Copper Coins

Anyone who suddenly sees their own handwriting in a completely unfamiliar place will be extremely surprised.If you are timid, you may even have a creepy feeling.In short, at that moment, there will never be any joy.

It would be fine if it was in some ordinary place, but now this bamboo building is full of mystique, it doesn't even look like a good place, after all, few people would properly arrange their residence in such a poisonous fog-shrouded place.

It is not very comfortable to find traces of myself here.

Fortunately, this book is not a weird thing, it is just a travelogue handwritten by an unknown person.And the original text marked in this comment is also very simple, with a few sentences written that a traveler accidentally entered a corpse shop in Langzhou to hide from the night rain, and happened to meet a corpse chaser.

The annotation is even simpler, with only four words: Xiashan, Langzhou.

It is not so much an annotation as it is marking some words.

Xuan Min frowned deeply, staring at the four-character annotation for a long time, until Xue Xian called out to him, he regained his senses.

"Bald donkey? Why are you standing there for a long time? Is there anything written in that book?" Xue Xian was commanding Shitou Zhang and Lu Nianqi, while still paying attention to Xuan Min's actions. After standing there with a book for a long time, I couldn't help asking.

From Xue Xian's angle, he could only see his side face. The oil lamp was not bright, and it cast a deep shadow under Xuan Min's browbones, outlining the heroic outline between the eye sockets and the bridge of the nose, but it also blurred his expression. It is extraordinarily solemn, as if seeing a ghost.

This look is rare for Xuan Min, it would be a shame not to call him over to take a good look.As Xue Xian thought about it, he couldn't stop calling Xuan Min twice.

Seeing that Xuan Min's gaze stayed on the page, he shook his head without raising his head: "It's nothing."

This was a subconscious refusal, but when Xuan Min raised his head and glanced this way, he paused when he raised his hand to draw another book, and finally withdrew his hand and walked towards the table.

To be honest, Xuan Min has a unique aura, especially when he does something alone without saying a word.It seems that no matter how many people around him come and go, they have nothing to do with him in the past, and there is a sense of alienation and loneliness like a country of its own.But that loneliness is not the kind of hopeful and melancholy, but remote and cold.

It seems that such a monk is more suitable to stand alone in the snow-fallen empty ancient Zen temple, behind him is a pagoda made of copper and ebony, and in front of him is the thick gate of the Zen temple.

The living beings outside the door are covered with red dust, and the eminent monks inside the door are covered in clouds and snow.

Therefore, when Xuan Min shook his head, Xue Xian had a sense of "as expected", but he still felt somewhat uncomfortable.And when Xuan Min looked up and saw him and changed his mind and walked over, it was as if the closed temple gate was suddenly opened from the inside.

Such a simple process somehow pleased Xue Xian.

It didn't take long for his good mood to be destroyed——

Xuan Min handed the book in his hand, and pointed to the opened page.

Xue Xian naturally saw the marked paragraph and the comment next to it, but he understood it twice, but he didn't see anything worth pondering further: "Is there something wrong with this comment?"

Xuan Min: "Yes."

"What's the problem?" Xue Xian was puzzled.

Unexpectedly, Xuan Min added a sentence indifferently: "Look at the handwriting, I wrote it."

Xue Xian: "..."

Xue Xian's heart skipped a beat at first, but then it became very complicated.On the one hand, Xuan Min's undisguised attitude made him very useful, but on the other hand...how could there be something related to Xuan Min here for no reason?

The person he was chasing had a lot to do with the person who was pulling his muscles. The world is so big, but there are so many places to hide, but the person chose such a place full of mist and smog, and in this kind of room, mysterious things appeared. Traces of compassion...

For a moment, Xue Xian stared at the handwriting on the page, but his mind was blank. His heart seemed to have suddenly fallen into a cold river, causing a sudden chill all over his body.

But after a moment of stiffness, he remembered the figure behind the golden thread again, that person had hair, and he had confirmed with Xuan Min that he had shaved his hair to become a monk since he was a child.Therefore, the person pulling his muscles must not be Xuan Min.

That's it.

Xue Xian breathed out again calmly, and the words on the page became clear again.

"What's the matter with what you wrote, come and show me your handwriting?" Xue Xian snorted, and flipped through two more pages of the book.Adding this sentence is purely to cover up the suspicion of the moment just now.Although he had already snuffed it out by himself at the first appearance, but suspicion is easy to hurt after all.Regardless of trivial matters, at least in this kind of matter, Xue Xian didn't want Xuan Min to create gaps.

He slapped the book in front of Xuan Min, and with the other hand made a big gap, and said, "Compared to mine, it's not as good as this."

Xuan Min: "..."

Shitou Zhang, who was searching the corner of the wall, happened to hear these two sentences, and said to himself: It's amazing that there are such shameless people in the world.

What's more shameless is that the two of them were sneaking around with real information, and let him, a middle-aged and elderly man who was barely considered old, and the other half-blindly search for clues in the house. Who the hell are you going to reason with?

Since Xuan Min showed Xue Xian the book without concealment, he was naturally prepared.But he never thought that Xue Xian would react like this.

There was no disturbance in his calm eyes, but he just stared at Xue Xian for a long time.

Xue Xian glanced at him, and sneered, "What can you deduce based on just one book? Call out and see if this room agrees."

Xuan Min: "..."

Seeing that someone's words became more and more outrageous, Xuan Min turned his eyes away and didn't intend to pay any more attention.He was about to turn around and go to the bookcase to pick out a few more books to search, but the house didn't answer, but something else did.

He heard a mess of beating sounds coming from the outside, from far to near, and quickly rushed into the room.

