Walk along Xishan Road until the end, and when you can't see the road, turn right into a sheep intestine path, until a wooden signboard appears in front of you, marked with the words "No. 21 Xishan Road", and then walk forward for 50 meters, you can see a house. No, an abandoned school building to be exact.

The iron gate is rusty, but the number that hangs on it with the words "Dawning Orphanage" is still new......

It was a snowy morning, and the eastern sky had just turned a little white, and the whole world was quiet, as if it were asleep. Suddenly, several baby cries pierced the sky, shattering the silence.

The dean, who was about to shovel snow, looked puzzled when he heard this, threw down the shovel in his hand and ran to the door, where a baby wrapped in a black blanket was grinning at him. Looking up, a black figure quickly flashed into the sheep's intestine path, and he immediately chased after him.

But as soon as he turned in, the figure of the other party disappeared, and the dean stood at the intersection and looked at the path paved with white snow but no footprints, and fell into deep thought.

"Wow, wow, wow......" The baby's sudden cry pulled his god back, and then he heard the barking of the border herd he raised, slapped his thigh violently, and hurried back to the gate.

When the dog saw that his master had returned, he leaned forward into the snow with his paws and wagged his tail in an excited look.

"Madame, ma'am!"

He shouted a few times into the courtyard, and the dean's wife hurried over in her clothes. When the dean crouched down and was about to pick up the baby, the dog suddenly bared his teeth and showed a fierce expression, barking at the little baby.

"Get out of the way, what are you barking about?" the dean scolded the dog with a cold face.

"Woo......" The scolded dog felt aggrieved, and hid behind the dean's wife after a few muffled snorts with his tail between his legs.

The dean picked up the baby, and with a "snap", a book fell from it......

"Whose child is this?" asked the dean's wife, puzzled, and took the baby into her arms by the way.

The dean wrinkled his brows, his face was not very good-looking, and said in a deep voice: "You take her in first, it's too cold outside." ”

After the other party left, he bent down to pick up the book on the ground and put it in his pocket......

Time flies, and the same batch of children in the orphanage have been adopted by others, but Bai Jingge has never been willing to adopt. Twenty-four years later, she has now become a big girl, and in the words of the ancient text, she looks at it from afar, like the sun rising in the morning glow, and when she is forced to see it, she is like a hibiscus rising from the waves. The fiber is heartfelt, and the fit is shortened. If the shoulders are cut, the waist is as plain.

The dean and the dean's wife no longer insisted on it, and treated her as their own daughter a long time ago, although this daughter has been very skinny since she was a child, and she has not stabbed Lou Zi. Moreover, the border herd raised in the yard was unwilling to be close to her until he died, so the dog was teased by Bai Jingge when he was alive.

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On the same morning of that year, on New Year's Day on January 1, at the beginning of the new year, Bai Jingge sneaked into the orphanage, and as soon as she entered the door, a little girl bumped into her arms with a "bang", raised her head and said with a look of surprise: "Sister Bai, when did you come back?"

"Shhh

"Hmm. The little girl nodded obediently.

Bai Jingge took out a lollipop from his bag, slapped his hands after sending the other party away, and went to the second floor with a smug face. Her goal today is clear, for a book.

It was not an ordinary book, and from Gao Dingcheng's mouth, she learned that she had her parents' relics when she was abandoned in the orphanage. In the past, she was ignorant and the dean didn't tell her about it, but now that she is twenty-four, why didn't she return the book to her?

Bai Jingge wondered if it was an antique, if it was stolen and sold, maybe it could be sold for 12 million. Thinking of this, she clasped her hands together and couldn't help but whisper a prayer: My parents who have never met, my daughter is really poor and can't open the pot, so she has to sell your relics, please don't blame me! Anyway, you are not responsible after giving birth to me, so this should be compensation.

"Surprise, when did you come back?"

The voice of the dean's wife suddenly sounded behind her, so frightened that she almost stepped on the stairs, stroked her chest in shock, and said with a sad face: "Vice dean, can we not suddenly sneak attack from behind next time, it will scare people to death." ”

"Heh, if you don't come, can you still be scared to death if you have the guts?" the vice dean said with a death slap in his eyes. After speaking, he began to take out his wallet, and chattered while counting the money: "You little debt collector, do you have no money again, and if you have no money, you will move back to live quickly, how expensive it is to rent a house outside." ”

Hearing this, Bai Jingge hurriedly rushed to her and stared at the banknote with bright eyes, swallowed his saliva, restrained himself, and refused: "Don't don't, I didn't come back this time to ask for money, I just missed you and the dean, come back to see you." After speaking, he grabbed the other party's arm like a dog's leg, tilted his head and said coquettishly.

