Obligations of the elderly

After three days and three nights, Peiyun Ji Leng brought back all the bricks that could be used by ordinary people and uncontracted ability users, and put them aside neatly.

"That's all, the others are so broken that they are useless." Peiyun Ji said, pointing to the beams and columns next to them that are different from wooden bricks: "However, we still picked up a lot of intact ones." Columns, wooden beams, might also come in handy."

"It's not maybe, it can definitely come in handy!" Seeing these big logs, Fengxian's eyes lit up: "Ji Palace is a typical wooden structure building. Our teacher said that this kind of building has a characteristic called the wall. I didn’t quite understand that the house can’t collapse before, after all, the ancient buildings are now under strong protection, so they can’t fall down at all, looking at it now, it really makes sense!”

Thinking of the ancient buildings that were strongly protected outside, and looking at the ancient buildings that were blown into ruins at home, the little girls once again sighed in unison.

"Look carefully, these pieces of wood are really beautiful. The pattern on it is the fifteenth New Year's greetings, right? I have seen it in the history of cultural relics. The original picture of this picture has disappeared. The largest extant copy is in Ji It is used as the pattern of the beams of the roof." Reaching out and gently touching a section of beams covered with blue-green patterns, a girl looked regretful.

"Oh? Do you know anything about this?" Bong looked at her first.

Nodding, the girl said, "My family has studied Jizhou's ancient paintings for generations, and I have also learned some from my elders."

With a flash in front of her eyes, Feng Xian said to her at that time: "Then please bring someone to classify these beams? I only know that there is a whole set of beam paintings in each hall, but I don't know which paintings are put together here. It’s a pair, I’ll leave the puzzle work to you, okay?”

The girl nodded again, she accepted the task.

This is probably the benefit of a big family.

The Ji family is currently one of the oldest families in the entire continent. It is rare that it has been prosperous for so long. The family heritage is rich. Due to proper education, the descendants have outstanding talents in various industries. Even if they are in decline now, this is relatively On the whole, the Ji family is quite good.

Looking at these juniors, you will know that there are people who have inherited the traditions of their ancestors, such as Jian Ji; there are those who are particularly talented in architecture, such as Fengxian Ji; and there are people like the girl just now who have special research on ancient paintings ...

The most intuitive example is actually now. If it weren't for the long-term careful education of the younger generation by the Ji clan, in this situation, people with no foundation are allowed to build a house, which is not an ordinary house, but an ancient cultural relic. Most of the people have already panicked, not to mention it is as well organized as it is now, most of them will give up as soon as they hear the mission, no matter how much food the stream brings, they will not be able to stabilize people's hearts, even if Sheyun Ji himself is here. Useless!

However, the actual situation is that although these boys and girls don't really understand much, but someone stabilized their morale, they immediately calmed down, and they were divided into different groups according to what they were good at. You can tell by their clothes that most of these people Everyone's family background should be good, but they can do what they should do, and no one complains about suffering or being tired.

Of course, since most of them are ability users, although there are almost no ones with particularly high abilities, the tasks assigned to them can still be completed within the scope of their efforts. The task received by Peiyun Ji is the most tiring, but I didn't hear them complaining. On the contrary, their completion speed was quite fast, and they didn't hold back the other teams at all.

This is probably the elegance in his bones - Gong Si is thoughtful.

In the face of difficulties, they are still calm and take care of themselves every day, not to mention being glamorous, but at least they are clean and tidy, and they greet each other when they meet each other. Even if the conditions are very simple, the person in charge of cooking will still prepare for everyone within the scope of his ability. The food is cooked a little more emotionally.

The food they cook may not be delicious, well, now the snacks and instant noodles brought by the stream have been eaten long ago, and there are no supermarkets nearby for hundreds of kilometers, so they go to the fields to collect wild vegetables. Of course, most people don’t Those who know wild vegetables, but naturally there are outdoor sports enthusiasts or children from families with ancient medical heritage who can identify some edible wild vegetables. Occasionally, Jian Ji and others can hunt some small prey, which is their daily source of vegetables and meat , their cooking skills are not very good, and the food they make is not very delicious, but they will try their best to decorate the food as beautifully as possible, even if they use disposable plates brought over by the stream, they still have to put them on the table. The plates are beautifully presented.

