Kaifeng in June has gradually become hot, the sun has become scorching, and the asphalt road has begun to steam.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, there were fewer vehicles and pedestrians on Daliang Road, and even if there were so many people, they were all sitting in groups of three or two shaking pu fans and playing chess under the shade of the trees.

A young man in a white casual suit crossed the street with a black hiking bag and walked straight into the wood carving shop opposite.

"Boss, let's have a root carving!"

The young man threw his bag on the counter and knocked on the tabletop.

"I'm sorry, but our store has been running out of root carving materials recently, and I can't deliver it..."

I saw a head slowly poking out from behind the counter, and the owner of the head yawned long and slowly got up.

Then he rubbed his sleepy eyes, and suddenly screamed, "What the, Cheng Wei, why did you run here?" ”

Cheng Wei leaned on the glass case, plucked out his ears, and said with a little disgust, "Calm down, I'm just passing by." ”

With that, he picked up an unfinished product on the counter and took a closer look.

While watching, he complained mercilessly: "Liang Yu didn't say you, your skills have not improved much compared with before!" This is really unjust, willing to take care of your business! ”

Liang Yuyi snatched back the semi-finished product in his hand, and said angrily: "You are amazing, who are you Cheng Dashao?" You stomp your feet, this whole Bianliang City will be shaken! As for me, I don't have any big ambitions, I just want to start a small business after graduating from college to save some money, and if it's okay, I will go to travel and relax. ”

Cheng Wei smiled, pushed the bag in front of him, pouted, and motioned for him to open it and take a look.

Liang Yu unzipped the zipper in disbelief and found that it was a wooden box inside. It looks like it's not a little old, and it's a bit like sandalwood.

He quickly glanced around, zipped it up, and closed the door again before pulling it out of his bag.

A boxy sandalwood box lay quietly on a glass display case, and a slightly raunchy young man half-crouched to observe it closely.

Although Liang Yu did not speak, the constantly heaving chest revealed that he was now in a state of extreme excitement.

"Where did you get this?"

He gently stroked the lifelike dragon and phoenix statue on the box, groped at the bottom of the box for a while, and with a click of his index finger, the box opened a gap.

"I received this thing in Heze, and according to the seller, his grandfather bought it for twenty yuan."

Cheng Wei stretched out his right hand, revealing a small tiger tooth, and said with a smile: "You want, you can." I spent 60,000 yuan, we are so familiar, just give 70,000! ”

Hearing this, Liang Yu glanced up at him and took a sip, "You profiteer!" After saying that, he continued to grope for the mechanism of the sandalwood box.

Seeing that the other party didn't plan to give money, Cheng Wei didn't say anything more, pulled a chair and sat next to him.

"It's not me saying, why are you so obsessed? Grandpa Guo disappeared silently, after all these years, the police are helpless, how capable are you a rookie who has just graduated, don't you have a little bit in your heart? ”

Liang Yu didn't raise his head, and said fiercely: "I will definitely be able to find him, even if it is a corpse, I will let him return to his hometown!" ”

At the age of twelve, my grandfather disappeared inexplicably.

Later, Liang Yu found a line of words on the novels that his grandfather often read: "Danger! Don't look for me! ”

At the same time, he received a gift from his grandfather for his twelfth birthday, an ancient book notebook.

There are some stories recorded in the notebook, and the main characters involve human beings and ghosts. There are also many ritual steps, such as the conclusion of a yin-yang marriage and the nocturnal induction of spirits.

Due to the lack of teachers to teach, Liang has only stayed in theory now. The contents of the notebook are well memorized, but he doesn't know what to use.

At one point, he thought that this was a fake that his grandfather used to make him happy.

It wasn't until he was eighteen years old when his grandmother gave him a sandalwood box when she was sober that he understood the usefulness of this notebook.

The sandalwood box is carved with two unicorns, which are lifelike and exquisite. Grandma Tai said that the way to open this box is in that notebook.

The handbook is divided into three parts, the first part is mythological events, the second part is the formation mechanism, and the last part is the secret art of the Xuanmen.

It took Liang Yu a month to learn how to unbuckle the double buckle intact and open the box.

There was an iron ruler in the box, and it was rusty, and the scale was almost unclear.

Underneath the iron ruler is a piece of brocade silk with strange patterns painted on it.

Liang Yu looked at it for several days without the slightest clue, so he could only put away the brocade silk.

As for the iron ruler, it was placed under the pillow, and it was a thought.

Because he remembered that his grandfather had a similar measuring tape, and when he was a child, he was naughty and often took the ruler off his grandfather's bedside to play.

Later, his grandfather told him that when he grew up, he would give him a better handful. He grew up, but his grandfather was gone.

However, thanks to the iron ruler, he was able to avoid two catastrophes.

I remember when he was in his second year of junior high school, he went back to his grandfather's house to visit his grandmother, and in the afternoon, four old playmates came to ask him to go out to play.

The village is not far from the tributaries of the Yellow River, and at that time there were many wild water ditches formed when the Yellow River was rising.

The five-and-a-half-year-old children slipped all the way to a waterhole near a tributary of the Yellow River, undressed and went for a wild swim.

It was getting dark, and several people climbed ashore one after another to get dressed and prepare to go home.

Suddenly, Liang Yu found that there was no one missing, and Liu Qing was gone!

Several children began to look around, and finally, one of them pointed to a dark shadow not far from the shore and shouted, "It seems to be there!" ”

Several people have grown up together since childhood, so naturally it is impossible not to see death without help, so they jumped into the water one after another to pull people ashore.

Liang Yu pulled one of Liu Qing's arms, Zhao Kai dragged the other arm, and the rest of the people dragged them to the shore by the collar, but after tossing for a long time, Liu Qing did not move at all.

I saw Liu Qing's face pale, his lips trembling, "Something pulled my right foot." ”

When everyone heard this, they were all shocked. Thinking of the story of the old man about the water ghost looking for a stand-in, he suddenly didn't dare to move.

"How... What to do? Jiang Hua was so frightened that he stammered, and everyone invariably focused their eyes on Liang Yu's face.

Liang Yu's grandfather is a famous half-immortal in Shili Eight Villages, so everyone can only pin their hopes on Liang Yu.

Liang Yu felt that everyone was looking at him, and he had no bottom in his heart, so he could only comfort everyone, "Maybe it's just entangled in water and weeds, I'll go down and take a look." ”

After speaking, Liang Yu took a deep breath and went underwater.

With this faint light, he carefully searched for the location of Liu Qing's right foot.

After determining the location, Liang Yu carefully groped for any aquatic plants nearby. Sure enough, there was indeed a tuft of aquatic plants wrapped around Liu Qing's feet.

He struggled to clean up the aquatic weeds, when suddenly a black mist suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, rushing straight into his eyebrows.

Liang Yu didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly surfaced and shouted, "Run!" ”

Several people dragged Liu Qing, who was free from the shackles, to the shore, grabbed his clothes and began to run, wearing them while running, very embarrassed.