The wind was cold and biting, Tao Muqing shrunk his body into a ball, only to feel that he was on a soft couch, and a familiar breath entered his nose, waking up and opening his eyes.

This is!

Looking at the dazzling festive arrangement in the room, Tao Muqing instantly burst into tears, and left finger marks on the dusty tables and chairs, and casually draped a red coat on his hand, and went out of the room to the front hall.

In a trance, my father and mother were also there, my mother still smiled and looked at herself dotingly, and my father disliked himself as usual, but he repeatedly tolerated his willfulness.

In the blink of an eye, they disappeared in front of them, and the room became empty and silent, with only two plates of candy in front of them, and the unfinished embroidery of the mother beside them, which had fallen into dust.

Tao Muqing picked it up and looked at it, choked and cried bitterly.

Green bamboo ink drawing, under the delicate embroidery is the unfinished name, Tao Mu——

My own is a flower cluster picture, when I was a child, I was not sensible, I often played with it, and it was dirty, and my mother saw it and said: "If it is broken, my mother will not embroider it for you again." ”

Since then, he has been carefully storing it in the cabinet, and this unfinished green bamboo ink drawing, must be embroidered by the mother for the upcoming new life, how the mother is looking forward to his arrival.

But because of herself, everything came to naught, "Qing'er is sorry for you, my sister is sorry for you......"

Tao Muqing blamed himself and whispered, then carefully put it in its place, and walked into his father's bedroom with heavy steps.

On the four walls are hung the four sacred beasts of the father's favorite green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, and Xuanwu, as well as the four long - the yellow dragon.

Simple furnishings, no extra decorations, mother's makeup, father's case-

Bypassing the case, Tao Muqing lightly picked up the open book, patted away the dust on the book, and under the shaking, a yellowed envelope fell out of the book-Qing'er opened it herself.

It's Daddy's handwriting.

Tao Muqing hurriedly opened it, and the more he read, the more tears couldn't stop falling, and his hand trembled slightly as he grabbed the handbook.

"Qing'er, you have grown up in the blink of an eye, when you see this letter, Dad may not be able to be with you, don't ask where Dad went, you just need to accompany your mother. Dad knows that you don't like the position of the recitation, and Dad doesn't want you to take on too much responsibility for the recitation, and even perform some secret duties as a recitation, so Dad selfishly made a decision for you, you will one day know everything about the Blood Spirit Island and the Recitation Division, Dad hopes that you will promise me not to go out of the island willfully, just stay in the Blood Spirit Island, and all the responsibilities are with Dad - Father Tao Hongru pen"

Dad had already written this letter because the old farmer said that they went out of the island to find something, and I was afraid that one day they would not be able to come back.

Thinking of his father's good intentions and care, Tao Muqing was ashamed, he only thought about the difficulty of reciting the division, but he never thought of sharing his father's worries......

Dad protected himself wholeheartedly and did not let herself go out of the island, for fear of causing danger, but in the dark, someone forced her to leave the island.

Why are you?

Tao Muqing wiped away her tears, folded the letter and put it back in place, and everything remained as it was.

Finally, he turned into the study, turned the four corner wall lamps respectively, and a row of shelves slowly moved to the right to appear a dark passage.

Tao Muqing picked up the oil lamp and lit the oil lamp on the stone wall while walking, and at the end of the corridor was the first floor of the stone room.

Could it be that the second floor of this stone room is not outside the corridor?

Thinking of this, she familiarly found the machine stone on the first floor of the underground stone chamber, and through the gossip maze array, skillfully lit the oil lamp in the stone chamber.

There is a case in the middle, on which there is a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and the books she has read, and there are several cases on each side of the case, and many books are neatly placed on it.

Tao Muqing has memorized these books backwards and is proficient in his heart.

Tao Muqing circled around the wall and didn't notice anything unusual, and said to himself: "Where is this stone chamber mechanism leading to the second floor?"

When I was looking at the shelves around me and was at a loss, I suddenly looked at the side of the wooden board in front of the shelves, and I didn't pay attention to the entry and exit before, and when I looked closely, I found that it was the green dragon totem.

Surprised, he hurriedly looked at the side of the other three shelves, which were the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu, and according to the location distribution, they were the East Green Dragon, the West White Tiger, the South Vermilion Bird, and the North Xuanwu - the Four Elephant Divine Beasts?"

Tao Muqing woke up suddenly, and took out a book from the shelf of the Qinglong totem - "Four Hexagrams and Five Elements".

According to the books, the four ancient beasts, namely the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the xuanwu, the four beasts are integrated into the five elements and directions, represented by different colors: the eastern cyan is wood, the western white is gold, the southern red is fire, the northern black is water, and the central yellow is earth. And there is another yellow dragon in the center, the first of the four beasts.

According to the distribution of the four elephants, it is the East Green Dragon, the West White Tiger, the South Vermilion Bird, and the North Xuanwu.

When I was on the edge of the cliff, my father's last recitation, I felt a little puzzled when I heard it, how could there be two inconsistent recitations, and now after thinking about it, I realized it.

"It turns out that there is a recitation that opens the second-floor stone room!"

"But the East Green Dragon, the West White Tiger, the South Vermilion Bird, the North Xuanwu-" Tao Muqing muttered while caressing the totems on the shelves, remembering his father's repeated reminders: If you want to go in, use your own key to go in, and your father will not help you.

When I asked him what the key was, he didn't say, he just said: Only when you officially become a chanter, can the second floor be opened, otherwise everything will be in vain.

At first, I thought that my father was coaxing himself to be a reciter, but now that I think about it, I was naïve.

With my own keys?

"Blood, the blood of Chanting?"

Thinking of this, Tao Muqing bit his index finger lightly, squeezed out a drop of blood, and when his fingertips touched the green dragon totem, a cyan glow flowed along its lines, and the moment it darkened, it was recessed.

Rounded recess, half a centimeter deep.

Tao Muqing was on the white tiger, vermilion bird, and Xuanwu totems, and the white, red, and black streamers appeared and dimmed, and then a circular recess also appeared.

"Central Yellow Dragon, the head of the Four Beasts?"

"Uh—it can't be that little worm, right?" Tao Muqing pushed the book on the table aside and lifted the sticky canvas painting with a rabbit eating a turnip.

A yellow dragon appears.

When I was a child, I thought it was a worm, fierce and unsightly, so I drew a canvas and covered it, and slowly forgot that it existed.

Tao Muqing also slashed it with blood, and a yellow streamer also appeared in a circular depression.

Although the recess is visible, there are no other phenomena.

"Only when you officially become a chanter, can the second floor be opened, otherwise everything will be in vain—will everything be in vain?" Tao Muqing repeated his father's words, and then muttered: "It seems that the blood key is only one of the mechanisms, and it needs the assistance of other things, but what is this circular recess to put in? Look at this shape, it should be jade." ”

Tao Muqing searched around again, but did not find anything suspicious, so he had to turn back on.

There was not a single matching jade in the study.