The silk books on the surface were soaked with blood, so much blood, either someone's head was cut off and blood was splashed everywhere, or many people were injured and suffered. It turned out that these things were sent out by six people in their arms, four of whom were dead at this time, and two were lying outside in a tent, not knowing how it would end.

Lu Huangbo has an extremely difficult to decode, there are very few in the world, Jin Wantang knew at a glance that the batch sent belonged to this kind, it was impossible to solve it overnight, he could only restore the approximate text and write it into modern Chinese characters, and the meaning placed in the password may not be able to be solved even if there are ten more years.

The oppressive atmosphere suffocated him, but the long rest allowed him to relax enough, so he quickly got into a state, and in the next ten days he restored all the silk books that could be restored in good quality and quantity.

Because of the extreme clarity of his mind, the regret of not having "taken the sheep by the hand" before was pinched in his heart from time to time when he was working, especially on the eve of completion, a kind of anxiety arose in his heart.

Lu Huangbo is invaluable, even if it is a rubbing, if the rubbing is clear, it is also a lot of wealth, and it is absolutely right to hold this by hand, but seeing that Lao Jiumen is so nervous, and someone has exchanged his life for it, taking it may bring great disaster to himself, and there are many moral condemnations in his heart; But if you don't take it, you are on a thief ship, in this case, I don't know if I can get my remuneration, even if I can get it, this money in three years is not an equal deal, and if I don't take it, I'm afraid there will be no next chance.

He hesitated and hesitated, and finally it was his body that made a decision for him, he secretly stuffed a piece of Lu Huang Silk into his own sleeve from the inside, completely in his hesitation, the involuntary movement of his hand, and when he reacted, he had already done it, fortunately, no one found out.

Since he had done it, there was no reason to return it, so he made up his mind. At night, he carefully sewed the silk book into the soles of his cloth shoes in the bed (because there were three people in a tent). After thinking about it, I felt that there could be no problem, these things were already defective, one was missing, and there were no people, and there was no reason to be found, so I slowly calmed down.

However, after the relaxation, as in some fables, he suddenly had another thought: stealing one is stealing, and it is better to steal another.

So the next day he did it again, but unfortunately this time something happened. Because he didn't expect that the next day would be his last day here, on this day he finished the final finishing work, and he was about to go back to the tent to continue hiding the silk book in his sleeve, when suddenly someone came to tell him that he was arranged to go out of the mountain directly that night and could go back to Beijing.

This was something he didn't expect, he thought that at least a few months would be good to stay, but when he heard that he could go out of the mountain, it was undoubtedly happy, and after reacting at once, he immediately agreed.

No one came to see him off, Mrs. Huo was quite polite to him in Beijing, but he didn't force it here, presumably the old woman was not in the mood to take care of these things now, so he went back to the tent to pack his baggage. Unexpectedly, what was waiting for him there was a thorough body search.

That's the concept of Xie Jiuye, I won't guard against your petty theft, but in the end, you will never take away what you stole.

Jin Wantang still remembered his embarrassment that night, after hearing that he was going to be searched, his clothes were soaked with cold sweat in an instant, and he thought of countless ways in an instant, but the time was too tight, and he didn't have time to deal with it at all.

At first, the guy who searched his body was quite polite, which gave Jin Wantang the only buffer, he first took off his shoes very close to the shoes of the person next door, and then opened his things little by little for them to check. At the same time, he thought of an excuse, but unfortunately the excuse was too late, he opened the things, one guy went up to check, and the other guy invited him to another tent to search his body, he pretended to be very indifferent, deliberately put on the shoes of the man next door, and went out with him, while thinking about throwing away the silk book in his sleeve on the road, but unfortunately, he was found on the spot.

After that, the guy was not so friendly, and in the tent, his bedding and clothes were all torn, and all the corners of the tent were searched all around. All his clothes were stripped naked, and his shoes were pried open, but fortunately he had changed his shoes beforehand, and the part in the shoes was not found.

