Chapter 2 Shoes

Although Wu Xi promised Zhu Yu to go home early to rest, as a new human who has just stepped into society, it is up to him to decide what time to get off work, especially on the first day of employment when other newcomers are working hard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 By the time she had finished writing the interview outline and sent it to Xu Xing's mailbox, it was already dark. Wu Xi hurried to catch the last train home, she rented a place in Wangjialing, an old community called Puhua Beili, from the station where she got off the train to the community needs to pass through a ten-minute hutong. It's summer now, and the people who enjoy the cool in this little alley often don't disperse, but today it's a little different, the long alley is empty, not even a cicada chirps, only a few street lamps stand there alone, reflecting orange circles of light on the ground. Wu Xi obviously didn't realize this, she was still thinking about her interview outline in her head, and she even forgot that the community she rented was also a model community, and it could be included in the interview outline.

Wu Xi's heart was suddenly pinched hard, she stopped like a sudden brake, and she couldn't take another step forward no matter what. Wu Xi stood in front of the aperture of a street lamp, behind the aperture, there was a pair of red shoes, the shoes were red and piercing, the toe was pointed, the upper was embroidered with pink lotus flowers, and the red buckles were embellished from the tip to the heel. What should be on top of the shoe? Pale ankles? A bright red skirt? Wu Xi didn't know, she didn't have the courage to look up, she was afraid that she would see a pair of black lifeless eyes along her clothes to her neck. Wu Xi wanted to run, but she didn't dare, she was afraid that if she moved, a cold arm would stop her in front of her. "Who is it?" After standing for a long time, Wu Xi heard a low voice from her own voice, which was almost not her own, so low that she could barely hear it. She wanted to get a response, but she didn't want to hear a response for the rest of her life, she wished that a secondary two girl would jump out of the opposite direction, and shouted at her: "Haha, cosplay, scared." However, her voice seemed to be sucked into the darkness, and the "person" on the other side was still unstoppable. Wu Xi could only bow her head deeply, staring at the shoes, and cold sweat had crawled densely all over her skin for some time. Suddenly, the shoes moved forward slightly, and Wu Xi was so frightened that he stumbled backwards, but he stepped on a soft thing.

With a "meow", a yellow object soared into the air and swooped into the aperture of the street lamp, and the shoe disappeared. Wu Xi seized the opportunity and rushed across the alley without looking back, she rushed all the way to the door of the unit, and did not stop until she bumped into someone's arms.

"Wu Xi Wu Xi, what's wrong with you." "Zhu Yu, I'...... I feel like he's seeing hell again. ā€

Zhu Yu hugged Wu Xi, who was trembling into a sieve, and comforted her for an hour before she calmed down. Zhu Yu can explain what Wu Xi encountered from a "reasonable" point of view: "Today's children like to be scared, I think most of the children around you are dressed like this to scare you, it is estimated that many people are hiding from you on Friday to video you or something, it may be a pair of shoes or props or something, it is possible that someone left it there, you are already nervous today, you yourself said that the shoes may have moved, or they may not have moved at all, you scared yourself." "But the shoes are gone." "It's not gone, it's the cat that threw itself into the shadows." "Zhu Yu, there are no ghosts in this world at all, right?" "There are ghosts in this world, it's me, a starving ghost, I haven't eaten until now in order to wait for you." "Oh, by the way, why are you coming back today, aren't you going on a business trip for a week?" "Because I'm in a hurry to come back with you, coward......"

Zhu Yu took the earliest flight back the next day, but the results of his comfort this night were remarkable, Wu Xi was also a big-hearted person, and the things that happened yesterday were too beyond common sense, Wu Xi decided not to scare herself anymore, she chewed the yak dried that Zhu Yu brought her, and jumped out of the house to go to work. But after passing through the alley, she couldn't help but speed up her pace. "Meow", an ordinary yellow cat basking in the sun next to the street lamp seemed to be attracted by the smell of dried yak, stretched his waist, walked towards Wu Xi, lowered his head and rubbed her trousers. Wu Xi squatted down, "It doesn't matter if it was you yesterday, the beef jerky rewarded you, thanks to you, I wasn't scared to death yesterday." Wu Xi dropped the jerky, touched the yellow cat's head, and continued to walk towards the station. She didn't notice, behind her, the yellow cat didn't pay any attention to the fragrant piece of jerky, but stared at her departing back with a pair of dark blue eyes.

