Zhang Sui snapped his fingers with his right hand, and a three-inch-long, three-inch-thick small book glowing green appeared on his fingertips. On the cover of the small book, there were three words "Ruyi Book" written on it, and the book was integrated into one.
There is no gap at all. If it weren't for the three words on the cover, it would be nothing but small squares of emerald green and glowing top-quality jadeite.
The little book is suspended more than an inch above the fingertips. If you shake your finger, the little book will also shake. You can't feel the slightest weight. You brush the little book with your left hand. The little book seems like a shadow, unaffected by anything. It looks extremely strange.
Zhang Sui held up the "Ruyi Book" and looked at it carefully. Except for the three words "Ruyi Book", there were no other traces. It was completely integrated. Zhang Sui tried many times to turn the pages like a normal book, but his fingers always passed through the shadows.
any reaction.
Zhang Sui accidentally discovered this situation half a month ago when he was reading a book. When he first discovered it, he was overjoyed. Zhang Sui thought it was the encounter with a fairy mentioned in supernatural novels, or the golden finger often mentioned in strange dreams.
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But after half a month of groping, nothing worked except snapping my fingers and appearing on my fingertips, saying "hide" silently in my mind and then disappearing. I tried many methods during this period, including sticking it on my forehead to sense it, cutting my finger and dripping blood to identify it.
Lord, after reading the classics and using many methods such as burning, flooding, and lighting, there was no response.
This made Zhang Sui feel a little scared. What's the difference between a golden finger that can't be used and nothing at all?
Zhang Sui silently recited "Hidden" in his heart, and the "Book of Wishful Desires" at his fingertips turned into star points, scattered and disappeared without a trace.
The sun sets in the west, the sky gradually darkens, and the temperature drops in a very short period of time. The climate in Kunzhou is like this. At the end of autumn, the temperature changes greatly throughout the day, and you need to wear a thick coat in the morning.
However, thin clothes and thin sleeves are needed when the sun sets, and after the sun sets in the west, more clothes and coats are needed. Zhang Sui's body has been weak due to premature birth since he was a child, and the wind-chill syndrome he suffered not long ago is not unrelated to the weather here.
Zhang Sui looked at the sky, went into the house and put on a dark hooded fur that reached to his ankles. This was sent to him by his elder brother Zhang Tian after he recovered from the cold. It is said that it is made from a kind of green grass that lives in the mountains of Hanjiang Road in the north.
Made of wolf fur.
This kind of wolf lives alone in the pack, has a cunning and ferocious temperament, and is extremely difficult to catch. Only the most experienced mountain people can capture the wolf through the cooperation of many people, and peeling off the complete wolf skin is extremely difficult.
The fur of the blue wolf is thick and slender, but its texture is rough and hard. However, after being processed by the leatherworkers from the mountain people in Hanjiang Road using secret methods, it can become soft and silky, and at the same time extremely tough. It does not get wet when exposed to water, does not fall off easily, and wears
It has excellent thermal insulation effect on the body and is extremely popular among noble people.
Zhang Sui and his eldest brother Zhang Tian are not very close. On the one hand, it is because of his aunt Liu, and on the other hand, there is a big age gap between them. When Zhang Sui was governor, Zhang Tian had already learned the business methods from the family boss, traveled around and grew up.
We rarely meet each other, and we can only see her during family gatherings on several important holidays every year.
But three months ago, when Zhang Sui almost died from a cold, Zhang Tian happened to return from a tour of Hanjiang Road. He heard about Zhang Sui's condition and came to visit him personally. At the same time, he also sent this wolf fur coat.
Zhang Tian is a serious person with a casual temperament. He has taken over the family for nearly ten years. Through the Zhang family's official connections and his own various business methods, in the past ten years, he has not only stabilized Tanhua Bookstore's position in the Southwest Fourth Road.
At the same time, Shuge's influence gradually penetrated Hanjiang Road in the north, and its prestige among the family grew.
Compared with when his father was alive, the Zhang family's main lineage had much greater rights and say in the family. The original situation was that the clan elders and the family lineage basically had the same say in the family.
In some matters, the clan elders have a stronger voice than the main line of the Zhang family.
But since Zhang Tian took charge of the Zhang family, through a series of means and some correct decisions he made, he has brought the family's main industry to a higher level, and now the Zhang family has become the leader of the family.
Old situation.
But overall, the Zhang family is relatively harmonious within the family, and has not gotten into trouble or even fallen apart because of some things.
Zhang Sui walked out of the inner courtyard and saw the little girl pestering Lao Lu and trying to pull off his beard. She was circling Lao Lu. Lao Lu protected his treasured beard with one hand and begged for mercy with a wry smile. He saw Zhang Sui walking out.
, Lao Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly stepped forward and asked, "Is the Second Master going out?"
Zhang Sui nodded and said, "My aunt asked me to come over for dinner and prepare some preparations. Let's go there." Lao Lu seemed to have received an amnesty, nodded in agreement, and limped towards the stables, running at a speed no slower than a normal person.
Zhang Sui knocked on the little girl's forehead and said, "Every time I come here, I have to pull Lao Lu's beard. Soon Lao Lu's chin will be as bald as the top of his head." The little girl covered her forehead and giggled non-stop.
