Chapter Seventy-Six: Xiaobai's Whereabouts
The boy across from me was more than 1.6 meters tall, which was about the height I had when I was fifteen or sixteen. His appearance is also very similar to me at the beginning.
But at that age, I was at the time of impetuousness. Every time my grandfather taught me how to draw talismans, I was a little impatient, and I only chose to practice more exercises that I was interested in.
The boy's obsession and adoration for his grandfather had never been seen in my teenage years. At that time, I thought that I had learned almost everything, and I wished that my grandfather would say a few words and let me figure it out for myself.
The talisman had been successfully drawn, and I couldn't help but stop my pen and look at the boy again with a frown. His gaze had been withdrawn from the talisman, and he nodded slightly, then smiled lightly at me.
"Dad, let me try." The boy spoke, and his voice was not the same as mine.
I'm a little dumbfounded, he calls me daddy? I was confused, put down the pen and touched my face with my hand, this face is the traces left by the years, not my own face.
Although I couldn't see my face clearly at this time, I was extremely sure in my heart that I appeared as my grandfather. The young man in front of me calls me "Dad", is he Chen Yuanzhi?
After thinking about it, I guessed the truth of the matter. Now I am in a fantasy situation, everything in front of me is fake, but it is very likely that something has happened.
The room is still the same room, but there is an extra row of old-fashioned bookshelves full of various books, and there is a gossip map on one of the walls.
The desk was full of materials needed to make talismans. After the "grandfather" drew a talisman, the young man picked up the pen with great interest and drew another one himself.
If he is really Chen Yuanzhi, then the generation is really messed up. He shouldn't call me "Daddy", but me, and I should call him "Daddy".
The young man's technique of drawing talismans is skillful, and his pen is strong, and it is the tracer that he draws. Now I'm even more sure it wasn't me, and I've never learned to draw tracers before.
After looking at it carefully for a moment, I was indeed very similar to this teenager when I was young, but it was not exactly the same. He was also much thinner than I was then, and he felt malnourished.
His basic skills in drawing talismans are more solid than mine, and he is not a little bit stronger, even if I am now, I will definitely not perform better than him. The talisman is drawn with one stroke, without any sense of sluggishness, which can be called perfect.
I nodded subconsciously and said in a very appreciative tone, "Not bad, very good." ”
He raised his head suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he smiled excitedly: "Dad, are you praising me?" ”
"Uh......" I don't know how to answer, if I answer his name, I feel weird.
He held his head high, and his face was full of confidence: "Dad, you have to believe me." I, Chen Yuanzhi, swear that I will regain the glory of my ancestors! ”
I was shaken, and I felt a sense of passion in my heart. This sentence is so familiar, I vaguely remember that there seems to be such a sentence in the notebook handed down by the ancestors.
That's right, he is Chen Yuanzhi, the young man in front of him is what my father looked like when he was young. My blood is flowing in my body, and listening to his "pride and ambition", I feel that my blood is boiling.
"Great God Stick, what's wrong with you? Wake up! Suddenly, Tian Xin's voice came into his ears.
In a flash, everything was gone. I looked at the room again blankly, and there was an indescribable sourness in my heart, and my mind was extremely complicated.
"It turns out that this is the old house of our Chen family." I whispered.
It was in this room that my father, who was once young, learned to draw talismans with my grandfather, learned the yin and yang techniques of our Chen family's ancestors, and was determined to reproduce the glory of our ancestors.
But what happened later, why did our Chen family end up like this? The scene just now should have appeared nearly 30 years ago, what has happened in the past 30 years?
I gently stroked the desk and closed my eyes, as if I had seen the image again. My grandfather drew all kinds of talismans on this table and wrote down what he had seen and heard, and my father used to study the ancestral yin and yang art here.
"Great God Stick, are you alright? Isn't it stunned? Tian Xin asked again in a concerned tone.
I smiled wryly and opened my eyes. I don't blame her for disturbing my deep thoughts, she's just out of concern, and she can't understand how I'm feeling right now.
After a long sigh, I looked at Tian Xin and saw that she was staring at me suspiciously, and stretched out her hand and shook it in front of me.
"Don't scare me! You really looked like a demon just now, and it was useless for me to call you. Tian Xin said worriedly.
It seemed to her that I had finished drawing the talisman and stayed where I was with my eyes closed. Then I put down my pen and paced in place, as if I was sleepwalking.
Out of concern, she called out to me. But I was stuck in a hallucination, and I couldn't hear her voice at all, and it wasn't until the illusion was over that I gradually came to my senses.
I cracked my mouth and gave Tian Xin a relieved smile: "Don't worry, I'm fine, it's just that when I was drawing the talisman, I had an epiphany." ”
Tian Xin nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask anything more. She didn't understand an epiphany or something, and when she pulled out this reason, she didn't delve into it anymore.
After experiencing the illusion just now, I felt a sense of enlightenment in my heart. When I was growing up, my dad never showed up, and I inevitably complained a little bit about him.
