Xue Fang didn't say anything, but I saw that he seemed to think of something related, and I asked him, "What did you think of?" ”

Xue Fang glanced at me and said, "It's nothing, I just think it's a little unusual, but I don't know what's unusual, this feeling is very strange." ”

It turns out that Xue Fang also has times when he can't figure it out, so I didn't say anything else, anyway, after the identity of my grandfather was clear, many things suddenly became much clearer, at least I don't have to worry about what this unknown person will do to my detriment, including what he says to me every time he appears. I can also think about his motives from the perspective of his identity, such as the incident that allowed me to pass through the seven bridges and seven rivers, and I always felt that the significance of this event was more than that.

After we came back, we chose to be led by my grandmother to Mr. Bai's house after sunset.

The place where Mr. Bai and Mr. Bai live is far away, and it is in two directions. In the past, I didn't understand much, I only knew that there was a person named Master Bai, but I didn't know that he was so far away from Mr.'s house, and my grandmother said that the place where Mr. Bai lived was the ancestral home of Mr.'s family. The house where the husband lived was built on the ground outside by the gentleman himself when he became an adult, so it was far away.

When my grandmother said this, I casually replied, "That's too far away." ”

The speaker had no intention of listening, and after Xue Fang heard it, he said, "I'm afraid that Mr. Bai Ye had another intention when he built the house in that place." ”

I just glanced at Xue Fang, but Xue Fang looked at his grandmother. It seemed that this sentence was said to the grandmother, and the grandmother took over and said: "It is indeed strange to say, because the land on which his family built the house was bought by a foreigner earlier and planned to build a house there, but who knew that when digging the foundation, a coffin was dug up, like there was a grave below, and the family was so frightened that they had to go back to the land with the buyer, saying that it was unlucky." Where was the buyer willing to return, and later the gentleman found out about it, who knew that he took his family's land and exchanged it with the outsider, and he built a house on the foundation of the outsider, and the outsider built a house on the land that was originally Mr. ”

I really didn't know about it, but when I heard my grandmother say it, I asked her, "Which one?" ”

My grandmother replied, "I don't know you either, and I guess you won't recognize that person when you see him." ”

Xue Fang replied: "In this way, it is a typical yang and yin house." ”

After that, we went to Bai's house, his house is indeed the appearance of the ancestral house, it is a very old-fashioned wooden building, and the tile cracks are covered with grass, one side of the roof has been deviated, looking like it is about to fall down at any time, and the door is a wooden door that has completely lost paint and even has been insected. Grandma knocked on the door and shouted inside, shouting several times in a row, and an old echo came from inside: "Who? ”

Grandma gave her name, and in a few moments the door opened. I saw a very old man behind the door, but to be honest, he didn't look like a person who was already in his nineties, but like he was about seventy, although he was old but energetic. He was stunned for a moment when he saw me and Xue Fang also standing outside, and then he looked at his grandmother and asked, "Who are the two of them?" ”

The grandmother said, "This is my grandson, and this is one of my nephews." ”

Master Bai glanced at me and Xue Fang again, and said, "Come in first." ”

After we came in, he closed the door, I don't know how, after entering the yard, it gave people an eerie feeling, the whole yard and the house gave people a kind of desertion, but there was a strange energy, the white master led the way in front, but I only walked a few steps, otherwise there was a cat meow under my feet without warning. Startling me, I jumped to the side almost reflexively, and then saw a normal gray cat, just slightly fatter.

I'm making such a big move. It seemed to scare the cat, and the cat immediately ran away, and Master Bai looked back at me and said, "Are you afraid of cats?" ”

Actually, I'm not afraid of cats, it's just that things like cat ghosts and cat Gu at home have given me a psychological shadow, and now as long as I see a cat, I feel that this cat is a cat ghost or something, and just now this cat quietly appeared at my feet, which really scared me a lot.

I felt that explanations were superfluous, so I replied, "Yes." ”

Who knows that Old Man Bai said: "Men are rarely afraid of cats." Because the yang energy is heavy, he is not afraid of the yin energy on the cat. ”

I don't know how to explain it, but my grandmother helped me out and said: "Wood, he was scared by cats when he was a child, and at that time he didn't know that cats cried like babies when they were young, and the first time he heard a child crying, he thought it was a cat crying, but he was scared to cry when he saw it." Since then, I have always been very afraid of cats, and when I was a child, I would cry whenever I saw cats, but now that I am older, I am better. ”

When Master Bai heard this, he looked at me again, this time it was very unusual. But he didn't say anything, so he shouted to the cat on the side: "Little Ash, play by yourself." ”

The cat was chased like this, and it scurried to the beam several times. Climbing up the eaves, we only then entered the hall of Old Man Bai's house, and after entering the inside, we only felt that the feeling of depression inside was heavier, and the gloomy feeling of the old-fashioned wooden house rose again. I was a little scared.

Old Grandpa Bai sat down, grandma said what she meant, and when Old Man Bai heard this, he only looked at me and then looked at Xue Fang and said, "Time waits for no one, these juniors have grown up, Huiyu, you are so old." ”

He talked to his grandmother like this, which showed that he really knew grandma, but we didn't hear grandma talk about this white master, and we began to wonder in our hearts, so grandma said, "Uncle." This nephew of mine is the nephew of the patriarch of Xuejia Town, but if you really talk about generations, he should be a person of the same generation as my father, and he has been helping our family take care of the family house recently. Let's talk about Yongning, to tell you the truth, today we went to his grave to open the coffin to see, Yongning's body is still in the coffin, that is to say, it is not Yongning who came back, no one can say anything about this matter, so I have to come to you to find you old. ”

Master Bai asked Xue Fang, "Are you Xue Yunhai's nephew?" ”

It turned out that Xue Fang's uncle was called Xue Yunhai, but Master Bai could call out the name Xue Yunhai at once. It shows that they also know each other, so does it mean that he and my grandfather also knew each other?

Xue Fang said, "Do you always know my uncle? ”

Master Bai said to my grandmother: "If you really talk about it, Xue Yunhai and I are both your grandfather's juniors. I still remember when I was a child, I used to run to your grandfather's coffin shop, and I was reprimanded by your grandfather, and we never listened. I remember one time when your grandfather wasn't there, I ran inside. I saw that there was suddenly a paper figure in the corner of the store where the coffin was usually only placed, so I stepped forward to take a look at it curiously, who knew that before I saw the real thing, the paper man grabbed my hand. I still remember its face, I fainted with fright, and then your grandfather helped me send it home. ”

Master Bai casually said something, but he seemed to be telling us something in this way. He continued: "So since then I have never dared to go to your grandfather's coffin shop, I still remember that your grandfather's coffin shop had a coffin that was never sold, and I don't know what material it was made of, the whole coffin was black, I remember that it was not painted, but the wood was originally black, it seemed to be the material. I also asked your grandfather why he was the coffin in the store, and he told me that it was not mine. At that time, I was most afraid of that coffin, you see, it was almost 90 years ago. ”

Listening to Master Bai talk about the discount black coffin, I glanced at Xue Fang, I don't know if he was talking about the one that his uncle and grandfather custom-made, Master Bai said this, and then looked at us and said: "You see that people are verbose when they are old, you don't like to listen to these." ”

I didn't know how to answer, but Xue Fang replied directly with two words: "No." ”

Then Master Bai got to the point and said, "I know what you want to ask, and I also have a question for you." ”

Xue Fang asked, "What's the problem?" ”