In the study, Shen Hao was reading the gift list.
No wonder many people who hold power like to arrange happy events. Receiving gifts can indeed make a lot of money.
Of course, receiving so many gifts doesn't mean that they can be safely kept in your pocket. If he really wants to make money, Shen Hao will write it down carefully, and then add some and return them when there is a happy event in someone else's family. .
The so-called reciprocity of courtesy is actually how we build relationships slowly and slowly.
Therefore, whether it is a polite greeting or a sincere congratulation, there are minimum requirements for congratulatory gifts. For example, it needs to be timely. You can't send a slave girl to someone else's wedding; you can't send a coffin to your family's birthday.
In addition, as a congratulatory gift, there is another important point: who sends it and whom it is given to.
It should not only be given at the right time, but also let the recipient know who sent the gift. An unsigned gift will look very strange and lose its meaning of "reciprocity", which is very weird.
Shen Hao saw the strange unsigned gift at the end of the list: a jade bi that was three feet high and one and a half feet wide.
"Move things to the study."
Shen Hao confessed to the outside.
Soon, the guards, under the guidance of Hu Tian, brought in the jade that had inexplicably appeared in Shen Hao's wedding gift.
Although he has no research on jade, Shen Hao can tell the quality of jade when it is much more visible. Although the jade that was carried in front of him is not small, the quality of the jade is of low quality, and the overall presentation of the craftsmanship is not the same. No, even the jade is not very smooth, there are some slight bumps on it.
Would anyone use this kind of jade as a gift?
"Master Shen, this is it."
"Um."
Shen Hao hummed and stood up from his seat. He didn't quite understand, who put this thing into the gift? What's the purpose? It can't be a prank, right?
When Shen Hao circled the jade in a circle, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he said to Hu Tian: "Go and check the receiving situation of the Yu family and Uncle Xinliangcheng's family, and ask about this jade." What happened, and who discovered it immediately.”
"Okay Master Shen."
"Do it now."
"yes!"
Hu Tian quickly exited and went to do this at a trot. As soon as he closed the door when he went out, Shen Hao threw out the magic circle in the study. In an instant, all the sounds and movements inside were blocked.
Shen Hao never thought that he would see something so surprising in his wedding gift.
The back of the piece of jade is not blank like the front, but has writing on it.
"Come to the City of Vain Death and I will tell you what you want to know."
Just such a sentence, the font is clear, and every word is the size of a fist and will never be ignored. However, these words only fell in Shen Hao's eyes. No one such as Hu Tian and others, or even the guards who helped carry the jade, noticed these words.
So weird? Shen Hao didn't find it strange. All because these words were written on the jade by a method he was extremely familiar with. So far, apart from himself, he knew that only one person could also see it: the person who wanted to forcefully buy the jade he accidentally obtained outside the auction house. of the Yin Jade Map.
In other words, the writing technique on this jade biscuit is the same as the lines on the Yinyu map.
Shen Hao stood behind the jade bi, looking at the words on it. He didn't move for a long time, with an "excited" look rarely seen in him flashing in his eyes.
How long?
Several years have passed since Shen Hao got the first Yinyu map. At that time, he was still serving in Xuanqing Guards in Licheng. There was not even a black flag camp at that time. When he got the Yinyu map, he could only rush He hid back to his station for fear of being discovered and killed for stealing money.
Later, by chance, Shen Hao obtained the Four-sided Yin Jade Map and got a lot of useful information from it.
First, the place marked on the Yinyu map is the City of Fusei, a "hidden" place that was not known at all in the common sense of the Jingji Dynasty.
Secondly, Shen Hao is currently certain that the lines on the Yinyu map outline not only the route to Wushui City, but also involve the most important underground world of Wushui City: the underground palace.
I had talked a lot with Nie Yun about the underground palace of the City of Wasted Death before. Although what I knew was relatively superficial, one thing Shen Hao knew was that the core area of the underground palace of the City of Wasted Death was extremely dangerous, even in the middle and rear areas of the Xuanhai Realm. It can also be said that the guy inside is surrounded by dangers and dare not venture in. In addition to the frequent killings in the underground palace, another important reason is that there are a large number of unknown, strange and dangerous "maze Jedi" in the underground palace.
In Shen Hao's guess, the lines on the Yinyu map he obtained will probably eventually piece together a feasible route map for the maze.
It's just that this road map is very large, and just what he has in his hand is far from complete. And the only one that can be regarded as a logo is the one depicting an eyeless beast's head.
Shen Hao asked about the animal head pattern about the black beast tattoo, and the response he got was: fear and desire.
But emotional feedback is a crude form of communication after all, and Shen Hao doesn't know what the specific fears and desires of the Black Beast Tattoo are. But at least a few points are clear: the eyeless beast head is the same existence as the black beast tattoo; the black beast tattoo wants Shen Hao to look for the eyeless beast head, but at the same time, the black beast tattoo feels uncomfortable with the act of looking for the eyeless beast head. Fear.
Black Beast Tattoo never showed "fear" when he was in the palace before. Although he was timid, he was definitely not timid enough to do this. He couldn't even pretend to be so.
So no need to ask, the existence represented by this eyeless beast head is equally stronger than the black beast tattoo, and it is definitely stronger than the existence attached to the emperor.
And why "desire"? This aspect of the black beast tattoo has never been revealed. He only expressed "joyful" approval when Shen Hao asked, "Do you want me to find it?"
In this way, Shen Hao can analyze and speculate too much. There is no need to talk about them one by one. In short, it is that the black beast tattoo is a very ambivalent emotion about the existence of the eyeless beast head. At the same time, it must also indicate that there is an inevitable connection between the underground palace under the City of Death and the existence of black beast tattoos.
Finally, Shen Hao still remembered that the origin of one of the Yin Jade Maps in his hand was the "Special Place". Is that also the origin of the black beast tattoo?
These things are all guesses that need to be verified by Shen Hao himself. After all, figuring out the origin of the black beast tattoo is his most urgent motivation.
But where is the City of Wasted Death? Shen Hao didn't want to test it hastily. What's more, the evil monks who are like fire and water to Xuan Qingwei are likely to have their headquarters in the City of Fusei. If he wants to go there, he must be even more careful.
Now the appearance of this jade has given Shen Hao a new path. Maybe he can get some new information from other ways and means?
