Chapter 24, the strange radish of the locust tree ghost radish

The car drove along the narrow country road, and the breeze gently passed through the car window, mixing with the smell of fragrant grass and fresh earth.

"Two brothers, where are you going to be Hongcun? That's a great place! The driver asked the two people sitting in the back seat.

Chen Jianhong asked with a smile: "Oh, brother, what a good method, can you tell them about it by the way and relieve boredom."

The driver couldn't help but smile: "Little brother, you don't look like locals, I'll tell you a good story, brother." Because of the inconvenience of transportation, this Hong Village was originally a closed village, far away from the pollution of the city, that place can be described as a beautiful mountain and water, where almost all the people are native, self-sufficient, and the folk customs are also very simple. ”

"Isn't this also a paradise?" Chen Jianhong asked

"After the road was built three years ago, some aspiring young people in the village began to move into the city one after another. Just a few days ago, I took an order, pulled two guests from Hong Village, they are a couple, the man was not originally from Hong Village, this time he was with his wife after visiting relatives and preparing to return to the city to continue living, at that time I was also chatting with the two of them like this, the young man was extremely praised for the land of Hong Village, saying that planting a radish can grow about a meter long, half a meter thick! At first I thought he was bragging, but I didn't believe it. But when the young man got to his destination, he insisted that I get out of the car and visit. The moment the trunk opened, I was also directly dumbfounded! Two turnips, about half the size of me, were lying diagonally in the trunk of my car. Anyway, I've never seen such a big radish in my life! ”

In the reflector in front of the car, the driver's expression couldn't help but be stunned at the moment, as if he remembered what he saw that day.

However, Xingyuan, who had been silent just now, smiled and said very normally: "Isn't it just a genetic mutation, there are more plants that are bigger than that, and I just search for pictures on the Internet."

"Little brother, I also know about genetic mutations, and almost all of them can be done in the greenhouse of the Science Park. However, Hongcun is an isolated village, and it has only begun to slowly integrate with the outside world in the past two years, so it is impossible to say this! ”

As he spoke, the car slowly stopped as the driver stepped on the brakes. A large stone on the right side of the front is vigorously engraved with two big red characters, "Hongcun".

"Two little brothers, it's really unfortunate, it's time to have a good time chatting." The driver said with a little embarrassment.

With the sound of the car leaving the accelerator, Xingyuan and Chen Jianhong each lit a cigarette and stepped into the boundary of Hongcun at the same time.

Without taking two steps, Xingyuan asked Chen Jianhong: "Hey, third child, you said that if the soil can grow radishes of the size that the driver's eldest brother said, should it have a lot to do with the feng shui of this place?"

Chen Jianhong spread his hands and said, "Who knows?" I'm not good at feng shui metaphysics, you go ask the second brother about this, he is the real feng shui master! ”

Xingyuan was also helpless, and said slowly, "You've been getting started for more than ten years, don't you know at all?" It's really a piece of rubbish! ”

"Ouch, how do you talk! Your senior brother and my attainments are in the field of talismans, haven't you been learning Feng Shui metaphysics for so long? Could it be that you can tell the truth? ”。

Xingyuan continued angrily: "If Lao Tzu wants to know, I will ask you just now, those books on feng shui that my second brother gave me, Lao Tzu read them for three days, but he didn't understand the slightest reason!" simply let the worship remain on the table and never be opened again. And what kind of formation study really gave Lao Tzu a headache! ”

Hearing this, Chen Jianhong was indeed a little puzzled: "Boss, you have been studying for three days?" Then in the next two months, you went to Sanqingtang every day after eating, I don't believe you can sit there and look at the portrait of the ancestor in a daze? ”

"What a daze, when the second brother is here in the first half of the month, I will still pretend to turn it over. Didn't the eldest brother and the second brother go to Hunan after that? If there is no one to guard me, I will naturally be much freer. When I'm bored, I like to take a nap after lunch, so as soon as I go to Sanqingtang, I can sleep until four o'clock in the afternoon, and when I wake up and read the Tao Te Ching twice, it's almost time for the fourth child to call me to finish eating. ”

As soon as Xingyuan's words fell, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on Chen Jianhong's face, and he exclaimed: "I'll take it, you're too good, don't you, dare to sleep lazily in Sanqing Hall, aren't you afraid that the two ancestors will teach you a lesson?"

"Dream? I often dream of two old men, but they only laugh at me in my dreams, and I don't see them lose any temper. Maybe it's because I'm more well-behaved, and the two ancestors are reluctant to beat me. Xingyuan said with a smug feeling on his face.

