Chapter 421: You come, I am old (Part 2)
Ma Yan'er first went to the place where Luo Lie left yesterday, but no trace of Luo Lie was found around, so she went to Tianma Town again. She told Luo Lie that she could take a bus to the provincial capital here and then return to Huangpu from the provincial capital. I hope Luo Lie has not left yet.
Ma Yan'er searched all over Tianma Town but couldn't find Luo Lie. Just when she returned to the parking lot to leave, she found that her four tires were all flat. It must have been deliberately relieved. Ma Yan'er suddenly became alert and got out of another car. One of them pointed at Ma Yan'er and said, "It's her, she informed the big bearded man yesterday."
These people are dog thieves. Not only did they not steal the snow mastiff, they also compensated Luo Lie for 200,000. How could these people swallow this? After escaping, they saw that the matter was not serious, so they returned to the town to find out the news. They happened to meet Ma Yaner who came to find Luo Lie. They had seen Ma Yaner and Luo Lie together and knew that she was the one who informed Luo Lie.
Ma Yan'er looked around. The parking lot was relatively remote and there were not many people around. However, three tourists could still be seen in the distance. Ma Yan'er shouted: "You'd better leave immediately, otherwise I'll call the police."
Several people laughed.
Ma Yan'er took out the phone, but because she was too panic, the phone fell to the ground. She hurriedly bowed to pick up the phone, but before the phone was picked up, a man had already rushed up and stepped on the phone to pieces.
Ma Yan'er turned around and ran away, shouting for help while running away. A man walked around her and blocked her way, threatening fiercely: "Shut up! No one will meddle in other people's business. Tell me honestly where that kid is..."
Ma Yan'er looked at him in panic and suddenly said, "You...behind you..."
"Lie to me?" The man finally turned around. As soon as he turned around, a white figure had already pounced on him, but the snow mastiff appeared in time. The snow mastiff threw the man to the ground and opened his mouth to bite him at his throat.
Fortunately, Luo Lie, who appeared later, stopped it in time, otherwise the man would have been bitten by the snow mastiff.
Luo Lie looked at the men with a smile and said, "What? Are you not convinced? Then let's go together!" He threw stones in his hand.
Several men gave each other a wink, then rushed up.
Luo Lie raised his hand and threw out the stones, for example, and all the stones hit the target's face, smashing several people's faces, covering their noses and falling to the ground, losing the power of resistance.
Ma Yan'er was surprised and happy: "Mr. Luo!"
Luo Lie said: "Leave here first!" He didn't want to meet the police.
Ma Yan'er's car was just deflated. She found the inflatable pump to fill the tires and drove away from the town with Luo Lie.
After leaving the town, Ma Yan'er breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was so scared just now. The public security in this area has been too bad recently. I want to complain to the police when I look back."
Luo Lie reached out and pushed the big head of the snow mastiff who was approaching: "Are you coming back to find me?"
Ma Yan'er nodded and said, "I thought you were gone, and my grandmother wanted to see you."
Luo Lie said: "You mean she is nearby?"
Ma Yan'er said, "Do you recognize her? Have you ever seen her?" She intuition thought that the reason why Luo Lie didn't leave was probably to meet with Grandma.
Luo Lie did not directly answer Ma Yan'er's series of questions, but smiled and said, "Take me to see her."
But Ma Yan'er acted very persistent: "You haven't answered my question yet."
Luo Lie replied seriously: "I have listened to her class in the past."
Ma Yan'er looked at Luo Lie in surprise, and she couldn't help laughing. Her smile made Luo Lie realize that she might have said something wrong. Ma Yan'er said, "Ly, she hasn't taught anyone any more in her sixties in 60 years. Don't tell me that you are over 60 years old."
Of course, Luo Lie would not tell her, and even if she told her, she would not believe it.
After Ma Yan'er left, Ma Feng thought about this matter repeatedly. From the initial surprise, she gradually calmed down. She thought that the possibility of this matter was not high. A photo could not prove anything. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. Luo Lie has been missing for so long. Even if he appeared in front of him, he should be an old man bigger than him. How could anyone in this world remain young forever? Ma Feng realized that it might be just his wishful thinking hope. She hoped that Luo Lie would always be alive.
Ma Yan'er's car returned to the hut by the lake. She wanted to use video calls in advance to tell the old man that she had found Luo Lie, but after thinking about it, she brought the person directly to her and gave her a surprise. Although she didn't believe Luo Lie had heard of the nonsense in class, she still thought that Luo Lie knew her grandmother and had a extraordinary relationship with her. Ma Yan'er even began to guess the relationship between Luo Lie and her family.
Before the car stopped, Luo Lie saw an old man with white hair standing in front of the courtyard door through the car window, looking up at her, leaning on a crutch. Luo Lie was not sure that the old man was a sparrow, and suddenly had the idea of escaping in his heart. He didn't know whether his arrival was right or wrong.
