[Qin] Qin Shi

"Dare to ask my friend," the old man's voice came from behind him, "If you want to go to Liu's Village, which direction should this old man go?"

The boy who was squatting on the ground and carefully observed the ants moving forward heard the sound and turned his head. His dirty face could not be distinguished from the facial features. Only a pair of clear and big eyes could see clearly on the muddy face. Soft down.

"The old man went in the wrong direction," looked the old man up and down, and after noticing the gesture of the other party holding the wooden stick, a mouthful of small teeth cracked on Bai Shu's face, "This is the direction of Li Family Village. If you want to go to Liujia Village, you have to go in that direction."

While speaking, he casually pointed in a direction.

Like an interrupted reader, he can't wait to bury his head and continue to immerse himself in his own small world.

He clearly showed the attitude of not welcoming visitors to strike up a conversation with him.Unexpectedly, the old man who was over half a century old was not annoyed by such an unwelcome encounter. On the contrary, he looked at the little one with his back intently and patiently.

After a long while like this, after confirming that the other party was not pretending, but really did not intend to continue to pay attention to him, the old man leaned on the wooden stick, slowly and carefully walked two or three steps forward, and jumped out of the ground beside him. sat down on a tree root.

With such a big move, Bai Shu was not vigilant like usual, and didn't even pay the other party a little attention.He wrapped his arms around his knees, and his whole body became a small ball, squatting obediently facing the thick tree trunk, fixed in front of the big tree motionless, like a carved stone sculpture, becoming a part of the forest.

'How long do you think he can take it? Bai Shu's eyes followed the little ant that crawled out of the ant nest, crossed the small puddle, turned over the potholed soil, passed by his side, and then left his sight and went to an unknown distance .

【How do you know it's him? 】The system habitually attacks the host that he thinks he is omnipotent,【Don’t you also say that old people and children are the most inconspicuous, maybe he is just the one who was sent out to inquire about information and is completely unimportant... ..what do you say that is? 】

Suddenly being asked this question, even Bai Shu, who was as quick-witted as he was, was stunned for a moment: 'Cannon fodder?Or spies? 'He felt that both of them fit the description given by the system, but the gap was huge.

"Young people now." At this time, the old man moved several positions back and forth on the root of the tree, and finally adjusted to a comfortable posture. He maintained his movement of half leaning on the root of the tree, and let out a long sigh.

Because of this long sigh, the corners of Bai Shu's mouth curled up a little bit, like a cunning little fox squatting in front of a hunter's trap, waiting for the prey that jumped into the trap, as long as he thinks of the abundance that will follow, he will unconsciously feel happy Woolen cloth.

From the angle of the old man, Bai Shu's expression could not be seen. He tapped the wooden staff back and forth on the muddy surface in front of him, trying to attract the other party's attention, but he was embarrassed to find that the wooden staff did not make the sound he imagined. stop abruptly.

"Okay," Bai Shu stretched out his hand and poked a new hole on the only way for the army of ants to pass through. Watching the ants whose marching distance was cut off bypass the hole, the follow-up troops speeded up and caught up with the front. Marching, 'Now, you can be absolutely sure that he came for me. '

As if the voice of talking to himself was controlled just right, the old man's words reached Bai Shu's ears: "When I get older, my legs and feet are not flexible. I think when I was young, I could climb up such a small hill in a day." Hundreds."

Bai Shu tilted his head, as if he was really attracted by his words, his eyes didn't turn away, and even made the old man feel like he was the only one in the whole world, no matter what he said, he would be tolerated by the other party, no matter what he did, the other party would Feeling pampered all the time.

He also claimed to be well-informed, but at this moment he still couldn't help but feel frightened by the eyes in front of him - if it was a woman, she might be a disaster like a concubine in a few years.

As soon as this thought arose, he amused himself.What is he thinking, let alone a real man in front of him, even if it is a girl, if the king is a wise man, how can he do such things as the war of war and the princes, destroying the foundation of the ancestors.

"Little friend," suppressing the wandering thoughts in his heart, the old man clenched his fist with one hand and put it on his lips, coughing lightly, "If it's convenient, can I ask you to bring..."

"It's inconvenient, it's inconvenient to show you the way, it's inconvenient to accompany you to find the way, and it's inconvenient to chat with you." Blocking all possible questions from the other party, Bai Shu paused and added, "Except for what I have to wait for. That person — all the questions and requests, the answer was no."

As his status has risen over the years, it has been a long time since he was choked up by an old man who has not been so resolutely rejected.It was carefully brewed, and the words just delivered to the mouth were stuck there in such a nonchalant manner.

The approach is blocked, and you want to retreat, but the road is lined up behind you, and the latecomers who don't know that the road ahead is a dead end are so blocked that they can't go back.Like toppled dominoes, when the first one falls, the forward momentum becomes uncontrollable.

