The leisurely life of Lin Yuxi

The weather was fine that day, Sanwa was playing in the yard by herself, Yuxi changed into a shabby dress, and was about to tidy up the house. Since the [-]th day, Yuxi didn't like to go into this house so much, and felt a little conflicted.But the house cannot be left unused.The family's ewes are about to give birth, and Yuxi wants to keep them. When it's cold, they have to move into the house.Last year, because he was unprepared, he put it directly in the sheepfold. No matter how diligently he cleaned it, it was also tasteful.Yuxi simply paved the inside with stones.Get it clean.

First use a shovel to dig out a thick layer of soil on the ground, otherwise the smell will still be very strong.Then lay a layer of stones. The stones were brought back from the stone forest on the east side of Longtou Mountain. The mountain there is a stone mountain, all of which are large blue and black stones.The cornerstone of Yuxi's house and the surrounding walls are all made of stones there.It is precisely because of the existence of this stone mountain that the surrounding walls and houses of several villages near them are all blue and black, and with the surrounding green trees, they look very distinctive.

When laying bricks, it is necessary to level the surface and make the ground as flat as possible. Yuxi holds a big ax and cuts at uneven places. The body's control over strength and the sensitivity of the five senses make him handy when doing things. The ground that came out was extremely flat and solid.

The entire house was paved with stones, and the gaps were filled with cement.The cement is still left over from building a house at home, not much, and it will be gone after using it this time.If it weren't for the lack of cement, Yuxi would not need to be paved with stones.Next to the south wall, a groove was built to make a water ditch. He dug a hole under the wall along the water ditch, and dug a ditch obliquely outside.In the future, you can directly flush the water in the house and clean the ground.It's just that in winter, the ice cubes need to be cleaned from time to time.Although the workload has increased, the house is much cleaner.

The roof was originally paved with straw, but this Yuxi River has not been moved. After the autumn harvest, corn stalks and thatch are used to pave the roof, so that the sheep can survive the winter.

After washing his hands, he went out and saw that Sanwa was holding a wooden stick with her little butt pouted, not knowing what to do.Walking over, I saw that the boy had caught a bug from somewhere, and he was picking it with a stick.

Yuxi stepped forward and touched the little guy's butt, "Sanba, stop playing, wash your hands with brother, your second brother will be back in a while." He thought that he would buy Sanwa two pairs of dead crotch pants and open crotch pants in the last episode It's a little cold to wear again.

Hearing this, the little guy stood up with a smile, "Second Brother is back for dinner."

"Why are you hungry?" Yuxi touched the little guy's belly, which was a little deflated.Take him to wash his hands.I washed a smaller tomato, put a bib on it, and let him eat it.

The steamed buns yesterday were the staple food, and I made a random stew with sliced ​​meat, potatoes, beans, eggplants, and tomatoes in the big pot. They were all grown in the third uncle’s home. The soup and vegetables have a special taste. Well, before I ate food in the capital, I always felt that there was something wrong with it. The taste of the food was not as fragrant as home-grown.Wash the cucumber, lettuce and scallions, and eat it raw with homemade miso. I have been used to not eating for a day since I was a snack.

After making lunch simply, I heard the dog barking, and then I saw Erwa come in.Sweat all over the forehead.

"Why did you come back so quickly?"

Erwa took a scoop of water from the tank and drank it before saying, "I ran back."

"Why are you running? Your forehead is full of sweat."

"They went to watch the excitement. They all ran back. I didn't go, so I went home first."

"What's the fun?"

"I heard that the little grandson of Uncle Westinghouse's family has been bewitched by an evil spirit. He is making a fuss. Everyone is going to watch the excitement."

"is it?"

"Gouzi told me that Uncle Westinghouse took that boy to Longtoushan to burn paper for his grandfather, but when he came back, he was bewitched. It's been three days. There was a lot of trouble today, and we could hear the noise from their house as soon as we entered the village."

"Isn't their house always noisy? There's nothing new about it." Yuxi remembered that the past two days were not the days when Grandpa passed away.Because the relationship between Grandpa Yuxi and Uncle Westinghouse is not very good, so Yuxi's family never chooses this day to burn paper, and usually only goes during Qingming or during the festival.Now that elder Yuxi has passed away, he can't remember it either.

"Brother, do you think there are ghosts?"

"What nonsense, there is something."

"Then why is their grandson like that? He seems to be crazy. I heard him yelling from afar." If he wasn't afraid that his brother was anxious, he would have gone to see it too.

"Who knows, maybe there is something wrong." Yuxi didn't take it to heart.He didn't have a good impression of the people on the side of Master Westinghouse.

