"Do you know why I asked you to come?"

Zhuge Wanling's light words made Qin Ke come back to his senses, of course he knew what he was here for the night, and he came to Jing Wu for this matter, although there were various accidents interspersed along the way, but now he appeared in front of Zhuge Wanling for the second time after all.

"My master, he ......" Qin Ke gritted his teeth, and his heart began to beat a little irrepressibly violently, "His whereabouts ......"

Zhuge Wanling nodded, but did not speak directly, but turned sideways and rummaged through the bamboo slips on the table little by little.

Soon, he pulled out a brocade box no bigger than a palm from the pile of bamboo slips.

"Open it and take a look. Zhuge Wanling pushed the brocade box in front of Qin Ke.

"What is it?" Qin Ke didn't understand what Zhuge Wanling meant, bent down slightly, grabbed the brocade box in his hand, looked at the button made of animal teeth on it, calmed down a little, and then opened it.

Inside is a piece of jade, but compared with the delicate appearance of the brocade box, this piece of jade is dull, dark green, with mottled impurities, rough patterns like a naughty boy in the play of the imprint, twisted and twisted.

Jingwu is a rich country, in the court, I don't know how many good jade hidden in the attic, jadeite, nephrite, turquoise, lapis lazuli, serpentine jade, hibiscus stone, blood amber, agate......

If this piece of jade is a person, I am afraid that it is also a dwarf who grows short and ugly among the tall people, and if he gives it to the pawnshop, the pawnshop owner will also think that the condition is too bad and wave his hand to push it out.

But Qin Ke looked at this piece of jade and trembled.

"Do you remember it?" said Zhuge Wanling softly.

"Yes......" Of course Qin Ke remembered it, the master didn't have many things left for himself, the dilapidated house in Daoxiang Village stored his cherished bamboo slips, in addition, a jade pendant was stored by him in the Taixue Hall, and a dagger was placed with the "Bodhisattva".

The jade pendant is a valuable jade pendant, and the dagger is also a dagger that sharpens iron like clay, and the master undoubtedly keeps all his best things for himself.

But Qin Ke also remembered that the most common thing that the master wore on his body at the beginning was not the jade pendant that looked crystal clear and beautiful, but this jade pendant that looked rough and ugly.

Except for some inconvenient occasions such as doing farm work, the jade recipe never left his side.

Until he "died", the jade recipe disappeared without a trace......

"It's Master's stuff. Qin Ke trembled and said, "He will never let it leave his side." ”

Qin Ke suddenly raised his head, looked at Zhuge Wanling with a little red eyes, and said, "My master...... He...... Is he still dead?"

Zhuge Wanling shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?" Qin Ke looked at Zhuge Wanling in a daze, and suddenly shouted loudly, "How could you not know?"

Zhuge Wanling looked at Qin Ke's somewhat uncontrollable appearance, his eyes were soft, like a loving father: "I really don't know." Three years ago, I received this jade recipe, which is a token from my brother, and along with this jade recipe, there is also a letter. ”

"Where's the letter?" Qin Ke hurriedly asked.

"You open the mezzanine of the box. ”

Qin Ke followed the direction of Zhuge Wanling's fingers, observed carefully for a while, reached out and tore open the soft cushion used to hold the jade recipe in the brocade box, and a silk book was quietly folded in it, the handwriting looked sloppy, and the ink marks had become a little diffused and dull because of the smudging of many years, but he didn't even need to make a comparison with that stroke, he was immediately convinced that this was the handwritten letter of his master, Zhuge Wolong.

"My brother is above, although my brother is thousands of miles away from home, I always miss my brother, and I just hope that one day I can meet under the peach tree of my old home, drink and play chess, and enjoy the joy of family. However, there is no such blessing in the end......"

