Chapter 1: The Parchment
I remember it was ten years ago, when I was in elementary school, and my grandfather called my father to him before he died, and asked my father to take out a book from the closet, the book was crumpled and gray, but it seemed to be relatively intact, and my father took it out and saw that it was a parchment book, and when I opened it, I realized that it was some of my grandfather's inverted bucket diaries before his death. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
My grandfather's name is Ji Hua, my impression of my grandfather is a fairy, he knows a lot of knowledge about yin and yang feng shui, what innate gossip, Qimen Dunjia, yin and yang five elements, from his mouth is always so clear, always wear a reading glasses to read books on weekdays, but it always looks like a book, at that time I didn't know what he was looking at so interested, but I remember that it was a manuscript, the name of the book is "Yin and Yang Four Books", and I don't know what was written, until it came to my hands, but I also looked at it, The content above feels a bit like the ancient yin and yang metaphysics, Qimen Dunjia or something, anyway, I haven't understood much until now.
Later, my father told me that in fact, my grandfather was a son-in-law, and after the founding of New China, he and my grandmother met in Beijing, and later fell in love, and my grandfather had two brothers, but my grandmother was an only child, so he gave up his "career" in Shanxi, and my grandmother ran to Yunnan, and became a son-in-law, and that book, he brought back from Shanxi, said that it was handed down by his ancestors, and later copied a few books, my grandfather and his two brothers each had one, that is, three copies, but I never heard that I also had two uncles.
And just ten years ago, my grandfather left, the day before he left, he talked and laughed with me, and his mentality was very good, and he didn't see that he was a person who was about to die, and the magic was that he also said to me: "Little name, grandpa is going to die tomorrow, you should miss grandpa?" "I thought he was joking, I didn't answer, and I was only seven or eight years old at the time and didn't know what my grandfather was talking about, and I didn't know what he was saying until the next day when my grandfather left.
On the day of my grandfather's awakening, two outsiders came, about the same age as my grandfather, and they deliberately followed our local customs, wrapped a white envelope, and my father told me that they were my two uncles, and called me a person, and I respectfully shouted: "Second grandfather, third grandfather!" "My two uncles gave me a thing, which was a stone in my eyes at the time, and it was not as fun as my marbles, until later I knew that it was a piece of jade, and hung it on my chest as a treasure.
The two uncles hurried back to Shanxi after staying at my house for less than two days, saying that they were going back to do two things, but it didn't take long for me to hear from my father and my family that my two uncles and ancestors were also gone, and they left one after another in less than a month.
When I was a child, I asked why my grandfather and uncle had passed away in a month, and my father said that I was still young, so he didn't tell me, but only said that they had gone where they had to go. Later, I also went to high school, and I knew that my grandfather was an inverted bucket, and he used to be called Nan Crawler by the local Baxing Tu in Shanxi, and he was the same as the earth walking immortals, mountain ghosts, and Changsha Tufuzi, but the way of the inverted bucket was not consistent with what outsiders said.
The name of the inverted bucket is different in various places, and the categories of these inverted buckets are also different from the traditional tomb robbery factions, such as touching the gold school captain, the general of Faqiu, the mountain movers, and the unloading of the Ling Lux, these were originally born by tomb robbers, but the grandfathers are different, they used to help people look at feng shui, know the tomb, almost never go to the soil, and do not understand what ancient Ming weapons, until later according to the book handed down by the ancestors, they found the tomb, and the next fight, knowing that the tomb is buried under the good treasure, and then began to pour the fight, But the inverted bucket is to follow the rules.
Before the next bucket, you have to wash your hands, after the next bucket, they have to light a nine-inch long incense in the bucket, before the incense is extinguished, you must go out of the bucket, even if you see the Ming utensils, you can't stay for a while, because this is the rule of the ancestors, I heard that breaking the rules will smash the jobs of future generations, they also believe in the reincarnation of heaven, so such rules have been retained to this day.
Perhaps my father had already thought about telling me, but I didn't get into college twice at that time, so I had to go home, and once my father asked me to take care of the family's antique business, saying that he was going to go on a long trip with my second uncle, and I knew that they must have some news again, and they were going out to fight. He probably knew that I was going to fight, so he told me about my grandfather and uncle's death.
