Chapter 223: A Mountain of Gold and Jade
All of us were stunned at the table, looking at Ji Tianhua with our mouths open, I didn't understand for a long time, what it means to be an immortal.
"Become an immortal." Ji Tianhua replied very easily, but quickly smiled bitterly. "It's just a legend, although I don't believe it, but there are many people who believe in it, I estimate that there should be a cultivator in the ancestors, and then because the more the more the gods, they became immortals."
"Is there an immortal who has put aside in advance, what does the treasure you just said have to do with this?" Tian Ji looked serious.
"I heard the old man say that the ancestors of the Ji family became immortals, and left behind a treasure full of gold and jade, which is a thousand years of things, and I can't see or touch it, but there are still people who believe that how many people in the family have wasted a lifetime of time in order to find this treasure, and in the end, they haven't even seen the shadow of the treasure."
"The treasure left by your ancestors......" Tian Ji's brows were almost all furrowed. Or is it full of gold and jade? This is too exaggerated, your ancestors have never produced high-ranking officials and rich people, where can you get so much money? ”
"Yes, but some people still believe it, saying that since the ancestor can become an immortal, of course, he has the ability to turn stone into gold, and it is not surprising to leave a treasure." Ji Tianhua said.
"To whom is this treasure left?" Gong Jue looked calm.
"Leave it to the descendants of the Ji family."
"All of them?!" I'm a little confused.
Ji Tianhua nodded, such a bizarre and absurd rumor, coming out of the mouth of an honest person, really seems a bit like true.
"Since it is left to the descendants of the Ji family, why can no one find it." Ling Zhihan asked.
"The ancestors left a sentence, saying that the secret of the treasure is hidden in this sentence, but no one understands what it means."
"In this way, the matter of this treasure is not groundless, there are really clues to trace." Tian Ji looked at us with bright eyes.
"What a clue, our three-year-old baby here will be chattering." Ji Tianhua's daughter-in-law came out of the kitchen with food and said. "The northern rat eats the moon and chases the fire fox, just this sentence, how many people who are making trouble have wasted their lives, just listen to it, but don't throw yourself in."
"The Northern Rat Eats the Moon and Chases the Firefox?" I repeated it several times in my mouth. "What do you mean by that?"
"Who knows what is being said, and I don't know if it is the words left by the ancestors, anyway, someone believes that the secret of the treasure is in this sentence." Ji Tianhua said with a smile.
"That's it?" Gong Jue asked.
"Yes, just this sentence, I don't know how many people have been harmed, it's a little better now, I heard the old people say, too many children of the Ji family are just doing business for this sentence, and they want to break their heads and figure out one or two all their lives, but they don't get anything until they die."
After a light meal, we got up to say goodbye, the fishing village couple was hospitable, and personally sent us out, before leaving, Ji Tianhua really took the bamboo stick to us seriously, walked a long way, and saw them standing at the door, maybe they look honest and stupid, but often people like them live the most down-to-earth, because there is no greed and always have a satisfied heart.
It was already evening when we came out of the fishing village, and we walked back along the beach, and we were pondering the words that had no origin all the way, when suddenly we heard thin footsteps behind us, and when we turned around, we saw a dark shadow walking towards us.
"If you are louder, everyone around you will be able to hear you." A stern voice came from the darkness.
I suddenly laughed, I have listened to this voice for more than ten years, and every time I hear it, I feel a headache, but I didn't expect that now there is suddenly a long-lost kindness.
Feng Cheng was as calm as ever, and when he stood in front of me, his eyes were still indifferent to hatred of iron and steel, but seeing him suddenly felt a lot more steady, which reminded me of the general, the relative who had never gone far for me.
"Uncle Feng, why are you here?" Gong Jue has a kind of scholarly Wenxiu, he and Feng Cheng are very close to each other, and they are happy to see each other.
"Uncle Feng, this black light is blinding, you should squeak first." Tian Ji threw away the stone in his hand and said with a smile. "I'm afraid you won't be able to stand up if this goes down."
"You left Chengdu on the front foot, and the shopkeeper was worried that you were not familiar with life here and no one would take care of you, so he immediately sent someone to inform me and join you here." Feng Cheng said to us unhurriedly. "What happened after the separation of the ancient pottery...... The shopkeeper told me in the letter. ”
Hearing Feng Cheng's voice was very sad, after all, he and the general have also had a lifelong friendship for decades, and now the yin and yang are separated, and they can't even see the last side.
"People can't be resurrected after death, the general values you in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have beaten and scolded you for so many years, we know in our hearts that he is all for your good." Feng Cheng looked at me intently and said earnestly. "Don't let down everything the general has done for you."
I nodded silently, and the sorrow and sorrow swept over my heart again.
Gong Jue probably saw that I was uncomfortable, so he diverted the topic and asked Feng Cheng: "Uncle Feng, the person Du Yi asked us to find saw it, but he couldn't ask anything, but I feel that the rumors of the treasure circulating in the Ji family seem to have traces to follow, what do you think we should do next?" ”
"I'm following you all the way, I heard you say that the northern rat eats the moon and chases the fire fox, since this sentence is related to the treasure of the Ji family, let's start here first and see if we can find out the meaning."
