"Hello, Mr. Chi." A young man in his twenties stepped forward and made a gesture with his left hand. It was a special etiquette for Feng Shui masters. Always felt a little weird.
"Hello." Chi Xiaoduo hurriedly said, "I took the liberty to come to the door. Excuse me."
"No, no." The young man introduced himself: "My name is Qi Ming, and it is a great honor for Mr. Chi to visit you. It is a great honor for the whole family. I heard that you have settled down in Guangzhou, and I have long wanted to visit you."
"Just moved back, your house is so beautifully decorated." Chi Xiaoduo shook hands with Qi Ming, and admired sincerely.
Chi Xiaoduo had visited Qi Wei's house with his girlfriends before, but they were only limited to a small area on the outermost edge of the villa, and had never walked up this road. There is heaven and earth inside.
Qi Ming smiled and motioned for Chi Xiaoduo to sit down, and the butler came up to pour tea himself. The etiquette is thoughtful but not overly attentive. Compared with the Qi family, Chi Xiaoduo feels that his family is a nouveau riche. He has a group of lazy monsters. He plays dance mats and eats pizza when he has nothing to do. They are so vulgar. Be social.
"I came here this time to see Wei Wei." Chi Xiaoduo said.
Qi Ming nodded immediately and said, "I'll arrange for him to meet you right away. If you're not busy, how about having dinner together?"
Chi Xiaoduo thought about it for a while, and replied: "Okay, I just want to meet some elders, but will I disturb Qi Wei's uncles?"
Qi Ming smiled awkwardly.
Chi Xiaoduo: "?"
"I..." Qi Ming said, "It's his fourth uncle."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
"You..." Chi Xiaoduo smiled awkwardly, "Hello, Uncle."
"Don't dare to be, dare not be..."
"No, no." Chi Xiaoduo was indeed younger than Qi Ming. Qi Ming said, "The third brother and the second sister are coming. They live on the other side. You take the south entrance, so I will come down first."
Chi Xiaoduo thought to himself that this is the case, and it's not good if the family is too big.
"Qi Wei, he... is there anything wrong?" Chi Xiaoduo asked after taking a sip of tea.
"I was not emotionally stable last night and had a fight with us. In fact, I understand him." Qi Ming shook his head and said with a smile: "But there is no way."
"There is no way." Chi Xiaoduo said regretfully.
Qi Ming's older brother and older sister came and shook hands with Chi Xiaoduo respectively. Qi Wei's third uncle was named Qi Zhu, who was in his forties, and his second aunt was in her fifties, named Qi Yu. Chi Xiaoduo thought that they were all the names next to the inscriptions of his peers, but he didn't show a list of metal elements, which is disrespectful and disrespectful.
"Chi Xiaoduo." Qi Yu walked in front, stretched out his hand, and made a gesture of invitation, Chi Xiaoduo walked side by side with her, Qi Yu said while walking, "I heard that you and Qi Wei have known each other for a long time?"
"Yes." Chi Xiaoduo replied, "It was still when I was in middle school."
"No wonder." Qi Yu said: "We are also very wronged, and we don't know what to do with him at all. It is best if you can persuade him. He has always admired you and Xiang Cheng, and feels that we have restrained him."
Chi Xiaoduo didn't expect Qi Yu to talk to him in such an attitude, but he thought it was true, the identities of the two are equal, although their seniority is different, Qi Yu is now the head of the Qi family, but it is only an agent of.
"How should I put it..." Chi Xiaoduo followed Huangshan and Lang Dog, and the group left the garden, and a battery car came to pick them up, but Chi Xiaoduo said, "No, no. I'll take a walk, I'm too full from lunch, just now I ate some more cake to digest it."
Qi Yu replied: "I also want to chat with you, this way please."
The Qi family's villa occupies the entire villa community. There are many trees planted by the lake, and the air is very fresh. In the afternoon of spring, the sun shines on the lake, and there are thousands of golden scales in a moment, which is too beautiful to behold.
Chi Xiaoduo asked: "I ask offensively, please don't mind—if Wei Qi really refuses this mission, can you find a suitable successor?"
Qi Yu seemed to have expected that Chi Xiaoduo would say this a long time ago, and replied: "To be honest, when the Qi family came here, they couldn't be regarded as exorcists in a strict sense."
