Wuyin's injury had been healed more than a month ago, but in the past three months, she has been in a coma in bed, and she has lost weight and her skin has loosened. When she saw her again, although she combed a smooth high bun with grass oil, also applied thick powder, and applied lipstick, but once a woman began to age, she would wither and decay, unstoppable, just like the red peony in the courtyard at the end of summer, although the flowers still stand on the branches, but as long as you gently tear off a petal, the rest of the petals will fall to the ground, leaving only a flower center that has already been **.

When Wuyin saw Zhao Ying's reply, the expression on his face did not change much. When I asked her for the key to the "Lock Heart Building", she readily put a conch carved from green jade in my hand.

"This is the key to the 'Lock Heart Building'?" I lifted the heavy green jade snail in my hand, shocked and suspicious.

Wuyin motioned for me to hand over the two sets of keys to her, and gently inserted one of the jade conches with one handle, pushing up one grid and twisting one square to the left, and the two pairs of keys with completely different materials and shapes were wonderfully combined.

"This is the jade snail lock of the Lu Guogong losing shift system, this is the lock oil, don't use too hard when you open it, if it is broken, you have to send it back to Lu to repair."

"Thank you."

"Hmph, you little girl is just too serious, in fact, there are some things that are more painful to know than not to know. Are you right? Sunda? Wuyin hooked the corners of his mouth and aimed at Yu An beside him.

Yu An didn't respond, only took my hand and said, "Let's go!" ”

"Okay." I got up, and two men with swords opened the door for us.

"Lord, if you encounter anything you don't understand in the 'Lock Heart Building', remember to come and ask me." Wuyin picked up the hot water on the desk and took a sip with a smile.

Lock heart building, lock heart building, I thought that the "lock heart building" in the mouth of everyone must be the two-story small building covered with green tiles in the Zhen Hexagram Courtyard. But who knows, Yu An took me out of the back door of the hexagram, and walked five or six miles along the path up the mountain outside the door in one go.

At this time, the snow in the valley has long since faded, but the mountain is still a world of ice and snow. Jade-like snow dust fluttered sparsely in front of me, I don't know if it came from the air or the branches. The road under our feet was covered with a thin layer of ice, which shattered and clicked as we walked all the way to the mountainside.

After walking for about half an hour, the mountain road was about to reach the end, and Yu An took me around a towering cedar, and the cave suddenly appeared in front of me. It is embedded in a rock wall, and dozens of ice cubes more than a foot long hang from the bluestone rock at the top of the cave. The entrance to the cave was sealed with large stones, leaving only a bronze gate with a very delicate bronze long lock on the door.

"This is the 'Lock Heart Building'?" I stood in front of the cave and looked up, the silver ice crystals on the top of the cave sparkling in the sunlight.

"The secret reports of Tianshu over the years are stored here. You go in and hold my hand later, and we will find the stone staircase first, go up the stone staircase, and then light all the brass lamps on the cave wall. Otherwise, it's too dark inside, and if you step on it, it will kill you. ”

"This hole is so big, if you step on it, you will fall to death?"

"You'll find out when you go in and see."

When Yu An said this, I only thought he was exaggerating. But when we lit the oil lamps in the cave, a huge cave appeared in front of me. Standing at the bottom of the cave and looking up, I only felt as if half of the mountain had been hollowed out by this cave. In the event of a military disaster, it will definitely not be a problem to hide seven or eight hundred people here. But "tall" is only one of them, the reason why this place is called "building" is because there are several huge bluestone platforms in the cave, these platforms rise one step by the left side of the cave wall, and go straight to the stone top with no end in sight, like a building in the sky.

"What's in these boxes?" I stepped up the stone steps to the first platform, where more than 30 large wooden boxes were neatly stacked.

"This is an important secret letter received by Tianshu in the past two years, sorted out according to the name of the country. There are more in the Jin State and the Qi State, and they are classified according to clans and major sects. Yu An said as he opened a wooden box in his hand, "This box is about the Zhi family, the secret report is copied on the bamboo slips, and the bottom is the damp charcoal and dry wadding, which are changed once a year." When the five years are up, the chief steward of Wuyin and the relevant principals will discard some unimportant news and copy the important ones on new bamboo slips or goatskins. If you want to find news from more than ten years ago, you have to climb three more floors, where there are a few boxes of goatskins, a few boxes of clay tablets, and some bits and pieces of bamboo slips. ”

"You know very well, do you come here often?" I picked up a roll of bamboo slips from the box and shook it open.

Yu An was stunned for a moment, paused and said, "How can you come often, only blindfolded and brought in twice by Wuyin." Those two times only helped sort out the boxes on the two floors below. Today, since I volunteered to accompany you, I must first inquire with the earthquake master about the layout of the cave. ”

"You have to ask, after all, you are the head of Tianshu now, and this place will depend on you in the future." I rolled up the bamboo slips in my hand and put them back in the box, and looked up at the rock platforms of different sizes on the heights, "There are many more boxes here than I thought, I'm afraid I'm going to spend a few days here." ”

"Whatever you're looking for, I can help you find it."

