Chapter 2: Exploring Old Houses
Du Wei and Zhang Cai chatted while walking, and when they returned home, Du Ting said: "Don't run around all day, talk more with your aunt, we have to go back to the Forbidden Sword Villa in two days!"
"What my father said is that my daughter remembered that she had been to Huayin Town when she was a child, and there was a big house in the town, and my mother said that the house was a good place to settle down in Huayin Town," Du Wei said and stared at Du Ting, Du Ting's eyes flickered, and he said in surprise: "Is there one?"
Du Wei sighed secretly in his heart, it seemed that his father didn't know at all, so he had to say: "My daughter will help my aunt!"
"Ah, I didn't come back so soon!" Seeing Du Wei enter the stove room, Gao Xiaoqing said while stir-frying.
"Auntie does it know that when I was a child, my mother used to go to a big house in Huayin Town, which street is it, I want to go and see!"
"Even if there is, it is not our family, how can there be a house in the family, of course my aunt knows! The house in the town is so expensive, how can the family afford it?"
"That's my mistake!" Du Wei said, feeling very uncomfortable, it seems that my aunt knows everything, but she just doesn't want to tell me. At that moment, his eyes rolled and said: "Sister Zhang Cai is also not small, and there are a lot of people who come to propose marriage, right?"
"Not much?"
"I guessed not much, you see that Zhang Cai will not dress up well, it is a sunny day, after dinner, I and Zhang Cai's sister will rush to the market to buy her some rouge gouache, come back and dress up well, okay aunt?"
"Okay, but you have to go early and come back early!"
"I know, go early and come back early, but you have to talk to my father, and I have to count my mother-in-law and mother again!" After speaking, he took a plate of dishes in one hand and said, "I will serve the food to the hall!"
"Be careful, don't spill your clothes on the soup!"
The two of them walked on the avenue, and Zhang Cai said: "The weather is so good today, there must be a lot of people in the town,"
"Don't be shy, right?" Du Wei answered, laughed after speaking, Zhang Cai said: "You are not afraid, what am I afraid of!"
What a straight character, Du Wei thought in his heart that he hadn't walked for long, the road forked to an official road, and there was an endless stream of horseback riding, carriage riding, and walking on this official road, Du Wei was afraid that Zhang Cai would be separated and held her hand in his hand. Seeing more and more houses on both sides, and unconsciously going onto the street, Du Wei tried to recall what it was like to see that house when he was a child.
"Where are we going, the more remote we go!"
"Don't worry, help me find an address first, and then I'll accompany you to buy the things you want to buy, and I'll pay for the things, okay?"
"You don't have to pay, I have it, you said it earlier, your business is my business!"
Du Wei finally calmed down in his heart, and unconsciously walked a few quiet alleys, and was walking in a small alley, and suddenly said in surprise: "This is it," ran to the door to see, the door was pasted with the seal of the government, and saw an old man pulling an erhu at the opposite door, and hurriedly ran over and said, "Uncle, excuse me?"
"Is there something wrong with the girl?" the erhu sound stopped abruptly, and the old man looked at Du Wei and asked.
"I'd like to ask why the big house across the street is sealed?"
"Eighteen years ago, a beautiful girl bought this house, the girl's name is Qi Longrui, I didn't live long, I saw a seventy-year-old lady and a young girl named Miyan go in and out every day, and then there was a woman named Gao Zixian, this Gao Zixian asked me if I had ever seen the white mist fly out of the house, I often saw it at the door to enjoy the cool air one morning. She was very surprised when she heard that I had seen it, during that time there were dead people in the town every three or five times, and Gao Zixian often went in and out of this mansion alone, and then a woman came, and brought three men to see it, but she didn't know when she left! Someone from the government came and put a seal, and the house was idle until now, who are you asking about what you are doing?"
"I see that the feng shui of this land is good, and I want to buy this house, so I inquired about the situation, thank you, uncle!"
The two walked for a while, Zhang Cai said: "Don't you plan to go in and have a look?" Du Wei said: "Don't listen to the old man, you will suffer a loss in front of you! Come early and go back early!"
There were shouts on the street, and suddenly saw a lot of people gathered in an open place and didn't know what they were looking at, Zhang Cai dragged Du Wei's hand and walked over there, Du Wei said: "Don't crowd too many people, beware of thieves! Go back early!"
