Chapter Forty-Six: White Bones Appear at Dusk
At the back of the 20-meter-high earthen slope is a three-storey ancestral hall with vermilion lacquer and yellow tiles. The ancestral hall is surrounded by a three-and-a-half-meter-high wall, with only one door, and the door is also painted with blood-red lacquer, and a ring-shaped copper knocker "knocks" with the swing of the two doors. The ancestral hall within the walls has six walls, and Qiu Hina used it as a castle, perhaps because of this unique structure.
The main building covers a large area, about 200 square meters, which is not very accurate, but it is not difficult to ask for an area accurate to square meters. Knowing the length of the sides of a wall and then using the formula for the area of a regular hexagon will do, of course, the person who does it is either obsessive-compulsive or paranoid.
Hinako Mou is still amazed by this amazing building.
"Ah, the wisdom of the ancients."
Mo Ming was a little afraid to face Qiu Yanzi, if it was for a momentary prank, he deceived her and said that this was a castle. So when she advertised to others that there was a castle outside Quanshui Village, after the truth was revealed, I was afraid that she would lose face, and then blame Mo Ming, it would be terrifying, but it was not so simple as apologizing for her own crimes.
"That...... Minister, I haven't seen this kind of ...... before Castle?"
Mo Ming asked cautiously.
"Ah, how can there be such relics of predecessors in the city, you look at the ancient style of the Zhumen, and then look at the towering walls, the smooth cornices, and the white banner lantern with a sense of the times...... White Banner Lantern?"
Qiu Yanzi sighed as if pointing to the river, until he saw the bulb on the main door of the ancestral hall, he was stunned, the excitement in his eyes was replaced by doubt, and he looked at Mo Ming sluggishly.
"Is this a castle......
Mo Ming was about to be exposed, so he began to defend himself in a hurry.
"This is...... It's called the ancestral castle, that's right, the ancestral castle!"
The corners of his mouth twitched numbly, and he stared at Mo Ming blankly.
"These are two things, right?"
"This is...... Isn't that meat bun also known as an oriental hamburger? That's why the ancestral hall is also called the Oriental Castle!"
Mo Ming's pale defense, the lie is like this, once it starts, it will continue forever, the philosophy of life that can be seen from this little thing is profound, and Mo Ming fell into a kind of nothingness.
"Is there a princess?"
Qiu Hinako added a disdainful and disdainful expression.
"There must be a landlord in it......
Mo Ming scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Liar."
Qiu Yanzi puffed out his cheeks, turned his head in another direction, and after coldly leaving a sentence, he looked at this oriental castle in disappointment.
Mo Ming was distressed by this coldness, what kind of status does Mo Ming's classmate have to be despised like this? And what's the deal with that "deceived my girl's heart" expression? Grievance.
"That...... Haven't you never seen an ancestral hall, and in your words, why is there an ancestral hall? Isn't that how it feels, be happy."
Mo Ming imitated Qiu Yanzi's usual tone, and was a little embarrassed.
"But...... You can't lie to me, what are you trying to do to trick me into such a wilderness."
Qiu Yanzi didn't forgive Mo Ming at all.
What's up with this terrible statement...... Mo Ming was a little speechless, then sighed and lowered his head.
"Minister, I'm sorry, I'll never do this again."
Qiu Yanzi turned his head and opened his eyes half-open, glanced lightly, and after a long silence, he finally spoke.
"Okay, I'll forgive you."
"Thank you, Minister......
"Surprise or something, it's not like that. For example, if I said today that I would like to invite you to a cone, but I gave you a big cake, this is the surprise. If I said I would take you to see the ancestral hall, but when I arrived at my destination, I found that it was a castle, and I would be very happy."
"Okay......
Arguing with her will not lead to results, Mo Ming raised his hand and surrendered. Then I glanced at the quartz watch on my wrist, and found that it was already half past six, and it was not early, and the sun was almost hidden under the field, and I had to go home.
"Minister, let's go."
Mo Ming shrugged his shoulders, put his schoolbag on his back, and then turned around to leave.
Qiu Yanzi grabbed Mo Ming, and when Mo Ming turned back suspiciously, he saw Qiu Yanzi's stubborn eyes and serious shaking his head.
"Let's go check it out."
With a determined face, Mo Ming panicked, did he go into the ancestral hall to see the structure inside?
"No......"
"Why?"
Why can't it be, it's not early, and if you don't go home, you'll only be blind by then. That's a lot of trouble, in the wilderness, in fact, there are no suburbs and no mountains, but the night has already pulled a corner.
"If there is a problem with time, there is no problem, because time is not a problem, we are still the newborn sun, and the road of life is still very long."
Mo Minggang wanted to leave on the grounds of time, but Qiu Yanzi said such a statement with an unclear meaning with a serious face.
"But, if you linger a little longer, it'll be dark."
"Hmm."
"Well, what, if it's dark, you'll ......."
Mo Ming was thinking about the reason, he must think of a reason that can convince the aliens to think, and he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"I'm scared to go home ......"
Qiu Yanzi was stunned, lowered her head a little, and began to think, did she retreat in spite of the difficulty? Mo Ming felt that there was a play, but this guy seemed to want to open it, stretched out his hand, tensed his arm, and showed off her non-existent biceps.
"I'll send you home......
