When he returned to his hometown and found that Cha Wenbin was not there, Chaozi asked the people in the village and said that he hadn't seen him for a long time. Pushing open the house, some corners and corners began to have cobwebs, where did Cha Wenbin go?

There is a big hill at the back of the village, and the top of the hill used to be a collective forest farm of the public family, where the villagers used to cut down trees and grow corn during the famine in the sixties and seventies. In order to take care of these grains, a small house was built in the mountain col, and now people have long stopped going up the mountain to earn a living, and the state has come out with a policy of closing the mountain to cultivate forests, and the house has long been surrounded by towering trees.

There was a small stream on the side of the house, and there was a big black dog squatting by the stream, scratching a golden thing with its paws, and several times tried to open its mouth to bite but did not know how to bite it. At the foot of the black dog was a golden toad, with only three legs, and no smaller than a rabbit.

"Kuroko, come here!" A middle-aged man stood at the door of the somewhat dilapidated room and shouted, and the big black dog gently picked up the three-legged toad on the ground and came to him with its tail wagging.

One person, one dog and one toad, who else is there in such a harmonious natural scene besides Cha Wenbin?

He really doesn't want to involve too many people, maybe it is also a good choice to live in this barren mountain very close to home, if he puts down the Tao in his hand and lives like this, isn't it a choice?

There was corn paste in the steaming pot, and he needed to get one for Kuroko, the dog's meal was getting bigger and bigger. Putting down the dog basin of the sunspot, Cha Wenbin touched its head and turned around and entered the house again, and the time for meditation was up. Ever since he started to learn the Dao, this has become a habit, and every time this point he will enter the realm of meditation, maybe for cultivators in the spiritual realm like them, enlightenment and non-realization are all in a certain thought, but unfortunately, this time, he has not come out for a long time.

The sunspot is not a picky eater, although Cha Wenbin's craftsmanship is not as good as Dashan's, but it is still sweet-toothed, and the three-legged toad is a little ridiculous and squats on the ground and rolls away a piece of food from the sunspot's bowl with a big tongue, which makes the sunspot yell at it a little angrily. The toad seemed to be a little afraid of the dog, and moved its somewhat bulky body to retreat, but when the dog didn't pay attention, it swept away a piece, which completely provoked the sunspot, and opened its mouth to bite down, only to see the three-legged toad kick hard and shoot towards the stream, and then turned around and showed two small eyes to peek at the dog to see if the dog was chasing.

The sunspot also rushed to the river, and the three-legged toad quickly retracted his head back into the water when he saw that the situation was not good, if it was usual, the dog would definitely jump down and get wet, and then the sunspot would be scolded by Cha Wenbin, because the soaked sunspot would make a mess of the house. This kind of scene is the most popular thing for the three-legged toad, this toad is not an ordinary toad, its spirituality has made it teasing the sunspot when it is only the size of a fist, and it is still happy to tease the dog.

Only this time, the three-legged toad did not wait until the sunspot jumped into the water as usual, it had already found the crack in the stone where it was going to hide, but after a long time there was no movement, and the three-legged toad poked its little head out of the water again, but saw that the big black dog was surrounding a young man and kept spinning in circles.

Seeing that it was that person, the little three-legged toad was so frightened that he immediately drilled back into the hole again, who is this person who can make the toad so scared? It is He Yichao, the demon king of the mixed world, this kid often takes advantage of Cha Wenbin's absence to feed the three-legged toad some messy things, one of which he actually threw a ball of chili sauce into it, the poor three-legged toad thought it was a good thing, and the tongue rolled into the big mouth, and that time it let its tongue drag outside for two days and couldn't retract it, so when it saw this goods, it would rather hide away by itself.

Chaozi pushed open the broken wooden door and shouted softly: "Brother Wen Bin? Behind him stood a tall, short, lewd man, who was baring his teeth and yelling at the little man.

"Why are you here?" Seeing that it was them, a smile appeared on Cha Wenbin's face, which had not been smiling for many days, but at the same time there was a hint of worry.

In the village at the foot of the mountain, when Chaozi was about to go back to the provincial capital, he met a forest ranger, he told Chaozi that he had seen the big black dog of Cha Wenbin's family near the forest farm, so Chaozi climbed the mountain for more than five hours to come here, and he didn't understand why Cha Wenbin moved here after sending them away.

Cha Wenbin made them a pot of tea, the tea leaves were wild tea he picked in this old forest, although it was not good-looking, but it tasted very fragrant, bitter with a hint of sweetness.

Taking out the thing he had collected from Little Bucktooth, Chaozi said straight to the point: "I got it from this friend, you can take a look at the doorway inside." As he spoke, Chaozi glanced at Little Bucktooth again, and Little Bucktooth thought to himself that you hadn't paid a dime, so why was it embarrassing to say that you took it.

