City A, a small coastal second-tier city, has excellent geographical conditions, but its development is not as rapid as the surrounding cities, it is still slow and peaceful, not suitable for hard work, but suitable for living and retirement.

The train stopped at the edge of the platform, and Lu Changsheng got off with his luggage. The economy was not developing fast, and there were no hurried travelers at the train station.

Lu Changsheng went to college in a big city, and he would come back every winter and summer vacation until his grandfather passed away in his junior year.It has been another three years since I came back again.

Different from the choices of other students, the student who went to graduate school with Lu Changsheng either entered a well-known company after graduation, or went abroad to continue his studies. Only he rejected various offers and turned back to a small city.

He got into the taxi with his luggage and gave an address. Lu Changsheng leaned on the back of the car and looked sideways at the green trees outside the window.

The word "changing with each passing day" has nothing to do with this place. What it was like when Lu Changsheng went to school, it is still what it was like when he came back now, without any change.

Apart from his home here, no one will be waiting for him to go back.

The speed of the taxi was not slow, and the train station was not far from the address Lu Changsheng said, and he arrived there in 15 minutes.

After paying with the mobile phone, he got out of the car with his luggage. Lu Changsheng looked up at him.

There are a series of shops in front of you, shroud shops, antique shops, pawnshops... It doesn't seem too abrupt to see a "Kanyu" plaque in the middle.

Digging out the key from the depths of the backpack, Lu Changsheng unlocked the door.

Since Grandpa Lu passed away, this shop has been left unattended, no one is watching it, the door locks are covered with dust, the wooden door makes a "squeak" sound when the door is pushed open, the light inside the room is very dark, and dust piles up on Lu Changsheng's face On the road, he sneezed twice, and then the rotten smell slowly filled his nostrils.

Putting the luggage on the ground, Lu Changsheng fanned the air in front of his nose, opened the door leading to the back hall, and the air in the room began to flow, and the unpleasant smell settled down together with the dust.

This shop called "Kanyu" was run by Grandpa Lu Changsheng during his lifetime. The old man was a descendant of a certain Taoist school. City A is also considered a little famous.

On the day of Grandpa Lu's funeral, many former customers came to express their condolences.

The store is not big. After Grandpa Lu passed away, the talisman papers and books in the store were put into boxes and carried to the back hall. Now there is only a carved pear wood table in the house, and the empty wooden tables on both sides. shelf.

A lot of dust had accumulated on these logs. Lu Changsheng took out a rag and a water basin from a corner, filled it with water, and wiped it three times before completely wiping off the dust.Then Lu Changsheng rolled up his sleeves and started cleaning the ground.

After doing all this, fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and his body, which had been sitting in the classroom all year round, was a bit too much.

The shop has been ventilated, and Lu Changsheng has not yet decided what to change this shop into. He only plans to live there temporarily. Anyway, he is not short of money right now, and he will put it into action when he has a good idea.

Mops were randomly piled up in a corner of the shop, and after closing the shop door, Lu Changsheng walked towards the back hall with his luggage in his hand.

No one has lived here for two or three years, the house is cold and outrageous, and I don't know what the bedroom looks like.

Carrying luggage and walking back, the back hall and the front hall are completely different. If you look at it rashly, you can't imagine that this is the same place.

The front hall is terribly cramped, turning around seems to touch the wall; while the back hall is spacious and bright - a yard with a well, a tall unknown tree planted in the yard, and flowers in the potted plants because no one has been there all year round. The water has withered, and there are three connected houses in front of me, the main house in the center, a guest room on the left, and a warehouse on the right.

Lu Changsheng was brought up here by his grandfather, and he was very familiar with it. He naturally opened the door of the main room. The curtains in the room were drawn, and the furniture was covered with white cloth.

Lu Changsheng frowned and coughed, walked to the curtains and raised his hand to open the curtains. The sunlight entered the room, and his fingers were stained with a layer of dust. When he looked up, he couldn't tell whether it was blue or green curtains. .

While reaching out to uncover the white cloth, Lu Changsheng thought about turning around and took down the curtains and replaced them with new ones.

Covered with a white cloth, the furniture in the main room is not too dirty. You can simply clean up and change the sheets and bedding before you can move in.

He took out his quilt and bed sheets from the suitcase, and before he started changing them, Lu Changsheng's cell phone rang.

A string of numbers was displayed on the screen of the phone, and Lu Changsheng recognized who was calling at a glance.Staring at the screen of the phone blankly, he finally connected the call with a swipe of his fingertips.

"Have you been to your grandfather's shop?" Before Lu Changsheng could speak, the man on the phone asked.

The knuckles of the fingers holding the phone were slightly white, and Lu Changsheng responded lightly, "Yes."

Father Lu didn't seem to have expected that Lu Changsheng's attitude would be so cold. He choked on the single syllable and breathed a sigh of relief slowly on the phone. Although he wasn't out of breath, he still said in a bad tone: "You can't even call me dad now. Don't you want to?"

"What's the matter? Dad." Lu Changsheng asked back politely, but the "Dad" didn't have much sincerity.

"The assistant made an assessment of your grandfather's store before. I think you should come back and help me take care of the company instead of wasting your time there."

