Chapter 2 Black Cat
[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming, who didn't know that the goal of the Immortal Dao had been changed to himself, still went to work in Kun Bao Zhai every day, but he never recognized Zhang Qianqian, the eldest lady of Kun Bao Zhai, as the eldest sister of the Immortal Dao. Immediately afterwards, the shopkeeper asked him to send the jade pen to Chen's mansion, but after Mu Qingming went, he felt that the mansion was full of evil energy; On the other side, a fierce-looking middle-aged man who claimed to be Mu Shanjun stood in front of the Mu family's small courtyard and confronted the vigilant Mo Han. led out Mu Shan's identity, and Mo Han had a false alarm. Mu Qingming visited Master Chen's collection, failed to find the source of the evil qi, and was about to leave in a huff, but saw that the fourth aunt was holding the black cat and was strange, and suddenly became suspicious. 】
"In Xiamu Mountain, a native of Heizhugou in Leshan County, Shuzhong." The middle-aged man raised his hand, took off the borscht hat on his head and chwed slightly: "There is a very, extremely unfilial dog who has lived for more than 300 years and has not married and had children, named Mu Qingming." ”。
"Huh?" Mo Han suddenly realized when he heard this, and then saw that the vicious tengu Shiyue was actually very well-behaved in front of the other party, and he was convinced of the other party's words at the moment, so he hurriedly put away his vigilance and bowed again and again, and said apologetically: "It turned out to be Uncle Mu, I have no eyes, you forgive me, don't be like us juniors." ”。
"Change your honorific title to you, and then change uncle to uncle, and I won't bother with your three-tailed purple fox." After a faint hint of displeasure flashed on Mu Shan's face, he snorted heavily: "Uncle makes me look like I'm very old, and I get angry when I listen to it." ”。
Saying this, Mu Shan Cheng stepped over the threshold and stood in the courtyard without saying a word, and instantly squinted his eyes with a smile on his face and asked, "What about my stupid and stupid son?" ”。
"Wood he ...... No, Brother Qingming, he went to work, and he didn't come back until the afternoon. Mo Han, whose cheeks were crimson, hurriedly replied and welcomed Mu Shanshu to the main hall, his palms full of fine beads of sweat due to nervousness.
Mu Shan stood still in the depths of the lobby, slightly raised his head and looked at the plaque hanging on the wall engraved with the vigorous and powerful "Tranquility Zhiyuan" four big characters, after a sigh, his eyes moved down to see that the corner of the wall had been a little yellowed, and the painting was painted after the ancient Emperor Emperor Jun and his mount the nine-colored lion, hurriedly put on a whole robe, and bowed respectfully and bowed three times.
"Uncle Mu, you drink tea." Mo Han, who went to the kitchen to make tea, stood behind the other party but was so nervous that he could barely breathe.
Mei Xiang, who followed her closely, was even more nervous, holding the hem of Mo Han's clothes tightly, and looking at Mu Shanshu very carefully.
"Don't be nervous, although there are a lot of demon eaters, I don't like this bite." Mu Shan took the teacup and sat down on the flat head table under the plaque with three pairs of rouge color landscape pattern lantern porcelain bottles on the left and right, and in the middle there were yellow pear carved dragon green stone inserts and green glazed incense burners and other things and stood next to the wall in front of the flat-headed table, on the left side of the Eight Immortals Table on the Taishi chair that used to be Mu Qing meditating.
"This is Pu'er tea from Ning'er County, right?" After scraping the tea powder with the quilt cover and smelling the rising fragrance of tea, Mu Shan asked leisurely.
"Yes, the caravan brought it." Mo Han, who lowered his head and lowered his hand, whispered.
