catch your heart

Guantou Town is still so dead and silent, the buildings in the town are a little faded, the whole town is covered with a layer of gray mist besides the lifelessness at the beginning.Mo Qu hugged Ziqing and followed Gu Zizhan, and the three of them headed for the town.

Gu Zizhan glanced at Ziqing who was pale in Mo Qu's arms, and hesitated to speak.Mo Qu felt his gaze, raised his eyes for a moment, and then said lightly, "I will hug him well."

Gu Zizhan rubbed his nose, swallowed what he wanted to say, and pushed open the courtyard door of the first house after entering the town. The person living in this courtyard should be an ordinary fisherman.There are all kinds of fishing tools and necessities for going to sea in the yard. There are also some seafood drying in the yard, and there are various dried fish hanging under the eaves.

Mo Qu looked at the dried fish a few more times, Gu Zizhan thought he had discovered something, but Mo Qu quickly looked away, and walked towards the house without saying anything.If Ge Tan was around, he would have laughed at Mo Qu, and Gu Zizhan would have known that Mo Qu simply looked at the food he liked a few more times.

There was nothing special about the house of this family, it was just an ordinary resident. The only thing worth noting was probably the half-burned candle on the table.

Mo Qu stood still with Ziqing in his arms, staring only at the half of the red candle that was emitting fire. There was no red wax falling from the candle, and the fire was very faint in the daylight of the hundred days.

"The candle doesn't seem to burn out. What's going on?" Gu Zizhan also focused on the candle.

"It's not that the burning is endless, but that time stopped at a certain moment." Mo Qu was also very puzzled, looked around and said: "There seems to be very little dust around."

Gu Zizhan looked around, and sure enough, as Mo Qu said, the surrounding area did not look like it had been unoccupied for several days, it was so clean that one felt as if someone lived in the room and cleaned the house every day.

The two of them were thinking about it, when Ziqing in Mo Qu's arms suddenly coughed.Ziqing opened his eyes and saw Mo Qu's dark pupils staring at him without blinking, and a strong arm was supporting his lower back. A strange feeling followed the worried eyes to the bottom of his heart. Qing's ear tips were a little red, hiding in her hair.

"Ziqing, are you feeling better?" Gu Zizhan didn't notice Ziqing's unnaturalness at this moment, so he asked worriedly.

"Don't worry." Ziqing smiled reassuringly at Gu Zizhan. He didn't dare to look at Mo Qu's abyss-like dark eyes, but only looked at the tip of Mo Qu's nose and said, "I'm fine. Please put me down, thank you." The voice carried With the characteristic hoarseness when he just woke up, it is not difficult to hear the meaning of gratitude.

The hoarseness made Mo Qu frown, how could this man be so weak, his voice became like this after sleeping.Thinking this way, he still let the person down.

Ziqing stood still and looked at the scene in the house. When he woke up in a daze just now, he heard the conversation between the two. Let others take a look."

Mo Qu and Gu Zizhan had this intention, and the three of them checked more than a dozen houses one after another until they reached the middle of the town.The previous dozens of households were all similar to the first household. They were houses lived by ordinary fishermen. There was a single candle lit inside the houses, but the burning conditions were different. Some had a whole candle left, while others had only one candle left. A little bit, and very little dust accumulated in each yard.There were even steaming meals and used cutlery on the tables of several households.

However, apart from these, they found no other abnormalities, so they came to the door of this distinctive house in the center of the town.It is different because this place is the ancestral hall of the village, so it is much taller than ordinary houses.Right now, the largest building in this town looks extraordinarily lonely and gloomy.

Mo Qu walked over and pushed open the door, and the three of them walked in together, all stunned by the sight in front of them.This ancestral hall only has a large courtyard and a large room facing the courtyard gate.The left and right sides of the yard are filled with dotted candles. Although it is daytime, so many candles are placed together, which is still very shocking.

Gu Zizhan stared at the candles for a long time, only to see that the candles were arranged haphazardly, as if they didn't make any sense.Ziqing glanced at it and was dazzled by the candlelight. When he forced himself to calm down and wanted to see clearly, he saw Mo Qu around him leaping up to the roof as a black shadow, frowning and looking at the complicated array of candles.

Gu Zizhan and Ziqing understood, they jumped onto the roof and stood beside Mo Qu.Just now I couldn't see it from below, but when I looked down from a high place, I realized that these candles seemed to form a very weird pattern. Gu Zizhan always felt that the pattern formed by the candles was very familiar, but what was it?

"Hmm..." Mo Qu also had a thoughtful expression on his face. The composition of the two pictures on the left and the right seems to have nothing to do with each other, but why does it give people the illusion that the two are combined into one?

Just when the two were puzzled, Ziqing, who was standing quietly, staggered back a step, and stared at the dozens of candles on the ground with wide eyes in disbelief.

"Ziqing, is there anything unusual?" Gu Zizhan, who was standing beside Ziqing, hastily stretched out his hand to support him, and asked anxiously.Mo Qu calmly withdrew his outstretched hand, looked at Ziqing's paler face, and pursed his lips in displeasure.

Ziqing, who could not see or hear anything, slightly pushed away Gu Zizhan's hand, took two staggering steps, and stood still at the position just now.Then he slowly pulled out a red string from his sleeve. An old copper coin was hung on the red string.

Strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a copper coin, because it is definitely not a currency in circulation in any dynasty. Ziqing has tried to find out its origin over the years in order to fulfill the last wish of the Wei Tuo celestial being, but found nothing.The lines on its body are carved extremely complicated, but they are also extremely fine.

There seems to be a blank space in the middle of the pattern, like a river. On both sides of the river are stretching villages. The houses in the village are dotted with dots. The carvings of the houses are small and exquisite. People may look at it as a point.

Mo Qu also saw the pattern on the copper coin at this time, but he still didn't understand why Ziqing lost his composure, there must be some reason, and he didn't know, this realization made him slightly frowned, and looked deeply at the situation since just now. Ziqing kept staring at the copper coin.

"This is amazing. How come the pattern formed by the candle is exactly the same as the distribution pattern of the houses on the copper coin." Gu Zizhan looked at the copper coin carefully, then at the candle, and said again: "Really It's exactly the same." Looking up, he met Shang Ziqing's trembling eyes, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, sighed and said softly: "Ziqing, after so many years, I finally have some news, you should be happy .”

Hearing this, Mo Qu stared at Ziqing's tightly clenched left hand with a pair of dark eyes. Seeing the slender white fingers clenched tightly and then slowly loosened, he moved closer to him. , opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, but urged the immortal method to heal Ziqing's bloody palm.

Ziqing felt Mo Qu's breath approaching, and then his cold palms warmed slightly, and a strange feeling appeared in his heart, which seemed to dispel some uneasiness.Then he settled down, smiled at Mo Qu, and said to Gu Zizhan, "Zizhan, you are right. After all these years, there is finally news."

"I just don't know what is the connection between this Guantou town and that Xie that the Wei Tuo celestial being knew." Gu Zizhan saw that Ziqing seemed to have calmed down, and then secretly glanced at Mo Qu.

Mo Qu didn't care about Gu Zizhan's gaze, and his voice was as smooth as ever: "Since the secret has been opened, there is no reason to hide in the dark." While speaking, he jumped off the roof and stood The door of the only house in the courtyard: "Let's go in, there may be other clues in the house"

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