Chapter 7: The Bronze Bells

"Yue Jinggang!" Seeing that the fat man had given an eviction order, he didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he hurriedly replied. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, just these three words made me feel like an electric shock. It all came so suddenly that I had to rethink where I was now.

Ever since I discovered the Dragon Jewel Box and Yang Marrow Bead that Master had left me, it seemed that my every move and even every thought and thought I had anticipated by others. I was chilling, and it was as if someone had arranged the script in advance, just waiting for me to walk through it step by step.

I racked my brains, but I couldn't figure out who was behind all this. What do the invisible hands behind them want to get? What happens if I go my own way and don't do what they want? I didn't dare to think about it anymore, I felt a little sore in my head.

"Dude, are you alright?" Seeing that I was suddenly stunned, the thin bamboo pole cautiously pushed me.

It was only then that the fat man noticed my abnormality, turned his head and asked me, "What's wrong with you?" I talked to this skinny monkey for so long, and you didn't listen? ”

"Huh? What did you say? I came back to my senses and pretended to be okay.

"Yue Jinggang, damn it, it can't be more coincidental. As soon as we wanted to find Yue Jinggang, someone came to the door with clues. This skinny monkey is from Yuejinggang, and if we ask him to take us there again, all problems will be solved. The fat man looked a little excited, and he would scream a thin monkey, and he was not afraid of others getting angry.

"You think it's too much of a coincidence? We need a clue about something, and someone will send it to us right away. First Cui Linghong, and then this buddy. I feel that I have an aura of the protagonist, an immortal body, no matter how I break through, there will be no danger. "I felt a little intrigued for a while, and suddenly I didn't want to just follow the set goal.

"Tell me, what the hell are you coming from?" After listening to my words, the fat man also came back to his senses, and hurriedly grabbed the collar of the thin bamboo pole again, and asked viciously.

"I said two masters, can you be gentle. I don't understand a word of what you're saying. I kindly took the baby to you to make a fortune, if you don't accept it, forget it, what kind of thing is it to do something to me if you don't agree? The thin bamboo pole was a rare temper, and he broke free of the fat man's hand and said, "It seems that you don't remember me." Three years ago, I was there when your old man left, why did we also have a friendship for a meal? How can you cross the river and tear down the bridge? ”

"Three years ago?" I fell into deep thought at the same time as the fat man, and my master left with the fat man and his old man three years ago. At that time, there was indeed a thin bamboo pole with him, but I hadn't seen it for a few years, and this thing was wrapped in a military coat, and I didn't recognize it for a while. Looking at it more closely, it seems that it is really the thin bamboo pole that nodded and toasted cigarettes at that time.

"You're really a skinny monkey, huh?" The fat man looked up and down the thin bamboo pole in surprise, and said as he looked at it, "Damn, why are you getting thinner and thinner?"

"You're really a noble person who forgets things, but you can think of me as thinking of me." Seeing that the fat man remembered, the thin bamboo said happily: "Aren't I the thin monkey who followed Zuo Ye and his master and your old man back then?" ”

"Where's my old man?"

"Where's my master?" I asked the fat man in unison.

You know, our only purpose now is to find my master and the fat old man. Three years ago, the skinny monkey had followed the two old men with them, but now he had returned to us alone. Then he should know the whereabouts or whereabouts of my master, if he doesn't even know, then I can only go step by step to find it.

"I knew you'd ask me, and part of the reason I'm here is because of that." When the thin monkey saw that we remembered him, he said in one breath: "Three years ago, our group went to a mountain. I didn't know where the mountain was. It's just that the fat man and his old man promised that there would be no less benefits for me, so I followed. Because counting up, my old man and the fat man, your old man, can be regarded as eight friends. Unfortunately, my old man died in an ancient tomb in his early years, and thanks to your old man over the years, I might not have survived until now. ”

"Pick and choose to say, there is time to talk about these old things." The fat man impatiently interrupted the thin monkey's words and urged.

"Don't be in such a hurry! By the way, where did I just say? "The thin monkey was a little impatient when he saw that the fat man was a little impatient, and he was frightened, and he didn't know how this thing was so timid, and how he thought about following my master and them to the tomb.

"You're in a mountain." I reminded.

"Oh, yes!" The thin monkey continued, "We came to a mountain, which was full of rocks, tall and large. There is a river at the foot of the mountain, and the water is very clear. It's just that there are no fish and shrimp in it, and there is not even a single grass or tree on the bank of the river. It was bare, and it was all a pile of rubble like the mountain. In the summer, it can make people shiver. ”

"I said, can you still get to the point, where are they, my old man?" The fat man interrupted impatiently again.

"I don't know!" The skinny monkey replied unexpectedly directly.

"Don't be angry, it's not the first day you've known this grandson. He has such a stinky temper, and he never forgives people with a foul mouth. Then you say, leave him alone. "I thought the thin monkey was angry, and quickly dragged the fat man.

"I'm not angry, how can I be angry? I really don't know! The thin monkey spread out his hands, looked at us and explained, "If I don't tell the two masters what kind of place we have arrived at, and tell you directly that I don't know, you will definitely not believe what I say." ”

Seeing that I didn't speak to the fat man, the thin monkey stared at him, wrapped his military coat and continued: "When we found a robbery hole in the mountains, we went down to an ancient tomb. The tomb was empty of nothing, except for rows of bronze bells hanging from the top of the tomb. They vary in size and make bursts of cacophony. The thin monkey was afraid that we would not believe us, so he took out the broken bell in his hand and showed it to us and continued, "No, this is it." Later, I don't know what happened. I lost consciousness, and by the time I woke up, I was already in Yuejinggang. If it weren't for the landslide near Koshigang, where one of the villages living around was ready to evacuate safely, I might have died in that damn place. ”

"What do you mean by that you lost consciousness and unknowingly arrived at Yuejinggang. And then when you wake up again, three years have passed, and you don't know what happened in those three years. I stared into the skinny monkey's eyes and asked word by word, hoping to read something in his eyes.

"Yes." The thin monkey stared at me very sharply and replied, for fear that I would not believe it, and added: "What I said is true, I know that all this is very unconvincing, and even I don't believe what happened." I always thought that I was just having an absurd dream, but when I saw that the bronze bell in my hand was really in front of me, I was confused. So, I'm here for you because only you know when I left. ”

I took the bronze bell from the thin monkey's hand and looked at it closely. The style of the bell is very simple, but it has a bit of a square feeling. And I knocked the edge with my hand, and it seemed hollow inside. I think the reason why this bronze bell sounds so weird is probably related to the hollow edge of the bell.

It's just such a weird bronze bell, I really can't imagine what happened to my master and them in the past three years? If, according to the thin monkey, the ancient tomb that Master and they went down to only have a lot of bronze bells of various sizes hanging on the top of the tomb, then what are these bells used for? Why was the tomb empty except for these bronze bells? Three years after the thin monkey lost consciousness, he encountered a landslide in Yuejinggang and was rescued by nearby villagers. So where have they been, Master? Will they also lose consciousness? Will also wake up somewhere, somewhere? Or did they also wake up somewhere in Koshijinggang?

This series of trivial puzzles made my mind swell.