Chapter 407 Coffin on the Train
The old express train made a "clang, clang" sound, like the sound of an old man's knees unable to bear the weight. It traveled in the desert Gobi for a day and a night.
After the scorching sun set and rose again, the train stopped only once.
In this land, it is normal for two cities to be separated by hundreds of kilometers.
On the train, everyone slowly woke up, and the conductor had already started shouting "Peanuts, mineral water, and melon seeds."
The conductor doesn't care whether people are awake or not. Anyway, if someone is really sleepy, he probably won't be woken up by her.
However, it still feels a bit noisy.
Waking someone up is the most annoying thing in the world, and it is the same no matter where you are.
Some people turned their heads impatiently, and most of those who were so sleepy were too lazy to argue with the conductor.
The little girl was also awakened. She poked her head out from her mother's arms and secretly looked at Wen Zhengming, as if she was playing hide-and-seek.
It also seemed as if he was afraid that Wen Zhengming would run away.
Wen Zhengming was watching the sunrise at this time. Watching the sunrise on the train has a unique flavor.
Because the field of vision is constantly moving, you can see the ever-changing scenery at the moment of sunrise.
The moment the red sun rose above the mountains, Wen Zhengming slowly withdrew his gaze.
"Awake?"
"Uh-huh!"
The little girl's chubby face was filled with smiles, but her eyes were still hazy.
But even so, the little girl Li Ting still asked politely: "When did uncle wake up?"
"I didn't sleep all night."
Wen Zhengming chuckled.
The little girl blinked her eyes when she heard that and said, "But... why don't you sleep?"
Before Wen Zhengming could answer, the girl's mother tapped her head with her finger and said:
"Uncle is just playing with you."
Wen Zhengming smiled but said nothing. He indeed had not slept all night, but there was really no need to say such things out loud.
The little Taoist girl looked a little confused. She looked at her mother and then at Wen Zhengming.
"Uncle, is that so?"
"yes!"
Wen Zhengming nodded.
"I heard there are some powerful big cats that don't need to sleep. Is uncle the same?"
The little girl tilted her head back and looked at Wen Zhengming seriously.
Wen Zhengming burst out laughing. Why did he run to the big cat again?
"Who told you that?"
The little girl shook her finger and said, "Grandma's big cat never sleeps at night."
"You still say that!"
The girl's mother, Li Shu, reached out and touched the girl's head, glanced at Wen Zhengming and explained:
"After the little guy found out that the big cat didn't sleep at night, he pulled the big cat and didn't let it sleep during the day."
"That cat can't stand the torture she's doing. Even a hawk can't be tortured like this."
"In the end, the cat ran away when it saw her, so it wasn't just because Xiaoting pulled out the cat's whiskers."
Speaking of this, the little girl's mother seemed a little embarrassed, feeling that her little girl was too naughty.
Well... raising a child is still a bit tiring!
Although they had only chatted for a day, Wen Zhengming had already learned from the girl's mother how the girl had treated the big cat before.
Wen Zhengming felt that the cat probably had some psychological trauma now.
"Children are indeed more playful. I was not a well-behaved child when I was young. I often chased cats and dogs."
Wen Zhengming was telling the truth; he was also a famous naughty boy when he was young.
But now I think about it, they are all memories!
The little girl's mother, Li Shu, did not talk too much with Wen Zhengming about this matter, and soon took the little girl to wash.
Not everyone on the train is like Wen Zhengming, who doesn't sweat or feel tired.
The train almost never stops, so how can people sleep well on such a train? Besides, the air conditioning is not very sensitive.
At this time, everyone on the train had sweat on their faces and their hair was tangled together.
They all looked miserable.
Children may be better, but adults are really tired.
The middle-aged men around Wen Zhengming were still asleep. It was very boring on the train, so these men stayed up almost half the night.
I didn't do anything else but play cards.
