Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 9 The Daoist

  Even at this time, the train station is still noisy.

   “I want a train ticket to Fengwu.”

  ”Give me your ID card.”

  ”…”

   Xiaolan took the money and looked at the night conductor impatiently.

   “I… I’m too young to have an ID card.”

  The lie came, and Xiaolan felt that Aunt Lin still had reservations when she said that she was not a child who likes to lie. She must be very liar.

  The conductor raised his eyelids and looked at Xiaolan, who had a pure and innocent face, and shook his hand to the outside.

   “You can’t buy train tickets without an ID card, kid, right next to the bus terminal, you can buy a bus ticket, there are also direct flights to Fengwu.”

   Xiaolan looked in the direction pointed by the conductor and put the money in his pocket.

   “Thank you sister.”

   “Yes, just turn right when you go out,” the conductor shouted through the glass, “There are few cars in Fengwu, you look good at the time!”

   Xiaolan waved his hand and walked to the ticket sales hall. She felt that the conductor’s sister was also very kind and kind.

   “Little girl!”

  Suddenly behind him came the voice of a strange girl.

   Xiaolan turned her head, a beautiful long-haired sister was walking towards her with a big suitcase on her back. Seeing her turning around, she beckoned to her.

  Looking around, Xiaolan confirmed that her sister was calling herself.

   Xiaolan smiled unconsciously, a little happy, her sister was wearing sportswear and army green jacket, but she looked very gentle.

   “Little girl,” my sister ran a few steps, then stopped in front of her, “Are you going to Fengwu, too? I’ll leave you alone.”

   Xiaolan nodded, “Are you too?”

   “Yes! We also want to go to Fengwu.”

  Men?

   Xiaolan then saw a few men in black clothes standing behind her sister, who had reached the lips of “then we can go together” and was swallowed in her stomach.

  ”Why do you travel far by yourself, where’s mom and dad?”

Sister    naturally stood next to Xiaolan, and a group of people walked toward the passenger terminal in a mighty manner.

   “I’m going to find my brother,” he opened his mouth again, “My parents let me go.”

   “Huh?” My sister showed an incredibly weird expression, “Are uncles and aunts so relieved, let you, a pretty little girl, go out to find someone on her own.”

   Xiaolan didn’t manage her expression well, and when she heard her sister praise her for being beautiful, the corners of her mouth were raised unconsciously.

   “There are so many of you, do you want to go to Fengwu together?”

Sister    looked behind her, and revealed the badge on her chest.

   “The six of us are members of an online interest group. This time we made a special trip to Fengwu…er…offline gatherings.”

   Xiaolan looked at the people behind her sister. They were not all black. Out of the six people, there were four men and two women, and they seemed to be of different ages.

   “You… don’t have an ID card?”

  Several people looked at each other and laughed. As soon as they laughed, Xiaolan found that a few people except her sister were also quite friendly.

  ”The train ticket to Fengwu is too late,” a young boy said. “We want to leave as early as possible in the morning and arrive at Fengwu before dark.”

   “Um…” Xiaolan nodded as if she didn’t understand.

When we arrived at the passenger station, there were still 40 minutes to the nearest bus. The sky was about to dawn at this time. There were very few people in the passenger station. The adults did not ask Xiaolan to pay anyway. Seven people sat together and waited By the bus.

Sister    took off the army green jacket and held it in her hand. The exquisite badge looked shiny. Xiaolan leaned over and looked at it carefully, feeling that this look was a bit familiar.

  ”What kind of interest group is this?”

   Sister put the coat on her leg, pinched the badge with her fingers, and straightened it.

  ”This is…this is a boundary monument.”

  In an instant, Xiaolan seemed to be electrocuted. Not only because of the familiar vocabulary that my sister suddenly said, but also because of the shape of this badge.

  The badge is an irregular rectangle, carved into a small stone tablet. If you don’t look carefully, you might think it is an ordinary piece of stone, but there is a layer of oil on the outside, so it looks shiny under the light.

  Importantly, the shape of the stele badge evoked her memories—the strange dream she had in the afternoon in the toilet of Yangjiang No. 3 Middle School.

