invisible friends

Qingshui City is an ancient closed town located in the southern province of S. The town is surrounded by water. For hundreds of years, people in the town have only relied on a stone bridge with a total length of more than 300 meters on the east side of the town.Because of its remote location, it has not been affected by many modern things, and most of the town has remained unchanged for a hundred years.

In the south of Qingshui Town, there is a small island covering an area of ​​more than 1000 hectares on the lake more than 70 meters away. The vegetation on the small island is dense and full of old trees. The old house with a longer history in Qingshui Town is the old house of the Luo family.

This old house of the Luo family is very mysterious. There are many legends about this old house in Qingshui Town. As long as an old man is caught casually, the other party can tell seven or eight mysterious stories about the old house of the Luo family. In these stories, Without exception, Luo's old house is described as a magical place.And the most miraculous one of these stories is about the origin of Qingshui Town and the Luo Family Mansion.

According to legend, the water area where Qingshui City is located for several hundred years is a prosperous city called Qingshan City surrounded by mountains. This city is full of dignitaries and dignitaries, and the Luo family is the most prominent one among them. one of them.

At that time, the master of the Luo family had only one son. I heard that this young master Luo was both talented and beautiful, and had a heart of Buddha, so he was very respected by the local people.One year, Master Na Luo took his servants to Beijing to rush for the exam. When passing by a barren mountain, he met a wounded little fox at the foot of the mountain.The young master of the Luo family saw that the little fox was pitiful and saved it, but he didn't know that the fox was originally a monster in the mountains, and he was injured only when he failed to transform into a human form. If he wanted to change into a human form again, he had to eat someone.

So one night, while Master Luo and his servants were asleep, the fox secretly ate Master Luo, then transformed into Master Luo himself, and went to Beijing for the exam the next day.A year later, the fox who became Master Luo returned to Qingshan City with his title on the gold list, became a local parent officer, and lived a peaceful life as a human being.

Unexpectedly, three years later, Qingshan City encountered a huge flood, and the torrential rain for several months in a row submerged the city and the surrounding mountains.That fox ate Young Master Luo's heart and liver, so he had Master Luo's kindness. Seeing that the local people were about to drown, he exhausted the magic power he had cultivated in the past hundred years, and raised the highest mountain among the drowned mountains. A few feet, let the land out of the water, so that the local people can settle down.And this piece of land out of the water later became Qingshui Town.

The people survived, but the fox died because of exhaustion of mana.The people were grateful for his kindness and begged the Buddha to resurrect him. The Buddha heard the people's begging and kindly resurrected the fox.It's just that the fox made a big mistake by eating the young master of the Luo family. The Buddha cast a spell to make the Luo family's mansion rise above the water, and told the fox that the Luo family would stay in that mansion for generations. local people.

The elderly people in Qingshui Town know this story very well, and have always believed that the Luo family is protecting the town. They always say that the members of the Luo family are all descendants of that fox, they all have mana, and they are very powerful people.It is also said that there are many ghosts and gods living in the Luo family's mansion, and anyone who breaks in casually will be punished by the city.However, the juniors in Qingshui Town dismissed this very much. They didn't believe this story at all. To them, the small island thousands of meters away from them was just a wasteland, and the Luo family mansion on it was just a wasteland. It's just a dilapidated house like all the old houses in Qingshui Town.

half year ago.

Luo Zhixia sat cross-legged on the thick blanket spread in the corridor, holding a cup of hot tea and squinting his eyes, basking comfortably in the sun.This is his favorite and most frequent activity in winter. When the warm sunshine makes him sleepy, he will lie directly on the blanket and sleep all afternoon.

"The weather is so nice, it's perfect for sleeping." Luo Zhixia stretched his waist and sighed.

"I can smell it. It's going to snow tomorrow. It should rain for a few days. Young master, go out and buy some food and come back. The food at home is almost finished!" A voice like an old father-in-law came from It came from the underground on Luo Zhixia's left side.

"Snow is also a very suitable weather for the young master to sleep in! But the young master has not gone out for a month, so let's go for a walk while the weather is good today. Such a young man can't be like us old men and women I don't like to move!" Another slow old woman's voice came from the ground on Luo Zhixia's right.

"Old woman, it's not that we don't like to move, it's because we can't move." The old man's voice said again.

"I forgot, but I really want to go swimming in the river outside." The old woman's voice said.

The owner of the voice is two post turtles under the two porch pillars of the Luo family. The male one is called Gao and the female one is called Lin.Luo Zhixia always felt that the ancestors who took these two names were very interesting, because together with their two species names, the combination is Guiligao - Guiling Jelly.

Gao and Lin had been placed under the two pillars when the house was built, and it has been hundreds of years now.If they want to come out, unless the two pillars are smashed.

