Chapter 11 A Unique Family History
Qin Mu's own experience was unremarkable. From kindergarten to college graduation, he repeats how others come over. is also like thousands of people who drift north and drift in the capital after graduation. But if I have to say what's the difference, it's really a little bit.
The difference is not in Qin Mu himself, but in his family. There is a very peculiar thing about the Qin Mu family, that is, each generation is a single transmission, and I don't know how many generations it has been passed on, anyway, Qin Mu's father, grandfather, ancestor, ancestor, and the upper and lower generations who have not been recorded are all brothers, not even sisters.
If that's not enough of a peculiarity, then another peculiarity is the legacy of grief.
Every generation of his family did not live to be forty. And it happened that they were all forty years old, and they died without illness.
Qin Mu's father died at the age of forty without any illness, and he didn't wake up when he fell asleep, and then his mother also passed away a few days later.
According to my father, this is the case with my grandparents. And grandpa also talked to his father, and the same is true of grandpa's parents.
This terrifying inheritance always made Qin Mu have a trace of gloom in his heart.
In the 21 st century, the average life expectancy of Chinese people is more than 70, and it is not uncommon for people to be 80 years old around them. But if Qin Mu's life is not unexpected, it is only half of that of ordinary people. Therefore, he has put in a lot of effort than others since he was a child, after all, it is very possible, even inevitable, Qin Mu will not see the forty-one-year-old sun.
Could it be that this is why you chose to cross by yourself? So when you travel to the Great Song Dynasty, will you be able to live past forty? If you can live past forty, then go back to ancient times and give up all modern enjoyment, is it worth it or not?
Whether it's worth it or not, since you're here, you can only sing which song on which mountain. It's just that the habit of staying up late for many years won't change all at once. According to Qin Mu's estimate, it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, there were no computers, mobile phones, and no TV lights, and the only light source was the moonlight from the window.
This room Qin Mu is familiar with, it is Ren Xiaoxiao's new house, and he came here on the first day of his travel.
Now the smashed door has been replaced with a new one, and Ren Xiaoxiao's dowry has also been moved, leaving only the table, chair and bed, which are still the original.
Of course, Ren Xiaoxiao didn't dare to live in this house. According to her, it would be better to change the yard. However, most of the Wu family's compound was overfired, and it was not easy to squeeze out an empty courtyard, so he could only live in the East Cross Courtyard, but he just packed up his dowry to the wing room, and he didn't dare to come to the main house.
As Qin Mu, he naturally can't live in the East Cross Courtyard. How can a family member live in a courtyard with the master's family, let alone a woman. But the relationship between Qin Mu and Ren Xiaoxiao is different from that of ordinary masters and servants, and Ren Xiaoxiao is not at ease when Qin Mu leaves his eyes.
After all, the scissors were brought by her, and the attempted murder of her husband was completely established. If Qin Mu talked nonsense everywhere, Ren Xiaoxiao would feel very troublesome even if she was not afraid. Although with her understanding of Qin Mu, this vulgar monk is not that kind of person, but it is better to pay attention.
So Qin Mu was honored to live in the hostess's courtyard, and also mixed a single room.
As for what outsiders think, a young family member lives with the little widow of the Wu family, Qin Mu has no concept at all. He spent his days wondering how he could return to his own plane. If you can't go back, how can you live in this era. You can't be a family member for the rest of your life.
Fifty or sixty years old is enough, and he will spend the rest of his life as a family, but Qin Mu is only twenty-six years old, even if he is still fourteen years away from the forty limit, he will never waste time.
Qin Mu lay on the bed with his back facing the sky, looking at the beams of the house by the moonlight.
It's weird to think about how I fell from there. Appeared out of thin air, like an immortal. But immortals can fly through the clouds and fog. I can't fly, and as soon as I appeared, it was like a stone falling into the water, and I fell down in a daze. Otherwise, how could you step on it so hard, and step the scissors directly into the groom's body.
Regarding the death of the groom's official, Qin Mu had no guilt. Is it true that everyone dies, and there are fewer people who die in car accidents in the 21st century? Which one is damned? And Wu Dalang is obviously a toad and wants to eat swan meat. It's tantamount to looking for your own death.
If it weren't for wishful thinking, greedy for Ren Xiaoxiao's beauty, and marrying such a daughter-in-law beyond his means, how could he meet scissors on his wedding night? Without a daughter-in-law, there are no scissors, and without scissors, if you fall down and kick him at most, you can't die at all. So Wu Dalang brought everything on his own.
But why did you cross over? Qin Mu carefully recalled what he had experienced before crossing over. That day, as usual, I got up and washed, took the bus and subway, went to work at the company, and then took the bus and subway, and returned to the rented nest. It's all repeated day after day, and if there's a difference, it's one thing.
Qin Mu remembered that he was wiping a cabinet before he crossed over.
