Hearing Xiong Ming's words, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly asked, "What?" The last hint that kidnapped the old man gave you was actually me? ”

Xiong Ming nodded and said, "That's right! ”

After speaking, Xiong Ming took out a photo from his pants pocket and handed it to me.

I took the photo and looked at it, and found that it was a group photo of me, Xiong Ming and Hou Dayong when they were children. In the photo, Hou Dayong was somehow drawn a cross with a red pen, while I was drawn a circle on my head with a black pen.

I looked at the photo for a while before I frowned and said slowly, "This guy gave it to you?" ”

Xiong Ming nodded and said, "Hmm! Tied to the neck of a big yellow dog, it was brought to me. ”

I said, "But, how did this guy have this picture?" I remember that this photo was only the three of us back then, right? ”

Xiong Ming sighed: "I also want to know where this guy got this photo." ”

Xiong Ming said as he reached out and took the photo back, flipped it in his hand, and then handed it to me again, saying, "It's not just a little bit that is strange, what do you look at this?" I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't know what he meant. ”

I took the photo and glanced at the back of it, only to see that someone had written a string of numbers with a gel pen on it, "Two...... Seven...... Four...... Seven...... Seven...... Six....... ”

I almost screamed in astonishment, and exclaimed, "It's the numbers again!" ”

Seeing that I was so surprised, Xiong Ming hurriedly asked, "What?" Do you know this string of numbers? ”

I nodded yes.

Xiong Ming hurriedly asked, "Then what does this string of numbers mean?" ”

At this moment, Hua Muling, who had not spoken on the side, suddenly spoke: "It is the last six digits of the number of a confidential file. ”

Xiong Ming looked at Hua Muling in surprise and asked, "Confidential files?" Confidential dossier about what? ”

Hua Muling replied: "The content of the file is about the Japanese invasion of China in 1943, which was a covert operation. ”

Xiong Ming asked, "So according to that, you have already obtained the confidential file?" ”

Hua Muling nodded, and then took a yellowed brown paper bag from the table on the side, and the words "Sealed by the Confidential Archives of the XX Bureau, Time: ...... 1976" were written on white paper.

Hua Muling handed the confidential file to my hand and said, "I have already read this file roughly, now you are looking at it!" Let's see if we can find any clues from inside. ”

I nodded, didn't say anything, and reached for the file bag. Then, I skillfully bypassed the white thread wrapped around the brown paper bag, pulled out the confidential file from it, and carefully flipped through it.

"The incident recorded in the confidential file happened one day in June 1943, when a commander named Muto Juno of the 763rd Group Army of the Japanese Army stationed in Guizhou inadvertently captured a captain who touched gold, and found a human skin map depicting a tomb in the Tang Dynasty and a white jade official seal of the four beasts on his body.

After carefully studying the human skin map and the official seal, he found that the tomb recorded on the map was related to the Fountain of Immortality in Nanzhao Kingdom, which had disappeared for nearly a thousand years, and the white jade seal of the four beasts was the key to opening the underground palace.

As a result, Muto Shino immediately ordered the establishment of an infantry squadron with special functions on the basis of the original military establishment, named the Seventh Squadron.

The 7th Squadron, with a total of 274 men, was based on the original 154-man squadron, with 90 engineers and two 15-man artillery squads, and was also equipped with a 70mm Type 92 infantry gun. The main task of this seventh squadron is to follow the route on the map into Songtao Mountain in Guizhou and excavate the tomb of the Tang Dynasty.

A month later, the establishment of the 7th Squadron was completed, and Muto Tono, as the supreme commander, personally commanded the 7th Squadron and threatened to lead the way for him by coercing the captain to lead the way.

Captain Touching Gold originally didn't want to lead the way for Muto Shino, but Muto Shino's methods were very cruel, and Captain Touching Jin couldn't resist it, so he could only obediently lead the way for him and enter Songtao Mountain......"

I quickly flipped through the pages of the file, but what struck me was strange was that the confidential document was suddenly broken when I saw it, and the middle pages were taken away by someone who didn't know how.

Seeing that I listened to it, Xiong Ming asked loudly, "Hu Tian, what's wrong?" ”

I frowned and said, "There are many pages in this file that I don't know who took them away, as if I deliberately didn't want us to know how the Japanese squadron entered Songtao Mountain back then. ”

Hua Muling said on the side, "You also noticed this? If I'm not mistaken, the middle of the content should have been taken by that person. But why he took those pages, I couldn't figure it out. Don't want us to read it? Or will those contents reveal his identity? Or ......"

