With suspicion, Zhou Tong has been secretly observing the two of them, Zou Fei talked with Mr. Cheng throughout the whole process, his thoughts were clear, and from time to time he made one or two innocuous jokes, which made Mr. Cheng laugh again and again, and even the more professional knowledge about wood carving was also at his fingertips, and it was very pleasant to talk about it.

When it was time to eat, Old Man Cheng left them to eat together, Zhou Tong promised Ling Yuan that he would go back to eat in the evening, so he didn't stay, Zou Fei and He Chou also excused themselves on the pretext of having something to do and left with Zhou Tong.

The three of them went back in the same direction, and they shared a taxi, Zou Fei still had a smiling face, a very happy look, he saw that Zhou Tong didn't speak, and asked him: "Do you think I've changed?"

Zhou Tongwan smiled and said politely: "It's much more lively than before." ”

"Isn't it just lively?" Zou Fei blinked at Zhou Tong, his eyes were extremely cunning, "I hit my brain when I was washed out of the underground palace by the water in Pingshan Village before, and I stayed in the hospital for more than half a month, and after waking up, I felt that my brain was much clearer, and many things became much easier to learn, such as wood carving, how could I know so much about such boring things? ”

Zhou Tong was slightly stunned, looked at He Chou, He Chou nodded, agreed with Zou Fei's statement, Zou Fei smiled, and said: "Brother Chou was also surprised, I was very uneasy at first, but then I felt that this is a good thing, I can take care of Brother Chou when I become smarter, no one can bully the two of us, I want Brother Chou to live a good life." ”

When he said this, Zou Fei's eyes lit up, and the clouds piled up on his eyebrows also dispersed a little, and at this moment, Zhou Tong found that Zou Fei had actually entered the Dao.

Zou Fei looked at Zhou Tong with a smile, didn't mind Zhou Tong's scrutiny at all, and said: "You should know the situation at that old Mr. Cheng's house, there is a problem with the wood carving of the hairpin head phoenix, but the problem is not in the wood carving painting but in the tool pen used by Mr. Cheng for carving. ”

Zhou Tong asked, "What do you say?"

Zou Fei said: "Including the wood carving painting, all the wood carving paintings in the room from Mr. Cheng's hand have a common feature, that is, with the change of the depth of the carving knife, the strength of the qi attached to the painting will also change, the deep place with the knife is heavier, and the shallow place with the knife is lighter, so I feel that the problem is in the carving knife rather than in the wood carving painting." ”

Zhou Tong asked again: "Have you seen that carving knife?"

Zou Fei shook his head and said, "No, I just figured it out just now, and I'm going to take a look next time." ”

This is indeed a clue, and Zhou Tong also kept it in mind, but he didn't understand the behavior of Zou Fei and He Chou, these two people used to be cheating, but now they helped solve Old Man Cheng's affairs for free.

Zou Fei suddenly shouted to stop, and after the driver pulled over, Zou Fei said to Zhou Tong: "We have arrived, we have time to come to play with us, it is estimated that we will stay in City A for a while, so be it, goodbye!"

Before getting out of the car, Zhou Tong grabbed He Chou's sleeve and quietly stuffed a piece of paper into He Chou's pocket, He Chou glanced back at Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong naturally smiled and waved his hand: "Goodbye." ”

He Chou frowned slightly, reached into his pocket, and clutched the piece of paper.

After Zhou Tong went home, he had dinner, cleaned up a little and took a taxi into Zou Fei's place, where he sat in the nearby Starbucks and waited.

When it came to the appointed time, He Chou hadn't come yet, Zhou Tong looked at the empty street outside, a little suspicious, could it be that he really thought too much? After waiting for more than ten minutes, He Chou pushed the door and entered.

He put his hands in his pockets, didn't look at Zhou Tong, first went to the cashier to order a cup of coffee, and then sat next to Zhou Tong, like two people who were completely strangers.

He Chou took a sip of coffee and said impatiently, "Why did you call me out so late?"

Zhou Tong asked, "What happened to Zou Fei?"