"Yeah." Chi Xiaoduo replied: "But one fate, two luck and three Fengshui, the art of geomancy is really powerful. My master admired Fengshui very much during his lifetime. But very powerful."
"You're too famous." Qi Yu replied: "It's only in the last one or two hundred years. The Qi family has only looked a little bit better."
"No no." Chi Xiaoduo hurriedly said, "You are too modest."
Chi Xiaoduo's words were quite true. Zheng Que had hoped for the help of Kanyu very much during his lifetime, but there were too few classics, and he couldn't spare the time.
"The Qi family has spent dozens of generations of energy, studying the way of geomancy." Qi Zhu said: "So far, it has only been a glimpse of the door. Fengshui can only change luck and fate. It is difficult to rely on a flag and a compass." Self-preservation."
"One thousand and four hundred years ago, the Qi family met Lingjiao by chance." Qi Zhu was behind several people, and everyone walked slowly along the lake: "Jiaoxian inherits the love of the Qi family and makes a promise. As long as Jiaoxian is alive, he will provide help to the Qi family, so that we can learn the art of inviting dragons."
"Oh..." Chi Xiaoduo understood, so it was like this
Qi Yu said again: "We are all Hakka people."
"Ah!" Chi Xiaoduo said, "My father's side, if pushed further up, also has Hakka blood."
Qi Yu smiled, and Chi Xiaoduo understood the meaning of her words - Hakka, Hakka, a guest in a foreign land, the ancestors of the Hakka gradually moved here from the time when Qin conquered Baiyue. In the Song Dynasty, people traveled south in clothes, and the long history evolved into Hakka culture.
Chi Xiaoduo: "Then the Jiaoxian..."
Qi Yu: "Exactly, Jiao Xian originally lived in the Central Plains with our ancestors, and later went south with the Qi family."
"Inviting Dragon Art is the only spell that the Qi family can protect itself." Qi Yu said: "If it is not necessary, it should not be revealed in front of the world, but the world will change, society is progressing, and we can't stop No way forward. The Qi family joined the WTO with the intention of doing their part for the mortal world with a humble heart. Today's Nanyue is not what it used to be. If you want to drive the committee to recognize the Qi family, the Qi family must also help Committee."
"But we don't have much ability." Qi Ming said: "We can only pin our hopes on the head of the family."
Chi Xiaoduo understood, and thought that Xiang Cheng should be here today, otherwise it should be Chen Zhen. He or Chen Zhen are involved in many things, and he will be more familiar with the meaning of the other party's words.
"So the power to invite the dragon was bestowed by Jiao Xian?" Chi Xiaoduo asked.
"Yes." Qi Yu replied: "Different from Canglang Bailu, Fudo Mingwang, and the Burning Lamp family, Jiaoxian only recognizes one person in each generation, and this person cannot learn geomancy. When foreign enemies invade, protect the Qi family from being destroyed. The Qi family relies on Feng Shui for their livelihood, although it is said that they will not provoke foreign enemies, so that no one will come to make trouble, but there are always variables."
"Yes." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I understand."
"If Wei Wei resigns from this position." Qi Zhu thought for a while, and replied: "It's not a bad idea, but the rest depends on Jiao Xian's wishes. When the elder brother passed away, we took Qi Wei home. There is also no solution. Unexpectedly, Jiaoxian fell in love with him at a glance, so we pinned our hopes on him, expecting him to become the new guardian of the family."
They walked along the lake to the other side. In front of them was a simple courtyard with mountains behind it. The members of the Qi family stopped in their tracks.
"He was meditating behind closed doors until six o'clock this afternoon." Qi Yu said, "You can go in, and we won't bother you."
Chi Xiaoduo nodded his thanks, opened the door, and walked into the courtyard.
There is a plaque hanging on the gate of the courtyard, with four words written on it: "Canglang Water Pavilion".
After entering, there is a very ordinary small brick house inside, just like the migrant workers' residence on the construction site, the cement has loosened in the brick cracks on the wall.
Behind the brick house is a wooden shed. The wooden shed is next to the lake, and a wooden pier protrudes directly to the lake. The dazzling sunlight on the lake is reflected under the wooden boards of the pier, forming a refraction.
