According to Lu Zhi's story, almost ten days ago, someone brought two pieces of mahogany raw materials and gave him an old photo, and asked Lu Zhi to help him carve two triangular chairs with luodian inlaid in the style in the photo, the style of the chair in that photo is more cumbersome, plus the man said that he was going to give his daughter a dowry when she got married, Lu Zhi wanted to hurry up and try to help him do his best.

Four days later, Lu Zhi heard someone talking in the rosewood, so he suspected that there was a tree spirit in it, but when he was about to peel off the wood, he was inexplicably unconscious, and when he woke up, he had convulsions and nonsense, and then there were inexplicable patches on his body, at first only on his face, and then almost all over his body in one day.

After that, Lu Zhi thought that it must be the tree spirit in the rosewood that was doing the trick, so he came to the studio alone in the middle of the night to find out, but when he saw the wood, he found that a lot of green and viscous liquid like resin flowed out of the rosewood, Lu Zhi was very surprised at that time, but he didn't know what was going on, and he was afraid that he would get on the road again, so he hurriedly left the workshop.

After dawn, he called the person who delivered the wood, clearly explained that there was a problem in the wood, and asked him to come over to see the situation, but the person said that the material was an old wood, and some resin flowed out normally, so he asked Lu Zhi to shave off the resin and continue processing.

But Lu Zhi has been a carpenter for so many years, and he has never heard or encountered the phenomenon of green resin flowing out of rosewood, and those two pieces of wood are from grease, color, Although he had fantasized that there was a tree spirit in it, and he also imagined that the tree spirit might make his Lu family's craftsmanship more exquisite, but, after all, he was an ordinary person, and he was also skeptical about the spirit of the ancestors, not to mention what existed in the material, he was not sure, so Lu Zhi insisted on letting the owner of the wood come over to take a look, but the other party repeatedly shirked and refused to come, and the words were also very frightened, and he hung up the phone in a hurry without chatting a few words, and when Lu Zhi called again, it was already turned off。

Lu Zhi was not stupid, of course he thought that there must be something wrong with the wood, so he hurriedly called back his younger brother who was doing business abroad and asked him to help find a capable person or Taoist priest to take a look.

After two days, Lu Zhi didn't dare to go to the studio again, but on the night when his brother rushed back, he was very uncomfortable, went to bed early, just fell asleep he had a dream, dreamed that he called the wood owner, told him that there was a problem with the wood, the man didn't care to let Lu Zhi scrape off the resin and continue to process, so he thought that people didn't care about spending money, so he was helpless to continue to help him catch up, somehow when he came to the studio, he felt very tired, so he fell asleep on the workbench in a daze, and he still had a dream in his sleep, dreaming that a big mouse was gnawing on the piece of rosewood, and Lu Zhi was anxious at that time, I was going to fight the big mouse, but the mouse opened its mouth to talk to him, it said that the piece of material was originally its food, what could it do if it ate it, but how could Lu Zhi let it eat it? It ate Lu Zhi and had to lose money, Lu Zhi didn't know that he was in a dream at that time, he reached out and picked up the carving knife next to him and threw it at the body of the big mouse, and the sharp carving knife was directly nailed to the mouse impartially, and the mouse died instantly, and the dream also woke up.

At first, Lu Zhi thought that this was just a dream, and was about to get up and take a shower and wash off the cold sweat on his body, but at this time, the noise of several of Lu Zhi's apprentices came downstairs, and the sound became louder and louder.

Speaking of this, Lu Zhi seemed to be very excited, breathed a few times rapidly, and the sound of "hulala" came from his throat, a bit like a broken fan, Lu Shen hurriedly stepped forward to help him rub his chest, asking him to slow down and say that he was not in a hurry, Lu Zhi took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and then continued:

"When I went downstairs, I saw a group of people downstairs forming a circle, pointing and pointing at people who didn't know what they were doing. I was just about to go over and ask, my little apprentice pushed away the crowd, pointed to the ground and said to me, saying that a big mouse died, at this time other people saw me coming, maybe I was more strict with them than usual, my apprentices, this youngest is not afraid of me, others saw me, just like a mouse saw a cat, naturally scattered, and I also saw the dead big mouse in the mouth of the little apprentice, it was exactly the same as the one I killed in my dream, and there was also my carving knife inserted in my body, at that time I felt dizzy for a while, and fainted directly, and when I woke up again, Zhong Xiaoxian you came”

Lu Zhi said so many words to me, it seemed very tired, I nodded at him, let him lie comfortably in the bed, and I fell into thought.

According to Lu Zhi, his series of strange things were all caused by the arrival of the two pieces of rosewood, and the owner of the wood seemed to have expected it, so after Lu Zhi told him that there was a problem with the wood, he was not worried about the valuable wood, but it was like losing a hot potato, and he couldn't contact him directly.

