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Yin Chun looked sideways in astonishment: "...Are you crazy?"

"It doesn't cost you money." Xie Hengyan patted his chest, his face was flushed, like a small landowner who got rich overnight, "Master, I have money, but I am worried that I have nowhere to spend it."

Yin Chu asked, "Where did you get the money?"

Xie Hengyan shook his clothes like a peacock spreading his tail, Yin Chu pulled his collar to look in, and he saw a handful of small white silver coins wrapped in cloth, not too shallow nor too deep, as if they were in the Deliberately flaunting his abundance.

Yin Chun couldn't help saying, and was about to go forward to grab it immediately, but was slapped away by Xie Hengyan's backhand, grinning, and made a ferocious look like a wild dog protecting food: "This is mine!"

Yin Chun's face was slightly condensed, and he frowned and asked, "How did you get so much money?"

Xie Hengyan snorted coldly: "It's not a robbery anyway."

Yin Chun: "Say it clearly!"

Xie Hengyan: "What is there to talk about? What you want with money is the result, why bother to pursue the process?"

Yin Chun: "You..."

While arguing, he suddenly heard Brother Liu on the other side of the statue shout: "Mr. Xie, do you have any blueprints for this statue of yours?"

Xie Hengyan immediately ignored Yin Zhu, turned her head and walked straight to the front of the hall: "What blueprint do you want?"

The stonemason next to him turned on a lamp and pointed at the forehead of the statue, only to see that the stone pattern was complex and dense, but it followed the rules, obviously it was carved by human beings, and there was no mistake or omission in the slightest.

Brother Liu said: "This statue has been around for a long time, and the carvings have been worn away. If you want to make it exactly the same, you must give a sample picture for reference."

Xie Hengyan asked: "You have been craftsmen for so many years, haven't you ever seen the original appearance of the stone statue of Lord Youqing?"

"My lord, you are joking. We are all refugees who moved from other places. We never believe this." Brother Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead, then lit a dry cigarette and held it in his mouth. It’s not a god, it’s a problem to fill your stomach, so how can you have the time to worship a statue?”

Xie Hengyan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, do you have a pen and paper? I'll draw."

After speaking, the servant at the door brought up a set of tools. Xie Hengyan held a forked brush, put half a piece of yellowed tissue paper on the ground, dipped some ink in it, bowed his head and began to draw.

A puppet's memory is inherently different from that of a human being. Some things he has seen are almost never forgotten. Therefore, the stone patterns drawn from Xie Hengyan's hand are patchwork, which is exactly the same as the original pattern of the god statue.Yin Chun stood behind him with folded arms, watching him skilfully crochet a full sheet of paper, then shook it lightly in his palm, raised his hand and said to Brother Liu: "That's it, according to this carving, you can't go wrong."

Then Brother Liu took the blueprint to have a look, and immediately said cheerfully: "Yo, you know how to do it, maybe you have practiced it before?"

Xie Hengyan said: "I didn't practice, it's just that my father specializes in this line of work, so I must have seen many of them."

Brother Liu nodded slightly, held the drawing and climbed up to the top of the statue again, then tapped and touched with the small hammer and file, as if he was very busy.

Yin Chun was still not at ease, so he simply pulled Xie Hengyan aside, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you invite the people? They don't even know the statue, how can they fix it?"

"It's been said that the refugees outside the town don't believe this." Xie Hengyan rolled his eyes and said, "As for your small ancestral hall, probably only Cheng Daofeng is willing to pay for it... Look at the two rich people from the Rong family, I'm afraid it's I can’t wait for it to collapse soon.”

Look at this puppet, sometimes crazy, sometimes insane, sometimes sober, and now when he speaks, it is rare to hit the nail on the head.

Sometimes Yin Zhu even wondered whether he was really stupid or not—but some questions stuck in his mouth, and he couldn't ask them in the end.Yin Chun thought about it for a while, but finally couldn't help but said: "...how much money did you spend?"

Xie Hengyan looked up vigilantly: "Why are you asking this?"

Yin Chun said, "I'll give it back to you."

"You don't need to pay it back, I earned it all by myself." Xie Hengyan had a rich and powerful face.

Yin Chun asked again: "What do you earn?"

"Why are you asking so many questions?" Xie Hengyan said unhappily, "I said you don't need to pay it back, why keep asking?"

Yin Chun said helplessly: "...I'm afraid you will suffer."

Xie Hengyan: "I didn't suffer."

Yin Chun: "Then explain clearly, how did you get the money?"

Seeing that Xie Hengyan really couldn't hold him back, she had no choice but to simply say one word: "...Sell."

Hearing this, Yin Chun's scalp was numb: "What are you selling?"

Xie Hengyan avoided his gaze, with a somewhat erratic expression: "Selling is selling, what else can I sell?"

Yin Chu: "???"

"...Stop talking, I'm going to cook."

Xie Hengyan gently pushed him away, and then walked outside the ancestral hall alone, washing rice and vegetables, chopping firewood and cooking pots, and then followed him after pouring food. Seeing that he had bought a lot of various ingredients, maybe it was for the ancestral hall. Those stonemasons made it to feed their hunger, and even replaced the small broken porridge pot with a big one. Now it is still shiny new in the woodpile, which is very dazzling.

