After having dinner with Chu Ying and sending her home, I hurried back to the antique shop.

When I returned to the antique shop, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and the second uncle had not yet slept, sitting at the counter waiting for me, watching his beloved American drama "Prison Break".

I said hello to my second uncle, then closed the door of the shop, and mysteriously walked to my second uncle and sat down.

"What are you doing?" The second uncle squinted at me: "You bastard, every time you have this posture, it's not a good thing." ”

"Hey, how can it be so evil!" I waved my hand and leaned forward with a wry smile: "Second uncle, I want to ask you something, is there a kind of witchcraft or other things that need to be engraved on the turtle shell?" ”

"Carved on a turtle shell?" The second uncle frowned: "Boy, I found out that you have just entered the rivers and lakes for less than half a year, why did you encounter so many strange things?" If I want to engrave words on a turtle shell, there is only one kind of evil art that I know of, except for sacrifices! ”

"What sorcery?" I didn't expect to ask myself. Before, I thought that the old turtle's pitch-black and smooth turtle shell was a little evil, but then while eating dinner, I thought that it would be a kind of witchcraft or something, so I hurriedly came back and asked the second uncle.

"Borrowed life." The second uncle said a term that surprised me.

"Borrowed life?! Can you really borrow this thing?! "I've heard the story of some ancient emperors looking for some reincarnated dragon luck boys and virgins and killing them, but I really can't find a reasonable reason to explain this kind of thing, so I never believe in this matter.

"That's nature." The second uncle explained: "However, the probability of finding a suitable opportunity between people for this kind of thing is almost less than finding the exact same bone marrow." To find a suitable person to borrow his life, first of all, the ancestors must have the luck of the dragon for three generations, or the ancestral tomb is on the dragon vein. After that, to be compatible, the age difference can not exceed one jiazi, of course, the best is the soup cake period, that is, within three days after the birth of the newborn, the most suitable. ”

"W-That's too cruel!" I couldn't help interrupting the second uncle's words and sighed: "Newborn, just kill it, is that still a human?!" ”

"Alas, that's what I said, but in the thousands of years of history of China, there are no more than three people who can find the right person to borrow their lives." The second uncle waved his hand and said: "This kind of evil art is based on the combination of the eight characters of the two, with the help of the art of yin and yang and Qiankun, the young person is killed, so as to graft the rest of the deceased's life on the other person who is in line with the eight characters, to put it bluntly, it is a bit like the art of false life, but it is much more superb than the art of fake life." ”

"So, what is the purpose of carving words on the turtle shell?" I asked, "Is it also for the sake of borrowing my life?" ”

"That's right." The second uncle nodded: "The turtle is a long-lived spiritual thing, if you can't borrow your life from someone, you can find a spiritual object that is suitable for the location of your birthplace, as well as the eight characters and other factors, and the turtle is the first choice." Because this spiritual creature itself is long-lived. ”

"Oh." I made a long story short: "I was on the shore of Daming Lake, on the edge of the Qi Wangfu, and I saw an old turtle with words engraved on the turtle shell, which was 'Zhang Qin of the palace, Xuande stayed for three years'." ”

"Zhang Qin? I've really heard of this guy. The second uncle frowned: "This person had been a scholar for a few days in the Ming Dynasty, but because the relationship with Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, was too close, he was dismissed after a few days, this person is a henchman who followed the king of Qi Zhu Rong, the king of Qi Zhu Rong's domain is in Qingzhou, at that time in Jinan was just built a palace that is considered a palace, the scale is not large, but it is absolutely magnificent, but the king of Qi Zhu Rong has been under house arrest in the palace most of the time, and there is not much time to come to Jinan, so the degraded Zhang Qin lived in seclusion in the palace of the king of Qi in Jinan, It is regarded as taking care of the house. ”

"And then?" I couldn't wait to ask.