"Good tea." Mu Shan, who took a sip of fragrant tea, smashed his mouth, tilted his head slightly and hurriedly retracted his head when he saw him looking over, Mei Xiang, who was hiding tightly behind Mo Han, smiled lightly, took out a handful of fruit candy wrapped in fine colored paper from his sleeve, and said in a kind tone: "Little girl, come here, uncle will give you candy to eat." ”。
After seeing the colorful sugar, Mei Xiang suddenly lost her shyness, strode forward to take all the fruit candy, smiled sweetly and nodded, "Thank you, grandpa." ”。
"It's uncle." While correcting her words, Mu Shanshu took out a light blue silk shawl from his sleeve and handed it to Mo Han: "A few days ago, I went to Beiping (now Beijing) to get rid of demons, and I bought it in Ruifuxiang, see if you like it?" ”。
The shawl was as thin as a cicada's wing, beautiful in color and elegant in fabric, and tight in texture; At first glance, it is made of good ayara, and the price must not be low.
"Thank you, uncle." Mo Han bowed gratefully, but he didn't stretch out his hand for a long time, but said lightly: "It's just that my food, clothing and housing are all provided by Brother Qingming, and I'm embarrassed to accept such a valuable gift from you." ”。
"When you go home with Qing Ming during the Chinese New Year, we will be a family when you see her mother, so don't be polite to your uncle." Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, looked at Mo Han who was slightly bowing his head with interest and asked, "You don't want my meeting gift, don't you look down on dogs?" ”。
"But the biography to me says that you like dogs very much?" Mu Shanjun, who frowned, didn't wait for Mo Han, who was stunned, to speak, and said seriously: "Qing Ming and I learned from the letter that you saved Qing Ming by annihilating corpse insects with demon pills, and we both think you have a good character. Our Mu family has never discriminated against kind-hearted demons, we only despise demons who do evil, you don't have to worry too much; If you really like my family, then let this stinky boy take you home. ”。
Although the words were said abruptly, the tone was very sincere, and it didn't seem like he was joking with Mo Han at all.
Mo Han, who was surprised and happy in his heart, suddenly suffocated, and a crimson appeared under the creamy skin on his cheeks after he was speechless, and he didn't know whether he was anxious or shy, but he was more beautiful and beautiful.
"No, I like Brother Qingming." Mo Han, who bit the corner of his lip, slowly raised his head after a while, looked directly into Mu Shan's eyes, took a deep breath, and after gradually calming down, he nodded slowly and firmly: "Since he promised to save my sister without hesitation, I have made up my mind not to marry him." ”......
didn't know that his father didn't greet him, so he hurried to Mu Qingming in Kunming, sat in Chen's mansion and drank hot tea in his hand, thinking only one thing in his heart - that is, how to find the source of evil qi.
After drinking half a cup of hot tea, a middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses and a long shirt walked into the hall, smiling at Mu Qingming and using a non-standard Mandarin (equivalent to the current Mandarin; In the early days of the Republic of China, Guoyin, which was scheduled to be the official language, was a combination of Nanjing dialect and Beijing dialect. ), to Mu Qingming to compensate for it: "I'm really sorry, Master Mu, there are too many things at home, please forgive me for neglecting you." ”。
Mu Qingming took a look at this middle-aged man with a little dark skin, who had already begun to make fortune and was still a little glossy, but when he saw that the other party's eye sockets were a little dark and green, and there were bloodshots in his eyes, even Yin Tang was a little black, and he didn't look like he had slept enough, so he guessed that it could be this old man Chen, who loves antiques, and inadvertently accepted some old evil things as antiques?
I wanted to think about it, but Mu Qingming's expression was still as usual, and he hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "Old Master Chen's family has a big business, and it is normal for people to be busy, Qingming will not make trouble unreasonably." ”。
After finishing speaking, he took out the pen from his pocket, handed it to Master Chen, and said, "Our shopkeeper asked me to send you the pen of rest, please palm." ”。
"Mother Wu, make another cup of good tea for Young Master Mu." While saying to the old servant waiting at the door of the hall, he took the red cloth exhibition to take a look, but after seeing the fine workmanship of the pen and the mellow jade, Master Chen's eyes suddenly showed a look of love.
