Chapter 118: Return to the Old Home
Tang Jue did not stay at Lan Xin's house for a few days, and arranged for her to enter a high school before Tang Jue's scientific research group project was officially launched. Because Tang Jue told her brother that she wanted to go to school, in order to make up for her sister's regrets, Tang Jue asked Ouyang Jing to help find a very good private school, transferred to the third year of high school, and invited teachers from various subjects to tutor her after class.
Tang Jue is already very smart, she can understand almost everything as long as the teacher talks about it once, and after having the aura and green shoots, her memory has become quite good, and it can almost be said that she will never forget it. She studied very hard, she didn't usually go out with her classmates, she devoted all her energy to studying, and it didn't take long for her to surpass many classmates in the class.
There were a few little overlords in the school who saw that Tang Jue was beautiful, and they had a sense of possession, and sometimes they blocked the door of Tang Jue's classroom and harassed him, but after being repaired by Tang Jue secretly a few times, they also became peaceful. Tang Jue once checked, Tianling University was very famous in the city and even the whole country, she thought of those incomprehensible small seals, her heart was like a hundred claws scratching her heart, now she has been able to combine most of the words, she is very sure, those small seals that shine with golden light are the original disappeared silk books. As for the reason, the silk book suddenly came to her mind, and the reason is unknown.
On the weekend, Tang Jue asked the teacher who was originally going to make up for her to take leave, and bought a ticket to take the bus to a county-level city not far from Tianling City, and then transferred from the county-level city to the town. And her and Master's residence is still five or six miles away from the town, naturally Tang Jue will not pay attention to this road, but in order to arrive early, she is not stupid enough to measure it with her feet, and casually spent ten yuan to take a motorcycle in the town, and it will take about ten minutes to arrive.
Tang Jue and Master's residence is still some way from the village. She used to be ugly, and the people in the village were afraid of scaring their children, so they didn't let them play with her. It just so happened that their house was not in the village either, which saved a lot of trouble.
Looking at the small yard with locked wooden doors overgrown with weeds, Tang Jue felt sad for no reason, and tears fell unexpectedly, she didn't have a key, but now this lock was useless in her eyes. She twisted slightly. With a soft click, the lock opened.
Walking into the small courtyard full of wild grass, here are all the memories of her previous life. Although she and Master would go out to collect medicine most of the time, they would spend three or four months of the year here, and when she was a child, she helped Master grow vegetables and water them in the small courtyard. A rope in the yard was already covered with cobwebs, the rope she used to dry her clothes.
Everywhere in this place there are her and Master's figures. But at this moment, the master has already buried his bones, and Miao Jiang can never come back. She couldn't even bring back Master's bones. Tang Jue secretly clenched his fists, one day. She wants Master to return to her hometown. Although Master often said: Where is the loess that does not bury people? Let her be spontaneous and natural, but she knows that Master must also want to return to her homeland.
The house is a small brick house with only two rooms. Master's room was larger, and there were two large boxes filled with Master's books, and Tang Jue took out these books one by one. Put it outside to dry, and there are two long boxes in the box. There are two hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, this Tang Jue knows, these two ginsengs are more than 100 years old, and they can't be seen on the market at all, this is when they went to the northern mountains once, the master personally dug them.
There is also a jade flute in the box, carved from real jasper, which is old, this is the only thing left to him by the master's brother, it is said to be a sect token, and the master is usually reluctant to take it out.
When Tang Jue came, he brought two large suitcases, and at this time, he packed up these things and put them in the suitcase with the dried books, and there was nothing else.
Tang Jue's own room has nothing to clean up, except for some changes of clothes that are no longer worn, it is a handful of colored stones that she collected when she was a child, and the things that she thought were extremely beautiful and precious when she was a child are only mediocre after experiencing so many things.
At noon, Tang Jue made a meal with some of the ingredients he brought, and the kitchen was still the same as when they left, very clean, but the stove was covered with dust.
Tang Jue cooked the meal and arranged the dishes and chopsticks according to the position where the master and himself used to sitting, poured good wine for the master, and said softly: "Master, I brought your favorite wine, you haven't drunk for a long time, right?" Taste it......" Before he finished speaking, he wanted to choke up.
Holding back his tears, Tang Jue finished eating, cleaned up, lay on the master's bed, and stayed quietly all afternoon. At night, under the light, she suddenly noticed that the portrait of the Master hanging on the wall was covered with a layer of dust, so she found a wet towel to wipe it.
This portrait was painted when she was a child, and it was not very similar, and the master's face was a little out of shape. At that time, the master was very happy, so he took it to the town and framed it and hung it at home. Because of her ugly appearance, Master has never taken a picture with her, and there is not even a mirror at home.
Rubbing the nail that suddenly hung the painting was loose, and the portrait fell down, Tang Jue was startled, and hurriedly reached out to fish it so that it was not broken. He took a long breath and raised his eyes to see, it turned out that there was a secret door in the place where the painting was hung, and there was a lock on the secret door, Tang Jue was curious, what did the master hide here? After all these years, she didn't even know at all.
Tang Jue found a thin lead wire, reached into the lock hole and pounded it for a while, only to hear a slight sound, and the lock opened. There was a rosewood box inside, which was very heavy, and Tang Jue took it out.
The top of the box is intricately carved, a white jade puzzle on the front, and the puzzle is a relief carving, Tang Jue knows that this is a very complicated lock, if you want to open this box, you must put this painting together, and there is only one grid in it that can be moved. However, there are as many as a hundred lattices, except for one space, and there are ninety-nine pieces of small white jade.
There is nothing on the back, and it is very smooth, and if you try to forcibly break the box and open it, the contents will probably be destroyed immediately.
Tang Jue immediately had a headache, and wanted to see if there were any clues left in this secret door except for the box, but to her disappointment, there was nothing except a few spiders crawling.
Tang Jue studied it herself, and found that this is not something that can be studied thoroughly for a while, if there is the original painting of this puzzle, it is fine, the key is that she doesn't know what this picture is, and she can't put it together.
She sighed secretly, but still gave up, and decided to take it with her, and find a master to fight it in the future