After this matter was settled, the time was not early, and Mr. Shen took me to prepare to leave.

But Lao Liu suddenly said to Teacher Shen: "Teacher Shen, I have a few words to say to this young man, do you think it's convenient?" ”

Teacher Shen looked at him, nodded, motioned for me to follow Lao Liu, and stood up and walked to the courtyard.

Although I have some doubts in my heart, because we have only met for the first time today, what is there to say? But at this time, I also believed that Lao Liu was capable, so I followed him into the room.

Lao Liu took out something from his closet, something wrapped in an old cloth. He put it on the bed and opened the package, and what came out of it was a book, the pages were yellowed, and there were many spots, which looked very dirty, and it should have been repaired several times, and it was barely enough that there were no loose pages.

The first side is empty, and it's obviously not a cover. He handed it to me, smiled and said to me, "Look through it." "I roughly flipped through it, and it looked like it should be an ancient book, all of which are written with a brush, and there are some pictures, drawing mountains and rivers, charms and the like.

Lao Liu said: "This book was given to you, young man. ”

"Huh?" The first time we met, they gave me an ancient book, which was a bit flattering.

Before I could react to say something, whether I should ask for it, Lao Liu continued: "You have been to school, you have a high level of education, you will not believe in these things, but after tonight, you may believe it," he glanced at me meaningfully: "I can see that you have a different kind of air from ordinary people, you can read this book when you have time, if you still do gold and stone work in the future, maybe when you can use it." ”

I'm a little confused for a while, angry? A different kind of gas? What does it mean? I don't understand.

Lao Liu continued: "I don't know what its original name was, there was a special period back then, when the cover was torn by my master, otherwise it would not have been left today." The things left by the ancestors, but if they can be kept to this day, there must be a reason for it, and you who are engaged in gold and stone must know this reason. At my age, I thought that this craft was going to be lost, and it was fate to meet you today. This book is not difficult to understand, and I can learn it at my cultural level, let alone you. At this time, his eyes revealed relief, this little old man who made me feel a little depressed at the beginning was actually a little cute and respectable.

He said so, and if he didn't take it, it would seem like I wasn't something. I carefully put the book into the original cloth and wrapped it, and I didn't know what to say to Lao Liu, and after thinking for a long time, only two words came out of my mouth: "Thank you." ”

Lao Liu sent me and Teacher Shen out of the house, and Teacher Shen didn't ask much along the way, but just told me to go back and tell those people in the dormitory, don't go to the forest in the north to provoke those foxes, some things are not easy for ordinary people to deal with, there is no need to take this risk.

I listened and agreed, but I calculated in my heart: the big waist must not dare to go through this pass, the thin bamboo pole is originally that courageous, and the mule is not interested in it without experience, and the difference is not big.

When I got back to the dormitory, I told the other three about the night's events and told them to go there later. Sure enough, as I expected, they all said that whoever had nothing to do would go to that place.

I showed them the books that Lao Liu gave me, and they read them one by one, and they were sure that they were ancient books, and they must be a lot of age, saying that I had made a windfall, because we often heard the news that ancient books were sold at sky-high prices in the school, and there were many famous scholars' book clubs that were collecting these ancient books.

But I thought that the books that people passed down to me as if they were passing them on to their apprentices, no matter how expensive they were, couldn't be sold.

Because I had to go to work the next day, I put the book away carefully, so that I couldn't let it break, so I washed and slept.

That night, it may have been too tired for several days, or it may have been resolved, and I slept soundly and got up on time the next day. Finally, I don't have to go to the construction site to be criticized.

The days are still the same as usual, everyone has breakfast, go to the gold and stone construction site to work together, each sweating in one acre and three points of land, the field gold and stone and farming are very similar, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and their practical guys are almost the same.

When it was time to rest, Lao Zhu asked me what was going on that night, and several other migrant workers were also quite lively, so I said, "Ah, it's not a big deal, there is a female student who has low blood sugar in the middle of the night, and we sent her to the town to see a doctor." ”

"Impossible," said a woman next to her, "Yesterday the people at the north end of the village told us that two of your students ran over to play, and the girl fell down with a scream, and her face was as ugly as death." ”

"Hey, why are you talking!" Because I have a good relationship with Da Waist, the detectives are next to each other, and he is working overtime inside, and when he heard this, he stood up and roared.

It was so loud that almost everyone on the site looked over to this side. I said to the woman: "Hey, don't you curse others like this, and it's as serious as you say, don't listen to their nonsense, it's just hypoglycemia, of course your face can't get better, this disease comes and goes quickly, isn't it like it's okay today, you think too much." He motioned for them to disperse.

After all, the big waist is not a child, and he also calmed down, and did not reason with the woman again, after all, it will become very troublesome to get into trouble with the villagers at the construction site. But that's fine, at least the villagers can't be suspicious anymore, and I have a sense of exercising the right of official interpretation.