"As far as I know, this is what Tang Xuanzong rewarded the king of Yunnan in Nanzhao, I don't know if Master Chen likes it?" Mu Qingming lowered his voice a little, and muttered softly in the ear of Master Chen, who was staring at the pen with his eyes.
"It's absolutely good." Master Chen, who had already played with the pen, didn't take his eyes off the pen: "I want this thing, how much is it?" ”。
"One price, six hundred and eight oceans." Mu Qingming said lightly.
"Mother Wu." Master Chen is also a master of antiques, and after playing with it a few times, he saw that this thing was worth the money, so he said to the servant who brought tea to Mu Qingming without thinking: "Let the tent send seven hundred oceans." ”。
The old servant nodded, then turned to leave.
"Master Chen likes antiques so much, he must have collected a lot; I also like antiques, I wonder if I can visit them? Mu Qingming, who was waiting to collect the money, picked up the teacup, and asked slowly as if nothing had happened; In fact, he just wanted to find the source of evil spirit.
"Of course you can, Young Master Mu, please come with me." Old Man Chen, who got up, blurted out without hesitation, and then pulled Mu Qingming up and walked towards the side of the hall.
The Chen Mansion Hall is separated from the hall by a patio, and a hut cover is added to the patio, and the ventilation and lighting are provided by the high side windows (water windows). After passing the small patio, we came to the study on the right side of the hall.
I saw that the environment of this study was full of elegance and vulgarity.
Outside the window, the four walls are full of vines, and the stone steps at the entrance are planted with verdant rue herbs and lush piano bamboo. After the screen behind the door, you can see that although it is not spacious, but it is very clear and clean, there is a long table in the middle of the study, on which an ancient inkstone, an old copper water injection, an old kiln pen grid, a spotted bamboo pen holder, an old kiln pen wash, a paste bucket and a water cheng, and an ivory paperweight.
In the corner on the side, there is a washing inkstone pond near the window, and there are five or seven koi fish in it, which shows that although Master Chen was born dark, he still has leisure and elegance in his bones.
Looking at the bookshelves and multi-treasure grids on both sides of the long case, there are many calligraphy and paintings, porcelain and jade, but there are no gold and silver wares, which is more fresh and refined.
Mu Qingming turned around in amazement in the study, and took a closer look at all the things in Master Chen's study, but he didn't find anything abnormal, let alone find the source of the evil qi, and the confusion in his heart became even greater.
The long-lasting coldness that permeated the Chen Mansion was full of resentment that made people feel depressed suddenly; This is by no means due to the weather, it is definitely the evil aura emitted by the evil things of the year.
But looking all over the study, many of the collections of Master Chen placed in it are also not short of years, but they are just ordinary antiques and not evil things, which makes Mu Qing and the fox suspicious.
But he was an outsider, and it was not good for him to move around in the Chen Mansion at will, so after thinking about it, he decided to think about it in the long run, or come back at night.
At this moment, the account room sent a silver dollar, Mu Qingming hurriedly opened a receipt and took the silver dollar, and said, "If Master Chen needs anything in the future, just come to our Kun Bao Zhai to choose." ”。
"Definitely, definitely." Laughing at this, Master Chen brought Mu Qingming to the hall again, and said slightly apologetically: "There are still some mundane things to deal with at home, so Chen will send them here." ”。
"Master Chen is polite." Mu Qingming bowed slightly, and when he raised his head and straightened his waist and was about to leave, he saw a young woman wearing a blue emerald cigarette shirt and a dark blue pleated skirt, walking into the hall with small steps.
Mu Qingming's eyes lit up, and his gaze immediately fell on the other party's chest and he didn't leave.
It's not that Mu Qingming is lustful, but the black cat that the woman hugged on her chest suddenly aroused his interest. It was a lazy and cute black cat that was almost as full as ink. In the blue eyes, the pupils became a line of sky, and there was a bit of coldness in them.
What is the origin of the black cat? Is it the source of evil energy? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.