As soon as these words came out, people immediately consciously flashed a way, and then walked into a white-bearded old man with a childish face and crane hair from the outside, the old man was holding a dragon head crutch of golden silk nanmu in his hand, and several small dragons were engraved on it, these small dragons were attached to the body of a big dragon, and the dragon head of the big dragon was the handrail of the crutch.

The old man wore a dark slanted coat, and there was also a Qing Dynasty braid on his head, and he stood there, not angry and arrogant, people saw him coming, and immediately shut up, and the surroundings were silent for an instant, and it seemed that this person had a very high status in the town.

The old man stretched out his hand to us and hugged his fist and said: "We are all rural villagers, we have not been in contact with the outside world for a long time, we are offended, and I hope to bear with us, you have come from afar, it is better to go to the old man's house to drink a cup of tea, and it can be regarded as the old man to make amends on behalf of the villagers." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he made a gesture of please, turned around and left, the three of us glanced at each other, strode closely behind, there were many restaurants on the street, carts and carts, called buying and selling, so lively, I noticed that people still use old money such as Guangxu Tongbao, although the clothes are simple, but everyone's face has a satisfied and happy color, and they are also kind to each other, polite, such a scene, such an expression, I have not seen it for many years.

The four of them came to a big mansion outside the door, and when they saw the old man coming, they hurriedly ran forward and greeted: "Master, you are back." The old man hummed, then handed over the crutches, the family also looked at us with a curious face, quickly ran to the door, made a gesture of please, let us in, bypassed the shadow wall, came to the courtyard, on both sides of the courtyard is the corridor of carved beams and paintings, the roof of the corridor is painted with the West Chamber, Cui Yingying, Zhang Sheng, flowers and birds landscape, all painted vividly.

There are a few sauce-colored vats next to the Yongdao in the middle, which blooms colorful lotus flowers, the lotus flowers are very small, all carried out, and only the size of silver dollars, Yuanmei told me, this is called a bowl lotus, which is specially for the literati to raise on the desk to enjoy, and there is a plaque hanging in the front hall opposite the Yongdao, which reads: "Huang Caoxuan" three big characters.

Followed the old man into the front hall, directly opposite a red sandalwood long case, on which are placed all kinds of bottles and jars of porcelain, there are blue and white, there are also plain colors, there is a picture of purple gas from the east hanging on the wall, a table of eight immortals in front of the case, a Taishi chair on one side, and then forward, two rows of square tables and chairs, all the furniture is made of red sandalwood, at a glance it seems to have entered Li Ruhai's house.

The guest sat down, the servant served tea, and the old man said: "I don't know what a few people have to do in our Longchang town?" ”

Yuanmei stood up, respectfully introduced us to the old man, when I heard my name, the old man was obviously shocked, after the introduction, the old man said with some excitement: "The old man's name is Lei Yuhao, he is the second generation of the Lei family's uncle assigned to supervise the town, since this little brother is also surnamed Lei, I don't know what it has to do with the Lei family?" ”

Yuanmei gave me a look, I nodded, stood up, took off my shirt, turned around, turned my back to the old man, and only heard the old man shout: "Northern Dragon Seven Array Diagram!" The tea bowl in his hand fell to the ground with a click, and it was shattered, and the next person heard the movement, and hurriedly ran with a broom, cleaned up, I turned around, and saw the old man standing up tremblingly, and said: "Forgive the old man for not knowing Mount Tai, Lei Yuhao has seen Lei Dangjia" After speaking, he was about to bow and salute, I hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Old man, this can't be done, you are breaking my life, and the Lei family is dead, how can there be anything that is not a family." ”

"Dead? How so? This, this" The old man heard that the Lei family was dead, and he was speechless with excitement, I was afraid that he would have an accident, so I hurriedly helped him to the seat, and the next person re-served the tea, the old man took a sip, settled down, and I told him a little bit I heard before.

After hearing this, the old man looked up to the sky and sighed, wiped his tears with his sleeve, paused and asked Yuanmei: "Hey, the sky doesn't open its eyes, the sky doesn't open its eyes, hey, since this is the case, is this girl a descendant of Li Wanshan?" ”

Yuan Mei nodded and said: "My ancestor has never married in his life, so he has no descendants, I am his apprentice grandson, and I am also the current head of the family." After speaking, he took out the red order flag used by Li Ruhai from his bag and handed it over, the old man took it with both hands, nodded again and again while looking at it, and after returning the order flag to Yuanmei, the old man said leisurely: "Since the head of the Lei and Li families is here, then according to the rules, the old man should hand over the post of governor of the town, and Fugui will take the seal!" ”

Yuan Mei and I listened, hurriedly got up and shirked, the old man waved his hand, not let us speak, not long after, the next person came over with a yellow satin wrapped box, respectfully placed next to the old man, the old man stood up, bowed three times to the small box, slowly stepped forward, opened the yellow satin layer by layer, revealing a small black wooden box inside, opened the wooden box, and took out a tight square object wrapped in silk cloth from inside, opened the silk cloth, and a rectangular ancient jade was presented in front of him.

