The old man's strange words were simply wave after wave, and our heads were about to explode when we heard it, and we couldn't keep up with his train of thought at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that we were so stunned, the old man soothed his tone: "This is just speculation, maybe I'm an old man, I always think too much about things." ”

Back in the living room, the little bell and the blind man had also washed the dishes and chopsticks, and the four of them gathered around the old man uprightly, not knowing what to ask, but they were all expecting the old man to say something more.

"What are you all looking at me like that?" The old man was amused by our expectant and confused eyes.

"What is the Chilling Mirror? How do you know that we are digging graves to find the Chilling Mirror? Why is my grandmother's coffin empty? "I was like reciting Tang poems, and I asked in one breath at an astonishing speed.

"Haha, you kid looks like an acute kid, you have to learn to use your brain more in the future!"

The old man smiled: "I have already told you about Boss Song, although the photo he gave is blurry, the camera is obviously focused on the coffin in the hall, and he must be clear in his heart." What can you do when you don't sleep at night to dig graves? ”

"Then weren't you curious about the empty coffin?"

"You think everyone is as curious as your kid, and I don't know why your grandmother's coffin is empty, but since you have obtained the Chilling Heart Mirror, it means that someone is secretly helping you."

I got up and went into the back room, took out the broken bronze mirror from the bottom of the box, handed it to the old man, and said, "This is the Chilling Heart Mirror?" ”

The old man skillfully took out the brocade silk from the mirror, unfolded it and placed it on the table, pointed to the words on it, and said, "Do you know?" ”

We all shook our heads, we had only seen bird seals in textbooks, and we didn't know anyone.

The old man lit his cigarette again, and looked at it for a moment before speaking.

"That legend is really recorded!"

"What legend?" The little bell stared at the brocade and asked suspiciously.

"Legend has it that in 2700 BC, the two emperors of Yan and Huang joined forces to fight Chiyou, but they were still defeated by the god of war. Later, the heavenly soldiers and generals helped Yan Huang to destroy Chi You in Zhuolu, the battle of Zhuolu Chi You was defeated and retreated, and the eighty brave generals were wiped out, leaving only Chi You alone with a halberd and a big axe to stand in the midst of the ten thousand armies without falling.

The Black Dragon Lord, who guarded the gates of hell, was not accustomed to this unequal battle, and rushed into the world, soared into the sky, swallowed the sun in one gulp, and fell into the west coast with his whole body on fire. Then the earth was on fire, and demons came to the world and slaughtered on a large scale. Without the light of the sun, the heavenly soldiers and generals are also invincible to the demons.

Just when the world was about to fall into hell, a cold air with ice crystals blew in the north, and a white dragon rolled its body around the sun and slowly rose into the air, its body gradually melted into raindrops and fell on the earth, the sea of fire was extinguished, and the demon turned to ashes. Chiyou died in battle and did not fall, the Jiuli tribe merged into the emperor's tribe, and Chinese civilization began. ”

The old man paused to catch his breath.

"You go on......" I was speechless at first, but now I am used to the old man speaking slowly.

"This brocade tells the story of the white dragon in the second half of the story, it was originally the Holy Spirit who guarded the ancient glacier, and the black dragon is brother and sister, the two died in the world because of a war in the mortal world, one good and one evil. Legend has it that after the death of the black dragon, the body turned into a mountain, and the white dragon turned into Luoshui by his side. ”

"Say chilling mirror, I ......" The cousin was so anxious that the swear words came to his mouth and swallowed back.

"During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, a farmer was fishing on the banks of the Luoshui River, picked up a piece of crystal clear jade, put it in the water, and a thin layer of ice would condense around it, and he took it home because he was curious. Gradually, they discovered that in the middle of summer, as long as the food next to it did not rot every other month. People who are sick with body heat will be refreshed after half a moment.

It didn't take long for the news to spread all over the city, and people from the rivers and lakes came to rob it, and the family eventually died. After several rounds of jade, all the people who got it were ruined and killed, and the city was full of turmoil.

In order to prevent the people from continuing to riot, King Zhuang ordered someone to retrieve the jade, but the bad luck came the next day, and the princess gave birth to a baby in August, and then the tragedy of King Zhuang stabbing the princess to death with a sword. At that time, an old minister in the palace checked the classics and said that this was the heart of the ancient ice dragon, a holy spirit, and that the soul needed to return to the mountain to benefit the world.

Because the bronze mirror was buried with the custom at that time, the jade was cast into the bronze mirror, named 'Hanxin Mirror', and buried with the princess under the tomb of King Zhuang. The original meaning of 'Chilling Heart Mirror' is not because it is as cold as ice, but expresses King Zhuang's helplessness and sadness over the death of the princess. ”

"I see!" After listening to the old man's story, we all have a feeling that we are still unfinished.

When the old man tells the story, he always uses his habitual slow and half-beat tone, imitating the tone of each character, just like telling a story, and when it comes to the critical moment, he deliberately stops to take a puff of cigarettes, and only continues to tell when we have exhausted our appetites.

I have to admit that he can speak better than the professors in our school, and he definitely has the potential to be a mentor.

I looked at the jade on the table, there was a faint chill around me, and I thought to myself that this is just a piece of cold jade, now that science and technology are so developed, who needs this thing to refrigerate, even if it is priceless, why should Boss Song be such a powerful person, why should he go up the mountain to snatch it.

I voiced the doubts in my mind.

Unexpectedly, the old man sold Guan Zi again, and said meaningfully: "This cold heart mirror is really nothing, it's just ......"

