48 Suspicious
This is polite, the Shen family has been stating since more than ten years ago, on the one hand, it was deliberately done by his father, and on the other hand, it was also forced by the Shen family's life, in the eyes of the people of Quyun today, the Shen family will look at their fate at best, and occasionally there are problems that cannot be solved before they come to try their luck.
As for the master, although his father can be counted, he just has no ability.
Shen Qiu didn't shirk this, but only said: "It's a trivial matter, Brother Zheng sit down, this tea is a new good tea from the Lu family last month, and you can't buy it outside." ”
Zheng Li nodded in response, hurriedly lowered his head and tasted the tea at hand, and stopped talking after drinking two dry laughs.
After a while, there was a girl outside to call Zheng Li, it was Lin Yunqing who was planning to leave, and after careful calculation, he had already talked about it in the main house, Lin Yunqing and Zheng Li had nothing to do with each other at this time, it was not appropriate to stay in the Shen family for too long, and his father didn't know what to do, the eldest man was not in the house, and it was normal for them to leave before lunch.
The girl stood outside the door and spoke, after listening, Zheng Li got up, smiled and gave Shen Qiu a salute, and then went out of the room, Lin Yunqing and Lin had already walked to the courtyard, and when they saw Zheng Li, Lin said a few more polite words, and then asked the next person to send the two out.
Shen Shuyi and Shen Qiu stood in front of the door of the wing room and watched, seeing that the person was completely gone, Shen Shuyi asked in a low voice, "What do you see?" ”
Shen Qiu raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and then said to the Lin family, "Cousin-in-law, I'll take Shuyi back to the room first." ”
Lin nodded, and instructed uneasily: "But look at him and stop running around, it's not worrying at this time, isn't it adding chaos to the family." With that, he sighed and walked back to his room.
All the girls in the courtyard went to do their own things, Shen Shuyi didn't ask any questions very interestingly, and followed Shen Qiu back to his courtyard.
Sitting down on the soft couch in the inner room, Shen Qiucai said, "Clean up and go out with me tomorrow." ”
Shen Shuyi was slightly stunned and asked, "Where are you going?" "This going out shouldn't be as simple as going to have a meal.
Shen Qiu sat down at the table, carried the teapot to his eyes, opened the lid and looked inside, but he didn't know what he was looking at.
"Your father has been very busy lately, he should have taken you there, but now there is no way, so I have to do this drudgery." He sighed softly, as if he was afraid of some trouble.
Shen Shuyi is also a smart person, his head turned around, and he immediately understood, and he couldn't help but ask happily at the moment: "Really?" ”
Shen Qiu didn't nod or don't look up, although he didn't say a word, Shen Shuyi still cared for himself for a long time.
Since he entered the ancestral hall at the age of seven or eight, all kinds of secret mantras should be memorized in less than three years, but these have always been just on paper, and what he has always longed for is undoubtedly that one day his father can give him a little job for him to try it himself, instead of watching the effect of the talisman on those trained imps in the ghost room.
Almost every year, he would ask his father for it, because he could only see ghosts on his birthday every year, and the best time was during this period, but the previous years were all rejected, and this year was no exception, and his father would suddenly change his mind, which he really didn't expect.
He suddenly thought of what Shen Qiu had been busy with these days, and there was a chance that he would have a chance to see it this time, plus Ah Liu had just said in the morning, Mr. Fang would come to deliver the dog in a few days, presumably February of this year could be much more interesting than an ordinary year.
"When are you leaving, in the morning?" He asked impatiently.
Shen Qiu chuckled, a basin of cold water directly buckled on his head, and said, "Yes, it's very early, go out before three o'clock." ”
Shen Shuyi snorted slightly, three o'clock, it's okay to ask him to stay up late, he is really not good at getting up early, and if he wants to leave at three o'clock, he has to get up in the middle of the night, eat something first, maybe he has to prepare cars and horses, and there are a lot of troubles.
Moreover, there are many errands to take him and Shen Qiu out on a business trip, after all, he is a novice, if he is in a hurry, he can give full play to one-tenth of his ability, and if he can't draw a single talisman at that time, it can only be a drag, so this time he obviously has to prepare more for Shen Qiu.
What should be excited is to be excited, but there are still many places to worry, and doing this line of work is a problem of life and death after all, not child's play.
"How far to go? What should I bring? He asked again.
Shen Qiu groaned for a while, stood up and walked to the edge of the soft collapse, lifted the corner of the thin mattress spread on it, revealing a neatly folded piece of rice paper, opened it and looked at it himself, and then handed it to Shen Shuyi.
"It's not far away, you just have to take your brains with you, and I'm afraid you have to go out and buy the rest." He said, knocking lightly on Shen Shuyi's head.
