I smiled. Ji Yunfu's things are by no means casual, he has his own set of search methods. If you don't know, all you see is chaos; If you know, you'll think it's in order. Unfortunately, he died, and no one could bring this huge database back to life.

A few days ago, Ji Yunfu was still here with his eyebrows fluttering and explaining the Buddha's head case to me, but now it is separated by yin and yang. When I think of this, I feel sorry in my heart.

His desk was still in its original state, cluttered with it. She pointed: "That's how he died on his desk at that time, and he was found." In the center of the table was a piece of snow-white rice paper, on which a few lines of words were written in cursive script, and the brush was still resting diagonally aside. I took a closer look and saw that it was Lu You's "Shi'er" written on it. What surprised me even more was that the first sentence of the book was written as "Death is the original knowledge of all things empty", and next to the word "original", the author seems to have accidentally dropped a drop of ink, forming a round ink dot.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is just an ordinary calligraphy. But in my eyes, the meaning is very different. My first acquaintance with Ji Yunfu was at the auction of an ancient monument in the Song Dynasty, where he pointed out the difference between the character "yuan" and the character "yuan", and defeated me. He wrote such a poem before he died, and he deliberately made a mistake, apparently a secret note that only I would notice.

It seems that before Ji Yunfu was alive, I am afraid that he had been dealing with the murderer for a while. He knew that he could not be spared, and even if he left a suicide note or reminder, he would be destroyed by the murderer. So he seized the last moment and created a special key that would only work in my eyes.

However, what is this special key used to open on?

I scanned the table again, and there was a lotus leaf pen wash, a Shezhou inkstone, a small bronze incense burner, a silver medal, a bird-patterned emerald jade wrench, a few thread-bound books from the Jingwei Academy, and a small rhino horn cup and a gold comb back. There are more than a dozen of these things, and there are many kinds of them, and they are arranged in a strange order, lined up.

It seems that Ji Yunfu used to enjoy these things before and after writing poems. Ji Yunfu is a big figure in the collecting world in Qishan, and it is not surprising that he has a few things in his hands. But the strange thing is that the last time I came, Ji Yunfu said that this study was full of books and materials, and everything else had been left elsewhere. He suddenly brought these things to the study to play with them, and he must have had a good intention.

I turned my head and asked Ji Yunfang, "Can I pick it up and take a look?" ”

"Just remember what you said, don't break your word." She pursed her lips sarcastically, thinking I was finding a reason to peek into her cousin's collection. I ignored her disdainful gaze, and first picked up the back of the golden comb and examined it carefully. I wonder if Ji Yunfu will leave some information on these gadgets.

This comb back is probably the most valuable on the table, and it is a gold ware of the Tang Dynasty from the shape of the shape. The back of the comb is decorated with a cluster pattern, all outlined with very fine gold wire, and the stamen part is inlaid with small gold beads, which is very luxurious. I flipped it over and found no words, but I stumbled upon that it was a fake.

Ironically, I am not very familiar with gold and silverware, and the reason why I can see the problem is that Ji Yunfu taught me when we chatted not long ago.

Ji Yunfu told me that the gold beads on the gold ware in the Tang Dynasty were made by cutting the gold wires into equal-length segments, then heating and melting them, and the gold juice dripping into the receiver to form a natural circle, and then two flat plates were used to grind back and forth into round beads. When welding, the beads are glued to the utensils with gold clay mixed with mercury, and as soon as the mercury evaporates after heating, they are welded.

This process is very troublesome, so later generations have switched to the method of "fried beads", where the molten gold juice is directly placed in cold water, and the temperature difference is used to form gold beads. Frying beads omits a procedure compared to grinding beads, but it is coarser than the latter, the size of the gold beads cannot be controlled, and the shape is not round enough.

This gold comb back has this problem: the beads in the stamens are not rounded enough, and they are of different sizes, and they look clumsy and messy when squeezed together.

I guess Ji Yunfu also saw that this was a fake, and he just collected it for fun. Under the watchful eye of his cousin, I put down the gold comb and looked at the other things, and found that there were mixed authenticities: the rhino horn cup, the jade wrench, the pen wash, and a few others were fake, and the others were genuine.

