Chapter III
The 14th day of the seventh lunar month, 2 p.m.!
Mu Lian, Yue Yan, Lantian Yu, and Yang Sheng took the car and set off to Pishan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Cold night, did you say that Mu Lian grew up too fast?"
"How do you say it? Maybe it's because of the stress. But isn't it good that we don't go with him? ”
"It's okay, as soon as the plan came out yesterday, the ghost gang was all messed up, and now everyone is back to stay in the nest, and there should be no one in the Mu family's old mansion!"
On the mountain, Yang Sheng parked his car in an open field.
"This is the Mu family's ancestral mansion?" Lantian Yu said in surprise.
"It's been abandoned for ten years!"
"Let's go, let's go inside!" Yue Yan was the first to walk into the door.
"Wait, there's someone here!" Mu Lian grabbed Yue Yan and said, "I heard some conversations, there were about five people!" ”
"So, what then?" Lantian Yu asked nervously.
"I'll go and see first, you guys stay here."
The footsteps were soft and silent, and Mu Lian walked into the lobby.
"You, you're Mu Lian!"
"Quick, he's only one person, everyone goes up together."
After a ping pong sound, Mu Lian came over and beckoned to Yang Sheng and them: "There are still two missing, I'll solve it, you look at them." ”
Walking briskly through the lobby, Mu Lian met the two men behind a rockery.
After knocking them out, he dragged them back to the lobby, took the rope they left, and tied the five people together, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief!
Looking at the time, Mu Lian assigned: "Let's look for it separately, I'll go to the west, find the ancestral shrine, Yue Yan will go to the east, Lantian Yu, you are here to watch these people." Uncle Yang, come with me! ”
"No problem, let's meet here at nine o'clock!" Lantian Yu nodded and said.
After parting, Mulian walked through the lobby and went straight to the backyard.
Looking at the messy marks made by the dust, Mu Lian knew that the entire compound had been turned over by them, but he didn't know if they could find the handwritten book.
"Uncle Yang, let's look for it separately!" After Mu Lian finished speaking, he walked straight to the side!
After walking through all the places, there was nothing, but when he passed through the last of a separate courtyard, Mu Lian stood still in front of the gate.
Push open the door, look at the overgrown yard, peel back the cobwebs on the hanging door, and look at the words that have fallen into the door on a plaque.
The four words "Mujia Ancestral Hall" are like a hammer hitting Mu Lian's heart.
I still remember that twelve years ago, it was he and Uncle Yang who put their parents' tablets here, although they haven't been here for a long time, but there are some things that I remember very clearly!
"Hmph, it's good you didn't destroy this place!" Snorting coldly, Mu Lian muttered to himself.
Slowly walking into the ancestral hall, looking at the spiritual position of the ancestors and ancestors, Mu Lian ignored the dust on the ground and slowly knelt on the futon.
"Unworthy descendants Mulian, meet the ancestors and ancestors!"
Kowtowed twice, Mu Lian stood up, patted off the dust, walked to a place, and checked it!
"I didn't expect them to come here to check it out!" Looking at the ground without a trace, Mu Lian thought in surprise.
Suddenly, his eyes froze and he looked at a wall: "This... Is this paint? It's not like cinnabar, no, it's bloodstains! Well? What is it? Why didn't they come to look at the wall? ”
With some questions, Mu Lian walked over silently. Slowly raise your hand and press it against the wall.
When he was still a centimeter away from the wall, Yang Sheng suddenly shouted sharply: "Don't touch it!" ”
Before the words fell, he dragged Mu Lian away from the wall!
"It's okay, I'm worried that you'll come to the ancestral hall and see the wall and can't help but go and explore, so I'll come here to take a look!" Yang Sheng touched a handful of cold sweat that didn't exist.
"What's weird about this wall? How did I not know? Mu Lian asked.
"The feng shui pattern of the Mu ancestral house is different from other places, especially this ancestral shrine, which enshrines the ancestors of the Mu family in the past dynasties, so the pattern is blocked, and this wall is made of locust trees, so it is called 'Ghost Gate'!" Yang Sheng knew that there were some secrets that he didn't have to say: "You only came to the ancestral hall once when you were a child, so there is no need to tell you, and then you have never had a chance to forget to talk about it!" ”
"What happens if I touch a wall?" Mu Lian asked.
