Chen Tao rubbed his temples, trying to calm his mood.

So far, everything has been like a mess of debris scattered around his mind.

He struggled to find out what was going on in the clueless fragments.

Maybe it was already in Uncle Long's plan from the time he went to Heizigou.

When Uncle Long met the bronze man in Suzhou, he had already negotiated cooperation with the Ye family, and all kinds of Heizigou were just a scene played by Uncle Long and Ye Rong to Yan's gang.

After that, Uncle Long arranged for the old cats to go to Heizigou to step on the plates, and cleverly created the "disappearance" of those people.

In fact, it is very likely that the old cats were already secretly going to Tatunaan at that time.

Taking advantage of this incident, Uncle Long took Yan and those people to Heizigou.

Chen Tao couldn't know the purpose of Uncle Long's doing, and after Heizigou came back, Uncle Long immediately followed the plan and asked Ye Rong to pretend to go to the desert by himself, and join the old cats waiting in the town, while he himself went to his real destination.

However, things didn't go according to Uncle Long's plan.

The appearance of the real Chen Tao disrupted all the original plans.

And the appearance of the Great Wizard is also an unexpected thing.

Chen Tao thought about it repeatedly, and finally found that the breakthrough point was in the two secret words left by the old cat.

Along the way, Chen Tao only saw two signals, once for Uncle Long and once for Chen Tao.

The first time I saw it was on a broken boat in the river,

It reads,

"Uncle Long is dangerous, there is someone behind."

According to the first information, it is speculated that the old cat should have been separated from Uncle Long pretended by Ye Rong very early.

The biggest possibility is that the old cat fell into the hands of the Great Wizard's gang.

And if Chen Tao guessed correctly, the old cat didn't know that Uncle Long was pretending to be Ye Rong.

At that time, Ye Rong found that the old cat was missing, so she went to track it down, and at this time, the great wizard left some people to deal with them.

So, the old cat in the team of great wizards secretly left a signal to remind Ye Rong.

And in the labyrinth, the old cat saw Haozi who was taken away by the great wizard and knew that Chen Tao had also come to the desert.

After that, Ye Rong and the others once again encountered the ambush of the Great Wizard's group and were trapped in the Karl Cave.

Maybe it was that time that the old cat discovered the mole in Ye Rong's team.

After that, there was the second code word.

In the Forest of the Dead, Chen Tao saw another sentence left by the old cat to himself.

"Little boss, Master Long is trapped in the Garr Cave, there are traitors in their team, be careful of Li Hao!"

At this time, the old cat already knew that Ye Rong and they were trapped, and reminded Chen Tao that there were moles among those people.

But the old cat didn't know that the mole turned out to be Yan.

He said to be careful Li Hao, he should have found that Haozi's body was manipulated by the witch, but in the end, Chen Tao still couldn't notice this.

Where the old cat went in the end, Chen Tao didn't know.

Because in the end, I never saw him again.

Along the way, the old cat has been looking for an opportunity to remind Chen Tao and Ye Rong in the back that judging from the afterimage in the black hole, the old cat may have encountered an accident in the Forest of the Dead.

These are all the things that Chen Tao can speculate.

After that, Chen Tao and the others rescued Ye Rong and went to the temple, and everything that happened afterwards happened.

In a trance, the car has entered the territory of Shanxi.

Chen Tao and Liang Shaokai said goodbye to the plaintiff, and finally contacted the family to pick them up and take them back to the ancient city.

Everything is still the same.

When Chen Tao lay down under the big tree in the courtyard again to enjoy the shade, he couldn't help but wonder if he was dreaming.

He still couldn't believe that he had actually gone to the place called Tatunaan.

However, the rat-headed mask that he had locked tightly in the cabinet told him.

It's all true.

The first thing Chen Tao did when he came back was to find the map that his grandfather left back and compare it with the tattoo on Ballohard's body taken on his mobile phone.

Sure enough, the two are basically similar, but the one left by grandpa has a lot of differences.

Grandpa's map should have been copied from Uncle Wang's body, and after coming out of Tatunaan, Grandpa made some corrections on the original basis.

Thinking of the relationship between Uncle Wang, Grandpa, and Tatunaan, Chen Tao felt that maybe only one person could tell him the answer.

Li Lao.

Just as he was about to get up, he was suddenly struck by something.

Chen Tao rubbed his thighs and took out the strange bracelet from his pocket.

The bracelet was found on the child's skeleton and had a unique style, not like an ordinary object.

Holding it in his hand, Chen Tao decided to go to Li Lao and ask him about it, perhaps, he would know the origin of this bracelet.

By the way, can you get some clues from Li Lao.

When he arrived at Li Lao's woodware shop, Haozi was introducing a delicate makeup box to the two young girls.

Seeing Chen Tao coming, his eyes glanced at him, and he waved his hand at Chen Tao, as if he was afraid that Chen Tao would come over and rob him of his peach blossom luck.

Chen Tao didn't have time to watch him fool around with his sisters, although they were all very beautiful.

These days, the life of a single dog is not easy!

Turning the front hall, Chen Tao drove to the back.

At this time, Li Lao was lying on the kang for a nap, covered with a black coat in the style of a Chinese tunics.

"What, which one did those two girls look at?" Old Man Li didn't move, but just opened his mouth.

"Well, that, Grandpa Li, it's me." Seeing that he woke up Elder Li, Chen Tao scratched the back of his head with some embarrassment.

