My heart sank, this strange and abnormal state could not really be a dead person. A dead man can still stand in the shadow of a tree like this, can't he be a ghost......

The more I thought about it, the more numb my scalp became, and I suddenly got goosebumps, as if a dead man's strange smile had appeared in front of me, and the whole person was almost attached to Qin Chuyi's back, waiting for him to announce the true identity of the person in front of me.

Qin Chu retracted his hand and patted his palm, as if there was a lot of dust on his hands.

"It's a statue." He replied.

I was tense and almost broken nerves relaxed, and I was finally able to breathe a good breath of air, and my whole body was almost suffocated. But not long after I relaxed, I suddenly felt a little strange.

"Why is there a statue under the tree, isn't it scary in the middle of the night?"

Qin Chuyi naturally didn't know, we glanced at it and immediately walked over.

It is exactly what Qin Chuyi said, there is a lot of dust on this statue, but it looks like it should not have been dug out of the ground, it is obvious that it will accumulate after years of wind blowing outside. The whole statue is made of stone, which is cold to the touch, and a trace of chill can touch the heart along the palm of the hand, and the heart will be half cold.

I turned on my phone's flash and looked at it carefully for a while. This statue is carved by the ancients, wearing the clothes of the old scholars, the expression on the face is very calm, the age is not very old, there are not a few wrinkles on the face, and the depiction should be the appearance of a young scholar in ancient times.

"Hey, Xiaoxiao, look at this." Qin Chuyi shouted behind the scholar.

I heard the sound and went around to the back of the scholar, Qin Chuyi was holding his mobile phone, observing the direction of the scholar's back little by little.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

He said, pointing to a bulge on the scholar's waist. "You see if this is a fan, I think it's normal for scholars to use a fan, but why does this fan only have fan bones and no fan surface?"

I looked down his finger and saw that the scholar did have something like a fan bone pinned to his waist. The overall sculpture of the scholar is very sketchy, and there are no features even from the face, but this bone is vividly depicted, and it takes a lot of effort from the master carver.

Looking at the statue of the scholar in front of him. Looking at the vividly carved fan bone on my waist, a thought suddenly popped into my mind like lightning, and I immediately blurted out.

"This is Xu Jingchuan!"

Qin Chuyi didn't react much, and asked me very suspiciously: "Who is Xu Jingchuan?" ”

"Do you remember the story your grandfather told us? It is the young dream master of the Xu family who seals the tapir. The story of solving the rich lady's dilemma? ”

"I remember." Qin Chu thought about it for a while, "Could it be that this person is ......?"

"Yes, this statue is Xu Jingchuan's. When I was a child, I didn't come to the Xu family ancestral hall much, so I followed my mother and grandmother. At that time, the ancestral hall had not yet been rebuilt. There is a garden in the back, called the back garden, not big, but there are some statue-like things in it, I once asked my mother whose statue it is, my mother said that as long as it is a person who has left traces in the history of the Xu family, there will be a statue, at that time I don't know who it is, until your grandfather told me that story, and then I rummaged through the information from the book in the ancestral hall. That person must be Xu Jingchuan, yes. ”

According to the handwritten record of the Xu family dreamer, Xu Jingchuan, the word Heyuan, has a fan without a fan surface in his hand all the year round, and is called Xu Fan Bone. Outsiders look at the lively insiders look at the doorway, outsiders only think that this Xu fan bone is a quirk, just like the fan bone, or the extremely precious fan surface is lost, and the remaining fan bone is well preserved. But if you know the secrets of the dream master, you will understand that there is a great way to do this. ”

"Xu Jingchuan's fan. It's not that there is no fan, it's just that this fan is not visible to ordinary people. There are countless dream demons in the world, but few of them are concretely transformed into evil. Some people are haunted by nightmares, so they will naturally find Xu Fan Gu to see. At this time, he will use this fan to fall asleep, and he can stay completely awake without the help of any drugs or external forces. After a while, there was nothing on the surface, and the patient's dream would appear. If it was just an ordinary monster, Xu Jingchuan would shake the fan. It's like a fan that shakes the youkai out of the fan. Once the monster saw Xu Fan Bone, he naturally wouldn't get an axe from the door, and immediately ran away. But if he encounters a tricky monster, Xu Jingchuan will immediately put away the fan and take it home to practice for 7749 days, and the monster will disappear without a trace. ”

As soon as Qin Chu heard what I said, he nodded thoughtfully.

"In other words, this fan is Xu Jingchuan's weapon."