Yuxi's great-grandfather had four sons. In the early years, not long after the eldest and second child got married, the old man disappeared, and the eldest was struggling to separate the family. At that time, neither the third nor the fourth Yuxi's grandfather had a family.The old lady really had no choice but to share with her son.When the old man was alive, he built houses for several children. The old house they lived in was intended for the eldest and second children, and the new one was built for the third and fourth children.He thought about living with his eldest son in the future.If the conditions are better, the old house will be rebuilt.Unexpectedly, once he died, the boss would make a fuss about dividing the family.Such two married children will go to the new house.Those who are not married live with the grandmother.

The eldest daughter-in-law is very rowdy, and the second child has many children, and there are constant conflicts in one place. In the end, the second child simply built a house and moved out. The eldest brother wanted to occupy the room of the second child, and the honest man was also angry. When I was young, the second child simply demolished his own house, anyway, it was mine, and I didn't care what I liked.Because of this, the two sides fought hard.After that, they did not communicate for many years.

This second grandfather is the third uncle's father.Later, the third grandfather became the village head, and the fourth grandfather was Yuxi's grandfather.Also because of the separation of the family before, the grandfather did not have a good relationship with the other grandfathers. Their new house was on the west side of the old house, so the children all called him Uncle Westinghouse (Master, here is the second sound, which means grandpa, Northeast calls his father’s elder brother uncle, which means uncle.) And the old house where he was supposed to live is now the third grandfather’s.Thinking about it now, he didn't get any benefit from fighting back and forth.

Only a good wife can make the family happy. Yuxi thinks that Grandpa is a good person, but his wife is not very good.That old lady is a big deal, when his parents passed away, she was the only one who wanted to plot against Yuxi, and her daughter-in-law was the one who danced the most.So Yuxi treats their family at a respectful distance, and it would be better if they never communicate with each other.

In the afternoon, Yuxi tidied up the vegetable garden. The corn and soybeans were almost ripe. This year, the soybeans and corn were interplanted, and they went to save the ones for next year's sauce. They ate them by themselves. The rest of Yuxi was ready to squeeze oil.The bean cakes left over from oil extraction can also be eaten by sheep.But this is not enough, he also plans to buy some bean cakes, ewes and lambs need nutrition.

Just as he was thinking, he heard the door ring and saw that the third aunt had entered the yard with a basket on her shoulders.

"Third Aunt." Yuxi walked out from the field.

"I brought you some corn."

"Why did the corn come down early?"

"Well, your third uncle made the corn sticky on purpose. It's so sweet."

Yuxi took it and took a look, "It seems to be a little smaller than the sticks we planted in the past."

"Well, this is from outside a few times. I picked it first and tasted it. I heard that people in the city are willing to eat this kind of food. I will pick it up and sell it in the city tomorrow."

Yuxi nodded, "I remember when I was in the capital, I saw someone selling cooked corn on the street for [-] cents a stick, which is really making money. Why don't you try making cooked corn, Third Aunt, or ask Brother Mingzhi , he may be interested, and the price is probably better than if we sold it together."

"Can you really sell a stick for fifty cents?" The third aunt glared at the boss.

"No, but I don't know how their corn matures so quickly. Even if we can't sell fifty cents, we can sell thirty cents."

"Then I'll ask your uncle to ask." The third aunt didn't go into the house after hearing this, but turned around and went out. "Hey, I forgot to mention. I'll come over to do some work tomorrow morning. Find Sanba and your cotton-padded jackets and trousers. I'll see if there's anything I can change."

"I was thinking of going to the street to buy some dead crotch pants for Sanwa."

"What do you buy, just change it. He's so big, he can't wear anything good, and he will be small in a few days, so don't spend that money. The ones bought in the street are not comfortable to wear, so don't worry about it." After finishing speaking, the third aunt went out in a hurry.

Yuxi carried corn into the house, the basket was about twenty sticks, enough for them to eat for two days.

Put water in the big pot, put the corn in it and cook first, then put a few potatoes and eggplants in it after a while, put the chopped peppers in the big sauce, cover it with a pot fork, steam a big bowl, and let it come out The pot is a very delicious chili sauce.Later, I will get some scallion leaves and tear them into thin strips, together with potatoes and eggplants and chili sauce, it is simple and delicious.

The sticky corn brought by the third aunt is really sweet and tastes glutinous. While eating, Yuxi wonders whether he will switch to sticky corn next year.

The second child was sent away early the next morning, Yuxi cleaned up the house, and the third aunt came.In previous years, when his mother was around, the third aunt also came to work at his house at this time. When the mother married, the family had nothing and was not very rich, but the grandparents still took the money they had saved for many years and bought a house for the mother. The girl in the village envied her a sewing machine, and the third aunt later gave up on buying a sewing machine. The two of them got along well, and one was enough.Just like Yuxi's family never bought a TV, they used to go to the third uncle's house to watch TV.

