Chapter 43: Hitomi's Letter
I held up the kerosene lamp I had brought in and looked at the tablet on the table in front of me. This scene was told to me by my parents, and it was also passed down from the previous generation, and it was the first time I had seen it in real terms.
The whole looks quite shabby, and like the legend, there is only a table with a tablet inside, and a boxy urn is placed under the table.
It is said to be an urn, but in fact, in the era of Mu Tong's death, we have not yet practiced cremation in this area, let alone a crematorium, and people are buried directly in coffins according to the old rules after death.
I broke the box lightly, for fear that some hidden weapon would fly out of it and put me down.
Fortunately, everything was my suspicion, the box was easy to open, and Mu Hitomi did not arrange a hidden weapon in it to increase the risk of losing his children and grandchildren.
There are not many things in the box, just a long bracelet of small black gems, and a small book that is not too thick. There is a small note on these two things, the bracelet is written for the descendants of the Kong family, and the book is written for the descendants of the Mu family.
I took these two things and shook my head sadly, and I couldn't help but suspect that the Kong family was really his own descendant. Look at the bracelet he left to Kong Xian, it must be worth hundreds of thousands. Look at the broken book left for me, I don't think the paper is good for wiping my ass.
After two sighs, I quickly put away my envy, jealousy and hatred, opened the notebook that Mu Hitomi left for me, and read the contents on it by the kerosene lamp.
Turning the first page, I was shocked! I found out that this was actually a letter that spanned nearly 100 years. A letter specially left for me......
Wooden Tour:
I'm glad to be with you. You must be amazed at how I know your name. I think your father must have lied to you that he gave you this name. Don't worry, when he comes to see me, I will clean him up.
In fact, I have already chosen your name, and you will know the purpose later. This name doesn't have much meaning, it's just to commemorate my master, so I took my master's name and you.
Here, you'll get some of the answers you want, and some of them you'll need to explore on your own. Don't be anxious, I hope you know what you should know when it is most suitable.
The first thing I want to tell you is about the village. I guess if there is no problem in the village, you will not open this place and see the letter I left for you. This village is called a spring in feng shui, and it is symmetrical with an ancient city that has been buried in the ground, like the yin and yang dots on the Bagua map. Therefore, the village has become an inevitable victim.
You can't change all this, just like Wang Qing at the beginning. However, there is a way to end everything, but this method is not in the village, but in the ancient city corresponding to the village. This village is like a mirage, a disembodied puppet of the ancient city, and everything that everyone does here is in vain.
I was deliberately searching, and I was given two maps. The provenance of these two maps is unknown, but they are very similar, one is a topographical map of the surrounding village, and the other is a map of the actual ancient city, presumably someone deliberately tried to disturb the orientation. Just like the Ten Thousand Horse Tribulations in the past, they were all to hide the location of the ancient city.
I'm sure you've heard the rumors of the Ten Thousand Horse Tribulation, but it's not a godly thing. The purpose of the Ten Thousand Horse Tribulation is very simple, that is, to bury this village and the ancient city in the ground at the same time. But the price is terrible, and it requires the loss of all the lives of animals in this mountain.
Wang Qing's family at the end of the village paid a huge price to change the situation, although they did not completely solve the problem, they also saved several villages and hundreds of people.
Speaking of the ancient city, I have to apologize to you, if I hadn't entered the ancient city on my own initiative, you would not be where you are today. Now it's too late to regret it, and now that I'm in the ground, it's up to you to end it all.
Mu You, you are the first woman among the descendants of my Mu family, and it was my happiest moment when I gave you a name. Every generation of the Mu family's heirs, I hope that the baby born is you, but unfortunately I have been looking forward to two generations, and I really can't look forward to the third generation. I only blame the prosperity of the Mu family, so that I am not blessed to hug you and say sorry to you in person.
I have been poor all my life, and I have never left you a million silver dollars, only my good wife who has not passed through the door once gave me a long bracelet of black pearls, and I left it to the descendants of the Confucian family. Because of me, the Kong family is connected with your fate, I really can't repay it, I hope you will forgive me. If the Kong family is a man of the same age as you, I hope that the two of you will tie the knot and go hand in hand.
Wooden pupil pen
I put the notebook in my pants pocket and sighed. He has written a lot, but it is really of little use to our current situation. At most, a letter to my family. If Kong Xian hadn't told me about Wang Qing and Feng Shisan before, I don't think I would have been able to understand his letter. However, even so, I still feel that there are many things that I write that I don't fully understand.
