Looking at the Chinese medicine tonic gift bag that Nangong Sanba took out, Nangong May felt that her entire spine was itching, and she slapped her brother on the shoulder: "Brother, do you believe that I want to pump you with my tail now on another occasion?"
”Nangong Sanba hadn't reacted yet: "What's wrong with me......
You don't know how much people with anal fissures need this thing......"
Hao Ren silently pressed Nangong Sanba's shoulder, and just wanted to say something, when suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he saw an old-fashioned car driving down the path: What a coincidence, August is going home."
Put away your Chinese medicine gift bag, and when you see this thing, maybe the old man will be angry and die with you," Hao Ren pouted, "Later, let's see if we have the opportunity to act, first try to see if August knows the legend of the witch, if the legend of the witch of the Lekich family has been lost, let's find a way to solve his evil spirit curse." ”The owner of the classic car, apparently noticing a group of strangers in front of his house, honked his horn twice, and Hao Ren guessed that there should be a pair of vigilant and nervous eyes behind the sun-covered window.Then the car stopped, and a half-grown old man in a thick woolen coat, gray and slightly bald hair, about fifty years old, pushed the car door, he looked at the stranger at the door, his face full of vigilance and undisguised rejection: "Who are you?"
”"Mr.
August," Nangong Sanhachi greeted him warmly, "it's me—these are my colleagues, experts in occultism and witchcraft, and we've come to you to discuss something about spells and occult knowledge." ”"I have nothing to say," said Auguste, with a stern face, and without concealing the disgust in his eyes, he raised his voice, "God, why can't an old man who lives alone be allowed to live a quiet life for a few days!"
”Vivien had been studying the dried wild vegetables and animal skins hanging on the wall outside the hut with great interest, and when she heard that the negotiation behind her seemed a little uncomfortable, she turned her head: "Haven't you been trapped by evil spirits, maybe we can ......
Well?
”Vivien was stunned for a moment when she saw August, as if she remembered something, and Auguste's reaction after seeing Vivien was even more violent: his eyes widened instantly, and he made a weird "gurgle" sound as if someone was choking his throat, and then his whole body couldn't help but tremble!
The old man staggered back a few steps, as if he was about to turn around and run away, and Vivien finally struggled to say the number in her mind: "Paul?
Have you lived until now?
”"Paul......"
August staggered two steps, and finally collapsed to the ground, his eyes looking at the sky in vain, "Paul......
I haven't heard anyone call me that in three centuries......
Mistress, have you finally come to retrieve your things?
”"How is this possible......
Vivien was dumbfounded, "Could it be that you are always the one who has been in touch with the Andre family?"
”Hao Ren quickly guessed the truth of the matter from this inexplicable conversation, he looked at the trembling old man with an incredulous expression, and Lily reacted faster, she hurriedly stepped forward and dragged the old man up, and together with Nangong Sanba, she helped the old man who was about to smoke over to the door of the house: "Don't say it yet, go in and find a warm place to talk in detail." ”The wooden house is very clean, but there is a sense of anachronism everywhere, although you can also see modern appliances and daily necessities, but those things are stacked with simple wooden tables and chairs, and there is a wonderful sense of time and space in it.The bust of Alexander I hangs beneath Lenin's head, the bronze statue of a Soviet rocket sits next to a tsarist silver candlestick, the rustling of firewood in an old-fashioned mud-brick fireplace, and the red-era metal lunch box heats the morning soup on the fireplace — an old house that has turned back the clock, and many of the things in the house are older than this one.It is a snail's dwelling place for lonely people who have lived for three centuries.Three hundred years ago, the witch left two stones for her two human henchmen, changing the fate of two ordinary exiles and setting them on an incredible and very different life.The careless witch had no idea what kind of consequences her casual actions would bring to the two of them.A servant has received an incredibly large fortune, and a servant has received an incredible immortality.And the price they paid for it was the same: a nightmare that haunted them all their lives."
Every sixty years old, I would 'die' from an acute internal hemorrhage, and then I would sleep for three to ten days, and then I would wake up again and return to the state in which I first came into contact with the stone: the sturdy body of twenty-two," August?
Vtoriac?"
I don't know what happened to my body, but I knew it must be some kind of curse: it kept me alive forever, haunted by the crazy voice in my head." ”August lowered his head and grabbed his sparse hair with his hand: "I tried several times to put an end to this, and once I even pointed the gun at my head, but in the end I couldn't make up my mind.Back from the dead, back from the dead......
The cycle continues to this day. ”Vivien looked at her former servant, her memory finally worked once, and from the fifty-year-old face, she could still vaguely remember what the other party looked like when she was young: "You have always been in contact with Andre's descendants?"
So they can only receive letters from one person in the Lekikh 'family' - you don't have a family?
And no offspring?
”"I was married twice in the first two resurrection cycles," August said, shaking his head, "but it soon became clear to me that this could only lead to trouble, and that I had to find a way to hide my immortality, because even my family could not understand the phenomenon - my second wife stumbled upon the secret of my resurrection, and she told the church in horror that I was nearly burned as a witch."
Since then, I've tried to stay away from the crowds, moving around and trying to hide my secrets.I also tried to disguise myself as my own son, which worked well during a time when the hukou system was not so perfect......
The first hundred years were difficult, but after that I became familiar with the way of life.Censuses and identity systems were a bit of a problem, and I lived in the mountains and forests throughout the Stalin era, almost as a savage, and I lost contact with Andrei's family during that time, but thankfully, things started to get better again.Life is like this, it goes up and down, and I used to think that the world was the same and boring, but after living long enough, I found that it is changing at an incredible rate. ”"You're just playing your own offspring or changing your identity again and again, keeping in touch with Andre's descendants, but not too close," Vivien sighed, "and you're not at ease with them?"
Worried that they will take an interest in your immortal body or even put you in danger?
”"I have some concerns about this," said August, in a low voice, "and having realized that André has died of old age, and that his descendants are elusive strangers to me for every generation, I have carefully chosen to keep my secret, but this is not the main reason why I remain estranged and isolated from the André family, the main reason is that voice. ”August said, gesturing to his head, "It's here, ringing every night, urging me to go to Siberia and reunite the two cursed stones.The dark force was split in two by the mistress, and it desperately wanted to come together, and I was not sure whether it was attached to the stone or to me, and I could not imagine what would happen if I actually went to Andrei's house and let the two dark forces become one......
It may fully revive and break through the mistress's seal, and the power of mortals simply cannot fight against that monster. ”Hao Ren glanced at Vivian in surprise: "Divided into two?
That wrath was cut open by you?
”"Don't tease, the angry spirit is not tofu," Vivien glanced at Hao Ren, "it may be another stone with some of the obsession left on the angry spirit."
In any case, Paul was right to isolate himself from the Andrei family, and that obsession would indeed lead to the premature destruction of the seal once he returned to Siberia - Paul, bring the stone. ”Auguste got up tremblingly, and served his mistress as obediently as he had done then, but he still muttered, "You still call me Auguste......
I've been calling it this name all these years, and I'm not used to 'Paul' anymore. ”After August walked into the back room, Lily couldn't help but look at Vivien and sighed, "Look at the mess you left behind back then." ”Vivien: "......"
(To be continued.) )