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Chapter 4 Living People ([-])

Tourist?Isn't this the name on the tombstone that my grandfather asked me to kowtow to?

My hands trembled, the oil in the kerosene lamp rolled and tried to escape from the lamp, but I stood there at a loss.

He looked me up and down, sat down at the table, "sit."

I put the kerosene lamp on the table, and I poked my head quietly to see if there was any shadow behind him.

The childish action made him chuckle, "Don't be afraid."

Don't be afraid?How can this keep me from being afraid?Although his face has added a lot of points in my heart, but wearing a beige robe, but behind him is clean, which made me tremble tremblingly.

"Did you see it?"

"What?" I was confused by the question.

"That door."

As soon as the words came out, I stopped shaking, "Is that door really leading to the Palace of the King of Hades?"

"Yes, there are many names, but there are not many people who can really see it with the naked eye. Maybe it has something to do with your gender. The craftsmanship we have passed down, I didn't expect it to be passed on to you, a little girl."

After saying this, he stood up, startling me.

He went straight to the locked door, took out the lock, opened the door, walked in in the dark, then came out with a pen and a book, and handed them to me.

"Since you can see the door, you can take these two things and use them later."

It seems that he is the real owner of this thatched cottage.

""Compendium of Steles"? What is this pen used for?"

"Good question." He praised and continued to explain my doubts, "Although you have engraved the stele, you haven't finished the last thing, which is to describe the characters. What should be given to you has already been given to you. You can study it yourself. , it's getting late, I'm leaving too, take care, there will be a period later."

Before I could recover, You Sheng went out and merged into the night.

The flashlight moved from "Encyclopedia of Steles" to the door, it was pitch black, and it was scary to see.

I hurried forward and closed the door.

The next day, I was woken up by my father's knock on the door.

Seeing that I was safe and sound, my dad also breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on? How come you haven't woken up until now? It's because your mother didn't fall asleep all night."

"I was reading last night." I rubbed my eyes, picked up the food my father brought me, pointed to the table, but found that the book was gone!

"What book? Are you dreaming? Yes, you are studying even in your dreams."

"No, where are the books here?" Putting down the bowl, I found the kang in the room from under the table, and I didn't even miss the corner of the wall, so I didn't see a page of "Compendium of Inscriptions".

Only the writing brush given to me by the traveler is still hanging on the wall, reminding me that last night was not my imagination.

"The Encyclopedia of Inscribed Steles" is also recorded in my mind verbatim.

"Hurry up and eat, what are you looking for? You have searched all the places with bigger farts."

I finished my meal in silence, picked up the hoe by the door and started digging a hole for myself, to be precise, digging a grave for myself.

This piece of land is my final resting place, and I have to dig a little bit.

"Girl, I didn't say it. I've never seen you so obedient. What do you think? Tell Dad?"

Dad stood by and watched me dig a hole while talking to me.

That's right, since I was a child, I have been impatient like a monkey. Occasionally, being a little cute is to make a good impression in front of my relatives. At home, I haven't even washed my own socks. Stay overnight in thatched cottage.

"Why, if I don't come, I will watch my second aunt looking for life and death at home every day, and watch my second uncle go to prison? Then wait for my second cousin to come to my house to sneer? Make the house lively and make people laugh?" Swinging the hammer, I was so tired that I was out of breath, "My cousin is right, I study, what can I study in a vocational high school? After learning my grandfather's craft, I will make a lot of money in the future. Wait until I make a lot of money. Now, take you and my mother to the big city to enjoy happiness!"

"Hey! You're still enjoying yourself. When I arrive in the morning, your mother will be making trouble at home."

"What's the fuss? This matter is a foregone conclusion, and it's useless to make trouble." I muttered, digging a few more times symbolically, and put the hoe back, "Let's go! Go home and see my mother."

"Okay, I've been worried about you being alone on this mountain for a long time."

I followed my father down the mountain, and when I returned home, my second aunt blocked me at the door, "Xing Xing, what's wrong? Why did you come back? Is there something missing on the mountain? Tell your father what you need, and the second aunt will send it up." that is."

"It's okay, there's nothing missing, I'm just back."

The second aunt obviously didn't know that I would go down the mountain, so why don't you stop here to ask my dad about my news on the mountain?
"Ah? Just came back? Didn't your grandfather say he would stay for three days?" Hearing what I said, the second aunt immediately yelled.

It happened that everyone had lunch, and the second aunt yelled, and when I went to the main room, I saw the whole family sitting neatly, as if they were waiting for me.

"Xing Xing, what's the matter? You came down before three days?"

Sure enough, the grandfather asked a question.

"I said you're a dead girl! I told you not to go or not, it's fine if you come back." My mother was the happiest.

"I haven't arrived in three days, so don't I have to go up the mountain again?" Second Aunt murmured softly as she followed me.

Say it in a low voice, in such a situation, anyone can hear it.

"What? Go up the mountain again? Second sister, why don't you go to the mountain and have a look? Is that place full of people? It's a whole pile of graves!" My mother rushed to me from behind, "If you hadn't come back now, I'll have to go up the mountain after dinner and pull you back!"

"Okay! What's the noise! ​​Cough cough"

"Dad, are you okay?" Second Aunt hurried forward and patted Grandpa on the back.

"I said Chen Xing, do you regret it! It's not that we don't understand if a person is afraid on the mountain." Second cousin, no, Liu Shuang began to put away the dishes pretendingly.

"Who said I regretted it?" I sat on the table, digging the hole just now was too strenuous, and the bowl of rice on the mountain was not enough to make me hungry, "Shouldn't I have to go down the mountain after I have learned the craft?"

"What? Cough cough, you, have you learned it?" Grandpa stood up in surprise.

Everyone else was silent, and there was silence.

"Have you learned it? It took only one night, you lied to ghosts!" Yan Shuang stood on the spot and questioned me, "It's not like I haven't been there before, that hammer is so heavy that it takes a lot of effort to lift it, tell me, how did you learn it?" ? I’m afraid it’s not easy to engrave twice and feel that I can do it!”

"Is the hammer heavy?" I looked at my grandpa, "Grandpa, didn't you tell them when you came back?"

"No." Grandpa shook his head, "I'm going to wait until you come back from the mountain in three days."

"That's fine." Nodding my head, I stood up, "Since you didn't say it, I'll say it myself. Inheritance, I, Chen Xing, accept it. I am the sixth generation successor of the stele engraver, from Yousheng."

(End of this chapter)