When Zhang Zetao saw Qin Yu and the others coming back, he quickly said hello, "I hope Master Qin will forgive me for not being able to prepare dinner for Master Qin."
"It's a small thing."
Qin Yu waved his hand to signal Zhang Zetao not to say anything further, then walked to the coffee table, opened the bags and looked at them for a while, then raised his head and said, "Please bring your father out."
"Oh, good!"
Zhang Zetao and his sister walked into the bedroom, helped the old man to the hall, and sat on the sofa.
At the same time, the door of the Zhang family was opened again, and a man and a woman walked in. The man was probably in his thirties, while the woman was a little younger, estimated to be in her mid-twenties.
"Master Qin, let me introduce to you, these are my brother and sister-in-law." Zhang Zetao introduced the couple who walked in towards Qin Yu.
"Hello, Master Qin, hello Secretary Zhang, hello Director Liu." Obviously, Zhang Zetao's younger brother and sister-in-law had been notified by Zhang Zetao in advance, and their attitudes were very humble.
Zhang Zetao's family consists of three siblings, elder sister Zhang Zeai and younger brother Zhang Zening. Zhang Zeai works in a city hospital, but in recent years she has been transferred to a vacant position in order to take care of the old man. She is not afraid of being fired because her husband is the director of the city hospital.
As for Zhang Zetao's younger brother Zhang Zening, he works in a state-owned bank and is currently the vice president of the bank. A deputy director in his thirties is already very scary. If he can be transferred out of state-owned enterprises and transferred to local governments, he will be at the level of deputy county magistrate.
For ordinary people, this step may be difficult, but it is not difficult for the Zhang family. Zhang Yuanhe knows this very well. Although Zhang Zening is not as good as himself now, he can't stand up to others' youth, and his age is already there.
The next level up is at most the next level, which doesn't make much sense.
As for Zhang Zening's wife, she teaches in a certain school and is just an ordinary teacher.
"You guys sit here for a while, I'm going to go to the study to get something."
Qin Yu took a bag and walked towards the study, leaving a group of people waiting in the hall.
Half an hour later, the door to the study room opened, and Qin Yu walked out. In his hand was a small figure made of sun-dried straw.
"You three siblings choose one of you to take this villain." Qin Yu walked up to Zhang Zetao and Zhang Zetao with the villain and said.
"Master Qin, will anything happen if you hold this villain?" Zhang Zetao asked.
"Yes, this villain is for your father. Holding the villain means taking your father's life. Once something goes wrong with the villain, it means something will happen to your father."
"Then let me get it, I am the eldest son." Zhang Zetao's expression became serious, and he took the inch-long straw man handed over by Qin Yu and carefully held it in his chest, as if he were holding a priceless treasure.
In fact, the three Zhang Zetao siblings are very filial, and their mother passed away early, and their father was busy at work and had to take care of them, so the Zhang Zetao siblings are very concerned about their father.
Zhang Zetao carefully held the straw man, while Qin Yu walked to the bag on the coffee table and pulled out a paper umbrella. It was a very simple style, somewhat similar to an oil-paper umbrella.
"Take this umbrella." Qin Yu handed the umbrella to Zhang Zeai, "Open the umbrella to cover your father. Remember, no matter what happens, this umbrella cannot leave your father's head, let alone
Fall."
Qin Yu's expression was very serious, and Zhang Zeai was so frightened that he nodded vigorously in assurance.
Opening an umbrella in the room made Zhang Yuanhe frown and couldn't help but ask: "Xiaoyu, isn't it taboo to open an umbrella in the room?"
According to local folk taboos, it is not allowed to hold an umbrella in the room. Women holding an umbrella will cause inability to get pregnant, while men holding an umbrella will cause baldness. Zhang Yuanhe does not know whether this is really the case, but the older generation
This has been passed down from generation to generation, and they continue to abide by it.
"Uncle, I know what you want to say. In fact, it is true that umbrellas cannot be opened in the room." Qin Yu looked at his uncle and explained: "Ghosts and evil beings generally like to stay in
It is a shady place, and umbrellas have the function of shading, so if a person holds an umbrella in the room, it will cover his yang energy. If there are ghosts and evil beings nearby, they will come here and arrive.
Sometimes it hurts the person holding the umbrella."
This is a matter of pure luck. Many people have done so in their rooms with umbrellas. Because there are not many ghosts in the city now, they have not encountered them. But because the ancient villages were surrounded by mountains, there were many lonely ghosts passing by.
, it is easy to provoke these beings by opening an umbrella in a house, which is why in ancient times there was a taboo against opening umbrellas in a house.
"So that's it." Zhang Yuanhe suddenly realized.
"Uncle, have you seen Liao Zhai?"
"Of course I have." Zhang Yuanhe nodded. There weren't that many good novels when they were their age, but Liaozhai was almost one of the novels they often read. At that time, Liaozhai TV series were also popular on TV.
"All the vixens and other spirits in Liaozhai meet the scholars. In many scenes, they hide under the scholars' umbrellas. In fact, it is because of this."
