I had already lost interest in Yang Lao, and suddenly received a call from Yang Lao, and my nerves immediately tensed, he didn't know whether he was telling me or the truth, in short, it had aroused my appetite to the greatest extent, I didn't say a word, hung up the phone directly, and took a taxi straight to Yang's house.

This time is the rush hour after work, the traffic in Beijing is like this, once it is blocked, it is more uncomfortable than constipation, my brother is simply complaining all the way, and it is already midnight when I arrive at Yang's house.

I got out of the car and saw that the lights in Yang's house were still on except for the living room, and all the lights were off, it seemed that Yang Lao was still waiting for me, so it seemed that Yang Lao was indeed interested in me, otherwise it would be impossible to wait for me for so long.

I stepped forward and rang the doorbell, but it was not the little nanny who came out to pick me up, but a young man in his twenties, polite and polite, but his face was a little dull, giving people a feeling of kidney deficiency, this buddy shook hands with me as soon as he opened the door: "Concern, right?" Hello, my name is Liu Wei, a student of Mr. Yang. ”

It turned out to be a self-cooked, I shook hands with him, and said in my heart Liu Wei, your name really matches your face, the abbreviation of Liuwei Dihuang Pill.

"Elder Yang is already waiting for you, come with me." Liu Wei said and invited me into the living room.

The living room was smoky, the room was full of the smell of nicotine, Yang Lao and two strangers were sitting on the sofa smoking, on the ebony coffee table, there was a bronze statue, and there was an incense burner in front of the bronze statue.

As soon as Elder Yang saw me coming in, he immediately stood up and said, "Little brother, let's meet again, welcome, welcome." ”

I couldn't help but feel a little flattered when I saw that this guy's attitude had completely changed from the first time I came, and the two strangers also got up one after another when they saw Yang Lao stand up. Then I listened to Mr. Yang's introduction, the middle-aged man among the strangers was called Lao Fan, who was in the antique business, and the young man who was about the same age as Liu Wei was called Li Guodong, who was also a student of Mr. Yang.

After a few simple greetings, Yang Lao invited me to sit down, and I said in my heart why I was so enthusiastic all of a sudden, it shouldn't be hard, but soft, right?

Yang Lao said: "It's not too early, let's go straight to the point." Then he looked at the others and asked me again: "Little brother, don't hide it, tell me, are you a descendant of the Siberian Tiger?" ”

When I saw it, there were four people on his side, and they were all sitting around me, and I was shocked, it's broken, this guy shouldn't be trying to force a confession, right?

Yang Lao smiled: "Don't think crookedly, I just want to make sure if you are the descendant of the Siberian Tiger, if not, I can't tell this secret, this doesn't seem to be too much." ”

I nodded, it's really not too much, then I won't hide it from you, I am indeed the son of Guan Ye of the Siberian Tiger.

Elder Yang and the others had obviously expected it before, but when I said this, the four of them were still moved. Then I heard Yang Lao say: "That's right, no wonder the corpse silkworm is afraid of you." ”

I smiled and said, "Okay, since your identity has been confirmed, then let's get down to business, I don't want to hear anything else, I just want to know the origin of the tiger tattoo." ”

Yang Lao nodded, patted me on the shoulder and said to me, "Don't worry, I'll show you something." After speaking, he glanced at Lao Fan.

Lao Fan leaned over and took the bronze statue, turned the bronze statue over, and saw that there were three turntables set together under the bronze statue, the smallest one had four boys on the top, eight in the middle, and sixteen in the outermost periphery.

Yang Lao explained: "This bronze statue is actually an eight-treasure rotor brocade box, now called a combination lock, it took me eight years to open it, the wisdom of the ancients, it is really self-evident." ”

Lao Fan turned the three turntables in no order, and later put the three words together, and then there was a ticking sound inside the bronze statue, and finally clicked, the three turntables popped out, and a fist-sized, copper tiger head fell out of it, and the strange thing is that the lines on the tiger's head were dense, like fish scales.

Yang Lao picked up the tiger's head, put it in the incense burner and stained it with incense ash, and then blew it hard, and then I found that the incense ash that was not blown off was left in some gaps on the tiger's head, forming dense seal characters, but after all, I couldn't guess what the intention was.

Lao Fan unfolded the scroll, Li Guodong took out a spotlight flashlight and shone it in the back, and those strange symbols appeared again.

I don't know what they're up to, so I can just watch quietly. Yang Lao nodded at them, and the others put away the scroll again, and then Yang Lao wiped off the incense ash on the tiger's head and put it back into the bronze statue.

Yang Lao looked at me with a confused face, and smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, listen to me explain to you." The text on this painting, called Guo Gong Secret Text, was written by Guo Pu, a native of the Jin Dynasty, and a huge secret was recorded in it. No one can translate this kind of secret text, even Guo Pu's disciples, and they can't see one or two of it. ”

I said in my heart, you just blow it, no one can translate it, how do you know that it is called Guo Gong Cipher? Could it be that Guo Putuo dreamed of giving it to you?

Yang Lao continued: "I couldn't translate it at first, but then I discovered the mystery of this eight-treasure rotor brocade box, and I found the answer to the ciphertext. The tiger head you just saw, called the dragon scale child tiger, the text on it, is the annotation of Guo Gong's ciphertext, to put it bluntly, it is a dictionary dedicated to translating Guo Gong's ciphertext, but it is not complete, this dragon scale boy tiger only translated part of the ciphertext, I think there are other dragon scale children and tigers. ”

I was already starting to get impatient, took out a cigarette, took a puff and said, "Old man, please pick up the key points, what you are saying now should be about your students, I am really not interested in this." ”

Lao Fan suddenly glared at me, and was about to have a seizure, Yang Lao waved his hand to make him quiet, and then smiled at me and said: "Young people are anxious, but this is not a hurry, you better take advantage of the old man's interest and listen patiently, otherwise I will be sleepy and want to rest halfway, won't you torture to death tonight?" ”

I snorted, noncommittal.

