Guanqingzhai

Hu Yue put his hands behind his back, looked at Xu Jin and said, "How did Brother Xu know what happened more than 100 years ago?"

Xu Jin supported his forehead, and he looked up at the young man in the painting with a pale face. The young man's eyebrows and eyes remained the same, as if he would come out of the painting at any time, but the youthful heroic spirit that was full of vigor was mottled under the dim candlelight.

Xu Jin said: "If I have to say it, my ancestor should also be one of the murderers who killed him, or all the people at that time were the murderers who contributed to his death."

Xu Jin looked up at the portrait, and said with a sad smile: "At the inscription under the Pagoda of Mercy, the youngest among the 17 people... Back then, his talent was astonishing everywhere. His other students in the academy would have no future, and he became a huge rock that weighed on the heads of all the scholars at that time. He could not be moved, and he could not be moved. He can crumble, crumble into foam, crumble into dust."

Hu Yue looked at the portrait of the young man, but a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. He glanced sideways at Chu Jue, and Chu Jue had the same expression on his face. Hu Yue wanted to speak, but Chu Jue waved his hand to stop him.

Xu Jin seemed to catch the boy from the air, he looked back at the two of them and said: "So during a parade, three people including this boy went to Fushan to play, but when the boy accidentally... fell into the foot of the mountain When they broke their legs, those two left cruelly, and the boy never returned to the academy after that, but the other one was a high-ranking official, so this matter was also suppressed... My grandfather is one of the two , and the other half of the walnut is in the hands of the descendants of my grandfather's best friend, that is, the descendant of the other official."

Hu Yue asked: "Then why is there a walnut agreement?"

Xu Jin looked up at Hu Yue and said, "Because my grandfather went back to save the boy in the end, my grandfather was worried about being misunderstood, so he called that person. The relationship between the two is the deepest, and the relationship with the boy is the closest. But when the two When he got down to the bottom of the valley, the boy had been eaten by wild beasts, leaving only a pile of bones... There were also a few walnuts beside him, because his grandfather said that he sometimes felt that his brain power was not enough when he was studying. This opportunity was given to them. The two were afraid and regretful in their hearts, but the deal was done, and they had no choice but to bury it hastily and worship in a hurry. The two knew that if this matter got out, it would definitely affect each other's official careers, and they might even be escorted to the government to die, so Grandfather’s friend proposed to make a date with walnuts, and no one else would know about it. But because of uneasy conscience, he used walnuts as evidence, and only one of the immediate descendants knew about it. Since then, the two have not met each other until Dead of old age, the walnuts were passed into the hands of me and another person, and we knew about it. And that person happened to be my student, and also my most proud student."

Hu Yue frowned and said, "But why did the walnut fall into the hands of the head of the mountain, and you said that the person missed the appointment? What do you mean?"

Xu Jin shook his head and said, "This is what I don't understand, and it's also the reason why I want to ask the two young masters to come forward."

Hu Yue knocked on Chu Jue who was already looking at other plaques, Chu Jue smiled and said, "This is easy to handle, why not let that child explain it?"

Hu Yue looked sideways at the door, still as quiet as usual, Xu Jin lowered his head and smiled and said, "How is it possible, if that child knows that I am the descendant of the classmate who died at the time, he will definitely not see me..."

The three were speechless, but the so-called strange boy still did not appear, but the wind at the door became stronger and stronger, which sounded like a ghost crying at first glance.

Chu Jue knocked on the fan, and he said, "Has Muran ever thought that the child from back then is not dead?"

Xu Jin raised his head suddenly, and Chu Jue took out half a walnut and said, "The walnut is indeed a token between you and another person, but you may not be so simple."

Hu Yue was slightly taken aback when he heard his words. He raised his eyes and looked at Chu Jue, who smiled slightly: "Can you take out your other half of the walnuts?"

Suspiciously, Xu Jin took out half a walnut from the kit at his waist. Chu Jue took the walnut and joined the one in his hand, but found that the two half walnuts were not the same.

Xu Jin was shocked, but Hu Yue also opened his mouth slightly. He tilted his head and looked at Chu Jue, but Chu Jue still smiled lightly. He returned the walnut to Xu Jin, and then said: "That means walnuts are originally two , and some people also used walnuts to make letters."

Xu Jin shook his head: "How could it be... At that time..."

Hu Yue said: "Brother Chu, what you mean is that besides Mr. Xu's ancestors and his friends, there are two other people who also went there to make a date with walnuts?"

