"Your Xu family really listened to the words of the third-rate feng shui master, and said that if you don't need it, you don't need it, but I think this place is very good." As soon as Qin Chu broke open the two rusty iron railings and opened a passage for people to enter sideways, he tried to walk over first, and then let me follow him.

It's a pretty narrow space for him, but it's a lot more marginal for me. I said while talking to Guò: "You don't want to think about it, although the Xu family is a dream master, but the people who know about this matter are a minority after all. And how do you know that other feng shui masters are third-rate? ”

"Because I'm also half a feng shui master. If you look at this garden, there is shelter in front, and the shade is dissatisfied, and the ventilation up and down, the left and right, I think it is good, maybe there is some treasure buried under it. ”

I heard it funny, his half-baked feng shui knowledge can be sold to others, but it won't work for me.

"I said, the Xu family and your Qin family are world friends, and it is best to accumulate some virtue when you say that you are a feng shui master."

He understood the meaning of my words, and he stopped slandering the feng shui master who said that he would "discard it".

Qin Chuyi didn't know anything about the structure of the back garden, and although I had only been here when I was a child, I at least knew it better than him. When I got into this dark garden, Qin Chuyi turned on the backlight of my phone for me, and I walked in front of him.

The original structure of the garden was supposed to be semi-open. The eaves of the second half of the ancestral hall are spacious and extend forward, covering a third of the garden. There should be two stone paths inside, one on the left and one on the left, and the forward path is deep, until there will be an intersecting part in the front, and from the air, it looks like two dragons hugging each other. The life-size statues are supposed to be on both sides of the stone path, and all other places are planted with a variety of plants.

After the reconstruction, the shade above the garden is no longer there, except for the rusty iron gate just now, it seems that the entire garden has nothing to do with the ancestral hall in front of it. There's nothing of value in there anyway. Even if the thief wants to steal the marble statue, he has to move it. Although the grass that has not been built all year round is not half a person high, it is almost above the knee when you step on it, and the foot slides greasy. I don't know what dirty stuff is piling up underneath.

Qin Chuyi followed me and walked one foot deep and one foot shallow, dazed, not knowing where he had arrived. Under the lush weeds, I couldn't see the original stone path clearly, and I could only rely on the touch under my feet to grope for it, but the whole bottom was slippery and greasy, and I couldn't feel anything at all.

Just when I was sweating profusely. When he was at a loss, Qin Chuyi suddenly screamed, and the whole person suddenly leaned back. I immediately turned around, and regardless of what was under my feet, I rushed over and grabbed ~ his clothes. His tall body swayed in the air a few times before finally stopping in a half-leaning position.

Qin Chu frowned, and said thoughtfully: "Eh, Xiaoxiao, there seems to be something different down here. ”

“…… Okay, then you can stand firm first. I...... I can't pull it......"

Only then did he realize that his cool posture of half-leaning was all based on the strength of my single arm, and he stood firmly at once, and touched ~ my head with a smile. "My daughter-in-law has a lot of strength."

"Big ghost!" I slapped Qin Chuyi who was blocking in front of me, and slowly walked to the place where he just said something was wrong.

I first poked my foot over, stepped on the ground nearby, and finally noticed that the hard~bang~bang~bang ground was very different from the slippery feeling on the side.

"Help me hold it."

I handed the mobile phone to Qin Chuyi, asked him to light it for me, rolled up the sleeves that were lying on the back of my hands to my forearms, squatted down~ and began to pull weeds.

Qin Chu saw that I was able to pull out the strength alone. One hand tucked my phone into his pocket, and the other joined my weed-pulling team with his teeth. After a while, the two of them held hands, and we pulled out a small piece of grass in front of us. If you look at it from above, this small piece of plucked light looks like a middle-aged man's head with baldness, which feels like a work of art.

"Hey, it's really different underground." Qin Chuyi raised a finger and poked and poked like a rich lady picking things, as if the yellow mud in the ground was a cabbage that couldn't be seen.

I threw a roll of the eye at him. Leaning over to pick up a stone beside him, he gently broke the yellow mud at the bottom with the pointed end, and suddenly a round pebble came into view. Qin Chuyi looked at me for a while, and began to dig up, and the stone path that had disappeared for many years finally reappeared and was exposed to the air, as if it had never experienced snow, rain, wind and frost.

