Obligations of the elderly

"...Are you students of Ji Ling College? Wow, that is a prestigious school, and only very good students can get in!" Gong Si was still resting with his eyes closed, while the neighbor next door was already talking about which school they were from. Here it comes.

Malone told him his school, and asked him where he was from.

"I'm a businessman, and my business is about trade. I prefer to search for unpopular products in remote places, and then sell them all over the world." The man said, laughing again: "Speaking of which, very few parts were found among the gravel. Precious treasures seem to be my pleasure!"

"This is really cool! Mr. Juno." Malone exclaimed.

By the way, they also exchanged names. The man introduced himself as Juno, who also came from an orphanage, which made Marlon feel familiar with him all of a sudden, but Gongsi estimated that even without such a heavy identity, Relying on the man's chatting skills alone, Malone can still have a lively chat with the other party.

However, this does not prevent Gong Si from wanting to join their chat. Although Malone and Nilu are both acquaintances, it was they who took the initiative to talk to him at the time, which led to their later friendship. It was different from how this man gave him. For some reason, Gong Si always felt that there was something separated from him.

Is it age difference?Gong Si thought.

"He's lying. ’The voice of the stream suddenly sounded in his head.

This can be regarded as a unique "chat channel" between the two after the contract is signed, right?Sometimes Gongsi can't master this kind of dialogue well, but Xiliu has long been able to use it freely.

It's just because Gong Si doesn't seem to like "whispering" very much at ordinary times, so he rarely uses it.

Squinting his eyes and looking at the opposite stream, Gong Si saw that the stream was still reading a book with lowered eyes, and the title of the book was "Traditional Folk Patterns Around Donghuo City".

"cut!Get books from the library again! 』Gong Si gave him a sideways look.

"Uncle saw that I like it, so he offered to give it to me." ’ Xiliu said aggrievedly.

There are a lot of old uncles...Gong Si has a chill, but he carefully protects himself from being heard by Xiliu → After all, Xiliu is a delicate and sensitive person, and usually he least likes to be told that he is old .

Not a woman!What do you care about your age?Gongsi complained in his heart.

"Tell me, what's the matter with lying?" Gongsi said.

"He's been lying from the start. Looking a pair of dark eyes from the back of the book to the palace, the stream said in his heart.

Gong Si was stunned, he really didn't pay attention.

"Remember it. ”Xi Liu began to bring him back to the memory: “After getting in the car and asking where we bought our boxed lunches, he said——”

"I said, I also said that I haven't taken the train for a long time, and the lunch box on the train is so delicious."

"He said he hadn't taken the train for a long time, then what? 』

"...I don't know when the box lunches will be sold on the train, but..."

"He also took the initiative to say that he didn't know when the boxed lunches would be sold on the train, which meant that he knew that there were boxed lunches sold on the train. 』

"Although it can be regarded as a slip of the tongue caused by a way of describing, but based on his subsequent performance, I don't think it is the reason.What's more, he later deliberately called the palm tree the eight camphor tree. 』

"A businessman who stayed in the area of ​​Higashivolcano City for a long time looking for special products, even if he was chatting with us, he should have read the eight camphor tree as the slap tree, but he didn't." 』

At first, he just didn't pay attention, but he must have found a contradiction in his heart, otherwise he would not want to participate in the chat next door from the bottom of his heart. After Xiliu's explanation, he found so many loopholes in the man, and Gongsi got the answer At the same time, I am a little confused:

"What is he lying about?"We are just a few students. 』

"I don't know, but this person is not malicious. As Xiliu said, he tapped his own brain lightly with his fingers: "My intuition told me so. 』

No malice, but lying?

In the end, Gong Si could only think that this was a way for adults to conceal their identities, and stared at the neighbor for a while, and finally waited for the other party to give him a little smile, peeking at the person who was hit by someone, Gong Si tilted his head , Continue to close your eyes and meditate.

Then, the next door actually started playing cards.

