"If you say you don't know, you just don't know, and you still keep getting entangled like this. The Zhou family is really unfortunate. Your father didn't listen to the advice and jumped into the fire pit. Now you are doing the same." Grandma said loudly.
cry.
In the middle of the night, grandma was crying and shouting, making a lot of noise, so she attracted grandpa and Xiangyu over.
"Zhou Cang, what did you do to make grandma cry?" Xiangyu asked, then stood next to grandma and took out two tissues to wipe her tears.
In my whole life, I have never seen grandma in such a posture, so I froze in place, probably with a confused face. Even though I can't see my own expression at the moment, I can still imagine it,
It was probably a terrifyingly blank face.
"Let's go back to the house." When my grandfather saw this, he didn't scold me. He just silently took my grandma's hand and slowly led her to the bedroom.
At this moment, I saw many unspeakable hidden things in the eyes of my grandparents.
I have spent most of the twenty-odd years of my life with my old couple. Therefore, not only do they know me well, but I also know them very well.
Through the scene just now, I can probably feel that it's not that my grandparents don't love each other anymore, it's just that their current situation makes them afraid to love.
Just like the slap my grandma gave me just now, it looked like a slap on the surface, but in reality, it was love.
"Zhou Cang," Xiangyu looked at me with a bit complicated eyes.
She should have noticed that her grandparents played a certain role in the astrolabe.
It's just that she is such a smart woman and knows that there are some things that she shouldn't ask, so she just called me gently and didn't ask me any other questions.
I raised my head, glanced at Xiang Yu, and smiled lightly: "It's okay, the old couple often beat and scold me, so I'm not surprised."
Xiangyu was obviously stunned, and then turned to show a bright smile: "Zhou Cang, at this age, my grandparents can scold me, I am really happy, but this grandma is too strong.
Well, half of your face was swollen. Can I give you some medicine?"
"No need, I bumped into so many things in Wawu Mountain and Poyang Lake, now it doesn't mean anything at all. I'm really sorry that I woke you up because of these unattractive things." I said a little guiltily.
Xiangyu said.
"What's the point? We people, will we stay up less late?" Xiangyu still smiled slightly.
To be honest, such girls are really like oxygen, clean, comfortable and able to give people energy.
I really hope that she is the same as she is on the outside and there is no other side that I cannot see.
Probably because he saw me dazed, Xiangyu couldn't help but push me, and then said: "What are you thinking about? I don't feel sleepy anymore. Are you sleepy? How about we drink a can of beer together? It's in the old house.
In this patio, move two stools and look at the moon together."
"Okay, I don't know if there are any in the refrigerator. I'll go to the kitchen and get a jar of salted peanuts dried by grandma as a topping for wine." When Xiangyu said this, I agreed immediately. There were too many things happening tonight.
There were too many, and I felt that my brain cells were completely exhausted. I was thinking of taking a break, but now I happened to have someone with me, so why not?
Xiangyu and I hit it off immediately, and the two of us divided our work and cooperated. After a while, we were sitting on the patio enjoying the moonlight and drinking beer.
"Zhou Cang."
"ah!"
"This feeling is really like going back to the university days. At that time, the four of us followed the professor on field archeology not long after we enrolled. Field practice was very hard. We are all students and have never suffered much, so every day
We always drink some wine in the evening and then take the opportunity to complain, and the professor often pretends not to know." Xiangyu said, taking a big sip of beer into his mouth.
"Yes, time has changed after all, and the beer in front of me tastes completely different." I said with a wry smile.
"Zhou Cang, actually at that time, I already felt that Chen Mo was a little preoccupied. Perhaps from that time on, Chen Mo was already one of the members of the astrolabe search team. He was involved in this incident earlier than any of us.
During the incident." Xiangyu paused for a moment and laughed, "You are really close to your old job. Why do you come back to this incident after talking about it? You obviously want to talk about something else.
."
"Xiangyu, what about you? When you were in college, you practiced field practice with your professor, was it really just for your studies?" I asked in a leisurely manner.
"Not really, my college major was chosen for me by my father. I was surprised at the time because I have been particularly interested in music since I was a child and have always longed to study a music-related major, but my father chose such a major for me.
I really didn't understand a major that was so far away from my hobbies." Xiangyu said, taking another sip of beer and looking up at the waning moon hanging in the sky.
"Later, my father told me about his family, and I realized that I had a particularly good sense of music since childhood, not because of talent, but because of responsibility."
"Responsibility? I don't understand?"
"Actually, I don't quite understand. What my father said was ambiguous. But recently, I gradually feel that maybe the responsibility my father mentioned is the same as the principle that only you can find all the astrolabes. It is a mission that comes with birth.
, But why exactly and when our mission will begin to be exercised is completely beyond our control." Xiangyu said.
Suddenly, I felt like I was enlightened.
I suddenly remembered the sacrifice of the Yufu tribe that I participated in in the black sedan chair. Xiangyu said that she had a very good sense of music. So, would the special responsibility she bears be the same as the one who shook his neck?
The identity of the boy who put the string of beads on and then directed the playing of countless musical instruments was the same.
Thinking about it this way, could it be that the sacrifice I participated in was not a sacrifice unique to the Yufu tribe, but the big sacrifice that grandma talked about?
However, the only people I saw at the scene were me and the fish-faced man, but not the patriarch of his family. Why was that?
"Zhou Cang, Zhou Cang, are you still listening to me?"
Xiangyu suddenly pushed me twice, which brought me back to my senses.
"I'm listening, tell me." I said, picked up a peanut, broke open the shell, then pinched out a peanut inside and handed it to Xiangyu.
Xiangyu was not polite and took the peanuts naturally, and then continued: "After I knew these family secrets, I followed my father's arrangement and studied this major." Xiangyu said and suddenly turned around.
He came over, looked at me and said: "Zhou Cang, very
Only after a long time did I find out that the professor already knew my identity on the first day I enrolled in school. From the moment I learned about this, I have been observing this person. He is really an extremely terrifying person.
, but no one can admit his outstanding talent."
"Since you entered school, he has known that you are one of the eight major families with astrolabe? Why?" I asked in confusion.
"Zhou Cang, you know why there are eight astrolabes. The eight astrolabes are actually Bagua. If we can find all the astrolabes in the future, then when we put them together, they may become a Bagua map." Xiangyu said, "This It was my father's conjecture. He had been studying that ancient book all his life, and he might actually have found out some clues later."
"Then what else has he researched?" I asked anxiously.
"The eight families are actually the eight hexagrams. Your grandma's family represents the Qian position, and the Wen family is in the earthquake position. During the great sacrifice every seven years, the patriarchs and priests of the eight major families gather together, and only The two major families of Qian and Kun can go up to the altar, which means that only the families representing Qian and Kun know what the purpose of the sacrifice is. Of course, they can have the power to let these eight major families perform sacrifices every seven years for thousands of years. The family traveled thousands of miles back to Guizhou, and then secretly went to a place to continue the mysterious sacrifices. In the process, each family would definitely get some particularly attractive benefits. And these astrolabe search armies that we currently know about There must be some people who know what these interests are, so they continue to pursue them for decades." Xiangyu said, suddenly stopped, and stared straight ahead.
"Xiangyu, what's wrong?" I saw something wrong with her expression, so I couldn't help but ask.
"Zhou Cang, look at the door and screen in the front hall facing us. Something seems wrong." When Xiangyu said this, he had already stood up and his face turned pale.
I looked over at the position she said, and didn't find anything at first. But after staring at it carefully for a while, a chill suddenly shot up from behind, and goosebumps suddenly broke out.