Ma Yan'er got off the car first, opened the back door, and Xue Mastiff slipped down first. Seeing that Luo Lie was still indifferent, she knocked on the door and said, "Hey, get off!"
Luo Lie then opened the car door and walked down.
The sparrow looked at Luo Lie from afar. Although Luo Lie had not had time to cut off his long hair and shave his beard, she had already recognized him. The sparrow's hands were nervously held together, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings. Her throat began to choke and tears flowed out uncontrollably, although she could not conclude that the man in front of her, who was almost exactly the same as Luo Lie, was the Luo Lie she had known in the past.
Ma Yaner quickly walked to Ma Feng's side and smiled and said, "Grandma, I've brought you someone." She then realized that the old man was crying and said, "Why are you crying?"
The sparrow took out a tissue to wipe away the tears from her face and said, "I didn't cry... I was just confused by the wind and sand." She took a breath, stabilized her emotions, and saw Luo Lie walking towards her.
The two of them looked at each other quietly. The sparrow recognized Luo Lie because he was still the same as he left, but Luo Lie could not determine for a moment that the old man in front of him was the sparrow he knew.
Ma Yan'er said, "You know each other?"
Sparrow said: "Yan'er, go and buy some things for me. The customer is here and I haven't prepared lunch yet."
How could Ma Yan'er not hear that she was trying to send her away? She nodded and said to Luo Lie: "You are here to talk to my grandmother, and you are not allowed to go anywhere."
Luo Lie smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll chat with her."
After Ma Yan'er drove away, Ma Feng said: "You don't recognize me anymore? You... You still recognize me..." She took out a photo that had been hidden in her pocket. This photo was taken by Luo Lie when he first went to Pale Mountain with the blind man, Arnold, Chang Fu and her. They were in their youth at that time.
Luo Lie took the photo. When he saw himself in the photo, his hands couldn't help but tremble. He raised his head and the sparrow was already full of tears. Time flies, and a hundred years have passed. The past has long passed.
Luo Lie stretched out his hand and gently wiped the tears from her face for the old sparrow, but he couldn't finish it.
Sparrow said: "I know you will come back one day, but I didn't expect you to wait until today... Where have you been there for so many years? Where have you been there?"
Luo Lie said: "I just had a dream. When I woke up and prepared to go home, I... suddenly couldn't find my way home."
The sparrow nodded with tears in her eyes. She held Luo Lie's hand. Her biggest wish in her life was to hold her hands and grow old together. But when she could open her heart and hold his hand, she was too old to be old anymore. What's more ironic is that Luo Lie is still young.
They sat in the garden full of flowers. Luo Lie gentlemanly opened the chair for the sparrow. Seeing the sparrow sitting down tremblingly, Luo Lie felt mixed feelings. He wanted to see the sparrow before he came here because only the sparrow recognized him, but after he saw the sparrow, he was afraid to know the truth, because it was extremely cruel to him, and he would have to face the reality of the departure of old friends and separation of relatives.
The sparrow trembled and poured Luo Lie a cup of tea, and his eyes looked at Luo Lie with extremely warm eyes.
Luo Lie said: "My experience is very simple. Feng Jiuqing and I found Jiuding. She didn't need me to activate Jiuding. She hoped that I would open the Starry Sky Gate and let the master of Jiuding return to this world through that gate, and I refused."
The sparrow said: "So you destroyed the Nine Cauldrons?"
Luo Lie shook his head and said, "If destroying the Nine Cauldrons is equivalent to destroying this world, the Yu Shen Monument records the methods to activate the Nine Cauldrons and open the Starry Sky Gate. However, there is another thing Feng Jiuqing doesn't know. The Nine Cauldrons also have the power to control time. I circulated the Nine Cauldrons in the opposite direction and opened a door to time and space."
Sparrow said: "Do you know you want to go back to the future?"
Luo Lie smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know. At that time, I just wanted to close the Starry Gate and consume the energy of the Nine Cauldrons so that the energy accumulated by the Nine Cauldrons would not destroy the world we rely on for survival. However, I didn't expect that the door that was activated accidentally brought me to 2037." Luo Lie wanted to ask about other people several times, but when he spoke, he still gave up his thoughts.
Sparrow said: "It's just a dream for you, but it's been more than a century for us..." She sighed: "Luo Lie, do you want to know about other people's affairs?"
Luo Lie said bluntly: "I think, but I'm afraid of knowing."
Sparrow said: "But one day you will know."
Luo Lie nodded.
Sparrow said: "Three months after you left, Ye Qinghong took your children to America. We started to have contact, but later, World War II broke out and our contact was interrupted. In that war, we lost many friends."
Chapter completed!