Copper Coins Chapter 27: Bone (four)

Lu Yuan, who came from Lujiatang thirteen years ago and settled in Dongfang District, was a widower. His wife died early, and he dragged his two sons by himself, led a small boat by the river, and fished for a living. Although he has a reckless face with a slightly fierce look, he has a simple, honest and honest temperament.

Neighbors often say that Lu Yuan's two sons really don't look like his Lu family.

Because Lu Yuan is tall and strong. Probably because of pulling the fishing net all the year round, the muscles on the arms are high and strong, and they are extraordinarily powerful. Not so with his two sons.

When he first came to Dongfang, the eldest son was four years old and the youngest son was two years old, one slim and the other slim. The youngest son is thin and thin, and there is still some shadow of Lu Yuan between his eyebrows and eyes, showing some vigor and vitality. The eldest son really didn't have the slightest resemblance to Lu Yuan.

The three father and son went to that station, and the eldest son, nicknamed Nineteen, was always the most conspicuous, because he was too white and almost morbid.

This Lu Shijiu not only doesn't look like the Lu family, but also doesn't have the same temperament. Lu Yuan was a warm-hearted person, and his youngest son Lu Nianqi was also someone who liked to make a fuss. The only eldest son, Lu Shijiu, talks bizarrely throughout the day, not like a child at all.

Most of the time, this Lu Shijiu does seem to be a lot more sensible, but sometimes, he will do some weird behaviors out of the blue, and his pale and weak appearance is quite ghostly, so naturally he doesn't do it that way. people like it.

So there are occasional people in the neighborhood who tease Lu Twenty-seven, but very few of them tease Nineteen.

What the neighbors didn't know was that this Lu Shijiu really wasn't Lu Yuan's own.

There is no one in Lu Yuan's family, and the elders are long gone. After his wife died of illness, Lu Yuan was very depressed for a year. The house was in dire straits. His son didn't have enough food for the whole year in 271, and he had no meat on his body, so he was pitifully thin. So he simply locked the old house and brought his son to Wolong County, because it relies on a good river road, and the fish and water are fresh and fertile, which is enough to make a living.

Before entering the city, when he took his son to rest in an old earth temple, he met Nineteen, who was huddled in the mountains.

A child who looks three or four years old is alone in the old temple in the mountains, and it is not normal to see it.

Lu Yuan asked nineteen simple questions and guessed it.

This nineteen originally lived in Ge County, which is a hundred miles away. There are too many brothers and sisters in the family, and it is a dry year. His parents may not be able to support them, so they have to discard a few. Originally, I probably wanted to sell it, but this nineteen looks like he can't support himself, and he is born with eye problems. He is only four years old, and his vision is very blurred. stay home.

If you can't sell it, you can only throw it away. If you lose it close, you might be able to touch it home, so you simply throw it a hundred miles away. Occasionally people come and go to the Temple of the Earth to rest, and maybe if they come across a kind person, they can even take people away.

This is an overly optimistic idea. After all, there are more gangsters in the mountains and forests than good-hearted people, and it's more likely that they were kidnapped by mountain gangsters or eaten by wolves before being taken away.

However, the nineteen was a fortune, he met Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan thought that raising one son would also be raising two, and that Twenty-Seven could have one more playmate, so he simply took Nineteen away.

But later he found out that Nineteen is not a fun companion, because he prefers to be with him quietly rather than having fun. But Shijiu was a sensible son. Even if he couldn't see clearly, he would **** for Lu Yuan every day to help him clean up the miscellaneous fish and shrimp, or carry a small stool and stand by the stove to cook some soup paste.

That's why Lu Yuan cleaned up twenty-seven, but never touched one of nineteen's fingers. Instead, he felt particularly distressed for this child.

Children love to chase after people who are slightly older than them, and Twenty-Seven is no exception. Even though Nineteen is a man of few words, Twenty-Seven likes to be in front of him. In the eyes of Twenty-seven, it is help, in the eyes of Nineteen, it is pure chaos——

For example, Nineteen boiled a pot of boiling water and hung it by the wall, intending to help Dad iron the smocks and shoes he replaced to get rid of the fishy smell. As a result, Twenty-seven was running around in the kitchen, insisting on helping, and then slipped on his feet and sat in the boiling water basin, crying like killing a pig.

Another example is the worm shells on the trees in the yard, which affect the growth of fruit. Nineteen brought a wooden broom and planned to poke the worm shells off. Twenty-seven still came to help, but after sweeping, he felt The worm shell is very funny, I picked one and put it on my mouth and blew the whistle. The whistle sounded very loud, and Twenty-seven jumped with joy, but that night his mouth was swollen into a sausage, and he still cried like killing a pig.

At first, Nineteen had a headache when he saw him, but then his eyes became more and more blurred, and he couldn't see clearly, so he got used to it.

Since his eyes were blurred and almost invisible, Nineteen found that he could see some strange things and hear some strange sounds. Sometimes he couldn't help but follow the sound all the way out, looking around for a while, but couldn't find the source, and then came back silently and continued to work.

When he was nine years old, twenty-seven had just turned seven. One afternoon, he heard a strange sound again, so he couldn't help but leave the kitchen and **** his way towards the river. At that time, Twenty-seven was a little more restrained than when he was a child. Probably because his elder brother was half blind, he finally became more sensible and occasionally knew that he had to take care of others. As soon as he saw Nineteen going out, he hurriedly followed him out, nagging him all the way to let Nineteen go back.

