I barely closed my eyes that night, and as soon as dawn I washed up and prepared to go downstairs to find the beard and explain my thoughts.

But when I arrived in the hall on the first floor, I didn't see the figure of the beard, only the busy body of the Filipino maid Mary, who kept bringing plates of breakfast to the table, I was not very hungry, but when I saw the food on the table, I instantly felt hungry, as if I hadn't eaten for a few days, and hurriedly sat on the chair in front of the table, regardless of whether this meal was prepared for me, I ate it first.

"Well, Mary, where is your master, why haven't you come for dinner?"

I took advantage of Mary's meal to grab an unknown pie in one hand and asked vaguely as I stuffed it into my mouth.

But the Mary didn't seem to pay attention to me, and went into the kitchen without looking back, not knowing what she was doing again, and I was just about to get up and go to the kitchen to continue asking, when a male voice peculiar to a beard came from behind.

"Mary is deaf and mute, so she can't hear what you're saying."

Hearing his words, I raised my eyebrows, and no longer paid attention to my beard, and continued to sit at the table and eat by myself, thinking: Although this Mary is deaf and mute, this cooking skill is really extraordinary, no wonder this brother dismissed all his subordinates, except for this Filipino maid who could not speak and could not understand what others said.

Seeing that I didn't pay attention to him, the bearded man sat down across from me and ate it.

Neither of us spoke during the meal, and Mary didn't know where she went, and the only sound in the room was the sound of chewing food.

After Meimei's breakfast, I sat on the sofa and drank the tea that had been prepared a long time ago, and asked the bearded man who was also sitting beside me drinking tea: "I said, didn't your brother really tell you something special?"

"My name is Lu Shen, my brother's name is Lu Zhi, and my brother really hasn't told me anything about his past life and this life, Zhong Xiaoxianren, what do you want to say, can you order it directly? I really don't understand."

Lu Zhi, Lu Shen, Nima, isn't this Lu Zhishen? Who named these two brothers, it's so fucking interesting.

I held back a smile in my heart, but I nodded solemnly on my face, and continued: "It doesn't matter if I didn't say it, otherwise, let's go upstairs and see your brother?"

Of course, Lu Shen didn't have any opinion on my thoughts, so he took me to his brother's room, that is, Lu Zhi's room again, woke up Lu Zhi, who was still asleep, and then took out his mobile phone from his pocket, tinkered with it a few times, and said to his brother: "Brother, Zhong Xiaoxian has something to ask you."

Lu Zhi was still in a very bad manner, and with the help of Lu Shen, he half-leaned on the cushion at the head of the bed, opened his mouth weakly and said, "Zhong Xiaoxian, what's the matter...... Just ask!"

I nodded at him and asked, "Mr. Lu Zhi, have you recently found yourself with something that you have never encountered but that has appeared in your mind, or something strange?"

As I asked, I looked at the gray lines in his pupils, and found that the gray-white lines showed no signs of spreading, and my heart settled down a little.

"Strange things, a lot has happened in recent times, but I can't tell what it is" Lu Zhi didn't think about it for too long, but he didn't seem to know where to start, I motioned for him to explain it to me one by one, and it was best not to miss anything.

"The first thing is that on the fourth day after I received the two pieces of rosewood logs, I was in the studio at that time, and I heard something in the wood, I didn't think about it at first, but when I began to sketch the preliminary shape of the triangular chair embedded with luodian on it, the voice was very clear, as if to say" Lu Zhi paused, looked at Lu Shen, who was already sitting on the other side of the bed at some point, and continued: "It seems to say, I finally waited for you"

"I've finally waited for you?" I squinted at Lu Zhi and repeated, Lu Zhi nodded and said with great certainty: "Well, that's it."

"And then, did anything strange happen?" I continued.

"Later, you know, the descendants of our Lu family have always been fond of carpentry and its preference, especially my ancestor Lu Ban, that is really to the realm of going crazy, and it is said that my ancestor once also got a piece of good red sour branch wood, and then there were rumors that there was a tree spirit in that piece of wood, and it was precisely because of the help of this tree spirit that the legend of the Lu family was created, so at that time I also thought that there was a tree spirit in the red sandalwood, so I was extremely excited, and wanted to peel it off to see"

"I never thought that the tree spirit in the tree didn't know how to use to stun me, and when I woke up, I would be like this."

"Luban's descendants?, and tree spirits?" To tell the truth, when he said that he was a descendant of Luban, I was very shocked, no wonder this guy was a carpenter, but he could live in such a house and enjoy such a life.

"Is there anything else weird besides this?" I continued to ask, and it seemed that this matter had some eyebrows, and if it was just a tree spirit, then it should be fine!

