Chapter 3 is about the Yun family

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The Yun family's house is located in the old city, the old man Yun is a person who will enjoy, his house used to be the French Concession, and later was bought by the old man Yun, the gate of the door was originally a European-style arch, because the old man Yun likes green plants, so a grape was planted in front of the door, so many years down it just happened to surround the arch, you can see the grape arch from afar, full of greenery, and it has become a landscape in the old city.

I drove the car to the back door, the housekeeper Uncle Ma had been waiting there for a long time, he was a distant relative of Mr. Yun, because his family was poor when he was young, he was sent to Mr. Yun's house to do small work, and Mr. Yun took a fancy to be his housekeeper, and he did it for more than 30 years. Uncle Ma opened the garage door very early, I parked the car inside, and followed him into the Yun family's house.

There is a courtyard in front of this European-style small building of the Yun family, which is very age-decorated, and the first thing I thought of when I went for the first time was the Lu family villa where Lin Xinru lived in "Deep Love and Rain". You can enter the lobby on the first floor from the main entrance into the courtyard, and now the lobby on the first floor is lent to the theater for filming film and television dramas, and there is a small staircase built later from the back door, which can go directly to the second floor. I came in along this small staircase, the second floor is a living room, decorated in European style, there is also a study and a small kitchen, Uncle Ma said that Mr. Yun is waiting for me on the third floor. I felt a jolt in my heart. Mr. Yun's bedroom is on the third floor, and the guests are generally in the study or living room, and the people who go up to the third floor are distinguished guests in Mr. Yun's opinion.

I know very well in my heart that I received such a courtesy all thanks to my grandmother's blessing, it is said that Mr. Yun and my grandma have known each other for a long time, and they have stolen a lot of fights together in the early years, I boldly speculate that Mr. Yun and my grandma must have a story, but later, ...... Maybe I just missed it.

I carried a ceramic jar, stepped on ten-centimeter heels, and stepped on a spiral staircase of solid wood to the third floor. There is a cave on the third floor, the layout is antique, the walls are full of calligraphy and paintings, and the place where you go up the stairs is a reception tea room, and the old man Yun is already sitting in front of the tea house waiting for me.

As soon as he saw me coming up, he greeted me, but instead of coming to pick me up, he took the ceramic jar in my hand.

"My baby girl, don't break my good wine when you step on stilts, twenty years of bamboo leaves."

I couldn't help but shake my head, "Grandpa Yun, you're really...... No wonder my grandma always called you an alcoholic. "But I do rejoice in my heart, and it seems that this gift has been bought right.

"Don't mention your grandma, our grandparents and grandchildren are happy, don't mention the old woman." Grandpa Yun squeezed his eyes at me as he spoke, looking like an old naughty boy. "Come on, girl, sit down, you're so good, I just got up a piece of twenty-five-year-old Pu'er, as old as you, come on, taste it."

I don't have much research on tea, but the cup in front of me has a strong aroma, and I already feel like I have entered a fairyland before I even enter it. Drinking tea while observing the calligraphy and painting collected by the old man Yun, about the appreciation of antiques, each "everyone" has their own best category, if it comes to the identification of antique furniture and wood carving, my grandma is absolutely ranked in the top three in the industry, the antique industry is called "Kui Mother-in-law" This person is my grandma, but if you talk about the study of calligraphy and painting, the old man Yun is definitely a brother in the world, known as "Yun Maniac", it is said that as long as there is the calligraphy and painting he likes, he can collect it back, and study a pair of calligraphy and painting for three days and three nights without eating or drinking.

After drinking the tea and reading the calligraphy and paintings, I sat back at the tea table and began to talk about business with Mr. Yun.

"Grandpa Yun, actually, I came here today, I have something to ask you."

"Let's talk girl, these twenty years of bamboo leaf green, but I have a very good appetite for your grandfather."

"Grandpa Yun, do you know what this is?" As I spoke, I took off the necklace around my neck, and in the afternoon sun, the light blue liquid in the crystal pendant looked crystal clear and full of mystery in the sunlight.

"Oh?! The old woman has already made you a talisman? Powerful mother-in-law, I've got this talisman in the past few years, girl, this is your life! ”

"My life?" "That's right, this is a talisman, and the stone used to make this talisman is an ancient jade, which is generally only found in the pillows of the big people in the ancient emperors and royal families. Ancient jade is psychic, using human hair to ignite fire, and refining it with a nine-hole copper furnace, you can see the person's life. Some people's life, the so-called people's character, this nature refers to nature, this character refers to life, the harder the life, the more amazing the life. ”

"Grandpa Yun, what do you think I am, could it be a swan?"

"As the old saying goes: chicken head, swallow's jaw, snake neck, turtle back, fish tail, five colors. Do you know what you're talking about? ”

"That's not ...... Phoenix? ”

"There are three kinds of phoenixes, phoenix, phoenix, luan, you only bear the liquid in this bottle, faint and green, the so-called Xuanfeng is the phoenix, Chiyan is the phoenix, Qingchi is the luan, you should only be Luan. That's an ancient beast, girl, you are destined not to be a mortal in this life. Your grandmother has also made a lot of money for you, do you know that this ancient jade is already difficult to find, but this nine-hole copper furnace, I'm afraid I can't find a few in the world. I didn't even know she had such a treasure. ”

"And what does this have to do with my life?" "There is a saying that when the oil runs out and the lamp withers, it means that when a person is about to die, it is like the oil of an oil lamp has been burned out, and he sees the contents of this bottle? This is weak water, you know the origin of weak water. "I heard that weak water is the moat of the heavenly realm, and birds are not allowed to cross it, and there is weak water on it and yellow springs below, but these are all words from legends."