However, I did not find any notches or marks on any of the objects.

I turned away disappointed, maybe I was overthinking, it was all just a coincidence. Ji Yunfang was obviously relieved to see that I didn't make any requests. She dropped me off at the door and softened a lot. I asked her when the farewell ceremony for Ji Yunfu's body was, and I wanted to go to pay my respects. She told me that the time was still undecided, but she would definitely let me know.

I walked to the bike, and the disappointment and sadness weighed heavily on my steps. I grabbed the handlebars and looked back, wanting to take another look at the house that had become Ji Yunfu's former residence. I swept from the green wall to the eaves, from the dripping tiles to the spine beasts, and across the antennas that stood tall on the roof......

Wait, antennas?

I seemed to have caught something, and my heart jumped. Ji Yunfu is a member of the Baoji Radio Amateur Association, and he has a radio station at home, so he communicates with the outside world through this when he has nothing to do.

Will he use this device to leave any message?

I threw down my bike and ran back to bang on the door. Ji Yunfang was very surprised to see me go and return. I didn't care much, and begged her to let me look at it again. Ji Yunfang looked at me as if she was looking at a mentally ill person, but she didn't stop me.

I rushed into the bookstore, walked to the radio, looked for the switch, but couldn't turn it on. I checked it and found that the external antenna had broken somehow. Ji Yunfang reluctantly told me that even if the antenna was intact, it was useless. This radio station broke down a week ago, one of the coils in it burned out, and the new components had to be sent from a factory in other places, and they have not yet arrived.

A week ago, before I met Ji Yunfu, it seems that this is not his real hint. I hung my head in despair, and it was like seeing the answer to an exam paper close at hand, but you scratched your ears and cheeks and couldn't answer the question.

Ji Yunfang looked at me like this, and probably felt sympathy. She sighed softly: "My cousin, I have liked strange things since I was a child. In addition to reading books, he hugs this radio station all day long, ticking and playing non-stop. If you're interested in this, just take it, and no one in our family can figure it out anyway. I don't think my cousin will mind if he is under Jiuquan. ”

Like most people, she didn't know much about radio, and always thought it was similar to the telegraph in war movies, only beeping and beeping.

Tick tick?

Tick tick!

Why did Ji Yunfu break the antenna of a broken radio station?

"That's right! So that's what happened! ”

I jumped up suddenly, startling Ji Yunfang, hurriedly took a few steps back, and casually picked up the inkstone on the table to defend myself. I ignored her and looked back at the little objects on the table with a feverish look.

The mystery is solved!

I just looked around and saw that there were real and fake things on the table. I thought it was just a coincidence, but now I have figured it out, this is deliberate, and the order in which the real and fake artifacts are placed is very important!

From left to right, the far left is a small bronze incense burner in the Qing Dynasty, this is true, recorded as a point; On the right side of it, is the back of the Tang Tuanhua Jinhua comb, this is a fake, recorded as a stroke. And so on, through the order of truth and falsehood placed on the desk, the real dots and false strokes, and finally what is obtained is a string of Morse codes with dots and strokes.

Converting this string of dots into numbers and translating them into words with telegraph code is the message he wants to convey to me. This is exactly the same as the encryption method of Kido Notes and Sudinglu.

Most people only pay attention to individual objects, but they do not realize that it is only when these antiques are arranged together that the authenticity is given a profound meaning. The person who can decipher this hint must be able to distinguish the authenticity of antiques, and be familiar with the laws of conversion between Morse code and telegraph code - and this person can only be me. The "Su Ding Lu" in my hand is encrypted with telegram code, and I need to read it often, so I am familiar with telegram code.

The poem "Shi'er" is used as a reminder; Broken antennas imply that they are related to code; Authenticity and antiques hide news. The three arrangements are simple and clever, interlocking, creating a door that only I can open, leading step by step to the information he has hidden. Ji Yunfu's deployment before his death was really a genius idea.

In order to be complete, I examined the antiques on the table one by one, more carefully than ever before. A mistake in authenticity identification may result in the entire message not being deciphered. Soon, I converted his message.

