Chapter 4: The Bronze Coffin

The sports car went all the way.

The wind roared outside the car window.

I haven't heard the word bone flute in years, it only exists in my distant memory.

My sister's words were like a sharp blade cutting through my dusty memories, as if I had returned to my childhood farm yard and listened to my grandfather tell the legend of the bone flute under the stars.

Unexpectedly, the Xun family is still looking for it.

The eldest sister told me the legend of the bone flute while driving, and the story told from her mouth has no beauty, only blood and cruelty, which must be the version of Boss Xun's words.

I think back then, when my grandfather told me this story, the words and deeds of the characters, the causes and consequences, were so vivid and full, so that I choked up several times when I was young and didn't understand love.

The episodes that impressed me the most were:

Grandma said that if you can blow the nine bone flutes at the same time, when you dream back at midnight, Yue'er will appear in front of you......

When I was a child, I always remembered this, and I always felt that it was a pity, if it was true, wouldn't General Fang Yuan miss a vigorous love, wouldn't he have lived up to the pain that Yue'er endured in vain.

The car was still running wildly.

From the suburbs to the bustling city, and through the city to the suburbs at the other end, there is no intention of stopping.

I asked my eldest sister, "Did you really find the bone flute?" Where is it? ”

I don't quite believe that what my grandfather and grandfather have never done in their lifetime, I have only been away from home for six years and have had results.

The eldest sister was stunned by my question and said, "The bone flute has been in Nanling University, and our ancestors have studied it for most of their lives, don't you know?" ”

"What? ...... all the time"

I almost hit my head on the car window, wondering if I had lost my memory and forgotten what I had done in the past six years.

In my memory, my grandfather never told me about the existence of the bone flute, but only said to me on his deathbed:

"Yang, no one plays the flute under the moon......"

I still don't know what that means.

The eldest sister laughed out loud: "Why are you so excited, you were still young when you left home, I don't know it's normal!" ”

So my eldest sister told me a story that subverted my cognition......

The beginning of the story took place in the late Qing Dynasty with the construction of Nanling School, which was the predecessor of Nanling University.

At that time, a bell tower was to be built, but when the foundation was laid, a stone barrier was dug up, and I thought it was an ancient city wall or something like that, and it was very solid, so I built the bell tower on top of it as a foundation.

Time came to the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War.

At that time, the most turbulent anti-Japanese ideology was the college students, so the Japanese planes bombed the well-known universities in the south of the Yangtze River, and Nanling University was the most seriously damaged, and it was in ruins at a glance.

Only one bell tower stood tall, and the bomb seemed to turn around it.

After the fall of a large number of coastal cities in the south of the Yangtze River, the Japanese army used the bell tower of Nanling University as a fortress and stationed troops.

Time came to the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

When the national army counterattacked and lost ground, when it reached Nanling University, it was found that the bell tower was full of white bones, and at least hundreds of Japanese corpses were rotten and had been dead for many years.

While cleaning up the scene, a videotape was found next to the body of a Japanese military reporter who had been picked up by my grandfather's father.

It is this black-and-white video that presents a secret buried deep underground for thousands of years.

The image was taken in the dim underground.

In the blurred picture, four chains tied to a coffin, wrapped around four pillars, suspended in the air, like a devil imprisoned by God in the cold underground palace, the scene is extremely shocking.

I don't know who is in the coffin, and when he dies, he will be bound to a pillar, unable to reach the world or the ground.

But this is not the most bizarre.

The next picture is really staggering!

A group of Japanese soldiers surrounded the coffin, some smashed it with the butt of a gun, some cut it with a bayonet, and some used a military shovel to pry, and they worked in vain for half a day, so tired that they sat on the ground and gasped, and they couldn't open it at all.

After a while, a couple of soldiers brought over a mortar!

The muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the hanging coffin, and with a bang, the picture shook violently, and the camera should have fallen to the ground, and the last few seconds of the picture were frozen there.

In the freeze-frame picture, a coffin is tied with four chains, intact and unmoving, as if a god is mocking the insignificance of human beings.

And under the coffin, some people fled in a panic, some knelt down on their knees, and some fell to the ground motionless.

That's the end of the imagery.

