Chapter 618: Bronze Bridge Lock Suzaku (78)
After Second Uncle Zhang woke up, he kept exclaiming, looking extremely panicked, Sanqing hurriedly stepped forward and held him down, and Second Uncle Zhang finally quieted down. After sobering up, when he saw Sanqing, he immediately asked, "Demon, where are the monsters?"
"The youkai have been subdued by me!" Sanqing replied.
"Uniform, where did you seal it?" said Second Uncle Zhang, twisting his body as if to sit up, Sanqing let go of the hand that was pressing on him, and helped him. After sitting up, Second Uncle Zhang stared at Sanqing, waiting for Sanqing's answer.
"Without the seal, she's gone!" Sanqing shook his head and replied, and then saw that the expression on Second Uncle Zhang's face froze for a moment, and then he became not like laughing or crying, I don't know what he was thinking.
"Old man, what he said is true! I saw that monster disappear with my own eyes!" Lin Danhong, who was on the side, saw Second Uncle Zhang like this, thinking that he still didn't believe it, so he opened his mouth to mention Sanqing and explained.
"It's good to extinguish, it's good to extinguish!" Second Uncle Zhang was stunned, shaking his head as he said.
"Now that you're awake and the monsters are gone, it's time to answer my question!" Sanqing said to Second Uncle Zhang in a deep voice.
"What's there, just ask!" Second Uncle Zhang came back to his senses, glanced at Sanqing, and then said.
"First question, there is a secret room in your study, you know?" Sanqing didn't ask him directly about the family tree or the copper lock, but chose to knock on the side.
"Yes, how could I not know? Right at the bottom of my study, I have been locked up in that room for decades, how can I not know!" Second Uncle Zhang replied earnestly, looking a little sighing.
"What's hidden in the secret room?" asked Sanqing, pushing the boat.
"What? You must think that such a big secret room hides a lot of things or some kind of treasure! I thought so when I first discovered the secret room, but when I went down, I found that it was empty, and there were some strange patterns painted in vermilion on the walls on all sides, on the top of my head and on the ground, and on the ground in the center of the secret room, there was a gossip pattern drawn, and a small box was placed in the gossip. I was only a teenager at the time, and I was so frightened that I couldn't walk when I saw such a strange scene, but curiosity led me to walk slowly towards the box, and I wondered if there was some kind of treasure in this box? Of course, I didn't dare to tell my father about this incident, until my father died of illness and I was left with my brother who was also unhappy in the family, and I rotted this matter in my heart!"
"There's a copper lock hanging on that box, and the lock is engraved with the Vermilion Bird Divine Bird, right?" Sanqing asked again after digesting what Second Uncle Zhang said earlier.
"Well, that's right, but I always thought it was a chicken!" At this time, Second Uncle Zhang seemed to have found his state, not only did he not seem panicked, but he also joked with Sanqing. Hearing his joke, Sanqing frowned, not knowing whether to laugh or not.
"What, do you think I'm joking with you?" Seeing Sanqing frowning, Second Uncle Zhang immediately said, "I'm not joking with you, I always thought it was a big red rooster, knowing that the black-covered guy entered through the door of my study, and told me that it was a Vermilion Bird, I just knew!"
"You say there's a black guy?" Hearing Second Uncle Zhang's words, Sanqing's first reaction was Luo Li.
"That's right, he's wearing black clothes all over his body!" Second Uncle Zhang replied.
"Is it a woman?" Sanqing asked, he was now a little worried that Second Uncle Zhang's answer was yes, if it was really a woman, then it was very likely to be Luo Li, which also showed that Luo Li really had something to tell Sanqing, so it was very likely that an important clue would be broken.
"It's not a woman, I still remember his tall body and deep voice clearly, it can't be a woman!" Second Uncle Zhang immediately denied Sanqing's statement.
"Let's tell me what's going on!" After hearing Second Uncle Zhang's answer, Sanqing sighed and continued to ask.
"When I got the little box, I couldn't open the copper lock of the box, and I tried almost everything I could think of, but to no avail. But I didn't ask for help from you, because the more I was convinced that there was a treasure hidden in the box, so I didn't want anyone to know it existed. Slowly, I gave up the desire to pick the lock, and made this box my only friend. I would often talk to it and call the brass lock Mr. Big Rooster. That night, he broke into my study, slapped me to the ground, and said to me viciously, "Fool, that's Suzaku, not a big!" I thought he was here to grab the box, so I immediately spread it out and grabbed it, completely ignoring the question of how he got in and whether he was a human or a ghost. But he didn't mean to snatch the box, and after knocking me to the ground again, he unlocked the lock, as if he had just twisted it with his fingers, and did it with great ease. After opening the lock, he put the box back on the table and left!" Speaking of this, Second Uncle Zhang stopped again, as if he was tired.
Sanqing listened while analyzing, thought about it carefully, and felt that this man in black looked like the man in a black cloak he had seen from his physical characteristics!
"When the box was opened, I was not only not happy, but a little disappointed. I held the box and thought about it for three days and three nights, and finally opened the box, and when I saw the contents of it, I was even more disappointed! Guess what was hidden inside? Book, a dilapidated book, the book cover was pale yellow, and I was comforting myself at the time that it might be a treasure map or something, otherwise why would I use an unbreakable lock to put it in this box and put it in the secret room? So I carefully took it out of the box, and when I looked closely, there were four characters written on the book cover, Zhang Family Tree! I quickly opened the book and read it, and the contents were almost the same as the genealogy that my father had given me, and I was disappointed, so I threw it on the table, then re-locked the lock on the box and lay down on the bed to sleep!"
(End of chapter)