Yue Dingtang did not express surprise or refutation to Ling Shu's remarks, but just hummed calmly.
This means that he also agrees with Ling Shu's view.
Those pieces of gold foil and ivory products, even laymen like them who don't know much about antiques, can see it as strange. Judging from the conversation and behavior of the second master, I don't know if he is really short of money, but he values money very much. How could such a person easily give Zhang Chaofeng the valuable carved scriptures
Unless he's lying—
The carved scriptures were not rewarded by the old man, but stolen from the study.
This is interesting.
A family, several brothers, the eldest, the second and the fourth, took advantage of the old man's serious illness, and they all stretched out their hands from the study. I can't stand the splurge of a few brothers.
"There is another interesting place."
After a long journey, they should have washed their bodies, but they couldn't find anyone who could boil water for them. In the end, Yue Dingtang temporarily took the money and asked He Guanshi to buy it, and then he got two big buckets of hot water. Let the two take a hot bath separately.
This was the first time Ling Shu had experienced the adventure of visiting a cousin's house, but he had to pay for the bath water himself.
He changed into pajamas, sat cross-legged on the bed, and talked freely.
"The old man divided the warehouse keys into five pieces, and asked the sons to open the warehouse and divide things together. Isn't this a sign that you don't believe in a few sons?"
A piece of old clothes was used as a hood, covering his head and face directly.
"Stop talking nonsense, dry your hair and go to bed."
Yue Ding Tang pushed him.
"Go to sleep."
Ling Shu rubbed his hair slowly: "Can I sleep outside?"
Yue Dingtang raised his eyebrows: "Choose the floor or go to the next room."
Ling Shu sneered: "I won't say it!"
He crumpled up the old clothes and threw them under the bed, lying flat and turning over, pulling the quilt to reveal half of his head, his half-dry hair still dripping on the pillow.
Yue Dingtang is a bit of a clean freak.
But Ling Shu had slept in his room because he was sick when he was in Yue's house. Now that the floor is clean and fresh, he didn't resist much. He just saw that the dripping hair was really annoying and couldn't help it. He took a clean towel from the side and wiped the half of his head.
Ling Shu murmured twice, did not resist, and let his head be rounded and flattened under the towel.
"Ouch, Lao Yue, I didn't see it. You still have this time. If a university professor loses his job in the future, he will probably be able to support himself by going to the bathhouse and rubbing his back and feet."
"Why does this sound a little weird to me?" Yue Dingtang's men stopped.
Although there was no way to rub it, Ling Shu was probably too sleepy. He made him sleepy and his eyelids were heavy. He felt that the other party stopped his movements, and hurriedly said: "Hey, don't stop, I'm complimenting you. Anything is fine, first place in everything!"
Yue Dingtang: "As long as my surname is still Yue, as long as the Yue family has not collapsed, even if I am an idiot and sit on the podium without saying a word, the school will not dismiss me, and I must continue to be a decent professor. One day I can’t even be a university professor, so I guess no one dares to accept it if I want to go to the bathhouse.”
Ling Shu's head remained motionless, and he stretched out his thumb from under the quilt: "Open and clear!"
Yue Dingtang: "Did you not expect that I haven't been blinded by vanity and glitz all these years, and I'm quite sober?"
Ling Shu: "Otherwise, Lao Yue, I have a good idea."
Yue Dingtang: "I'm sleepy."
"Don't, go to sleep after listening!"
Ling Shu was interested, turned over and sat up, the towel was draped over his head, and a few strands of hair ran out from below in a mess.
"What about you, give me some money now, let me open a bathhouse, and I will use the annual income to pay you back. Later, when you are down and no one dares to accept it, I will definitely hire you as a bather. What do you think? "
Yue Dingtang: …
Very bad.
What kind of terrifying idea is this
Only then did he notice that Ling Shu's complexion was very pale.
Maybe it was because of just washing my hair, the wet hair looked black and shiny, and the skin looked whiter.
Not the unhealthy pallor or cool white, but the smooth egg white that comes out after peeling off the membrane under the shell.
People in their twenties are still carrying some baby fat.
"Ouch, let go!"
