Zhang Qixun racked his brains and thought about it, and suddenly remembered a person named Zhang Ying.

This person once followed Zhu Yuanzhang when he rebelled against the Yuan, and fought with him for more than ten years, and made a lot of military achievements, especially in the 12th year of Hongwu, when the Huguang Miao people rebelled, Zhu Yuanzhang was named the general of Wuluo, went to suppress the uprising, led the troops to guard Jiuxiwei for more than 20 years, and was ordered to lead the troops to cross Beiping in Changleli in Lizhou in the second year of Yongle, and died here.

The Zhang family, who is involved with Gu Miao, is really likely to be him.

The Zhang family has been active in the north, and all the places where they were born and active are around the vicinity of Changbai Mountain, which did not belong to the Central Plains in ancient times, and was more under the control of ethnic minorities at that time.

The chessboard Zhang belongs to one of the five branches of the family, and its status is also quite high in the family, and what Zhang Qixun cares about the most is that "the chessboard Zhang is pregnant with a unicorn".

He turned his head to look at the little brother and found that the little brother also had a contemplative look on his face.

"Do you want to open the coffin?" He asked.

The little brother shook his head and said, "It's not this." Then he turned and walked out.

Seeing that both of them walked out, the Huo family who stayed behind looked at the coffin, a little nervous, just being frightened along the way was enough for them to drink a pot, and now they finally saw some sweetness, so they naturally didn't want to let it go.

Huo Chushi asked Mrs. Huo, who was standing on the side of the door, for instructions, "Master of the family, do you want to open the ......?"

Huo Xiangu waved her hand a little weakly, "Follow them." ”

After walking along the corridor for a distance of about sixteen or seventeen meters, the little brother suddenly stopped and thought about it.

Zhang Qixun, who walked behind him, saw that the door of the half side of the compartment in front of him was open, and the old and decaying door shaft was kicked open and drooped diagonally to the side, and the place where the wood was broken was rotten badly, and it was obvious that this compartment had been visited.

When I got closer, I found that this compartment was extraordinarily large, more than three times the size of the previous one, and the decoration in the room was more complicated and grand, and the most important thing was that the most central coffin had been opened, and the coffin lid was placed directly on the ground on the side, and the offering table in the room seemed to have been smashed and robbed by bandits, and the incense burner had rolled to the ground.

The outer edge of the coffin was covered with dust, there were many marks of chopping and prying, and a fist-sized gap was missing in the center of the coffin wall on all four sides.

At the beginning of the dog day, the gang used brute force to open the coffin, because he saw small locks on the edges of the coffin lid on all sides, and those people must have no way to take these locks, so the material of the coffin was wood, so they didn't care about 3721 and directly gouged a hole to open it.

It stands to reason that if a trap lock is set on the coffin, then other lethal traps should be set as well.

walked into the room and walked around for half a circle, and sure enough, in a corner of the room, I found a rotten and shriveled white skeletonized corpse, and the work uniform on the body had been corroded by corpse water and alkali gas, and some of them could not see the original color.

This person's fingers are normal, but also, if there is really Zhang Qishan's Zhang family and Chen Wenjin and they entered here together, there is no reason to be so frustrated that they can't even open a simple lock.

Zhang Qixun examined it carefully, and found a very short iron arrow in the throat of this person, and there was also one stuck in the heart of the chest.

He cursed in his heart, "You can't live if you do your own evil." ”

There was no work card or anything on this corpse, and it was estimated that it was seriously injured and could not be rescued, so it was searched by teammates who came with him in order to avoid revealing his identity.

Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, his fingertips suddenly touched a flake of hard object, and when he looked down, he saw that the thing was stuck in the gap between the metacarpal bones of the white bone.

Because the white bones have been brittled by alkaline corrosion, they can be easily broken, Zhang Qixun took out that thing, just looked at it, and sighed in his heart.

Badge – This is a metal badge made of bronze.

The little brother had found a badge identical to this one in the backpack at the bottom of the lake, and the fat man and Wu Xiaoxie found the paper pattern of the badge in the old research institute that was about to be demolished, but because it was too old, the pattern on it had long been blurred.

But the brass badge at the moment is not affected by alkaline gas, and the pattern on it is still clearly visible.

It's not Qilin, it's not Qiqi, it's not anything in Zhang Qixun's cognition, but there is always a sense of familiarity in the dark, and a voice in the depths of his mind tells him that he has definitely seen this thing.

