Since then, Liu Ranqing's temperament has changed greatly, either he can't stay out all day long, or he won't come back for a year and a half, and when he comes back, he hides in the study, and no one is seen, and when he wants to go out, he asks the family to prepare a large number of silver tickets. Fortunately, Liu Yue, the eldest son in the family, is smart and studious, proficient in the world, and manages the huge family business in an orderly manner, which is faintly better than in the past. Even so, he can only barely provide for this ruined father. Twenty years later, Liu Ranqing died in his study after returning from a three-year trip, leaving nothing but thick notes and a painting.

The Liu family found these notes and drawings while sorting out the relics, but no one could read the words on the notes. Although they don't understand it, they all think that this is the treasure that Liu Ranqing traveled all over the world in the second half of his life for future generations, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie, lest it be monopolized by others. In the end, Liu Yue came out to turn the tide, announcing that the Liu family would rely on craftsmanship to eat, not relying on the blessing of the ancestors, and burned the notes and silk paintings in public, so that it was a matter of fact, and it was inevitable that some people would complain at the beginning, but after a long time, the family fortune was still prosperous, and the life was comfortable, and the story of this festival was slowly forgotten.

"Then according to what you said, even if your ancestor has passed in this life, except for the craftsmanship, he has not even left a little scum, what does this have to do with him?" I heard the flaw and interjected decisively.

Liu Shifu glanced at me and ignored me.

I was bored, my heart was a little angry, and I was about to speak when I saw the gloomy meaning in his eyes, and my eyebrows were quietly lying on my face, and my heart moved, so I didn't interject again.

It turned out that every time Liu Ranqing's notes were made into a volume, he had to find a skilled craftsman to carve all its contents into a set of jade objects, and each volume was different. Liu Yue had a pair of white jade cricket jars in his hand, which contained the last volume of notes, but it was a pity that Liu Yue didn't know about this section, thinking that all the notes were in his palm, but he didn't know that there was only one volume in his hand, but he burned the original.

But it is in this volume of notes that a shocking secret is recorded.

Speaking of this, Liu Shixi sighed and stopped talking, I was just hearing the important place, and suddenly paused, itching, and hurriedly urged him: "What is the secret?" ”

Liu Shixi shook his head, as if he had made up his mind, and continued to speak.

The children of the Liu family are all extremely smart, and each has amazing skills, but there is one thing, and he will not live to be fifty-nine years old. As long as it is a male of the Liu family, he will definitely die of strange diseases when he lives to the age of fifty-nine, and he will definitely not be able to survive the New Year. In ancient times, people's life expectancy was short, and fifty-nine was considered a high lifespan, but it was strange that Liu Ranqing was only three generations up, but all generations could live to the age of fifty-nine to receive the treatment of dying of this strange disease. Zi Liu Ranqing is even more like this from generation to generation.

I didn't think it was a little funny when I heard this, and I used to say that I watched the sky at night, and it turned out that there were such stories, and they were all swaggering and deceiving.

In the last volume of notes, Liu Ranqing believed that this was caused by the Liu family's deeds that were too damaging to yin morality and were punished by heaven, and suggested that the Liu family should obey the destiny of heaven and not easily disobey. But there is also a way to solve it, and it is such and such a method. He also instructed his children and grandchildren not to use it unless it was a last resort related to family inheritance, and they should be cautious when using it. Although Liu Yue has a lot of eyes, he is also a filial son and the head of the family, and what Lao Tzu said naturally has to be weighed against the weight, and this pair of cricket jars has also been kept by successive patriarchs and has been passed down to this day.

I heard a little eyebrow now, could it be that Liu Shishi came here to save Old Man Liu?

Sure enough, Liu made up his mind to save his father, and even more so to free the Liu family from this curse. He stayed at home for a few days, got the family inheritance, stole the pair of white jade cricket jars, and found a place to study them.

This pair of cricket jars is made of fine mutton fat white jade, one large and one small, and the inner wall of the jar is finely engraved with a layer of micro-carved text. At the bottom of the jar also carved a lotus flower, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, with Liu Dongxi's eyesight, you can see at a glance that this pair of jars is placed in any museum, are the treasures of the town museum.

