When Lin Xuanlan heard this, she smiled wryly: "My grandfather wants to see you!" ”

"Why?" Before Ximen Jinlian could speak, Zhanbai hurriedly said, "He's a bad old man, and he's not a handsome guy like you, why should we let our Jinlian go to see him?" What's there to see about him? ”

Ximen Jinlian was originally uncomfortable, and she couldn't help laughing when she heard this, Zhanbai can really say anything?

Although after knowing what Lin Zheng did, and she also vaguely knew that these were probably instructed by Old Man Lin behind her back, she really didn't have a good impression of Old Man Lin, but she wouldn't be so direct to Zhanbai.

"Golden Lotus?" Lin Xuanlan smiled bitterly, "My grandfather is not a ...... I want to meet you......"

"Why did Grandpa Lin see me?" Ximen Jinlian asked curiously, in fact, she and him are not related, even if he really doesn't make it, he should make a suicide note to explain the future, or just to meet some immediate family children and grandchildren, see her? It's just an outsider.

"My grandfather always thought that you were a descendant of the Southern Sect." Lin Xuanlan sighed.

"Southern faction?" Ximen Jinlian sighed softly, maybe? Maybe not...... Only God knows, her two relatives have passed away, and her parents are said to have died a long time ago, so she can't even figure out her background, but she prefers to believe that her grandmother and teacher are just ordinary rural old men and old women, and have nothing to do with the legendary Southern School.

If she really is a descendant of the Southern Sect, she is not. As for before the ability awakened, after so many years, she has always been a very old-fashioned rural girl.

Just if it's really a very ordinary one. Rural girl, how could the golden lotus bottle on a white background in her hand have such a powerful energy, allowing her to instantly have the ability to see-through?

Ximen Jinlian looked down at the gold on the back of his hand without a trace. The lotus flower, the lotus flower is still half-opened, but the color is not like a tattoo, it has dimmed with time, but it has become even brighter.

If it weren't for Lin Xuanlan eating more wine that day and hitting her, maybe her. Abilities can't be awakened for the rest of their lives. But where did this ability come about? Whether it will disappear inexplicably, she doesn't know either.

Either way, she always thanked him. Thinking of this, Simon Jinlian. Nodding his head, "Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, how?" "The rule in their hometown is that they can't wait until the afternoon to visit the sick, otherwise it is unlucky – they only go in the afternoon for mourning.

"Okay, I'll pick you up!", Lin Xuanlan heard that she agreed, and immediately became happy, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen.

Smelling the fragrant freshly baked cream cake, Ximen Jinlian's index finger moved, and she couldn't help but taste it, the taste was really good, not sweet or greasy, just right.

To be honest, Lin Xuanlan's cooking skills are really good, much better than the chefs in ordinary restaurants and restaurants.

But this ridiculous idea, Ximen Jinlian put it very aside, and by chance, she already felt too much, and really regarded him as a chef?

Lin Xuanlan made dinner and didn't stay to eat, she found an excuse to say goodbye and leave, Ximen Jinlian knew that he had a lot of things at home, so she didn't keep him, after dinner, she really went upstairs to bathe and change clothes.

Zhan Bai couldn't resist her, so he could only take a bath, the two walked to the basement together, turned on the light, and when Zhan Bai bought sandalwood, he also prepared an incense burner by the way.

Ximen Jinlian looked at the dimly colored incense burner and asked, "Antique?" ”

"It is said to be!" Zhan Bai smiled, "I bought it from an old woman, she said that this thing has been at home for decades, and I don't care if it's real or fake, anyway, we need to use it tonight." ”

Ximen Jinlian smiled, yes, whether it's true or not? They need an incense burner tonight, even if it's a high imitation, or if it's an antique, so what?

Zhan Bai took out three sticks of incense, lit them, and handed them to Simon Jinlian.

