Chapter 12: Answers (3)
What makes me shudder is that I was not yet born in '76, and fate seems to have arranged it long ago to associate me with these strange people and wonders.
When I was thinking to myself, I only heard Wu Gege say: "Okay, the first thing has finally been explained, although it is a little complicated, but I believe you have already understood, and now I want to talk about the second thing." ”
"Wait, it's not over yet, the widow still has a problem. Xiaopang interrupted Wu Gege and said: "Just now Granny Wei said that it was Yuan Shoudao who arranged for her to hand over the Loulan handscroll to Brother Dong, there is something I don't quite understand, since this thing was originally going to be given to Brother Dong, that day in the underground civil air defense project, why did Yuan Tieyi still go to grab the handscroll?
As soon as I heard it, Chubby's nonsensical energy came up again, he was like this, he could afford to take everything and put it down, he lifted his weight lightly, and no matter how serious the occasion was, he couldn't stop his nonsensical style, and it was this kind of character that made Chubby always be able to deal with difficulties calmly.
Wu Gege "giggled" and laughed: "This is called wanting to get away with it." People are cheap bones, and they will not pay attention to the things they get their hands on, let alone cherish them, so in order to make everyone pay attention to them, Brother Tieyi has made a small strategy, and the soldiers are not tired of cheating. Okay, these are trivial, inconsequential issues, I'll move on to the second thing, this is the main thing, I believe you will definitely care, but the second thing, it seems to be somewhat related to the fat brother's question, this second thing is ......" Wu Gege said, blinking a pair of big watery eyes, and the seller pouted.
A beauty like Wu Gege will make many men smitten when she sells cuteness, but when I think of her femme fatale-like heart, the more cute she sells, the more disgusting I feel. I don't know why Yuan Tieyi likes this kind of girl? Could it be that a person as smart as him would be bewitched by Wu Gege's beautiful appearance? He is not afraid that he will be killed by Wu Gege one day? I really can't understand it.
"Well, the second thing is why you went to the Ancient City of the Sun. ”
Hearing Wu Gege mention this issue, my heart moved, and this is indeed a question that I am concerned about. This time I went to find the Ancient City of the Sun, we all had our own purposes, I was to find Bai Neidan to cure the poison of the corpse puppet ghost, Xiaopang was to satisfy his addiction to tomb robbing, Zhang Meng was to accompany me, and by the way, I was looking for some "local goods" for our antique shop , Lao Zhang also wanted to make some oil and water because of the difficulty in maintaining his shop, and Uncle Hai took Xiangzi and Amei to find the ethereal secret recipe for immortality, but our goal was not achieved in the end, and Uncle Hai also took his old life, Zhang Meng's whereabouts are unknown now, it can be said that we are more than worth the loss. Although the purpose of our visit to the Ancient City of the Sun is different, the reason is the same, it is all because we got the Loulan handscroll, I really want to know why they did everything possible to let us go to the Ancient City of the Sun, whether this planner is Yuan Shoudao or Yuan Tieyi, there must be his intentions.
But to my surprise, before Wu Gege could speak, Yuan Tieyi said, "Actually, we don't know why we let you go to the Sun Ancient City. ”
I was stunned when I heard this, and said in my heart that this Yuan Tieyi looks like a powerful character, but it turns out that he is a fool, how can he talk nonsense.
Yuan Tieyi explained: "My father arranged this matter decades ago, and at first, even I didn't know what the handscroll was going to hand over to Guo Xiangdong, and I and Granny Wei and Father-in-law Xing just completed this matter according to my father's instructions. ”
I only then understood what Yuan Tieyi meant, it seems that it was Yuan Shoudao who arranged all this decades ago, and Yuan Shoudao entered the Tiangang Tomb with the archaeological team more than ten years ago.
Well, the answer to this question may be a little disappointing. Wu Gege continued Yuan Tieyi's words and said: "But there will still be surprises, although we can't figure out what is going on in this matter, but after our investigation, it must also be related to the strange man with strange and thick fingers, why do you say that, do you remember the guide Su Ziwu you were looking for?" We investigated very clearly, he is not a big deal, but he has an elder brother named Su Ziwen, who is the last corpse keeper outside the Saiwai, and his corpse raising technique was learned from a strange man with strange long and thick fingers and a mask. ”
I was secretly taken aback, and said in my heart that I only knew that the first-level wholesalers had a lot of energy, and Cheng Jiao and they could always investigate some unknown things from various channels, but I didn't expect that this Yuan Tieyi and Wu Gege were also very powerful, and they even knew the matter of Su Ziwen, the corpse keeper outside the Saiwai. Regarding Su Ziwen's experience, Su Ziwu only told us, did he still tell other people? or ...... A thought crossed my mind: "Or maybe there are some of us who are moles arranged by Wu Gege?"
