The Xie family has many housekeepers, Luo Xu has already seen a few, this Ding housekeeper is the youngest he has ever seen, as soon as he shook hands with him, Luo Xu knew that this person had kung fu on his body, a pair of palms were rough and thick, the palms were covered with hard calluses, and his temples were high up, presumably he had practiced some foreign kung fu.

"Hello Steward Ding, please take care of me when we meet for the first time. ”

Steward Ding's eyes were introverted, a glint flashed in his eyes, he also discovered Luo Xu's extraordinaryness, and smiled slightly, "Under Ding Jian, Master Luo is a distinguished guest of the Xie family, so if you have any needs, please do not hesitate to command." ”

The two said hello, and Xie Dongliao, who was waiting on the side, seemed to be a little impatient, and shouted, "Oh, why are you two more verbose than me?

"Master Luo, please. ”

Ding Jian stepped forward, walked in front, and walked towards the depths of the manor with Xie Dongliao and his party.

Since this manor is located in the depths of the West Mountain Bamboo Sea, it is naturally indispensable to lush green bamboo. As far as the eye can see, the whole manor is surrounded by a sea of bamboo, and inside the manor, green bamboo is also an indispensable landscape.

In addition, the most common thing to see along the way is a variety of stone carvings. These stone carvings all have a history, not from the hands of any master, but from the ancestors of the Xie family.

Before the development of the Xie family, the era of farming, in addition to farming, generations of men of the Xie family knew the craft of stone carving, leaving a weak and vivid stone carving at home.

Even in Xie Dongliao's generation, this craft has not been lost. Others only know Xie Dongliao's ability to be a general in the shopping mall, but few people know that he is still a master of stone carving. Every time a child or grandchild is born, he will carve a stone sculpture according to the zodiac sign of the child or grandchild as a commemoration, which is also a tradition of the Xie family.

He also passed on this skill to his son Xie Tian, and Xie Tian is also a master of this way, but unfortunately, the craftsmanship of the Xie family's stone carving has been passed on to Xie Tian's generation.

Xie Tian has no children under his knees, and he is reluctant to let his daughter, Xie Ziyu, who is like a flower like jade, use her tender little hands to grab the stone chisel to chisel the stone, so she never planned to teach this craft to Xie Ziyu.

This decision was tacitly approved by Xie Dongliao, and Xie Dongliao was reluctant to let his own granddaughter suffer this, but he did not dare to lose the craftsmanship of his ancestors, and told Xie Tian that Xie Ziyu would give birth to an heir in the future, and if he gave birth to a boy, he would teach the craft of stone carving to his grandson.

The most stone carvings Luo Xu saw in the manor were the 12 zodiac signs, each of which had words on it, recording who the stone carving was carved for, and the date of birth of that person.

Under the leadership of Ding Jian, Luo Xu and Xie Dongliao came to a place surrounded by green bamboo, entered a bamboo house, installed heating inside, and immediately warmed up their whole bodies after walking in.

"Let's change our clothes, let's go down to the hot springs. Do you know why Ziyu's skin is so good? It's that when I was a child, I soaked in hot springs a lot. In particular, the hot springs here in Xishan Zhuhai have been tested and found to contain a variety of minerals that are beneficial to the human body. ”

Xie Dongliao has three hobbies in his life, soaking in hot springs, playing Go and growing vegetables, and since he retired to the background, he has to come to the manor here in Xishan Zhuhai every year to live for a while.

After changing his clothes and coming out, Luo Xu walked out of the bamboo hut and walked towards the swirling hot spring. The hot spring is surrounded by green bamboos that block the cold wind, but not the warm sun.

Luo Xu walked over and sat down in the hot spring, letting the hot water moisten his body. After a while, Xie Dongliao also came.

Although he is nearly 90 years old and his skin is saggy, he is not as lax as other old people.

"How's it going here?"

Xie Dongliao also sat down in the hot spring and closed his eyes comfortably.

"It's so comfortable, if you stay here for a long time, I'm afraid that people's will will be consumed. Luo Xu replied with a smile.

Xie Dongliao said: "Yes, so Ziyu's father doesn't come over, only me, an old man who has retired, likes to come here." ”

After chatting for a while, Xie Dongliao seemed to be asleep, soaking in the hot spring and not talking. Luo Xu also felt the moisture of the hot spring with all his heart and closed his eyes.

After two hours, the two of them went up from the hot springs and returned to the bamboo house, where they saw the housekeeper Ding Jian standing.

"Xiaoding, are you all ready?"

"Old man, a qiē is ready. ”

"Good. Xie Dongliao turned his head to look at Luo Xu, and then looked down at his feet.

Luo Xu understood and nodded slightly.

Ding Jian wiped on the wall, and he didn't know what mechanism he had touched, and he saw that the floor under his feet suddenly opened to both sides. Ding Jian helped Xie Dongliao to walk down the stairs, and Luo Xu followed closely behind.

After walking a short distance, I came to an underground room. A middle-aged man with a black beard and a gray robe stood with his hands down.

"Mr. Ghost Hand, as soon as you are ready, you will be tired. ”

Xie Dongliao clenched his fists at the middle-aged man called "Ghost Hand".

Ghost Hand smiled slightly, just bowing. His gaze fell on Luo Xu's face, and he looked at him for several minutes before finally speaking his first sentence.

"Old Xie, and this little friend, please sit down. The two of you closed your eyes and handed it to me. ”

Xie Dongliao and Luo Xu sat down in their chairs, and then each closed their eyes. Ghost Hand opened the wooden box he was carrying and took out a set of tools from it. He took out something that looked like a human skin, and used a pair of scissors to cut and cut it on it, and the movements were smooth and smooth.

After a while, he began to apply something to Luo Xu's face. Ghost Hand is proficient in disguise techniques, and he paints things on Luo Xu's face in order to change the contours of his face.

This is a technical work, but also a meticulous work. It took half an hour. After smearing, he walked to Xie Dongliao next to him and smeared something on Xie Dongliao's face.

After smearing, Ghost Hand took out a comb and combed it on Luo Xu's head, his black hair turned into black hair, and when he combed Xie Dongliao's head, his white hair turned into black hair.

He trimmed Luo Xu's hair and cut it into Xie Dongliao's hairstyle, and then made Xie Dongliao's hair into Luo Xu's hairstyle.

After this process was completed, the ghost hand glued the already cut human skin mask to Luo Xu and Xie Dongliao's faces, and this thing was made of something, but it actually merged with the real skin.

"Alright, you two can open your eyes now!"