Ye Jiuqing and I drank a lot in the evening, the first time we drank without scruples, I only remember that in the end, I didn't feel anything, I poured cup after cup into my mouth, and finally I was unconscious.

I only felt that the noise in my ears was getting quieter and quieter, and I vaguely smelled the familiar smell of tobacco, which made me sleep soundly, and slowly opened my eyes, my head was dizzy after a hangover, and I couldn't remember how I slept in bed.

And this is not my bed yet, I looked at the unfamiliar surroundings suspiciously, and suddenly found that this was Ye Jiuqing's dark room, he was sitting at the table opposite, clumsily rolling a cigarette, and there was no word when I woke up.

"How did I end up here?" I braced myself up, dizzy and uncomfortable.

"You were drunk last night, and I helped you back." Ye Jiuqing lowered his head and continued to roll his cigarette.

It was the general's cigarette pouch, I walked over and sat next to Ye Jiuqing, looking at him in puzzlement, Ye Jiuqing didn't smoke, but still put the crumpled cigarette in the corner of his mouth, lit it and took a puff, and then pushed a box in front of me.

"What is this?" I asked blankly.

"For you." Ye Jiuqing frowned, probably not used to the smell of smoke.

This dark room is Ye Jiuqing's thunder pool, no one can come in, if it wasn't for the last time when the palace lord accidentally discovered it, we don't know that this dark room hides too many secrets of Ye Jiuqing, Ye Jiuqing brought me here, there must be something extremely important.

I opened the box in confusion, inside is a jade beast Jue finely carved with Xiuyan nephrite, the shape is simple and majestic, the size of the finger jade beast Jue, the whole body is tooth white, fat head and big ears, the snout is flat, the triangular incision does not cut through the inner circle, the body is connected from end to end, clumps and curls, the back is drilled with round holes, and the face is engraved with Yin lines to show eye circles and wrinkles, and the whole device is like a pig's embryo.

Because the pig is a dragon elephant, such a jade beast Jue is also called the jade pig dragon.

"When did you get such a good thing, this thing is not an ordinary mortal thing, it should be a utensil from the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the jade pig dragon is a symbol of identity and status, and it is also one of the earliest dragon-shaped artifacts of the era known at present." I looked at it repeatedly in my hand for a long time, and said to Ye Jiuqing in surprise. "This thing is enough for you to lose your head again, where did you dig it up?"

"Do you know what the curved jade pig dragon means?" Ye Jiuqing asked disappreciatively.

"This type of jade should not be seen as a mere ornament, but as a sacrificial ritual vessel representing a certain rank and power." I didn't rush to answer.

Ye Jiuqing frowned and smoked, coughed incessantly, and said to me intermittently that the original role of the jade pig dragon was to communicate heaven and earth and was used to pray for rain, and it was also a totem.

If the jade pig dragon is hung with a rope, you will find that the dragon's mouth and tail are completely on a horizontal plane, which shows that when the jade pig dragon first appeared, this thing was used to hang high and be worshipped.

"Legend has it that when Yu ruled the water, there was a dragon to the tail of the land, for Yu pointed out the route of the flood, so there is a vast river in later generations, so there will be ancestors pious worship, that is a kind of oracle power, and the jade pig dragon is actually on behalf of the dragon, this thing has the supreme divine power." Ye Jiuqing looked at me in the smoke and said after a moment of silence. "Ying Long is a flying dragon with two wings......"

"Feathered Dragon!" I was taken aback, and suddenly raised my head and looked at Ye Jiuqing, only then did I realize that the origin of the jade pig dragon in my hand was probably not simple.

Suddenly I remembered that Zhuo Mingfeng and Tianhui had told me that when the flood was in the wilderness, Dayu went to Kunlun Jinque to ask for God's help, and in order to prevent the land of dragon qi from being flooded, one of the people on the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace left with the vital Divine Domain Map.

Ye Jiuqing is just guessing from the rumors of the Jade Pig Dragon, but about Ying Long helping Dayu control the water, it is not a legend, presumably the person who left from the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace took the feather dragon as a totem, and over time the feather dragon evolved into the well-known Ying Long, and this totem eventually evolved into the Jade Pig Dragon.

"Could it be that this thing has something to do with the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace?!" The strength of my hangover dissipated most of it.

Ye Jiuqing nodded silently and continued to cough.

"Where did you dig this thing up?" I asked eagerly.

"Beibi Mountain." Ye Jiuqing coughed badly, put down the cigarette and smiled bitterly. "I really don't know how Wei Hu is good at this."

"Beibi Mountain?" I was stunned and looked at Ye Jiuqing a little blankly.

"Haven't you been, what a fuss." Ye Jiuqing didn't look at me and said lightly. "There is not a secret compartment in Ji Qu's tomb, and the contents are taken away."

"This, this box is what is placed in the secret compartment of Jiqu's tomb......" I was halfway through my speech, and I was suddenly stunned in shock, and the corners of my mouth squirmed. Why, how did it end up with you? ”

"I'm the cripple."