He was then taken to the Nine Gates. It was there that he met the tenth person outside the Old Nine Gates.

It should be noted that this person is a very crucial, but very strange existence in Jin Wantang's narrative.

Jin Wantang hadn't seen him before, however, he had heard others call him "Leader".

Speaking of which, including the entire Lao Jiumen, they rarely showed up in the camp, and Jin Wantang had very few opportunities to see them in the past three years. When he was on the road, he could only look from a distance, and he couldn't tell who was who, and now that he saw it so closely, it could even be said that it was the first time that he learned that in addition to the nine of them, there was also a leader.

This leader was less than thirty years old, and he was discussing something with another person at that time, and what impressed Jin Wantang the most was that the person's fingers were very unusual. However, he didn't have the heart to observe carefully at that time, he was so nervous that he was a first-time offender, this was the first time that the ghost sent the gods, and the purpose was not for money, but for the interest in silk books and wanted to unravel Yunyun.

The leader looked him in the eye and walked over, pressed his head with his two strange fingers, and suddenly with such force that he almost heard his skull make a sound of being about to burst, and the pain was almost crazy, and the young man was expressionless, and his fingers were still straining.

Then, the leader began to ask him questions, Jin Wantang still wanted to lie, but found that he couldn't think at all under this severe pain, the lie was full of loopholes, and in the unbearable severe pain, he was discouraged and confessed the matter of shoes.

The severe pain of the head Wei acupoint is a symptom of neurasthenia and extreme fatigue of the brain, squeezing the head Wei point may cause short-term thinking difficulties and fatigue illusions in the brain, people will give up lying and resistance in order to seek relief when they are extremely tired, in order to seek peace, the research of the CIA in the United States also shows that the effect of physical torture is not as good as the effect of brain torture, so now fatigue has become the main means of extorting confessions in many places, and I often see the interrogation room bombarded with lights on the face in turn on TV. In China, the use of acupuncture points to extract confessions is also a practice in ancient times.

After he finished speaking, he thought he was going to die, but fortunately, Mrs. Huo felt that he was reliable in the past, and it might be useful to keep it in the future, and finally interceded for him, also because Lao Jiumen seemed to be brewing something huge and didn't care too much about his affairs, so the leader asked Mrs. Huo to deal with this matter. In the end, he was simply exempted from all honorariums and then kicked out naked.

He went back to his tent and put on his torn clothes and shoes, and roughly repaired them, when someone came urging him, and he went out of the mountain in discouragement, and was told that he could not say anything.

After arriving in Beijing, he was still restless for several years, but after the old Jiumen became worse and worse, and then it was silent, and then he gradually relaxed his heart, and then he heard some rumors one after another, saying that after he left, there was a big incident on the cliff, and the old Jiumen was killed and injured countless times, and his vitality was greatly damaged.

So when Mrs. Huo's letter arrived, he was half frightened, thinking that the old thing had been brought up again.

After Huo Xiuxiu finished speaking, he said: "The leader who forced him to confess, who do you think he will be?" As he spoke, he looked meaningfully at the stuffy oil bottle, "Does this give you a hint?" ”

I was silent, but the fat man also looked at the stuffy oil bottle, and the moonlight outside the window was obscured by dark clouds, and the room was almost completely dark.

I understand Xiuxiu's hints, but I don't want to speculate at this time, because such speculations can't be realized.

