Chapter 1: Family Dinner
Every ten years on the seventh day of July, the Su family's ancestral house will hold a grand family banquet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info All the descendants of the Su family, no matter where they are, no matter how old or young, will follow the ancestral precepts on this day and rush back to Sujia Village to participate in this family banquet.
Su Mo left Sujia Village with his remarried mother since he was a child. I don't have much impression of the so-called relatives of the Su family, and I don't have too many feelings. This kind of family banquet that is forced to get together, she is not interested in it at all.
However, Su Baizhen, who has been deceased for many years, deeply remembers the teachings of his father and always remembers the ancestral teachings of the Su family. In any case, I also want my daughter Su Mo to rush back to Sujia Village before the seventh day of the seventh month.
It seems that there is always too much gap between the older generation and the new generation to bridge. From good words to verbal warfare, the war between the father and daughter intensified. Su Baizhen, as a ghost, where can he still control Su Mo who grew up. In a fit of anger, taking advantage of the night, he wandered to the train station and followed the flow of people on the train back home.
Su Mo sulked at home behind closed doors for a long time. Qi Su Baizhen died and did not forget the ancestral teachings of the Su family, and Qi Su Baizhen had to toss back to participate in the strange family banquet in Guli.
Once in ten years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, these two points alone were enough for Su Mo to be vigilant. As the saying goes, there is no good meal, and there is no good banquet, I am afraid that the so-called family banquet of the Su family is not as simple as it seems.
If it weren't for Su Mo's surprise that Su Baizhen had disappeared, he was afraid that he would encounter something unexpected when a ghost went out casually. Su Mo would not have stepped on the train back to his hometown under any circumstances. I won't go back to the place called Sujia Village.
When Su Mo left Sujia Village, he was only three years old. Because of his young age, he doesn't have much of an impression of the place where he was born. The only thing I remember is the rattle with a naughty boy fluttering butterflies, and the "boom" sound that often lingers in my ears.
This is the first time Su Mo has returned to Sujia Village.
I got off the bus with my backpack on my back and saw a beautiful scenery of mountains. The mountains are not high, but they are different, and they are full of dangers. Su Mo silently counted them, no more, no less, exactly seven. Looking at its distribution, it is actually the formation of a natural seven-evil bundle dragon array.
Su Mo walked along the wide asphalt road for more than forty minutes. I arrived at the entrance of Sujia Village. Looking up at the surrounding peaks, the momentum is like holding the moon in your arms, and Sujia Village is among them.
If it is said that it is a coincidence that the ancestors of the Su family chose this natural Seven Evil Bundle Dragon Formation to build a village. So now after seeing Sujia Village, Su Mo can already be sure that everything the ancestors of the Su family did had ulterior motives, and I don't know what kind of secrets are hidden under the land of Sujia Village.
For the secret, Su Mo has always been grateful and insensitive. Curiosity kills cats, is one of Su Mo's mantras.
No matter what the true intentions of the ancestors of the Su family were. Su Mo, who had already left Sujia Village, didn't think that these had anything to do with her. For her, the only relative of the Su family is her father, Su Baizhen. She came here just to take Lao Su back safely.
Under the hundred-year-old locust tree at the entrance of the village, there is a dilapidated desk. A man in a loose hurdle vest and a buttoned straw hat is napping.
Su Mo knocked on the table, "Is this Sujia Village?" ā
The man was woken up, took off his straw hat, and revealed a dark and young face, "I don't know if it's Sujia Village, you still ...... coming"
The man saw Su Mo in front of him clearly, revealing an exaggerated and amazed expression. Immediately got up and put on the slippers that had been thrown aside.
At this time, Su Mo was wearing a close-fitting low-neck white T-shirt and a pair of low-waisted denim shorts, snow-white skin, delicate collarbones, and a pair of slender and even beautiful legs. With such a perfect and outstanding figure, even standing in front of the most famous model of fashion magazines is not inferior. Su Mo's facial features are small and exquisite, and he can't say how beautiful he is. But it's cold, and the tsundere has another intriguing and unique taste.
"You...... Hello...... My name is Su Lei, are you? ā
"Sumo."
Su Lei was stunned, looked at Su Mo again with strange eyes, took out a fiery red lucky bag from his pocket, and solemnly handed it over.
"You're Su Mo! Speaking of which, I'm still your uncle. But don't call me uncle, just call me by my name, I'm not a few years older than you. When all the people of the tribe return, you will be left alone. The village chief arranged for you to go to my house and live first, and my house is at the back of the village......"
Su Mo ignored Su Lei's chatter, opened the lucky bag, and poured out an emerald green jade pendant from it. The jade pendant is thicker than the average jade pendant. The front is engraved with the word Sumo in traditional characters, and the back is a peace charm with a glow. The fleeting streamer under the peace charm did not escape Su Mo's eyes. Su Mo was slightly surprised, and his fingers like green onions lingered slowly on the spell, thoughtful.
"You haven't come back for so many years, I'll take you to the patriarch's house to meet the patriarch first. Then at home to eat, are you hungry or not? ā
"Not hungry." Su Mo smiled politely, and while listening to Su Lei's introduction, he looked at the ancient houses in Su Village.
Blue bricks and gray tiles, nanmu doors and windows, along the road are the residences of "four points of gold" and "down the mountain", and the lanes are set up because of the uneven buildings, and they are not repaired neatly and straight according to the convention. On the contrary, it is extremely unreasonable and deliberately cultivated in a winding and changeable way. It gave Su Mo the illusion that he was walking on the strokes of the spell.
The god-guarding beast on the eaves was hideous and ferocious, although Su Mo couldn't call the monster's name. But it can also be seen that it is by no means the usual kissing beast and Pixiu. I'm afraid that even the guardian beast on the eaves is not ordinary.
