Fortune Teller Master

Looking at Zhou Wensheng's collapsed appearance, Lin Qingyin looked at him speechlessly: "What do you want? Do you think I let you be the snake last night?"

Zhou Wensheng, an old man in his forties, looked at Lin Qingyin grievously, and his expression was obviously so skeptical. Just now he clearly saw the little master rubbing his stomach and swallowing water. As a chef, he knew very well What does this action represent...

That is obviously greedy!!

Looking at Zhou Wensheng's eyes, Lin Qingyin couldn't help but touch his own face, and it only took a few hours to know her. Why did she misunderstand her so deeply?Does she look like someone who eats everything?

"You can rest assured that the snake can't eat it." Lin Qingyin sighed somewhat depressedly: "Besides that the snake that appeared last night is not an entity, you can't cook even if you have a pot!"

"That's it." Zhou Wensheng relaxed and quickly echoed: "I really don't have this technology. But what about the little master's snake? Is it malicious for our family?"

Lin Qingyin felt her hungry stomach feel that she had no strength to answer the question. She turned and walked downstairs: "I will reveal the answer after breakfast."

Zhou Wensheng quickly followed, he was very glad that his breakfast was prepared more abundantly, and he could temporarily let the little master forget about eating snake meat.

Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou had finished breakfast when Lin Qingyin and Zhou Zihao went down. The old couple sat in the window watering the flowers and plants by the window, and saw Lin Qingyin greet with a smile: "Little girl from the city Come here to play?"

Although Lin Qingyin looks like a high school student, she still can't call her grandparents like outsiders. She can only smile politely: "Well, two old people, did you rest last night?"

"Especially good!" Grandpa Zhou said in a trembled spirit: "At night, we are quiet here, and sleep is particularly sweet. Did you sleep last night?"

Lin Qingyin nodded. She arranged her formation in her room before going to bed last night. The snake couldn't get in at all and didn't bother her at all.

"The countryside is quieter than the city, and there are no lights or cars at night. Sleeping will be better." Grandma Zhou smiled kindly: "In the years when I took care of Zihao in the city, I always slept at night, Even when I fell asleep, I was very shallow, and I was able to wake me up with a little movement. Later, when Zihao finally went to school by himself, our old couple quickly moved back. At that time, we were still living in this old house next to us. As soon as I entered the house, I felt very calm. In the words of your young people, you feel particularly secure."

Grandpa Zhou also smiled and echoed: "That is, don't look at our old house at the time, but I think it is more comfortable than the high-rise buildings in the city." After saying this, Grandpa Zhou saw the eyebrows of his grandson. He got up and quickly added another sentence: "Of course, the villa my grandson built for me is also comfortable, so I moved in immediately."

Several people were amused by the words of the old man. The old man took a small shovel to the flower to loose the soil and said without lifting his head: "You think we are telling a joke, in fact, we are telling the truth. Our family has a patron saint Yes, as long as you often go home and live, make sure you are safe and peaceful outside."

In the past, Old Man Zhou often said this, but everyone in the family thought that the old man was afraid of loneliness, so he deceived them with this.Several of the children privately joked that the old man became older and more like a child, and the words made him laughable.Fortunately, Zhou Wensheng's brothers were more filial to the elderly, and everyone took turns to accompany them, for fear that the two elderly felt lonely.

Zhou Wensheng and Zhou Zihao both thought so before, but after seeing the scene last night, they found out that what the old man said as a joke might be true. The scary white snake might be really possible. Is the patron saint of their family.After all, the white snake frequently entered and exited their room without seeing it. It didn't hurt them at all except that it affected them to sleep.Even more frustrating is that the white snake seems to be checking whether they are sleeping well in their room.

Zhou Zihao couldn't help crying at the thought of this place. Was this white snake a little too maternal?

Although it was this way of thinking, the two did not dare to ask in a hurry. The little master was so anxious that after the master had finished his meal, he quickly revealed the mystery. Zhou Zihao felt a little eager to scratch his heart.

The little master was eating breakfast beautifully, but the chef Zhou Wensheng, who was admired by the little master, had no intention of eating. A soup bag could not swallow and bite, and he watched the mouth full of oil.

Lin Qingyin finished one cage after another, and finished the second cage with a bowl of fried noodles. The whole Zhou Wenshan wanted to ask the little master where the half-table meat he ate last night went. This digestion It's too fast.

Finally, the little master put down the chopsticks, and Zhou Zihao, who was also waiting, cheered and hurriedly handed the wet towel over, and stood up diligently and asked, "Do you want something to drink?"