"People's knowledge is always shallow, and what is invisible is said to be superstition and legend, so they use the materialist set to draw a circle and circle themselves." Old Man Yun pointed at me. "Girl, are the things you can see that science can explain? So, this water is weak water, yes, I'm afraid that this thing got it for the old woman. ”

I guessed that that thing was referring to Feng Ma, but Old Man Yun naturally wouldn't know what Feng Ma looked like if he didn't have yin and yang eyes. I didn't interrupt him and listened to him continue.

"This weak water and the Yellow Spring are attracted to each other, the water of the weak water is also the number of human lives, you are done in this life, your bottle of water will all flow into the Yellow Spring, you look at your Qingluan's bottle, the liquid in it should not be full, this water can only be filled so much, and it will be less and less."

I picked up the bottle and shook it, and found that it was indeed the part of Qingluan's head that was empty, and the bottle was not satisfied. "Girl, take a good look at this thing, you can save your life at a critical time, I don't know the specifics, your grandma should have a plan in her heart."

I heard it in a fog, and I complained about my grandmother a thousand times in my heart, and I said that I would know if I came to Grandpa Yun, and I didn't know anything about Grandpa Yun together.

2

"Grandpa Yun, I heard that you used to be with my grandmother...... Upside down? I asked cautiously, for fear of offending something, who knew that Old Man Yun would laugh.

"You children love to listen to this, but I don't hide it from you, I say it's me and your grandmother, let's just say that these antique experts in our country, Lao Yu, Wu Jiu, and Yan Luokong, aren't they all a little disgraceful? In those days, when the bark of hungry grass roots and trees was eaten, who didn't go to the ground a few times? Push it a little further, do you say that the tomb robbers were the tomb robbers in the first place? I shook my head, I was really asked, the special profession of tomb robbing must not have existed in the first place, but when did it start to have tomb robbers?

"Tomb robbing is a matter of pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers, not forcing it to the sake of life and death, who would do this kind of life-bending business. At first, it was some craftsmen who built cemeteries, who were poor and crazy and started the idea of the dead, and then the desperate spirit medium, the courtiers in the pawnshop, you dig up everyone in the antique world to the ancestors for three generations, which is not the poor, the rich who will do this, only the wisdom of the working people is unlimited. How many people died under the institutions they designed, how many people were buried in the pile of dead people because they never saw the light of day again, the industry of tomb robbery should be synonymous with tragedy, and now the southern and northern factions, that is how many tomb robbers have summed up the experience of the blood and life of the ancestors. Do you know why I love to study calligraphy and painting so much? ”

I shook my head in confusion. Old Man Yun took another sip of tea. "The sun rises and rests, and the sun does not work. Do you know what a profession it is? ”

"Corpse Sweeper!"

"Clever girl, it's not in vain that the old woman loves you so much, my ancestors have been walking craftsmen for generations, and later my great-great-grandfather's generation has a worse and worse life, not much money, living poorer and poorer, most of them are poor scholars who die in other places, and they will look for us to drive out the corpses. My great-great-grandfather discovered that not all scholars are poor, and you know that the most important thing for pedantic scholars is morality, and even if they starve to death, they will not sell saint books. My ancestors once sent a poor scholar back to his ancestral hometown, after sending the errand, but the family could not get the money to press the foot, the old lady of the scholar took out a roll of gold silk ancient scrolls, saying that the scholar left nothing to sell, and now the people are gone, so they took this to offset the press foot money. Since then, my ancestors began to collect all kinds of ancient books and paintings, sometimes without taking a penny, just to those scholars left behind the ink treasures and ancient books, over time our family also relied on these to prosper. Later, the dynasty changed, there were wars everywhere, the family fell, our family relied on the thirty-six exercises of the ancestors to drive away the corpse of the craftsman, and went to the cause of the inverted fight, we were not afraid of the dead, not to mention that some of those zongzi were not as good as a dead man, and that's it, our family also started to rob the tomb. ”

After the old man Yun finished speaking, he sighed, walked into his bedroom, and came out after a long time, with an extra scroll in his hand, I only glanced at it to know, it was the golden silk ancient scroll obtained by his ancestors, he carefully unfolded the scroll, I thought it would be a tablet or an ancient preface, but I found that it was actually a painting. The painting is carved on the gold silk with a relief hollow technique, the painting is a young girl, stepping on auspicious clouds, holding a treasure in her hand I don't know what it is, I can't see what kind of treasure it is, because the position of the treasure in my hand is sunken, there should have been something embedded in it, but now it is gone.

"Grandpa Yun, ...... here" I gestured to the location. Old Man Yun nodded.

"Girl with poisonous eyes, this is it, I haven't figured out what it is, such a size, so thin, I can't think of what it can be. If you talk about value, this scroll of pure gold is already priceless, is this small piece of thing worth more than that scroll? I carefully looked at the vacant position, the shape was irregular, like an irregular hexagon, I couldn't see the reason for a while, Old Man Yun and I studied for a while, and when we saw that it was getting late, Old Man Yun put away the scroll and dialed a phone. I didn't pay attention to what he said, anyway, when I hung up the phone and came back, Old Man Yun was full of smiles.

"Girl, after dinner in the evening, do you know why your grandma asked you to come to me? That's for me to make a big deal for you! Old Man Yun said and leaned into my ear, and said mysteriously and with a little joy, "My eldest grandson is back." ”

"Ahh He ......: "I suddenly felt five thunderbolts.