Text Chapter 19: The White Mountain Family
Tossing and turning in the town of Pear Tree
The weird little building meets the seniors
Yu Laosi drove this classic car older than his grandfather, and took the three of us to run for nearly an hour, during which Zhang Chengyong and I each vomited six times, and I really vomited out the bile later, watching the dark green bile slowly flowing down from the corners of my mouth, and the bitter taste in my mouth, I really scolded the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of this guy in my heart.
After more than an hour, this painful journey finally came to an end. Yu Laosi drove this tractor-like Santana 2000 and pulled us to a small town at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
This place is called Lishu Town, it is a township under Jingyu County, the town is not big, all add up to the appearance of hundreds of households, although it belongs to the foot of Changbai Mountain, but the development of tourism is not good, the local residents still began to rely on farming, many of the houses in it still maintain the appearance of the eighties and nineties of the last century, and some places also use red paint to paint "want to get rich, have fewer children, and raise pigs!" ”。 The economic development of this town is not good, there is no oil road, the only road is a dirt road in the center of the town, our car drove by a puff of smoke, provoking the merchants on both sides of the road kept running out while hurriedly putting away the agricultural crops, while cursing loudly, "Who the is driving this car?" Such a lack of morality! Won't it be slower? I've got you to dirt all the dried radishes I dried! However, unlike the swearing of the women, our presence caused the children to cheer, and it seemed that there were very few outsiders in this place, and there were few cars, so when we drove through the central dirt road, we were followed by many children, who chased and shouted, "Dog rides rabbit, jump!" Three-wheeled motorcycles are coming! Dogs ride rabbits, chase chase! Wang Ba with a shell loves whom! ”
"Whose bear child is this? Grandma's! Lao Tzu, this is Santana, Santana 2000 is good! Not a fucking tractor! No...... Tractor ......" Hearing the children's rhymes singing while running, Yu Lao Si rolled down the window and scolded.
And as I listened to the children's singing, my mood seemed to improve a lot.
After entering Lishu Town, we drove for about ten minutes before finally stopping at a homestay called Baishan Family. This place is said to be a homestay, in fact, it is an ordinary country house, a small courtyard, the east and west sides are equipped with rooms, it seems that the east side should be the kitchen, and the west side is a place to pile up sundries. In the middle is a small white second floor, which looks quite new, and it is estimated that it has only been built in recent years. However, what strikes me as strange is that all the buildings in this B&B are backlit, and the windows are all open to the north, which makes the feel and style of this building very uncomfortable to look at.
"Phew!" After Yu Laosi got out of the car, he spat a few mouthfuls vigorously, and after clearing the sand in his mouth, he smiled and said to us: "A few masters, we have arrived at the ground!" As he spoke, he pointed to the Baishan family, "This is it." ”
"The people of Baishan!" I glanced at the sign, then said slowly.
"That's right! It's the people of Baishan! Hearing my words, Yu Laosi came over with a smile and said attentively: "Miss Huang Si has instructed you that you may want to enter the mountain, so I specially found this Baishan family as your foothold......
Because the garlic taste in Yu Laosi's mouth was too strong, and he smoked a lot of cigarettes along the way, the taste in his mouth was more aggressive at this time, and my stomach couldn't help but start turning over again, I hurriedly pushed him away and said, "Thank you!" Thank you for your kindness! ”
"Hahahaha! You're welcome! That's not what I'm supposed to do! This Yu Lao Si didn't seem to see what I meant by pushing him away, so he still tried his best to make do, "Actually, I let you live here for another purpose!" Do you know what it is? This Yu Lao Si also sold Guan Zi as he spoke.
"For what purpose?" I stretched out my hand to stop him from continuing his trend, and then, after a hard breath of fresh air, I spoke slowly.
"Do you know who the owner of this White Mountain family is?" Yu Lao Si pretended to be mysterious and said.
"Who?" I asked. At the same time, Zhang Chengyong and I had already unloaded the equipment from the car. And Zhang Chengyong, this kid, didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, when he closed the trunk again, he used a little strength in his hand, and he listened to a chain sound of "bang", "click" and "bang", the trunk was closed, but the rear bumper was dropped by him.
Seeing the bumper that fell to the ground, Zhang Chengyong looked at me with an embarrassed expression, then looked at Yu Laosi, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, big brother!" I really didn't mean to! What do you think about it? How much should I pay you? ”
"It's okay! It's okay! It's all trivial, it's all brothers, let's not mention money, that hurts feelings, isn't it? Yu Laosi looked at the bumper on the ground, and then waved his hand at Zhang Chengyong and said.
"You really don't have to pay?" Zhang Chengyong asked with a wink.
