Chapter 573: A Hundred Years Old Mansion
After walking through those rice fields, and then passing through a quiet pond of half an acre full of duckweed, I saw a green tile wooden house, the wooden house looks very old, covered with a layer of dirt, in fact, every wall of the wooden house is brushed with tung oil, can go for a long time, even if it is a hundred or two hundred years without a problem. This is the real century-old house!
I saw Xiang Qiuling's eyes glow, and hurriedly asked, "This is your home?"
Xiang Qiuling nodded and said, "Yes - every step here is forbidden by my father, you have to be careful!"
"Huh, every step, it's just unguardable......" I sweated on my head and my legs began to tremble. Originally, I didn't believe in any evil, but I still had a headache about the prohibitions that Xiang Qiuling and Fu Ying often mentioned. The breadth and profundity of China's mystical culture is not something that can be despised casually, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will suffer a big loss!
Xiang Qiuling glanced at me, and saw that I was walking like an old woman, and couldn't help sighing: "Okay, I'll lift the ban first, and then put it on when we leave." With a wave of his hand, a firefly-like point of light flew everywhere......
Immediately, from the place where the light points fell, a transparent figure as faint as light smoke rose up and rose into the sky until it disappeared!
I was horrified: Could it be that the legendary ghosts were created by these shamans or feng shui masters?
"Alright, now you can go as you please, don't learn to be like a trembling old woman. Xiang Qiuling pursed her lips and smiled.
I always thought that Xiang Qiuling was as cold as a piece of frost, and she never smiled, and I never saw her smile. It turns out that she can laugh too, and she looks so good when she laughs!
"Qiu Ling, you look so good when you smile, why don't you smile never?" I asked with a smile.
"Who says people never laugh?" Xiang Qiuling rolled her eyes at me.
Seeing that I was still cautious and did not dare to take a step, she hurriedly took my hand and held it in her palmβI suddenly noticed that the cold woman's palm was also warm......
When I entered her home, I found that except for some fallen leaves in the courtyard that were blown off by the wind, it was actually quite clean, and the furniture in the house exuded a mysterious fragrance.
"Qiu Ling, your sister and your father have not been at home for many years, why is your house still so clean?" I wondered.
"I also have a distant aunt at home, and she sometimes comes over to take care of her. Xiang Qiuling replied.
She showed me around their sisters' bedrooms, and then pointed to a locked door and said, "That's my father's bedroom, and it's also his incense room, and he usually locks it, and never lets our sisters see it, and we sisters don't know what he's doing in it. β
I stared at her father's door for a while and didn't see any gossip, so I wondered, "Where is the gossip?"
"That's also a ban, how can you see it?" said Xiang Qiuling.
"So it's a ban again?" I said, stunned. I'm talking about the ban on color change now!
"Okay, go and get a load of water from the well over there, and I'll cook for you. Xiang Qiuling smiled.
"Huh, where is the well?"
"Forget it, telling you is also equivalent to saying to the cow, you rest here for a while, and I'll go fetch water. Xiang Qiuling said, went to the kitchen and took a pair of large round wooden barrels painted with tung oil, and used a bamboo pole to pick up water, I estimated that the barrel should be filled with eighty or ninety catties, I couldn't help but worry: "Qiu Ling, can you pick it?"
Xiang Qiuling said: "It's okay, I'm a child of a peasant family, and these things are often done." Then he went with the bucket.
After a while, I saw Xiang Qiuling come with a load full of water, and the flat shoulder was almost bent down, which showed how heavy it was, but Xiang Qiuling walked very easily, almost without bending her waist.
Xiang Qiuling poured two buckets of water into a water tank, and then beckoned me to come over and look: "Come and see the ghosts raised in my house." β
All of a sudden, my hair stood on end: "You have a ghost in your house?"
I was shocked at first, then relieved: it should be normal for a sorcerer's home to have ghosts. I'm going to see what this legendary ghost looks like today.
I had the courage to look into the water tank, and I saw a turtle crawling there at the bottom of the tank. I was dumbfounded and said, "This is the ghost you have in your house, isn't it scary?"
"This is the ghost I have in my house, and it's not scary. Xiang Qiuling said.
"I've heard that ghosts change, will it turn into a green-faced fangs and a long tongue?" I asked solemnly.
"Didn't you say it was a ghost? β
"How can I say it's a ghost? It's a turtle, a tortoise!"
"Huh?" I was eager to find a crack in the ground to get into. It turned out that Xiang Qiuling was talking about turtles, but I heard it as a "ghost" and made a big fuss.
"Man, help me chop wood, I'll go to the garden to pick some vegetables. "I threw an axe to Qiu Ling and asked me to chop a pile of firewood outside the kitchen into small pieces, and she carried a basket to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden.
"Do you still grow vegetables?" I asked.
"Of course, my dad took me and my sister to grow it. It's a pity that no one has taken care of it over the years, and they have all grown into wild vegetables. Xiang Qiuling said.
Watching Xiang Qiuling walk towards the vegetable garden, I also took an axe to chop firewood - I thought that chopping firewood was not technical, as long as I had strength, but after I chopped a few pieces, I realized that my idea was completely wrong. I don't know where I cleaved, but I couldn't do it anyway, and then I ate the blade of the axe, and I couldn't pull it out, and I was so tired that I was panting and sweating through my clothes.
Xiang Qiuling had already come back with a basket of vegetables, and when she saw my embarrassed appearance, she almost smiled and bent over: "My God, do you have such a chopping wood? Look where you have chopped? I tell you, chopping firewood should be chopped along the grain of the wood, so that it will be much easier to chop." Also, you have to avoid the scab inside the wood, which is this black bump, which is quite hard, and it will eat the axe blade, so that you can't pull it out. Xiang Qiuling said, easily pulled out the axe, gave me a few more demonstrations, and then went in to choose vegetables lightly.
At dinner, I saw her stir-frying a plate of green pepper fried green beans, a plate of pumpkin vines, a plate of pickled cucumbers, a plate of dried knife beans, the meat dish was a muntjac jerky that her father put in a sleeve a few years ago, fried in camellia seed oil, and the condiments were dried red peppers, ginger, alfalfa, and litsea cubeba.
"Come, eat more vegetables, this is the original, green and pollution-free farm food!"