Chapter 9: The Discovery of the Ancestral House
At the noon banquet, Liu Yi was inevitably persuaded by relatives and friends familiar with the villagers, but Liu Yi has been selling for several years, and the amount of alcohol is still good.
There is a reason why Liu Yi did not go all out at the banquet and retained his strength. Today, there are so many relatives and friends of Uncle Dashou, some of them must be staying here, although there are a lot of houses in the uncle's house, but if you want to settle all of them, Liu Yi's house still has to be sorted out.
Fortunately, Liu Yi's family has been out of the house for many years, but they still have to come back every time they celebrate the New Year, just like the New Year, when they go to the grave with the deceased mother-in-law, grandfather, and father, they also have to stay in their hometown for one night, so there are a few sets of spare quilts in the old house.
Now that the weather is still very hot, Liu Yi took out the bamboo mat that he had left at home and did not take away the wrapped bamboo mat to clean and dry, and also cleaned the cool board used as a cool board in summer for sleeping at night.
Sure enough, after dinner. There are a lot of relatives who stayed, and the closest relatives didn't leave a few at all, and they finally got together, even for the New Year's Festival, they were not so complete, and there was a slight difference from the original plan, and it really couldn't be settled. Later, I had to discuss with the uncle of the clan who lived not far from his hometown to settle some to his house.
Everything is arranged in a tense and orderly manner, and if there is any omission, it will be put forward immediately and everyone will discuss and solve it, they are all relatives in the clan, and they will be on the spot if they can do it, and everyone will not say anything.
Liu Yi's family cleaned up a total of three beds, 2 side rooms, 1 side room, and temporarily built a cool board in the side room, but fortunately, the summer has just passed, and the temperature has not dropped. Otherwise, if it is winter, there will definitely not be enough quilts at home, and you will definitely have to be frozen when you sleep.
The older ones are all placed in the uncle's house, and the older generation always has a lot of common language and similar living habits. And the younger generation is arranged to Liu Yi's hometown, there is a table in the hall, and it is inevitable for young people to play cards together, plus now young people are used to sleeping late, and being lively together will not affect the rest of the old people.
Liu Yi is also in his own home, of course, he was also forced by his cousins and cousins in the clan to play cards, to be honest, Liu Yi has no card addiction, but the cards are quite good. They play mahjong, the way to play in the mountain city, it is called inverted Hu, that is, a winning card, self-draw every family has to give money, and Xiaohu who lights the cannon who gives, anyway, no matter how much self-draw Xiaohu as long as a Hu, that represents the end of a game. Then shuffle the cards to start the next game, different from Chengdu mahjong, bloody battle to the end, to the first three are to win the cards to finish, the most after the end of the account to be old for a long time. In Liu Yi's own words, there is more time to settle accounts than to play cards, which is troublesome.
Playing until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Liu Yi was as lucky as usual, and won about 200 yuan. At the end of the table next to the table, there is only the last one left, and the winning or losing of the Zakin flower is relatively large, and there is still the last one left, the eldest cousin Zhou Xiaobo won not old and young, and everyone watching said that they had won at least a thousand. There was no wave in the last hand, and the evening entertainment ended here, and a few of the losers were invited to get up tomorrow and continue the fight.
Liu Yi did not sleep in the wing room, but in the side room of the main house, which was the bedroom of Liu Yi's grandfather when the family was first separated, and later Liu Yi's father gradually expanded the wing room after marrying his mother, Liu Yi's own hall, the original hall is strictly called the main hall, which is taken care of by Liu Yi's father Liu Huanzhong and his uncle Liu Huanfu, and now there are some farm tools piled up in it.
Maybe he just went home, and after changing into a mattress bed, Liu Yi couldn't sleep. Crowded with him is the second eldest of the uncle's family, that is, the second cousin Liu'an. Today may be a matter of managing a lot of banquets, and I am really tired. He was still in some spirit when he just played cards, and now he fell on the bed and snored, and the snoring was completely deafening, like spring thunder. Liu Yi, who had not fallen asleep in the first place, had even more difficulty falling asleep under the influence of his snoring.
In desperation, I climbed out of bed, and the moonlight outside the window penetrated into the room through the intermittent branches of the trees, and everything in the room was bright and bright. This room, where my grandfather used to live, had a large bookshelf full of books.
When he was a child, Liu Yi was still more naughty, he took down some books from them and wanted to tear off the pages and fold them into paper cannons, everyone who grew up in the eighties should know how to play paper cannons, paper cannons are one of the classic childhood games of the post-80s, the game is very simple, it is to fold paper into squares with paper, called paper cannons, and use your own paper cannons to beat the opponent's paper cannons over, that is, to win the opponent's paper cannons.
Liu Yi was once crazy and fascinated, how could he not secretly rejoice when he saw books that could origami cannons. However, Liu Yi should have been unlucky at that time, and as soon as he wanted to stretch out his hand, he was caught by his father, who was farming outside, and was also eaten a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots (corporal punishment by bamboo strips).