Lin Qingyin looked outside the window and wiped his fingers with a wet towel: "The sun is good today, you make tea in the pot, let's go to the yard and chat with the two old men."

In the villa built by oneself, the courtyard alone is one acre of land. The old couple planted a lot of flowers and vegetables in the courtyard.It's late autumn now, many flowers have been defeated, but the big red pomegranates falling on the pomegranate tree look very attractive.In addition, a dozen pumpkins hang in half on the side of the garden, and each one is as big as a small pot.

The old people don't have any concept of the layout of the scenery, they pay attention to practicality, but it is the young Zhou Zihao who paid the money to build this villa. He has some petty bourgeois feelings.The combination of the two means that there is a set of solid wood tables and chairs under the pumpkin. You can sit and drink tea to sunbathe. By the way, you can look at the mountains that are not far away, or you can look at the harvest scene in the yard.

When Zhou Zihao heard Lin Qingyin's instructions, he quickly moved the complete tea tray and tea set to the yard, and sat on the stool to boil water to cook tea.Lin Qingyin stood in the middle of the courtyard with his hands behind his back and looked at the old house next to Zhou's house. With an excited look, Wang Fatzi stood behind Lin Qingyin's side and seemed to be whispering what he was asking.

Grandpa Zhou sneaked beckoning at his son, Zhou Wenshan hurriedly came close, and whispered in coordination with the old man's actions: "Dad, what are you doing?"

"Does our family like that little girl?" Grandpa Zhou pouted in the direction of Lin Qingyin, frowning a little tangledly: "I think the little girl is not very young, shouldn't she be a minor? "

Zhou Wenshan really didn't know the age of Lin Qingyin, but he heard from his nephew that the little master was still a high school student, and it might be less than eighteen years old.

"Dad, do you ask what the age of other girls? The little girls don't like to say this now." Zhou Wenshan reached out his arms and held his arm: "Why don't we go outside and drink tea to get some sun, now these days?" In good weather, you must stay outside for a while so that the bones are strong."

Grandpa Zhou reached out and patted the hands of his unremarkable son, looking a little anxious: "Why are you so careless? Look at Xiaohao's industrious manner, do you like that? Little girl? I can’t tell you. It’s estimated that people haven’t grown up yet. You told Xiaohao that we can’t do this kind of thing. This is a crime.”

Zhou Wenshan didn't expect his grandfather's imagination to be so rich, and he said with a bit of laughter: "You think too much, Xiaohao has absolutely no different thoughts about that girl, and he doesn't have the guts to think about it."

When Mr. Zhou heard this, he was relieved. After watching Zhou Xiaohao’s white tea almost cooked, he reached out and patted his wife’s hand: “Go, go out and drink tea to sunbathe.”

The two elderly people walked hand in hand with each other and walked out. After leaving the door, Grandma Zhou went to the concrete floor by the window and grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and placed them on the table, peeling them one by one very patiently.

Zhou Zihao poured the tea and shouted to Lin Qingyin: "Master, the tea is ready."

Grandpa Zhou just picked up the tea cup and shook his hand in surprise. The hot tea came out of the tea cup and spilled on the back of his hand. When he hurt, he unconsciously released his hand and instantly the purple sand cup fell to the ground and shattered.

Zhou Zihao didn't have to worry about the lack of a cup for the tea set he bought at a large price. He quickly reached out and grabbed Grandpa Zhou's saying: "Grandpa is going to the cold water of the water head, or it should bubble."

Zhou Wenshan went to help the old man while he couldn’t help but say straight: “You said you are all so old, how come you are stunned, you see the back of this hand is red. Oh, I said you are hurrying up, sit here What do you want?"

Grandpa Zhou didn't move in his chair, staring at Lin Qingyin's direction but asked Zhou Zihao: "What did you call the little girl just now?"

Zhou Zihao was annoyed that he hadn't heard it when he heard this sentence. He looked at Qinglin Qingyin with some anxiety and looked very pathetic.Lin Qingyin walked over with his hands behind his back, looked down at the red scalds on the back of his father's hand, and reached out to cover his hands.

Zhou Zihao and Zhou Wenshan only saw Lin Qingyin holding Grandpa Zhou's hand, but Grandpa Zhou's heart, which was covered by Lin Qingyin, was like a thundering wave, and his eyes were staring straight at Lin Qingyin. Couldn't say a word.

About half a minute later, Lin Qingyin took his hand down, and then looked at the hot spot on the back of the old man's hand, he had restored his original skin tone, and no traces could be seen.