"I don't know, but I heard that the people who touched that wall didn't end well, and they died miserably!" Yang Sheng shrugged and said.
"So, there's something written on that wall, do you see that?" Mu Lian looked at Yang Sheng, and his tone was a little weird.
"Wrote something? No way, that wall was painted with the blood of several generations of Mu's! Unless there is the blood of the previous generation of blood donors, no one can get anywhere near it, let alone write! Yang Sheng said.
"Then do you know what the characteristics of the Mu family are?"
"What do you mean?" Yang Sheng was a little stunned when he heard this!
"Nothing!" Mu Lian was a little disappointed, it seems that there is no one like him in Mu Shi!
Capturing his flashing disappointed eyes, Yang Sheng was silent!
"Can you see the writing on the wall?" After a long while, Yang Sheng asked.
"Well, yes, just four words!" Mu Lian packed up his emotions and said calmly: "Midnight, Zi Shi!" ”
He and Yang Sheng returned to the front of the compound, saw Lantian Yu sitting on a chair that he had moved from nowhere, and said, "I may have to spend the night here tonight, and I will go back to the car and get the tent in a while." ”
"Mu Lian, Mu Lian, what do you think I found?" As soon as the words fell, I heard Yue Yan running over happily: "I found a room, it seems to be the patriarch, I found this!" ”
Yue Yan took out two pamphlets, only to see that one was written "genealogy" and the other was blank.
"Huh?" Mu Lian picked up the family tree and saw the last mark: The Mu clan is returning, midnight is approaching, the Yin Si opens the door, and the soul is used for ghosts, remember!
"Uncle Yang, do you know what this means?"
"This handwriting is very similar to your father's!"
"What? So, my father came back here? But is he writing this to warn for something? ”
"That's it!" Yang Sheng patted Mu Lian on the shoulder and said to him, "It's better to wait until it gets dark!" ”
"Yue Yan, you found this from the patriarch's room, so did you find anything else?" Mu Lian's eyes were blazing, and he looked at him and asked.
"Hmm... No, I felt as if the house had been ransacked by robbers, and the two brochures were still found under the floor! Yue Yan recalled the details of that room: "By the way, the floor of this room seems to have a lot of hollow places, if you are not careful, it is likely to leak through!" ”
"You've looked for it all?"
"I found it, only these two!"
"Okay, Mu Lian, you are like this when you open the seal, don't always have trouble with these things!" Seeing Mu Lian pondering, Yang Sheng interrupted: "Isn't there another message?" Just wait until midnight! ”
The group returned to the car, picked up the spare items and returned to the mansion compound!
"What are they going to do?" Lan Tianyu pointed to a few people who were tied up: "I really don't know how they lived here, their boss didn't leave anything!" ”
"Leave them alone!" Mu Lian packed up the wooden block and prepared to light the fire: "I'll keep vigil tonight, you guys have a good rest, Yue Yan, you bring all the pictures I gave you!" ”
"By the way, Mu Lian, when you came to visit the Mu family's ancestral house before, how many people were there here?" Lantian Yu asked!
"About fifty or sixty, almost all here!"
"There are three pictures in total!" Yue Yan flipped out of his backpack and took three photos: "You asked me to check, almost all of them can be unlocked, but the things on these three pictures are not complete, at least one is missing!" ”
The item in the picture is a piece of parchment, the size of a book, with strange lines on it. There is also a pebble-sized stone with the same lines as on paper.
"Paper, stone, bronze mirror, one more thing missing?" Mu Lian was puzzled!
"I'm talking about at least one thing missing, maybe more than the same!"
"What's the useful news for this?"
"These patterns are actually small seal fonts, each of which can be independent, but it can be combined with these characters." Yue Yan pointed to the picture and said, "However, what I care about the most is why do you want to engrave it on some items, can't you just write it out?" ”
"Why don't you just write it out?" Mu Lian muttered, "Is there any meaning to these items?" ”
"That's right, you see the small seal on this stone, it is the word 'Qiu', but it is printed on the stone, and it may be ......"
"Where the stones are piled up?" Lantian Yu interjected.
"It's a cemetery, a mound, it means a grave, and the stones piled up may be a mausoleum or a mound." Mu Lian voiced his guess.
