There are mythical animals at home to ward off evil spirits

Qin Nan dragged his luggage and stood in front of the old house he had not seen for a long time, full of longing for him. When he came back after not seeing him for five years, he thought he should be filled with joy, but he never imagined that people would be like this.

Although Qin Nan shouldn't be surprised, but humans are not grass and trees, how can they be calm and indifferent?

Qin Nan took his grandfather to the capital for medical treatment. They stayed there for five years until his grandfather passed away recently. As a last resort, Qin Nan returned to his hometown with his luggage and his grandfather's ashes.

I wanted to bury my grandfather and then settle in my old house. However, the neighbor who had been entrusted to help rent the old house actually sold the old house without permission and ran away with the money.

When they left, neither the grandfather nor the grandson were rich, and the neighbor was an old neighbor for more than 20 years, so they gave him the house deed and asked him to rent a house and collect some rent to reduce the burden of medical treatment.

For the first three years, I received payments from my neighbors every month. Three years later, my neighbors suddenly informed me that someone had died in the old house.

The house could not be rented out. When the police came to investigate, Qin Nan's grandfather and grandson were not involved all year round and were not involved. Later, the matter was settled and no one dared to rent the house after the neighbors told the story, so the rent was cut off for two years.

Unexpectedly, Qin Nan came back today and found out that his family was gone when he went to visit the old village chief. The old village chief was Qin Nan's grandpa's close friend. He stayed at home alone all year round and guarded the old house. His three children all had families and worked hard outside.

At first, Qin Nan wanted to give the house deed to the old village chief, but he was old and far away from the Qin family's old house, so he couldn't bear the trouble.

The old village chief said he didn't know it before, but later he learned that Qin Nan's neighbor was ostensibly helping to find a rental house, but in fact he was specifically looking for some outsiders to sell the house. Just a few days ago, the neighbor's family suddenly moved out overnight. The house was sold and no one knew where they went.

Qin Nan took out the key to the warehouse of his old house from his pocket. Because he wanted to rent a house, Qin Nan put all his and his grandfather's things in the warehouse before leaving, and gave the key to the village chief's grandfather.

Although the house is an old house, the unexpected death of his parents left behind many relics and other things, so the warehouse at home is the only room with a security door.

Although it seems very out of place in the antique old house, there are wealthy thieves in the family who are worried about it, so they have to be on guard.

Qin Nan can only stand at the door waiting for the buyer to discuss taking away his belongings. As for where he will go in the future, Qin Nan is no longer in the mood to think about it. In order to treat his grandfather, his savings have long been gone.

Fortunately, he found a pretty good job after graduation, but one job was far from enough. He had to work several jobs at the same time to barely cover his grandfather's medical treatment and provide food and accommodation for the two of them.

So although Qin Nan is good-looking, has a gentle personality and can take care of others, he is still single at the age of twenty-eight, and he has no energy to take care of anything else.

Later, when grandpa passed away, some people showed their kindness and some confessed their love, but Qin Nan refused them all with a smile. Then he packed his luggage from the rented basement, took his grandpa's ashes and high debts, left the country and returned to his hometown.

Qin Nan looked at the door of the old house. It was still a heavy wooden door, but it had obviously been repaired. He remembered that the old house had two entrances and a backyard. On the left side of the entrance was a grape trellis corridor, which faced the lotus pond, and there were fish in it. There were frogs, which were very noisy in the summer. Grandpa often got up in the middle of the night to chase the frogs away, for fear of waking up Qin Nan.

On the right side of the door is a toilet built for guests. My mother loved to be clean when she was alive. The two large toilets in the old house are very clean and paved with tiles. Although the tiles are put together from many broken tiles that my father and grandfather picked up from the tile factory, they are very decorated. Be careful.

The interior decoration of the toilet next to the gate is built according to the style of today's public toilets. Although there are only three squatting pits for men and women, it is very up to date to have running water for flushing.

