Hypocrites

Clouds and water are lighter than gulls, and the mountains are bright and foggy.Sitting at the foot of Zhangshan Mountain is a small academy.

It was noon, and Mr. was watching the scholars to endorse, but unexpectedly, he leaned against the window lattice and fell asleep first.Floating clouds are like strands of silk, passing by the soft light and shadow, the naughty boy poked his head under the window, and twirled a piece of foxtail to prick Mr.'s two air holes. It was so itchy that he sneezed, but he didn't wake up, and continued to doze off with his head propped up.

Mu Jie couldn't hold back his laughter, put away the foxtails, and licked his teeth in the school: "Shen Yu! Shen Yu!"

Some of the children were mischievous when they saw that their husband was asleep, while others were writing silently with the airs of little adults.At Mu Jie's call, more than a dozen heads raised up in unison.

"Come out and play!" Mu Jie said, "I'll show you something good!"

Shen Yu raised his wrist and wrote down the pen, still calmly writing chapters and sentences silently-not biased towards the middle, not easy to call the mediocre, the middle is the right way of the world, and the mediocre is the theorem of the world...

The classmates beside him couldn't help but said, "What's so funny?"

"Calm down." Shen Yu reminded him maturely.

The school hall hangs a plaque with white writing on it——pure heart.

Classmate Cui Heng stuck out his tongue and lowered his head. Mu Jie urged, "What's so difficult about writing a book silently? I haven't finished writing it for half a day. The plan for a year lies in spring, and an inch of money can't buy an inch of time. Do you understand?" !"

Shen Yu didn't take it seriously, but Cui Heng became playful: "I'm done with silence! I'm going out to play!"

Shen Yu: "..."

Mu Jie seduced again: "Yan'er, are you coming?"

The little scholar who wore a pair of buns showed yearning eyes when he heard the words, but he resolutely sat still. "Forget it if you don't come," Mu Jie said, "I'll take Cui Heng to pick mulberries in the backyard. They're sweet and sour, and they're crispy. Take a bite and the juice slips down your tongue and into your throat."

Yan Fei swallowed.

The three schoolboys crawled past under the window, Mu Jie laughed when he saw Shen Yu also coming.

"I'll supervise you, and there must be a limit to having fun."

"Well, Shen Yu, you are too hypocritical! Come with me."

Mu Jie led the three of them through the school. The green pines were covered with luxuriant trees, and the shadows of trees on the white walls looked like ink paintings. Bypassing the quiet room, there was a drain that was rarely visited by people, piled up with rotting dead branches and fallen leaves, and the smell was not very pleasant.

Yan Fei was very disgusted: "The fun place you mentioned is the stinky ditch?"

The Mu family said seriously; "None of you have found the place I mentioned!"

The four of them entered the back corner of the wall in a row, and went around to some corner behind the school, and found a wooden door on the wall. It was too old, the wood skin was peeling off, and two seals were pasted on the copper lock, yellow paper and cinnabar ink. , looks like a Taoist talisman.

The surrounding area seemed to be getting colder, and Cui Heng was shocked, feeling bad: "Shen, Shen Yu, isn't this a haunted house?"

Shen Yu said: "Don't be afraid, there are no ghosts in the world. Words spread thousands of miles, but no one has seen them with their own eyes."

Mu Jie said: "It's only fun if there are ghosts! Otherwise, what's new for me to show you?"

All the children were speechless.

Mu Jie was as brave as an ox, and carefully peeled off the talisman paper seal completely. The copper lock had long since rotted. Mu Jie resorted to [-] martial arts skills and pierced the keyhole with a thin and slender iron strip. no result.

While waiting, the three of them became impatient, and the momentary timidity they had previously dissipated, Cui Heng said puzzled, "Look, this lock ring has rotted like this, it's not strong at all." It actually stopped at the sound.

Mu Jie: "...wait a minute! You, you, how did you do it?!"

Everyone stared at Cui Heng, and Cui Heng himself was taken aback. He is not a man of great strength, he is not tall, and he doesn't like to eat. to him.

Shen Yu hung the broken lock in Cui Heng's hand back to the wooden door, wiped off the rust on his hands with his sleeves, and asked Mu Jie, "Is it still possible to get in?"

Only then did Mu Jie divert his attention.

