Eating breakfast seemed to be a very happy thing for Yu Liyan, and while he shouted "eat and eat", he pushed me behind and told me to go quickly.

Until I entered the ghost skewers, I still felt as if I had forgotten something, but for a while I couldn't say what I had forgotten.

I turned into the depths of the alley in such a daze, and was pushed by Yu Liyan into an east-west path.

In Ghost Strings, most of the alleys are simply paved with blue bricks and red bricks, but the pavement and the walls on both sides of this road are built with stones with irregular shapes. In the gaps between the stones, there are many small red flowers that cannot be named, and the smell that emanates from the flowers is the unique fragrance of jasmine.

"At the end of the day, it's my house." Yu Liyan said to me with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of the third master came from the stone wall on the right hand: "Is it Liyan, if it weren't for you?" ”

The third master actually lives on this road.

He stood on tiptoe and shouted to the wall, "If it weren't right next to me." Well, I'll take Ruofei to breakfast first, and I'll bring him to report in the afternoon. ”

Unexpectedly, the third master poked his head out of the wall, and he raised his chin at me: "Come and eat with me, your third grandmother made embroidered steamed buns." ”

Qi Liyan suddenly smiled: "That's a good dare, I've been hungry for this for a long time......"

The third master interrupted him: "Don't come over to make peace, I don't want to see you." ”

After speaking, the third master's head shrank back, and he clearly said that he didn't want to see Yu Liyan, but he still entered the door of the third master's house in vain.

When I entered the door, I found that the courtyard door of the third master's house was only half a threshold, but there was no door panel, and there was a small wooden sign hanging in the corner between the door frame and the wall skin, on which four words were written: "Idlers are not allowed to enter." ”

I pointed to the bare door frame and asked, "Why don't you have a door panel?" ”

Yu Liyan said "hi" and said, "Don't I say it, every door of our old man's house is managed by the little devil and his group." However, in the family motto of our old family, it is said that 'one opens and one closes' is called the door, and the third master unloaded his own door panel, and this door is only open and not closed, so naturally it will not belong to the little demon king. ”

I said, "Aren't there a lot of people who do that?" ”

"How can it," Qi Liyan sighed: "In our old family, there are only a few people who dare to openly argue with the little demon king, and if the others break the door, the little demon king will have to make people's lives worse than death." ”

"What life is better than death, just say something inconsequential," the third master wiped his hands with a towel and came to our side: "The reason why the little devil is ruthless is also for a reason, don't buckle people's hats indiscriminately." If not, come, you can come with me to the study. ”

He leaned over and asked, "What about me?" ”

The third master glanced at him: "Help your aunt work!" ”

I ran towards a small house at the west end of the courtyard, and the third master led me into the main house facing south.

Compared with the second master's house, the house where the third master lives is much more spacious, with an area of forty or fifty square meters in a single living room, and two large windows on the south and north walls, making the whole house look extremely transparent.

But I don't really like this kind of house, and I always feel that being in a place like this is a place where my heart is not in decline.

Fortunately, after entering the third master's study, the bronzes and antique calligraphy and paintings piled up on the ground made the space very crowded, and also made me feel a lot more at ease.

The third master grabbed a very thick book from the writing desk and said to me, "I think the second brother means that he is planning to hand over the thrift store to you to take care of." Do you know what thrift is? ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "That's it...... It's been used for a long time, and it looks rather shabby. ”

The third master frowned, and asked me again: "Then do you know what an antique is?" ”

I said, "Antiques, I guess they are things that were used by ancient people." ”

Third Master: "How many years ago can things be regarded as antiques, how many years ago can things be regarded as old goods, and how many years ago can things be counted as 'old objects'?" ”

I said, "I originally heard Boss Lu say that things before the Republic of China can be regarded as antiques." Old-fashioned goods, anyway, the old things are considered old goods. Aren't antiques and old goods old things? ”

The third master turned around and picked up an old-looking brush from the desk: "Tell me, is this thing an old thing?" ”

I nodded.

The third master said to me again: "Although this brush looks old, it can be four or five months from the time it left the factory to the present. Now I ask you, does it seem to you to be an 'old object'? ”

I scratched my head: "Don't count. ”

The third master threw the brush aside and smiled at me: "Our old man's thrift store is a business of collecting and selling old goods on the surface, but in fact, we are actually doing the business of 'old objects', most of the time we only collect but not sell, and even sometimes, we spend a lot of money to retrieve an old object from the people, but in the end we want to destroy it." But since it is a business, the ultimate goal is to make money, even if you can't make too much money, at least you must make ends meet, and there will be no deficit on the books. ”

His words made me very puzzled: "Since you only collect and don't sell, what can you do to make money?" ”

The third master opened the thick book in his hand and said to me: "Actually, I don't understand why the second brother handed over the huge thrift store to you as a fledgling boy. The water of this business is very deep and muddy, once you step in, you don't have the ability of the second brother, and whether you can protect yourself or not is two words. ”

He didn't answer my question directly, but I didn't interject, I have been in contact with the third master for so long, and I have a general understanding of his personality, and when he speaks, I hate to be interrupted by other people, of course, the second master is a special case.