It seems to be suggested by Malone. When the waiter pushed the train service car over, he happened to see playing cards for sale on the cart. He bought a pack of cards excitedly, and he asked someone to play cards.

But when he drew out the cards, he realized that it was not the ordinary poker he had imagined, but a card he had never seen before.

"Oh, it's Philo cards, similar to poker, but the playing method is different." It was Juno who was well-informed and explained the identity of this deck of cards in one sentence.

"Philo card? What kind of card is this?" Malone considered himself a poker master, but as for the Phelo card...he had never heard of it.

"It's an ancient playing card. Young people like you don't know much about it, but old people know a lot, especially those with abilities." Juno said, taking the card from Malone's hand with a look of nostalgia. : "Seven more than the number of poker cards, corresponding to fire, wind, earth, water, light, wave, and devouring."

"Everyone can take turns to draw common cards, and finally draw extra attribute cards according to the number of players. Common cards often correspond to various abilities, and then the attribute cards endow these abilities with attributes as the name suggests."

"Among them, the devouring system is also known as the king. Once any ability is endowed with the attributes of the devouring system, it will become a trump card and can defeat the cards in the opponent's hand."

Juno explained slowly.

"Ability? Attribute? Could it be..." Malone's eyes widened.

Nodding his head, Juno smiled and said, "That's right, it's the poker cards that imitate the battle between capable users, also called battle cards."

"At first, it was a kind of card created by capable people to avoid fighting or pass the time, and then it became very popular among ordinary people. As for the current poker cards, they actually evolved from this kind of fighting cards. .”

"Wow! That's something I've never heard of." Malone said.

"I seem to have heard from my father that when they were young, they had a card that could simulate the fighting of ability users." Ni Lu seemed to remember something, rubbing his head and said.

"That's it." Juno said, "crashing" the cards in his hand: "How about it, do you want to try the Philo card?"

Malone immediately agreed, and Emin naturally agreed, even Xiliu put down the book in his hand, and Gongsi waved to everyone: "Just play, I want to read for a while."

As he spoke, he grabbed the book that Xiliu had put down and gestured to everyone.

Without forcing him, the others started playing cards enthusiastically.

The first two rounds were still a bit of a mess, because Juno was needed to explain the rules from time to time, and things got better from the beginning.

The others are considered good at reading, and it is easier to accept various rules. Although Malone has a poor mind, he is a natural gambler. Nilu who is not good at playing cards.

However, although Malone is good at playing cards, the person who wins the most is not him, but the smiling stream beside him.

I don't know what kind of coincidence it is, but Xiliu can get the swallowing card every time. He always has the "trump card" in his hand, and it's easy for him to win.

If Juno hadn't been there, Marlon would probably have screamed.

However, although he is enthusiastic and talkative, at first glance he looks a bit big-mouthed, but in fact, on issues of principle, his mouth is tighter than anyone else. Even Juno, who has a good chat, he does not intend to reveal the ability of the stream .

So he could only look at the stream, and finally took back his complaints.

"How can people play this? How is Xiliu so lucky?" Muttering, Malone carefully played another set of cards.

Then Xiliu suppressed another pair of aces and suppressed the audience again.

But he is a person who accepts as soon as he sees it, and soon he waved his hand to indicate that he quit, but when he quit, he also took out the "swallowing" that he had just put on the table.

"Since one person is missing, this card should not appear, so that everyone can enjoy playing evenly." He said.

I still have some opinions on Malone - he also wants to win a "devour"!But thinking that if other people draw him and won't be able to win, after thinking about it, he still gave up.

Juno laughed and reshuffled the cards.

While shuffling the cards, he said slowly: "Ability attributes that are too strong will be squeezed out by other attributes."

"Legends say that the year that everyone celebrates every year is the devouring beast-shaped weapon. Because it was too strong, he was eventually surrounded by other-attributed beast-shaped weapons, and was eventually driven out of all continents."

"Huh?" Raising his eyebrows, Malone heard a new theory.

"Is there such a legend?" Malone turned to look at Nilu.

