Chapter 2: Fragments
After pondering what the senior brother said to me all night, how do I think and feel that he is a little abnormal, should it be that I want to find out the secret of the bronze triangle wrapped in the bell by myself. Sometimes, I really feel that he is quite stupid, his brain is just a line, and when he encounters something, he doesn't think much about several ways, and he always runs all the way to the dark, and I don't have a problem with this, who made him my senior brother.
It wasn't until dawn that I gradually squinted, and I didn't notice when the senior brother left. I didn't wake up until noon, I went to the Hebei branch to take a look, everything was running normally, I checked the account book, and the recent income was not bad. It's just that I feel that everyone looks at me differently, no matter how I look at them, I think they are quite weird, and the more I think about them, the more I feel that they are like the spies that the senior brother said last night.
Maybe I really have the illusion that everyone looks like a spy, that everyone has problems, and even when they ask me what to eat at noon, I think they are trying to harm me. Sometimes I feel weird when I look at myself in the mirror, I'm so nervous that I even doubt myself.
It's like this every day, eating, drinking and playing in Shijiazhuang, occasionally paying attention to the company, and there is nothing to take care of in the company. One day half a month later, someone from the company told me that it was the senior brother who called the company and asked me to go to Chengde immediately, and to his home. He didn't say what it was, I didn't dare to delay, I drove to Chengde, I felt something was wrong on the way, he asked me to go to Chengde, why didn't he call me directly, but he wanted to call the company, didn't he tell me that the people around me were unreliable? What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd, but it gave me a whole circle.
When he arrived at the door of the senior brother's house, he felt that something was wrong, usually his house was full of people, but today it was deserted, and even his apprentices didn't see it. The elder brother's home is a small two-story building with a courtyard, there are wings on the left and right sides, the door is not closed, and I walked in directly.
There was a person sitting in the living room on the first floor, and I recognized it at a glance, it was the seventh uncle, that is, my seventh uncle. Although he is not yet 50 years old, he has been retired for many years, and he has long stopped caring about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and he does not know what he is doing here.
I still politely walked up to the front and gave a deep salute: "Seventh Uncle, why are you here?"
"Wait for you little rabbit cub, I heard that some people have called you the seventh master recently. ”
"Seventh Uncle, you like to joke with me, you are the Seventh Master, what about Senior Brother?" I said with a hippie smile.
"Don't look for it, he's not here, I asked you to come. ”
"You, who let me come?" I asked, confused.
"Yes, please don't move your seventh master in the name of your senior brother. As he spoke, he took out a piece of coarse cloth from his bosom, handed it to me, and continued, "Take a closer look at this, your senior brother may be in danger." ”
As soon as I heard that my brother might be in danger, I immediately took it and carefully examined the coarse cloth fragment in my hand, which was only the size of a handkerchief and was full of ancient characters, but some of them were already blurred, and there were a few words in the middle that were buckled down, and a large corner was missing in the lower left. I can still understand some of the ancient characters on the fragment, which is written in traditional regular script from the Sui Dynasty. I can decipher the whole sentence, but I can't fully understand the rest of the fragments.
There are a few paragraphs that I can understand roughly that in the 24th year of Emperor Wen, when he went out to patrol the customs and went to a super large reed pond, he found that there was a tall strange stone, and ordered someone to check it, and found that it was an engraved tombstone. Seven people were sent to investigate, only one person returned, Emperor Wen was angry, and then sent more than 20 people to go, but no one returned, and then sent again. At the bottom is the mutilated horn, and the question mark is the part that has been deducted. There is also a line above the mutilation, which reads: Emperor Wen 24 years, after touring back to Beijing, the Chinese Emperor died violently, I am afraid that it is Shi? It seems that the key parts are all in this missing corner, either in ancient times, or now someone has deliberately removed the key points.
I looked at it carefully, and when I saw it, I was inspecting it one by one. When I said these words, I suddenly thought of the Tiger Regiment. There was a doubt in my heart, could it be that the emperor at that time sent the Tiger Regiment to investigate. If I was right, then the Tigers sent two groups of about 30 people, and only one person returned.
"Can you see that?" asked Uncle Seven as I was thinking.
"I can understand some of it, but the missing part should be very important, what does this have to do with Senior Brother?"
"I'll tell you what this thing is. The fragment you are holding in your hand is the last time that the Tiger Regiment, a famous official thief organization, was saved in a coarse cloth during the Sui Dynasty. After that, no one will be able to decipher the information of the LTTE, because they have used a more mysterious way. Therefore, this fragment can be described as a treasure of the world, but for this fragment, a lot of lives have been wasted. ”
"Then what does all this have to do with Senior Brother, you just said that he is in danger, what happened to Senior Brother? Is it related to this fragment?" I asked several questions in a row.
"Legend has it that the Tigers have never missed, but according to this fragment, this time not only did they miss, but they also suffered heavy losses. Your senior brother is now at the strange stone recorded in the fragment, do you think he is in danger?"
As soon as I heard what Uncle Seven said, my scalp instantly went numb, no wonder half a month ago, the senior brother wanted to say something like that to me, it turned out that he had already known that there was danger, so he told me so much.
"How long have they been there, and where is the specific location of that strange stone?" I asked anxiously.
"He only went for the past two days, but he has been preparing for a long time, and he started preparing half a year ago, but you don't know. If you're going to go now, they've just determined the exact location, so you'll have to figure out the location of the strange stone. With that, he got up to leave.
But as soon as I got together, I didn't stand firmly, it seemed that my feet were numb, and my body was tilted, and I was about to fall down, so I immediately reached out to help, fortunately I helped Uncle Seven, otherwise there would be no dog to gnaw the ground. While helping him, I felt something stuffing into my hand, it should be a note, and I held it tightly in the palm of my hand.
After the seventh uncle stood firmly, he didn't speak and walked towards the gate. I suddenly thought of a question, and opened my mouth to ask, "Seventh Uncle, how do you know that Senior Brother is there?"
"If no one knows, he must not do it. "After that, he left.
Looking at the back of Uncle Seven, thinking about the current situation of the senior brother, if it is really according to what the seventh uncle said, then he is really in danger, and after looking around, the senior brother's house is empty. I wondered why Uncle Seven had just given me a note, what could I not say clearly, was I still afraid that others would hear it, so I decided not to look at the note in my hand here, and after walking out, I locked the door of my brother's house.
returned to the car, opened the note in his hand, and saw that the note read: Panjin Reed Sea, around the Yang River. Although it is only eight words, I already understand what Uncle Seven means.