After Xiaoyu and I rushed in, we found Uncle Kong sitting at the table in a daze, with a few pages of yellowed paper in front of him, Uncle Kong stared at the papers motionless, and I looked at the box again, the box had been opened, and it was empty. [Ran^Text^Library] []. []. [com].

"Uncle...... Are you alright......" I gasped and looked at Uncle Kong and asked worriedly.

Uncle Kong slowly raised his head, looked at me and Xiaoyu, and said with a disappointed face, "The box has been opened!"

Seeing that Uncle Kong could speak, I breathed a long sigh of relief, but when I heard Uncle Kong say that this box had been opened, I was immediately surprised again, "What!!" Has the box been opened?! That...... What about the secret of treasure hunting? Didn't Xiaoyu's grandfather say that there was any secret to Li Zicheng's treasure hunt in this yin box? ”

Uncle Kong said with a depressed face, "There is no secret to treasure hunting, only this!" As he spoke, Uncle Kong trembled and picked up the yellowed papers in front of him, handed them to me and said, "Only this one, take a look!" Uncle Kong's loss is all expressed in words.

I took the pages and was stunned, because I couldn't accept that the box we had worked so hard to open had already been snatched and opened, and I couldn't accept that Uncle Kong risked his life to open the box, but there was no treasure hunting formula in it.

I took the yellowed paper that Uncle Kong handed me, and looked down, these were a few pieces of old rice paper, which had been yellowed and old, and I knew that it was something that was some years old, and the paper was densely filled with messy fly-headed letters, like a letter, I hurriedly read from the first line, because several pages were all written in traditional characters, and they were all written vertically, so although there were only three pages, I read it for more than ten minutes, and when I finished reading this letter, I finally knew why Uncle Kong had that expression when I rushed in just now, Because these pages record an unbelievable thing.

This is a letter signed by the Taoist chief named "Ling Xuzi" to his senior brother "Jiyun Daochang", the letter was signed in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, which also means that this letter has a history of almost 90 years, the letter records that Ling Xuzi Taoist went out to cultivate, and found that the folk customs here were abnormal after traveling to a place called Muzi Village in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu, and the people were all wearing linen and filial piety. So I asked the villagers to find out that there was a ghost in this Muzi village half a month ago, and there will be a female ghost wearing a red cheongsam wandering in the village in the middle of the night, and all the villagers who see their faces, without waiting for the dawn of the next day, the male will jump into the well and die, and the woman will commit suicide by hanging the beam, and a small number of people disappear for no reason, and no one dies or a corpse is missing. And this Muzi village is also not small, according to the villagers said that this village is all Li Zicheng's descendants, when Li Zicheng was defeated, he took the clansmen to live in seclusion here, and later feared to be traced by the Qing court had to disassemble its "Li" surname, turned into "Muzi", so this village is called Muzi Village, for hundreds of years the Li people have multiplied and lived so far, although it is not prosperous, but it is also healthy, but for some reason there was a ghost in the village half a month ago, and now there will be one or two villagers dying strangely every day on average. Seeing this situation, Ling Xuzi Taoist immediately decided to stay and help the villagers drive away the scourge, which is also the morality of the monks, so he ambushed in the village that night and waited for the female ghost to appear, sure enough, just after the middle of the night, the female ghost appeared in the village, Ling Xuzi went to arrest it, and was fighting with the female ghost, the village suddenly burst into the black wind, Ling Xuzi's eyes were blurred and could not see, the darkness, suddenly there was a gust of wind behind him, the Taoist chief could not dodge, was stunned unconscious by a dull stick, and when he got up the next day, he found that he was tied to a courtyard, and was seriously injured, And there is a fire in the courtyard, a big pot of the fire pile, the pot is all human brains, densely placed in the pot to cook, there are several pairs of bowls and chopsticks next to the pot, there are flesh and blood residues left in the bowl, as if someone has just eaten the meat left in this place, but there is no living person in the four courtyards, Ling Xuzi was frightened, hurriedly broke free from the rope and escaped injured, out of the yard only to find that he was in a large mountain, and I don't know why, staggered and ran for several hours before escaping from the mountain, came to the foot of the mountain and found a village, and this village is Muzi Village, The people saw the return of Ling Xuzi Dao Chang, they were very concerned, and hurriedly asked about the situation last night, Ling Xuzi felt that this place was strange and abnormal, and it was difficult to distinguish between people and ghosts, so he did not truthfully answer the battle situation last night and the scene he saw during the day, so he quickly found a letter written in paper and ink, and asked someone to send it to Jiuhua Mountain to ask his senior brother "Jiyun Dao Chang" to come to help and jointly exorcise evil spirits.

And the letter that Daoist Ling Xuzi wrote to his senior brother Daoist Ji Yun at that time is the one I have in my hand now.

After reading this letter, I was stunned and couldn't say a word for a long time, and Xiaoyu had been watching next to me just now, and she was now completely blinded, and the expression on her face was sometimes afraid and sometimes confused.

"How so...... There is no hidden treasure in the box, not to mention, and there is such a letter...... What the letter says...... Could it be true? I muttered to myself.

"It should not be fake, judging from the weakness of the font and strokes of this letter, the person who wrote it must have been seriously injured at the time, judging from the yellowness of the paper and the fading of the pen and ink, this letter must indeed have been left decades ago, if it was not true, who would have thought of writing such a letter to play a prank?" Uncle Kong said.

"But...... If this letter is true...... This letter should have been sent to the Jiuhua Mountain Jiyun Dao at that time, how could it appear in this box again? I asked, puzzled.

Uncle Kong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm afraid no one knows what happened at the time when the Taoist chief's letter came out, but this is not necessarily a good thing, we didn't get the treasure secret when we opened the box, and this letter never mentioned a word of treasure, but through analysis, we can still get some very gratifying clues, such as the letter has clearly stated that the village that Ling Xuzi Dao Chang arrived in that year is called Muzi Village, which is a village left behind by Li Zicheng's defeat and evading the pursuit of officers and soldiers, and the village is all descendants of the Li family. According to the rumors, Li Zicheng's treasure should be hidden around the village, and the treasure hunting mantra and map are hidden in the Yin Yang Ghost Box, and this Yin Yang Ghost Box should be kept by Li Zicheng's descendants. ”

At this time, Xiaoyu, who had been silent, spoke, and said with a sad brow, "My focus is not on any treasure, but on this letter, as Qingnian said, if what is recorded in this letter is true, then this letter should have been sent away at that time, why did it still appear in the box of Li Zicheng's descendants, can a book be preserved with this yin and yang ghost box?" Also, the letter also said that this Muzi village has been healthy for hundreds of years, why is it suddenly haunted, why do men jump into the well when they see the female ghost, and why do women hang when they see it? As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, everything has cause and effect, and this point has not been explained in the letter, as for whether Muzi Village has escaped this catastrophe in the end, whether the female ghost has been solved, what happened to Daoist Ling Xuzi in the end, and whether Daoist Jiyun rushed over to help, these are all unknown, and even whether this Muzi Village still exists is unknown! ”