At this point in development, if you haven't realized the problem, you will be in vain of his position and weight all these years: "The old man is lucky to know that the little friend is waiting, but the old man?"

"The right person, of course knows what I'm waiting for. If it's not right, even guessing can't touch the corner of the answer." Tongue-twister words, matched with Bai Shu's curved eyes and raised mouth corners, brought A hint of showing off.

This is like a young child holding gold in his hand and swaggering through the market, proudly showing off to the people around him that he has priceless gold in his hands, and at the same time showing the sense of drama of dozens of strong guards behind him.So □□nakedly revealing that you have treasure in your hands, and demonstrating to outsiders like a provocation how arrogant you can do to me——

——Because of his great dissatisfaction before, under his ostentatious expression as if asking for credit, at his too young age, he turned into a love for the intelligent junior, and helpless with the other party's favor and pride.

Forget it, isn't his trip just for this child: "Then how can you tell, little friend, whether the one who came here is the one who needs you?"

This is really a good question, isn't it: "If that person doesn't even know what he needs and what he wants, why bother to search for it and come here to see me?"

Such arrogance and arrogance, placed on a child who is no more than ten years old, or a pair of strangers who have just met and don't know each other very well, really makes people laugh.

Seeing the old man's indifference, Bai Shu added nonchalantly: "What's more," he raised his head, his tone could not hide his pride, "the person I'm waiting for is definitely worth waiting for. It's not like there is no one before , there will be no successor, and he will be the only one in Qianqiu."

"There is no one before, and there will be no one to come after (Note 1)?" The old man said this sentence carefully for several times, and looked at Bai Shu's eyes, and his smile faded a little, "There really are such people Is it?"

The children hear the culture of the old man, and imitate the old man's teaching-like movement of shaking his head: "Why not? If not this year, then wait for next year; if not next year, then wait for the year after next!"

Bai Shu has a pair of bright peach blossom eyes. When he smiles, it looks like two curved crescent moons, and the water in them is like drunk: "If that person still doesn't come after ten years, it's his turn to wait for me." .”

Hearing this answer, the smile on the old man's face suddenly froze.He looked at the child in front of him, trying to find the meaning of a joke from his dumpling-like figure and his eyes shining with stars.

This kind of temptation is doomed to fail, Bai Shu is not a real child, he does not belong to this era, and his knowledge and thinking are far beyond this era, it is doomed that he is more concerned about what he wants and what he is waiting for than this age. Anyone in the era should be more aware.

After all, the system couldn't hold back his desire to complain: [Are you not going to be limited to fooling children now? 】

"Haha, kick Beihai Kindergarten, punch Nanshan Nursing Home, our goal is the stars and the sea, there is nothing wrong with it!" 'The advantage of being thick-skinned is that you know that the other party is making fun of you, but you can still accept the other party's malice without fear and make fun of yourself.

The system was shamelessly stinky by Bai Shu so bluntly, and was so angry that there was no code to send.He could only keep comforting himself, this is the host he chose with trembling hands, the one he can’t and can’t return, what can he do—but he will never admit it, and he also has expectations for it of.

In addition, under the hippie smiling face of this irresponsible host, the system can feel the seriousness of the host.

He is really serious and wants to be praised by history and become the existence that will be remembered by history for generations to come.The only reason for wanting to go to Qin is because in this war-torn era, they are the only ones who can end the war.

"Then how do you judge whether the coming person is the person you want to wait for and is worth waiting for?" Unknowingly, the old man reversed his initial attitude towards Bai Shu, from the connivance and concession of the elders to the younger generation, to Equal dialogue and inquiry, "How do you know that you also happen to be the person he is looking for?"

"Because I'm still young," Bai Shu looked at the wooden stick that the other party had unknowingly discarded, knowing that the other party had taken the bait, or that he had bitten the other party's hook, "I'm young enough, so young that I have a chance to fail, Then get up again."

The double-entendre answer is both the former's answer and the latter's analysis: "Before the building collapsed, it was only natural to be blessed by seniors?" He looked directly at the old man, "Didn't seniors also want Do you come to find juniors because you want to protect future generations?"

"Junior?" The old man looked at the kid who was climbing up by himself with the pole, and was taken aback by his sudden acquaintance.

Now that this time has come, Bai Shu naturally has no intention of continuing to fight.He showed his intelligence and ambition, and his goal was achieved: "I ran all the way to the deep mountains and old forests, and I didn't ask the boy where his elders were, but he came to ask the way. If he had no plans, he was a kidnapper." !

Seeing the little guy's words of asking for credit, the old man who was still thinking about the previous conversation laughed loudly: "Hahahahahaha, dare to say that the old man is a kidnapper, you are still the first."

"The boy is the first one, and you are also the first one, old man." Bai Shu responded with a smile, "We are each other's first ones. It's fair to cancel each other out."