In ancient times, scholars went to Beijing to take exams. The journey was difficult, and those who traveled through mountains and rivers had to bring an umbrella. When these scholars encountered female spirits such as vixens, the spirits often hid in the scholars' umbrellas during the day and came out to meet the scholars at night.
"So Pu Songling really knows this stuff." Zhang Yuanhe said with some shock after hearing Qin Yu's explanation.
Qin Yu smiled. Pu Songling not only understood these things, but could write the story of Liaozhai so realistically. This Pu Songling must also be an expert, at least an authority in dealing with spirits.
"But Xiaoyu, since opening an umbrella in the room will attract those things, why do you still do it?"
Zhang Yuanhe's question was also the common question of everyone present after listening to Qin Yu's explanation, especially Zhang Zeai. After listening to Qin Yu's words, the hand holding the umbrella was shaking a little.
"Of course I have my reasons for doing this. You will know it later."
Qin Yu did not reveal the answer now, but walked to the coffee table and took out the incense candle paper money from it.
After lighting three Zen incense sticks, Qin Yu bowed three times towards the door, then inserted them on the incense burner. Then, he said to Zhang Zening: "Go find an iron basin."
"Master Qin, we don't have an iron basin at home." Zhang Zeai replied awkwardly.
"Then use an iron pot. After washing the iron pot, wipe off the water inside and bring it to the hall."
"I'll do these things." Zhang Zening was about to walk to the kitchen, but his wife walked in first. Qin Yu looked at Zhang Zetao's wife, his eyes flickering slightly.
"How many years have you and your wife been married?"
"It's been seven years. We got married seven years ago." Although Zhang Zening didn't understand why Master Qin asked him this question, he still answered truthfully.
"You haven't planned to have a child for seven years?" Qin Yu continued to ask.
Zhang Zening looked shocked, first surprised and then embarrassed. What was surprising was that he didn't know how Master Qin knew that he and his wife had not had a child after seven years of marriage. What was embarrassing was that he couldn't express the reason.
"Master Qin, my brother and sister have some special health conditions, so they may not be able to have children for the time being." Zhang Zetao explained to his brother from the side.
Qin Yu did not ask any more questions, but left a meaningful smile and walked to Zhang Zetao's father.
At this time, Zhang Zetao's father looked normal. He sat motionless on the sofa and looked at a certain point, as if he was deep in thought. He didn't even move his eyes when Qin Yu walked up to him.
"Old man?" Zhang Zetao couldn't help but call out when he saw that his father seemed to be suffering from dementia, but Zhang Zetao's father still didn't respond.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Zetao wanted to come over, but was stopped by Qin Yu. Qin Yu grabbed Zhang Zetao's father's two old hands, then took down the three Zen incense sticks on the incense burner and placed them on Zhang Zetao's father.
in the palm of your hand.
The three Zen incense sticks were normal when they were in the incense burner and in Qin Yu's hands. The smoke was burning and rising normally. But as soon as it reached Zhang Zetao's father's hands, the three Zen incense sticks were all broken off, and the smoke was also
Floating in all directions in an instant.
Seeing this scene, Qin Yu frowned, picked up the broken incense head and put it into the incense burner, and then lit three more Zen incense sticks, but this time Qin Yu did not put the three Zen incense sticks on Zhang Zetao's table.
Instead, it was handed over to Zhang Zetao from his father.
"Put these three Zen incense sticks on the head of this little straw man." Qin Yu ordered Zhang Zetao.
"Oh, okay." Although Zhang Zetao was puzzled by Qin Yu's actions, at this time, he carried out any instructions from Qin Yu unconditionally.
After Zhang Zetao put the three incense sticks in place, Zhang Zening's wife also washed the iron pot and took it out.
"Master Qin, the iron pot is washed."
"Well, put the iron pot at the door. Then, Zhang Zening, light these two groups of incense candles and place them on both sides of the door. Put the paper money into the iron pot and burn it, but don't burn too much at one time. One knife at a time. Wait until it is burned.
It’s almost time to put down the knife again.”
"Turn off the lights and turn off everyone's cell phones."
Snap!
Liu Yang turned off the lights in the hall. At this moment, the entire Zhang family fell into darkness. Only three red lights could be seen in the hall, which were the three Zen incense sticks on the head of the straw man held by Zhang Zetao.
Other than that, there was only the firelight at the door. Zhang Zening squatted there and burned paper money. The candles on both sides shook slightly, pulling Zhang Zening's shadow up.
All this made the Zhang family become quiet and strange, and the atmosphere began to slowly become a little cold.
No one spoke. Qin Yu didn't speak. Others didn't dare to speak, for fear of destroying such a quiet atmosphere. At this moment, Zhang Yuanhe, Zhang Zetao and others all had an intuition in their hearts. Qin Yu seemed to be waiting for something to arrive?
PS: This month is over in one hour, and the monthly ticket ranking is eleventh. Although it is not much different from the previous ones, Jiudeng has given up because Jiudeng plans to fight for February, so everyone keep your guaranteed monthly tickets.
, the bidding will start after twelve o'clock, and tomorrow's update will definitely satisfy everyone! (To be continued)