「……」
It seems that there is no way, Mo Ming is dead, glanced at his watch, and thought to himself, if you wander for half an hour, it will be about seven o'clock, and if Qiu Yanzi goes home, it will only be half an hour, according to the time of sunrise and sunset in the northern hemisphere in autumn, when you get home, there is still a little starlight, so you won't get lost or anything, okay, then hang around a little.
"Twenty minutes."
Mo Ming made a gesture of two, Qiu Yanzi shook his head and made a four-hand gesture, and then Mo Ming pressed Qiu Yanzi's little thumb, Qiu Yanzi thought for a while, and then nodded.
The two of them began to walk into the ancestral hall. First we went around to the gate of the ancestral hall wall, outside which there was a broken dirt road, and then beyond was a small undulating dirt slope on which some peas and sweet potatoes were planted.
Standing at the gate, Qiu Yanzi seemed to be suddenly pious in his heart, and the reason for his piety was the four big red characters written on a yellow background on a plaque on the gate.
"Feng Qing Shi Luo?"
Qiu Hinako pointed to the plaque and read it.
"Rock's breeze."
Mo Ming looked at Qiu Yanzi who was serious and corrected, the plaque should be read from right to left, don't you understand?
"What does that mean?"
"Well, this is Luo's ancestral hall, at that time...... At that time, it was about seventy years? The Luo clan was a big family then, and of course it is now. The patriarch of the Luo clan organized the construction of the ancestral hall, and after that, there were people who bowed to each other, and it continued until ten years ago, and at that time I still had the impression that the new ancestral hall was built in a better place on the land boundary, so this ancestral hall was naturally abandoned."
Mo Ming's imagination of the Luo ancestral hall is like this, from the solemn and sacred sacrificial place to the secret base for children to play, it is just a short moment, the previous memories are very vague, but a few fragmented shots are very profound.
"So, can I go in?"
Qiu Yanzi only remembered the moral level now, since it was an ancestral hall, it was a little inappropriate for a foreign surname to break in at will.
"Well, it's okay, it's abandoned."
Mo Ming said casually, but Qiu Yanzi's eyes were slightly dim, and then bowed slightly like this plaque. Although there are gods in the head, Qiu Yanzi is not like the kind of person who believes in gods, and the reason for this is probably because of the regret for this place, and emotional people are a little sentimental in the face of decadent things.
Pushing open the half-hidden door, following a ten-meter-long marble path, looking left and right towards the building, the world inside the wall did not seem to have changed, still two peach trees that did not bear fruit, and still covered with dust.
Walking to the outside of the main building, Mo Ming stretched out his hand and pushed towards the door that seemed to be closed, it was a little difficult, Mo Ming felt some resistance, Qiu Yanzi saw that Mo Ming was a little struggling and wanted to help, Mo Ming paused, and then shook his head and refused. He exerted some more force with both hands, and with a "click", he loosened a little, and then pushed the door open smoothly.
The light and shadow were dim, and a faint glow was reflected in the ancestral hall, Qiu Yanzi was unexpectedly bold, took a step, and walked inside, Mo Ming followed behind, but he still felt a little frightened.
"It's a little dark, do you have a flashlight?"
Qiu Hinako groped into it like an explorer, step by step, cautious and bold.
"What do you say?"
Mo Ming followed closely behind Qiu Yanzi, Mo Ming was a little slightly blind at night, and he could only vaguely see the three slender shadows in front of him, as well as the outline of a big Buddha, with round eyes and angry eyes, which was really a little majestic.
Walking to the center, Qiu Hinako stopped, looking very puzzled.
"Mo Ming, anyway, this space is a bit too monotonous, right?"
Monotony refers to the fact that there is not a single room on the first floor of two hundred square meters. In the extremely spacious hall, there are many Buddha statues, and then the stone wall is engraved with italic characters, on which are the names of all the male clansmen of the Luo family, the more the name in the middle of the higher status, and the three copper walls in the center are the great achievements of the three great people of the Luo family.
The stairs can be ascended from both sides, and there are six identical rooms on each floor of the second and third floors, which are not used for other purposes, just to show pomp.
"There are six rooms on the second and third floors."
"I see......
This is reasonable, otherwise the huge space of all the books on the third floor is not only wasteful, but also too boring from the perspective of modeling.
"Some are too dark, are there lights? Or is there a fire?"
Although Qiu Yanzi has good eyesight at night, the light in the enclosed space is too weak.
"It's even weirder if there's fire......
In the ancestral hall of Nuoda, there was a faint flame, and the two trembling explorers, thinking of this, Mo Ming felt that the sense of the picture was too strong.
"Okay, then I'll use my phone light to shine it."
Qiu Hinako took out her mobile phone from her pocket, skillfully flipped it open, turned on the screen, and the faint light shone on the ground.
"Ahh With a scream, Qiu Xiaozi's mobile phone fell to the ground, with a "snap", the sound of a needle falling to the ground can be heard quietly, probably this is what it said, in the quiet ancestral hall, this sound is especially obvious.
Qiu Yanzi's expression was not very good-looking, her legs trembled, her eyes were shocked but curious, she wanted to take a closer look, but she was afraid of contradictions.
Not only Qiu Hinako, Mo Ming also saw it, Bangqiu Hinako picked up the mobile phone, covered Qiu Hinako's eyes with one hand, and his expression was solemn.
If I'm not mistaken, it's a miserable white skeleton looming in the electronic light.