At the dinner table, Chen Qiuyan kept holding dishes for me, but he didn't eat a bite, probably full.

Chang Longxiang and Qibao didn't care about us showing affection, they took care of their own fists, and scolded twice from time to time, saying that the other party was shameless, and the punches were fucking old.

To tell the truth, if someone says that Chang Longxiang is playing cards and mahjong with others, no one will believe this kind of thing.

Because it's impossible for him to do this kind of thing, even if he loses, he loses calmly, and this dog day is very tough.

As for Shippo...... Drawing a fist out of the old thousand is already a small meaning, Chang Longxiang is still too shallow, if he has seen Qibao play mahjong with his parents and out of the old thousand, almost chopped off by his mother, then it is interesting.

"The change in this rope is bigger than I thought."

After the old man finished studying the prison rope, he casually put it on the table and chatted with me: "Yin Qi is not heavy, but that kind of dark and damp thing is similar to Yin Qi...... It seems to have condensed into substance and is flowing inside the rope. ”

"Has the power of the Great Prison Rope increased?" I ate the dish and asked curiously.

The old man frowned, and said that he was not sure about this, because the current prison rope has been out of the category of magic weapons, and it is more like an evil weapon operated by Mr. Evil Sect.

"Anyway, I don't feel like it's going to get any weaker, it's just going to get stronger." The old man smiled: "If you have the chance, you can try it and see if my guess is right." ”

I hummed, and ate the food in the bowl, when I suddenly thought of what the old man had mentioned earlier.

There are many gentlemen who are hidden in the urban area of Chengdu, and the reason why they came to Chengdu at this juncture is nothing more than to observe the movements of the Shen family.

This group of people is either the enemies of the Shen family, or the people who want to step on the Shen family.

The old man of the Shen family was deprived of his legs, and under the serious injury, he had long lost his prestige, and as for the only seedling of the Shen family, he went to Hainan to take revenge.

It can be said that the Shen family some time ago is definitely the least threatening Shen family.

But if you say that, it's not right, because the Shen family has just lost its threat, and there is still a lot of danger, if you want to come to the Shen family to clean up the old man, you have to go through the two levels of Miao Wuren and Wang Yuanqing.

When some stunned young people were cleaned up by the two of them, most of them fell silent, hiding in the shadows, silently observing all this.......

They are all waiting for an opportunity, but unfortunately my return means that some opportunities are completely gone.

But they are still in Chengdu, and there is only one possibility.

"These gentlemen don't have to be our enemies." I put down my chopsticks, picked up a tissue and wiped my mouth, looked at the old man very seriously and said, "As long as we control it well, they will become the help of our Shen family." ”

The old man picked up the squirrel, stroked its head gently, smiled and said, "Are you sure we need these wall grasses?" ”

"No, but I don't want them to become our family's mortal enemies." I sighed: "Our Shen family has always been a lone ranger, and there are certain supporters in the industry, but you are more repulsive to them, even if some people regard you as the leader of the helm, you don't take them seriously." ”

"Farts don't pay attention to them, Lao Tzu has always attached great importance to them." The old man said helplessly: "I'm also dealing with people, but I don't like this set very much, so it's unprofessional." ”

"Master, the Shen family has been standing in Chengdu for so many years, have they ever fallen?" I asked.

The old man thought about it and said, "It's really not."

Although I have encountered the crisis of almost killing the whole family before, in the end, the evil turned into good fortune and the disaster became auspicious.

"The hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen, our Shen family is not only a hundred-legged, it has survived for so many years, smart people will naturally understand, it is indeed too difficult to want our Shen family to fall." I smiled and said, "Instead of turning those people away, it's better to welcome them in and show the demeanor of our Shen family, not to say that we want to co-opt them, the main thing is ......."

Speaking of this, I squeezed my eyebrows at the old man: "You know. ”

"Okay, what do you want, then you can do it, anyway, the current Shen family is up to you, I'll just watch the excitement, don't ask me anything else." The old man laughed.

I nodded, beckoned Shippo and them to help, and cleaned up the leftovers on the table.

