It's not easy being a master

Early the next morning, after Shi Yi'an got up, he couldn't find Lang Shu, and he didn't know where he hid again.In order to cooperate with Lang Shu, Shi Yi'an continued to pretend to be half dead, but even though he pretended to be like this on the surface, he still couldn't hide his inner joy.

"Hey, I'm talking so hard here, why are you laughing over there." The uncle knocked on the table unbearably and cursed.

"Huh?" Shi Yi'an came back to his senses, only to realize that he was sitting by the table smiling like a fool with his chin in his hands.

The uncle talked angrily, shook his head and said: "Actually, it is useless for me to tell you more about the Patriarch. You will understand after sitting in this position for two more years. Tomorrow, the master The chief financial officer is back and will report to you the financial status of the Shi family."

Hearing this, Shi Yi'an quietly gestured a V under the table, thinking that he could finally rest after listening to it all morning.

"Okay, then the next step is to meet the representatives of the various collateral clans." The uncle replied with a relaxed tone. After all, Shi Yi'an is the future patriarch, so he can't be regarded as his own junior.

Shi Yi'an: "..."

The uncle snapped his fingers, summoned his guardian, and asked him to invite the representatives of the collateral line.In fact, all the family members, including the uncle, don't understand why the ancestors accepted Shi Yi'an as the head of the family. Although this time, after this kid came back, his spiritual power was more abundant than before, but the family has always They are not a family that respects spiritual power without brains. Although they don't understand, everyone still silently listens to the arrangement of their ancestors.

Representatives of the collateral lineage came to "meet" the next head of the family. To be honest, Shi Yi'an had never met anyone from the collateral lineage except Jinniang, and the people from the collateral lineage had no emotional basis at all. Two young people on a blind date for the first time, one stiff and the other shy, can't talk easily and happily at all.

Collateral representative: "You are really young and promising."

Shi Yi'an: "Ah, I'm overwhelmed, haha."

The representative of the collateral line: "At your age, your spiritual power is the strongest I have ever seen."

Shi Yi'an: "Thanks for the prize."

Representative of the collateral line: "Well, we believe that you will be able to lead the Shi family back to the most glorious moment of the year."

Shi Yi'an: "I will try my best."

Collateral representative: "Haha"

Shi Yi'an: "Haha."

Collateral representative: "..."

Shi Yi'an: "..."

Uncle couldn't stand it any longer, so he found an excuse that Shi Yi'an was tired and dismissed the subordinates.As soon as the collateral representative heard that it was time to leave, he immediately got up and walked out, not daring to walk too fast as if he was in a hurry, so he could only narrow his steps as much as possible, and in the end he walked out in small steps with great force Feel.

After meeting more than a dozen people in this way, Shi Yian sat behind the square table with his eyelids drooping, and his whole body was a little sluggish, looking exhausted.The uncle also saw that Shi Yi'an was exhausted, so he told Shi Yi'an to take a break before continuing. Shi Yi'an took advantage of the break and hid in the Library Pavilion where few people visited.

He dragged out a rocking chair that was already full of dust from a corner, dusted off the dust casually, and nestled on it.In order to prevent being found by my uncle's thousand paper cranes, Shi Yi'an also pasted a talisman paper on the door.

It's just that Shi Yi'an forgot that paper cranes are easy to hide, but Yi's movements are difficult to guard against. He hadn't been here for a long time when he heard someone pushing the door and coming in.Shi Yi'an fanned the dust flying in front of his nose with his hands, frowned and complained loudly: "How long has it been since this place has been cleaned?"

"It is said that after Fang Ling went to practice, no one cleaned here anymore." Shi Yian answered the conversation while lying on the rocking chair.

"Shi Yi'an? The whole family is looking for you now, what are you hiding here for?" Shi Yixing glanced outside, and before he could say anything, Shi Yi'an covered his mouth and dragged him in. , Shi Yian closed the door and said: "Let me relax, I have been pretending all morning this morning, and my face is about to freeze from laughing."

Shi Yixing pulled Shi Yi'an's dirty hands off his face, spat a few mouthfuls of saliva, turned his head, wiped his mouth and cursed: "Don't touch my face with your pig's trotters."

Shi Yi'an spread his hands, sat down on the rocking chair, rattled the rocking chair, flipped through a few books on the low table next to him, and said, "If I had a choice, I really don't want to be the head of this family." , I still like my previous life.”

"If you get it cheap, be good." Shi Yixing gave Shi Yian a white look, and began to look for the books he needed.

"Cheap?" Shi Yi'an muttered the word and sneered, he didn't believe that he could take advantage of Shi Kuang.

Shi Yixing took a linen book from the shelf and flipped through it twice, and saw that it was full of painted monster atlases, and it was not the book on physiognomy written by Li He that he was looking for.He went back and looked at the cover again, and found that someone had ordered the wrong cover when repairing these ancient books.

"Don't be idle, help me find out what this book is. It seems that I ordered the wrong cover." Shi Yixing raised his hand and threw the book to Shi Yi'an.

