ah Lin exclaimed in surprise, so he hurriedly dressed and walked towards the village chief's house.

Before entering the house, he suddenly felt movement behind him. Ah Lin turned his head and saw that the village head was standing there.

Ah Lin was about to ask the village chief what's the matter, but he bent his legs and knelt on the ground to give Ah Lin a big gift.

"Village chief, you can't do this!" Ah Lin was terrified and hurriedly helped the village chief up.

"Please take this stone." The village chief took out a folded handkerchief from his clothes and said.

He spread out the veil, which was wrapped with a black stone the size of a little finger. The color was as deep as if the entire night had been condensed in one place.

"This stone has been kept by my side for more than 500 years."

"what?"

"Fifty-eight years."

The village head looked solemn.

"This stone, you should take it with you anytime, anywhere, and never leave your body for a moment. In this way, one day you will understand what I am talking about."

What a beautiful ink color!Ah Lin couldn't help but sigh.Even under the sunlight, it still presents a very pure black, which almost sucks one's soul into it.

"I also got this stone from a certain traveler who passed by. Just as you did today, as a reward for saving a life. You must carry it for the rest of your life until the moment of death. However, there is one thing You have to be careful, you must not seek death by yourself. Otherwise, you will be wiped out."

The village head took out the small purse that originally contained the pills, put the stones in it, and handed it to Ah Lin, making him hold it tightly in his fist.

It seems that this stone must be priceless.

Ah Lin wanted to refuse at first, but the village head insisted on accepting him no matter what.Under his persuasion, Ah Lin finally accepted.

Before leaving, Mr. Baohe saluted the village head for accommodation and meals; Ah Lin thanked him for the gift of stones.

The village chief only said one sentence: "Tie a rope to the purse, and hang it around your neck properly."

After setting off, every villager I met along the way bowed their heads to A Lin.

After a while, the two of them left the village, and the fields gradually disappeared, leaving only barren land everywhere.

Mr. Baohe took the lead and walked in front, and Ah Lin followed behind him.

Tired from walking, Ah Lin took out the black stone given to him by the village head when he was resting under the shade of a tree.Even in the daytime, the color is still fascinating-the thick black is mixed with a little bit of starlight. If you look carefully and count the string of starlight, you will find that there are exactly seven silver stars neatly arranged into the Big Dipper. shape.

"What is that thing?" Mr. Baohe leaned over and asked.

"The village head gave it to me as a gift for the pill."

Ah Lin picked up the stone with his fingertips and showed it to Mr. Baohe.

"Isn't this the 'Seven Star Stone'?"

"Seven Star Stone?"

"Yes, very rare. You'd better keep it carefully."

After that, the two didn't get lost again, and they arrived at the destination hot spring smoothly.Although it was the first time for Ah Lin to soak in the hot springs, he felt extremely novel, but fortunately he did not forget his work, and reported his feelings about the hot springs to Mr. Baohe, and asked him to write them in his diary.

They got lost about three more times on the way back, but nothing particularly bad.

Back in the city, when the trip was over, and when he said goodbye to Mr. Baohe, Ah Lin was quite sad.Fortunately, both of them live in the same city, and it's not that they will never see each other again in this life.

After a while, Mr. Baohe wrote down his travel gains into a folded book and printed it smoothly. Ah Lin, who works in a bookstore, put his book on the shelf in person.

It's a pity that although Ah Lin had already had a deep-rooted affection for Mr. Baohe when they met for the first time, he never revealed his feelings to him.He always felt that he was not good enough for Mr. Writer.

Later, when Ah Lin was 23 years old, he married a girl of the same family through a matchmaker through his master, and had three children. They lived a life full of hard work but also deeply happy-going out to work during the day and going home at night to help Watching his wife comfort the crying baby, staring at the baby's face until they fell asleep peacefully; there were times when he lost his temper and threw his job, and there were times when his wife was furious and they both ignored each other when they got angry.

One time, while enjoying the cool in the yard, the youngest child looked curiously at the purse hanging around his neck.He went to the seven-star stone from it, and told the children the memories of his previous travels.

Such dull and happy days continued until Ah Lin was 30 years old.In the autumn of that year, a man in a nearby family accidentally used a fire while smoking, and accidentally caused a fire.The wooden house is not only flammable, but also the fire spreads very fast. In an instant, A Lin's house was engulfed in flames.The young children failed to escape in time, Ah Lin turned back and rushed back to the sea of ​​fire to rescue him, but he never came out again.

