(This chapter is based on facts)

At ten o'clock in the morning, after a long and dreary journey of more than two hours, we finally arrived at our destination, the small mountain village where Feng Xiaolu's grandfather lived. It is said that it is a small mountain village is not small, and there is no dilapidated and gloomy in our impression, most of the buildings here are newly built two-story buildings, the appearance is neat, the degree of acquaintance is very high, it is obviously through the overall planning and construction, the road is wide, strong, and from time to time there are trucks carrying goods passing at low speed. The people who live here seem to be very wealthy, and I am also a little worried about Zhang Hui's wallet.

Feng Xiaolu's grandfather's house lived in an old courtyard house, with a square pattern, green bricks and green tiles, the house was a little sunken, the square bricks in the yard were a little mottled, and the classical window lattices had also invaded a layer of gray, but its elegance did not fade because of this, but made it more solemn. In the slow courtyard, the sunlight pours down, making people feel like they are in time travel.

"What a house." Zhou Ying sighed.

We all nodded in agreement.

"Of course, we only have two houses like this here." Feng Xiaolu said proudly.

"And when was this building?" Sun Hao asked.

"I don't know, I heard my grandfather say he lived here when he was young."

"Xiaoshan, what do you say?" Everyone is coming to me.

"Looking at the architectural style, it should be the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty." I replied casually.

"Nonsense, who doesn't know the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China." Sun Hao snorted dissatisfied.

"The mahogany of the window lattices and porches seem to have been very long, and the architectural style is generally atmospheric, square and elegant, which should be closer to the end of the Qing Dynasty." I said.

"I didn't say the same, our omniscient and all-powerful existence, I always thought that one day you would be able to put on a robe, but I didn't expect you to stop at the stage of fortune-telling in the square." Sun Hao laughed.

"I don't tell fortunes, and I don't know fortunes."

The crowd laughed.

"It's Daoguang 29 years." Lu Xue smiled and said slyly.

"How do you know?" Everyone looked incredulous.

I looked at Lu Xue, walked to the place where she was standing, looked sideways left and right, and nodded in agreement, "It's the 29th year of Daoguang, and the original owner of this house should be a military general, but an elegant and humble person." ”

"You" everyone was speechless for a while.

"Oh, it seems that your fortune-telling is still a bit professional, and you, Luxue, do you want a crystal ball or a yellow finch?"

"You, cut." Lu Xue glared at Sun Hao fiercely and snorted angrily.

"Haha, this guy is right."

"Grandpa, Mom," Feng Xiaolu shouted.

We looked up, and a middle-aged woman on the porch walked slowly with an old man in her arms.

"Auntie, grandpa," Zhang Hui also hurriedly stepped forward and supported the old man. We hurriedly followed.

"Kid, how did you guess the year of this house?" The old man asked kindly.

"Did I guess first?" Lu Xue muttered unhappily to Nunu.

"It's not guessing, it's seeing." I replied, "In the past, many craftsmen liked to obscure their names and years engraved on their creations. ”

"Wen Bailing, Wu thrush," Lu Xue pointed to the carving on the porch and said, "As long as the thrush's foot is looked sideways, you will find that it is a line of words that have changed shape, this craftsman should be a little arrogant, this carving can be understood as he has the consciousness of climbing, but it can also be understood that the owner of the house stopped and was difficult to fly, but its owner did not remove it, which means that this master is very generous and humble." ”

The old man nodded, "The little girl is right, my grandfather left a family motto when he was here, asking us to look up at the sky and look down at the ground." Then he said softly to me, "Is this your girlfriend?" It's very smart. ”

Zhang Hui and the four of them looked at us with strange expressions, and I hurriedly pointed at Sun Hao and said, "No, she is Sun Hao's sister." ”

"Oh, that's rare." The old man said with a meaningful smile.

"Cut, still look up at the sky and look down at the ground, why don't you say, if the heart is there, the dream is there, and there is true love between heaven and earth." Ruxue muttered in a voice that only I could hear.

