Chapter 208: Vermilion Bird Feather · "Astrolabe"
The enchantment was completely dispersed, and Xie Jinyan walked out step by step with Xie Zhanning behind his back.
Xie Bonian stared at Xie Zhanning, who was carrying Xie Jinyan, and his body shook and almost fell to the ground. It's just a short moment, Xie Bonian seems to be ten years old, and his originally sturdy eyes suddenly seem to be stained with dust. Xie Bonian's lips were pale, and he looked at Xie Jinyan in disbelief: "Zhan Ning?"
Xie Jinyan said in a dumb voice: "Dad, let's take my brother home." ”
Wu Sanniang's sobbing had just stopped, and Xie Bonian's howling rang out again. Accompanied by crying, the red silk lanterns at the wedding banquet were very dazzling.
Bai Luo looked at Old Madam Wu. Old Madam Wu said to Bai Luo when she had exhausted her three souls: "We said okay. ”
As long as Mrs. Wu took out the astrolabe, Bai Luo would save Wu Sanniang's life. That's what the two said was good.
Bai Luo looked at Wu Sanniang: "Sanniang, has the old lady ever given you anything to tell you that it is very precious?"
Wu Sanniang frowned and said: "Since I was a child, A-Niang often gave me things. After her father's death, A-Niang took the Qinggang on a boat, and it often took a month to leave. Every time I come back, I bring a lot of things. Everything is precious. ”
"Is there anything special?"
Wu Sanniang thought for a while and said, "It's the same when you say that. ”
"What's that?"
"An ordinary makeup box, just a little bigger than the usual makeup box, with better materials, but my mother said it was a treasure. It's not as good as what my mother usually gives me. ”
"Can you show it to me? ”
"I use that makeup box every day, and now I have also brought it to Yuhu Palace. If you want to see it, let me come. ”
Bai Luo glanced back at Xie Jinyan and explained: "Jinyan, wait for me for a while, I will go back to Shu with you." ”
After that, Bai Luo and Wu Sanniang walked back to the cave room one after the other.
In the cave room, flowers and candles were thrown, red hijabs were thrown on the ground, and red dates, peanuts, longan, and melon seeds were still placed on the table. The two untouched cups of wine were still in their old position. The room with red candles was still the same, but the figure of Old Madam Wu could no longer be seen. Even the state of mind can never go back to two hours ago.
Wu Sanniang caressed the makeup box with her hand: "This is the makeup box." ”
The carved patterns of ordinary women's makeup boxes are mostly flowers, butterflies, magpies, and mandarin ducks. Wu Sanniang's makeup box is engraved with Xuanwu. The makeup box is huge, and the two turtles and snakes each have a spirit bead divided into yin and yang. The head of the turtle is an anode, and a spirit bead is attached, and the spirit bead is exquisitely made, which seems to be inlaid on the makeup box, but it is movable. The head of the snake is a cathode, and the pattern of the spirit bead in the mouth is repeated, which is made of three spirit snakes, but it cannot be moved when it is set on the makeup box.
Wu Sanniang smiled bitterly: "Shenjun, why is my mother like this?"
Bai Luo said lightly: "The old lady is hiding it from you, I just hope that you can be safe and smooth in this life." It doesn't hurt to tell you now. ”
Bai Luo told Wu Sanniang the ins and outs of the matter as it was. Wu Sanniang has speculated many times about Mrs. Wu's life experience in her life. Since she can remember, she remembers that Mrs. Wu used water spirit flow, and it turned out that Daddy was willing to use his spirit bead to hide it for her in order to hide Mrs. Wu's identity.
Wu Sanniang took a key from her arms and came out: "Shenjun, this is what my father left me." I've used this key many times, and this makeup box only has this one keyhole. ”
After that, Wu Sanniang twisted the makeup box with the key, only to hear a "click", the makeup box opened, and a dark box came out of the makeup box. This makeup box is really delicate, and from the outside, you can't tell that the makeup box hides a cassette.
