"What? The Sifang Seal was taken away by me? How is this possible?" Listening to Mr. Xu on the other end of the phone said this, my mind was buzzing, "Uncle Xu... this... when did this happen? ?”
Because I was so excited, my tone started to get a little choppy.
Second Master Xu also heard something was wrong in my tone, and said hurriedly: "In the early hours of this morning. Master Hu Tian, what do you mean by asking this? Could it be..."
"Early this morning?" I couldn't help but asked in surprise.
At the same time, my mind began to spin rapidly, and countless scenes flashed through it like a movie.
I tried hard to recall what happened around the early hours of this morning, trying to find some tiny clues in these pictures, and then find a relatively reasonable explanation for this almost seemingly impossible thing.
However, I soon discovered that my efforts were in vain.
Because, during that time my memory was 0.
I only remember that when I woke up, it was already around 10 o'clock in the morning, and at that time, my people were already in the Guose Tianxiang Pavilion at Orchid Gate, surrounded by four beautiful girls.
"Did I really do it? If not me, who else could it be? Did Mr. Xu find someone to pretend to be me?" I thought to myself.
Seeing that I didn't respond, Mr. Xu on the other end of the phone asked again, "Master Hu Tian, is there something wrong?"
I didn't answer Mr. Xu's words again, but asked instead: "Uncle Xu, I want to ask you a question. Are you sure that person is me?"
Mr. Xu said decisively: "Of course I'm sure! I don't know anyone else, but don't I know you? You're the one I grew up watching."
Hearing Mr. Xu say this, my doubts deepened and I didn't speak for a long time.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Mr. Xu on the other end of the phone called me a few times, and then asked tentatively: "Master Hu Tian, are you still there?"
I said in a deep voice: "Uncle Xu, I'm still here! I think you should have noticed that something is a little bit wrong now..."
Mr. Xu said "hmm" on the phone, and I continued: "You said I took you to a place, can you tell me where it is?"
Mr. Xu was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "The place you took me to is Yanjiao - the Hu family's old house."
"What?" When I heard the words "Hu's old house", I couldn't help but be shocked, and then asked loudly: "You said the Hu's old house I took you to?"
"Well!" Mr. Xu said, "I only heard Master Hu mention the old house of the Hu family once before. If you hadn't taken me there, I wouldn't have been able to find that place."
I frowned and asked, "Then did I tell you why I wanted to go to the Hu family's old house?"
Mr. Xu replied in a deep voice: "I didn't say anything! When you came back yesterday, you were covered with injuries. I wanted to ask a doctor to take a look at your injuries, but you kept telling me that it was too late and kept urging me. I’ll finish taking care of the coffins and other things in the yard as soon as possible and follow you.”
I asked: "Just these? Where else?"
Mr. Xu said: "I don't know why, but seeing the anxious look on your face, I knew there was something hidden in it, so I didn't ask any more questions. After dealing with the affairs of the other disciples, we two Then we set off to the old house."
I then asked: "Where will we go after we get to the old house?"
Mr. Xu thought for a while and then said: "When you arrive at the old house, you ask me to wait on the first floor while you go directly to the second floor."
I asked, "I went to the second floor by myself? What did I do?"
Mr. Xu said: "I don't know! But about 15 minutes later, you came down from upstairs with the Sifang Seal."
I asked, "Didn't anything special happen during this period, or did anything particularly strange happen to you?"
After hearing my question, Mr. Xu thought for a while and said, "If there is anything special, it was about five minutes after you went upstairs. Suddenly there was a messy breaking sound upstairs, as if something was hit. Fell, broken..."
I asked: "What next?"
Mr. Xu said: "After hearing that sound, I wanted to go up to check, but you stopped me. You told me to stay where I was and not move, no matter what happened, you wouldn't let me go up."
I asked in surprise: "I won't let you go up?"
Mr. Xu said: "Yes! After about six or seven minutes, you walked down with Sifangyin in your arms. Then, with a serious face, you told me not to leave the Hu family's old house for the time being, and then you gave me He called me and told me to call you at this time, not even one minute more, not even one minute less. And..."
I asked hurriedly: "What else?"
Mr. Xu said in a deep voice: "Also, you told me before that you would not answer the phone when I called you for the first time. Let me hang up after fifteen rings and you would not answer until I called again. In addition, You also proudly told me that no matter what you ask at this time, let me answer truthfully."
After saying this, Mr. Xu suddenly paused. He seemed to be thinking about whether he should say the next words.
After a while, Mr. Xu sighed and asked, "Master Hu Tian, what is going on with all this?"
