Chapter 12 twelve

The two walked out of the street, and Fang Guohuan suddenly saw a Taoist sitting by the side of the road. A piece of old yellow cloth was spread in front of him, but a chessboard was drawn on it, and a piece of the endgame was laid out. There are two lines of words: whoever breaks this chess game will get two taels of silver.Fang Guohuan's heart moved, and after he stopped to take a closer look, he realized that it was a complicated game of "death and death chess".Luo Kun said aside: "Brother Fang, let's go, this Taoist priest has set up a stall here for a long time, no one can beat the chess game he set up, the two taels of silver is just a bluff." Fang Guohuan said: "It's okay to have a look." Seeing the two teenagers stop in front of the chess stand, the Taoist asked with a smile, "Are the two young monks coming to play chess too?" A sunspot reached out and settled on the chessboard.Seeing that Fang Guohuan was holding a piece to answer the chess, the Taoist priest couldn't help being startled, after staring at the place where Fang Guohuan dropped the piece for a moment, his face suddenly became happy, and he responded with a white piece.Fang Guohuan responded with a move of black chess.The Taoist saw him, leaned down and stared at the chessboard for a while, then burst out laughing in relief, then stood up, and said pleasantly: "The little layman is really a national player! The poor Taoist has been troubled by this mess for a year, thinking that there is no one in the world. People can walk and live, and now the little layman opened the entrance with his skillful hands, which solved a regret in the heart of the poor, so thank you so much." After speaking, he bowed deeply to Fang Guohuan.Luo Kun stared blankly at the side, and said in amazement: "Brother Fang still has such miraculous abilities!"

At this time, the Taoist took out some pieces of broken silver from his bosom, put his hands on Fang Guohuan and said, "A little bit of silver is dedicated to the little layman, as a thank you for solving the puzzle." Luo Kun saw it, and said happily: "Very good! Very good! Fang Guohuan Brother, if he continues like this, he will become a rich man." Fang Guohuan knew that the Taoist set up the chess booth to understand the confusion in his heart, and respected him for his good chess, so he rejected it and said: "It's just a little effort, how dare you accept the Taoist master?" The Taoist said in a daze, "How can a poor man be dishonest? After staying here for more than a year, he has met many good players, but who can have such chess skills as a young layman? This silver is not a respect, and a poor man is specially prepared. Thank you." Fang Guohuan saw that this Taoist was also very obsessed with chess, so he smiled and said: "Don't be polite, Daoist, you should keep this money for yourself." After speaking, he took Luo Kun and ran away.The Taoist watched the two go away, and stood there for a long time, then let out a long breath as if relieved, closed the chess booth, and left with a sigh.

Luo Kun praised Fang Guohuan for solving the chess game set by the Taoist man without receiving a reward, and led Fang Guohuan all the way to a dilapidated Taoist temple on the outskirts of the town.The Taoist temple is dilapidated, weeds are overgrown, dust is everywhere, and there is a pile of grass under the incense table, which is obviously the place where Luo Kun sleeps.Seeing Fang Guohuan, thinking that Luo Kun would live here for a long time, he felt a burst of sadness in his heart.Luo Kun said at this time: "Brother Fang, this spinning top view is my shelter. Although it is a little crude, it does not cost any money." After speaking, he took out a few wooden boards from behind a headless statue Come, put it on the incense table, and then spread a layer of hay on it, and it becomes a bed.After Luo Kun finished his work, he gave way with a smile, "Brother Fang, please go to bed and rest." Fang Guohuan saw him and said with a smile, "Thank you, dear brother." Then the two rested in the spinning top view, and had a long talk with each other. have to.Before I knew it, the gyro view became dark, and the sky was already dark.The two brothers talked a lot more, Luo Kun was particularly excited, and they fell asleep unconsciously in the middle of the night.

