Chapter 57: Digging the House
After the meal, Zhou Wenping said to Chu Chen: "You can rest at my house this afternoon, and let's go to dig the house tomorrow, but the conditions at home are limited, I hope you will forgive me!" ”
Everyone said that there was no problem, and they all took out all kinds of gifts, but because they were in a hurry, they didn't have time to take them out just now.
Seeing Zhou Wenping's family prevarication, Chu Chen said: "Uncle and aunt, just some supplements or something, nothing valuable, if we don't accept this, then why are we embarrassed to disturb next time." ”
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother saw that they couldn't shirk it, so they had to accept it, but Chu Chen was also careful, and even prepared the gifts of Zhou's sister-in-law's parents, and it happened that they were also there, so they gave it to them together.
Speaking of which, although the journey on the train is lively, it is indeed very tiring, but when I arrive at a strange place, the freshness has not passed, and everyone is not idle. So Zhou Wenping took them around the neighborhood, and they experienced the local customs a little.
The next day, Chu Chen got up early and prepared to go to the courtyard to practice boxing, but unexpectedly found that Chu Yulan also got up and came to the courtyard.
Chu Chen smiled and asked, "Xiaolan, what's wrong, do you recognize the bed?" ”
"No, I sleep very comfortably, but I'm used to getting up at this time of day to exercise, Brother Chu, are you going to practice boxing? It won't bother you, will it? Chu Yulan asked with a smile.
"No, since you're going to exercise too, let's start together."
After finishing speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, and then each set up a shelf and exercised.
Chu Yulan said that the exercise of the body turned out to be a practice of boxing, the difference is that her boxing method should be a kind of military boxing. However, what made Chu Chen strange was that this kind of boxing technique was somewhat familiar in his memory, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
After the two of them stopped, Chu Chen asked, "Xiaolan, I don't know where you learned your boxing technique, why does it seem to be a little familiar." ”
After Chu Yulan heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a smile: "This is my military body boxing, which was taught to me by my family, and it should be a very ordinary and ordinary boxing technique, so Brother Chu, you will feel familiar." ”
Chu Chen was a little relieved when he heard this, so he smiled and said, "Oh, so that's the case." You're done practicing, so let's go back, I guess breakfast is almost ready, and I can smell the fragrance. ”
After speaking, he took the lead in turning around and walking towards the hall, what he didn't see was that after he turned around, Chu Yulan was relieved. ……
Sister-in-law Zhou's maiden home is not very far from Zhou Wenping's house, and it only takes 30 minutes to walk, but because of the relationship between children, everyone did not choose to walk, and it happened that there was a tractor in the village to go there, so they hitched a ride.
Although the first time I sat on the tractor, everyone felt very novel, but after sitting for a few minutes, I felt that it was not interesting, and fortunately, the distance was close, otherwise because of the road conditions, the butt was a little unbearable.
Sister-in-law Zhou's family looks worse than Zhou Wenping's family, this is because Sister-in-law Zhou's family only has one daughter, unlike Zhou Wenping, who has a sister who can help out. And because Sister-in-law Zhou was sick, her family also spent a lot of money for her, so she had no money to repair the house.
Sister-in-law Zhou's parents warmly welcomed them into the house, and after sitting for a while, leaving Sister-in-law Zhou and the two children, Sister-in-law Zhou's father took Chu Chen and others to their destination this time, the second uncle's house that Sister-in-law Zhou said.
On the way, Sister-in-law Zhou's father also briefly introduced the situation of the second uncle's family.
The second uncle's name is Ma An, 76 years old this year, and his family used to be a landlord, but before the establishment of the Xinhua Kingdom, his family had already begun to fall into disarray. This Ma An didn't study well when he was young, because of the family composition, he broke the jar and broke it, and he didn't get a daughter-in-law until he was in his forties.
Although his daughter-in-law gave birth to a son for him, that son is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and haode doesn't do it, and he has done a lot of things like stealing chickens and dogs. In the past, Ma An's daughter-in-law was in charge, and it was a little better, but a few years ago, his daughter-in-law was seriously ill and died, and that kid became a wild horse that got out of the way, and it became even worse.
Maybe it's retribution, last month, his son stole someone else's chicken, I don't know what's going on, he fell off the wall, I don't know where he hit it, he got a half-paralyzed, and if he wants to be cured, don't think about the money spent.
Ma An had no choice but to prepare to sell some of the things left by the older generation at home, so he asked for Sister-in-law Zhou.
After speaking, Zhou's sister-in-law's father warned them: "If Ma Anjia wants to say good things, there should be them, but he doesn't believe it, so you should be a snack when you trade." ”
Under the leadership of Zhou's sister-in-law's father, everyone came to a Guanzhong-style house, although the house is a little old, it looks very imposing, and it can be guessed that the owner's family background should be good.
