seal of magic

On the first day of Zhong Zhaocheng's funeral, several members of the Zhong family arrived one after another, including Zhong Qingyu's cousin Zhong Qingzhu.

Since the funeral was held in the Zhong family's old house, and the old house was not far from Fengmojing, inviting friends would inevitably expose the loss of the Zhong family's seal, so only the Zhong family members were notified.

Although Qi Shao is actually Zhong Qingyu's lover, they still claim to be friends to others, so he is probably the only "outsider" among them.However, Zhong Zhenqiao was unwell, and now Zhong Zhenlin was in charge of the Zhong family, and Zhong Zhenlin didn't raise any objections, so others naturally wouldn't talk too much.

This is the first time Qi Shao saw Zhong Qingzhu—of course it was the first time he saw most of the people here—it was different from what he had imagined. Zhong Qingyu and Zhong Qinglan were both of normal figure, and Zhong Qinglan was a little thin. So Qi Shao never thought that Zhong Qingzhu would be a fat man just over 1.6 meters.

Fatty Zhong Qingzhu saw Qi Shao, nodded his head like a leader, and said, "I heard that you got good grades in school?"

Qi Shao didn't know how to answer these words, so he thought for a while and replied, "...it's okay."

"Do you think I'll praise you for your modesty when you say that? Naive! You're still far from being favored by this young master!" After speaking, Zhong Qingzhu walked away with his hands behind his back.

Qi Shao: "..." Is this child poisoned?He turned his head to look behind him, and Zhong Qingyu and Zhong Qinglan also couldn't bear to look directly at them.

Zhong Qingyu: "...I thought he was just a little high school two, and he will probably be fine when he grows up, why is it getting worse?"

Zhong Qinglan: "He has a crush on a girl in their class. Some time ago, while she was in physical education class, she secretly rummaged through her drawer and saw some novels she was reading, such as "The Underworld Master Dotes on His Wife", "The Domineering President, You Go Away" "Open" or something like that. When I came back, I asked me to borrow books. I said that I wanted to chase someone, and I needed to know what type of boys he liked. I thought he was just talking, so I asked him to read, and then he became like this It's..."

Zhong Qingyu wiped his face, held back his smile and asked, "Can your parents bear him like this?"

Zhong Qinglan: "He doesn't dare to do this in front of my dad. My mom probably doesn't think anything bad about him."

"Did he catch that girl?" Qi Shao was a little curious. After all, he had never chased a girl before, and he didn't know much about chasing a girl. If he could catch a girl like this... Uh, then he wouldn't go either. Chase.

"Fuck you, they blocked his WeChat account." Speaking of this, Zhong Qinglan couldn't help laughing.

"Is it really okay for you to gloat so much?" Qi Shao also smiled, "He will die of embarrassment in retrospect."

"Who hasn't entered the second year of secondary school yet." Zhong Qingyu cleared his throat after coughing twice, and tried to put on a serious look and said, "It's just that his period is a little longer, and he is also experiencing youth."

Qi Shao: "Then what stupid thing did you do when you were in the second grade?"

Zhong Qingyu didn't expect that he dug a hole for himself just now, and hurriedly excused that he was going to greet his relatives and leave first, but unfortunately he forgot to take away his cheating brother and sister who always love to betray him, Zhong Qinglan turned his embarrassment upside down again clean.What pretended to scare the girls in the class, but they turned out to be more courageous than him and frightened him back; found a girl's confession letter in the desk, and I was stunned for a day, but the next day the girl in the next class found it. He said he was sorry that he misplaced the desk and asked him to help pass it to the person behind him; what test papers were too poor for fear of being ashamed and quietly burned the test papers in the office.

Zhong Qinglan: "Let me tell you, Brother Yu only burned the stack of papers on the table when he used spells. The teacher saw that everything in the office was fine the next day, but the papers turned into a ball of ashes. He thought he did it by himself. It was perfect. In fact, the teacher finished grading the papers the first day and registered the transcripts and put them in the drawer. But he didn’t find out. He burned the papers and left the transcripts. Although the teacher doesn’t know who it is, it can’t be others His grades are good, and he was found after checking and checking, and even the whole school notified him of criticism."

Qi Shao was surprised by many of these past events. Now Zhong Qingyu is basically very mature and steady in front of outsiders. Even when they first met, he was quite a man of the city. .

"It's too unfair. You know so many embarrassing things about me, but I don't even know about you." Zhong Qingyu squatted on the side of the road while weeding and complaining to Qi Shao in a low voice, feeling very wronged.

Qi Shao squatted next to him, followed him to pull out twice, and then felt that the picture of two big men squatting on the side of the road pulling weeds was really stupid, so he stood up again, and said with a smile: "Then you probably didn't I hope to find this balance. At that time, I didn’t like to talk very much, and I was very boring. I just read my homework every day, and I didn’t have a chance to be stupid.”

Zhong Qingyu could imagine Qi Shao's desperate efforts to become independent as soon as possible at that time, and he felt a little distressed when he thought about it.Although he was dependent on others since he was a child, in fact, Zhong Zhenlin's family lived pretty well except for Zhong Qingzhu who was not very good at talking.Of course there are estrangements, but as long as they are talented in Taoist families like them, it is not too difficult to become financially independent. Generally, the spells drawn at the age of thirteen or fourteen can be sold for a lot of money, so he also I have never experienced Qi Shao's sense of urgency back then.

