The room was a quaint luxury, Aunt Mei sat down on a wooden chair in the middle, Zhou Lanzhi stood beside her, she let Yuhan sit on a chair on the left, and then beckoned the maids to serve tea.

Aunt Mei drank tea and said slowly: "Girl, see you today, we are also destined." ”

"Well, old lady, I'm sorry to disturb you. ”

"There, you can come to the Zhou Mansion, it is the blessing of our Zhou family, you helped us break the ink array, and we have to rely on you to go to the ink pool next?"

"Ink pool? In Fengpu City, this ink pool is the most talked about, what is this ink pool like, do you really want to go and see it, is it possible that the Zhou Mansion and the ink pool also have a great relationship?" Yu Han asked suspiciously.

"Oh, yes, you've heard all about the legend of the inkpool, haven't you?" said Aunt May.

Yuhan nodded and said, "Sister Lan told us. ”

"This legend is actually known to everyone, as long as it is a local. But no one knows the secrets of our Zhou family, not even the people in our own house. Aunt Mei looked at Yuhan, cleared her throat and said, "The girl has doubts, I might as well tell you." ”

Zhou Lanzhi motioned for all the servants to leave the hall and ordered them to guard the courtyard gate, no matter who they were.

Aunt Mei stood up and pointed to a portrait painting in the center of the main wall of the hall, which depicted a heroic middle-aged man, with his clothes fluttering in the wind, a sword at his waist, and a longbow on his back. She said proudly: "This is the ancestor of my Zhou family, named Zhou Gongtai, a person with superb martial arts and superb archery skills, many years ago, the ink pool was created by him. ”

Yu Han was taken aback: "The ink pool was created by your Zhou family ancestors, what the hell is going on?"

"To tell you the truth, the young man who chased the black deer and shot Mosuel to death was my ancestor Zhou Gongtai. Aunt Mei said.

Yuhan was really surprised, the legend was true, and that young man was Zhou Gongtai of the Zhou family, in fact, what a terrible person this Zhou Gongtai was, Mo Chau saved his life, but he asked Mo Chau for his life, this is really a favor and revenge, the Zhou family is not only not ashamed, but also unashamedly said that the ink pool was created by their family, it is really shameless! This Zhou family's heart, it seems that it is more sinister than the tiger and leopard.

Aunt Mei saw that Yuhan was distracted, she must have been frightened by her own words, and hurriedly took a sip of tea and continued: "Actually, our story here is not over, you must think that our ancestor is an ungrateful person, in fact, the second time the ancestor hid behind the stone and saw that Mo Sue soaked in the pool was not a person. ”

"Not human?"

"Yes, it's not a human, it's a monster, it has a dragon head, a turtle body, and the ancestor was worried that it would hurt people sooner or later, so he shot it to death while it was sleeping in the pool, and it was precisely because its blood flowed into the pool that the water was blackened that there was an ink pool. ”

"I see. ”

"Yes, after the ancestor found out that this pool was a waste pool, he went home, but he once touched the water of the pool, leaving a black spot that will never disappear, and he is slowly growing up. I'd like to ask, you..."

"Madame, if you have any questions, please ask. ”

"Oh, the girl is really straightforward, I want to ask you, what words did you enter the battle according to the day, and what words were added to the stone tablet?"

"When we entered, it was based on a word of repentance, which was the word I saw from a high altitude, and finally the word written on the stele was a blue character, which was told to me from the stone pier, the black stone is the word king, and the white stone has only a block, and there is a king prefix in the upper left corner of the stone tablet, plus white characters, they are all based on the stone, and all of them thought that it was a blue character!" Yuhan told her all without reservation.

"Oh!" Aunt Mei suddenly realized after hearing this, and was stunned for a long time, and suddenly started to be stupid, and said in her mouth: "It turns out that the ancestor has always regretted what he did, ala...s!

Zhou Lanzhi accompanied Yuhan in the courtyard, and the two chatted as they walked: "The black spots on my ancestor's hands are growing every day, and he knows that he may be cursed by Mosuo, for the family, he is a great sin, and his heart is miserable, his wife, burn incense and pray for him." Sure enough, when their first child, Bichi, was born, he also had black ink spots on his hands, and he was also growing up. ”

"Is that so, everybody has this ink spot?"

"Yes, this black spot has always been with every descendant of our Zhou Mansion, it has it on its body, it grows in different places, and it keeps growing, as long as it grows to a certain extent, it will, will die. Zhou Lanzhi said with great sadness.

Yuhan couldn't help but shiver, and asked wryly, "Sister Lan also has it?"

"Yes, you see. She rolled up her long sleeves, and sure enough, there was a black spot the size of a copper plate on her white jade forearm, as black as ink. "Generally, the Zhou family will not live to be forty years old, I am almost thirty this year, and my eldest brother is almost forty, maybe he will not be able to escape this year or next year. ”

"Is there no cure?"

