Zhang Sui put down the "Tai Shi Ji of Li Dynasty" in his hand, rubbed his swollen forehead, turned around and came to the lobby of Shuge from the cubicle, and the attendant who was entertaining several scholars greeted him with a smile: "Second Master, today's Finished the book?"

Zhang Sui waved his hands as he walked out, didn't answer, and didn't care about it in class, and continued to entertain a few scholars to choose books there.Zhang Sui walked out of the bookstore and squinted his eyes to look at the sky. The sun, which was twice bigger than the impression in his mind, was slowly setting towards the west.

Sighing, Zhang Sui walked slowly along the street to the courtyard in his memory. Along the road, shops on both sides kept saying hello to him, and the greetings of "Second Lord, Second Lord" were endless.He just nodded slightly in response.

The courtyard where Zhang Sui lived was at the east end of Fangshi, separated from Fangshi by a very wide road.

The courtyard is not big, it can be regarded as a courtyard entered by a junior. When he walked to the door, the lame old Lu who was basking in the sun hurriedly got up, bent over and said, "Second Master, you are back, the third girl is waiting for you in the inner courtyard, I am going to find you , she won't let me..." Zhang Sui was startled, but before he had time to pay attention to him, he walked quickly to the inner courtyard.

Walking into the inner courtyard, I saw a thin girl with yellowish hair holding a box of pastries, her cheeks were puffed up, and she was eating happily. She saw Zhang Sui walking in , eyes widened in shock, jumped up from the small stool, hid the pastry behind his hands with both hands, wanted to speak but his mouth was full, and was at a loss for a while.

Zhang Sui glanced at the desk, the stack of papers under the paperweight, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he found that nothing had been moved.He casually picked up the water glass on the coffee table, poured a glass of water for the little girl, and handed it over. The little girl took it carefully, took a sip from sideways, and followed the pastry in her mouth.

Zhang Sui smiled and said, "Come here to steal food again?" The little girl rolled her eyes, swallowed the pastry with tea, and said with a sigh of relief: "You think I want to come, it's not that the aunt wants me Come here to ask you to have dinner, I ran all the way here, I’m so hungry, what’s the matter with some pastries?” Zhang Sui raised his eyebrows, went to the desk and sat down, opened a small drawer, took out a The box of dried fish was handed to the little girl with glowing eyes, and she asked, "It's not a solar term today, why did you ask me to eat?" The little girl's eyes were full of dried fish in her hand, and she said casually, "It seems to be here. A big shopkeeper, I heard that he came back from Jiannan Road."

Zhang Sui thought about it, Jiannan Road is in the west of Kunzhou, about two thousand miles apart, the big shopkeeper in charge of Jiannan Road seems to be the aunt's family, and he seems to have seen it at a family gathering two years ago in his memory Once, the reason for my impression was that the big shopkeeper was skinny, but he was tall, and it was hard to forget once I met him.

Zhang Sui smiled and asked: "It's enough to call a little boy to come over and say something, why are you still working hard for you, the third lady?" The little girl was fighting with the small fish in her hand, and she returned casually: "Isn't it from the second brother?" I can always find something delicious, and I can’t eat this or touch that at home, I’m already tired of eating those kinds of food every day.”

Zhang Sui knew that the third sister had been weak since she was a child and suffered from a strange disease. She could not touch many foods. Except for fish and buckwheat, as long as other foods were eaten, she would be covered with red rashes. She had some symptoms of malnutrition since she was a child.Relying on some recipes in his memory, he made buckwheat into pastries and fish into various flavors of dried fish, and occasionally adjusted her taste, so he was relatively close to him. It should be few in the family who dared to get close His people are gone.

Zhang Sui's family was engaged in book business. In the early years, it was just a small workshop. Later, the family gave birth to a Tanhua Lang, and the bookstore was changed into Tanhua Pavilion. After several generations of management, it is now the largest bookseller in the southwest of Yan State.Zhang Sui's father was the patriarch of the previous generation. He died of illness while inspecting bookstores in various regions, and died before he was sixty.The current patriarch of the family is Zhang Tian, ​​Zhang Sui's half-brother.

After Zhang Tian took charge of the family, Zhang Sui moved to this courtyard next to Fangshi. He received 100 taels of money every month. The family assigned him a lame coachman. Sent away, he was regarded as a marginalized person in the clan.

Zhang Sui also knew the general reason from his memory. Zhang Sui's biological mother was the only daughter of the shopkeeper of Daoshuge in Suijiang. With the fragrance of books, Zhang Sui's father fell in love at first sight when he visited Shuge when he was [-] years old. Later, he married and became the second wife.After the marriage, the two of you and I ignored the eldest family, the Liu family. The Liu family was also from a scholarly family, and his father was a third-rank official. Although he was not in the imperial court, he still had a wide network of contacts for many years. It is also due to the power of the Liu family.

