With the sound of the door opening, we looked back, there was no human figure, only the old dog Ah Qi stood outside the threshold and wagged his tail waiting for his father to let him enter the house, I knew that this old dog was very spiritual, and his father raised it since childhood.

When I was still in junior high school, I saw a newborn grass dog abandoned in the flowers by the river and whimpering, so I carried it home. So it became a member of my family ever since.

Since then, whenever Dad is at home, he has been in and out with him, and Dad has been better to him than to us, just like the secret room, which we have only come in for the first time today, and he has long been familiar with it.

"Come in." As soon as Dad beckoned, Ah Qi jumped into the threshold with a bunch of keys in his mouth.

Dad bowed his head and took the key from his mouth, and said to us, "Yesterday I asked your mother to match each of you with a key to this house, and now that you have known your identity, this is no longer a secret." ”

Dad walked to the offering table, bowed to the portrait three more times, turned back to me and said: "This table is dedicated to our ancestors, as well as the ancestors of the past dynasties, a cup corresponds to a person, this last cup is your grandfather's, I will also go to it in the future, you too, you have to remember the number of these cups, if you want to demolish and move in the future, if you break a few, you have to make up in time." ”

I thought to myself, no wonder there are so many cups, it seems that it is not the huge number of people on the painting, and the ancestors of our family have all gathered here to drink it for a long time.

Dad removed the two keys and handed them to me and Bingbing respectively, and put the remaining one in his pocket, I think it should be for my sister.

"Keep this for your sister, although I don't know when she will come back, but sooner or later she will come back, I know this very well." Dad whispered to himself a little, as if he were speaking to us and to himself.

My sister is three years older than me, and my father said that she had bad luck for 20 consecutive years since she was 14 years old, and she had to stay away from her parents to turn the corner, so she transferred to her aunt's house in Nanjing when she was in junior high school, and only came back two or three times a month.

When I was in high school, she had been admitted to the Imperial Capital's School of Political Science and Law, and since my family's yin-yang art has always been passed on to men and not to women, she has never learned it.

I vividly remember the week after her graduation ceremony, my family waited for her to come back and drink the reception, but after waiting for several days, she was nowhere to be seen, and when we called the school and my aunt, they said there was no news. I wanted to call the police, but after my dad calculated a hexagram, he said that there was no need to worry, and there would be news.

It wasn't until the autumn of that year that I received a letter from her from Lantian that there were only a few short sentences on the letter, and what I remember most clearly was the sentence "I feel exhausted, I am afraid that it is a catastrophe of great luck, thank you for the grace of many years of nurturing, and go to Nanshan to seek medical treatment and recuperate for a period of time, hope not to read it." ”

Then his fate was uncertain, and he was never heard from.

Just thinking about my sister's matter, my father interrupted my train of thought and asked me how much money I still had in my account, I never cared about my money left, because I was a child and reached out to ask for it, so I didn't have the habit of keeping accounts at all, and now the expenses in the store are taken care of, I don't care too much. After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know the specific number, so I could only look back at Bingbing.

Bingbing continued: "I don't know if he has a small treasury himself, but the account in the store, just paid half a year's rent last month and bought a large number of goods, and now there is only more than 170,000 yuan left in cash, it should be enough, don't worry, uncle." ”

Dad looked at me and continued to ask, "And how much money do you have in your little coffers?" ”

It seems that he doesn't want to know my family background, I touched my pocket, there are three hundred yuan that Bingbing gave me to help Sister Ming show feng shui in the afternoon, and then turned out the wallet in my waist bag, there are hundreds of dollars in cash, as well as a few bank cards and credit cards, but I really don't have any idea how much is in the card, so I can only say a number "There are more than 30,000." ”

"Well, yes, yes, I haven't asked my family for money for so long, and I can still save so much cash, it seems that I have indeed matured and progressed." I don't know if my dad is praising me or hurting me, but as he said, since the store opened and Bingbing helped me take care of it, it really seems that I haven't asked my family for money for a long time.

"What's next for you?" Dad asked suddenly.

"Me? What do you mean...... I can't close this shop. ”

I know that my father is asking me about the next thing about the person who is looking for the Pure Yang Five Elements, but to be honest, my mind is in a mess right now, and I don't know what to do at all, and there is no concrete plan for this kind of big event without a few days to digest.

Dad lowered his head and thought about it, and glanced at Bingbing: "I see Bingbing in this shop, it's much better than you managing it yourself." It's just that Bingbing doesn't understand the eight characters of Feng Shui, and it may be a little troublesome if you meet someone who comes to ask for a hexagram or something, but if you just sell something, it's the same with you or not. ”

"Huh? So what do you mean...... Is it for me to go out and find someone right now? With such a large scope, where do I start, I have to sort out my ideas or something first, and then do some preparations. While I still have some time, I can also teach her and the two employees in the store some of the basics of reading the eight characters and five elements. Although Yin Yang Yishu won't teach them, the basics can still be taught, right? ”

"Okay, then I'll give you a week at most, if you're not worried about the business in the store, I can also go and help sit in the hall, it's better than you, right?"

