Grandpa probably didn't expect that grandma would follow him in. His expression changed, he stared at grandma and said, "What are you doing here? You're up in the middle of the night."
Grandma ignored Grandpa, rolled her eyes at him, and walked over: "Cang'er, don't listen to his alarmist talk. He always talks about something but nothing."
"Grandma, could it be that you couldn't find grandpa in the middle of the night, so you got up to search the house?" I saw grandpa's expression was not good, so I hurriedly said with a careless look.
"After sleeping, I wanted to go to the toilet and found that the old man was missing. I thought he must have come here. No, he is really here." Grandma looked at grandpa and said, still showing the affection she usually gets along with grandpa.
appearance.
Grandma said that grandpa must have come to this secret room when he disappeared, so she should have known about the existence of the secret room for a long time. In this way, after I entered the secret room for the first time and fainted in the secret passage, I should be one of them
A man found me and took me out of the secret passage.
Maybe two people discovered it at the same time.
So there is a problem here. When I woke up at that time, I found that five days had passed. The old couple must know what was going on.
"What do you know, old man? I didn't tell you all those things." Grandma may have seen that grandpa didn't speak, so she couldn't help but hit him, and then said with a smile.
"Mistress, then you tell me what happened, and where did the body in the ice coffin that looked exactly like my father come from, how did he die, and why wasn't he buried in the ground?
"An, I have to stay frozen in the underground secret room of Zhou's old house." I looked at my grandma and said.
"Wen Yu's death was an accident, but your grandfather couldn't let go. I couldn't bear to see him so sad, so I temporarily stored Wen Yu's body in this secret room." Grandma looked at the body in the crystal coffin.
, said silently, with tears streaming down his face.
"Grandma," I wanted to ask something else, but I saw grandma wave her hand to me.
"Cang'er, let's go back to the study first. The air in this secret room is bad, and your grandpa's health has not been very good recently. I'm afraid that something will happen to him if he gets emotional for a while." Grandma said, holding grandpa's hand and saying:
"Let's go out first, okay?"
Grandpa never spoke. At this moment, he glanced at grandma who was full of affection. Without any expression, he broke away his hand, turned around and got into the secret passage.
My grandma and I followed closely behind and also returned to the study through the secret passage.
"You guys talk, I'm tired, I'll go back to the house and go to sleep first." As soon as they came out of the secret passage, grandpa said to grandma, looking a little downcast and defeated.
Now, I really believe what Xiang Yu said. I feel that the love between grandparents and the relationship between parents is really slightly different.
In fact, at this point, I feel a little scary. The Zhou family is like a Rashomon. Everyone has an unknown side, and everything they do has their own motives and purposes.
"Grandma, if you have something to tell me, let's talk about it together." I also felt a little tired in my heart, as if I was about to be suffocated by this environment full of lies.
"Cang'er, let's sit down and tell all the stories we didn't finish last time." Grandma said, sitting on Grandpa's stool.
Seeing this situation, I moved a stool over and sat down opposite grandma.
"I think you probably know that there are actually eight astrolabees, which are controlled by eight major families. The Xu family is the eldest brother of these eight families, similar to what you call leaders now," grandma said.
While talking, I picked up the plate of dried white magnolia flowers placed on my grandfather's desk and tore off the petals one by one.
"Did you know? The Xu family's ancestral temple is actually not in Yunnan, but in Guizhou. Thousands of years ago, due to an unavoidable reason, the Xu family gave up the business that had been operating in Guizhou for thousands of years in order to protect the astrolabe in their hands.
The ancestral family moved south and settled in Yunnan. Probably at the same time, the other seven families used their own methods to hide the astrolabes in places known only by their clansmen. After the Xu clan stabilized in Yunnan, they used
I used all my family’s energy to search for the other seven lost families. Later, after hundreds of years of searching, I finally learned the whereabouts of all the astrolabes.”
"What happened next, did you take back the astrolabe?"
