novelraw Chapter 221 Fox Window
Chapter 221 Fox Window
Chapter 221 Fox Window
After the proprietress left, Feng Mian picked up the book on the stone table.
On the blank page next to this book, there are many transliterations of annotations written in ink pen. The handwriting is a little scattered. It looks like it has been a few years old. It seems that the proprietress wrote it when she first came to the southern border.
There are annotations and transliterations between the lines. The proprietress must have studied it very seriously when she first arrived in the southern border.
However, the words in this book don't seem to be written by one person, the strokes and fonts are different, and the strokes in another place look like a man, which should be the husband of the proprietress.
Before Feng Mian's eyes, there was a warm scene when the man taught the proprietress who was only 19 years old many years ago. They are really affectionate.
Thanks to these detailed explanations and transliterations, Feng Mian had no trouble turning the book, and read most of the content with ease.
This is a very old book, and the cover is torn.
The book is very thick, like an encyclopedia, with the pronunciation and explanation of various commonly used words, as well as many folk stories in the southern border, and even recorded some legendary fairy tales.
Feng Mian saw the folktale about the hag that the proprietress told before.
He recalled the scene when he was in the store at that time,
When I and Jiangtang just entered the door, I seemed to hear the three big men muttering something in a low voice, how to say it...
According to the transliteration in his memory, he finally found the explanation after going over word by word.
"How did they see the store?"
After seeing the translated meaning, Feng Mian froze in place. They were surprised that they and Jiang Tang would walk into this store, because this store would not be seen by outsiders?
Could it be that that store...doesn't exist in reality?And it was purely an accident that he and Jiangtang walked in?
"Fengmian." Seeing him distracted, Jiang Tang called him, "I was talking to you just now!"
Feng Mian came back to his senses: "What did you just say?"
Jiang Tang snorted: "I said, should we go out now to help the proprietress find the rhinoceros? On the way back, I saw a small alley not far from the hotel. Behind the alley, there seemed to be a bush."
"There may be rhinoceros over there, let's go and see."
"Okay." Feng Mian closed the book, "Let's go."
Jiang Tang led Feng Mian to an alley not far from the hotel.
She pointed to the alley: "Look, is there a bush over there?"
Feng Mian looked in the direction of her finger. Although there was no light in the alley, under the city lights behind him, one could still see a bush at the other end of the alley.
Behind the alley was a broken flower bed in front of a certain residential area. It hadn't been taken care of for a long time. Weeds were overgrown, and the leaves were yellow and malnourished.
He subconsciously looked back at the direction he came back from before, and he remembered that the restaurant was on the street not far away.
But when he turned around, he found that the store had closed,
Passing through the alley, Feng Mian and Jiang Tang saw a few bushes, but the grass on the ground was almost dead, without a trace of green, it seemed that there was no rhinoceros that the proprietress needed.
"What are you looking for?"
An old voice came from behind.
Jiang Tang was taken aback, behind him stood an old woman with white hair and all her teeth missing.
She turned around: "We are looking for a grass called rhinoceros, do you know where it is?"
The old lady nodded: "Xi Ling, I know, come with me."
Jiang Tang glanced at Feng Mian.
The old lady appeared very suddenly, so it was hard to guarantee that it was not something strange. How could any elderly person appear in the alley for no reason at this time.
When they came in just now, they had already observed that the residential buildings nearby were all pitch black, and they didn't look like they were inhabited.
Do old people really live in dilapidated buildings without lights?
Besides... It seems that elderly people are rarely seen in Fengdu. Powerless and poor elderly people are at the bottom of the food chain here, and they cannot survive in Fengdu, a city that eats people.
The old woman was leaning on a cane and beckoned to them: "Come on, it's over there, I'll take you there."
Feng Mian looked at the old woman and stood there without moving, Jiang Tang saw that he didn't move so she didn't move either.
Seeing them not moving, the wife revealed a hint of impatience and ferocity in her tone: "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Could it be that young people nowadays walk slower than an old woman like me..."
Her originally angry eyes suddenly paused, and then turned into fear, as if she saw something terrible, and then the old woman's words stopped abruptly.
Feng Mian frowned, the other party's eyes fell on...behind him! ?
He turned around abruptly, and behind him stood the man he had seen in the restaurant.
The red-haired man in crimson feathers was leaning against the alley with his hands folded on his chest and looking this way.
Feng Mian frowned slightly. What are these guys? They have neither the breath of humans nor the sense of strange beasts, and there is no sound of footsteps when they walk.
As a result, I didn't find these guys suddenly appearing behind me every time.
Being silently behind you is not a good thing.
The old woman's eyes immediately became timid after seeing the man: "Syutendouji."
?
It sounds like a dialect in the southern region, and the word "Fengmian" doesn't seem to be found in that ancient book.
What does it mean, is it the man's name?
The man stood up straight: "Friendly reminder, the rhinoceros did not exist hundreds of years ago. If you want to see something unusual, why don't you go through the window of the fox?"
"But..." He paused, "Didn't you already see it?"
The man showed a meaningful smile, then turned and walked out of the alley.
Unusual things... have seen...
Did the man mean himself and the old woman?Including that restaurant too?I don't know what these guys are all about.
"Wait!" Feng Mian chased after him, but the figure of the man had disappeared into the alley.
He turned around, and the old woman at the other end of the alley also disappeared at some point.
Jiangtang looked at the two people who disappeared: "This..."
Feng Mian stood on the spot and looked at the direction where the man disappeared: "Forget it, let's go back and tell the proprietress that there is no such plant anymore."
"Hmm..." Jiang Tang nodded, hesitant to say anything, "But the proprietress must be very disappointed..."
After all, this is the last thought left by her husband.
Feng Mian walked towards the exit: "Isn't there another way?"
"You mean what the man said about Fox Window?" Jiang Tang followed up, "What is that?"
"It should be something from the southern border, the proprietress should know about it."
Back at the hotel, the front desk was replaced by Juli, and the young girl was sitting at the front desk pruning flowers and branches.
Jiang Tang walked over: "Is the lady boss going to rest?"
"Yes, the proprietress just said to lie down for a while."
"Okay, if the lady boss wakes up, please let us know."
The two pressed the elevator, and just as they were about to close the door, a tall man suddenly walked in.
The man got off the elevator on the second floor.
Jiang Tang glanced curiously: "A guest came suddenly today."
(End of this chapter)