Due to the discovery of the gray brain virus and the invention of effective drugs to inhibit the virus, Old Man Xia's encephalopathy is gradually improving, but the shadow in his dream is still there. At the beginning, in order not to hurt Xia Wenyuan's ontological consciousness, Aoki and Crow failed to really kill the shadow.

This time, Aoki brought the orange cat to the hearty.

He still remembered that the parasitic consciousness had invaded Yao Jingjing's mother's brain, but when the white cat Ruxue, who guarded Yao's mother, appeared, that parasitic consciousness was gone. Yao's mother didn't understand the truth of the matter, and couldn't tell whether the parasitic consciousness was because she gave up the invasion because she discovered Ruxue's existence, or if something else happened.

Although she listened to Aoki and Crow very much, her consciousness body, Ruxue, did not remember what happened in Yao's mother's brain, because the consciousness body itself had no memory, and she could not tell what happened at that time.

So Aoki brought Ruxue this time, that is, the current sound, he wanted to try, bring Ruxue into Xia Wenyuan's dream, face the invading shadow, what would happen.

If Ruxue can really clear the associated consciousness without damaging the proprioceptive consciousness, then on the one hand, it can completely save Old Man Xia, and on the other hand, is it possible to find some weaknesses in the parasitic consciousness.

Xia Wenyuan was very happy to see Aoki. The entire Xia family knew that Aoki had saved the old man, so they respected and admired him. Every time he came to the door, he was treated with greater courtesy than the last time.

After a few pleasantries, Aoki asked about the mulberry camp in the past and Wu Zhonghua's family.

"Mulberry Camp and Hua Family...... That's a long time! Xia Wenyuan narrowed his eyes and tried his best to recall the past, "I was born during the First Battle of Songhu in 1932, and the fire in the Mulberry Camp occurred during the Second Battle of Songhu in 1937, when I was only eight years old. I have lived a long time, and I can't remember many things when I was a child, but the fire in the Hua family's mansion in Mulberry Camp is still fresh in my memory. ”

"At that time, the Hua family was not an exaggeration to say that Wuzhong was extremely rich. As for our Xia family, they are far worse than them. The reason why there are rumors that the Xia family in Nanzhen and the Hua family in Mulberry Camp are equally famous, it is after the eighties and nineties. It was old and decrepit that I had a little fame in the business field at that time, and there were good people who exhausted the details of the three generations of my ancestors and said that we were a rich family with the same name as the Hua family. ”

Xia Wenyuan smiled, "My father is also in the silk business, and he has a small family background, but compared with the Hua family, it is a small thing, and it cannot be compared at all." However, my father was radical at that time, donated money and materials several times to resist foreign aggression, and personally escorted supplies to the front line to comfort the soldiers, so he was somewhat famous. Later, my father mentioned to me many times that the old man of the Hua family was the real pillar of the country, and the career he did was beyond the reach of my father. It's a pity that a fire burned a huge family, and nothing was left. ”

At that time, the Mulberry Camp Mansion was called Mulberry Garden, which covered a wide area, and was the same as the Lingering Garden, Yi Garden, and Qu Garden. I went with my father when I was a child, but I was too young at that time to remember clearly, I only remember that I was naughty at that time, sneaked into the back garden, met a few children of the Hua family, and played together and forgot the time, and my father made it easy to find me. ”

"Later, the mulberry garden caught fire, and a fire burned for two days, and even our people from Nanzhen rushed to help put out the fire, but they couldn't save it after all. At that time, the Shilin people beat their chests and paused, saying that the oldest garden in Wu will never be seen again! Only my father lamented that the mulberry garden was burned, and the Hua family did not leave a single ding, and the ancient style of the Wuzhong family has been lost since then! ”

"I heard that the fire was lit by the old man of the Hua family himself?" Aoki asked.

