I stared at the old man for a long time, shook my head and said: "Impossible, you said that Yingzi was taken away from Sanchawan by my master eighteen years ago, and she was only a few years old at that time, but if I remember correctly, Yingzi was taken away by that man only happened in the past few years, to be precise, it should be the year before last, and the time is not right at all, you are lying to me." ”

The old man smiled lightly: "If you have any information about Ji Zongbu's whereabouts in the past few years, you might as well ask the woman beside him, as long as she is willing to say, I believe you will definitely have a lot of unexpected gains." ”

"You mean Sister Yu?" I was surprised.

The old man did not speak, but let out a long sigh, and the cave fell silent again.

It's not the first time I've heard about the woman Ji Zongbu brought back more than ten years ago, whether it's Mrs. Huo or Lu Wushuang, they have all mentioned it to some extent, and Lu Wushuang even said that the reason why Ji Zongbu became what he is now has a lot to do with the country woman, which coincides with the old man's words.

Including the whereabouts of the woman, Mrs. Huo once said that she was from the Yellow River, but no one knew who this woman was, what Ji Zongbu did when she brought her back, and how she disappeared.

Although all kinds of signs are pointing to what the old man said, but if the time is not right, then everything will be difficult to establish, after all, I have been with him since the Yellow River was cut off, and I have never seen any water dividing sword, but ......

My body shook suddenly, thinking back to the situation that night, when Yingzi came out of the pool, his hair was scattered, covered with blood, especially one arm was broken, as if he was injured by a sharp blade, but I thought about it carefully for a long time, Ji Zongbu didn't seem to have any sharp weapons on his body when he went into the water.

The Yellow River was cut off, thundered in the dry land, the riverbed bleed, and the floods that flooded Sancha Bay – all these visions suggest that what happened that night was much more than it seemed.

After Yingzi escaped, Ji Zongbu stayed in the water for about five minutes before coming out, and then caused a river flood, although the time seemed short, but for a person like him who used the means to reach the sky, it was enough to do a lot.

If things are really as the old man in front of him said, the water-dividing sword is very likely to be hidden in the waterhole at the bottom of the river, maybe the so-called water ghost of the grandfather at that time was to ask for the water-dividing sword to stop Yingzi before things got worse, but because of that woman, he failed and died in the Yellow River.

And according to the situation that night, Ji Zongbu didn't seem to succeed, and the water-splitting sword never appeared in the whole process, besides, how could Na Yingzi escape, and how could he go in the direction of the bottom of the river guarded by the water-splitting sword, before these questions were clarified, I couldn't quite believe the words of the old man in front of me.

"Are you really my great-grandfather?"

After pondering for a long time, I opened my eyes and looked at the old man and asked.

The old man didn't speak, just kept staring at the flames, the ravines on his face showed shadows against the firelight, coupled with the dim environment in the cave, just a side face, my eyes suddenly moistened, and I couldn't help but think of my grandfather.

"Then why did you refuse me to enter the Bai family's door at that time, because of my background?"

The old man sighed softly: "Because on your body, there is the breath of the ghost baby of the Yellow River." ”

It's a ghost baby again.

I took a deep breath: "Just because of this? ”

The old man nodded: "The Bai family has taken the protection of Jiuquan as its own responsibility for the past generations, and the ghost baby is the most evil thing derived from the Yellow River, if we accept you into the Bai family, it is tantamount to luring a wolf into the house, we can't afford such a big risk." ”

We?

I was slightly stunned: "Who are we?" ”

Without waiting for him to answer, his mind suddenly remembered the sword-wielding young man on the fifth floor of Zero Rain City, known as Lord Bai, and said incredulously: "Is there anyone else in the Bai family?" ”

The old man nodded: "The power of the Bai family is far more than what you see in your eyes. ”

"Who else?" I couldn't help but speak.

Basically, they all work in Jiuquan Mansion, and only you and your father are left alive.

I felt a pain in my heart and shook my head and said, "My dad is dead." ”

"Dead?"

The old man gave me a faint look and said, "He's not dead." ”

I shook my head, not wanting to argue with him, but the old man in my ear asked, "You already saw the money hexagram just now, right?" ”

"You're going to do it?"

"The hexagram shows the final destination of you, your grandfather, and your father."

I was stunned for a moment, turned around and was about to run out of the cave, but I heard the old man say, "It's late at night, and there are many things outside without feet, so don't go out." ”

I froze in place, turned my head in disbelief, and said, "Something without feet." ”

The old man didn't answer me, he glanced behind me with cloudy eyes, patted his butt and got up from the ground, bent over and groped around on the ground for a while, carrying a green oilskin paper lantern, paced to me and said, "Light the lamp and see the way clearly, so that you won't get lost in the night." ”

After the old man finished speaking, he walked straight forward, and I was stunned for a moment, and I waited until I reached the outside of the cave, only to find that the sky outside was already dark.

