Chapter 6: There is a treasure in the home
The two children's conversation sounded like two hundred ducks quacking, which gave Su Fengzhang a headache.
He grabbed his brother and sister and said angrily, "Lan Zhang, Hui Hui, aren't you thirsty after talking so much?"
The twins looked at each other, and the elder brother, Su Lanzhang, said, "Second brother, we like talking to you."
Well, you are quite good at being mysterious.
Su Fengzhang directly exposed the truth: "Alright, alright, it's just a broken jade pendant. How could I be so upset about such a small thing? Mother, you are making a fuss about nothing."
Su Huihui intertwined her fingers and lowered her head as she said, "That's what my eldest brother said at the beginning, but he..."
As a result, Su Zongzhang was so angry that he died of anger.
Su Fengzhang couldn't blame them for making a fuss. He reached out and patted the two children's heads, then said with a smile, "I'm not the eldest brother. Besides, my second brother has to take care of you, mother, and Aunt Bai. How could he be so upset over such a small matter?"
"In ancient times, there was Gou Jian who slept on firewood and tasted gall, and Han Xin who endured the humiliation of being kicked in the crotch. Even these great men could do such things. How can I, a small countryman, have so much temper? Be good and go out and play. Even if the sky falls, your second brother will still be there."
Su Dianli himself was a scholar and valued the children's knowledge. Although Su Lanzhang and Su Huihui were still young, they could understand some of what was said.
But they were pushed in by Su Zhaoshi, and they didn't dare to go out rashly at this moment.
Su Fengzhang did not give them a chance to hesitate, and turned around and pushed them out the door. Sure enough, Su Zhaoshi and Aunt Bai were sitting in the corridor over there doing needlework, glancing over here from time to time, obviously worried about him.
Not to mention Su Zhaoshi, Aunt Bai was also very worried. Although she had a pair of children, they were still young and were born out of wedlock. If the second young master was not around, one could imagine what life would be like for this family.
"Lan Zhang, Hui Hui, you two can just play in the yard," Su Fengzhang said loudly. "My door is open. Is that okay?"
The door was open, and she could see what was going on inside by just looking out, which made Su Zhaoshi feel relieved.
Aunt Bai grabbed the two children and questioned them before saying, "Madam, the Second Young Master has always been kind-hearted. I'm sure he wouldn't dwell on trivial matters."
Su Zhao nodded and sighed: "Yes, this child has been carefree since he was young. I was just scared."
It wasn't just her. Everyone in the Su family, from the master to the servants, from adults to children, were frightened by what had happened during this period.
Su Fengzhang also sighed and returned to the desk in his room. The original owner had also been studying in the academy, but now that Su Dianli had passed away, he naturally had to stay at home to observe mourning, and it was inconvenient for him to go to the academy.
Of course, it is not difficult to know from memory that compared with Su Zongzhang, who was extremely talented and passed the examination to become a scholar at a young age, Su Fengzhang's talent was very average, and he was also the last one in the academy. He himself was not very willing to learn.
Even so, the four treasures of the study were complete in his room.
Su Fengzhang began to grind. His movements were not very skillful, but at least he managed to grind out usable ink.
He depicted the landscape on the jade pendant from memory. Fortunately, he had studied Chinese painting in his previous life. Although his painting was average, it at least had some shape.
After finishing the painting, he put down the brush and looked at the picture carefully.
The more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. In the morning, the jade pendant suddenly shattered, and he was so frightened that he had no time to care about anything else. But now that he calmed down and thought about it, he felt that there was something unusual about this matter.
Suddenly, Su Fengzhang reached out to touch his back, at the end of his spine, between the two dimples. He once had a birthmark the size of a fist.
It’s just that in modern times he could use a full-length mirror or a camera to see it, but now he doesn’t have these auxiliary tools. Unless he can turn his head away, it is difficult to see whether there is a birthmark in that position.
Even if a birthmark exists, it cannot be felt.
Su Fengzhang lowered his head to look at the painting. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was very similar to his birthmark. However, his birthmark was red and the pattern on it was blurrier. Was this just a coincidence?
"Lan Zhang, come in and help your second brother." Su Fengzhang shouted towards the door. Except for Su Lan Zhang, all the other people in the family were women. In ancient times, men and women were strictly separated, so it was not convenient even for the mother.
Su Lanzhang was originally messing with ants and earthworms in the yard. When he heard this, he came running over.
Su Fengzhang reached out to close the door ajar, and turned around to see Su Lanzhang staring at him with her big round eyes.
The twins actually look more like Aunt Bai, and are only two or three points similar to Su Fengzhang. For example, Su Fengzhang's eyes are more like phoenix eyes, which are different from the twins' deer eyes.
"Help me see the birthmark on my back." Su Fengzhang turned around and pulled up his clothes. "Do you see it? What does it look like?"