In terms of ability to live, Gong Si thinks he is better than them, but in terms of life style, Gong Si thinks he is a complete failure.

"Residence shifts energy, raises shifting body"——should be this sentence, right?

In fact, Xiliu is also such a person, no matter how difficult the environment is, no matter how bad his life is, he still maintains a decent face in a limited environment, even Chihu Ji with gaudy hair, who obviously moved bricks for three days, clearly looked She looks like a young lady, but every morning she will take care of her fancy hair, and use the open-shelf cosmetics brought by the stream to re-paste her face. Continue to move bricks.

"They're all good kids." Gong Si sighed.

"???" Looking at the stream next to him with a question mark on his face, thinking of what he had unconsciously said just now, Gong Si quickly shook his head.

etc--

These are the grandchildren of the stream, not my grandchildren, why do I sigh with such an old man's tone?

Bah bah bah!He is only 19 years old!It's not yet the age to make such an elder's exclamation!

Xiliu watched Gong Si angrily walk away from the brick, and continued to look at the stove.

Gongsi left, but Xiliu couldn't make it. Fengxian Ji and Peiyun Ji held him back.

"I did the math. There are quite a lot of beams, columns, and purlins, but there are not enough bricks. It is definitely not enough to build a palace that is exactly the same as the one opposite. There may be a surplus in building a hall alone, but there is a surplus of columns. There are quite a lot, what shall we do next?" Feng Xian asked everyone.

Of course, most people don’t know anything about architecture, except for streams, so Fengxian’s main questioner is streams.

Xiliu tilted his head to look at him, and then looked at the others behind him: "What do you think?"

The person standing closest to him was Chihu Ji. This girl was quick-talking and straightforward. She looked at the stream and turned her head. Regardless of whether she was looking at her, she answered first: "I think so, Why do we have to build the same house as before? Sheyun patriarch didn't say that it must be exactly the same, she said it was just a reconstruction."

"That's what I said, but the Ji Palace is the Ji Palace. When I was young, my grandfather pointed to the Ji Palace in the book and told me that it was our family's ancestral house and the most beautiful palace in the world. After so many years, I have long thought that Ji Gong should be like that..." Someone said immediately.

"I think so too. Although Ji Gong is complicated, that's what Ji Gong is in my heart..."

Boys, you said something to me.

It's not that I didn't think of it, but it's true that everyone's Ji Gong looks the same, and it's only natural that the building is exactly the same as before.

Xiliu listened quietly at the side, until everyone had said something, and then he said: "In the Xinji Palace, which building impressed you the most?"

"It's the Octagonal Hall."

"The octagonal hall."

"Although the main hall is more famous, the octagonal hall is what I thought of first..."

Everyone chattered, but what they said was a common name.

Nodding, Xiliu said: "When you mention Xinji Palace outside, you usually think of Floating Water Palace, because all kinds of photos and images usually use the photos of Floating Water Palace, but for the children of the Ji family, the one that impresses the most should be It is the octagonal hall."

It was an exquisite palace built behind the main hall, just in the direction of the rising sun. When getting up early every morning, the clouds and mist spread from the mountains to the hall, and the whole palace seemed to be in the clouds. However, when the sun rose, This is the first place to welcome the first rays of sunshine.

The golden sunlight came in from the clouds and mist outside the temple, dispelled the dense fog little by little, and shone on the golden roof, on the wooden floor, and on his feet. He opened his eyes and looked forward, just to see To the majestic mountain sunrise picture...

This is the most impressive scene for many Ji family children.

But all the children who have been to the Xinji Palace will be arranged to live in the Bajiao Hall, which is also the residence of the patriarchs of the past generations, and it is a family to live together——that is what the patriarchs said and did.