Qi Wei sat cross-legged at the end of the pier, collecting his fishing rod.
Chi Xiaoduo walked towards him.
"Is she better?" Qi Wei asked.
"It's still the same." Chi Xiaoduo sat down beside Qi Wei, who sighed and swung the pole.
The lake water moved slightly, as if something was receding, at that moment Chi Xiaoduo saw a huge shadow at the bottom of the water, and left Qi Wei quietly.
It should be Jiaoxian, but Chi Xiaoduo didn't ask.
"I think I have a demon." Qi Wei said, "You should let Xiang Cheng shoot me with an arrow."
Chi Xiaoduo laughed.
"You have no intention of harming others." Chi Xiaoduo said: "All you think is to obtain happiness, how can you be considered a demon? Obsession exists forever, as long as it does not harm others, it cannot be called a 'demon' Otherwise, there would be too many demons in this world."
Qi Wei held the fishing rod and said, "I still remember the day they brought me to this lake for the first time."
"You must be terrified." Chi Xiaoduo said.
"I was completely terrified." Qi Wei said, "I can't bear to look back."
Both of them laughed, and Chi Xiaoduo said, "You don't know Feng Shui, do you?"
"Yeah." Qi Wei replied, "Yes, sometimes I don't like that."
"How is it?" Chi Xiaoduo asked.
"Like a tool." Qi Wei replied: "There is no room for free choice. The Qi family needs someone who can accept the power of Jiaoxian. They searched and searched, but couldn't find it, so they had to let me come back. Jiaoxian chose me, so I had to do it if I didn't, to protect a group of people who didn't have any emotion or much meaning to me."
"Hush." Chi Xiaoduo saw that the huge shadow hadn't gone far, and was swimming in the lake: "Don't let it hear it. I think many animals can understand human words, even if they are not monsters, they can guess from the tone of their voices." Nobody wants to do anything."
"Ah no." Qi Wei said: "I didn't mean that. From the beginning to the end, I have never regretted knowing it. I just feel that this mission was imposed on me."
Chi Xiaoduo knew that Qi Wei didn't grow up in Qi's parents since he was a child, and had been living with his mother's natal family. His best friend also said before that Qi Wei's parents were always away.
"The previous generation." Qi Wei said to Chi Xiaoduo absent-mindedly: "My grandpa was very opposed to my parents' marriage, just like they were also against me and Han Rou, and wouldn't even let me in. My father died, No one continued to invite Long Zhili, and Jiaoxian refused to recognize them, so they had to take me back again."
"Why didn't they recognize you?" Chi Xiaoduo asked again.
"Grandpa opposes the marriage of parents." Qi Wei said: "Parents have no choice but to separate."
"Why?" Chi Xiaoduo said.
Qi Wei replied: "A kind of stubborn insistence, either intermarry in the family, or marry the adopted daughter who grew up in Qi's family, so as to avoid the family secrets from spreading. Living with mortals, it is inevitable that some mysteries of the world will be explored. .”
"I think your aunt and uncle are fine." Chi Xiaoduo said, "I think they are reasonable."
"Of course it's okay." Qi Wei said helplessly to Chi Xiaoduo: "Could it be possible that they still have something to say in front of you? They also apologized to me, saying that because grandpa is here, they can't make the decision. In fact, they are all alone. In this way, you can see who they marry themselves, and you will know."
"That's right." Chi Xiaoduo smiled, knowing that Qi Yu was scheming, and hoped that he could persuade Qi Wei, and he would definitely find a way to coax him.
"But I think that since Jiaoxian chose you." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Just like Chikiss chose me, it must have its own ideas, but it never mentioned it to you."
Qi Wei hummed.
Qi Wei pulled up the pole and said, "Did you know? When I use spells and feel freest, it's when I'm with you and help you defeat the enemy..."
"We defeated the enemy together." Chi Xiaoduo said.
"Yes." Qi Wei said: "We are a special operations team. When we act together, it feels great, and it is when I am truly free. I got the ability from Jiaoxian, and I use it to help my friends and protect The ones who really mattered to me...not like this."
Qi Wei pondered, looking at the lake.
"Looking at you is like looking at myself." Qi Wei said in a trance, "I have fulfilled a wish that I couldn't fulfill."
