"Although we are also ghost craftsmen, with our unique ability, if we want to make friends with the Zhu family, it is not qualified! Even my ancestors are not qualified to make friends with the Zhu family. You are different, not only did you make friends with the people of the Zhu family, but you also got their family's hundred robes! This is enough to see that the Zhu family is full of respect for you! ”

While speaking, I saw Master Zhao's eyes in awe of me!

I knew that Zhu Laoqi was very powerful and was a real descendant of the ghost craftsman, but I didn't expect him to have such a status in the rivers and lakes. An ordinary carpenter, a person who was struggling with 8,000 yuan, who would have thought that he would have such an earth-shattering background.

"He's so powerful!" I said thoughtfully.

"No, the skills of the entire carpenter world are all the skills of their Zhu family, and they are proficient! My ancestor went to look for them back then, and my ancestor was just an ordinary wood carver at that time, but later after his guidance, my ancestor gradually had the ability of a ghost craftsman. The three carving knives on my ancestors were given by the Zhu family back then. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Zhu family is the mentor of our Zhao family. ”

"I see." I then asked, "So, is it true that your three carving knives can carve living things?" ”

Master Zhao sighed, nodded and said, "It's true, but the process is more complicated." ”

Speaking of this, Master Zhao took another sip of tea and said, "You also know that with the passage of time, many family heirlooms are gradually disappearing!" The same is true for our wood carving door. In the past, my ancestors were indeed able to directly carve wooden figures into living creatures, and as long as they were carved, they were able to do so. But in my generation, it's not so easy. ”

When Zhao Mingyan heard this, he interrupted: "Grandpa, didn't you say that if you use the wrong carving knife, take the carving knife that carves the beast to carve the person, and it will make that person a monster?" How could it be ......"

Master Zhao snorted, and said with a look of hatred: "That's me lying to you!" I just want you to take things seriously and don't always be careless. In our woodcarving industry, we can't be careless at all, otherwise, don't do woodcarving. What I didn't expect was that you kid really don't have a long memory, and you really made a mistake for me. ”

When Zhao Mingyan heard this, she lowered her head and said with an embarrassed face: "I'm sorry, grandpa, I know it's wrong." ”

"It's good that I don't have that ability, if I do, you're really making a big mistake."

Zhao Mingyan lowered her head, pouted and stopped talking.

I took over and said, "Actually, it's not that you don't have that ability, but the carving knife you used for Miss Zhao is not the carving knife handed down from your ancestors, right?" ”

Listening to my words, Master Zhao was shocked again! He looked at me and asked, "What is this......?" This...... How do you say that? ”

I looked at Master Zhao and said, "Miss Zhao showed me the three carving knives, and I didn't see the aura on those three carving knives!" It stands to reason that something that can carve a wood spirit requires an extremely strong aura to cover the blade. Those three carving knives are nothing special except that they are sharper than ordinary ones, so I suspect that they are not the carving knives of your ancestors. ”

Listening to my words, Master Zhao's eyes flickered, and after a long time, he realized that he should explain truthfully.

So, he sighed and said, "It seems that nothing can be hidden from your eyes, no wonder you can make friends with the people of the Zhu family!" You're right, those three carving knives are indeed not my family's ancestors. ”

"Many years ago, I took in an apprentice and I taught him the art of carving! I passed on all my skills to him, and when he was done, he asked me if he could carve living things. ”

"I refused right then, because I had never carved a living thing. Many years ago, my grandfather carved out a living creature, which was supposed to listen to my grandfather, but it did something that made people talk about it. The living creature ate people, and ate several people, and for a time plunged our village into a panic. Later, my grandfather died with the living creature in order to atone for his sins, and when he was dying, he told my father not to carve any more living things! After that, my father and I went away and came here, opened this shop to beg for food, and after that, we never carved a living creature again! ”

"What I didn't expect was that after I rejected my apprentice, he stole three of my family's ancestral carving knives, and I haven't seen him since. I've been trying to find him in every way, but until now, I haven't found him! I was amazed when I heard you say that I saw that monster. Because that kind of monster is the kind of monster that my grandfather finally carved out to eat people. ”

When I heard this, I kind of understood what was going on!

So I looked at him again and asked, "So, it's your original apprentice who carved this monster, right?" ”

Master Zhao nodded slightly and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it must be him!" I didn't expect to look around for him and couldn't find him, but he has always lived in the same city as me. ”

"Sir, tell me where he is? I'll go with you to him! ”

Looking at Master Zhao's excited face, I hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know where he is, I only know that the monster he made has been haunting Riverside Road." I came to you to ask about your relationship with him, and now I have asked. I'd also like to ask you if there's anything I can do to find him. ”

Listening to my words, Master Zhao thought for a while, and then said, "Just give it a try!" I'm not sure, but since you're all here, you're my criminal, and I'm not going to sit idly by. ”

Hearing this, I got up and clenched my fists and said, "Thank you, Master Zhao." ”

Master Zhao waved his hand and said, "You are a friend of the Zhu family, so naturally you are also the benefactor of my Zhao family!" This matter is all caused by my apprentice, and it is naturally inseparable from me, and I will do my best. ”

Master Zhao said that if he wanted to find his apprentice, he had to wait until evening, because only at night could his wooden figure sense the location of the carved living thing. He asked his apprentice what he had done, and I told him what happened to Li Xuemei's husband, and after listening to it, he said extremely angrily: "That scoundrel, I knew that I shouldn't have taught him those skills!" He's just doing nonsense, doing nonsense. ”

Seeing his excitement, I instantly became confident, and it seemed that my inference was correct, and they did have some carpenter's skills.

At ten o'clock in the evening, after taking a small wooden figure with no facial features and a carving knife, we set off for Riverside Road.

With no moon tonight, a gloomy drizzle in the sky and not a single pedestrian on the streets, it was destined to be an extraordinary night......