Zhang Sui's mother was a confidante, and died of dystocia when giving birth to Zhang Sui. Zhang's father was distraught and intoxicated in grief all day long, even ignoring Liu's family. Although Zhang Sui grew up beside Liu's, Liu's love His attitude was extremely cold, and Zhang's father's death later had a lot to do with Zhang's mother. Zhang's father apparently inspected bookstores in various places, but most of the time he was in the places Zhang's mother had visited together before his death. He lingered, and eventually fell ill and died.

Recalling the emotional entanglements of the previous generation, Zhang Sui couldn't help but smile wryly. From Liu's point of view, she is the biggest victim. It is already very generous to be able to treat Zhang Sui with indifference instead of various suppressions. up.As for letting Zhang Sui move out of the ancestral house and live alone, this is also the ancestral practice of the Zhang family. To give a certain amount of support, those who can study take the imperial examination, and those who can do business give capital. Basically, there are two ways to choose, so that the development of the family can ensure that it can go further under the protection of power.

Zhang Sui thought for a while, next year's Dragon Boat Festival will be, this time in the past, it may be that he came in advance to prepare for the road selection.He looked at the third sister who was still fighting with dried fish, smiled, stepped forward and stroked her dry yellow hair, and said, "I will go there at night, do you want to go back first or wait for me to go there together?" Tilting his head, he got rid of Zhang Sui's claws, and muttered: "I'll wait for you, anyway, no one will play with me when I go back, so it's better to watch my second brother draw here." When it comes to painting, the eyes of the third sister All lit up.

Zhang Sui smiled, went to the study room and took out a few sheets of rice paper, spread one out, picked up the paperweight, hesitated for a moment, folded the stack of paper covered with small characters pressed by the paperweight, and put it at the bottom of the drawer grid.After pressing down the paperweight, he looked up at Third Sister who was chewing on the dried fish, staring at him with big bright eyes, and lightly wrote down the pen.

During the time of a cup of tea, a cartoon image of staring wide-eyed and chewing dried fish in his mouth is vivid on the paper. Although it is quite different from the common meticulous paintings of ladies, the expression of the little girl is just right, which is even more lovely.The little girl looked at the paintings on the table, and muttered: "How can someone's head be so big, and also, the hands and feet are too small!" She complained, but she couldn't help picking up the paper carefully, and gently Gently dried the ink, smiled into two crescent moons, and then pretended to be serious: "Although it doesn't look like it, but I still take it away and put it away, lest others see that you are scribbling and it is broken. Your reputation. lol"

Zhang Sui smiled knowingly as he watched her laugh silly.Turning back to the study room, he took a book, lay down on the recliner in the yard, and looked at the book with squinted eyes under the afterglow of the sun.The third sister looked at the portrait silly, and then ran to the old road at the door, and asked the old road to comment on the painting. Looking at the weird third girl, the old road just stroked his beard, nodded with a smile, and kept saying: "Like, really like!"

Those bizarre scenes in his mind were intertwined with his own memories, which made Zhang Sui feel a splitting headache, and kept rubbing his forehead with his hands. This situation had lasted for almost three months. Those scenes in his mind seemed to have been done. A long, very real dream, intertwined with his original memory, made him a little confused whether he was Zhang Sui, the second son of Zhangjiashuge, or the Zhang Sui who died on the sickbed in that strange dream. .Since a severe typhoid fever three months ago, Zhang Sui had a high fever for three whole days, leaving several famous doctors in the city at a loss what to do. They could only continue their lives with ginseng soup. Unexpectedly, he recovered inexplicably after three days, but there were many strange things in his mind. The scene, coupled with the non-stop intertwining of dreams every night, made him a little confused which Zhang Sui he was.

Zhang Sui tilted his head and glanced at the drawer where the rice paper was placed. He couldn't help being a little dazed by the stack of paper that had just been placed at the bottom. It was filled with words that did not belong to this world, although they were different from the words we see every day. It is very large, but the overall structure of the fonts is very similar.

Those words are the words used in his dream, and they are written in a passage of memory in the dream: "Open the jade case again, and the lid of the case is lifted up, and there is a flame-like embroidered burden inside. When you open it, it is three inches long. , three inches thick, a small booklet, with three characters inscribed on the surface, called Ruyi booklet; inside it are 36 changes of Taoism, 72 big changes, corresponding to the number of Tiangang, [-] small Change, in response to the number of evil spirits in the earth, has the wonderful effect of moving the sky and changing the fight, and driving ghosts and driving gods."

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