Of course, it is impossible for Luo Zhixia to break those two pillars. If the pillars are broken, the main house will basically be lost, so he felt very sorry for this, so he had to propose: "I can't let you go out, or I will be here Pour some water into the pit, and you can pretend you are swimming."

"You have never been down here, and you probably don't know that there is water down here, although the water only fills up to my stomach. If you really feel sympathy for our fate, young master, go out and buy us some beef Come back, beef is my favorite." Gao said slowly.

"Is there really water below? You never said that." Luo Zhixia moved his body on the blanket, moved to the pillar pressing Gao, and looked at the bottom of the pillar lying on his stomach.

The bases of the pillars in the Luo family mansion are all underground, and the bases of the other pillars were covered tightly with bluestone slabs when laying the floor tiles. Only the plinths of the two large pillars in the corridor were not covered by the stone slabs. , Instead, a circular hole with a diameter of two meters was opened with the pillar as the center.The diameter of this pillar is one meter, so the exposed ring-shaped opening is fifty centimeters wide. In order to prevent people from falling, the ancestors of the Luo family built a circle of hollowed-out stone bricks on the opening.

Now Luo Zhixia is lying on those stone bricks, looking down through the small holes in the stone bricks.Borrowing the bright afternoon sun, he could see Gao's forelimbs sliding constantly under the pothole several meters deep, and there seemed to be some faint water waves flickering, but he couldn't see clearly.

It is really pitiful to be pressed by a large stone pillar weighing several hundred kilograms without seeing the sun and being unable to move for hundreds of years.Luo Zhixia stood up, patted his pants and said, "Okay, I'll go buy some beef for you."

"Master, if you can, please buy rump meat, we like to eat that part of the meat the most." Lin said.

"It's a blessing to be able to buy beef, you'd better not pick your mouth."

This Qingshui town has a population of only a thousand, and because the transportation is not very convenient, there is only one small vegetable market in the whole town, and there are not many kinds of ingredients. Many times, if you go there late, you will not be able to buy what you want.

Luo Zhixia was sitting in the corridor wearing shoes, when a beautiful female ghost in a maid outfit floated out with a coat and a wallet, and said very gently: "Master, your coat and wallet. Please go out Be careful on the road and come back early."

"Yin Hong, I'll ask you to guard the door when I go out."

"Yes, young master. If someone breaks in, I will strangle him to death." The female ghost named Yin Hong nodded obediently, her face was still gentle, but her voice became very cold.

"Don't strangle him to death. If it's a dangerous person, just knock him out and tie him up," Luo Zhixia said.

"Yes, if it's a bad person, tie him up." Yin Hong said, instantly turning into a very old hemp rope, and tied up the pillar.

Luo Zhixia sighed helplessly, Yin Hong's body was a rope used by a prison in the late Qing Dynasty to tie female criminals to the execution ground, because most of these women were wronged, so when they died, the grievances gathered around the tied rope. on their ropes.After a long time, this rope accumulated too much resentment and became a monster. During the period of the Republic of China, it transformed into a beautiful woman and killed many people. Later, it was captured by Luo Zhixia's ancestors and brought back to the Luo family mansion. .Because of being able to change form, Yin Hong has always been a servant in Luo's family, and she does a good job, but no matter how long she has been trained, Yin Hong's temperament of wanting to strangle people at any time has never changed.

After leaving the yard, we walked through a large fruit grove outside and arrived at the shore.There was an old wooden boat tied there, and Luo Zhixia relied on this boat when he went to Qingshui Town.He untied the cable tied to the big tree by the river, raised his hand to look at his watch, saw that it was a bit late, worried that all the things in the vegetable market would be sold out, so he quickly jumped on the boat.

After adjusting the direction of the boat, Luo Zhixia took out a small glass bottle usually used for pepper powder from his pocket as usual, opened the lid and sprinkled some of the powder inside towards the stern.As soon as it was sprinkled, many fish swam into the lake and began to scramble to eat the powder that fell into the water.

Luo Zhixia put the bottle back into his pocket, and lay down comfortably in the cabin.What he feeds these fish is homemade fish food mixed with talisman paper, and when the fish are finished eating, he will obediently push the boat for him according to his will.

Sure enough, after a while, the wooden boat began to slide.

Luo Zhixia squinted his eyes and looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky. Most of the time, having supernatural powers is really a troublesome thing, because people with greater abilities also bear greater responsibilities, and this responsibility is whether you want it or not. have to be accepted passively.But sometimes it is really a good thing to have abilities, like now, if there is no ability, he has to row the boat hard by himself, but with the ability, he can order those fish to help him push the boat, You can relax comfortably for a while.