"This... My father hasn't told me about this yet." After thinking carefully, Nilu shook his head: "However, folklore is the culmination of folk traditions from all over the world, and every place has its own legends. !"

"I also heard a lot of anecdotes from the local population because I went shopping in various places." With a laugh, Juno reshuffled the cards.

A new round of card drawing started again, this time without devouring cards, everyone was looking forward to having as much fun as possible.

Lin is also drawing cards.

The others sat face to face according to the relationship between the user and the device. He was the only one who was alone, and the opposite of him should have been empty, but as soon as Juno came over and sat opposite him, so now he is with him. Juno sat facing each other.

He is actually not interested in playing cards, but he just sits in the busiest seat ← Malone sits next to him, Juno sits next to him, and the two most chatty people are next to him, he would rather play games than chat son card.

At least when using his brain, the guy next door can save a few words.

However, as soon as he played cards, he quickly realized that it would be even more torture for him if he played cards badly. After how many rounds he played, he caught a good pair of cards in the first round, and from the second round, He just had a bad hand, and it was only by tricks that he managed to last a few more rounds, and then, in this round——

Lin was originally waiting for the draw of cards with a calm face. However, when he drew the ability cards, he was suddenly stunned. Then, when he finished drawing the corresponding attribute cards, something went wrong with him.

His face was pale, and his eyes faltered as he looked at the cards in his hand.

"It's your turn." Malone urged him after he was in a daze for a while.

Lin instinctively folded the two cards in his hand together, then suddenly stood up stiffly.

"Hey? What are you doing?" Malone was taken aback by his actions.

"I...I want to go to the bathroom." Lin said stiffly.

Although he thought he was a bit strange, Malone still gave way, and Nilu next door also gave way, came out from the innermost part, and ran to the other end of the corridor.

"Ah! The nearest toilet on our side is in the opposite direction! It takes two more carriages to get there!" Malone reminded him loudly.

However, as if he didn't hear him roaring, the scales rushed forward without looking back.

"Probably because he was too anxious." Malone spread his hands and said, "His face turned pale."

"Maybe I have to squat down!" After a while, finding that Lin still hadn't come back, Malone continued to comment: "Wait—he didn't seem to bring toilet paper with him when he left, and there is no toilet paper in the toilet here..."

"Then I'll go over there and deliver toilet paper for him, and go to the toilet by the way." Mr. Juno also stood up, and Emin and Xingyun who were sitting next to him also stood up to make way for him.

And then Mr. Juno passed by too, it's just...

"Does Mr. Juno have toilet paper?" Malone was a little dumbfounded.

"Maybe he has tissues in his trouser pocket," Emin told him.

"It looks flat over there, it doesn't look like there is toilet paper..." Malone tried to recall.

Seeing Malone and Emin seriously discuss Lin and Juno's bathroom problem, the other friends could only remain silent.

Each held their own cards, and everyone waited in place.

***

I ran from my seat to the end of the train. It was probably a compartment for the passengers behind me. No one was there at the moment. It was quiet. The sun shone in through the glass, making the compartment bright and warm. But he couldn't feel this kind of warmth at all. He opened his hands and looked at the things in his hands. His face was pale.

What he was holding in his hand were the two cards he had just drawn, one was the red thread, and the other was scissors.

When he just drew the red line from the ability card, he didn't feel too strange, thinking it was just a coincidence, but when he drew the scissors from the attribute card, he immediately knew something was wrong!

There is no attribute "scissors" in the attribute card!

Someone must have put the "scissors" card in!And it was deliberately placed in his hands!This person... this person can only be...

With her heart pounding, Lin slowly raised her head and looked in the direction she ran from——

Wearing a black suit with broad shoulders, the handsome Mr. Juno came from there.

There was a smile on his face, a smile, thinking about it carefully, it seemed that from the moment he saw him, he had this kind of smile almost all the time. .

Why did you only notice it now?

Why did you only find out that this person was wrong now?

