I asked her, "Have you been preparing for graduate school recently?" Why is there so much academic pressure? ”

Lu Qing looked tired, leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes: "I have taken a double degree, and this year is a super major, which is really a bit unbearable." If I don't hurry up, this semester's high math may have to hang. ”

I said, "Why are you pushing yourself so hard?" ”

"My dad wants me to graduate early so that I can take over his business when I go back," Lu Qing opened his eyes and looked at me and said, "But now I use machines to make furniture, and those who make pies like my dad may be eliminated at some point." I'm also afraid that I will lose my job in the future, so I took a double degree, anyway, I don't have to press my body with more skills, and it's always good to have multiple paths. ”

I told her: "You are a little worried, although most of the furniture in these years is machine-made, but the best condition, the highest price, is often made by craftsmen like Lao Lu." ”

Lu Qing shook his head and said: "No, in these years, the most important thing to make furniture is not craftsmanship, but design, anyway, what craftsmen can do, machines can make it, and the cost is low, the output is large, the key depends on the designer's taste." ”

I really can't agree with her words, probably because I have been in the industry for a long time, and my thinking has also undergone some changes, and I always feel that the best things in the world still have to rely on the calluses on my hands to polish them.

But I didn't want to argue with Lu Qing about anything, I just asked her: "If you don't inherit Lao Lu's craftsmanship, won't those old craftsmanship be lost?" ”

Hearing me say this, Lu Qing also sighed: "I don't want the old craftsmanship at home to be lost, but the times are like this, and I can't help it." ”

After chatting for a while, Lu Qing seemed to be a little tired, Li Huaishan brought her a bottle of mineral water, asked her to drink some water, and rest first.

After chatting with her for a few words, I found that the yin qi on her body was very unstable, every time she spoke, almost all yin qi spewed out, and what was even more strange was that after these yin qi floated into the air, it was divided into several strands, and actively moved towards the living people in the car, as if conscious.

It was Sun Luyuan who used a little trick to dissolve the yin qi in the car.

When Li Huaishan handed over the water, I glanced at Sun Luyuan's side, and saw Sun Luyuan shaking his head with a heavy face.

Looking at what he meant, the things attached to Lu Qing are indeed very troublesome.

We found a restaurant at the north gate of the school that made local specialties, Li Huaishan and Huang Yuzhong chatted with Lu Qing, and Sun Luyuan and I went to order food in front of the Ming stall.

Business in the store is booming, there are a lot of people, and the staff in charge of ordering food are too busy to ignore me and Sun Luyuan for the time being.

I also happened to take this opportunity to ask Sun Luyuan about some things.

"In your opinion, what is Lu Qing's situation now?" I lowered my voice and leaned in front of Sun Luyuan's face and asked.

Sun Luyuan glanced at Lu Qing, his brows furrowed: "I can't see what the thing on her body is, I just think that thing shouldn't be an ordinary ghost." Hey, don't you think it's strange, why did the people around her get hit, but she herself was fine? ”

I said, "Lu Qing's mother is also a person in the industry, I think she may have prepared some things for Lu Qing to defend herself." ”

Sun Luyuan pursed his lips and nodded: "Then it makes sense." Let's find an opportunity to exorcise evil spirits for the little girl. ”

I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "Lu Qing is not a person in the industry, even if she exorcises evil spirits, she can't do it in front of her." ”

Sun Luyuan closed his eyes: "Don't worry, I'm good at this kind of thing." ”

The waiter finally remembered us and ran over to help us order, and we didn't continue to discuss the matter.

The craftsmanship in the store is good, because it is a cheap shop, the quality of the dishes is average, but the taste is surprisingly good, most of the people here are practicing families, often doing high-intensity exercise, and the amount of food is larger than ordinary people, a table of dishes, it took less than twenty minutes to be eaten clean, Li Huaishan and Huang Yuzhong ran to add vegetables, and Sun Luyuan and I chatted with Lu Qing without a match.

When Lu Qing went to the bathroom before, I found a small detail, when her schoolbag was hanging on the chair, when she got up, her arm rubbed against the schoolbag, at that moment, the yin qi on her body became slightly lighter, because the weakness was very small, and it was not easy to detect, and then when she left the table and walked straight towards the bathroom, the yin qi on her body gradually became stronger as the distance grew.

Sun Luyuan also found the same problem, specifically pointed to Lu Qing's schoolbag, and glanced at me, I shook my head.

I understand what Sun Luyuan meant, he probably wanted to open Lu Qing's schoolbag and see what was inside, but this place was crowded with people and it was not very convenient.

After Lu Qing came back, I kept trying to find an opportunity to ask her what was in her schoolbag, but I never found the entry point.

At this time, she talked about Lao Lu and the craftsmanship handed down from her ancestors, and I was also inspired to ask: "Is the second half of the Book of Luban in your hands?" ”

I remember when I was compiling the first half of the "Book of Luban", I saw a lot of complex runes in the book, and those runes must not have been blessed with telekinesis, but the strange thing is that I can actually sense the spiritual rhyme from above, although it is very faint, but after all, there are still them.

