This handful, Zhang Zhiqiang pinched it very really, in an instant, Li Tianji's face turned purple, and then he really rolled his eyes, he didn't even have a chance to struggle, the cowhide band was too strong, and in the remaining trace of consciousness, the sentence just now was a little excessive, which greatly stimulated this guy who was already suspicious, but it was too late.

Zhang Zhiqiang, who was in a frenzy, woke up suddenly, hurriedly let go of his hand, and then looked at Li Tianji's eyes, and didn't know if he could be saved, he yelled loudly and called someone in, and took a large pair of scissors to quickly cut the cowhide band tied to Li Tianji's body, but it seemed to be useless, because his body was already soft, and his pupils were gradually dilating.

After tossing and turning for a while, artificial respiration was almost done, and the doctor finally arrived, and the rescue measures were all set again, and after another examination, he shook his head and said, "The person is gone." ”

Zhang Zhiqiang was very remorseful, Li Tianji's words were like a bright light suddenly lit in the dark whirlpool of his confusion, but this person's appearance was too abrupt and weird, he was not psychologically ready, and even a little inexplicably jealous of him, but this person's words could always hit the key point in his heart, he should still know a lot of things, but it was a pity that he died like this.

Fortunately, Li Tianji's last sentence woke Zhang Zhiqiang up, he had long known that his father Zhang Mugen had hidden the family's treasures, and the legend was a map, a notebook and a token representing the core rights of the family, as the eldest son and grandson of the former main lineage, it was not too outrageous to have these things, but his grandfather died violently when he was competing for the position of the patriarch of the family, and Zhang Mugen's status plummeted.

Those heirlooms have become the timer around him**, Zhang Mugen has not only suffered all kinds of humiliation and exclusion, but also has been copied countless times by those uncles and uncles inside and outside the house, but everything that is valuable and like old objects has been copied away.

Later, after all kinds of plagiarism, when the main clansmen of the Zhang family moved south as a whole again, Zhang Mugen was finally squeezed out of the inner circle of the Zhang family, and stayed in Honggu, unable to go to Funiu Town south of Taihang with the ancestral hall.

This history is Zhang Zhiqiang intermittently listened to his mother and the elders in the village, and his father never talked about these, in his impression, he said very little, and the slightest mention of old things would be like thunder, so slowly his mother also became silent, at least after he went to school, many rumors of the so-called Zhang family were told by the elderly people in the village, and then these old people passed away one by one, and no one took the initiative to talk about the famous Yunhui Zhang family.

But even so, Zhang Zhiqiang found that his father was not completely cut off from the distant clan, at least one elder often came, sneaky when he came, usually at night, and left before dawn the next day, the two of them locked up in the house and chatted all night, and then his father often went out, and as soon as he went out, it was several days, and at first he said hello, and then he didn't even say anything, which made the family very frightened, at that time Zhang Zhiqiang was already in middle school.

One winter vacation, Zhang Zhiqiang helped his mother work, in the winter in the north, ordinary people have to store pickled vegetables for the winter, to the cellar to move the pickle vat, Zhang Zhiqiang accidentally kicked the side of the cellar to block the wind and strengthen the wooden board, fell a lot of rags and cardboard, found the corner of the black small iron door, the size of the iron door may only allow an adult to drill in and out.

The ghost made the gods, Zhang Zhiqiang actually had the courage to push open the small iron door, inside was the passage of the black hole, a yin wind made him tremble, he never thought that there would be a secret passage hidden in his cellar, this small courtyard that has never changed, he has lived for sixteen years, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe it.

What is it for? What is it hidden in? These questions aroused Zhang Zhiqiang's curiosity, and he was about to go in to see what was going on, but his mother's shout came from the courtyard, so he had to suppress his curiosity, hurriedly restored the camouflage of the small iron gate, and covered the wooden plank.

At the age of sixteen, Zhang Zhiqiang's mind was actually almost distorted and mature, although he had a vague impression of the chaotic scene of the family when he was a child, but he remembered the humiliation of being rushed into the house by his uncles and uncles, and he knew many things very well in his heart, at least he understood that his father Zhang Mugen was disliked by the clan, as for why, he still couldn't figure it out.

He also never played with those cousins in the village, although these distant relatives of the Zhang family were also abandoned by the clan, but Zhang Zhiqiang still hated them equally, in his thoughts, except for his mother and sister, the Zhang family did not have a good thing, including his father and himself, he defined himself in the range of bad things very early, in fact, the seeds of hatred have been planted, one day, he will set foot on the entire Zhang family.

Finally seized the opportunity, his father went out again quietly, and while his mother took his sister to the market, Zhang Zhiqiang opened the small iron door again, lit the prepared oil lamp, and an uncontrollable impulse made him quickly drill into the dark passage.

The passage is not deep, but after several turns, it is quite gloomy, the bottom is a small dark room, the air is very dirty, it seems that no one has been here for a long time, there are cobwebs and dust everywhere, and a white skeleton is sitting opposite, which frightened Zhang Zhiqiang and almost threw the kerosene lamp in his hand.

