Xian'er couldn't talk to me, so I turned my eyes to Liang Houzai's side again, and saw Liang Houzai holding a novel and reading it very seriously.

Since spending the summer vacation of junior high school, Liang Houzai's personality has a little deviation from the past, and since that time, he has a slightly petty bourgeois literary temperament, likes to read novels, and also likes modern poetry, novels only read Kafka's, and poems only read Haizi. These two masters of the literary world are typical jealous talents who died young, and there are only so many works, but Liang Houzai still holds their books every day and reads them over and over again.

And every time he reads a book, he is very engrossed, and he doesn't want to respond when I talk to him, and every time he copes with two sentences.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to me, I leaned on the edge of the bed and looked at my master, who just took his eyes back from the window, picked up his teacup, and took a sip.

Taking advantage of Master's lack of thoughts, I hurriedly talked to him: "Master, I heard from my uncle that you want to move back to the Mass Grave Mountain to live?" ”

"Hmm," Master didn't look up at me, just put down the cup and said slowly: "After a while, Lao Chen will go back to the Taoist Temple to deal with some things, and no one is watching on the side of the Mass Grave Mountain." When the time comes, you and Houzai will follow me to Wangzhuang's side. ”

As he spoke, Master silently looked out the window again.

I'm afraid that Master will be in a daze like just now, and then no one will really pay attention to me. So he asked the master again, "What is the old Huang family in the Northeast doing?" Why did Senior Brother Bao go too? ”

While looking out the window, Master said to me, "It's too specific to talk about things now. As for why they asked you to be Senior Brother Bao, hehe, I'll know when you go. Alright, don't run out of words, just take a break. ”

After saying this, Master stopped paying attention to me.

After about half an hour, a few college students sitting on my master's bed got out of the car, but the master kept looking out the window.

I lay bored in bed for a while and soon fell asleep.

Last night, because I was worried about Master, I didn't sleep well for almost the whole night, so this time I slept very deeply and for a long time.

When I woke up, the train had already entered the northeast, and four hours later, we got off at the terminus of the train.

It was midnight when I walked out of the station, and a silver-gray sedan was already waiting on the side of the road.

As we walked past the car, the driver's window was rolled down, and a woman stuck her head out of the car, waved at my master, and shouted, "Master Chai!" ”

It was dark, and my master's eyes were not very good, so he leaned over the window, squinted and looked at the woman for a while, and the woman didn't speak, but turned on the lights to make the carriage brighter.

Through the light, I could see clearly that this woman was about forty years old, and wrinkles had already spread on her face, but her facial features were rare and delicate, and between her eyebrows, there was a faint bewitchment.

Presumably, when this woman was young, she was also a beautiful woman.

At this time, my master smiled and asked her, "If I remember correctly, you should be the girl of Huang Changsheng's family, right?" ”

The woman smiled and nodded: "I haven't seen you for more than thirty years, I can't imagine that Master Chai still remembers me." Master Chai, get in the car, our old lady has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Master was not polite, and directly took Liang Hou and me into the car.

The woman started the car, glanced at us, and asked my master, "These two young men are the assistants mentioned by Master Chai in the letter?" ”

When she spoke, there was still a bit of laziness in her tone, I don't know if she usually speaks like this, if not, that kind of laziness will become disgusting in my opinion, she thinks my master has brought us two burdens.

The first time we met, I thought about each other in the bad way, which is not my usual style, but in addition to the good looks, the lazy temperament exuded by the woman in front of me made me disgusted for no reason.

At this time, I heard Master say to her, "It's not an assistant." The tallest ones are my apprentices, and the other is a disciple of the corpse chasers, and this time I brought them to see the world. ”

The car was already on the road, and the woman had her back to me, and I couldn't see the expression on her face, but I heard her say, "I heard the old lady say that this time it may be quite troublesome, and the two of them are fine." ”

Master smiled and shook his head: "These two boys are very hard, and they are not in the way. By the way, the ancestral hall of the old Huang family is still in the forest, right? ”

The woman still responded in a lazy tone: "The village was expanded two years ago, and the old forest has now become a part of Huangjiazhuang, and the ancestral hall is in the village." The Zhuangzi are all their own people. ”

Hearing the woman's words, the expression on Master's face seemed to be slightly disappointed, and I felt that Master seemed to want to take me into the old forest in the Northeast this time.

