Chapter 056 The Ancestral Residence of the Shen Family
"Qinan, you must rest more when you go back."
"I know Uncle Dayun, please drive slower."
"Boom..."
The second-hand van owned by Li Dayun and his son drove out of Chuzhou Central Hospital with puffs of black smoke.
Shen Yu asked Uncle Li to sell the fruits and various expensive health products bought in boxes by the Xu family to the small supermarket outside the hospital at a low price. He was alone and would die even if he took them home.
Shen Yu's toiletries have not been opened at all. They are all brand-name products and are cheaper than Li Tietou. This guy refuses to accept anyone who comes, and he is so beautiful that he is holding an electric toothbrush set worth thousands of dollars.
Naturally, people from the Xu family were responsible for the series of discharge procedures. Shen Yu just signed a letter of understanding that everything that happened after discharge had nothing to do with the hospital and left gracefully.
When the lanterns come on, thousands of houses are lit up.
The night sky in Chuzhou becomes extremely bright. Chuzhou Central Hospital is located in the most prosperous area of the city. The fountains and green plants under the illumination of various neon lights are eye-catching.
It's just that Shen Yu didn't want to stay in this place for a moment longer, because he had already spent enough time in the hospital due to his weak health when he was a teenager, and it was best not to come again in his lifetime.
Putting on the new clothes Li Tietou bought for him, Shen Yu slowly walked out of the hospital door.
At this time, a conspicuous red Jetta taxi happened to be slowly approaching. Shen Yu quickly waved, opened the door, got in the car and drove away.
"Master, go to No. 86 Sanyuan Street."
"Okay, sit tight!"
……
Half an hour later, Shen Yu paid and got off the car under the strange look in the driver's eyes.
The taxi driver didn't count the money or tell him to drive slowly. He was quite talkative all the way. He swallowed a gulp of saliva and stepped on the floor to be more than ten meters away.
With the continuous roar from the exhaust pipe, the taxi instantly disappeared from Shen Yu's sight.
"Am I so terrible?" Shen Yu looked himself up and down and found that there was nothing wrong with him.
Except that the color of the shirt is a bit conspicuous, there's really nothing wrong with it.
The clothes he wore before he was hospitalized were too dirty to wear, and he couldn't leave the hospital wearing a hospital gown, so Shen Yu sent Li Tietou to buy him some clothes.
Li Tietou came back and said that there were no good-looking white shirts in the store, and only red and black were acceptable. He said red was festive and suitable for patients, so he bought Shen Yu a red shirt.
Turning around, more than ten meters away, the six gilt characters "Chuzhou Funeral Market" on the huge antique archway were a bit dazzling.
Shen Yu smiled bitterly and instantly understood why the taxi driver was scared. He only said that he was going to No. 86 Sanyuan Street, but did not specify the specific location.
If you wear a bright red shirt and come to a place like this late at night, you can't blame people for being scared.
It's really inappropriate to take a taxi to this place at this time. It's okay during the day, but this market usually closes at five or six o'clock, and there is no business at all at night.
Under the dim street lights, Shen Yu's shadow was a little lonely. Most of the shops on both sides of the market had anti-theft rolling shutters. There were wreaths and coffin models that were not stored inside, making the place look a bit eerie.
Coupled with the croaking of crows, it is indeed a bit eye-catching.
This is the largest wholesale and retail market for funeral supplies in Chuzhou City. It is located at the urban-rural junction of Chuzhou and is often called Funeral Street by locals.
There are more than a hundred businesses in the market that deal with the deceased. There are shroud shops, flower basket shops, incense and candle shops, as well as those selling cemeteries, engraving monuments, and renting ice coffins. You don’t have to go all the way to buy funeral supplies. Xidian, everything is here.
The ancestral home of the Shen family is in this street.
"I hope that no one in the world will be sick, why would I regret that the stones in the store are dusty?"
Tsk tsk, Grandpa Wu’s business of engraving monuments is becoming more and more tasteful.
After passing a stone tablet shop, a dark alley appeared in front of Shen Yu.
