[Comprehensive] leaning on flowers and bamboo

Good seedlings gone? !Could it be that something happened to Bao Zheng here?

Gongsun Ce was startled, he caught up a few steps forward and said, "Old man, is that black-faced young man you're talking about good?"

"No, no, it's the boys and girls this time, it's really pitiful."

Hearing that Gongsun Ce breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't dare to compliment this tradition. I don't know who came up with a strange trick, even using children as sacrifices and sending them to the wild to be picked up by jackals, tigers and leopards. What is this? , clearly raising those wild beasts on the mountain.

Hua Manlou waved his fan and walked to Gongsun Ce, "You can't scare the snake away."

"kindness."

Now I don't know the details of the mayor, rashly speaking will definitely cause unnecessary trouble, not to mention why this tradition exists, it's better not to attract too much attention, so as to save some unnecessary trouble .

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed behind them. Anyway, they did what they said, and they didn't interrupt much.

The old man led them to the front hall, and the four of them sat down and waited for the old man to invite the mayor to come over.

This courtyard is not bad, but it is very simple, but the owner is afraid that he has an elegant temperament, so he thought of such a layout, which makes people feel at ease.

"The mayor is probably not very old, between thirty and forty. He may be a scholar after studying. He has a gentle personality, but he has his own persistence. He can't let go of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. A calligraphy and painting is probably better than his own. Fate is more important." Gongsun Ce looked around and analyzed: "If there is some prestige, I am afraid that even the patriarch will not be able to stop the children from being sacrificed to the gods."

Gongsun Ce's analysis is not unreasonable, this town is indeed weird, it looks strange inside and out.

Zhan Zhao said: "Brother Gongsun, do we still want to live here? Once you say it, I think this place is eerie and scary."

"... When will you change your habit of being afraid of those ghosts?" Gongsun Ce shook his head helplessly, "The rest of the people who don't live here won't take us in. Do you want to live outside? In that case... maybe midnight Will be more—"

"Ah! Don't say it."

The corners of Hua Manlou's raised mouth suddenly returned to their original position due to the movement outside, and the words that were meant to be teased also turned back into his stomach with the tip of his tongue, "Here comes the man."

Hearing this, Gongsun Ce immediately put away the joke, looked towards the door, and saw the people walking around the screen in the distance, and couldn't help but look at Huamanlou with fascination——Huamanlou's kung fu is really unfathomable, and even now Gongsun Ce can't do it. He knew exactly how much Huamanlou showed every time he dealt with the enemy.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were equally surprised. It would be fine if Gongsun Ce didn't hear anything. After all, he wasn't a martial artist, but the two of them didn't hear anything outside just now.

"Mayor, this is Gongsun Ce. This is my friend who was traveling with me. I passed by here and didn't expect that there is no inn in the town. I can only come to ask the mayor for help and see if he can arrange a place for us."

"Be polite. Everyone who comes here is a guest. We are a small place. Usually, few people come. There is no inn. If you don't dislike it, you can stay in a humble house. Although this place is simple, it is a place to live in. There are still two rooms, what do you think for a night’s rest?” The mayor thought the same as Gongsun Ce, he was a man in his thirties, handsome, but he looked young, and I am your stepmother.

Gongsun Ce was a little surprised. Didn't the mayor ask about their origins?What if it was a bandit in disguise?

Seeing Gongsun Ce's surprise, the mayor explained, "I haven't introduced myself yet. My surname is Liu, and my single name is Shu, She Yushu. There are only a few people in this town, and there are no bandits around here. Poor, people don't look down on them, they don't bother to come and rob, just a few rest assured to stay."

"I think too much."

"Where is it? It looks like you have been on the road for a few days. You must not have eaten right now? I'll ask someone to prepare some."

Hua Manlou said, "Thank you Mayor Liu."

"However, it may take longer. There is only one old servant at home, and my wife and children are going to visit relatives. I'm afraid you will have to wait a little longer."

"Hey, you're welcome, you're welcome, don't bother the old man, we can come by ourselves, you can show us the way, where the kitchen is." Zhan Zhao remembered that the old man was probably 70 years old just now, how dare they bother him Go cook for some of their young and strong men.

Just as Liu Shu was about to speak, she seemed to be in a hurry. After coughing twice, she wanted to speak again, but the coughing could not stop, "Ahem! I, I—"

"Mayor Liu, it's already very polite to us to bother you and entertain us. Let's go and get some food by ourselves."

"It's really negligent. It's still not healed from the wind and cold a few days ago. It's really negligent, negligent." Liu Shu turned around to recruit the old servant just now, gave a few instructions in a low voice, nodded to a few people, and then left.

Some thin figures disappeared behind the screen, and some coughing sounds could be faintly heard.

Several people looked at each other, and Hua Manlou walked to the old man, "Old man, can you take us to the kitchen? We told Mayor Liu just now that it would be good to lend us the kitchen, but I have to trouble you to take the two of them." Go to the room and make arrangements."