"Oh, Tao Yanzi is here." Li Lao uncovered his clothes and sat up cross-legged.

Right now, it's afternoon meal.

Maybe it's because Chen Tao is here, Li Lao is in a very good mood today, he set up a small square table on the kang, opened a pot of wine, asked Haozi to go out to find a restaurant to buy a few hot dishes, and told the two of them a thrilling story of tomb robbery while eating.

"So, what happened to those three people,"

"If you want to know what happens next, and listen to my next breakdown!" Li Lao wiped a handful of gray beards and smiled at Chen Tao and Li Hao on the table.

The two of them were fascinated when they listened, and when they saw that their grandfather stopped talking, they were willing to give up. Chen Tao filled a glass of wine for Li Lao, and said unsatisfactorily:

"Grandpa Li, I've listened to you tell stories since I was a child, and you always stop when it's the most exciting, so it's not easy to come here, you can tell more about it!"

Li Laomi took a sip of the liquor in the cup, smacked his lips very aftertaste, and said:

"Hey, Tao Lingzi, what about this storytelling, what you want is to talk about nine points and leave one point. If you explain it thoroughly, then it won't be interesting, tomorrow, let's continue to talk about it!"

After speaking, he drank all the wine in the cup.

Seeing this, Chen Tao didn't ask any more. This is Li Lao's rule, no matter where he is, when he is telling a story, there is a piece of waking wood and a small cup of liquor on the desk. When the wine runs out, the book stops.

When Li Lao was young, he was a well-known storyteller here, and when he was a teenager in Beijing, he worshipped Zhou Yaoting, a famous storyteller at the time, as his teacher, and married his daughter Zhou Linglong.

After Zhou Yaoting died, he began to go to the rivers and lakes alone, and in order to support his family, he rushed to the bookstore everywhere. His superb storytelling skills allowed him to have a large audience and gradually became famous.

At the end of the Anti-Japanese War, it is said that a Japanese officer wanted to hear him speak, and he was unmoved by the invitation of the Japanese several times.

Several soldiers under the Japanese officer were anxious, and tied up Li Lao and escorted him to the barracks and locked him up.

It was also Li Lao's fate, and within a month of the Japanese army arresting him, Japan announced its surrender, and the Japanese evacuated in a hurry.

After being severely beaten by the Japanese, Li Lao was thrown into the street.

With such an experience, Li Lao became famous, people admired his patriotic backbone, and more and more guests came to listen to him.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, to catch up with the special period, Li Lao's family was sent to the countryside to the current place, and then opened a lacquerware shop in the county seat, but they never came to the stage to tell stories again.

Times have changed, a dazzling array of high-tech equipment and film and television works are flooding the lives of modern people, and those people and things of the older generation are disappearing and dying little by little, and finally buried in the dust of history and disappearing completely.

Only after tea and dinner, recalling the past, will Li Lao say that it is a glory that belongs to their generation.

Chen Tao and Li Hao loved to pester Li Lao to listen to stories when they were young, and naturally they also knew Li Lao's temper and habits, and when they saw him put down the wine cup, they changed the topic and talked about Chen Tao's grandfather.

"Your grandfather, that's an amazing man!"

Li Lao was silent for a long time, grabbed the wine cup, drank all the wine in one gulp, and sighed very disappointedly,

"Alas...... There are not many of those old guys back then......"

Listening to Elder Li's sigh, Chen Tao's heart became entangled. Looking at the gray-haired old man in front of him, he suddenly wanted to cry, people, after all, they can't beat the years. It's not that I'm afraid that I'll die, but watching the group of familiar people around me disappear one by one and never come back, what kind of sadness is that, Chen Tao can't understand it now.

"The current Spirit Alliance is not as good as before, people's hearts are scattered, and each has its own thoughts. As soon as your grandfather died, those individuals couldn't help it. Elder Li looked at Chen Tao.

"Tao Yanzi, the old Chen family and the Li family in the future will depend on you."

Li Lao's sudden call made Chen Tao a little confused. Although it is said that the death of grandpa did cause a great shock to the Spirit Alliance, as the leader of the entire alliance, grandpa's death was not a big blow to the alliance.

However, as a descendant of the Chen family, Chen Tao's father and several uncles never let themselves take over the family's business.

Although he lives in such a family, Chen Tao can be said to know nothing about his own family and the family's business. I also have to thank myself for learning something in four years of college, and I can barely get a start in Uncle Long's shop, otherwise, I can only queue up to go to the labor market to submit resumes everywhere.

Chen Tao asked himself, let him see if it was okay for the shop to sell things, and if he was in charge of the future of a family, he should pull it down.

"Back then, Gaozu set up mausoleum guards, and many of them were selected as many as 100 households. Now, scattered and scattered, if it weren't for your grandfather, I, Li Yixing, am afraid that I would have become an ordinary person long ago and would have been buried in the world. ”

Tomb keepers!

Chen Tao was taken aback.

Uncle Long once asked Chen Tao to remember a sentence.

The Chen family is a mausoleum keeper, not a tomb robber.

Don't.......

Chen Tao suppressed the excitement in his heart, and was afraid that Li Lao would suddenly cut off the topic, so he hurriedly added a glass of wine to him and spoke cautiously.

"Elder Li, what is the matter with the mausoleum keeper you are talking about?"