When I got back to Seventeen, I noticed that Seventeen was already showing some signs of sobriety, and I took the kerosene lamp, and he couldn't see, so he lay with his eyes open.
"Seventeen."
I went up and called him, and he looked at me for a long time, still not speaking or moving.
"Are you alright? Can I move? I was a little worried, so I asked. But he still didn't react, but there seemed to be something he wanted to say in his eyes, which kept opening and closing, and his mouth trembled, as if he couldn't say anything. After watching it for a long time, I didn't understand what he was trying to say.
I turned my head to look in the direction of the entrance to the cellar, and then said to Seventeen: "Your situation is not very good, don't bother, the things we are looking for have been obtained, and when Jin Ye and Mo Ranchen come back, we will find a way to go back to the city." ”
With that, I went to the mouth of the cellar and wanted to quietly open the mechanism to take a look at it. But as soon as my hand touched the dial that triggered the mechanism, I suddenly realized that something was wrong!
The cellar was locked inward!
How so? After Mo Zhanchen went out, there was no way to touch this anti-lock mechanism, and I didn't come to touch the mechanism again after he left. Seventeen can't even move while lying down, let alone impossible. Even if he could, he had no reason to lock the entrance.
How could this entrance be locked inward? Don't...... There was a third person in the cellar where we were?
As soon as my thought flashed, I suddenly felt a chill in my neck, as if a curved blade was against my neck. I didn't dare to look down, I didn't dare to look back, my whole body was stiff and clubbing.
"Who are you?" I forced my composure to ask the man behind me.
He leaned close to me and whispered in my ear, "You don't care who I am, I want what you take out of it." ”
Oh, I said in my heart: It turned out to be a robbery, so I said, how could the remaining two things appear inexplicably, as if they were open. When will I have this kind of equipment all by picking up skill points, that's really awesome.
Kong Xian reminded me before to pay attention to avoid being cut off, and I didn't take it to heart, and now that it is in the hands of others, I only blame myself for being careless and losing Jingzhou.
It's not that I can't give him something he wants, and there are no secrets in the letter that Mu Hitomi left me. Only this black pearl bracelet was specially left by Mu Tong to Kong Xian, I am quite reluctant.
I had a selfish motive and bet that he didn't know there was a bracelet. So, I slowly took out the notebook that Mu Hitomi had left for me from my pants pocket and handed it back.
After he took it, the atmosphere was quiet for a while, probably to make sure that this thing was not a cover for me to fool him.
"Is there anything else?" He said in a deep voice, the knife in his hand closer to my neck.
I shook uncontrollably, swallowed my saliva, and scolded secretly, his uncle's. Then I weighed in my heart which was more valuable, the black pearl in my pocket or my life.
After hesitating for a second, I gritted my teeth and replied, "With this one notebook, there is no room for the second thing in that box." ”
Apparently unconvinced, he reached out and began to touch my pocket.
My heart was cold, my heart was finished, the bracelet was in the pocket of my shirt chest, and when he searched it out, I was taken advantage of, not to mention, he found out that I lied to him, and he would definitely not let me go, should he not impulsively behead me with a knife.
He moved very slowly, groping all four pockets of my pants. My heart was beating fast, nervous and nauseous, not much like groping on the train. I said in my heart: As long as I give my sister a chance to turn the tables, I can make him have comminuted fractures all over his body in minutes.
What I didn't expect was that although the person behind me was lewd, he had a good mentality, and after searching my pants pocket, he put it away. Maybe he didn't think it was a good idea to touch this pocket on my chest, or maybe he didn't know I had a pocket on my clothes.
"Turn the trap on." He commanded.
I knew that he was going to run away, so I quickly helped him open the mechanism without hesitation, just to let this person go as fast as possible.
"......" As soon as the mechanism opened, I couldn't help but exclaim!
I don't know if it's because of my explosive character, or if the big brother behind me is too low-minded. As soon as the mechanism was opened, it happened to meet Mo Ranchen and Kong Xian, who were about to open the mechanism.
The man behind me was visibly startled, and I could feel the knife on my neck shudder. Mo Ranchen reacted very quickly, I was still in a state of disconnection, and he had already kicked the knife down my neck. Then he grabbed me by the collar and threw me into Kong Xian's arms.
The two of them scuffled together in an instant, and I could see the appearance of the person who was holding me hostage.
At first glance, I was already amazed, the man was probably wearing a flaxen-colored sheet, and that face was actually the face of the dead man we saw in the coffin under the plank road.
His eyes were blood-red, the corners of his mouth were baring fangs, and his face looked like it had been skinned. With such a face, I really can't tell if he is a person, especially those eyes, how can he see things.