Coupled with the evil thoughts of the Venerable Civet before, he became my father's appearance and spoke disrespectfully to my grandfather. Knowing that it wasn't my dad, I still had a bad impression of my dad, and subconsciously felt that he was also elusive and seemed to be playing a dishonorable role.
But I just saw my father when I was young, and combined it with the words that my father once left in the notebook. No matter how you look at it, my dad is more like a big hero in the open.
My mind is much lighter and my thinking is clearer. In my opinion, if that mysterious black shadow is really my father, he will definitely not hurt Xiaobai and Da Meng.
Even his appearance was just to remind me and let me find a way to find Xiaobai's whereabouts.
Of course, this is too optimistic. But there is no doubt that now I can at least calm down, think more about the possibilities, and no longer feel depressed and my thinking is somewhat limited.
"What, you seem to be happy now? Did the epiphany just get the benefits? Isn't it about to ascend? Tian Xin noticed that I was in a good mood and made a joke with me.
The saying that the Tao is ascending is just a legend, and it is too unrealistic. At least in my mind, and even in my grandfather's mind, this is just an ethereal legend.
I smiled slightly and said softly, "Ascension? If I do ascend to the Tao, I will definitely take you with me. ”
Tian Xin glanced at me in some surprise, and asked in disbelief, "You are so kind?" ”
"Of course, you haven't heard of it? One person attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven! I said with a straight face.
Tian Xin was stunned at first, and he shouldn't have reacted. After a few seconds, she grabbed my waist, which hurt more than my shoulder, and I almost jumped in pain.
"Shhh...... Tian Xin, you're enough! Do you know how much it hurts to pinch someone? I grumbled with my teeth grinned.
She snorted coldly, rolled her eyes, and muttered confidently: "Of course I don't know, I've only pinched others, and I'm not stupid, do I still pinch myself to play?" ”
I pursed my lips helplessly, good men don't fight with women, and it was really my fault just now, so there is no need to worry about her. I rubbed the piece of my waist that had been pinched, and I always felt that it might have been black and green.
"Alright, let's settle the matter. However, you only look normal now, the past is gone, and you still have to be happy in the future. Tian Xin smiled at me, and the smile was very sincere.
I felt a warm current in my heart, just joking with me, just to make me laugh just to make me happy. Her original intentions were good, but then the pinch almost made me cry, let alone laugh.
After arguing with Tian Xin, I have folded the tracer talisman into a thousand paper cranes, and laid a magic talisman for myself. Everything was ready, and I carried Tian Xin with my hands and feet on my back.
"Ah...... Again? You didn't tell me just now, and you're going to carry me again! Tian Xin screamed, a little flustered.
Originally, I was going to ask her for her opinion first. But I was pinched by her just now, and I changed my mind, and I could see her flustered expression, which was right in my arms.
"What's wrong? I'm tired of carrying you, I don't have any complaints, you still don't want to? If you really don't want to, I'll leave you here alone, and of course I can't guarantee your safety. I smirked.
Tian Xin took a deep breath, and his tone was a little cold: "Carry it on your back, hurry up, don't delay." ”
I don't know why, but I couldn't help but shudder when I heard her words. I suddenly remembered that Xiaobai said that girls are always more careful than boys, and they love to hold grudges.
"Oops!" My shoulder hurt and I screamed.
In the last moment, although I had already realized that it was a mistake to take advantage of Tian Xin's words in words. But my reaction was still too slow, and she didn't give me a chance to apologize at all, and just pinched me on the shoulder.
"Huh? Dare to swear? Let's go! Tian Xin's tone was cold, and he pinched it again, and it was still pinched in the same position.
I felt like I wanted to cry without tears, but I didn't dare to refute anything. At this time, I was like carrying a large piece of ice on my back, and Tian Xin's body was "cold", and I didn't know when she would go crazy again.
"Forget it, a manly man, I don't know like a little girl. It's important to look for Xiaobai and Da Meng, and I'll clean her up later! I comforted myself.
The thousand paper cranes folded into the tracer flown out, hovering around the house for a few seconds, and suddenly flew through the side door into the courtyard. I noticed that the crane also paused for a moment in the courtyard, and then quickly flew out through the big hole in the corner of the yard.
It seems that Xiaobai left through this road, and before leaving, he once stayed in the courtyard for a while. And there was no blood in the yard, and before leaving the yard, Xiaobai should not have been injured.
The speed of the thousand paper cranes is very fast, and the hole in the wall is not small, but it can't accommodate the two of us to pass through directly. I gritted my teeth and kicked the gap so hard that the wall that had fallen into disrepair collapsed a meter or two wide.
When they chased out, the thousand paper cranes were about to fly out of the village. Judging from the direction of the flight of the thousand paper cranes, it turned out to be flying to the left rear of the village, which is where the ancestral tomb of our Chen family is located.
My heart moved slightly, could it be that Xiaobai also went to the vicinity of our Chen family's ancestral grave? Is the black shadow that appeared when he helped his grandfather cover the soil related to Xiaobai's disappearance?
This article is from the novel of Kanshu.com