[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

Gu Ran saw that the blind man was avoiding important things, so he refused to speak lightly, and he didn't ask too many questions.

Gu Ran and the blind man were about to leave, but suddenly they heard a strange movement behind them, they hurriedly pushed the blind man away, and swung a knife with the other hand to block.

That mummy turned into a zongzi somehow, the speed was extremely fast, and the attack was quite ruthless.

"What did this person do before, why is he so powerful?"

"I do not know either!"

"You don't know what kind of fight you're fighting for!" Gu Ran was so angry that he and the blind man were at a disadvantage together, so he had an idea, "Lead to the pool!"

Killing this zongzi can be said to be close to death. Gu Ran's head-to-head skills are already poor, and he met such a difficult master, which is a good luck.

In the end, thanks to the blind man's desperate efforts, he inserted a short knife into the zongzi's throat to finish.

The zongzi fell into the pool, and the blind man lost his strength and almost fell headfirst, thanks to Gu Ran who gave him a hand.

The two were paralyzed by the pool, panting and bandaging the wound, and the blind man was still smiling: "The knife I just got is gone before it's warmed up, what a loss!"

Gu Ran finished bandaging the wound in silence, then handed the other dagger to the blind man: "This one is for you, it's the same as the one just now."

The blind man lay on the ground, took the short knife, and asked with a smile, "Where did you get this thing? Such a sharp knife is rare."

"I made it myself." Gu Ran said indifferently, "There are more in Changsha, if you want, come back with me to choose?"

The blind man was silent for a long time, and then began to laugh strangely, which made Gu Ran wonder, thinking that the blind man had injured his brain when he fought against the rice dumplings.

"Anyway, we can't move now, so let me tell you a story?" The blind man didn't wait for Gu Ran to agree, and started to tell, "In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a bannerman in the capital, and there was a child at home who was born with a disease. Yes, my eyes are not good. Later, when I grew up and caught up with the war, this family thought about sending the child to study abroad and learn Western medical skills. What if it can be cured?"

Gu Ran looked at the blind man, and had a guess in his heart. The blind man spoke with a Beijing accent, and nine out of ten it was his own story.

"After finishing school, his eyes were still not healed, and they got worse and worse. He could hardly see anything in a bright place. Moreover, his eye disease affected his body. The day of total blindness is not far from the day of death." The blind man said, "There is no one in his family, and he wanted to live, so he started to search frantically, and found some clues, but it was a dead person, so he started fighting to heal his eyes."

"You came here just to cure your eyes? Does the epitaph have the information you want?" Gu Ran asked.

"I don't know, I have to go back and study it carefully." The blind man was not surprised at all that Gu Ran guessed that he was the protagonist of the story.

Gu Ran thought for a while and said, "Come back to Changsha with me. I'm good at medicine. I'll show you when I go back. Maybe there's a way."

"Thanks, but it may not be useful." The blind man said bluntly.

"Try it, I won't hurt you."

After resting for more than an hour and recovering some physical strength, the two left the tomb and returned to Changsha along the way they came from.

Gu Ran took the blind man back to Zhang's mansion, Zhang Qishan probably went to deal with military affairs, neither he nor the adjutant was there.

Gu Ran pinched the blind man's pulse, the pulse was very strange, this was the first time Gu Ran felt that he couldn't do anything.He frowned and pondered for a while, then turned around and closed the curtains, then suddenly reached out and took off the blind man's sunglasses very quickly.

The blind man made a subconscious move, a moment slower than Gu Ran, unable to hold back the palm wind, and hit Gu Ran's arm with a palm.

Gu Ran's hands trembled, and the sunglasses almost fell out of his hands.He put the sunglasses on the table and complained: "Isn't it just to look at your eyes, you have agreed to let me treat your eyes."

The blind man's eyes are a bit strange, the pupil color is a little lighter than that of ordinary people, the shape of the eyes is also slightly different from that of ordinary Han people, and the eye sockets are a bit sunken.Any single feature would not feel strange, but the combination makes people feel inexplicably frightened.

The blind man was silent for a long time and said, "No outsider has ever seen me take off my sunglasses."

"Oh, then I'll be the first." Gu Ran said in a calm tone, but his heart was beating, and he turned around pretending to be calm, took out a bottle of medicine from the drawer, and handed it to the blind man, "Try this, maybe It can slow down the deterioration of your eyes a bit, but I can do nothing to cure it.”

The blind man didn't answer, Gu Ran thought for a while, and added: "Eat it if you believe it, throw it away if you don't believe it, it doesn't matter."

The blind man took it, smiled, opened it and swallowed a pill: "Of course I believe you."

Gu Ran laughed, and took the blind man to his arsenal—it was an arsenal, but it was just a few knives he made.

"I promise you, choose one yourself."