Chi Xiaoduo was surprised to find that he didn't even really understand Qi Wei, but he thought of Xiang Cheng's expression when he heard Qi Wei announce his decision, Xiang Cheng seemed to understand Qi Wei better.
The sun was about to set, Qi Wei picked up the bucket, wore slippers, rolled up his trousers, and took Chi Xiaoduo's hand back.
"Let's have dinner at my house tonight." Qi Wei said.
"Okay." Chi Xiaoduo said.
In order to entertain Chi Xiaoduo this evening, Qi Wei's family ordered him to cook a lot of his favorite dishes. Chi Xiaoduo used to think that Qi Wei's dishes were exquisite and the chefs were first-rate. But now it tastes like this, not as delicious as Xiang Cheng's.
This one is too salty and the other is too bland, but the presentation is very beautiful. Each dish is like a work of art, but it lacks a refreshing wok flavor. It looks very tempting, but in fact, Xiang Cheng has not flipped through it casually. The fried eggs with toon sprouts fried in a few pans are delicious.
On the contrary, Qi Wei made a pan-fried miscellaneous fish from the small fish, which was very delicious, and Chi Xiaoduo ate a lot of it.
"I can only do this." Qi Wei said, "Eat more, Han Rou taught me."
"Yeah." Chi Xiaoduo said, "It tastes like home."
Chi Xiaoduo knew what was missing in Qi Wei's daily meal—feelings.
"Have you figured it out?" Qi Zhu said casually.
The housekeeper came over to pour the wine, but Qi Wei didn't answer.
"My aunt didn't mean to force you." Qi Yu said, "I just want you to be quiet and think about it. I heard that Director Chen is here too?"
"Yeah." Chi Xiaoduo accepted Qi Wei's words, and said with a smile: "Chen Zhen wanted to visit today, but he couldn't leave for a while."
Everyone nodded to express their understanding.
Qi Wei wiped his mouth and said, "I'll take Xiaoduo back later."
Qi Zhu said: "You'd better stay at home until next month and stop wandering outside."
"I know." Qi Wei said.
"I didn't mean to force you." Qi Zhu said again: "It's just that you don't go out, it's not grounding."
Everyone fell silent again, Huang Shan confessed and came in, holding the earphones in both hands, and helped Chi Xiaoduo put them on, Chi Xiaoduo apologized and got up, thinking that Xiang Cheng must be urging him to go back, let him make some food preparations first Extra meal.
"I have something to do at night." Xiang Cheng replied: "Not at home, you watch Wei Wei over there, try not to let him go out."
Chi Xiaoduo was a little surprised. On second thought, Xiang Cheng probably had a clue.
After the meal, Chi Xiaoduo stayed at Qi's house. Qi Wei's house was at the foot of the mountain. It was still the same as when he and his girlfriends came to play before. Qi Wei asked Chi Xiaoduo to live in his own room, and he went to sleep in the guest room. It was raining, and Chi Xiaoduo was covered with a quilt, lying on Qi Wei's bed and playing with his mobile phone.
Qi Wei came over after taking a shower, his short hair was still dry, and he lay on the bed side by side with Chi Xiaoduo.
"How to say?" Chi Xiaoduo looked at the phone, knowing that Qi Wei had something to say.
"Let's forget it." Qi Wei said: "You are right, there must be a reason for Jiaoxian to choose me, I think about it."
"Why can't you go out before next month?" Chi Xiaoduo said.
"Spring Festival." Qi Wei said: "Be pious, otherwise Jiaoxian will not protect Qi's family."
"I think even if you catch it all, it will bless you." Chi Xiaoduo said with a smile.
"I think so too." Qi Wei said, "The reason why I like being here is not because my surname is Qi, but because every time I sit by the lake, I feel very comfortable."
Chi Xiaoduo wanted to ask how Xiang Cheng's mission was going, but Qi Wei kept talking to him by his side. Qi Wei usually had no friends and looked the same in front of outsiders, but he would talk a lot to Chi Xiaoduo.
Chi Xiaoduo pretended to yawn, implying that Qi Wei was sleepy.
"How is Wang Ren recently?" Qi Wei asked again.
