I lay on the couch and kept thinking: what was that place and why I was so familiar with it.

For that place, I have no intention of looking for it, open my phone and brush the circle, and some small advertisements pop up, welcome to XX Ancient Town, XX Villa...... My fingers accidentally touched that small corner, and when I clicked, the so-called ancient town appeared, the same pattern, the ancient road bricks and tiles, and a so-called ancient house - Xu's ancestral hall.

Then, I picked up a map from my bookshelf, returned to the couch and flipped through it, patiently looking at the pages, fingers running over the lubricated sheets of paper. I quickly browsed through all the ancient streets in Wuxi at a glance and looked at ten lines.

By the way, it is Wuxi, which is an ancient street full of ancestral halls, when I was a child, I went there a few times, and now I only leave fragments of fragmentary memories. I vaguely remember that it was a Xu ancestral hall, which was very large and spectacular, and it was more than enough for the entire family to live, and it could be said to be the Forbidden City in the water countryside in the south of the Yangtze River. What the front hall looked like, I can't remember it for a long time, anyway, there are stone mountains, there are streams, and antique treasures seemed to me to be a simple vase of flowers, so I was not very impressed by the front hall. I can vaguely describe the backroom. It was a place surrounded by portraits of ancestors, with spiritual tablets placed layer by layer like a staircase in the middle, and I didn't know any words, and I should have ignored what was written on them, but I was not blind, but I was most impressed by these portraits.

The portraits are scattered all around, and there is only one hanging in front of the spiritual seat in the middle, which should be the most important person. There is also a difference between the murals on both sides, the left and the right, none of them are fierce and evil, but they are all kind and kind, the strange thing is that they are all very young, without a trace of wrinkles, and they may be in their early twenties. The Qing Dynasty official uniforms are worn on both sides, and it is obvious that the long braids of the Qing Dynasty are covered in the top flower feathers worn on the head, and the rubies on the heads are bright and dazzling, which shows that they are all first-class officials. Each nine-python five-clawed python robe, the civil official crane supplement, the martial arts hall unicorn supplement, the feet wear black-headed green dragon boots, and the feet step on the lotus. Also, this curse has faded into oblivion......

What is striking is not counting these, the only person who sits, that is, the ancestor in the middle. He was wearing a red and yellow Tibetan Quba, with a dragon printed on it, and I didn't know until I heard the elders say that it was called Ying Long, which was an auspicious beast in ancient times, and it was also the patron saint of our race. The belt was covered with brightly colored gemstone agate, and a dagger made of silver inlaid with turquoise was hung. A huge wolf tooth hung on his neck, showing the demeanor of his Tibetan family and a proud and righteous spirit that should not be underestimated.

I still don't understand why our dignified Wuxi family has portraits of Tibetan Tibetans, while the ancestors on both sides are wearing the costumes of the Qing Dynasty's first-class officials.

My mind probably passed the real scene of the ancient town, so what should I do next?" I should have gone to him, and he gave me such obvious instructions. With that, I began to patiently tidy up my home, wiped down the things I needed, and hurriedly ate a bowl of noodles downstairs and took a taxi to that place.

When I came to the ancient town in my dream, it was still raining in the sky, which was no different from the dream, I gently lifted the bag hanging on one shoulder, stepped into the stone door, and suddenly felt a little confused. The ancient town is so big, where should I go, I stopped in an unknown alley, bustling with passers-by, who never paid attention to me, an insignificant little person. I searched the whole ancient town but couldn't find the small tea shop, I was a little discouraged, and the hope that had just been ignited was suddenly shattered.

I was like a headless fly, scurrying around the alleys, and every now and then I would come to a dead end. Inadvertently, my footsteps stopped in front of an ancestral hall, which was the Xu ancestral hall. I hesitated at the entrance of the ancestral hall. Perhaps, I don't need to hesitate at all, the door is closed and I can't enter at all.

I tried to leave, but my feet did not obey, and I drew closer and closer to the closed mahogany gate, which I tried to push open, but it did not move. With a temperament like mine, the more you don't open it, then I want to go in, besides, this is the ancestral hall of the Xu family, and it is natural for me to go in, how can there be a reason for me to eat closed?

I touched my chin and decided to come in over the wall at night and do what a thief did.

