Twenty-ninth day (2) Student travel group

  It's been ages since I've been actively pursued by a woman, so I hastily stretched out my hand and lightly grasped her fingertips, saying in a low voice, "Ding Fan, that's what I'm called. The 'ding' from the sequence of jiǎ, yǐ, bǐng, dīng, and the 'fan' from ordinary people, not that annoying person..."

  Xiyao burst out laughing, and the girl next to her also laughed. She said, don't be nervous, she already has a boyfriend.

  I also realized my awkwardness, it's really not that the other person is so beautiful, or I'm too nervous, the main reason is that I haven't introduced myself for a long time.

  Si Yao pointed to the girl beside her and said, "Shen Po."

  I was stunned and said, "Fortune teller?"

  Xiyao nodded and said, "Right, right, mysterious and ambiguous."

  The immortal woman hummed and pushed Si Yao, saying, "My name is Shen Le, don't listen to her nonsense. However... I see that your fortune is not good, have you encountered any difficulties recently?"

  I let out an "ah" and said, are you really a goddess?

  The fortune teller smiled and said, "You're absolutely going to have bad luck recently."

  Xiyao smiled and patted the fortune teller, saying, "Don't listen to her nonsense, she says that to everyone. Don't take it to heart. We're travel buddies, we came out to play together this time, and I just happened to overhear that your ticket is also going to Qinghe Town."

  I exclaimed, Siyao said, it's really a coincidence, our first stop is also there. I see you're so engrossed in reading, nowadays it's rare to see someone so absorbed in reading like that, I just wanted to read too, but they wanted to play cards, nothing was accomplished.

  I smiled and said, a person with no friends can only read books.

  Xiao pouted and said, "Anyway, we're all going to the same place, why not go together? I'll bring my cards, let's play a game of 'Fight the Landlord'."

  After finishing, she stood up and squeezed out from beside the shaman. The shaman gave a slap on Siya's butt, Siya let out an "ah" and turned around to hit the shaman. Seeing me looking at her, her face turned red, she glared at the shaman and ran away.

  The old woman turned around and looked at me. The smile on her face was gone. She said in a low voice, "Have you provoked something?"

  I think this girl is mysterious and a bit quirky. She smiled and said, "You can really tell?"

  The fortune teller said, our family has been raising horses for generations, and I've been influenced by it since I was young. I think your complexion is very poor. Otherwise, can you write down your birth time and name? I'll call back tonight and let my grandma find a protective deity for you to take a look?

  I said, is it true or false? Ba Jia Xian is from Northeast China, right? It's so far away, can you make it here in one night?

  The shamaness seemed a bit angry, she hummed and perhaps felt that my words were sarcastic, gave me a white eye and said in a low voice, you deserve to be unlucky.

  I shrugged, girls are inexplicably more troublesome, although I don't have a girlfriend, but the women in my writing are all like this, it's no use reasoning with them, it's more practical to wish for world peace.

  Although I've been a bit down lately, overall, I'm skeptical and don't believe in such absurd things, let alone that a chance encounter with a young girl could help me solve my problems.

  I exchanged a glare with the fortune teller, and Siyao had already grabbed the cards and run over. The three of us sat together to play poker, and as we played, we started chatting casually.

  This time, Siyao and her group came to Qinghe Town for an adventure. They asked me what I was doing there, if I was also on an adventure. I said I was going back to visit my relatives. Siyao seemed very curious about the history of my stay in Qinghe Town and kept asking me if I knew about the ghost village.

  This name is too weird, I didn't understand it at first, I thought they were saying "Guizhen" or something, so I said I didn't know.

  It wasn't until Siyao made a ghost face that I realized it was Ghost Village, and I scratched my head and said, where is there a village with this name? Is it another tourist project or something?

  Xiyao said, don't you know? It was very popular on the internet a while ago. A group of friends went hiking and arrived at a desolate village. They discovered many strange phenomena, such as rooms with no one living in them, two beds placed there, one bed spotless, the other covered in dust. Also, tables would move, chairs would suddenly fly up, and at night when they were staying over, a girl had various scratch marks on her body... it was too scary.

  I think I've seen this news before, but I didn't know it was in Qinghe Town. I said, Ghost Village is a new name for you guys, it definitely wasn't called that before. But I've been away for too long, so maybe I wouldn't have known anyway.

  The goddess said that this time we came together as a group, just to go on an adventure.

  I didn't have a particularly good impression of this silly girl, but instead had a strong desire to argue with her. I said, "You're here to catch ghosts?"

  The immortal woman gave me a glance and said, it's not impossible, let's catch you first.

  I'm actually a pretty boring person, but I have a sharp tongue and can't stand it when others take advantage of me. Just as I was about to say a few more words, a boy around Xiang Yao's age walked over from the front and stood beside our seats, saying to Xiang Yao, "Alright, my mistake, come back."

  Siyaohua gave him a white eye, hummed, and actually stood up obediently, looking at me again with what seemed to be guilt in her eyes.

  She said, then I'll go first.

