By the time I woke up from that dazed state, I had already walked to the bottom of the mountain, only a few minutes away from where Zheng Xiaoxian'er was.

"I was a ghost just now?!" I stood stunned, looked back at the barren mountain behind me, and muttered, "How did I get down this way?"

Suddenly, I felt a little heavy in my hand, and when I looked down, I realized that I was still holding the wooden box.

At that time, I didn't dare to delay too much, after all, Zheng Xiaoxian'er was still waiting for me on the side of the road, and I was embarrassed if it was too late.

In the end, I didn't think much of it, and walked towards my destination with the box in my arms.

But the inexplicable hallucinations, or auditory hallucinations, still lingered in my mind, and I couldn't ignore them.

Could it be that I was hallucinating just now?

No, the voice was so real, it sounded like it was ringing in my ears

Just as I was thinking about this, I heard Zheng Xiaoxian'er's voice.

"You've got all the stuff, right?"

When I looked up, Zheng Xiaoxian'er was squatting under a big pine tree and smoking, nodding at me with a smile on her face: "Do you want to play in Qiqihar for a few days, or do you want to go back directly?" ”

At this time, I found that the big pine tree behind Zheng Xiaoxian'er was full of squirrels.

That's a squat!

One by one, the squirrels were as if they had been pointed, and they didn't run when they saw people, holding something similar to a pine nut in their hands, and looking at me while gnawing.

"Brother Zheng, I'd better go back directly, and I'll come back to you again when I have a chance to play in the future." I smiled and said, "You're also very busy with work, I still won't delay you, we will have time to meet in the future." ”

"Done." Zheng Xiaoxian'er stood up and scratched her head embarrassedly: "This time I didn't entertain well, I'll make it up to you next time." ”

"You're welcome, no!" I laughed.

Zheng Xiaoxian'er turned her head, looked at the little squirrels on the pine tree, and grinned.

It was also at this time that I found out that Zheng Xiaoxian'er's smile was much more real than usual, and she completely lost the feeling of not smiling.

His smile was pure, and it didn't seem to contain any impurities in it.

"Go back and rest, and see people running away in the future, you know?"

Hearing Zheng Xiaoxian'er's words, the squirrels chirped, and then swished, and jumped away one after another.

It is no exaggeration to say that when I saw this scene, I was convinced of Zheng Xiaoxian'er.

"Brother Zheng, can they understand you?" I asked curiously.

"I don't think I understand, but I can still understand a little bit of the meaning." Zheng Xiaoxian'er shrugged her shoulders with a smile: "Let's go, I'll take you to the airport, and I'll book the ticket for you now." ”

Ten minutes later, we got on the bus and headed straight for Qiqihar.

In the car, Zheng Xiaoxian'er asked me, "Can you get on the plane with those things you take?" If it's not convenient, I'll have someone drive you to Shenyang. ”

Hearing this, I was stunned and shook my head: "I haven't opened it yet."

After saying this, I took the small wooden box that was placed next to it, opened the copper clasp, and heard a crisp bang and the box opened.

The first thing that caught my eye was something tightly wrapped in brown paper.

I took it in my hand and checked it, this thing still has a lot of weight.

"What's that?" Zheng Xiaoxian'er glanced at me from the rearview mirror and asked curiously.

I didn't speak, and slowly unwrapped the kraft paper

When we saw the real body of this thing, Zheng Xiaoxian and I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Wrapped in vellum paper is a bronze ornament, which looks like it should be something from the previous year, but I really can't tell which dynasty and which generation it is.

What surprised us the most was not its texture and indescribable simplicity, but its shape.

I don't know what it's called, but judging by its overall shape, it should be called a four-person coffin.

The four-person coffin, as the name suggests, is that there are four bronze figures, two in front and two in the back, carrying a pair of beautifully carved bronze coffins.

The bronze figures carrying the coffin were dressed in robes and crowns on their heads, and their expressions were extremely expressive.

Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness each account for one.

Maybe it's because the expressions of these bronze figures are portrayed too vividly, and when I look at them, I really feel like they're looking at me too.

The coffin was also engraved with incantations that I couldn't understand, very much like some totems.