"Not really! Do you think your brother and I are like touching porcelain? What do you think of your brother and me, really! Yu Lao Si said. We're not done yet! Do you know who the owner of this shop used to be? ”
"Who?" I looked at him and asked.
"Let me tell you, the owner of this shop is surnamed Bai, his name is Bai Zixiong, according to the older generation, then he used to mix eight lines, and ......" Yu Laosi said and smiled.
"And what?" Zhang Chengyong leaned over and asked.
"And that's also a pretty powerful Tufuzi!" Yu Laosi's eyes lit up and said. It felt as if he was sharing a big secret with us.
"Oh? The boss here is actually a native master? I asked, surprised.
"That's right! It is said that he was an authentic Tufuzi, and he had poured several tombs back then, but later I heard that he was broken in a manhole in Changbai Mountain and was seriously injured. Yu Laosi shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, with a look of regret, "Hey! The hero has lost the courage of the year, and when I came to this room last night, I saw this Bai Zixiong, and now it seems that he is an ordinary old man, not at all like the one in the legend. ”
"It's not just ordinary, it's useless!" Just when the fourth child finished speaking, a white and chubby old man came out of the house, he was laughing when he spoke, but the smile was very strange, he was not walking fast, but the movements were very strange. He smiled strangely, because only the right half of his face was moving, and the other side of his face was completely expressionless. He walked strangely because his left leg was lame, and it was so lame that his entire left leg could not bend at all, but he tried to make himself walk naturally, obviously unwilling to let people see that there was something wrong with his leg. "Masters, I've been waiting for you for a long time. My Baishan family is the best hotel in these ten miles and eight townships. Although it looks simple, it is definitely no worse than a five-star hotel here! As he spoke, he was about to reach out and take the luggage in our hands, but was stopped by Zhang Chengyong.
"Old man, we'll do it ourselves!" Zhang Chengyong said with a smile.
"Okay! Okay! Look at me, there are no rules in this small place, don't be surprised! With that, he let us into the second floor.
Since the direction of the whole building is facing the north, and it is now more than four o'clock in the afternoon, the light in the room at this time is extremely poor, and the three of us can barely see the furnishings after getting used to it for a while after entering the house. There are a total of four rooms on the first floor, respectively on the left and right sides, and the decoration style inside is basically the same, all of them are a clay kang, two chairs, an old-fashioned 29-inch picture tube TV, a coffee table, a thermos, two teacups, an old-fashioned mural, and nothing else. In the middle is a staircase leading to the second floor, although I didn't go up to the second floor, but it seems that the decoration of the upstairs should not be too different from here. Although there is no decoration style here, the overall feeling is very clean.
"I said old whitehead, you said that your house is so dark, why don't you turn on the light?" After Yu Lao Si entered the house, he said with a look of wealth.
"Hahaha! This is what the fourth master said! Usually I'm alone! If you can save some electricity, you can save some electricity! Hahaha! I'm going to drive it! This Bai Zixiong replied with a flattering look.
Seeing his appearance, Zhang Chengyong and I couldn't help but glance at each other, and Zhang Chengyong whispered to me: "Sometimes rumors can't be believed!" ”
"Not necessarily!" I said.
"How so?" Zhang Chengyong looked at me curiously and said.
"Look at that picture somewhere!" I said, gesturing to the fresco hanging on the wall of the room closest to us on the left.
"What's wrong with that painting?" Zhang Chengyong listened to me, and walked over with curiosity. He looked carefully for a long time, and found that this painting depicted a scene of Taoist priests cultivating immortals and refining pills, only to see a Taoist priest in green clothes standing on the edge of the cliff with a whisk in his hand, his hands to the sky as if praying for something, and in front of him was a hundred-foot torrent waterfall, and behind him was an incense burner with billowing white smoke. The content of the painting is very simple, the painting technique is relatively simple, and the colors are not bright, although it is framed in an old-fashioned mahogany frame, but it feels extremely unnatural.
"This painting is not a modern object!" I said word by word.
"Not a modern object? What does that mean? Zhang Chengyong scratched his head and said.
"You idiot, don't you understand what I mean? I mean, this painting is an artifact! Judging from its painting technique, use of pigments and content, it should be an object from the Two Jin Dynasty or earlier. If this painting is put on the market for sale, the price must be at least 7 figures, do you think the owner who can just hang an object that fetches a sky-high price in a guest's house will be an ordinary person? And I just looked at it, not only in this room, but also in the four rooms downstairs, there will be one or two underworld artifacts in each room, and the value will not be less than one million, and now you still think he is an ordinary person? ”
"I'm stupid enough to know what this old boy does." Zhang Chengyong said.
At this time, the lights in the whole room suddenly turned on, and at the moment when the lights were turned on, the old man named Bai Zixiong suddenly appeared ghostly beside me.