"What kind of place is this?" Ye Huang asked.

Xia Fei didn't answer him, she walked to the front of the shop, the wooden door was closed, and in this noisy pedestrian street that opened to welcome customers, such a shop was really a little strange.

She knocked on the door, knock knock!

Three knocks at a time, a total of three rounds of knocking, and after the knocking was over, the door was pushed open. I only saw an old man in his sixties standing by the door, the old man was wearing glasses and a hat, wearing gray clothes, and a linen apron in front of him. ”

Xia Fei took a step forward and asked the old man to see Ye Huang.

"Yo, who is this young man?" The old man was a little short-sighted, and he was about to come to Ye Huang's face.

Xia Fei said: "Seventh Master, this is my friend with Xia Lin, called Ye Huang. ”

"Oh, so you're friends with the little girl. Come in, come in. The old man named Seventh Master turned sideways and let someone into it.

Ye Huang followed behind Xia Fei and walked into the store, and the seventh master then closed the door of the store.

Looking around the store, Ye Huang knew that this was a store to buy wood carvings, and there were a lot of wooden shelves in the store, and there were a variety of wood carvings on the wooden shelves, from tigers, leopards, jackals, to rats and rabbits, to character statues and even five-clawed golden dragons, the nine-tailed demon fox has everything in the legend, and these wood carvings are more vivid than one another, as if they will move at any time, and they are like being in a fantasy world in these wood carvings.

Ye Huang is no stranger to wood carving, when he was in the mountains, Uncle Xiao boasted that he was the world's first-class wood carving master. Uncle Xiao is not talking big, what he carved is indeed very popular, every little monk in the temple wants Uncle Xiao to carve something new for them, even the Nanmu Buddha in the abbot's meditation room is also carved by Uncle Xiao himself, the wood carving in this shop is no less than Uncle Xiao's craftsmanship.

Such a delicate and vivid wood carving, if it is open for business, I am afraid that the business will be hot, and the shopkeeper will make a lot of money.

Ye Huang asked, "Why do you want to close the door of the store, shouldn't you open the door to welcome customers?"

The seventh master, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and said: "The old man's things are not something that anyone can buy if they want to, the old man only sells them to people who are pleasing to the eye." ”

It's really strange to only sell to people who are pleasing to the eye, as a businessman.

The seventh master obviously didn't plan to explain anything to Ye Huangduo, he said to Xia Fei: "Big girl, you wait here for a while, I have already done the things you and the little girl asked me to carve, so I will take them out for you, if you are bored, you can take a look at my wood carving." ”

No wonder Xia Fei insisted on coming here, it turned out that she had customized something here.

After the Seventh Master finished speaking, he walked in through another door, while Ye Huang and Xia Fei began to admire the wood carvings on the wooden frame.

These wood carvings, Ye Huang really liked them more and more, and decided that if the seventh master came out later, he would ask him if he was pleasing to his eyes, and if he was pleasing to his eyes, he would buy a few on the spot and go back to play.

After looking at all the carvings on the wooden shelf, Ye Huang found a separate booth in the corner, the booth was different from other wooden shelves, protected by transparent glass, and on the booth was a half-carved unfinished product, using the roots of a big tree as the base, carving a half-faced Buddha.

Far away, Ye Huang felt that the Buddha seemed to have seen somewhere, he walked over and looked carefully, although it was only half a face, but it could be seen that the Buddha put his hands together, his eyes were lowered, and he was sitting on the golden lotus, and the sad and pitiful appearance was like the real Buddha in the world. The more Ye Huang looked, the more he felt that this Buddha was a little familiar, and suddenly he remembered something, this Buddha and the one in the abbot's meditation room were exactly the same!

At this time, the Seventh Master walked out of it, holding a wooden box in his hand, and said to Xia Fei: "Big girl, your things are here." ”

"Thank you, Seventh Master, then let's go first, and come to visit you another day. Xia Fei took the box, she didn't plan to stay here longer, but found that Ye Huang was still watching the Buddha and didn't want to leave.

The seventh master walked to Ye Huang's side and said, "What's the matter, young man, I like this Buddha very much?"

Ye Huang nodded hurriedly and said, "Seventh Master, I like every wood carving in your shop, do you think I'm pleasing to the eye? If it's pleasing to the eye, can I buy this Buddha?"

The Seventh Master laughed and said, "I think you are quite pleasing to the eye, but ah, you can buy everything in the store if you want, but this Buddha, you can't buy it." ”

"Why?" Ye Huang asked.

"Because this Buddha is not mine. The seventh master said.

"Whose is that? ”

"It was carved by a monk, but he left without finishing the carving, and before leaving, he had carefully instructed me to help him take care of this Buddha, not to let anyone move, and not to change its position. I promised the monk, so I framed him with glass, and the shop is still open, just to wait for the monk to come back and finish the Buddha that he had not yet carved. The seventh master said.

Ye Huang knew that Uncle Xiao had come to Chongqing City, could it be that this Buddha was carved by Uncle Xiao?

"When did that monk leave, did you say when you would come back?" Ye Huang asked subconsciously.

The seventh master stretched out his finger and calculated, shook his head and said: "I left twenty years ago, when will I come back, he didn't say, only said that he would come back one day." I believe in him as a person, so I've been waiting. ”

"What is the name of that monk?"

The Seventh Master pointed to the statue of the Buddha and said, "Where you go to see, there is his own carved name." ”

Ye Huang followed the seven masters, walked to the back of the Buddha statue, and found the name of the owner of the work - Zhou Mengbai at the bottom of the root part of the tree that had not yet been carved.

Zhou Mengbai, Ye Huang remembered this name, the owner of the Wu family told him that it was also twenty years ago, a monk named Zhou Mengbai lived in the Wu family for a period of time, and also attracted ten thousand beasts to besiege the city, Zhou Mengbai who left this half of the Buddha statue may be Zhou Mengbai who made the Wu family almost wipe out. This Zhou Mengbai can be anyone, but it won't be Ye Huang's little uncle, because his little uncle's name is Puxin.

Since the Buddha had another owner, Ye Huang naturally didn't want to force it, he thought about it for a while, bought two carved lifelike rabbits, and then left the shop with Xia Fei.