"You must wonder how we know these things, right?" Wu Gege seemed to see through my thoughts, and said with a giggle, "It's actually very simple, Su Ziwen told us. ”
Wu Gege's words really surprised me, and even Xiaopang, who was sitting next to him, couldn't believe his ears: "What did you say? You found Su Ziwen? Su Ziwen is still alive?" asked Xiaopang in surprise.
"That's right, otherwise how could we have known these things. To be exact, it was not that we found Su Ziwen, but that he found us, and with him, there was a Taoist priest. ”
"Daoist?" This made me even more surprised, because when we found Su Ziwu as a guide in that Tengremu, in the conversation with him, Su Ziwu mentioned a Taoist priest, and it was the Taoist priest who gave Su Ziwu the cinnabar picture that "predicted" our life and death, and it was also the Taoist priest who coerced Su Ziwu to be our guide to lead us to find the ancient city of the sun with "the prophesied thing in that secret will come true". In the end, although we only reached the Sun Hill and did not find the Sun Ancient City, and even the "Three Thousand Driftwoods" described in the Loulan handscroll, the prophecy in the cinnabar picture that the Taoist priest gave to Su Ziwu really came true one by one, Uncle Hai and Su Ziwu died one after another, Xiangzi and Amei left halfway, Zhang Meng's whereabouts are unknown, and only three people came back from the sea of death. The reason why I care about that Taoist priest is not only to understand the truth of the whole thing, but more importantly, if I find that Taoist priest, I may be able to know Zhang Meng's current whereabouts!
Seeing my surprised look, Wu Gege seemed to think it was funny, giggled, and deliberately said, "Guess what, is that Taoist priest a young man or an old man?"
I really wanted to take off my shoes and drag them in her face, not one, but two.
But I still held back, in order to know Zhang Meng's whereabouts, I knew that I couldn't make things stiff. I patiently pretended to smile: "I guess it's an old man." ”
"Wrong. Wu Gege smiled and leaned back: "Actually, that Taoist priest is a young man, and he is a handsome guy." ”
"Oh, it's a young man, what about Su Ziwen, it must be an old man. ”
Wu Gege heard me say this, and laughed even more happily: "Of course, Brother Xiangdong, you are so smart, of course Su Ziwen is an old man, his younger brother Su Ziwu is an old man, how can he not be an old man? And he is a very old old man, so old that he can barely even walk." ”
I nodded, and suddenly remembered something, and when Wu Gege finished laughing, I asked Yuan Tieyi: "Yuan ......" I really don't know what to call this Yuan Tieyi, after thinking about it, I just called him "Mr. Yuan": "Mr. Yuan, you said before that someone left a note in your study, is that note still there?" ”
Yuan Tieyi glanced at me with his indifferent and arrogant eyes, and did not speak, but took out something from his jacket pocket and handed it to the man in suit next to him, and the man in suit handed it to me, and I took it and saw that it was a note.
I hate Yuan Tieyi's indifferent and arrogant eyes very much, thinking that you are not also eating, drinking, sleeping, pretending to be a saint, and secretly nicknamed him in my heart: big clove garlic.
I opened the note, only to see a line of small characters written on it: "Seeing the words, I went to find Wei Qiuzhi, the evil mother-in-law, and Xing Gonggong, the brother of Huifeng, and I know what Yuan Shoudao entrusted me forty years ago." ”
Sure enough, as I guessed, the words on this note were red, red like blood.
I got up with the note and walked up to Hu Qi and said to Hu Qi, "Master Hu, could you please see what the words on this note are written in?"
Hoochi is an eyeless man, of course, he can't "see", but his ears and nose can completely replace his eyes. Hu Qi smiled and took the note, put it to his nose and sniffed it: "If I'm not mistaken, the words on the paper are written in high-grade cinnabar." Then he handed me the note.
"Master Hu used to be a disciple of Xuanmen, and he has dealt with cinnabar all his life, how can he smell it wrong, this line of small characters must have been written by cinnabar. With that, I returned the note to Yuan Tieyi.
Wu Gege seemed to be puzzled by my actions and asked, "Brother Xiangdong, does it matter what the words on this note are written in?"
I nodded, "So I know who left this note." ”
Wu Gege looked at me in surprise: "Who left it?"
"It's that Taoist priest. I replied.
"How do you know?"
"Well, it doesn't matter. "I also learned from Wu Gege and sold Guanzi. In fact, it's very simple, I heard Wu Gege say that the Taoist priest came with Su Ziwen to find them, and I thought of the note left by someone who Yuan Tieyi mentioned, this Taoist priest appeared in the Tengremu and handed over the cinnabar picture to Su Ziwu, so it is likely that the note left for Yuan Tieyi is also this Taoist priest, because things are all related, planned step by step, and the Taoist priest must appear in this place to implement his next plan. When I read the note, it confirmed my thoughts, because the words on the note were also written in cinnabar, and the font was exactly the same as the words "Don't take anything" written in the last picture of the cinnabar drawing.
"It seems that this Taoist priest is very important, not only for us, but also for you. I continued, "Is he still with you?"