Wu Xi was engrossed in revising her interview outline while chewing pancakes, and as soon as she came to the unit, she received a reply from Xu Xing, she didn't dare to delay time, she didn't even dare not go to the cafeteria, she just asked Ding Ding to bring her a breakfast, because today she was going to go deep into the community to conduct her first interview. But even if she was engrossed, she was stared at by a scrutinizing gaze on her side and had to turn her head to take a look, Xu Xingzheng frowned and looked at herself, Wu Xi slowly put down the pancakes that had been handed to her mouth, she also saw that there were many colleagues working with breakfast in the office, so she dared to work while eating, it seems that this supervisor, who seems to be not very attentive to work, is still very strict with his subordinates.

"Going for an interview today?" Xu Xing didn't know when he had come behind her, "Yes." Wu Xi hurriedly stood up, "I'll go with you." ā€

Sitting in Xu Xing's car, Wu Xi had a lot of thoughts in her heart: she is not the only one who will interview today, and there are many people who are more important than her in the interview task, but why did she come out with her? There can only be one reason: the whole group graduated from a non-journalism major, Cui Minghan intends to investigate her editorial ability, and she had dinner in the office this morning, which may have made him misunderstand that he is not serious enough about his work, so he must supervise her closely. Thinking of this, Wu Xi felt that it was necessary for him to explain the matter of breakfast: "That...... I didn't have time to go to the cafeteria to eat breakfast in the office this morning to revise the outline you sent me, isn't it a bit tasty? I'll be sure to pay attention next time. "You do have a smell in you." Xu Xing didn't even look at her, and continued to drive without squinting. It's not a scallion pancake, how can it be so exaggerated, Wu Xi muttered in his heart, it's really an Antarctic person, an Antarctic person is a new nickname given to Xu Xing by Ding Ding's classmate, which means that he has an indifferent face to no matter who he is, in Ding Ding's words, this is really too tyrannical, God has given you such perfect facial features, you should use it more, it's too wasteful of rare resources.

"I see that your outline does not mention Wang's tomb, as far as I know, there is a craftsman surnamed Wang in that community, and his family's ancestral empty bamboo craft will apply for world cultural heritage this year, and there is a great possibility of success, and the subject of your interview today is him." "Wangjialing...... That's where I live. "Then you're more familiar with it." The information has not yet been consulted. "Check it now."

Wu Xi took the mobile phone to navigate and took Xu Xing to find the Wang family, and when he arrived at the door, he found that the Wang family's ancestral house was actually at the other end of the alley she had to pass through every day, and was cut off by the community she was renting now. The Wang family is a typical Chinese mansion with a red door and gray walls, and two small drum stones standing at the door. The appearance of the courtyard is not big, but it looks like an antiquity, Wu looked at the wall composed of blue and gray bricks, and muttered to himself: "Don't talk about empty bamboo, this courtyard alone can be declared a World Heritage Site." Xu Xing put his hand on the wall and closed his eyes gently, the sunlight shining on him through the shadows of the trees, reflecting a mottled spot on his side face that she couldn't understand. Wu Xi felt that the ground under her feet seemed to move slightly, she shook her head, she should have been dizzy, it was all to blame for this Xu Xing, she didn't eat enough for breakfast.

The owner of the courtyard, the inheritor of the empty bamboo, is an old man in his seventies, and since Wu Xi had already contacted him through the street office in the car, the old man Wang happily accepted their interview. Wu Xi hurriedly spent her mother's outline on her mobile phone, starting the first interview of her working career from the history, cultural inheritance, and future development of Kongzhu.

Although she pretended to be calm on the surface, she was secretly playing the drum in her heart, glancing at Xu Xing beside her from time to time, for fear that he would frown and stare at her again. Fortunately, Xu Xing seemed to be listening to them attentively throughout the whole process, until Wu Xi began to finish, and at the end of the preparation, he coldly inserted a sentence: "Just now you said that the empty bamboo has a history of more than 1,000 years in China, but the Wang family has only been engaged in the craft of the empty bamboo for more than 200 years, why has it become the only descendant of the empty bamboo?" Xu Xing woke up the person in his dream with a word, no wonder Wu Xi always felt that something was wrong just now, but he couldn't say it.