"I made it very clear at my grandfather's funeral." Lu Changsheng frowned, and a trace of impatience flashed in his eyes, "Because you were late, you wanted to shirk it. You didn't hear me, did you?"

"You—" Father Lu's voice on the phone froze, and for a while there was only the sound of breathing.

I don't know how long the time has passed, but it was so long that Lu Changsheng had already put the phone away from his ear and was about to hang up, when Father Lu's compromising voice came from the phone again, "You can stay there if you want, dad will give you Don’t be reluctant to spend the money you get, you’ve wronged yourself.”

"En." Lu Changsheng responded quickly, not knowing if he heard it, his lips were unconsciously tightened, and before hanging up the phone, he suddenly asked: "You asked the secretary to evaluate the store, but you didn't come in person ?"

Without waiting for Lu's father to answer, or Lu Changsheng already knew the answer when Lu's father hesitated, a sarcastic smile appeared on his lips, and Lu Changsheng simply hung up the phone.

Unworthy descendants are probably like this, right?It is estimated that their family will inherit it very well.

Lu Changsheng's parents divorced when he was five years old, and then the two went their separate ways to have their own family and life, while Lu Changsheng was left at his grandfather's house, and he lived with his grandfather. Only Lu's father and mother called every month When it was time for living expenses, Lu Changsheng realized that he was not an orphan.

When Grandpa Lu passed away, Father Lu was on a business trip abroad. It was Lu Changsheng who asked for leave to organize the funeral with money from his part-time job at school, and Father Lu was late on the day of Grandpa Lu’s funeral. He came at the right time, but he just left after a face-to-face meeting.

As for his parents, Lu Changsheng thanked them for their alimony for many years, but that was all. He couldn't love such parents. Except for special circumstances, Lu Changsheng didn't spend much of the money, and he didn't want to owe those two people any more.

Bending down to open another interlayer of the suitcase, there are neatly wrapped plastic sheets neatly placed in the interlayer, and when the plastic sheets are torn apart with scissors, the contents inside are revealed, which turned out to be an ancient sword.

The gray light in Lu Changsheng's eyes only lit up a little when he saw these ancient swords. Lu Changsheng didn't have any requirements for his own food and clothing, but he still worked hard to make money. Scholarships, part-time jobs, and all the money he brought It was used to buy ancient swords, and he rarely used the money from his parents because it was a bad idea to buy swords.

Lu Changsheng has nine ancient swords of different ages in his hand, the scale is no less than that of a small collector. Each sword is equipped with a sword stand, which is arranged in a random order on the desk. Glowing ancient light.

After changing the bed sheets, packing up the luggage and putting them in the closet, Lu Changsheng caressed each ancient sword carefully, his eyes were extremely gentle, as if he was looking at not four or five, but his lover who had been separated for many years, and he The touch is like in "Xiao Bie Sheng Newly Married".

After tidying up the main house, it was noon. Lu Changsheng got up early to catch the train. He was already very hungry. The room opposite the ancient well on the left side of the yard was the kitchen, but no one opened fire here for a long time. Even if Lu Changsheng knows how to cook, he has no way to use the ingredients, not to mention that he has always adhered to the principle of "a gentleman stays away from the cook".

He took out his mobile phone and ordered takeaway in twos and twos. While waiting, Lu Changsheng walked to the warehouse.

The guest room was unoccupied for a while, so there was no rush to tidy it up, but the things in the warehouse had been piled up for a long time and needed to be taken out for a look.

Thinking of this, Lu Changsheng planned to see what the warehouse looked like now.

Walking into the warehouse, there are still dust and fights inside. The mahogany boxes placed side by side on the left side of the room have become dusty. On the shelves more than two meters high, talisman papers and brushes are scattered randomly. , Candles, and incense, exposed to the air for an unknown period of time, have become disfigured.

On the other side, facing the mahogany box in the distance is a black iron box. The box is not locked, but the rings are rusted together. It took Lu Changsheng a lot of effort to open it.

The tin box contained a compass and yellowed books. As soon as the box was opened, the smell of books hit Lu Changsheng's nose, and he raised his hand to cover his nose.

The books were randomly discarded in the corner of the box. Lu Changsheng took out a few and shook them. The books were old, and the pages were yellow and old. Even the fonts inside were in traditional Chinese characters, and the typesetting was vertical.

Lu Changsheng only read these books when he was a child, and those memories have long been blurred. Only now when he reads such books can he recall some vague outlines of his childhood.

When he was young, Lu Changsheng ran around in the store. He used to play with talisman paper peach wood swords and antiques. Except for these books, Grandpa Lu collected them like treasures and didn't even let Lu Changsheng touch them. The book that was treated with care is now covered in dust like waste paper. Lu Changsheng sighed softly, feeling a little embarrassed.

Things are wrong.

Lowering his eyes, Lu Changsheng looked at the title pages of the books, picked out a few and took them back to his bedroom.Grandpa once refused to let him see it, but now Lu Changsheng has the opportunity to feast his eyes on it.

Return to the room with a few books and put them on the bedside.It's about time, and the takeaway is delivered.Leaving the bedroom and walking to the front of the hall to get takeaway, Lu Changsheng didn't notice that a half-centimeter-thick book slowly shrank, and finally turned into a thin book, lying on top of the book.

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