The man had his back to the door, but he obviously knew that I was coming. The moment I entered the room, he said slowly: "Xiaotian, you finally did not disappoint me. Although, you are better than It took a little longer than I expected, but you still found it here."
The voice of this man sounded very familiar to me, because he was none other than our old man.
"Dad? Why is it you?" I was so surprised that I almost screamed.
Our old man slowly stood up from his chair, turned around and said to me: "What? From your tone, did you not expect me to be here? Or did you not expect me to be alive?"
When our old man asked me this question, I didn’t know what to say for a moment, so I stammered: “Dad, I heard them say that you...you didn’t...didn’t go to Suiye Ancient City alone? ?"
Our old man smiled, lit a cigarette, and said, "Things here are very complicated. There are many things you don't understand all about, especially about the Suiye Ancient City. Xiaotian, I'll take a closer look when I have the chance." Tell you."
I nodded, thought for a while, suddenly raised my head and looked at our old man, and said seriously: "Dad, I have something to ask you."
Our old man looked at me and asked, "What's going on?"
I said word by word: "Dad, since nothing happened to you, why don't you go back to Yiyuanzhai? Why are you hiding in this place? Why don't you even contact me?"
I asked all the questions in my mind in one breath.
My eyes were fixed on our old man’s face full of vicissitudes of life.
I can say that this face is very familiar to me, but for some reason, at this moment, he seems to have an indescribable sense of strangeness.
I looked at our old man, and he was also staring at me, with an extremely complex emotion vaguely flashing in his eyes, like indifference, panic, cunning, and something unspeakable...
This look was fleeting, and soon our old man showed his gentle smile again, took a puff of cigarette, and said lightly: "I don't go back to Yiyuanzhai because it is no longer the same Yiyuanzhai." .As for why I didn’t contact you..."
Our old man sighed, and then said, "It's because I don't want to involve you in the whole thing."
I looked at our old man and asked, "But I'm still here. And although you said you didn't want me to get involved in that incident sixty years ago, you didn't seem to care about my arrival at all. Not surprised."
Our old man stared at me for a long time, then smiled and said, "Very good! In just a few days, Xiaotian, you have grown a lot, which makes me very happy."
Our old man was smiling, but I was not laughing.
I looked at our old man and said, "What am I asking you about? You seem to have known for a long time that I came back to Mengmalang. You even specially invited me to come here. What is the purpose? Or maybe …”
I deliberately didn't say anything, but stood there waiting for our old man's reaction.
Our old man seemed to understand what I meant, so he looked at me and smiled.
After a while, he coughed twice and said slowly: "It seems that your grandfather is right. If there is one person who can end the fate of our Hu family, then this person is definitely not me, but must It's you."
I asked in surprise: "My grandpa..."
Our old man sighed, and then said: "Yes! Your grandpa..."
I frowned and said, "Fate? What fate? Why do I never know about this?"
When our old man heard what I said, he couldn't help but sigh. After taking a few puffs of cigarette, he said slowly: "This is the secret of our Hu family. The reason why I didn't say a word to you is to protect you." , I don’t want you to be involved in that matter for sixty years. But, I was wrong...not only wrong...but also a big mistake!"
I hurriedly asked: "Are you wrong? Why do you say that? What is the fate of our Hu family? What did grandpa and the other elders in Xiabamen do sixty years ago? Also, what about the Fountain of Youth and the So what is going on with the Sifang Temple under Suiye Ancient City?"
Our old man slowly walked to the window, opened the heavy curtains on the window a crack, and sighed softly: "That is a piece of history that has been covered in dust. I want to know what all this is about. I I think it’s best for you to find out for yourself.”
Having said this, our old man reached out and took out a thick document bag from a table nearby.
He turned around and handed the document bag to me and said: "I don't have much time left now... I don't have that much time to explain to you everything about our Hu family in detail. If you want to know about us Everything about the Hu family, you'd better read all the information here before they catch you. Remember, don't let others see the things here, you know?"
I reached out and took the thick stack of documents, looked at our old man's face and said in surprise: "Don't let anyone catch you? Who are you talking about? Why do they want to catch me?"
