Sleeping until dawn the next day, a night of chaotic dreams, vaguely a stone yard, the sky is gray, and the snow is about to come. He is wrapped in a silver fox fur coat, and he boils a pot of wine. In the cold night, he can hear snowflakes falling There are rustling sounds in the atrium, it is the Chinese New Year.
A row of red lanterns hung under the eaves, the water in the copper pot was gurgling and boiling, and a blue vase was filled with two taels of green bamboo leaves. Someone sat cross-legged on the opposite side, and the fingers of the wine pourer were slender, so he couldn't see his face clearly.
Lin Yan turned over in his dream, groped for a while, grabbed a cold hand, clasped his fingers, and slept peacefully.
In the morning, he was woken up by paws, and when he opened his eyes, he saw an arrogant fox sitting on his chest, scratching his nose with the tip of his tail. Open, revealing the belly, it is a small public goods.
"It's hungry again." Xiao Yu smiled wryly, "It said that if you don't buy food, you will go steal the chickens raised in the backyard."
Lin Yan was wearing a pair of big shorts, and brushing his teeth with his upper body bare, swallowed a big mouthful of toothpaste foam in a daze.
Asked the waiter to buy another live rabbit and threw it to the fox. After having breakfast with Yin Zhou and A Yan, the three of them, a ghost and a fox, gathered in Lin Yan's bedroom to discuss a plan of action. While talking, Yin Zhou suddenly choked on laughter. , coughing for a long time, and gestured: "Do you think we look like in Huanzhugege, a group of people have a full meal and discuss big plans in the Huibin Building?"
Bian said with a strange smile: "Hanxiang, hurry up and show up, this Meng Dan's memory is not good!"
Regarding "Lin Yan" in the previous life, Xiao Yu still couldn't think of anything, several people took turns to question him, but there was no progress.
"It's very good and powerful." Yin Zhou sighed artificially, "We have to do it ourselves again, first look through the history books? Is there any simplified characters? Leave the simplified characters for me to read. I don't know the traditional characters."
"I have an idea." Lin Yan took out a T-shirt from the box and put it on, and said in a muffled voice, "The coffin."
"What?"
He tugged at the hem of the T-shirt and waved his hands at a few people: "Well, I'm changing my pants, and I don't want to look at it and turn my back."
He was referring to Xiao Yu, who accidentally injured Ayan, the little Taoist was embarrassed to look up, Lin Yan was also embarrassed, changed his jeans twice, and sat on the side of the bed with flip flops.
"I'm talking about the coffin. I looked at it when I entered the tomb. The coffin is crimson yellow, with landscape patterns and a slight fragrance. It's genuine golden nanmu. Do you know how expensive that thing is? The price of Hainan huanghuali can't compare to it." it."
Yin Zhou scratched his hair: "Is huanghuali expensive? My old man has quite a few, and he always holds a string of Buddhist beads in his hand."
Lin Yan rolled his eyes: "All kinds of second generations really don't know the sufferings of the people. Your father's string of Hainanese avocados is full of grimace lines. If you take them out, you can change a car for you."
"Golden nanmu is more valuable. It is said that a piece of nanmu is ten thousand taels of silver. In order to save transportation costs, Ming people often bring carpenters to travel thousands of miles into the mountains. When they cut down a good tree, they make coffins on the spot. Southerners pay tribute to the whole nanmu. It is inconvenient to transport, and we have to wait for the annual mountain torrents to wash the wood down. Usually, one hundred carpenters go into the mountain, and only fifty come out. The things made of this wood are impossible for ordinary people to use, let alone take a look at them.”
"Being able to afford such a precious thing means that the Xiao family is a high official?" Yin Zhou asked confused.
Lin Yan and the little Taoist looked at each other, and said helplessly: "Code migrant workers are uneducated. Jinsinan was used by emperors in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Qianlong, an old man, had to secretly demolish the Ming Tombs if he wanted to get some wood. You have a lot of guts, and you have already been exiled to the Northwest by a copy of the whole family."
"So what's the conclusion?"
"Move your wise brain, and then verify it first. There are so many ready-made ones to pick up." Lin Yan slowly poured water for several people one by one. Who is Gao Diyuan, don't forget where we are now."
A Yan's eyes lit up: "Back then, Shen Wansan was as rich as an enemy country, and he boasted that he would reward the three armies for Zhu Yuanzhang, which caused him to be exiled."
Yin Zhou took a sip of water: "You mean a businessman?"
"This should be a breakthrough." Lin Yan said: "It's strange that there was no surname Xiao among the famous Shanxi merchants in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It may be that 'I' really took the risk to get the wood in that life. My family may have some capital. , so it makes sense that the coffin is full of tokens of love."
"There are many wealthy merchants in Jin, and you can't be called rich unless there are hundreds of thousands of them. There are also many Confucian businessmen among the merchants. Every family has scholars..."
Before Lin Yan finished speaking, Yin Zhou suddenly stared at him with wide eyes, as if he had seen a ghost.
Putting his hands on Lin Yan's shoulders, he subconsciously thought it was Xiao Yu, and continued without thinking too much. Yin Zhou shook his head vigorously and pointed behind him: "You, you, you... behind you..."
Lin Yan turned his head suspiciously, and bumped into a boy's face. He was fair-skinned, only eight or nine years old, with a sharp chin, rolling golden-brown eyes, a bunt, and soft hair covering his shoulders. Extremely shiny.
"Whose child, when did he come in?!" Lin Yan was so frightened that he rushed out, staring at the boy in shock.
"Every day is a rabbit, I am tired of eating, I want to eat chicken." The young man took out a handful of copper coins from his jacket and threw it to Lin Yan, and said with a high air, "Hurry up and buy two chickens!"