When night fell, I deliberately wore dark clothes, carried the backpack in the morning, avoided the eyes of the doorman, and ran to the entrance of the ancestral hall like a mouse, the wall is not very high, but it is also a little difficult to climb up. I used both hands and feet together, took a few steps back, rubbed my feet the wall, grabbed the top brick with both hands, although one hand grasped the tile, but who knew that the old tile had begun to fall off, I suddenly grabbed the empty, and the empty hand hung under the effect of the center of gravity. I relied on the strength of one hand to try to climb up, and both feet also began to rub hard, but the wall tiles were very slippery, and it had rained recently, and the crazy moss blocked me from climbing the road upwards, and I almost fell down several times, but fortunately, the strength of one hand was still there, how to say that my years of fitness were not in vain.

Finally, my other hand also grabbed the top tile, and now it was easier, and I resisted it with both hands as if I were playing with a horizontal bar. Easily, my whole body was lifted up, and I collapsed on the uneven green bricks and green tiles, panting, and cursing in my heart: Damn, Lao Tzu is like a thief, even if you are a thief, you don't have to be so tired.

After resting for about 5 minutes, I turned around again and rolled directly into the ancestral hall. It was dark inside, I couldn't see anything, in a little moonlight, I took out my own bright flashlight from my bag, the surroundings were very quiet, I was afraid that even the sound of turning on the button would startle the birds in the trees, and slowly turned on the flashlight without hurry.

A beam of light from the flashlight hit directly, and the beam of light illuminated the entire corridor at once, and I could actually see the wall at the end of the corridor. It's not much like what I remember, a stone road with strange paths, and next to it is a long corridor made of mahogany pillars, and the stone road shuttles through the rockery. On the rockery, including all around, are planted and raised dripping Guanyin. In the morning, I would still walk the literary and artistic path, but now it is night, and I can't see anything, so I talk about enjoying the scenery and watching the moonlight.

I decisively chose the small corridor, and I also looked at the paintings hanging on the corridor, which were undoubtedly all surnamed Xu, some of whom I knew, and some of whom I had never heard of. After walking for a long time, I finally made it to the front hall. Before, I didn't say a word, my heart was full of depression, this is an old mansion, not to mention an ancestral hall, no one can understand the things inside, it's better to be quiet, don't attract anything unclean.

With this kind of luck, I went around the corridor a few more times, and finally came to *.

What I saw* was brightly lit, like an isolated world, there were no lights in it, and the lighting was all candles, illuminating the entire ancestral hall. Should I be fascinated by the beauty of the interior now, or should I be surprised and scared by it?

Where the gate is closed, there will be such a brightly lit place, who would not be surprised by this? The ancestral hall is the place where the ancestors lived, and if I came in like this, I would not say that I could not get by in my heart, and even if I did not say that I was superstitious, I would feel a chill down my spine.

I shrunk my cuffs, lifted and slid my bag down, and kept comforting myself that there was nothing in the world that was made up by a bunch of idiots. After that, I quietly poked my head out of the window to take a look, and the scene inside was still exactly the same as the scene in my mind, not the same, and the portraits were still ancient and vicissitudes, but a little more yellow.

A person on a kneeling mat in the middle, sitting cross-legged on it, holding the seal in both hands, I saw that his hand was fixed under the umbilicus, his right palm was placed on the palm of his left hand, and the two thumbs were gently touched, and he naturally placed his hand on his lap. I didn't dare to disturb him, I secretly observed him, his long hair had been shaved at some point, his robe had long since disappeared, and he had changed into his normal modern clothes: a white short-sleeved T-shirt with a gray and white plaid shirt on the outside. I gradually realized that he could be so stylish in modern clothes, and there was such a handsome boy hidden in the wide robe. Unfortunately, I couldn't see his face from this angle, I couldn't help but take my camera out of my bag, aim at the angle, and only hear the sound of the shutter "click", he turned his head sharply, and a tiger turned around. His body turned lightly, and he landed on the ground steadily, without making a sound. Changing his appearance but not his ancient temperament, I saw his arm bent and one hand clenched into a fist in front of his belly, and the other hand hidden behind him, "Maybe it's still a Taoist robe that suits him better" I thought to myself.

I put down my camera and hung it around my neck, and the two of us looked at each other......