Ximen Jinlian pinched the incense, bowed to the evil jade wool, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner, in ancient times, calcite, there was indeed a gift of burning incense and bathing, but - not many people do it now, but tonight's jade wool is really evil, she burned a stick of incense, but just asked for a psychological comfort.

Putting the incense burner aside, Ximen Jinlian looked at Zhanbai, Zhanbai understood, took the polisher, and said with a smile: "You are so cautious, I should also be careful." ”

"Hmm!" Ximen Jinlian nodded, walked to the awe-inspiring jade wool, reached out and touched it, and then pointed to the side and said, "Start grinding from this side." ”

“ok！” Zhanbai nodded, took the grinder, turned on the power, and started grinding directly.

Ximen Jinlian pulled a chair and sat next to it and watched, I don't know why, she was inexplicably nervous, and with the sound of the grinder and the stone touching the rustle, the basement was a little scary.

"Little white ......" Ximen Jinlian licked her somewhat dry lips, feeling that it was better to say something and distract herself a little.

"Huh?" Zhan Bai raised his head, but saw Ximen Jin Lian looking at him pitifully, "It's okay, Jin Lian, at most, it's cut down, what can I do?" Although he said this, his heart became more and more curious.

It's not the first time that Ximen Jinlian has cut stones, even if it's that huge Fu Lushou, I've never seen her so nervous, what is she afraid of? It's not because of a story about Old Man Hu that you're worried about this, right?

With the rustling sound of the polisher, the epidermis was finally ground open, Zhanbai looked at Ximen Jinlian, remembering that she once said that the epidermis is a little thick, but now it seems that this epidermis is not too thick? It's just one centimeter, how can it be considered thick?

However, after thinking about it, Zhanbai was also relieved, if anyone can see this gambling stone and gambling stone, is it still called a gambling stone? What does it matter if you misjudge once by chance?

Put down the polisher in his hand, Zhanbai took some water, sprinkled on it, very pure colorless glass, he took a flashlight and shone it, very transparent, the transparency seems to be better than the general glass jadeite, and even looks a little like jadeite, some like natural crystal.

However, he knew that this was not a crystal, and there were still many differences between a crystal and a jadeite - it was just a piece of jadeite with good transparency.

"Jin Lian, it's a colorless glass species!" Zhan Bai said with a smile, "What you said, little girls like it nowadays, if such a large piece is all colorless and transparent glass, it is also worth a lot of money." ”

Ximen Jinlian nodded and said, "Let's talk about grinding it all." ”

Zhan Bai saw that she looked cautious, and she was even more curious in her heart, so she was busy grinding it again, very, the epidermis next to her was also grinding a piece, and suddenly, Zhan Bai's eyes were sharp, and he looked at what black thing was in the pure and transparent stone?

Ringworm? But in this colorless glass jadeite, there is actually jadeite?

The big piece of jadeite wool that Old Man Lin bought back from Myanmar at the beginning was not a large piece of jadeite, which engulfed the entire green. Could it be that this is also the case with this piece of wool?

"Isn't that right?" While thinking about it, Zhan Bai took the water again and sprinkled it to wash off the stone powder on the surface, making the colorless glass inside more transparent.

I held a flashlight and shone it, and sure enough, I could see something black, but I couldn't see what it was......

"What's wrong?" Ximen Jinlian asked a little nervously, unconsciously, she had clenched her fists hard, her nails embedded in the flesh, she didn't feel pain, just a heart pounding uneasily.

"Looks like something?" Zhan Bai frowned and said, "Jade? I'll untie them all and see. ”

"Hmm!" Ximen Jinlian still just nodded.

Very, the entire side has been ground apart, the transparency of this piece of jadeite is indeed very high, a little more transparent than ordinary glass, it is really like glass, therefore, when Zhanbai grinds the entire side, the black thing inside is already more obvious.

Zhan Bai took the flashlight, took a picture of it, and suddenly took a step back, staring at the jade in shock......

"Golden Lotus...... It's like there's a ...... Be...... Is it a snake? Zhan Bai stammered, he was not afraid of snakes, but a piece of jade wool cut out of the snake, no matter what, there was an indescribable weirdness.