Lu Zhi looked at me, nodded again and said, "Yes", then he turned his head to Lu Shen and said, "You go and bring the photo on my desk and show it to Zhong Xiaoxian."

When Lu Shen heard this, he hurriedly stood up and walked to the desk in the middle of the room, and then handed me a photo about six or seven inches in size.

I took the photo and took a closer look, this is a black and white photo, from the old degree of the paper should be not short, but it is well preserved, and this photo was taken in a garden, surrounded by greenery, flowers, in the middle of the photo is a smiling woman, this woman is wearing a flag suit, combing the sideburns, wearing a flower pot bottom flag shoes, embroidered on the placket, the placket and the collar are inlayed, rolling, embroidered and other peonies as decorations, the waist is tied with a peony belt, the standard Qing Dynasty Manchu costume, at a glance is the official eunuch's lady。

She sat on a chair with her hands folded and smiled, and next to her there was an empty chair that was exactly the same but no one sat on, the shape of this chair was very unique, the bevel design, the frame was relatively small, the hollow carving on it was very exquisite, and it seemed to be inlaid with a lot of white things, such as pearls and small objects such as jewelry, at a glance, you can know that this chair is definitely worth a lot.

The scenery in this photo is beautiful, and the people are beautiful, but there is an indescribable weirdness in it.

Lu Zhi, who was half-leaning on the bed, saw me frowning, as if he thought I didn't know the chair in the photo, so he explained to me: "This is a triangular chair, the chair in the photo is inlaid with pearls, this technique is called "inlaid luodian" in the industry, it is a common furniture in the boudoir of a rich lady in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now similar furniture can be found in the furniture market, and a set of such chairs is also collected in Beihai Park in Sijiu City, which is relatively common."

I nodded knowingly, and then Lu Zhi continued:

"This picture was given to me by the man who sent the rosewood wood, and what he wanted to build were the two chairs in the photo, of course, he only gave me the wood, but he didn't give me any inlaid objects, it was really nothing, but after I fell into a coma, I often had the same dream, I dreamed of this woman, holding a living creature in her arms, in the garden, in the boudoir laughing, it seemed to be very fond of the living creature, but the size of the pet was like a cat or dog, but it was not a cat or dog, I can't tell what it was"

"Dreaming of the woman in this photo, brother, are you thinking about it day and night?" Lu Shen was very surprised at this time, and couldn't help interrupting Lu Zhi's words.

Lu Zhi ignored Lu Shen and paused to continue, but at this moment, there was a knock on the door, interrupting what he was about to say.

"Maybe Mary is here to deliver the food, I'm going to open the door"

Lu Shen stood up and opened the door, sure enough, standing outside the door was the deaf and dumb Filipino maid, at this time she had a tray in her hand, and two bowls were placed on it, Lu Shen took the tray in Mary's hand, signaled that she could go, and then put the food in the tray on the cabinet at the head of Lu Zhi's bed, and then handed one of the bowls of porridge to Lu Zhi who was lying on the bed.

Lu Zhi slowly got up and took the bowl, and drank it one by one, I sat patiently on the edge of the bed and waited for him to drink up the bowl of porridge, and Lu Shen handed over another bowl of yellow soup.

"What is this?" I asked, curiously pointing to the bowl of soup.

"It's the decoction prescribed by the doctor, the medicine to treat my problem" Lu Zhi pointed to the biggest corpse spot on his face, grinned helplessly, and then poured the yellow water into his mouth in one breath.

"What did the doctor say about these things on your face?" I tilted my head to look at Lu Zhi's somewhat sallow face, and kicked in my heart what kind of answer the doctor would give.

Seeing me ask him, Lu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "Doctor Huang said that this is a skin disease."

"Skin disease? Is there anything else besides this skin disease on your face?"

"Yes, I also have this kind of patch on my thighs and back, but the area is relatively large, and there are Zhong Xiaoxian, I don't think it's as simple as a skin disease" said, Lu Zhi deliberately exposed the legs in the quilt, as if he wanted me to see the real thing.

When I saw the corpse spot on his leg, I instantly gasped, this area is too big, right? Almost the entire calf, I reached out and pressed on the corpse spot, it was hard, and there was a rough feeling, a bit like a scab after falling on the ground and being scratched.

But the real corpse spots don't have such a hard feeling, and this Lu Zhi said that the plaques on his body are not skin diseases, does he know something? Thinking of this, I asked him again: "You said that this is not a skin disease, how do you say this?"

"Hehe, this has to start with those two pieces of rosewood, which is also the weirdest thing after that"

I nodded, motioning for Lu Zhi to continue, at this time Lu Shen behind me also sat next to me, listening carefully, it seems that he didn't know all this, I don't know why Lu Zhi is hiding from his younger brother, but in my opinion, it should be afraid that Lu Shen is too worried!