Chapter 2 A Chance Encounter
There is a secret in the Seven Orifices and Three Autumn Nails. No one except Zhou Zishu knows this secret now, and probably not many people will know it in the future - if seven nails are nailed in a row, a person will not be able to do it at that time.
Zhou Zishu probably had enough breath to tell him to leave the palace, but he might not be able to reach the palace gate and become a pile of rotten meat that cannot be spoken or moved.
But if you drive the nail in once every three months and let the nail grow into your body bit by bit, become one with yourself, and slowly adapt to it, even though you will have to blow out the lamp and pull out the wax after three years, you will still be able to have five years left.
After achieving internal strength, he can speak and act like ordinary people, but he has to endure the pain of eighteen months, which is like heart and bone erosion.
I heard that the kind of pain alone can drive people crazy, but Zhou Zishu thought happily that this rumor turned out to be wrong. At least he is not crazy now. Not only is he not crazy, he feels that he has never been so happy in his life.
Relaxing time.
Skylight will naturally conduct follow-up monitoring of those who leave on their own initiative. Who left, when they left, where they settled, and where they were buried are all recorded in detail. It is like a huge net.
I won't be able to get out for the rest of my life.
It's a pity that he worked hard for half his life, but he still has a few confidants after all.
Zhou Zishu, the leader of Tianluo who was supported by Emperor Rongjia in the past, was very skilled in martial arts and very good at disguise. When he walked into the crowd and turned around, no one recognized him.
And the most terrifying shadow wandering around the palace just disappeared from the world, leaving only a man riding a skinny horse, holding thatch in his mouth and humming country tunes in a rough voice, down and out.
homeless man.
Became the first person to escape from this terrifying web.
He wore a not-so-refined human skin mask on his face, which was smeared carelessly to make his face green and yellow. He looked like a sick man who might kick his legs at any time. When he was drinking water by the river, he looked at the water and thought it was quite suitable.
The more I saw my true situation, the more satisfied I became. I went to a farmer's house on the roadside and took out a set of coarse cloth. I took off my original brocade robe and burned it. I tied a half-rusted wine pot around my waist with half of it inside.
A pot of crudely made wine.
He also remembered that he had been hiding in the palace for these years and had never traveled around the world under his original name. He didn't even need to think about a pseudonym, so he happily set off on his journey.
He didn't have anywhere to go. Everyone said that Jiangnan was good, so he wanted to go to Jiangnan. He walked and stopped all the way, doing some activities of robbing the rich and giving to the poor to make a living. He passed through Kaifeng and walked to Penglai. It took more than three months to arrive at Caoqing.
Lotus red Jiangnan.
As soon as we arrived at the place, we sneaked into the wine cellar on the first floor of the world and tasted the sweet-scented osmanthus wine. I was so drunk that I felt so beautiful that this day could not be better.
After more than ten days, I drank too much and almost discovered my whereabouts. I also felt that although the wine was good, it was soft and less interesting, so I left the wine cellar with a full two cents of money and left the wine cellar.
After these ten days passed, his image became even worse. He had a consumption-ridden face, and with the wretched facial features curled up on it, he had an extremely authentic look on his face, plus a suit of soaked clothes.
After more than ten days in the wine, it was almost reduced to dregs, with messy hair hanging down one by one, like a beggar.
So when he was sitting on the side of the road basking in the sun with his eyes closed, there was a little chubby doll that skipped past him, then skipped back, looked at him, and took out a
I held the copper plate in my hand, but I didn't know where to put it. After searching for it for a long time, I asked: "Uncle, where is your bowl?"
He was immediately taken away by the adults at home, leaving him dumbfounded.
Many years have passed, and all the friends and people I cared about in the past have either died or gone to other places. Zhou Zishu leaned against the corner, stretched out his limbs, and basked in the warm sun comfortably, with a smile on his lips.
I started to wonder, what have you been doing for so many years?
When I was young, I always felt that I was a great talent, and I would have all kinds of compliments thrown at me, including being extremely smart, having a great mind, being highly skilled in martial arts, and being knowledgeable.