Although the embarrassing things of puberty when I was a child are embarrassing in retrospect, and it makes people laugh when I tell them, but after a careful taste, I can still feel a little happiness, especially when some innocuous things are told by others, I still feel that I was naive and cute back then.In fact, being remembered by others for one's embarrassing things can be regarded as a kind of concern for others. The real indifference is that no matter what one has done, good or bad, the other party doesn't care at all, and doesn't take it to heart.

Zhong Qingyu stood up and patted Qi Shao's head, and said, "Then you have to make it up to me, and you won't be so tense when you are in front of me in the future. It's not bad to be confused and act stupid once in a while."

The tone of his speech was very affectionate, but unfortunately Qi Shao didn't act as if he was moved. He pulled Zhong Qingyu's messy hands on his head and froze: "You just picked the grass! You came to touch my head with one hand of mud!"

"Uh..." It seemed like this, but it had already rubbed against it anyway, so Zhong Qingyu simply put the other one on Qi Shao's head, and the two made a fuss.

"Okay, okay, okay!" In the end, Qi Shaoxian couldn't stand the laughter and stopped, "This is to attend the funeral. If there is such a mess, if someone comes here later, what will it look like?"

"What are you afraid of? This place is far away from the mourning hall, and no one has seen it. Besides, no one dares to say anything about me anyway." Zhong Qingyu didn't care.

Qi Shao: "Yes, people dare not call you Young Master Zhong, they will say that your friend is too unruly."

"No." Although Zhong Qingyu didn't care about his own image, he still cared about Qi Shao, and was afraid that Qi Shao would be unhappy if someone owed him something.He helped Qi Shao tidy up his messy hairstyle, and said: "Many of these relatives have not seen each other for a long time, and I have only met some of them a few times. After the matter of grandpa is over, I guess the future contact will be even closer." Less. That's why I didn't tell them about the two of us, aren't you unhappy?"

Qi Shao didn't know if the dirt on his head was patted clean, but he still felt weird, and he needed to take a bath quickly, and replied casually: "It's okay, not everyone can accept this, so why bother to hurry up?" Tell someone you don't need to tell and get angry with yourself."

Zhong Qingyu narrowed his eyes with a smile: "I just know how you are."

"The two of you are endless. I've been standing by the side of the road for a long time. I couldn't wait to come over and I was forced to stuff a mouthful of dog food." Zhong Qinglan walked over, holding two filial gowns in her hand, "You two, the funeral tomorrow Time to put it on."

Seeing this, Qi Shao asked: "Where is your cemetery chosen? What will be the specific procedure tomorrow?" When his father died in the line of duty, the funeral process was very simple. buried.But his classmates in the dormitory said that the funeral customs in his hometown are very complicated.

"Ordinary people around here will invite the sorceress to dance for three days and three nights, and the relatives will also dance with them on the last night. During the funeral, they have to kneel all the way to the cemetery." Zhong Qingyu took the filial clothing and unfolded it, and said: "But Our family is a celestial master, so there is no need to hire a sorceress. Besides, they all know that my grandfather’s soul is not there, so recruiting is useless. I have been in contact with this industry all year round, and some things that are purely formal are not so important. Just make up your mind."

The mourning hall of the Zhong family is decorated in a simple and low-key manner this time, without too many fancy things.However, on the last day of the burial, a funeral band was invited to play and beat all the way up the mountain. Instead of taking the road to the hut, it went around the other way to the back of the mountain.

Qi Shao noticed that Zhong Zhenqiao didn't show up even on such an occasion. He didn't know whether it was because of his health or the current situation of Fengmojing had indeed deteriorated to the point that someone needed to guard him every step of the way.

There were very few people present who were of Zhong Zhaocheng's generation, almost all of them were juniors, and most of them had never met Zhong Zhaocheng. The mourning hall was quiet and no one was crying these days.Fortunately, the one who sang the dirge had a profound skill, and he sang so sadly that he finally sang everyone's tears before the burial.

As the eldest grandson, Zhong Qingyu walked in the front with his second uncle. It was inconvenient for Qi Shao to walk in that position with him, so he walked with Zhong Qinglan.

The distance itself is not long, but it just rained last night, the mountain road is very slippery, and almost every person who walks less than [-] steps, the person presiding over the funeral will yell "Kneel, dutiful son--", and then the whole funeral procession They all knelt down, the funeral lasted for a long time, and the soil was filled up at noon, and then they offered incense and kowtowed one by one, and it was almost three o'clock when they came down the mountain.

In Qi Shao's impression, he has never experienced this before. Before, he felt that there was no funeral atmosphere at all, but today he felt it.He looked at his pants helplessly, wondering if the mud on them could be cleaned.

People started to leave that night. Zhong Qingyu and Qi Shao continued to stay at the ancestral house for one night, and went up the mountain after breakfast the next day, wanting to say goodbye to Zhong Zhenqiao.This time Zhong Zhenqiao didn't even open the door, if they could still see Zhong Zhenqiao sitting at the table drawing amulets from the window, they would have thought something had happened to him.

"Forget it." Zhong Qingyu was a little disappointed, but he quickly adjusted his mentality, Qi Shao said: "Let's go now."

The author has something to say:

Today's update is a bit late, the express delivery has almost stopped until it can't affect the mood TT

This chapter is about funerals. The customs are different in different places, and the details are much more complicated than this. The author simplified it based on his own experience. If it is different from what everyone understands, uh, let’s take it as a parallel to our story. World-specific settings are ready! (There are so many excuses for being lazy!)

Funeral should be a very serious matter, but the author has been in a bad mood lately, and wanted to be cured with something sweeter, but ended up...topping the pot and running away