The information is very brief: two cabinets and two rows.

The best way to hide a leaf is to keep it in the woods. Ji Yunfu's book house is really the best place to hide documents, and it is difficult to find them wherever you throw them. The murderer probably felt that once Ji Yunfu died, he couldn't find it, and no one else could find it, so he left with confidence.

I looked around the room and saw that the wooden bookshelves were actually divided into six large shelves, standing tall above the sky. There is a word written on each shelf, which are: ceremony, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, which are the six arts of Confucianism. Then the second cabinet should be a music cabinet.

I walked up to the music cabinet, looked up and saw that the second row was close to the ceiling, so I found a chair and stood on it. Ji Yunfang was dumbfounded when she saw me being so presumptuous, and she actually forgot to stop it for a while. The second row of the music cabinet is more than two meters long, lined up with dozens of high and low books, and there are all kinds of newspaper clippings, archives, photos and bills in the middle, which looks disorganized.

The coding capacity of real and fake antiques is limited, and Ji Yunfu can't stuff more details, so I have to check them one by one. Ji Yunfang raised his head below and said, "If you don't come down again, I'm going to be polite." ”

In a hurry, I took out my ID card and wallet from my pocket and threw it down: "My name is Wish, I am definitely not a bad person, this is my ID card, and the money is all in it." She picked up my ID card, looked at it, and I quickly added: "Teacher Ji has a document for me before his death, and I must find it." ”

Ji Yunfang said coldly: "There is no evidence, why should I trust someone who has known my cousin for less than a week?" ”

"Friendship can't be judged by length, although I haven't met Teacher Ji for a long time, we hit it off at first sight."

I was desperately procrastinating for time as I flipped through the bookshelves, hoping to buy more time. Ji Yunfang was skeptical when she heard it below, let me go down and make it clear first. I knew that she was suspicious of me now, and that she might not be able to get up again, so I had to continue rummaging.

Just when her anger was almost at its limit, I finally pulled out a stack of manuscript paper in the middle of a book. The texture of this manuscript paper is very familiar to me, and it is similar to the manuscript paper used by the old Qitou's family. I was just about to unfold it to see, when Ji Yunfang suddenly flew up and kicked the chair to the ground, and I fell to the floor with a thud.

Ji Yunfang walked up to me, leaned over and picked up the manuscript paper: "Get out." Her face was gloomy, and she was clearly dissatisfied with my recklessness. I was so anxious that my head was covered with sweat, and I reached out to grab it, Ji Yunfang sneered and took a step back, picked up a lighter, and was about to burn it: "My cousin's relics, no one wants to occupy them." ”

This is the only clue, if she burns it, Ji Yunfu and Lao Qi will die in vain. I pleaded, "I'm not trying to take ...... I just look at it and put it back when I'm done. This is about the truth of your cousin's death, and it can't be burned. ”

"My cousin died of natural causes, what's suspicious?" She was not at all moved.

For a while, I couldn't explain so much, so I had to shout: "Your cousin's death is directly related to this scroll of manuscript paper. Hearing me say this, Ji Yunfang looked suspicious, slowly unfolded the manuscript paper to look at it, only glanced at it, and his expression suddenly became very strange.

"You just said your name is Wish?"

"I've shown you all my ID cards."

Her next action was unexpected, and she threw the manuscript paper to me: "Okay, you take the things." ”

Ji Yunfang's sudden change made me a little overwhelmed. She said lightly: "I don't believe the nonsense you just said. I'm letting you go only because of my cousin's last words. ”

I froze there: "What last words?" ”

She pointed to the stack of manuscript paper, I opened it and saw that it was densely packed with Chinese characters, and in the forehead part, there was a line of words written in pencil: "Make a wish, it is the manuscript that should be the same as the "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record". ”

Coming out of Ji Yunfu's house, it was already dark. I breathed a sigh of relief, subconsciously touched the manuscript paper in my arms, and rode my bicycle towards the prefecture quickly.