This cabinet is old. It was his grandfather's grandfather who passed it on to his grandfather, and then to his father. Qin Mu's parents have been dead for many years, and Qin Mu rarely returns to his hometown except for going to the grave. It's just that the hometown has been demolished recently, and the old house has been demolished, Qin Mu wants to go back to receive the demolition money, and by the way, he will pack up some memorable things.
Qin Mu searched and found that apart from this cabinet, there was nothing worth keeping at home. Television and telephone calls were all years ago. With the current development speed of the electronics industry, two years is an era, and the electrical appliances in Qin Mu's hometown are antique.
So Qin Mu didn't ask for anything, and only brought this family heirloom cabinet back.
After coming back, Qin Mu kept throwing the cabinet in the corner and didn't have time to clean it. Yesterday, I finally didn't work overtime, and I came back a little early, so I had a rare time to wipe this cabinet with my own hands. Qin Mu's time is very precious, after all, he lives half less than others, so he has no money to waste time, and things like cleaning have been hired by hourly workers since he worked. It's kind of spending money to buy time.
After all, the cabinet is different, it is a family heirloom, and it is considered an antiquity. I don't know how many generations it has passed, Qin Mu didn't want others to do it, so he personally fetched a basin of water, took a rag and started cleaning.
Inside and out, Qin Mu cleaned the cabinet shinyly. But after sweeping away the dust, this cabinet is still a very ordinary cabinet, I can't see anything made of wood, there is no dragon or phoenix, and the simple can't be simpler anymore.
If there is anything special, it is that the cabinet is relatively large. Qin Mu went in, stretched out his hands to reach both sides, and raised his hands just to reach the top. This cabinet may have been considered big a few decades ago, but looking at it now, all kinds of overall home decoration are often cabinets on one wall, and this ancestral cabinet is not big at all.
In short, there is no sense of value.
If it was valuable, Qin Mu also considered selling it. After all, he was in dire need of money. But it's not worth it, so it can only be put on the table. This made Qin Mu feel a little regretful. One line has been passed down for so long, why doesn't the ancestor of the ancestor pass on a really valuable thing. If you pass down a piece of Ru kiln to yourself, wouldn't it be developed in minutes.
Maybe the complaint in his heart was heard by the old ancestor, Qin Mu suddenly felt some pain in his fingers. When I picked it up, there was a trace of blood on my index finger. If you look closely, it turns out that there is a small cut. Qin Mu was fine when he went home, and his hands were broken after cleaning the cabinet, and it seemed that there were burrs on the cabinet.
The breach is small and left unattended, but there are burrs in the cabinet that must be dealt with. Otherwise, it will not be good to accidentally break the skin or scratch something when putting something.
Qin Mu searched carefully, and finally found a burr on the inside top of the cabinet. It's not just one, it's a regular one. He felt strange, could it be that this was the secret left by the old ancestor? It was a little dark inside the cabinet, so he immediately pulled out his phone and took a picture of the glitch. When I took it outside, it turned out that the burr was a row of words.
A row of seal characters.
Qin Mu was forced by his father to practice calligraphy since he was a child, and he has dabbled in various fonts, so he also knows him. Every word is mundane, but it's hard to organize. These are eight words, one sentence: "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." ”
This is the word on the jade seal of Qin Shi Huang!
It seems that this cabinet may really be an antique. Maybe it's worth some money. Qin Mu was excited for a while, and couldn't help but read it out: "Ordered by the sky, he will live forever." ”
Who knew that as soon as I finished reading, I would appear here.
Qin Mu was lying on this bed, puzzled.
Is this a traversal password. But I don't know how many people have read these eight words, have they all crossed over? How many missing people must there be! Society is not in chaos. Apparently impossible. Then the problem seems to be on the cabinet. But the cabinet was left in the 21st century, and it didn't travel with me, and there was nowhere to find it if I wanted to study it.
Is the crossing a one-off? But the cabinet has been passed down for so many generations, and my grandfather and father did not suddenly disappear and travel to an unknown dynasty, but died in bed at home. Didn't they cross over? Or did you cross and wear it back?
Anyway, try again.
"Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." Qin Mu read these eight words in a low voice. After waiting quietly for a while, there was no response, and he was still lying on Ren Xiaoxiao's new bed alone.
"Chang Yongshou is both long-lived, and the heavens are fateful." He read it backwards again. Still no response.
Qin Mu tried all kinds of combinations of the eight words, and he babbled for more than ten minutes, but he still didn't go back. The sound of the wind blew through the window edge, like a burst of mockery.
Qin Mu was a little deflated.
In the past few days, he has not given up trying, and whenever no one is around, he has been talking all kinds of things, but no miracles have happened except for the appearance of a nervous disorder. He is still in the Great Song Dynasty, wearing a green coat and a small hat, doing the job of a housekeeper.
"Do you want a blood sacrifice?" Qin Mu thought to himself, do you want to give yourself a knife and bleed?