He Chou took another sip of coffee, but did not respond, Zhou Tong was not in a hurry, the relationship between him and He Chou was not very good, not to the point where He Chou was willing to explain everything to him from the bottom of his heart, Zhou Tong asked He Chou to come out is betting on the relationship between He Chou and Zou Fei, if Zou Fei has an accident, He Chou will not stand idly by.

He Chou didn't know how to say this, even he didn't understand.

What Zou Fei said was true, he was inexplicably enlightened after touching his head and staying in the hospital for half a month, except for this, basically nothing strange happened, only that night he dreamed of things when he was a child, and saw a baby grinning at him.

However, before he could react, the baby disappeared, just in the blink of an eye, He Chou thought that he was under too much mental pressure, thinking of himself when he was a child, he hallucinated in front of him, and he didn't take it too seriously.

But Zou Fei is getting more and more wrong.

It's not so much that he changed the cowardice and cowardice in his bones before he entered the Tao, but that he completely changed his person. If it weren't for Zou Fei still remembering what happened to him and himself, why should he wonder if Zou Fei had been dropped.

Thinking of this, He Chou sighed depressedly, drank half a cup of coffee in one gulp, and wanted to use coffee to stimulate his turbid brain, he said: "Zou Fei is weird, but I don't know what the problem is, do you see something?"

"His qi is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, what happened between us after we separated and now?"

"Nothing happened. He Chou thought about it and told Zhou Tong about the baby, Zhou Tong pondered for a while, and said, "Maybe it's the bardo body, you didn't see where he went?"

"The bardo body, the monster in the mountains, and he escaped?"

"Yes. Zhou Tong nodded, "The bardo body often appears as a baby, I don't know what the purpose of his coming out this time is, but he will definitely come to Ling Yuan, I have asked the Han family and the Chu family to cast a net to check, there has been no news all this time, and it is very peaceful everywhere." ”

It would be bad if he was possessed by that monster, He Chou anxiously crumpled the paper cup into a ball and said, "Call me, I will contact you if Zou Fei has any situation." ”

"Good. The two exchanged phone numbers and left.

He Chou returned to the rented house and found that Zou Fei was not at home, He Chou turned on the light, the house was empty, and several pieces of furniture were coldly placed in the room, and there was no popularity at all.

"Where have you been......" He Chou was suspicious, called Zou Fei, Zou Fei's mobile phone rang in the room, He Chou found Zou Fei's coat on the sofa, and his mobile phone was in his coat pocket.

Touching out Zou Fei's mobile phone, He Chou looked at the screen, the word Brother Chou kept flashing, He Chou held the phone and hung up the phone.

Zou Fei's changes may not be felt by ordinary people, but he is Zou Fei's closest person, and he may feel any subtle changes in Zou Fei.

Strangeness, the current Zou Fei only left him with a sense of strangeness.

Was it really possessed by that monster?

He Chou's heart tightened, the doorbell rang at this time, and Zou Fei shouted outside the door: "Brother Chou, are you at home?" I saw that the light was on, come and help me open the door!"

He Chou put down the two mobile phones, opened the door, He Chou carried a lot of things in his hands, and held a few bottles of beer in his arms, after entering the house, he was satisfied with all the things piled on the table, rolled up his sleeves, and said to He Chou with a smile: "Quick, come on, I bought a lot of barbecue, and it is not enough to stuff my teeth at night, I am starving! There is also beer, there are not so many hands to hold, so I bought three bottles, not enough to go down and buy it in a while?"

"You're going to buy wine so late?" He Chou asked.

Zou Fei was stunned for a moment, and when he saw He Chou's gloomy face, he was a little unhappy, and coquettishly leaned into He Chou's arms, and said softly: "Yes, did it make you worried?"

"Nope. He Chou pushed Zou Fei's head away and said lukewarmly: "Eat when you're hungry." ”

Zou Fei blinked at He Chou, lowered his head a little frustratedly, then picked up a bottle of beer and lid it on the edge of the table, and said, "Let's eat together! I stole a bunch just now, it's delicious!"