"Let's build the octagonal hall." Xiliu said.

"Anyway, the building materials are not enough, and the maximum number of palaces that can be built is one. If the current building materials for the main hall are not enough, it is more than enough to build the octagonal hall. After all, the walls of the octagonal hall are relatively small. For viewing, more columns and eaves are used. , relatively few bricks are needed, not to mention..."

Xiliu looked into the distance: "It is said that all Ji Palaces were first built from the Octagonal Hall. The earliest Ji Palace was not a palace, but a house where the patriarch lived. There were more children, so they were gradually divided out to build other palaces. The palace, and then each hall has its own function, but the octagonal hall is the starting point, and the corridor extending from the octagonal hall can lead to all the rooms in the palace, which is impossible for any other palace."

"We will use the existing materials to build the octagonal hall. We will build this first. Not only will the patriarch have a place to sleep and entertain guests, but we will also have a place to live. After all, the car is not a place where we can sleep for a long time..."

"Besides, building the Octagonal Palace shouldn't require so many building materials. We can also build corridors leading to other palaces if there is any excess. We can build as many as we can. After all, the original Ji Palace took a lot of effort to build slowly. Yes, Sheyun...the patriarch should not ask us to build and complete all the buildings in one month."

"Didn't you all bring gifts to the patriarch this time? There is no need to waste these gifts. They can be decorated directly into the octagonal hall. When building a house, everyone can think about where the gifts you prepare are most suitable. , after all, they will be there in the future, and other clansmen will see them when they come over..."

Xiliu spoke slowly, and following his description, everyone's faces gradually brightened up. What they could do was clearly analyzed by Xiliu. After Xiliu finished speaking, everyone felt that the whole person was It's sparse.

Not only that, they were a little excited.

What I built by myself is the starting point of the new new Ji Palace in the future. All Ji clan members will see it in the future. Not only will they see it, but they will also live here. In the future, the pictures of Ji Palace will be displayed outside, maybe they can be photographed It's a photo of the house I built!

I get a little excited just thinking about it.

Not only that, but they also thought that they had to be more careful in the next job. If they didn't do it well, they might lose face in the history books...

In this way, it took eight days to complete all the preparatory work. On the morning of the ninth day, the teenagers began to formally build the octagonal hall.

The palaces and streams that had been burning bricks also joined in. Some people were laying the floor, while the other was assembling the roof. The two of them claimed the task of assembling the roof.

Gong Si thought it was a difficult job at first, but after a long time of assembly, he found that the roof of this mortise and tenon structure is a bit like building blocks. As long as you master certain skills, it is not difficult to assemble. Quite interesting.

They sat on the open space a little far from the main hall and assembled the roof, while others laid bricks in the planned place, first laying bricks, and then laying floors. The work on both sides is not light, but fortunately, mastering the skills It's too difficult, it just takes time and patience.

Among them, the design drawing provided by Xiliu was a great help. After confirming that the palace was to be restored, he added a few pages to Peiyun Ji's hand-drawn map book—the detailed composition of the octagonal hall, the roof, Walls, floors, every room... everything is clearly drawn. Basically, everyone can find the detailed composition of the area they are responsible for. If you don’t understand or are not sure, just turn over the picture in the past. It’s very clear !

The brand-new book became crumpled within a few days due to too many people reading it. Many notes were added during use, and it became a "high utilization rate" book at first glance.

As the roof of the palace and the others gradually took shape, the ground of the main hall gradually took shape.

The ground was laid from the inner hall, and the floor in the hall was laid. Some people started to build the walls, some were responsible for erecting the columns, and the rest continued to lay the corridors outside.

The task Peiyun Ji received seems to be to pave the corridor.

When Gongsi and the others were still assembling the roof eaves, they saw Peiyun Ji.