But middle-aged men are the most tired people in the world, so when they play, they mostly just play to have fun.
What's more, there is nothing serious to do on this train, so we don't look at the time and only stop when we are tired.
About half an hour later, after the little girl and her mother woke up, one of the middle-aged men woke up, but his eyes were bloodshot, obviously he did not rest well.
But this is also very normal. Even if he is not on the train, he will not be able to sleep well if he stays up late like this.
The middle-aged man sat up and rubbed his face to sober himself up, then raised his head and saw Wen Zhengming, and said:
"Brother, you haven't slept all night!"
The middle-aged man had a deep impression of Wen Zhengming last night. After all, Wen Zhengming's magic yesterday was a special kind of shock to everyone.
So he remembered that before he went to bed last night, this man stayed up all night with them.
But at this moment, Wen Zhengming seemed unusually awake, and did not look like he had not slept all night.
"No, I did sleep for a while, but I usually don't sleep much."
Wen Zhengming replied with a smile.
The middle-aged man did not ask any more questions, but just complained:
"Sleeping on this train is really painful. It really hurts every time I take it."
After complaining a few words, the middle-aged man also ran to wash up.
If you don't wash yourself on the train for three days, you'll probably stink.
At this time, the little girl had finished her meal. On the train, she usually ate instant noodles or a train meal.
However, the train meal was really expensive, and the little girl's mother felt it was unhygienic, so she ate instant noodles while the little girl ate the bread for a while.
In fact, I didn’t move much on the train, so I didn’t eat much.
After the meal, the girl quickly started chatting with Wen Zhengming. In the girl's opinion, Wen Zhengming was an amazing person who was good at standing, very powerful, and could perform magic.
"Uncle, what have you been looking at?"
Wen Zhengming casually brushed off the dust on the little girl, then picked her up and pointed to the scenery in the distance and said, "Looking at the scenery, a man named Zhang Daqian once said that there is great beauty in the world."
The little girl looked up and asked, "Does that mean the world is beautiful?"
"Hmm... that's probably what it means."
Wen Zhengming nodded and said, "So people should learn to appreciate beauty."
“This is simple. I just appreciate beauty.”
The little girl raised her head with a look that said "please praise me". A three-year-old child is so cute and tsundere no matter how you look at her.
Wen Zhengming shook his head and said, "How can you appreciate beauty?"
The little girl smiled and said, "I can look in the mirror."
Wen Zhengming: “…”
"Uncle, can you teach me magic?"
The little girl probably had this idea since yesterday, but it's rare that she still remembers it today.
Kids this age usually don’t have the energy to do anything for even three minutes.
Wen Zhengming smiled and said, "My magic is very difficult to learn. It will be difficult for you to learn it in one day."
At this time, the little girl's mother also spoke.
"Xiaoxi, don't bother me. I have practiced magic for many years. How can you learn it all at once?"
In the eyes of the little girl's mother Li Shu, Wen Zhengming must be a professional magician, otherwise he would not have been able to perform such amazing magic.
The little girl turned her head and said, "Uncle, have you really been practicing for many years?"
"I've been practicing for about three to five years!"
Wen Zhengming smiled and said that three to five years was about the time he decided to deceive the whole world.
"So long?"
"I'm only three years old now. This will take me a lifetime to train!"
The little girl opened her mouth and spoke seriously, as if she couldn't accept that it took so long to practice magic.
For her little brain, three years was too long, longer than she had ever lived in her entire life.
This is unacceptable.
People are always like this. A three or five-year-old child will always think that the time ten years later mentioned by adults is very long, and a twenty-year-old person will always think that twenty years later is a very long time ago.
But the fact is that it's all very short.
Because human life itself is short in the face of the universe.
However, it is really funny when a little girl says seriously that three years is longer than a lifetime.
Everyone around burst into laughter.
Wen Zhengming smiled and advised: "If you want to practice kung fu well, you have to work hard."