The skeleton had a large skeleton, its physique should be about 1.8 meters, and no obvious trauma was found on its body, how did it die? Why it died here, it is unknown, there is a small cabinet next to the skeleton, a little larger than the old-fashioned dresser, the paint on the surface has peeled off, revealing a dark, rough wood grain, four drawers from top to bottom on the left, and a whole cabinet door on the right, all unlocked.

Zhang Zhi had the courage to put the oil lamp, thought about it, and bowed to the skeleton twice, before he walked to the cabinet tremblingly, stretched out his hand and opened the first drawer, the track was very sluggish, or it may be because of his panic, the drawer opened a small half and couldn't be opened, so he had to push it inside and open it again.

He readjusted the cabinet in a panic, and in the half-open first drawer was a long strip of red silk wrapped in a long object, the silk was old, it was already red and black, and one end of the long strip was not completely wrapped in, revealing a small section of black, which seemed to be an extremely complex pattern, which was unrecognizable under the dim kerosene lamp, but there was something wrong with this thing, Zhang Zhiqiang felt a fluster, and at the same time, a cold aura made him extremely uncomfortable,

Zhang Zhiqiang was about to reach out to uncover the red silk, there was a sudden sound behind him, he turned around suddenly, a tall figure had stood behind him for some time, Zhang Zhiqiang was frightened and retreated, and sat on the skeleton, after a while, the skeleton completely fell apart, the bones fell to the ground, and the round hole hole head also smashed on Zhang Zhiqiang's head, and then fell to the ground, and the bones rolled to the feet of the figure, and the two black hole holes seemed to be still looking at Zhang Zhiqiang.

"Daddy......" Zhang Zhiqiang deliberately avoided the seeping skull, and then turned his head with great difficulty to look at the tall and burly man, who was Zhang Mugen.

"You can't touch that thing. Zhang Mugen walked to the cabinet expressionlessly and closed the drawer with a bang.

"I'm just curious. Zhang Zhiqiang's throat was very dry, and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably, he didn't know what kind of punishment he would suffer for such behavior, in his impression, the Zhang family had many family rules, so many that it was outrageous.

"I used to be curious, so now I'm in this place. Zhang Mugen leaned over and picked up the skull, looked at it carefully, and gently placed it on the stone platform where the skeleton was sitting just now.

"Do you know who he is?" asked Zhang Mugen.

Zhang Zhiqiang shook his head.

"Your grandfather's personal bodyguard, trying to protect these things, died. ”

Does this thing eat people? Or is it that those uncles and uncles are planning to seize this thing, Zhang Zhiqiang was very puzzled, and the corner of his eye secretly aimed at the cupboard again, and in his mind was the incomparably complex black pattern he had just seen, and the terrifying heart palpitations at the beginning.

"This thing really eats people. Zhang Mugen seemed to have figured out his son's heart, and warned very seriously, "The Zhang family has killed a lot of people for this thing, now pack up this grandfather's bones and come out with me." ”

Zhang Mugen didn't want to explain more, leaned over and began to pick up the bones scattered on the ground, Zhang Zhiqiang was uneasy, and had to pick up, these white bones were quickly gathered together, and then Zhang Mugen began to splice them one by one, very serious and careful, and Zhang Zhiqiang could only watch helplessly, until his father spliced all these scattered bones together, and it was a humanoid skeleton sitting on the stone platform, just like Zhang Zhiqiang had just come in.

Zhang Mugen turned around and left without saying a word, his father was not angry and arrogant, just a sentence just now, Zhang Zhiqiang did not dare to disobey, so he had to pick up the kerosene lamp and reluctantly leave the basement darkroom.

After this incident, Zhang Mugen did not punish Zhang Zhiqiang, but only warned him that those things in the basement could not be touched before he became an adult, otherwise he would suffer a bloody disaster, as for some secrets of the Zhang family, he would naturally let him know when he should know.

Zhang Zhiqiang, who was confused, was honest for a long time, until half a year later, he caught another opportunity, but the small iron door in the basement could not be opened again, and his father actually welded the entire door in the stone wall with molten iron, and he found a crowbar and an axe that could not be smashed open, unless the steps of the entire cellar were all demolished.

Until Zhang Zhiqiang became a soldier, he was no longer able to peek into the mysterious underground dark room, his father sent him to the armed forces department in the township, and told him some secrets of the Zhang family on the way, but it was limited to very scraps, and it was very macroscopic and vague, for example, the ancestor of the Zhang family was called Tong Tu, who was the general of the Zhenghuang Banner garrison army during the Qianlong period, where did the Zhang family move from, and the Zhang family has been shouldering a secret mission since the beginning of the Tong Tu generation and so on.

As for what kind of mission it is, Zhang Mugen didn't say a word, because in his words, the so-called mission is now the matter of the southward migration clan, and it has nothing to do with their lineage.