This young master with a cold temperament is now like everyone else, squatting on the ground and laying the floor. Unexpectedly, this young master, who looks like a young master at first glance, did not complain of suffering or tiredness, except that he was very unfriendly to the stream from the beginning. He should claim the task, claim the task, work, and even take the initiative to claim some thankless tasks.

For example, other people are enthusiastically laying the floor in the hall, some people are still adding bricks and tiles in the hall, imagining that in the future, everyone who comes in will see the fruits of their labor, but he is silently laying the corridor outside. floor.

He was alone, and there was supposed to be Shuang Jiang here to accompany him, but now Shuang Jiang was lured away by the stream, and the ready-made utensils ran away, leaving Peiyun Ji alone.

Thinking about it this way, Peiyun Ji is also quite pitiful—the gap in the roof was assembled, and the palace occasionally glanced at him, looking at the lonely figure, and felt that it was understandable for him to have an opinion on the stream.

But the stream did the right thing.

"The attributes of the two of them are unsuitable, and Frost's Rise clearly has the upper hand. Peiyun Ji Mingming is a user of the water element, but he can only use the fire element for a long time. If it goes on for a long time, his original advantages will be delayed. , This kind of combination should be dismantled." Afterwards, Xiliu explained it to him in this way.

"The source of the matter is probably still with me. I know about Shuang Jiang. My sister mentioned him to me. She originally planned to arrange Shuang Jiang for me."

"Peiyun Ji's parents probably thought it was unfair for Sheyun to do things. They used fire as the price to find a refiner—that is, your uncle A Si raised Shuangjiang's level. The price was that Shuangjiang offered to agree with Peiyun deed."

"Shuangjiang's family is a well-known Qi family. The Ji family's first-generation patriarch's utensils belonged to their family. If Shuangjiang proposed it on his own initiative, it would not be good for Sheyun to refute their family's face. What's more, what he proposed was to make a contract with Peiyun. .”

"Probably because of this reason, Pei Yun was arranged to make a contract with Shuang Jiang who is not suitable for attributes and levels. Fortunately, the contract has not been formally signed. When he really makes an appointment, he will be delayed."

That's what Xiliu said to Gongsi at that time, and he only talked to Gongsi, and didn't tell Peiyun Ji. Since he didn't know anything, it's no wonder that Peiyun Ji had an opinion on Xiliu.

After all, from Peiyun Ji's point of view, it was his weapon that was fooled by the stream and ran away!

It's all misunderstandings, one misunderstanding after another, when will the misunderstandings be solved?——His hands didn't stop, Gong Si sighed inwardly.

Then, he saw Peiyun Ji shop beside them.

The last plank just ran out on their side—

Seeing him, Gong Si was startled for a while, and checked carefully, then, when he turned his head, he happened to bump into Gong Si's eyes.

Gongsi was a little uncomfortable, but Peiyun Ji didn't respond, and didn't leave in a hurry. Instead, he stood up, stood on the corridor and looked towards them. After looking at them for a long time, he suddenly said:

"Have you ever lived in the Octagonal Palace?"

Gong Si was stunned for a while, and it took him a long time to realize that he was talking to Xiliu.

"You are so familiar with the Octagonal Palace. Even I, who grew up in the Octagonal Palace, can't restore the design to this. Have you ever lived in the Octagonal Palace?" He asked again.

After inserting the last tenon in his hand, Xiliu slowly raised his head, his eyes were clear, and he said to Peiyun Ji, "I lived a long time ago."

"A long time ago? How long? Why have I never seen you?" Peiyun Ji frowned.

Now he is a little confused. Those who know so much about the Bajiao Temple must have lived here, and those who have lived here must be the Ji family, and they will definitely not be illegitimate children...

"Longer than you have lived here, even longer than your parents have lived here..." Xiliu said, smiling slightly.

"Ah?" Having no idea what Xiliu was talking about, Peiyun Ji frowned and said for a while, "I don't understand what you're talking about, but—"

"You are very powerful, not only in ability, but also in other aspects. Among the people present, I should be the only one who has lived here for a long time, but I can't draw the design drawings; besides you, I should have the highest ability, but because there is no fixed Qi, I can only do the simplest work; when you came here on the first day, it was you who provided food so that everyone would not be hungry..."