Taking out his mobile phone and turning on the flashlight, Shen Yu stepped in and looked forward with the light of the flashlight. An ancient building with cornices and blue bricks and green tiles was revealed in Shen Yu's field of vision.
This is the old house of the Shen family. Although it is not a cultural relic protection unit, it is actually an old house from the 1930s and has a history of nearly 80 years.
At this time, the dark clouds had dispersed and the moon was shining brightly. Under the soft moonlight, although the house was slightly dilapidated, it had obviously been repaired, and the gaps between the blue bricks had been re-plastered.
After walking up three flights of steps, Shen Yu came to the door and was really stunned.
"Aren't these people who post small advertisements too evil? I haven't been home for only four or five days and now I'm like this?"
I saw that the two black wooden doors of the house were covered with various small advertisements, one after another, for billboards, moving companies, decoration, intermediaries, locksmiths, and toilets.
What's even more outrageous is that there are several stickers on the copper locks of the chain doors.
Shen Yu shook his head, took out the key, opened the copper lock, pushed the door and walked in.
Inside the doorway, there is an extremely powerful and vivid stone lion standing in the corner. If a stranger comes in at the first time, he will probably be frightened by the fierce appearance of this stone lion.
This was brought in by Shen Yu from outside the door. It originally had two ends, but one end was stolen by someone unknown. Shen Yu estimated that if this end had not been moved into the yard, it would have been poisoned.
Shen House is a traditional courtyard facing north and south, with front and back entrances.
The front door leads to the alley, and the back door is close to the water. It covers an area of nearly three acres, and the modern algorithm is about more than 1,500 square meters.
The bluestone slab only covers the middle aisle, with flower beds and bamboo groves on both sides, but it has long been abandoned because no one took care of it.
The only thing that can be seen about this house now is that it was after Shen Yu cleaned it. When Shen Yu first came to Dongjiang, this house was simply an abandoned house. Not to mention the bird droppings everywhere, the grass was almost up to Shen Yu's knees. It was really a mess. There is no place.
The room was also covered with cobwebs, and the dust on the table was about half as thick as a finger. Shen Yu cleaned it for half a month, and then hired someone to repair it again before moving in.
Walking along the bluestone slab to the main hall, Shen Yu opened the door and turned on the light.
He designed the original main hall into a living room. The furnishings in the house are extremely simple. There is a set of fabric sofas against the north wall, and a black glass coffee table in front of the sofa.
There is a wooden door on the east and west sides, which can enter the two rooms on the left and right.
There are four red-lacquered bookshelves against the wall in the living room. The bookshelves have no special decoration, such as porcelain photo albums, etc. They are all filled with books, most of which are related to antiques.
There is an entire bookshelf of auction yearbooks for collections of ceramics, jades, miscellaneous items, calligraphy and paintings, etc. This is an important reference for Shen Yu to understand the prices of antiques.
Various calligraphy, paintings, and high-definition color pages of ancient porcelain are also a must-have. Shen Yu really spent a lot of money on these materials, and each copy costs hundreds of yuan.
Because miscellaneous items are all-inclusive, all kinds of materials take up the entire bookshelf, even the extremely unpopular Shen Yu has them here.
The last bookshelf contains some miscellaneous notes written by grandfather Zhonglou, and some records of Shen Yu’s experiences while studying.
There is a copper three-legged incense burner on the coffee table. This is not a Xuande burner. It is the work of Tonglu Guo, a famous craftsman in Chuzhou in the Qing Dynasty. It is also of certain collection value.
After changing his shoes, Shen Yu took a stick of sandalwood from the incense box next to him and lit it. The smoke rose up and condensed three feet above without dissipating. It was very strange.
He sat on the sofa and closed his eyes for a while. When Shen Yu was about to wash up and rest, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong in the room.
There are footprints on the ground!
This footprint is definitely not his own, because it is his habit to change shoes when entering the house, and it is impossible to walk around the house wearing shoes.
"Is there a thief?"
Shen Yu quickly pushed open the door to the room on the right. At this moment, a musty smell suddenly hit his nostrils.