Old Man Wang smiled: "There is really a story here, but because it is too old, I don't know if it's true or not." The Wang family only began to engage in the craft of empty bamboo during the Qianlong period, and this ingenious craft was learned by my ancestors from others. During the Qianlong period, SD was in a famine, and a father and daughter surnamed Mo traveled thousands of miles to the capital to find relatives, but they couldn't find it, and the broken silver on their bodies had already been used up. One day, the two of them fainted starved next to the Wang family's house, and my father's father saw that they were pitiful, and vacated a room for the two to live in, and I also said that the father and daughter had a very strong self-esteem, and they were unwilling to live in vain, but fortunately, they had an excellent craft to live by, which was empty bamboo.

At that time, the capital was so popular that not only children, but also ordinary people and even princes and nobles were fascinated by this sport. However, the first time the father and daughter went to the market to perform their handmade bamboos, it caused a sensation in the city. Empty bamboo, as the name suggests, is made of bamboo, but the set of empty bamboos performed by the Mo father and daughter is made of jade, a total of seven single-wheeled empty bamboos, four hundred and three black, each light can be seen, but this is not the most subtle, this is the biggest interest is that this Miss Mo performs the kung fu of empty bamboo. The seven empty bamboos were not dancing alone, but together in battle, and the onlookers who were shaking in the air couldn't take their eyes off it. This kind of kung fu is not something we haven't seen, but this jade and bamboo are completely different, and there won't be much trouble if the bamboo collides, but the jade, under high-speed operation, a small friction will cause the jade to shatter, and the whole thing will be lost, but this thing is exquisite here, these seven empty bamboos fly in the air in different shapes, and every time they pass by, they will make people break out in a cold sweat, but they will not collide together after all. And you know, the hollow bamboo will make a buzzing sound when it shakes, and the sound of this hollow bamboo made of jade is not the same, babbling, it is a bit like the music pulled out of the erhu, which is very good.

So after the Mo father and daughter finished the performance, the onlookers were stunned, and even forgot to applaud, and after a long while, the applause thundered, and the Mo father and daughter became famous from then on. "And then?" Later, there are versions of many stories, one day Emperor Qianlong paid a private visit to Weifu, and was surprised to see the performance of Mo's father and daughter, so he ordered to summon the father and daughter into the palace. At that time, my ancestor was eleven or twelve years old, Miss Mo was only sixteen or seventeen years old, my ancestor played with her all day long, and the two got along like sisters and brothers. Of course, due to the rush of time, and the difficulty of finding good jade, the polishing process of jade is really difficult to learn, so I only learned the most basic bamboo roulette. Fortunately, my ancestor was born smart and clever, so he finally retained this craft, and he can be regarded as not disappointing this Miss Mo's hard work. ā€

"What happened after entering the palace?" Xu Xing continued to ask quietly, "How do we know this, besides, we should take this matter as an allusion, listen to it casually, it may also be the production work that my ancestors figured out by themselves, don't take it too seriously, don't write it to me in the interview." ā€

Out of the palace, Xu Xing and Wu Xi walked in the alley one after the other, it was noon, and at the height of the sun, the cicadas on the trees were upset. Wu Xi stared at the red thread hanging around Xu Xing's neck, and suddenly said, "I saw it." "What?" "Just now, when Mr. Wang was telling the story, there were a few people wearing flowerpot bottom shoes...... The Qing Dynasty people stood in the courtyard of his house, and through the curtain, I could only see their shoes. "It's bizarre." "What's even more bizarre is that you also saw it, I saw something in your chest light up, and then the bottom of those flower pots disappeared......" Xu Xing turned his head and stared at Wu Xi's face, not stunned by her nonsense, but he was very surprised, this girl, yesterday was frightened by a ghost, and today, although she is still pale, she has begun to accept the fact that she can suddenly "see ghosts".