Father first lit a cigarette, and took two puffs before he spoke: "Xiao Ming, it's not that your father didn't tell you about it before, the main thing is that you still have to read before, for fear of affecting your learning, and now you haven't read a book, so I'll give you a good score." I nodded.
"In the past, I was also like you, interested in what your grandfather did, so I insisted on fighting with your grandfather and them, who knew that I went to Xinjiang for the first time. Xinjiang is called the Tarim Basin, at that time we found a large tomb in the eastern end of the Lop Nur area, that tomb should belong to the ancient country of Loulan in Xinjiang, we don't know which tomb it is, only know around the Silk Road. Your grandfather and the two grandfathers both went in, and I was only your age at the time, so your grandfather puffed up and didn't let me in, so I had to wait for them outside with the camels, and when they came out, they didn't bring out any bright utensils, and then we came back. I continued, "And then mum?" ”
The father took a puff of his cigarette and continued: "You are busy, and then your grandfather and your two grandfathers have written on their arms, which is one of the ancient scripts used in the early days of the Xinjiang ethnic group, called Luwen. Your grandfather learned about it later, that kind of writing appeared on the arm, it became a mark is a curse, your grandfather also has a wide range of knowledge, basically he knows a little about this, when a snake appeared in the tomb, the snake was red all over, and there were two whiskers on the skull, and your grandfather touched a mechanism, and the snake came out and spoke. ”
"Why does the snake speak?" At this time, the doubts about the death of my grandfather and their succession suddenly turned into interest, and I couldn't wait to know what kind of conversation my grandfather had with the snake.
"I don't know why the snake can speak, but the snake may have known that your grandfather was Han Chinese, and he actually spoke Han Chinese." Speaking of which, I don't think it's surprising, if the snake can really speak, then the ancient country of Loulan also belonged to the Han for a while, as for Lu Wen, it may have something to do with the Xiongnu, after all, the culture of the Western Regions is always so magical.
"Your grandfather's diary wrote, the snake probably means that as long as your grandfather and they don't touch the Ming utensils in the tomb, as if they haven't been here, they can let your grandfather live to this age, if you move the things inside, maybe your grandfather and they won't be able to get out of the tomb, the day your grandfather died is the day they went to the tomb thirty years ago." I finally understood why my grandfather would tell me he would be gone the next day, maybe it was a curse as my father said, but from what my grandfather meant, he just went with the flow.
"That's why your grandfather died, he wrote it in that parchment notebook." When my father said this, he didn't say anything more, but handed me my grandfather's inverted diary, which was a little old, and there was even that ancestral book in the parchment book, "The Four Books of Yin and Yang".
I know that parchment has a better effect on preserving text than ordinary paper, and that it is better for people like my grandfather who often go to the soil to take notes.
The father also said: "This is what your grandfather meant, I'm going to Shanxi to find your second uncle, and you should take a look at these things." "After my father finished speaking, he went back, didn't stay in the antique store for long, said that he was going back to prepare for the trip, I strongly asked my father to take me with me, what to see that I am not young, if I don't repeat the grade, I am a sophomore or a junior, my father refused at first, so he resolutely refused to let me go, saying that this is not going to play, and it is not good to die, I know that he is afraid that something will happen to me.
When I got up the next morning, he took the initiative to come to me, saying that he was thinking about my grandfather's intentions, and it was time for me to see something, but the request was that I couldn't fight, so I had to agree first, so that I could go to Shanxi with him to round with the second uncle.
My father's second uncle is the second son of my second uncle, I heard that the uncle had an accident in the area of Taihang Mountain, and when he entered the soil, he encountered a big zongzi, which is no longer there, and the third uncle has never married, so he has no heirs.
I didn't know what kind of buckets there were in Taihang Mountain, maybe there would be any tombs of princes and nobles, but I didn't think too much about it, so I turned up my grandfather's diary and looked at it, hoping to learn something from it.
And when I turned to one of the pages, the things recorded on it suddenly made me understand the reason why my father was going to Taihang Mountain: "Today this piece of jade represents the tomb of a royal family, and I have temporarily recorded the location of the jade found, and this piece of jade is also temporarily kept by my two younger brothers...... and then the description of this piece of jade, isn't it the piece of jade on my chest?