Chapter 5 Newcomers Join
I slept so well this night, and after a hasty lunch, I went to look for the rotten master, but was told by the Chen family that he was sent on a mission. Only then did I know that the identity of the rotten master was not simple, I only knew that his real name was Chen Yi, and he was a child that my grandfather's eldest brother picked up when he was fifty years old.
Because it was the Chen family, I didn't ask any more questions, thinking that knowing these was enough, but now I think about it, I was too negligent and never knew about this family. It was through this person that I learned some details.
The eldest of the Chen family is an old man, and there are only two brothers under his knees. The child he picked up should have been the second child according to his age, but the old man of the Chen family felt that he couldn't break the rules of his ancestors, so he became the third child with his seniority. And I'm going to call him uncle.
I wanted to ask more about my family, but the man avoided talking about it, saying that he couldn't talk nonsense within the family, and he saw through my routines, so I had to give up.
After wandering around the yard for a few laps, I found that there was really nothing to do, so I went back to my room. I spread out a blank sheet of paper on my desk and laid out all the clues I already knew.
The silk book had been rubbed out by me, and I realized that the silk book was very important: the complicated lines, the runes on the coffin in the basement under the ancient building, and the empty ancient building.
There must be some key information hidden in this that I haven't noticed, but I haven't found a breakthrough after looking at it for a long time, so I can't help but be a little discouraged.
I picked up the rubbing and looked at it slowly, trying to relieve my eye fatigue. I rubbed my eyebrows, and suddenly I saw a totem of a flower in the corner of the rubbing. The totem was minimalist, and I recognized it at first sight.
I opened the cloth bag, took out the rubbings I picked up in the ancient building, and compared them together, and they were exactly the same! I smile and make a new discovery.
While it was time for others to take a nap, I stepped into the patriarch's room again. The room was still neat, and this time I had my eyes on the hall. I didn't even let go of the corners without moving things, but there was nothing, and I was disappointed and a little overwhelmed.
I hurriedly hid from the distance, leaning slightly to see who was coming. I saw an old man and a young man, the old one looked at the face, but that temperament should be the elder of the Chen family. The one that is missing is the one who called the rotten master when I arrived at Chen's house.
"Ah Yin, your eldest brother is missing now, you have to pick up the burden of the Chen family, he doesn't know what happened to this child, I hope he has his own natural appearance!" The old man patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly.
"Uncle Cousin, I know, don't worry, I will protect the Chen family!" That Ah Yin said with relief. They also said a few words, but they seemed to be code words in the Tao, and I couldn't fully understand them. I only know that it is roughly about the Chen family's business.
But I also learned a piece of information, it turned out that the Chen family was in the ore business, and they relied on the mountains to eat the mountains. This is very different from my family, which is a pawnshop business on the surface, but actually resells Ming utensils. The shop has its own set of code words, which only the insiders can understand. And my hairy boy only knows a little bit about the skin.
It didn't take long for the old man to leave. Ah Yin looked around, sighed, and left.
After I came out, I sorted out the relationship between these people in my mind while walking: the rotten master is the third, the Ah Yin is the second, the head of the family is the boss, and I am the one outside, although I am not familiar, but after all, the blood relationship cannot be shaken off, these people are careful in what they say and do, I am afraid that something will go wrong, it seems that I have to investigate in the Chen family.
When I came back to my senses, I was already in front of the bookshelf, and I looked at the dazzling bookshelves, and I had a desire to learn. Anyway, there is nothing big to do, the rotten master is not here, and the clues are broken, so it is better to read a book to pass the time. I thought so. So I pulled out my chair and sat down, reaching out and picking an older book with an older cover.
Flipping through the homepage, what catches your eye is Chen Shoumo's three typing, the pen is strong and powerful, quite a bit of everyone's demeanor. I guessed that this was the patriarch's name, and I couldn't help but make a good impression of him in my heart.
I read a total of two books, one is about the god of fire and the god of water, and the other is the story of the Queen Mother of the West refining medicine. I felt a little bored after watching it, so I got up and was about to go to find the rotten master again to see if he had come back, but he was startled by another person.
It was a good-looking boy, younger than me, with a pair of old-fashioned glasses on his nose and a shallow smile on his face, which made him feel like a spring breeze. "You are Chen Huai! Hello, my name is Chen Ran. He spoke to me first.
