I glanced at the old man curiously and said secretly: Could this old man have some other conspiracy? Seeing that I was looking at him curiously, Elder Ying didn't speak, but also looked at me quietly, as if waiting for my reply.

Seeing this, I also asked, "I don't know, what did Elder Ying ask me to help me do?" ”

"Since your baby has spoken, I won't be polite to you." Old man Ying changed his old momentum and turned sharply, looked at me and said, "I want you to help me visit a tomb." ”

"What? Entering the tomb again? When I heard this, I was taken aback, and I was speechless for a long time when I saw the old man win.

"That's right, I followed Jiang Wazi just to use his connections to enter that place again one day." As he spoke, his eyes gradually returned to cloudiness, and he paused, then took out a worn-out silk book from his bosom and said, "This is the only thing I can bring out." As he spoke, the old man handed me the worn-out silk book in his hand.

I took the silk book and looked at it, and suddenly my whole body trembled, because I found that this shabby silk book was a thing from ancient times, that is to say, this silk book was something from the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods.

A burden involving the three ancient dynasties means that there will be a lot of secrets in it, and it is precisely because of the mystery of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties that bronze can win the supreme status in the antique world.

This is also why there are three pieces of ceramics in the antique world that are not as good as jade, and bronze antiquities are supreme. Now I know at a glance that this silk book is a thing in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, and all the seals are engraved with Zhong Dingwen, and some of them are engraved with the most primitive hieroglyphs.

This ten-centimeter-sized silk book is densely engraved with four or five hundred characters, and although I can recognize most of these characters, I really can't see anything at first glance.

However, there is a sentence in it that entered my field of vision for the first time, this passage is sealed in the lower right corner of the silk book, and it is written like this: Inherit the fortune of the sky, guard it for the sky.

This sentence is very different from the length of the whole text, this silk book is boxy, the length and width should be more than ten centimeters in size, the lines of handwriting on it are arranged vertically from the right to the left, and each paragraph has twelve to sixteen words.

The first sentence at the beginning should be what I understand: At a certain time in the first month of the lunar calendar, the evil dragon made a yellow disaster, and the natives of the two rivers were trapped by the water, and more than 31,200 died. As soon as I saw the first sentence, I was so shocked that I didn't dare to look down.

Because I was afraid that I would accidentally dig out a shocking secret, I quickly glanced around, and found that there were only me and Ying Lao in the stern of the boat, so I carefully wrote the silk book in my hand, and then looked at the old man in front of me and asked: "Ying Lao, where did you get this thing, and who else did you tell this thing?" ”

"Don't worry, only you have seen this thing except me." Seeing my cautious look, Elder Ying smiled and said, "I have been collecting this silk book for more than forty years, and now it has been almost half a lifetime, and I know that if I don't take it out, it may be another three or five years, and it will go into the coffin with me." ”

As he spoke, he sighed that time had passed, and I knew that this long silk book reminded the old man of some memories, so I didn't bother him, just stayed aside.

At this time, being a quiet listener is the most respectful behavior for the narrator, and sure enough, after a while, Ying Lao came to his senses from the memories, only to see him staring at the silk book in my hand and saying: "I have been dealing with the river all my life, and this thing also came out of the river, and the reason why I want to ask you to help me explore the tomb is because it hides a big secret, a secret that can subvert the world." ”

When I heard this, my body couldn't help but tremble again, the words of the old man were too shocking, a secret that can subvert the world, if this secret is known to me, then wouldn't I be able to subvert the world?

However, my stupid idea has just come out and been suppressed by my reason, it is now the 21st century, whether it is technology or people's thinking and ideas, it is no longer comparable to the ancients thousands of years ago, maybe the secret that Ying Lao said could really change the world at that time, or subvert the world, but now it may not be able to subvert the world.

After figuring it out, I calmed down, although I still had some doubts in my heart, but I didn't think about it anymore, so I asked the old man in front of me again: "Win Lao, you still tell me everything, now this has no beginning and no end, I don't know what's going on, even if I want to help you, I don't know where to start." ”

"Alas.. ..."Seeing me ask, Elder Ying sighed deeply, and then he said in a meaningful tone: "This matter is a long story, and this has to start with my ancestors..."

I listened to the past told me by Win Lao, and I couldn't help but be deeply shocked, because this old man's life is too rich, no, it should be said that this old man's experience is too magnificent, his life has experienced nine deaths, beloved parting, brothers sacrificing righteousness, relatives to death, and finally begging.

It can be said that in addition to not experiencing great wealth and wealth in his life, he has tried all the ups and downs, and it is no wonder that no matter what scene this old man sees or encounters, he can maintain a calm and calm normality, this is not pretending, but a kind of life experience, a kind of bearish performance.