"You have to go and see it!" Zhang Cai looked at Du Wei angrily, and Du Wei said: "Okay! ”
In the crowd, a young man in white sat there selling a knife, and wrote a notebook next to it, which read:
If there is a weapon that is constantly sharpened, it will not be accepted and given away with a sword! If you want to use a weapon to test, you must pay three yuan, if you cut off your weapons, you will not pay a loss, look in front of the young man, he has received several hanging swords all over the ground, and some people are still paying money to test with weapons, and the result is the same.
"Get out of the way!" Du Wei shouted loudly, took out his fan, and slammed it on the small table.
"Pay first!" The young man's eyes fell on the fan, and at a glance, he knew that this fan was not made of ordinary iron, Du Wei shook the money bag in public, took out Sanwen and checked it in his hand, and threw it into the wooden box in front of the young man, and the young man reached out to take the fan......
"Wait!"
Du Wei pressed his palm on the fan with his palm, and then said: "I didn't tell you to cut the fan!" At the moment, he took back the fan, untied the soft whip from his waist, and said in a loud voice: "Cut the whip, there is also a suggestion below, if you keep chopping, you can not have your treasure knife, but you let me beat it twice casually, and I am not allowed to fight back, how about it?"
"That's what you said! Don't go back!" said the young man, who was so happy that he didn't know what to say to express his feelings, and the man next to him said, "Girl, you are stupid! He can cut your whip into eighteen pieces." ”
When the young man heard this, he squinted at Du Wei and said, "My sister asked me to cut a few pieces, but I didn't care!"
Du Wei stretched out a finger and said softly: "Eliminate your master's nonsense, cut this position," said with his hand and pointed to the end of the whip at the end of the slightly, and said with a smile: "Cut it!"
The young man grabbed the whip and saw that it was silvery-white, two fingers wide, and more than seven feet long, but it was as thin as a cicada's wings......
"Ahh
The young man shouted, did not cut the whip was shocked and cut the hand holding the whip, looked at the blade, there was obviously a gap, and then looked at the cut part, intact, grabbed the whip at the moment and looked closely, the word Tianhe was highlighted on it, Du Wei snatched the whip, pulled Zhang Cai and whispered a few words, turned around and said: "Zhang Cai!"
"In!"
"Hit him twice casually for my sister, don't beat him with luck, just punish him a little!"
"Yes!"
Zhang Cai walked up to the young man, smiled at him, raised his hand, and slapped him wildly. Zhang Cai grew up doing rough work in the countryside, although he didn't know martial arts, his brute strength was still not small, and he was still frightened by the incredible young man's body and retreated again and again. As soon as he touched his face, his nose was bleeding, Du Wei pulled Zhang Cai and walked away.
The bright moon rose, Du Wei and Zhang Cai sat back to back on the top of the haystack, Zhang Cai said: "Sister should have taken that knife today, it is also a good knife that sharpens iron like mud!"
"Of course I want a good knife!"
"Then we didn't take it after all?"
"It's not too late to get it tomorrow!"
"But will he still sell knives there in the future?"
"Of course, I beat him today, and I will go and get his knife tomorrow to convince him. ”
"Then I'll go with you tomorrow, I've never hit anyone, today is the first time I've hit someone, I think it's quite enjoyable. ”
"Okay, but you have to get up early! and don't let your mother and my father know about the beating. ”
As soon as the rooster crowed, Du Wei got dark, lit the oil lamp, woke up Zhang Cai, simply freshened up, put the note written last night on the table, extinguished the oil lamp with a palm in the air, closed the door and pulled Zhang Cai out of the yard.
Du Wei with night vision, all the way to pull Zhang Cai to walk the night road, the town is deserted, only to see a cat jump from the courtyard wall, unconsciously, and to the gate of the seal, at this time the sky is slightly bright, Du Wei pulled Zhang Cai around the back of the house under the wall, untied the soft whip to tie Zhang Cai on the back of the back and took a few steps backwards to run forward a few steps, a dry land onion style flew up, fell to the tile house more than three zhang high, toe point tile spread out Ping Trace step swept over the roof of the hut, both hands spread, like a peng wings to the courtyard flew down, fell into the courtyard, untied the soft whip, said softly"You can talk casually here, no one will come in," he said and said with a smile: "Just don't tear down the house!"
"What can I do?"
"Don't help, just talk to me!"
"What are we going to search?"
"Qi Longrui, the old woman, Mi Yan, the past left by these characters, judge their departure. and the successive deaths eighteen years ago, these must be related to my mother's departure. ”