"Someone should come in a while, Qiu Yan, you go to the kettle of water, prepare to make tea, Qibao and the fat man will ......" I paused here when I said this, looked at the old man, and then looked at the two of them: "You can act as bodyguards, stand with Xiaopang, next to the old man, so it looks more majestic." ”

"Why don't I get you another tiger skin?" Qibao asked me tentatively: "Let Master Shen sit on the tiger skin, someone enters the door, let's just say, the king of heaven covers the tiger, I will take a step forward with a pig-killing knife, and I will definitely scare the dog half to death." ”

"Can we come up with some ideas?" I looked at him helplessly.

Qibao glared: "Why am I not a human idea??" Are you discriminating against me on a dog's day?? ”

I smiled and waved my hand, ignored the animal, and went back to the house to take the lantern out from under the bed.

On the night of entering the industry, this lantern was lit up, and it was hung outside the gate by my own hands, which was regarded as greeting the people in the industry, and the people of the Shen family were not dead, and new seedlings were emerging, so this lamp should be lit......

When I returned to the living room with the lantern, the food on the table had been cleaned up, and the old man was sitting on the Taishi chair, looking at the lantern in my hand with a very complicated expression.

"If the situation is stable in the future, don't take off this lantern, just hang it all the time."

The old man laughed, and his eyes were full of nostalgia.

This red lantern is still the same.

The lampshade resembles leather, the pores can be seen, and the patterns outlined in black ink are all over it, and the blank position in the middle is written with a big "Shen" character.

Underneath the lantern, the eighteen bronze bell statues hanging are still so expressive.

Each bronze bell is a statue of a human head, with men, women and children, all different.

The only thing they have in common is that the statues have painful expressions, as if they are undergoing great torture, their eyes wide, their mouths wide open, and they are silently crying out for help......

"What kind of lantern is this?" Qibao leaned over and looked at it curiously, then frowned and asked me, "Why do you look so evil?" Is this a ritual weapon or what? ”

"Eighteen Bells of Ghost Skin Lanterns........" The old man said: "This is the signboard of the Shen family, and it is also a token of the Shen family's order to descend to the sect." ”

Qibao nodded as if he didn't understand, and didn't ask any more.

"What's a ghost skin?" Chang Longxiang asked curiously: "Is it the skin of injustice?" ”

"Actually, it's human skin, but it's not taken from a living person." The old man waved his hand: "Mi'er, you go and hang the lantern, it's not early, finish it early and rest early." ”

"Grandpa Shen, you said that this is a token of the order to descend the disciples...... What about the others? Chen Qiuyan suddenly asked, "Do other gentlemen from the Dharma sect also recognize this thing?" ”

"Those who can recognize them are not ordinary gentlemen, and those who can't be recognized are uninformed cubs, so it's useless to let them come over, so let's screen some people and get out." The old man said with a smile: "Hanging lanterns at this juncture, smart people know what we mean, regardless of whether they are the children of the descending door, as long as they are willing to come, they all intend to get closer to us, as for those who don't come, either they don't recognize this lantern, or they don't recognize the door of the Shen family." ”

While the old man was chatting with Chen Qiuyan, I had already run to the door of the pharmacy and hung the red lantern high on the iron hook on the side of the door frame.

As soon as the night wind blew, the eighteen copper bells under the ghost skin lanterns suddenly rang again and again.

It's like the first time I heard it.

The bronze bell statues that swayed with the night wind did not sound copper bells, but "laughed" one after another.

Hearing this erratic laughter, I was not as frightened as the first time, but stood to the side, looking at the brass bells with complicated eyes.

At that moment, I felt like I had returned to the time when I first entered the industry, and just after worshipping the patriarch, the old man asked me to come out and hang lanterns.

I remember that night wind was so cold that night, it seemed to want to drill into people's bones, and it was unbearably cold.......

After looking at it for a while, I shook my head, lit a cigarette, smoked, and turned to walk back into the room.

"It's been so long since I've been in the industry, I thought it was yesterday......"