Although I bought a new mobile phone, I learned how to use it quickly. In addition to making calls and sending messages, the first thing I learned was to use maps.

He sat in the back seat, checked three locations in the app, and found that Taohuajian, where Xie Wen was working, happened to be sandwiched between Xiaoli Village and Banpu.

He thought that Lao Mao would stop at Peach Blossom Stream as a matter of course, but when the car slowed down, he looked up and saw the road sign for Banpu.

"Eh? Uncle Mao, have you... passed by?" Xia Qiao asked.

Obviously, Wen Shi was not the only one staring at the map. But Wen Shi didn't say anything, and Xiao Qiao was a 250-year-old.

Lao Mao seemed to have chicken feathers stuck in his throat. He cleared it several times and said vaguely: "No, where have you passed by? Didn't you just enter Banpu?"

Xiaoqiao said in confusion: "Where is Peach Blossom Stream? Boss Xie has to do something, isn't he?"

It's just a stupid thing to do, and it's just fooling fools.

Lao Mao said in his heart.

Then Xie Wen glanced at him.

Unfortunately, as a puppet with a very deep connection, Xie Wen would probably hear him even if he said what he said in his heart. So Lao Mao sat upright and suddenly became very interested in the road ahead and stared at it very intently.

No one spoke for a while in the car, and Xia Qiao once again felt the subtlety of the atmosphere. He suddenly regretted asking that question, although he didn't know why.

Xie Wen glanced at him through the rearview mirror and looked at Wen Shi through the mirror for a moment before breaking the silence: "It's the same as coming here first. I'm not in a hurry."

This is really nonsense when you think about it, because Shi Wen was not in a hurry at this moment. He just wondered why there were fragments of his spirit in the cages of the Shen family, so he came to take a look.

In fact, even if he didn't look at it, he still had a vague premonition...

"Oh oh oh." Xia Qiao got the answer and didn't want to delve into it at all. He quickly rolled down the steps. But halfway through, his attention was distracted by another thing.

"Uncle Mao..." Xia Qiao leaned over and grabbed the driver's seat and called out shakily.

"What are you doing?" Lao Mao was still looking at the road very attentively, but he didn't look at the boss anyway.

"You drive...without adjusting the rearview mirror?" Xia Qiao pointed to the mirror that could see Xie Wen's eyes and said, "Is it really okay if the rearview mirror is facing the co-pilot???"

"Oh, I forgot." Lao Mao seemed to have just remembered and reached out to flip the rearview mirror.

"..."

He was very calm, but Xia Qiao's soul was half gone.

He lay down behind the seat, feeling that it was a miracle that the people in the car could survive until now. But he soon discovered that except for him, no one in the car seemed to be afraid at all.

Of course, I won’t be afraid. The Golden Winged Dapeng can control the car without the need for rearview mirrors, and can even free up hands and feet. If you want to control the car, something will happen, and Lao Mao will probably die.

It's a pity that Xia Qiao is the only one in the car who doesn't know.

So when he was about to reach his destination, he got carsick because of excessive nervousness. When he got off the bus, his body was white, his legs were soft, and his soul was floating.

Wenshi gave him a hand, and Xie Wen also suggested: "Can you still walk? Or just stay in the car."

Xia Qiao hurriedly waved his hands, thinking that he was going to vomit if he stayed still.

Only Lao Mao was not as empathetic as others. He held it in for a long time and said: "This is the first time I have seen a puppet who gets motion sickness."

When Xia Qiao asked weakly: "Is it true?"

After hearing this, Xia Qiao hesitated for a moment, then murmured: "Okay, brother, you don't have to hold back your excuses, I understand."

When hearing: "..."

There was a hint of depression and confusion in his cold expression. Xie Wen smiled and then explained to the little puppet with great interest: "There are generally two reasons why ordinary people react like you. One is true motion sickness, and the other is

It's because of some reasons that the spiritual phase is suddenly unstable."

"It's true that you don't get motion sickness." Xie Wen added after that, "You probably don't either."

"Then I'm the second type, with an unstable spirit???" Xia Qiaoxin said that I might as well get carsick, at least I'm alive.

Xie Wen spoke again: "If a person's spiritual phase is unstable, he will feel uncomfortable, prone to illness, and easily be bewitched and possessed. But if a puppet's spiritual phase is unstable, it manifests itself in sudden life and death."

The so-called unstable spiritual phase means that the spiritual phase is turbulent in the body, does not fit well, is too light, and sometimes comes out and sometimes goes in.

At the moment when the spirit phase leaves the body, the puppet is closer to a puppet, and when the spirit phase returns to the body, it is closer to a human being. Jumping back and forth in a short period of time, there will be a state of being dead and alive, alive and dead again.

Xia Qiao was even more confused, he seemed to be on neither side.

When I heard this, I felt uneasy, so I closed my eyes and looked at him intently, and finally found the reason - Xia Qiao's spirit was indeed in an unstable state, but it was not swinging inside and outside the body, but inside the spirit.