These runes don't seem to need to be cultivated to urge, and they are often drawn by human hands, and they can also play a certain role.

It is rumored that the first half of the "Book of Luban" talks about immortal and poisonous arts, and in the second half of the volume, the corresponding method of cracking is recorded.

Now I suspect that the book is in Lu Qing's schoolbag, maybe it is the rune drawn on the book, blocking some of the yin qi for her.

Unexpectedly, the question I asked made Lu Qing become vigilant, she looked at me silently, and there was a little more nervousness between her eyebrows.

I said to her: "I heard Lao Lu say before, most of your family's craftsmanship comes from the second volume of "Luban Book", but there are a lot of Taoist things in the book, he can't understand it, and he only learned the carpentry skills in it. ”

Hearing me say this, Lu Qing eased up a little, she hesitated a little, and then leaned towards me slightly, and asked me in a low voice: "Do you believe that there are immortals in this world?" You tell you, my mother may be a fairy. ”

I was stunned for a moment, but then I guessed what was going on, this must have been when the proprietress cast a spell one day, and was accidentally seen by Lu Qing.

At that time, I was still thinking about how to explain to Lu Qing, but I didn't expect Sun Luyuan to speak one step ahead of me: "Your mother is not an immortal, she is a person in the cultivation circle." Let's put it this way, she is a person with cultivation, and she can do Taoism or something. I guess when she was performing the spell, you bumped into her, right? ”

Lu Qing's chick nodded violently as if pecking rice.

I couldn't help frowning at Sun Luyuan: "Is this good?" ”

Sun Luyuan had an indifferent expression: "Anyway, she saw it, if we don't tell her the truth, she may go astray." I've seen examples like this before. ”

Then Sun Luyuan said to Lu Qing again: "Actually, Ruofei and I, as well as Li Huaishan and Huang Yuzhong, are all people in the cultivation circle, and we are still the same as your mother." However, this kind of thing is not so mysterious, no matter how much you cultivate, you still have to eat, you should sleep or sleep, and there is no difference from ordinary people. ”

Lu Qing said very seriously: "People like you, can you see ghosts?" I felt like my mom could see it. ”

Sun Luyuan smiled and waved his hand: "How can there be ghosts in this world, you think too much." ”

But Lu Qing said that during the Chinese New Year last year, she saw the proprietress exorcise ghosts, when the proprietress took out a spirit rune from her pocket and threw it forward, the spirit rune flew into the air, as if it had hit something, and it was erected all of a sudden, and then it caught fire out of thin air, during which the proprietress pointed to the fire and scolded, saying things like "the evil spirit retreats", scolding and scolding, the spirit rune fell to the ground, and the fire on it was extinguished.

Lu Qing felt that the thing that was pasted by the spirit rune at that time was a ghost.

Sun Luyuan told her that there are three reasons for this phenomenon. First, the material of the upper part of the rune paper is different from the lower half, the upper half may be relatively thin metal, and the lower half is ordinary straw paper. Second, the rune paper was smeared with sodium powder. Thirdly, at the point where the rune paper began to burn, the moisture was very heavy, and it should have been that the proprietress had sprayed a lot of water vapor there beforehand.

The sodium powder reacts with water vapor and ignites the straw paper, and the rising heat causes the movement trajectory of the rune paper to be abnormal, and the lower part of the rune paper burns out together with the hydrogen gas, and the upper part will naturally extinguish because it cannot be burned, and the rising heat will also disappear, so the rune paper will fall down.

Sun Luyuan also said that this is a common method used by people in the cultivation circle, not to deceive people, but to carry out some specific rituals, and these things that the proprietress did at the beginning were not to exorcise ghosts, but to pray for the blessing of the family at the beginning of the new year. In addition, a true cultivator would not show these things in front of ordinary people, but whoever showed them would be charlatans who relied on the trick to make money.

Don't say it, Lu Qing really believed Sun Luyuan's words, nodded constantly, and said that if you think about it now, this is indeed the case.

I looked at Sun Luyuan's expression of a chicken thief, and couldn't help muttering in my heart: "This guy can really fool, just this mouth, the dead can say that they are alive." ”

It wasn't until Sun Luyuan finished breaking up that I found a chance to interject: "Can you lend me the Book of Luban?" ”

Lu Qing became hesitant again, and didn't give me an answer for a long time.

I said to her, "I don't mean anything else, in fact, I have the first half of the Luban Book in my hand, but there are some things in it that need to be combined with the second half to understand." I guess some of the content in the second half of the volume should also be read in conjunction with the first half of the volume, right? If you're interested, we can look at it instead. ”

Before Lu Qing could speak, Sun Luyuan stared at me first, and this thing stared at me with a frightened face, and howled on the spot: ", you still have the "Luban Book" in your hand? Or the first half of the volume? ”

I smiled at him: "The half-volume of the "Book of Luban" in my hand is the original that has not been tampered with. ”