It's just that the coiled body, coupled with the faintly visible scales, all confirm the true identity of the thing in this jadeite.

Ximen Jinlian tilted her head to look at him and asked rhetorically, "Is there something in it?" ”

"Well, it's black, it looks like a snake ......" Zhan Bai smiled bitterly, "It's not a pretty thing." "Accustomed to seeing the dazzling jadeite, all of a sudden, the calcite unraveled such an evil and ugly thing, he is really not used to it.

"Probably black jade, where is the snake?" When Ximen Jinlian said this sentence herself, she felt a little eager to cover it up.

"Okay!" Zhan Bai glanced at her meaningfully and smiled lightly, "Maybe the shape of this jade ringworm looks a little like a snake, let's untie it all and take a look." ”

Ximen Jinlian nodded, since they have already bathed in incense and worshiped stones, since they have already untied one side, they naturally have to untie it all and take a look, in fact, if there is only a snake in that piece of jade raw material, it will not scare her. She grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and it is a mountainous area, and she has seen a lot of snakes, not to mention that there is a snake in the jade wool, even if there are ten snakes, they are all alive, and she is not afraid.

Zhan Bai took the polisher and began to rub the stone again, the polisher rustling in the basement, and time passed little by little......

The front is all ground open, Zhanbai takes clean water, washes away the stone powder and stone chips, and the transparent colorless glass species shines in the light, and in the middle of the pure and transparent jadeite, there is a coiled snake body......

Sure enough, it's a snake!

Zhan Bai took a deep breath, what he could see was the belly of the snake, the pale scales on the abdomen, the pieces were visible, the snake's body should be black, faintly visible from the side that had been rubbed open, the snake was coiled.

This is definitely not a jade ringworm similar to a snake, but a real snake - were there snakes in ancient times? Zhanbai asked himself in his heart.

Zhan Bai raised his head and looked at Ximen Jinlian, but Ximen Jinlian's face was very bad, and he said after a while: "Grind all the sides!" ”

"Good!" Zhan Bai didn't say anything, and it was a rare experience to solve such a thing.

The remaining three sides have also been solved, and from the five different sides, it can be clearly determined that this is a black snake with a golden silk thread, Zhan Bai is conceited and well-informed, but he has never seen such a snake.

"If this snake is alive, it must be beautiful!" Zhan Bai wanted to liven up the atmosphere, and said with a deliberate smile, In fact, there are animal fossils in the ancient ore, which is not unusual, mainly because the jade seems to have not heard of this example.

I've heard of amber flies, mosquitoes, and so on, and as for the large fossils, the most famous ones are dinosaurs, Archaeopteryx, and so on. However, I seem to have heard of it before, and there are jade insects sandwiched in the jadeite, so thinking about it, it is normal to solve a snake today.

"Pretty ghost, I've never seen a pretty snake!" Ximen Jinlian said angrily, "When I was a child, I saw a snake with a turquoise body, even the most vivid bright green jade, it can't compare to its bright color - but, do you know what the snake is called?" ”

"Zhu Yeqing?" Zhan Bai immediately thought of such a legendary name.

Ximen Jinlian shook his head and said, "No! I don't know what its serious scientific name is, but we have given it a name in the mountains, which is called "Shenxian Pour". That is to say, even if the gods are bitten by this snake, they will definitely not survive. ”

"So powerful?" Zhan Bai was a little moved, although now many experts despise some ancient legends and think they are exaggerated. Or maybe the ancient medicine was not developed enough, and people exaggerated the toxicity of poisonous insects.

However, he knew that some poisonous insects hidden in the old areas of the mountains were so poisonous that they were far beyond imagination.

"I was lucky enough to see it once when I was a kid, and I'm glad I didn't get bitten!" Ximen Jinlian smiled softly.

"Usually only poisonous insects, rarely take the initiative to attack humans, right?" Zhan Bai asked.

