If he hadn't been to Fulu Street or Taoye Lane, Wang Gu'an might not have realized the darkness and narrowness of Mud Bottle Lane in his life. However, instead of feeling lost, the straw sandals boy finally felt at ease, the boy smiled and stretched out his hands, just touching the yellow mud wall twice with his palm, remembering that about three or four years ago, Wang Gu'an could only touch the mud wall with the tips of his fingers.
When he walked to the front of his house, he found that the courtyard door was wide open, and the young man who thought he had been robbed hurriedly ran into the yard, but he saw a tall young man sitting on the threshold, with his back against the locked door, yawning boredly. "
Wang Gu'an couldn't break free from this guy's shackles, so he had to be pulled by him to open the door, and the sturdy young man who was two years older than him quickly broke away from Wang Gu'an, tiptoed onto Wang Gu'an's wooden bed, stuck his ears to the wall, and listened to the root of the wall next door.
Wang Gu'an asked curiously, "Ji Chenru, what are you doing?" "
The tall young man turned a deaf ear to Wang Gu'an's questioning, and after about half a burnt incense, Ji Chenru returned to normal, sitting on the edge of the wooden bed, his face was complicated, both relieved and regretful.
Ji Chenru only found out at this time that Wang Gu'an was doing a strange deed, squatting inside the door, leaning outward, and burning a piece of yellow paper with a candle the size of his thumb left, and the ashes fell outside the threshold. It seems that Wang Gu'an still has words, but he is a little far away, and Ji Chenru can't really hear it.
Ji Chenru is the closed disciple of the old man He of a time-honored dragon kiln, as for Wang Gu'an, who has reckless qualifications, the old man never really recognized this apprentice from beginning to end, in the local area, the apprentice did not worship the master tea, or the master did not drink that cup of tea, which is equivalent to not having the title of master and apprentice. Wang Gu'an and Ji Chenru are not neighbors, the ancestral houses of the two sides are quite far away, the reason why Ji Chenru would introduce Wang Gu'an to Old Man He at that time was because he had a grudge with a young man, Ji Chenru was a well-known stubborn teenager in the town, before his grandfather died, there was still an elder in the family to take care of him, and after his grandfather died of illness, at the age of twelve or thirteen, he was a young man who was not inferior to a young man, and became a mixed demon king who had a headache for everyone in the neighborhood. A solid beating, the other party is a young man in his prime, he never cares about the severity of his attack, Ji Chenru quickly vomited blood, more than ten families living in Mud Bottle Lane, most of them are low-level craftsmen in Xiaolong Kiln begging for bowls of rice, how dare they mix with this muddy water.
At that time, Ye Tang was not afraid at all, but happily squatted on the wall to watch the excitement, lest the world would not be chaotic.
In the end, only a thin child, after sneaking out of the yard, ran to the entrance of the alley, and shouted into the street: "Dead man, dead man..."
Hearing the word "dead man", the children of the Lu family woke up in horror, and saw Ji Chenru covered in blood on the ground, the tall young man was dying, and those rich young men finally felt scared for a while, and after looking at each other, they ran away from the other end of Mud Bottle Alley.
But after that, instead of being grateful to the child who saved his life, Ji Chenru came here every once in a while to play tricks, and the orphans were also stubborn, no matter how Ji Chenru bullied, he just refused to cry, which made the young man more and more angry. It's just that one year later, Ji Chenru saw the little orphan surnamed Wang, it was estimated that he couldn't bear the winter, and finally found out in his conscience that the young man who had been apprenticed in the dragon kiln took the orphan to the dragon kiln located on the edge of Baoxi, and went out of the town to the west, dozens of miles of mountain roads on snowy days, Ji Chenru still hasn't figured out how the little guy who looks like charcoal, with two legs as thin as bamboo poles, got to the dragon kiln? However, although Lao He Tou still left Wang Gu'an in the end, but the treatment of the two is indeed a world of difference, and he also beat and scolded Ji Chenru, a disciple who closed the door, but the blind man also felt the good intentions, for example, once he hit a heavy hand, and smashed Ji Chenru's forehead oozing blood, the young man didn't feel anything with thick skin and thick flesh, but he was the old man who was a master, and he regretted it very much, this stuffy gourd old man who was used to being majestic in front of his apprentices, because he couldn't say anything because of his face, he ended up going around in circles in his house for most of the night, and he still didn't worry about Ji Chenru, In the end, he had to call Wang Gu'an and send Ji Chenru a bottle of ointment.