Yuanmei was still prevaricating, but when she saw Gu Yu, as if she was enchanted, she slowly stepped forward, only glanced at it, and said tremblingly: "This, this, this, this is." ”

I didn't react at first, but seeing her panicked and excited eyes, as well as her stammering tone, I realized that this so-called seal was probably the thing called "Liuyao" that she said before.

Yuanmei held this piece of ancient jade, looked carefully up and down, left and right, the old man silently put his hands behind his back, stood aside, squinted, watching her every move, Yuanmei held this piece of ancient jade, and gradually changed from excitement to calmness, and finally a look of disappointment appeared on his face.

I hurriedly walked over and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"This is only half, there are only four lines on this ancient jade, and the corresponding to the sixteen hexagrams of Fuxi should be at least, yes." Yuanmei was still counting, and Lei Yuhao said behind him: "Eight Yao." ”

As soon as I heard this, we both looked at Lei Yuhao, he stroked his beard, nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, there are indeed only four masters on it, when my father passed it to me, he said that when Master Lei gave him the seal, he specially told him, saying that although the other half is in this Longchang Town, but that is the dependence of Longchang Town to survive safely, once it is taken out, the entire Longchang will fall into a situation of no return, so he refused to say the specific location of the half of the ancient jade, and also warned my father not to look for it."

So I only have this piece here, in this Longchang Town, it is called the Governor Town Seal, which is the representative of the post of Governor Town, all the people in the town only recognize the seal, not the people, today the two of you are here, this seal from the pawn to the original owner, and please don't shirk the two. ”

After hearing this, Yuanmei sat back in her seat with a disappointed face, and I hurriedly said to Lei Yuhao: "Old man, we all have a mission, I am afraid it will be difficult to stay here for a long time, and we don't know anything about Longchang Town, I also saw it on the way just now, you have worked hard over the years to govern this town in an orderly manner, we can't do this, so you have to continue to work hard for the post of governor, after all, you don't want to see such a peaceful and prosperous place, ruined in our hands, right?" ”

Lei Yuhao nodded and said: "Since Lei Dangjia wants the old man to continue to supervise the town, the old man can't shirk it, of course, as long as Lei Dangjia says a word, the old man is ready to hand over the seal of the governor at any time, rich and noble!" ”

The subordinate ran out just now, wrapped the seal and took it back, Yuanmei's eyes seemed to be led by the thread, staring at Fugui's hands, and watched him hold the seal down, and then looked at me with a puzzled face.

"It's not early now, the old man has some other things to deal with tonight, if you don't dislike it, you can live in the house, I'll ask someone to clean it up." ”

"No need! Yuanmei preemptively said: "Although the house is good, but Leidu Town is entangled in official business, and we can't help, so how can we still bother?" Besides, we are new to your land and want to move around, so it is more convenient to live outside. ”

Lei Yuhao still wanted to keep it, but looking at Yuanmei's firm eyes, he smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, Chunxiang!" ”

Listening to the sound of footsteps, a girl walked out from behind, this girl was in her early twenties, with long eyebrows and delicate eyes, very good-looking, the pointed little face was fair and translucent, the bridge of the nose was high, the slender eyes and willow eyebrows, the red mouth was slightly powdered, the high bun, and a few hairpins were simply inserted on it.

The upper body wears a lotus pink silk robe, the lower body wears a light cyan long skirt, and a pair of red satin shoes with lotus on the feet, the shoes are wooden soles, the wooden bottom is empty, easy to fit into some fragrant powder, etc., the bottom is hollowed out with the style of lotus flowers, and every step down will step out of a lotus pattern composed of fragrant powder, this kind of shoes were very popular when I was young, and it can be said that it is the identity symbol of the big lady, but the difference is that those big ladies are small feet wrapped in feet, and this ** fragrant girl is a pair of big feet.

"Hehe, both men and women have to work here, so women don't bind their feet," Lei Yuhao looked at me with a smile and said.

