Jiang is still old and spicy. Even though the unpleasant scene happened in the study, during dinner, my grandparents acted as if nothing happened. They talked and laughed with Xiangyu and Zhang Jisheng. The atmosphere was particularly good, but I was always depressed.
Seems a little out of place.
After dinner, a courier called my name at the door. I opened the door and saw that there was a copy of my courier.
I have been going to Wawushan for more than half a month, why is there express delivery?
Looking at the sender written "Lao Li" on it, I couldn't help cursing in my heart: Lao Li is too generous. He actually dares to be lazy and take express delivery for such an important thing. Next time I see Chen Mo
, you must talk to Chen Mo carefully about this person, he really cannot be entrusted with important tasks.
I went back to the room and opened the express box, and found that nothing was missing inside. I finally felt relieved.
After dinner, Zhang Jisheng told me privately that he should talk to his grandma about exorcism as soon as possible. He couldn't stand it any longer and felt like he might collapse at any time.
The trip to Wawu Mountain made everyone extremely tired, and before nine o'clock, they all went back to their rooms to rest.
I know that as long as I am at home, my grandma will come to my room to chat with me for a while before going to bed every night. She always tells me to go to bed early and not stare at the phone all the time. Therefore, I fell in love with the old lady.
Jasmine single bush tea, lying on the Arhat bed waiting for her.
Sure enough, as soon as the water for my tea boiled, the old lady pushed open the door and came in.
"Grandma," I hurriedly greeted her, pulled the old lady and walked to the Arhat's bed.
"You kid, you're hiding in your room making tea and being so courteous for nothing. What's your plot?" the old lady said, picking up a cup of tea and sipping it.
"Milk, I still have something to ask you." I also picked up a cup of tea, placed it on the edge and blew on it.
"What's the matter? I have nothing to say about your brother. That is the most taboo thing in the Zhou family. I couldn't help but say it in the study just now, and your grandfather has already scolded me." Grandma said,
He stared at the bluestone floor tiles in front of him in a daze.
"But why is this?" I asked puzzled.
"Cang'er, I don't want you to know this, not for you, but to protect Lan'er." Grandma looked into my eyes and said. "And you don't need to feel guilty. These are adults' choices. Over the years, your father has
Mother is also doing her best to take care of him, but she doesn't take good care of you."
Lan'er, I immediately thought of the sentence my mother didn't finish, which also started with Lan. What did she want to say about her brother?
I also wanted to take the opportunity to ask my grandma some questions about my brother, but grandma didn't give me a chance. She pressed my hand and put a cup of tea in my hand.
"Nai, why did you go to Wawu Mountain in the first place?" I changed the subject. "They have always said that they were going to find the truth in the ancient temple. Have you found it? Also, what is black jade? How much do you know about these things?
What? Can you tell me everything?"
Grandma put down the tea cup in her hand and spoke slowly: "This is a long story. Let's start with the piece of black jade."
"Black jade was originally the totem of our people and a treasure passed down from generation to generation by the Xu family."
Grandma's first words shocked me. It turned out that the piece of black jade belonged to my grandma's family, but why did the professor also have it?
"If I hadn't met your grandfather, I would have become the patriarch of our family when I was twenty-four years old."
The identity of the patriarch and grandma is actually the patriarch. Her green cloth wrapped around her hair is the same as the hair ornament of the patriarch in the ancient temple. There is indeed a connection between them. But I did not interrupt the old lady and let her continue.
Go down.
"The Xu family has a strict family rule - the patriarch and the priest must never marry for life. However, at that time, I had already fallen in love with your grandfather and was pregnant with your father."
Grandma paused for a moment, her deep eyes shining brightly, as if she had returned to her youth.
"The old patriarch is angry and insists on burning me to death so that I can sacrifice the astrolabe."
"Astrolabe, what astrolabe?" I finally couldn't hold myself back and asked.