Wang Gu'an has been envious of Ji Chenru for so many years.
It's not that I envy Ji Chenru for his high talent, great strength, and good popularity. It's just that I envy Ji Chenru for not being afraid of heaven and earth, he has no heart or lungs wherever he goes, and he never feels that living alone is a bad thing. No matter where Ji Chenru goes or who he gets along with, he will soon be able to hook up his shoulders, call him a brother, and drink and fight. Ji Chenru because his grandfather was not in good health, he was self-reliant very early, and became a child-like existence, catching snakes, catching fish, digging birds' nests, all skillful, wooden bow fishing rods, slingshot bird cages, Ji Chenru seems to be able to do everything, especially in the countryside ridge to catch loaches and yellow eels, the boy is undoubtedly the most powerful in the town. In fact, when Ji Chenru dropped out of the township school, Mr. Liu also went to find Ji Chenru's grandfather on the sickbed, saying that he could not charge a penny, but Ji Chenru refused to agree, saying that he only wanted to make money and did not want to study, Mr. Liu said that he could pay to hire Liu Yangxian as his scholar, but Ji Chenru still refused to nod. In fact, Ji Chenru is alive and well, even if Old Man He dies and the Dragon Kiln is banned, within a few days he was photographed by the blacksmith of Dragon Lane, and he began to build a thatched hut and stove in the south of the town, and he was very busy.
Ji Chenru watched Wang Gu'an blow out the candle, put it on the table, and asked in a low voice, "Have you ever heard a strange sound in the morning, like ...?"
Wang Gu'an sat on the bench and waited for the next step.
Ji Chenru hesitated for a moment, blushing slightly, "It's like a spring cat." "
Wang Gu'an asked, "Is it Ye Tang who learns cat meow, or Shi Hui?" "
Ji Chenru rolled his eyes, stopped playing the piano to the cow, propped his hands on the bed board, slowly bent his elbows, and then straightened his arms, his buttocks left the bed board, and his feet left the ground. His ass hung in the air, and he pouted and sneered: "What Shi Hui, it's obviously called Wang Zhu, the surname Ye has liked to show off blindly since he was a child, and he didn't know where to see the word 'Shi Hui', so he used it indiscriminately, and he didn't care whether the meaning of the two words was good or not." Wang Zhu is such a son, and he is really a sin in his previous life, otherwise he would not have come to Ye Tang to suffer from sin. "
Wang Gu'an did not echo the tall boy's statement.
Ji Chenru, who had been in that posture, snorted coldly: "You really don't understand? Why did you help Wang Zhu's girl carry the bucket once, and then she never chatted with you again? Bao is Ye Tang's small-bellied chicken intestines, and if you knock over the vinegar bottle, you will threaten Wang Zhu not to go to you with you, otherwise you will have to serve her family, not only break her legs, but also throw her into the mud bottle alley..."
Wang Gu'an really couldn't listen to it anymore, and interrupted Ji Chenru's words, "Ye Tang is not bad for her. "
Ji Chenru said angrily: "What do you know is good and bad? "
Wang Gu'an's eyes were clear, and he said softly: "Sometimes she works in the yard, Ye Tang occasionally sits on the bench and reads his local county chronicle, and when she looks at Ye Tang, she often laughs. "
Ji Chenru's eyes were glazed.
Suddenly, the thin wooden bed couldn't support Ji Chenru's weight, and it was broken in half, and the tall boy sat on the ground with his buttocks.
Wang Gu'an squatted on the ground, holding his head with both heads, sighing, and having a headache.