Hearing Mr. Xu ask this, I couldn't help cursing in my heart: "What's going on? I still want to know what the hell is going on? You ask me, young master, who should I ask?"
But I thought so in my heart but didn't say it in my mouth. I sighed deeply, and then said in a deep voice: "Uncle Xu, this is all a bit too weird. For a moment, I really couldn't explain what was going on? In this way, You go back to Yiyuanzhai first, if anything happens..."
Before I finished speaking, suddenly, Mr. Xu on the other end of the phone suddenly let out a scream, and then there was a chaotic noise on the phone.
The voice on the other end of the phone was very confusing, including messy footsteps, a man's roar, and the crashing sound of the phone being dropped.
I was shocked and shouted into the phone: "Uncle Xu! Uncle Xu, what's wrong? What happened?"
But no matter how I shouted, no one answered me on the other end of the phone.
My heart sank a little bit, and an extremely bad premonition came to my mind. It was obvious that something had happened to Uncle Xu.
In desperation, I shouted into the phone: "If you are wise, let Xu Yingzhi go. Otherwise, no matter who you are, if you have offended the person who stole the door, Yiyuanzhai will never let you go. And even if you are on the horizon, I will I will definitely find you and castrate you bastards one by one."
At this moment, an extremely hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone. Just listen to what he said word for word: "Really? Then I'll wait for you."
After saying that, the guy hung up the phone.
As a busy tone came from the phone, my whole heart sank to the bottom. At that moment, I felt like I had fallen into the coldest and darkest river. Fear brought a biting chill to my body. I'm wrapped up in it.
Perhaps God also felt my helplessness and sadness. At this time, the originally sunny sky began to darken a little bit, and the river breeze changed from a gentle breeze to a whistling breeze.
After a while, dark clouds filled the sky, weighing down like a piece of black cloth and suffocating people.
I looked up at the sky and saw bright lightning flashes passing through the clouds from time to time. I knew it was going to rain heavily.
So, he let out a long sigh, turned around and wanted to walk into the cabin.
And at this moment, I suddenly saw a dozen crew members, led by an old sailor, starting to pour all kinds of pigs, cattle, sheep, fresh fruits and vegetables into the water, and even some sacrificial offerings. .
I met that old sailor when I got on the ship, but we never spoke. I just heard people call him Lao Li.
Lao Li has a big beard, is slovenly and completely unkempt, and looks to be in his fifties.
I saw him standing on the bow of the boat, holding a bone bowl the size of a washbasin in his left hand. He didn't know what animal's skull it was made of.
The bowl was half full of water, but strangely, the river was turbulent at this time, and the cargo ship was bumping up and down as it moved forward on the river, but the water in the bone bowl remained motionless, as if the huge waves were following it. It's not the same at all.
I was curious, so I stopped and leaned on a mast to look at the old sailor.
Lao Li seemed to notice that I was looking at him. He stopped mumbling and turned his head to look at me.
Lao Li's skin is very dark and covered with rust. At first glance, he looks like a man who has been wandering at sea all year round.
His skin is not good, but his eyes are as sharp as a knife, and it is the sharpest knife.
I felt a chill down my back after just one glance from him.
Fortunately, that old Li didn't say anything. He just glanced at me, then turned his head to look into the water, and continued talking.
The wind was so strong and whistling that I couldn't hear what Lao Li was saying at all. I just vaguely felt that he was praying or completing some mysterious ritual.
Lao Li recited it very quickly. It was obvious that he was very familiar with this routine. After a few minutes, he stopped reciting. Then, he pulled out a strange-shaped knife from his waist, which looked like a fish bone and saw teeth.
Lao Li lightly scratched his index finger with a fish bone knife, and blood immediately gushed out. He gently dripped his own blood into the bone bowl. Strangely enough, the half bowl of water that was originally calm in the bone bowl was After coming into contact with the blood, it suddenly surged like a boiling pot, with large blisters popping out. After a while, the originally clear and transparent water turned into blood-like red.
Lao Li placed the bone bowl on the deck directly in front of him and knelt down not far away.
Seeing Lao Li kneel down, the rest of the crew also knelt down together.
Immediately afterwards, Lao Li raised his hands to the sky and made a "wuwu" sound from time to time in his throat.
As soon as Lao Li's weird voice fell, the rest of the crew also made a "woo-woo" sound.
In this way, after repeating it three times, Lao Li and the dozen or so crew members respectfully kowtowed to the bone bowl three times.
After doing all this, Lao Li slowly stood up, held the bone bowl in both hands, and poured all the blood in the bone bowl that night into the Yellow River.