"It's bronze, right?" I frowned, looked at the bronze ornament in my hand, and only felt a drum in my heart: "If this thing was tossed out of the tomb by them, I won't be sentenced if I take it!?" ”

"What are you afraid of, this is something that Senior Luo gave you, and I can't harm you." Zheng Xiaoxian'er took her eyes back and continued to drive: "When someone asks, you say that this thing is a family heirloom." ”

After Zheng Xiaoxian'er finished saying that, she paused and reminded me in a low voice: "I feel that this thing has an evil spirit, but it seems to be suppressed by something."

"I'm not in any danger, am I?" My smile was a little unnatural.

"Master Luo will not harm anyone." Zheng Xiaoxian said with a smile: "Since he gave you something, then you can take it with peace of mind, and if you have any problems in the future, you will come to Master Luo to solve your doubts." ”

Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but think of what had just happened on the mountain.

Immediately, I told Zheng Xiaoxian'er about it, including the "phantom sounds" I heard.

After listening to my story, Zheng Xiaoxian'er didn't show surprise, nor did she show the slightest disbelief.

"It's normal, I've heard these sounds before."

"You've heard that, too?" I was stunned.

"Well, I've been to a lot of temples, and eight or nine out of ten temples are empty, and the Buddha is gone, so it can be said that the hearts of the people now can't tolerate the Buddha." Zheng Xiaoxian'er sighed and said something that confused me: "But in this mountain, the Buddha is still there. ”

"What do you mean?" I muttered, "The voices I heard can't be the Buddha chanting, right?" ”

Zheng Xiaoxian'er shrugged: "Who knows." ”

Without asking any more questions, I carefully set aside the bronze ornaments and took out the books that were at the bottom of the wooden box.

I frowned, flipping through the books, and whispered: "Didn't Old Man Zuo say that there are only my grandfather's handwritings, how can there be these books?"

When I saw the last "book" without a name, I was slightly stunned.

This is very different from the other books, which are all ancient books, and this one is obviously an old-fashioned notebook from the eighties and nineties!

When I turned the first page, I was greeted by four big characters.

Schoon's Notes.

"Oh fuck, this is grandpa hanging up on his grandson." I opened the notebook with joy, took a cursory look at it, and felt too excited.

This notebook is very thick, about more than 400 pages, each one is full of dense words, and even the place where the battle is explained is illustrated

Old man Zuo really didn't fool me!

The things recorded in this are all my grandfather's lifelong learning.

Although I didn't have the help of Old Man Zuo to teach me, as far as the few articles I just read roughly, as long as I lay a solid foundation, it is enough to learn these things by rote.

As the old man Zuo said, one door will lead to a hundred doors.

As long as you have a foundation and learn to "set formulas" on the topic, you can do everything.

Zheng Xiaoxian smiled when she saw that I was so excited, and then opened the car window by herself, lit a cigarette and smoked leisurely.

Of course, when I turned to the last page of this notebook, my expression of excitement disappeared without a trace.

In its place was an indescribable shock.

"What's wrong?" Zheng Xiaoxian'er saw that my expression changed so quickly, so she asked casually.

"Nothing, nothing"

In answering him, I looked at the black-and-white photograph sandwiched on the last page of the notebook, and my voice trembled a little.

There were three people in that picture.

One of them was my grandfather, and I had seen a picture of him when he was younger, exactly like this black and white photo.

Judging from the photos, he was only thirty or forty years old at that time, and he was in the prime of life.

And the other two, I know both.

Especially the man in the mask, with whom I had just met not long ago.

"Isn't this the old man left" I looked at the old man sitting on the Taishi's chair in the photo, and then looked at the person wearing a rabbit mask next to me, and I only felt that my thinking was confused: "Why is he also on it?"

In the photo, the old man Zuo is sitting on the Taishi chair in the middle, smiling and looking kind.

Aside from his hairstyle, his appearance has hardly changed from now, as if he has not aged at all after decades.

The person standing on the left is wearing a rabbit mask, putting his hand on the back of the Taishi's chair, and wearing a very ordinary tunic on his body.

The person on the right was also wearing a Mao suit, with a wry smile on his face, and there seemed to be some pain in his eyes, and he looked like he had just cried.

This person is my grandfather, Yuan Shaoweng.

Each of them had a piece of jade pendant around their neck, and those jade pendants were exactly the same as the ones I was wearing now!!

At the bottom of this photograph, in that blank space, someone wrote a line with a pen, and judging by the handwriting, it should have been written by my grandfather himself.

"The three masters and apprentices took a photo in Mukden."