After separating from Meng San'er, I didn't want to delay for a second, so I took a taxi directly to the old man's villa.

The swallow that had fallen asleep was woken up by me, and said impatiently, "What's the matter? You're crazy in the middle of the night?"

I didn't bother to explain to Yanzi, so I pushed her away and ran straight to the basement.

The old man's basement is where he usually spends most of his time except going out to run errands. The old man likes to be alone, and always mysteriously locks himself in the basement, and one lock is a whole day!

Swallow and I used to wonder what he was doing, and once in the middle of the night I pretended to deliver sugar water to his old man and slammed the door in. The old man was startled by me, and then "snorted" and pulled his face.

"Why are you here?" the voice ...... The air pressure is low to death.

"Master, I see that you haven't been out for a day, and you haven't eaten dinner tonight. Thinking of sending you a bowl of sugar water, hehehehe. "I quickly pretended to be stupid and cute.

"Put the sugar water at the door, you go out. ”

I was pouted back, walked out in a gray way, and glanced at what the old man was doing before closing the door. He had a desk in the basement, and a dresser, and a computer.

Yes! A dresser! I still wonder, this old man is a transvestite??? usually has nothing to do, he stuffs something on his own and pretends to be a daughter, no! No matter how you look at it, the old man is a middle-aged and elderly man with pure body and mind.

When I closed the door, the old man was lying on his desk concentrating on something, holding a magnifying glass in his hand, his face almost pressed against the table, the computer next to him was on, and the screen was flickering in the dark.

What is the old man studying? What is the yellowed-looking material?

I had countless questions in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask, so I buried them in the depths of my heart.

Today, after listening to Meng San'er's talk about the past, my heart is full of respect for my master, the late master. The big boxes and the basement also became clear.

Those are the heirlooms of our portal, and the older generation has even made great sacrifices for them, what I have to do is to absorb them seriously and learn the skills......

I shuddered and opened the basement door, it was pitch black, only the faint light of the dresser, and the atmosphere was a little eerie.

I cleared my throat and emboldened myself: "Master, master, I'm here!"

At this time, the swallow had already followed: "Are you going to go down?"

I turned my head to look at her, "What? What do you know about this tone?"

"I don't know much, but those boxes are the old man's treasures, you use snacks!"

Fortunately, Yanzi is not Wu Da, and I was not jealous because the master taught me, I nodded, reached out and touched the light switch on the wall, turned around and closed the door.

I slowly walked into the seven boxes in the corner, and I felt very strange.

"Which one to start with?" I was a little confused, and it didn't seem to be in order, right? I don't think there was a number on the box......

Just as I was in trouble, a quiet aroma filled my nostrils.

Where does the aroma come from? I looked at it, and a box in the far corner of the west seemed to emit this kind of smell.

I walked in, leaned down and sniffed deeply......

This kind of taste is very high-end, like a jungle after rain, with the smell of fallen leaves, the strangeness of needles, the fragrance of earth and rivers, and some of the agarwood of rotten wood that has accumulated over the years.

I was almost so absorbed that I didn't even want to come back to my senses. Suddenly, as if something had struck me, a beam of light pierced my eye from the dresser!

"Ahh

Is this a Gu technique, or is it some kind of protection mechanism?

I shook my head, sobered myself up, and reached for the lock.

"Huh, it's locked!" I tugged at the lock with both hands, swinging up and down, but the box remained still.

"Damn, old man, what are you playing! Give me the key to the basement and won't let me see what's in the box?

I sat on the floor for a while, and found seven boxes, each with a lock! Looking at me quietly, I rubbed my hair with both hands, I was really crazy!

I stood up and paced back and forth, wondering to myself: Did the old man leave me some clues? I want to find the key to the box myself?

I sat down at my desk, my hands rummaging through the materials on the desk.

There was a lot of material on the table, mostly in ancient text, and the pages were yellowed and curled.

