Chapter 555: A Letter from Home
The time when this evil corpse was raised should be before and after I opened the hidden door, someone expected that something would happen in the Mountain Dragon Temple, so he took a step ahead of time, killed the corpse and burned the temple, wanting to destroy the evidence of the existence of the evil corpse.
Thinking of the feng shui layout around the village, the old mansion where I lived before did have some kind of indescribable connection with the mountain dragon temple in the middle of the village, but I couldn't figure out why the ancient corpse was out as soon as the hidden door was opened.
There is another thing that I am very concerned about, and that is the change in the villagers, at this time the numbness and indifference that have been wrapped around them have completely faded, and everyone seems to be no different from the outsiders.
Whether it was the hidden gate that changed them, or the impact of the collapse of the Mountain Dragon Temple on them, I can't see through.
The half-cut bones left by the evil corpse were useless, I sighed, got up and left the ruins, and as I walked on the road, there were villagers around me from time to time pointing at me, saying things that I didn't understand, and I was a little worried at the time, and I didn't want to waste my words with them, so I didn't hear them.
When passing by Lao Hu's house, there was a mad woman's chatter from time to time in the house, she used to only talk about her son, but now she talked about Lao Hu, standing at the door, I heard her saying: "Xiaodong and Lao Hu are coming back soon, I have to hurry up and cook, hurry up." ”
I don't know why, when I heard her voice this time, I suddenly had a different feeling, as if a tide pressing on my heart was about to break the embankment, and it formed an irrepressible impulse, which made my hands and feet tremble a little.
At that moment, I vaguely guessed the identity of the mysterious man, but kept telling myself: "It's not him, it must not be him." ”
I looked up at the empty wooden window and hesitated for a long time, but finally I could not suppress my impulse, walked to the wooden building, and knocked on the door.
Pong, fingers landed on the thick wooden door, and there were three low, muffled sounds, which made my heart beat wildly.
It didn't take long for the door to be pulled open, and a familiar little face leaned into the crack of the door, looking at me with interest.
The one who opened the door for me was one of the two children who appeared at the door of the old house.
I looked at him and couldn't speak for a long time, he bit his finger and asked me, "Who are you looking for?" ”
I suppressed the excitement in my heart and asked him in a calm tone as much as possible, "Who is the person who lives on the second floor of your house?" ”
"A stranger," the boy smiled at me, holding his finger, "he said you have sugar in your hand, let's exchange a copper basin for your sugar." He also taught me Mandarin, hehe. ”
I sighed and said, "Isn't there a madman in your house?" ”
The smile on the boy's face quickly froze: "My dad died half a year ago. ”
"That man...... Is he still upstairs and what does he look like? ”
"Let's go," said the boy, gnawing his fingers, "I don't know what it looks like, he always stays upstairs and never comes down, and my grandmother won't let me go up." When he asked me and my little brother to go over in the morning, it was dark upstairs, and I couldn't see what he looked like. ”
"Why didn't you go up to him?"
"Grandma said that if people give money, we have to clean it up. He gave a lot of money, and my grandmother used that money to buy a lot of rice and salt, and my younger brother wanted to eat candy, so my grandmother bought him a piece, but she didn't buy it for me, saying that the money ran out. ”
The child's thinking is always wild, and he is pulling and pulling away, and as he was saying this, a dry old hand put on the door panel, and widened the crack in the door a little.
The sunlight shone through the crack in the door, and I saw a gray-haired old lady standing behind the boy, who had pulled the door open.
Then she reached out and handed me a light brown envelope, and said something I didn't understand, but I understood what she meant, and she was telling me that the letter had been left to me by the tenant here.
I took the envelope, and the old lady pulled the boy back into the house and closed the door.
There was a smell of grass on the envelope, I stroked it with the palm of my hand, but I hesitated in my heart, I didn't dare to open the envelope, because I was afraid that what it contained was what I had not dared to face for more than ten years, but there seemed to be a force in the dark that drove me to slowly tear off the sticker on the envelope.
The handwriting in the letter is strange and familiar to me, strange because I haven't seen it for eleven years, familiar because it has been engraved in the deepest part of my memory all these years.
Each word is very large, the head and tail of the horizontal and vertical strokes, all outline a habitual small arc, the font deviates from the middle line, slightly inclined to the right, these words look, like a line of staves, between the thick branches and leaves, there is a different kind of elegance.
I still have this letter, and the contents of it are almost completely imprinted in my mind:
"Xiao Fei:
Seeing faith is like seeing people.
Last night's moon was very bright, and it reminded me of the New Year eleven years ago, when you were still a half-grown child, I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, so much time has passed, you have grown up, and I am also old.