Everyone was startled, Xue Xian almost subconsciously wanted to fan the thing out, but when he took a closer look, he found that it was a pitch-black bird.

This room occupied two floors, so the ceiling seemed very high, even if a bird jumped in, it would not be able to hit everyone for a while.

"Is this the one from the forest before?" When Shi Zhang saw the black bird, he remembered the one that almost led them away.

Xue Xian's eyesight was extraordinary, and while the bird was flying, he saw its appearance clearly with the oil lamp, nodded and said, "Yes, it is indeed that one, why did it come in?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the actions of the black bird startled the people in the room again.

I saw it hovering twice against the high roof, as if looking for someone.Soon it found its target, swooped down and flapped its wings to slow down, finally stopped on Xuan Min's shoulder, rubbed Xuan Min's face with its thin down feathered face, "Wow" yelled.

Shi Zhang was dumbfounded.

Lu Nianqi said abruptly, "Isn't that what crows call..."

"..." Xue Xian was probably the most speechless one.

What is slapping in the face, that's it.As soon as he said, "Call out to see if there is an answer", the silly bird came to answer.Just answer, the voice is still so indescribable, just call it, and you have to rub the face of the bald donkey, and when it rushed over and landed on the shoulder of the bald donkey, it even slapped Xue Xian's hair on the mouth, really...

What the hell!

Xuan Min was also very surprised by the black bird's behavior, but when the black bird landed on his shoulders neatly, his feet that were about to step towards the bookcase stopped in place.

He knew the answer even without turning the pages of the book—most birds are sensitive by nature, and no bird would land on the shoulder of a stranger in such a majestic manner, and even rub against his face.

"What, what's going on here?" Shitou Zhang was already at a loss, unable to understand the development of the situation.

Xue Xian glanced at the silly bird expressionlessly, and snorted coldly: "Need to say? Obviously, this bird recognizes this bald donkey."

"So..." Shitou Zhang murmured.

"So this room probably belongs to a monk." Lu Nianqi added calmly.

Lu Nianqi and the others didn't see the book Xuan Min was holding. If they had, they wouldn't even add the words "probably".

"This is your house." Xue Xian looked into Xuan Min's eyes and said.

Xuan Min glanced at the black bird on his shoulder, and had to say that he never liked people or things getting too close, but when the black bird came up to rub against him, he felt a sense of familiarity as if it had passed away, and he didn't feel disgusted. , so he also came to a conclusion in his heart: I am afraid that this house really belongs to him.

Xue Xian stared into Xuan Min's eyes, and Xuan Min raised his eyes to look over, and said "um" without hiding his eyes, but after answering, he never moved his eyes away, but still looked at Xue Xian quietly. idle.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but that gaze had a deep feeling against the shadow of the lights in the room, which even made Xue Xian feel that Xuan Min cared a little about his reaction...

Xue Xian subconsciously looked away, and said stiffly, "This is really a stupid bird."

The black bird spread its wings and screamed, and was about to peck him with its probe.

"You can still understand people's language, it seems that you are really good." Xue Xian said dissatisfiedly, "You bark at this bald donkey like a good boy, why do you bark so loudly at me? Huh? I think You probably don't want your slick hair anymore!"

This scoundrel has lived for hundreds of years, and he still likes to see like a bird, which is also a talent.Seeing him saying this, he really raised his hand to pluck the bald black bird's tail hair.

The black bird couldn't beat him, so it screamed a few times, flapped its wings and switched to Xuan Min's other shoulder.In this way, there is no gap between the two.

Xue Xian closed his smile, glanced at Xuan Min, and said calmly: "The house belongs to you, I'm sure you are not the one who is pulling my muscles. But there may be a relationship between you and that person. I hope You are enemies, not ... a gang."

When Xue Xian said this, his face was expressionless, and Xuan Min was also extremely serious.So much so that the stone in the corner dared not breathe, and even Lu Nianqi, who had always been indifferent to others, felt that the atmosphere was uncomfortable.

Xue Xian stared at Xuan Min's eyes, not missing any trace of emotion in his eyes. If he read correctly, Xuan Min's expression had a fleeting change when he said the last sentence.

The change is small and difficult to detect, and it is impossible to see what it means.But at least... not indifferent.

It's just that they have been together for so long, if Xuan Min remains unmoved and unruffled by the matter of being his enemy, then they can almost part ways on the spot.

Xue Xian felt a little inexplicable - he couldn't make a mistake, but there seemed to be something missing.

But right now is not the time to dig deep, he put away his half-true and half-fake indifference expression, resumed his usual lazy look, raised his chin at the room, "Look at you, everyone is a filthy one begging to be beaten. Face, I guess it is impossible to be with anyone in this life, or the other party will be pissed off by you. Don't think about it, take a look at the cracks in the corner, since this house belongs to you, your intuition should be better than others .Speak! Where is the mystery!"

As the ancestor said, he slapped the table in a fake way, pretending to be the interrogating jailer.

Xuan Min: "..."

The magical skill of turning someone's face faster than turning a book is not for ordinary people, even Xuan Min is helpless.

He was silent for a moment, and was about to speak when he saw the black bird that had become a spirit rubbed against his face again, then yelled harshly at Xue Xian, and then flew to a corner of the roof, flapping its wings He slapped a protruding bamboo knot there.

Hearing the sound of "hum" suddenly sounded, the ground they stepped on shook and sank straight down.

Is there a hole in this house? !

Xue Xian's hearing was extraordinary, they had just sank to the bottom, when the sound of the machine stopped, he heard a very faint sound of breathing from a certain corner in the distance.