portable space

Zhang Taiping did not follow into the back room, but went outside and led Ghost Face and Black Dragon into the yard. The little black dog in the yard was quite tough. He was obviously scared to death after seeing Ghost Face, but he still squatted in the back room.

Watching Zhang Taiping's behavior in front of the door.

The little girl took the medicine and entered the back room and gently closed the door. There was a Buddhist hall in the middle. It seemed that there had been people eating fasts and chanting Buddha's name in the house, but it seemed that no one had worshiped for a long time, and the Bodhisattva had not eaten fireworks for a long time.

The little girl entered the room on the left. This was a woman's room. It was not a traditional kang, but a large carved bed. On the bed lay a woman whose age could not be discerned. The little girl took the medicine

Put it next to the bed and gently pushed the woman on the bed: "Grandma, take medicine."

The woman opened her eyes and glanced at the little girl: "You...went into the mountains alone again?" After saying these few words, she exhausted all her strength, stopped speaking, and just held the little girl's hand.

The hands are whirling.

The little girl didn't answer her grandma's question. Instead, she scooped out the medicine with a spoon, blew it on, and brought it to her grandma's mouth. When her grandma finished drinking the medicine, the little girl didn't go out to cook as usual, but crawled beside the bed.

Hesitating whether to say something or not.

As if the little girl's medicine had really taken effect, the woman looked better than before. She patted the little girl's hand gently and asked, "Is there anything else Ling'er can do?"

"A strange guest came to the village. He was riding a black horse, accompanied by a big dog like a calf, and accompanied by two eagles in the sky..." The little girl observed it slightly, and spoke eloquently.

Mingli described Zhang Taiping's appearance and clothing to grandma in detail.

The woman's suddenly tense body after hearing about the arrival of the people from the village slowly relaxed after the little girl finished speaking, and she asked with some difficulty speaking: "He...is...he's here to...or something."

..cough cough..." Coughing gives me a heart-wrenching feeling.

"Grandma, how are you?" The little girl asked anxiously as she lay beside her, tears welling up in her eyes.

The woman waved her hand to signal the little girl to continue.

Although the little girl was very worried about her grandma's health, she still did not go against her wishes and said: "He was a passing guest and wanted to rest in the village for a night, so the village chief arranged for him to stay in our home.

Asked him to pay for accommodation, but I didn't agree."

After hearing this, the woman nodded slightly and understood what was going on: "You go and invite the guests...in, and I...take a look."

"Yes." The little girl responded, then stood up, opened the door, came to Zhang Taiping in the front room, and whispered: "My grandma, please come in."

Zhang Taiping nodded and followed the little girl into the back room. This was within his expectation. He stayed here inexplicably. The owner of the house always met him. As soon as he entered the back room,

The first thing he saw was the statue of Bodhisattva, who was twirling his fingers and chanting sutras. Zhang Taiping stopped for a moment in front of the statue of Bodhisattva and then followed the little girl into the room.

The smell of medicine filled the room. Zhang Taiping looked at the furnishings in the house without changing his expression. In fact, there were very few furnishings left in the house. Apart from the wooden bed against the wall, there was only a large wooden box beside the bed and a few items.

small bamboo chairs around the box.

Zhang Taiping was looking at the furnishings in the room, but the woman on the bed was looking at Zhang Taiping. As soon as he saw her, his eyes twinkled and he didn't know what he was thinking of.

When Zhang Taiping moved his eyes to the woman's face on the bed, he was stunned for a moment and then frowned deeply. He was stunned because he was a little surprised by the woman's appearance. From the name of the little girl just now, it seemed that she was her grandmother.

, she is at least fifty years old, but apart from her bad complexion, her face seems to have escaped the shackles of time.

Let the years leave traces on his face. If he hadn't seen a few lines at the corners of his eyes later, Zhang Taiping would have thought that this was just a sick Qingcheng Qingguo. The reason for frowning was that his complexion was so bad that his face was exhausted.

At that time, it seemed that there were only a few days left to live. The reason why I persisted and did not let go was entirely due to the obsession in my heart.

"Okay...okay...treat...this guest...ahem..." the woman said to the little girl. It turned out to be authentic Mandarin, or authentic Beijing dialect.

"Grandma, grandma, you have a cough." The little girl lay in front of the bed and looked at the blood coughed up from her grandma's mouth, and said in horror.

The woman just waved her hand to indicate that she was fine and asked the two to leave. The little girl refused to leave, but she still covered her face and ran out under the woman's gaze. Zhang Taiping walked to the door and heard the heartbreaking coughing inside.

She paused for a moment, but still stepped out of the house resolutely. It could be seen that the most serious illness of this woman was not physical, but that she had no longer had the slightest desire to live, her heart was already dead, and even if she was alive, she was still alive.