"But I'm lazy!"
The little girl said righteously.
Wen Zhengming smiled silently.
Only a child of three or four years old would feel justified in talking about her laziness, as if it would be a huge mistake if her laziness could not be tolerated.
This is really cute!
"Uncle, what are you laughing at?"
"Am I not just a little lazy?"
"Yeah, isn't it just a little lazy? It's not a big deal."
As Wen Zhengming said this, the scene of the conversation between Taiyi Zhenren and Nezha in the Lotus Lantern emerged in his mind.
But... this laziness is really not a big deal.
After all, people are lazy. If someone is particularly diligent, then there must be something wrong with him.
………
At this time, in another carriage, two burly men were sitting in a compartment. They were so tall that even when they were sitting, people felt like they were sitting on a mountain of flesh.
What is even more bizarre is that there was a huge coffin placed on their bed in the compartment. It is hard to imagine how such a coffin was brought onto the train.
There was frost on the coffin and a cold aura emanated from it.
The door of the box was tightly closed.
The two big men looked heavy-hearted, as if all their family members had died.
One of them spoke slowly after a long while: "Didn't the Buddha say that there would be no problems with the things?"
The other person also looked extremely unhappy and said, "That's what the Buddha said, but didn't we drop it before bringing it up here?"
"I said I shouldn't have asked for help from others at that time."
Huang Shi's face froze when he heard this, and he said, "But there was no problem at that time!"
“But now there’s a problem.”
Huang Song looked at the coffin that was already covered with frost and said:
"If something goes wrong with this thing, we will all die. Not to mention the Buddha, even the Nirvanas will not spare us. This is a train with hundreds of people on it."
"What should we do then?"
Huangshi was also a little flustered when he heard this.
"I didn't expect the coffin to suddenly become like this. The temperature is getting lower and lower. We may not be able to move the coffin off the train by then."
"And we can't get in touch with Master Buddha either."
"How about waiting a little longer?"
"Maybe it's just normal. After all, nothing serious has happened."
The two men looked heavy-hearted at this moment, but neither of them had any idea what this sentence meant.
They didn't dare to look at what was inside the coffin, because when it was handed to them, the Buddha said that this thing must never be opened.
So even if this thing was covered with frost, no one dared to open it and take a look.
The two big men had both seen extraordinary people, so they naturally knew that if the extraordinary people told them not to open something, then they'd better not touch it.
There were disobedient people before, but they all died at the hands of the Buddha.
Even if he didn't die at the hands of the Buddha, he would have died at the hands of those weird things.
"Then wait!"
Huang Song gritted his teeth and said that he had no other choice now. He couldn't hand this thing over to the conductor for inspection.
So even if something happens now, he can only grit his teeth and bear it. As for whether he can bear it or not, he has to bear it.
"It's only more than thirty hours. Once we get there, even if something goes wrong, it can't be blamed on us."
Huang Shi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw his brother made the decision.
"Okay...wait a little longer!"
The box fell silent again, and at this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
The two of them became alert in an instant.
Huang Shi pretended to be still asleep and asked, "Who?"
A man's voice sounded outside the door, saying:
"I live next door to you. Do you feel very cold?"
"No, we are still in bed. If there is nothing else, then you can leave!"
After sending the man outside the door away, before the two of them could catch their breath, the knock on the door rang out again.
Huang Shi frowned and asked, "Why are you back again?"
"Didn't I tell you to leave?"
But there was no response from outside the door.
At this time, the familiar knock on the door rang again.
"It looks like... a coffin!"
Huang Song said in a trembling voice.
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of both of them changed instantly.
Is there someone knocking on the door from inside the coffin?
But what's in the coffin?
The Huangshi brothers knew what Buddha was doing. There was a high probability that there was nothing good in the coffin. It was even possible that there was actually a corpse.
Both of them had only one thought in their minds:
This time something big is going to happen!
(End of this chapter)
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