Shen Shuyi grinned, and kept opening the rice paper in his hand, because the paper was soft and soft, many places on the corners had been torn, and he could only be extra careful, for fear that he would accidentally get into trouble again.
When he opened it, there was no handwriting on the paper, but a few scribbled strokes like a map, as if there were mountains and rivers, and a few houses.
"Is this river upstream of Quyun? I remember seeing it somewhere before. He said with a slight frown.
Shen Qiu nodded and said, "Well, the southwest direction is indeed upstream, you can't see that there are so many rivers near Quyun, you can actually recognize this one?" ”
Shen Shuyi himself was a little confused about this, and only felt that the feng shui pattern composed of the mountains and rivers in the picture was particularly familiar, and then blurted out. However, he grew up in Quyun since he was a child, and it is normal for him to see the same thing in the past and just remember it.
"What's wrong with this place?" He wondered.
Shen Qiu took the map from his hand, gently folded it and put it in his pocket, and also sat down on the soft couch, and said: "It's not big, it's not small, I've been to see it a few times in the past few days, and I don't know what happened in that small village, so that most of the people in the village were infected with corpse poison." ”
Shen Shuyi thought for a while, the corpse poison in the village obviously had its source, maybe the farmer encountered something in the mountains that shouldn't be touched, and as a result, the entire village was affected.
This thing can be big or small, if it is only to bring out the corpse poison, it is easy to do, and to remove the corpse poison, I am afraid that there will be something that is not easy to provoke, and I have to wait for his father to be present in person, after all, the secret technique on his body is still extremely unreliable.
Shen Qiu was also talking about this, he said: "This time I went not mainly to solve the problem, the first few times I just checked around, but I didn't find anything abnormal, this time I will stay around there for a few days, first figure out what's going on, and then come back to discuss countermeasures with your father." ”
Not being able to measure oneself has always been a taboo for cultivators, if there is really something that the Lingxi Shen family can't provoke, Mingzhe is still the best way to protect himself, even if it can be solved, he can't just take action, people are sophisticated, and the truth of moving the whole body is exactly what his father repeatedly reminded him in the past.
"Did someone find the Shen family about this?" He asked, ordinary people usually think that corpse poison is an infectious disease, if they can find the Shen family before the matter is serious, it means that there are still "masters" in the village.
Shen Qiu shook his head and said, "No, I don't know how your father knew about this. ”
Shen Qiu has never spoken, he said that if he didn't know, he really didn't know, which made Shen Shuyi even more strange, his father even hid it from Shen Qiu, is it really not worth mentioning, or is there still some cat behind this matter?
However, this will not be known until tomorrow.
After explaining the foundation, the time was also noon, Shen Qiu glanced at the time and said: "It's not too late to talk about these things on the road tomorrow, let's go to the front yard to eat at noon in a while, and admit your mother's mistake." ”
Shen Shuyi nodded, stood up, and suddenly remembered that his new uncle Zheng Lilai in the morning, so he grabbed Shen Qiu, who was about to leave, and asked him: "I think Zheng Li is a very good person, why do you ask people to make baskets?" ”
Mentioning this, Shen Qiu had to stop, but he turned around and looked at him for a long time before replying: "People are good, but they don't mean anything." ”
Shen Shuyi was a little confused about this, his cousin was looking for a husband, isn't it enough to be a good person? What more?
"You won't worry about his ill intentions towards the Shen family, right? This is too far away, and we still don't think there is anything worth a picture of? He asked rhetorically.
After listening to him, Shen Qiu seemed to be a little angry, frowned and said coldly: "If your father listens to this, he must not break your legs, how many times have I told you, weddings and funerals are big deals, outsiders think that the Shen family is not bad now, but it is simply a big rebellion for you to think like this for the Shen family, who will take over the patriarch in the future." ”
"Do you still remember how the Xiangxi Mu family was calculated to be ruined? Although Lin Yunqing is only your mother's distant cousin, as long as she has a little to do with the Shen family, you have to guard against it, and you haven't seen Lin Yunqing's face, how can you say this kind of thing? ”
Shen Shuyi's face couldn't help but stiffen, and his head hung down slightly. Xiangxi Mujia ...... Yes, it was the Xiangxi Mu family, which used to be one of the major families, and it was also because of such mundane things as weddings and funerals that they killed three heads of the family in a row, and then the family took a sharp turn and disappeared completely within ten years.
In the end, it has been decades since the truth was revealed, and it was all the jealousy of another family, so they moved behind their backs and erased a huge family in Xiangxi without revealing anything.
This incident is a classic example of the later warning of all families, all red and white happy events in the family must be treated solemnly, even if it is a little insignificant kinship, it cannot be perfunctory casually, for fear that one day it will follow in the footsteps of the Mu family.
On this day, he Shen Shuyi really shouldn't have remembered it.