The countryside has always maintained the tradition of sunset, and this county-level road with no street lights is in the middle of nowhere, so after dark, there are almost no people on the road, except for my bicycle. As soon as I thought that the true face of Kido's notes was about to be revealed, my heart couldn't help but beat wildly, and I couldn't help but step back to the county seat, and the car was speeding forward.

I rode for about ten minutes, and it was getting darker and darker, and on both sides there were rolling hills and crops. At this time, I heard a faint low voice behind me, and when I looked back, there were two white lights in the distance slowly approaching, and the size should be a car, and the specific model was not clear. I swung the front of my car and leaned towards the side of the road. Driving at night is dangerous, drivers sometimes can't pay attention to pedestrians in front of them, and there is no red light on the back of my bike, so it will be troublesome if I am rear-ended.

The speed of the car was very fast, and it took a while to catch up with me, and the arrogant headlights illuminated the road in front of me. I squinted, slowed down, and judging by its silhouette, it was a Passat B2. This is not a car that ordinary cadres can drive, so it is estimated that some kind of big leader will come out to do things. I thought to myself and leaned back to the side.

I suddenly became alert, I was almost off the road, but the two pillars of light were still shrouding me, which showed that the front of the Passat B2 was always facing me, and it was coming at me. As soon as I reacted, I heard the roar of the car behind me, and the driver slammed on the accelerator and slammed straight into me. The lights of the car shrouded me in a white light.

In a hurry, I jumped off my bike to the side. The moment I jumped, the front of the bike hit the bicycle hard, and my eyes went black, and I rolled in mid-air a few times, and then fell heavily into the crop field on the shoulder of the road. My limbs ached extremously, my brain was groggy, and I could barely sense movement around me. In a daze, I felt someone turn my body over, sniff out, rummage in my arms for a while, and take out the stack of manuscript papers in my arms. I was so frightened that I grabbed the man's arm and pinched my nails. In a hurry, the man punched me hard and knocked me unconscious......

By the time I regained consciousness, silence had returned, leaving me and a twisted bike. I struggled to get up, staggered to the side of the road, waited for more than an hour, and luckily waited for a tractor that entered the city and carried me back to the county seat. By the time I got back to the hotel, it was nearly midnight.

I knocked on Kana Kido's door, and two women appeared in front of me. One of them is Kana Kido, and the other is Ji Yunfang. They were amazed to see what I was doing. Kana Kido hurriedly brought a towel from the bathroom and wiped the stains on my face. Ji Yunfang clasped her arms in her hands, frowned and asked, "Are you really injured?" ”

"Hehe, as I expected." I grinned, recounted the car attack, and asked, "You brought something?" Ji Yunfang nodded, she gave me the manuscript paper rolled into a roll, but her expression became very gloomy.

I guessed from the beginning that the people behind it would be following me. So when I came out of Ji's house, I played a trick of "Ming Xiu Plank Road, Dark Chen Cang", and asked Ji Yunfang to personally give the manuscript paper to Kido Kana, while I carried another stack of mathematical proof drafts and swaggered down the road on my bicycle. Sure enough, just as I expected, the black hand struck again and stole the draft, hoping that they would finally prove Goldbach's conjecture.

"You're too risky, what if they want to kill you?" Kana Kido scolded me as she wiped her face.

"If they had killed me, I would have lost my life in Beijing." I snorted. It would be fine if they had been hiding behind the scenes, but now they have shot several times in a row, although they hurt me lightly, but they also slowly exposed themselves.

Sent Ji Yunfang away, and only me and Kana Kido were left in the house. I closed the windows and doors tightly and sat back on the couch. Kana Kido had been waiting there for a long time, and the two of them stared at the stack of manuscript paper on the coffee table with four eyes, and their breathing became short.

Kido Yuzo has been hiding secrets for decades, and three people have already died because of it. I look at Kido, it's her grandfather's note, she should be allowed to open it. Kana Kido didn't refuse, she habitually brushed her hair behind her ears, picked up the manuscript paper, and slowly opened the first page.

The manuscript paper is full of Chinese characters, the strokes are very sloppy, and most of the Chinese characters are marked with four digits on them, I guess this is the original manuscript when the old Qi Tou deciphered it, and those numbers are encrypted telegram codes.