"Don't do it again!" Xiong Ming said loudly: "I said Hu Tian, those pages are gone, they are gone!" Isn't there anything else to come! Take a quick look at the rest and see if there are any useful clues. ”

"Hmmm! Mighty Bear is right! "With that, I stopped dwelling on what had been taken away, but calmed down and concentrated on digging through the remaining pages of the classified file.

According to the records in the archives, three and a half months have passed in the blink of an eye. Muto Shino and his seventh squadron have already entered the dungeon, but the seventh squadron, which originally had 274 people, counted the captain who led the way, and there were only eight people left.

However, Muto Juno, who had lost his troops, finally found something in the coffin of the tomb, which was a black wooden box, which is said to contain the spring of immortality that can make people immortal.

But just when Muto Shino was about to take the immortal spring water to the outer palace, an accident suddenly happened, the underground palace tomb began to shake non-stop, the mountain began to collapse, and large pieces of mountain rocks fell, sealing the original way out, Muto Shino and the remaining soldiers were hit by the falling rocks and died on the spot.

And the captain who touched the gold took advantage of the chaos to escape with the white jade seal of the four beasts, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.

At present, the official only knows the surname of the captain who led the way - Hu! ”

Originally, I just looked back a little plainly, but when I saw that the surname of the Captain of the Touching Gold was Hu, my whole person was not calm all of a sudden.

It is no exaggeration to say that when I saw that Hu, the whole person almost jumped up from the Luohan bed.

I said loudly, "Is it ...... Could it be that the captain who led the way to Muto Shino back then was the Captain who touched the gold...... Is that my grandfather? ”

Hua Muling frowned and said, "If the content recorded in this confidential document is true, then ninety percent of the people who led Muto Shiye and his seventh squadron into the Songtaoshan Tomb back then were old man Hu Zijing. ”

I looked at Hua Muling, then looked at Second Master Xu and asked, "Uncle Xu, do you know about this?" ”

Second Master Xu shook his head and said, "Little Master Hu, I don't know anything about what is said in this confidential document, I don't know anything about it. I've been in the Hu family and Yiyuanzhai for nearly thirty-five years, and I've never heard Old Man Hu mention this, let alone me, I guess even Master Hu is choked enough to know. ”

I frowned and pondered for a while, then raised my head and said slowly: "No wonder that guy wants the token of our family's door so much, it turns out that the square seal is the key to opening this Songtao Mountain Tomb." From this point of view, that guy wasted so much effort just to let me take another trip to the road my grandfather walked back then, and enter Songtao Mountain again. ”

Hua Muling listened to my words and asked on the side: "However, since that person wants you to go to Songtao Mountain again, why did he involve us together?" ”

Xu Erye said on the side: "This may be related to the Wuzi Rebellion sixty years ago. ”

I asked in surprise, "The Wuzi Rebellion?" What is it? ”

Second Master Xu nodded and said slowly: "I remember that when I was still very young, Old Man Hu once mentioned to me the Wuzi Rebellion. Xu Erye took out a pack of red and black packaging of China from his pocket, took out a stick from it and lit it, did not smoke it, but pondered for a while before slowly continuing: "The so-called Wuzi Rebellion occurred six years after the incident recorded in the confidential archives, and I remember that the specific time should be the third day of the fourth month of the Wuzi year. At that time, New China was about to be founded, and all the forces on the rivers and lakes were very chaotic. But at this time, a person suddenly found Old Man Hu, who was the head of the Lower Eight Gates at the time, and told him that he had found the Fountain of Immortality buried deep in the ground of Nanzhao Kingdom thousands of years ago. ”

Second Master Xu took a puff of cigarette, paused, and then slowly continued: "This news was not only known to Old Man Hu at that time, but the heads of the other doors were also present. However, Old Man Hu has been gone for seven years......"

Xiong Ming saw that Second Master Xu spoke very slowly, so he couldn't help but ask, "What happened later?" ”

Xu Erye took another puff of cigarette and said slowly: "Later, they came back. But only six of the brothers of the hundred and ten came back alive, and Old Man Hu was one of them. And they are crazy, stupid, wounded, and disabled, but one thing is the same, that is, the six of them seem to have been greatly stimulated, and each of them is silent about the incident of going into the mountains to find the grave, no matter who it is, no matter what way it is, they can't ask even a little bit of news. ”

I asked, "Where is it next?" ”

Xu Erye said lightly: "Later, I don't know who released the news on the rivers and lakes, saying that Old Man Hu and the six of them got the spring water of immortality, not only that, but also the treasures that were buried in the ground by the six countries of Nanzhao to fight against the Tang Dynasty. This is good, in response to the sentence 'the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty', the people on the rivers and lakes began to hunt down the six people who survived that year, no matter who they wanted, they hoped to get a piece of the pie, even if it was just a small point, they felt that it was enough to make their lives worry-free. ”