Chapter 19: Missing a Door
That Mo Qianxue saw that I was stunned at the entrance of the village, and there was no intention of entering the village, so she urged me to say, "Why are you stunned, enter the village!" ”
I looked at her, and sometimes I really wanted to say that ignorance is also a kind of happiness, so I hummed, didn't speak again, and walked straight to Li Chengze's house.
When he came to Li Chengze's house, he was a little excited, grabbed my hand, and said very warmly: "Little brother, you are finally here, you haven't eaten yet." Come, come, come, dinner is ready for you. ”
I nodded, and made a gesture to him asking for a red envelope, this is not my greed for money, it is asking him to start a red envelope, a lottery.
He was stunned for a moment, then understood, and said with a smile: "I understand, I understand." ”
While talking, he handed me a red envelope, I pinched it, estimated it was a hundred yuan, nodded, said a few auspicious words, and followed him to the restaurant.
Not to mention, his house is very good, antique, so big, I am the first time to enter such a beautiful house, it is inevitable to glance at a few more glances, and I will find that his house, on the whole, is no problem.
Of course, I'm all right, it's just where there is wood, and as for the rest of the place, I don't have the skills to show him.
During the meal, Li Chengze's daughter-in-law, son, and daughter were all there, and I don't know if I was wrong or what's going on, Li Chengze's son, a pair of eyes glanced to the west from time to time, and every time he glanced at it, his face would be ugly.
Even so, the boy looked over there from time to time.
Considering that he was eating, I didn't ask, and after the meal, I first asked Li Chengze to call his daughter-in-law, daughter and Mo Qianxue away, leaving his son.
Li Chengze probably knew that I was going to do business, so he didn't say a word, and hurriedly called those people to go to another room, while I walked over to his son, squatted down in front of the kid, and asked, "Little friend, my brother asked you something, why do you always look over there." ”
As I spoke, I pointed to the west.
To say that this Li Chengze's son is worthy of being the descendant of a businessman, he replied in a milky voice, "My father said that if you ask someone about something, you must first give a red envelope." ”
I... I... I was also speechless, so I looked at Li Chengze, and found that he smiled bitterly at me, "Little brother, let you see you laugh!" ”
"Step-ancestor, don't talk nonsense, tell my brother quickly!" He spoke again to his son.
"I don't, it's my father who said it, you have to give a red envelope first to inquire about things." Don't look at that kid is only five years old, but his temperament is very stubborn.
In desperation, I touched my trouser pocket, took out a dollar and handed it to him, "Can you say it now?" ”
He took a piece of money, like a little adult, first wiped it out, then folded it in half, put it in his trouser pocket, and smiled at me again, "Because there are four brothers over there playing mahjong!" ”
After speaking, he took my hand and walked over there, and when he walked to the position near the west, he pointed and said in a milky voice: "Oh, just a little bit ahead, the four brothers are playing mahjong there." ”
"Can you tell us the location?" I asked him.
He shook his head vigorously, "I don't dare, I'm afraid that if I go over, they will beat me." ”
After saying this, a frightened expression appeared on the child's immature face, and the whole person began to tremble, and I didn't want to ask any more, so I hit Li Chengze with a meaning, meaning to let him take the child away.
Li Chengze came back to his senses, picked up the kid, and went directly to the house next door, and soon, he ran back again, stood next to me, and asked me: "Little brother, can you see this house, what's the problem?" ”
I shook my head, but I remembered what Mo Qianxue said, she said that his relative had moved out of the new house, and looking at this posture, Li Chengze did not move out.
I expressed the doubts in my heart, and he explained to me that he usually spent the night at the house next door, and today he knew that I was coming, so he deliberately opened fire at home, and asked me if this was not okay.
I said that it was okay, and stared to the west, and found that the position was empty, and near the wall, there was an old-fashioned wooden window, on which the wood carving was a pair of mandarin ducks, lifelike, its lines were beautiful, without the slightest concave and convex, it was simply ingenious.
Speaking from the heart, let me carve, there is absolutely no such craft, and it can even be said that I am less than one percent of his knife skills.
At that moment, I asked Li Chengze, "Is this window carved by someone or bought ready-made?" ”
As soon as this wooden window was mentioned, a trace of pride flashed on Li Chengze's face, and he explained: "Little brother, my eyesight is good, I asked a master to come out of this wooden window, the old man has studied carpentry all his life, especially in the carving, which can be said to be one of the best in our entire Shonan, in order to invite his old family, I spent a lot of money." ”
I hummed, didn't say anything more, walked over, raised my hand and touched the wooden window, it should be made of Tsubaki, no, strictly speaking, it should be the best red Tsubaki among the Tsubaki wood. This kind of red almond wood has a bright color, reddish-brown and purple, clear texture, rich fragrance, moderate hardness and softness, corrosion resistance, easy processing, generally do musical instruments, or carvings and the like, are the choice of this kind of red almond wood, known as Chinese mahogany, in the entire wood market, this red almond wood belongs to high-end products, valuable and expensive.
Finding this situation, I glanced at the other windows of this house, and what puzzled me was that the other windows were made of aluminum alloy, but this window was made of wood, so I asked Li Chengze why.
He explained to me that he asked a feng shui master to look at the house, saying that it was in this location, and that the whole house belonged to the northwest corner, and it was not suitable to use metal as windows, so it had to be made of wood.
I thought about it for a while, it seems that there is indeed such a saying in the feng shui of the house, but I didn't know much feng shui at that time, and I didn't ask any more questions, so I asked Li Chengze a few questions about this wooden window, basically asking him if he had offended the old master, and asked him if anything happened when the old master installed this window.
He said that whether it was carving windows or installing windows, nothing happened, and he got along very well with the master.
This made my face sink, according to my initial thought, there must be something wrong with this wooden window, but he said so, and I can't say anything more. After all, if the average master really wants to do something about this, he must first be at odds with the owner, and no one wants to think crookedly for no reason.
I think this way because my grandfather Lu Ban was worried that when his apprentices and grandchildren went out to work, they would be bullied, so he created a spell called "Missing a Door", which is divided into two volumes, the upper volume is some harmful spells, and the second volume is some saving spells.