ask incense

Early in the morning, when the housekeeper worried Zhong Zhong came to the front yard, he saw the two people who had been ordered to clean up the water tank last night standing in the yard with disheveled faces.

Hearing someone coming, they all turned their heads and looked at the butler who came in a hurry with a very bad expression.

Seeing the faces of the two, the butler knew something was wrong, but he still asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

After the two looked at each other, Xiao Pan said the situation in a trembling voice, "The fish in that tank."

Before he finished speaking, he just looked at the butler with terrified eyes.The housekeeper jumped in his heart, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he went forward, and saw that in a row of tanks under the wall, the carps that were originally raised were all turned upside down on the water surface, and the fish eyes were staring straight at them, with a look of shame. The appearance, even in the daytime, is scary to watch.

"How could this be?" The butler asked the two of them, but both of them shook their heads.

"It was already like this when we got up early to get ready to clean up."

The housekeeper frowned and looked at the fish tank, as if he didn't know what to do.

Xiao Xie boldly asked, "Do you want to speak to the young master?"

"Crazy?!" The butler sternly stopped him, "Are you going to tell the young master that we are not doing well? The guests are coming one after another in the past two days, what do you want the young master to do?"

The two were silent for a moment, and after eye contact for a long time, Xiao Xie said, "But these strange things have happened in the past few days. When the guests arrive, what should I do if I disturb them again?"

Hearing this, the housekeeper had a headache and raised his forehead. He had to think of a way. It was not the way to always turn a blind eye.He was having a headache, and heard Xiao Pan say again, "I heard that a fortune teller came outside, and he seems to be proficient in exorcising evil spirits, why don't you invite him to come and see?"

Xiao Pan was most afraid of this kind of thing. When he saw that the good fish turned over, combined with the events of the previous two days, he was only worried that the house was not clean.

The housekeeper put down his hand on the forehead, and looked at Xiao Pan sharply, "Are you crazy?! When is it now? It's the time when the young master holds the incense fighting party! Those who can enter the Tang family are carefully selected. Now you invite an unknown person to come in, because of this pretentious matter?! Let the young master know, and carefully peel your skin!"

Xiao Pan, who offered advice out of good intentions but was severely reprimanded, lowered his head and muttered, "Still catching the wind? It's all on the surface. Look at those dead fish."

The butler was annoyed by them, so he raised his hand to interrupt him, "Clean up these water tanks first, and don't make a noise to let others know about these things."

The two responded, and walked to clean the water tank with lowered eyebrows. Xiao Xie asked worriedly, "Have these been cleaned up? The water in the water storage tank in the backyard was also released before. In case there is an accident at that time, There is no emergency water."

Because the weird reflection in the pool scared the two of them sick, everyone was panicked, and to avoid complications, the housekeeper listened to Tang Lin's order and released all the water in the pool.

The summer is dry, and there are many large beams in the Tang Family Courtyard, and there are many visitors in recent days, so there are also many lights on it.I'm afraid that if there is an eventuality, the distant water will not be able to save the nearby fire.

The butler pondered over and over again, he had held a lot of incense fighting meetings in the past, and there were no accidents, so he felt that as long as he followed the rules this time, there would probably be no accidents. The most important task on his head now was to entertain guests.Looking at the glaring fish with their bellies turned over in the tanks, the housekeeper decided to clean up the tanks thoroughly.

"Hurry up, clean it up, clean it up, don't leave a single thing, hurry up and don't let anyone see it!"

The housekeeper anxiously instructed him to clean up the water tank and then turned around to go to the inner courtyard. He turned around and stopped Xiao Pan who had just told him to ask someone to exorcise evil spirits, and asked him in a low voice, "You said there is a fortune teller who understands?" Exorcism? Where is it?"

I was still worried all the time, and wanted to exorcise the evil spirits.

Xiao Pan nodded again and again, "The man has been squatting at the door for the past two days, writing fortune-telling on the ground to exorcise evil spirits, and he seems to have a good reputation among those old men and women."

"Take me to see."

Having already moved his mind, he didn't care about it anymore, and hurriedly followed the people to the gate.

Dai Qiyi, who was squatting in front of the door and not leaving, was happily chatting with the gatekeeper.When the butler came out, he saw him holding the janitor's hand, squinting his eyes to show others, "I don't have much money, so it's important to work seriously, but it seems that the relationship line has diverged a lot, don't be in two boats." After speaking, he giggled and touched the gatekeeper's arm with his hand.

The purpose of Dai Zhiyi is to establish a good relationship with the gatekeeper, so that he can turn a blind eye and let him in, so he doesn't speak properly, so he just wants to get along with the guard at the gate as soon as possible. People who send messages on mobile phones become friends of friends.But when he was seen by the housekeeper who came out like this, he felt that he was very unreliable.