Lao Lu hitched up a carriage, walked around to the door, and said, "Second Master, Third Miss, please get in the car quickly. It's windy outside and too cold. What a damn weather!"
Zhang Sui and the little girl got into the carriage. The little girl held up the painting in her hand and said, "This is the ninth painting that my second brother has painted for me. I want to take it back and ask Mr. Qi to frame it for me. The nine paintings will be bound."
Make it into a small picture album and show it to your mother."
Mr. Qi is the best framer at Tanhua Bookstore in Kunzhou. He has an old-fashioned and careful temperament and cannot see any flaws. He is especially fond of calligraphy and painting. I don’t know what he felt when he saw this kind of strange painting.
Zhang Sui secretly thought about Mr. Qi's expression and couldn't help but smile.
Half an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of the Zhang family's ancestral house. After several generations of expansion and repairs, the Zhang family's ancestral house now occupies an extremely large area. Although it is a businessman's home, several generations have been in the business of books, so naturally it
They all have the bearing of a scholarly family. The overall style of the mansion, as long as anyone with a certain knowledge will praise the scholarly family after entering, does not have the luxury and vulgarity of a merchant's family.
After Zhang Sui and the little girl got off the car, the little girl held the painting in front and jumped into the mansion. When she entered the door, she shouted: "Xiangyun, come here quickly." A little maid who was only twelve or thirteen years old ran away in a hurry.
Come over, the little girl handed the painting in her hand to the little maid, and warned: "Be careful. Later, you can send it to Mr. Qi in the bookstore and ask him to help me frame it. By the way, there is also the painting I put in the cabinet in the room.
Send the other pictures over and ask him to bind them into a booklet for me. If he doesn't do it, tell him and I will mess up his studio!"
The little maid nodded in agreement, looked at this strange portrait with bright eyes, turned around and ran into the back room, probably to get some other paintings.
The little girl turned around and saw Zhang Sui walking into the courtyard unhurriedly. He was still rubbing his forehead. The little girl ran over quickly and asked with concern: "What's wrong, brother? Are you feeling unwell again?"
"My eyes are full of worry.
When Zhang Suigang walked into the courtyard, those strange scenes kept popping up in his mind. Looking at the place where he had lived for more than ten years, he felt that his memory was distant and unfamiliar, and all kinds of weird thoughts kept popping up in his mind.
.I always feel like another Zhang Sui in my mind has also been to this mansion, but when that Zhang Sui came to this mansion, he was followed by a group of old men and women wearing little red hats. The leader was a young woman holding a small flag.
As he walked, he introduced: "This is the famous bookstore compound in western Shanxi. The owner of the compound turned out to be a bookseller who has been dealing in books for generations. The whole family has lived here for nearly three hundred years. In the late Ming Dynasty, overnight
There was no one there. According to legend, it was to avoid the Qing army and bandits..."
The sound gradually faded away. Zhang Sui shook his head and felt that he was slowly waking up. When he turned around, he saw the little girl looking anxious and about to cry. Her voice slowly reached his ears: "Second brother
, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!" Just as she was about to call someone, Zhang Sui quickly stopped her and comforted her: "Second brother is fine, he was just thinking about something and got distracted, don't worry."
At this time, a young boy came forward and said, "Third Miss, Second Young Master, dinner has been prepared. Madam asked you to go over and have a meal." Zhang Sui pulled the little girl with a worried look on her face and nodded to the young boy.
He turned his head and returned: "I know, we'll be there in a minute." He turned around and comforted the little girl and said, "Don't worry, my second brother is fine. Let's go to the back hall together."
Although the little girl was worried, she had no choice but to follow Zhang Sui to the back hall.
Because the courtyard was so big, it took a whole cup of tea to walk from the front hall to the back hall for dining. During this time, the little girl kept looking at Zhang Sui's face, fearing that he would show strange expressions again.
Zhang Sui had no choice but to change the subject and asked the little girl: "Is there something going on when shopkeeper Liu comes back this time? It's still almost a month before he comes back to report on his work, right?" The little girl shook her head and said, "I don't know either, it seems.
It was his mother who asked him to come back." Zhang Sui saw that she didn't know why, so he didn't ask any more questions. He would know it after a while anyway.
The two walked into the dining room in the back hall and saw three people sitting down at the dining table in the hall. Mrs. Liu, Zhang Bing, an elder of the Zhang family, and Liu Kan, the chief storekeeper of the Jiannan Road Bookstore that Zhang Sui was deeply impressed by.
, he is also a nephew from Liu’s natal family, he is as skinny as a stick and extremely tall!
When Mrs. Liu saw them coming, she nodded towards Zhang Sui and said, "Come and sit down, I'll wait for you." She turned to her maid and ordered, "Take the young lady to the back room for a meal." The maid nodded in agreement.
The little girl stared at the table full of food, her eyes filled with longing. She reluctantly followed the maid to the back room, and kept looking back at the food.
Zhang Bing, the elder of the clan, shook his head and sighed: "Poor little Xin'er!"
Mrs. Liu said: "There is nothing we can do about it. It's just that she was destined to suffer this fate." Looking at Zhang Sui walking over, she said calmly: "Sit down!"
Zhang Sui bowed to the Liu family and the clan elders, nodded to Liu Kan, handed the fur on his body to the boy, and sat down at the bottom.