Chapter 16: Going to Lingnan

I smacked my mouth a few times, and my heart was full of nonsense. At this time, what I thought about the most was my room of old antiques, and this old lady took away so many things from me, could it be that I had such a chance? Although I was thinking about these in my heart, after all, Grandma Hu was the one who made a deal with Li Laodao and Li Tong, and Liu Songming beat Lu Fengqin and still behaved like a cat in front of her, this old lady really played tricks on me, and I still have to go, I am really afraid that I will make a big deal and Mrs. Hu will not give me the steps.

I decided to give it another try, and reluctantly excused myself: "Grandma, look, whether Fifth Master Qin is Grandpa Li or not is still your one-sided opinion. I watched him buried in the grave......"

Grandma Hu beckoned to Liu Songming, and Liu Songming immediately lowered his body and listened to Grandma Hu's instructions. Grandma Hu bit Liu Songming's ear, glared at me and said loudly, "Songming, go and bring the old lady the elixir I have refined." Although it is refined, you have to believe in the strength of the old lady, and give my eldest grandson a meal to prolong his life. Like what is the Ten Perfection Pill, Yin Enhancement and Aphrodisiac Pill, Can't Sleep Pill in the Middle of the Night, Can't Get Up Pills in the Morning, Pills That Don't Sleep at Noon, Fire Immortal Pills......"

I looked upright and said seriously: "Grandma, I think it is my duty to save Fifth Master Qin." Don't say anything, just let me go. ”

Grandma Hu showed a smile on her face, and said to Liu Songming: "Songming, this matter will be handed over to you and my eldest grandson." Find Qin Lao Wu and bring my words to him. No matter whether my eldest grandson can find that place or not, he can't ruin the Qin family's bloodline because of his little Jiujiu. ”

"Grandma, my aunt ......"

Grandma Hu's face changed, and she said with horizontal eyebrows: "Why are you calling your aunt?" Old lady, I changed my mind, the more people go, the bigger the target. Just you and Matsuna, listen to your Uncle Liu's arrangements all the way, and be careful all the way. ”

At this time, my aunt and grandmother walked in with a boxy locket. I glanced at the box in my aunt's hand and was immediately attracted by this box inlaid with gold thread - the material of this box is black and red, red and bright, and there are several coiled dragons carved on it, which is vivid and powerful, and very atmospheric and beautiful.

My aunt and grandmother brought the box to Grandma Hu, who opened the box and took a look at it and then closed it again. At the moment when Grandma Hu opened the box, I clearly saw that Grandma Hu's face was reflected in the contents of the box into emerald green, and a cold air emanated from it.

Could it be? That box is inlaid with two pieces of ice jade?

Grandma Hu asked Liu Songming for the remnants of He's Bi, turned to me and said, "Three and a half months ago, Lu Fengqin came to the door and asked the old lady where I put this Heshibi......" Grandma Hu paused and said, "It's not important, after our confirmation, at most, Lu Fengqin hooked up with some high-ranking and powerful person to help him find a way to live forever." Well, this double claw show box is not bad...... The important thing is that Qin Lao Wu actually took Lu Fengqin back again and took him to Lingnan with him. What could make him use Lu Fengqin again? What caused them to go south to Lingnan? ”

My aunt said: "Fifth Uncle Qin said when he went that this time the matter is very important, and he will only be able to make it clear after Li Xiao comes to the door." ”

Grandma Hu said: "Songming rushed back from Shudi last month, and it was also because Qin Lao Wu arranged for him to wait for you at my house. Looking at it this way, the fifth is the fifth after all, and the chess is high...... Now that you've agreed, get ready to go. ”

I thought back to the past that had happened in the past few months, and wondered: "Grandma, you said that Fifth Master Qin wanted Brother Liu to take me to that Peach Blossom Spring?" What's the use of me going? ”

Grandma Hu didn't answer my question, and sang to herself: "Peach Blossom Nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, Peach Blossom Fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery; The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees, and picked peach blossoms to sell wine for money. She smiled slyly at me, her eyes were deep, and she said, "Tao Yuanming is the author of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", I don't know if you know?" ”