As his heart moved, Yue Dingtang immediately pinched it.
It really feels good.
"sleep!"
There were only two words to answer Ling Shu.
The towel was taken away and the light was turned off.
There was darkness in front of him.
Ling Shu had no choice but to retract his hands into the bed.
"Hey, Lao Yue, are you asleep? Let me tell you a ghost story?"
"The Guan family's house should have been bought from someone else before, and the surrounding walls are all painted. The house itself may have a history of hundreds of years. This kind of old house is always going to be haunted. I was on my way back just now. I just heard one of the servants of the Guan family, do you want to listen?"
"Lao Yue, save face, it's rare for us to fall asleep together, don't you miss it with any joy?"
Not only did Yue Dingtang not respond, but he quickly let out even long breaths.
Ling Shu was helpless, and finally shut up.
He likes to sleep with the lights on, even if it is a small candle with a little light, it will not fall into the boundless darkness in his sleep.
This weakness was discovered by Yue Dingtang very early, and the other party tried it several times, intentionally or unintentionally.
Ling Shu didn't care to let Yue Dingtang try, this weakness was not insurmountable, but he would never treat himself harshly when there was a light.
When I closed my eyes, it was clear that there were more people around me.
Ling Shu reluctantly persuaded himself not to care about the fact that he was in the dark.
He thought that he would toss and turn and couldn't fall asleep, but he didn't expect that just after a few breaths of his thoughts, he would fall asleep.
Maybe too tired.
Yue Dingtang was also very tired.
He fell asleep quickly.
In the dream, he was eating donkey meat pot, but not with Master Guan Er, but with his family.
At that time, the relationship between the eldest brother and the second brother was not so rigid, the parents had not died, the third sister had not been married yet, all the brothers and sisters were in high places, and there were old family members like Uncle Zhou next to them.
A real reunion.
His mother kept adding vegetables to his bowl and asked him to eat more. Even though he had grown up, his mother still looked at him like a child.
In the past, Yue Dingtang couldn't bear this kind of gaze, and always felt that his mother was nagging, saying that his ears would grow calluses within a few words.
He was precocious and stable, and he didn't need to say more from his parents and elders.
It wasn't until a few years after his mother's death that Yue Dingtang felt more and more that the memories of teenagers were so precious that he couldn't hear his mother's nagging again.
All kinds of things in the past have become treasures.
Including the years of classmates who competed and quarreled and even rivaled each other in love when they were studying.
His mother was still picking vegetables, he couldn't eat anymore, and the feeling of fullness became more and more obvious. Yue Dingtang hurriedly got up and said that he was full. Who knew that his mother smiled and turned around and hugged another big fish and smashed it directly at him Come over and say, "You are starving, this fish has a lot of meat, eat it first!"
Yue Dingtang couldn't take it in time, and the whole person was directly pressed to the ground by this tall fish, unable to catch his breath.
"I don't want to eat it, you take it away, how can I eat the raw fish!"
He finally couldn't help shouting, but no one offered him a helping hand at all. The Yue family continued to sit around to eat, chatting and laughing, as if they never saw Yue Dingtang being crushed to death by the big fish.
Yue Dingtang suddenly opened his eyes!
sweating a lot.
There is a big stone in the chest, and I can't breathe.
He reached out and groped, only to find that the quilt was swept away by Ling Shu, and the other party was mostly pressed on him like a sushi roll.
No wonder I dream of big fish.
He said that his mother couldn't do such a mentally retarded thing.
Yue Dingtang took a breath and pushed the person away.
The whole quilt was swept away by Ling Shu, and he rolled directly to the other side of the bed, as if he didn't wake up.
Yue Dingtang stretched out his hand to pull the quilt, and after pulling it for a long time, he was pressed on by the other party, and he couldn't pull it at all.
He reluctantly gave up.
Yue Dingtang got up and was about to find another quilt. He remembered that Steward He had just asked someone to move another quilt and put it in the next room, so that they couldn't get enough.
Just as he reached for his coat, Yue Dingtang heard a scream.
what! ! ! !
The cry came from a distance, but it resounded through the silent night sky.
"Go to the water!"
"There's a ghost!"