This is a sign of the imperial gift of the Shuoming court, and it seems that Qin Nianshan was very honored as a court musician in the past. ”

Putting down the wooden box on the spot, Xu Chu reached out and lifted the lid of the box as he spoke, which contained several books, a long brass box and a booklet.

"Appreciation of Ancient Characters", "Ember Writing", "History in the Dust"

"It's not enough to become a wizard, but also to make a cameo appearance as an ancient writer?"

Glancing at the names of these three books, Lu Jing turned to pick up the copper box next to him and opened it, and a light cyan white jade flute stored in it was extremely exquisite, not to mention, it was even warmer and greasy in his hand, and he knew that the texture was extraordinary without thinking about it.

"Can you show it to me?"

Fu Ju, who had been in the craftsman for a long time, widened his eyes when he saw this jade flute, took it from Lu Jing's hand, looked at it quite carefully, and said excitedly after a while,

"Sure enough, it's warm bamboo jade, this is a jade that the imperial court is in charge of, the appearance is translucent and light cyan, and it's warm and moist to start...... It is rumored that this kind of jade is only produced in a few special jade mines, and a single piece the size of a thumb can sell at least one gold leaf, such as this kind of finely carved finished jade flute, not to mention ten gold leaves, and this jade flute is said to be born with some kind of special ability, but no one has been able to really excavate it, and only a court musician of Qin Nianshan's level is qualified to be given this kind of treasure. ”

"Put it away and find a place to do it later. ”

Lu Jing handed over the copper box to Fu Ju and asked her to put this precious jade flute back, he didn't care if it was someone's treasure or not, these mice almost folded the three of them in it through the music composed by Qin Nianshan, so naturally they had to ask for some compensation, so this thing belongs to him now!

No matter what, this trip was not in vain.

Putting away the jade flute, the trio's attention turned to the last item in the box.

The cover of this palm-sized booklet is a common leather case, Lu Jing stretched out his hand and was about to take it out, but the moment he didn't think that his fingers touched this booklet, a familiar trembling suddenly came to his mind, and he hurriedly put the booklet back again, looked at the two people next to him and said,

"This thing isn't suitable for opening here, let's go back first!"

......

The three people who returned to the inn gathered in Lu Jing's room, in order to prevent accidents, Lu Jing deliberately let the two of them stand away from him, and then carefully opened the booklet, and when he saw the things in it, Lu Jing's face couldn't help but be a little confused.

The strange feeling of touching this booklet in the secret room just now made Lu Jing subconsciously think that this booklet contained some kind of special object, so he chose to go back to the inn first, only to find that there were only a few folded sheets of paper painted with various strange patterns or symbols.

Spreading them out on the table, Lu Jing glanced at them a few times, realized that he couldn't understand the meaning of the symbols on them at all, scratched his head, and had to raise his hand to signal the two people next to him to lean in and study together.

"This paper is rubbing...... Why did Qin Nianshan write these things on this kind of paper?"

Fu Ju also had difficulty understanding the words on the paper, but she immediately recognized the origin of the paper when she twisted her fingers through it.

"Rubbing?"

"To put it simply, it is used to rub text or design drawings and other papers, this kind of paper is characterized by translucency, they can be placed on books or wooden boards to see the lines under the bottom more clearly, convenient for rubbing with charcoal, it stands to reason that this kind of paper is rarely used to write things, because they are very thin, the slightest carelessness will be damaged, unless...... I understand that the contents of these pieces of paper were rubbed by Qin Nianshan from a certain book or something else, because these patterns are extremely complicated and the meaning is not clear, so in order to ensure that there are no omissions, he can only keep the rubbing paper!"

Explaining in general, Fu Ju suddenly realized a certain possibility, and hurriedly spoke.

"You're saying the contents of these pieces of paper are coming from somewhere else...... Is it possible that the books on ancient characters in the box were prepared for the translation of these symbols?"

Picking up the book "Appreciation of Ancient Characters", Lu Jing opened it casually, there were a large number of annotations on the pages inside, obviously Qin Nianshan had conducted special research on this, thought about it and turned his head to look at Xu Xi beside him,

"Is it possible to translate these contents through the annotations in these books?"

Lu Jing didn't know anything about this kind of translation work, and Fu Ju estimated that it was no better, so he could only rely on Xu Ju.

"Don't be so troublesome, Qin Nianshan has actually written everything down and written it here. ”

Xu Chu put the book "History in the Dust" on the table, and then lifted the back, most of the books will have blank pages at the end, and this book is no exception, and at this time a large paragraph of text has been written on it, which contains a small part of the translation content and Qin Nianshan's personal thoughts or explanations.

"Creation needs inspiration, inspiration is the most important thing, I'm old, too old...... I need new inspiration, I need a great being to give me dreams, the ...... I had when I was young In order to regain my grasp of that dream, I had to find a way to get in touch with the unspeakable ......."

"The day when the moon is obscured, the filthy flesh and blood...... Circles, yes, circles that summon them...... Why isn't there a circle to disperse them?"

"I've been inspired, but what about those monsters...... Here they are again, in that corner, with that disgusting face, I can't stand it anymore...... I should have excerpted more, those slate tablets are really not what people should see, chronicles...... I can't think too much about the stone slabs in the temple, I'm going to forget about them!"

"It's too late...... They want me to fulfill the promise I made when I summoned them, O Great Being, if you are still looking at me, show me the way...... I am willing to give everything to you...... Ah, I thought about it, I'm going to compose a tune for you......"

The first half of the passage is quite normal and the logic is very clear, but as the account continues, some of the later records are noticeably confused.

"Should I say that his dedication to art is great, or should I despise this guy for making deals with monsters for inspiration?"

After reading all the contents, the situation is already roughly clear, Qin Nianshan in order to obtain the so-called "inspiration", through the content of the paper summoned the human-faced rats, although after contacting them, he got what he wanted, but unfortunately it is easy to ask the gods to send the gods, and an ordinary person deals with these monsters, and the results speak for themselves.

Removing most of the useless information, including those evil magic circles, Lu Jing also wrote down some important content from them.

Qin Nianshan summoned an indescribable monster with a mortal body, and its ability came from the stone slab in a certain palace, and this was only a small part of it!

A palace accessible to court musicians.

Where else could it be?

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