Chapter 58: Dharma Mountain (2)
It turned out that Ouyang Anna was hiding on the lighthouse.
There was a false alarm, and it was only when the rotating light came back that she could see Qin Beiyang's face clearly.
"I'm sorry, I remembered my father, I couldn't sleep, so I came up to see the stars." Ouyang Anna still had a pile of ashes at her feet, it turned out that she was burning paper money for her father, "Uh, I'm a Catholic, I shouldn't have done this kind of thing." But my dad isn't, so he's used to it. ”
"When I clear my name, I will find a dragon's lair for your father on the island and make him a magnificent grave with my own hands!"
Qin Beiyang said his old business again, and he covered his aching lower body and got up.
Anna stood silently on the side of the headlights, avoiding the glare of the light. The lens radiates up to 20 nautical miles and rotates in all directions, warning the ship to avoid the reefs surrounding the island. Qin Beiyang took off his coat and draped it on her back. The black sea, the vast void, Chinese mainland, the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula seem to be in sight.
Anna whispered: "The engineer who built this lighthouse is a German and an amateur astronomer, and he accidentally discovered that Mount Dharma is an excellent spot for meteor observation." ”
"Germans?" Qin Beiyang remembered the German words he still remembered, and looked at the starry sky again, "In addition to meteors, I also want to see comets hitting the moon." ”
The isolated island in the middle of the East China Sea seems to go back to the era when Patriarch Bodhidharma landed 1,500 years ago. The light of the lighthouse, sweeping across the brilliant starry sky of the Northern Hemisphere, floats throughout the Milky Way.
"It's so beautiful! If I jumped right now, would I be relieved of all the troubles of this life? ”
With the light on their backs, they couldn't see each other's eyes clearly, Qin Beiyang said lightly: "No, you will bring your troubles to the next life." ”
"Why do you say that my ancestors built their houses on the top of the hill and lived in isolation, how inconvenient! Because they were discriminated against by the islanders, they were forced to move to this place, as if they could be a little closer to the world and closer to the stars. ”
"Get closer to the stars!"
Qin Beiyang let out a heavy breath behind her, and the hot air sprayed on the back of her neck. Anna turned her head, and her glass-colored eyes sparkled in the dark night, like a star in the sky: "By the way, what zodiac sign are you?" ”
"I don't know, I was born on the second day of October in the year of Gengzi, the solar calendar is November 23, and the solar term on that day is light snow."
"Then you're a Sagittarius! It is also called Sagittarius, the ninth house of the zodiac. But November 23 is the junction of Scorpio and Sagittarius, and you have the characteristics of both signs at the same time - Scorpio is deep, serious, mysterious, cold on the outside and hot on the inside; Shooters are adventurous by nature and love freedom. You despise moderation, either you are too expensive or you are destitute. ”
"Well, I'm destitute now! As for adventure and freedom...... I was born on the coffin of an ancient tomb in the Tang Dynasty, I was born without my own mother, and at the age of nine my adoptive parents died, and I was sent to the underground palace of the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty, is this considered a risk? ”
"Your life will be doomed to be in danger!" In the church school in the French Concession in Shanghai, Anna is a goddess, many classmates come to her to tell fortunes, she stared at Qin Beiyang's gaze, "The person who is at the junction of the scorpion and the shooter, cares about the whole world, has the universe in mind, and is more like a revolutionary!" Moreover, you will be very popular with women, and there will be many women in this life! I don't like it! ”
"How so? It doesn't seem like I'm talking about it, but the constellations of Westerners aren't accurate at all. ”
Anna reached out and pressed his nose: "Because, I am the same constellation as you, and I am also a Scorpio Archer Junction, so I am the most accurate!" By the way, do you want to know the past of the Ouyang family? ”
"I've always been curious!"
"The Ouyang family was originally from Guangdong, and my great-grandfather followed the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan to participate in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. Tianjing fell, my grandfather was still a teenager, and he was exiled to an isolated island by the Qing court. ”
"It turns out that you are the loyal queen of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
"Another way of saying it is a thief! My father is the second generation of the Ouyang family in Damo Mountain, and he has a twin sister named Ouyang Sifan, known as the witch, her story is long...... When my father was young, he went to the South Seas and met my mother on the island of Java, who was a mixed-race member of the Yogyakarta Sultanate. ”
"No wonder, you look different from ordinary Han people, because you have the blood of a different race in the South Seas."
"People say that my eyes are strange, neither like a foreigner nor like a Chinese, who would have thought that I came from the South Seas? I was born on Mount Bodhidharma. In those years, my father waited on the cliff every day, and when he found a ship that was shipwrecked, he drove a small boat to rob it. Regardless of whether they are Chinese or foreign, kill the survivors and seize the gold and silver treasures. He often went to Shanghai to sell stolen goods, so he joined the Green Gang. In the first year of the Republic of China, my mother died of illness on the island. I was taken to Shanghai by my father to study at a church school. Every day I listened to my teacher tell me stories about the Bible, and I was baptized. Although my father was still a pagan, he did not object, saying that it was better to deal with foreigners. He built the Dharma Mountain on the Sea in Hongkou to commemorate the hometown of the Ouyang family and remind himself not to forget where he came from. ”
"It turns out that the pirate that Inspector Ye wants to investigate is your family!"
"Did he tell you that the ship that transported Gengzi indemnity from China to Japan was shipwrecked and sunk, and the silver of the snowflakes was buried on Mount Dharma?"
"Gengzi indemnity!" mentioned the year of Gengzi where he was born, Qin Beiyang felt ashamed, "Then how much do you know?" ”
"My father hasn't had time to tell me yet. But I think the silver wasn't in his hands in the first place. ”
Qin Beiyang, who landed on the island for the first time, spent his first night on the sea.
In the middle of the night, he climbed the lighthouse with Anna, and he sent her back to the stone house. Anna said he was a stupid stone, and he said he was a natural stonemason, and he had to be like a stone.
After dawn, Qin Beiyang and Ye Ke could not get up. The two girls had prepared breakfast for them. Jiuse squatted next to him and stared dryly, hating the fishy smell of seafood.
The four of them went out together, and Anna took them around the island, and said to Ye Kenan: "Detective, please see where the silver treasure is hidden?" Is it that the Beiyang government can't pay military spending again? You can dig up the emperor's tomb, and there will be gold and silver treasures. ”
Ye Kenan laughed and said: "I just eat the Beiyang government's money and travel around the mountains and rivers." ”
Descending from the top of the mountain, I arrived at the eastern section of the Dharma Mountain, and saw a black cliff, almost like a knife facing the sea.
There are several dilapidated houses on the roof, as if they will be blown apart by the sea breeze at any time. The shape of this ancient building is daunting, but it makes Qin Beiyang very interested.
"Hey, go up if you like!"
Ouyang Anna led them to climb the towering cliff and saw the red cliff carving - the Sacrifice Cliff.
At the top of the cliff is a platform with two or three buildings, simple and withered. The weeds on the roof, the mottled gate, and the mountain-like roof faintly reveal the breath of the ancients. There is a faded plaque hanging at the door, and three words can be vaguely recognizable - impermanence.