I didn't speak, nor did I go in. Instead, I looked around the old house outside first. The village chief’s old house is located at the foot of the mountain, with its back facing the mountain and facing the road, which is accessible in all directions. From the perspective of feng shui, it can be considered a good place.
The overall structure of the ancient house is the same as the small tall buildings, which are all three-story duplex buildings. The top floor should also be the attic. However, the style is an ancient architectural style, mostly wood. The color is mainly brown and yellow, with a few dark red for embellishment. It looks very harmonious and uniform from the top of the coloring. Looking at it on Thursday and Monday, it turned out that the materials used are all woody. The layout of the doors and windows are all the same as the ancient buildings, without a glass, but an iron pillar.
In fact, don't underestimate the craftsmanship of the ancestors, this kind of wooden construction, its anti-theft is by no means worse than it is now.
It is said that ancient things are the most attractive, and this ancient house in front of you is the best proof. To be honest, I was a little attracted, but the carvings on the doors and windows of this ancient house were a little weird. They are usually carved with dragons and phoenixes, or with brave glutinous rice dishes, which symbolize the auspiciousness of the town house.
But their house is carved with rabbits. Although rabbits are also very cute, many people also use them as pets, but it is the first time I have seen them carved on doors and windows as sculptures.
The village head obviously knew that I would notice this, so he smiled and asked me: "Does Xiao Lin think the decorations here are strange." The village head didn’t wait for me to answer, and immediately explained: Everyone who saw it felt weird, even I felt weird."
"Then why did you choose a rabbit as a sculpture?" I also hurriedly asked.
The village head suddenly took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. When asked if I wanted to, I declined. Actually, I rarely smoke. Although I have a pack of cigarettes in my pocket, it’s mostly related to It is used when the client meets politely. After spitting out the smoke ring, the village head's expression also became a little sad: "It's not because of my little grandson. He was born after the new year, so he belongs to the rabbit. In order to pray for him to get better, we are not only Rabbits are carved on the doors and windows, and everything in the house has the shape of a rabbit. It is to pray that the rabbit god can bless my little grandson, not to ask him to become rich in the future, but to grow up like a normal person. "
Pity the parents of the world, it seems that the purpose of turning this old house into a new one is also to pray for the blessing of his little grandson.
"It will be fine, let's go, the village chief." I didn't know how to comfort him, so let him lead me in.
"Huh..."
"Huh..."
I don't know if it is because of living on the side of the mountain or the environment here. In fact, when I came here, the wind would blow to me from time to time. Especially when I stepped into the village chief’s house, the wind became even stronger and colder. Even in this big afternoon, it made me feel shocked.
In fact, I now have a shadow of this sudden yin wind in my mind, especially in the ghost town, as long as the yin wind blows, there is always nothing good. So now after I met, I deliberately pretended to be cold, shrank my neck slightly, and then asked the village head: "The wind in this mountain is really cold on me."
Unexpectedly, when I said this, the village chief made a big laugh: "Haha, the young man is so useless, my old man can stand it up. You are a young and strong young man who can't bear it. what."
have to! This time, not only did he close the door, but he was also ridiculed. So amidst the laughter of the village chief, I followed into this old house.
The wooden structure of the house is cool and refreshing when you walk in. The scent of wood, coupled with natural ventilation, makes people feel refreshed.
The environment inside is just as described by the village chief. Inside the house are not only rabbit dolls of various formats, but also the furniture that can be decorated with the appearance of rabbits, but also decorated with rabbit patterns.
In short, when you walk into this room, as long as you open your eyes, more or less rabbits will enter your eyes. Seeing their actions like this reminded me of a cartoon called "The Guardian of the Chinese Zodiac". I think there really is a patron saint, I am afraid that I am really moved by the sincerity of their family.
I stood in the lobby on the first floor and looked around. Just like the outside, the interior decoration materials are all made of wood. Even the vases and decorative gadgets are all carved from wood. I even found that the lighting used on this head is all transparent wooden lampshades. In short, in their homes, almost no objects of other materials can be seen. There is no TV or refrigerator. At least in the lobby on this floor, I didn't see it. Maybe this floor is just for them to rest or receive guests. The living area is on the second floor.
"Xiao Lin, sit down here. I'll call my son and my daughter-in-law." The house is made of wood, so smoking is definitely not allowed, so the village head hurriedly pinched out the cigarette butts outside the door and greeted me. After a sound, he shouted at the stairs upstairs: "Tian Lin, Afeng, there are guests, come down quickly."
"Okay, wait a minute. Qin'er is still breastfeeding. Brother Lin, go and accompany the guests first." The village chief was a woman's voice, and it seemed that she should be the village chief's daughter-in-law. Then there was a series of rapid walking sounds, and then the figure of a man appeared at the stairway.