"You are indeed better than me. I have no objection to choosing you as the next patriarch grandma."

After speaking, he left without looking back.

Whether other people understood the conversation between them, but everyone understood the word "next patriarch".

According to Peiyun Ji, this person in front of him is actually the patriarch's favorite candidate for the next patriarch? !

God!They always thought that the next patriarch would be Peiyun, could it be this side branch boy in front of them?

Wait - think about it carefully, he is indeed very powerful!Although I don't know if he is as good as Pei Yun in terms of ability value, but in other aspects, as Pei Yun said, he is very good!

Let others guess, the stream is just continuing to do the work at hand. When all the roof eaves are assembled with others, the walls and columns that others are responsible for have also been built, and the beams have been put on the wall. Just waiting for the top to drop.

On the last day, go to the house on the top of the eaves.

Under the careful operation of the wind-type ability user, the roof of the corridor first fell on the corridor, and then it was the turn to construct the most complicated roof at the end.

Everyone at the scene was excited when they saw the exquisite roof of Magnolia falling firmly on the top of the main hall.

"It was unimaginable a month ago. I used to build blocks when I was a child, and now I have built such a big house... No! Palace!"

"See that wall over there? I built that wall!"

"I laid the floor under your wall!"

You talk to me, the teenagers talk about the parts they have participated in, and everyone has a proud smile on their faces.

Among all the people, streams and palaces stood at the outermost edge.

Like everyone else, Gong Si also had a look of emotion. Of course, his emotion was a little different from others: In just a few months, he first built his own house in Lengshui Town, and now he came to Xiliu’s house to build a palace. , How do you feel that their two houses have been plagued by disasters recently? Of course, they are natural disasters, and Xiliu's house is a man-made disaster.

As he was thinking, the stream suddenly spoke in his heart.

"Do me a favor?I suddenly want to do one thing. 』

Gong Si looked in the direction of the stream——

Xiliu's expression was a bit strange, and he couldn't tell what kind of expression it was, but——

Without making a sound, Gong Si burned from the soles of his feet, the fire quickly engulfed him, Gong Si turned into a burning man in a blink of an eye, and when the others noticed the change on their side and turned their heads, Gong Si had already turned into a man of fire. In the shape of a fish.

A huge fish made of fire swam past their heads amidst the exclamation of the crowd, and then plunged headlong into the newly built house ahead.

"My God! A big fish! A big fish made of fire!"

"The big fish set fire to the house we just built!"

"What should we do? Put out the fire?"

"No! No! Look carefully, the house is just burning, but it didn't burn down, on the contrary—"

The fire on Big Yu's body instantly engulfed the newly built hall into a sea of ​​flames. However, as the boy said, the newly built octagonal hall not only did not collapse or break, but instead glowed red in the fire.

Just like the metal being smelted in the furnace, the whole palace turned fiery red in the fire, sparkling and striking.

While everyone was discussing, Xiliu just stood quietly at the end of the team.

At first, other people looked at this side a few times, but with the strange view over the house, everyone's attention is now on the newly built palace, and no one is looking at the stream.

"Ah, is that Zhu Rong?" A female voice suddenly came from the side.

"Yeah." Xiliu replied softly.

"It's so beautiful. I can see Zhu Rong's fire in my lifetime. I'm worth it in my life—" the female voice sighed softly, as if quietly admiring the fire in front of me for a while. After a while, she continued: "Now I feel How about it?"

Xiliu didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he took a deep breath, and then exhaled forcefully:

"Refreshing."

The female voice first laughed, and then, with a sincere tone, she said: "Brother, welcome home."

So, Xiliu also turned his head slowly, looking at the unfamiliar yet familiar face behind him, the corners of his mouth slightly curved: "Well, I'm back."