Zhou Tong returned home with stars and moons, the room was empty, Tianyan Zhentanmu flew over for the first time, swaying blindly in front of Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong flicked lightly on Tianyan, took off his coat full of cold air and hung it on the hanger, and asked, "Where did Ling Yuan and Yun Xiu go?"

Tianyan Town Altar Wood: "......"

The little puppet cat ran over, grabbed Zhou Tong's trouser leg, and pulled forward, Tianyan immediately jumped forward when he saw this, and stopped in front of Zhou Tong.

The little doll cat whined with satisfaction, and continued to pull Zhou Tong's trouser leg forward, Zhou Tong saw that his direction was the backyard, bent down to pick up the little doll cat, and walked to the backyard.

Seeing that the Tianyan was about to be bad, he immediately slammed into the coffee table, and with a bang, Zhou Tong turned his head and glared at the Tianyan, "What are you covering?"

Tianyan lay on the coffee table and pretended to be dead, motionless.

The sliding door of the backyard opened, and Ling Yuan walked out with a muddy hand, followed by Yun Xiu, who had his hands in his sleeves and a light face, Yun Xiu smiled and said, "You're back so soon?"

Ling Yuan walked into the bathroom and washed the mud, Zhou Tong leaned against the bathroom door and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Playing with mud. Ling Yuan took off his shirt, revealing his muscular upper body, his butterfly muscles bulged, Ling Yuan stretched his waist and said to Zhou Tong: "Help me get a change of clothes, I want to take a bath." ”

"Playing with mud?" Zhou Tong raised his eyebrows to look at him, if he believed this reason, he would have been kicked in the brain by a donkey......

"Hmm. Ling Yuan's face did not change, and his heart did not beat.

"Am I stupid?" Zhou Tong directly kicked Ling Yuan's buttocks, and Ling Yuan took advantage of the situation to slide into the bathtub, his movements neatly like a loach.

This man is really ...... It's getting slippery......

Zhou Tong sighed, so he had to go back and get Ling Yuan's clothes, and then went to the backyard to check if there were any clues.

Yun Xiu floated over and asked him, "Your yin and yang eyes have moved a lot today, right?"

"What?" Zhou Tong glanced at the backyard and found that they had moved the well, and the water gushed out, leaving the surrounding soil muddy.

"People with five disadvantages and three deficiencies, the more they use the number of techniques, the more cruel the punishment from the Heavenly Dao will become. Your life is not long, and if you continue like this, I am afraid that you will not even live to be thirty-five years old. You should be clear about that. Yun Xiu said nonchalantly, as if chatting normally.

Zhou Tong said: "I know. ”

"And you're still so keen on this, don't you want to live?"

"Not that I'm passionate about it. Zhou Tong pulled the door of the backyard shut, he probably knew what they were doing, Ling Yuan wanted to renew his life, but the way of heaven is like this, just fortune-telling to avoid evil, and changing feng shui is enough to affect people's fate, attracting five disadvantages and three shortcomings, not to mention such a thing as changing life, there is no other end than a tragic death against the sky, even the soaring divine dragon still has no way, let alone ordinary people?

Zhou Tong sighed and looked at Yun Xiu: "These have been integrated into my life to form my siblings and even my heart, empathy, if you are me, can you give up these?"

Yun Xiu: "......"

"It's not like your fate can't be changed. Empathizing, Yun Xiu was also helpless, he said: "I was the best at divination during my lifetime, I calculated a hexagram for you, you are not short-lived, but your yang life is not long, which is a conflict in itself." Ling Yuan told me that the date of death in your book of life and death has been revised twice, the first time it was forcibly revised by your father, and the second time it was ticked with a dotted line, and the date of death is undecided, so ...... Ling Yuan and I would like to try it and turn your fate around. Back then, the Heavenly Thunder, Bai Yuye used the method of stand-in to help Ling Yuan dodge, and we got inspiration from this and wanted to emulate it. ”

"So you're learning from Nuwa to make people out of the soil, and you're going to make another one for me?"

"Clever. Yun Xiu nodded, "He didn't intend to hide these from you, but you also know that he is a person, and he holds everything in his heart, and he is not ten percent sure that he would rather be misunderstood and suspicious by you than say it." ”

"You know him. Zhou Tong smiled slightly.