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The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, Feng Xiaolu's mother hurriedly played a round, "Everyone come into the house and sit, Xiaolu please come into the house and sit." ”

The main hall of the old house is still old-fashioned, with Taishi chairs, eight immortal tables, old circle chairs, and terrazzo bricks. Xiaolu's grandfather sat at the top, her mother sat with her, and we sat down at random in the circle chair. This kind of diplomatic rhetoric, exchange and interviews are Sun Hao's forte, so all our conversations are handled by him. Xiaolu sat next to her mother, whispering something, Zhang Hui seemed to be a little nervous, very stiff sitting, Zhou Ying looked at the surrounding environment with interest, and whispered to Lu Xue What did I seem, I seemed to hear them say how much it would cost to buy this house? I shook my head, which was still a little tingling, and closed my eyes and dozed off to relieve my headache.

I don't know if I'm asleep or not, I'm dazed, and I even have a sense of time and space confusion, as if I have returned to ancient times for a while, and then as if I am in the present. Suddenly, there was a coolness in my lips, and I woke up suddenly, and my hair was raised, only to see Lu Xue holding a grape and smiling at me.

"Brother Xiaoshan, you're awake."

"Yes." I nodded and looked around, Sun Hao was still talking to the old man, Zhou Ying was taking a small bite of grapes, and Zhang Hui and Xiaolu didn't know where they went.

"Sister Xiaolu's father is back." Luxue whispered.

I nodded, they might go talk about the upcoming marriage, Xiaolu once said that her grandfather was the village chief here, and then her uncle took over, her father has been doing business in the city, and then somehow it was reported that the stones on the mountain here are very good stones, and then his father came back here and started a stone business.

I rubbed my sore neck, quietly stood up, walked into the courtyard, sat down on the porch in the shadows, the September sun scorched this ancient courtyard, the stone table in the distance stood silently in the sun, silently accepted this unique baptism, regardless of sunlight or time. The leaves on the trees outside the courtyard are rustling in the wind, and the autumn cicadas are struggling to play their last song of life in the air, September, and September, I whispered. Leaning on the pillar of the porch, lighting a cigarette, thinking about the appearance of the ancient mansion when it was first built, will there be a young man and girl sitting in my place enjoying the scenery in the courtyard, but they are looking forward to the future, but we miss the past, one dare not think about the past, the other dare not think about the future.

"Brother Xiaoshan, what do you want?" Lu Xue didn't know when she sat next to me and asked with a smile. I found that she loved to laugh.

"Apricot blossom," I replied.

"Apricot blossoms?"

"Xiaolou listened to the spring rain all night."

"Oh, the Ming Dynasty sells apricot blossoms in the deep alley."

I shook my head, I don't know when I got used to shaking my head casually. "Plain clothes don't sigh in the dust, and you can get home as if you are Qingming."

At noon, Xiaolu's mother made a very hearty meal, Zhang Hui was still a little restrained, Xiaolu's mother enthusiastically sandwiched the dishes for him, Sun Hao also poured wine for Xiaolu's grandfather, the old man seemed to be very happy, and from time to time he said something to Sun Hao, Lu Xue picked up the vegetables and put them in my bowl, put down the chopsticks and looked at me with a smile, Sun Hao and others let out a burst of boos. Zhou Ying smiled and said, "Xiaoshan, you are still very powerful." ”

I picked up the dishes in the bowl and wanted to hand them to Sun Hao, but Sun Hao hurriedly refused. I looked at them with my eyebrows in my arms, and they also looked at me with an ambiguous expression, except for Lu Xue, who was still smiling and couldn't see any thoughts. I slowly put the dish in my mouth, chewed it slowly, swallowed it slowly, and said to Lu Xue in a calm whisper, "It tastes good, there are no obvious harmful elements, you can eat it with confidence." ”

After everyone pricked up their ears and listened, Gu was a black line, and Sun Hao and the other four had angry expressions, and even had the urge to hurt people.

"Oh, thank you, Brother Xiaoshan, I'm relieved now." Lu Xue said with a smile still on her face, then picked up her chopsticks and began to eat.

"No wonder this girl gives me vegetables first every time, so that's it, that's how it is." Sun Hao groaned in a low voice.

The crowd was collectively petrified.

Xiaolu's mother looked at us strangely, and Xiaolu hurriedly said, "Hello, Mom, there are some people in this world that you will never be able to understand their strange tastes. ”

Her mother nodded, looked at her daughter, and said meaningfully and pointedly, "yes, the taste is quite weird." ”

A lunch was finally eaten without embarrassment, Sun Hao hurriedly said the purpose of our coming, the old man was also very interested after hearing it, and wanted to go with us, Sun Hao was also full of gratitude, with the old man to go, the trip will be much smoother.

