Chapter 44: No Old Things
Listening to Wu Xiaoxie's words, Huo Xiuxiu breathed a long sigh of relief, as if she was completely relieved, and teased: "Brother Wu Xie, I didn't expect you to be stupid when you were a child, and you will become so smart when you grow up."
Wu Xiaoxie tugged at the corners of his mouth and took her unnutritious compliment.
"The second photo I gave you of my aunt was taken from a newspaper found in the Beijing Museum, dated to 1984." Huo Xiuxiu put away the smile on her face and became serious, "And when they went to Xisha for archaeology, the time happened to be 1984."
Huo Xiuxiu continued: "The time difference between this is impossible to explore for the time being, but if you look at this group photo of Xisha, I deduced that the aunt in this photo is 1.68 meters tall according to its surrounding environment, excluding distractions such as shoes."
"In the other two photos, the eighteen-year-old aunt in Wangfujing is 1.65 meters tall, assuming that she will grow taller in the future, but why a few years later, in the 1984 newspaper of the Beijing Museum, her height not only did not grow taller, but directly shrank by five centimeters."
Huo Xiuxiu sighed, "So, Brother Wu Xie, your speculation is right, the person who came back from Guangxi is really not my aunt."
"But there is one thing I still can't understand, why my fake aunt has grown back in height after leaving home and going to Xisha." Huo Xiuxiu looked straight at Wu Xiaoxie, "Is it as you said, there are two teams playing, and the person who is really in Xisha later is actually a real aunt."
"So, have you ever wondered where the false aunt has gone? Why did she suddenly disappear, as if she had evaporated from the world, and there was no news?" Huo Xiuxiu's voice faintly carried a *** guide, leading others to involuntarily follow her words and start thinking.
"It doesn't make sense." Zhang Qixun suddenly spoke up and looked at Huo Xiuxiu meaningfully, "Now that you know the whereabouts of the real Huo Ling, why do you want to persistently track down a replacement."
Huo Xiuxiu's expression froze for a moment, and then he said a little scoundrel: "I'm curious, and I've said so much, you should also tell me what you know, you can't always take advantage of me."
Wu Xiaoxie just felt that her persistence was very strange, if ordinary people knew the hidden danger behind this, they would definitely never know it, keep their mouth shut, and hide far away.
This little girl is unexpected, a person with something to exchange information with a few strangers they have known for less than two days, and she is very bold.
"I've told your grandma most of the stuff, and the rest is a few details in it, maybe you'll be disappointed." Wu Xiaoxiao said.
A sly smile flashed in Huo Xiuxiu's eyes, and she pointed at the little brother and said, "It's better to start with him first, I'll tell you about him, you tell me, about the ancient tomb on the snow mountain you said."
Wu Xiaoxie agreed, these details were deeply engraved in his mind, and he also told Huo Xiuxiu some of his speculations.
When talking about how they were trapped in the treasure room by the little ghost and found a few dried corpses, Huo Xiuxiu's eyes flashed.
Then his eyes rolled and he wondered, "Brother Wu Xie, haven't you tried to find a way to determine the identity of those dried corpses?" ….
Wu Xiaoxie was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can't be sure, except for the one person who was recognized by the guide according to the signs, the faces of the other people are dehydrated and shrunken."
Huo Xiuxiu nodded, thoughtful, "That's it...... Then Brother Wu Xie, you can go on."
It took more than half an hour for Wu Xiaoxie to finish telling the details of the Genting Heavenly Palace.
Huo Xiuxiu listened very carefully, and didn't speak for a long time after listening, lowering her head, as if she was pondering something.
The fat man called her twice, and when he saw that she still didn't respond, he pinched a peanut and threw it at her, "Hey! Big girl, why do you want to be so engrossed."
Huo Xiuxiu, who was originally sitting quietly, suddenly moved sideways and avoided the peanut rice.
The fat man snorted, "The little girl is good."
Huo Xiuxiu came back from Fang Cai's stiff sitting, looking at the oily peanuts that fell behind the bench, her face was stinky
, patted his sleeve and glared at the fat man, "It's good that you didn't lose my clothes, otherwise you would have to pay for it."
After speaking, he looked at the little brother and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this antique brother to be so powerful, no wonder my grandmother has to kneel to him, I felt that I was inexplicably kneeling at a loss, but now it doesn't seem to be a loss."
