"I have been to Taoshan Village several times, but you went to school. As a result, I have never seen you in all these years except for once when you were one month old." Old Man Guo looked at me carefully and said seriously:
"No wonder you felt familiar to me as soon as you walked in. These eyebrows, eyes, and nose are so similar to your grandfather."
"Ah? Others say I look like my mother." I scratched my head.
Old Man Guo said dissatisfied: "Nothing like your mother, but your sister is more like your mother."
"By the way, shouldn't you be in school at this time? Why did you come to Zhongzhou?"
"And what's going on with this Ten Thousand Souls Umbrella?" Mr. Guo said with a straight face, treating me like a nephew: "Please tell me honestly, is it because no one cares about you after your grandfather died? You kid?"
Just mess around?"
"No, where do I start talking about this?" I scratched my head.
Old Man Guo waved to Tieshan and the store owner and said, "You two go out for a walk, and Suning and I will chat about home affairs."
"Okay, let's wait for him in the car." Tieshan patted the store owner on the shoulder, and the two left one after another, closing the office door.
Old Man Guo poured me another glass of water, made another phone call, and asked his assistant to bring some fruit snacks. He sat across from me and said, "Speak slowly, I'll have lunch here."
"Yeah." I held the glass of water to organize my thoughts and told everything that happened to me.
Twenty minutes later, when I finished explaining the cause and effect, old man Guo pinched the jade pendant on his chest and said in a daze: "Lingguan pig, there really are Lingguan pigs in this world."
"No wonder when your grandfather was studying under him, my uncle asked him to remember the six taboos of killing pigs."
"These are fictitious and seemingly made-up rules, but they are all real."
Old Man Guo's eyes were dim and he said: "Your grandfather has kept the rules all his life, but once he broke them by mistake, he lost his life and even hurt you."
"He has knowledge under the spring, I'm afraid he won't be able to live in peace."
Old Man Guo reached out and patted my shoulder with pity, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about the Wanhun Umbrella, leave it to me."
"Anyway, I'm an old man with only a few years left to live. If I really have to watch something happen to you, how can I have the nerve to see your grandfather after you die?"
Old Man Guo's words made me feel happy, but what followed was endless worry.
He was already very old and could no longer walk steadily. He had no energy to build the Ten Thousand Souls Umbrella.
Seventy-seven forty-nine days, you can’t just get through it in one or two days.
I really want to help Lingxi repair the Kunlun Treasure Nine Sun Mirror, I want to give her a surprise, and I want to do something for her.
But I'm not that "disregarding human life".
Not to mention that Old Man Guo is my grandfather’s junior brother and we are related by some distance.
Even if I were a stranger, I wouldn't be able to harm others for my own benefit.
I am here to rid my body of evil spirits and accumulate ten great merits.
I'm pretty lucky. With Meng Fan's incident and midwife Liu Lanfang's incident, I accumulated two great merits that saved lives in less than a month.
It’s impossible that my merits haven’t been accumulated yet, why am I starting to be “bad” again?
If old man Guo dies because of me, or something irreparable happens, will I feel guilty?
I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.
Thinking of this, I couldn't refuse and retorted: "Senior..."
"Senior, I'm your grandfather's junior brother. It's not wrong to call me Grandpa Guo." Old man Guo blew his beard and glared at me: "I know what you want to say, stop talking nonsense, your grandfather is gone, you kid
Just listen to me."
After that, he stood up, took a business card from his desk and gave it to me: "Call my mobile phone and leave a number. I will notify you when the Wanhun Umbrella is ready."
"Grandpa Guo." I shook my head stubbornly and said, "No."
Without waiting for Old Man Guo to say anything, I quickly said: "You are scared to death that it will be difficult to explain to my grandfather when you see me. Then have you ever thought about it, if I implicate you because of the Wanhun Umbrella thing, I will not talk about my grandfather, but I will go back to Taoshan Village.