Chu Jue shook the fan in his hand, he approached Hu Yue and said, "No, there is only one person going."

Xu Jin opened his eyes, he pursed his lips and looked at Chu Jue, Chu Jue pointed at Xu Jin and said, "You should have guessed that person."

Xu Jin shook his head and said, "Could it be...it's him?"

Chu Jue said: "It should be so. That person turned back first and rescued the young man who fell into the valley, but the young man made an agreement with him for some reason. He lived incognito and did not return to the academy. No further official career. Of course, the details are unknown at this time, but this is the agreement between the child and him, and he took your grandfather to see the bones that were originally prepared in advance. I will talk to you later Grandfather made a pact. So there was a pact between two walnuts."

Xu Jin opened his eyes and said, "Why? Why did he do that?"

Chu Jue looked at Hu Yue, and Hu Yue continued for him: "Maybe it's because the two competitors can be eliminated at once. As you said, it's better to remove the big stone on the top of your head." , and the stumbling blocks blocking the way are naturally best removed. Killing two birds with one stone, this person is good at attacking the mind."

Xu Jin frowned, and he sat on the ground slumped, almost catching the candlelight in his face, under the flickering light, there was a confused and sad face.

He shook his head and said, "No, no... If the boy is still alive, why did the head of the mountain die? And didn't you say that you have seen the strange boy?"

Standing by the door, Chu Jue said, "If you can guess the connection, brother, the pot of drunken flowers in my house will be yours."

Hu Yue's eyes widened instantly, looking at Chu Jue like a greedy cat smelling fish, he stroked his hair, then glanced at Xu Jin, Xu Jin watched him walking back and forth excitedly in front of him Go, don't know how to interrupt.

Hu Yue suddenly stopped in his tracks. He said vigilantly, "If you guess right, you will get a lottery. It doesn't matter if you guess wrong."

Chu Jue tilted his head and said with the corners of his mouth: "My dear brother, you are joking. It is the old rule to embrace a beautiful woman all night."

Hu Yue frowned and said, "Can you give me another hint?"

Chu Jue pointed to the plaque on the portrait and said, "This is a reminder."

Hu Yue looked up at the plaque, he picked up the oil lamp in his hand, but when he was checking the plaque, Chu Jue's eyes were outside the door.After a long time, he nodded his head and turned around, only to find that Chu Jue and Xu Jin were gone.

He was alone here again, he looked around warily, he felt something in the dark corner, but he couldn't say it.Suddenly, something rolled over from the corner, and after a closer look, it turned out to be the clay sculpture head of Confucius.

The head rolled to Hu Yue's feet, the Master still looked kindly, but this kind of smile felt evil.

At this time, there were ear-piercing noises from around the ancestral hall, some cursing, some crying, but they couldn't make out what it was.

Hu Yue took a few steps back cautiously. He didn't call Chu Jue recklessly. He held his breath and didn't even make a sound. He just kept moving towards the door, and his attention was all on feeling the movement around him. .

Hu Yue somewhat guessed the reason, but he couldn't decipher it for the time being, just like a fish trapped in a water tank, unable to get out of the current situation, but there is no danger of his life for the time being.

He raised his head again, and at some point, the portrait of the young man began to seep into thick black ink, and the ink overflowed from its facial features. Hu Yue did not dare to relax at all, but the strange things around made Hu Yue distracted for a moment, and in the At that moment, Hu Yue was suddenly grabbed by a hand from behind, and a child was lying on his back at some point, opening his mouth to bite.Hu Yue quickly rolled over and pushed the child to the ground, but when he fell to the ground, he found that the child had disappeared.But the oil lamp went out too.The surroundings turned into darkness, and at this moment, the sound of rapid breathing and loud noises came from the corner.

When Hu Yue regained his composure, he finally heard a line of dialogue similar to the Analects of Confucius among the ambiguous noises.He found that those voices were reading books.But those voices are far from the words of the sage, and they sound like ghosts and ghosts.

Hu Yue jumped out of the ancestral hall, there were still countless black pillars outside, but on each pillar there was a ghost boy that Hu Yue saw in front, and those ghost boys were like geckos on the black pillars.

There were so many of them that Hu Yue had to be cautious, so that if he rushed out, those ghost boys rushed over together, and Hu Yue would probably be split up in a short time.