After all, Shen Qiao once transferred the spirit to Xia Qiao, which is equivalent to Xia Qiao having two spiritual aspects in his body - the one Shen Qiao forcibly transferred, and the original one. Occasionally, if the state is not good, they will indeed conflict with each other and become unstable.

In fact, this kind of reaction will not be very big, but Xia Xiaoqiao may be too delicate, so it is so obvious.

After hearing a brief explanation to him, Xia Qiao finally felt relieved, and his dizziness and nausea were also slightly improved...

I feel even more guilty, and feel like a waste.

***

Mr. Li gave an old address, and they estimated it based on the terrain and found the approximate location.

But as Mr. Li himself saw, the area has changed several times over time, and the Shen family's zigzag-shaped bungalow has long since disappeared, replaced by a middle school.

It was the end of get out of class, and there were a lot of people in the school. The snack bar on the street outside the school gate was also booming, and people riding electric donkeys came and went, which was very lively. It was impossible to tell who existed here a century ago. What happened? What happened?

In fact, it is understandable. After all, the Shen family mansion was burned by fire, and there is really a limit to what can be left behind.

But since the old belongings of the Shen family can be obtained in the secret room of Sanmidian, it means that there are still traces of its existence.

Fortunately, the people nearby were enthusiastic and chatty, and they heard a lot of miscellaneous rumors. Seeing that Xia Qiao had been wilting, he pushed him to become a spy when he heard about it.

Xia Qiao may have a talent for quickly gaining trust. It didn't take long for the spies to bring back the news: "They said that although the Shen family was gone, it was quite prosperous back then. There was a mountain of ancestral graves and they even hired a gravekeeper.

people."

When I heard it: "A gravekeeper?"

Xia Qiao nodded: "Yes, it is said that he still lives near the mountain. He seems to have opened a local restaurant or something."

The people who opened the restaurant and the people who opened the restaurant seemed to be in a circle. They soon came to the name of the local restaurant and followed the map to find the place.

The bosses are a couple in their early thirties, and they are honest and honest. It happened that the store was quiet, so they started chatting with everyone.

Hearing them asking about the Shen family, the boss asked: "So why are you here..."

Wen Shi was closest to the boss and was questioned directly. But he couldn't make up things, and it was not convenient to tell the real reason, so he could only hold back an excuse: "It's something."

What a perfunctory excuse...

Xie Wen didn't speak at first, waiting for him to hold it in. After he finished holding it in, he added calmly: "We want to build a memorial ancestral hall and revise the complete family tree. I heard that there is another one here, so I came to ask about the situation.

.”

When hearing: "..."

He glanced at Xie Wen, and his eyes clearly conveyed a few words: Didn't you think about it earlier?

Xie Wen didn't turn his face away, pretending not to notice, but smiled.

The boss said "Oh" twice and said, "I understand, I have someone who came to my family two years ago and wanted to build an ancestral hall. So you are from the north?"

Although they didn't know why he guessed so, several people nodded and said, don't worry about him, just admit it first.

But soon, they knew the reason——

The boss said that the Shen family is not from Banpu itself, but in the early years Banpu was considered an important place in this area, and there were some maritime trade transactions, and it was not too eye-catching. The Shen family has settled here for several generations.

They first came from the north.

"My great-great-grandfather was the one who looked after the mountains for the Shen family." The boss pointed his fingers, "It was the same for the past three generations. Basically, the Shen family came over to take care of the mountains, and my family lived at the foot of the mountains. Although there is no such thing as looking at the mountains now.

, we also opened our own store. But during Qingming Festival, July and Half or Chinese New Year, we still go up the mountain to take care of it for them."

As he was talking, he couldn't help but sigh: "The Shen family is miserable and has a bad life. It is almost extinct. After the foreign-style building burned down, it was my great-grandfather who picked up the bones and took care of it.

It's scary to say that some of them were burned into a ball and you can't even tell who is who."

The boss told the story passed down by his great-grandfather, but found that their focus was not on scaring people.

"You mean almost?" Wenshi asked.

"That's right." The boss was stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't the young master get into trouble? It was said that it was a local charity meeting or something, and they wanted to invite the husband and wife of the Shen family to come over, but the couple were not there, so

The young master took a trip, but when he came back, he saw that his house had been burned down, and no one in the house was left. It is said that he passed out at that time, and then he fell ill and was not in good spirits, so he moved to Tianjin."

Wenshi: "Are you sure it's Tianjin?"

The boss nodded and said, "Yes, people said at that time that his parents were over there. He was so sick that he couldn't stay here alone, so he moved over."

As the boss spoke, he tapped the back of his hand and said, "But I heard from my great-grandfather that there was a period of chaos in the north at that time, and his parents happened to have an accident just before that, and they are no longer here."

"What happened next?" Wen Shi asked.

"Nothing happened later," the boss said. "Then there was no news about the young master. With his family's situation, he could go crazy or die."

After saying that, he sighed deeply.

"Do you have any photos from that time?" Xie Wen brought up the ancestral hall again and asked.

The boss nodded: "Yes, but not many. Speaking of which, there are actually some family trees, but they may not be as complete as yours, mainly theirs."

"Can I take a look?"
To be continued...