The housekeeper coughed for two people, the gatekeeper immediately restrained his smile and stood upright when the gatekeeper heard it, while Dai Zhiyi also looked nervously at the person coming.

The housekeeper sized up Dai Zhiyi, seeing that he was still young and unreliable, and asked the people around him, "You mean him?"

Xiao Pan nodded.The butler suddenly felt that it was ridiculous to listen to his suggestion and ask someone to exorcise evil spirits.

But when they came, the butler asked the gatekeeper with a sullen face, "What are you doing?"

The gatekeeper immediately reported back, "This little brother set up a fortune-telling stall at the door, and he has nothing to do to help me check my fortune."

The housekeeper glanced at Dai Zhiyi, and asked him in a tone of disbelief, "Do you know fortune telling?"

Dai Zhiyi noticed it and knew that it was not easy to come, so he said anxiously, "Yes, yes, don't look at me like this, but I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and I have a good reputation. You can ask outside The name of a fairy."

The housekeeper still looked at Dai Zhiyi with a serious face, "Since they are all called little gods, why are they still setting up a stall at our door?"

"I, I am..." Dai Geyi, who was questioned about his ability, was speechless for a while.

The butler stopped looking at him and turned to the gatekeeper.The gatekeeper swallowed his saliva and confessed honestly, "He was also the one who registered to enter the Douxiang Club two days ago, but he just got out after the first pass. He hasn't been guarding the gate for the past two days."

Hearing this, the butler immediately concluded that Dai Zhiyi was someone who wanted to infiltrate the Tang family. The gatekeeper and Xiao Pan didn't bother to be vigilant about the obvious thing. He scolded the gatekeeper, "What do you want you to guard the gate, what do you want to eat? Are you here to chat with people? If you don't clean up the idlers at the gate, you will be in the way of the distinguished guests. I want you to look good!"

Dai Geyi, who originally hoped to gain face in front of the housekeeper, saw that he suddenly lost his temper, and hurried to sell himself, "I'm not a casual person. I really have some skills. I heard that the courtyard has not been peaceful recently. , please invite me to go in and have a look, and I promise to keep the house clean."

But the more Dai Zhiyi rushed to promote himself, the more disgusted he was, especially when the butler heard the words about the Tang family's uneasy life from him, he knew that he must have been acquainted with the guards on shift in the past two days. When he arrived, his heart became more and more angry, and he suddenly pushed Dai Yiyi down the steps in front of him.

"Oh." Dai Zhiyi couldn't please, and even fell a big ass, feeling aggrieved in his heart, and was about to throw a tantrum on the spot, but seeing how many of them were there, the black face of the housekeeper was very scary, bullying the soft and fearing the hard Yi Yi got up from the ground pretending not to care, patted on his clothes, "Forget it, I know you didn't mean it. But I fell so badly, and my clothes were dirty, why don't you take me in to have a rest, change clothes or something. "

After finishing speaking, he stepped up the steps cheekily and planned to slip in again.

The housekeeper glared at the gatekeeper, "Why don't you drive this rascal away quickly? I want you to come and eat for nothing!"

After giving the order, the gatekeeper couldn't disobey, so he had to come forward to stop Dai Zhiyi.

Good things have been said, Dai Zhiyi, who doesn't care about being pushed, is in a hurry at the moment, "I thought the big families in the city are very polite, but in the end even dogs bully people!"

As soon as the gatekeeper heard Dai Zhiyi's words, he immediately picked up Dai Zhiyi and walked away, and whispered to persuade him not to scold him, but Dai Zhiyi ignored him, and even when he was carried away, he still yelled at him, and he could still hear him even when he walked far away. to the sound of his yelling.

The butler heard his temples throbbing, but as a butler, he must be well-bred after all, he just gritted his teeth and looked at Xiao Pan who brought him out with his head down, and said bitterly, "This is what you said about word-of-mouth, okay? I see you My brain is broken!"

No matter how much you scold, it won't help, the matter is still not resolved after all, and if you scold others too much, it also makes me, the person who came out to see it by myself, very brainless.

So no matter how angry he was, after cursing that sentence, the housekeeper flicked his sleeves and turned around to enter the door, and Xiao Pan, who was scolded for being brainless, followed him in step by step.

After entering the door and passing through the courtyard, he saw the empty water tank and still had lingering fears about what he saw this morning, so Xiao Pan quietly asked the housekeeper, "It's not reliable to ask someone to exorcise evil spirits, so what can I do? If something happens again Son, how can I explain to the young master when I disturb the interest of the distinguished guests."

