I was really taught, I only knew that sandalwood exudes sandalwood, and it turns out that it will become a hollow tree.

Sheng Shiyao saw that my expression was confused, and explained again: "The hollow tree is not born, it is actually caused by the disease of the tree, and there are many reasons, the tree is too old, the branches and leaves are too dense, and the land is not full of nutrients. The tree is obviously not too old and too dense, so it's clear that its hollowness is due to the latter. I also observed the soil in the morning, and it was good except for the one under the trees, which was too acidic, which means it was man-made. I didn't understand it just now, but now the answer is self-defeating. ”

After listening to the analysis, I couldn't help but get excited, "Grandma must have hidden something in this tree, but ......," I scratched my head, "where will it be placed?" ”

Sheng Shiyao's eyes were fixed on the roots of the tree, and I immediately woke up to realize that this tree had not grown so tall more than ten years ago, and the tree was hollow because of the soil quality, and it must be empty at the root of the tree. hurriedly leaned down to look for it, but after looking around, there was no trace.

Sheng Shiyao beside him also squatted down, he looked at it and said: "It seems that there has been a special treatment, you directly use the shadow moon to cut it, whether there is something hidden, you can know at a glance." I nodded, and I didn't care if the tree was destroyed or not, and with a slight stroke of the shadow moon, the bark was sliced open, and I immediately realized that it was indeed hollow inside.

We glanced at it, and knew that there was a door, and when half of the bark at the roots had been peeled off, the tree was faintly about to fall, and the contents inside were clear at a glance. It's also wrapped in oiled paper.,One is a long tube.,You don't have to look at it to guess that it's the missing picture scroll.,The other one can feel something in it when you hold it in your hand.。

We opened the scroll first, and the painting inside looked very well preserved from the paper, but when we spread out the paper, we couldn't help but be stunned. The portrait of the ancestors of the family that I imagined turned out to be a landscape painting! Half of the paper is painted in the sea, and the other half is painted in the sea on a small island with houses on the island, apparently inhabited.

Wait, my eyes are fixed on somewhere, at the very top of the island, there is a house that looks like an ancient castle. It's not surprising that it's a long way from other houses, and it's a detached house on the seafront, but I was struck by the fact that the castle resembles the one I've dreamed about since I was a child. However, due to the angle of the drawing, only the back of the castle was drawn, so it was impossible to get a glimpse of what the front door was like.

I remember vividly that I had traveled across the ocean in my dream to reach that castle. Sheng Shiyao noticed my strangeness and asked me what was going on, I had told him about the dream before, and he had analyzed that it was the first layer of my foreknowledge ability, which was illusory, and now this ocean, this castle really appeared on the painting.

I haven't talked about this dream, whether it's my grandmother or Aunt Mei, and I have nowhere to talk about it, because I don't remember this dream before I met Sheng Shiyao. So there is no possibility for others to image my dreams into paintings, and no painter in this world can do this. Besides, the quality of this painting is estimated to be older than me.

Sheng Shiyao also showed a different color when he learned about it, and after a while, he pointed his finger in the painting and said: "Put down your dream first, as far as this painting is concerned, it highlights two points, one is this sea area, and the other is the castle on the island." Needless to say, the sea area was depicted on half a piece of paper, but this castle was deliberately painted above the corner, which seems to be inconspicuous, but it is located in the knot of the entire island. The three things that impress you most in your dreams: crossing the sea, the castle, and the man in black. In a way, this painting fits your dreams. ”

"Does that mean I'm going to experience that dream one day? To that island? ”

He frowned and groaned, giving an uncertain answer: "I don't know." From the current point of view, all your dreams have a certain meaning, and they are not empty fantasies. ”

Sigh, exclamation, I can only react like this. He lowered his head and condensed the scroll and asked, "Do you say that this painting is the one that my grandmother hung on the wall?" After Sheng Shiyao folded the edge of the scroll, he said: "You see that the folds here are all black, which is formed after a long period of dust staining. Look at the middle of the lanyard, there is rust, which proves that it has been hung by nails, and it is not surprising that it is the one you saw in your dream. ”

"But why did my grandmother plead with the ancestors of the family to make that vow in front of such a painting?"

"I'll have to ask your grandmother about this. Let's take a look at what's in the other package, maybe the mystery is over there. ”

When I first woke up from a dream, I forgot that there was a package that had not been opened, and when I opened it quickly, I fell to the ground with a fixed look, and it was my grandmother's private piece of Jinpa, and I was holding a handwritten copy of the oil paper in my hand, except for these two, there was nothing else.

The black-winged bat on the brocade is vividly embroidered, and I had already guessed its origin, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, I opened the hand-copied book, the size of which was like the villain book I read when I was a child, the paper had been yellowed, and many of the words recorded on it were in traditional Chinese, and I could faintly guess what it was after reading it for a while.