After the war, the Xun family undertook the project of rebuilding Nanling University, and found the entrance of the Japanese army into the underground in the bell tower, and saw the coffin in the image with their own eyes.

It was a bronze ancient coffin, engraved with dense inscriptions, like a heavenly creation, and there was no splicing gap to be found!

We will certainly not treat our ancestors like the Japanese army bombed and bombed, and of course we don't dare.

The Xun family learned the lessons of the Japanese army and knew that they could not open the coffin, so they quietly sealed the entrance and did not announce it to the world.

However, they took pictures of the dark patterns on the coffin and brought them back to study.

The year came to 1965.

Grandpa Boss Xun, I happened to hear the legend of Bai Gupo, and it was extremely similar to the dark text pattern on the coffin.

Legend has it that the witch carved Yue'er's bones into nine bone flutes and sealed them in a bronze coffin, which is a sign that it was this coffin!

So there was a matter of five people going up the mountain to blow up the tomb.

Boss Xun wanted to find a way to open the bronze coffin from the connection between the two, and at the same time verify whether the coffin was a bone flute, it turned out that there was indeed no bone flute in Fang Yuan's tomb, and found a music score.

……

The car stopped.

Stop in front of an apartment building in a university town in the southern suburbs.

Next to it is the famous Nanling University.

After listening to the story told by the eldest sister, I was a little dizzy, and was called by the eldest sister several times before I found out that I had arrived at the station, and after getting off the bus, I saw the signboard of Nanling University, and I had goosebumps inexplicably.

Maybe it's because I remembered the appearance of my grandfather and grandfather who didn't blink their eyes, or maybe it was because of what my grandfather said to me before he died-Yang, no one plays the flute under the moon......

I asked my eldest sister, "Since no one has ever opened the bronze coffin, how do you know that there is a bone flute inside?" Can you be 100% sure? ”

The eldest sister smiled and took my hand, and said with a very confident look: "Let's go, go home first!" You've just come back, don't think about these things yet, go back and get some rest! Your brother and they've been preparing for years, and they'll have results soon! ”

Although the eldest sister did not answer positively, it could be heard from the tone of her speech that the answer was 100% certain.

Follow the eldest sister back home.

Her house is very large, estimated to be more than 300 square meters, divided into two floors, I don't know what a single woman does in such a big house.

But the next moment I knew.

Suddenly there was a feeling of being deceived.

She doesn't live alone......

There are five people here!

Brother, Xun Qianling, and a pair of twin brothers and sisters who don't know each other, the four of them live upstairs, and the eldest sister lives downstairs alone.

At first, I didn't know that as soon as I sat down to drink water, a little soft girl in cartoon pajamas walked down from the stairs with sleepy eyes, turned her head to look at me, and entered the bathroom with a blank face.

Scared me.

I haven't seen her for six years, Xun Qianling's changes are very small, except that she has grown a little taller, she is still that kind of cute child-faced little beauty, which makes me have the illusion of time stagnation for a moment.

I wonder if she has cultivated the martial arts secrets of Tianshan Tong's grandmother.

And then there is the feeling that her eyes, like a cat in the night, are indescribable.

The eldest sister hurriedly explained: "The four upstairs are just staying with me temporarily during the summer vacation, and my sister didn't lie to you......"

I didn't know what to say except nodding my head and "oh".

It's only August now, and there's still a month left until the end of the summer vacation!

Immediately after that, everyone else upstairs came down, and the first to greet me was my brother, who was very burly in a black vest, standing in front of me like a hill, patted me on the shoulder and said:

"Yo! Who is this! Rare Guest! ”

The eldest sister glared at him, and then he changed his tone and smiled at me: "Tired, right? I'll ask my sister-in-law to cook you something delicious later! ”

Not long ago, I knew about his engagement to Xun Qianling, because my parents would visit me once a year on my birthday and casually mentioned it.

So the sister-in-law he said was referring to Xun Qianling.

It's clear that you're deliberately angry with me.

I didn't expect him to be so fucked up after six years of not seeing.

So I said to him mercilessly, "Okay, I want to eat dumplings, let her make them for me!" ”

The eldest sister complained on the side: "You, why didn't you say it earlier, you can buy some dumplings on the way back!" It's okay, I'll let your brother go down for a run later! ”