I finally came to the end of the road. I silently counted in my heart, this is already the fifth entry, it seems that there should be a lot of progress in the future, such a house in Beijing, it is definitely the specifications of the prince and prime minister. While he was thinking wildly, a quaint gray brick main house appeared in front of him. This main house sits on the north and faces south, facing the road. In the middle of the main house is a hall with three transepts on each side of the hall. The last transept of the east and west faces each side of the room, and the whole courtyard is still in the form of a quadrangle. The wooden door of the hall was hidden, and there were bursts of human voice from inside, occasionally mixed with a little laughter, and it seemed that there were many people in the room.

The fourth master strode forward, pushed open the hall door, and walked in. The three of us hurriedly walked two steps and followed the fourth master. There were indeed quite a few people in the room, and it was roughly estimated that there were no less than twenty or thirty people. When those people saw the fourth master, they were immediately silent and stopped talking. The people dispersed automatically, revealing a man sitting in the innermost seat of the hall.

I looked up and saw that the man was about seventy miles away, full of silver hair, extremely thin, wearing a gray robe, sitting on a Taishi chair. In his left hand he holds a glittering silver cane, and in his right hand he holds a small snuffbox. The light in this room is not good, and I can vaguely see the old man's eyes, which are full of energy and sharp eyes.

When the gray-robed old man saw Fourth Master Long, he put the snuffbox on the wooden table next to him, leaned forward slightly, and arched his hands: "Xiaoyou is back!" ”

Fourth Master Long also took a step forward and raised his hand to salute back: "I'm back." Then, the fourth master flashed, pointed at the three of us, and then said: "These three are the friends I said, Xia Nan, Scholar, and Professor Xu. The old man followed the gesture of the fourth master and swept over the three of us with his sharp eyes, which was very uncomfortable. Looking at the scene, this old man is by no means a simple character.

The three of us were still waiting for the fourth master to introduce the old man to us, but the fourth master turned around and didn't make any moves. The scholar muttered next to me: "This old man is really regarded as a fan, and he dares to pretend like this when he sees the Sprinkle family." ”

I quietly pulled the corner of the scholar's clothes with my hand and motioned to him not to talk nonsense. Looking at this situation, the other people in the room were very afraid of the fourth master, but the fourth master respected this old man very much, which showed that this old man's power was definitely not weak. Who is he? Why did the fourth master bring us here?

The fourth master was silent for a while, and said, "I'm interrupted today, my three friends have come from afar, and they must be tired." I'll take them to rest first, and we'll talk about business here tomorrow morning. ”

"Okay. Long Xiaoyou also go back and have a good rest. We're a bunch of old stuff rambling a few more words. I have already ordered the guest room, meals, refreshments, etc., so you don't have to worry about it. The old man was still in debt, and raised his hand.

"It's hard work!" After Long Siye finished speaking, he turned his hand and patted me on the shoulder, and then walked straight out of the hall.

The three of us came out of the stream, still silently following the fourth master. I thought that the fourth master was going to take us to a certain room in the courtyard. Unbeknownst to us, he actually led us out of the courtyard and into a house in the back. This house is obviously much smaller than just now, although it is also a courtyard house, but the scale is not large.

The fourth master settled us in the matching room on the west side. On the table, a steaming meal has been set up, with fish and meat, wine and tea, which is very hearty. We tossed and turned on the train for a long time, and we didn't eat lunch, but now it's evening, and when we see so many delicious foods, our stomachs feel empty and growl. The scholar sat down with a big grin, opened a jar of mud-sealed old wine, poured a bowl, and drank the meal.

I poured a glass of wine for Long Siye, and he waved his hand and just drank tea. I was hungry, but my curiosity made me wonder what was going on.

The fourth master took a sip of tea, and then said, "The three of you must be hungry." It's okay, you eat. I also know that you have a lot of questions, so I'll sit here and talk to you slowly. ”

Then the fourth master slowly told us a lot of stories from beginning to end. This meal not only satisfied our stomachs greatly, but also relieved us of many doubts.

At that time, after several of us were sent to the hospital, the fourth master was indeed seriously injured. But after all, he is a member of the Holy Dragon Clan, his body is strong, and he has eaten Huisheng Zhi, so he recovers very quickly. It's just that since Long Siye regained consciousness, he found that the bronze box brought out of the ancient tomb was missing. He naturally understood the meaning of that thing, so he didn't dare to make a noise, just pretended to be unconscious, on the one hand, he used his skills to nourish the meridians, and on the other hand, he secretly searched for the whereabouts of the bronze box and silk book.

The fourth master began to think that the police or the doctor took the bronze box away, and he kept trying to get out of the hospital, but there was always no suitable opportunity. Until nearly two months after being admitted to the hospital, late one night, the fourth master still changed into a white coat, disguised himself as a doctor, and planned to visit us secretly. But in the corridor outside the ward, a person, to be exact, a figure. According to Long Siye's words, that person was dressed in black and pants, sneaky, and at first glance, he was not a patient or a family member. The kid sneaked straight into the hospital room of me, the scholar and Lao Xu.

The fourth master wanted to go in and catch the thief, but when he approached our ward, through the glass on the door outside the ward, he didn't find the thief at all, only the three of us were sleeping inside. What kind of person is the fourth master, he will never be dazzled. And in our ward, there is no place to hide such a big person. The fourth master was anxious, and he couldn't leak himself, and he had to guard against the nurses on duty in the nurses' station not far away, so he could only use his internal strength to urge his vocal cords, and wake me up in a low voice, so that we could take precautions.

