"It's coming!" I screamed in annoyance, turned over and opened the door, glared out fiercely, and suddenly an object slammed on my forehead because of habitual 'sex'. --

"I'm sorry!" Shen Xue's nervous voice immediately came into her ears.

I 'rubbed' the area where I had been hit, staring at her with an angry, murderous gaze.

"People...... Everyone apologized to you! She lowered her head and said shyly, not knowing where the current situation required her to be shy.

I still stared at her and chirped, "If an apology can solve the problem, there will be no need for the law!" I'm going to accuse you! ”

"You! So what do you want? ”

"I want to, hum...... "It's so good to die, just when I was about to teach this little girl a good lesson and take advantage of it by the way, Shen Ke's guy ran over.

"Xiao Ye, the old ancestor wants to see us!" His rough, very national 'color' voice poured into my ears from afar, causing me to almost kick it over.

After washing, I was caught by Shen Xue again and forced me to comb my 'messy' hair.

When I saw her hand raised high and was about to come down as soon as the comb came down, the scene in front of the mirror from last night rushed into my mind again, and I was cold and abruptly dodged away.

"What?" Shen Xue looked at her hand with a suspicious face, I pushed her away, shook her head desperately and said: "Today, this handsome guy doesn't want to comb his hair, in short, he can't go anywhere!" ”

I looked in the mirror and 'stroked' my hair with my hand a few times, not caring about her protests, and flew away. Free txt eBook

and Shen Ke trotted wordlessly all the way to the courtyard of the ancestor. The old fox was sitting in the living room, and on the table opposite him, there was a black purple statue more than a meter long.

"Coming? Haha, please sit down and talk. "The old ancestor stared at me with a smile, and next to the old man's collapsed mouth, two terrifying dimples were actually 'exposed'. My mom, I knew it wasn't a good errand at first glance.

"The old ancestor called us, is there anything wrong?" I worded carefully.

The old ancestor still laughed non-stop, and the more he laughed, the more 'insidious' he became, and my heart was chilled when I saw it.

"Little baby." He said slowly: "Don't be busy yet, you can see what this thing is carved." The Old Ancestor pointed to the sculpture on the table.

Our eyes immediately drifted over. When I entered the house just now, I couldn't see it clearly because of the distance, but now I realize that the thing is not ordinarily big.

It is about 1.5 meters in diameter and nearly 1 meter in height, and is carved out of wood. Because of the color, I couldn't tell what the wood was for a while.

The wood was carved in the shape of a wild beast, with horns and a lion's head, covered with scales.

Shen Ke glanced at it a few times, and immediately shouted: "Isn't this a Qilin?" Ancestor, why are you testing us with something that this two-year-old child knows? ”

My heart moved, and I smiled noncommittally: "Xiaoke, this is not a unicorn. ”

"Isn't it?" Shen Ke's eyes widened suddenly: "You actually open your eyes and talk nonsense, isn't this thing a unicorn?" The previous 'door' god of my family was a unicorn, and I could see it every day when I went out of the 'door' and entered the 'door', how could I be mistaken! ”

"That can only prove that you are really very white...... I suddenly realized that in front of the ancestor of the Shen family, I should still save some face for this guy, coughed a few times, and said indifferently: "This is Jiao!" It's definitely not the place you said you stepped on, and it will bring good luck to that place, in fact, many people confuse them with 'messing' and 'messing'. ”

I stretched out my hand and pointed to the bottom of the wood plastic and said, "The appearance of the unicorn and the Jiao is indeed very similar, the only difference is only in the feet." The feet of the unicorn are the hooves of the ox, while the feet of the demon beast Jiao are the claws. I turned my head and glared at Shen Ke and said, "If someone really sends Jiao to your house as a 'door' god, that guy must have an enmity with you!" ”

The kid looked at the Tianhua board in embarrassment, and watched it with relish, as if a very eye-catching tertiary film was being played above.

I ignored him, looked at the Jiao Eagle carefully, and even scratched the base with my fingernails, adding: "This wood should be red sourwood, and look at its workmanship...... Well, probably the early Qing Dynasty. ”

"How so?" The old ancestor 'touched' the 'flower' white beard on his chin, and his eyes were full of unknown looks.

Shen Ke pretended not to care, but he didn't care and even leaned over his ears, and the four big words "I'm curious" were almost written on his face.

I pointed to Jiao's eyes and said, "In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the eyes of Rui beasts and animals were inlaid with gems and glass, but the eyes of this wood carving were carved into a circle, and only simple lines were used to divide the levels, which is obviously an early work of the Qing Dynasty." ”

"Good! I really didn't misread Brother Night. Sun Luyao suddenly clapped his hands and walked out of the inner hall.

He smiled at me, ignoring my sinking face. This handsome and disgusting guy who was disgusting and inexplicably hostile said something to my own delight that made me stunned at once.

"Since you can see that this wood carving is a Jiao and not a unicorn, then you have found that no, in fact, the bronze statues placed in each courtyard of the Shen family may not be lions and may not necessarily be ......."

I froze, then screamed and rushed out.

I remember someone said that what you can see right under your nose, every moment and every second of every day, is not necessarily familiar to you. Your brain will be self-righteous and automatically identify those things as something, but the truth is often far from what you see.

For example, if you live in a house where you go up and down the stairs at least once a day, and go through the stairs that you are familiar with at least twice, then you have to go through 730 times a year, and twice more every four years, so that after 10 or 20 years, you will know everything about this staircase.

But how many people clearly remember how many stairs they know and are familiar with?

In the courtyard, it is indeed not a bronze lion.

I looked carefully from top to bottom, and the more I looked at it, the colder it became, and I couldn't help but shiver.

Shen Ke unceremoniously slapped me on the shoulder and asked in a rough voice, "Xiao Ye, is there really something wrong with these statues?" ”

I nodded heavily, smiled bitterly, and said in a dry voice: "The bronze statue that was originally placed in the courtyard really has something else. This thing, it's a year beast! ”

"Year Beast?"

He exclaimed in surprise, "What's that?" Although my feelings were very complicated, I still had the rare patience to explain: "The origin of the Nian monster must be counted from the late Qin Dynasty at the earliest. It is said that he usually hides in the mountains to hunt for beasts, but in winter, when the food in the mountains becomes scarce, the monsters will run out of the mountains, break into the villages, snatch food, and hurt people and animals, so every winter, every village will be terrified. Old Ancestor and Sun Luyao also walked out and listened carefully.