I picked up a copy casually: ""Unboxing Tips No. 1: Gossip Yi Qiankun" I read the title of the book word by word. ”

"Gossip is easy to gossip?" What does this sentence mean?

I went back to the seven boxes and looked carefully at the surface of each wooden box.

The boxes are a few years old, and the patent leather on them has almost fallen off, but the wood is still intact. As you can see, it's the best wood!

After a closer look, I realized that the shape of each box was different! The general color and size were about the same, but there was a special mechanism on the lid of the heavenly spirit of the non-mouth box!

Some are a mirror, some are a cigarette holder, and some are a maze with a few beads inlaid in the middle!

I looked over one bite at a time, and found a gossip diagram on the lid of the scented box in the corner of the wall!

Could it be that the mechanism is here?

I picked out the gossip picture with my hand, and I didn't move!

Damn, how do you open it?

I sat back down at my desk, rummaging through the "gossip easy to gossip" notebook. This is the old man's note, a thick book of dense notes, it seems that the old man has put in a lot of effort!

"Dry three times, Kun six broken, Zhen Yang Yu, Gen covered bowl, away from the void, full in the can, with the upper missing, Xun lower broken. "The first sentence made me dizzy, my ancient literary level is to look at "Tianlong Babu", what kind of bird language is this?

But I couldn't help it, so I forced myself to calm down and study word by word.

"Bagua represents the yin and yang system of things that change themselves, using "one" to represent yang, and "--" to represent yin, using three such symbols, combined in parallel according to the yin and yang changes of nature, to form eight different forms, called Bagua. “

Then, with a red pen, the old man marked the line of concepts.

"Gossip is not mysterious, it was just a tool in ancient times. In Han culture, it is used as a tool to deduce the relationship between various things in the world, space, time, and the same as yin and yang and the five elements. Each hexagram represents a certain thing. Qian represents the sky, Kun represents the earth, Xun (xùn) represents the wind, Zhen represents thunder, Kan represents water, Li represents fire, Gen (gèn) represents the mountain, and Dui represents Ze. Bagua is like eight infinite and invisible big pockets, which contain everything in the universe, and the gossip is matched with each other and becomes sixty-four trigrams, which are used to symbolize various natural phenomena and human phenomena. “

I watched, already immersed in it.

"It is easy to have Tai Chi, which is to give birth to two rituals, two rituals to give birth to four elephants, and four elephants to give birth to gossip." The change of yin and yang begins with Tai Chi, from which two instruments are produced, namely Yin and Yang. That is, there is yin and yang, so that they are mutually induced, yang breeds yin, and yin contains yang, so there is yang in yin, and there is yin in yang, so yin and yang are divided into four, and the name is four elephants. The four elephants now generally refer to the young yang, the old yang, the young yin, and the old yin. “

I was ignorant of the ancient text, but fortunately, there was an old man's commentary: "There is an essential difference between deception and theft, and deception." We need to follow the truth of yin and yang gossip and appreciate the essence of the I Ching. Everything cannot be passed, cannot be lacking, cannot be deviated, and cannot be scattered!"

I remembered the way the old man used to teach me to behave, and it was. He doesn't let me be greedy, he doesn't let me live, and he pays attention to a balance in everything.

"Ah, I see!" I threw my notes into the air excitedly, screaming happily in the basement.

"Knock knock. "A knock on the door?

I opened the door and saw Yanzi: "I said Young Master Yan, it's already twelve o'clock, are you boiling yourself to death in the basement?"

"It's twelve?

"You don't, you haven't slept all night, have you?" Swallow looked at my two big dark eyes.

"Alas, this basement is also every clock, and I have lost track of the time. ”

"You are really diligent!, it seems that I have to learn from you, lest the master scold me for being lazy!" quipped.

"No matter how hard you try, you can't skip eating, so come out and eat. ”

When the swallow said that, I really felt a little hungry.