Wen Shi didn't reply at the time, but fortunately Zhou Xu didn't seem to mind this.
He was probably really keen on listening to and telling stories, or he had acquiesced in typing slow and delayed when he heard it, so he hugged Xie Wenjiu on his own, wishing that all three generations would explain it clearly.
Looking at the beginning and the length of the story, I felt that Zhou Xu, who was typing at the time, was either bored or bored.
Zhou Xu said: Xie asked his mother, have you heard of it? She is also from the Zhang family. It is said that she was quite famous in her early years. She was very powerful when she was in her teens. Now, she is a talented girl. Her name is Zhang Wanling. In fact, my uncle Zhang Yalin is too, but he thinks Yaling is too delicate, so he changed it. Auntie is even more powerful, and the word "spirit" is simply not needed.
Zhou Xu: However, if you follow Xie Wen's name on the famous tree map, you can only find one named Zhang Wan on his line, which is actually his mother, but the word "spirit" has been removed. Her situation is not the same as my aunt. Although my aunt and uncle are older, they are young and a little maverick. They don't want to give their names to others. It was different when Xie asked his mother. She was kicked out of her family and received spiritual characters.
Zhou Xu: Thinking about it this way, he is also a strange person, although later he said...
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Although many people later said that Xie Wen was just an unremarkable side branch of the Zhang family. But those who have stayed in the Zhang family home and heard some things know that this is not the case.
There are almost two people in each generation of the Zhang family, just like sisters and brothers Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin. The current head of the family is Zhang Zhengchu, the grandfather of Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin.
According to the rules of the Zhang family, when the person who takes over is 35 years old, the position of the head of the family will be handed over. This rule has been strictly followed since ancient times, but it was broken here by Zhang Zhengchu.
Zhang Zhengchu has two sons, the eldest son is named Zhang Yinshan, and he was trained according to the specifications of the successor of the patriarch since he was a child.
It's a pity that Zhang Yinshan couldn't live up to this kind of attention. His miscellaneous practice is really complicated. He learns a little bit of everything, but he can't do anything. The talent is dull, and it is not as good as the side branches.
On the contrary, the second son, Zhang Jiashan, has been free and free since he was a child. He learns a little on the left and a little on the right, and has become an outstanding miscellaneous practice: formations and spells are outstanding, even the most talented hexagrams and the most laborious. God's puppets stand out from the crowd.
Zhang Zhengchu was not too entangled. Not long after his second son became an adult, he became the next choice for the family.
This was originally a good thing, but who knew that an accident happened halfway.
When Zhang Jiashan was 32 years old, he accidentally fell into the dead place while solving a huge cage vortex. Even if the caged vortex was later solved by a joint effort, he was left in a state of disintegration and complete destruction. He died completely, leaving only two babbling children, the later Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin. .
It was the pain of losing his son, and there was no good successor. Zhang Zhengchu was hit hard and became much older overnight. After that, he was less willing to show his face and became a semi-reclusive state.
Although it is semi-retired, he still has to take care of the things he should take care of, such as the new successor.
Zhang Jiashan died, and the children left behind were too young. It stands to reason that the position of the head of the family has to be tilted towards his brother Zhang Yinshan.
But Zhang Zhengchu did not.
He prefers the eldest son's daughter to the eldest son. That girl was nothing like her father, she was extraordinary at a young age, outperforming most of her peers in her teens, and when she was in her twenties, she was even more likely to reach the top.
This girl is Zhang Wanling.
In the eyes of many people, the Zhang family is actually a bit old-fashioned. I don't know if it is the stinky problem of the big family - other families have female owners from time to time. The Zhang family has lasted for thousands of years, but there is no female owner.
Zhang Jiashan just passed away and when Zhang Wanling was on the rise, many people said that the Zhang family might make an exception.
But this case was not broken in the end.
In the second year of Zhang Jiashan's death, Zhang Wanling broke down with the master of the family. No one knew what was the reason, only that Zhang Wanling was kicked out of the family after that, and received the word "spirit" that was common to her peers, even if she had nothing to do with the family at all.
Zhou Xu: By the way, speaking of this. Do you know why all judges and almost every family have a family tree? My aunt said that now many juniors don't know the reason, they think it's just to look good or to count the rankings. In fact, when something big happens, you can call other judges. Anyway, I haven't seen what it is, so there is such a statement.
Zhou Xu: My aunt quietly told me that at that time, the old man called people from other families over, such as the Qi family, the Li family, and the senior Zhong family and Zhuang family. Those who came close and had contacts all arrived. After repairing the famous family tree, I told everyone that Zhang Wanling had fallen in with evil, and she said some wicked and outrageous things.
