Chapter 25: The Ancestral Hall

Contrary to what the traverser expected, Zhao Xiaoliu vomited a lot of meat and vegetables in the Baiyi Temple expedition, and heard that he would go to the ancestral hall at night, but he was very much in favor, but he didn't know that Zhao Xiaoliu was used to hearing the cards, and he hadn't touched the cards for a day and a night, and his bones were itchy and uncomfortable, just like being addicted, and the Baiyi Temple had obviously been looted by his predecessors, and there was no oil and water to fish, but it was different in the ancestral hall- It was used as the front hall of the gambling stall, he didn't dare to go, the back of the book, thinking that there was only Zhou Huaiyi an old man, it was not difficult to deal with, in addition to money and silver, he could also get some dry food and snacks to eat, but he couldn't get any treasures, and he took Zhou Huaiyi, and he could force Zhou Dashan to come forward and ask him to let go of his brother! When they were released, their brothers would not be able to stay in Jiming Village, and they would run away -- this also needed money and silver, and it seemed that it was easier to get money and silver in the ancestral hall than to get it from Zhou Tian and his family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

is caught by mistake, one has the Wang family girl in front of the crime, and the other is that the ancestors and ancestors are taking care of themselves is an old family, and it is easier to intercede than others, Zhao Xiaoliu's thoughts were originally incomprehensible, but he has no money, and he is not a close relative of Zhou Dashan and other big families, in the current situation, can there be a better way?

"I know the account room, but everyone in the village who gives birth to a boy must ask the steward to write his name in the book, and the next year for the Chinese New Year can go to the ancestral hall to receive a piece of pork," he said to the traverser: "There is a water tank in front of the door to prevent water from leaving, and if there is anything valuable hidden in the ancestral hall, it is there." ”

"Even if it's not there, since the book is there, you can also find one or two," the traverser explained to Zhao Xiaoliu the reason why he wanted to find old accounts: "Are there still swords left over from battles in ancient times to be enshrined in the ancestral hall? ”

Zhao Xiaoliu shook his head: "Yes, I haven't seen it, Zhou Dashan's former steward, there are a lot of corruption, listen to my old man, in the past, the village quarreled every year for the worship of ancestors, always said that the year is not good, if you want to share the meat, you have to sell the sacrificial field, everyone does not agree to share some of the water, at this time, he paid out of his own pocket to renew the ancestral hall, and the meat is more and better every year, everyone is silent, those old things, it is possible that they were burned during the renovation, ambiguous, do we really have to wait until the evening? There are not many people who gamble during the day, and we go over now- He was really afraid of this white-clothed temple, he always felt like there were ants crawling, he walked at night when he stole chickens and dogs in the village, and he didn't have this feeling once, if he had changed the past, he would have run to the ancestral hall to ask for the blessing of the gambling god, or he would have tried to get some wine at the grocery store at the entrance of the village to strengthen his courage.

The traverser disagreed: "Now the news on the mountain should have been transmitted back to the Tian family, the first step of the Tian family must be to search our house first, and then search the mountain, I can't imagine that we hid in the village and did not go far, now we go out, we may bump into the Tian family who went out, besides, what can you find in the ancestral hall in the daytime? There are many people who gamble, and the more lively they gamble, the less likely it is that we will be found to make a disturbance in the back." ”

Zhao Xiaoliu listened, thought about it for a while is really good, after the end of the evening after the end of the gambling money is a lot of people, but the gambling people can only see the money and dice, next to the sky is not visible, gambling money has always been very lively, the sound of scolding and applause is endless, the Tian family will only stare at the casino, will not guard the back, the back will only feel that there are so many eyes in front, and no one dares to come in? There are few people who gamble during the day, but there are many idle eyes!

After the two of them were calculated, and the traverser said: "If we go now, we have to walk under the mourning ditch", he was willing to go to the ancestral hall at night. Just kidding, what kind of place is the mourning ditch! But if he doesn't go to the funeral ditch, he doesn't dare to guarantee that he won't be discovered by the Tian family, and he almost saw them just now, and he can't believe that there is a second time with the same good luck.