Sheng Shiyao read lightly beside him: "Huang Xingyuan! ”

I looked up in surprise, "How could it be Huang Xingyuan?" I thought it was a book of occult arts. "The above content is difficult to understand, it is all some occult terms, but how can this be related to Huang Xingyuan.

"The pages you just turned are the essence of the soul art that Wong Tai Sin has learned." He took it from my hand and flipped it back: "This should be a hand-copied fragment of Huang Xingyuan's secret technique, the content is not complete, there is a mention of Yangshou Zhenyin method in the middle, and the summoning technique recorded in the last few pages was recorded later. ”

If you look closer, the ink on the last few pages is a little newer. Could it be that before I met Chen Bing, my grandmother had Huang Xingyuan's remnants in her hands? Could their acquaintance be deliberately done by grandma in order to complete this secret technique?

I probably already knew that it was this manuscript that Aunt Mei had asked for from my grandmother, who had promised that one day she would take out this secret technique. Aunt Mei asked the key to the purple gold box, did she suspect that her grandmother had hidden the secret art in the box?

I asked, "If you learn this mysticism, will it be very strong?" ”

"Whether it's strong or not, you can see Wong Tai Sin and Chen Bing."

Yes, those two of them have only mastered one of the occult arts, and they are already extremely strong, and if they learn this, even if it is only a remnant, they will be incredibly strong. Such a small manuscript may not be of much use to people like me who don't understand occult arts, but for those who do, it is as precious as a martial arts secret book.

Sheng Shiyao's face showed interest, "Interesting, it seems that Zhou Jing and the others in Jinsha Ancient Town actually don't have the true book of Huang Xingyuan's secret technique in their hands, this is the reason why they are silent in the desert area." ”

"Why?"

"Look at the handwriting on this manuscript." He gave a hint.

I heard the words and looked through them again, and I didn't think it was unusual, the front and back were the same handwriting, it should have been written by my grandmother. He said: "It is the consistency of the handwriting that is the problem, if it is inconsistent, maybe this manuscript is passed down by your ancestors, and then your grandmother learned about the summoning technique from Chen Bingna and then made up for it." It turns out that this is not the case. ”

His eyes lit up suddenly, and he already understood what he meant, "You mean that grandma has a real fragment in her hand, so she can copy it, and this pamphlet is probably only partially copied." ”

Sheng Shiyao hooked the corners of his lips lightly, his eyes showed praise, and he said without hesitation: "The reaction is quite fast." ”

I was rarely appreciated by him, and I should have been happy, but the facts at the moment made me think about it and wonder: "Then why did my grandmother copy this pamphlet by hand?" Where are the real remnants? ”

There are two possibilities: one is that the fragment is lost, and she only writes these down from memory; The second is to hide people's eyes and ears, in case the secret of the bedpost is excavated, at most the manuscript will be found. If it's the latter, it proves that your grandmother is very careful. ”

I found that Sheng Shiyao liked this kind of example very much, and after he listed the examples, he actually had a conclusion in his mind, and basically could judge which one was closest to reality. Obviously, he was more inclined to the latter in his assertion just now.

It's a problem again, the scraps are so important, where will my grandmother hide them? I felt very depressed in the blink of an eye, even if I guessed my grandmother's mind and found the remnants of Huang Xingyuan's secret technique, what could I do? In the end, I can't solve the mystery and confusion, and I can't solve the dilemma in front of me, so I can't take these and walk to Aunt Mei automatically.

In addition, there are some things that I want to know, but I can't find them, and I don't have a clue.

While pondering, he suddenly heard Sheng Shiyao beside him asking: "Actually, what you really want to find is about your own fate, right?" ”

I was slightly surprised, "How do you know?" I remembered that there seemed to be several times, I just had a slight movement in my heart, and I was asked by him, before he had said in a wizard's tone that he could read mind mysteries, and couldn't help asking: "You really know how to read minds?" ”

The dark eyes that were well versed stared at me, and after a while, he said slowly: "This is not actually a mind-reading technique, since I merged with you, if I get close, I can sense your mind turning." The reason is that a part of your soul qi is absorbed into my body, and the magnetic field reaches coexistence. ”

I was choked, and the astringent feeling of the word "fit" still came out. Hurriedly put away the distracting thoughts, diverted the topic and said: "Grandma did not hesitate to use Yang Shou to suppress my yin qi and try to change my fate, and Aunt Mei said that my fate is irreversible, I want to know, what is my fate?" In addition, I wanted to find out about my mother, which was a question that had plagued me for many years, and there was not a single picture of my mother in the old house, nor any of my mother's clothes, and if my grandmother's death was very painful, she burned everything related to it, but it could not be so complete. ”

"You think your fate might be related to your mother?"

Nodding, I think so.