The family bought a TV sewing machine and moved it under the south window of the west house. The large and spacious windows made the room very bright.There are big windows on the south side of the house they built here, and the sun is shining in winter and it is warm.The room is very bright.The East House located the kang in the south to allow the sun to shine in winter, and the West House kang in the north is cooler in summer.Now there are thin curtains on the windows so the light is not glare, and it is comfortable to sit here and work.

Yuxi took out the old clothes she found, and the three aunts divided them up. This year, the Yuxi brothers have grown a lot, and the clothes seem to be too small.

"I don't think you've gained much weight. Try these cotton trousers." Yuxi changed to last year's cotton trousers. How many furs do you have left? Hang them in a cool place behind the house. Take them out tomorrow and I’ll show you how to make them. Don’t ruin them before you use them.” Every household here has a few furs, women in the village They all have their own skills in fur maintenance.

Yuxi nodded.His understanding of fur is a little different now. In Beijing, his aunt took him to go shopping. He saw a fur coat store. The fur coats there were really expensive, costing thousands of dollars. There was even a mink coat that sold for 8000. many.Just this aunt said that it is not sold in season, otherwise it would be more expensive.

Yuxi accompanied the third aunt to pick out the clothes. She helped to remove the cotton jacket and trousers. The cotton was taken outside to dry, and the inside and the face were washed. It is really convenient to have a washing machine at home.

"Big baby, big baby—" Er Fatty called him before he entered the door.

"What's the matter, Er Fat Brother?" Yuxi asked after stopping to dry the clothes.

Er Fatty also didn't enter the hospital, "Let's go, come with me quickly, I'll take you to watch the excitement."

"What's the matter, I'm still alive."

"Uncle Xiwu's family has invited a great dancing god, and they are going to summon the soul of Mingxi for their family."

Yuxi also became interested when he heard it, he really hasn't seen the great dancer before. "Hey, Er Fat Brother, you go first, I'll dry the clothes and go."

Er Pang saw that there were several clothes in the basin, so he walked into the yard a few steps and helped him dry the clothes.Yuxi told the third aunt and followed.

The reason why he was so interested was also because of the strange tales of the Jianghu that he had seen. The strange tales of the Jianghu told about some things in the Jianghu in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.In the middle, there are some things about the post-golden shamans. The writing on it is miraculous, as if those shamans are really capable, and these dancing masters are actually transformed from the previous shamans.He really wanted to see if these great dancers really had some skills.

There are particularly many Manchus and Mongolians on their side, and there are also many Xians and Huis. Further north, the Oroqens seem to be almost the same, but some ethnic characteristics are still obvious.

There are no secrets in the village. When Yuxi and the others arrived, the yard of Uncle Westinghouse's house was surrounded and impenetrable.Erpang and Yuxi came to the place where a group of half-sized people were standing, and squeezed forward. Dazhu was sitting on the top of the wall, watching the two of them coming, he stretched out his hand and pulled Yuxi up, "Don't come up What if the wall collapsed?" Da Zhu looked at Er Pang and wanted to sit up and said something.

"Go, it seems like you are so skinny." Er Fatty rolled his eyes and went up with his hands.

Yuxi sat on the top of the wall and looked at the courtyard, which also had three floors inside and three floors outside.It's just that the two grandsons of Uncle Westinghouse's family blocked the door and prevented people from entering the house. They couldn't see anything.I just vaguely heard the sound of singing coming from inside.Yuxi has good hearing, but she can't understand. She even sang in Manchu. It seems that it is not unusual for the master Westinghouse to invite a great dancer.There are very few people who can speak the full tone now.

"It's not interesting, I'm going back first." Yuxi listened to it for a while, it didn't mean much, and she couldn't see it if she didn't understand it.

"Come on, I'm not here anymore, let's go together." Dazhu might also feel bored.

The two were about to go down when they were talking, when they suddenly heard screams in the room, followed by confusion at the door.Suddenly a person rushed out from the inside, and Yuxi immediately recognized that it was Ming Xi, the grandson of Uncle Xiwu's family. Ming Xi was two years older than him, and he was also stronger than him, but he seemed to have lost a lot of weight , the whole person's face was pale, his eyes were straight, and he looked like he was bewitched.

Then several people came out of the room, including Mingxi's parents, the second son of Xiwu, and Yuxi's second uncle and second aunt. They rushed out and grabbed Mingxi's arm.Mingxi almost broke free with a lot of strength.Immediately afterwards, a person wearing a colorful skirt and a mask came out of the room, his whole body was shaking non-stop, the long bell on his body was ringing, and he was singing an incomprehensible tune.There was another person playing a drum next to him.