First experienced the pain of losing a child, and then met blood relatives. It is said that Zhang Zhengchu's vitality was severely damaged, and he did not show up at all, and he always told others to do anything. Later, Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin were adults, and they did not dare to disturb Zhang Zhengchu unless they encountered major events.
However, no matter who shows his face, the Zhang family's face is still to be given to others. The head of the family said that there is no such person as Zhang Wanling, so other families will not have this person. I only occasionally mention a sentence or two in private, and never say it on the table.
In this way, Zhang Wanling... No, Zhang Wan was almost isolated from most of her colleagues in the world, like a carefree person, entering and leaving the cage alone where no one could see.
But there are also a few marginalized characters who, outside the public eye, have a trace of contact with her. For example, Zhou Xu's mother, Zhang Biling.
Zhou Xu: My mother said she ran a long way, and she didn't see much sadness. Anyway, I don't quite understand it. After breaking up with my grandfather, I was actually quite comfortable. But sometimes it's cool to think about it.
These two diseases are very contradictory.
He listened to those who said Zhang Wan was unjust and unfilial since he was a child. While following the crowd, he felt that she was wrong, and at the same time, he instinctively admired her "severing ties" with the family.
He may have been entangled for a while, there was a short time between the two messages, and after a while, he continued: It is said that she has a child in the second year after she left, it is Xie Wen that sick seedling. My mother passed a letter to her at the time. I had nothing to do after my fever subsided this morning. I was flipping through a book at home on a whim, and I actually found those letters.
This middle school sick actually said like a show off: Oh, that's right! Have you seen what the sick seedling looked like when he was a child? I saw it today, with two photos in the letter.
"… "
When I smelled it, I pulled my fingers here, and I was immediately upset.
Although he knows that since Xie Wen can "become" a judge who has been removed from the Zhang family, no one has doubted that he will do a thorough job of the past, and maybe he will throw a puppet and make it look like a child. , let him grow up like a golden-winged Dapeng.
It shouldn't be Xie asking himself, but he was still very upset when he smelled it.
So that he was leaning on the head of the bed, and he straightened up and sat on the edge of the bed.
The desk lamp was dimly lit, and he sat stooped under the light, holding the requisitioned mobile phone, opened the keyboard with his thumb, and wrote, "Where's the letter?"
The message was sent, and the interface jumped to the bottom. Above these two words hangs the time when the message was sent, 3:12 in the morning.
Wen Shi was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that it was already very late. Zhou Xu was probably already asleep and would not give him any response. Even if he gave it, he wouldn't understand what he wanted to see through these two words.
With his wrists down, he held the phone loosely for a while and then turned the screen over again, swiping his thumbs up to read what Zhou Xu said later.
Zhou Xu said: The sick seedling's father should be an ordinary person, not on the famous family tree, nor is he a powerful character. Anyway, no one knew what the man was called or what he did. Anyway, he is most well known for being killed by a sick seedling. But my aunt said that the earliest rumors were not like this.
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The earliest rumors said that the unfortunate man was killed by Zhang Wan and her son. At that time, Xie Wen was not the protagonist in this sentence.
Xie Wen should have been 10 years old that year, and Zhang Wan entered a cage with him. The man was there at the time, but he was not involved together.
In fact, it would be nice to just go in together. At least in the cage, he would be within the field of vision of Zhang Wan and Xie Wen, but unfortunately he didn't.
There was an accident when Zhang Wan released the cage, and at that moment, the scattered black mist overflowed.
That place was originally a vortex of cages, like a bubbling swamp, which made the people in the vicinity tired, and it was easy to give birth to new cages. So the moment Zhang Wan was released from the cage, her husband was wrapped in another cage and stepped into the closed dead place.
This experience, to a certain extent, is the same as Zhang Jiashan, who was supposed to be the head of the Zhang family but died young. So someone put these two things together, saying that Zhang Wan's life was not good, the relationship was cut off, and the relationship was difficult to grow.
Because Zhang Jiajia advocates Zhengchu said, wanting to be Zhang Wan does not exist. Therefore, the rumors are intermittent, and no one mentions it on the bright side, so it is not a climate.
It wasn't until a few years later, at the beginning of Xie Wen's adulthood, that Zhang Wan followed in the footsteps of her uncle and her husband when she entered the cage, and she also stepped into the dead.
Since then, Xie Wen has become a loner in this world, and the words circulated in private have changed from "Zhang Wan's fate is not good" to "Xie Wen's kinship is broken, it is the fate of the gods".
At first some people believed, and naturally some people didn't. After all, this kind of thing is too empty, and only some people who cultivate hexagrams like to talk about it.
But then some things forced them to believe.
One is that one day there was a red pen scratch on the famous tree, and the blood mark generally ran across the name Xie Wen, indicating that this person should not exist here.
That is, he was removed.
