Summary of the previous chapter: Mrs. Ma relied on the flame girl Xiaoshuang to see Ma Xiaoquan's true identity...
Mrs. Ma shook her head: "The Zi family... our Ma family has some contacts with them, but in recent years, the two families have become somewhat separated... and the Hua family... ..It seems that they were already exterminated during the Tang Dynasty..."
"Genocide?" Ma Xiaoquan said in surprise, "Isn't the Hua family a hidden family? How could it be exterminated?"
Mrs. Ma was unsure: "We are not sure, but according to the documents left by our ancestors, the Hua family has not had any contact with my Ma family since the Tang Dynasty..."
"Oh" Ma Xiaoquan nodded. It seems that the fact that the Hua family was exterminated is just a guess.
"Grandma, let me ask you again, this... what does Lu Zhan want from our Ma family's Secret Records of the Baiyi Clan?" Ma Xiaoquan casually flipped through the Secret Records of the Baiyi Clan in his hand and said, "This secret record is The record is written in the characters of the Baiyi clan. If I remember correctly, the characters should have been written by Qingyi’s wife herself. The characters in Qingyi are a bit sloppy, and the characters of the Baiyi clan are not easy to read. In addition, Shang Qingyi’s slightly sloppy handwriting, I’m afraid not many people in the world can recognize it, right?”
Mrs. Ma nodded and agreed with Ma Xiaoquan's words.
Ma Xiaoquan continued: "So...then what does Lu Zhan want this book for? He can't understand it."
Mrs. Ma was also at a loss: "Lu Zhan knew somewhere that my Ma family had such a book, so he has been trying his best to get it since he was young... The old man didn't Before he died, he once said that there seemed to be some secret in this secret book... Did Lu Zhan want to get that secret?"
"Secret?" Ma Xiaoquan asked in surprise, "Is there a secret in this book?" As he said that, Ma Xiaoquan opened the book and looked at it page by page.
After watching for a long time, Ma Xiaoquan didn't notice anything strange.
"Grandma, there are secret things in this book. Who made it up?"
Mrs. Ma said with a serious face: "It's not fabricated, it's an oral instruction passed down from generation to generation in the Ma family."
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan was stunned.
He left the late Han Dynasty and now came to the late Ming Dynasty. There was a gap of 1,400 years. During these 1,400 years, Ma Xiaoquan definitely didn’t know what happened to the Ma family. If you want to talk about this book, Bai Yi Clan The secret record was indeed written by Qingyi's wife, but after so many years, the content of the book will inevitably undergo some changes, or... there will really be some secrets in this book... ..
With his thoughts at this point, Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help but think of a series of strange books on martial arts that he had read.
"Forty-two chapters of the Sutra?" Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said to himself, "It's not really like the Forty-Two Chapters of the Sutra, sandwiched in the pages of the book, right?"
Madam Ma had a keen ear and heard Ma Xiaoquan's soliloquy and asked, "Quan'er, why don't you give it a try?"
Ma Xiaoquan raised his head and glanced at Madam Ma, then nodded: "Well, let's give it a try."
Ma Xiaoquan carefully groped through the Secret Records of the Baiyi Clan, repeatedly groping page after page. An hour passed so quickly that he didn't even realize it.
During this period, Mrs. Ma lay down on the bed in the dark room to rest due to her age, while Ma Tong sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to rest.
When Ma Xiaoquan was exploring the secret records of the Baiyi Clan page by page, he also took a brief look at it. I have to say that Qingyi's wife was very powerful. She recorded almost all the strange things she had ever told Ma Xiaoquan in the book.
Moreover, as this book was passed down through the family, descendants also made corresponding annotations on the contents of the book, and what is commendable is that many title pages were added at the back of the book to record the thoughts and experiences of future generations.
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When he reached the penultimate page, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly felt something was wrong.
The thickness of this page is obviously thicker than the previous title page, and it is thicker all around and thinner in the middle. If you don't touch it carefully, you can't detect it at all.
Ma Xiaoquan breathed out and touched the page again. After confirming that there was indeed something strange about the page, he raised his head and said to Tong Ma: "Uncle Tong, do you have any sharp tools like a knife?"
Ma Tong opened his eyes, nodded, stood up, magically pulled out a knife from his body, and handed it to Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan took the hand knife handed over by Ma Tong and gently scraped the page with the tip of the knife. When scraping the middle of the page, Ma Xiaoquan did not see what he expected, but when he scraped the four sides of the page
, Ma Xiaoquan clearly felt a trace of resistance.
At this time, Mrs. Ma woke up. Seeing Ma Xiaoquan's actions, Mrs. Ma quickly got up and came over.
"Quan'er, this is..."
Ma Xiaoquan did not stop: "Grandma, don't panic, there is only one sentence on this page, and I have already remembered it in my heart."
Mrs. Ma said oh, and then asked: "Did you notice anything strange?"
Ma Xiaoquan stretched out his hand to signal not to disturb him for the time being. Then, Ma Xiaoquan gently called out: "Xiaoshuang, come here and help me."
Xiaoshuang, the flame girl who had been wandering around in the secret passages of the dark room for many times, rushed over with a whine and stopped next to Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan showed the pages he had scraped with a knife in front of Xiaoshuang: "Xiaoshuang, try it with the Lanming Holy Fire. Remember, don't burn my sleeves."
Xiaoshuang curled her lips and blew on the page. She heard two "whooshes" and the page suddenly burned.
Ma Xiaoquan moved very quickly. While Xiaoshuang was "blowing", he had already cut off the page very quickly.
"Bang" Ma Xiaoquan closed the Secret Book of the Baiyi Clan and quickly extinguished the burning pages with the cover of the book. Then, the three people in the darkroom heard a crisp metal sound.
"Uh." Mrs. Ma and Ma Tong were both surprised. They never thought that there would be such a magical page in this secret book of the Baiyi Clan.
Ma Xiaoquan lowered his head and picked up a thin piece of metal from the ground.
"Xiao Shuang, thank you."
The flame girl Xiaoshuang was very "proud" and "pushed her lips" at Ma Xiaoquan, then rushed to the secret passage and went to play by herself.
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, held the metal sheet in front of his eyes, squinted at it, and then became surprised.
The metal sheet was written with fine, small characters. The font was very small. Ma Xiaoquan looked at it for a long time before he could see all the words clearly.
"This...how is this possible...Zhao Yuntai...how can it be you, how is it possible?"