I walked over to the box and found that the box was unlocked, so I pulled the lock on the box and opened it.
The box is not big, probably less than a foot long, four fingers thick, and the front and back lengths are just a little bit more, so it can't hold anything.
After the box was opened, there was a mass of yellow brocade, but it was clear that the brocade was still holding something.
I continued to open the brocade, and soon the contents were revealed in front of me, a brush, an inkstone and a stack of yellow paper.
With many years of experience in drawing talismans, I could immediately recognize that the ink smears on the inkstone table were high-quality cinnabar ink, which was used to draw top-quality talismans; and although the pen looked a little old, it was faintly overflowing. The spiritual power of Chunyang came, and at a glance, it was known that it was not of ordinary quality; there was also the yellow paper, which was an indispensable high-quality talisman paper for painting the best talisman.
Talisman paper is a one-time use, but the inkstone and talisman are the first-class tools that I have always wanted but never owned. With these two things, my talisman skills will definitely improve a lot.
Seeing all this, I was naturally overjoyed. I couldn't help holding it in my hand and playing with it for a while before saying to Jin Xiaoying, "Mr. Jin, I really don't know what to say when you gave me such a precious gift."
With the talisman pen, inkstone and talisman paper in hand, I can't put it down, I can't wait to draw one now.
Jin Xiaoying looked at me and said: "Okay, these things will be yours in the future, I can't draw talismans, they are all left by my grandfather, and they are at most a relic left with me, and for a person my age, I have long since looked down on it a lot, and this writing has no commemorative value. You can use it, I hope you can make the best use of it. You put these things away, and then find a place to sit down, I will put the I'll tell you the story, and then you can get out of here because everything is basically settled here."
I nodded, and carefully put the three things Jin Xiaoying gave me into my backpack.
After that, I asked Jin Xiaoying, "Mr. Jin, can you tell me about your relationship with the white cat fairy, the roaring dog, and Huandou?"
Jin Xiaoying nodded and said, "That's what I said of course."
After saying that, Jin Xiaoying turned around and took the fire pestle and stabbed it in the stove a few times to make the fire burn more vigorously and make the house warmer.
A few of us also moved chairs and sat down by the stove, and Jin Xiaoying brought us some peanuts as snacks.
After we were all seated and eating, Jin Xiaoying slowly began to say: "I've thought about it, let's start with my senior sister, you should have heard the legend here, Bai Mao Liu. Zhuang, Black Dog Xia Zhuang."
Xu Xuanhang was cooking the fire and didn't say a word, but I nodded to Jin Xiaoying and said, "I heard."
Jin Xiaoying continued: "Hundreds of years ago, my senior sister was a pet cat in the house of a landlord in Liuzhuang. The landlord had three wives, one room and two concubines. The cat was in the main room of the landlord's house, named Xia. Ying was married to a squire's family in Xia Zhuang, and my senior sister is also one of the fourth litter of cats born to a cat that Xia Ying brought from her family."
"Xia Ying also gave my senior sister a very nice name, Bai Ge, because the senior sister is all white, without a trace of variegation, and the senior sister's voice is also exceptionally pleasant. The year that senior sister was born, happened to be senior sister's mother. No, that's why Xia Ying left her senior sister in that litter of kittens, and the other kittens were given away separately."
"I heard that in that litter of kittens, in the end, the only one to support is the senior sister."
This Jin Xiaoying started from the birth of the white cat fairy. How many years has it been told? It took hundreds of years for the white cat fairy to cultivate and become a demon, and the story after that will take hundreds of years. If Jin Xiaoying told it If it is so detailed, then I have to finish listening to this story, don't I want to live in her house this winter
It's just that at this time, everyone else was very fascinated and patient, so I had to hold back my broken mouth and continue listening.
Jin Xiaoying's senior sister Bai Ge, that is, the year the white cat Xianling was born, its owner Xia Ying already has two daughters, the eldest daughter is six years old and the youngest daughter is three years old, but because she did not give the family name Liu The landlord gave birth to a son, so the landlord surnamed Liu took a concubine of two rooms.
Although Xia Ying was born into a family of squires, she was not the kind of girl who didn't go out of her way, especially after she married Liu's family. She also has to cook for the family. Even with children, she has never left housework. She is a rare good wife.
When he heard this, A Wu suddenly said at the door: "Does the daughter-in-law of the landlord's family still use the land to work? I read in the book, aren't the landlords all the masters who exploit/exploit the peasants? ?"
We were listening to the story, and I was taken aback by Ah Wu's sudden appearance. Of course, everyone else was more alert and had already discovered it, but my awareness of prevention was poor.
When I saw Ah Wu, I asked him, "Are you all right?"
A Wu said with a strange look: "What's the matter? It's okay, what's wrong?"
I just remembered that A Wu was in an illusion last night, and I didn't know what happened, so I said, "It's okay."
And Xu Xuanhang didn't mean A Wu to listen to the story, and directly asked A Wu to drive to a nearby town to buy some fresh meat back.
Ah Wu also left with an "oh".
Just as Jin Xiaoying was about to continue telling the story, I asked A Wu's question again: "Do landlords really know how to work?"
Well, forgive me for being too young and reading too little...
Jin Xiaoying rolled my eyes at me and said, "Landlords are also human beings, and naturally they have to work, and many landlords don't act like they are on TV at home, but take the lead in farming with the farmers under their names. , the peasants who rent their land, who are they to supervise, that is their land, they can't let it go to waste, don't you think? Besides, only when the crops grow well, the rent can be rented as scheduled After harvesting, if no crops can grow, what rent will the landlords charge? It can’t be squeezed out by squeezing farmers alone!”
When Jin Xiaoying said this, I felt that I had a deep misunderstanding of the landlord.
Before I could speak, Jin Xiaoying continued: "In addition, the landlord's family will grow part of the land themselves, and they won't rent it out unless the landlord is an idiot."
When I asked Jin Xiaoying why, she glared at me and said, "If you are a landlord, then you are also a landlord, I don't even understand, the food you harvest from your own land is yours, no matter what accident happens. , they can guarantee the bottom line, but the rented out is different. Is it rare that farmers owe rent and cannot repay it? How many princes in history have been owed rent by their people, but in desperation, they paid Forget it, let alone a small landlord."
I think we have gone too far, so I came to a sentence: "I understand, Grandma Jin, continue to tell the story of your senior sister Bai Ge."
Jin Xiaoying said with an "um": "Boy, don't dislike my troubles, if you want to listen to my story, then listen carefully, without saying a word, I won't omit those plots, those plots, without that For a part, you can't understand my senior sister's complete voice, and you can't even understand the grief in her heart."
This is bound to be a sad story.