Under the leadership of Cheng Xin, Lin Fei finally met the incognito Cheng Guorong in a high-end nursing home.

Today's Cheng Guorong is nearly 80 years old, and among the white hairs on his head, he can barely see a few black hairs, his left side of his face is almost not human-looking, and nearly half of his right face is left by the traces left by the fire, but his consciousness is still very clear.

He had already changed his name to Chen Pingsheng, and after listening to Lin Fei's intention, his face suddenly fell into contemplation, and he spoke for a long time: "I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I would be able to see his son!" ”

Lin Fei naturally knew that Chen Pingsheng (Cheng Guorong!) In order not to confuse everyone, the name in the later text was replaced by Cheng Guorong) who was he in his mouth, and hurriedly asked: "Professor Cheng, can you tell me about my father, I really want to know." ”

"Your father?"

Cheng Guorong's almost hideous face showed a hint of a smile, but that smile would be afraid of most people when they saw it, so the fire twenty years ago disfigured him.

Cheng Guorong, who laughed for a while, continued: "Your father Bai Jingting is the most proud disciple in my teaching career, twenty-five years ago, he called me and said that he accidentally discovered a very old ancient tomb, whether it is true or false is unknown, and then he formed an archaeological team with Lin Zhen and some people to explore......

Speaking of this, Cheng Guorong paused for a long time, after all, he was old, and he needed to think about many things, and he thought about it for five minutes before he spoke.

"Half a year later, he suddenly came back, there was a woman named Lin Wanruo by his side, and the woman seemed to be pregnant, I asked him how the ancient tomb was explored, but he smiled and said that he was deceived, and he stayed with me for a long time and left, this walk is more than three years, and then ......"

Later, Bai Jingting, who had disappeared for more than three years, reappeared, in front of him who was still Cheng Guorong at that time, Bai Jingting was unrecognizable at this time, and Cheng Guorong was almost unrecognizable.

Because Bai Jingting, who is not even thirty years old, is like an old man in his sixties, not only is the whole person much older, but the whole person is also full of sadness, as if his whole world has become gray, and there is no hope at all.

Bai Jingting, who proved his identity to Cheng Guorong, did not say a word about what he had done in the three years since he disappeared, no matter how Cheng Guorong asked, he did not say.

This time, he stayed at Cheng Guorong's house for three days, and after leaving a box, he explained a few words and left.

However, less than a year after Bai Jingting left, Cheng Guorong had an accident and escaped by luck, but he was ruined, so he got rid of Cheng Guorong's identity and lived in this world as Chen Pingsheng.

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Cheng Guorong, who told Lin Fei everything, sighed helplessly: "Time is in a hurry, a full twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, I thought that I would never be entangled with the past in this life, I didn't expect that you are still here!" ”

While speaking, Cheng Guorong handed Lin Fei a wooden box the size of a leather ball that he had carefully hidden for twenty years from the wardrobe luggage in his room: "This is what your father left back then, and the answers you want are all in this." ”

Inside?

Looking carefully at the finely made wooden box in his hand, Lin Fei looked around and didn't find any place where the wooden box could be opened, just when he was puzzled, Cheng Guorong hurriedly added.

"I saw that there was no groove on the wooden box, it should be the place to open the wooden box, but the corresponding key, your father did not leave!"

Cheng Guorong has been studying this wooden box for twenty years, except for the key, there is nowhere to open this wooden box, and if it is forcibly opened, the mechanism carried by the wooden box itself will destroy the contents of the wooden box.

Key?

Lin Fei just thought that the groove on the top of the wooden box was just a decoration, but after Cheng Guorong reminded him, the more he looked at the groove on the top of the wooden box, the more he felt like the jade pendant on his chest.

Lin Fei didn't hesitate, he hurriedly took down the jade pendant hanging on his chest, put it down gently, and sure enough, the jade pendant was firmly inlaid into the groove on the top of the wooden box.

Click!!

After a series of sounds, the finely made wooden box suddenly cracked one after another, and then automatically opened in front of Lin Fei, and in an instant, the things hidden in the wooden box for a full twenty years appeared in front of everyone.

A fur with uneven edges on three sides, with nothing on it, and the very flat side, as if it had been cut with a sharp weapon.

In addition, there is also a yellowed white paper, on which is written: Shuzhong Jinghe Town!

"What do you mean at this point?" Lin Fei, who was confused, looked puzzled, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was asking Cheng Guorong, who was also frowning.

Cheng Guorong, an old professor of the senior archaeology department, took the animal skin that had nothing in his hand and touched it, looked at it again, and pondered for a long time before saying: "I estimate that this animal skin is at least more than a thousand years old, and it should have been preserved with a special technique, but this animal skin was flattened, but it was cut by someone with a sharp weapon in modern times...... If I'm not mistaken, this must have been made by your father, and the hide is not complete, and it should be half left. ”

"And half?"

The expression on Lin Fei's face was even more puzzled, what did he really want to do, what did his father mean by leaving these two things in the wooden box? What can this hide associate with?

Shuzhong Jinghe Town, what do these five words mean? Could it be that you want to go to Jinghe Town by yourself?

The more Lin Fei thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out, and at this time, Cheng Guorong suddenly said: "Your father would never leave this half of the animal skin for no reason, let alone this kind of very old animal skin, this animal skin must have some kind of text or pattern recorded on it, and it takes something special to reveal it." ”

Hearing this, Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Professor Cheng, then may I ask, what exactly is needed for this?" ”

Cheng Guorong shook his head decisively: "I don't know, when your father handed over the wooden box to me, he only said that if his son finds me one day in the future, he only needs to hand over the wooden box to him...... So if you want to know what is written on it, you have to figure it out for yourself. ”

Forehead!

Lin Fei was speechless for a moment, he didn't understand this kind of thing at all, how could he think of a way? made himself even more nonsense, and in desperation, Lin Fei could only plead with Cheng Guorong.

"Professor Cheng, please help me, I must not have learned this archaeological knowledge, I am full of confusion, maybe it will be easier to destroy this half of the animal skin!"

Looking at Lin Fei's eager eyes, and Cheng Guorong was also very curious, what secrets were hidden in this half of the animal skin, as an archaeology professor, what he longed for most in his life was to explore the unknown.

Similarly, he also wanted to know the most proud disciple in his life - Bai Jingting! What happened to him back then, under double doubt and curiosity.

Cheng Guorong, who has been keeping his promise all his life, has been incognito for 20 years, and decided to help Lin Fei once.

"Okay, but this is a nursing home, and there is no equipment I need, so let's go to the archaeology department of Peking University, it just so happens that I haven't been back to see it for a long time!"

"Thank you, thank you very much, Professor Cheng!"

Lin Fei hurriedly helped Cheng Guorong out of the room, standing at the door, Cheng Xin, who was not allowed to enter, saw Lin Fei helping her grandfather out of the room, and hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Peking University!" Lin Fei replied very succinctly.

"What? North! Cheng Xin's eyes immediately widened, looked at her grandfather Cheng Guorong, and asked in surprise: "Grandpa, didn't you say that unless you die, you will never leave here for the rest of your life, and you are not allowed to let your parents visit you, even if I come, I have to be a volunteer, in the case of many people, I can't call you grandpa, why are you suddenly ...... now?"

Cheng Guorong hurriedly waved his hand, interrupted Cheng Xin's words, and said: "I'm almost in the coffin, I don't want to go to Lord Yan with a lot of questions to report, let's go, go to the Department of Archaeology of Peking University, alas, it's been twenty years, and I've almost forgotten what it looks like there." ”