He fell into a coma due to excessive smoke inhalation, and his clothes caught fire, and he was buried in the flames.

When consciousness regained consciousness, Ah Lin was already curled up in a small space.He felt that he had probably reached the other side of the underworld, from the tip of his toes to the top of his head, he was surrounded by warm liquid, comfortable and peaceful, as if his body was about to melt.Occasionally, the hands and feet become entangled with a rope-like object.

It was not until later that Ah Lin realized that it was the umbilical cord.And the place he regards as the other side of the underworld is inside his mother's womb.

One day, it became extremely cramped and aggrieved, which made him very uncomfortable.At this moment, the midwife pulled him out of his mother's body with both hands.

"Wow!" With a cry, Ah Lin felt the breath of life again.

At first, he thought that he died once and was reincarnated as another person.However, looking down at a certain face of his own, it was the mother in his memory; when he was held in her arms for a walk, the scene he saw seemed familiar.

A Lin did not reincarnate as a new person, he was still named A Lin.He was still him, reincarnated into the world as himself.

Because of the memory of his previous life, Ah Lin, who was a baby, was able to understand the conversations of the adults around him when he was born about a month ago.He learned from people's conversations that he was born with a black stone in his hand.The so-called stone must be the Seven Star Stone.

In his previous life, Ah Lin had never heard that he was holding a black stone in his hand when he was born.So, what happened to me, could it all be caused by this stone?

Ah Lin was also wearing it when he died in the fire.Just as the village head told him, Shishi never left his side until his death.The village chief once said: "As long as you do this, one day you will understand what I am talking about."

Ah Lin's mother put the stone that came out of his mother's womb when he was born into a small purse and hung it around his neck.He often took out the stone and played with it in his hands, thinking that this stone must be the one given to him by the village head, no matter the shape, size or color, it was exactly the same.Sometimes he thought, if something like "Ye" could turn into an animal, then its eyes would probably be like this.

Seeing that the relatives who passed away many years ago and thought they would never see them are still alive and walking in front of his eyes, Ah Lin was surprised at first, but as time went by, he gradually got used to it.Sometimes he even felt that his first life was just a dream, and that none of it actually happened.

Even so, as long as he remembered his wife and children in his previous life, he still felt very disappointed.I don't know what happened to them... If they are still alive, maybe one day we can still meet again.

As the days passed, Lin gradually grew into a boy, and a new life was added to the family.

"Ninny, Zaizai, look, this is my younger sister." While nursing the baby in her arms, Ah Lin's mother turned her body slightly to let the other children come to meet the new members of the family.

Ah Lin looked curiously at the younger sister who was sleeping in his mother's arms. To be honest, he didn't have a deep impression of his younger sister.In the memory of the previous life, the younger sister seemed to be always sick and died before she grew up.

"Mother, when can my sister play with me?" Ah Lin asked innocently.He made up his mind that even if he couldn't change the little sister's fate, he must let her live happily for the rest of her life.

"My sister is still young, wait a little longer, when you are as big as my sister, my sister will be able to play with you." Mother pointed his forehead with her finger and said with a smile.

While waiting for his younger sister to grow up, one day, Ah Lin followed his father to the town's market to buy some daily necessities, and passed a book rental booth along the way.He couldn't help but peeked out from the gaps in the crowd. The book renter saw that he was young, so he teased and said, "Little guy, can you read too?"

"Of course!" Ah Lin replied confidently.

However, the book renter completely took his words as a child's joke, and told him "don't break the book", and ignored him.

Holding the woodblock printed book that he hadn't touched for a long time, Ah Lin felt happy. When he picked up the books on the straw mat and flipped through them one by one, he found a folded book called "Book of Lvzhong", the author was Baohe gentlemen.

Ah Lin almost shed tears on the spot for a book he was so familiar with.

That person also lives somewhere in this world...

"Zaizai, why are your eyes red? Someone bullied you?"

As soon as Ah Lin's father turned around, he happened to see Ah Lin standing there with red eye circles, looking like he was crying but not crying.

Ah Lin tried hard to suppress his inner emotions and shook his head.

"Your child loves to read books, if you send him to the school, he will be honored in the future." The book renter saw Ah Lin's elders coming, and said with a smile, "It just so happens that I have books for enlightenment here. If you If you want, I will sell you cheap."