The sky was darkened by the night, there was no light to be seen, and the road in front of me could only be illuminated by the lantern in the old man's hand out of a small range, a little slower, the whole person was surrounded by darkness, and fell into the darkness, a panic and crisis from all directions would roar, it was a kind of palpitations that could not be seen or touched, so I quickened my pace, and did not dare to leave half an inch behind the old man.

I thought that the old man would take me to see the turtle shell of the divination, but after walking for a long time, I found that the two of them did not go in the direction of the riverbed, but kept groping along the edge of the riverbed.

I wanted to ask him what he was going to do, but the moment I bent down into the cave, the feeling of being watched by countless pairs of eyes suddenly rose from my heart, and I subconsciously wanted to turn back, but at this time I heard the old man say: "Don't look back when it's dark, you will see ghosts when you look back." ”

I chuckled in my heart, and I didn't have the time to comprehend the meaning of his words, and when I saw that the old man had already hunched his back and reached the mouth of the cave and stretched out, I gritted my teeth and hurried to follow.

The cave in front of me is narrow and long, almost never walking in a straight line, it has been constantly detouring, and there are forks everywhere, if it is not for him to lead the way, I am afraid that it will not take half a year, it is impossible to find the place where you really want to go.

In this place, time seems to have become the most neglected thing, and the oil lamp in the old man's hand is like ten thousand years of immortality, I don't know how long, as the distance between the cave walls on both sides widens and becomes higher, the old man gradually straightens up, stops, and does not look back: "It's here." ”

I hurried two steps to him, and found that the place occupied by the two of them was the entrance to the bottom of a cave, and by the flickering of the candlelight, I could vaguely see that the cave in front of me was much larger than the one where the old man had lived before, and the dampness was very heavy, and the soles of my feet and the moss around me had grown more than a foot long, and the air was full of the smell of sour and moldy, and it smelled extremely uncomfortable.

The two paused for a moment, then passed through the cave entrance into the cave, and as soon as one foot stepped in, they heard a crisp "click".

The sound was not loud, but it was extremely obvious and harsh in this silent environment, and I was so frightened that I quickly raised my foot and looked down to see a white bone.

Or human bones.

An ominous premonition came to my heart, and I suddenly raised my head and looked at the old man vigilantly, but when I saw him, I didn't look back and said, "These are all the remains of the ancestors of the Bai family, what is there to be afraid of." ”

I did not dare to follow him, but stared at his back, and found that when he came to the center of the cave with an oil lamp, a fire that had long been extinguished, and several dried corpses around the fire, appeared in sight.

"If you trace back to the roots, the Bai family is actually also the helmsman of the Yellow River Kinmen in the water-dividing line, just because of dissatisfaction with the Kinmen forcible heirs to fill the river, in order to preserve and continue the incense, the head of the Bai family at that time, Bai Xiu, was able to set up his own door, and rebelled out of Kinmen with all the people surnamed Bai in the water-dividing line, completely drawing a clear line with Kinmen, and no longer had anything to do with it, but I never thought that hundreds of years later, your grandfather re-surrendered to Kinmen in order to save you, which is really a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is unhappy."

The old man's faint words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shocked me on the spot, and it took a while to calm down and say, "The Bai family is a disciple of the Golden Gate?" ”

The old man didn't answer me, he walked around the corpse by the fire with the oil lamp, placed the oil lamp in front of the dead body one by one, looked down, and then pointed to the one facing the entrance of the cave and said, "He is Bai Xiuneng, and he is also the first generation of Jiuquan River Patrol served by the Bai family in Jiuquan Jiuquan." ”

I was directly stupid, walked towards the cave with wooden steps, looked at the corpses in the cave, and muttered: "These are the ancestors of the Bai family? ”

The old man nodded, put the oil lamp on the ground, gently blew the dust on Bai Xiuneng's corpse, and said, "Well, all the ancestors of the Bai family who served as the Nine Springs River Patrol in the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs are here. ”

I didn't know what to say, I was speechless.

"I guess it won't be long before it's my turn, and then I'll have to trouble you to send me here, although the cave is not big, it can be regarded as the ancestral tomb of the Bai family, which is also my only long-cherished wish for so many years."

"But ......"

I opened my mouth, and then stopped talking a little: "With the status of the Jiuquan River Patrolman, why did he end up like this, and if he can report to Jiuquan Mansion to work, isn't he already dead, how can he die again?" ”

The old man shook his head, sat cross-legged beside the dead corpse, stared at Bai Xiuneng, and said with a long sigh: "So what your grandfather said at that time was right, if I could have seen it earlier, why did I end up in this field." ”