I touched the wooden floor under my feet, and the touch and texture were all real wood, without a trace of falsehood.

The old woman seemed to know what I was thinking, so she said to me, "This restaurant is also imagined by Huzi. ”

I straightened up, pondered, and said, "You mean, a civet can turn something that appears in its dreams into a physical entity?" ”

The old woman shook her head: "Huzi doesn't have that much ability, it can just control the keel, everything here is what it imagined, but it didn't create it, it was the keel that created this place, but as long as Huzi died, the keel that lost control will collapse." ”

Again, I can't understand it.

Ever since I returned to my old family's house, I couldn't understand things and things became so endless that now I'm getting used to it.

Habit does not mean that there are no doubts, but before I could express the problems in my heart, the old woman stuffed a small cloth bag the size of a palm into my hand and said, "You will understand later." ”

I unsealed the bag and took out a piece of bone the size of a fingernail, and in addition to the one in my hand, there were three or four other pieces of the same bone in the bag.

"What is this?" I asked the old woman.

She said to me, "This is the keel, and you can't feel the spirit on it in the back alley." After leaving the back alley, be sure to seal all the bone fragments in this bag, remember. ”

"What happens if they're exposed?" As I spoke, I stuffed the bone fragment in my hand back into the bag, and pulled the seal closer to hold the mouth of the bag.

The old woman said: "Once the dragon bones appear in the Yang World, it will cause a great crisis, but if you take these bone fragments out of the back alley, the tiger will not live long." ”

I put away the bag containing the keel and raised my chin at the empty leather bag beside the old woman: "Let's call it Huzi in the future." ”

"No," said the old woman, and took out a wooden box from behind her, and she first handed it to me, and then said to me, "Huzi has recognized the new master, and he can no longer use his previous name, and when you name it, it is better to give it a harder name to correspond to its numerology." ”

I opened the box, and I saw that it contained a cyan claw, and under the light, the tip of the claw reflected a very cold luster.

The old woman said to me, "This flying claw is ten meters long, and the tip of the claw is coated with strong yang poison, which is specially used to deal with ghosts. ”

As she spoke, I was flipping the back of my paws over, and I saw the word "official" engraved on it.

"This claw was left by your father," said the old woman, "and it was originally the weapon of the previous auxiliary." ”

I immediately looked up and asked, "Do you know my dad?" ”

The old woman nodded: "He is a bad man, and he used to come to me to ask for tea, but since the auxiliary officer next to him was pregnant with a child, I rarely saw him, oh, I remember, he sent the flying claw over before the auxiliary officer gave birth." ”

I guessed something and asked tentatively, "My dad's assistant is a woman?" ”

"Her name is Su Yao, and she is from the old Su family." The old woman said thoughtfully: "In the Tang Dynasty, there were as many assistants as there were Yin cha, and Su Yao was the first and only daughter. ”

I clutched the wooden box in my arms and fell into a deep silence.

My dad sent the claws to the back alley before the assistant gave birth.

The old woman was able to say that, which means that in her eyes, my mother was just an assistant, and she did not know the relationship between my parents and my parents, nor did she know that the baby who was about to be born at that time was me.

I think my dad must have had to do it because he kept it a secret from the old woman.

"You came to Huzi this time, you probably just want to know how to use the Netherworld Treasure, right?"

The old woman's mouth does not listen for a moment, but you do not find her noisy, on the contrary, she always gives people a very kind feeling when she speaks, and you will unconsciously want to be close to her.

After I nodded, the old woman said, "Huzi doesn't know what to do with the ancient money in your hand. ”

Hearing this, I immediately frowned.

The old woman asked me again, "Did that boy ask you to come?" ”

I nodded: "It was indeed the second master who asked me to come." ”

"It seems that he knows everything back then."

As she spoke, the old woman reached into the crevice under the couch and pulled out a yellowed piece of old paper.

I took it and saw that the paper was originally full of dense words, but most of them were smeared with a very thick oil paint pen, and only six words were completely preserved: "Three points of yin, six points of yang." ”。

"It's like my dad's handwriting." I pointed to the six words and said to the old woman.

Although my dad disappeared ten years ago, I still have a greeting card he left behind on my ninth birthday, and the handwriting on the card is exactly the same as the handwriting on this old piece of paper.

The old woman nodded: "This is where your father received his revelation and borrowed the power of the Netherworld Treasure to open the ghost gate. The six words on the paper are the mantra that urges the Netherworld Treasure. ”

I was puzzled: "What does it mean to divide yin into three parts and divide yang into six yang?" ”

The old woman said, "The original words should be, three yin, six yang and one evil, which means that yin, yang and evil qi are mixed in the ratio of three, six and one, and injected into the money hole of the Netherworld Tongbao, so that the ghost door can be opened." ”

For the family, it is not difficult to create a mixed Qi field with evil energy, and it is rare to control the proportion.