It’s just that after such a long time, I don’t know what’s going on inside. I don’t know if the previous tenants have taken any care of it and used it.

When you enter the gate, you face an open space covered with tiles. Grandpa practices Tai Chi here every day, and the whole family can have outdoor dinners here in the evening.

Across the open space is the main living room, which is a three-room house on the left, middle and right. The roof is covered with beams, white walls and green tiles, and copper bells are hung on the raised corners of the eaves.

Qin Nan raised his head and looked at the copper bells on the eaves that could be seen even outside the door. When the wind blew, the bells made a crisp sound.

In the middle of the living room is the furnishings like those in ancient times. There are main seats, guest seats and a tea table. The left room is a sofa set and a bookcase. The right room is a tatami tea room. The three rooms on the left, middle and right are separated by screens.

To the left of the main living room is the lotus pond and corridor. A wall connects the main living room and the courtyard wall, separating the lotus pond from the inner courtyard.

There is a well on the right side of the main living room, and there is also a wall that separates the toilet, the well and the inner courtyard. However, the wall here has a door with a lock. It is a very old-fashioned copper lock. Hanging it up is a symbol that the inner courtyard must be invited. Don't enter.

The reception room in the middle of the main living room is backed by a decorated partition. There are bead curtains on both sides of the partition. Behind the partition is the back door of the main living room. Going out from the back door is the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is like a courtyard. On the left is the toilet, which has the same layout as the toilet at the gate. On the right is the warehouse, which is divided into two floors. The lower floor is large and has storage shelves. The upper floor is a small attic with paved floors. The wooden board has a bed board and wiring inside. When he was in school, Qin Nan liked to read in the small attic.

There are windows in the attic, with transparent glass. It is comfortable there no matter it is sunny or rainy. The walls of the old house are made of bricks, so it is not particularly hot in the house even in summer. All of Qin Nan’s books are also stored in the small attic. , both textbooks and extracurricular books are well collected.

There are bookshelves in the small attic. The bookshelves are equipped with transparent glass and can be locked, mainly to prevent mice. There used to be a cat in the house, but later it died of old age. Grandpa was sad and stopped keeping it.

In the middle of the inner courtyard is a three-story pavilion. There is an open space in front of the pavilion. There are two rows of flower beds beside the pavilion, which were arranged by my mother during her lifetime and later taken care of by my grandfather.

There are removable and removable clothes drying racks in the open space in front of the door, as well as a living room, dining room, kitchen, study room and small grocery store on the first floor. The north and south are transparent and the windows are opened in the summer, so the breeze is very refreshing.

The second floor is the bedrooms. Each of the three large bedrooms has a balcony, one for grandparents and one for father and mother. Grandma passed away before Qin Nan was born, so Qin Nan has only seen grandma in photos.

I heard that my grandma was a famous tailor during her lifetime, and now she is a fashion designer, especially cheongsams. Many of my mother’s favorite cheongsams were made by her. From designing the fabrics to sewing the finished products, she made them all with her own hands.

Before her death, her mother once said that Qin Nan looked like her grandma, but it was a pity that Qin Nan could not really see her grandma through the photo paper.

The third floor is quite special. It is divided into several areas, which are the private areas of each member of the family. One is the carpenter's house that belongs to the grandfather, one belongs to the tailor's house that belongs to the mother, one belongs to the father's studio and one belongs to Qin. Nan's bookstore.

The design of each room is individually arranged, and you need permission to enter. This is a method that grandma and grandpa came up with after quarreling a lot when they were young. As long as they go up to the third floor, they have their own free time.

When his parents passed away, Qin Nan locked the house on the third floor, and his grandfather also locked the house. He said he looked sad, so his grandpa and grandson only lived on the first and second floors.

Later, the house was rented out, and the fence gate on the third floor was also reinforced and was not included in the rental scope. Moreover, the third floor must have accumulated dust for a long time. Although everything in the house was covered with cloth before, dust and dust could not be avoided.