"The astrolabe is black jade." The old lady glanced at me, then looked away, and continued: "At that time, I also knew that I had sinned deeply, and I was afraid that I had violated the clan rules and would cause the clan members to be punished by the astrolabe.
.So I did not resist and voluntarily sacrificed myself."
"Then what happened?" Grandma suddenly stopped talking, and I asked impatiently.
"Later, your grandfather came to rescue me with a large group of people. I was rescued, but the astrolabe was knocked down and broke into three pieces. I only managed to grab one of them."
"Your grandfather brought me here and built this old Zhou family house. He has been very kind to me over the years, but I feel the deepest guilt for my own people."
When grandma said this, she covered her face and sobbed.
"Milk, it's all over." I patted grandma on the back, not knowing how to comfort her.
The old lady is an extremely optimistic person, laughing and joking every day, and her grandfather really dotes on her, so I basically never see her when she is depressed. I didn't expect that she has so many things hidden in her heart.
Really, in the world of adults, there is never the word easy.
The astrolabe is divided into three. The father and the professor each have one copy, but where is the other one?
Was it in the hands of Wang Zhishui, Zhang Jisheng or Wen Xiangyu?
"Nai, where are the other two astrolabes? The astrolabe is the totem of your family. Does it have any special functions?"
Grandma raised her hand and took out a few paper towels from the pack on the table, wiped away her tears and wiped her nose, and then said: "I don't know who picked up the other astrolabe fragments. The scene at that time was extremely chaotic. You
Grandpa was so anxious to pull me to escape that he had no time to think about anything else. As for the function of the astrolabe, only the clan leader knew about it. I was still young at that time, and I only knew that we would hold activities to worship the astrolabe every summer solstice and winter solstice.
For the others, I don’t know.”
Regarding the activity of worshiping the astrolabe, I immediately thought of the reliefs on the gate tower of the ancient ancestral temple. They were also worshiping dark red stone pieces. I vaguely felt that there should be some connection between the two. Plus, with the green cloth wrapped around my head, I
He hurriedly asked: "Nai, in your ceremony of sacrificing the astrolabe, is the clan leader sitting on the altar, holding the astrolabe in both hands, the priest presiding over the sacrificial ceremony, and the clan members crawling under the altar."
"Cang'er, how do you know this?" Grandma asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"I have seen a relief like this in an ancient temple. The sacrificial scenes carved in it are like this. Grandma, is there any intrinsic connection between your family and the ancient temple?"
"I don't know. I only know that it should be related to black jade, but I don't know the specific relationship yet."
"Nai, what is the purpose of entering the ancient temple? Is it also to find something similar to the astrolabe you mentioned that was used for sacrifice?"
"Yes."
"Why must we find that thing?"
"I can't tell you."
"Milk..." My tone suddenly changed, I stood up and looked at grandma.
Grandma glanced at me, and then said, "I'm tired, I'm going back to my room to sleep." Then she stood up slowly, holding her waist.
When I saw this, I didn't dare to ask any more questions and hurriedly helped to support her.
Watching grandma's back disappear in front of the door, the questions in my heart were like chestnuts roasted on the fire. The shell was about to explode when it was too hot. I was eager to find out what was going on, but the shell was too hard. No matter how hard I tried,
There is no way to break through it.
It turns out that the so-called black jade in Wawu Mountain and the black jade in the hands of my father and professor do not belong to the same thing, but are two objects of the same nature but independent.
The Xu family calls black jade an astrolabe, so what should I call the piece of dark red stone in my hand? What is their function? These people are searching for this dark red stone in the ancient temple.
Do those who own the tablets already know their uses and want to take them for themselves and use them for their own use?
Now it seems that my father's research direction is in the right direction. Only by deciphering those strange words in the ancient temple can we find the threads of all the things that seem to be entangled together, and then smooth them out one by one.
I took out the items in my backpack one by one. Suddenly, the square of gold silk made my eyes shine——
In grandma's dowry box, there are several other dowry items that I can't remember clearly. I wonder if I can find any clues in them...