To be honest, until now I didn't know that Ying Lao was not surnamed Win, but surnamed Bai, called Bai Yingshi, and people gave him the nickname Stinky Baishi, this nickname was given to him by others, and when Ying Lao told me about this nickname, his expression couldn't help but show a helpless smile.

I know that this old man also has a cute side, he is not a person who talks about life all the time, Bai Yingshi is a native of the Yellow River in Henan, and his family lives in a small village in the lower reaches of the Three Gorges, and the population of that small village is not large, only 200 people from Shanghai.

There are only three surnames in the whole village, one is the surname He, one is the surname Zhao, and the other is the surname Bai.

However, because there is a strange rule in their village, that is: no outsiders, no income, no daughters are not married, and men are not foreigners. What this rule says is: their village does not keep outsiders, does not accept men from outside, those who have daughters in the village cannot marry far away, and those who have sons cannot go to other places to be sons-in-law.

It is also this strange rule that has led to the fact that their village has always been with these three surnames, which have never changed for hundreds of years, so the original village name has long been discontinued, and it is called the village with three surnames by other villages.

Ying Lao is a member of the village with three surnames, and their village has only relied on two kinds of crafts for generations, one is the Yellow River craftsman, the other is the Yellow River river guard, the craftsman is the boat runner in the south, and the Yellow River river protector is the person who specializes in managing the Yellow River floods and sacrifices.

In the village where they were born, they would spend half of their lives on the river, sometimes even on boats for months.

If the people of the three villages were born on the river, the name would replace the name of the word "Daishui" and "Daixi", and then they would become the Yellow River craftsmen, and if they were born on the shore, they would replace the words of mountains and rocks or soil as the name, and then they would become the Yellow River river guards.

For example, Win Lao was born on the shore, that year Win Lao's mother because she was pregnant with him and his brother and a younger brother, Win Lao ranked second, it can be said that she was pregnant with one or three triplets, because the triplets were too heavy, so his mother did not follow Win Lao's father in the boat.

But this is just to win the old and his mother is special, their village has a rule, the wife does not leave the husband, the son does not leave the mother, so in their village, even if the woman is pregnant, as long as the husband goes out of the boat, they have to follow.

But Ying Lao's mother is an exception, but it is precisely because his mother did not run the boat with Ying Lao's father that Ying Lao got off the shore, so he is called Bai Yingshi, and his brother is called Bai Shan, and his younger brother is called Bai Yinglei.

Their Bai family has three brothers, but their father hopes that they can be a Yellow River craftsman, Ying Lao's father is called Bai Baihe, and his grandfather is called Bai Lang.

So even if Ying Lao and his three brothers were born on the shore, and finally became Yellow River craftsmen, but it may be destined by God that Ying Lao was running a boat with his father when he was thirteen years old, who knew that there was a big flood that year, and the whole village was flooded.

Of the more than 200 families in the village, only less than 20 of them survived because they braved the rainy season to get out of the boat, and it happened that Ying Lao's family was like this, and then after the flood stopped, Ying Lao's father found out that his old father was missing.

Although the whole village was flooded that year, none of the dead were swept away by the flood, and all of them died strangely, either lying in bed or drowning in the courtyard of their homes.

But what is even more strange is that the flood lasted for five days, and the whole village was flooded for five days, but although the dead villagers were soaked in the water, none of them were swollen because they were soaked in the water.

What's even more puzzling is that those people are still very comfortable when they die, and their bodies are not contaminated with any sediment except for being covered in the Yellow River, this strange way of death stunned the remaining 20 or so families, and scared the young old man out of the shadow of childhood.

Later, when these more than 20 people were buried in the corpse, they found that Ying Lao's grandfather Bai Lang was gone, and at first the river thought it was washed away by the flood, but he thought about it and it was not right, why was only his father washed away by the flood?

Thinking about it like this, his father Bai He also felt that something was wrong, because Bai Lang happened to be the contemporary village chief of the three-surnamed village, and because their village was weird and special, the village chief of each generation was equal to the previous generation of village chiefs, and the position of the village head could only be succeeded by the patriarch candidate among the three-surnamed clansmen.

Now all the people in a village are dead, but only his father is gone, which makes the remaining 20 or so families suspicious of the old Ying family, who has known the special nature of their village since he was a child, and as the head of a village, he has mastered a lot of secrets that have been passed down from ancient times in their village.

These secrets have been passed down by the village chiefs for generations, but as a member of the three-surnamed village, even if Ying Lao doesn't know, he has heard some gossip, and those surviving villagers have pointed their guns at Ying Lao's family after thinking about things at that time, and asked them to make things clear about whatever they say

Otherwise, they will be driven out of the village with the three surnames.