Chapter 15: The Year

Jiang Shoushou recalled the scene at that time. "Impossible, that map was found by chance at Jiang Yin's house, how do you know that I will go, have you been following me?"

"Don't you swear not to give up until you achieve your goal, isn't it your usual style, I took advantage of this, put the fake map there in advance, and with your way of doing things, I will definitely not let go of a little clue." Daema replied.

Jiang Shoushou coughed even more harshly, and opened his mouth for a long time: "Then why did you wait until now, I don't know your identity, you have a lot of time to kill me, why bother with it?" ”

"You think I don't want to take your rotten life," Dai Ma said angrily, "since that incident, I have lost my memory, I don't know who I am, I don't know where I came from, maybe God wants you to die in my hands, I begged all the way to Jiangjia Village, a few years ago, when I was dying of hunger, Mei'er brought me a bowl of roast meat to eat, which saved my life, and gradually, I found myself beginning to regain my memory." The thought of you killing Tailor Hong and nailing him into his head with an iron nail tells me that your nature has never changed, that you are vicious, cruel, and ruthless, which is what describes you as a person. If it takes your life at that time, it will be too cheap for you, and killing yourself is the best fate for people like you, I didn't expect you to be so lucky to be able to escape alive. ”

Suddenly, Jiang Shoushou laughed out loud and said: "I am vicious, cruel, and ruthless, what you said is not wrong at all, but what about you, how much better are you than me, don't you also disregard the lives of Mei'er's family for your own purposes, watching them burn to death, what do you feel, don't say that you are not ashamed at all." ”

Dai Ma didn't expect that Jiang Shoushou would make himself unhappy before he died, and let his heart bear the guilt of his life again, maybe it was because he hit the crux of his life, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Jiang Shoushou cracked his interfering lips and said with a smile: "What's the matter, I said it, we are all immortals, I do this completely in accordance with the master's orders, adhere to the tradition of this industry, you didn't swear the same when you first apprenticed, I, as a senior brother, am just making up for you a lesson." ”

Dai Ma remembered that when he was apprenticing to his master, the master had told him that the reason why the earth walking immortal was not known to outsiders was that he concealed his identity very well, and compared with ordinary tomb robbers, it was completely higher. The reason why you can get out of the big Jiangnan is because concealment is the first commandment, once it is known to outsiders, the entire industry will be implicated, and it will be a catastrophe.

The Daima brothers carried out this precept so well that they were able to go unsuspecting after the excavation of many ancient tombs. He didn't know what the consequences would be if the news was leaked, it was like a kind of faith, and no one dared to break it without permission, maybe it was to avoid being implicated by others, maybe it was the rich reward that came with entering the industry, in short, this traditional precept has always been deeply embedded in everyone's mind. Especially Jiang Shoushou, who is the elder brother, is nearly thirty years different from himself, and the shadow of tradition is the deepest imprint on him. But Dai Ma is different, his era is already the Republic of China, all kinds of advanced thinking has opened his horizons, and traditional rules often become the first object he violates. He believes that the rules are just a sentence or a few words, which seem extremely absurd and ridiculous in the face of reality, and only when the sword goes off the rails can it be a big deal. "Even if you are right, but you want an innocent person to die in vain in order to conceal your identity, don't you feel that you are disgraced and corrupted?" Daima wanted to save a little face. "Ahem...... Corrupt ...... Haha, you are not qualified to say me, if it weren't for me, not only would the junior and younger brothers suffer, but the Earth Immortal faction would also be implicated because of you, shouldn't you thank me? Jiang Shoushou managed to make Daima recall that painful past. Daima felt as if he had been transported into another time and space, unconsciously dilated his pupils, and suddenly faced the old man in front of him who was strange and frightened, and the dagger in his hand slowly fell, remembering the painful experience back then...... Twenty years ago, Dai Ma's master gathered all his apprentices and said that a special event had recently happened in the Jiujiang section of Jiangxi Province in the Yangtze River basin. There is a local boatman who makes a living on the ferry, on an ordinary summer night, a tightly wrapped guest wants to ferry across the river, because it is late, the boatman wants to call it a day and go home, and he feels strange to see the guest's upside-down dress, what makes him even more puzzled is that this guest is extremely generous, a shot is the boatman's income for a year, and he is very anxious, for the sake of money, he can't help refusing. Then something even more alarming happened, when the boat reached the middle of the river, the guest resolutely asked the boatman to stop the oars in his hand and look through an ancient book. This strange behavior made the boatman feel cold, what kind of medicine was bought in this guest's gourd, and whether he wanted to rob the ship for money, this funny idea was immediately denied. I saw that this guest explained to him a sentence - after he got into the water, there will be two things on the river, which are white, then scoop them up, they are black, don't touch them, and he will deal with them after he gets on the boat, and after speaking, the guest jumped into the river. The boatman was so surprised by his actions that he did not know what to do, and he was not allowed to answer, and the guest had sunk into the river. After five minutes, the boatman saw that the river was calm and began to worry, if it was known that the guest had been taken by his own boat, and if he died in the river, he would have jumped into the Yellow River. So the boatman shouted loudly at the water that the guest had jumped into, and soon the cry was answered. Two swirls appeared in the distance of "Gurr-Purr...... followed by two box-shaped objects floating and sinking not far away. Because the night was dark, it was really impossible to see what the two things were, let alone the colors, so the boatman rowed the oars closer to the "box", and as the oars swung, the "box" in front of him became clearer and clearer, and the boatman's mouth opened wider and wider. He could see very clearly that there were two coffins of the same size, could it be that this was what the guest said, and he was surprised, the two coffins were like being attracted by magnets, and they slowly approached him. The boatman seemed to be aware of the danger, and he didn't care what color the coffin was, so he quickly rowed his oars away from the coffin. When the boat reached the shore, the boatman was exhausted, and just as he was about to go ashore, he found that the ancient books that the guest had read had been omitted from the ship. When he saw that there was no one around, he hid himself and returned home. After several days, the boatman did not take a step out of the door, for fear that someone would report to the police to arrest him, but the matter seemed to have sunk into the sea, and no one ever mentioned it again. Because the boatman was illiterate and did not know what was written, he did not dare to hand over this "evidence" to be suspected, and over time, this ancient book with unknown origin was abandoned in an unknown corner.