"Later? Later, the king of Qi died tragically, Zhang Qin didn't know what happened, I only know that the palace of Qi was the government of Jinan for a period of time, and it was not long, and then this palace was completely abandoned, until now, it has long lost the style of the year. ”

"That means that Zhang Qin is using the old turtle to borrow his life?" I said: "In the palace of the King of Qi, there is a very small tomb, which seems to have been erected by the old turtle for Zhang Qin, and after the old turtle found Zhang Qin's grave, he also passed away peacefully. ”

"So that's how it should be." The second uncle said: "After finding a suitable life-borrowing spiritual object, print your name on the spirit object, because the eight characters of the two are compatible, so the borrower will quickly connect with the borrower's life, and slowly merge, until the two are completely corresponding, and the borrower can extend the life of the borrower on himself." However, as you said, this old turtle died after 600 years, which means that Zhang Qin's borrowing was not successful at that time, and it is very likely that it was deliberately unsuccessful, so the old turtle paid tribute to him, and buried Zhang Qin back after the palace was deserted. ”

Hmm, what the second uncle said is very reasonable. I was stunned for a while, and suddenly remembered the dragon carved jade plate, and hurriedly took out the three small, one large and four dragon carved jade plates in my hand and put them on the table: "The big one was picked up in the Afang Underground Palace; The three small ones, one was given by the crow in the Taiji Halo Cave in Youshan, one was obtained by a mysterious person in Jinsu Mountain, and the last one was given by the old turtle in the Qi Wangfu on the shore of Daming Lake. If you count the piece in their hands, there is also a small one, and the key to the iron box left by grandpa can be gathered. ”

The second uncle's face was flushed with a hint of excitement, after all, he was also very satisfied to be able to unravel the secret left by his grandfather.

"However, second uncle, I always feel that the place where these dragon carved jade plates are hidden is a little weird." I looked at the dragon carved jade plaque on the table and said, "Afang Digong is the place where Han Jia was buried for the first time; Nanling Oil Mountain Taiji halo is where the ancient dragon's cave is located; Jinsu Mountain is the production place of dragon blood ink jade, and the hanging coffin of Chengling in the mountain is also the burial place of Han Jia; And the Qi Mansion on the shore of Daming Lake, I think it will also have something to do with Hanjia or other things. ”

The second uncle frowned while listening, listened to me, and took a big sip of wine with a wine gourd: "I know what you want to say, do you want to say that this dragon carved jade plate, that is, the key to the iron box, was deliberately hidden in these places?" Or is someone doing a game? ”

"Hmm!" I replied, "After I got this guess, I just think this explanation makes sense." ”

"Hmm-" The second uncle muttered, "What you said is not unreasonable. This matter is now getting more and more confusing, with the opening of today's auction, it is estimated that more forces will participate in the search for Hanjia in the future, Liang Dong's move, can only be said to have more advantages than disadvantages. He is now slowing down, also to avoid the limelight. It's just that no matter what you do, the road after that will become more and more difficult and dangerous. ”

I nodded, and the two of them were silent for a moment.

"That's it! Put it away, and if you go out later, unless I go with you, I'll keep it at home. The second uncle got up and patted me on the shoulder with a smile: "Okay, go to sleep, the day after tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, after the Lantern Festival, we will immediately set off for southern Yunnan." ”

packed up his things, returned to his house, took a shower, and lay on the bed with Su Xiao's Bugs bunny in his arms. Because of overtime, Su Xiao didn't come back today.

It was almost early in the morning, and I couldn't sleep in bed. I always feel that many unexpected things will happen when I go to southern Yunnan this time.

I don't know how long it took me to feel like I was going to have insomnia, so I turned to the side and forced myself to close my eyes and stop thinking about anything.

The snow outside the window had long since stopped, and now a strong wind was blowing. Suddenly, I heard a voice that seemed to be in my ears, but it seemed to be in a distant place, so sad that I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, which made my heart furious.

I turned around in the darkness and tried to go back to sleep. But slowly, the sound of the wind in my ears disappeared, not only the sound of the wind, but all the sounds disappeared, and I seemed to sink into a deep sleep in an instant, but my consciousness was still so awake!

What's going on?!