"No, the ancestors of the Xu family wrote a book in a special language and recorded all the positions of the astrolabe in it."
"Is it the holy book placed in the secret room of grandpa's study?" I couldn't help but interrupt grandma and asked.
"That was just one of the books. At that time, the ancestors of the Xu family were afraid that someone would have evil intentions and use this book to collect all the astrolabees and then do whatever they wanted, so they wrote eight books at the same time. Each family owned one, and these eight books
Among the books, only one place in each book is correct. Therefore, if someone really has the ability to collect these eight books, he will have to search in eighty-eight sixty-four places to collect all eight stars.
"Plate." Grandma said slowly, and threw the white magnolia with only the flower stem in her hand into the flower plate.
"Grandma, what is the function of the astrolabe? What is the purpose of your sacrifice? Is the astrolabe related to Sirius? Why do you have some of the same things in Wawu Mountain and the bottom of Poyang Lake in your dowry? The Zhou family's
Do the twin genes come from the Xu family? What’s so special about my father’s and my identity? If we were born into the Xu family, are my father and I the high priests?” I finally answered the question in my mind.
All were asked.
"Cang'er, let me tell you one by one." Grandma said, slowly stood up, and then picked up the thermos bottle under the desk.
When I saw this, I stood up quickly, took the thermos bottle from grandma, and poured a cup of hot water for her.
Grandma slowly picked up the teacup, blew on it a few times, and then took a sip.
"Cang'er, I actually don't know the role of this new disk. You know, when your grandfather and I left Yunnan, we were only more than ten years old, and new ideas had already been introduced by that time, so our younger generation
I didn’t pay much attention to the things of the patriarch and the priest, thinking it was feudal superstition, which was one of the important reasons why I eloped with your grandfather." Grandma put down the tea cup and stared at me.
: "When I was young, I always refused to listen to the advice of my elders. When I suffered a loss later, it was already too late to regret."
Grandma seemed to be speaking to me, and she seemed to be regretting her impulsiveness when she was young. Did she regret following her grandfather out of Yunnan?
I didn't speak, because I really didn't know what to say. Grandma didn't seem to care about me, and continued on her own: "The Xu family holds a sacrifice every summer, and the object of the sacrifice is the new plate.
However, no one knows why the sacrifice is being performed, because during the sacrifice process, the tribesmen can only close their eyes and lie on the ground, but..."
"Just what?" I know that what comes after this is the key point.
"I have always felt that the sacrifices held every summer are child's play, just like the ancient books recording the location of the new disk. They are all a ploy by the Xu family to deceive outsiders. In fact, the most important thing is the big sacrifice held every seven years." Grandma.
He looked into the distance with his eyes and said thoughtfully.
"Daji, what is Daji?" I asked.
"No one knows what kind of ceremony the Great Sacrifice is, because every time the Great Sacrifice is held, the clan chiefs and priests will return to Guizhou to hold it. No one even knows the location where the sacrifice is held. When I was a child, I once heard the sacrifice mentioned by the priest.
On the day of a big sacrifice, the chiefs and priests of the eight major tribes will gather in Guizhou, but the place of sacrifice is different every time." Grandma stopped here.
"The location of the sacrifice is related to the location of Sirius, right?" I looked at my grandma and asked seriously.
"Yes." Grandma looked at me and nodded.
"Grandma, do you know the relationship between Sirius and the astrolabe, right?" I stared at grandma and asked word by word.
My question seemed to be a bit unexpected to grandma. She suddenly raised her head, her eyes met my somewhat vicious gaze, and then she changed her direction.
"I have no idea."
"Then what happened to your dowry?" Before I could finish my words, grandma stood up and slapped me hard.
I was stunned by this sudden slap, and I ran away in the nursing home in the middle of the night, so my eyes suddenly flashed with golden light, my head was dizzy, and all I knew was that my right cheek suddenly felt hot and painful.