Uncle Wu Chunze's house is facing the gate of more than ten steps out of the two big willow trees, the autumn cicadas on the tree are restless, for the surface boundary, there is a bamboo fence in front of the gate, the house is rarely inhabited these years, no one takes care of it, the fence wall has been decayed, there are collapse gaps in several places, a wild cat was alarmed by the sound of Zeng Yu and Wu Chunze's talking, and quickly jumped out of the front yard, three times and two times jumped out of the shadow.

Wu Chunze shook his head and said to Zeng Yu: "This place has become a nest of wild dogs and wild cats, do you want to go in and have a look?" Seeing that the courtyard was so dilapidated, Wu Chunze regretted recommending this house to Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu said: "Let's take a look outside first." ”

Zeng Yu went around this house, this house is different from the common style of houses in Guangxin Mansion, with typical Huizhou residential characteristics, high horse-head walls surround the house, white walls and black tiles, fine brick carving, Wu Chunze said that his cousin came to Huizhou in his early years to sell tea oil, and he liked the style of Huizhou's house, and after a small savings, he bought land and built a house here, and specially invited craftsmen from the floating beam, and the cost before and after was no less than four hundred taels of silver, and now, fifty taels of silver to be sold are not interested, and it is not cost-effective to make farmland——

When he turned to the right side of the house, Zeng Yu saw a three-zhang tall jujube tree through the high courtyard wall and asked: "Since it is a Huizhou style, why is there a big tree planted in the horse-head wall?" "It is taboo to have big trees higher than the ridge of the building in Huizhou houses, but the houses on the side of Guangxin Mansion are not taboo.

Wu Chunze sighed: "Brother Xian is really a giant eye, he can always see the key point at a glance, just now that Huanwan drowned one of my cousins, this jujube tree, and fell to death one of my cousins, alas, a nine-year-old child, went up the tree to pick dates, stumbled and fell, there was nothing to do at that time, and he shouted abdominal pain at night, and it was gone before dawn." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Although it is an accident, it is always bad luck if it is not a single line - Sixi, take out the compass." ”

When he came out of the house, Zeng Yu asked Sixi to bring the tiger bone wood compass, which came in handy, Wu Chunze came over to see this complex and delicate compass, the compass is divided into eighteen layers, the first layer is the innate gossip disk, the second layer is the earth mother nine star disk, and then the twenty-four heavenly stars, the twenty-four mountains of the earth needle, the twenty-four solar terms, and the seventy-two dragons through the mountains...... The last two layers are the five elements of the armillary star degree and the twenty-eight nakshatra boundaries——

Wu Chunze watched Zeng Yu turn the compass, those dense star map mountain dragons made him dizzy, rubbed his forehead and smiled: "Oh, Mr. Feng Shui's bowl of rice is not delicious, I can't read this compass." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Yes, it's not easier than writing eight strands of candidates, and ordinary people can't hold a compass." "Back to the front of the house, enter the fence firewood door, stand three steps away from the main gate, the flat compass is chest-high, face the gate, turn the site twenty-four mountains, this is the mountain direction of the house, Xiangyang house is extremely important, in front of the gate, the master bed, the study desk and the stove four places are determined, only the direction of the mountain, can be discussed on the direction of the house and the fierce place.

Wu Chunze was confused, took the key to open the door, followed Zeng Yu in and out for most of the hour, Zeng Yu set the direction of the mountain, and went to see the big jujube tree in the courtyard of the inner courtyard, autumn is when the jujube is ripe, the tree is half green and half red jujube is heavy and drooping, Wu Chunze's cousin was on the tree to pick jujube before falling down, the edge of this patio is made of granite, the floor is paved with square bricks, extremely hard, fruit trees are planted in the patio, boys are naughty, of course they will climb, the probability of falling is very large, Xiangyang House must take these into account -

Zeng Yu took a bamboo pole to beat dates, picked up four joys, quickly picked a large handful, and handed it to Zeng Yu, Zeng Yu tasted a red date, very sweet, and said to Wu Chunze: "Brother Wu, I bought this house for fifty taels of silver."

Wu Chunze was taken aback and reminded: "Brother Xian, don't make a hasty decision, but complain about me in the future."

Zeng Yu smiled: "How am I that kind of person, don't you see that I am busy and sweating." ”

Wu Chunze asked: "According to Brother Xian, what is the feng shui of this house?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "The feng shui of this house was not bad, but the moat ditch was not dug in a place, so that the house lived outside the bay, which is called the dragon's back water, which is unlucky." ”

Wu Chunze thought for a while, nodded and said, "This ditch was dug twenty years ago, just one year after my cousin built the house, and it turned out that the stream bypassed the back of the house. ”

Zeng Yu said: "It's good to bypass the back of the house, and the water song is called the dragon's belly." ”

Wu Chunze said: "If the virtuous brother buys this house, will it cost a lot to let Lingxi change his old path."