Ji Chenru scratched his head, stood up, and didn't say anything guilty, just kicked Wang Gu'an lightly, and grinned: "Okay, isn't it just a small broken bed, I'm here today to bring you a great piece of good news, it's worth more than your broken bed!" "
Wang Gu'an raised his head.
Ji Chenru said triumphantly: "After my master Ruan left the town, on the edge of the stream in the south, he suddenly said that he wanted to dig a few wells. Master Ruan also agreed, and let you go by yourself in the next two days. "
Wang Gu'an got up abruptly and was about to say thank you.
Ji Chenru raised a palm, "Stop, stop!" Thank you for your kindness! Just keep it in mind! "
Wang Gu'an bared his teeth.
Ji Chenru looked around, there was a fishing rod diagonally placed in the corner of the wall, a pair of slingshots lying in the window, and a wooden bow hanging on the wall.
He strode across the threshold, boots clearly deliberately bypassing the ashes of the runes.
Wang Gu'an looked at the tall back.
Ji Chenru suddenly turned around and faced Wang Gu'an in the threshold, the tall young man sat on his waist, his feet did not leave the ground, and after rushing straight for a few steps, he threw a punch heavily, then closed his fist and straightened his waist, and laughed loudly: "Master Ruan told me in private, I only need to practice this boxing method for a year to kill people!" "
Ji Chenru seemed to feel that he was still not satisfied, made a strange kicking action, and said with a smile: "This is called a good leg must enter the crotch, kick the dead and stuffy donkey!" "
In the end, Ji Chenru stretched out his thumb, pointed to his chest, and said arrogantly: "When Master Ruan taught me boxing techniques, I had some ideas and experiences, so I gossiped with him, such as my perception of Old Man He's unique 'jump-knife' in making porcelain, and Master Ruan praised me as a once-in-a-century martial arts wizard. In the future, you just have to follow me, and you will have to eat fragrant and drink spicy food! "
Out of the corner of his eye, Ji Chenru caught a glimpse that the maid next door had already entered the house, and suddenly lost interest in playing a hero.
said casually to Wang Gu'an: "By the way, when I passed by the old locust tree just now, there was an old man who called himself a 'storyteller' over there, who was playing a stall over there, and said that he had accumulated a stomach full of strange and interesting things, and he wanted to talk to us, you can go and take a look when you have time." "
Wang Gu'an nodded.
Ji Chenru strode out of Mud Bottle Alley.
There are many theories about this lonely and unruly young man, but the boy likes to claim that his ancestors are generals who lead troops to war, so his family will have the treasure armor that has been passed down from generation to generation.
said that it was a treasure armor, Wang Gu'an saw it once with his own eyes, but in fact, it looked ugly, like a scar on a human body, and like a scar on an old tree.
However, Ji Chenru's peers, don't say that, only talk about Ji Chenru's ancestors, who were deserters, who fled to the town and became a son-in-law, and were lucky to escape the pursuit of the government. It is said with certainty, as if he had seen with his own eyes how Ji Chenru's ancestors fled from the battlefield and how they fled all the way to this town.
Wang Gu'an thought for a moment, squatted next to the threshold, and lowered his head to blow away the ashes.
Ye Tang didn't know when he was standing on the side of the courtyard wall, followed by the maidservant Shi Hui, he shouted, "Do you want to go to the locust tree with us?" "
Wang Gu'an raised his head, "I'm not going." "
Ye Tang tugged at the corners of his mouth, "It's boring." "
He turned his head to his maid and smiled, "Shi Hui, let's go!" I'm going to buy you a whole pot of peach pollen from the general's belly. "
She said shyly, "A small cricket jar is enough." "
Ye Tang put his hands behind his back, held his head high, and strode forward, "My Ye family, Zhong Ming Ding Shi, generations of hairpins, how can I be a small family, isn't it insulting to the family style?!" "
Wang Gu'an sat on the threshold and rubbed his forehead, this Ye Tang, in fact, when he doesn't say those strange words and nonsense, it doesn't feel bad, but at this time, if Ji Chenru is present, he will definitely say that he wants to knock a brick down on the back of Ye Tang's head.