"That's right, these small seals are also transformed from hieroglyphs, so that's what you guessed." Yue Yan nodded, and said, "And this, the parchment is not complete at first glance, and you can see the traces of tearing." This small seal is an obvious 'ghost' character, so I guess what is missing is this kind of paper! ”
"Wait, this paper looks familiar?" Lan Tianyu thought for a while and said, "By the way, the booklet with the genealogy seems to be this kind of paper, but it's newer than this one." ”
He glanced at Yue Yan, who took out the blank booklet from his backpack again.
"It's like, huh? What is this trace? Slowly turning to a page, Yue Yan said with some surprise: "There is probably a page in this booklet, maybe it is like this." Look at this place, it's the traces of the pages of the book. ”
"Did you find these two pamphlets from one place, or from both?"
"I think it's a different place, and when you asked, do you suspect that the Ghost Gang might have discovered this booklet and taken the parchment inside?"
"It's not a suspicion, it's a certainty, they're ghosts!"
The atmosphere was a little frozen for a while. Yang Sheng looked at it and said, "What about this?" What is written on it? He pointed to the bronze mirror and asked, "When did you secretly take pictures!" ”
"It's a word for "hair", and as I've said before, these words can be combined, and I guess that the word "fat" might be the main word. ”
"It's not going to rob the grave, is it? I remember that the hair, is excavation, mound, is the meaning of the cemetery! Yang Sheng asked in surprise.
"Maybe, maybe, probably in a cemetery somewhere!"
"I have a question coming to mind? Where did you get these things? Yang Sheng asked.
"The new address of the Mu family in Kaifeng. I just found this piece of paper! Later, I went to an antique city and photographed this stone. Yue Yan said.
"Then the bronze mirror you were going to take over at that time was also ......"
"I'm going to buy it myself."
"How much of your previous plans had to do with these?"
"Well, these can be considered clues, after all, we don't know much about what happened twenty years ago!"
Looking at Yang Sheng's somewhat sad expression, Mu Lian slowed down his tone: "I didn't mean not to tell you, after planning for so long, I am finally going to defeat the ghost gang, maybe I will find a place to live for a lifetime in the future." ”
"Did you already notice the Ghost Gang?"
"It's not! After realizing that the ghost gang only met Yue Yan! ”
Receiving this answer, Yang Sheng looked at him suspiciously.
"Uncle Yang, you may not know me, but you know the Yun family."
"What do you have to do with the Yun family?"
"Guanzhong Yun family, Huanluo Mu family, these are the two tomb robber families of the Northern Sect!" Yue Yan smiled: "Don't forget that I am a pangolin, in the Southern Sect, the Lingnan Yue family is my family." ”
The time was approaching 12 o'clock.
"This is the wall you saw at the ancestral shrine?" Yue Yan looked at the scarlet wall and said.
"Well, but there's nothing on the wall now!"
"Wait, it's almost early morning." Yang Sheng said.
"Lantian Yu is there alone, no problem!" Yue Yan couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry!"
At twelve o'clock, Yue Yan, who was standing closer to the door, opened his mouth and said in a lost voice: "In the middle of July, the ghost door is wide open!" ”
As soon as the words fell, a hideous ghost suddenly appeared on the wall, roaring and rushing.
Mu Lian and Yang Sheng took a step back in unison, only to find that they couldn't break through the wall!
"Uncle Yang, I seem to understand some of the words behind the family tree, it seems that there is more than just a literal meaning. I've never had anything like this before, it's a real ghost! ”
Hearing the voice behind him, after looking back, he found that Yang Sheng and Yue Yan had fainted.
"Ahhh
The ghosts that had gathered had all disappeared, and only a handsome-looking boy who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old was standing across from him.
"You ......" Before the words could be spoken, the person on the other side lifted his foot and walked through the wall.
Mu Lian's scalp was numb, and he didn't dare to move.
Luo Feng looked at the other side a little strangely, he was already at the end of his rope when he was seriously injured, but he didn't know how to appear in the space-time gap, giving him a chance to escape. As soon as I came out, I saw that this person had been standing. His head was a little dizzy, and he looked at the man and said, "The world? "Straight forward.
Mu Lian watched him fall towards him, and caught him a little stiffly.
"What did you say?" didn't hear clearly, Mu Lian asked again.