Fang Guohuan was tired from walking during the day, so he fell into a deep sleep. At some point, he was suddenly awakened by a puff of smoke in his sleep. When he got up, he felt the smoke enveloped in the temple. Sometimes he saw the light of the fire, and he heard someone shouting for fire outside. .Fang Guohuan was so shocked that he didn't feel sleepy at all. When he was looking for it, Luo Kun was nowhere to be seen. Seeing that the fire was getting fiercer, he hurried out.At this time, the sky is slightly bright.When Fang Guohuan turned his head to look again, the Spinning Top View was enveloped by the flames and thick smoke. He was anxious and called Luo Kun, but he didn't know where he went.At this time, several farmers who got up early rushed over. Seeing Fang Guohuan came out unharmed, an old man rejoiced: "You are lucky! If you leave a little later, you will be buried in it and burned to death." " Fang Guohuan hurriedly asked: "Old man, can you see my brother Luo Kun?" The old man said: "Are you talking about the Luo family boy who often lives in this spinning top?" Fang Guohuan said: "Yes, it is him, you know him Where did you go?" The old man said: "I got up early, and when I saw the fire in the temple from a distance, the Luo family boy chased a man and went to the riverside." Fang Guohuan was shocked when he heard that, and quickly asked the direction, thank you The old man turned around and chased after him.

Fang Guohuan chased him for three or four miles, but Luo Kun was still nowhere to be seen, and he was anxious.Looking all the way along the river, he suddenly saw a piece of cloth hanging on a branch, which seemed to be torn from Luo Kun's clothes, and was still stained with blood. Fang Guohuan immediately trembled.Seeing the trace of someone sliding down the river bank, Fang Guohuan knew something was wrong, so he hurriedly searched downstream for a while, but still found nothing, and shouted for a long time, but no one answered.Fang Guohuan's heart shuddered, and he said, "Could it be that Brother Luo Kun suffered some accident?"

Fang Guohuan hung his mind and turned back to the top view with a glimmer of hope.The Gyro Temple had already collapsed at this time, the fire was exhausted, and residual smoke was rising from the ruins.Looking at the scorched and broken wall, Fang Guohuan burst into tears, feeling extremely sad for a moment.Fang Guohuan waited for two days in front of the burnt spinning top temple, hoping for a miracle, when Luo Kun suddenly turned back.On the third day, Fang Guohuan expected that Luo Kun had encountered an accident and it was impossible to return, so he left the ruined spinning top temple with infinite sadness and grief, and went there crying.

Besides that night, after Luo Kun and Fang Guohuan had a heart-to-heart talk, they were extremely excited, thinking that they could travel the world with Fang Guohuan in the future, their hearts were filled with joy, and they tossed and turned, thinking about many happy things in the future.Luo Kun seemed to be sleeping but was not asleep. He faintly heard some noises outside. He was very surprised, so he got up and went quietly to the outside.Suddenly, he saw a black shadow squatting in the corner to start a fire. When the fire was burning, Luo Kun realized that the black shadow was the town's rascal Asi. rushed over.It turned out that the scoundrel saw Fang Guohuan with a lot of money in his pocket during the day on the street, and he felt malicious in his heart. Knowing that Luo Kun often lives in the spinning top temple in the suburbs, Fang Guohuan is expected to go there with Luo Kun tonight Staying overnight, I didn't take these two teenagers seriously.The scoundrel hid at home and slept for a while, preparing to attack in the dead of night.After waking up, he knew that he almost missed something, so he quietly slipped to the spinning top view.It was the night before dawn, and it was dark inside the spinning top temple, so the rascal was too timid to touch it, so he simply gritted his teeth and wanted to set fire to the spinning top temple, burning Luo Kun and Fang Guohuan to death inside. Then he took the silver and left.The rascal then found a handful of hay and set fire to it with a flint.Suddenly seeing a person rushing towards him, he was startled, he had a guilty conscience, threw the burning hay, struggled away, turned around and ran away.Luo Kun knew that the rascal was going to seek money and kill, so he was extremely angry, and he chased after him, and the handful of hay ignited the spinning top.

The rascal Axi ran all the way to the river, and saw that the people behind him were still chasing hard. When he looked back, it was already dawn, and he knew it was Luo Kun.After all, the scoundrel was a guilty conscience, when he saw Luo Kun, he was startled and frightened, seeing that he couldn't get rid of him, he deceived Luo Kun because he was young and weak, so he simply turned around to meet him.During the fight, Luo Kun was so weak that he was beaten unconscious by the scoundrel.Fearing that Luo Kun would report this matter publicly in the future, the scoundrel dragged Luo Kun to the river and pushed him down, then fled home in a panic.This is also Luo Kun's doom, if he had woken up Fang Guohuan, or yelled loudly, he would not have been singled out by Asi.