"Hard to say!" Ximen Jinlian said, "There are some herbs on the mountain, which can be used to dissolve snake venom, and almost every household in our place has them. ”

Zhan Bai nodded, expressing his understanding, poisonous insects are rampant in the mountains, if there are no special herbs, wouldn't it be very dangerous to be bitten? It is not surprising that most people who have lived in the mountains for generations know some common medical knowledge.

Mentioning this, Zhanbai suddenly remembered that when Ximen Jinlian left her hometown, the village chief of the small village gave her boss a bag of things, and he didn't ask at the time, but at this time he was curious: "Jinlian, what you brought back from the mountains can't it be snake grass, right?" ”

"Hmm!" Ximen Jinlian didn't hide it from him, nodded and said, "Snake grass, and some other hay and spices!" ”

"Spices?" Zhanbai is a little confused, there are still spices in the mountains?

"How so? It's a very strange flower in the mountains, it's collected and dried, it's very fragrant, and the girls in our place like to make a sachet out of it, and then—" Speaking of this, Ximen Jinlian suddenly stopped.

Zhan Bai asked stupidly: "Then what?" ”

"For a lover!" Ximen Jinlian said angrily.

"When are you going to make one for me?" Zhan Bai said with a saliva smile.

"Go, grind your stones!" Ximen Jinlian said angrily, and secretly said in her heart, how can you solve the stone well, why did you keep the topic away? It's all caused by this damn snake.

Zhanbai honestly grinds the stone again, anyway, this is all left, although it is to grind the skin a little bit, but the electric grinder is still very.

At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, the whole stone has been completely ground off the skin, Zhanbai took clean water, and began to wash the stone powder and stone chips on it......

"Golden Lotus...... Golden Lotus ...... What is this? Zhan Bai stared at the monster in the stone in a daze, and his face changed greatly......

Ximen Jinlian was standing beside him, naturally he could see it clearly, but his face was not very good. This piece of jadeite is really transparent, as transparent as crystal, much more transparent than ordinary glass, so the contents inside are naturally clearly recognizable.

This is a good snake, the tail and most of the body, are coiled, black scales, with three thin golden patterns, this is also ordinary - although Zhanbai dare not say that there must be such a living snake in nature, but at least it is not conspicuous.

The head of the snake is raised, and it makes an attacking gesture - this is also very common, and it is also a very common triangular snake head.

However, what is unusual is that in the part of this snake that is more than seven inches, it is not black scales, but - delicate and smooth in the shape of mutton fat and white jade. Of course, if that's all there is, it doesn't seem to be shocking enough.

Zhanbai carefully looked at the snake's head for a moment, and came to the conclusion that it was human skin......

Yes, it was definitely human skin, and even the delicate texture of human skin was clearly recognizable, and the snake's round eyes widened, and Zhanbai even had the illusion that it was looking at him. What made Zhan Bai feel even more unbelievable was that the three thin golden silk-like patterns on the snake's body originally extended to the top of the head, forming a golden crown of flesh on the snake's triangular head.

And the shape of the flesh crown, the more he looked at it, the more it felt a bit like the shape of a lotus flower. So, he took a flashlight and took a closer look—

Suddenly, Zhan Bai took a step back in embarrassment and exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Ximen Jinlian asked.

"It's moving......" Zhan Bai pointed to the piece of jade, and said in a low voice, even in reality, no matter how weird things he encountered, maybe they wouldn't scare him, but the weird things he encountered in his life added up, and they were not as weird as today, he just saw clearly and clearly that the snake's eyes were like human eyes, blinking gently.

He stared at the snake like this, and the snake stared at him with wide eyes, as if it were staring at him innocently.

Simon Jinlian was speechless for a long time, and that day, she saw with her palms, and vaguely saw that the snake seemed to be moving.

Zi didn't say anything, so she still said: "Maybe it's an illusion caused by the refraction and reflection of light!" ”