"Zhao Changze, you're the only one left......"

The old man grinned and showed a mouthful of black and yellow teeth, and smiled ugly and terrifying, and now he said that he was a bad person who hooked souls, and I also believed it.

"Who the hell are you!"

I was scared and angry in my heart, and quickly picked up the knife on the ground, now I am a rotten life, even if it is a ghost, I can fight!

"Young people are impulsive ......"

The old man lowered his head and blew on the undried ink, closed the book and handed it to the hoodie next to him: "Old Ma, give it to him." ”

Then I looked at the old horse, a young man with no character, the kind that would never be noticed in the crowd.

He walked over and handed me the book with a blank face, and the four big words "Zhao Family Tree" on the book shook my eyes.

My face was full of astonishment, and my expression must have been ugly, and I slowly put the knife back on the stove, and took the family tree with shaking hands, only to feel extremely heavy.

"Baby, watch first, after reading it, the old man will tell you a story."

I opened the family tree from back to front, the last page was my name and year of birth, and the second page was written with the name of my father Zhao Deren.

My shoulders trembled unconsciously, I was on the last page, does it mean that the Zhao family will really be cut off in my generation?

When I raised my eyes, I saw the old man smiling at me, and I swallowed my saliva and continued to scroll forward, silently counting the birth and death years of my ancestors.

His father was born in 1973 and died in 2018 at the age of 46.

My grandfather was born in 1952 and died in 1993 at the age of 42.

Great-grandfather was born in 1930 and died in 1954 at the age of 25.

My great-grandfather was born in 1908 and died in 1954 at the age of 47.

Going back further, those ancestors all lived to be more than fifty years old, and occasionally died young, and the reasons are all clearly recorded, only from the generation of the great-grandfather, there is no record of the cause of death.

I read the pages of my great-grandfather and great-grandfather over and over again, and my father said that my great-grandfather died unexpectedly, but why is there no reason in the family tree? And the year he died was the same as his great-grandfather, but less than two weeks late.

I closed the family tree and forced myself to show momentum: "Why is my family tree with you, who are you?" ”

The old man laughed dryly, like an old grinding creak, and he raised his hand and pointed at me like a dead branch: "After reading it, just ask this?" ”

I looked at his irritability for no reason: "If you want to say it, say it, if you don't want to say it, leave!" ”

The old man's eyes obviously flashed with disappointment, and I suddenly felt very uncomfortable, as if to say, I am the only one left in the Zhao family, but I am still so immature.

I sighed in my heart, went into the inner room and took two stools, one for the old horse, and the other sat on my own, facing the old man: "You say, I listen." ”

"Okay," the old man narrowed, "then I'll start at the beginning." ”

"My name is Chen Guangwen, I am a friend of your great-grandfather, if your great-grandfather is still alive, he should be the same age as me, my eye and this leg are all owed to me.

Do you think your family's blood curse started in your grandfather's generation? Hehe, it's early. ”

What do you mean?!

I resisted the urge to jump, and I copied the genealogy, and turned to the front, only to see a strange thing drawn on the first page of the genealogy, and a touch of red in the middle was particularly conspicuous.

I didn't care, I turned to the next page, it was a long time ago, the day should be more than 400 years ago, but he died and lived for eighty-seven.

The same is true for a few more pages, and there is no death from the blood curse at all.

I put the family tree back, only to see Old Man Chen laughing again, the scars on his face becoming distorted, shaking like earthworms, ugly and terrifying.

"Don't look at it, it's only been a few years?" Old man Chen waved his hand, "It's been too long, I can't keep it, don't you want to know why your family tree is in my hands, it was given to me by your great-grandmother herself." ”

I quieted down and looked at him quietly, and Old Man Chen squinted again, like a root carving with clothes on.

"My family's ancestors are doing the work of asking God to send gods, and the gods and ghosts know a little bit about ghosts, if it weren't for your great-grandfather's face, he wouldn't have gone so far, the blood curse was not solved, and one eye and one leg were wasted."

"Your family's blood curse is all derived from that ancient jade, you look at the first page of the family tree, it is it."

I hurriedly took the genealogy and opened it, I didn't look at it carefully, but now I found that the first page was glued later, and the paper with the ancient jade was extremely rough and old, I don't know what age it is.

"The genealogy you are looking at now was re-transcribed by your great-grandfather, and the piece of paper that painted the jade was cut from the previous one."

"But at least four hundred years ago, there was no blood curse in my family." I muttered, looking at the strange piece of jade.

This is a piece of jade with a sharp end and a round end, with an obvious curvature, it looks a bit like the nail covers worn by the concubines in the Qing court drama, if the size in the painting is the real size, at least more than ten centimeters long.

The jade is engraved with dense twisted lines, and if you look closely, there seem to be rules to follow, like some kind of ancient text, for some reason, I feel uncomfortable for no reason when I look at this distorted pattern.