Wu Sanniang gently flicked the wood chips on the cassette, and two wood chip villains suddenly popped out of the cassette and danced.
"God-kun, my dad always likes to make me these clever gadgets. I don't know how many gadgets like this have been made for me since I was a child. So when Daddy said that this makeup box should be well protected and not broken, I never understood why this makeup box is more important than anything else. ”
Suddenly, Wu Sanniang stroked the makeup box for a moment. only heard the sound of "pop", Wu Sanniang raised her hand, and smashed the makeup box to the ground.
Bai Luo was taken aback: "What are you doing here?"
Wu Sanniang said hurriedly while picking up the debris on the ground: "My father's craftsmanship is exquisite, and the things he makes will never be broken easily, even if they are broken, he can repair them for me." So Daddy was never afraid of me breaking anything. If he said that, I'm afraid he was telling me that he was going to break the box. ”
Even if it is an ordinary makeup box, if you fall like this, it will only break a corner, but Wu Sanniang's makeup box looks firm, but it is broken into more than a dozen pieces.
Wu Sanniang picked up a piece of fragment from the ground, it was the head of the Xuanwu snake, the bead that the snake head originally bitten, fell to only half of it, and it looked like the head of the snake biting a crescent moon from the side.
Wu Sanniang was overjoyed: "That's it!"
After that, Wu Sanniang walked outside the door and ordered: "Shi Nian, bring my compass." ”
Shi Nian hurriedly presented the compass. It was a copper compass, and the patterns on the compass had been worn away, and the paint showed some old color. The compass is engraved with the phases of the moon. Wu Sanniang inserted the fragments of the makeup box into the crescent moon symbol, gently turned the handle of the snake's head, and only heard a "click", the position of the full moon symbol on the compass was dented, and then there was no movement.
Wu Sanniang frowned and looked at the compass: "Our Qinggang sails, and the last thing we can't leave is this compass." This compass used to be used by Ah Niang, but then Ah Niang didn't go boating, so she gave me this compass. ”
Wu Sanniang put down the compass, reached out and found the fragments of the makeup box on the ground: "There should be a key." ”
In the room where the red candles were flickering, Wu Sanniang was dressed in a xia cloak, looking back and forth in this room.
"Sanniang. Bai Luo said softly.
"Huh?" Wu Sanniang replied, but the movements in her hands did not stop.
"Today is your day of great joy, and you can't find it. ”
Wu Sanniang's hand moved: "Shenjun thinks there is anything to be happy about today? Shenjun let me be busy, and it will be better to be busy." Although Sanniang has never been to Yaobu Village, A-Niang escaped from Yaobu Village and took the astrolabe with her, and she must have wanted to protect the astrolabe and protect Xingjun in her heart. A-Niang never said to Sanniang where the astrolabe was, thinking that one wanted to protect Sanniang, and the other was that Sanniang couldn't protect the astrolabe. This thing is important to A-Niang, Sanniang can't protect it, and I hope that Shenjun can protect it. ”
Wu Sanniang's gaze swept over the place where the congratulatory gifts were placed, and she saw an incompatible Buddha bead in a pile of golden gifts.
Wu Sanniang's breath froze: "This is A-Niang's Buddha beads?"
Wu Sanniang picked up the Buddha bead and flicked it lightly in her hand, and a blue water spirit bead suddenly rolled down Wu Sanniang's palm: "Daddy's water spirit bead?" Wu Sanniang smiled lightly: "When this is it, for Ah Niang, the most important thing besides me is Daddy." ”
Wu Sanniang placed the water spirit bead in the sunken full moon symbol, and the water spirit flow between them swam along the pattern on the compass. The water spirit flow through the moon phase, bypassing the basalt serpent's head, and finally a crisp sound was heard, and the brass compass shattered into several pieces, revealing the astrolabe hidden in the compass.