Zhou Zihao glanced at the back of Grandpa Zhou's hand with some doubt, and asked uncertainly: "Grandpa, do you want to apply ointment?"

"No." Grandpa Zhou pushed Zhou Zihao's hand away, a little solemn look on his face, got up and made a respectful gesture towards Lin Qingyin: "Master please sit down."

"Master, you don't have to be so polite." Lin Qingyin sat next to Grandma Zhou with a smile, squeezed sunflower seeds from the table for a moment, and squeezed them in his hands. He put the slightly damp sunflower seeds into his mouth.

The freshly peeled sunflower seeds have a lot of moisture and are not brittle, but they have a unique fragrance and sweetness.Lin Qingyin ate one and thought it tasted good. He couldn’t help but reach out and pinched another from the old lady.

The old lady watched Lin Qingyin take the seeds one by one like a little squirrel, quickly reached out and grabbed a lot of them and put them in front of her, said with a smile: "If you like to eat, eat more, all I planted, No pesticides."

Grandma Zhou liked Lin Qingyin very much, but Grandpa Zhou looked at Lin Qingyin's look but it was very complicated.The white tea on the table is for five years, and it takes seven minutes to cook it to make it taste great.He poured all the hot boiling water on the back of his hand as soon as he poured it into the cup. At that time, he felt a burning pain sensation from the skin.Lin Qingyin covered his scalded area with a cold breath from the painful skin, quickly swam through the skin, and quickly suppressed the hot pain.

In the scene just now, no one saw anything unusual, but Grandpa Zhou knew clearly that he had encountered an expert, and this expert might have come to hide his secret for a lifetime.

Grandpa Zhou reached out and took the tea cup in front of Zhou Zihao. He trembled to drink the tea inside and waited for his mood to calm down a little before asking: "What the hell are you?"

"I'm a master invited by your grandson." Lin Qingyin stripped pine melon seeds and said in a casual chat tone: "They always sleep unsteadily in the villa. I want to invite me to see what's going on."

Grandpa Zhou showed an angry look on his face. He looked up at Zhou Zihao fiercely and said quickly: "My family has nothing at all, otherwise how can my wife and I sleep like this." He cured the burn himself, but the old man eased his tone, but there was a bit of pleading in his voice: "It may be that they are used to the bustle of the city, so they didn't sleep well when I came back. I promise that this will never happen again in the future. . You are a master, and it’s not worth the waste of time for such little things."

Looking at Grandpa's vigorous defense, Zhou Zihao whispered: "Grandpa, we have all seen it."

Grandpa Zhou turned his head violently, and his voice trembled a little: "What did you see? I said everything in our house."

"I saw a snake!" Zhou Zihao glanced at Lin Qingyin or said the facts: "The little master arranged the formation, we saw a glowing and transparent snake in the middle of the night from the gate, it was next to the room Check it again and finally lie down in front of your bedroom,"

Seeing Grandpa's pale face and trembling limbs, Zhou Zihao grabbed Grandpa's hand: "Grandpa, don't be afraid."

Grandpa Zhou slammed Zhou Zihao's hand away, and looked at him with an unprecedented look: "What happened to the snake? Did you kill it?"

"The snake doesn't have an entity. Why do we kill it?" Zhou Zihao said innocently: "We saw the snake lying on your door and we went back to bed, but when I was about to fall asleep, the snake got in. "Zhou Zihao said some grumbles here: "No wonder I used to feel something watching me when I was sleeping here. The co-author is this ancestor."

Grandpa Zhou was obviously relieved to hear that the snake was not injured. He leaned on the back of the chair and drank a cup of tea silently. Then he turned to look at Lin Qingyin: "Did you hurt it?"

Ordinary people have nothing to do with snakes without entities, but such masters with different skills are different.

"No!" Lin Qingyin said in a normal tone: "I took them to admire the serpent's heroic pose yesterday and I went back to the room to sleep. I didn't even touch it."

It can be seen that Grandpa attaches great importance to the snake. Zhou Zihao nodded quickly to confirm Lin Qingyin's words. Grandpa Zhou was relieved.

Seeing the family didn't seem too disgusted with the snake, Grandpa Zhou finally spoke.

"Actually, I know the existence of the snake, but I didn't expect it to still protect my home."

Hearing this, even the old lady turned to see Grandpa Zhou: "What's the matter?"

"My family had been bureaucrats during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the number of students and students they cultivated was unknown, and it was regarded as the famous family of scholars in Qicheng. I don’t know when, my ancestors got a habit, that is, every Generations and grandchildren have to record the miracles of major events in the clan, and then pass down this note from generation to generation, which is also a way for future generations to understand the life of their ancestors.