As expected, no one has ever been to this hut. They were educated in the academy when they were young, and they never knew that there was such a space.

There are no windows in the hut, only a meager light is cast in from the door, and the dust of years dances in the light beam, and there is no place to set foot everywhere.It turned out to be a warehouse that piled up waste.

Yan Fei was greatly disappointed: "I will never trust you again! What is there to play in the warehouse?!"

Mu Jie was also very disappointed. He intended to sneak out of the academy to play up the mountain, but happened to see the talisman paper pasted on the door, and thought there were beams with hanging ropes, old clothes stained with blood, and ashes left behind. Burn incense and sleep in the room, and there will be a phantom in the dream.

He was very angry, and vented his anger on Yan Fei, grabbed his pair of buns and ravaged him.Yan Fei was hunted down by Mu Jie, who was bigger than him, and had nowhere to escape, and knocked down the things in the warehouse.In the warehouse of the academy, the idle things are nothing more than tables, cabinets, broken brushes and inkstones.Yan Fei pressed down on a table, and accidentally swept the dust off his face with his elbow. Mu Jie saw a line of inscriptions sharply: "Huh? Cui Heng?"

When Cui Heng heard that his name was still engraved on the old things here, he hurried over to watch.But he saw that the name that was already unclear was engraved with "Cui Heng", not "Cui Heng".

"Xiaoheng, is this your table?" Yan Fei asked in a daze.

"I don't have this kind of desk." Cui Heng replied foolishly.

Shen Yu's family was in the business of literati, and he was quite knowledgeable. After identifying the styles of several cases, he claimed that it should be from the previous dynasty.First of all, its four legs are short, and it is not a table. In this dynasty, there are bamboo and pier to sit on, and no one kneels on the mat.Secondly, ebony was mostly used for stationery in the previous dynasty, while boxwood was mostly used for stationery in the present dynasty. Because the previous dynasty was in a dangerous world and everyone was cautious, the choice of wood should be so low-key and restrained, which is quite different from the bright color of boxwood.

After some discussion, the three of them were confused, and Mu Jie's focus shifted again: "Antiquities from the previous dynasty? Cui Heng, this is something you used in your previous life!"

Cui Heng was frightened: "Ah?!"

Shen Yu said angrily: "Please don't scare people with nonsense! The Six Paths of Reincarnation is a theory taught by foreigners and foreign teachers. If you don't know life, you can know death. Confucianists should respect ghosts and gods and keep them away."

But Mu Jie was confident, pointing to the side of "Cui Heng" and said: "I have evidence! Please see!"

Blowing away the embers of time, the shallow nicks on the dark surface of ebony have been worn away and blurred, only a "shen" can be vaguely recognized.

It's Cui again, and Shen again, who is the former owner of this book case?Yan Fei was puzzled, and Mu Jie teased him: "I still don't understand? Did Cui Heng and Shen Yu use the same desk? It means that this desk was used by the two of them in their previous lives. Life is a member of the academy, and death is the soul of the academy." , you have to learn from life to life, and there is no limit to the sea of ​​learning and hard work!"

Yan Fei Ben Ansheng was studying, and was lured out by him to play, but he saw some messy things that he didn't know why, and he immediately poohed: "According to what you said, everyone has a past life and a future life, and you often bully me like this in the past life." !"

Mu Jie said: "That's not necessarily the case. My mother said that people's life in this life and the next life are the opposite. Maybe you bullied me in the previous life."

"Oops!" Cui Heng exclaimed, his finger was pricked by an unremarkable stubble on the desk, and a bead of blood came out, and accidentally, the bead of blood fell on the desk.

"It's broken," Cui Heng said sadly, "It's dirty a few cases."

Shen Yu was young and had always been very old-fashioned, but at this time he defended Cui Heng: "It's dirty enough to leave it for so many years, and it's not bad for you. It's more about the hand injury." After speaking, he wiped the blood bead casually.

Seeing that there was nothing left to do in this dilapidated house, the four of them withdrew in disinterest.

The sun's shadow like floating gold shines through time and space, and falls on the desk, with subtle bloodstains embedded in the texture, presenting the name that has long been blurred.

"Close the door quickly and put the seal on!"

The smoke and dust returned to silence, and Cui Heng and Shen Yu fell asleep in loneliness once again.