Later, when he got older, he liked literature, and he was slowly able to take down some books and browse. At that time, I found that the collection of books on my grandfather's bookshelf was very rich, including the four famous books in ancient times, "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Red Mansions".
Anyway, I couldn't sleep, so I looked at the sleeping second brother, turned on the light, and leaned on the bookshelf and randomly pulled out some books from it to read. But when I was a child, I read a lot of books, and now I still remember a certain detail in some books, and it is not interesting to look at them repeatedly.
Liu Yi picked out the books that had not been touched before, and after a while, he turned out a large stack from the shelf, and then returned them one by one. It's not that Liu Yi doesn't want to read it, but the books he opened are all related professional technical books brought back from the steel factory by his grandfather when he was working in the world.
Unconsciously, the books Liu Yi was reading had reached the top layer, he didn't grow taller when he was a child, and the books on the upper level Liu Yi basically hadn't moved, and now they have been covered with a thick layer of dust. At this time, Liu Yi didn't want to get it, he was already sleeping, if he got dusty everywhere and his body was dirty, how would he sleep.
Liu Yi thought about turning around and returning to the bedside, ready to lie down and sleep. But the second brother's snoring came again, unlike other people's snoring, the second brother's snoring was completely irregular, and the sound was so loud that he couldn't sleep. Hey, I didn't squeeze a bed with him if I knew it.
I looked at my phone, and it was almost midnight. Lying on the bed listening to the snoring of the second brother, I felt irritable in my heart, and the temperature was still a little hot, but I felt hot and sweaty all over my body while lying on the bed. After the worst, I still felt a little cooler, so I still leaned on the bookshelf, and I didn't care about the impact of the dust on the books on the surroundings, so I took a random book and bounced the dust on the surface of the book.
The book taken out this time is a line-bound book, the cover of the book is slightly yellowed, taking advantage of the dim incandescent light, take a closer look at the name of the book, this book Liu Yi found that it has suffered a certain amount of insect damage, the name is not very complete, and after reading it for a long time, I figured out a word, what is the scripture.
I opened it and took a cursory look, but it was relatively complete inside, and the handwriting was relatively clear, and I read a few pages of the content, which taught crop cultivation related knowledge. I was a little surprised in my heart, in ancient times, there were books to educate the people about farming, it seems that there are a few, and its representative work should be the Ming Dynasty's "Heavenly Creation", some of which is to describe the cultivation techniques of food crops, but Liu Yi did not find such a book in the history course.
This completely aroused Liu Yi's curiosity, put the book aside, and continued to go back to clean up the books on the shelves, but the results showed that the books on it seemed to have a certain age, and most of them were line-bound books. Among them, plus the one that was drawn out at the beginning, there are three books with the same cover style, and the other two books are also well preserved, and the title of the book is also clear, and the name is the same "Shennong Jing".
Seeing the title of "Shennong Sutra", Liu Yi was taken aback. "Shennong Sutra" will not be written by Shennong himself, but think about it and feel impossible, according to the genealogical records, the ancestors of Liu Yi's family are not rich and noble, and they are famous, but in the era of war and chaos, avoiding war and chaos took root and multiplied in the current place, how can it not be related to the great gods of ancient times.
Then I thought about it, in the hierarchical feudal society, who dares to compare himself with God, and write a book to say that it is a great crime to kill the head, and if you don't do it, you have to connect the nine clans. Could it be that the person who wrote the book knows that the Tao is very important, and only wrote the book, and did not dare to leave his name behind, which is the reason.
Whatever, don't think about it, maybe there is something else in the book. No matter what you say, the three copies of "Shennong Sutra" still aroused Liu Yi's great interest, or opened, the one that had been eaten by insects, Liu Yi slowly looked at it, he didn't know what to say, he was startled at a glance, it may mean that Liu Yi was in his current situation, looking at Liu Yi suddenly jumped up, turned his head to look at the sleeping second brother, fortunately he didn't wake him up.
Liu Yi was indeed shocked, and some of Liu Yi's doubts were relieved at the beginning of the book, according to the author: I have pursued the way of heaven all my life, indifferent fame and fortune, provincial new cultivation, and hidden in the wilderness, in order to live forever. However, I also visited famous mountains and rivers, valleys and rivers, secluded forests, and found countless strange things, refining the elixir to no avail. Occasionally, I am fortunate to find that the waste residue of the pill helps the grass and trees, and the dumping place is extraordinarily lush, and the fruit is unique in picking it. After being covered in the wilderness, eating fruits and vegetables on it, the body is strong and healthy, I have been more than a hundred years, the body has no disease, often alone in the mountains and rivers without fear, the view of the young and strong is not inferior, no immortality is enough. It is a pity that this method is not continued, for fear of causing turmoil, this method is specially written, placed in a box, hidden in a stone cave, waiting for fate, and being cautious.
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