Chapter 33: Choosing the site at the foot of the mountain
"Chengren, Chengren, let's go, if you have chosen, you should come back early and pack up. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" The patriarch came out of Xiao's house, stood at the door and shouted Xiao Chengren, and saw him turn around and say.
Xiao Chengren and Mu Hibiscus followed the patriarch to the outside of a vacant house in the village, and the patriarch said, "Do you want to go in and have a look?" My eldest nephew's family used to live here, and a few years ago I moved to the shogunate castle with my eldest nephew, who was working as a servant in a big family. ”
The two hibiscus looked out of the house, and after listening to the patriarch's words, Xiao Chengren said, "Well, this house is good, it shouldn't have been repaired for a few years, and the layout is not bad, it's just.... Can we take another look? If there's no suitable one, let's do it. ”
The patriarch stroked his beard and said proudly, "Speaking of my eldest nephew, he is also a capable person, he doesn't have to worry about his father and mother since he was a child, and he knows how to reduce the burden on the family when he is tied up. ”
"Your eldest nephew is also a competitive, if Chen'er has half of his competitive, I will be content, let's go and see the next one." Xiao Chengren casually boasted about the eldest nephew of the patriarch, but he remembered the high-spirited young man he saw on the street that year who accompanied the girl to buy things, but in a blink of an eye, he lowered his eyebrows and watched the noble lady snatch the silver hairpin from the girl's hand, and he had to respectfully let the noble lady insult him, all because he had to call the noble lady "madam".
"Oh... Okay, let's go check out the one outside the village. The patriarch swallowed the endless words of showing off and praise that was about to be exported, and led Xiao Chengren to a house outside the village, and said, "This is your old house, it stands to reason that I shouldn't have taken you to see here, but your mother has also done too much, so it should be her compensation for you, if you don't want to live here, I won't force you." ”
Xiao Chengren looked at the house in front of him with a complicated look, the dilapidated roof and the moss growing on the wall, and the traces of life in the weeds in the house could still be vaguely seen, and the most was that he was young and ignorant and wanted to attract the attention of adults again and again, Xiao Chengren shook his head and said, "Since you are with your mother.... Aunt Xiao has no relationship, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with me, so I better not dislike her. ”
"Alas.... It's really a sin, Chengren, can you look at the old patriarch and my face, if they do something wrong to you in the future, you can let them go, just once. The patriarch remembered the words of a Taoist priest from Youfang back then, and he couldn't help but ask for a gold medal for the Xiao family.
Xiao Chengren looked at the patriarch strangely and said, "Mother... Aunt Xiao, what do they have to do to me, if there is really such a day..... I'll repay the favor. ”
The patriarch breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, I hope you remember what you said today, let's go, go and see the next family." ”
"Well, I won't forget." Xiao Chengren agreed casually, but he didn't know that this sentence really came in handy after he met his biological father.
In this way, the hibiscus father and daughter followed the patriarch to see several houses in the village, but the results were unsatisfactory, these houses were either in disrepair and could not be inhabited at all, or they were facing a bad feng shui.
"Let's go, let's go to the last place, if it still doesn't work, you can just live in my eldest nephew's house, anyway, it's just a temporary place to stay." The older patriarch was also a little tired of taking the two of them to choose a house, and sat under the big tree at the entrance of the village next to the house to rest, and when he saw the two of them come out, he got up and said.
"Well, if there is no suitable one, it can only be like this." Xiao Chengren lowered his head and thought about the houses he had seen today, carefully weighing the advantages and disadvantages of those houses.
After walking for about a stick of incense, the three of them came to a thatched hut at the foot of Dazhou Mountain, for some reason, Mu Hibiscus walked to this place, and when he saw the small courtyard surrounded by a simple fence, he felt very comfortable and cordial, walked to Xiao Chengren's side, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Daddy, what do you think of here, I think I am very comfortable walking here, or I will live here." ”
Xiao Chengren glanced at Mu Hibiscus and asked, "Patriarch, whose house is this, why don't I have any impression at all?" ”
The patriarch hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know if I should bring you here, this was originally a house of a Taoist priest in the traveling party, you came to our village in the year you were born, and after staying in the Great Zhou Mountains for a few days, you came out to find me, bought this land and repaired this house, usually go out to travel, but every year you have to come back to stay in the Great Zhou Mountain for a few days, live in the village for a few days, three years ago one night came to me and said, he felt that he was about to go back to his hometown to prepare to sit down, and entrusted this house to me to say that he was waiting for someone to move in. ”