……

I looked at Ye Jiuqing dumbfounded, his reply was far more shocking than any clues such as the Nine Dragons of the Moon Palace or the Twelve Ancestral Gods, in fact, since I saw Zhuo Mingfeng and reconciled Tianhui, I more or less doubted that the lame man who left footprints was Ye Jiuqing.

But when Ye Jiuqing admitted it, I didn't expect that my reaction would be so big.

"Why, why did you tell me?"

"You should be asking why I was hiding it from you, but you asked why I told you." Ye Jiuqing looked at me sharply. "Looks like you should have known that the cripple was me."

"I don't know, I used to think so." I replied.

"It's not important, I brought you here, I just want to say everything, Wei Zi is my brother, he can stick a knife in my ribs, but I haven't been honest in front of him from beginning to end, and Feng Cheng and Zhao Yan, they call me Brother Ye, but it's a pity that I am ashamed of my trust in them." Ye Jiuqing slowly put down the cigarette in his hand. "I have something to hide from them, and I also hide it from you, if I had said it earlier, Wei Zi would not have died in vain, in the final analysis, I am sorry for my brother, and I am sorry for you."

I smiled, not because it confirmed my conjecture all along, but because Ye Jiuqing was honest in front of me, he was the person I trusted the most, no matter what he had done, as long as he could be unreserved in front of me, this was more important than anything else.

"When the old thing leaves, he has no regrets about you, no matter what you hide from him, but I believe that your affection for each other is not fake." I'm happy to say.

"Why aren't you surprised at all?" Ye Jiuqing probably didn't expect me to react like this.

"What's so surprising, Tian Ji is not hiding his identity from me, Gong Jue still hasn't told me anything, but they are all my friends, in Gong Jue's words, who can't have some of their own secrets, it doesn't really matter to me whether you say it or not." I smiled lightly. "What really matters is that I firmly believe that you are the person I trust the most, and just now, you have confirmed that I am right."

"That's what you think." Ye Jiuqing smiled self-deprecatingly, but his expression was still very guilty. "Actually, it's not that I want to hide it from you, there are some things I planned to take on my own shoulders, but who knows that it will backfire in the end."

Ye Jiuqing looked at the smoke that was placed on the table, it was his confession to the general, and he was silent for a long time before he slowly told me that after he left the 117th Bureau, because he had seen Ling Xuan, who had been immortal for thousands of years, and knew the magic of the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat, in that bizarre ship, he must have the ability to bring people back to life, so he changed his name and surname to find the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat, just to save Ling Xi who died because of him.

Ye Jiuqing concealed the experience of the 117th Bureau in front of others, because he knew that this secret was widely implicated, and once he told others, he would not only expose himself, but also implicate the people in the pawnshop in the four directions.

He didn't mean to hide it, he just wanted to hide this secret to protect the people around him.

"My surname is Peng, and my ancestor is Peng Qian, who is known as the longevity immortal Peng Zu by later generations." Ye Jiuqing said frankly.

I don't know what expression to use to deal with it, after all, I have already learned about Peng Zu from Zhuo Mingfeng's mouth, but Ye Jiuqing said it himself, although he was not shocked before, but he was more happy.

"You already knew." Even if Ye Jiuqing becomes late, he is still the shrewd Ye Jiuqing, he raised me, and the person who knows me best is probably him, how can my every move be hidden from his eyes.

I wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Ye Jiuqing raising his hand, he believed in me as much as he did in Ye Zhiqiu, no parent would question their children, in Ye Jiuqing's heart, I believe that he looked at me more like his own son.

Ye Jiuqing continued to say to me, descendants only know that Peng Zu lived for 800 years, but they don't know that the ancestors of the Peng family lived longer.

At that time, the ancestor of the Peng family was prominent, and before his death, he had built an unknown mausoleum, even the descendants of the Peng family did not know the location of the mausoleum, but together with the pearl and jade, there was also the jade pig dragon in my hand.

It is said that the burial place of the ancestors of the Peng family is hidden in this jade pig dragon.

After the death of the ancestor of the Peng family, Peng Zu got the pearl jade, and gradually found that as long as the pearl jade did not leave his body, he could live forever, but as time went by, the light of the pearl jade became more and more dim, and when the light disappeared completely, Peng Zu also died.

Since then, the Peng family has suddenly lost the ability to live forever, so the descendants of the Peng family speculated that the Jade Pig Dragon left by the ancestors may be related to the secret of immortality, so they tried every possible way to crack the clues hidden in the Jade Pig Dragon.

But it has been passed down for many generations, and no one has ever been able to know the secret hidden in the Jade Pig Dragon.

The Peng family gradually declined, and no one noticed the reason for the longevity of the Peng family, which lasted until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the Peng family never gave up looking for a way to live forever, and the secret of the Peng family was finally discovered by Sui Hou Jiqu.