  The stone tablet in the dream seems to be like this.

  Although most of the stone steles look similar, and they only saw something similar to the stele from a distance in the dream, this badge gave Xiaolan a strong feeling, which overlapped with the stele in the dream.

  ”This is the identification badge of our team, designed by the Taoist leader.”

   Seeing Xiaolan staring at the badge blankly, her sister simply took off the badge and put it in Xiaolan’s hand.

   Xiaolan frowned, turned the badge upside down and looked at it, but she didn’t see anything famous.

   “The Dao Chief is… which Dao Chief?”

  A few people laughed again. A man in his thirties awkwardly coughed twice and smiled with everyone.

   “Not a real Taoist, just an online ID!” Another girl smiled and shook her phone, “We are not an Internet interest group, we all call each other by ID.”

  Long-haired sister rubbed Xiaolan’s hair and looked at her like a cute animal.

“For example, my ID is canned pineapple. They all call me pineapple. You can call me pineapple sister.” The sister pointed to the man just now, “The chief Tao is the ID of this brother, and we all call him the chief Tao. The badge was designed by him.”

   Xiaolan looked at the middle-aged man who was a little bit shy.

  Although the temperament and appearance look like a mature man, the man’s eyes are gentle and shining, and it reveals a sense of youthful vigor.

  ”What’s your name?” The man smiled, not as if he had a secret, “Let’s exchange titles.”

   Xiaolan doubted for less than a second, and decided to get closer with them by exchanging identities, hoping to see their next move.

   “My name is Liao Yilan, everyone calls me Xiaolan.”

  The man nodded, with a gentle and decent smile on his face.

   “Xiaolan.”

“Have Xiaolan heard of the boundary monument?” Sister Pineapple’s words brought Xiaolan back to the boundary monument. “When you mention the boundary monument, I think your expression is not quite right. You are also very interested in the badge. .”

   “Ah…” Xiaolan’s thoughts began to turn, and quickly used a lie to make up for the previous lie, “My brother left home just to find the boundary marker.”

  Everyone was a little surprised, waiting for Xiaolan to speak, but she stopped abruptly. After all, I couldn’t make up more details at once.

“I… I actually don’t know what the boundary monument is. I just want to go back to our hometown to see if I can find a clue.” Xiaolan blinked and looked at the curious people around him sincerely. “It’s so great to meet you. All right.”

  The implication is, please take me next!

   “Uh…that’s quite a coincidence.”

  Sister Pineapple thought for a few seconds, but she didn’t react, and she looked at everyone with inquiring eyes.

  There were concerns and doubts in everyone’s eyes, and they did not expect such an accident to happen.

   “Then when you come back to your hometown, what did you intend to do first?”

  Dao Chang glanced at his watch, checked the departure time, put the backpack on his body again, and asked.

   Xiaolan shook his head.

   “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know anything, I just want to find my brother.”

   Daochang walked around Xiaolan, looked down at the schoolbag that Xiaolan had put on his lap, showing a strange expression.

   “Otherwise… just follow us!” Sister Pineapple said, looking at Taoist Chief, “Xiaolan is a child alone, and we can know something with us, so it will be convenient for her to find her brother in the future.”

  The others looked at each other.

   “Will it be too convenient?” The young boy’s face was wrinkled, “She still doesn’t know that the boundary marker is…”

  The boy’s words stop here, Xiaolan looked back at the boy, blinking his big eyes longing for the truth.

   “The car is coming…” the other girl said weakly.

  Everyone began to pack their bags and put their backpacks back on their bodies. Xiaolan also picked up the hiking bag that seemed a bit huge to her, and prepared to get on the car.

  ”Are you willing to follow us?” The Taoist commander put away his smile and looked at Xiaolan a little serious.

  Everyone stopped talking. The Daoist was obviously a leader in this small team, and the decisions he made were generally the final decisions.

   Xiaolan raised her head and stared at the man’s face.

   “Please take me!”

  The gentle smile returned to Dao Chang’s face. Dao Chang did not hesitate, and directly lifted Xiaolan’s backpack, and patted her head with the other hand.

   “Let’s go, Xiaolan, let’s go now.”

  (End of this chapter)