The fat man pondered for a moment and asked, "Does Jin Wantang himself speculate?" ”

Huo Xiuxiu said: "He thinks that this person is called the leader, which means that he has a lot of power, and it is not impossible to say that he has nothing to do with the Nine Gates, but he is obviously not one of the Nine Gates, but is called the Leader, it may be such a situation, there may be a person in charge of the overall situation among the Nine Gates, who was publicly elected by them, and this leader may be one of the Nine Gates." ”

I glanced at the fat man, and the fat man shook his head: "No, the old nine doors are just ranked in the rivers and lakes, not the hierarchy, Zhang Da Buddha is so old, it is impossible to be on the scene, even if it is Zhang Da Buddha himself, it takes a big reason to command this group of people, this person is even more incredible when he is very young, and it is even more impossible for juniors to command elders. ”

I nodded and thought of this, but in fact, this is not a conflict: "It is impossible for a junior to command an elder, but the identity of the Zhang family Buddha at that time was very special, and his children will not be ordinary people, although he is a junior in the old Jiumen, but he may have a very prominent position in the social class, so that he can command these thorns, it may not be his ability and seniority, but his identity at that time and the interests of the party that his identity represents." ”

"That's right, if you say so, then it's even possible that this person is not necessarily the son of Zhang Da Buddha, he may be what you said, a commissioner of foreign forces?"

“bingo。” The fat man said, "Okay, let's sum it up." Damn, the old woman and her friends, had participated in a failed but massive inverted event, and then, decades later, her daughter and the children of her mom's friends had also taken part in a very mysterious archaeological event, and then his daughter went missing, and then, at some point, she began to receive a videotape with images of her daughter. What do you think this is? ”

"Someone wanted to tell her that her daughter was still alive." I said.

"Or, it's a warning." Xiuxiu said.

"However, according to our experience, these tapes should have been sent by Wen Jin." I said, "Why would she do that?" ”

"That's what we're going to look into later." Xiuxiu said.

"We?"

"You see, my intelligence is actually very critical to you, and of course, your intelligence is also very good, so, brothers, we should work together."

The fat man and I looked at each other speechlessly, and the fat man lit a cigarette: "I'm X, I won't talk about being naïve, he is already old, you are still young, you are wasting your life, God didn't let you do this." ”

Xiuxiu didn't look at the fat man, but at me: "It's not my kind, you can't understand our hearts, right?" ”

I don't want Xiuxiu to be like me, but I don't know what to use to convince her, in fact, I know that people like us can't be convinced, and I don't have the heart to think about that, I remembered what Wen Jin said to me at the time. She didn't tell me at the time, she also sent the video to Huo Ling's wife.

Of course she didn't have to tell me that, in fact, she only told me what I needed to know so I could find an excuse to stay away from it.

I remembered the videotape she sent me, I remembered A-Ning, I remembered the situation at that time, and I remembered the situation of the old woman. A thought lingered in my head.

"Do you remember those tapes we received?" I interrupted the fat man and Xiuxiu, who were doing ideological education with each other, "The purpose of those tapes is not the content of the tapes, but the tapes themselves. "I found the key and address inside.

"What's in the tape is just confusing a possible interceptor."

"Huh?" The two of them quieted down.

I continued: "The old woman is not familiar with the tapes, and she is also a mother whose daughter has been missing for several years, she must have been blinded when she saw the contents of the tapes, and she would not have any other imagination to think about the true meaning of the tapes. ”

"But Huo Ling in this video is fake."

"She doesn't know, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that Wen Jin has sent her things for several years in a row, if it's the same as I thought, there must be something hidden in those tapes, and they have to be disassembled." I looked at Huo Xiuxiu, "Girl, didn't you say you wanted to cooperate?" Come on, show some sincerity. ”

"You want me to steal the strap out?"

"That's not stealing, you're her granddaughter, you can pretend you just saw it by chance, and then think it's a pornographic tape and secretly watch it, we often do this kind of thing at your age." I said, "At most, I will beat you up or deduct your pocket money." ”

The little girl looked at me and said, "No, I can take things out without noticing, I don't think my grandma will go to see them every day, but if you take them apart, then my grandma will definitely find that she is not the kind of person who can fool the past." ”

"Now is not the time to worry about this." I said, "Wen Jin has wanted to send a message to your grandmother for several years in a row, and this message must be very crucial. If your grandmother had unraveled the information at the time, things probably wouldn't have turned out the way they are. ”

The little girl thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, then let's see what's in it first, but if there's nothing in it, I'll strangle you." ”

"When will I get it?" I'm always afraid of long nights and dreams, and I know that the sooner I do a lot of things, the better.