In our expectation, this would have been Yuzo Kido's diary of a Chinese expedition, which should have recorded the experiences of those months in 1931. However, the reality is very different from what we imagined.

What we see is an ancient text with four pieces of beauty and six beautiful texts. Not one, but more than a dozen, each of which is not uniform in style, some are very elegant, some are very vernacular, and it doesn't seem to be from one person. There are even passages that are not even complete, only a few incomplete sentences. In addition to these, there are a series of comments scattered among them, some of which are very short and only one sentence, and some of which are full of pages.

"How so?" Kana Kido and I exchanged a confused look. This format is not so much a diary as an academic paper full of citations.

In the upper left corner of each ancient text, there is a number marked with a red ink pen, and the handwriting is not quite the same as the Chinese characters, which should be from Ji Yunfu's handwriting. After he got the translation, he must have done a preliminary arrangement. Fortunately, he is a master of data processing, otherwise it would be much easier for us to just look at these plaintexts than to look at passwords.

"Can you read ancient Chinese?" I asked Kana Kido. Kana Kido laughed: "In the Japanese historical and archaeological circles, most people do not understand modern Chinese, but reading ancient Chinese is a basic skill, otherwise the ancient history of Japan, which is closely related to the mainland, cannot be studied." ”

"Good......" I winced my neck. She meant, she read ancient texts even better than I did. We leaned on each other side by side and began to read in the order that Ji Yunfu had arranged.

This "paper" is quite complex, and the author cites numerous fragments from the pile of old papers, skillfully piecing them together into a complete image, and adding his own analysis and commentary. And with the development of the author's research, a long-sealed secret slowly surfaced, this secret is ancient, but it is closely related to us now, as if a curtain is slowly opened. We slowly flipped through the notes, like two loyal viewers, fully immersed in that world.

Since the original text is too difficult and complicated, I can't quote it, so I can only try to restore the whole story in the modern vernacular, and add my own understanding of the "thesis" in the middle.

The beginning of the story is four years in Wuzhou.

That year, Wu Zetian decided to become emperor and began to create public opinion in preparation for his accession to the throne. She claimed that she was the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha and descended into the world to save all people, so she worshiped the Buddha and ordered Xue Huaiyi to build the Ming Hall and Heaven based on the Qianyuan Temple, and worship the Buddha statue in it. Among these Buddha statues, two Buddha statues are extremely valuable. One is the great Buddha statue of Maitreya, which is extremely tall and enshrined in heaven, representing Wu Zetian himself.

In addition to the Maitreya Buddha, there is also another Buddha Virujana enshrined in the Ming Hall. The material of this Buddha comes from the best jade paid tribute from the Western Regions, carved according to Wu Zetian's appearance, and is a rare treasure. Wu Zetian liked this jade Buddha very much, and placed it in the hidden niche of the Ming Hall to make offerings to the Lushena Buddha in the Longmen Grottoes.

The Buddha was only more than two feet tall, and Wu Zetian was always worried that it would be stolen, so he selected strong soldiers from the Shence Army to serve as the guards of the Ming Hall. But strange things always happen in Mingtang, either the bricks and tiles fall for no reason, or the female fox cries at night. It just so happened that Master Shenxiu, the sixth ancestor of Northern Zen Buddhism, was in Luoyang, Wu Zetian asked him for advice, and Master Shenxiu said that your guards are all battle-hardened warriors, and the blood and killing are too heavy, which is not in line with the peaceful atmosphere of the Buddhist hall. Wu Zetian asked what the solution was. Master Shenxiu looked up to the sky and smiled, and said Your Majesty, you asked at the right time, the cause and effect of this matter was already doomed a few years ago.