After a while, the woman asked my master again, "Master Chai, did our old lady write to you a few days ago?" ”

My master said "um", and the woman said again: "Then it will save my effort, and Master Chai must also understand what happened." ”

My master nodded and asked her, "What exactly is in the picture?" ”

The woman shook her head: "I don't know, Daochang Li and Master Chengyun can't see why, they just say that the corpse qi above is abnormal." ”

After she said this, the master did not communicate with her again, and there was silence in the carriage.

It wasn't until nearly an hour later that Liang Houzai suddenly turned me with his elbow, and then said to me in a very small voice: "Old Huang family in the Northeast, I seem to have heard my master mention it when I was a child. ”

I looked at Liang and waited for him to continue.

But Liang Houzai didn't speak, but the woman driving the car spoke: "Who is your master?" ”

When Liang Houzai spoke, his voice was as small as a mosquito, and the noise of the engine was louder than his, so according to common sense, the woman sitting in the driver's seat could not hear him.

But the woman heard it anyway.

Liang Houzai was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know whether to answer or not, after all, he also knew now that Grandpa Li ran away to avoid the enemy.

Who knows if the old Huang family in the Northeast is one of Grandpa Li's enemies.

It was still my master who said on the side: "He is a disciple of Li Liang, called Liang Houzai." ”

A woman's lazy laughter came from the front: "Oh, hehe, I didn't expect Uncle Li to accept apprentices." The last time I saw Uncle Li, it was also twenty years ago, and I heard the old lady say that he provoked someone who shouldn't be messed with at that time, and he hid in our house for a while. ”

My master also chimed in: "Well, just because of that person, Li Liang is also fleeing everywhere now, alas, he is also a sin." ”

As soon as he heard about Grandpa Li, Liang Houzai immediately became a little excited, he grabbed the front seat of the car, and said to the master who was sitting in the passenger seat: "Who has my master been hiding from all these years, and who is that person?" ”

I could hear that when Liang Houzai asked these words, there was resentment in his tone.

Presumably from the moment he learned that Grandpa Li ran away to avoid the enemy, he was full of resentment towards this so-called "enemy".

At this time, my master and the woman driving the car replied to Liang Houzai at the same time: "A woman." ”

I still couldn't see the woman's expression, but when my master said these four words, there was an indescribable helplessness on his face.

Probably to prevent Liang Houzai from continuing to ask this question, the woman driving changed the topic: "When your master mentioned our Huang family, did he tell you what our family does?" ”

To be honest, since Master mentioned the Huang family in Northeast China, I have always been curious about what their family does, and Liang Houzai is probably as curious as I am.

But Liang Houzai was still hanging about his master and did not respond.

On the contrary, I couldn't hold back a little and asked the woman, "What are you doing?" ”

She glanced at me in the rearview mirror, and I knew she was smiling when I noticed that her eyes were almost bent into an upside-down crescent moon when they were reflected in the rearview mirror.

But she was smiling on her face, and her tone was still the same as before, sounding a little lazy: "Our ancestors are not surnamed Huang, but surnamed Su, and I also heard the old lady say that our old Huang family was a salt dealer who bought and sold illicit salt in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Yuan Dynasty." At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the ancestors abandoned the original business, moved their families to Shandong, and started to do the work of ringing horses. You know what Hibiki Horse is, right? ”

Isn't the horse thief you used to talk about? When these people blocked the road and robbed the passing merchants, they often used the sound of arrows as a signal, and as soon as the arrows sounded, horse thieves would rush out of the ambush and kill people and goods. It is precisely because of this that these horse thieves are also called "ringing horses" and "ringing horses".

I nodded and said I knew, and the woman continued: "Later, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong ruled bandits, and we couldn't get along anymore, so we fled to Hebei, and started stealing with our family. In the beginning, it was petty theft, and the things stolen were all jewelry-type things. But in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there was another great chaos in the world, the Qing army entered Shanhaiguan, and our old Su family moved to the northeast. Before leaving the customs, the ancestors of the Su family are said to have stolen an ancient book from an antique shop, and at first no one knew what the book was for, and it was also by chance......"

Speaking of this, the woman paused, took out two rectangular signs from the storage box on the car door, and threw them back seemingly casually, just throwing those two signs into the arms of Liang Houzai and me.

It was a metal brand that could not be seen from the raw material, ten centimeters long and five centimeters wide, and the brand had six edges and corners, one of which was also wrapped with gold thread. And in the center of the brand, there is also an engraved word "Tong".

My master turned to us and said, "You two take this hexagonal sign, you can't enter the ancestral hall without this sign in your hands." ”