"Yes." I agreed, "Since I was born, I have never been in contact with any dream master except my grandfather Xu Qingrang, and I don't even know how my grandfather fell into dreams and how he healed people's dreams. All I need to enter other people's dreams is to sleep next to them, and I never need any medium, but most dreamers in the book almost all have their own tools for dreaming. Xu Jingchuan is a good example. But after the catastrophe of the dream-eating tapir, Xu Heyuan's fan bone disappeared, and when later generations commented on this matter, most people thought that Xu Fanbone's fan was sacrificed in that war as a prop to seal the tapir, and I thought so before. ”

The story is over, and I understand who the person in front of me is, but how this statue that should have been placed in the back garden could have been moved here inexplicably, I am a little confused. If it had moved over during the day, it would be impossible for no one to see it, and although Uncle Yan was not there, it was impossible for the new manager not to know about it.

"You say, could it be that someone reminded us to go to the place where the statue of Xu Jingchuan was placed?"

That's right. Being reminded by Qin Chuyi like this, I suddenly felt that things should be like this, and the person who asked us to go to the rear should be Song Qiulan. She specially sent me a message to ask us to come over, and instead of directly picking a place to meet us, she took great pains to choose the ancestral hall, and there must be a reason. And now it's night, and instead of appearing generously, we have to pretend to be a ghost and put the statue of Xu Jingchuan outside to attract our attention, which is even more confirmed before we guessed that she couldn't show people lightly.

On Qiulan's side, something very tricky must have happened.

"Let's go to the back garden."

Qin Chuyi and I immediately turned off the flash in our hands and walked towards the ancestral hall of the black hole. I have to say that Qiulan's measures are very meticulous and in place, if ordinary people don't know the history and secrets of the Xu family, they must not know that the sculpture in front of them depicts Xu Jingchuan, let alone where Xu Jingchuan is placed. Before the ancestral hall was rebuilt, this courtyard was still very eye-catching, but at the time of the reconstruction, someone invited a feng shui master to come and see, it is said that the location of the back garden is not auspicious, can not be used for great use, but it cannot be demolished, should be abandoned. So the current back garden is like a haystack, from the time of the new construction to the present, maybe the weeds there have grown half a person high.

Qin Chuyi walked to the gate of the ancestral hall and looked at the door lock, his brows furrowed.

"It's hard to pick."

"Then don't pry." I said, walking along the gate little by little, and when I came to a position about five meters away, an ancient well appeared in front of me. The well had been filled many years ago, leaving only a raised part of the surface, and a rough outline remained. The stone masonry has a recessed section on it, which is blocked by the weeds next to it. I crouched down and reached out to pluck away the weeds, rolled up my sleeves and poked inside, little by little, and finally, with a crisp sound, I took out the bunch of keys hidden inside.

Qin Chuyi was very surprised, took the key in my hand and looked at it again and again, and said to me with great appreciation: "Okay, Xiao Chao, this technique of hiding things was learned from me, right?" ”

"you." I gave him a blank look and returned to the gate of the ancestral hall.

This key was given to me by Uncle Yan when I became the head of the Xu family that day. There are only a few places locked inside and outside the ancestral hall, the gate, the reference room, Yan Bo's bedroom, and the remaining rooms for valuables, adding up to less than ten, in duplicate, one for me and one for him.

As soon as Qin Chu took the key and tinkered in the lock a few times, the heavy chain immediately fell to the ground, making a muffled sound. I glared at Qin Chuyi, and he immediately lightened his hands and feet, and carefully opened the outermost iron door.

Over the years, no matter how light the iron door was, it still made a small squeak, and in this silent night where we could almost hear the other party's breathing, it made us break out in a cold sweat, and while holding the door, we were like thieves for fear of being seen.

No, we're thieves at this time......

When we entered it, we had a lot less worries than before, and our hands and feet were free. As soon as Qin Chu walked up the steps, he just wanted to open the inner door of the ancestral hall, but I stopped him.

"Go around the back and don't open the door." I gestured to the side of the hallway.

Qin Chu nodded, put the set of keys into his trouser pocket, and cautiously walked with me along the side aisle to the back.

The entire ancestral hall looks very pleasing to the eye after the reconstruction, except for this back garden. Because it has not been rebuilt, the edge of the back garden is still broken bricks and tiles, and the iron gate that was given to the demarcation at the beginning, including the lock on the iron door, looks rusty and vulnerable. As soon as Qin Chu stepped forward, he pulled the doorknob with both hands and pulled it hard, and several rusty and blackened railings were immediately broken into two ends, and after falling to the ground, a lot of rust powder fell from above.

"It's really discarded." Qin Chu Yi. (To be continued.) )