These patterns resemble the strange string of symbols on my father's spine, but they are distinctly different, but I am sure they belong to the same system, and the strangest thing is that there is a touch of red in the middle of the jade, which is drawn with a cinnabar pen, and the red curves with the arc of the jade, which looks strange and inexplicable.

"The shortest history of this piece of jade is more than 600 years, even if it is the last family tree, it should only be painted in the past."

"What the hell is this, how do you know so clearly?!"

I felt very irritable and threw the family tree directly on the stove, making a heavy muffled noise.

Old man Chen didn't even open his eyes, and said without hurry: "Baby, do you know that the Yangtze River has been cut off twice in Taixing, Jiangsu." ”

is talking about jade, why is it the Yangtze River again?

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and I felt that the secret of the blood curse was right in front of me, but I couldn't grasp anything.

"That's it, you're so impatient, if you go, you'll die, it's better to live in peace for twenty years, do whatever you want, and it's not in vain to go through the world."

Old man Chen's tone suddenly cooled down, I only felt a chill all around, and the feeling of irritability disappeared, seeing the old horse get up, he quickly stood up: "Don't go, I'll listen, I'll listen!" ”

Old man Chen opened his eyes and looked at me, his eyes were straight and hooked: "If you want to listen, listen to it in peace, my limit is approaching, if you miss it, you can only wait for death!" ”

I sat back on the stool, and he saw that my whole body was hairy, and I quickly spoke: "I don't know what the Yangtze River is broken." ”

Old man Chen closed his eyes again: "In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1342, in the eighth lunar month of that year, the Yangtze River in Taixing, Jiangsu Province was cut off, and on January 13, 1954, this situation appeared again. ”

1954 year!

My heart jumped and I took the family tree and flipped to the page of my great-grandfather, where the year of his death was January 13, 1954!

"What the hell is going on...... I felt my voice tremble.

"This matter has to start with this piece of jade, I am shallow, I don't know what big people your ancestors have offended, and they will give you this kind of poisonous curse, some things I also heard from your great-grandfather.

This jade of your family has been around for a long time, and the spell on it is extremely evil, it is rumored that your ancestors have found countless masters to explore, and no one can unlock this curse, but in the end it is an unknown Taoist priest in the rivers and lakes who said a way.

He said that this piece of jade yang qi is extremely heavy, and it should be a holy object in itself, but for some reason it contains monstrous resentment, and the spell of the Zhiyang engraved by the jade people has become a spell that can burn people's souls, and the way to lift it is probably only known to the jade people, and what he said can only be temporarily suppressed.

His method of suppression was to find a Yin Ancient Tomb and place it in the coffin of the tomb owner, and only if the tomb owner was older than the age of the ancient jade. ”

"So...... In Taixing, Jiangsu? I tentatively spoke.

"Yes, the ancient woman is yin and water is yin, if you want to suppress it, you need a tomb of a woman near the water, this Taoist priest has traveled all over the world, and he really knows such a place, he is proficient in feng shui, and knows that there must be a woman's tomb there, so he told your ancestors, as for the age of the tomb, he can't be sure, everything is based on luck.

Maybe your family's life should not be extinguished, it is a tomb in the late Spring and Autumn Period, in 1342, your ancestors suppressed jade here, since then the blood curse has been lifted, and there has been nothing wrong for more than 600 years.

And at the beginning of 1954, your great-grandfather suddenly died of the blood curse, and the repression failed, and your great-grandfather asked me to find out, but he died there before I saw the main coffin, and I escaped at the cost of one eye and one leg.

Your grandfather was only three years old that year, and your great-grandmother didn't want him to take any more risks, so she gave me the Zhao family tree, and would rather all your children and grandchildren die because of the blood curse than let me tell the truth, and now there is only one left in the Zhao family, if I don't say it, I will ......"

"Then what should I do now, go and take it out and find another woman's grave?"

I heard the despair in my heart, my great-grandfather died there before he saw the main coffin, who knows what is in the tomb, look at the shocking scar of the old man Chen, it must be nine deaths and a lifetime, I am a person who has read books for half a lifetime, wouldn't it be sent to death if I go in?

Old Man Chen was silent, and I took a deep breath: "You said what is in the tomb, I'll go." ”

Old Man Chen still didn't say a word, and I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart, and rushed forward to probe under Old Man Chen's nose with my finger.

No breath!

I retracted my hand suddenly, and the old horse's face changed, and he raised his hand to touch the carotid artery of Old Man Chen, and then leaned down and put his ear close to his chest.

"Master!"

After a long time, the old horse finally broke out with a long roar.

For a moment, I looked at him, he looked at me, and both of them were at a loss in their eyes.

"That, the dead are the greatest, how can you go to the ground for peace, where is your master's house, let's send him back?"

I felt my tongue knotted, and what I said didn't taste like anything at all.