In the living room, the old lady is sitting on a bamboo chair, wearing a pair of reading glasses and looking down at a codex.

"Old lady!" Xue Chen greeted.

"Sit!" The old lady said without raising her head.

Xue Chen sat down on the single chair beside him, he took out the small wooden box from the bag, straightened his long legs, and took out a key from his trouser pocket.

"How did you get it?" I asked curiously.

"Take it and ask the funeral home for it!"

"If you want them, will you?"

Xue Chen smiled, and said while unlocking the lock: "Fill out an application, and they will give it to ...... It's on! ”

It's really open! - I looked closer into the wooden box and reached out and pulled out a few yellowed photographs.

The photo is black and white, the young girl has long braids, I recognized her as Tian Xiu at a glance, and the next few photos are mostly photos of her with a man. Presumably he was the old king when he was young, although he was short, he was shrewd, and the last one was a two- or three-year-old child wearing a red belly pocket, riding on his neck, looking high-spirited, and now it is really like two people.

Xue Chen also took out a stack of things from the wooden box, it was a small red book, and there were also a few pages of broken paper, the size of a palm, which should have been torn from a booklet; In addition to these, there was a mass of yellow silk cloth in the wooden box. Xue Chen opened the silk cloth, took out a transparent white jade bracelet and looked at it, the old lady on the side raised her head, cast a strange look, and said in her mouth: "Bad luck guy!" ”

Xue Chen put down the small wooden box, walked to the old lady with the bracelet and asked, "Old lady, is this bracelet weird?" ”

The old lady blamed him and said, "Isn't it strange that the things of the dead are strange!" With that, she lowered her head again and continued to flip through the codex.

These things were just precious memories of the old king, and although they were important to him, they did not help me at all to understand the secrets of the copper bell. I sat down in my chair and picked up the broken pages of paper and looked at them—the paper must have been yellow in the first place, brittle, with some unwritten handwriting, and some unwritten words were recorded.

Hongjia Village karst cave through the cellar to find the ancient coffin cave Lao He Dutou (neat handwriting, vigorous and powerful, the clearest)

X house five people evacuated after dark x do not enter the study (the handwriting is scribbled and messy, and the last four words are more obvious)

He Sanjian Tai Lao Li Ban pointed to Agui's bend Ouyang umbrella (this paper is not from the same source as the other three, and it is stained with some oil stains, and the handwriting is childish)

He came back and took away the xx surname He, I cursed you not x good death (it should be the same person as the first one, but after writing, he drew two horizontal lines with a pen)

I couldn't help frowning: could these have been written by the old king?

"What did you find?"

"Nope!" I handed the paper to Xue Chen, took the white jade bracelet in his hand and looked at it, "This thing is so cool!" ”

"The bracelet is too heavy, and your physique is naturally not suitable......," the old lady reminded.

I immediately felt goosebumps rise, and quickly wrapped it in yellow silk and put it back in the wooden box. After waiting for a while, the old lady finally closed the codex, and I quickly got up and walked over. She picked up a black wooden stick from her side and handed it to me, and I quickly reached out to hold it. As soon as the old lady let go, I suddenly felt a sinking in my hand.

"Is it heavy?" The old lady looked at me and asked.

I nodded honestly - the stick looked like a bamboo flute, and even a thin circle, but it was surprisingly heavy.

Xue Chen stepped forward and took the wooden stick from my hand, I stared at him and asked, "How is it?" ”

Xue Chen asked me rhetorically, "Do you really think it's heavy?" ”

"Well, like an iron rod!" I say with certainty.

"Hehehehe......" The old lady suddenly laughed, I looked at her in surprise, and she said in a sonorous voice: "This stick has a name, it's called 'Torture Stick'!" ”

Roast, ghost, stick! Is it used to burn ghosts? I suddenly thought of Wang Man, who was punished last time, and I only heard the old lady continue: "This is a genuine guy who can torture evil ghosts, and those ordinary Taoist priests can't compare with it!" ”

Fighting ghosts, so powerful! I was in awe of the stick.

"You concentrate on this stick again, is it different?"

I followed the old lady's words and took back the wooden stick from Xue Chen's hand. I took a closer look, and the body of this stick was engraved with strange runes, but if I looked left and right, up and down, it didn't seem to be anything special except for the sinking point!

Could it be that I'm not concentrating enough?

I glanced at the old lady suspiciously, and she looked at me without urging. I held the "ghost torture stick" in both hands and turned around, this thing can actually fight ghosts, I thought of this, my heart was more awe, I looked at the runes spinning in my hands, slowly, slowly, I suddenly shook my head, I felt that the wooden stick in my hand seemed to ...... Ghosted?! However, my consciousness was a little confused just now, and it was as if I had been slapped on the head, and I woke up in an instant.

"This stick is so weird!" I was surprised.

The old lady's face sank and asked, "What do you see?" ”

I looked back at the old lady and said with some uncertainty, "It seems to be ...... There is suction! "I don't know if I'm right, but at that moment, I really had the illusion of being sucked in.

The old lady said incredulously, "You can really resonate with it!" She sighed heavily, and picked up the codex on her lap again, but this time she didn't flip through it, but handed it to me, "This codex was left by the old master, and he once told him not to pass it on to outsiders, but the old woman has no blessing to accept you as a disciple, so she can only make an exception to lend you a book." ”

Listening to what the old lady said so carefully, I didn't dare to take it. The old lady saw that I was worried, and asked, "What, there is a problem?" ”

"Do I have to learn?" I was cautious in my heart, the old lady did this, which means that I can definitely use it, but what kind of situation can be used, it is naturally self-evident!

The old lady smiled, took one of my hands kindly, handed me the codex, and said earnestly: "Child, escape itself is more terrible than ghosts, as long as the heart is right, we are not afraid of not having the courage to face it!" ”

I reluctantly accepted the codex, and I vaguely felt that the old lady had a lot to hide from me, but as for what it was, I didn't want to know at the moment.

"It's getting late, I'll send you back first!" Xue Chen said.

"No need, I'll live with Xiao Ting!" I put the codex in my bag and got up to leave.

Xue Chen stayed for a while, saw the old lady's solemn face, walked over and sat down beside her, and held one of her hands.

"Chen'er, what's wrong?" The old lady raised a kind smile and looked at the guilty young man in front of her.

"Old lady, I've annoyed you, right?"

The old lady shook her head and said in a calm tone: "People say that 'fate is destined by heaven', and I have dealt with ghosts and gods for most of my life, especially believing in fate. This Lin sister-in-law got such a bell, that was her life; This happened to us, that's our life! The old lady paused, "Chen'er, the old lady will take care of this matter for you, so don't get involved." You've been running to me diligently these days, and if he finds out another day, it won't be pleasant! ”

"It's fine!" Xue Chen smiled, "You rest, then I'll go back first!" ”

"Hmm!" The old lady nodded slightly, and let go of her clenched hand.