With this stone path, I can roughly find the location where to place the statue of Xu Jingchuan. When I stood up again, the blood on my body didn't have time to rush to my head, and a little black light appeared in front of me, and my body fell lightly on Qin Chuyi's back. He suddenly became nervous, and helped me to ask worriedly, "Xiaoxiao, why don't we come back tomorrow?" ”

"Nope." I closed my eyes and rested for a while, stubbornly trying to get up, "It's too late, it's past twelve o'clock now, it's the tenth, no matter what, I must rush to Xu Yu on the twelfth, this thing can't go wrong." ”

Qin Chuyi knew that he couldn't resist me, so he had to help me stand up. I looked around the garden and the stone path below, and a strange feeling suddenly came over me.

"The seat is different." I muttered to myself.

"It should have been when I rebuilt before, and I changed the direction according to Feng Shui."

The garden that was originally connected to the ancestral hall is now rotated 90 degrees, and the place where we came in was not the original entrance at all, but was directly inserted horizontally~ in. I searched and searched in my head, but I didn't remember that there was such a thing when the ancestral hall was rebuilt, and I didn't know if my memory was too young and there was a deviation, or if it was like this before.

It doesn't matter, it's important to find something.

According to the original memory, Xu Jingchuan's statue was placed at the intersection of the two dragons. It's easy to say, but it's still a bit difficult to find that intersection. Although this place is just a garden, and the structure is not complicated, but after the vegetation covers, the garden that used to be able to stretch as far as the eye can see now looks like a tropical rainforest, and if you want to find the intersecting stone path, you can't just take a shortcut to it, so you can only keep your feet on the ground and follow the stone path little by little.

It's also strange to say, the image of the dragon is portrayed by ordinary people, and it is only two bends at most, but this is different in the backyard of the Xu family ancestral hall, the bones and joints of the dragon are like they are alive, three steps and five steps and one change, if you don't look at the point under your feet, it is easy to stray into the flowers. About this matter, I have also consulted the elders, although they can't say the specific reason, but most of them think that it is to remind future generations to be a down-to-earth person, to observe words and look cautious, every detail can not be let go, every nerve can not be relaxed, about this matter, later it seems to have been written into the ancestral teachings of the Xu family, at that time I still felt that it had nothing to do with me, after all, I am a surname Wu.

I scratched the back of my head, feeling that things were a bit of a problem, and that to find the intersection behind me I had to pull out all the weeds in my sight, which was torture for us two young people who were not diligent and had no distinction between grains and grains.

Qin Chuyi looked at my melancholy of scratching my ears and cheeks, but with a calm face, he walked to the ground and squatted down~ turned over and picked up, and finally took a half-meter-long branch and pinched it in his hand, and walked towards me happily.

"What, that stick is going to summon the father-in-law of the land to help you?" I asked, puzzled.

"It's better to ask for others than for yourself, what kind of land do you want," Qin Chuyi said confidently, putting the branch on the ground and holding it in his hand. Since the branches were not long enough, he needed to hunch his back half-way, looking like an old man with fairy wind bones.

"Eh, don't laugh." As soon as he spoke, he closed his eyes, as if he had knocked on the pebble ground behind him that had been broken by us with a branch, as if he had made a series of memories, and then pointed the tip of the branch at the weedy pile in front of him, and looked at it so that the corners of his mouth immediately hooked up an intriguing smile, and said proudly: "This way." ”

I was amazed at when he had developed such a skill in finding his way through the earth, and my skepticism suddenly came up again, and I walked a few steps to the place he had said, and after tearing off a few weeds, I turned over the loess underneath, and now I saw exactly the same cobblestone road as before.

"Yes, you." I stood up, dusted my hands, and nodded approvingly.

"That's it." He said proudly, "When I was blind before, I immediately thought of the article in the elementary school textbook. Anyway, God closes a door for you, and he will open a window for you, I just want to see if I have developed special functions in other places, and sure enough, the touch in my hand is much more sensitive than before. This kind of thing of distinguishing whether the road surface is smooth or not is a piece of cake. ”

"Okay, stop," I gestured to him with a STOP, "then sir, please first, I'll follow." ”

Qin Chuyi walked in front of me satisfied, knocking left and right like a blind man, and he was not slow. I was a little bored kicking the pebbles, feeling the rare silence and tranquility in the air in the middle of the night. At this moment, I suddenly felt a tightness in my temples and a sore pain.

This feeling is not unfamiliar, as if someone usually has a pen in front of your eyes, and even though you close your eyes, you can still feel it.

Someone was watching me. (To be continued.) )