The content of the letter was very brief. It basically told me that many years ago, my grandfather donated a batch of cultural relics to the city museum.
After reading the letter, I suddenly thought that grandma's dowry might be mixed in that batch of cultural relics.
"Zhou Cang, is everything okay?" Xiangyu asked after seeing that I hadn't spoken since I read the letter.
"This letter was written to me by my father," I said, handing the letter paper to Xiangyu.
Xiangyu glanced at me, as if he was confirming whether he could read my letter.
I said softly: "Just take it and look at it, it's okay."
Xiangyu then gently took the letter out of my hand.
After she read it, she looked at me with confusion and said, "Zhou Cang, why is this letter from your father so strange?"
Xiangyu didn't know that her grandmother's dowry was related to the astrolabe, so she thought her father's letter was a bit strange.
I looked at Xiangyu and didn't want to explain too much to her, so I didn't say anything. I just took the letter paper in her hand back, folded it, and put it back into the wax paper envelope.
"Zhou Cang, how did you say this letter was stuffed under your pillow?" Xiang Yu asked.
"Xiangyu, what do you mean?" I asked a little confused. Looking at Xiangyu's eyes, I felt like she wanted to say something.
"I think that since I want to tell you this matter in a letter, it means that your father did not come to the hospital last night. Otherwise, he would have just woken you up in front of you. Why should you be so secretive?
And who do you think is the person closest to your father and whom he can trust?"
"Xiangyu, you are saying that this letter might have been sent by my mother." I said a little surprised.
"Yes, but it's not just that. If you think about it again, besides the medical staff, there were also strangers who appeared next to us last night." Xiangyu said with a mysterious face.
"You mean that faceless girl." I said, and immediately understood what Xiang Yu meant. "You don't think that the faceless girl is my mother, right?"
"Zhou Cang, I didn't say that, but at least the possibility that the letter in your hand was sent by that faceless woman is very high." Xiang Yu said with certainty.
"No way, that woman can never be my mother." I couldn't accept it.
"Zhou Cang, I didn't say she is your mother, but since she can get your father's letter to you, although I don't know the purpose of your father sending you this letter, since your father can
It took so much effort to convey such a message to you.
It's definitely not that simple. Therefore, the person who has access to this letter and can make your father feel relieved to transfer this letter to you must not be an ordinary person, at least someone your father trusts.
." Xiangyu's words were so logical that I was speechless for a moment.
I glanced at Xiangyu, then took out my mobile phone and dialed my mother's number. I wanted to ask my mother what the letter was about. The most important thing was to make sure that my mother was not the weird one last night. She didn't look like a ghost.
A faceless woman who doesn’t look like a ghost.
But my mother didn't answer the phone until the busy signal came from the phone.
I didn't give up and called several more times, but in the end I closed the phone with disappointment.
"Zhou Cang,"
There must be unconcealable sadness on my face. When Xiangyu saw me hanging up the phone, a pair of warm and soft hands held my wrist and called me softly.
"It's okay, just let me slow down for a while. It'll be fine just for a moment." I forced a smile on my face. There was clear nasal discharge in my nose that was about to flow out, so I couldn't help but pump it hard.
"Then you should take a rest first. I'll pack up my things and go through the formalities, and then we can leave the hospital." Xiangyu said, silently starting to pick up the things on the table.
Last night Xiangyu said that the faceless girl should also be inextricably linked to the astrolabe time, and she was very sure that the reason why the faceless girl behaved like this was probably because she was harmed by radiation in the abyss of the ancient temple.
.
I had seen my father's account in his diary before. He said that after his mother came out of the ancient temple, she contracted a strange disease, so he blamed himself very much.
If my father really wanted to convey some information to me, but it was inconvenient to do so himself, the best person to do it would of course be my mother.
But last night, the faceless woman kept following me and did not make any personal attacks on me.
All of this points to her being my mother.
I dare not think about it anymore. Although she is my mother, a close relative of flesh and blood, I really need time to equate the terrifying image of that faceless woman with my gentle and smiling mother.
cure.
"Zhou Cang, I have completed the discharge procedures, let's go."
I don't know how long I sat on the edge of the iron frame hospital bed in a daze. Anyway, it wasn't until Xiangyu took care of everything and came to my side and called me that I suddenly came back to my senses.
Unknowingly, I burst into tears, but during this process, I was obviously not thinking about anything. It felt like my soul was suddenly pulled out of my body.
I hurriedly wiped away the scattered tears on my face with the back of my hand, then picked up my luggage bag and smiled awkwardly at Xiangyu.
"Let's vent, I feel much better now. Don't be sad. Everyone has some negative inheritance to inherit when they are born. We can't escape it, we can only accept it happily." Xiangyu seemed to be comforting me, but also seemed to be talking to me.
Said to himself.
"Xiangyu, this is different." I still couldn't get out of the shadow of the faceless woman.
"Same, do you still remember? I told you that my father was born with a congenital defect, so grandpa secretly kept his uncle who was supposed to be thrown into the stove ashes and suffocated to death as soon as he was born.
Xiangyu looked at me and said.
"I remember, but your father was born with a congenital defect, which is different from mine." I said.
"You should know that our ancestors are the Yufu tribe, but what you don't know is that our ancestors originally lived in the ancient Shu Kingdom. Later, for some unknown reason, we migrated to the Poyang Lake area.
They lived at the bottom of Poyang Lake, so although our ancestors had human limbs and torsos, their facial images were close to those of fish." Xiangyu suddenly stopped when he said this.
I immediately thought of the Yufu tribe’s sacrificial ceremony I participated in in the black sedan chair. Could it be that Xiangyu’s father had reverted to his ancestors, so he looked like the fish-faced man?
"Xiangyu, if I told you that I knew what the ancestors of the Yufu tribe looked like, would you believe it?" I said to Xiangyu.
When Xiangyu heard what I said, he looked at me with wide eyes and did not answer my question.
"When we first entered Poyang Lake, didn't Andrew tell you that a ghost ship on the lake saved us? Do you still remember this?" I looked at Xiangyu and said.
Xiangyu nodded towards me, but still didn't speak.
"However, he didn't tell you many details. In that ghost ship, there was a black sedan. I entered the sedan by accident, and then I had a hallucination. In the hallucination, I participated in the Yufu Clan
A sacrificial hall held at the bottom of Poyang Lake." I said calmly, as if telling an ancient legend.
However, even so, there was no hint of joking in my heart. Instead, I described it in a solemn tone.
After hearing what I said, Xiangyu opened her mouth wide with an incredible look on her face: "Zhou Cang, you said that you have seen the Yufu tribe at the bottom of Poyang Lake."
"It's not that I've seen it, but I participated in that sacrifice." I said.
"Wait a minute, let me think about it, let me organize how to explain it to you more clearly." Xiangyu seemed to be very excited, picking up and putting down the things in his hand, with an expression of being at a loss.
"Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry." I said.
"Zhou Cang, did you participate in that sacrifice as a woman?" Xiangyu said.
This sentence instantly frightened me into silence.