After a while, the third master said to me again: "You remember, anything that has a service life of more than three years is, in our opinion, old goods. But only something from 50 years ago can be called an 'old object'. This book you hold. ”

I took the book, roughly turned a few pages, and found that the style of the whole book is very different, the beginning is basically the whole ancient text, but the more you turn back, the closer the style is to the vernacular, and the paper before and after the whole book is not the same, the first half of the paper is yellow and rough, and the color of the paper is lighter and the better the quality of the paper is at the back.

The third master said to me: "This "Strange Things" was first written by Guiguzi, and it flowed into the family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. ”

I closed the book and said to the third master: "Isn't Guiguzi a person from the Warring States Period, in that era, there didn't seem to be such a thing as 'paper', right?" ”

The third master suddenly smiled: "It seems that you don't know anything, at least you still know what period Guiguzi is." The book "Strange Things" in your hand was organized in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and the bamboo slips that were first used to write this book are still stored in thrift stores. Okay, I won't say much nonsense, from today onwards, while you follow me to practice magic, you also have to eat this "Strange Things" thoroughly, after the second master comes back, he will take the test for you. ”

I flipped the thick book in my hand: "Eat thoroughly? What do you mean? ”

The third master took a deep breath and said to me word by word: "You can understand that it is repeated throughout the text. ”

"Retelling?" My eyes widened: "Third master, are you kidding me?" This book has a million words to say the least, it's not a novel, there's no plot, it's nothing, how do you let me remember it? Hey, if you look at the previous content, it's all ancient texts, it's called an obscure one, it's good if I can understand the meaning, it's impossible to remember it! ”

The third master smiled at me: "I don't care about this, anyway, as long as I hand over the book to you, I'm done." As for how much you can remember, and whether you can pass the second brother's entrance examination, it has nothing to do with me. During this month, I have only one task, and that is to train you to become a master of magic. ”

Speaking of this, he was also worried: "Alas, there is only one month, to train you to become a master in such a short period of time, it is estimated that you will have to take medicine again, the second brother will really toss people!" ”

I said: "But the second master obviously told me repeatedly, such a thing as cultivating magic, you can't rush for quick success, you can only do it step by step, and what else do you say, using a lot of medicine to help you run is not the right way." ”

The third master rolled his eyes: "He said this kind of thing, just listen to it, don't take it seriously, I think when he was cultivating magic, he used herbs to induce mental power." But this is also a helpless thing, our old family, we have been planted with evil qi since childhood, and the Qi field on our body is unbalanced, and it is almost impossible to condense the first mental power in my life by relying on my own strength, so I can only rely on medicine to urge. ”

Speaking of this, the third master paused, and after a short while, he asked me again: "Do you know the five buckets of rice?" ”

At this time, his thinking jumped too much, and I didn't keep up with the rhythm for a while, and after being stunned for a long time, I shook my head: "I haven't heard of it." ”

The third master sighed again: "You kid, why don't you know anything?" ”

I said, "No one taught me these things before, so it's normal that I don't know much, right?" ”

The third master waved his hand: "Forget it, I won't fight with you." You listen to me, I'll just say it once, Zhang Daoling at the beginning of the establishment of Taoism, Taoism, also known as 'five buckets of rice teaching', because at that time, Zhang Daoling once set a rule, whoever joins the religion, must first pay tribute to five buckets of rice, to purify the three roots of heaven, earth and people, Qi Yin and Yang. After Zhang Daoling's feathering, this earliest orthodox Taoist sect was usurped by a man named Zhang Xiu, and later Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu and recaptured the Wudoumi Sect. Zhang Lu: Do you know? ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "He's a character in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?" ”

"What Romance of the Three Kingdoms," the third master gave me a very helpless look: "That's a novel!" However, Zhang Lu is indeed a figure in the Three Kingdoms period, he is the grandson of Zhang Daoling, and he was also the prince of Hanzhong back then. In that era, our old family was precisely serving Cao Wei, and it was precisely because of such an opportunity that the inheritance of Wudou Rice Road was able to flow smoothly into our family. Therefore, this set of spells practiced by the old family was developed and created by Zhang Daoling himself, and this pulse spell inheritance can be regarded as the earliest magic inheritance system in Taoism. ”