Shi Yi straightened his head, borrowed the book, and said with a smile: "You let me read it? I have only read a few ancient books, and I don't know whether I can recognize all the characters in it. If this one is not right, I will find another one." , The Zangshu Pavilion is so big, there must not be only one copy of this linen book."

Shi Yixing moved over the ladder, climbed to the top, took out a book, coughed from the dust on it, and said, "I will ask uncle to make a new cover for this book later."

"Shi Boxiu, three years of Qiande, emerald jade tail, Ding Shisan." Shi Yi'an flipped a page casually, and there was a picture of a big cat licking its paws. The only thing special about this cat was its tail. It's green, with a line of small characters written next to it, and a red circle.

In fact, it is not difficult to deduce if you think about it carefully. The tail of this cat is green. It is very likely that the jade tail is the breed or name of this cat. As for the master in front of him, it probably belonged to some ancestor of the master's family. The name, and the time is three years of Qiande.So what does the latter Ding Shisan mean?

"Hey, what does Ding Shisan mean?" Shi Yian raised his voice and asked.

Shi Yixing was rescuing an ancient book stuck in the gap, he didn't hear what Shi Yi'an was saying clearly, and replied: "What thirteen?"

Shi Yi'an shook his head and turned another page. This time, it was a monster with five claws like a tiger and a face like a bull's head. Next to it was written, Shi Boxiu, Qiande three years, Zangji, Geng [-].Turning back, some have comments on them, and some have red circles on them.

"Well, I think it might be the merit book of the ancestors of the Shi family?" Shi Yian closed the book and said.

"Ah?" Shi Yixing shook his head, grabbed the spider web on it with his hands, looked at Shi Yi'an with an uncertain face, then walked over and snatched the book from Shi Yi'an's hand, flipped through it himself, Then I turned to the last page and looked at it.

"The last recorded person, Shi Yongle, was 19 years old, and there should be more in the future." Shi Yixing said to himself, bit his lower lip with his upper teeth after thinking for a while, and then said: "This, it should not be an achievement. The book, I think, should be the book that records the protection of the master's family."

"Ah, that's right." Shi Yi'an got up in a jerk, stood behind Shi Yixing, looked over with his head, and asked, "What is the last number?"

"It should be the number of the stone statue." Shi Yixing paused, and continued, "Or it should be the position of the stone statue, but I don't know what the circle means."

"If you don't know, don't know. You continue to look for your book. I'll read this book first." Shi Yi'an took the book and sat directly on the low table.

Shi Yixing clapped his hands and turned around to continue looking for books.

This booklet is quite thick. It records the guardianship of each family member after Shi Kuang until the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The rest should be recorded in the booklet at the back.Shi Yi'an flipped through nearly half of the book, and finally figured out the meaning of the small circle at the back.

"Yeah, the black circle means that the guardian was completed in July, and the guardian was free. The red circle means that the guardian failed to be free and was sealed back in the stone. There is an unlucky guardian who changed three contractors before and after. Only then did I get freedom." Shi Yi'an said while watching.

While Shi Yi'an was talking, he suddenly turned to a page. What was drawn on this page was not a monster with teeth and claws, but a human figure outlined with a few strokes. After seeing so much, Shi Yi'an also knew that the guardian of the human figure is actually Very rare, from the Tang Dynasty all the way to check, to the early Ming Dynasty, only a dozen or so people can have the guardian of the human form.

Of course, what attracted Shi Yi'an was not the stick figure sketched out with a few strokes, but the name of the guardian below.

The guardian's name is Lixiao, and the stone statue is stored at the gate. It turns out that Lixiao, a bitch, has such a dark history. Shi Yi'an snickered and planned to ask Shi Yixing to come down to share this gossip, but he was carrying For a moment, I saw the black circle drawn at the end.

Does black complete the contract or not?

Shi Yi'an suddenly felt that he was a little confused, turned around and checked again, and then turned back.Shi Yi'an's heart skipped a beat, feeling that the air in his chest was being forced out of his chest cavity.He took a deep breath, his mouth and nasal cavity were filled with the smell of damp rice paper.

He looked up at Shi Yixing who was standing on the ladder, and he focused on the books in his hands. It may be that climbing up and down was too exhausting, his head was already sweating, and he put his He took off his thin down jacket and hung it on the ladder, and rolled the sweater around his forearm.Compared with Shi Yi'an who first met Shi Yixing, Shi Yixing's complexion has returned to normal, and his whole body is shining with the vitality and light that young people should have.

Shi Yi'an swallowed his saliva, and said, "Yi Xing, after you summoned dawn, your health seems to be much better."

Shi Yixing finally found the book he was looking for and held it under his arm to get it down. After hearing Shi Yi'an's words, he turned his head and said, "That's right, I can go up to the fifth floor without any effort now."

Seeing Shi Yixing's happy expression, Shi Yian asked hesitantly, "Are you sure Lixiao is really your guardian?"