Wang Gu'an leaned against the door of the house, thinking that tomorrow's situation would most likely be like today, and the day after tomorrow would be like tomorrow, so repeatedly, so he Wang Gu'an would continue to walk like this in his life, until he was almost like Old Man He in the end.
People eat soil for a lifetime, and soil eats people once.
Finally closing your eyes and opening them again may be a matter of the next life.
The boy looked down at the straw sandals on his feet and suddenly laughed.
Stepping on the bluestone slab is different from stepping on the mudflats.
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When Ji Chenru left the alley and passed by the fortune-telling stall, the young Taoist recruited: "Come on, come on, poor Dao sees that your complexion is like a blazing fire, which is definitely not a good omen, but don't be afraid, there is a method in Poor Dao that can help you eliminate disasters..."
Ji Chenru was a little surprised, remembering that this Taoist priest used to give fortune tellers to people, and he didn't say that it was accurate, but this person really didn't take the initiative to solicit business, and almost all of them belonged to the wishers. Could it be that now that the dragon kiln is closed to the imperial court, this Taoist priest will also be unlucky, and he can't open the pot, so he would rather kill by mistake than misplace? Ji Chenru scolded with a smile: "Your method is to break wealth and eliminate disasters, right?" Get out of your uncle, you want to cheat money out of my pocket, next life! "
The young Taoist was not annoyed, and shouted loudly to the tall young man: "Counting on this year's Pepsi Chang, who knows that there will be a disaster in life." If there is no disaster, he refuses to read the gods, and burns incense if he wants to be safe... You should burn incense..."
Ji Chenru turned around coldly, and ran towards the fortune-telling stall with a quick step, shouting while rubbing his fists: "Burn incense, I'll burn your stall first!" "
The Taoist was obviously frightened, and after getting up, he couldn't care about the stall, and he hugged his head and ran away.
Ji Chenru stood next to the stall, looked at the embarrassed figure of the Taoist, laughed, caught a glimpse of the stick holder on the table, reached out at will to push it down, the bamboo stick slid out of the stick, and finally showed a fan-shaped appearance on the table.
Ji Chenru stretched out his hand and pointed at the Taoist who was stopping in the distance, "I'll see you fight once in the future!" "
The young Taoist clasped his fists and begged for mercy.
Ji Chenru gave up.
The young Taoist waited until the tall boy walked away before he dared to sit down again, and sighed, "The world is hard, the people's hearts are not ancient, and it is not easy to make ends meet if you are poor." "
At this moment, the Taoist's eyes lit up, he quickly closed his eyes, and said loudly: "The pond is full of frogs, and it is people's hearts that pierce people's stomachs." The fame here is on the water, and it is only suitable for the wind to move in all directions! "
The pair of young men and girls obviously heard the words of the Taoist, but unfortunately they had no intention of stopping.
The Taoist opened his eyes slightly, and seeing that he was about to miss the business again, he had to slap the table and raise his voice, "The champion is a son of the world, and the prime minister is nothing more than a person in the world." Learn to move the city with the name of heaven and man, and proudly promote your spirit! "
Ye Tang and the maidservant Shi Hui just continued to move forward.
The Taoist was discouraged and muttered in a low voice, "I can't live this day." "
Without warning, the young man turned his head, threw a copper coin at the young Taoist from afar, and said with a bright smile: "Borrow your auspicious words!" "
The Taoist hurriedly caught the copper coin, spread out his palm and looked at it, frowning, it was the smallest penny.
But.
The young Taoist gently placed the copper coin on the table.
In an instant, a yellow finch fell on the table, lowered its head, and pecked lightly at the copper coin, and then it held it in its mouth, and looked up at the young Taoist, the yellow finch eyes were smart, no different from a human.
The Taoist said softly: "Go, this place is not suitable for a long time." "
The yellow finch disappeared in a flash.
The young Taoist looked around, and finally stopped at the tall archway building in the distance, and happened to face the four-character plaque of "Qi Chong Bullfighting", and sighed: "It's a pity." "
In the end, the Taoist added, "If you can sell it outside, why do you have 1,800 taels of silver?" "