It turned out that a few years ago, Shenxiu was teaching the Dharma in Yuquan Mountain and had dug up an abandoned ancestral hall. The workers originally wanted to demolish the ancestral hall, but unexpectedly, a strong wind suddenly blew on the flat ground, and the construction could not be carried out. At night, a red-faced military general with long red eyes and long hair appeared in Shenxiu's dream, saying that I am the Han general Guan Yu, and my soul has been living in Yuquan Mountain, and the ancestral hall is a place to stay, and if it is demolished, it will become a lonely ghost. Shenxiu said that you might as well take refuge in my Buddha and be an apologetic, wouldn't it be better? Guan Yu was overjoyed. On the second day, Shenxiu reshaped Guan Yu's golden body, rebuilt the ancestral temple, and offered it to the Yuquan Temple, receiving incense from believers.

After Shenxiu finished telling this story, he said to Wu Zetian that Guan Yu is a fierce general who is unparalleled in the world, and now he has taken refuge in my Buddha, and it is very appropriate to ask him to protect the Dharma for Mingtang. After Wu Zetian heard about it, he was overjoyed and immediately issued an edict to build a blue bronze statue of Guan Gongjia for entering the Ming Hall. Master Shenxiu also shaved the soldiers guarding the Ming Hall one by one, received full ordination, and was called the "Buddha Army".

Of course, the supreme commander of the Buddhist army is Guan Yu, but after all, he is only a protector of the Fa Jialan, and he can't prevent sneaky thieves. So under the generalissimo, there are two commanders. The orthodox leader is a Xuanjie captain on the eighth grade, called Lian Heng; His deputy is the deputy lieutenant of Xuanjie under the eighth grade, called Yu Chaofeng. Both were born into the nobility, brave and resolute, and loyal. Both of them swore that they were willing to protect the Ming Hall with their lives, and there would always be someone who would personally guard the Jade Buddha day and night.

At that time in Luoyang, there was also an active Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, named Hanoi Sakaliangna. He followed the sixth batch of Tang envoys to Datang in the second year of the general chapter, and he was also the nephew of the Hanoi whale. Hanoi Banliangna is an avid Tang culture lover and is very obsessed with everything. As a result, when the Hanoi whale returned to China, Hanoi Banliangna did not return with him, but stayed in Luoyang. By the time the Ming Hall was completed, the Japanese had been living in Datang for nineteen years.

After the completion of the Ming Hall, it was open to Luoyang officials for several days. Hanoi Sakaliangna also went to visit by virtue of his relationship with the Tang envoys. When he saw the Jade Buddha, he immediately fell in love with it and couldn't help himself. He tried to touch the face of the Jade Buddha closely, but it happened that Lian Heng was on duty that day, and when he saw that this person was misbehaving, he drew his knife and almost killed him.

After Hanoi Sakayana left, he suffered from deep lovesickness and hoped to see the Jade Buddha again. It's a pity that Mingtang is rarely open to the public in normal times, not to mention that there are Buddhist guards, so it is basically impossible to approach. Hanoi Banliang's wish to see the Jade Buddha has never been realized.

Eight years later, it was the first year of Wu Zhou's Zhengsheng. Hanoi Sakaliangna's admiration for the Jade Buddha has not diminished, but has increased day by day, and has reached the point where he can't sleep at night without thinking about tea and dinner. His whole person was already almost crazy, and an extremely ridiculous idea actually emerged: to take the Jade Buddha for himself. For this reason, he managed to get in touch with Wu Zetian's male favorite Xue Huaiyi.

At that time, Wu Zetian already had a new favorite, Shen Nanxuan, and Xue Huaiyi was afraid that his status would not be guaranteed, so he was thinking hard about how to please the empress. Hanoi Sakarona offered two plans, one is to bury the Buddha statue in the ground, slowly pull it up with iron chains, and create an auspicious image; Another plan is to use the blood of a hundred oxen to draw a 200-foot-high floating slaughter. Xue Huaiyi was overjoyed when he heard this, and acted according to his words, but Wu Zetian's cold reaction made him disappointed.

Xue Huaiyi was depressed in his heart, and Hanoi Sakarona took this opportunity to get him drunk, and then set Mingtang on fire. This fire was extremely powerful, and the history books recorded that "the fire shines on the city like day, and it is all bright, and the storm cracks the blood statue for hundreds of sections." In the early morning of the next day, the fire was extinguished, the Ming Hall and Heaven were burned to the ground, the statue of the Great Buddha of Maitreya was burned to ashes, but the Jade Buddha was nowhere to be found, and the leader of the Buddhist army, Lian Heng, also disappeared.