  I nodded, and Siyao went over to hold the boy's arm, with a mischievous grin on her face, seemingly delighted by my expression.

  As for what my expression was like, I couldn't say either. The fortune teller said, "I've already told you, you have a boyfriend."

  I let out an "oh" and said, so do you have one?

  The goddess cut in and said, "You think you can catch up with me?"

  I smiled and said, I'm just afraid you'll bother me.

  The old woman stood up and waved her hand, seemingly not minding what I had just said. She said, "When a young couple quarrels and drags you in, what's that called? Never mind, let's not talk about it. You're also quite pitiful."

  I'm saying, don't you think men always have that kind of thought when they see women? Can't they have some normal thoughts for once?

  The nun was stunned and said, "Well, it's hard to find a gay person. If you say you're Liu Xiaohui, then stand up and take a look over there."

  I stood up in discontent, thinking that Xiang Yao was just an ordinary pretty girl, and I wasn't so shallow as to have ideas about her at first sight. After standing up, the fortune teller pointed to the wall and said, "Look at that, have you seen that beauty? Do you have any thoughts?"

  When a woman says another woman is beautiful, either the other woman really is, and she's just acknowledging it, or else the other woman is not as good-looking as her and she's trying to show off her own beauty.

  As I followed the fortune teller's hand, I was stunned. The girl sitting in front of me was incredibly beautiful, a beauty that was hard to describe. Just one glance at her made everything else seem dull and dark, leaving only a halo of light around her. Her movements seemed to have slowed down, and every gesture she made seemed to carry a dizzying power.

  Even if I've seen countless girls, I've never seen one as beautiful as her.

  The old woman snorted and said, "All men are like this."

  I stared at the girl's snow-white collarbone and was stunned for a moment, not noticing what the fortune teller was saying next to me. However, I gradually felt that my long-dry cornfield had a rising trend, so I hurriedly sat down and covered up the impending embarrassment.

  The fortune teller said, "Si Yao is angry because of this. This woman's name is Feng Yue. Listen to her name, 'Feng Yue' means limitless wind and moon, with a hint of seduction. Since she got on the car, all the men have been surrounding her, even Da Peng, Si Yao's boyfriend, couldn't help but sneak a peek at her when she sat next to him. Can you blame Si Yao for being angry? No matter how beautiful she is, she's just a temptress."

  I don't like hearing that. I'm not too fond of people insulting the woman who's going to be my child's mother just because she's pretty.

  The goddess hummed and said, "Obviously, it was an adventure organized by our good friends themselves. As a result, all the men nodded in agreement with both hands when an outsider, a cousin-in-law, intervened." I'm telling you, this adventure is going to be fun to watch.

  I asked, where are you going? Or I'll go with you.

  The immortal woman said, isn't this your behavior when you see us? Just now, I and Siyao were sitting next to you, why didn't you say you wanted to go with us?

  I said, I have nothing to say to you either, let's just call Fengyue, I'll go talk to her myself.

  The old nun gave me a glance, hummed and walked away. I smiled, sat down, picked up the unfinished book and continued reading.

  I'm actually a person who speaks without thinking, and I don't spare others from my words. In the past, people were afraid of being spoken ill of by others, but now they're afraid of being spoken well of by others.

  I made a joke with the courage of a thief but not the heart, and then picked up my book again. Unexpectedly, the fortune teller looked at me from afar, I felt her gaze, and exchanged a glance with her.

  They looked at each other without saying a word.

  As I looked at the book again, a figure flashed across it. This figure had been forgotten for many years, but suddenly remembered, and a warmth surged into my heart.

  They say that childhood sweetheart love is nothing, at that time we didn't even know what ** was, but after all these years, the figure of great love still flashes in my mind, the days with her are my warmest memories, every time I think of it, it makes me feel very peaceful, as if that little girl is by my side, taking care of me, caring about me, looking at me with her beautiful big eyes.

  This time I'm back, not just to save myself.

  When is a woman happiest?

  When she got married.

  If this curse is real, I have to save her before it's too late.

  If this curse is false, I will also see her marry happily.

  The train arrived at the station, and I never said goodbye to this group of people who met by chance. We only had an eye contact and a polite smile when taking our luggage.

  I saw Fengyue surrounded by a group of men like an empress.

  I saw Siyao's boyfriend following behind her with his head hung low and deliberately keeping a distance from Fengyue.

  I saw Siyao's face was unhappy, and I also saw Fengyue turn back, don't know if it was a smile at Siyao or my gentle smile.

  After getting off the bus, everyone split up and went their separate ways. Watching them go in a group, I was left alone with no idea where to go.

  Really feel very lonely.

  I went into town and found a small inn, where I stayed for the time being. The sky had already darkened somewhat, and my twenty-ninth day of life was to be spent in this small inn in the small town.

  It seems like I didn't have time to feel sentimental about it, and before I knew it, time had slipped away.

  I heard the ticking sound again, like a countdown of a time bomb ringing in my ears.

  Tick-tock, tick-tock.