The taxi stops at the entrance of an alley.
"I can't get in, you go down!"
Zhang Qiu followed his father, curious in his heart, he asked many times along the way who he was looking for this time, but his father didn't say anything. Thinking of his father doing something wrong in front of his mother.
Who on earth could make his father so scared and want to come here.
It was the hottest time at noon, with the sun above his head, Zhang Qiu was already hungry, but he didn't dare to say more. Ever since he got in the car, the closer he was to his destination, the more ugly his father's face was. It's hard to describe, hesitant in excitement, very complicated.
Zhang Qiu followed behind, and the father and son walked into the alley one by one.
The alley is very narrow, paved with bluestone slabs. Zhang Qiu felt cool after entering with the sun on his head. There was no one there. After walking 100 meters, he turned left and the street widened, like a main street. The wooden building shops here sell everything, food, supplies, clothes, and snacks.
Seeing a child licking a bunch of candied haws, Zhang Qiu couldn't help swallowing, and followed his father's footsteps without squinting, almost making an act of grabbing the child for food! But the string of candied haws looks delicious, sour and sweet...
All the way to the end, his father stopped suddenly and stood in front of the only door at the bottom of the street.
Zhang Qiu glanced at his father from behind, it was a shop selling yellow paper incense candles, there was a young man dozing off in the store, his father was standing at the door like a wooden stake, not talking, Zhang Qiu leaned over and yelled softly "dad."
Zhang's father came back to his senses, and after a pause, he still stepped forward.
"Is Zhang Sanlian here?"
This tone seemed to be finding fault, it was vicious, Zhang Qiuzheng wondered that his father was a little strange today, when he saw the dozing man trembling with fright, he woke up with a start, and looked up.
The other party was wearing a plain double-breasted gown, exaggeratedly big, and a pair of black cloth shoes with thousand-ply soles, which were old in style, but they looked very out of the world when worn on him.
White and clean, he looks very gentle, and there is a kind of absolutism in his whole body.
"What do you want from him?" The voice was cold but not annoying.
Zhang's father looked at the outstanding junior in front of him, opened his mouth for a while, and finally said uncomfortably, "My name is Zhang Liuduan."
The man was a little taken aback at first, thought for a while, and asked in surprise, "Uncle?"
Zhang Qiu was about to stuff an egg into his mouth at the back, shocked! He didn't know that he had an uncle and his father had an elder brother since he was a child! But looking at his dad's awkward look, he guessed there was some brotherly grievance in it, so Zhang Qiu was woken up by his dad knocking a chestnut.
Father Zhang looked disgusted at his son who was in a daze, and turned to introduce to his eldest nephew, "Your brother Zhang Qiu."
"Zhang Yushui." Zhang Yushui smiled, "My dad is at home, I closed the shop and went back together."
After closing the shop, the three of them walked back along the road. Zhang Yushui was not a talkative person. Father Zhang was acting weird today. Zhang Qiu wanted to chat. The atmosphere is still silent.
There was a fork in the middle, Zhang's father was very familiar with the way, Zhang Qiu thought why he didn't go directly to the house just now, but went around to the shop instead.
The sound of scolding can be heard in the distance.
"...Don't be shameless, call you the third master, you really think of yourself as a master."
"Third, restrain yourself!"
"Brother, look at what kind of bridge he used, this time—"
"Shut up!"
The voice stopped, and Zhang Qiu heard it familiarly. When he got closer, he saw that it was indeed the few people he met at the train station. The one who scolded was the youngest who wanted to do something, and the one who scolded was the leader. In the past, when the long-haired man was not around, I felt a faint regret in my heart, and I asked what the name was before I thanked him.
The middle-aged man standing at the door looked very impatient, but when he saw the three of them, his expression was much gentler, "Little brother, why did you come back so early today?" When he saw who was coming, the middle-aged man opened his mouth and said in surprise: " Uncle!"
Zhang Qiu was already dazed.
This middle-aged man also called his dad uncle, so how old is his uncle? !
"Uncle and younger brother came to visit, so we closed the door early." Zhang Yushui explained, then looked at the five people standing at the door, and said in a calm tone, "I see that the halls of the five of you have turned black, and there will be bloodshed within three days."
"You fucking looking for beating!" The third child was furious.
The leader scolded, looked around, and when Zhang Qiu and his son looked in front of him with vicious eyes, "Let's go!" But he left without making a move.
Zhang's father didn't remember Zhang Yushui very much, but he still had an impression of the elder brother's eldest brother. He was a little bit emotional, and patted the middle-aged man's shoulder, "Brother Mao, you have grown so big in the blink of an eye."
Zhang Qiu watched his father solemnly call a man who was not much younger than him by his nickname, and that man named Brother Mao was quite happy and didn't feel embarrassed.
Entering the yard, Zhang Qiu felt his father's uneasiness. In the living room in the courtyard of the old residence, Zhang Yushui poured tea, and Zhang Qiu sat on the chair for a minute before Brother Mao and his legendary uncle came out.
With a "wow", his father stood up directly, standing like a primary school student endorsing a book, without saying a word.
Zhang Qiu also stood up, carefully looking at the legendary uncle, thin, less than 1.7 meters tall, wearing a cotton cardigan, a bit older, in his 60s or 70s, his eyes glanced sharply They are very serious with straight faces.