It seems like this life was in vain. Now that I think about it, what are you trying to do?
What else was left behind?
However, he gave up his freedom and became a shady slave of the royal family. He went round and round, and all the things he had originally were lost. Now he is alone and has nothing. He deliberately risked his life to redeem himself, but he still feels that he can do it.
Quite smart.
He suddenly became sad again, feeling that no matter how stupid there were in the world, they couldn't be more stupid than himself.
How many years have you not been like this, just basking in the sun on the roadside with your head empty? It’s ridiculous that the pedestrians on the roadside are all in a hurry, walking back and forth as if in a hurry, but they are more anxious than him counting the days.
Similar.
I heard a woman in the restaurant next to me say bluntly: "Sir, look at that man. If you say he is a beggar, there is not even a broken bowl around him. If you say otherwise, he has been sitting there all morning.
, you don’t do anything, you just giggle, are you a fool?”
Although Zhou Zishu's skills were only half as good as before, his hearing was still as good as before. Even though the woman was separated by a noisy street and her voice was not loud, he still listened to every word she said.
Before I could laugh at myself secretly, the next moment, another man's voice said: "He is basking in the sun."
This man's voice is very pleasant, low and deep, and he speaks very slowly, but not sticky.
Zhou Zishu couldn't help but look up, and saw leaning against the railing on the second floor of the restaurant across the street, a very good-looking girl in purple and a man in gray sitting opposite each other. The man's face was slightly pale, but his eyes were very bright.
The blackness seemed to have sucked all the light in. The black and white were so clear that it seemed a little less like a living person. Zhou Zishu raised his head and met his eyes.
The man in gray clothes looked away expressionlessly, then turned his head expressionlessly, concentrating on eating the food on the table.
Zhou Zishu couldn't help but laugh, thinking that in the vast sea of people, he actually met a close friend.
The purple-clothed girl's big, watery glasses were still spinning on his body. After a long while, she finally couldn't bear it any longer. After informing the gray-clothed man, she jumped downstairs, ran to Zhou Zishu, and said:
"You beggar, how about I treat you to a meal?"
Zhou Zishu glanced at her lazily, shook his head and said, "Little good man, why don't you treat me to a drink."
The girl in purple smiled sweetly, turned around and said loudly to the person upstairs: "Sir, this fool calls me a good person!"
It's a pity that the young man in gray didn't seem to hear her. He didn't even look at her. He just focused on eating, as if the world was falling apart and the earth was falling, but he couldn't erase his love for food.
The girl in purple then asked: "Everyone else wants to eat, so why do you want wine? What's so good about that wine? Can you satisfy me?"
Because she was beautiful, Zhou Zishu couldn't help but want to talk to her more, so he said half-jokingly: "You can use wine to borrow beauty."
The girl in purple clothes was stunned for a moment, and then she couldn't help laughing. When she smiled, it was like a flower branch trembling wildly. Zhou Zishu felt that he was lucky. Jiangnan was really beautiful. He admired her, shook his head and sighed:
"I would like to express my gratitude to the beauty who is prosperous, and I should take pity on the old white-headed man. It is unkind for a girl to take pleasure in others' misfortune."
The girl was surprised and said: "Hey, you are so polite." Then she squatted down, quickly reached out and took off the wine bottle from his waist, ran to the restaurant, and came back a moment later.
Zhou Zishu was about to reach out to take it, but the girl quickly pulled her hand away and said with a smile: "Let me ask you something. If you are right, I will give you the wine bottle and treat you to a drink. If you are wrong,
I'll poison it and make you drink it until your intestines are broken and your stomach is rotten."
Zhou Zishu smiled bitterly. This girl was beautiful, but she was also a troublemaker. He asked: "I won that wine pot from an old beggar, and I don't know how many corpses of lice were soaked in it."
, if you like it, take it, why not if I don’t want it anymore.”
The girl in purple rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "You asked the girl to run away for nothing. I will be angry. If I am angry, I will kill you."
