Chapter 1 The Ancestral House
The next day, I bought a return ticket and went home.
My mother was very happy to see me come back. Although my dad was unhappy with my loss of contact for several days, he still put the biggest piece of fish in my bowl. Thinking of the experience during this time, I instantly felt warm in my heart, and tears almost fell, but fortunately, I ate desperately and swallowed the tears by the way.
It's just that I had trouble explaining the injuries on my body, so I had to deduce that I accidentally rolled down the hillside while playing, so I injured my head and scratched my hand. My mother scolded me for being too careless and told me not to go to such a dangerous place in the future. I smiled and nodded, but I said in my heart, in fact, I don't want to!
This night was the most solid sleep I have ever had, without dreaming, and I slept until dawn. When I woke up in the morning, I felt like a dream, everything was so unbelievable and unbelievable, only the wounds on my body and the backpack in the corner of the room reminded me that it was really happening.
I opened my backpack, and when I got out of the desert, we followed Dawut's advice and threw them all into the sea. It's a good thing we did, otherwise it would have been hard for us to explain it when the police investigated.
I took out the lost hair mound mark from my bag, took it in my hand and looked at it carefully, the lanyard on it had been broken by the faceless monster, and I thought about going out and buying another one later. Suddenly, I noticed a crack in the hair mound, which surprised me and made me feel distressed.
Could it be that in the process of snatching the tomb of the single-ring king, it was broken? I quickly brought a soft cloth and wiped it carefully, thinking about the remedy. Probably because I wiped it too hard, with a slight "click" sound, the hair mound mark in my hand was completely shattered, and I was shocked, and cold sweat suddenly flowed down.
But the hair mound marks did not become a pile of fragments as I imagined, they were still a whole. It seemed that the shattered part was only the surface part, and I slowly warped off a piece with a knife, and I was surprised to find that what was broken was only a layer of pulp on the outside. Underneath the batter, there is another layer.
I thought about it for a while, and then carefully removed all the outer layer of pulp, which leaked out the patterns inside, as well as many scratches and small depressions on the surface of the copper seal, but the words engraved on the bottom were still the same. Looking at the hair mound mark in front of me that had stripped off the outer layer of pulp, I thought this should be its true face. Although it doesn't have that smooth and warm feeling, it is more ancient and vicissitudes.
Why do you want to wrap the original hair mound mark for camouflage? Is it to protect the hair mound itself, or is it to hide something? Is there really some secret behind this?
I took the Hair Qiu Seal in my hand again, looked at it carefully, and soon I found some strange places, there was a small hole with a diameter of about two millimeters at the top of the Hair Qiu Seal, and at the bottom of the Hair Qiu Seal, that is, the place where the eight words "Heavenly Officials Blessed Hundred No Taboos" were engraved, there were also many large or small holes.
I found a toothpick and poked them one by one, basically all of them went deep into the inside of the hair mound, and some of them were so small that the toothpick couldn't get into them at all. But I haven't found any traps, so what are these holes for? I put it in the sunlight and didn't see anything about it.
I suddenly wanted to call my second uncle, who was the best at this kind of thing, maybe he could come up with something, but when it came to my second uncle, I was worried again, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Although after someone left me that strange symbol, the possibility that the second uncle is still alive has increased a lot in an instant, but no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents, every time I think of this, my heart is still up and down.
However, I tentatively dialed my second uncle's phone, and unsurprisingly, his phone was turned off.
I found a handkerchief and wrapped it in the hair mound and put it in the innermost part of the drawer.
By the end of the trip, the backpack was worn out, and I poured out all the bits and pieces and a few dirty clothes inside, including a beautifully packaged jewelry box. I was stunned, I had forgotten this thing, I reached out and picked up the jewelry box, and my heart was a little sour.
Open the jewelry box, and on it is a lot delivery slip from Rongchang Pavilion. I took one look at it, and quickly tore up the slip and threw it in the trash, if my parents knew that I bought a bracelet for 500,000 yuan, they would think I robbed the bank, but there is no way to explain it.
Looking at the delicate and warm, mutton-like bracelet under the jewelry box, I seemed to see the beautiful girl with picturesque eyebrows again, recalling our experience, and finally I shook my head with a wry smile, and everything was gone. I took out my bracelet and walked quickly to the kitchen, "Mom, I'll give you a gift......
The snow is fluttering, and in a blink of an eye, it is the Spring Festival again, looking at the falling snow outside, I can't help but think of the snow in Altay again, and think of those people. I called Lantern Xiao and heard my voice, Lantern Xiao was very happy, but I could tell that he seemed to be busy. I asked him if there was something wrong. Lantern Xiao laughed, reassuring me, and said that he would come to play with me again in the New Year.