The person who can draw talismans in the village is an old man surnamed Dong, and the people in the village call him Dong Banxian, but he is not a fortune teller, he draws talismans. Although to me half-immortals are all the same, they are all exchanged for our money by means that we don't know about. Dong Banxian's house is also an ancient house, but it is smaller than the ancient house of Xiaolu's grandfather's house, and the window lattices and floor tiles are no longer the original materials, and some new patches are revealed in the old, which is uncomfortable to look at.

Dong Banxian's business seems to be very good, when we came, he was talking with a middle-aged man, according to his rules, he would not meet two customers at the same time, but for the sake of Xiaolu's grandfather, he reluctantly invited us in. The big money saw that another guest was coming, and he closed his mouth very interestingly, and did not say a word. Xiaolu's grandfather explained his intentions, and Dong Banxian looked at us with interest and nodded again and again. "Yes, it is really rare that young people today can still accept the ancient skills handed down by our ancestors."

"Old man, we have always admired your charms, and this time I hope to ask for a few back." Sun Hao said busily.

"Call me Dong Banxian, or call me Banxian." The old man said slowly with his eyes half-closed.

"Half-blind." Luxue muttered to us, ""

"Half-immortal, oh, that old man, I want to ask, what exactly is the charm?" I asked.

The old man nodded slowly, "The children can be taught, the children can be taught, everyone only knows the charm, but they don't know what the charm is, the charm is generated by heaven and earth, based on the sky, based on the earth, based on the season, with cinnabar, essence as the guide, and the gossip of Zhou Tian as the protection of one's own body, which can ward off evil spirits and eliminate evil, and live forever." Spells stealing heavenly machines to add to one's own body are actually a magic weapon that consumes vitality, so there are not many people who can be charms now. ”

We were confused.

"That half-blind old man, how can he prove the effectiveness of the charm?"

Dong Banxian glanced at me very dissatisfied, "If you believe it, you will have it, if you don't believe it, there will be nothing, the world is changing, there are good and good, and the charm can put you in the good side of bad things, and the best position of good things." ”

"I can understand this, but how can I prove that it was the spell that made my bad things better, and not some other reason?"

Dong Banxian raised his hand violently, looked at Xiaolu's grandfather and slowly put his hand down, "Foolish people, if you believe, you will have, and if you don't believe, you will not." ”

"Don't be angry, old man." Sun Hao hurriedly smiled.

"Call me a half-immortal."

"Yes, yes, half-immortal, that half-immortal old man, how do you prove the effect of the charm?" Sun Hao also asked.

"How do you children speak? Old Dongtou, don't be angry, tell me how to make the proof? Xiaolu's grandfather said in a round game.

Dong Banxian ""

Dong Banxian looked at us and then at the middle-aged man with a suspicious face, and sighed, "That's it, that's it, then let you see the power of the spell today." ”

"Please~Zu~Fu~" Dong Banxian stood up violently and shouted at the top of his throat.

This cold man's throat scared us all out of the way.

After roaring, Dong Banxian paced into the back room, we sat in the living room and looked at each other, half an hour later Dong Banxian returned to the living room, holding a brocade box in his hand, opened it carefully, and said in a deep voice, "A long time ago, on the continent of that ancient Shenzhou, our Dong family has been using charms as a business to relieve the suffering of the people in the world. As he spoke, he took out a rectangular piece of yellow paper with strange lines drawn, "This is my Dong family's ancestral 'rat attraction'"

"Rat charms? What's the use," Zhou Ying asked.

"Rat-attracting charms, of course, are to attract rats, rats were rampant in ancient times, plagues were rampant, do you know how the ancients survived?" Speaking meaningfully, he nodded triumphantly.

"How does this work?" Lu Xue asked curiously.

"Everybody come with me." Saying that, Dong Banxian walked out of the courtyard and lit a charm in a clearing far away from the courtyard.

"Come and stay away." Dong Banxian looked a little nervous, and quickly walked away from the arson scene with everyone.

The rune paper slowly extinguished, and after ten minutes, there was no change in the clearing, and fifteen minutes later, it was still the same.

"This old man won't be screwed." Sun Hao muttered quietly.

Twenty minutes later, there was a sudden sound of rustling, and in an instant hundreds of rats swarmed in, and the scene was spectacular, and everyone was stunned, and after another ten minutes, the rats fled quickly, and a gust of wind blew, leaving nothing in the clearing.