Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 99: Guan Gong's Robe (Part )
"died?"

Xiao Ran was stunned for a second. It couldn't be such a coincidence, right? The old man just talked to me about baldness last night, and he died? ?

This is just too much of a coincidence.

"What about the body? I want to pay my respects to him. My grandfather and he are old friends, so I have to show some respect for him."

"Amitabha, Baldy has passed away. His body will be sent to the funeral home after a ritual. It is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb the ritual. Please forgive me."

"Hey, hey, hey!" Xiao Ran hurriedly stopped the other person and held the monk's hand, saying, "Master, my grandfather is really his good friend. I just want to do a little bit of favor. Can you let me go back and give an explanation?"

As he said this, he calmly stuffed two hundred yuan into the monk's sleeve.

The monk saw this and coughed lightly, then said, "Amitabha, monks should open the door of convenience."

As he said this, he looked around and hurriedly pulled Xiao Ran in.

Then he closed the door, took the two hundred yuan in his hand and smiled: "It's really two hundred, Master Baldhead is right."

Xiao Ran was stunned when he saw this and stared at the monk blankly.

Noticing Xiao Ran's gaze, the monk smiled and said, "Today, Master Lai Tou told me to wait here. If anyone comes to see him, they can tell him that he has passed away. I will get 200 yuan for incense. I didn't expect it to be true."

Xiao Ran's mouth twitched a few times, and he suddenly felt like he was being fooled. He said sarcastically with a cold face: "So, monks nowadays have started to tell lies?"

Last night the beggar said that monks don’t tell lies. It seems ironic now.

"Hey, I'm not a monk. I'm here to work." The young monk didn't care. Instead, he openly admitted that he was not a real monk. Without waiting for Xiao Ran to continue, he walked along the path next to him and said, "Go along the path inside and you will see a small vegetable garden."

"Are you sure you didn't lie to me this time?"

"I lied to you that I was a puppy."

Xiao Ran grabbed the other person's wrist and said, "That won't do. Nowadays, dogs are more trustworthy than humans. Take me there."

The young man was startled and suddenly felt unhappy. He was about to break free when Xiao Ran pinched him with his fingers. A piercing pain came over him, and he grimaced in pain. His whole body froze and he couldn't move.

"If you take my money and don't take me with you, then give it back to me. I'll see if this bald man's calculations are still accurate."

The young man nodded quickly: "Sure, sure, sure, I'll take you there, be gentle, ouch... it hurts!!"

Xiao Ran let go of his hand, not afraid that the boy would run away, and kicked him in the butt: "Lead the way. If you dare to lie to me, even Lord Guan can't save you."

The young monk covered his wrist, with a bitter face, and led Xiao Ran inside.

Just as he said, after walking through a pine and cypress forest, we saw a small vegetable garden behind it.

There is a sign at the door [No visitors allowed]

"It's inside, go in on your own."

As he spoke, the young monk called out to the inside: "Master Lai, someone is looking for you."

Not long after the shouting, the door of the small house behind the vegetable garden was pushed open a crack.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran no longer paid attention to the young monk, and walked to the door on the blue bricks on the ground; "Master Lai, I..."

"Stinky, so stinky, you smell so strongly of a corpse, you must be a child of the Xiao family."

The door of the room was opened, and an old man with a skinny body, a bald head, and a height like a dwarf pushed the door open. After looking Xiao Ran up and down, he immediately closed the door and said, "Go back. There is no hope. Both locks have been broken. You are not far from death."

Xiao Ran was stunned when he heard the words, and stood outside the door for a while, not knowing what to do. But the other party saw the problem with just one glance at him, which showed that this person was indeed an expert.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Ran remembered his grandfather's instructions and picked up the roast chicken in his hand; "Master Lai, my grandfather asked me to come and see you, saying that you like Zhang's roast chicken in Yushuyuan..."

Before Xiao Ran finished speaking, the door was opened again: "Forget it, come in."

After the bald-headed old man finished speaking, he took the roast chicken, motioned for Xiao Ran to come in, and then closed the door again.

The room is not big, but it has everything you need, including tables, chairs, benches, air conditioners and computers. It's just a little crowded, but the bed and desk, everything is in order.

The old man sat on the bed with a small table made specially for him. He opened the plastic bag, grabbed a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth. While eating, he said, "It's hard for your grandfather to remember what I like to eat after being dead for a year."