Hearing this, I felt that although the fourth master said it more reliably, he always felt that something was strange, as if something was hiding from us, and couldn't help but interrupt him: "Fourth master, at that time in the ward, someone did wake me up, and found some... Something. I immediately went out and asked the people at the nurses' station, and the nurses on duty didn't notice anyone coming in or out. Where did you go then? And why not say goodbye? ”

"Don't worry, listen to me." The fourth master's tone was very steady, but I still felt a trace of strangeness from his slight frown.

The fourth master then explained to us that when he woke me up, he was worried that the nurse on duty would also hear, so he immediately turned around and went to the toilet, and climbed to the ceiling from the toilet fan. When the three of us were playing the disc, the fourth master was on the ceiling of our ward, so he also knew the contents of the disc. At this time, the fourth master knew the whereabouts of the bronze box and decided to immediately track down the mysterious man in black.

"Then why didn't you call us together? Brothers work together, and their profits are gold. The scholar muttered as he ate the chicken legs.

"The sneaky figure that entered your room at that time should be the mysterious person who saved us. And this person, who has been in contact with Xia Nan and scholars since the beginning, has always known us well. I saw him go into the room and disappear again. Its ability is definitely not below me, I have not fully recovered at the time, I have no ability to protect everyone, and I don't want to put the three of you in danger again. What's more, that bronze box and silk book are our own business of the Holy Dragon Clan, and they have nothing to do with you. I can't bear to put the three of you in danger again. The fourth master said.

The fourth master continued that after he left the hospital, he decided to go back to Beijing first. In Beijing, the fourth master still has some friends. The fourth master did not explain the background of these friends, but since he can make the fourth master think of it in an emergency, it must be quite powerful. The fourth master said that he first wanted to step on the "plate" in Panjiayuan, Beijing, a national antique gathering place, and inquire about the whereabouts of the bronze ancient boxes and ancient silk books. The other is to find out the origin of the mysterious person who has been haunted by those friends in Beijing.

As a result, those friends on the road, despite all their best efforts to probe around, still found nothing, this mysterious person seems to be really mysterious. Since he couldn't find out the whereabouts of the mysterious person and the bronze box, the fourth master of Long had no choice but to retreat to the next best thing, looking for the whereabouts of the Holy Dragon Patriarch, hoping to ask for the "ultimate" secret from the patriarch's mouth. But after the ghost clan attacked the Holy Dragon in that year, the surviving Holy Dragon Men people were either incognito or in the countryside, and the patriarch was also not heard from. However, Long Siye still got a little rumor, and there was gossip that the patriarch went to Xi'an.

It was also at this time that the fourth master found that Ah Tu led many people from the ghost clan to target him. In order to get rid of the ghost clan's tracking, he had to leave Beijing as soon as possible. And Xi'an is his destination. There happened to be a friend of the fourth master of Long here, and the fourth master planned to go to meet up with the friends in Xi'an, and then ask them to help find the whereabouts of the patriarch. At the train station, when the fourth master met me unexpectedly, it was not that he did anything bad, but that the soft sword on his waist was found when he passed the security check, and in desperation, he had to forcibly break into the station, blend into the crowd, and get on the train to Xi'an.

"That old man is what you call your friend?" The scholar asked.

"Exactly" the fourth master nodded.

"Where did they come from? Don't you look like a good person? "The scholar is eating other people's food and squeezing other people's food at the same time.

"That old man's surname is Cao, Cao Cao's Cao." Long Siye said, "Back then, Cao Cao's original surname was Xiahou, and his father was the adopted son of the eunuch Cao Teng, so he changed his surname to Cao. When Cao Cao was crowned King of Wei, in order to raise military salaries, he set up the post of Faqiu Zhonglang in the army, which was specially used to steal the property in the ancient tomb. The old man you saw just now is a descendant of the Cao family. The old man's ancestors passed down the technique of excavating ancient tombs, and with this craft, the Cao family occupies the top spot among the eight outer gates in the northwest area. ”

"I said how to look at that old man's yin and yang weirdness, and the smell of earth. It turned out to be a dirt mouse. As a professor of archaeology, Lao Xu was quite disdainful of tomb robbery: "Then the fourth master, how did you know this kind of person?" ”

Obviously, the fourth master also heard the thorn in this, but he just smiled slightly, and replied: "This is a long story, to put it simply, the old man Cao personally took many Cao family disciples and disciples to Henan to step on the plate, and according to the information, an ancient tomb in the Xia and Shang period was indeed discovered. During the Xia and Shang periods, there were many things that modern people could not understand. And the ancient tomb is indeed very evil, Old Man Cao and his group went down to the pit, and only he came up. And he was also scarred, and he was poisoned by the corpse and unconscious. Old Man Cao lay on the top of the thief pit for three days and three nights, and was discovered by the fourth master of Long and brought back to the sect. The Holy Dragon Patriarch personally healed and pulled Old Man Cao back from the Ghost Gate Pass. Since then, the Cao family has taken the Holy Dragon Clan as a benefactor, and recorded this incident in the clan history, requiring the Cao family to remember the life-saving grace of the Holy Dragon Clan, and if the Holy Dragon Sect people are in trouble, they will fight to save each other.