After Xue Huaiyi woke up, he thought that the fire was caused by himself, and he pleaded guilty. Wu Zetian remembered the old love and pardoned him, but he was obsessed with the missing Jade Buddha. According to the deputy commander Yu Chaofeng, Lian Heng was a prisoner and stole the Jade Buddha while he was in chaos. So the whole country issued a sea fishing document to arrest Lian Heng.

But the actual situation was that Hanoi Sakaliang took advantage of the fire to steal the Jade Buddha and ran all the way to the east. Lian Heng didn't have time to inform his colleagues and chased him away. In the end, Lian Heng chased Hanoi Banliangna near Yangzhou, and the two fought wits and courage, but they couldn't help each other. In the scramble, the Jade Buddha was broken into two, and the Buddha's head was taken away by Kawachi Sakarona and returned to Japan, but the Buddha's body fell into the hands of Lian Heng.

When Lian Heng returned to Luoyang, he was shocked to find that he had become a sinner, and his family had also been affected. He only had the headless jade Buddha in his hand, and he didn't dare to return it to the imperial court, and he didn't dare to stay by his side, so he had to bury it in the mountains of Qishan and build a Guandi temple on top of it to commemorate the protection of the Buddhist army. And he changed his surname to Xu and lived in seclusion near Qishan, silently guarding.

For Hanoi Banliangna, Xu Heng has always been obsessed, hoping that one day he can find the Buddha's head, return it to the imperial court, and restore the family's reputation. For this reason, he desperately studied the way of identifying gold and jade, and gradually became famous in the local area, married a wife and had children, and took root in Qishan. After his son became an adult, Xu Heng passed on the family business and ancient craftsmanship to him, left a "self-description" to his family, and resolutely left Qishan.

In "Self-Description", Xu Heng first told the ins and outs of the Jade Buddha, and then said that his time was short, and he hoped to go to Japan before he died, and he could give it a go without scruples, so as to be worthy of his oath back then. Xu Heng also said that if he did not return to Middle-earth, it meant that the mission of the Buddha's head had failed, and then this mission would be passed down from generation to generation by the descendants of the Xu family until the Jade Buddha's head was one.

It is said that he later disguised himself as a monk and blended into the ranks of Master Jianzhen, and has not been heard from since. Whether he died in a shipwreck or was killed in Japan, no one knows.

But the Xu family did not forget the legacy of the ancestors of the family, and passed on the mission entrusted by the ancestors from generation to generation. There is a very detailed list of genealogies in the notes, and the records on it show that the Xu family has never forgotten this legacy, and has always protected the Buddha's body very well, and no one will offer to sell it when it is in distress.

Over the past few hundred years, the Xu family's gold and stone identification technique has become an authority, and it has gradually attracted a group of like-minded people, forming the prototype of the five-vein antiquity. And the entrustment of the ancestor Xu Heng, the descendants of the Xu family in the past generations have not dared to forget, and there will always be people in each generation who will go to Qishan to protect the jade Buddha body. The records of this part of the notes are scattered and trivial, all of which are about what generation and people did about the Jade Buddha.

It was not until the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty that a large number of records reappeared. At that time, there was a son of the Xu family named Xu Xin, who participated in the Ming Dynasty's War of Aid to Korea and the War against the Japanese. When Xu Xin was killing the enemy on the front line, he accidentally discovered a Japanese leader surnamed Kido Akio, who actually wanted to sneak into the inland in disguise, and his appearance was suspicious. After getting the approval of his superiors, he followed him alone. After several battles, Xu Xin learned that the surname Kido was originally passed down from the Hanoi family branch, and they inherited the will of Hanoi Sakaliangna, and they have always coveted the Jade Buddha body left in the mainland. In the end, the two died together near Qishan.