At that time, Yin Chun only had the illusion of "the sky is falling and the earth is collapsing", and his heart was so uncomfortable that for a long time afterwards, when he saw Xie Hengyan's legs when he walked, he seemed to be faintly trembling—stretch It is not straight, it is curved, and there is no way to close it.

……sold.

Is it really sold?

Can this kind of thing be sold as soon as it is sold?

Yin Chun seemed to have swallowed ten thousand needles alive, fixed in place without moving, comparable to the stone statues in the ancestral hall that had been dried for a hundred years.So Xie Hengyan turned around unintentionally, just bumped into the iron-blue face of the other party, and was a little frightened: "What are you doing?... Are you hungry?"

Yin Chun stared at him, unable to speak for a long time.

"The fever is gone." Xie Hengyan freed a paw and touched his forehead, "Is the cough still there? I specially grabbed the medicine and fried it for you later."

After saying that, he turned around and started to make a fire to cook the rice. Yin Chu wanted to go up to talk to him several times, but he was interrupted by a series of crackling movements, and when he turned his head, he was still standing by the pot and jumping up and down like a sparrow. To the limit.

Usually the town sends people to handle errands, and it is a routine procedure for the host to set up tables and banquets.Most of them just eat personal taste, not to mention that it is not easy for people like Brother Liu and others from outside the town to go to the mountains. After a busy day, they have to grab some food, otherwise no one will be able to complete the work smoothly if they are hungry.

Xie Hengyan had made an inventory beforehand, excluding himself and Yin Chun, there were seven masons who went up the mountain this time, two of them were the main force, two were apprentices, and the other three were pure errands. To collect materials for making up the statues——but Xie Hengyan would never believe that no one was lazy and slippery in the middle. Fortunately, Liu Ge and his few apprentices are extremely serious in their work, and they can turn a blind eye when they have a moment of leisure one eye.

When the sun went down in the evening, Xie Hengyan had prepared a large pot of broth and freshly cooked meals, and placed them on a large table in front of the ancestral hall, plus a few jars of old wine brought up later.The stonemasons were exhausted from a busy day, and at this time they gathered in a circle, picking up their bowls and chopsticks and rushing to the table to rob them.But Xie Hengyan, taking advantage of the fact that the ancestral hall was empty, rushed inside to take a look, and saw that the place where the seal of the god was engraved on the head of the god had been carefully filled with a ball of mortar, and the other damaged corners had also been slightly repaired. After a period of time to dry completely, the idol will probably be able to return to its original state.

But at this time Yin Chun also came in, Xie Hengyan turned his head and still saw his face, but it was too dark to see the rest of the expression clearly, Xie Hengyan only thought that he was also here to see the statue, so she said to him jokingly : "Look, I'm right, Brother Liu and the others are quite capable, they just filled up the engraved place in just one day, and will go up to paste gold carvings in the morning - when the time comes, it won't be easy to deal with your master? "

Yin Chun stood not far from the statue for a long time, Xie Hengyan waited for a while, but no one made a sound, so he went to hold his hand and said, "Why don't you go eat? Let's go, I secretly steamed a bowl of custard for you. Don't let them see for a while."

Yin Chun paused, and pulled him back with his backhand.

Only then did Xie Hengyan turn to look at him, taking advantage of the dense layer of skylight outside the window to cover most of his face, but it was hidden in a particularly dark corner of the room, his expression was blurred, the only pair of eyes were bright, but they were so deep that it was impossible to see the bottom .

Xie Hengyan asked blankly, "Yin Chu?"

Yin Chun took a deep breath, and wanted to say something, but at this moment, Brother Liu shouted again outside the door: "Thank you, Young Master!"

Xie Hengyan came back to her senses immediately: "...what's the matter?"

"How is it? Is the stone statue still satisfactory?"

"It's just filled a few holes, so why not be satisfied?" Xie Hengyan walked out with a smile, "It depends on Ming'er's carving. If the carving is not good, the wages must be deducted from the price."

Brother Liu also laughed and said: "Don't worry, once we brothers make a move, there will be no bad carving work."

At this moment, Zi Yinzhu slowly moved out of the ancestral hall, Xie Hengyan called him over to eat, while he sat down among the men familiarly, chatting and joking with those young apprentices.

"I heard that in the past some stonemasons poured dead people's ashes into the water in order to cut corners and materials." Xie Hengyan joked, "Don't do this, take the money I gave you, and do black-hearted things, right? "

Those apprentices were all honest people who had never seen the world. When they heard this, they blushed and couldn't stop stammering: "We have been working for several years, and word of mouth is passed down from generation to generation. How could you do such a wicked thing?"

Xie Hengyan looked up at Yin Chun, and raised an eyebrow at him: "It's fine if there's nothing, or if something happens in the future, I'm afraid my life will be lost."

"Things like ghosts and gods are very evil. If you used to make stone sculptures and dared to throw bad goods into them, it would not be enough for him to spend a few lives." Brother Liu sneered and said slightly mockingly, "What you said is purely I can't be happy with myself."

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I bet a dime, you must be as wrong as Yin Zhu!

In fact, the truth of the matter is not like this...

Ok……

Uh……

what……

If you know what will happen next, please listen to the next chapter.

There are quite a lot of code words today, and it is enough to read the saved manuscript, so I plan to update 3 times and post a chapter in three hours~

I try my best to update as much as possible, maybe it will be slower when the manuscripts saved in the later stage are gone, okay!