"Forget it." Ah Lin's father shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, "How can he know any words as a child, he probably can't even write his own name well, just reading the pictures on the book is fun. And, even if you want to read , let’s wait until we are older.”

"It's not too young. Children from rich families can recite poems and compose correctly at this age. Although people like us are not as good as them, it is still possible for children to recognize words."

Ah Lin's father hesitated, and asked Ah Lin, "A Lin, to be honest, do you want to read and write?"

Ah Lin shook his head, he was already literate, so why bother to waste this unjust money?

The book renter was in a hurry now, and said, "Your child just rummaged through the books at my place and ruined all the books. If you don't express it, you won't be able to justify it!"

"The child is still young, why are you competing with him!"

"Is it possible for a child to run amok at a young age? I think it's because parents didn't teach them well."

"You! Then what do you say?"

"Look, I'm not such an unreasonable person. Since the child likes books, you can buy him a few. Even if he doesn't need it now, he will be able to use it sooner or later."

Ah Lin felt very guilty for causing such trouble to his father for no reason, but if he had to choose one of these books...

"Father, can I have this one?" Ah Lin pointed to the "Book of Luzhong" and whispered.

"Little guy, you have a good eye. This is the first edition of the first printing. Except here, you can't buy it anywhere else..."

After several rounds of bargaining, the father and son still bought the book.To be honest, Ah Lin's father felt it was worthless to spend so much money on a few pages of paper, but he could only comfort himself when he saw his Zaizai holding the book in his arms.

Since then, besides the mysterious seven-star stone, Ah Lin has carried one more thing with him, which is the "Book of Luzhong" written by Mr. Baohe.Whenever he has a little free time, Ah Lin will look through the book to see where Mr. Baohe has gone and what he has done.After a long time, Ah Lin even felt that he was really by Mr. Baohe's side all the time.

"Zaizai, stop reading. Your father should be back, take your sister to the entrance of the village to meet him." Ah Lin's mother shouted towards the courtyard while cooking in the kitchen.

"Understood." Ah Lin closed the book and stood up, "Little sister—! Follow me to the entrance of the village to pick up dad—!"

"Come on."

A three or four-year-old girl jumped out of the house.

"Hurry up and put on your coat. If you get sick later, mother will miss me again." Although Ah Lin couldn't remember when the younger sister went there in her previous life, it's always good to be careful.

"Aren't you wearing a coat too? I don't wear it, it's too hot." The little girl seemed to be deliberately confronting Ah Lin, and refused to go back to the house to put on the coat no matter what.So, the two quarreled in the yard.

"The two of you are about to knock off the roof, what's wrong? You're so noisy, what do you look like!" Ah Lin's mother heard that the two children were getting more and more noisy in the yard, so she decided to go out and take care of it.

"Mother, my little sister doesn't want to wear a coat."

"Hot with a coat on!"

"Forget it, just for a while, it's fine if she doesn't want to wear it, anyway, she will suffer herself when she gets sick." Ah Lin's mother was swollen from the two of them arguing, "Hurry up and go to the village to find your father. And , There are a few children in the village who have smallpox, you two go around."

"Know-know-got-" Even if he lived a new life, Ah Lin was still very afraid of his mother's thoughts, so he rushed out of the courtyard gate with his little sister in three steps at a time.

"Brother, why hasn't dad arrived yet?" the little girl asked while scratching the back of her hand with her nails.

"Hurry up, if you feel cold, go home." Ah Lin replied, completely oblivious to her little sister's little movements.

"It's not cold...it's just a little boring."

"Are you bored? Then... let me teach you how to sing."

As he spoke, Ah Lin hummed an unknown song.

"It's really nice, but why is there no lyrics?"

"I forgot."

"Really, if you want to teach others, you don't have to figure it out first."

"Are you going to learn or not?"

"study!"

Ah Lin never imagined that this would be the last conversation between himself and his sister.That night, the little girl suddenly developed a high fever. At first everyone thought she had caught a cold and didn't pay much attention to it, but they didn't expect it to be smallpox.But in just a few days, the originally lively and lovely little girl turned into a cold corpse.

If I had been more careful back then, my little sister might not have died.Ah Lin has always felt guilty about this.

However, even though everyone feels very sad about the death of the little sister in their hearts, life must go on.Funerals are a big expense, and everyone has to work harder to make up for the shortfall.

