I smiled at Chen Mo and then returned to the cabin.
Although this is a residential boat, the furnishings inside the boat are very simple. Basically, the kitchen, dining room, living room and bedroom are all in this small space.
I don’t know why Sister-in-law Ru had such a boat, or whether the boat originally belonged to her.
She said that this place has left the control of the Chen family's back house. Does that mean we can still move freely for the time being?
I found a stool randomly in the cabin, then sat down and said to Chen Mo: "Chen Mo, what should we do now? Stay in this cabin and wait for Rusao, and wait for nightfall?"
"Zhou Cang, the Chen family's back house is always patrolled during the day. I don't know what kind of situation you are in now, but in order to be able to see your aunt smoothly tonight, I still think
Let’s not move around randomly for the time being,” Chen Mo said.
"Okay, Chen Mo, I listen to you." After all, I am not familiar with the Chen family, whether it is the front house or the back house. "By the way, Chen Mo, what happened after you were taken away yesterday afternoon?
, I arrived at the back house of the Chen family without knowing it."
"When I arrived at the main hall yesterday afternoon, my grandfather was waiting for me. He already knew that we had gone to Yunlangyuan on the way. He scolded me angrily and asked me to go to the back hall to burn incense and kowtow in front of the ancestor's tablet to reflect. In
In the Chen family, my grandfather’s words were like an imperial edict. No one dared to disobey, so I went to the back hall and knelt down.
In front of the Chen family's ancestral tablet, I waited for the incense stick to finish burning. I returned to the back hall and my grandfather had already left. At this time, I had a faint feeling that something was wrong. It seemed that my grandfather was deliberately trying to kill me.
You looked like you were being lured away, and sure enough, when I returned to Tingyu Xiaoxuan, you had already been sent to the back house." Chen Mo said.
"Yes, Chen Mo, do you know how the Chen family enters the back house? Looking at the swamp, they should also use boats. However, such a large house is built on a boat, and it can be used at any time.
They are all able to move, and the moving process is still unnoticed, which is really a bit incredible." I said.
"Zhou Cang, do you know why the Chen family's house can be moved at will?" Chen Mo also hooked a short stool with his feet and sat down next to me.
I looked at Chen Mo with a mysterious face, and then shook my head. I really don't know. If I knew, do I still need to ask you? I muttered secretly in my heart.
"That's because during the day, those water ghosts don't dare to come out and move around. Their mission is to move the houses that need to be moved," Chen Mo said.
"This, this is impossible, what on earth are these water ghosts? Didn't my grandfather bring them back from Shennongjia? Can they be tamed by my grandfather like puppies?" I can't accept such a thing.
matter.
"Zhou Cang, do you know why the Chen family wants to build so many houses on this swamp? You know, building a house on such a foundation consumes assets that both you and I can't imagine." Chen Mo looked at it.
I said.
I didn't answer Chen Mo's question. I sat aside and watched him silently, waiting for him to fully describe the whole thing.
"The reason why the Chen family was able to build a house on the swamp is all because of the floor tiles underneath the house. You may not believe it, but in this swamp, under every building of the Chen family, there are ten floors of floor tiles.
There are five layers of floor tiles, and these floor tiles are not simply stacked up and down, but the upper and lower layers are stacked in a criss-cross pattern. Under these fifteen layers of floor tiles, there are rows of wood, and the rows of wood are covered with thick and long nails, which are driven all the way.
We have reached the depths of the swamp." Chen Mo said softly.
"But, even in this case, the foundation is unstable. If there is a natural disaster such as heavy rain on the swamp, and the wind and rain blow down these houses, it will be like a tornado." I said.
"Yes, this is also a problem that I have never been able to figure out. When I was a teenager, Zhou Lan and I spent a long time studying this problem. At that time, my grandfather still needed to go out often, so he had enough
Time allows us to study slowly. Do you know that at the end of the study, Zhou Lan and I came to the same conclusion?" Chen Mo asked me.
"What is it? Did you two reach the same conclusion?" I said.
"Yes, it coincides with each other. It was also from that time that my grandfather banned us from entering the Chen family's back house," Chen Mo said, suddenly raising his head and taking a look at the frog that suddenly fell and landed on the boat deck.
He was in a daze for a moment, and then spoke slowly: "There is an unknown force in this swamp. It is also because of this force that the Chen family was able to build so many buildings on this swamp.
Later, Zhou Lan called this force 'quasi-gravity'."
"'Gravity-like'?" I repeated it unconsciously.
"Yes, but it was not until last night, when Rusao and I visited the back house at night to look for your traces that I finally understood what this power is?" Chen Mo said.
At this moment, I seemed to suddenly understand, "Chen Mo, the power that can stabilize the Chen family's house on the swamp comes from the unknown number of water ghosts in the swamp, right?
.”
After Chen Mo heard what I said, he turned around suddenly. He didn't speak, but the expression on his face proved my suspicion.
"Chen Mo, what kind of existence is a water ghost?" Although Chen Mo didn't speak, I continued to ask.
"Zhou Cang, I suspect that the water ghosts are the mutated creatures of the Sirius people. However, they have been trapped in Shennongjia by the Kuafu tribe for these years, so humans have never been exposed to it. The legend of the savages in Shennongjia may also be related to the Sirius people.
It’s about people." Chen Mo said.
"You mean, my grandfather brought out the mutated Sirians in Shennongjia, and then made them obey his command through a method we don't know about. So, whether it's a building in the swamp, or in the back house at night
Regardless of the water ghosts that appear, they are actually caused by the Sirians who received instructions from my grandfather." I tried to straighten out my thoughts.
"It's roughly like this, and I suspect that the Sirians brought out by my grandfather were not mutated Sirians, but Sirians, the elves that Uncle Wu mentioned. And the reason why these Sirians have mutated is,
Then it was used by my grandfather, so it should be related to his grandfather, and the back house is probably his grandfather's biochemical laboratory." Chen Mo said.
Suddenly, a point in time flashed through my head, which was a bit unbelievable. However, so far, too many things have happened in this matter that are beyond our thinking.
"Chen Mo, has the Chen family's house always been in this place?" I asked.
"It doesn't seem to be the case. Why are you asking such a question all of a sudden? The Chen family seems to have moved from somewhere else. The Chen family's house was designed by my grandfather. After the Chen family moved here, the previous house was also destroyed.
My grandfather destroyed it, and my father was still very young at that time, so he couldn’t remember where the old Chen residence was." Chen Mo said.
"Chen Mo, there should be someone who remembers where the old Chen's house was and when the construction of this house started." I said with a serious face.
"It's professor." Chen Mo immediately knew who I was talking about.
"Yes." I nodded to Chen Mo.
"Why are you suddenly interested in the history of Chen House?" Chen Mo asked.
"Because I suspect that my grandfather's biochemical experiments are related to the astrolabe." I said.
"You mean, the third of the astrolabe that the professor brought out from the Xu family in Yunnan was because my grandfather was able to mutate the Sirians and use them for his own use?" Chen Mo opened his eyes when he heard what I said.
He asked with wide eyes.
"Yes, and Chen Mo, I'm not doubting it, but I'm pretty sure about it. It's just that there's still a harmonious time to prove it." I said to Chen Mo.
"Zhou Cang, after hearing what you said, I remembered that there was a very suspicious place in the back house. It was a forbidden area of the Chen family. No one in the Chen family except my grandfather should have been there. However, I
When I was seven years old, Zhou Lan and I went there by chance and had a look." Chen Mo said, as if falling into a distant memory.