No one spoke in the living room, and he could hear his breathing. Zhang Qiu was frightened, thinking that his father would not have had any grudges against his uncle before. .
Father Zhang moved his mouth, but didn't make a sound.
His uncle Zhang Sanlian spoke first, "I still know how to come back!" He may feel that his tone is not good, and his eyes are a little soft, but his temper has been like this for many years, and what he said seemed to be mocking. of."
"Brother." Zhang's father's eyes turned red when he heard his elder brother lecture him like this. All these years of anger, it seems that he has become childish in an instant.
When Zhang Sanlian heard it, his face was moved. This is his only younger brother in the world, nearly 20 years younger than him, and he was raised like a son.
With a sound of "big brother" canceling the long-term points, the two brothers sat together and began to chat about each other's situation over the years.
Zhang Qiu was very disgusted and sat on the cold bench, his stomach made a gurgling sound, he hadn't eaten since morning!
Zhang Yushui heard this, and simply made cold vegetables and noodles. When the dishes came, Zhang's father, who was chatting happily, began to be distracted. If you are frizzy, eat first."
Zhang Qiu saw that his father was being trained like a child, and he didn't even have a temper, so he admired him even more as an uncle.
After eating, Zhang's father remembered why he asked his elder brother this time. He was a little embarrassed, but Zhang Sanlian seemed to see through it at a glance, "You have a stubborn temper. If there is something you can't solve this time, don't you?" Will come, what's the matter?"
"Come here, brat, let your uncle take a look."
Zhang Qiu hurried to his uncle. Zhang Sanlian has been focusing on his younger brother since he came out, and he didn't pay much attention to his nephew. Now that he took a closer look, he knew that the problem was serious.
Father Zhang added next to him, "When I picked him up that day, I noticed that the yang qi on his body was too weak, and a cloud of yin qi shrouded his stomach." He told the story of the Gumu country in Qinling again.
Brother Mao and Zhang Yushui's eyes widened. They had seen many ghosts and strange things, but this was the first time they had seen such strange things.
It turned out to be a zombie.
"The zombie of more than 3,000 years, if Xiaoqiu was a girl, I'm afraid it would have died." Zhang Sanlian frowned, "As this evil fetus grows up day by day, if it is not removed, Xiaoqiu will be in danger."
Zhang's father was also very sad, and murmured: "Maybe I did too many sins when I went to the tomb, otherwise I wouldn't blame Xiaoqiu." Still very precious in my heart, for this reason Jinpen washed his hands and completely withdrew from the arena.
Zhang Qiu: It seems that I suddenly discovered something extraordinary.
"Now it's not about saving Xiaoqiu in the past. It's just that this evil fetus has been stabilized, and it's a thousand-year-old zombie. You have to force it for fear of hurting Xiaoqiu's life." Zhang Sanlian pondered for a while, and suddenly asked the eldest son, " When I came to ask for a visit just now, I mentioned the Xiapi tomb."
Those five people were yelling at the door, but Zhang Sanlian didn't hear them. Although Brother Mao didn't like those five people very much, but hearing his father's mention at this moment, he naturally guessed that it was related to his little cousin's removal of evil fetuses. He nodded immediately and added: "The one who took the lead said that, nine times out of ten, it is the tomb of King Xiapihui. I would like to ask you a few talismans and my younger brother to help determine the location."
Zhang Sanlian glanced at the younger brother next to him, sighed inwardly, and made up his mind.
"You go to them and say that I agree to cooperate."
"Brother!" Zhang's father next to him was shocked at first. It was because he didn't learn how to go to the tomb with a group of tomb robbers to show off his prestige, so his elder brother couldn't bear to teach him. In the end, he said in a fit of anger and went out to do something' "Big ticket" for the eldest brother to see, since he has no face to come back, this time he never expected that the eldest brother would break his principles for Xiaoqiu.
Zhang Sanlian waved his hand to interrupt his younger brother's words, "Human life is the most important thing. It is said that there is a magic weapon in the tomb of King Huihui in Xiapi. Believe it or not, you have to try it first."
Zhang Qiu stood in the same place, feeling guilty for a while, seeing his father's expression and the way the hall brother shut the group of tomb robbers out just now, he knew that his uncle was a decent person, but he didn't expect that because of him...
Zhang Sanlian glanced at Zhang Qiu, his eyes became softer, "You don't have to worry about the child, we are all one family, I am getting older, I have opened up a lot, some principles are for whom."
Zhang's father's eyes were red, and a man in his fifties almost burst into tears.
Zhang San even smiled when he saw it, "You are really the same as before, put it away quickly, don't let the younger generation see the joke."
At night, Zhang Qiu and his father lived in his father's former room. His father looked at the scene in the house and sighed: "The house hasn't changed much, it's still the same as when I left."
His father was a little stimulated today, and he couldn't stop talking, Zhang Qiu didn't know that his father ran away from home thirty years ago because of the tomb robbery, talking about the thrilling and weird tombs in the past, what? Organs, poisonous gas, rice dumplings...
Zhang Qiu slowly fell asleep amidst this rambling, and before he fell asleep in a daze, he remembered the bunch of candied haws.
Well, I must buy a bunch and try it tomorrow.