Yun Xiu's back stiffened, he felt a piercing coldness even though he was a ball of anger, and he hurriedly explained: "No, no, if you have known someone for thousands of years, you will know him so well, no, for Ling Yuan, even if you haven't known him for thousands of years, you know him better than me." ”

Zhou Tong couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and said to Yun Xiu: "I won't stop what he wants to do, but you have to persuade him, my life is important, his life is equally important, I admit that my father opened such a shop, I am half a businessman, I don't do the deal of buying one and losing one." ”

After a pause, Zhou Tong turned to ask in surprise: "However, he is not afraid of creating another one for me to come out and follow in his footsteps?"

As soon as he heard Zhou Tong ask this question, Yun Xiu's expression changed, and his sour and mean look looked like a wicked mother-in-law who wore small shoes for her daughter-in-law, Yun Xiu pursed her lips and said very disdainfully: "What is he afraid of, he said that his stand-in did the evil road at the beginning because he was impure in his heart and had evil thoughts, and you are different, your heart is as pure as the white lotus in the snow mountain, noble, noble and cold, ah-"

Yun Xiu suddenly snorted softly, the little qi on his body was almost dispersed, and Ling Yuan, who was finishing taking a bath, walked out wet and looked at Yun Xiu with a cold face: "Get out." ”

Yun Xiu: "......"

The kitten meowed and rolled happily on the couch.

Yun Xiu glared at the little puppet cat who fell into the well aggrievedly, and muttered in his heart: Lao Tzu is afraid that you have a knot in your heart, so he is kind enough to help you make your words clear, why don't you want to see anyone? It's really too much......

Ling Yuan came over and hugged Zhou Tong, abused the dog in front of Yun Xiu, and asked, "How did you go to see today?"

"There are a couple of questions that I want you to help me look at. ”

Zhou Tong took a pen and paper, roughly drew the layout of Cheng Jiu'an's house, and said: "Aquatic wood, black is water, Cheng Jiu'an's home feng shui layout is exquisite, the color of the furniture in his home is mainly black, even the walls are painted into dark tones, and the lights must be turned on when you enter the house, otherwise the light is very poor." Considering that his house is all wood carvings, it is understandable to raise wood with black water, but the small door of the house is wide, and there is no curtain to block it, so a situation of dispersion of qi has been formed, not a situation of cultivation but escape, I can't understand this, and finally all the spiritual wood qi raised by black water has been dispersed out of the house, what is the reason?"

Zhou Tong told Ling Yuan about the wood carving painting again, including the changes between He Chou and Zou Fei, Ling Yuan also felt that it might be a stand-in after listening to it, but there was no evidence in the end, so he made an appointment with Zhou Tong to meet Zou Fei and them next time, as for the problems at Cheng Jiu'an's house, he had to see the scene before he could make a decision.

Cheng Jiu'an's family can be put aside first, Zou Fei can't, Zhou Tong took Ling Yuan to Zou Fei's rented house the next day, they got up early, but Zou Fei and they got up earlier, when Zhou Tong went, everyone went to the building and the building was empty, and there was no one in the house.

Zhou Tong made a call to He Chou, and He Chou waited for a while before answering the phone, and when he heard the voice over there, he knew that Zou Fei had gone to Cheng Jiu'an's house again.

What the hell is this kid doing? Is he really going for the wood carving in Cheng Jiu'an's house? But it's obviously not like that.

After thinking about it, Zhou Tong simply took Ling Yuan directly to Cheng Jiu'an's house, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw Zou Fei talking sweetly to Cheng Jiu'an over there, and Cheng Jiu'an was taking out the treasured wood carvings and paintings to show them.

Zou Fei smiled and held the wood carving painting, and when he saw Zhou Tong Lingyuan, he stood up and greeted him without any discoloration: "Hello guys." ”

Ling Yuan squinted at Zou Fei, looked Zou Fei up and down, front and back, and didn't find Zou Fei's abnormality, he stood beside Zhou Tong, shook his head at Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong was even more surprised, he saw a large piece of rosewood logs on the balcony, and asked, "Mr. Cheng is carving wood carving paintings?"