I took out the Nether Treasure and looked at it, and asked her, "What will happen after you open the ghost gate?" ”

This time, the old woman shook her head: "I don't know, but I heard your father say that the ghost gate is a mirror and a shield, but I have never been able to understand the meaning of this sentence." ”

I nodded silently, and after a while I asked, "Do you know why my parents disappeared back then?" Where the hell did they go? ”

The old woman shook her head and said, "I know, but I can't say that this is a matter for your family, and only your family can give you an answer." ”

As she spoke, she pulled out a tea tray out of nowhere, picked up a cup full of tea and handed it to me, "Drink it." ”

I smelled a very unique sweet and sour smell in the tea, and I couldn't help but ask, "What is this?" ”

"It's a key."

As the old woman uttered these words, my body suddenly lost control, and I held the cup very mechanically in both hands, and very mechanically passed it to my mouth.

It wasn't until I drank all the tea in the cup that I felt a little relaxed in my legs and feet, but my stomach was faintly sluggish.

Then the old woman said to me, "My name is Dui, and when you see me in the future, you can call me by my name, or you can call me Granny Dui." After drinking tea, you are my friend, and you can freely enter and exit the back alley in the future, and every time you come, you can bring one more person. ”

I felt my head get a little heavier, so I rubbed my neck, "What the hell was I just drinking?" ”

Granny Dui smiled: "I said it, that's the key to enter the back alley." In the future, if you don't know where you should go, you can come to me, and I will show you the way, but I will not solve your doubts. ”

There are always a lot of riddles in the words of this mother-in-law, some of which I can grasp, but some of which I still don't know how to explain.

At this time, Granny Dui stuffed the wooden box, the picture scroll, and the "cat" crawling beside her into my arms, and then waved her hand at me: "It's not too early, go back quickly." ”

I'm not going to delay any longer, pick up the bits and pieces and turn away.

Just as I walked near the spiral staircase, Granny Dui said to me again: "Before you leave the back alley, be sure to give the tiger a good name." ”

I stood where I was, turned around and asked, "A harder name, right?" ”

Granny Du nodded at me.

When I came to the third floor with a bunch of things, Li Huaishan was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a skinned energy bar in his hand.

"Gone."

I beckoned to him, and he immediately got up, and in the blink of an eye he came up to me, reaching out to grab the wooden box in my arms, and saying, "Is the flying claw here, that thing must have been left for me?" ”

"Did you hear our conversation?" I asked Li Huaishan with a frown.

He grinned at me, "I heard it, I heard it clearly." ”

As he spoke, he opened the wooden box, carefully took out the flying claws, and put them in his hands to examine them carefully.

I asked him, "Would you use this?" ”

Li Huaishan: "The cloud exploration hand I learned was originally used with flying claws. The workmanship of this thing is really exquisite, and there is not a trace of welding. ”

He seemed to have a soft spot for the claws in the box.

As I walked downstairs, I unfolded the scroll and looked at the cat lying on a pine branch, my mind racing.

What kind of name should I give it?

Li Huaishan approached me, glanced at the scroll, pouted and said, "Do you want to call it something?" ”

I said, "I haven't thought about it yet, but I'm going to come up with a more unique name, the kind that you can remember at a glance, but it shouldn't be too high-profile, and it's better to be down-to-earth." ”

Li Huaishan thought for a while and said, "Didn't that old woman say that its new name had better be tougher?" The hardest thing in the world should be diamond, or else it should be called diamond. ”

I shook my head: "It's too high-profile, I don't like this kind of name." ”

Li Huaishan: "Then call it corundum, the second hardest thing in the world." ”

I directly blocked Li Huaishan's words, took a closer look at the cat painted on the pine branches, and then looked at the body of the civet lying in my arms, and after a while, asked Li Huaishan: "When you see this cat lying on its stomach, do you want a hammer?" ”

Li Huaishan looked at me with wide eyes: "Hammer? Damn, you're not going to call it a hammer, it's too much. ”

I shook my head: "The hammer doesn't sound good, I'm going to call it the hammer anyway." ”

Li Huaishan looked at me in a daze and didn't speak for a long time.

I elbowed him: "Why don't you speak?" ”

Li Huaishan rolled his eyes: "If not, I seriously question your aesthetics now." Such a beautiful cat, how can you call someone a hammer, it's too earthy! ”

"I think Hammer is pretty good, don't you think this name has a kind of back-to-basics mood," I held up the scroll and the empty shell of the civet at the same time, "Hammer, what do you think of this new name?" ”

As I spoke, the scroll suddenly trembled, and then the black cat on the pine branch vanished, and after that, the empty shell that I had curled in my right hand had a body temperature.

(End of chapter)