Wu Xiaoxie asked her what she had inspired after listening.
Huo Xiuxiu shook her head, "It's very chaotic, I think of something, but I can't connect it for the time being."
The fat man sipped a little wine and urged her, "It's your turn."
"Don't rush, I won't pay the bill." Huo Xiuxiu said, "I have to think carefully about how to say it, let's start with a nightmare."
Huo Xiuxiu also described it very carefully and spent a lot of time.
As simple as it sounds, there's something weird about the whole thing.
To sum up, Huo Xiuxiu has seen her grandmother hang on the bed frame above the bed in a weird position, her eyes rolled and her hair scattered, but she seemed to be asleep.
And he muttered "There is no time" in his mouth.
Wu Xiaoxie felt cold when he heard this, because he had also heard this sentence.
Just after the little brother came out of the cave in the underground palace of the Queen Mother of the West, the whole person kept muttering the sentence "There is no time" as if he was stunned.
But after regaining consciousness, the little brother has zero memory of this murmur.
"Did your grandma say anything else?" Wu Xiaoxie asked anxiously.
Huo Xiuxiu was a little surprised by his reaction, but still shook his head and said, "No, I just kept repeating this sentence."
"And later my grandmother told me that the reason why she was hanging on the bed frame was actually practicing."
"Grandma said that this is the Huo family's woman's method of practicing soft kung fu, and she must hang on her sleeping bones to achieve maximum flexibility, she has been sleeping like this since she was a girl at the age of nineteen, resulting in bone spurs in many places on her body, and it doesn't hurt until she hangs it."
The fat man's mind tilted uncontrollably, "Damn, then your grandfather must have practiced in front of the cave for a while."
Huo Xiuxiu rolled her eyes, ignored him, and continued to say to Wu Xiaoxie, "I once sneaked into my grandmother's house and found a few very special videos inside."
As soon as he heard the word "video", Wu Xiaoxie's eyelids jumped uncontrollably, "What video?" ….
Huo Xiuxiu lowered her voice, with a panic that could not be concealed, "I saw that there were many people crawling on the ground."
"In that photo of Xisha, several of them are crawling on the ground, as if they have become soulless marionettes, and they have been repeating the crawling action mechanically."
"I saw Chen Wenjin, Li Sidi, and several other people, but not my aunt and this antique brother." Huo Xiuxiu said, "I don't know if they have become the forbidden women you said before, but their behavior is obviously abnormal."
Wu Xiaoxie was surprised, "No Huo Ling?"
Huo Xiuxiu shook her head, "No, but it seems that my aunt finally became like that."
The fat man couldn't help but interject, "Didn't the eldest sister take us to take a mud bath in the swamp outside the Queen Mother? What do you mean, she was transformed when she was in the Golmud Sanatorium?"
Wu Xiaoxie shook his head, "It shouldn't be, this may be the way Chen Wenjin and the others tried to leave clues for later generations, or a record to verify speculation."
"So, there's only one truth." Zhang Qixun made a sound, attracting the attention of several people, and he said, "That is, the few videos you have watched have been selected, and what you think is leaky is actually carried out under your grandmother's nose."
Huo Xiuxiu was a little unconvinced, "You're too underestimated!"
As soon as she finished speaking, her face suddenly changed, "No, you mean, the information I found now was actually intentionally revealed to me by my grandmother?"
Wu Xiaoxie has a deep understanding of this kind of way of squeezing toothpaste-like pit nephews, "It's very likely, you were only a few years old when you found the videotape, how could you beat your grandmother."
Huo Xiuxiu was deflated, "Grandma, why did she do this."
Zhang Qixun propped his chin with one hand and sighed, "This is probably some kind of strange habit of the older generation of your nine sects? Dig a pit for your own children and grandchildren."
The corners of Huo Xiuxiu's mouth twitched, "When you say that, why do I suddenly feel a little pitiful."
After finishing and turning his head to look at Wu Xiaoxie, his frowning eyebrows immediately relaxed, "Haha, there is another one here who is in sympathy with me."
Wu Xiaoye looked at her speechlessly, "Little girl, you poke someone's wound like this, it's very good to be beaten."
