monument

Chapter 7 Living People ([-])

I opened the talisman paper, and there were many characters inside, but I only knew the four characters in the middle, exorcising evil spirits and peace.

It's just that these four characters are broken from the middle for some reason.

How is this going?Why is there a talisman in my collar?
And this talisman paper, why did it split when it was so good? Didn't I just have a dream just now?

The more I thought about it, the more I lost sleep. I lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze, until the sky began to lighten, and the sound of cock crowing came from outside.

There was a knock on the door, put on your shoes and open the door.

"Hey, did you stay up all night? You can compete with giant pandas with dark circles under your eyes." Yan Shu at the door sneered at me.

"Yeah, how do you know?" I lay back on the bed weakly.

"what happened?"

Maybe because he saw something wrong with me, he didn't continue to mock, but sat by the bed and asked.

"You didn't encounter any strange things when you slept last night?"

"What strange thing?" It was Yan Shu's puzzled face who answered me.

It seems that he really had nothing to do last night.

Why is it me?

"Have you encountered a strange thing?"

"It's okay, I just had a nightmare." I still don't understand what happened, so why bother with someone who is two years younger than me.

Yes, Yan Shu is two years younger than me, he is 14 years old this year, but his speaking style does not look like [-] years old at all.

"If you didn't rest well last night, or else, don't go today, anyway, you have nothing to do today."

"Is it okay if I don't go?" Anyway, I am two years older than Yan Shu and know more than him.

However, I absolutely can't stay in this building anymore, I want to go home.

"I want to go home, how about you come with me?"

"Going back to your house? What are you doing? Run away?" Yan Shu might think that he didn't run away even as a fake Taoist priest. How come I, a real stele carver, didn't get a good night's rest, and just had a nightmare and was about to run away.

"How is it possible?" I was annoyed by him, "I have something to go home, and I don't feel relieved if you live here alone, so go back with me? Anyway, the grave digging will take a while." Nothing for two days."

I think so, but Assistant Liu doesn't think so.

"No, two little masters, this matter is a bit urgent." Assistant Liu rejected us righteously, and even raised the issue of professional ethics, "Little master, did you run into something at night? But We agreed at the beginning, and now we are leaving, how can I explain to Madam?"

It turned out that Assistant Liu also knew that there was a problem with this small building.

"We'll just go back for one day, and we'll come over tomorrow. The location you took us to see yesterday is very good. It's in line with Madam's expectations. We can just arrange for someone to dig it out. We don't have anything to do here for the time being. Other things It’s impossible to finish everything in one day, right?”

At this time, Yan Shu really looked like a little man, standing in front of me.

"Could it be that little master Chen can't engrave the stele first today?" Assistant Liu hesitated after hearing Yan Shu's words, and wanted to struggle again.

"Then have you prepared the tombstone? There are also the tools needed to engrave the monument. Do you think it is so easy to engrave the monument? How can I engrave it if I have nothing ready?"

I spread my hands, and said it should be taken for granted.

Of course, I didn't think about engraving a stele at all, so I didn't ask him to prepare these things, but now it's a good idea to prepare these things as an excuse for us to go back.

"Then what do you need? I'll send for it right away."

"Black dog's blood, glutinous rice, cinnabar, Assistant Liu, it's best for you to prepare these things. I didn't need to go back, but I didn't bring the tools for engraving the stele!" Maybe I stayed with Yan Shu for two days, I actually started to act, pretending to have a headache, "At first, I thought it would be fine to come here and prepare the tools for engraving the stele, but I went to see that place yesterday, and then I thought about it all night, and I still have to Use the engraving tools passed down by my master, otherwise, if something happens later, my little master Yan and I will be the first to suffer. No, little master Yan is worried about me alone, so he insists on going back with me and watching with his own eyes. I got the tools."

After this long speech, Assistant Liu was dizzy and nodded repeatedly.

Even had to drive us back himself.

How can we refuse such kindness?
So, Yan Shu and I returned to Panjiawan in a limousine.

"What's the matter? Why are you back?" When we got home, Grandpa was feeding the chickens at the door, "Who is this child?" The latter question was about Yan Shu who was following me. ,

"Oh, it's a friend of mine." I smiled, and walked straight into the main room regardless of what my grandfather thought, "Where's my mother? They won't go back, will they?"

"Here! What are you doing! Why did you come back in one day? What happened?" My mother was helping grandma feed the pigs at home, and she came out of the pigpen when she heard my voice.

"Yan Shu, wait for me here." As I said that, I pulled my mother into a small bedroom where I usually sleep when I come here.

Then he took out the broken yellow talisman paper.

"Ah! What's going on! How did you make it like this?" My mother was also shocked when she saw the talisman paper, but what shocked her was not that I brought the talisman paper back, but that the talisman paper was split in two That's why I was so surprised, "You son of a bitch, why did you tear this up?"

"???" Why did I tear it apart? "Mom, take a good look. If it is torn apart, will there be rough edges in the middle of the tear? Look, is there any rough edges?"

After listening to what I said, my mother carefully picked it up to the light. Indeed, the cracked part was neat and tidy, not a trace of tearing at all.

"What the hell is going on here? What happened to you?" My mother also realized it, and then looked at me carefully.

"Where did this talisman come from?"

"This is just an ordinary peace talisman. Why do you ask so clearly?"

No, very wrong, when my mother answered me, she didn't dare to look at me at all, but pretended to study the cracks on the talisman paper.

"Mom, do you know that your daughter almost didn't come back yesterday?" It seems that my mother won't talk unless some heavy medicine is given.

I directly told her about the dream I had last night. Thinking about it now, it might not be just a dream at all.

"How could this happen? Didn't Master Liao say that this talisman will always bless you when you arrive? Why did you still encounter such a thing?" My mother murmured.

Master Liao?Couldn't it be Liao Laosan who did things for my grandfather?
(End of this chapter)