"Can't be in a hurry, where my grandmother lives, and now I have to have a reason to get close, because I haven't lived in the past for a long time, and suddenly appearing, my grandmother will definitely be suspicious. I had to find a good time, and besides, she rarely left the room. She said, "Listen to me about this." ”

I rubbed my face to know she was right, but all of a sudden I wasn't interested in talking about anything else, and all my attention was on the tapes.

After a few sips of soju, I lay down on the floor and took a few deep breaths before I was released from that tangled test state.

Before, I thought that I could give up checking these things, as long as I could find the life experience of the little brother, but now it seems that everything is connected, and any point you check it from will fall into the same mess later.

The fat man patted me, and Huo Xiuxiu sighed: "Sometimes, I feel like reading a book from back to front, you start with the ending, look forward little by little, and then find any details you have to guess." ”

I took a deep breath, that's right, that's how I felt, I couldn't help but touch Xiuxiu with the wine bottle: "I should really hug you and cry." ”

The fat man didn't care, and cut off to express his disdain for people like us, Huo Xiuxiu just wanted to refute, but suddenly, we all heard the gate in the courtyard below, "creak", opened. Then, a flashlight swept through the window.

The fat man jumped up excitedly, looked out through the creeper, Huo Xiuxiu and I also came over, and before we could see the clues, Huo Xiuxiu took a breath of cold air: "It's not good, my grandma is here!" ”

As he spoke, he immediately looked around: "What are you doing?" She said, "I can't let my grandmother know that I'm investigating her, you must not say anything, I have to hide." As he spoke, he looked around to see if there was a place to hide.

The whole old house is surrounded by walls, not to mention hiding, there is not even a cover, the fat man called at this time: "Above, go to the roof." ”

I just remembered that there was a skylight above my head, and the fat man smiled maliciously and touched Xiuxiu and said, "Come, big sister, fat brother, I'll carry you up." ”

"No!" Xiuxiu smiled, suddenly turned over and jumped on the table, and jumped again, her body was like acrobatics and quietly went up to the beam, I don't know how she got up, I saw a few strange twists on the body, the little girl has a good figure, soft waist, and very beautiful movements.

But as soon as she went up, the fat man said that it was not good, and she was anxious, I felt strange in my heart, but I saw that the little girl took the jade seal hidden by the fat man on the side, and said softly: "It turned out to be here, hidden in such an obvious place, it seems that I don't want it anymore, I took it?" ”

The fat man was anxious: "Don't, auntie, you eat black." ”

Xiuxiu grinned, heard the footsteps approaching, threw the jade seal off, and the fat man caught it with a fierce tiger, and then, she used the same strange acrobatic moves to the skylight, and then leaned out, and turned around and said: "Grandma is not interested in this thing, see you tomorrow." "All of a sudden, it was gone.

The fat man and I looked at each other, and while I had already heard the sound of going upstairs, he sat down, put the jade seal aside, and said: "These demon girls of the Huo family are really fucking difficult to serve, just finished serving the demon granddaughter, and have to serve the demon old lady, we are all about to catch up with the emotional escort." ”

I shushed, the little girl was quite useful to us, but she still couldn't expose her, so I looked at the door, and after a while, the door was pushed open, I and the fat man watched, and suddenly I was stunned, and I saw Huo Xiuxiu walking in, followed by a few people, carrying a few sets of bedding and wine, looking at us, very surprised: "Hey, you went to buy the futon yourself?" Didn't I tell you not to go out? ”

The fat man looked at me, I looked at the fat man, and even the stuffy oil bottle sat up straight, and our faces turned white in an instant.