The prince was obviously very interested in this set, waved his hand to let Ge Lao sit down, and said with a slightly drunken face: "Ge Lao is the king's best friend, what you have is the king's, and we don't distinguish each other." After Gu Xing heard this, he almost didn't lose his breath, but he squinted at Ge Lao, still light and light, this kind of mind is really worth learning.

After the prince finished speaking, he picked up the wine glass on the table and said to the envoy of Yichu: "You must know, you might as well talk about it, what other treasures can make the hearts of those here flutter?" Gu Xing secretly rubbed and muttered to the old fox, Ge Lao tugged at his sleeve, signaling not to speak, so as not to tell the truth and be settled by the autumn queen.

After a moment of exchange of heads and ears, the leader-like person got up and saluted back and said: "Thank you for your good intentions, I have come from afar, in addition to forming an alliance, there is indeed one thing, I hope your country can cut love." "The prince is also interested, this group of barbarians finally stopped beating around the bush and got to the point.

The leader of the Yichu envoy unhurriedly took out a beast bone from his bosom and handed it to the palace attendants who were waiting beside him. The attendant slowly handed over the beast bone to the prince, and the prince played for a long time before he said to the leader of the Yichu envoy: "Lord Xiang Qian, what does this mean?" ”

"It turns out that the surname of the leader of the Yichu envoy is really the same as in history." Thinking like this, Gu Xiang also raised his head to look at the man's next words. Xiang Qian paused before he spoke: "The prince doesn't know that this beast bone is the book of heaven that the ancestor Xiang Yu found from the capital city when he broke the Zhao Kingdom in the Battle of the Giant Deer. ”

When the prince heard the Book of Heaven, the corners of his eyebrows twitched slightly, but after a while, he resumed as usual and continued to ask: "Then what does this Book of Heaven have to do with my Hou Tang?" Xiang Qian, the envoy of Yichu, continued: "According to the ancestors, this book of heaven records the number of lives of the kingdoms, and it is also related to the tortoiseshell diagram of the rise and fall of eternity. Legend has it that after piecing together this beast bone, you can find the secret that has made the Tang Dynasty prosperous for hundreds of years through the above records. ”

At this time, the prince's face was completely unbearable, he forcibly suppressed the emotions in his heart and said coldly: "How dare you ask Lord Xiang Qian, if I have this artifact in the Tang Dynasty, why should I give it to others?" ”

Xiang Qian smiled and said something that surprised everyone present. He did not immediately answer the prince's question, but took out another animal skin from his bosom, and then said: "That and the animal bone is the sincerity that I sent to your country from the state of Chu, and this animal skin records the distribution of animal bones. ”

After hearing this, the prince thought for a long time before turning his head to Ge Lao and asking, "Do you have any record of this thing?" Ge Lao hurriedly got up and replied: "Little Lao'er usually handles jewelry and jade, but he doesn't pay much attention to this kind of artifact, let me go back and check it carefully, so I can reply to the prince." After Ge Lao finished speaking, Gu Xing saw that the prince was glancing at him.

Gu Xing was stunned at first, and then understood. He also took a step forward and hugged his fists and said: "Lord Qiqi, what the master said is true, I think I will be old in the future, but some things I can't remember clearly, it's better to give us half a day, let us go back and clean up well, maybe there will be the answer you want." ”

The prince nodded approvingly, then picked up the wine glass and got up and said to the envoys of Yichu: "It seems that there will be no way to give you a satisfactory answer for a while, it is better to rest in the house for a while, and then inform you when there is news, how about it?" ”

After discussing for a moment, Xiang Qian clasped his fists and said, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." The prince seemed to have expected to say this, and said inch by inch: "Then can you also let Ge Lao bring back the animal skin, so that it is convenient to see where the other beast bones are?" ”

The group of Yichu envoys were obviously very resistant to this request, and their faces were embarrassed. But after a while, Xiang Qian seemed to persuade everyone, and once again clasped his fists and said: "For the sake of the friendship between the two countries to last forever, it should be so." The prince couldn't suppress his excitement, and motioned to Ge Lao to do it quickly.

At the same time, he gave a few orders to the attendants beside him, and took the Yichu envoys down, and let them rest. After the crowd walked out of the lobby, the prince got up from the case, walked quickly to Ge Lao's side, and whispered a few words. Gu Xing's true hearing is to let Ge Lao rub the animal skin, if he can drop the bag, it will be better.

Gu Xing pretended to be casual on the side, and after the prince finished talking to Ge Lao, he pointed at Gu Xing and said, "Ge Lao, when did you accept this apprentice, you are so clever." Ge Lao Bao laughed a few words, and then took the animal skin and led Gu Xing out.

After getting into the carriage, Ge Lao carefully took out the animal skin again and examined it carefully. But after watching it for a long time, I didn't see the reason inside. Just as he was about to take it back, Gu Xing stopped Ge Lao and said with a smile: "Ge Lao, why don't you let me take a look?" ”

Although Ge Lao didn't believe that this kid could see anything famous, he still handed over the animal skin, wanting to see how capable Gu Xing was. Gu Xing took the animal skin and looked at it, it was a picture of the sub-Jiangshan Society, and there was nothing special about it, so he couldn't help frowning.