"It's a fox." Xiao Yu said innocently, "Do you know why I asked you to buy chickens? I've been urged by it all day, it's very annoying."
Lin Yan stared suspiciously at the handful of copper coins in his hand, and fiddled with them one by one. There were Jiaqing Tongbao, Daoguang, and Xianfeng Tongbao, and there were fifty cents of RMB mixed in. The boy seemed to think that the money was not enough, so he took out another coin from the skirt of his shirt. For Lin Yan, this time is better, Yuan Datou silver dollars.
The boy pointed at Lin Yan, shook his head and said, "I know you. Last time when the peach blossoms were in bloom, you went into the mountain once. When you went in, you were alone. When you came out, you took him with you. He used to live in a deserted tomb in the mountain. Grandpa said Yes, grandpa also said he was fierce, but I think he is pretty."
As he spoke, he rolled his eyes and gave Xiao Yu a wink, because of his young age, he looked nondescript.
Ayan burst out laughing, and took out a piece of talisman paper from her waist, before it could be pasted, the boy snatched it away, threw it on the ground and stepped on it twice.
"Don't try to plot against me, he is the oldest in this room, and then me, you are all a group of little dolls." The boy propped up the edge of the bed with his hands, sat down with his legs dangling, his baggy homemade pants were covered A pair of fine deerskin boots were tied on his feet, he bit his fingers triumphantly, and looked at Lin Yan with his eyes sideways, "I am two hundred years old, you guys want to call me grandpa, kneel down and kowtow!"
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yan had already reacted from the horror, took the boy's arms and dragged him to the bathroom while scolding: "Stop jumping around here, haven't you brushed your teeth after eating meat, the rabbit fur is so dirty. "
Through the door, the sound of the shower and the boy's unwilling wailing came from the toilet. Yin Zhou pointed to the door panel with an unbelievable expression on his face: "When did this guy become a demon tamer?"
But after a while, when Lin Yan and the fox demon reappeared, everyone was surprised. I don't know what method he used. The young man changed his arrogance just now, and reluctantly took Lin Yan's hand, and his tail slapped behind him. Sweeping, with wet hair draped over her shoulders, biting her fingers.
"What should it be called?" Lin Yan raised his eyebrows.
"Brother." The fox glanced shyly at Yin Zhou and A Yan, turned around and called Lin Yan again, jumped to Xiao Yu's side three times, and the boy rubbed watermarks on his white clothes.
Yin Zhou was confused by the boy's obedient appearance: "Damn it, how did you do it?"
"What about the child, I lied to him that if he is obedient, he will be eaten by chickens, but if he is not obedient, he will only be worms." Lin Yan spread his hands.
At 1:30 in the afternoon, five people checked out the room under the waiter's reluctant gaze, and rushed to the only bus station in the town. This time, it was the real five people. The boy hid his tail and ears, bouncing around like a primary school student Lin Yan forcibly took off his Orion clothes of an indescribable dynasty, and bought an imitation of Adi in the morning market. The boy boss was reluctant, and Yin Zhou blamed Lin Yan for being stingy. , can’t buy it.”
Xiao Yu wore Lin Yan's clothes, jeans, T-shirt, and hiking shoes. He was actually a bit taller than Lin Yan, but the clothes were on the longer side, so he could barely make do with it. His long hair was tied into a ponytail, like a painter. It was the first time for this ancient man to dress up like this, and he felt uncomfortable. Lin Yan also felt awkward seeing him, and secretly laughed as he walked.
It seems that it has not been so easy for a long time, blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, flatbed trucks passing by creaking, drivers waving mulberry branches to repel mosquitoes, a straight dirt road, Xiao Yu led the fox demon to the front, Lin Yan , Yin Zhou and A Yan followed side by side, the boy came out of the mountain, looking back excitedly from time to time, Lin Yan was a little sad, the seat next to Xiao Yu should have been his, but unfortunately the ghost refused to leave him no matter what too close.
The lover who broke up always feels that the other party still belongs to him, but separated by an invisible wall, occasionally his eyes cross, he turns his head hurriedly, and his heart is pounding.
When Lin Yan asked the little fox demon if there was any way for others to see Xiao Yu, he actually didn't have much hope. Unexpectedly, the boy readily agreed, put a leaf on Xiao Yu's forehead, and fiddled with it for a while. one person.
"This is the magic of our fox family." The boy rolled his eyes, "But it will be invalid when there is thunder."
Lin Yan asked, "Why?"
"I'm afraid of thunder." The boy said shyly.
"You have a name?"
The young man squinted his fox eyes, and it took him a long time to reply shyly, "My name is Che, because I was born by the lake. When the rhododendrons are in bloom, the lake is cool and clean."
Passing through the field of wild sorghum, in front of him was a flat slope of wild grass, with small white flowers swaying on the ground, Lin Yan felt familiar, thought for a while, and was suddenly surprised to find that this place was too similar to the environment in the nightmare of the first night, Fangcao It is luxuriant, the sun is harsh and dazzling, walking up the road, there is only a wild grave in the place where the thatched cottage passed by in the dream. It has been a few years, and the grave is almost flat. Some blackened.
"Is there any incense?" Lin Yan asked the little Taoist priest, Ayan took out a small bundle of unopened ones from her bag, Lin Yan smoked three plants and lit them, respectfully sticking them on the grave.
"What are you doing?" Yin Zhou was puzzled, Lin Yan shook his head and sighed: "What should come will always come, let's go first."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the bus to the city came, and several people squeezed into the queue to sell hens and buy seeds and left Liumu Town. They bought tickets in the nearest town where the train was accessible, and rushed to the former Shanxi Merchants overnight. Gathering center, Taiyuan Mansion five hundred years later.