Chen Jianhong's instinct at this time was a burst of helplessness, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Ah, God, why did Master and Master Ancestor include such an unreliable guy in the door?"

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Hongcun, as far as the eye can see, in the sky washed clean by the rain, there are a few white clouds, and a large number of houses in the distance. White walls, green tiles, green trees, and a small river surrounds the village. At dusk, the simple old man in the village sits in the shade of a tree and shakes a fan to cool off. From time to time, children run around and play.

In the face of a scene, Xingyuan's heart began to stretch out a trace of trouble, because the supernatural events he had seen had all happened in those very old and dilapidated villages that were not popular. He couldn't help but look at Chen Jianhong beside him and asked: "Third child, you see how harmonious the scene of this village is, I don't look like there are those unclean things entrenched here, Master and his old man can't be mistaken, right?" ”

Chen Jianhong smiled nonchalantly: "Mistaken? Impossible, I tell you, a lot of things can't be patronized on his surface, you have to know that a lot of evil things are hidden under gorgeous appearances! ”

"What do you say? All those weird things are hiding in the shadows, huh? With such a big village, we can't look for it one by one, right? Don't be treated as a thief at that time, let the villagers of other people's whole village chase after us! Xingyuan casually lit a cigarette and looked at Chen Jianhong in front of him angrily.

"Hey..."Chen Jianhong sighed and looked ahead: "Young, I said that you can't use your brain, don't come and scold me if you don't understand, since the master arranged for the two of us to come here, naturally someone will come to answer you." Don't worry, the day before departure, the master told me, don't think about messing around when you come here, first find a person in the village named Hong Shixian, understand the situation and then do things! ”

As soon as Chen Jianhong's words came out, Xingyuan, who had just taken a puff of cigarette into his mouth, was suddenly choked and began to cough non-stop!

Holding his uncomfortable chest, a strange thought rose in Xingyuan's mind: "Hong Shixian! I'll it! I'll have to ask him if he knows Pinru in a moment. ”

After careful questioning of a few children playing with them, the two learned that the Hong Shixian they were looking for was the head of a village in this Hong Village, and his home was in the northeast corner of the village. Led by a child, Xingyuan and Chen Jianhong walked around the village several times before they came to the door of an adobe house.

After Xingyuan sent away the child who led the way, Chen Jianhong came to him and whispered: "Boss, have you noticed it, the villages I have been to in the past are the best repaired by the village chief's house, but after walking for a while just now, I found out why in this village, the village chief's house is so bad, and what age is it now, and he still lives in an adobe house!" ”

"You don't understand the third child, since the new leader of the people came to power, he has paid great attention to being honest and honest. In the past few years, it has been a period of cracking down on corrupt officials, and those who live in the best houses have been arrested! Xingyuan said, and then stepped forward and knocked on the door of the village chief's house.

After waiting for a while, there was a voice from the house: "Who?" The door creaked open from the outside in, and an old figure appeared in the eyes of the two men.

The old man who opened the door looked at the two people in front of him with some surprise and asked, "Who are you two looking for?"

Seeing that it was an old man who opened the door, Xingyuan hurriedly put away his hand on the wall in such a hanging posture, and said with a polite smile: "Hello uncle, I am a friend of Hong Shixian, is he at home?"

Hearing this, the puzzle on the old man's face became even more aggravated, and then he smiled and said, "Young man, are you making fun of me?" , old man, I am a person who has passed the age of sixties, and I have never seen you, how can I have such a young friend? ”

At this time, Xingyuan's heart secretly said that it was not good, looking at the age of the person who opened the door in front of him, he thought that it was also the father of the village chief or his grandfather's generation. I think that ordinary old people don't want to contact strangers when they are older, so they say such things, which is almost. But he didn't expect that the old man in front of him, who had passed the age of sixtieth, was Hong Shixian himself.

"This... This "Xingyuan is extremely embarrassed, and he doesn't know how to answer Hong Shixian

Seeing that his junior brother couldn't get off the stage for a while, he hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand and said: "Mr. Hong, the junior Chen Jianhong, is a disciple of the forty-eighth generation head of Shumen.

Hearing these words, Hong Shixian's eyes were like a clear stream, and they suddenly became shiny, whether they were excited or sad. Hurriedly made a gesture to the house: "You are the apprentices of the old heavenly master of Shu Sangzi, the old man, I have waited for thousands of years, but I have waited for you, please in the house, please in the house!"