While he was meditating, his head suddenly buzzed abruptly.

Zhang Qixun turned his head to look and found that Huo Xiaoli was playing with a bronze bell hanging from the roof directly above the coffin.

Every time the bell flickered, Zhang Qixun's ear bones would vibrate, obviously it was a crisp bell, but listening to his ears seemed to be a bell magnified countless times.

"Don't move your hands!" He scolded coldly.

Huo Xiaoli was a little confused, seeing that Zhang Qixun's face was not good-looking, he hurriedly retracted his hand and asked carefully, "Yu Ye, what's wrong with you?" ”

"It's fine." Zhang Qixun quietly put away the badge, did not say the strange feeling just now, got up and let go of the corpse in the shadows on the ground, so that everyone could see it, "If you don't want to end up with the corpse in front of you, don't move the things here." ”

"Oh." Huo Xiaoli glanced at the corpse, didn't care much, and scratched his head, "Hey Yuye, I took a look at that bell, the reeds in it are all there, but why don't they ring, is it broken after being put here for too long." ”

Zhang Qixun turned around sharply and stared at him tightly, "You mean, the bell didn't ring?" ”

Although Huo Xiaoli didn't know why, he still nodded, "Yes, it didn't sound." ”

The little brother who was observing the dried corpse in the coffin got up when he heard this, handed Zhang Qixun a look, and then gently touched the octagonal bell with his hand, and at the same time raised his eyes to observe everyone's reaction.

This time, Zhang Qixun heard it very clearly, the endless humming sound similar to the bell came from this bell, and from the performance of everyone present, it seemed that only he and the little brother could hear this sound.

There is definitely a problem, Zhang Qi looked for a heart, approached to observe the octagonal bell carefully, and found that its material was exactly the same as the bronze mask on the face of the blue-eyed fox corpse they had seen in the Lu Palace, and the thing made into the copper tongue inside was a petal-shaped meteorite fragment.

"Is there anything wrong with this bell?" Huo Xiangu asked softly.

Zhang Qixun didn't tell the truth, "The bell is fine, the problem is the person lying in the coffin." ”

Huo Xiangu frowned, and there was nothing strange about the corpses that had turned into white bones, so she asked Huo Xiuxiu to help her walk to the wall directly opposite the coffin, and got closer to look at the epitaph on the wooden plaque hanging on it.

At first glance, she was shocked by the three words "Zhang Qiling" on the top and almost fell down, she looked at the little brother standing behind the side with a shocked face, and said incoherently, "You...... You are ......"

The little brother's eyes were indifferent as usual, without a trace of expression.

Zhang Qixun sighed lightly, swept the flashlight pillar in his hand back, pointed to the two words "selected as" at the back, and said sincerely: "Old lady, your eyes are good enough, you pick the word at a glance, you didn't pay attention to the content behind it, choose to, this person was selected as 'Zhang Qiling' when he was nineteen years old, Zhang Qiling is not just a simple name, but a title with a special meaning." ”

"Spirit", as the name suggests, removes the spirit of the deceased and transports the coffin into the earth.

In other words, "Zhang Qiling" is a person in charge of burial in the Zhang family, and whenever the Zhang family dies outside, Zhang Qiling is responsible for bringing back the hair hand that represents their identity and burying it in the Zhangjia Building.

Old Lady Huo's eyes were a little shocked, "Isn't he the patriarch of the Zhang family?" ”

"Every patriarch of the Zhang family is called 'Zhang Qiling'." Zhang Qixun lowered his eyelids, pointed to the family tree engraved on the inside of the open coffin lid, and said, "This person's real name is Zhang Ruitong, and he is the penultimate generation of Zhang Qiling, but you must be very familiar with one of his grandchildren." ”

"Who is it?" Huo Xiangu had a guess in her heart, "The person you are referring to...... Is it Zhang Da Buddha? ”

"That's right." Zhang Qixun nodded, "It's Zhang Qishan." ”

A trace of horror flashed in Huo Xiangu's heart, and she suddenly thought of all the things that had happened, looked at the little brother, and said with some hesitation: "Lord Zhang Da Buddha was looking for a person named Zhang Qiling on a large scale, that is to say, you were also in the funeral procession of Banai?" ”

"The little brother was not there at the time, and Zhang Qishan found another Zhang family member with a tattoo of Qiqi, who had good skills, so he was selected as Zhang Qiling's replacement." Zhang Qi searched.