The old gentleman shook his head funny, and stopped going around with the cunning little one: "How do you know that this old man is here for you?"

Looking back now, even the dullest person can find that he has been led by the nose.What's more, he himself has stood in the court for many years. Even if he despised the other party because of his age at first, he still has to admit that with such methods and abilities, he can already enter the court.

Being calculated is not such a novel experience for the old man. He has had many ups and downs in his life, and he has been calculated and used for countless times. He doesn't even take his jokes to heart.

What surprised him was such a sense of frustration and helplessness, such a feeling of being led by the nose, and the sense of humor that he reacted to afterwards, he had only experienced it with an old guy—if it wasn't for the wrong time and place, he would have been so amused by that old guy. The old guy knows all kinds of things like the back of his hand, I'm afraid he will treat this little guy as the cub that the old guy accidentally left outside.

Well, thinking about it this way, there is another reason why he must keep this little guy in his hands. As long as he thinks of being able to deal with that old thing, he can eat an extra bowl of rice today!

"Probably because I sold the goods last time, and the sale went too smoothly." Now that he has made up his mind, Bai Shu naturally won't hide anything, "That kind of model where people come to ask my ancestors how to make a living after setting up a stall is obviously It came with a picture."

The old man just wanted to break his head, but he didn't expect him to expose himself so early: "What if you just want to take care of your business because you are young, or want to maintain a long-term business relationship with you?"

"Then you have to ask me for the biography (hukou book) I am looking for. If you are more vigilant, you have to ask the surrounding towns and villages to find out what kind of person I am." However, he did not hear the slightest hint. You must know that the families he often stays in are carefully selected by him and will inform him. If one of them does not report, it may be because he has misread it, but if there is no movement from several families, it can be explained. something.

People who have never done business did not expect that there are these ways in it: "Maybe it is because you are young and want to be greedy for your goods, or because you are smart and want to find a playmate of the same age for the young master at home." Woolen cloth?"

"Then he can take my things from the very beginning without paying. Isn't this kind of thing rare in the city?" Bai Shu noticed the disappointed expression on the old man's face, "As for finding playmates for those princes and grandchildren , This kind of thing is a good thing that many people are thinking about, why bother to find an unknown roadside peddler like me."

"Then how did I expose it?"

"Your way of walking doesn't look like a half-century old man." Bai Shu explained, "You want to pretend to be an old man who is unable to walk and has to rely on a wooden stick to move forward, but your walking span, pace, breathing, and speaking voice Even the weight of the footprints betrays the fact that you are not at all."

[This is my credit! 】The 'self-closing' system still couldn't hold back, and jumped out to brush up a wave of presence, 【I told you that he stood behind the tree for a long time! 】

'Yeah, after I asked you to look around to see if anyone else was around. ' Bai Shu said sarcastically.

"And you can notice me." Bai Shu let go of his arms around his knees, patted the dirt on his body and stood up, "It's because someone you know talked about me to you, and the words were mostly full of praise. , that aroused your curiosity."

"You are better than I imagined." He glanced at the wooden staff he had discarded by his feet at some point, and didn't bother to continue pretending to be an old man who was unable to walk. "Before I saw you, the old man thought I would see you , is just a junior who still has some value."

"And now?" Bai Shu stood up straight, and generously accepted the other party's compliment, "Did you meet someone who was particularly worthy and made your trip worthwhile?"

"Hahahaha, I don't know if it's worth it, but it's worth the trip." The old man has been amused by the child's innocent words for the first time today, "If you can tell me who I know about you from, old man I'll tell you a secret."

Bai Shu likes this deal: "It's uncle, he traded me for guarding the north." He didn't get angry or dissatisfied about it, "I guessed it when he said he was a survivor of the Battle of Changping." Otherwise a How does an ordinary farmer have the ability and connections to do such a thing.

The old man wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingertips: "It's really worth the trip for you, no, as you said, it's worth the money." He leaned down and pressed Bai Shu's shoulder, " Now that you know, aren't you angry?"

"I'm not angry," Bai Shu shook his head, without any complaints in his tone, "Because of Uncle, I have a better choice and a future, I can leave the current environment and touch more things, it's too late to be grateful, so why not be dissatisfied and anger."

He suddenly couldn't bear to send such a smart child away: "Do you want to stay with the old man?" He changed his original thought, looked at the child's puzzled eyes, and explained, "I heard that you have a skillful hand." When you were good at hunting, but now, the old man wants to ask you, would you like to study?"

Bai Shu always felt that something was wrong: "I haven't dared to ask, what is the name of the old man?"

"Lin Xiangru," accompanied by Bai Shu's eyes rounded suddenly, was the system's sneer that the system didn't intend to hide at all, "Why, don't you believe it's the old man?"

No, it's not that I don't believe it...

...but I thought you were Lian Po to Orz