However, Nineteen seems to have fallen into evil, as if he had never heard of it.

That noon, Nineteen suddenly saw the dragon's shadow in the vast water mist in the river, but in the next second of amazement, he fell into the water.

Twenty-seven subconsciously jumped down, trying to drag the blind brother ashore, but found that it was like countless things when he was a child-he thought he was here to help, but he was actually here to make trouble. He almost Lose your own life.

The place where the two fell into the water was a relatively remote river bank, and there were no traces of fishing boats and passenger boats. If it hadn't happened to pass by a couple selling vegetables, they would have died in the river and no one would have known.

The old man who sells vegetables can't drink water, but he knows twenty-seven.

"When Dad came over, Twenty-Seven had already stopped struggling." Lu Nineteen said slowly, "The water was not very smooth that day, and it was too dangerous to catch two at a time. He supported me and made me reluctantly. After taking a deep breath, I fished Twenty-seven ashore first. When he came back to save me, there was a sudden wind and waves in the water. I could feel a dark vortex under my feet, and the dark vortex seemed to trap him. The ankles, in short, ups and downs choked a lot of water."

He took a breath, frowned and let it out softly, saying: "When I was pushed ashore, he was dragged down by the dark vortex and dragged directly into the river, and he never appeared again."

"After that, my father was gone, and I was afraid when I saw the water, and I stopped following me all day." Nineteen said lightly.

He doesn't seem to cry and doesn't show too obvious emotions. When he said this, his tone was so calm that he seemed to be talking about other people's affairs. He didn't even have a little red in his eyes, but it was inexplicable. Not very comfortable, as if I couldn't help feeling sorry for him.

Xuan Min put away the two pieces of stone with runes engraved on the side, and suddenly said, "I glanced at Lu Twenqi's palm lines, and there was a break when he was six years old. It was forcibly stretched for a while."

Nineteen looked at Twenty-seven without raising his eyes or speaking.

After a long time, seeing that Twenty-Seven was still motionless, he whispered again: "I didn't quite understand it at that time, I thought it would be fine to continue the idea, even if... he grows slower and can It's good to be alive, and they can live a good life no matter what, as long as they all live well. But..."

However, I didn't expect that Twenty-seven's life would be extended, and Lu Yuan would encounter a calamity.

Equivalent buying and selling.

After he finished speaking, he finally raised his eyes and looked at Xuan Min: "This tomb is not over yet, there is still a section ahead to go out, and there is no danger. Can you do me a favor and take Twenty-seven for a while." /

Xuan Min glanced at him: "Last busy?"

Nineteen was stunned, gave a low "um", and sighed again: "Otherwise, I would have gone all the way in vain."

Xuanmin opened his mouth, but before he could answer, Xue Xian in his secret pocket opened his mouth: "This pool is at least ten feet deep, how can I turn it over and continue walking?"

After asking this, he didn't give other people a chance to answer, and he continued slyly: "How about I spit out the water again and let you float up? What a good way to save time and effort. !”

Nineteen: "..."

Xuan Min said lightly, "Don't bother, since you've already sucked it in, just hold on."

Xue Xian lost his temper.

While they were talking, Old Man Liu, who had been silent, patted Nineteen lightly, raised his hand and pointed somewhere.

Xuan Min and the others followed the direction of his fingers, and they saw a black shadow with a height of one person on the wall of the pool there.

They lifted their feet and took a few steps, and when they got closer, they found that it was actually an iron door.

It's just that I don't know how long I have been soaking here, the door locks and cracks are all rusted, and Xuanmin's talisman paper can't be used in this tomb, so everyone wastes a lot of time before using gravel to rust the rust. The dead door smashed open.

The sound of friction when the iron door opened was so harsh that Twenty-seven, who was lying on the ground and fainted for a long time, opened his eyes.

"Awake?" Nineteen turned around and saw him, "Can you stand up? If you can stand up, don't lie on your stomach. If you want to go out, you have to go by yourself, and there is no one to support you here."

When he woke up on the 27th, he resumed his cold and indifferent tone, and he didn't even mean to bring his brothers closer.

"I know." Twenty-seven had also drank a few sips of water, and the taste of the water was probably not very good, and the burning made his throat a little hoarse. In the past, when Nineteen said lukewarm words, Twenty Seven would definitely have to say a few words back, and his face wouldn't be too good. However, this time, for the first time in the world, he didn't block it back. He staggered up silently, beat his chest and coughed for a while, coughing out the remaining water in his throat.

Not far from his feet, the paper-like Jiang Shining dried for a while, and finally dried a little, so that it wouldn't rot when touched.

Xuan Min came over, picked it up and threw it into the dark pocket, and asked him to pile up with the bead that had been stretched out. Only then did he pass through the iron gate with everyone.

Behind the iron gate is a sloping staircase, probably left by the craftsmen who built the tomb, so that they can go out from the pool after laying the stone bricks. The other end of the steps fell into the tomb passage at the other end, which seemed to be symmetrical with the tomb passage when it came before.

As Nineteen said, there seems to be no danger ahead. The long stairway didn't even have a terrifying pattern, and it was unexpectedly safe.

At the end of the steps, Xuanmin's talisman was finally able to catch fire.

Just the moment the flames ignited, a slightly strange smell was scorched by the flames and diffused lightly.

Jiang Shining in the dark pocket suddenly said, "Wait, don't move! This smells wrong!"