The sweat on his forehead merged into water droplets, rolling down one by one along Lin's cheeks, some fell on his shoulders, and the other part trickled down his neck, merging with the cold sweat on his body.

It was very cold, I don't know if it was because of the cold sweat all over his head and body, Lin felt that his whole body was completely cold.

"You're afraid of me." He heard the man named Juno speak to him.

It's a firm tone.

While speaking, the man slowly approached him, and stopped when he was about one person away from him, and stood in front of him like this. Only then did he realize that the other party was tall, and he It will just hit the opponent's chest.

He couldn't see the other person's face, and he didn't dare to look at the other person's face.

The fear of childhood enveloped him, and he found that he was still so timid.

"Why? I obviously just fulfilled your wish. You said you didn't want the ability, didn't you?" The other party was puzzled, but there was no doubt in his tone, and some were just joking.

"But it's nothing~" he heard the man say again softly.

Just when Lin finally plucked up the courage to look up at the other person, he saw that person was looking at him with purple-black eyes.

"I accidentally dealt the wrong card." The man looked at him, his eyes suddenly turned down, and his fingers also turned down, pointing lightly at the... cards on his hand.

"This card is yours, and the other one is mine. I accidentally dealt it wrong." He saw Juno smiling at himself, then stretched out his hand and pulled out a card from his hand.

Shaking the card in front of his eyes, Juno smiled and said, "This is mine."

The face of that card... is scissors.

"Bye bye." Then he saw the other party waving at him and walking behind him.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and when Lin suddenly turned his head and looked behind him, there was no one there, only the original end of the train corridor remained.

That person disappeared.

Juno disappeared.

Only the red line card in his hand was left.

***

When Lin came back from the end of the train in a daze, Malone saw him at a glance.

"Where did you go? Mr. Juno went to find you. He said he was bringing you toilet paper, but I didn't see him take the toilet paper. Don't worry, I grabbed the toilet paper and went to you, and there were two I didn't find you in the car, where did you go to the bathroom?" Malone said in a loud voice first.

Then lowered his voice later: "Is that... wiped clean?"

scale:"……"

That's Malone.

Although it was a bit rough to be so full of the smell of fireworks, Lin finally felt a little heat, and pushed all his hair back. He felt the dampness when his fingers were inserted into the hair, and he realized that his hair was also soaked.

"What's wrong?" Malone finally saw that something was wrong.

Without answering directly, Lin directly threw the cards in his hand onto the table.

It's the red card.

"Phelo card? Is this the card you just drew?" Malone was stunned, and soon thought: "Is there a deck of cards here?"

He also counted the cards left on the table: "There is no shortage of cards, wait—"

"Mr. Juno didn't take any cards when he left, but you took two cards and left..."

"Juno is the clown." Sitting back in his seat, Lin finally said, "The cards I just drew were inserted by him. One is a red thread, and the other is scissors. He said the scissors belonged to him. Take them away." Alright, leave me this red line card."

Although his words were plain but clear, after understanding the meaning of his words, Marlon and the others froze for a moment before exploding——

"What! Mr. Juno is that clown?!"

"Dream cutter?!" Malone said in a low voice.

Closing his eyes, Lin nodded wearily.

Malone stood dumbfounded...Standing, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the luggage rack above, and saw Juno's suitcase there, he took it off and opened it, and there was a A clown suit!

"Oh!" Xiliu raised his eyebrows.

Gong Si also felt that there was no surprise at all.

At first, he thought Juno was weird, but if the other party was a clown... then all this would be normal.

"Is it 'return'? The other party came here to return your abilities to you?" Gong Si also looked through the clown suit, but found nothing. He put the clown suit back, and put the suitcase back Put it back on the shelf.

"I don't know, I... don't know anything." Lin shook his head.

"In short, he shouldn't be malicious, big head...I only discovered it after a long, long time after my ability returned. Of course, it may be that I am dead-headed and unwilling to admit the reality. You are smarter than me. Try to think about it. I want to see, maybe I can come back with my ability." Gong Si said to him.