Inside this pair of peerless treasures, there is a secret that can lift the curse of the Liu family.

Liu Dongxi found a master of rubbing, made two rubbings, and enlarged them with a photocopier. Holding the rubbing, I thought about it for three days and three nights and didn't come up with a clue, the text on it also looks like some strokes, the two jars are slightly different, the big one is full of dots, and the small one is engraved with blanks of various shapes, like words and non-words, in Liu Dongxi's words, one is like a Japanese script, and the other is like a stick language, all of which are not recognized.

These three days and three nights of research without sleep and food made Liu Dongxi exhausted. Liu Dongxin is not a person who drills the horns of the bull, he knows that it is useless to stay up like this, so he can't boil himself down first, it will not help, so he simply locks the door and goes out to drink.

It can be regarded as a coincidence, the owner of this restaurant that Liu Dongxi often goes to in his hometown, is a fun person, and he displays some new and rare things in the hotel hall all the year round. This time, I got a marquee lamp out of nowhere, and carved a pattern of Zheng He's trip to the West with rosewood, and carved dozens of figures between square inches, and the handwork was exquisite and meticulous. The boss saw that Liu Shiwu, who knew the goods, came and showed off with all his heart. Stop Liu and ask him to take a look. Liu Dongxi has been thinking about the two pen holders in his heart, how can he have the heart to look at these Western scenes, but this boss is an old friend, so he has to deal with it. The owner of the hotel asked the waiter to turn off the lights, leaving only this lantern, only to see a picture instantly appeared on the surrounding screen, it was Zheng He carved on the lamp to go to the West, the audience was amazed, Liu Dongxi's face changed greatly, and he praised two sentences casually, and turned around and left without eating.

Back in the room, Liu stuff quickly found a penlight, unscrewed the headlamp and reflector bowl, put it on a cricket jar, turned off the light, this jar is carved with excellent mutton fat white jade, the wall is as thin as paper, and then the text is micro-carved inside, and the lights inside are dozen, and the micro-carved text is projected on the wall by the light. But those words should not be recognized, or they should not be recognized. Liu Dongxi tried the two jars one by one, but he didn't get the slightest.

Liu Dongxi thought that he already had eyebrows, but he found nothing, and he couldn't help but be a little disheartened, and he was playing with two jars in his hand. Since ancient times, these things have been made, except for the matching of teacups and teapots, as long as it is a pair, it must echo each other, and the patterns may be different, but it is really rare to see different sizes. This pair of cricket jars is one large and one small, and it must have a deep meaning.

I was anxious for him when I heard it, and I couldn't help but interject: "How can there be so many ways to chatter!" You try a piece. ”

This is also something that Liu Dongxi is quite proud of, and his eyebrows began to fly again, "Don't you put it up, Brother An, don't you know, there are many things in these two cans." ”

Liu Dongxi put the two jars up and beat them with a lamp, only to see that the light and shadow in the room were intertwined, and countless Chinese characters instantly filled the space, which was dizzying, Liu Dongxi was stunned for a while and quickly found a pen and paper and began to transcribe. After a night of tossing, Liu Dongxi found that the lotus picture engraved at the bottom of the jar also concealed a mystery, and the hidden card slot inside fixed the two jars at four angles, and the four combined words were different, which constituted Liu Ranqing's last notebook.

I can't help but smack my tongue when I hear this, two by two are combined into four pairs of words, this permutation and combination of kung fu is simply only miraculous skills can be described, Liu Ranqing, an ancient man of the Ming Dynasty, can make this kind of thing? I almost thought he had traveled back from the future with a supercomputer.

The idea was ridiculous, I didn't bring it up, it was very quiet, I was immersed in Liu Dongxi's narration, these legendary stories were so far away from my life, being here, breathing the air that no one had breathed for hundreds of years, made me feel that my existence had a sense of unreality. The truth of the question that has been bothering me since the beginning is like a bubble that gradually forms at the bottom of the pot, swaying and about to come out.