Huo Xiuxiu didn't scare him at all, laughed a few times, and then waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this first, let's talk about some of my discoveries later."
Huo Xiuxiu began to babble again.
To put it simply, she once found some very special letters under her grandmother's bookcase.
I thought it would be a love letter or something, but I opened it with the curiosity of the little ghost to discover the big secret of my parents, and it turned out that it contained some forms for receiving goods.
The above time is from 1995, and in the second half of March every year, Mrs. Huo will receive a notice to pick up the package.
Because of the special status of the Huo family, the parcels and mails received every year will be opened and inspected and the record records will be filled.
The few envelopes that Huo Xiuxiu found contained the list of goods filing forms in the packages at that time.
The whole form had only the word "videotape" written on it. ….
This undoubtedly aroused her curiosity even more, so she went into her grandmother's house several times, and the hard work paid off, and finally she found the videotapes in a hole in the wall behind the wardrobe.
Because she was really curious about the content of the tape, Huo Xiuxiu secretly saved her pocket money to buy a recorder, and when her grandmother went out to talk about business, she burned the content of the tape, and then sneaked to her classmates to read the content.
When she first saw the contents inside, she was frightened and panicked for a month, and the apprehension in her heart finally calmed down.
In the words of the fat man, Huo Xiuxiu's personality is actually very similar to Wu Xie in the early days, and when he encounters a little strange thing, he will scratch his ears and cheeks, and he can't figure things out.
Under the influence of Mrs. Huo's ears, Huo Xiuxiu, who was only a teenager, had already awakened the potential of the little fox.
She knew that her grandmother had a big secret in her heart, perhaps related to the whispers she had in that nightmare, so she began to try to investigate the matter.
She used a very ingenious but extremely risky method of exposure, which was to imitate her grandmother's handwriting and write letters to the addresses in the old letters.
In this way, after insisting on guarding the mailbox for five months, there was finally a special letter that made her eyes shine.
There was only one simple sentence in the letter, "Don't talk about the old things again."
The address of the letter is in the capital, an antique shop in Liulichang.
Huo Xiuxiu kept looking for it, and when she arrived at the place, she found that the owner of the shop was a thin old man with a big gold tooth in his mouth when he was grinning.
"Originally, he didn't admit it, but it just so happened that at the end of the year, there was a problem when he had a batch of goods passing through customs, and I pinched his weakness and made a deal with him." Huo Xiuxiu was a little proud, "If no one helps him deal with it, his entire net worth will have to be compensated, and he will end up in prison."
Jin Wantang hesitated for a long time, and finally told her the whole thing when Huo Xiuxiu called her again.
"Jin Wantang said that it was the largest tomb robbery in history, and the elites of the entire Nine Gates participated in it at that time, and it was an unprecedented joint effort."
"But then he was kicked out of the team because he was greedy enough to steal what the men had dug up."
"But before he was kicked out, he was taken by those men to meet a leader, and the people of the Nine Gates were very respectful to the leader, and the man was very young, and there was a very special feature on his body, that is, the two fingers of his right hand were strangely long."
When Huo Xiuxiu said this, her eyes subconsciously glanced at the little brother, and then continued: "At the beginning, Jin Wantang was going to resist hard,
Unexpectedly, the leader only used two long fingers to press on his head acupoint, and he immediately almost fainted in pain."
The reason why he didn't faint was that the leader didn't let him faint.
Jin Wantang stole a total of two copies of Lu Huangbo, one hidden in his sleeve and one hidden in the insole, and finally he confessed it, plus Huo Xiangu interceded for him, which saved a dog's life.
In fact, the reason for this was that those people were also in a mess in their own system at that time, and they didn't have time to deal with Jin Wantang, because many people had died in the team at that time, and the number was increasing.
Everyone is like a barrel of explosives filled with gunpowder, waiting for a spiritual point to explode.
After Jin Wantang was kicked out, he returned to the capital, and nested at home in fear for a few months, after which he heard some rumors one after another, saying that after he left, there was another big incident on the cliff, and Lao Jiumen suffered countless deaths and injuries, and his vitality was greatly damaged.
And since then, Lao Jiumen's position in the rivers and lakes has begun to be purged, and it seems that there is a hidden force behind it, leading them to kill each other.
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Taibai nineteen