Zeng Yu said: "There is no need to change the route, just let people widen this section of the bay, and there must be some changes in the house, and it will cost dozens or hundreds of taels of silver to renovate it so that it can be lived, and it can't be said to be cheap." ”

Wu Chunze asked: "Do you really want to buy it?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "There is no joke, but I want to go back to Yongfeng Shitian first, and after I come back, I will go through the handover procedures with Uncle Ling." ”

Wu Chunze said: "That's good, Brother Xian should also think about it more, ask Ling Tang and Brother Ling what they think, buying a house is not a trivial matter, it is better to be cautious." ”

Zeng Yu nodded and said, "Brother Wu is right, I will consider it carefully." ”

This place is not far from Wu Village, Wu Chunze invited Zeng Yu to be a guest, Zeng Yu let Sixi go back to Zhu Jiajia to know his mother Zhou, he himself went to Wu Village with Wu Chunze to meet Wu Chunze's father, had lunch in Wu House, it was dark and heavy rain fell, Zeng Yu and Wu Chunze wrote in the study for recreation, saw a piece of paper is written by Jiang Yuanrui, Jiang Yuanrui's calligraphy is still good, Zhao Songxue learned, the paper is written "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island." My Fair Lady, Gentleman"——

Wu Chunze said: "Jiang Yuanrui loves to write this poem when he has nothing to do, and he on the woman by the ditch in front of the door and also chants these words, he is gone, and I am also relieved." ”

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "Brother Wu is a good gentleman, if it were me, I would have told him to get out of here, I am making friends, not making friends with scoundrels." ”

After chatting for a long time, the rain stopped, Zeng Yu resigned, and Wu Chunze asked a servant to send Zeng Yu to the entrance of Zhujia Village.

Back at the Zhu house, Zeng Yu first went to see his mother Zhou, and his great-mother Zhou asked, "Xiaoyu, have you decided to buy the house over there?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "The house was built 20 years ago, the bricks and wood are quite strong, the doors and windows are still very new, it is a good house for the family, as for the house is not lucky, the son will use the method passed on by his uncle to change, and the mother will put it."

Great-mother Zhou has an easy-going temperament, and her son has an idea, so she listens to her son and says, "You have to take a closer look." ”

Zeng Yu said: "My son knows, my son will go back to Shitian with his eldest brother tomorrow, we came out too hastily last time, and we didn't bring out a lot of clothes.

Great-mother Zhou nodded and said, "My mother won't go back, and I'll go back to sweep your father's grave next year during Qingming." He also said: "Don't quarrel with your sister-in-law, everyone is close to each other." ”

Zeng Yu smiled and said: "My son is not dividing the ancestral property when he goes back, what is there to quarrel about, my son will come back after taking his clothes, and I have to buy a house to repair it here, maybe I will delay it for a day or two in the county, and I want to visit Lu Hanlin, as well as the Confucian instructor Sun Jiaoyu in this county." ”

Early in the morning of July 14th, Zeng Yu and his eldest brother Zeng Qian, as well as Uncle Li and Sixi, rushed to Sanjiang Wharf, took a boat back to Yongfeng, went up against the Fengxi River, and went ashore at Shanxiyi Wharf in the evening of the same day.

When passing the Xiazhou Road Pavilion, Zeng Yu remembered the scene of carrying Niuniu in the rain that day, and sighed in his heart, it was not easy to take that step that day, and he was happy to survive, and the days to come will only get more and more

Arrived at the Ishida Fengxi ferry, under the bright moonlight, I saw the ferry across the shore, of course the hunchback was not there, Zeng Qian said: "The camel uncle lives on the side of the lion's head mountain, I will call him to send us across the river." ”

Zeng Yu said: "You don't have to call, I will hold the boat." "Zeng Yu used to go to Dongyan Academy to study, and every time he transitioned, he begged the hunchback to let him support the boat, and the water flow in this section of the ferry was gentle, and the boat was nothing difficult to support.

The moonlight is clear, sparkling, the penny is inserted into the bottom of the river, you can feel the rough sand and stone rubbing against the penny, the end of the penny into the water is wearing a small section of the shoe, otherwise a penny will be used up in a few months, the penny iron is often rubbed with sand and gravel at the bottom of the river, shiny as snow, the cold light can be seen when the water surface is raised, the cold light reflects the moonlight flashing, and breaks into the flowing water, like a silverfish diving into the bottom, the ferry boat is in this shiny penny iron out of the water into the water between slowly approaching the opposite bank -

Zeng Yu likes this feeling, leisurely, familiar, quiet, and unhurried......