"How do you find it? Ji Tianhua and his daughter-in-law both said it, and this sentence has been circulated for nearly a thousand years, and no one in the Ji family has ever come to enlightenment. Tian Ji said.
"There's really nothing esoteric about this statement." Feng Cheng's words are amazing.
We all looked at him, and I quickly asked, "Do you know what that means?" ”
"I know, you should know, I taught you since I was a child, and I don't want to study the essence of reading all day long, but now I am asking me what I mean." Feng Cheng glanced at me coldly and said.
I've long been used to being reprimanded by him, and I don't care, since Feng Cheng said that I can understand, I will definitely not say this for no reason, so I hurriedly recited it a few times.
The northern rat, according to the literal meaning, can be understood as the rat of the north.
"Nonsense, of course there are rats in the north." Tian Ji interrupted. "And there's more than one, are you done looking for it?"
"It should be specifically referred to, and the northern rat here may not mean a mouse." Gong Jue was also thinking on the side.
I wanted to ask Feng Cheng again, hoping that he could mention it, but I saw him look up at the night sky, and his eyes suddenly lit up, among the twenty-eight constellations, the north belongs to Xuanwu, and among the seven Xuanwu Nakshatras, there happened to be a void sun rat.
"It's the stars!" Ling Zhihan was proficient in metaphysics, and the celestial phenomena naturally made it difficult for her, so she reacted immediately. "If the northern rat refers to the Void Sun Rat in the twenty-eight constellations, then the latter words are easy to understand, eating the moon and chasing the fire fox, it should refer to the heart moon fox in the Seven Houses of the Eastern Canglong, the heart is fire, and it is called the fire fox."
Feng Cheng didn't say a word, I know him too well, if I say wrong, I will inevitably be taught a lesson and reprimanded, and now it seems that our idea is right.
"However, if the Northern Rat eats the moon and chases the fire fox, it refers to the two stars, so I can't see any connection with the treasure." Tian Ji asked suspiciously.
"The Void Sun Rat is in the north, and the Heart Moon Fox is in the east...... Gong Jue seemed to think of something, and hurriedly asked Ling Zhihan to take out the compass, he quickly identified the location of the Void Sun Rat and the Heart Moon Fox in the starry sky, and then slowly compared on the compass, Gong Jue kept moving his feet until he stopped at one position, his eyes fell on the compass, and I saw the curvature of the corners of his mouth. It's the coordinates, the coordinates identified by the stars! ”
Gong Jue raised his head and said to us, in the mechanism technique, there is one of the oldest but also the safest methods, used to identify the location, that is, in the starry sky, the stars that appear in different directions, this is like the current map coordinates, when the Void Sun Mouse in the north and the Heart Moon Fox in the east, the intertwined points are the location of the target, but how to intersect specifically belongs to the top secret science in the mechanism technique.
"Speaking of which, as long as you find this intersection point, it is the location of the Ji family's thousand-year-old treasure." Tian Ji's face was about to laugh. "Obediently, since this is not false, then the treasure that Ji Tianhua said, the mountain full of gold and jade is not fake, the mountain is full of ...... Obediently, the mountains are full of gold and jade. ”
"It's not as simple as you think, at most we have deciphered this sentence." Gong Jue shook his head and said.
"How complicated can it be, since you can find out where the Void Sun Mouse and the Heart Moon Fox meet, the rest of the matter is not simple." Tian Ji was a little anxious.
"As I said, this method of using the stars to mark the location belongs to the ancient trick, and the same as the current coordinates, we only have two coordinates now."
"No map!" I reacted instantly. "The point where the Void Sun Mouse and the Heart Moon Fox meet can be found, but this point must be on a specific map to indicate the location."
"Speaking of which, the northern rat eats the moon and chases the fire fox, there should be another sentence below, the first sentence is the direction, and the second sentence must be the map that carries this direction." Ling Zhihan nodded and suddenly realized. "No wonder the children of the Ji family have never been able to decipher the mystery, the original clues from beginning to end are not complete at all."
"You found the Qin Dynasty bamboo stick in Ji Yijie's house, and it seems to be extremely important, since this person was asked by Du Yi to find you, maybe the second sentence has something to do with this bamboo stick." Feng Cheng said.
"Ji Yijie is not insane at all!" I'll relate the events before and after. "He should have found something from the bamboo stick, maybe it was the treasure of the Ji family, so his temperament suddenly changed, he didn't even tell his son about this, it should have been a breakthrough, but it's a pity that the head injury made him the crazy person he is now, it seems that we don't expect to ask anything from Ji Yijie's mouth, we can only rely on ourselves."
"Ji Tianhua said that Ji Yijie had been going to the Ji family's ancestral mountain before he was injured, maybe the secret was related to the ancestral mountain, so we started to investigate from the Jijia ancestral mountain." When Tian Ji heard this, he suddenly came to his senses.
Feng Cheng raised his hand to indicate that he was not in a hurry for the time being, and there were other things that had to be done first.
"The shopkeeper said, this time to Liaodong Huludao, the stakes are very high, after all, it is not our territory, where you can't mess with the rules, even if the dragon crosses the river, you have to know the head of the snake, if there is really something, there is a response, I will take you to meet someone first."
"See whom?" We asked in unison.
"A mountain carving."