"The handwriting left by the ancestors came to me with several large boxes. In fact, I don’t have all the notes in my hands. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the present, for hundreds of years, only a tenth of the total is left. , But this one-tenth let me know a lot of things that I never imagined.

"Every generation of note-taking people has different personalities and different points of focus. Some record-keeping people have more sensitive and learned disciples, others like to talk about government affairs secretly, and some ancestors like to write some anecdotes. Anomalies. Some of these anomalies happened in the family, and some were heard by hearsay, because they were so interesting that they were written."

Speaking of the notes he had read, Grandpa Zhou couldn't help showing a nostalgic smile, and his tight body had also relaxed.

"I was in a war when I was a kid. That’s because although I was also in a private school in the village, my husband taught some words and some poems, and said nothing else. At that time, there were not so many books like children now. I don’t even have textbooks, we learn what we write on the board, and it’s very boring. Extracurricular books are something I dare not think about. When I know more words, I’m not content to dry every day. 'S memorizing poems and verses with Mr., always looking for something new. My dad was helpless by me and gave me a brass lock key.

"At that time, my house was inherited by an ancestor. Although it was not as large as one tenth of its heyday, it was also the best house in the village. My home and backyard added up to a dozen rooms, only one house. The door was locked all the year round, and a yellow-orange-bronze lock was hung on it. The thing I and my brother and I used to do when I was a kid was to poke into the door of the house and look into each other. What is it."

Grandpa Zhou recalled that year and couldn't help but smile a little: "I didn't expect my father to give me the key."

Speaking of this week, Grandpa picked up a cup to drink tea. Although Zhou Zihao was impatient, he saw that Grandpa Zhou recalled the events of that year with a happy smile on his face, and he suppressed his curiosity. He listened to Grandpa Zhou talking about his childhood.

"After I got the key, I couldn't wait to open the door. After pushing the door, I found that there were large boxes one after another. There was a set of tables and chairs next to the window. Cleaning. I opened the box and looked at the full of books in it. I was so excited that I couldn’t wait to pick up a chair sitting by the window and read it. The first story I saw was about snakes.

"The ancestor who recorded that story was a ancestor during the Daoguang period. His name was Zhou Tonghe. Zhou Tonghe went to Beijing to take the exam when he was thirty years old. As a result, he just went out of Qicheng and it got dark shortly afterwards. It was a heavy rain. Zhou Tong and he used to go this way when they went to their mother-in-law's house. He knew there was a cave on the side of the mountain to avoid the rain. People at that time were simple and kind, and often people put some in the cave when they were cutting wood and hunting. Firewood is prepared for unexpected needs. Don’t look at the firewood is not worth much, but if someone hides in a cave in bad weather someday, this firewood can be of great use.

"Zhou Tonghe quickly hurried to the cave when the rainstorm was coming. He put the suitcase on the ground covered with straw and drew some firewood from the inside and lit a fire to roast the wet clothes. Here it is At that time, Zhou Tonghe heard a strange bird cry from outside, and immediately after a huge thunder sounded, an eagle whose wings were scorched by thunder fell from the sky and fell just in front of the cave, and the eagle In his paws is a big white snake.

"The white snake seemed to have fought with the eagle, and it looked scarred. In addition, how thin it was before it was struck by lightning, and it was also injured. The white snake was not dead, so Zhou Tonghe took the rain to peel off the eagle claws with a knife and rescued the white snake. Zhou Tonghe dragged the huge white snake into the cave after dragging it into the cave Through, and the white snake looks even less energetic.

"Zhou Tonghe didn’t have experience in treating the snake, but he didn’t want to let it go. He sprayed some gold sores on the snake, then tore a coat to help the snake wrap up, and distributed the hot chicken on the shelf. Most of the white snakes.

"It rained for three days and three nights. One person, one snake and two worked together to finish Zhou Tong and the smoked chicken sauce and braised duck that he carried with him. The rain stopped. Zhou Tong and the last time he helped Bai Snake changed the medicine. Wrap it up, but touched his head with his hand, and said half-jokingly:'I'm going to Beijing to take the exam, you take care of yourself. If you become a fairy in the future, remember to come to me for gratitude. '

"Zhou Tonghe just made a joke, and after leaving the cave, he left the matter behind. He was admitted to the Jinshi that year, but he was of ordinary rank, and he went to the field to become an official after reporting his good news to his family. "

Looking at what the grandchildren and several outsiders listened to with great interest, Grandpa Zhou said more and more energeticly: "Zhou Tonghe is very thorough in life, although the official movement is not prosperous, but there is nothing serious about his life in peace and stability. When he took office, After the fiftieth birthday, he went to the old man and told his old man to return home.