"See, it's a red one, right here." Su Lanzhang put his hand on that spot and estimated that it was almost the location of his birthmark in his previous life.
His palms were cold, Su Fengzhang shivered and quickly put on his clothes.
"Did you see clearly what it looks like?" Su Fengzhang asked.
Su Lanzhang frowned and thought hard for a while before saying, "It looks like a birthmark, a red birthmark."
Su Fengzhang pulled him to the desk and asked, "Lan Zhang, come and take a look at this painting."
Su Lanzhang looked over and said in surprise, "Second brother, this painting looks like your birthmark, but it's a little smaller, smaller than my fist, and it's red, bright red, like a big red lantern."
"The birthmark is bright red, not dark red?" Su Fengzhang asked in surprise. The birthmark in his previous life was dark red, like a blood clot, and it didn't look very beautiful.
Su Lanzhang nodded and insisted, "It's bright red, the color of fresh chicken blood, not the color of blood tofu."
This is strange. Could it be that the color of the birthmark changed as he traveled through time?
"Okay, thank you Lan Zhang, you can go out and play." Su Fengzhang smiled and touched his head.
Su Lanzhang then ran out to play, still not understanding why her second brother suddenly wanted to see the birthmark on his back.
Su Lanzhang was the only one left in the room. After thinking about it, he decided to leave the door ajar to prevent anyone from coming in.
Sitting at the table, Su Fengzhang reached behind him and his fingers touched the location of the birthmark. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but the birthmark was not protruding, but he could feel its existence.
“Tick…”
Su Fengzhang suddenly withdrew his fingers. The slightly hot touch on his fingertips made him jump with fear.
After a while, he mustered up the courage to stretch out his finger again and move closer to the birthmark little by little.
The tentacles are warm, but definitely warmer than the surrounding skin.
A normal birthmark would not be able to get hot, if this was not his illusion, even if the birthmark had undergone some mutation.
A cheat code for traveling through time? A system? A world-plane shop? Magic? Cultivation?
Countless thoughts flashed through Su Fengzhang's mind, each one making his blood boil.
“Tick…”
This time, Su Fengzhang was sure that he had not heard it wrong. It was indeed the sound of dripping water.
He suddenly remembered the dream last night that he couldn't remember clearly but had been haunting him. It seemed that what he heard in the dream was the sound of water, the continuous sound of water.
Come in, let me in!
Open Sesame? Barbara the Fairies? The King of Kings and the Earthly Tiger?
"Wait a minute, calm down first." Su Fengzhang stood up and walked around the room a few times.
Then he simply sat cross-legged on the bed, practicing the deep breathing techniques of yoga to regulate his breathing. Only when his body was completely calm did he shout in his mind, "Let me in."
The next moment, a fog appeared in front of him. The fog was so thick that he couldn't see his hand in front of him. In fact, his body probably couldn't get in, at least he couldn't feel the existence of his body.
And in the very center of the fog is a water outlet. If I must say, it is a faucet with a peculiar shape!
This faucet has no switch, only a water outlet that appears in the air. Except for this area of less than one cubic meter, everything is covered by fog and cannot be seen.
Could it be that the golden finger that comes with time travel is just a faucet? This is too deceptive.
Soon, Su Fengzhang realized that there was something even worse to come. No matter how he tried, the water from the faucet was just flowing slowly. To describe it as slowly was an exaggeration. The speed was so fast that it made the impatient person want to explode.
“Tick…”
In the time it took for a drop of water to fall, Su Fengzhang felt as if he had been waiting for too long.
It was the gurgling sound of the stream that bothered him all night last night, so how come it has now become the sound of a dripping faucet?
Su Fengzhang sighed and left the place after making sure that he couldn't find anything else. He didn't have the patience to continue waiting for the faucet to drip.
But before leaving, he licked the dripping water with the tip of his tongue, and did not mind the dirty bluestone slabs underneath.
Back in the real world, Su Fengzhang touched his lips, and the sweet feeling of the drop of water just now seemed to still be there.
This proves that the water drop is at least drinkable. Such a mysterious water drop can't be ordinary clear water, right?
Su Fengzhang looked around the room, walked to the desk, picked up the paperweight and said, "Go in."
The next moment, he appeared in that space again, and what made him ecstatic was that the paperweight also came in.
But Su Fengzhang quickly calmed down. This space was at most one cubic meter, and there was a faucet in the middle. It was not suitable even as a personal bag.
However, he had not originally expected to have a cheat code, and now that he had found one, it was already a pleasant surprise. There was no need to be sad about the lack of functions. Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?
Su Fengzhang tried to take the paperweight out again. After making sure that he could go in and out, he thought about it and walked out.
Su Fengzhang went to the kitchen to find a deep bowl, sneaked back to the room, and put the bowl under the faucet. Apart from anything else, the water drops would disappear from the cracks after falling onto the bluestone slabs, so it couldn't be wasted like this.
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