As soon as Mingxi came out, Yuxi's eyes did not leave him, and the shocked look on his face dissipated after a while, the people around paid attention to Mingxi but found nothing unusual.

The reason why Yuxi was so shocked was because he saw a trace of black mist surrounding Mingxi, and the black mist was floating. As the masked man sang, the black mist seemed to gather more and more, and it seemed to overflow from Mingxi's body Yes, as the black mist increased, Mingxi's complexion improved a lot, but the black mist seemed to be struggling for the last time, shrinking fiercely into Mingxi's body.

Yuxi looked at the person who danced like a great god again.There was nothing unusual about that person, and Yuxi didn't hear anything wrong with the tune she sang, but he found that this person's mask had some tricks, and as she sang, this mask reflected a faint yellow phantom, and began to It's still not clear, but gradually this phantom formed a ferocious beast with a ghost face and fangs, stretching out its claws to grab Mingxi.

Yuxi looked at the people around, they were just watching the bustle, they probably didn't see the phantom, and no one saw the black mist on Mingxi's body.

The black mist finally escaped from Mingxi. As soon as it left Mingxi, it suddenly dimmed a lot. It was a coincidence that the place where it escaped happened to be Yuxi and the others.The ghost-faced animal shadow was also chasing after him. Seeing the black shadow coming towards this side, Yuxi pulled the big pillar vigorously, drawing out the true essence in the body to form a vitality shield outside the body.

The black shadow suddenly crashed into Yuxi's vitality shield, and the invisible vitality shield suddenly flashed a ray of purple light, and the black shadow dissipated all of a sudden, and Yuxi seemed to hear a shrill scream in his ear.That ray of purple light scattered the black mist without stopping and overflowed towards the ghost-faced beast shadow.Yuxi quickly controlled the true energy in her body, and took the true energy cover back into her body.Even so, it was a little slower, one of the horns of the ghost face and beast shadow was swallowed by the purple air, and Yuxi felt a pain in the middle of his eyes.The sea of ​​consciousness shuddered.Almost fell off the wall.

The person wearing the mask didn't feel very well, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood.The whole person froze.

It didn't take a few seconds from when Yuxi pulled the big pillar to when Yuxi fell over by herself. The people in the yard saw the person who danced the great god vomited blood, and then Mingxi fainted.They all thought it was amazing, it was quite real for this person to vomit blood.

Dazhu thought Yuxi was going to fall and pulled him, but only a few people around felt cold.It seems to see the sun's rays purple.

The second uncle and the second aunt in the yard called Mingxi, and he woke up quickly, not understanding his own situation, and had forgotten all about the past few days.

Asking God to be helped into the house by his companions, but before entering the house, he looked around and didn't see anything.It's just that the face under the mask is pale, it's a big loss today, in the past when I used this mask, I sometimes vomited blood, that's the price of using it, but today I feel as if the strength in my body has been drained.

When this person went back, his hair was completely white the next morning, and he seemed to be ten years older. After that, he never dared to use any mask casually.Instead, the mask was enshrined as a fetish.

Yuxi quickly returned to normal, and didn't stay to watch the excitement anymore. She told Dazhu Erpang and jumped off the wall and left. After walking for a while and seeing no one around, Yuxi closed her eyes, and a black and white picture suddenly appeared in her mind. The image was just a cloud of mist at the beginning, and gradually, with the movement of vitality in the body, the image became richer, and as Yuxi moved, the image of the outside world spread out, and everything was extremely clear.

Yuxi opened his eyes. What he saw at this time was different from before. The trees, flowers and plants all had a trace of mist, which was the spiritual energy of the plants.

Yuxi couldn't help laughing, she didn't expect to get this opportunity after going to see a show, and she opened her eyes by accident.According to the book, even if ordinary people practice, they can only vaguely see some mist like Yuxi before. Opening the sky eye also requires chance and understanding, and not everyone can open the sky eye.

That star power is really domineering, Yuxi didn't know what the black mist was, but was blown away by the star power, and instantly absorbed the spirit on the mask.If he hadn't withdrawn his vitality quickly, the spirit on that mask would have been sucked away by him.I don't know how many generations that mask has been passed down to have such a big spirit. It would be a pity to destroy it.

The Celestial Eye has many abilities. Yuxi went back to study for a while, except for the basic functions of internal vision, micro vision, perspective, and remote viewing, the Celestial Eye can also allow people to see things that the naked eye cannot see, such as aura, such as ghosts.Just going out of the black mist, Yuxi did not find the existence of ghosts.Whether the black mist was a ghost or not, he had no way of knowing.