Seeing this, Ge Lao couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but he was still relieved: "You are still young and have too little experience. It's okay, when you get to my age, you'll know everything. Just when Ge Lao wanted to take back the animal skin, Gu Xing suddenly sighed and said, "Ge Lao, have you noticed the depiction on this animal skin?" ”

Ge Lao heard Gu Xing's question, and took a look, it was indeed the same as the Jiangshan Society map that he had seen countless times, but the description on it did not fit the animal skin, and there seemed to be traces of secondary processing. Gu Xing's major discovery made Ge Lao happy, and he couldn't help but make the groom speed up, wanting to return to the money village as soon as possible and solve the mystery.

After this time, Ge Lao looked up to Gu Xing a few points higher. After a short time, the two returned to the penny village, and the shopkeeper Xu saw that the two were in a hurry, so he stepped forward and asked, "Old Ge, is there something urgent?" Ge Lao didn't pay attention to it, only said that there was something important to deal with, let him take care of the business, don't let others disturb him, and then took Gu Xing to the inner courtyard.

Back in the inner courtyard, Ge Lao lifted the futon on the bed, and the mahogany bed board below was exposed, Ge Lao was not afraid to look at it from the side, and after groping for a while, the bed board creaked open, revealing a dark secret passage. Ge Lao took the lead and walked down. Gu Xing thought for a moment and followed.

Descending the stairs is a spacious bedroom, which is more luxurious than the outer hall. Gu Xingzheng was surprised by the cave in this dark room, and Ge Lao suddenly turned his head to him and said, "When people are old, they will have some hobbies, and they don't want people to know. ”

With that, he walked over to a silver desk and laid the hides flat on it. Gu Xing walked up quickly, watching Ge Lao's next move intently. After Ge Lao put the animal skin on it, he first groped for a moment on it, and after making sure that there was no interlayer, he began to rubbing.

This kind of rubbing is different from traditional rubbing, similar to the principle of a photocopier, using a special material to leave a pattern on the silver desk, and then paste it on rice paper to reproduce the pattern. Gu Xing was dumbfounded, "This old man still has such methods, I must let him teach me in the future." Gu Xing thought secretly.

After completing the surface rubbing, Ge Lao took out the light yellow candle again, lit it and waited for the candle flame to stabilize, and then took it to bake under the animal skin. But after half a burnt of incense, there was still no movement in the skin, and there was no change in the pattern on it.

At this time, beads of sweat had already appeared on Old Ge's forehead, and Gu Xing knew that the old man was a little panicked. At this moment, Gu Xing suddenly approached Ge Lao and whispered a few words: "You might as well try white vinegar." "Ge Lao is already exhausted at this time, and all kinds of means have been passed, but he has not touched the doorway of the animal skin.

At this time, Gu Xing's reminder, although his face was a little unbearable, he still took out a small porcelain bottle from a pile of objects, carefully dripped a drop onto the animal skin, and then the two of them watched the changes in the animal skin with all their attention. At the moment when the white vinegar first came into contact with the animal skin, the ink on the map of the mountains and rivers suddenly rippled and rippled.

After the ink dissipated, the original map of the Jiangshan Society had become the territory map of the Nine Abysses, and there were red dots in the capitals of the Seven Kingdoms of the Nine Abysses. This scene surprised both of them. After there was no change in the territory map of the Nine Abysses, Old Ge asked Gu Xing with some eagerness, "What doorways do you see?" ”

At this time, Ge Lao already had seven or eight points of confidence in Gu Xing's intelligence, although he didn't trust it, but he helped himself out twice at a critical moment, and he was more or less exempted from some mustard. Gu Xing stared at the Nine Abyss Territory Map for a long time, and did not immediately reply to Ge Lao's question.

Although he hadn't carefully understood the power and geographical distribution of this era since he was born, he still heard about it, and although he was surprised when he saw the territory map of the Nine Abysses, he was more excited.

Just when Ge Lao was a little impatient, Gu Xing coughed lightly and said, "Although the Nine Abyss Territory Map is not special, I don't know if Ge Lao has noticed it, this red dot is a little unusual. ”

Ge Lao hurriedly and eagerly asked, "Did you see something?" Gu Xing calmly connected the red dots with his fingers, and after drawing them several times, he looked at Ge Lao silently and did not speak. Ge Lao looked at it carefully for a moment, and suddenly said, "Tiangang gossip?!" ”

Gu Xing nodded and said, "It's Tiangang gossip." This Tiangang gossip fits the five elements, and it secretly coincides with the fortune of the seven kingdoms of the Yuan, which can be described as a map of the nine abysses. Ge Lao, please see, the red dots are connected to the borders of the seven countries, and then the borders are connected, and they become a circle, and the center of the circle is the Nine Profound Abyss. ”

Ge Lao slapped Gu Xing fiercely, and laughed loudly: "Good boy, there is you." So what do you mean, the bones are where the red dot is marked, and the center of the circle is where the treasure is? Gu Xing nodded, and did not continue, but asked rhetorically: "Are there animal bones in Ge Lao's collection?" ”