I saw that I was discovered, I smiled a little embarrassedly, and hurriedly looked away, the girl also covered her mouth, and let out a silver bell laugh, even the second master followed the hehe smirk, Lei Yuhao said: "This is the old man's little daughter, called Lei Chunxiang, she runs a restaurant on Shitiao Road, don't be surprised, the old man just said that everyone has to work in this town, don't raise idle people, don't have a lazy wind, this is also the rule formulated by the old man Lei back then, as the saying goes, there are no rules, and it is precisely in accordance with this, There is an orderly and prosperous situation that you see, but there are very few outsiders in this town, so there is no inn in the town, and there are exactly two empty rooms on the second floor of this restaurant opened by the little girl, which was originally used as a warehouse, and happened to be vacated a few days ago. ”

I nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, that's the most convenient." "I know that Yuanmei is not giving up on the other half of the ancient jade, and it is convenient to look around if she lives outside.

"Then the old man will not leave you, although you eat and drink in the little girl's restaurant, you don't take a penny, Chunxiang, you must entertain Lei and them, and you must not treat them slowly." ”

"Hey" Chunxiang agreed with a smile, and led the way out, we also stood up and walked out, Lei Yuhao followed behind, and sent it to the gate, only to say goodbye one by one, and see us go away.

Just took two steps, Yuanmei suddenly turned around and asked Lei Yuhao: "May I ask Lei Du Town, around the Qingming Festival this year, can there be troops passing through this town?" ”

This question was asked very suddenly, Lei Yuhao was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head and said: "Don't say that it is this year, this town has never had outsiders enter since the old man supervised the town, and you can come here, I'm afraid it has something to do with the identity of Lei Dangjia." ”

Yuanmei nodded, hugged her fist at Lei Yuhao, turned around and followed Chunxiang.

Out of the alley, when I came to the main road, Yuanmei scolded me in a low voice and said, "Why didn't you accept that piece of ancient jade at that time?" ”

I smiled and said, "You also said, it's only half a piece, and after we find the other half, we can go directly to Lei Yuhao and ask for it." ”

"What if he doesn't give it then?" ”

"I never thought he would give it. ”

"You...."Yuan Mei said halfway, lowered her head and thought about it, nodded and said no more.

After walking for a while, the second master suddenly said: "Hey, have you noticed, the road in this town is a bit interesting, the avenue is straight, and the alleys are all slanted." ”

Chunxiang sneered when she heard this, and said: "This Longchang Town is designed and built according to the pattern of Taiji Bagua, every three rows of alleys form a hexagram, and the avenue is the passage separating the hexagram. ”

"What's in the center of town?" As soon as Yuan Mei heard this, she asked urgently with a flash of inspiration.

"It's nothing, there is a well for the whole town to drink, and a large open space, strange to say, weeds and wild flowers grow everywhere in this town, but that clearing, for so many years, not a single grass grows. Haruka said inexplicably.

After listening to Yuanmei, she lowered her head and thought silently, and the four of them soon came to Chunxiang's restaurant, the name of this restaurant is very interesting, just ** Xiang restaurant, said to be a restaurant, like a restaurant, two floors up and down, but the upper floor only uses half of the room, separated by a few boxes, the two large rooms that are free should be the warehouse mentioned before, it seems that the people in the town are indeed relatively simple, and there are not many people eating in the box.

After reading the whole thing, Chunxiang told the guys to go up and clean, and asked someone to buy new bedding and application things, I was embarrassed to do it in a hurry, and I wanted to give money, although there was no old money on the body, but Yuanmei still had a golden little yellow croaker, this thing is all over the world, but Chunxiang didn't accept it, saying that if she collected the money, her father would definitely be angry.

No way, I had to express my gratitude over and over again, Yuanmei sat at the dining table on the first floor, drinking the tea made by the guy, and was still looking down and thinking about something, the strange thing is that the second master is gone, I thought he went to the thatched house at first, but it was almost half an hour and still didn't come out, I was secretly worried, so I wandered around, looking around, looking around, and actually found him at the door of a winemaking workshop called Tianhe Wine Workshop diagonally opposite the Chunxiang restaurant.

He was like a stake, stunned outside the wine shop, I thought to myself that he wanted to drink and didn't bring any money? is such an adult, how can he be like a child who eats candy, so he hurriedly ran over and pulled him and said, "What's wrong?" Didn't bring any money? Which one you want to drink, I'll buy it. ”

He seemed to be under a spell, motionless and let me pull in, inside is a husband and wife stall, up and down, layer upon layer full of wine jars, as soon as we entered, the proprietress was stunned at first, and then greeted me with a smile on her face and said: "Yo, isn't this a few guest officers from outside?" Say, what do you want to drink? I have everything in this roasted yellow wine, is it soju or rice wine? ”

The second master stared at the proprietress in a daze, and everyone who watched it was embarrassed, I hurriedly touched him, and he trembled and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Aunt Xiu, you." ”