Although Lantern Festival said it easily, I can guess that Tang Yudong's death will definitely bring great changes to the Tang family, and in the Tang family, where the dark tide is turbulent and there are power struggles, the life of Lantern Festival must be difficult, I am really worried about him, but I, an outsider, can't help him, I hope he can cope with it.
The Chinese New Year is celebrated by the whole country, but I can't be a little happy. After the Spring Festival, I have to go back to my hometown to worship my ancestors, and my grandfather only has two sons, my father and my second uncle, and now the problem has arisen, and the second uncle can't be contacted. There is no reason to worship ancestors, which is a joke in my hometown.
Dad has been worrying about this recently, knowing that I often play with my second uncle, and has asked me several times about my second uncle in the past two days. I fooled it all over, knowing that my second uncle was missing, but I still had to hide it, pretending not to know anything, this pressure was really huge, I was really afraid that I would tell my father all if I couldn't hold on one day.
But in the end, I still held back, and during the Chinese New Year, the second uncle really didn't come back. Outside, thousands of lights and firecrackers sounded, and every family was happy. I pretended to be nothing, but I always had a thorn in my heart, where did the second uncle go?
When I returned to my hometown to worship my ancestors on the first day of the first month, my father's face was not very good-looking, probably because the second uncle had not been able to contact him. I hurriedly persuaded on the side, "Dad, the second uncle may really be in a hurry, so he can't catch up, don't blame him!" ”
Dad shook his head, "If you don't come, you won't come, I don't blame your second uncle, it's just that I haven't been able to contact him, I'm a little worried!" ”
Sure enough, it is still a deep brotherhood, and I was afraid that my father would be too worried, so I had to lie casually, "Some time ago, when I went to the second uncle's shop to play, I heard him say that he was going to the south to buy some medicinal herbs, it seems to be an old customer's urgency, and the number is not small, it is estimated that the second uncle has been busy with this matter, and it is difficult to get out for a while." ”
"Do you know where to go?"
"This," my mind was spinning fast at this time, "uh, it's probably Chuangui's side, and it's also an old medicine dealer who has been working with for many years, so there won't be a problem." ”
Dad nodded, "The little property left by your grandfather is also thanks to your second uncle over the years, so it's hard for him!" ”
"In two days, I will go to the second uncle's store again and check the contact information of the supplier over there, and I will know the situation of the second uncle."
"It's fine."
Finally dealt with my father, I was in a cold sweat, and I had to play a round for my second uncle in the middle, which was really not easy. If I see him again, I'll have to make it up to me!
Ancestor worship is a very cumbersome thing, it is said that our Zhuo family is from my grandfather's grandfather's father, practicing medicine here, so settled here, speaking of our Zhuo family is not a native of the locals, although after several generations in this place, but more or less is a foreign surname, so the surname Zhuo is not very many. Despite this, a set of rituals takes more than half a day.
It was all about my father and uncles, and I was so bored that I sneaked out. I wandered around the village casually, reminiscing about some of my younger days, and speaking of which, I spent most of my childhood with my grandfather from the age of seven until I went to elementary school.
When I was young, my health was very poor, and I ran to hospitals all over the country, but my health still did not improve. Although the parents are very anxious, after all, they still have to survive, life may have to go on, and they have to go out to work. So he fostered me at my grandfather's house.
Grandpa is an old Chinese medicine doctor, medical skills in the local area is also a little famous, although grandpa for my physical condition, is also helpless, but after all, it is much better than the average person to take care of, at the same time this is also grandpa's wishes, I didn't expect this to live for several years, only occasionally return to the city to live with my parents for a period of time.
Maybe it was God's favor, and finally under the care of my grandfather, my body slowly improved. This enabled me to go back to school in the city when I was seven years old. When I came back this time, seeing these things reminded me of my childhood, but my memories of this place are basically all after the age of six, and the memories before the age of six are very vague. I think it was probably because I was young at the time and I wasn't in good health.
I used to doubt my childhood experience, but now that I think about it, it was nonsense!
Since my grandfather passed away, I have rarely come back. Before I knew it, I was in front of my ancestral house, where my grandfather used to live, and after he left for the old man, it was always empty, and at the end of the year, my father or some aunts would come back and clean up.
I have always kept the key to the gate, I subconsciously went to open the door of the ancestral house, and suddenly a voice sounded behind me, "Xiao Ran!" You're back? ”