Ah Lin's father had learned some crafts when he was young. In order to subsidize the family, he would often go to the bricklayer's house next door to help, firing roof tiles in the kiln, and then selling them to nearby towns.Coincidentally during this period of time, God does not reward food, A Lin's family made a calculation, and the whole family set out to work as bricklayers.

The pill that saved the life of the village chief’s grandson in his previous life was given by Ah Lin’s father to a traveler he met on the way to load the roof tiles to the city. It is said that it was a gift from Ah Lin’s father for helping guide the way .

When Ah Lin was seven years old, one day his father and mother were going to work at the bricklayer's house, and Ah Lin was asked to stay and look after the house.Not long after the two went out, a colorful butterfly flew into the house.At first, Ah Lin stared blankly at the flying butterfly, thinking: so beautiful!But then he remembered something again, ran out of the house, and caught up with his father at the border with the neighboring village.

Under Ah Lin's desperate efforts to stop them, the father and mother gave up working at the bricklayer's house.The next day, there was news that the bricklayer's shed had collapsed.It is said that the reason is that the pillars of the house are rotten and fragile and cannot be supported.The tiles piled up in the house were also smashed to pieces.

"If Zaizai hadn't called us to stop us, we might have been working inside when the house collapsed!"

Father laughed after he finished speaking, but Ah Lin was so frightened that he was speechless.

That day, my father and mother were going to smash their lives under the pile of roof tiles.The villagers felt sorry for Ah Lin who had become an orphan, so they begged a familiar bookseller to arrange for him to live in the bookstore and work as a helper at the same time.This is the original appearance of things in Ah Lin's memory.But now, Mom and Dad survived and will live on.They are by their side.What will usher in after that will be A Lin's unknown life before.

"Father, tell me a ghost story."

"With your omniscience, do you still need me to tell you a story? What's more, I don't know as many stories as your mother."

The father was pulling the cart, and the two of them were on their way to transport the tiles into the city.

"I don't have supernatural powers."

It's just that all the experiences happened for the second time.Still, he couldn't help but get ready for the trip that didn't necessarily follow.

It takes about half a day from the village to the city.Crossing the bustling street, my father rushed to the store where he ordered the tiles.With his father's permission, Ah Lin wandered the streets alone.

He went back to the old house where he lived with his wife and children and took a look.It was a densely populated area.He looked into the house with his head, and there was a stranger's family living inside.The two eyes met, and the other party asked: "Son, are you lost?" Ah Lin shook his head.The weeds growing on the side of the road and the sky glimpsed from the gaps between the houses are all the appearances in memory.

He recalled how he quarreled with his wife after drinking; how he hugged the children in a hurry to coax them to stop crying; the raised stones on the corridors often made him almost stumble; The children just climbed up and down to play, picked dates and ate them...

When Ah Lin was 30 years old, row after row of wooden dwellings were instantly submerged under the giant palm of the flames.And he himself died in it.

Ah Lin went to the bookstore to have a look.The decoration of the store and the books on display made him feel very friendly.The master is in the room, with a familiar face and familiar clothes.In his previous life, Ah Lin spent even more time with him than with his parents.He couldn't help calling out.

"long time no see!"

The master looked at Ah Lin in surprise.

"Where have we met before?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Speaking of this, Ah Lin suddenly remembered: If he can ask his master to let him work in the shop, he might meet Mr. Baohe one day.If there is a chance to travel together again, maybe they can go back to the village chief who gave him the Seven Star Stone.Ah Lin became more and more curious about the black stone hanging around his neck, wanting to know more.And the village chief back then would probably tell him something.

"Master, please accept me to work in your shop."

Ah Lin tried to beg.

At first, the master refused, saying that it was unreasonable to let a stranger work in the shop casually.

A Lin explained that he was familiar with the business of the bookstore, and dictated the process from book production to wholesale.The master was so surprised that his eyes widened.

In this way, Ah Lin got his wish and stayed in the bookstore to work.

In a blink of an eye, six years have passed.

If you want to print a book, you really have to go to woodblock printing!Ah Lin was flipping through Mr. Baohe's manuscript and was meditating, but he heard the master calling from the room: "Ah Lin, come here."

"Come on!"

Ah Lin opened the door, entered the room, and saw the person who haunted him so much.

He is still like that.