Such a Su family, such an ancient town, for the patriarch who is about to meet. Su Mo had to be vigilant.
The patriarch's house was built in the westernmost part of the village. Although it was just a few polite greetings with the patriarch's family, Su Mo could also see that the family was very cultured.
After the rumor, Su Mo followed the great-grandson of the patriarch alone and walked into a small courtyard. The courtyard was empty and smelled of depression, and the flower beds were only located in the loess that had been left to dry up. For example, the patriarch has a well-established family, and the layout is exquisite, and it stands to reason that the flower bed should not be allowed to be abandoned to such a point.
Su Mo's doubts in his heart couldn't help but be even heavier.
The great-great-grandson of the patriarch lifted the bamboo curtain of the main house, "Grandpa Tai only let you in alone." I'll make you tea. ā
Su Mo nodded and entered the house alone. In the dimly lit room, a special smell greeted you.
Su Mo couldn't help but frown.
Rhino horn!
Burning rhinoceros horn incense, you can see gods and ghosts.
And he lived two hundred and thirty-four years???
It seems that this so-called living is not in the usual sense.
"Come closer." The voice of the old man came from the layers of bed curtains.
Su Mo cautiously took a few steps forward, and through the curtain of the bed, he saw a faint and unclear figure.
"You are Su Baizhen's daughter Su Mo?"
"Yes."
"How old are you?"
"Twenty years old."
"You've grown so big......"
In the curling aroma, a trace of imperceptible corpse stench slowly wafted in, if it weren't for the fact that the person standing here was Su Mo, ordinary people wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Su Mo snorted, more and more sure of his guess, staggered half a step alertly, and found an angle that was convenient for defending against attacks, "Can I ask you an old question?" ā
"Okay, you ask."
"Are you alive?" Su Mo said a word.
The patriarch paused slightly, and then let out a strange laugh of "hehehe". At the same time,
A black mist the size of a football burst out of the curtain.
Su Mo quickly turned sideways, and the black mist was only three centimeters away from the tip of Su Mo's nose, whistling past. The broken hair in front of Su Mo's forehead did not fall, and Su Mo had already turned around and put his index finger and middle finger together, and skillfully drew a spell out of thin air in front of him at the black mist that had turned back.
The strokes of the spell are as smooth as flowing water, each sparkling with a dazzling golden light.
"Broken!" The patriarch snorted.
The black mist immediately let out a rolling roar. All the furnishings in the room shook violently, and the strong aura emitted from the black mist was like a sharp wind blade, suppressing the spell in front of Su Mo and retreating.
The figure in the bed waved his arm, although he left a little strength, but it was also like a broken army, menacing. Su Mo did not retreat but advanced, his palms quickly pushed outward, and the golden spell was so golden that it collided violently with the black mist that rushed away.
With a loud bang, the black fog dissipated everywhere, and the spell disappeared in an instant. The furnishings in the house crackled and fell, leaving only a mess.
The people guarding outside the house asked anxiously, but they did not dare to rush in.
The patriarch was depressed for a while, and couldn't help coughing lightly, panting, "Don't let anyone come in." ā
Immediately there was silence outside.
The patriarch was amazed that Su Mo had such a powerful and wonderful technique at such a young age. Barely propped up, a shriveled hand covered with old age spots poked out of the bed curtain. Slowly lifted the curtain of the bed between the two.
Although Su Mo had been prepared in his heart, he was still startled when he saw the living corpse with his own eyes. The old man in front of him was like a dried corpse, his shriveled skin tightly wrapped around the skeleton, and there was an unpleasant smell of corpses all over his body. Everywhere the fact that he is dead is revealed. Only those eyes, unusually bright, shone with a sly and wise light.
"You're good." The patriarch sighed, even if he deliberately covered it up, he still had inexplicable joy, "From now on, you are the one hundred and seventh patriarch of my Su family." All the wealth of the Su family will belong to you. All the clansmen of the Su family are available for you to send......"
"Don't be busy just yet." Su Mo was excited, "I don't top this thunder." ā
The patriarch was even more surprised, only when Su Mo didn't understand the strength of the Su family, he refused so simply. "You don't agree, because you don't know the Su family yet. Even if the Su family takes a rice bowl out casually, it can be worth hundreds of thousands. Not to mention ......"
"No matter how good the money is, you have to have a life to spend it. I don't think I'm blessed. ā
"You really don't want to?"
"I really don't want to."
The patriarch leaned out and stared at Su Mo's eyes for a moment. He tried desperately to find something in Su Mo's eyes. It's a pity that in addition to being open, it's still open.
The patriarch was inexplicably a little flustered, and this situation greatly surprised him. To this moment, he still remembered the ecstasy of taking the position of patriarch. Wealth, power, reputation, overnight, he went from a nobody to a high-ranking patriarch of the Su family. Lost in the drunkenness and luxury.
If it weren't for the need to serve that person...... Yes! No, he's not human, he's a god-like being. If it wasn't himself who served him, but the girl in front of him, the patriarch's eyes flashed, there was a hint of expectation, and there was still a little lack of schadenfreude for outsiders. I can't wait to see that person and see the girl in front of me. I don't know if he will be as cold and indifferent and ruthless as he is to himself.
"You'll regret it." The patriarch was sure.
Su Mo couldn't help but sneer, "I'm sorry, in my Su Mo's dictionary, there is no word regret." But you are old, and you must continue to live well. I believe that as long as the seal is not removed and the rhinoceros horn incense is not extinguished, you will live a long life and live a long life. There is no need to find someone to take over. It's better to enjoy yourself with wealth, isn't it? ā
Patriarch, "......"
Su Mo turned around and left.
The stiff muscles on the patriarch's face kept twitching, and he couldn't believe it, "This is being ridiculed!" ā