Obviously, this is a letter to Zhuge Wanling, but Qin Ke looked at the silk book, word by word, but it seemed that he wanted to engrave every word of this letter deeply into his heart, "There is an apprentice in the younger brother, his name is Qin Ke, smart and clever, living in the mountains of Mojiapu County, if the brother has time, you can ask someone to take care of it...... Tang State has a wine shop, called Jiayuju, if there is no news of the younger brother for a year, the shopkeeper Lao Yu can know the whereabouts of the younger brother. ”

"Tang Kingdom Wine Shop?" Qin Ke looked up at Zhuge Wanling, and somewhat understood, "Then, then you went to Tang Kingdom to find the shopkeeper named Lao Yu?"

Zhuge Wanling sighed and said, "Lao Yu is dead, and Jiayuju has already changed its owner. ”

"Dead?" Qin Ke looked at Zhuge Wanling in surprise, "How could this be?"

"There is a force in the Tang country, and with my current energy, I can't find out who they are and what their purpose is. But they kept tracking my brother's whereabouts, and finally found Jiayuju. However, this shopkeeper was affectionate and righteous, and he would rather die than reveal the whereabouts of my brother, and he knew that his life was in danger long before he was arrested, so he let one of his relatives and friends escape with a letter and went to Jingwu, and I learned something about Wolong. ”

"I have burned the letter from Jiayuju, the things in it are too important, and my situation, you should also know ......" Zhuge Wanling looked out of the door, Zhu Ran's figure was still the same, Qin Ke also glanced at it, thinking of the seemingly innocent little eunuch Chen Chu, both of them were silent.

Indeed, Zhuge Wanling lived in such a place full of deceit, and anyone around him could be a spy sent by those scholars, who knows if anyone would see that letter?

"However, I can tell you more about Wolong...... Zhuge Wanling looked down at the bookcase, stroked the wolf brush in his hand, and frowned slightly: "Wolong...... Since he was a child, he wanted to travel the world, but at that time he was still young, and he could only study under the guidance of the old gentleman every day, but there was not a moment in his mind that he was not filled with those strange ideas. For example, how high is the sky, whether there is an underworld underground, why can't fish drown in water, and where is the end of the sea of domes...... He couldn't find an answer, so he went to ask Mr., although Mr. was a famous Confucian scholar in Wu at the beginning, he didn't know much about these things, so he could only fool around casually. I never thought that Wolong really thought that Mr. knew everything, and the problems were getting more and more day by day, and they were getting stranger day by day, and in the end, as long as Mr. saw him, he would run faster than anyone else. ”

Zhuge Wanling pursed his lips and chuckled, as if recalling his youth: "Of course my father knows about this, but Wolong's talent and learning are outstanding among all Mr. 's students, if he scolds at will, his father is also afraid of hurting Wolong's heart to study, so he has to carry large bags of pastries and tobacco leaves to Mr.'s house every month to apologize. When Wolong was ten years old, his father made a marriage agreement with his husband's family, and the woman was the granddaughter of his husband, who was two years younger than him. ”

"Wolong has no objection to this doll kiss, he is still young, and he doesn't even know what it means to be married at the age of eighteen, but he thinks it's good to have multiple sisters behind his ass all day long, so he gets along very well with Mr.'s granddaughter......"

"The two families are happy to see it, with Wolong's talent and learning, it is not difficult to reach the princes in the future, even if they can't do any earth-shattering careers, it is not a problem to be the parent official of a county and a county. But when Wolong was seventeen years old, he disappeared. ”

"Missing?" Qin Ke looked at Zhuge Wanling strangely, originally he was anxious to know the whereabouts of his master, but now listening to Zhuge Wanling talk about his master's childhood, he gradually became obsessed, and couldn't help but follow his words and ask.

Zhuge Wanling's expression was strange: "Of course, it is said to be missing...... However, there was a letter at home, a total of three, the first one was for the old gentleman, saying that he still had many doubts about his studies, and wanted to go out to travel and increase his knowledge. The second letter is for the father, which probably means that the child is not filial, and he cannot follow his father's arrangement to participate in the township examination for the time being, and he cannot step into the marriage hall early......"

And this third letter ...... but for the woman who had been with him for many years. ”