Time flies quickly, from sunrise to sunset in a blink of an eye, after finishing work, I returned to the dormitory early, took out the ancient books given to me by Lao Liu, and began to read them. I was fascinated by all the things I had never heard before, and I seemed to be relishing.

For a while after that, I spent some time studying the book on my own after dinner. For example, the definition of human beings in this book is roughly like this: human beings are the unity of qi and form, and the death of human beings is the extinction of qi and the extinction of form, and the two are different.

My understanding of the so-called qi may be like the soul in the picture books given by Western missionaries, and the form is the body. There is such a saying in both China and the West, and the unclean thing is what I have seen with my own eyes, does that mean...

At the end of this paragraph, someone wrote a meaningful sentence in neat handwriting: "If people are busy with mundane things and do not cultivate qi, most of the people who die of old age will be qi extinguished, and the popularity of form extinction cannot be retained." I don't know if Lao Liu or his master wrote it or someone else, but if it is explained in this way, it really responds to the sentence "If you believe it, you will have it, and if you don't believe it, you will not have it." ”

In addition to the theory of "qi", there are a lot of things in this book, and there are a lot of feng shui charms and astrological signs, although I don't know how useful it is, but I still read it from beginning to end, and when it is leisure, I basically don't remember much. Besides, there are many kinds of discourses in the world, and it is also interesting to look at the new things of other families, after all, only by learning from the strengths of others and integrating them can we become everyone, although I am unlikely to become that kind of person.

After a few days of stable life, because we were at the construction site where the land had frozen in early April, and we had been busy for a while, we finally arrived at the rest day set by the school. In the afternoon, Mr. Shen specially took me and two "coolies" with Big Waist to the town to buy a lot of vegetables, most of them were meat dishes, and I also bought a few bottles of liquor and a large barrel of rice wine, ready to go back today and enjoy it.

I went back to the kitchen to help out, soon it will be dark, it is time for dinner, today the big table is full of sumptuous dishes, although it is not a mountain delicacies, but every student sees it is a wow. Waiting for everyone to come, everyone started one after another. Girls drink rice wine, boys drink liquor, and boys actually add Mr. Shen to our dormitory.

As the saying goes, after three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, the time to talk and brag has come. But at this time, because the thin bamboo pole was too thin and the amount of alcohol was not good, it had been helped back to rest, but the girl was still energetic. I'm the only one left here in the liquor area, Big Waist and Gang Mule are drinking and bragging with Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen told him over and over again what SX cultural relics he participated in before, QHL gold and stone exploration and other deeds, although there are a lot of exaggerations, but some of the content is genuine.

Suddenly, his eyes rolled, and he no longer talked about those glorious years, but asked us: "Ah, you guys, is it only Sun Art who has a partner?" ”

I heard my senior brothers and sisters say before that the reason why Mr. Shen is "old and not serious" is that there is one thing he likes to do the most, that is, the public is messing around with mandarin duck scores. But the wonderful thing is that he ordered, and there were many of them later, maybe because the circle of Jinshi was originally very small, and once he had the opportunity to understand, coupled with the right time, place and people, he was really not sure. This guy drank a lot today, and sure enough, it's about to start.

At that time, I may have been the only one who knew about this stubble, and the big waist replied first: "Yes, these two bachelors don't know what they're doing day by day, they just don't look for a partner." ”

I said in my heart, brother, you are going to trick people by saying this, and sure enough, Teacher Shen turned his head to the girl's side: "Hey girls, you are quiet!" ”

The girls didn't know what was going on and quickly quieted down, looking over here, Teacher Shen pointed at the two of us: "I have two high-quality single young men here, does anyone think about it?" Look at this Zhou Hua, the person is tall and one meter eight, and he looks okay, and now he can bring it back to his hometown when he talks about the New Year at the end of the year, and your parents absolutely like it when they see it. And this Luo Gang, look, people are honest and honest, it's not easy to find honest and reliable boys these days! If you're interested, come here on a first-come, first-served basis! ”

The girls were almost all happy when they heard it, and some of them pushed each other in this direction. How could someone come over this meeting?

And I only saw that in the crowd, Xiao Fang was not so happy.

Xiao Fang is the person I have always liked, and she knows my intentions, but she has always rejected me. Maybe it's because of this, so now we're a little embarrassed, and she also glanced up at this side, but her eyes quickly retracted after relation.

After a while, Teacher Shen refused to give up and said, "Hey, who is that, Ruomei, you come over and give them a demonstration first." Show them the power of love. Li Ruomei listened, a little shy, but she still got up and walked to the big waist and sat down, and the girls coaxed for a while.

Teacher Shen then said to the girls: "Look at it, you have become a couple this year, I will be laughed at when I go back, then I will say that I am not an old matchmaker." Hurry up, I'll call for names if no one comes! ”