According to Lu Zhi, he dreamed that the woman in the photo was holding a pet and laughing, and then killed a big mouse who wanted to eat wood in a dream, but the mouse was really dead in reality.

At this time, I picked up the black and white photo I put on the bed, and looked at the woman in the photo again, looking more closely, but when I saw the fluffy object in her arms, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, just when I first looked at this photo, I felt a little weird, that fluffy thing, at that time I thought it was a plush sleeve used to keep warm in winter, but this photo was obviously taken in summer, how can there be a plush sleeve? It's obviously a pet, although the head of this pet is not exposed, but at the crook of the girl's arm, it has a small half of the tail hanging down, like a cat and a dog can't be recognized.

At this time, I seem to have caught a certain point, the wood that spoke, the tree spirit, the Qing Dynasty woman, the pet, the chair carved by Lu Zhi by the owner of the wood, the pet that the woman raised in Lu Zhi's dream is not a cat or a dog, the big mouse that wants to eat the wood in the dream, the big mouse that died in reality, and the hell! Could it be that this woman is holding a mouse in her arms?

If I were just an ordinary person, I would definitely think that my thoughts at this time were a joke, but after all, I am not an ordinary person, and the things I encountered are also difficult for ordinary people to understand and believe, so at this time, I decided that Lu Zhi's matter was definitely someone manipulating something, or rather, it should not be a person who was controlling all this.

So what should I do? Go to the owner of the wood first? I don't think it's that simple, it seems that I have to look at the dead mouse first, if there are any clues.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked Lu Zhi: "Where is the corpse of the dead mouse, I want to see"

Lu Zhi didn't speak, just squinted his eyes, turned his head with difficulty and looked at Lu Shen standing next to me, Lu Shen received his gaze, and said: "The corpse of the big mouse was buried in the flower bed outside by me, you just want to see me dig it out for you, but ......!

I didn't answer his question immediately, my eyes stared at Lu Shen's face without blinking, he was a little unnatural by my eyes, and hurriedly asked, "No, Zhong Xiaoxian, why are you looking at me like this?"

I laughed strangely and asked him in a low voice: "When others encounter this situation, they probably burn or throw away the corpse of the rat a long time ago, why did you bury it?"

Actually, I don't blame me for asking him so, just imagine, who doesn't deal with the dead rats quickly? After all, there are a lot of bacteria on the mice, and the rats are also one of the four pests, but this Lu Shen is fucking buried, I have heard of burying my own pets, but I have never heard of burying the four pests, this is not logical!

Lu Shen was stunned for a moment when I asked this, and then hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I didn't bury the mouse, it was buried by Mary, originally I asked someone to put it in a plastic bag and throw it in the garbage can, but Mary stopped it halfway, grabbed it and buried it in the flower bed, I didn't think too much, and I didn't care about her!"

"Mary, is that Filipino maid, why did she bury the corpse of a mouse?" I asked Lu Shen again, puzzled.

Lu Shen didn't know how to answer, scratched his neatly combed hair, and muttered dissatisfiedly like a child, "If it's buried, it's buried!" How do I know why? Besides, no one has a rule, the corpse of the mouse has to be burned or thrown away, why do you have to be more serious about this mouse?"

"Lu Shen, it's not that I want to worry about how to deal with this mouse, but this mouse's problem is not small!" I handed the photo in my hand to Lu Shen, and then pointed to the place where the woman was holding in the photo and nodded.

Lu Shen looked carefully at the place where my finger clicked, and then his thick eyebrows wrinkled, and he raised his head and asked me tentatively in disbelief:

"What does Zhong Xiaoxian mean? The thing in this photo is a mouse, and it is the thing that my brother dreamed of that is not a cat or a dog?"

I nodded and answered, and then I took the photo back from Lu Shen's hand, and was about to hand it to Lu Zhi for him to identify, but at this time, Lu Zhi, who was lying on the bed, closed his eyes tightly, and moaned in pain, as if he was trying his best to endure some kind of pain.

"Damn, my brother is going to get sick again"

Lu Shen nervously dragged me up from the bed, pulled me back a few steps in the direction of the door, stared at Lu Zhi who had climbed out of bed and squatted in the corner, and at the same time made a silent gesture to me.

I had no choice but to observe the sick Lu Zhi again, thinking to myself, this Lu family brothers don't know whether the relationship is good or bad, sometimes it feels like they are indeed brothers by blood, but sometimes it feels like two people who are very strange, this incomprehensible feeling makes me very uncomfortable, it seems that there is something I want to hold on to, but I can't hold on, why?