"Why? Well, can you tell me now, what are your difficulties?" I asked, staring into Lin Xiaoyu's eyes.
Lin Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Since I'm here, it means that I am willing to tell you the truth."
I suddenly felt happy in my heart. These words sounded like there was some hint. If she didn't have some concern or other feelings for me, she wouldn't have to come to me, and she wouldn't be owed anything.
"Don't worry, drink some water to warm your body first, and then speak slowly." I smiled.
Lin Xiaoyu took a sip of water obediently, and then said: "I think you have guessed that my life experience is related to Meng Xing."
When these words came out of Lin Xiaoyu's mouth and reached my ears, even though I was fully prepared in my heart, I was still surprised. I looked at her in disbelief, "What the hell is going on?"
"Actually, it all starts with "The Picture of the King Sending His Son Off", said Lin Xiaoyu.
I will definitely never forget this "Picture of the King Sending His Son". If it hadn't been for it, I wouldn't have been involved in right and wrong. I then asked: "So this "Picture of the King Sending His Son" is not only about the so-called family debt, but there is also an unknown secret hidden behind it?"
"Yes!" Lin Xiaoyu nodded, "Since you have already guessed it, I won't beat around the bush. In fact, the real value of this "Picture of the King Sending His Son" as an heirloom of our Lin family is that it is a treasure map."
"Treasure map?" I asked in surprise. "Although I have never seen the original of this map, I have seen the photos on the Internet. This is a figure painting. How could it be a treasure map? Is there a mezzanine?" "
Lin Xiaoyu shook her head, "I can't tell you the specifics. There may be some special marks in the picture, but people who don't know the secrets can't see it."
I nodded, thinking that this is true. There are a lot of lines in this picture. If these lines are drawn according to a specific code, you will look ordinary, but people who master the decoding can see the way. So I estimate that the Lin family should have a set of passwords in addition to this picture.
"Since it is a treasure map, what is this treasure?" I then asked.
Lin Xiaoyu shook her head again and said: "I really can't say this. Because, if we want to trace the source, our Lin family is not the real owner of "The Picture of the King Sending His Son Away"."
"oh?"
Lin Xiaoyu said, ""The Picture of the King Delivering His Son" was my grandma's dowry. It came to the Lin family with my grandma. Since then, it has become an heirloom of our Lin family. But unfortunately, more than sixty years ago, My grandma met with an accident and died young, and this picture disappeared with her."
Listening to her talk about things that happened more than sixty years ago, I was suddenly poked by something, and naturally thought of my grandfather's experience more than sixty years ago. After connecting the clues such as the seal, the mysterious woman, and the brass key, I suddenly realized that Lin Xiaoyu's grandmother might be the mysterious woman who had been looking for Shi Xiazi and his group to dig up the tomb of the medicine corpse for more than 60 years.
"Is your grandma..."
Lin Xiaoyu said with tears in her eyes: "Yes, my grandma was the boss behind the tomb robbers who hired to open the medicine corpse tomb. When she left home, my father was still in his infancy. He never imagined that her departure would be the end of her life. .”
"So, is your grandma's surname Meng?" I asked.
Lin Xiaoyu wiped her tears and nodded: "Yes, her name is Meng Xun, and she is a descendant of Faqiu Tianguan. To be precise, she should be a descendant of Meng Xing."
Combining the known clues, I can now roughly figure out this outline: After the death of the last Faqiu Heavenly Official, Meng Xing, he sealed the Faqiu Heavenly Official Seal in a pure gold box and left his last words to future generations, saying that they were two If the Tianguan Seal does not reappear in the world a hundred years later, they can open the ancient tomb and take away the Faqiu Seal. In addition to this, he also left a treasure map to the descendants of the Meng family, but he estimated that the treasure must not be the Faqiu Tianyin, because the Meng family knew where the seal was hidden. Unfortunately, two hundred years later, Meng Xing did not survive. Instead, he discovered that Qiumen had closed down and did not take Meng Xing's last words seriously at all. More than a thousand years later, Lin Xiaoyu's grandma suddenly came to her senses and remembered her ancestor's instructions. She found a group of tomb robbers and went to open the medicine corpse tomb. As a result, she died miserably in the tomb.
I wanted to comfort her a few words, but I didn't expect Lin Xiaoyu to be stronger than I thought. I shook my head and said, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine. As for my grandma, I haven't even seen her face, so... I actually Not too sad, I just..."
"You are actually feeling sad for your grandma and the Meng family, right?" I said suddenly.
Lin Xiaoyu seemed surprised that I would say that, and looked at me with wide eyes, "You, why did you say that?"
"From the time of Meng Xing's death to now, more than a thousand years ago, aren't the actions of the Meng family enough to explain the problem? Meng Xing said that he had not survived for two hundred years, so he asked them to open the tomb and take away the hair. Qiu Tian Seal, but the result is that not only no one comes to take the Qiu Tian Seal, but some people even don’t want it to see the light of day again.”
Lin Xiaoyu trembled, "This..."
