It turned out that Liao Kao, Tengchongchong, and Suihe were all friends in their families, and they grew up together.

has been doing business together since his grandfather's generation, Liao Kao's father and Teng Chongchong's father are still brothers who have worshipped the master.

After Teng Chongchong's family had an accident, she couldn't afford it. was originally a character who loved to talk and laugh, but he also began to become taciturn.

Sui He and Liao Kao couldn't bear to see her like this, so they agreed to accompany her until they found all the copper coins and opened the box.

Liao Kao inquired from his grandfather's mouth that the box was a nine-fold treasure letter.

Since ancient times, there are several kinds of treasure letters, fourfold and eightfold. There is no distinction between size and size, only whether the mechanism is ingenious or not.

And the cracking method of this nine-fold treasure letter is much more troublesome than that of other treasure letters. It is generally used to hold extremely valuable items, such as the relics of the high monks of the town country, or the very important mystical secrets.

Each letter is unlocked in a different way, and the key is usually made from the materials left over from the crafting of the letter.

It has nothing to do with the shape of the key, what matters is unity. Only if it fits perfectly with the treasure letter can it be opened.

In other words, even if you find someone to make three identical copper coins, as long as the materials are different, you still can't open the nine-fold treasure letter.

Teng Chongchong found the origin of this nine-fold treasure letter from his father's collection booklet, which turned out to be from Wayun Village in Luoma County, Yunnan.

So the three of them packed their bags and went straight to the Wayun Village.

By chance, I stayed at the house of a blind old woman and found that the incense of my mother-in-law's house was offered to a Buddha.

The shape of the Buddha is very strange, and she is a girl with a charming and graceful figure.

The old woman said that this Buddha statue was borrowed by a person in her house many years ago. At that time, the man was in a hurry, leaving only a stack of banknotes, and told the old woman to put away the Buddha statue and that he would come to pick it up tomorrow.

But after all these years, the man never came back.

Teng Chong accidentally fell to the ground when he checked it, the Buddha statue shattered, and the copper coin fell out of it.

The three of them were pleasantly surprised to try it and found that it matched the pattern on the nine-fold treasure letter.

The Buddha statue was shattered, and the old woman did not say much. I just said that I haven't come to pick it up for so many years, and most of it is not wanted. Teng Chongchong insisted on leaving a sum of money for the old woman, but the old woman only took a hundred, and the rest refused to stay.

After the copper coin was found, there was no further news for a long time.

The three of them went home in disgrace, Teng Chongchong hid at his grandfather's house and refused to see his father again, and his father did not suspect her because of the loss of the Ninefold Treasure Letter.

In the past four years, as long as there is news, Teng Chongchong will arrive as soon as possible, but every time it is in vain.

In this way, I saw hope again and again, and disappointed again and again.

Teng Chongchong took Liao Kao's notebook and pulled out a picture from it. The picture depicts a woman with a graceful figure and a gorgeous appearance, with the word "ghost" written next to it.

"It wasn't until a few months ago that I stumbled across this image on a Taoist website. The woman in this picture is exactly the same Buddha statue I saw at the blind mother-in-law's house in Wayun Village. I searched for a long time to find the author's address. But the landlord said that this person saw through the red dust and became a Taoist priest. It took me a lot of effort to find out that he was now living in seclusion in a Taoist temple on the outskirts of Hangzhou. It's probably in the mountain where I got lost today, but you saw it and didn't find it. ”

I took the picture and took a look, but I didn't find anything special about the woman in the picture, except that she was very beautiful and her eyes were particularly smart, she didn't look like a fairy family that could be made into a Buddha statue.

Lao Meng craned his neck and glanced at it, "This woman is a little familiar." ”

"Pull it down, you look familiar when you see a good-looking one."

Lao Meng scratched his head and muttered in his mouth, really, it feels like I saw it some time ago.

I noticed the word phantom written on the photo, so I asked, "Is this the phantom girl's name?" ”

Old Meng Na took a look at it, "This seems to be the spirit girl of the legendary ancient Dian Kingdom." ”

Teng Chongchong nodded, "Yes, this is another matter, that is, this legendary ancient Dian Kingdom." When I was stealing the Ninefold Treasure Letter, I found an ancient scroll underneath the Treasure Letter, photographed it, and copied it. What is recorded on these pieces of paper is the main content of the whole book. ”

As she spoke, she flipped through the few copies she had in her notebook, and on them were densely packed with words I didn't recognize.