"It's the first time we met, my name is Lin." Lin's heart was beating in his chest, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

"What? It's you! It should be long time no see, right?"

Mr. Baohe's tone was casual, totally unlike meeting him for the first time.Ah Lin was startled when he heard the words, he was at a loss for words.

"Sir, do you know us, Ah Lin?"

"Yeah. Every time we met on the street, this kid just kept staring at me. I wondered if he was trying to kill me. What, so it's someone from your store?"

Mr. Baohe nodded, seemingly accepting Ah Lin.It is said that he traveled around in order to write a travel guide.Therefore, Ah Lin joined them as a companion.

"Although it was ordered by the teacher, thank you very much."

Walking on the mountain road, Mr. Baohe sighed.

"What's the matter, sir, I'm too happy to travel with a writer like him." Ah Lin said with a smile, "Besides, I really hope to soak in the hot spring."

"I hope I don't get lost." Mr. Baohe muttered in a low voice.

Ah Lin glanced at Mr. Baohe who was walking in front.I saw him walking lightly, as if he didn't feel tired at all, the ends of his bundled hair were braided, swinging back and forth.

"To be honest, I'm looking forward to getting lost."

"Is there anyone still looking forward to getting lost? This is the first time I have met. But since you said so, then I am relieved."

However, this time, the two did not get lost.

"Good luck. Ahead is the town where we plan to settle down tonight." Mr. Baohe looked quite happy.

After that, after about two weeks of journey, the two arrived at the destination hot spring.This place is relatively well-known, and there are not many tourists who come to the resort.

Ah Lin couldn't figure out how the situation could become like this.Anyway, the result is that they did not pass through the village where they got lost in the previous life.

Ah Lin was very discouraged and soaked in the hot spring in a depressed mood.The spring water is cloudy and smells like sulfur.He stretched out his legs and straightened his toes, feeling as if the fatigue of the journey had been dissolved in the spring water.Later, he will report his impressions of soaking in hot springs to Mr. Baohe, so that he can add it when writing the book.

Even though he was soaking in the hot spring, Ah Lin still had the purse around his neck, and took out the Seven Star Stone from time to time to look at it for a while.The stone that came out of his mother's womb together with him exudes a seductive black color.Maybe the village chief who gave him the stone had experienced life and death several times?And after giving him the stone, would he die forever and never be reborn as a baby?Even if he found the village back then and met the village chief, he wouldn't have the Seven Star Stone in his hand, would he?You should live your life without knowing it.Otherwise, wouldn't there be two magical Seven Star Stones in this world?

In the dense water vapor, the Seven Star Stone is so dark that it makes all the black in the world instantly become fakes.What had the village chief said about this stone?In order to recall the situation at that time, Ah Lin spent some time.

Never commit suicide.

If you commit suicide, you will be wiped out.

That's what the village head seemed to say at the time.

"By the way, what is that hanging around your neck?"

Before parting, Mr. Baohe asked.Ah Lin took out the Seven Star Stone from his purse and handed it to him.

"It was a protective stone given to me by someone a long time ago."

Mr. Baohe put his face close to the stone.

"It's the Seven Star Stone. It's very rare."

"Yes. That's what you told me, sir."

"Have it?"

"Probably... I remember wrongly."

"I must have misremembered it. It's probably something you heard in a dream, right? Day after day, after falling asleep and waking up, the things in front of you will gradually become confused, and you can't tell if it's a dream or it's real."

After Mr. Baohe said this, he left, and Ah Lin said goodbye to him with reluctance.

Different from the previous life, Ah Lin traveled with Mr. Baohe several times afterwards, and also met Liu Zian, who was unable to travel together due to illness.According to Liu Zian's words, he and Ah Lin are brothers in trouble.The two were repeatedly involved in troubles and misfortunes caused by Mr. Baohe's stray disease; they also lost their way in the mountains for several days, and finally saw the rare wonders and visions with their own eyes.He also returned to his hometown to visit his parents with the rare local products brought back from his travels.

Parents are old, and their faces are getting old day by day, and that old look is something that Ah Lin has never seen in his life before.

One time, he ran into his ex-wife on the street.The woman who had spent ten years with him and raised three children, now walked by indifferently, like a stranger who had never met before.Ah Lin only looked at her from a distance, but didn't speak to her.He thought that even if he didn't do anything, the master would come and introduce his wife to him after a while.

But in the end, Ah Lin