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Behind the hidden treasure of the code, there is a bitterness that no one knows. Today, Xiaoyu brings you a story about family legends and golden masks.

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September 26, 2021, 09:11, Meisling Dessert Shop.

There was a lot of traffic outside the door, coming and going, hurrying. Adults of all stripes walked down the street briskly, pretending to be on their own minds, without looking back.

The wind rustled the leaves on the side of the road. I stirred the dessert spoon in my hand, took a big gulp of the pudding and put it in my mouth, and when I looked up, I happened to see Xiao Yao, dressed in a denim suit, standing at the opposite intersection, with one hand on his waist and a cloth bag in the other, his eyes facing my direction. She lifted the cap on her head, glanced at the blue sky and white clouds overhead, and walked towards me with a smile.

"Woo~ you...... Late. I pretended to be angry and lowered my head and looked at the pudding in my hand.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't have something to delay." Xiao Yao put his hands together and made a gesture of apology to me.

"Something? Miscellaneous...... What's the matter? I put down the dessert spoon in my hand.

Xiao Yao looked around, put his head in front of me, and then whispered: "I told you that my father is a policeman, and recently they cracked a case of theft of cultural relics from the Western Han Dynasty, but the key golden mask has not been found." This morning, while he wasn't looking, I stole these lines from his notebook, and I thought there was a hidden clue about the Golden Mask. ”

I saw Xiao Yao take out a small note from the trouser pocket of his jeans, and a few lines of poetry were clearly written on the small note: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, food, clothing, housing, and transportation. There is nothing during the day, but at night it is revealed.

Do you want to ...... Myself...... Found the Golden Mask? I looked at the lines on the paper.

"Of course, you forgot what I said? I'm a detective, and the harder the puzzle, the more interested I become! I'm calling for the team right now, are you interested in joining my detective team? Xiao Yao grabbed my hand, and there was a strange light in his eyes.

I looked at Xiao Yao, and then at the few lines of poetry on the note, and although I was not interested in being a detective, and I didn't have much sense of treasure, she was my first true friend. I enjoyed every minute and every second I had with her, which I had not experienced on the Ark and on the island, so I wanted to help her.

Thinking of this, I nodded.

"Great, I knew you would be interested!" Xiao Yao took out a mobile phone from his pocket and quickly sent a few messages, and then looked out the window with a smile.

After about ten minutes, a fat boy in a T-shirt and a thin boy with a pair of black-rimmed glasses walked in quickly, and squeezed directly next to Xiao Yao.

"You're in such a hurry to call us out, isn't there anything fun going on?" The fat boy asked directly.

Xiao Yao coughed lightly twice and pointed at me, and then they looked over, "Who is she?" ”

"She is my friend, named Zhao Xiaoyao." Xiao Yao briefly introduced me to them, and then introduced them to me, "This is this fat man outside, the fat man with strong body, his name is Xu Deshen, and we all call him Xu Fatman; Leaning on the inside, the thin man with a sven face, his name is Sun Zhiheng, and we all call him Sun Skinny. Don't underestimate the two of them, although the two of them are not very good-looking, one is indeed a judo master, and the other is a computer master, and they are both members of the team that I fancie. ”

"Members? What team members? The two of them asked in unison.

"Now there's a tricky case, and I'm going to take you on a quest to find treasure! It's up to you to be my team member or not. ”

"Tricky case? Treasure? Oh~ This is so good, I'm bored and panicking! Fat Xu jumped up excitedly. Sun Slender was also unwilling, and immediately said: "Such an interesting thing, how can I be missing?" Without my black technology, you wouldn't be able to achieve anything. ”

"Okay, now that everyone has agreed, then I'm here to announce that the 'Little Sherlock Holmes Detective Team' has been formed!" Xiao Yao slapped the table and raised the cup in his hand.

The three of us raised our glasses in our hands and happily touched her.

After clinking glasses, Xiao Yao pushed the note in front of them, briefly described the cause and effect, and then analyzed: "This first sentence of gold, wood, water, fire and earth is about the five elements of China, and the five elements are a systematic view of Taoism in China since ancient times, and are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, Kanyu, numerology, physiognomy and divination. The meaning of the five elements encompasses the five basic dynamics of the evolution of yin and yang: water (representing run), fire (representing flame), gold (representing convergence), wood (representing stretching), and earth (representing neutralization). If you look at the latter sentence of eating, wearing, living, and traveling, if you combine these two sentences, the corresponding ones are: water (moistening) and eating, fire (flame) and wearing, gold (convergence) and living, wood (stretching) and use, earth (neutralization) and walking, these five pairs. Sun Slender Zi, you check the places related to these five pairs and see how many there are in the country. ”

"Okay." Sun Shouzi took out a laptop from his backpack and quickly checked it, and after a while, he searched out a place and said to us: "Look at this area, the top is 'Moist Snacks', the right is 'Shenfeier Department Store', the lower right corner is 'Yantai Clothing', the left is 'Jijia International Real Estate', and the lower left corner is 'China Little Yellow Car'." It corresponds exactly to these five pairs. ”

"What is this place?"

"Fake Ding Street, Nancheng District." Sun Slender replied.