I nodded, and shook my head again: "It's not particularly clear, but I know that it is to write a story about paradise." ”

Grandma Hu gestured to Liu Songming, and Liu Songming said: "In the Jin Taiyuan Dynasty, the Wuling people fished for business. Walk around the river, forget the distance of the road. Suddenly, the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the shore, there are no miscellaneous trees in it, the fragrant grass is delicious, and the fallen flowers are colorful. The fisherman is very different. "In the next half hour, Liu Songming told me in detail the story ......of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

"Your grandmother, I won't bluff you anymore." Grandma Hu said, "Except for the five grandfathers of the Qin family, no one knows where the peach blossom source in Lingnan is...... However, this matter is also Qin Lao Wu's arrangement, and the jade pendant around your neck is the only clue to find the Peach Blossom Spring. This time, it's not Matsuna who takes you to find the peach blossom source, but he protects you to find it. This peach blossom source can be regarded as the biggest secret of your Qin family, and whether you can find it is the only way to test whether you can enter the threshold of the Qin family. The Qin family is left with you as a single seedling, so why don't you need to let you go through this old tradition, but I understand a lot now......"

I interrupted Grandma Hu's words, and said righteously, "Grandma, I don't want to enter the Qin family, my name is Li Xiao, and my surname is Li." ”

Grandma Hu smiled dumbly: "You can still be you, but your own grandfather may not be the Qin Lao Wu in the past." ”

"Huh?" I raised my eyebrows and looked at Grandma Hu with a puzzled face.

"This matter is settled, eat some food at my place, and then let Matsuming accompany you to Lingnan." Grandma Hu instructed, "Girl, go buy vegetables and cook." Matsuna, you can talk to my eldest grandson again. I'll go look in the Danfang and see if I can let you take something with you. ”

After giving the order, Grandma Hu got up and walked out of the room and ran to the west room.

My aunt and grandmother took the basket and went out.

Liu Songming then took a few steps forward and sat down on the chair next to me.

I said to Liu Songming: "You see if we can discuss this matter again, I still have something to do tomorrow......"

Liu Songming shook his head and arched his hands to the sky: "Mrs. Hu's orders are the will, and they must not be changed. I thought about it for a while, and I was very annoyed. The things didn't come back from Grandma Hu, but now they agreed to go to Lingnan with Liu Songming, isn't this just a loss for Mrs. and a soldier? On the other hand, I didn't get any benefit from this......

I've been doing a limited ideological struggle, and I wanted to inquire about the situation with Liu Songming several times, but I couldn't help it. From what I know about Liu Songming, he was not so taciturn. A fool can also see that Liu Songming must have some taboo against Grandma Hu.

It was even more meaningless for me and Liu Songming to stare at each other, so I simply played with the bronze discs and the fragments of He's Bi.

Who would have thought that there was such a thing hidden in this bronze mirror for birthday worship, in retrospect, Lu Fengqin told me that this thing was also an item given by the Lingnan people to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Lingnan is really a magical place, and I don't know what this kind of hidden treasure is.

The fragments of He's Bi were recovered...... Of course, if Grandma Hu returns it to me, it will be recovered, and now it is only in my hands temporarily. I played with the remnants of He's Bi for a while, thinking to myself, I never thought that this thing would have the effect of prolonging life. Looking back on history, before He's bi was finally enshrined as a treasure by the Chu State, Bian He, a Chu person, was cut off his left foot and right foot by King Chu Li and King Wu of Chu because of the sacrifice of this thing, and it was not until the period of King Wen of Chu that he was rehabilitated because of the dissection, and he could still survive after three dynasties. You know, based on the medical environment at the time and the average life expectancy of human beings at that time, it is a miracle that he survived. Could it be that this Heshi Bi really has the effect of "living dead, flesh and bones"? The fragments of Xiaoxiao and Shibi, hidden or buried by someone, were stolen and stolen several times, and then went to the Palace of Eternal Life, and then touched his hand from a corpse under the coincidence that Wang Yi, a mountain man, was chased by a wild boar, and finally came to my hand, which was ill-fated and unusual.