Yang Lao continued: "This part I translated records the story of Mu Tianzi's journey back to the west on a horse."

"No, old man, aren't you fooling me?" I heard the signs at once, and said: "Don't bully me for being young, we have also seen "The Legend of Mu Tianzi", don't you use myths and stories to prevaricate me?"

Yang Lao waved his hand and asked me not to interrupt, and then said: "I was also confused at first, Guo Pu once annotated "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", everyone knows the story of Mu Tianzi, there is no need to make it into a ciphertext, but some bizarre stories are written later, which proves that this Mu Tianzi is not the son of Mu Tianzi. ”

I was stunned: "Two Mu Tianzi? How is this possible? Yang Lao said: "In ancient times, there were three people who were called Mu Tianzi, one is the veritable King Mu of Zhou, the real Mu Tianzi. The other is Qin Mugong, who was also called Mu Tianzi by someone in the pre-Qin at that time. There is also a former emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, called Tuoba Yilu, who was posthumously named Emperor Mu, also known as Mu Tianzi.

Guo Pu said that this Mu Tianzi's journey to the west is a very secret thing, those who know were killed, but only let go of Guo Pu, the secret text said that Mu Tianzi left from Xinping City, the country spread the bad news that the emperor was killed by his son Liuxiu, the whole country mourned, three years later, Mu Tianzi returned, took immortality unsuccessfully, collapsed on the way home, six repairs asked Guo Pu to build a tomb, buried Mu Tianzi in Daxianbei Mountain. When the body of the Son of Heaven is highly poisonous, those who are close to him are all dead, only one person is not afraid, and several people with the dead will bury the body of the Son of Heaven into the tomb, and only one person is left when he comes out, this person has an open chest**, and there is a tiger tattoo on his chest, and everyone thinks that the gods and men are stabbed. ”

I started to get nervous and said: "I didn't understand the first half, but I seem to understand the back, you mean that Mu Tianzi's body was highly poisonous when he died, and he died when he got close, but there was one person who was not afraid, and organized a death squad to bury Mu Tianzi in the grave, and then only that person came out, and there was an extra tiger tattoo on his chest." ”

Yang Lao nodded: "The meaning is almost the same." This is the origin of the tiger tattoo, but obviously it is not so simple, some of the details must be hidden in the ciphertext, but unfortunately only these can be translated now, but one thing can be inferred, the tiger tattoo must be related to the burial of Mu Tianzi. ”

I nodded, but I didn't understand a little, which Mu Tianzi is this Mu Tianzi?

Yang Lao smiled: "I judge that it is the Emperor Mu of the country, Tuoba Yilu." You see, it is said that after Mu Tianzi left Xinping City, during the Jin Dynasty, today's Shanyin County, Shanxi Province was called Xinping City, which was the territory of the Dai Kingdom at that time. And it also said that the bad news that the emperor was killed by his son Liuxiu, the official history records that Tuoba Yilu wanted to abolish Chang Liyu, and the eldest son Tuoba Liuxiu killed his father to ascend the throne in a fit of anger, which is more consistent with what the ciphertext says, but the meaning of the ciphertext is that Liuxiu killed his father to cover his father's journey to the west, in fact, Mu Tianzi did not die, but secretly traveled to the west, and killed all those who knew it, but only let Guo Pu go, proving that Guo Pu was also an insider, and he also recorded this matter in ciphertext. Later, it was said that Mu Tianzi came back three years later, and he failed to seek immortality, I think this Tuoba Yilu also wanted to learn from King Mu of Zhou, looking for the Queen Mother of the West to seek immortality, it is estimated that he was inspired by reading "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", and it happened that Guo Pu made annotations to "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", and he knew this book well, which may also be the reason why Guo Pu was not killed. ”

I listened to Yang Lao's analysis very reasonable, but I didn't understand one thing, so I asked: "But these don't explain how the tiger tattoo came about?" ”

Elder Yang nodded: "That's right, but there is one thing, that person's tiger tattoo was only created when he came out of Mu Tianzi's tomb, I think something must have happened when he went in to bury Mu Tianzi." ”

I thought to myself, but unfortunately the rest of the ciphertext could not be translated, as if God was playing a joke on me, trying to whet my appetite.

Yang Lao smiled: "I want to find out how the tattoo came about, what happened to that person when he buried Mu Tianzi, why everyone else was poisoned by Mu Tianzi's body, but that person didn't, there is only one way, that is, find the place where Mu Tianzi is buried, and go in and take a look." ”

I'll just say how to get in? Can you find the tomb of Tuoba Yilu?

Yang Lao shook his head and said: "This needs experience, from the ciphertext you can know the burial location of Tuoba Yilu, Da Xianbei Mountain, that is, the northern section of today's Daxing'an Mountains, the ciphertext mentions a place name of the Great Xing'an Mountains, Gaxian Valley, after I have explored in many ways, after thousands of years, this Gaxian Valley is still there, but it was renamed by the locals, called Jiajiaogou, Emperor Mu Tuoba Yilu was buried in this valley, I think with the old man's attainments in feng shui, it should not be a problem to find Tuoba Yilu's tomb." ”