Xiao Ran was a little surprised when he heard this. Not many people knew about his grandfather's death, at least he had never told the bald man in front of him. The bald man took a bite and suddenly remembered something. He turned around and opened the small wooden cabinet next to him. He took out a bottle of wine and shook it, but found that there was no wine.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran immediately took out a bottle from the space without any expression, pretended to take it out from behind and handed it over.

The old man was not polite when he saw this. He opened the wine and took a sip. His eyebrows were immediately beaming with joy: "Good wine, good wine."

He quickly poured himself a glass of wine, then took a bite of the roast chicken and sipped the wine, eating with gusto and unable to stop smiling.

Xiao Ran was not in a hurry. He glanced around the room and suddenly noticed a black and white photo hanging on the wall.

The photo is old. At that time, everyone was wearing patched cotton-padded clothes, but everyone's face was very energetic. Xiao Ran glanced around and unexpectedly saw his grandfather.

"My grandpa."

Xiao Ran pointed at the photo.

This surprised Lai Tou a little. He followed Xiao Ran's finger and took a look: "Hey, you are quite good. You can recognize this."

"Hehe, I'm just guessing. Although the appearance has changed a little, the eyes will not change."

The bald man nodded: "You have a good eye. Sit down first and have a drink with me. I will tell you slowly."

Xiao Ran picked up the wine glass and drank two glasses of wine with Lai Tou. After the two of them had three rounds of drinks, Lai Tou ate most of the roast chicken before looking up at Xiao Ran again: "What era is it now? You still have such a strong murderous aura. Have you been feeling a little manic recently? You feel like taking action as soon as things go wrong."

After hearing what Lai Tou said, Xiao Ran's heart skipped a beat. His mood had indeed been fluctuating more and more recently. Just last night, if it weren't for Huang Le, those four boys would have become corpses and been thrown into the space by him to be used as materials.

"A person's fate is based on four pillars and eight beams, but there are three padlocks underneath. If someone breaks two of your padlocks and you lose these two padlocks, your fate will become increasingly fragile. If your fate is fragile, you will be a worthless person, and if you are a worthless person, your spirit will be unstable."

When Xiao Ran heard what Lai Tou said, he was in a trance and remembered that during the trial in the maze city, the old lady took out seven gold bars and pressed them on him, and said at that time that his fate was very heavy.

Now it has become very light in the blink of an eye.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran's expression suddenly changed.

"I see there is still a lock on your body that has not been broken open. This lock is pressing on you. You won't die for the time being, but the lighter your fate is, the greater the change in your destiny will be. It's like a leaf without roots. It will fly wherever the wind blows. Now you may be in the upwind direction, with good fortune and luck recently, but once the wind changes, you will be in an abyss in an instant, and you will have no power to turn over."

Xiao Ran felt cold sweat coming out of his heart and frowned, "Is there any other way?"

"Yes, there is, but you are in too much trouble. The favor your grandfather gave you back then was not enough. I saw that there seems to be something on you just now. Has your fate been changed by someone?"

"Fate?"

Xiao Ran thought for a moment and said, "Oh, I asked the Zhou family to make a paper man for me beforehand in case of any emergency."

The paper man that Xiao Ran had asked the Zhou family to make was to prevent Xue Hongling from cursing him. After killing Xue Hongling, Xiao Ran forgot about it.

Only when it was mentioned at this moment did Xiao Ran remember this matter.

"The Zhou family? The paper mannequin Zhou family?"

"Correct."

"Hey, your grandfather is really well-respected." The bald man curled his lips, picked up a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth, "Come on, I have a way to save you."

Xiao Ran's eyes lit up: "What method?"

The bald-headed master took a sip of wine, savored it for a moment, and pointed outside the door: "What is this place?"

"Guan Yu Temple?"

Xiao Ran was confused: "Why? I can't ask Master Guan Gong to help me."

Upon hearing this, the bald man's face flushed red. He took another sip before saying, "If Guan Gong doesn't serve the people, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes. We Chinese don't keep idle gods. Now that you have entered the Guan Gong Temple, how can this Lord Guan Gong ignore you? As the saying goes, if you have been under Guan Gong's robe, you will have passed through every difficulty."

After saying that, the bald man pulled Xiao Ran's arm and whispered in his ear: "Let's let Master Guan protect you through the underworld..."

　The fourth update will be around nine o'clock in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)