It's just a dead person, maybe death is a kind of relief.

The little girl wiped the tears on her face under the eaves, and then walked towards the kitchen.

"Wait a minute." Zhang Taiping said to the little girl who lowered her head and walked to the kitchen. The little girl turned her head and looked at Zhang Taiping. Her eyes as red as peaches made Zhang Taiping feel soft and couldn't help but want to return to the back room.

A woman who is about to die drinks some space spring water. However, her reason tells her that she cannot do this, so let’s ignore it.

Can the spring water be cured? Even if the pain on the body is cured, it can't stop the death energy emanating from the heart. He reached into the backpack he had carried on his back before entering the village and took out one from the space.

At that time, Xiao Jin captured the snow rabbit that was still fresh in the snowy mountains. "Let's do this too. Will you?"

The little girl nodded, took the snow rabbit from Zhang Taiping and silently entered the kitchen.

Zhang Taiping sat under the eaves of the courtyard, took out the gourd and poured a sip of wine into his mouth. Although he knew that what he did was not wrong, he always felt as if he owed the little girl something, and he felt a little guilty.

It didn't take long for the meal to be ready. I simply made a soup with snow rabbit, a plate of wild vegetables, a small pot of shredded potatoes, rice porridge, no steamed buns and no pot helmets.

Zhang Taiping asked the little girl: "Does your grandma believe in Buddhism?"

nodded.

"Is it taboo to avoid meat?" The reason why Zhang Taiping knew that she believed in Buddhism and had this question was because among many women in northern China, they only believed in Buddhism and respected Bodhisattva in their hearts, but they were not Buddhist disciples, nor were they disciples of Buddhism.

Don't be strict, just follow the Buddhist precepts.

Shaked his head.

"Then you can serve some of this soup to your grandma."

The little girl's eyes lit up and she nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. Maybe she had already had this idea, but the rabbit was provided by Zhang Taiping and she was embarrassed to do so.

Ten minutes later, the little girl returned to the front room and sat at the small table to accompany Zhang Taiping to eat. However, she only drank gruel with wild vegetables and shredded potatoes, and did not touch the rabbit meat in the small basin. Zhang Taiping smiled.

He put a piece of meat in her bowl and asked, "Why don't you eat this?"

The little girl didn't say anything, she just lowered her head and ate silently. Only when Zhang Taiping put the meat into the bowl would she eat it.

"You seem to be afraid of me?" Zhang Taiping said.

The little girl looked up at Zhang Taiping and shook her head to express that she was not afraid.

"Then why didn't you even say a word?"

"What did you say?" The little girl finally spoke, speaking in authentic Mandarin just like her grandmother.

Zhang Taiping smiled and asked: "What's your name?"

"Ye Ling."

"Ye Ling, Ye Mu Er Hua, Zhong Ling Shen Xiu, what a good name." Zhang Taiping was already looking for something to talk about, "Are you and your grandma the only ones living here?"

He nodded and said nothing.

Then came the silent eating time, and Zhang Taiping didn't know what to say anymore. When he stood up after finishing the meal, the little girl suddenly burped and her face turned completely crimson, as if she was tempting someone to take a bite.

red apple, he lowered his head in embarrassment and cleared the dishes on the table. Zhang Taiping did not laugh out loud, otherwise the little girl would have to find a crack in the floor to crawl under.

After clearing away the dishes, he pointed at the ghost faces and black dragons in the yard and asked, "What should I feed them?"

Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said, "Go and have a rest after cleaning up. You don't have to worry about them. They will go out to find food by themselves."

"Oh." The little girl nodded, cleaned up the kitchen, then went into the back room and closed the door.

Zhang Taiping did not sleep, but climbed out of the courtyard wall and went around from the back to the side of the front door. As expected, there were several people squatting there smoking cigarettes. One of them was the old man who arranged for him to live here today.

Holding the guy. Zhang Taiping heard the movement outside while eating, but just ignored it. Now he didn't alert them, he just returned to the yard along the original path, put the black dragon into the space, calmed down and noticed

To the outside the situation began to whisper and then make faces.

He chuckled lightly. Could it be that this was still a dark village and they wanted to rob him? He ignored them for the time being and stood in the room waiting to see what they wanted to do.

But after waiting all night and seeing no movement from these people, Zhang Taiping was really confused. It wasn't until little girl Ye Ling got up early and walked up the mountain with a bamboo basket on her back that those who had been watching outside the yard all night left. See you.

Zhang Taiping thought deeply about this scene. It seemed that these people were not here to seek wealth or death. Instead, they allowed him to live here but he did not trust his master to live here, so he led people to stay outside all night.

After little girl Ye Ling entered the mountain, Zhang Taiping also entered the mountain with a grimace. He had long wanted to wander around the famous Daxinganling Mountains in Northeast China to see if he could find some novel things there.