In the end, if these two things are blessed by faint luck, they will never fall into a place where no one discovers.

Until it was almost noon, Grandma Hu never returned, and not long ago, after her aunt came back, she went directly into the kitchen.

I sighed and picked up the fragment and stood up. Liu Songming saw me get up and stood up.

I said to him, "Go around the courtyard, I'm going to go crazy if I sit down again." Without waiting for Liu Songming to reply, I stepped out of the house. When I arrived in the courtyard, I glanced at the cauldron in the courtyard, intentionally or unintentionally, and after this look, I realized that the pot that I felt was burning all year round was full of milky white soup.

It's not the flesh and blood I imagined, it's not the bubbling green water poison I imagined, and it's not the black soup and black water that boils inexplicable things......

Is it lamb soup? You can't drink like this, can you?

Since it wasn't as bad as I thought, I turned to look at the man in the cage. This is another thing that deserves my attention, because detaining a person in a cage in the courtyard for no reason can be regarded as illegally detaining and restricting the personal freedom of others in the eyes of the law.

Before I knew it, I was getting closer, and at this moment, the man turned back sharply and shouted to me, "Know the Palace of Eternal Life, and those who touch it will die!" Knowing the Palace of Eternal Life, those who touch it will die! The Hall of Eternal Life...... ......"I was taken aback, first because the man's face seemed to be as ugly as being repellent, and then because of the words he shouted.

This man stared at the fragment of He's Bi in my hand, and the greed in his eyes couldn't help but be revealed.

I glanced at the fragment of He's Bi, and then at the madman. As I looked at the fragments of He's Bi, for a moment, I saw that the fragments of He's Bi and the jade pendant around my neck flickered, a little brighter than the continuous turquoise. I looked at the fragments of He's Bi a few more times, and then I realized that the place where I was standing was close to Grandma Hu's Danfang. I was sure I was wrong, and I wanted to get a closer look at the madman.

Liu Songming stretched out his hand to block me, and he said, "Little master, you'd better stay away from him." ”

"Who is he?" I asked.

My aunt whispered behind me, "At least someone related to the Hall of Eternal Life." ”

"Something to do with the Hall of Eternal Life? Is it to send a warning? As soon as I spoke, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I turned to look at my aunt and said, "Grandma, how do you know about the Palace of Eternal Life?" ”

The aunt smiled noncommittally: "You forgot, it was your grandmother and the old Taoist priest who made a deal." What is the Immortal Dao Sect, dare to walk outside with a little country art, in the end, it is not to come to beg your grandmother. ”

I nodded in agreement, thinking that Lu Fengqin was not afraid of this immortal Dao sect, what my aunt said must be true.

When I looked back at the madman again, I looked at it carefully, and found that the madman was even lower than Liu Songming, only about 1.5 meters. Looking at the scars on his body, in addition to his face, even the exposed arms and legs are mostly densely covered with pinprick-like scars.

I suddenly felt a little sick to my stomach, and turned my head to ask my aunt where Grandma Hu had gone......

At this moment, the madman suddenly screamed, and instead of shouting the words "Know the Palace of Eternal Life, those who touch it will die", but screamed: "Frog...... Frog...... Frog with tusks...... Ahh ”

When I turned to look at him, he shrank into the corner of the cage, covering his eyes and trembling and babbling. I searched in the direction he was facing for a while, until I saw a toad jumping under my feet, and I suddenly realized.

I said to my aunt and Liu Songming, "Do you know? Hall of Eternal Life! He's the tomb robber who blew up the Hall of Eternal Life! ”

My aunt and grandmother and Liu Songming both tilted their heads sideways, obviously not knowing what I was referring to.

My eyes flashed with the look of the double-crested show box, and at this time, I actually remembered that it was Lu Fengqin's baby. Thinking of Lu Fengqin, I immediately contacted the fact that Lu Fengqin asked me for clues about the bronze mirror and the fragments of He's Bi in my ward that day...... I shuddered, stuffed the fragments of He's Bi into my pocket, took out the bronze dagger from my waist, took a few steps back, held the dagger in both hands, and said nervously: "Quickly inform Grandma Hu, we are in danger......"