"That'...... Is that Zhang family still alive? There was a hint of expectation in Huo Xiangu's eyes, she was eager to know the origin of all the things that had happened in Banai, who instructed Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling to lead the funeral, what they did in Banai, and what their purpose was.

"Alive." Zhang Qixun put on gloves, wiped the dust off the surface of the corpse, and carefully examined the corpse, "We have met with him before, more than once. ”

Huo Xiangu's eyes suddenly lit up, her breathing couldn't help but become short, and her hands clenched subconsciously, "Where is he?" ”

Zhang Qixun looked at her strangely, "What's the use of you asking this now, with your current body, you need to pant for breath when you take two steps, and it's unknown whether you can get out alive, so what can you do if you ask?" You can't fly over and pull people out of thin air. ”

Huo Xiangu was stunned for a moment, and a touch of dejection crossed her face, yes, she is already like this now, even if she asks, what's the use, it's just to add to her troubles.

She subconsciously stroked the ring on her hand, suddenly thought of something, looked at Zhang Qixun, and resolutely insisted: "I don't have time, but you do, you still have a lot of time." ”

"So?" Zhang Qixun raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"I can pay, how much do you want? Or if you want something else, I can write a message, and when you go out, you can find Zhizhi or Zhong Ling and them to cash it out. "Huo Xiangu is confident.

Zhang Qixun shook his head helplessly, "In addition to being dishonest and untrustworthy, the bad habit of mercenary that you old Jiumen has passed down is really going to change, even if I see that guy as unpleasant, I will not help you, an outsider, deal with him." ”

Huo Xiangu was speechless by what he said, and she was powerless to refute.

Zhang Qixun sighed, "I can only tell you something I know, Zhang Qishan because of the Zhang family's ancestral training, in his mind, the interests of the country are always greater than everything, he made great contributions in the army in his early years, and in his later years, he entered politics in order to protect the nine gates from being completely wiped out by the above, but it is a fact that he fainted and used the head of the Zhang family." ”

"When your older generation was forced to be involved, the people behind it had already been eyeing the new generation, so Huo Ling's participation in it had already been calculated and couldn't be hidden."

"Although Huo Ling and the others finally withdrew from the Chen Qing faction, it is precisely because of this that they have become a thorn in the side of the people behind them, Huo Ling knows too many things, even if she doesn't get tricked and becomes like that, she can't live safely in the end, and everything is just to blame."

"Take the blame for yourself...... Huo Xiangu muttered, her face full of bitterness, "Is it really retribution, the causes that we people once planted are indeed fulfilled in the younger generations, when will all this end......

Zhang Qixun looked at Huo Xiangu, who was wrapped in guilt and remorse, and wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to speak for a while, so he simply stopped caring about her and concentrated on looking at the situation in the coffin.

When the two were talking, the little brother listened quietly on the side, and his eyes did not fluctuate at all, as if he was just a bystander.

Zhang Qixun moved the bones in the coffin to the side one by one, lifted the quilt that was evenly spread underneath, and the agate jade objects that accompanied the burial were all under the quilt, which were neatly placed, and the leather products in them were so rotten that they could not be seen in their original appearance.

In the center of the coffin, there was a narrow mark of dust in the burial jade, which had been taken a long time ago, and finally returned to the owner who took it.

"Your black gold should have been placed here." He pointed to the mark and said to the little brother.

The little brother was silent and clenched the black gold ancient knife in his hand.

Zhang Qixun rummaged through the burial jade pile, and picked out two jade rings, one large and one small, and the original jade bottom was also inlaid with various ancient jade with runes, and he handed the two jade rings to the little brother.

The little brother took it and looked at him, his eyes were a little surprised, as if he was asking Zhang Qixun how he knew.

Zhang Qixun pursed his lips and smiled, "Guess, living too long is not something everyone expects after all, you recognized him with just one face last time, obviously you have seen him before." ”

After Wu Erye led people to leave Banai, they went up the mountain for the first time, but the little brother who was originally amnesiac recognized Jude Kao when he saw Jude on the donkey's back from a distance, and deliberately avoided it so that the other party could not see him.

Apparently there are quirks.

Thanks to the big guy for his reward, more than a big heart (v)