"No, I'll flip through it first. You have a lot of things to do in the valley today, so you don't have to spend time here with me. All you have to do is ask Ah Yang to bring me some water and food, and when it gets dark, I will go down the mountain myself." ”

"The mountain road is slippery, it's dark, I'll pick you up." Yu An handed me the torch.

"Well, that's fine."

"Then I'm leaving." Yu An turned around and walked two steps, then suddenly turned around and said, "Last night, I'm sorry ......"

As soon as I heard this, I snorted and laughed: "I'm sorry for what, I still want to thank you for not killing!" ”

"Ah Shi, I never thought of killing you." In the darkness, his voice was a little astringent.

Angry and funny, I shook the torch in his face and said angrily, "Why are you so unfunny? You, don't say nice things to praise me in the future, what kind of talent, if I am complacent in the future, find someone to compete with the sword, it will be your fault if I die unjustly. ”

"Well, okay...... I'm leaving. ”

"What's good? Can you see the way? Before I could finish my sentence, the person in front of me had already jumped down the stone steps and disappeared into the darkness. I shook my head and laughed at myself, and said in my heart, I dare to fight against a master like him with such clumsy swordsmanship, I am really tired.

After Yu An left, I opened a few of Zhi's boxes and looked at them, and then opened Zhao's several boxes and rummaged through them. I have heard a lot about the Zhi clan in the Qin State, because after all, it is the second largest clan in the Jin State after the Zhao Clan, and it is not surprising that the Qin people care about its actions. In the box of the Zhao family, there are very few records of Zhao Ying's case, and most of them are secret affairs of the side small sect. The Liuqing Rebellion happened more than ten years ago, if you want to find out A-Niang's background, I'm afraid I'll get the highest parchment roll to find out.

I carefully climbed up the stone stairs with a torch in hand, and the higher I went, the louder the wind became, and the more I went up, the more frightened I became. This stone staircase is extremely steep and cold, and it seems that there is no end to it.

When I reached the third rock platform, I couldn't wait to jump down the stone staircase. Looking back, the faint light at the bottom of the cave was barely visible.

This dark cave is the "heart" of Tianshu, and these boxes are all the "memories" since it was born. It hides its joys, its sorrows, its brightness, its meanness, all here. And at this moment, I was standing in its heart.

The sun rises and goes into the cave, the moon rises and goes down, and I stay in the "lock heart building" for four days in a row.

On the fifth day, when I was looking through several wooden boxes in the Chu Kingdom, Yu An opened the door of the cave.

"It's getting dark so soon! You wait for me, I'll come down after reading this volume! I kept my eyes peeled and shouted casually.

"Okay." Yu An answered me, and his gentle and elegant voice spread out in the cave.

I finished reading the bamboo slips in my hand, closed the wooden box, and blew out the oil lamps in the cave one by one around the rock platform.

Yu An stood at the end of the stone staircase with a torch in his hand and waited for me.

"Yu An, have I ever complimented you on your good voice before?" I cautiously climbed down the stone staircase.

"Nope."

"Oh, you have a nice voice." I jumped in front of him and looked at him with a grin.

He smiled and turned to walk towards the entrance of the cave.

As soon as the door opened, the dazzling sunlight on the snow pierced me and I closed my eyes: "It's not dark yet, why did you come to pick me up?" It hurts my eyes! ”

"If you stay in the cave for a few more days, your eyes will really go to waste." Yu An stretched out his hand to cover my eyes, "Today is the end of the year, they roasted a boar in my yard, and the female musicians who exchanged hexagrams also came to play the piano and sing and dance, I think you like to be lively, so I came to pick you up early." ”

"It's the end of the year so soon." I slowly opened my eyes, but as soon as I saw the light, my eyes still kept shedding tears.

"Shut it up first, I'll carry you for a while." Yu An leaned over and carried me up without saying anything, "How did you live at the end of last year?" ”

I closed my eyes and lay on his shoulder, thought for a while, and said: "At the end of last year, on my way back to the Song Kingdom from Ailing, I happened to pass by a village that day, and someone was worshipping their ancestors at the entrance of the village, which was very lively. ”

"Did they invite you to drink?"

"No, I asked a few little hairy kids to snatch all my dry food, and I was hungry for a whole day."

Yu An chuckled lightly and didn't speak, so I asked again: "Then how did you live at the end of last year?" ”

"I didn't think much, Si'er was pregnant, so I simply prepared some wine to worship the ancestors of the Dong family."

"When you first returned to Xinjiang, the prime minister didn't let you marry the daughter of another doctor?"

"I found a concubine from the doctor's family, but Si'er has treated me with affection since childhood, and Dong Shi should also be my son-in-law."

"Yes, she met you when she was eight years old, and she has loved you for so many years, if you say that she is in love, no one can compare to her."

"Hmm."

"It's a pity that my wedding dress is only half embroidered, and I didn't attend your wedding. Otherwise, there will always be a relative who combs her hair, puts on her shoes, and accompanies her in the carriage of marriage...... "I sighed and opened my sore eyes, and a burst of crystal-like snow fell from the cedars beside the mountain road, and the snow swirled and shimmered brightly, all the way into my memory.

I closed my eyes, my heart drifting farther and farther away, and my body getting lighter and lighter. The sound of broken ice gradually faded away, and the wind whispered in my ear, Ah Shi, if he can't treat you like before, you can come back......