The last time I went to Nanjing, I heard a friend say that you returned to your family in 07, and the second uncle personally passed on your bone-destroying hand. To be honest, this is the last thing your mother and I want to see, we always hope that you can live a peaceful life like someone outside, maybe ordinary, but at least at least at ease.
Maybe there is a providence in the dark, you can't escape the same fate as me after all, since you can't escape, returning to your family may be your best destination.
I haven't written a letter for a long time, and I suddenly pick up a pen, and I don't know what to say, maybe because I have too many things to say to you, but when the words come to my mouth, I have no direction, and I don't know where to start.
Over the years, your mother and I have been looking forward to seeing you sooner rather than later, but we both know that going to look for you now will only bring you countless troubles, and I hope you don't look for us either. Your mom and I are doing well, so there's no need to worry about it.
In fact, there are some things, I originally planned not to let you know for the rest of my life, but I have seen your growth in the past two years, maybe it is because the Netherworld Treasure in your body has been secretly protected, back to the family in the past two years, you have grown up very fast, almost able to stand alone, for this, I am very pleased.
It is said that the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, not because it is bold, but because it does not know the horror of the tiger. This sentence is given to you, and I hope you can be more cautious when doing things in the future.
Bu Zhou Shan and I have some involvement, presumably you already know about it, and I also know that Bu Zhou Shan wants to put you to death, but I don't know why, when I learned about Bu Zhou Shan's plan, I was not worried at all, I believe that my children will not be so easy to fall into their way, and there is a family behind you, and a second uncle.
But your mother is always afraid that something will happen to you, so she has to let me come to Guizhou to have a look, haha, I didn't mean to drag you back, but you also know your mother's temper, if I don't come this time, she won't give me a good face in the next two years.
Before I came, your mother instructed me to tell you the enlightenment method of the Netherworld Treasure, but I thought, you and I are different after all, and the old path I have traveled may not be suitable for you.
You are the only person in this world who can collect all four Nether Treasures, and this is an important matter, and I hope you will keep it in mind.
I guess you should have opened the stone door when you read this letter, and found the black water there, that thing is very dangerous, but it is also very useful, you decide whether to stay or destroy.
Before coming here, I found some information related to the black water, I heard that that thing can be used to replace the blood of the Great Yin, so that people can get immortality, two hundred years ago, the Burial Sect wanted to use it to refine a Yin jade, but probably because of the improper technique, failed to refine, and finally only got a fake with low quality, the thing hidden in the ancestral tomb of the Hu family is Yin jade, not Qilin gall, I speculate, Qilin gall, this thing, should be the same as Kyushu Ding, has disappeared into the sea, nowhere to be found.
If you don't know what Qilin gall is, you can ask Shi Yong, he is your sixth uncle, and now he lives in Bohai Bay, he seems to have changed his name in the first few years, but as long as you look for it, you will definitely be able to find him.
As for Yin Jade, I don't know much about it, if you have any questions, you can ask the people of Jisoul Village.
Buzhou Mountain is still a behemoth for you now, before you have enough strength, it is best not to confront them head-on, but for this sect, you can't completely let it go, after all, you are yin, and the industry has not fallen to the way it is today, and there are some responsibilities, you have to be brave to bear them.
I believe in your courage, in my eyes, you have been a bold child since childhood, and I believe that you have such a sense of responsibility.
In the interval between you and Du Kang's trip to Guizhou, Bu Zhoushan has sent another group of people to Guangdong, the purpose is unknown, I only heard that they seem to be looking for a spirit medium, that spirit medium has seen the Sun Tomb in a dream, Bu Zhou Shan may think that in that tomb, there is something they are looking for, as for what they are looking for, it is also unknown.
The people who were sent to Guangzhou by Buzhou Mountain this time are all casual cultivators with low cultivation, and I believe that with your current ability, you should be able to deal with it easily.
Well, that's all for the letter.
Your mother and I are having a good time now, don't look for us.
Hopefully, you'll be well, too.
Your daddy
Dawn, January 6, 2009"
Every sentence and every word in the letter seems to be casual, my dad has always been such a personality, but now, such an essay-like letter, but I feel very uncomfortable.
When I read the last word of the letter, my hands were shaking, so many years have passed, it is almost a little, almost I can see him, but he is gone, and he still leaves such a joking text.
I suddenly felt a burst of anger in my heart, and I crumpled the letter paper into a ball, but seeing the handwriting that I had waited for eleven years being crumpled like this, I felt a sense of reluctance in my heart.
In the end, I carefully unfolded the letter, folded it, and put it in my jacket pocket, and the hand that pressed it on the pocket did not let go for a long time.
After all these years, I really miss him.
(End of chapter)