"This has always been the answer that our Zhou family is eagerly looking for, and it must be inseparable from the ink pool, however, the efforts of our ancestors for generations have come to naught. Even this ink array can't be opened, and we have invited a lot of talented people, but to no avail, either they fell into the pool at the beginning and were sent back to the shore by the pool water, or they couldn't enter, and they couldn't get close to the stone mountain at all. ”

"How did this inkblot array come about, and what does it do?"

"The ink array is an ancient formation, ten years after the ancestor Zhou Gongtai shot Mo Chau, there is a black deer appeared in Fengpu City, always on the night of the moon and the wind is high, it will sneak into the city, start her killing, pick young strong young men to attack, bite them to death and dig out their hearts, miserable. The people of Fengpu City were terrified, and it suddenly became a city of terror. Later, everyone unanimously elected my ancestor Zhou Gongtai as the leader, and formed a team to catch this black deer, which is called attacking and defending. They entered the mountain and engaged in a life-and-death battle with the black deer on the edge of the inkpool. As a result, the black deer was injured and fled into the Lingshan Mountain again, and ten people died in our team. In this battle, my ancestor was given a piece of antler, which he shot down with an arrow. The antlers were so beautiful and crystal clear that he used them to make a jade pen and sealed it in a beautiful wooden box. Many people heard about this, and they paid attention to this pen, and from time to time there were many people wandering around the yard, and my ancestor was worried that someone would steal it, and then my ancestor and his daughter Bichi jointly established this ink formation, and put the wooden box in the formation to protect it. ”

"Then why don't you let someone else pick it up?"

"Oh, this is because, when the water in the pond turns green, if someone like us with ink stains on his body accidentally touches it, even a little bit may kill us, so the ancestor made a heavy oath not to let any of the Zhou family break the formation, and the Zhou family has had many unruly people before, but no one survived. Zhou Lanzhi said.

"No wonder, if it were on your own, you would have already broken the formation. Yuhan smiled.

"Not necessarily, at the beginning we didn't dare to move, and we didn't allow outsiders to break the formation, just three hundred years ago, there was an old Taoist who passed through the house, he passed through the eight coats of the heavenly phenomena, the magic of the entrance, learned about this, he carefully analyzed and studied for a long time, he used the Tiankan God to deduce: this array will be broken by outsiders, and the person who will break the formation in the future is a person with colorful mysteries, but also a person who breaks the ink pool, and the treasure pen in the ink treasure chest is the key to breaking the ink pool, when the ink pool is broken, it is also the day when our Zhou family lifts the ink curse. ”

Yuhan nodded, silent.

Zhou Lanzhi continued: "The Zhou family is overjoyed, for three hundred years, everyone has kept inviting capable people to break the formation, but there has never been a result. I heard my mother say that the closest thing to breaking the formation was that there were once three masters outside the plug, who had broken into the foot of the stone mountain, and they did not enter through the word repentance, but entered with their powerful Xuan Qi, and as a result, they were poisoned and died when they took the ink treasure box. ”

"Sister Lan, I still don't know something?"

"It's something, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"This inkwell has always had people take ink, and it has always been peaceful, and the dangerous days have only happened since about sixty years ago, you can go to the inkpool to remove the obstacles?"

"Yu'er, he is really a shrewd person, but you don't know, others can take ink, but our Zhou family can't, our ancestors can't, otherwise what's the matter with the Li family?" Zhou Lanzhi said dejectedly.

"And these things, as if the inkpool knows you. ”

"Who said no, sixty years ago, we could still get the ink in the ink pool, but once we returned home, it would become black blood, and the smell was unbearable, this kind of thing naturally could not be known to outsiders, and sixty years later, we didn't even dare to approach the ink pool, because there was a fierce beast in the pool, it could smell the smell of our Zhou family's heirs, very crazy attack, we have died many people, including my father, sister-in-law and others. Zhou Lanzhi smiled bitterly.

Yu Han sighed very emotionally in his heart: This Zhou family has indeed suffered too much because of Zhou Gongtai's wrong behavior, it is the fault of one person, why should it involve the entire family from generation to generation, this black deer and that Mo Su and their descendants are indeed not good things, can this hatred be passed on forever? So he asked: "Then do you know how to solve your family's curse?"

"Oh, there's a way, it's what the Taoist Master told my mother three hundred years ago. ”

"How to crack?"

"It is to take out the antler pen from the ink treasure chest, and use the ink in the inkwell to write the corresponding words on a tablet in the center of the inkpool, and if you can't write it by hand, then the inkpool will automatically open a secret door and open a basement, which has fairy grass that unlocks the traces of black patches on our bodies. Zhou Lanzhi said.

Only then did Yuhan understand why when breaking the "ink array", he couldn't use his hands to write, and he had to break the ink array first.

After the two separated, Yuhan went back to the room to rest.