Looking at Gongsi, Lin finally said "thank you" softly.

***

Don't worry, Gong Si finally called his uncle and told what happened to him. When he mentioned that the clown he met claimed to be Juno, the uncle said indifferently: "Juno is his real name, use his real name." Approaching you, he should have no malice."

"I think so too, but what Lin received was just a red line card, how did the ability get it back... That clown didn't say..." The voice from Gong Si on the other end of the phone was a little puzzled, and the uncle imagined that he frowned in puzzlement look.

"Same as your situation, Juno's ability to "return" is limited to returning the red thread to the ability user who has been cut. How to do it depends on the person who has been cut."

"I understand, thank you uncle, we are fine here, uncle, you should go to bed earlier." Gong Si said goodbye to the uncle.

The uncle - Gong Chujiu hung up the phone lightly, and then squinted at the man who appeared in his yard at some time - the clown Juno.

Still wearing the suit he wore when he met Gong Si and the others, he just stood in the yard, with snowflakes covering his head and shoulders.

"Would you like me to come in and have a sit? It's a bit cold to jump on the train in this weather~" he said with a smile.

Gong Chujiu: "..."

Without agreeing or refusing, Gong Chujiu casually boiled a pot of water beside him, and then continued to pull the bellows. The muscles of his shoulders agitated with the movement of pulling the bellows, and his figure was full of strength and beauty.

He is now in his studio, a warehouse outside the kitchen, sharpening knives.

The blades of some kitchen knives sent by some people were broken, and it was not enough to just sharpen them with a whetstone. The blades needed to be recast and then polished separately.

"Your posture of pulling the bellows is really beautiful and dignified." Juno found a place to sit down, and Juno also poured himself a glass of water from Gong Chujiu's cup, holding the cup with both hands, he sipped hot water while warming his hands.

"Ah~ the water here is so sweet!" He sighed.

"That's the water used to quench the knife just now." Gong Chujiu said coldly.

"No wonder it's so delicious~" Juno was still smiling, "Gulu", he took another sip.

"Your nephew looks a bit like you, and he has a bit of a similar temper. I think he can take over as a knife maker in the future, so you can be counted as a successor." Juno didn't mind his master ignoring him at all, and said to himself: "But He is the same as you, so many people talk to me, but he ignores me from beginning to end."

"This Gao Leng is also very similar to you!"

"His ability is too high, I can't cut it completely, but there is really fate in this world. I turned his ability into a goldfish and carried it with me, just because I was afraid that it would run back, and ended up temporarily in one place. I set up a goldfish fishing stall, but I ran into your nephew, and he fished it back by himself, it’s not my fault~ This is fate, fate.” Juno, who spoke so gracefully in front of others, is now an uncle In front of him, he became a chatterbox.

"His friend's ability, I also gave him a red line, whether he can make up for it is up to him." He said again: "How about it, just rely on this one, help me sharpen a knife, how about it?"

As he spoke, he took out a card from his pocket, then flicked it violently, and that card suddenly turned into a pair of scissors.

Silver scissors with red strings tied to the handles...

It was the pair of scissors that Gong Si had seen in his dream.

"I didn't ask you to return it to him." Gong Chujiu said flatly.

"But isn't that a matter of time? You go to find the kindling, my utensils haven't been polished, and I feel a little blunt recently, help me sharpen them?"

As he spoke, he threw the scissors in his hand towards Gong Chujiu.

After taking the scissors, Gong Chujiu frowned: "Listen to Gongsi, you just turned your poker into someone else's hands, and now you throw it to me like this, you are not afraid that one day your poker will be destroyed." Taken by someone?"

The man showed a devilish smile: "I'm looking forward to it~"

"Hurry up and sharpen it, I can't wait to admire your beautiful posture of sharpening the knife." He immediately urged.

The author has something to say: Clown: Jumping the train and disappearing is handsome, but it's so cold~~~~~~~~~~~

Uncle: deserve it