"Eldest grandson, stop." Grandma Hu pushed open the door of the Danfang and ordered, "Songming has taken off his weapon, girl, you go and knock that person unconscious first." Noisy and yelling, like something. ”

Yanagi Matsuna, who was standing beside me, slapped me from behind. I turned my head in my grip and moved my body in unison. At this time, Liu Songming flew up and kicked me in both hands. I held the knife in both hands, and finally held it in my right hand, and he flew up with this kick, and I instantly held the knife in my right hand and flew involuntarily. At this moment, Liu Songming snatched the bronze dagger from my hand.

Liu Songming took two steps back when he got the dagger, and handed the dagger to Grandma Hu with both hands.

Grandma Hu glanced behind me and Liu Songming, and at this time, my aunt also knocked the madman unconscious. After taking the dagger, she said: "The dagger when Jing Ke assassinated Qin, this is still something that Li Si has saved, and when it comes to Qin Lao Wu's hands, it is really a person who blocks and kills people, and the Buddha blocks and kills Buddha." Grandma Hu raised her eyebrows, put the dagger back into Liu Songming's hand, and said, "Eldest grandson, what's wrong with you?" ”

I nervously glanced around and saw that Liu Songming had calmed down a little. I took out the fragment of He's Bi from my lower pocket and replied truthfully: "I told Lu Fengqin the origin of these two things, and since I knew about the Palace of Eternal Life, I suspected that I had been being followed...... And he, the man in the cage, was one of the people who blew up the Hall of Eternal Life...... Grandma Hu, 'Knowing the Palace of Eternal Life, those who touch it will die', how many people have died because of this sentence! ”

Grandma Hu nodded and ordered, "Girl, you go ahead and cook." Songming, come and help the old lady, let's go back to the house. Eldest grandson, let's go back to the house and tell the old lady what happened. Don't be afraid, what kind of dog skin Eternal Life Palace, the Immortal Taoist gang is also bragging about it. At Grandma Hu's place, even if a fly wants to fly in, you have to bring me a guide first. ”

After entering the house, I retold the conversation with Lu Fengqin to Grandma Hu. I also recounted the words of Gray San'er in full, until I talked about the bloody and dangerous night that I could not understand.

Grandma Hu nodded as she listened, and then searched for something among the newspapers on the wall. Even Grandma Hu asked Liu Songming for reading glasses, and stood on the bed and looked around next to the newspaper. In the end, she clicked on a piece of news and read: "On April 17, the reporter found bloodstains on the Nantong section of the road in our city in the early morning. Located at the east end of Round Street, both shops were slightly abutted. On May 12, after our reporters went to the crematorium, in mid-April, the police and the underworld organization had a shootout that resulted in more than 20 deaths. Grandma Hu held down another newspaper report, "The grapevine said: Xu Mou, a crematorium worker at the crematorium, said that he burned dozens of corpses in April, and some of the corpse skulls were opened by a drill, and the brains were missing; The heart, liver, kidneys and other organs were removed...... He confided in his neighbors what he had seen, was arrested by the street police station, and his whereabouts have not been known to this day. Niujie tabloid reporter reported with a knife. ”

I sat in my chair and waited for Grandma Hu's next words, secretly annoyed that I didn't have the habit of reading the newspaper. Grandma Hu seemed to have no intention but deliberately selected these news contents for me, and I think she must have a deep meaning.

Soon, Grandma Hu sat on the edge of the bed and lit a cigarette pot and smoked a few puffs. She said: "Eldest grandson, this matter is all handled by the old lady and me. You don't have to be afraid. Well, I'll just say, how could the short man in the cage come to me, it's not that Lu Fengqin's double claw show box changed his life and he was not convinced...... Isn't it, Matsuna...... Come on, old lady, and I'll see how many people are still stirring up in this muddy water......"

Liu Songming persuaded: "Mrs. Hu also has to take care of her body, so as not to meet a group of juniors." "Liu Songming's words reveal that he knows a lot of things that I don't know.