"Meng Xing installed the Qiqiao exquisite lock on the Broken Dragon Stone in the ancient tomb, and left seven Canglong Qisu keys to future generations. This was originally to guard against the Guizhou Taoist priest and prevent him from gathering all seven keys at once. But what he didn't expect was that although the Taoist priest Qian Mian failed to collect these seven keys, his descendants would also lead the Faqiu Sect to split."
"How did you know this?" Lin Xiaoyu asked.
"My guess."
"Guess?" Lin Xiaoyu asked puzzled.
"I really guessed it. Although Yinshan is indeed a geomantic treasure land, it is not like there are three large tombs in a small place at the same time. If Qu Ping's tomb is an accident, then the Song Dynasty medicine corpse tomb located above Meng Xing's tomb It’s no accident.”
I continued: "We have all been in it. It is obvious that the entire medicine corpse tomb is a trap. Every mechanism in it seems to be carefully designed for tomb robbers. Its existence has only one function. That It is to provide cover for Meng Xing’s tomb underneath. Besides the Qianmian Taoist priest, the only people who know where Meng Xing’s tomb is and don’t want it to be stolen are the Meng family themselves.”
"The Taoist priest from Guizhou will not do anything unnecessary. If he wants to keep this ancient tomb, he can just leave it untouched. There is no need to pretend to doubt the tomb. Therefore, the only thing I can think of is the Meng family, a divided Meng family .”
Lin Xiaoyu sighed with tears in her eyes: "Li Rui, you are indeed very smart. You even guessed this."
"Actually, it was another question that prompted me to think so." I continued, "Because my grandfather found only one brass key in the medicine corpse tomb, but Meng Xing left seven, except In addition to the one placed in the female corpse's mouth, there should be five more, but your grandma Meng Xun only had one key. Where did the remaining keys go? And why did she take risks even though she knew it was difficult to open the ancient tomb with just one key? How about a try?"
"You are right, all this is because the Meng family is too selfish!" Lin Xiaoyu said.
"In fact, Meng Xing had seven sons at that time. He gave the six Canglong Qisu Keys to his six sons respectively except for his eldest son Meng Changfeng, and gave the "Picture of the King of Heaven Sending His Sons" with the treasure map to Meng Changfeng's original intention in collecting it was to hope that the seven sons would unite sincerely and jointly protect the foundation of Faqiu. But he underestimated the dangers of human hearts. In the face of interests, family ties and blood ties are not worth mentioning. "
This story reminds me of "Nine Sons Seize the Rightful Son", even if they are close relatives, they will turn against each other for the sake of profit. Meng Xing originally wanted his seven sons to guard the tomb for him, so that after his rebirth, he could continue to take charge of the Faqiu Sect and create immortal achievements. He even thought about the worst outcome. Even if he couldn't wake up, his descendants could still hold the six keys, open his tomb and take out the Faqiu Tianyin, and restore the glory of the Faqiu Sect.
However, the plan was good, but reality slapped him hard. He probably would never have imagined in his dreams that just after he lay down in the Heavenly Meteor Jade Armor, his seven sons would each have their own plans. As for whether Meng Xing could wake up, in their time, it was "agnostic". Therefore, after his death, the seven sons of the Meng family all came up with the idea of promoting Qiu Tianyin. But after all, there is only one Faqiu seal, and it is impossible to divide it among seven people. Meng Xing did not make a will during his lifetime as to who would inherit his position, so theoretically anyone can inherit it.
As a result, in the following decades, the seven sons of the Meng family quickly evolved from the original sincere unity to intrigues and even killing each other. In order to collect the seven keys, they resorted to all possible means to exploit the weak and the strong, without any regard for family ties or blood.
"The seven sons of the Meng family fought for the Faqiu seal. Although there were some strong and weak among the seven sons, maybe God couldn't stand it anymore. In the end, none of them could collect the seven keys. In the end, the Faqiu clan split, except for Except for the eldest son Meng Changfeng, the other six sons ran away, changed their names, and established their own families. Since then, Canglong Qisuyao has been scattered around the world," Lin Xiaoyu said.
I heard Lin Xiaoyu say so much in one breath, and the water in the cup became cold, so I licked the water for her and said: "Although this story sounds a bit sad, there have been many such things in the past dynasties. The so-called God is watching what people do, and the whereabouts of this Faqiu Seal are still unknown. I believe that God has already punished them."
"But I feel worthless for my grandma." Lin Xiaoyu said with a hint of indignation in her tone, "Thousands of years have passed, but the so-called family mission has always been firmly pressed on her heart. Sometimes I really can't understand it. For the sake of that hair mound seal and the illusory ancestral precepts, she would even give up her name."
"Maybe, we shouldn't beat them to death with a stick. After all, we don't know what happened back then, and we are not qualified to evaluate history." I comforted softly, "Maybe, among the seven sons back then, Meng Changfeng wanted to follow the It is just that he could not prevent his other younger brothers from starting their own businesses. Think about it, since Meng Xing left seven keys, why did he only give them to his six sons? "Picture" was given to Meng Changfeng? I think the so-called statement that he did not leave a will is probably because the other six sons simply did not want to admit it, just like when Yongzheng took Kangxi's imperial edict and wanted several brothers to recognize his legal status. , there is no proof, it is too wishful thinking."