Dad seems determined to put me on the shelf, and now that he's made the decision for me, I don't have to bargain anymore.

"Go out to run errands, it's not okay to have some money around, but you kid has no bottom to spend money, I will put some money on your account every once in a while, if there are special circumstances that are urgent, call me to discuss, save you from going out to be a bad person at one time, don't think I don't know, you still have a nickname of 'Zang Daguanren', right!?"

I secretly complained, how can he know this, it must be Bingbing's little report again, seeing Bingbing is looking down and snickering, I glared at her fiercely.

"Okay, it's almost the same today, you guys should rest early, and you have to go back to the city tomorrow. The key is given to you, and you can come and go as you like in the future, but be sure to lock the door, after all, there are often outsiders coming in and out of this house. I know that the outsiders my father is talking about should be Aunt Hu, and some guests who visit my parents and so on.

Ah Qi jumped out first, and the three of us also went out, and I looked back at the dense portraits on the white gray wall, and I always felt that it looked like an eerie feeling now, and I don't know which generation of ancestors painted it, maybe it was painted when this house was built.

The wind on the summer night was still hot, and my dad took Ah Qi out for a walk, and I saw Bingbing walking to the edge of the fish pond to tease the fish, so I followed, "Hey, I said, why don't you express your opinion, the old man thinks that one is one out, where can I find so many people?"

I lit a cigarette and sat down on a large bluestone by the pond.

"What's hey, don't forget jì, I'm more than a dozen generations older than you now, and then you say I'll continue to call you brother, or I have to change my name, so many generations, I really don't know what to call for a while~~"

Bingbing lay on the big rock, fiddling with the water in the pond with one hand, and pretended to ask a group of koi, "Little fish, little fish, do you know what to call him?" ”

"Come on, don't take chicken feathers as arrows, this generation is a generation, I'm still 6 years older than you, you have to call me brother." Hurry up and figure it out for me. ”

Bingbing stood up, shook the water in his hand, sat down next to me, put his grin on my shoulder, cleared his throat and said matter-of-factly, "Brother, you can go with confidence!" ”

"Bah, this kind of thing can be joked, when is it not serious. Think about it for me. Or, go to the newspaper network or something to advertise someone with a bounty? "I really don't have anything else to do.

"How does this work!?" Bingbing finally entered a serious state and began her educational tone: "Do you know how expensive it is to advertise outside now!" Any provincial or municipal newspaper, such a large piece of dried tofu costs tens of thousands, not to mention the website, the small website is ineffective, and the big website you can't afford to vote. ”

"Why can't I afford it, don't forget that I used to study advertising, I did the media industry, I also understand the price, what is marked on the outside is the price of the publication, in fact, you can get a lot of discounts, or I will go to my old classmates in the media company and ask, not to mention that my father didn't say to give money." I don't think a website should be ridiculously expensive.

"You still say that you are half an advertising person, and now there are only a few famous websites, I wanted to do an off-site drainage for our online store, the kind that charges according to the click-through rate, and you get at least 1 yuan for a click!"

"1 buck? It's so cheap, so hurry up and vote. ”

"I charged 1,000 yuan last time and wanted to test the effect, but it was ordered in less than half an hour, and there was no transaction. If, according to what you said, what kind of reward is offered to find someone, and everyone is curious to click on it to come in and have a look, then your money will not burn as fast as it is. If you don't do this kind of click-to-click advertising, but charge by the number of views, then it is more expensive, a better website, a banner advertisement, a day will have hundreds of thousands of real prices, not to mention that you are just a search notice, and others may not give you the homepage if you have money. ”

Thinking about it, it's really bottomless to burn money like this, not to mention that I don't know what the surname of the person I'm looking for is, who has any characteristics, and I can't explain the content in words at all; In addition, most people don't know their own eight characters, and even if they see them, they may not think they are themselves......

"I went to take a shower first, and after a busy day, I was sweating all over, and it was really uncomfortable to be sticky. You should also hurry up and rest, go back to the city early tomorrow morning, the traffic jam on the road during the rush hour is terrible, and we have to go out at 7 o'clock to stagger the traffic jam time. ”

After saying that, she walked to her room on the second floor of the West Wing. Walked to the staircase and turned back and said: "Take care of your baby pendant, if you lose it, your life will be difficult to protect!" ”

I know she's actually worried about me, but this girl just looks like she's strong on the outside, others are happy and angry, but she is all the virtues of a godson after all the moods are turned on her face.

I waved at her, snuffed out the cigarette butt and threw it into the overflow trough by the pool, put the key and the pure fire five elements in my waist bag, and went upstairs back to my bedroom in the east wing.

As soon as I got back to the room and sat down, my phone rang, and I looked at the caller ID, hey, this guy came to me again to spend all day drinking?