Of course, he also refused to enter the main hall of the Baiyi Temple again, the half of the collapsed ear room looked at the other half as if it was about to collapse, so he went to the ear room with a big hole on the top, went in to see, there was also an irregular pit on the ground, he looked into the pit, it was also some gray leaves and the like, there were some broken black stone chips scattered on the edge of the pit, he recognized that these stone flakes were all on the mountain, the village people often picked up some fine pieces of fire, and then looked at the traces next to it, it seemed that several boxes and cabinets were knocked over on the edge of the pit, set on fire, the hole on the roof turned out to be burned out of the fire, it may have just burned through the roof, it rained, the building of the Baiyi Temple was preserved, not burned out, he saw it clearly, annoyed: "There were things here, but they were burned by people who didn't know the goods!" and hated that he didn't think about wearing the goods in this white-clothed temple earlier, and came here to make a fortune, thought about it, and turned over the surrounding gravel and wood, but didn't find anything,

There is no card touch, no food, and no one to talk with, he does not dare to enter the main hall, fortunately there is no Tian family to find, in the evening, the traveler came out, asked him about the layout of the ancestral hall before and after, and he also talked about them one by one.

Wang Zhaodi is not allowed to enter the ancestral hall of women, so the traverser can only listen to Zhao Xiaoliu's ancestral hall layout, he kept Zhao Xiaoliu, it is also convenient to make an inquiry, this person is in the way, and he still has the intention of grabbing treasures, but his experience is really stronger than Wang Zhaodi's little girl, uh, it should be said that the knowledge he is allowed to contact is stronger than Wang Zhaodi. Like the man with "paintings hanging in the ancestral hall", he couldn't remember it at first, but then he remembered it all at once, not only because he could enter the ancestral hall, but also because he looked at the portraits of his ancestors, and he also had the same mind as looking at the incense burner and candlestick on the offering table, all depending on how much the other party's line was worth...... Therefore, he said that he didn't remember the face, and as soon as he said the long knife of the "Huang Chengcheng big round nail", he immediately remembered it.

The two of them walked to the door of the ancestral hall in the dark, climbed over the wall and entered, the account room was locked, but how could an old lock withstand the traverser growing up in a thief's den? He didn't have to pry, he broke a blade of grass and poked into the hook, and then he heard a "snap" and let go, and he could see that Zhao Xiaoliu was smacking his tongue next to him.

The traveler saw a lamp on the table under the moonlight, the style of the lamp was similar to that of the Wang family, and there was still half a leftover oil in it.

There are two account rooms in total, the front one is small, with tables, chairs, boxes and cabinets, which is the place where the steward reckons the accounts and collects rent, and the back one is large, which is a warehouse, which has all kinds of miscellaneous items from the tent to the cups and plates, some are half-new and some are tattered, according to Zhao Xiaoliu, they are all New Year's decorations. The traveler didn't look at them first, but opened all the chests in front of him, and the cabinets were full of account books, and in the boxes were uncut pieces of white cloth, and there was a small drawer under the table, in which were scattered hundreds of dollars. The traverser took the lamp and saw that these coins were of different sizes, old and new, all of them were ring-shaped copper coins, and since he crossed over, it was the first time he had touched money in his hand, and the money that Wang Zhaodi had touched in his life was used to buy groceries for his family, and it did not add up to one-tenth of what he was in front of him now.

There was also a piece of chestnut cake in the drawer, which had already been nibbled by Zhao Xiaoliu with the cold tea in the pot next to him in his hand, it seemed that the steward was in a hurry, and the cake was not taken away.

Zhao Xiaoliu swallowed the cake in two bites, went to the back warehouse to find a piece of cloth and put the copper coin, and said happily: "The travel fee is there!"

The traverser looked at the account book in the cabinet, he took a copy casually, opened it and looked at it, most of the words on it were not recognized, and when Zhao Xiaoliu looked at it, he said that it was the birth date and month book of the man in the village, he casually pointed to a few places and asked, Zhao Xiaoliu answered one by one impatiently, he kept these words in mind, and when he drew another book, most of the words in it were recognized-all the money and silver in and out of some fields, and he drew another book, which was the book of ancestral hall facilities.