"What, did you come across something unclean?" Cha Wenbin thought that it was something that Chaozi had received and encountered some ghost object, but they hadn't encountered it before.

Chaozi handed the thing in his hand to Cha Wenbin and said, "No, I think you can understand this thing in the whole world, you can read the words written on it." ”

Cha Wenbin took it and took a look, his brows were locked at that time, and Chaozi continued: "If you want to say that the things we encountered at the beginning are related to these messy words, although you said that it has been so long, but this matter is still entangled in my heart, that is, what happened to us in those days, and who gave you the translated scriptures?" Where did Lao Wang and those soldiers go, and the other man who led us to the capital? ”

Chaozi's series of questions suddenly came back to Cha Wenbin's mind, it is true that he has traveled all over the country with Hetu over the years, on the one hand, to experience the child, but more because he wants to find some clues. He has indeed studied the "Ruyi Book" for many years, and he can memorize seventy-two words backwards, but in Cha Wenbin's view now, this legendary and divine scripture is more like a refined version of the Tao Te Ching, which is also mixed with some methods, so many years have passed, and his understanding of this book can only stay at the surface level.

Looking at the square box in his hand, Cha Wenbin asked, "Can you tell me the origin of this thing?" ”

Chaozi patted the little bucktooth's head and shouted, "My brother asked you, tell the truth!" ”

Xiao Luoya drooped his head, he had eaten enough of the methods of these two masters in the past few days, so he told him how to get this thing that day, and when Cha Wenbin heard that this thing was from Shaanxi, he was also a little puzzled. If from a geographical point of view, the main activity area of the Qiang people did not stop in the middle of the Yellow River basin, which can indeed be engraved with the Qiang script.

Most of the words on this are not known to Cha Wenbin, the ancient writing is not very developed, so the invention of words is often only used for some important words, compared to the "Ruyi Book", he still found one of the familiar fonts, in a line of words on one side of this square sunspot, Cha Wenbin found a "ghost" word.

"I'm not sure what this thing does, but I kind of suspect that what we're seeing isn't what it is, and if I'm not mistaken, this thing should be a box, and the really important things are in it." Saying that, Cha Wenbin went to find a flashlight, and several people entered the darkly lit room, and took the flashlight to shine on the jade side, but saw that the light went in from this end but did not come out at the other end.

Back at the door, Cha Wenbin pointed to the small hole at the top of the square box and said, "Look at this small hole, it shouldn't be made the day after tomorrow, it's a bit like a key lock." In ancient times, there were many crafts that could reach the point of ingenuity, and you should know that you have been doing this for a long time. Chaozi listened and nodded in agreement, and Cha Wenbin continued: "If this is a box with something, then this hole is very likely to be a keyhole, this thing is also called a Linglong lock, and only by finding the correct matching key can the box be fully opened." ”

Chaozi smiled: "Then let's go to the provincial capital to find a locksmith and we'll be done." ”

Cha Wenbin shook his head and said: "The most ingenious thing about the Linglong lock is that it only has one chance to open the lock, as long as you stuff the wrong key into it, this thing will have an internal self-damage system." There used to be such a similar thing in our sect, which is said to have been passed down by the generation of the ancestor of the mountain, and the ancestor ordered that no one was allowed to open this lock until the life and death of the sect, and it was passed on to my master's generation to be destroyed in the hands of the group of red soldiers, and they took it and used a knife to pry, but they didn't know what it was and it was blown up on the spot. ”

Chaozi pondered and asked, "Then you mean, if we can't find this key, won't we never be able to open the contents of it?" ”

It can also be said that it is not the box that is valuable, but the contents of the box. It must be very important to be able to preserve something with such an ingenious process, and the horse depicted on this thing is not actually a horse, but a dragon horse. ”

"Ryoma?"

Cha Wenbin nodded and said, "Yes, this is the dragon horse, and the name of Hetu is based on this horse." There is a record called "The Legend of the Dragon Horse", which is written like this: The dragon and horse, the essence of heaven and earth, is the shape, the body of the horse and the dragon scales, so it is called the dragon horse. Eight feet five inches high, like Luo has wings, the water is not empty, the saint is in power, and the negative picture comes from the middle of the Meng River. Legend has it that the Fuxi clan looks at the world, looks at the body of the dragon horse, and goes out of the river. He continued: "You see the pattern on this horse, it is actually the prototype of the Bagua diagram, and this thing is indeed a bit not simple. ”

For an entire afternoon, they worked on it, and when it got dark, Cha suggested that they stay overnight in the mountains. That night, the cube box was not returned to Chaozi, Cha Wenbin lay on the bed and kept studying, and before he knew it, he fell asleep, and then had a dream