"Young master is a good man, I will take you there right away. You guys don't have hostility on you. I have seen many people in the mayor with my old bones, but the people who walk in the rivers and lakes are more or less hostile. Very much." The old servant's words seemed to have other meanings, but Hua Manlou never liked to ask other people's stories, so he nodded and smiled.

When they arrived at the kitchen, Hua Manlou and Gongsun Ce stayed here, and asked the old servants to wait for Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to go to the guest room, and they could do the rest by themselves without further trouble.

Gongsun Ce squatted at the stove while lighting a fire and said: "I don't think this Liu Shu has a cold, it seems that he has been coughing so badly for a while, and his complexion is yellowish, his figure is thin, like Poor diet, I'm afraid there are a lot of big and small problems..."

"When he talked to us just now, he was a little bit tired."

"Well, a normal person must be full of energy when speaking, at least he will not be weak. If his illness drags on, I'm afraid..." Gongsun Ce did not continue, and changed his words: "I heard that he has a wife and children. , Why did he go out of town instead of taking care of him at home when he was sick?"

"He can't be the master of virgin boys and girls, so he can only send them away."

"I really don't understand how there is such a place, Huamanlou, have you seen it?"

"I've never seen a child sent to the mountains to feed wild animals, but I've seen someone who practiced some crooked kung fu and caught a child to practice kung fu." Hua Manlou sat down beside Gongsun Ce, and his understatement made Gongsun Ce stunned.

Shouldn't Huamanlou be very sad when this happened?or...

No matter what kind of emotion it is, it will not be so indifferent to death.

"you……"

"kindness?"

"It seems that I am very close to you, but sometimes I feel that you are far away." Gongsun Ce has never been a person who is not honest, at least after the two of them talk, he never hides his thoughts, "But You don’t want to say that I don’t ask, because what others don’t want to say must be a bad memory, and if you want to forget, asking is digging other people’s wounds.”

Hua Manlou laughed lowly when he heard the words, "It's not something that can't be said, and it's not a wound, it's just that the world is dangerous, and I have seen cruel methods like this before, and I have seen living people being split in half. Numb."

"Your world, I seem to have never participated in it."

"Really? Maybe there is a chance, you can walk with me."

Hua Manlou thought about what would happen if he took Gongsun Ce away and the two returned to his time.It's a pity that this is just fantasy, Lu Xiaofeng said in a hurry last time, who knows if he can go back, and how can he take Gongsun Ce away, there is still Gongsun Zhen here, and so many friends.

Seeing the change in Hua Manlou's expression, Gongsun Ce thought that Hua Manlou remembered what he said just now, and deliberately said: "I, who has no martial arts, will be a burden if I walk the rivers and lakes with you? You have to be busy taking care of me. Isn't it exhausting?"

"You don't know martial arts, but you have this." Hua Manlou raised his finger and pointed at his head, "With this head, you won't be unable to move."

"The Hua family has a great career or a family of martial arts. Tell me, no one dares to say anything if I walk sideways with your background?"

"A Ce, when will you walk sideways?"

"whispering sound."

Gongsun Ce pursed his lips, stood up and lifted the lid of the pot, "Master Hua, do you want to go and see why those two boys still haven't come over? Don't start fighting in someone else's house. This isn't Dingyuan County or Hua's family." Not our family."

Hua Manlou nodded and stood up, intending to go out and have a look, otherwise it would be troublesome if Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang really fought.

After taking two steps, Zhan Zhao came in angrily, "Brother Gongsun, you judge me, you said that I will have a room with you later, and we usually go out together like this, that Chinchilla actually said that I Sharing a room with him, is it reasonable for you to say that this person is so good? Even if I share a room with Brother Hua, I will not share a room with that mouse!"

"You think I'd like to be with you? If not—"

Bai Yutang said as he walked in, but suddenly stopped, and Zhan Zhao stepped on the pole.

"What if?"

"I told you that you don't understand, so it's better not to know."

The two of them refused to give in to either of them, not noticing the embarrassment that flashed across the faces of Gongsun Ce and Hua Manlou.

Gongsun Ce walked up to Hua Manlou, "I'll be with Zhan Zhao tonight, in case they really fight together."

"kindness."

Hearing this, Hua Manlou smiled without saying a word, and agreed, "Yes, I understand."

"Brother Hua, what do you know?"

"I know that you used to live with your elder brother Gongsun."

Bai Yutang next to him glanced at Gongsun Ce and Hua Manlou, curled his lips and said, "I share a room with Brother Hua, Brother Gongsun, you can just take care of this coward who is afraid of ghosts."

"you--!"

Gongsun Ce grabbed Zhan Zhao at the right time, "Don't fight in the kitchen, or you won't even have food."

"Ah, I see."