Later, some people who specialized in talisman looked at Xie Wen's spiritual appearance through the talisman, and found that he was full of karma, which was indeed the fate of the gods, and it was far stronger than everyone else. I don't know, I thought I saw the evil ghost in the ten directions hell.
Such people really can't get involved, and they deserve to be removed from the list.
So since then, Xie Wen has become a recognized person that everyone should avoid, and was excluded from all living judges.
Zhou Xu said: Before Xie Wen was actually not in Ningzhou, many people, like me, grew up listening to his rumors, but never saw him much. This is quite understandable, after all, his mother was kicked out, and he was not welcome, so it was not interesting to come to Ningzhou. Unexpectedly, he moved here last year and opened the Xiping Garden.
Zhou Xu: It’s a bit funny to say that. When he came to Ningzhou, I didn’t hear anyone talking about it, but after a few days, everyone knew that Xie Wen opened a shop called Xipingyuan.
Zhou Xu: But his shop is too big. I suspect that it doesn't make any money at all. Moreover, he disappeared every three or five times. My mother said that I went to find him eight times out of ten, and they all went out of town. I didn’t know what to do when I went out.
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When I smelled it, my thumb swiped subconsciously, and found that it had reached the bottom. Zhou Xu used a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, which was actually quite jumpy, but he almost figured out the context.
He was about to turn off the screen when the phone vibrated.
Another line of words pops up at the bottom of the interface: What letter
Wen Shi was stunned for a moment, then silently glanced at the time, it was 3:30 in the morning...
Don't modern people sleep
When he was surprised, Zhou Xu sent another message: Oh, what do you think about the letters my mother had with Zhang Wan
When I smelled it, I wrote a word: Hmm
Zhou Xu: There was no major incident in his family at that time, and the content of the letter was quite normal. Anyway, I didn't see anything special, so I felt that Zhang Wan was a little confused.
Smell:
Zhou Xu: He would say some very mysterious things, such as "this is my blessed land, I should come here", "there should be an end to the fate of the world" and so on.
Zhou Xu: Those who practice hexagrams in their speeches have this problem. There are also many people in Zhangjia who practice hexagrams. If I think there are few reliable ones, they are not as accurate as my sixth sense.
He spoke with his own expression, raising his chin in disgust.
After disgusting him, he bragged about his uncle in passing: I counted it, and my uncle's puppet is the most reliable, and it looks very stable.
Wen Shi directly ignored his boasting and asked: Where is the blessed land she said
According to Zhou Xu, the letters between Zhang Wan and Zhang Bi were all before and after Zhang Wan had children, that is, before and after Xie Wen appeared.
Because of Bu Ning's relationship, I didn't think the hexagram technique was useless when I heard it. On the contrary, it was useful in many cases, but it just divided people.
Zhang Wan said this as if she had foreseen something, or expected something. Wen Shi wanted to know why she would say such a thing.
Zhou Xu replied: How do I know where the blessed land is
Smell: Envelope Address
Zhou Xu: The envelope seems to have been glued to something else, but I can't see it. It seems to be in Tianjin or somewhere.
Zhou Xu: Hey, you asked me that, and it also aroused my curiosity. I can't sleep like I can't solve the problem now. I'll check it out when I get home tomorrow.
Smell:
Ever since he realized that his writing was not as fast as the other person's typing, he simply reduced his words to just key words... or key punctuation marks. Fortunately, Zhou Xu actually understood and replied: I am now detained in my home.
Wen Shi was actually not interested in where he lived, but when he saw the word "button", he still asked a question out of humanity:
Zhou Xu: That's a long story...
Smell:
Zhou Xu: Did you do an automatic reply
Zhou Xu: As for why I was detained in my home, I ask you. Have you seen the family tree map today
Smell: No.
Zhou Xu: Goodbye.
Wen Shi was stunned for a moment, feeling that he was a bit awkward again, but he didn't have the patience and habit of pulling with people, so he accepted the goodbye and turned off the screen.
He threw his mobile phone aside and couldn't sleep, his mind was full of Xie Q and those experiences. He sat by the bed for a while, then opened the door and walked out.
The living room is not completely dark, the moonlight shines in through the glass doors and windows, and it is cold and clear like a square puddle. The room was not completely quiet, and Xia Qiao's snoring could be vaguely heard, so it was estimated that he had been tired the previous two days.
When I smelled it, I flipped the drink from the refrigerator, opened it and took a sip. Then he twisted open the glass door with a cold drink can and walked into the backyard.
The white plums left by Shen Qiao are very spiritual, or Xia Qiao took good care of them and has already picked up new shoots.
He stood by the yard for a while, and suddenly heard the window glass on the second floor above his head being tapped twice.
Wen Shi turned his head and looked up, saw Xie Wen open the window, lowered his head and asked him, "Why don't you sleep?"