The vice dean showed a comfortable smile, pretended to be angry and poked her in the head, and admonished: "Everyone is about to become a bride, and he is still like a child, Ding Cheng is about to propose to you, right? Ouch, my chest is clogged at the thought of you getting married. ”

Hearing this, Bai Jingge laughed, and the appearance of the tall, thin and weak boy flashed in his mind, a childhood sweetheart who was bullied by her since he was a child.

Then he sighed and said with a sad face: "But I don't think Uncle Gao likes me, and he definitely won't want me to be his daughter-in-law." Besides, the dean is really, what kind of doll did he have to do with Grandpa Gao back then, what age is this, and what kind of doll is it still exciting?"

When the vice president heard this, he couldn't help but knock her on the head, and the god muttered: "It is fate for you to marry Ding Cheng, his Gao family owes you a favor, dare not abide by the agreement?"

Bai Jingge was also confused, everyone privately said that she had saved Gao Dingcheng's life when she was a child, but no one told her how to save it, and she herself had no impression of it.

But no one said it, and this matter was also regarded as a taboo in the orphanage and the Gao family, and no one was allowed to mention it again. She knew that her friends who had grown up in the orphanage had secretly told her before leaving.

At this time, when the vice president said it himself, Bai Jingge couldn't help but be a little surprised, and immediately seized the opportunity to ask: "What kind of favor does the Gao family owe me?" Could it be that that rumor is true, I really saved Gao Dingcheng when I was a child?"

The vice president shook his head, but he was no longer willing to say more, and said perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, don't mention it, today's New Year's Day, your birthday, I bought a lot of vegetables in the kitchen, I have to be busy." ”

"Cut!" After the other party left, Bai Jingge couldn't help but roll his eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "Don't talk about pulling down, I'll check it myself." ”

When he arrived at the door of the dean's room, Bai Jingge turned around and made sure that there was no one before tiptoeing in, and then sneakily locked the door.

She thought that such a valuable thing would not be put in the bookcase with ordinary books, the room was so big, it was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find it like this. I couldn't help frowning and made a difficulty.

She first rummaged through all the places in the room where there might be relics, not even under the bed, but there was no trace of books.

At this time, she suddenly sounded that when she was a child playing here, she seemed to have accidentally bumped into the dark grid where the dean was opening the bookcase, and she groped around from that row according to her impressions at that time, and sure enough, she found the dark grid in the innermost position of the first row.

"Yes!" she made a triumphant gesture and danced triumphantly, snapping her fingers when the ending pose was over, carefully taking out the contents of the dark grid.

It is a dark brown wooden box, about 30 by 20 centimeters in size, and is not heavy. Bai Jingge lifted it to his ear and shook it, but there was no sound. She looked suspicious, wondering if this was not the book?

Regardless, open it up and take a look at it first.

She carefully put the box on the desk, and when she bent down, she saw an ordinary small lock, and couldn't help but complain in her heart: "That old antique of the dean, how can this kind of lock be used now." But at the same time, she was also glad that the other party did not keep pace with the times, otherwise if she really changed to a tall anti-theft device such as a fingerprint password lock, she would not have to cry to death.

"It's hard for me. Saying that, Bai Jingge took off the hairpin from his head, and picked the lock open except for three or five.

Then he stroked his beating "plop" heart, and mustered up the courage to open it.

"Huh, so small?"

At this time, she found that there was another layer in the box, like a box used by others to hold jade, and a layer of yellow silk cloth was used to padded it, and a small book was stuck in the groove in the middle, no wonder she couldn't hear movement in it no matter how she shook it just now.

The book looked like an ordinary book at first glance, except that it was relatively small, and she laboriously pulled it out from the middle, looked at it over and over again, and couldn't help but feel a little strange as she rubbed the writing with both hands.

Because no matter how you look at it, the writing is made of ordinary cardboard, and even cowhide is not used, but it feels uneven to the touch. Bai Jingge picked up the book and held it high, his eyes pressed against the gap in the edges.

Flat!

A little unbelievable, she suddenly felt a layer of goosebumps on her back, and tremblingly stretched out her hand to touch the cover again, it was indeed uneven.

"Yo, it's magical!" A smug smile appeared on his face, and he had already calculated in his heart that this must be a valuable treasure.

She walked to the window with the book and took a closer look at the pattern on the cover by the sunlight outside, "Black stone?"

Bai Jingge showed an expression of disbelief, took a serious look again, tilted his head, and wondered: "Why is it a stone?" Forget it, no matter, let's read the contents first. ”

As he spoke, he quickly turned the first page, and two particularly eye-catching lines appeared......