"I ,......" opened his mouth to say something, but his head became heavier and heavier, and finally he collapsed into Mu Lian's arms and fainted.
Looking at the wall, then at him, Mulian saw that the wall had changed back to its original state. Four new words were discovered: "Death, Spirit, Drunkenness, Change"
Slowly putting him down, Mu Lian walked over and woke up Yang Sheng and Yue Yan.
Several people didn't speak, and Mu Lian carried Luo Feng back to Lantian Yu.
"Huh? You didn't go to the ancestral hall once, why did you come here again? Lan Tianyu looked at them and found Luo Feng on Mu Lian's back.
"Alright, Mu Lian, now you can say it!" Seeing Mu Lian put the man down, Yue Yan pointed to Luo Feng on the ground and said, "Let's talk about him first, who is he?" ”
"He came out of the wall, I don't know if he's a human or a ghost." Mulian replied.
"Why did we faint?"
"I don't know!"
"Then why didn't you faint?"
"I don't know!"
"Before, you said you saw the words midnight and midnight written on the wall, so why did you see it?"
"Alas, I want to know too!"
"Oh my God, what happened after we passed out? You don't know anything! Yue Yan was a little crazy.
"Everything will be known when he wakes up!" Mu Lian pointed to Luo Feng on the ground.
"Click~" The sound of the branch breaking alarmed Mu Lian and his party: "Who is there?" Come out! ”
Mu Lian: "I'll go and take a look!" ”
"Why did you come along?" Mu Lian went over to see her and was taken aback!
"Cut, you think I want to come, I went to look for you but you weren't there, the two people left told me you came here, and I came!" Yan'er complained.
"Is there anything wrong with you at such a late hour?"
"I just wanted to talk to you, there is something I believe you will be interested in!"
"Let's go, I feel like you're deliberately letting me find you!"
"No, if it weren't for that nasty mouse, you wouldn't have found me!" Smoke muttered.
The two walked over, and Yue Yan and the others were also surprised to see Yan'er.
"When did you come along?" Yang Sheng asked.
"About an hour after you left."
"Do you know any of these things?" Yue Yan pointed to a few photos.
"I accidentally heard it!" Smoke whispered back.
"If you have anything to say to me, tell me together!" Mulian
"Xiao Xing, you are all familiar with it!"
"Well, I used to pour black goods, and I was very famous in the circle." Lantian Yu said.
"I think you're still wondering about the origin of the bronze mirror, and I can tell you that there's a not-so-old cemetery around here."
Yang Sheng: "Could it be ......?"
"That's right, it's the tomb guarded by the Mu family in the past, not long ago, a group of people folded in, and only one person escaped, and got this mirror."
"Then I went to ask before, why didn't Xiao Xing tell me?"
"Why didn't he say it, I don't know, but I can tell you that Xiao Xing must have a hard time."
"Who the hell are you?"
"Xiao Xing's sister, Xiao Yan'er!"
Everyone was surprised, and Mu Lian asked again: "You or Xiao Xing, what is the purpose?" ”
Xiao Yan'er sat down with her legs crossed, buried her head and said in a muffled voice: "I know something, he didn't care about his forces after he retired two years ago, and now it seems that he is about to make a comeback." ”
"Comeback?"
"He lied to me, and he used to promise to be stable. Now he's leaving again, let me be your partner! ”
"What ???"
"He regrets involving me and wants to get rid of me, but I don't understand, who are you, why does he care so much about you, your plan is secretly fueling the flames, leveling the several major forces that want to intervene, and almost paving the way for you."
Mu Lian understood, and his thoughts were clear all of a sudden: "I said how do you feel that everything is so smooth, it turns out that you are still here!" How does he know about my plans? ”
"Su Qing, cold night!"
The atmosphere in the room suddenly froze.
Taking a deep breath, Mu Lian broke the stiff atmosphere: "I want to be quiet and sort out my thoughts well!" ”
Xiao Yan'er followed, walked with him and sat down, and explained: "You don't know at all, how terrifying the ghost gang is, if it weren't for the Huanluo gang and Xiao Xing, your plan would have been stillborn." There is also Yue Yan, he is not simple. ”
"Among the people you mentioned, the one I know best is Yue Yan, you don't need to say it, let me be alone."
Seeing her far away, Mu Lian was silent, thinking back to the incident that changed him three years ago.