He looked at me with a wary look and added, "Chen Yin is my father." "I was silently calculating the seniority in my heart, but I found that I didn't know much about the Chen family, and I was still secretly suspicious of his identity.
He seemed to see through my thoughts, so he hugged my arm and called my brother to pull me into the house affectionately again, and give me a popular science about the Chen family.
That's when I learned that my grandfather had a brother and sister on his head. The uncle has three sons, Chen Shoumo, Uncle Yin and Master Fu, and only Uncle Yin has one child in their generation.
The little sister has only one daughter, and she married the Xie family and gave birth to a girl, so she went early. And my dad and I are the only children in the family, and we can't help but feel a little emotional.
I looked at Chen Ran, who was explaining seriously, and I didn't seem to have any thoughts, and I was about to set up his words, but at this time, the door was pushed open, and what I wanted to say was stuck in my mouth.
The rotten master looked at the two of us in surprise, and turned to Chen Ran and said, "Ah Ran, when the did you come back?" Don't say hello either! The rotten master didn't wait for him to answer, raised his hand to prepare for a sorority, I saw his actions at a glance and hurriedly interrupted him: "The rotten master doesn't need to be introduced, we already know each other!" Master Fu nodded at me with an admiring smile.
Then Chen Ran pulled the rotten master over and whispered, I was a little embarrassed to stand on the side, so I simply sat on the chair and didn't pay attention to them, and was in a daze.
By the time I came back to my senses, Chen Ran was ready to leave. He smiled politely at me and said he had something else to do, so I stood up and nodded goodbye to him.
As soon as Chen Ran left, I ran over and closed the door and said to the rotten master with an unhappy face: "What did he tell you?" How is it mysterious? Don't let me know yet! ”
Master Fu just glanced at me, and didn't explain much, but diverted the topic: "Although Chen Ran is young, he is a smart child, you should pay more attention to him and be careful not to be fooled." ”
My heart tightened, frowning and wondering why the rotten master said this, but I thought that this kind of newly grown child couldn't make any waves, and besides, I wasn't a fool to be slaughtered, so I didn't pay much attention to that child.
After saying what I wanted to say, I pestered the rotten master to take me to the mine to take a look, at first no matter how soft and hard I was, he was unwilling, saying that the affairs over there were not in his hands, and it was not good to meddle in other people's territory.
I thought about it from his point of view, and this request was indeed a bit vexatious, but to be honest, I was not a person who retreated, so I said to the rotten master: "In this way, let's go secretly and take a look outside, or we will change into work clothes and wear a hard hat and pretend to be workers and blend in." Of course the rotten master disagreed, so I made a military order in front of him, promising not to run around and not to talk nonsense, and he reluctantly agreed.
After a while, the rotten master brought me work clothes and asked me to change them, he had already changed them himself, the rotten master was already white, and the hard hat couldn't cover his handsome face. I changed my clothes and looked in the mirror, and found that both of us as mine workers were too clean on our faces and bodies to look like workers.
So on the way there, we rolled on a hillside and plastered our faces. The rotten master seemed to have some cleanliness, he looked at his clothes and frowned: "It's almost, let's go." ”
I grabbed him and put a little black towel around his neck, and I laughed, "That's the classic image of a worker, hahaha." "The rotten master gave me a blank look, and then left on his own.
Fu Ye told me that he also went to the mine for the first time, because the Chen family has a clear division of labor, the biggest taboo is to fish in troubled waters in the middle, this kind of people generally do not end well, the Chen family does not raise idlers, from the chef to the patriarch have their own things to do, which link has a problem directly to find the person in charge, it sounds good, in fact, this greatly reduces the work efficiency, but it is not a big problem to use in the clan.
Seeing that I and the rot master were about to grope to the mine, but in the two workers unintentionally talked to hear who died, I looked at the rot master, and were a little puzzled, before we left, the Chen family was fine, only left for an hour, and someone died.
I couldn't help but sigh at the ruthlessness of the years, and the rotten master said to me seriously: "Huaizi, it seems that the mine can't be done, so I have to go back and have a look first." "After all, the dead are the greatest, I nodded, and went home with the rotten master.