The housekeeper frowned, and the matter was indeed not resolved, but after a moment of contemplation, he finally came up with an unsolvable solution, "There is a statue of Avalokitesvara with folded palms at home, go take it out and put it in the town house."

"You mean to get it from the young master's treasury? Will the young master not blame you then?"

The butler waved his hand, "That's fine, the Guanyin statue has cracks, the young master doesn't care much about the flawed things, go quickly."

"Okay."

The housekeeper saw the man who ordered to run away, and thought that the house should be quiet for two days now, nothing weird will happen, no matter what kind of monsters and ghosts he is, he can't hide as far away as he sees the treasured figure of Guanyin?Thinking of it this way, he himself was relieved a lot, and his posture immediately relaxed, and he planned to take care of other things.

As soon as he took a step, he met Pei Ling and Sai Tianxian coming to the front courtyard, so he had to stop to greet them.

Pei Ling greeted him first, "Good morning."

Sai Tianxian at the side turned his head to look at the person who just hurried past.

The housekeeper nodded politely to Pei Ling, "Mr. Gu also got up very early."

Pei Ling smiled, "Get up early and the air is good, come out for a walk." After speaking, he looked at the row of water tanks behind the butler, "I saw fish in those water tanks yesterday, but now it is..."

Pei Ling was still concerned about the fish in the tank.

"All the fish that were just for burning incense have been released."

Pei Ling asked worriedly, "Really? We released every one?"

The butler looked at Pei Ling with a serious face, afraid that he came to inquire because he saw the scene of the fish turning over this morning, but the butler calmly asked, "Is there any concern about Mr. Gu's work?"

Pei Ling shook his head and said no, "My cousin told me that he thought the red carp in the water tank where I burned the incense yesterday was very cute, so he wanted to take a look at it. I didn't expect you to move so fast. I burned the incense yesterday. Is the fish in your tank really taken out by you and released? Is there still time for my cousin to have a look?"

The housekeeper replied with a half smile, "It's too late, the life has already been released."

Pei Ling sensed that something was wrong. He came to see it last night. There was nothing in the water tank at that time. Why did the housekeeper say everything was normal and released the fish this morning?Did I misread it, or did the butler deliberately conceal it?

But having said that, no matter how much I inquired about it, it was fruitless.Pei Ling could only smile reluctantly, and said with a regretful look, "That's it."

The housekeeper seemed to be in a hurry to leave, and he wanted to say goodbye to Pei Ling in a few words, but Pei Ling still had Zhao Ming's business with him, so the housekeeper couldn't get away for the time being.

"Well, Zhao Ming, who was with us yesterday, feels a little unwell."

As for why and how, Pei Ling didn't know how to explain.

In the end, he simply made up a reasonable way for him to know about Zhao Ming's illness, "After burning incense yesterday, we agreed to go out for a walk together this morning. When I got up early to see him, I found that he seemed to have a fever. , so I want some antipyretics and, and..."

Pei Ling still wanted to ask for another tube of ointment, but if he asked, how would he explain it?It was a bit difficult for a while.

What Pei Ling couldn't explain, the housekeeper understood, and there was no need to make things difficult for Pei Ling. He agreed together, "Well, fever is not a trivial matter, and it will definitely affect the future Douxianghui. In this way, I will give away all the medicines for external and internal use. Come here, and ask someone to cook some easy-to-eat rice porridge for him.”

Hearing this, Pei Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't stop the butler from chatting slowly with him.Seeing this, the butler didn't talk to him too much, and left after a few polite words.

After asking the two worried things, Pei Ling turned to look at Sai Tianxian, but Sai Tianxian turned to look at the butler who had just left.

"Xian'er." Pei Ling called him, "Let's go."

As soon as Sai Tianxian turned his head to look at the inner courtyard, he raised his foot and followed the butler when he heard the word "Let's go". The speed was so fast that Pei Ling had no time to reach out and pull him back.Pei Ling thought it was because he didn't know the direction, so he raised his foot and followed the butler. He could only follow behind and call Sai Tianxian.

"Xian'er, it's wrong, it's wrong, that's not the direction of the room."

It's a pity that Sai Tianxian didn't mean to stop at all.

The housekeeper who hadn't walked two steps heard the commotion behind him, he stamped his feet and turned his head, and saw Sai Tianxian walking over, with Pei Ling chasing after him.

The butler didn't like their recklessness, he frowned slightly, seeing Sai Tianxian approaching, thinking that he would stop when he saw him.As a result, Sai Tianxian actually brushed past him and went straight in.The butler panicked and turned his head to stop him, "Stop! With your current identities, you can't enter the inner courtyard yet!"