"There are many children of the Zhou family, and Zhou Tonghe is not the eldest son. It is very inconvenient to live in an old house after returning home. He decided to build a house and move out. There are many trees in Shanbo County, and there is no shortage of wood to build a house. The speed is fast, but the house of Zhou Tonghe for half a year is almost built. On the day of Shangliang, Zhou Tonghe placed a tribute to worship the god according to the rules, and after the beam was lifted up, everyone sent candy, peanuts, buns, and copper money to Tossing on the beam, I didn't know where it came from. A thick white snake climbed onto the beam. It hung on the beam and looked down. It retracted the huge body and disappeared quickly.

"Women and children are a bit scared when they see such a big white snake, and the elderly people say that the presence of snakes in the house is a good sign. That is to protect the family's peace and security. Don't hurt them. Zhou Tonghe is right about such things. It was very disapproving, but Shangliang had to say auspicious words this day, and he didn't say anything disappointing.

"The new house was completed, and the furniture that had been set was generally inward. Zhou Tonghe and his family moved in for a few days. Zhou Tonghe and the house he built at that time were not small, and he was an official for a lifetime. Usually people talked about him. I don’t know how much money I made. This sentence made a group of gangsters listen to it and moved their minds. At night, they brought a knife into the yard to kill and kill people. As a result, they just entered the house after blowing the incense, and the white snake appeared..."

Before Grandpa Zhou finished his words, Zhou Zihao couldn't help but interjected and asked, "Grandpa, don't you mean that everyone is in a coma? How do you know that the white snake came out at this time?"

Grandpa Zhou glanced at him: "Zhou Tong and Dingjing Jiner woke up the next morning and found that five or six dead people were lying in the room. These people had twisted faces, and their bones were not squeezed. Broken. Zhou Tonghe has been an officer for a lifetime. I don’t know how many cases were sentenced. He can see what happened to many corpses. After checking the corpses, he remembered the white snake that appeared on the day of Shangliang.

"The gangsters are all famous in the county. They have never done murder and robbery. The county grandfather in this county also has a headache for them. Now the gangsters are dead, the people in the county are all happy, and for their strange death method, Many people also have different opinions, but Zhou Tonghe’s neighbors believe that those people were hanged by the house snake. After all, everyone saw the appearance of the snake on the day of Shangliang, so it is not a matter of having a thick body entangle a person. At this time, a curious person asked Zhou Tonghe if he had rescued this white snake.

"Reminded by his words, Zhou Tonghe finally remembered the life of the snake he saved when he was young. It was just that he said a joke at the time, but he did not expect that the white snake really came back.

"Zhou Tong and Li Ma told people to offer the white snake brand at home. Every day on the 15th day, they put tributes like chickens and ducks, and then closed the room. When the door was opened the next day, the tributes would be gone. ."

Grandpa Zhou sighed softly: "Just like this, I consecrated twice a month. Zhou Tonghe had dedicated the serpent for twenty years. Although the serpent received all the tribute, it never came out once. Zhou Tong and the seventy-year-old When he was infected with wind and cold for a long time, he could not be cured. In his last few days, the white snake who appeared rarely appeared in his room and had been lying on the bedside to accompany him. After Zhou Tonghe swallowed, the white snake bent straight up to the body. After three waists, he climbed the beam and disappeared.

"Since then, the Zhou family has not seen the white snake again, but the tribute on the fifteenth day will still disappear the next day, which makes the Zhou family's heart very pragmatic. Unfortunately, only three generations have passed since the house snake was enshrined. The matter slowly slackened off, and the fresh chicken and ducks became bun fruits that dealt with the matter. Since then, the tribute has never disappeared. After a few decades, even the tribute that dealt with the matter It's gone."

Grandpa Zhou picked up the tea cup and said softly, "I was very sorry to see this place when I was young. On the fifteenth day, I stole my family's money and bought roast chicken and fat duck, according to the book. Steps, set the table and incense case, worshiped the house snake."

Zhou Zihao felt that his courage was big enough. His grandfather was actually fatter than his courage when he was a child. He actually used a kind of seemingly novel-like notes to put up the table for the courageously. Isn't he afraid of convening? Isn’t it a home snake but a mess?

"Grandpa, is that white snake coming?"

Grandpa Zhou nodded, showing a warm smile: "When it was the day, it came!"