The man seems to be over fifty, and a lot of white hair has appeared on his head. My body is about 175cm or so, and my face looks pretty medium and energetic. A few wrinkles are unavoidable. It's okay if I can maintain this face in more than 50 years.
It is estimated that he had known me from the village chief's mouth, so after seeing me, he walked up very enthusiastically and shook hands with me: "You must be Xiaolin, my dad has been here for half a month. I kept talking about you. The previous few times I went to your store and kept seeing you closed the door. My dad was really afraid that you would never show up. Today, I finally looked forward to you. It was a hard journey. "
From his enthusiasm, I feel that they may have been waiting for me for a long time. I am also very flattered, but I didn’t know how to respond to him for a while. His age is similar to my dad. I call him his brother. Not suitable. Under the entanglement, I decided to call him: "Lin...Lin Bo. You are too polite. I happened to encounter something during that time, so I was not in the store and caused you to run a few times in vain. It was really disappointing. "
Uncle Lin suddenly laughed when I blamed myself so much, and said, "How can I blame you, it's our own fault. Every time we see your store closed, we just left. If we were with the neighbor next door, Say hello, leave a contact information for us, it doesn’t take so much trouble. But my dad just refuses to live and die, saying that he is insincere and has to come to see you in person, so... thing."
I said it was weird. Now these days, it's not like before, always running out of doors. It turned out to be such a thing. I immediately said round the scene: "Don't blame the village chief, blame myself for walking in a hurry, and not posting a notice at the door."
"Afeng, are you okay? The guests have been waiting for a long time." Listening to our conversation, the village head on the side was embarrassed by what we said, so he raised his head and urged his daughter-in-law upstairs.
"Here, Dad, I will put on my clothes and wait for a while." There was a hurried woman's response from the upload, and then there was a sound of footsteps, I guess I was looking for something.
"Women are like this, Xiao Lin, please forgive me, come, come, please sit down, please sit down." Lin Bo also smiled at me and motioned for me to sit down.
If you don’t smoke or watch TV, there are indeed fewer topics to talk about. Fortunately, their family still drinks tea, otherwise it would be a bit cold to sit and sit like this.
"The fragrant West Lake Longjing." Actually, I really don't have any interest in tobacco and alcohol. My only hobby is to drink tea, and then I play computer games. So as soon as I smelled the dry tea that Bo Lin took out, I smelled it famous.
This was finally a topic of conversation. Uncle Lin immediately said to me: "Xiao Lin is okay. I didn't expect you to be so familiar with tea at a young age. This is the tip of the hair my dad specially purchased from Hangzhou. Come and taste. My tea."
The second course from the tea is the most fragrant and delicious. Seeing Lin Bo skillfully and quickly poured the first tea, I can see that Lin Bo is also a person who likes tea ceremony very much. But why do I look strange at Uncle Lin's tea
"Come on, Xiaolin, try it." I stood up and took the tea from Uncle Lin with both hands, but when I took the tea bowl he gave me, I found that the water in the tea bowl was actually cold.
I thought it was my hand feeling that was wrong, so I deliberately put my thumb in when I took it, and felt the temperature of the water.
With this touch, my eyes widened involuntarily. The water was not only cold, but also ice water. No wonder I just watched Lin Bo make tea weird, because I didn't see the steam and the tea aroma that hot water should have at all. I took the tea bowl and hesitated there, I just watched Lin Bo hand over the second cup of tea bowl to the village chief.
"Puff..." After taking a sip, the village chief squirted out the tea quickly and shouted at Uncle Lin: "Smelly boy, you did it on purpose."
"Dad... what's the matter." Who knows that this uncle Lin seems to have not found it at all, and he asks the village chief without knowing what's going on.
"You got ice water!! Hurry up and make Xiaolin a new pot." The village head shouted angrily at Lin Bo, then threw the tea bowl in his hand directly on the table, looking at Lin Bo with an angry expression. .
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Xiao Lin, I got the wrong water bottle, I'm really sorry." After hearing the village chief's words, Uncle Lin showed an extremely embarrassed expression and took back the ice tea leaves in my hand.
And I looked at the village chief with a questioning gaze, and the village chief knew that I would be like this, so he shook his head helplessly at me.
Although Uncle Lin helped me make hot tea this time, I didn't even bother to drink it, and I was full of doubts just now. I just sniffed the tea bowl in my hand.
"Presumably this is the little forest that my dad has been talking about. I really didn't expect it to be so young." Just when the three of us were stiff with each other, what to say, the village chief’s daughter-in-law finally appeared in time to break the cold. embarrassment. (End of this chapter)