Chapter 45: The Broken Genealogy 2
I wondered, I couldn't figure out who it could be, what was important. Look at Zu Hang who was driving the car, or Qu Tian, he pursed his lips, frowned slightly, and looked very serious, probably taking this matter very seriously. After all, the talisman in the red cloth is something from the Cen family.
After entering the village, Huang Furong showed the way, and after a long circle, he came to a mud house. It's a mud house! Even in the countryside, it is rare to see such a house.
Zu Hang parked the car and followed us into the mud room. Huang Furong shouted in the local dialect, and an old man walked out of the room tremblingly. Looks like he's at least in his eighties. , hair is all white, no beard, a wrinkled face with a pair of eyes that can barely tell whether they are open or closed, looking at me and Zu Hang.
He didn't speak, and I asked first, "Grandpa, are you looking for us?" ”
After finishing speaking, I remembered that Huang Furong was talking to him in the local dialect just now. I don't know if he can understand Mandarin.
The grandfather spoke, but as soon as he spoke, his neck shook involuntarily. "You make people fall into the shadow wall?"
"It's us!" Zu Hang said.
"Dig out what's inside."
"Yes!"
Because it was Zu Hang who had been answering him, he naturally looked at Zu Hang and asked, "Your surname is Cen?" ”
Zu Hang hesitated, pointed at me and said, "She is a descendant of the Cen family. ”
Grandpa turned to me and muttered, "It's a woman." With that, he walked back to his room, trembling.
I raised my voice in confusion: "What does he mean?" That's it? Let's show him a look and it's over? ”
"Wait. The old man moves slowly. Zu Hang said.
Huang Furong also said: "Yes, his neck will shake from time to time, and many people say that the sixth father will not live until next year." "Sixth Daddy? It seems that the old man is the sixth in the village.
Sure enough, the sixth father came out again, but he was holding a black box in his hand, wrapped in black cloth, small square. As he walked towards us, he said, "When Huang Furong and his family built the shadow wall, the feng shui gentleman said that if someone demolishes the shadow wall in the future and is still surnamed Cen, he will give this to him." Now the things are for you. I was also relieved. ”
Zu Hang took the box. In this mud room, there was not even a place to sit, so he simply sat on the stone pier next to the gate and opened the black cloth.
I whispered beside him, "It's not good to open it now." ”
"There's nothing good or bad, let's see what's inside."
The black cloth was untied, revealing the red cloth inside. Looking at the texture and color, it should be the same as the red cloth dug out of the shadow wall.
The red cloth was opened, and what I knew inside was a wooden box with a Luban lock. It's the same box as Zu Hang's dowry. I stared at the box in amazement, and the reappearance of such a box would say so much.
Assuming that this kind of box is the box that the Cen family is accustomed to containing secrets, then where did Wei Hua's box come from? What's going to be in this box? Could it be another refining ghost?
Watching Zu Hang's movements is just wanting to open. I quickly pressed his hand: "Don't go." I've opened this kind of box, and something will happen. ”
"Don't worry, I'll be careful."
He fiddled with the buttons, and the lock opened! I can actually open it! Cen Zuhang is also amazing, this can also be opened. And in such a short period of time. I thought that the gold could not be opened, so I asked me to help dismantle it. This is worthy of being something from their family.
The box is opened normally, and there is no harm, which at least improves the safety performance.
I stood behind him and watched as he opened the box, which contained only an envelope. Yellowish, the age should be relatively old. But because it is well sealed, it is only slightly yellow.
There was a ghostly character on the envelope, and when I first looked at it, I couldn't tell what it was. When Zu Hang opened the envelope, I saw that the word was Cen. It's just that the writing is like a drawing talisman, this is definitely the handwriting of a certain master in the Cen family.
Zu Hang opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of paper from the envelope. That piece of paper, not flat, crooked corners, is this the one missing from the genealogy? I wondered.
Sure enough, Zu Hang exclaimed: "It's a family tree!" Sixth Daddy, who gave this to you? ”
"For many years, forgot. is a feng shui gentleman who built a shadow wall in their family. ”
"How old was he then?"
"I'm sixty years old."
"And do you know his name?"
"Alas, it's too far away, a lot can't remember. I only know that it is surnamed Cen. I've given you something, and I don't have to worry about it when I'm dead. I've been guarding this box for decades. ”
Zu Hang put the mutilated genealogy back in the box, shook hands with the old man and said words of thanks. The old man didn't leave us to eat, in his words: "I don't want to have anything to do with the Cen family anymore in my life." ”
On the way home, I was still studying the Luban lock on the box, and when I couldn't open it, I said, "This lock won't be the kind of one-time lock, and it will lock the kind later." ”
Some Luban locks in order to protect the password and guardianship of the secret, will be a one-time, after locking, as long as it is opened, when it is locked again, the lock is completely locked.
"No, that's just what I will."
When I opened the box, my mind began to guess wildly. Many years ago, something happened to the Cen family. The content about Cen Guoxing was torn from the genealogy. Then I don't know what happened, and when Mr. Feng Shui felt that the secret couldn't be hidden, he put the secret in a box. But the box didn't know who it should give it to, and he didn't want the Cen family's secret to be so clueless forever. So he made a bad feng shui for the family of the people who invited him at that time. This bad feng shui can attract Mr. Feng Shui to help crack it.
And all the feng shui gentlemen in this area should know, or have heard of the surname Cen. Therefore, going around and around can be transferred to the hands of the descendants of the Cen family.
I made my guess. Finally, he said, "Feng Shui can also kill people." The Cen family is both good and evil. ”
"It's not that simple. If you tear it off, you don't want people to know. Since it is torn off, it is impossible to keep it. Directly burned. Maybe it wasn't him who tore it off, but he was the one who wanted to keep it a secret. ”
I looked at him and slowly exhaled: "Why are your Cen family so troublesome?" ”
After returning home, Zu Hang directly took out the family tree and put together the broken place. Cen Guoxing's name was crossed out, it should have been after Cen Guoxing's refining imp was driven out of the Cen family.
The room was small and the genealogy was placed directly on our bed to read. Zu Hang sat on the edge of the bed and said softly: "Cen Zuze! ”
Hey, the man who wasn't even born was suddenly found his name in the corner of this broken genealogy.
In the genealogy, Cen Guoxing was expelled from the village, and even the reason was not written directly. Cen Zuze's secret will not be told so easily. There is only one sentence on it: "Cen Zuze is out, there is no return"
What is Cen Zuze going to do? Why be on the same piece of paper with Cen Guoxing. And judging from the age of the tear, it's just for this sentence. Because half of Cen Guoxing's name was left on the paper, and the other half was torn off. And Cen Zuze was torn off completely. It turns out that our focus has been wrong all along.
Genealogy, some memorabilia will also be recorded. But for such a big thing, why only write the results, but there is no reason?
"I can't be sure when it was, and I don't have a lot of memories of Cen Zuze. I remember that he was in high school the year of the accident. What does this no-return mean? Why tear off his name? Zu Hang analyzed in a low voice.
However, it is obvious that the amount of information we get is very small, which can only prove the existence of Cen Zuze. Why can't he go to the family tree, and what does he mean by "out"? What does it mean to be homeless? How should I find Cen Zuze?