"yes. Cheng Jiuan nodded and said, "Last night, I was itchy and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I got up early in the morning and went to the old street to buy this log and came back. ”

"Just in time. Zhou Tong said with a smile, "We have the opportunity to see the birth process of the masterpiece." ”

"These words lift me up. Cheng Jiuan said embarrassedly, seeing a few young people really want to see, thinking that most young people would rather play some PSP or something than calm down to see some traditional crafts, his heart was quite sour, he sighed, compromised: "Okay, today I will show you a few basic carving skills." ”

"Okay. ”

Yesterday, Zou Fei proposed that the strangeness on the wood carving paintings will change with the depth of the groove, he saw it today, but it is not a problem with the carving tools, today there is just a chance to verify, and several people followed Cheng Jiuan to the balcony together.

I don't know how much better the light over there is than in the room, and it was specially expanded by Cheng Jiu'an, and the area is larger than the living room, and the wooden planks are piled up there, and Mr. Cheng began to hold the carving knife after washing his hands, ready to carve on the wood carving.

The wood carving process is complex, and the tools used are even more varied, basically chiseling, carving, carving, grinding, etc., and several tools on Cheng Jiu'an's right hand are scattered there, different sizes, different styles, but in Cheng Jiu'an's hands, it is like coming to life, flexibly moving on the wood carving.

Zhou Tong looked at the tools carefully, there was nothing special about them, and even the wood carvings under Old Man Cheng's hands did not show any strange qi coming out.

Mr. Cheng has carved wood carvings for most of his life, and naturally knows what logs are good wood, and he also has a vision, and the log he picked back is full of aura, if it is carved and it is a treasure, but it will not be resentful.

In this more than half an hour of carving work, Zhou Tong was stunned and didn't see anything special.

He turned his head to look at Zou Fei and found that Zou Fei was very focused, as if he had completely forgotten his identity and regarded himself as a junior of wood carving who was humbly learning.

He Chou looked at it casually and was not interested in this skill.

Old man Cheng explained while carving, and suddenly began to cough, Zhou Tong handed over a cup of tea and said: Let's rest first. ”

Old Man Cheng put down the teacup and said, "I'm old and I can't do it, so I'm tired after just over half an hour." ”

When he put the carving knife down, the aura of the entire wood carving painting changed.

Zhou Tong watched as the aura on the small carved flower that was only completed on the painting was sucked away by something, first gathered into a ball, and then in the ripples, it was thrown out of the gate.

The door, which was wider and taller than the usual door, turned into a huge open mouth at this time, sucking the aura out of the door.

The original aura-filled log was immediately missing, and the lifelike little carved flower seemed to be dead, languishing.

Old man Cheng was not in good spirits, he didn't notice this, he packed up his tools, covered the box, covered the wooden board with oiled paper, and said: "If you still want to see it, come back tomorrow, I will rest well in the afternoon, nourish my spirit, and focus on wood carving, but I can only carve anything for half an hour a day, and I can't carve a single flower." ”

Zhou Tong glanced at the door and asked, "Why did Mr. Cheng expand the door so big?"

"It's easy to move logs. Mr. Cheng sighed, "These logs are all baby bumps, cheesy to say, the price is not cheap, and it is not cost-effective to accidentally break the corners." ”

Zhou Tong looked at Zou Fei when he heard this, Zou Fei was standing in the center of the living room, looking up at the crested hairpin wood carving hanging on the wall, and sensing Zhou Tong's sight, he turned his head to look over, and smiled at Zhou Tong, his eyes were clear and simple.

Zhou Tonghui smiled, and the eyes of the two collided together, and there was a bit of exploration in their eyes.

Out of Mr. Cheng's house, Zhou Tong looked at the time, took Ling Yuan's hand, and said in a good mood: "Let's go, I'll invite you to dinner, and accompany me to the old street to buy something after eating." ”

"Good. Ling Yuan agreed without asking.

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "I think I should know how to break this situation." ”