Sui He seems to have studied ancient characters a lot, and he didn't open his mouth until he turned the page before explaining, "The characters used here are all branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and they are the descriptions of the Central Plains of the Western Han Dynasty by a certain ethnic minority." ”

Although Sino-Tibetan is the language spoken by the vast majority of ethnic minorities in China, the text recorded on this piece of paper is different from all the side branches we know before.

It has both the characteristics of Tibeto-Burman grammar and the way of writing official script. This is one of the reasons why I conclude that these texts are written by ethnic minorities.

According to Sui He's description, the protagonist recorded in the book is called Na Wu, who is an arithmetic of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

The so-called arithmetic is not much different from the national teacher. Help the ruler with advice, alchemy and medicine. The only difference is that the selection of arithmetic is determined by the death of the previous generation of arithmetic.

The baby born at the same time as the death of the arithmetic is chosen as the next mathian. Providence does it, and it grows endlessly.

Na Wu was the seventh arithmetic of the ancient Dian Kingdom, and during his tenure, a strange thing happened.

One day, the witch was writing about the medicinal materials needed for alchemy, and someone came to visit. The witch glanced at the visitor, it was a young woman with a veil covering half of her face.

"Dare to ask the girl what's the matter" The witch stopped his pen and asked the person in front of him to cultivate the latest chapter.

"Why didn't the arithmetic ask me who I was first," the woman said with a nonchalant face.

"It doesn't matter who you are, since you found me, you must have something to ask for" That Wu does good deeds on weekdays, and many people will ask him to help, most of them are to see a doctor and get medicine, so it's the same when you only come.

"Maybe you will believe what I say more when you know who I am"

"Well, dare to ask who the girl is"

After the "Hani Ghost Girl" finished speaking, she took off the veil on her face, revealing a stunning face with a cloud brocade pattern tattooed on her cheeks.

After hearing this, the witch quickly got up from the chair, walked quickly to the woman, knelt down respectfully, kowtowed three times, put his index finger on his eyebrows, closed his eyes and said, "Blessing the girl"

"I don't know what the ghost girl commands"

After a pause, the voice of the ghost girl came from the top of her head, "Gu Dian is dying"

"The content of the book came to an abrupt end, and it didn't say whether the witch had completed the task, nor did it say why he put the silver turtle in Weiyang Palace."

Here is another country that I am familiar with, ancient Yunnan.

Historically, the demise of the ancient Dian Kingdom is an unsolved mystery. Some people speculate that it was because of the plague, while others think it was a natural disaster. These are just speculations from the archaeological community.

Sima Qian's "Historical Records" describes the ancient Dian Kingdom, only "the southwest Yijun is the longest, Yelang is the largest, the west, the south of the Mo is the largest, and the Yunnan is the largest". Roughly speaking, there are many countries in the southwest region, with Yelang being the largest, Yelang being the west, and Dian being the largest.

Our current understanding of the Dian Kingdom is limited to the splendid bronze civilization and the culture of the ancient Dian Kingdom. But I don't know anything else about this country.

All the conditions in front of us now point directly to this place, whether it is the ancient relics on the copper coin, or the statue of the ghost girl found in Wayun Village, or the ancient book locked by Teng Jianmin.

My father has been obsessed with ancient Dian culture for so many years, what is his intention?

Between these rings and links, there seem to be inextricable links.

Teng Chongchong guessed, "The things in this nine-fold treasure letter must be inseparable from the place of Ancient Yunnan, so this is also one of the important clues." ”

I handed the picture to Teng Chongchong and said, "Then tomorrow morning, let's go to the mountains again to see if we can find the author of this painting and see if there is any breakthrough." ”

After hearing this, Teng Chongchong put away the picture with relief, and stretched out his hand to me with a smile: "Then it's decided." From today onwards, our alliance will be temporarily reached, and I wish me good luck. ”