The blind man was not polite, picked up one by one and waved it, and chose a short knife that was longer than ordinary daggers, "My jar of wine is worth the money!" He put the knife in his bag and put it on Gu Ran's shoulder. Push people out, "Go, I'll take you to a place."

Gu Ran followed him without asking where he was going.

The blind man took Gu Ran to the train station and bought two tickets to Peking.

"What are you going to Peiping for?" Gu Ran said helplessly, "You said you were going to Peiping earlier, so I told Zhang Qishan."

Hei Xiazi's tone was a bit strange: "I'm having a good time with the young lady of the Crescent Hotel, where do you have to report?"

In troubled times, people's minds are the most free, and there are no taboos. Gu Ran knew what the black blind man meant at once. If it weren't for the people coming and going at the station, he would almost want to do it.

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Ran curled his lips, "I mean, ask Yin Xinyue if he has any family letters or anything to bring to the Crescent Hotel. Besides, Zhang Qishan is busy with work now, and many of the underground businesses are done by me. Never mind, I have to explain after I've been away for a long time, otherwise it's easy to cause trouble."

The blind man knew he was wrong, and looked at the time on the ticket, "It's still too late, why don't you go back and tell me?"

Gu Ran shook his head, smiled and said, "No, it's not that important."

The blind man smiled, put his hand on Gu Ran's shoulder, "It seems that the blind man is more important."

Gu Ran rolled his eyes, but did not refute.

When they arrived in Peiping, the blind man hailed two rickshaws, told them the name of a place, and the driver took them there.

It took less than half an hour to arrive at the place. It was a dilapidated mansion, the gate was locked, and an old seal was still on the door.It can be seen from the format that this house was once brilliant.

The blind man led Gu Ran around to the back wall. Seeing no one on the left and right, he climbed up the wall with ease, and called Gu Ran: "Come up!"

"Sneaky." Gu Ran curled his lips, muttered, and followed the blind man over the wall into the yard.

After entering the room, it was not locked, and the blind man opened a room. The room was very clean, and it could be seen that someone often came to clean it.

"This is where I used to live." The blind man sat on a grand master's chair and smiled, touching the pattern carved on the chair with his hand.

Gu Ran pursed his lips. He had no memory of his past and was alone. He couldn't feel the so-called nostalgia for his family. He just felt that the blind man should be in a bad mood, so he smiled and adjusted the atmosphere intentionally: "Bring me here Do you miss your childhood? Why don’t you tell me, when you were young, did you urinate on that couch, and on which bench did you get beaten?”

"It's not easy for you to disturb your emotions." The blind man said with disgust, but it is undeniable that the melancholy that just reminded him of the past was dispelled by Gu Ran's joke.

The blind man stood up and dragged Gu Ran to the backyard, "Show you my old collection."

There was a large water tank in the backyard, and the blind man pushed it away to reveal a brick. He tapped the brick twice, and a hole was revealed in the ground in another corner.

The blind man led Gu Ran down the tunnel, and within two steps, Gu Ran smelled the aroma of wine.

"Your wine cellar?"

The blind man nodded: "It's a beautiful day, why don't you have a few drinks?"

The night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is indeed a good day, but the beauty?Gu Ran thought about the weeds in the yard: "Where is the beauty?"

The blind man picked up two jars of wine and raised his head towards Gu Ran: "Isn't this a beautiful scene? Gu Meiren."

Gu Ran blinked, blushed a little, turned his head and walked out and said, "Dogs can't spit ivory out of their mouths."

The blind man also knew that the yard was ridiculously dirty, and neither of them was willing to clean it.The moon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was nothing special, and it was still terribly cold outside, so I simply went inside, leaned on the Arhat bed, chatted and drank.

The wine that the blind man took out was really good wine, Gu Ran had a good capacity for drinking, but after drinking half of the jar, he was a little drunk.

Later, when it was late at night, he looked at the blind man and smiled, then reached out and took off the blind man's sunglasses, stared into his eyes, and vaguely saw some deep and shallow feelings.

a long loved friend

Three, Changsha

In fact, Gu Ran was conscious about what happened at night, he has always been easier than others to maintain mental sobriety, Qi Laoba said that he is connected to the sky.The old eight's words were babbling, and Gu Ran passed them after listening to them.

In all fairness, Gu Ran did have some interest in this blind man, his skills and style all appealed to him, unlike those people in Changsha who were always looking forward and backward, this blind man was more self-centered and freer.

Gu Ran felt that their souls were connected.

Rather than saying that he is drunk, it is better to say that he is using the name of drunkenness to wantonly release some unintentional emotions.

Gu Ran is not a self-disciplined person, he usually sleeps until the sun rises when he has nothing to do, this time he waits for the blind man to tell him to eat before getting up.

After living in this dilapidated house in Beijing for a few days, the blind man is still alive, Gu Ran should go back to Changsha.

Before parting, the blind man gave him two jars of wine and a jade pendant, and said with a smile: "I promise you the reward, I will find a way to get the gun