"Okay, let's go now!" At the sound of Xiao Yao's order, several of us picked up our respective bags and rushed towards Fake Ding Street together.

September 26, 2021 14:56

Although we had a rough idea of where the Golden Mask was hidden, when we actually arrived at the place, we realized that it was nothing more than just grabbing its braids.

The whole street is about three kilometers long, and these five places are far apart, if we draw a circle from the origin of our station, I am afraid that it is a quarter of the area of Nancheng District.

"Sun Slender Man, look at it! It's all because you didn't see it clearly, where did you let us find such a large range? Xu Fatzi angrily accused.

Sun Sozi lowered his head, looking aggrieved, but he couldn't say anything.

"Okay, Fat Xu, don't embarrass Sun Slender Man, just looking at the map in the notebook, it's really hard to imagine the actual range." Xiao Yao played a round for Sun Thinzi, "The key is, how do we find it now?" ”

Xu Fatzi also lowered his head and meditated with Sun Thinzi.

September 26, 2021 17:56

Time passed in a hurry, and before you knew it, it was dusk, and the sun was gradually setting. We walked slowly through the streets of Fake Ding Street, watching the sky turn red, and then watching the red gradually turn black.

The street lamps on the side of the street suddenly lit up, like a strong beam of light hitting the ground, illuminating the shadows of each of us.

Xiao Yao looked at the shadow on the ground, suddenly realized, and shouted: "I know, I know!" So that's it! ”

"How?" The three of us asked in unison.

She explained to us, "Do you remember the last two sentences? 'There is nothing in the day, but the true form is revealed by night. 'The' is nothing during the day, but it is true at night. Isn't that the streetlight? ”

"Yes, yes! This must be the street lamp! Sun Shouzi was suddenly inspired, and quickly opened his laptop to inquire about the replacement of street lights on Fake Ding Street. According to his computer, this section of No. 500~650 on Fake Ding Street had just been replaced with a batch of street lights three days ago.

Seeing this, we immediately came to the momentum and ran quickly towards the section of No. 500~650.

September 26, 2021 at 18:45

By the time we reached this stretch, the sky was completely black, and the only light was the row of street lights. We looked at the shadows under the street lamps one by one, only to hear Sun Slender suddenly shout from behind: "Look! Look at the third street lamp counted from front to back! Look at its shadow, its shadow is strange! ”

We quickly ran in the direction of Sun Shouzi's finger to the street lamp, only to see that its shadow reflected on the ground seemed to form a triangular symbol, pointing directly to the inside of the grass.

"This is it, let's dig!"

We each nodded, and together we dug up the grass on the side of the road, led by Xiao Yao. After about half an hour, we finally dug up the golden mask at a depth of half a meter.

"Great, we've finally found it!"

Just when the big guy was happy, a woman suddenly grabbed Sun Shouzi's throat from behind and dragged him back: "Give me the mask!" Give me the mask! The woman shouted.

"You calm down, let Sun Slender go first...... Xiao Yao tried to calm the woman's emotions, but the woman pinched Sun Thinzi's throat tighter, "Give me the mask!! Give me the mask!! ”

I secretly put my hand behind my back and gently pressed the call button. Xu Fatzi took advantage of the woman's inattention to go around the back of the woman, and then kicked the woman directly on the waist.

"Ahh The woman screamed, took a few steps forward, and let go of Sun Thinzi.

"Don't push me, don't push me!!" The woman's eyes widened, and she took out a pistol from her pocket and pointed it in the direction of Xu Fatzi, "I don't want to kill children, as long as you are willing to give me the mask and let me go, I won't kill you." ”

"But you will be punished by the law!"

Uncle De drove a Bentley to the woman, and as soon as he got out of the car, he punched the woman in the stomach, and the woman immediately fainted.

"Uncle De!" I excitedly ran to Uncle De and grabbed him by the neck, and he smiled and stroked my head.

September 27, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at the Meisling Dessert Shop.

The breeze outside the window was blowing the leaves, and the golden sunlight was shining on the street, Xiao Yao looked at my face sadly and told me an old story: "According to legend, there was a pair of lovers in the Western Han Dynasty, the woman was the princess of the country, and the man was the general of the country. Helplessly, the Han people couldn't defeat the Huns, so they sent the princess to make peace. When the princess left, the general ordered his skilled craftsmen to make a golden mask for the princess to withstand the wind and sand in the outer land. The princess was moved to weep and carried the mask for the rest of her life, and was finally buried with her. After the princess died, the general guarded her tomb and ordered future generations to garrison it for generations. Until the tomb was discovered by archaeologists, the princess's belongings were all on display. The general's descendant, the mother of the thief's golden mask, was depressed and hung by a thread because of the thought of this matter, and the thief's brother and sister wanted to steal it in order to fulfill their motherly duties, and the case finally happened. ”

I lowered my head, looked at the milk tea in my cup for a long time, and reached out to hold Xiao Yao's hand.

"Okay...... Bad ...... It's all gone, and the most important thing is ...... Tomorrow. Have a ...... tomorrow We have ...... World. I smiled.

"Yes, with tomorrow, we have the world." She smiled brightly and looked out the window at the warm sun.

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