Xia Wenyuan pondered: "There is such a saying. At that time, Songhu was fighting a fierce war, the government had surrendered more than 700,000 troops, and the people's enthusiasm for resisting Japan was high. But my father was not optimistic, he said that Songhu is a flat country, there is no danger to defend, and it should not be a place for war. However, according to the public opinion at that time, China and Japan had no choice but to fight, and Songhu was chosen, and Chiang's intention was to lure the south of the water to Lend-Lease in order to seek the support of Europe and the United States. Defeat is inevitable, once Songhu is defeated, then the entrance of the Jiangzuo portal, how can Wuzhong hold it? ”

"My father saw this layer, how could the old man of the Hua family not see it. I heard that he had already scattered all his family wealth, either to the government or to the school. Just before the fire, he dismissed his servants and protégés, so it is very likely that he set the fire himself, and as for the reason for this, I am afraid only he knows. ”

Aoki asked, "Do you know why the Japanese army was looking for that old mulberry tree?" ”

Xia Wenyuan shook his head and said: "At the end of the 37th year, the Japanese army occupied Wuzhong, and indeed went to the mulberry camp, but whether it is like what you said, I don't know if it is to find the mulberry tree." I think it's more likely that they went to the Hua family, because the Japanese also went to our Nanzhen town and found my father. They need to find the most prominent people in Wu to form a maintenance council to enforce their rule. ”

Aoki nodded, feeling that Xia Wenyuan was reasonable, but he didn't think that what Bishenghua said was all a story, at least, the old willow tree was transplanted from somewhere else, and there were roots of the old mulberry tree underneath should be true.

"Do you remember that old mulberry tree?"

"Of course I do!" Xia Wenyuan said, "The tree is planted in the front yard of the mulberry garden, the general mulberry tree, even if the tree is 10000 years old, the trunk is only a thickness of a circumference, at most two people hug it, but the trunk of this mulberry tree has to be hugged by three or four people to hug it, the tree is more than ten zhang high, the branches are luxuriant, and the sky and the sun are covered." It is said that the incense of the Hua family has been burning for hundreds of years, and it is all blessed by this sacred tree. There is also a legend that the mulberry fruit on this tree can cure diseases and prolong life if eaten. Every year in June and July, when the fruit is ripe, the Hua family will pick the mulberry fruit and distribute it to the children in the neighborhood. When I was a child, I also went to join in the fun and ate a few mulberry fruits. ”

Aoki asked again: "I heard that after the old mulberry was burned to death, the mulberry trees in the surrounding ten miles were all dead?" ”

Xia Wenyuan laughed and said: "This is mostly a rumor, how can there be a tree that dies, and a tree dies!" The mulberry land and the mulberry farmers in that area belonged to the Hua family, and as soon as the Hua family fell, those mulberry farmers lost their support. It was another era of war, and mulberry trees could not be eaten, so many mulberry farmers cut down mulberry trees and planted grain instead. Over time, it became the version you said. ”

Aoki suddenly remembered that Bishenghua also listened to what his grandfather said, and what her grandfather said may not be the truth, after all, it happened in her grandfather's time. What's more, there are some things, even if you know it, you are often willing to believe in the supernatural version. From this point of view, Xia Wenyuan's statement is more credible.

"It doesn't seem to be as magical as the legend says!" Aoki sighed.

Xia Wenyuan said: "That's not necessarily, there is something I have seen with my own eyes and still remember." After the fire in the mulberry garden, the mulberry camp flew from there with crows, wandering in the sky every day and screaming, and at night, perched on the willow tree. Well, as far as I know, the willow tree was moved over the position, planted on the original old mulberry tree. Legend has it that there is an old crow's nest on the old mulberry tree, and countless crows have flown out of that nest for thousands of years. I remember when I was a child, I don't know who made up a children's rhyme, and it spread among our children, I can't remember it now, it probably looked like this-

earth, scorched; Birds in the sky, black pressing. 10,000-year-old tree, thousand-year-old crow, 100-year-old family. The most ruthless water and fire, children and grandchildren return without a home. ……”