The old man suddenly fell silent again, and I thought he was slowing down his tone again, but I sighed and said, "There are some things that cannot be said." ”

"Why?"

When these words come to our mouths, there is no reason to swallow them, and we ask them one by one.

The old man was helplessly asked, shook his head and said, "That's it, it's been so long, so I'll tell you about it!" ”

It's such a big effort, it turns out that it's still selling off!

"Of course, this chilling mirror is nothing, but...... If the classics say that it is the heart of the white dragon in ancient times, then does it mean that the heart of the black dragon also exists in the world? ”

"The Heart of the Black Dragon?" We were struck by the old man's sudden storytelling skills.

"Legend has it that the heart of the black dragon was also cast in a bronze mirror, called the 'Flame Mirror', and no one has ever actually seen it, so it's just a legend. It is said that King Zhuang buried the princess that year, when digging and building the tomb of King Zhuang, a dark red jade stone was found at the bottom of the mountain, and there was a burning feeling in the hand, and soon after being placed on the ground, the surrounding grass and trees withered and died. At that time, everyone said that it was the heart of the black dragon of hell, an ominous sign, and its existence in the world would cause trouble, so it was also cast in the bronze mirror, and buried under the tomb of King Zhuang with the princess and the cold heart mirror. ”

"Since this Hellfire Mirror is just a legend, why do people go to the trouble to find it?" I asked, puzzled.

"Isn't this Chilling Mirror also a legend, but it's sitting on the table right now, in front of you! Child, there are no legends in this world, only exaggerated pasts. As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves. ”

When the old man said this, he looked at us intently, like the patient expression of a parent when he teaches his child to learn the truth.

I thought the story would end like this, but the old man's next words really subverted our perception of the world.

"After the death of King Zhuang, the throne passed to King Xu, who reigned for five years, and the country was rich and the people were strong. The other princes have always been unconvinced, so they spread rumors, saying that the princess gave birth to King Zhuang in August when she was pregnant, and she was obviously a wild seed, but she deceived King Zhuang together with the ministers. A coup d'état that had been planned for a long time took place, and the king was murdered and died, but it was said that he was suddenly ill, and then buried under the tomb of King Zhuang.

Many years later, a villager went to the mausoleum to pick yams, and met a man, wearing yellow silk satin, with a graceful demeanor, and said to the villagers that there was a yellow python near the mausoleum, and he should stay away from here in the future, and then the man walked back to the mausoleum and disappeared into the depths of the grass.

The villagers hurriedly walked away, and then turned around, and saw the grass and trees shaking in the place where the medicine was collected just now, and a giant python hovering up. Because before the man left, the villagers saw the red mark on his wrist.

These should be the source of the legend, and then the rumors became more and more widespread, all said that the king of the king did not actually die, because of the rebellion and faked his death, has been guarding the tomb of his parents, this is the history of the record of the king of the fake death.

Generations change, over time, the rumors become more and more mysterious, saying that the king is resurrected from the dead, and the reason for the resurrection is because there are two bronze mirrors in the tomb, one ice and one fire, which can be reinvigorated, and called 'soul return mirror'. ”

After listening to the old man's words, we were all shocked, in many documents there are records that the bronze mirror belongs to the spiritual object, but we have never heard of the bronze mirror that can bring people back from the dead, this legend that subverts scientific common sense, there is no credibility at all.

But the old man then said three more things, which completely pushed this violation of science to the peak of mystery and mystery.

"During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, he was bent on seeking the secret recipe for immortality, and he also sent people to the Mausoleum of King Zhuang, but in the end he never returned.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo had burned Luoyang City, smashed the imperial tomb on the mountain, it is said that his granddaughter was sick, for which he was looking for an antidote, it is rumored that he was looking for the soul mirror, and the last team of people and horses all disappeared in the tomb of King Zhuang.

In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, a great man was seriously ill and in danger, which caused the top masters at home and abroad to come to Bishan to look for the soul mirror, and in the end only three people came back, and the end was very miserable.

So far, countless people have died for it, but no one has actually seen the Soul Restoration Mirror, let alone whether it can really restore souls. ”

If the superstition of the ancients is excusable, but in modern times, there are still people who go up to the mountains to find the mirror, they are all time-honored elites, and they will not gamble their lives for a baseless legend, no matter how great the great man has made to the world, it will not cause the Taoist to lose his mind to follow. At this point, I was completely clueless.

"Before I saw this Chilling Heart Mirror, I always thought that the Soul Restoration Mirror was just a legend, but now it seems that ...... Alas! The old man did not say any more, but sighed, not knowing whether it was helplessness or surprise, or pessimism about the future.

The Soul Restoration Mirror was supposed to bring people back from the dead, as its name suggests, but the reality is completely the opposite, and countless people have lost their lives for it.

Now that the four ghosts of the north have gathered, they will soon come to Bishan, and I don't know what the fate of these people will be. The old man was worried about Lao Li, but Song Ming had already paid for his life, and he might have a chance to live when he went to the tomb. Or the old man has his own selfishness, even if no one threatens, he will not stop Lao Li from going to the tomb, or alternatively, the old man is very confident in the ability of the four ghosts in the mountain.

The next day, the old man said goodbye to us and returned to Shanghai. At that time, we didn't know that he was Li Wangcheng, my grandfather, the person who once entered the Zhuang Wangmound three times in my grandmother's story. I haven't seen him since.

What happened to his third trip to the tomb will forever remain a mystery. It was only later, when we entered the tomb of King Zhuang, that we understood some things, some things, and did not need answers.

When saying goodbye to the old man, he said earnestly to the four of us: "To be a man, you must learn to stand up to the sky." ”