Zhou Zishu thought to himself, where did this little devil star come from? Bai looks like a fairy, so he could only say: "Tell me."
"Let me ask you, you are here begging for food, why don't you even have a broken bowl with money around you?"
Zhou Zishu raised his eyes and looked at her and said, "When did I say that I was a beggar? I was just occupying a corner to bask in the sun."
The girl in purple clothes was startled, and subconsciously turned back to look at the man in the restaurant. The man in gray clothes obviously also had a very good ear. When he heard them talking, he paused his hands and said nothing else. He was calm and worry-free.
He dropped his chopsticks quickly and continued to concentrate on eating.
The girl looked up at the bright sky, a little confused: "Why can't I see anything good about the sun?"
Zhou Zishu shook his head with a smile, stood up, stretched out his hand to fish it out, and gently and deftly fished out his broken wine flask. The girl let out an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh on me", she was not careful, he actually got it, and she looked at him with some confusion.
To him, the man who looked like a beggar said: "Girls are young, so naturally they have a lot of things to do. They have to eat and drink quickly to be energetic. I am buried up to my neck in loess.
Apart from drinking, eating and waiting to die, what can you do if you don't bask in the sun?"
He raised his head and took a sip of wine, smashed the bar twice, and praised loudly: "Good wine, thank you girl!"
After saying that, she turned around and left. The girl in purple subconsciously reached out to catch him. She thought her kung fu was pretty good, but who knew that the person she thought she could catch with just one stretch of her hand dangled in front of her eyes, missing him by just an inch?
When I met him, I looked again and found that the beggar had wandered into the crowd and could not be found again.
She wanted to catch up, but she heard the man in the restaurant whisper: "Axiang, don't you have good skills and poor eyesight? It's embarrassing to still be there."
His voice seemed to be a whisper, without raising the volume deliberately. However, the voice came from the high building, passed through the noisy crowd, and reached the girl's ears accurately. The girl in purple became dejected and did not dare to make trouble in front of her master.
, took one last look at the crowd, then turned and went upstairs.
Zhou Zishu swayed while holding the wine flask and drank all the way. There was a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River. He walked by the small bridge and the flowing water, and glanced at himself from the water. He also felt that this honor was a bit inappropriate for this place.
, guessing that there would probably be no inn willing to stay him, so he walked all the way out of the city along the river. There were small fishing boats in the river, ferrying passers-by.
It was a spring day and there were many tourists. He walked around but had no time to spare. He finally saw an old fisherman whose boat was leaning against the shore, so he walked over.
The old woodcutter's awning boat was parked aside, and everyone else was very busy. I don't know why they were so idle when they arrived at his place. He lay stretched out on the shore and took a nap, with a straw hat on his face, only revealing his full face.
Zhou Zishu walked over, not in a hurry, and didn't call the old fisherman. He just sat down next to him and waited for him to wake up.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the old fisherman couldn't lie down anymore. He angrily pulled off the straw hat from his face, stared at him with bitter hatred, and opened his mouth to curse: "Grandma, no
Did you see me sleeping?"
Zhou Zishu was not angry and said: "Old man, business is coming."
The old fisherman cursed again: "Damn it, do you have a long mouth for breathing out or for farting? If you want to take a boat, you won't say a word?"
After saying that, he stood up, twisted his waist twice, and patted his butt. When he turned around and saw Zhou Zishu still sitting on the ground, he immediately got angry again: "Is your butt growing on the ground?"
Zhou Zishu blinked and understood why everyone else was busy ferrying, and he was the only one left idle.
He stood up dejectedly and followed the old man. While listening to his curses, he shamelessly asked: "Dad, do you have anything to eat? Leftovers are fine, give me a bowl."
The old fisherman said in a rough voice: "He was reincarnated as a starving ghost."
He took out a half-bitten piece of cake with teeth marks on it and threw it over. Zhou Zishu didn't mind it, and followed him on the boat. He took it with a smile and opened his mouth to bite it.
Chapter completed!