Only then did the Xu family realize that hundreds of years had passed, and the descendants of Hanoi Sakaliangna had never given up their intention of seizing the Jade Buddha. Under the auspices of the patriarch, Xu Xin was buried not far from the Jade Buddha in recognition of his spirit. From this time on, the patriarch of the Xu clan ordered to keep silent about the Jade Buddha, and no one was allowed to spread it except for the sons and grandsons of the long house.

The original intention of this order was to prevent people from coveting the treasure, but after a long time, the number of people who knew about the existence of the Jade Buddha gradually decreased, coupled with the twists and turns of the troubled times, the inheritance was interrupted several times, and the five veins were still there, but the matter of the Jade Buddha was slowly forgotten by the descendants of the Xu family. In the Qing Dynasty, no one remembered the Xu family, and even the article "Self-Description" did not know where it went.

At the end of the paper, the author writes without worry: "Since the ancestors of Lianheng in the Tang Dynasty crossed to the east, the ancestors and ancestors have all adhered to the 'faith and righteousness', and regarded the protection of the Jade Buddha as more important than their lives, how admirable it is." The ancestors of Lian Heng created the method of white character door gold and stone, the original intention was to let the Xu family find the jade Buddha one day, and they could distinguish its authenticity. But now the cart is turned upside down, no one remembers the Jade Buddha, and this method of learning from the past has become the main business. The world is declining, people's hearts are not ancient, Xu has forgotten the entrustment of his ancestors, deviated from his own way, and used his mind in the wrong place.

"I have spent more than ten years collecting and researching countless ancient books and antiques, trying to restore the deeds of Xu Heng's ancestors, the purpose of which is that one day, I can awaken the Xu bloodline and shoulder this mission again, so that our ancestors will not suffer the humiliation of untrustworthiness. Mingtang has been turned to ashes, Wu Zetian is sleeping in the Qianling, we can ignore the kindness of the imperial court, but let the Jade Buddha head be one, it is the responsibility of our Chinese descendants. Especially at present, the Japanese want to invade our land, want to destroy the soul of our nation, want to destroy the spirit of our nation, and the matter of the Jade Buddha can be the totem that invigorates 60,000 compatriots! ”

The payment is three words: Xu Yicheng. The time is October of the 19th year of the Republic of China, that is, October 1930.

After Kana Kido and I finished reading it, we each pinched one end of the manuscript paper and couldn't speak for a long time because of shock. This note is not what we expected, but it is more impactful. It not only tells the true origin of the Jade Buddha head, but also uncovers the fate and grievances that have been entangled for thousands of years between the Xu family and the Mudo family. I never thought that the Xu family and the Muhu family have such a deep relationship, not from modern times, nor from the Republic of China, but from the Tang Dynasty to today.

Kana Kido and I looked at each other at the same time, and we both saw something different in each other's eyes. Two people thousands of years ago tried to divide this jade Buddha into two; And thousands of years later, their two descendants are trying to merge the Jade Buddha into one, and the wonder of the grievances and grievances is indescribable.

It can be said that the bond between us has been doomed from the moment Sakaliangna of Kawachi threw himself at the Jade Buddha.

"Kana......" I pursed my lips slightly. Kana Kido's eyes flashed, and the curvature of her lips evoked a hint of charm: "You know what?" This is the first time you have called my name. "The two of us were face closer, her head slightly to the left and mine to the right, both looking for some kind of fit.

The temperature in the room began to rise, and the ambiguous smell became stronger. The impact of this note is too great, many things have to be digested slowly, and many details need to be slowly scrutinized. But at this moment, my brain couldn't think at all, and primal desire took over my whole body, pushing me to keep going, closer, so close that I could hear her breath and smell her scent.

Just as my reason was about to collapse, there was a knock at the door. It was like a sound, with undisguised eagerness and roughness. Kana Kido and I woke up suddenly and separated like frightened rabbits. Kana Kido's face was flushed, her chest was slightly undulating, and she couldn't get up from sitting on the sofa with a limp body, so she had to open the door.

There were two policemen with gloomy faces standing outside the door, as well as Second Master Qin. As soon as Second Master Qin saw me, he immediately shouted hysterically: "It's him!" That's right! A tall policeman approached and waved his ID: "Make a wish?" You're under arrest. ”