"Second uncle, are you at home?" Sister-in-law Zhou's father tapped on the door and shouted loudly.
After he shouted a few times, the door of the house opened, and out came an old man of about seventy or eighty years old, with a thin face and somewhat unkempt hair, and this person should be Ma'an.
"It turned out to be Guozhong, who are these people?" Ma An looked at Chu Chen and the others and asked.
Sister-in-law Zhou's father smiled and said, "A while ago, didn't you ask the hungry girl to help you find a buyer, these are the guests from the capital." ”
"Please come in, please come in!"
After hearing this, Ma An smiled all over his face and welcomed everyone into the door.
After coming to the hall and introducing each other, Ma An invited everyone to sit down, poured a glass of water for everyone, and said, "Wait, if you are hungry, go and bring things now." ”
Everyone waited for five or six minutes, only to see Ma An holding a stele-like thing and a brocade box, carefully walked in, put it on the table, and then said to everyone:
"You should also know the situation of the hungry family, and you won't say much about the hungry, but I just hope that you will take care of the hungry for a while, you can rest assured, everything is a good thing, it is passed down from the hungry ancestors, and you will definitely not suffer a loss when you buy it."
Chu Chen replied with a smile: "Uncle Ma, don't worry, as long as the things are good, you will definitely not suffer in terms of price." ”
The first thing everyone looked at was the thing that looked like a stone tablet, and as soon as they saw it, Chu Chen and Zhou Wenping knew what it was, and they shook their heads one after another.
As soon as Ma An saw their expressions, he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, there's something wrong with something?" This thing has been hungry since I was a child! When the hungry father handed it to the hungry, he told the hungry to keep it. ”
Chu Chen smiled and said, "This thing is a land purchase voucher, and the time should be from the Ming Dynasty." ”
When Ma An heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and asked strangely: "Since it is from the Ming Dynasty, why are you still shaking your head." ”
And Chu Yulan and they also showed curious looks, since this is from the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as an antique, and there are vertical grids between the lines of the words on it, and the engraved words are also very neat, so the value should not be bad.
"Well, Uncle Ma, you may be a little disappointed when you hear what I say next."
Chu Chen first gave him a preventive shot: "This land purchase coupon is also known as "tomb" and "land bond". It is evolved from the land purchase contract, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, it is very different from the title deed, it is used to buy land for the dead after the person dies, and it must be buried in the ground with the dead person, proving that the cemetery belongs to him. ”
"The main content written on it is to buy a mansion in the underworld for the deceased, and ask officials at all levels of the underworld not to infringe on the souls of the deceased, the yin and yang realms, and the ghosts of the dead should not return to the world to haunt them, and restore the living."
After hearing this, Ma An was quite disappointed, but he still looked at Chu Chen with hope in his eyes, and asked: "Although it is used for funerals, but now the antiques you are talking about, aren't many of them also used for funerals, this thing is at least from the Ming Dynasty, how much is it worth?" ”
Chu Chen replied apologetically: "Uncle Ma, I'm really sorry, this thing has some effect on our understanding of ancient funeral culture, but in terms of value, ordinary people will not buy it." And I looked at the meaning of the words on it, the owner of this tablet should be your ancestors, so ......"
When Chu Yulan heard that it would be this kind of thing, she immediately frowned, thinking to herself, this Ma An will not dig up the grave of his ancestor in order to make money!
When Ma An heard this, his face also changed greatly, but he didn't expect that what he thought was a treasure was actually a land purchase coupon after the death of his ancestor, so he didn't know what to say for a while, and finally calmed down, he opened the brocade box and said to everyone:
"I won't talk about that thing just now, this thing must be a good thing, decades ago, I was hungry and let an old professor see it, and he said it was a good thing."
Everyone looked at the brocade box, including the two girls, and they were all in good spirits, because the brocade box contained a Tang Sancai horse.
After asking Ma An, Chu Chen put on his gloves and carefully picked up this Tang Sancai and looked at it.
This Tang Sancai horse has a white tire and a brown and red color on the horse's body. With its head held high, the horse's head is small, the neck is long, the ears are erect, the eyes are staring ahead, and the leg muscles are prominently strengthened, standing on a rectangular pedal arched in the center.
The horse's mane is white, the mane is cut and the tail is tied, the bridle is fully saddled, and the chest is tied with a green leather belt at the back of the thigh, and the leather belt is tied with green apricot leaves, and the saddle is draped with a green blanket. The whole horse looks lifelike, especially spiritual, and makes people have an endless aftertaste after watching it.
However, although the shape of this horse is realistic, and it looks exactly the same as the real one in terms of tires, opening pieces, pulping, etc., but after Chu Chen started, although the ability reacted, it still didn't feel right, and then he carefully observed, and indeed found a few fatal points, after using the ability, he was regretful and a little doubtful in his heart.