"It's still the same." Chi Xiaoduo replied: "Xiang Cheng invested a sum of money in him, thanking him for letting him work as a security guard at the entrance of the design institute, so let's support him and buy a stock."
Qi Wei couldn't laugh or cry.
"correct… "
"I'm sleepy." Chi Xiaoduo said boredly.
Qi Wei thought for a while and said: "Let's talk for a while, I want to talk to someone, I've been bored for several days, I don't know why now, I feel much more comfortable."
Chi Xiaoduo groaned, and said boringly, "Then what do you want to talk about?"
"Why do you keep rubbing my feet?" Qi Wei said with a smile, "Seduce me?"
After Chi Xiaoduo took a bath, he liked to rub his feet on Xiang Cheng's feet, so he quickly retracted them and said, "I'm sorry, I'm used to rubbing against Xiang Cheng."
"Brother Qiqi, I'm straight." Qi Wei said solemnly: "If you were crooked, I would have already picked you up, and it's the boy's turn? You see."
Qi Wei lifted the quilt to show Chi Xiaoduo that he was not hard.
"I see!" Chi Xiaoduo said with a flushed face.
The phone was turned on, and Chi Xiaoduo took a look at it, thinking that it was Xiang Cheng who came to report, but it was Qi Wei's younger sister, and he didn't want to call her back, so he just let it go.
Qi Wei suddenly said: "Xiang Cheng has found the enemy?"
Chi Xiaoduo immediately said: "No, why do you ask that?"
Qi Wei said: "You have been trying to figure out a way to help me, right? What did you find out? You want to send a text message to Xiang Cheng, am I right?"
"So you've been testing me!" Chi Xiaoduo threw the pillow on Qi Wei's head.
Qi Wei laughed and jumped out of bed barefoot.
"I'm going to find Xiang Cheng." Qi Wei replied: "He told you not to go back at night and stay at my house. He must have found something."
"Don't go!" Chi Xiaoduo said.
Qi Wei was startled, and said, "Why?"
"Anyway, don't go." Chi Xiaoduo said, "Listen to me, is that okay? Take me back tomorrow, and let's go to the hospital by the way."
Qi Wei thought for a while, nodded, and said nothing.
Chi Xiaoduo called Xiang Cheng, but no one answered, then called Chen Zhen again, and heard someone shouting over there.
"Chen Zhen?!" Chi Xiaoduo whispered while pinching the earphones.
"Xiang Cheng!" Chen Zhen's voice shouted on the phone: "Stop chasing! Xiaoduo is calling!"
Xuan Hezhi's voice said on the phone: "Let's eat supper first, I'm starving to death."
On the phone, Chen Zhen said to Chi Xiaoduo: "I hung up, Xiang Cheng will call you right away."
Chi Xiaoduo hung up the phone, and after waiting for about three minutes, Xiang Cheng's call came.
"How is Wei Wei?" Xiang Cheng asked.
"In the room." Chi Xiaoduo said, "What's the matter?"
"I lost it after being chased." Xiang Cheng said: "The matter is a little more complicated than we thought. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I will go to find you after supper. You go to bed first, and I will go to Qi Wei's house to sleep at night."
Chi Xiaoduo had no choice but to lie down first, thinking wildly. For a while it was Qi Wei, for a while it was Jiaoxian, and for a while it was the middle-aged man, like a messy map, as if there were some clues hidden in the map, only one key line was missing to connect all of them. inside story.
Chi Xiaoduo turned over on his stomach, half asleep and half awake, seemed to feel something, opened his eyes, no sleepiness at all.
The rain stopped, and the surroundings couldn't be more quiet. Chi Xiaoduo took a black umbrella from the door and opened it, and walked up the stone path.
There was a faint light on the surface of the lake, and there was a man standing by the lake.
"Qi Qi?" Chi Xiaoduo immediately realized that it was not Qi Wei, nor Qi Weigao.
Chi Xiaoduo put away his umbrella, hid behind a tree, and saw the back of a boy. The boy was wearing tattered clothes, was very thin, had no shoes on his feet, and stepped barefoot in the mud.
His hair was braided in many braids and hung down the side.
Who is this? Chi Xiaoduo became puzzled, and when he got closer, he heard the boy's voice, as if he was chanting a spell with unclear semantics.