Our old man said in a deep voice: "Of course I am arresting you for the secret of the Fountain of Youth."
I said in confusion: "But I don't know what the secret of the Fountain of Youth is? What's the use of them arresting me?"
Our old man said: "Xiaotian, have you ever heard of the saying that a common man is not guilty, but he who carries a jade is guilty?"
I looked at our old man and said, "You mean, they didn't intend to get the secret from me, but for my identity as a descendant of the Hu family?"
Our old man didn't say anything either. He obviously accepted my statement.
So, I then asked: "Then who wants to arrest me?"
Our old man gently opened a gap in the heavy curtain with his hand, tapped the outside with his chin, and said in a deep voice: "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here."
I moved closer to the window and looked downstairs through the heavy curtains. I saw a dozen burly men in local costumes surrounding the small building.
I know the person in the lead, it is Lu Zhicheng who had a conflict with Xiong Ming and the others before.
But at this time, Lu Zhicheng was a little embarrassed, his hair was as messy as a chicken coop, his left cheek was swollen, and his clothes were covered with dirt. It looked like he had suffered a lot from the battle with Xiong Ming just now.
In fact, not only Lu Chi-cheng's own appearance, but also the other dozen or so people were not much better than him. They were all "discussing the enemy" with their pig-headed faces.
I looked at the people below the small building and asked in surprise: "Who are these people?"
Our old man said slowly: "They are the local gangsters here. The person at the head is called Lu Zhicheng. He is the second-in-command among them, and he is also the white paper fan who is responsible for making suggestions."
I looked at the dozen or so fierce-looking guys downstairs and asked, "Just these people? If they are these people, do they need to be so worried? Isn't this a bit too small of me, Hu Tian?"
Our old man said: "Of course not them. They are just a group of chess pieces. What you really need to be wary of is the person hiding behind these guys."
I asked in surprise: "That person hiding behind them? Who is that person?"
My eyes were fixed on the lower part of the second floor, but my ears were waiting for our old man's answer.
But what surprised me was that after waiting for a long time, there was no response.
"Dad..." I turned my head and shouted in surprise.
And to my complete surprise, our old man disappeared without knowing it, and I was the only one left in the whole room.
I looked at everything in front of me. It took me a long time to come back to my senses and murmured: "Where is the person?"
As I spoke, I searched around the house. Nothing had been touched, not even the door had been opened.
I frowned and said to myself: "Did he disappear out of thin air? How is this possible?"
I was afraid of disturbing the people below the small building, so I didn't shout loudly. Instead, I searched around the house, but there was still no one there.
But unexpectedly, I found a piece of paper with strange graphics in a drawer.
I've seen this piece of paper before, no, I shouldn't say I've seen it before.
It was obviously the paper ball given to me by the young lama Panren.
I held the paper ball in my hand and said to myself in surprise: "Why is it here?"
And just when I was wondering, there was suddenly a burst of chaotic shouting from downstairs.
I was startled and hurriedly walked to the bed on the second floor of the small room and looked down through the thick curtains.
I saw a dozen men in Tibetan costumes confronting Lu Zhicheng and others with sabers in hand.
The old lady making the snake soup seems to have been used to such scenes, or maybe she doesn't take people like Lu Zhicheng seriously at all.
The old lady didn't even raise her eyelids, she snorted coldly and said, "Who are you, Lu, who dares to come here and cause trouble?"
Lu Zhicheng seemed to know how powerful this old lady was, and his words were obviously much more respectful than before. However, he seemed unwilling to be inferior in terms of momentum. He hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Grandma Gama, we brothers didn't want to come over here." It offends you. However, that man’s money helped others to eliminate disasters. Some people are looking for Hu Tian, and some people saw him running to your place, so I came to your place to disturb you."
What Lu Zhicheng said was very polite. Although he himself thought it was very polite and classy, to others, it sounded sour and sentimental.
The old lady named Granny Karma ignored him at all and just said lightly, "Get out!"
Then she kept her head down and simmered the snake soup in the pot, as if this pot of snake soup was the only thing in the world that she cared about.