There was a creaking sound from Guitong's mouth, as long as Hu Yue moved a step, those pillars would immediately move.No matter how Hu Yue dodged, he was still surrounded by these black pillars.Hu Yue gritted his teeth, he could only retreat to the ancestral hall now.But the ghost boys in the ancestral hall have already launched an attack on him, and it is unknown how many there are in the darkness.How much can he handle alone?

Just as he was in a stalemate, Chu Jue's words sounded in his ears again: The plaque is a reminder.He recalled Chu Jue's words at that time, but his eyes were on the portrait.

Hu Yue rushed into the ancestral hall resolutely. He suddenly looked up and saw that Zongyingcai and the clay sculpture of Confucius on the ground were actually in a line. He listened carefully to the sound of reading books, and recalled those strange black pillars and ghost children on the road to the ancestral hall. .

Finally, there was Xu Jin's flickering and avoiding eyes.

He stood up slowly, then jumped quickly, and directly took off the entire plaque on the beam of the house, and the plaque fell to the ground with a loud noise.Then all those strange voices disappeared.

But behind the archway, there are many densely packed characters. At that moment, Hu Yue saw a cloud-like pattern, his expression changed drastically, and he quickened a few steps to take a closer look. He appeared again, but he didn't intend to attack again. He stood barefoot on the plaque and looked at the words. Hu Yue turned around and found many ghost boys standing behind him. Thick ink gradually began to flow out of those ghost boys. Gathering towards the plaque as if being guided.After the ink had drowned the entire plaque and the weird cloud symbols, Hu Yue found various whimpers and sighs coming from all around, and finally those ghost boys turned into ink one by one until the last ghost boy.

Hu Yue looked at him, a sneer crossed Guitong's face, he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth, Hu Yue acted as if he was telling him a name, but that Guitong couldn't make a sound, and finally his facial features began to overflow The ink turned into a puddle of ink in an instant.

When Hu Yue looked up again, he found that the lights had come on from the side, and Chu Jue was standing beside him with an oil lamp, but Xu Jin had disappeared.This is the house where they first stayed.Hu Yue was lying on the table, he straightened up with difficulty and said, "This...is just a dream?"

Chu Jue smiled slightly and said, "It's not just cute, but the puzzle in the dream has been solved?"

Hu Yue said: "It seems that you set up The Walnut Story for me."

Chu Jue shook his head and said, "It's not me, but Xu Jin."

Hu Yue said: "Who is he?"

Chu Jue said: "He is Xu Jin, one of the three. He is not the descendant of that person, but himself. He has always been in this academy, and he was buried here after his death."

Hu Yue opened his mouth slightly, and he said, "Brother Chu, can you explain to me?"

Chu Jue reached out, holding two walnuts: "The cause of the incident is these two walnuts."

Hu Yue said: "Two walnuts, a covenant between three people, one of them is the deceased Shanzhang's ancestor, and Xu Jin and Huaxiangzhong's children, if there is no mistake, there is a curse here. It is not only the trapped Three people, but the entire academy."

Chu Jue walked up to Hu Yue, put on a coat for him, and said, "Yes, someone cast a spell to trap Xu Jin, but Xu Jin was only obsessed with the tangled agreement between the three of them." The young man has already passed away, and among the three, only the first Shan grows up to the top. It can be said that this strategy is indeed very successful. As long as Xu Jin and the young man do not meet, then this secret can be kept until his old age. But he did not Thinking that God used another way of retribution to come to his descendants. In the end, his descendants did not die well, so he responded to his complaints."

Hu Yue looked at the writing on the wall and said: "They must have used the soul binding technique. I have seen the things behind the plaque. It is full of spells and the names of those who cast the spell. The number is shocking."

Chu Jue nodded and said, "That's right. But it's also wrong."

Chu Jue looked at the plaque and said, "The soul binding technique only traps the souls of those dead Gongsheng here, and its function is nothing more than to increase the hostility here. This can be transformed into Fengshui acupuncture points to increase the aura here. But Shan Chang Unexpectedly, the desire of those students for the title of the gold list and the anxiety and disgust of their failure to pass the exam gradually distorted this technique and formed a taboo technique. , and finally backfired on his descendants. Xu Jin has also been affected by the accumulation of Yin for a hundred years and his deep obsession. Besides, he has been trapped in the walnut mystery and cannot extricate himself, and his feelings of guilt and resentment have also fueled this layer. Under the cover, they all gathered on the portrait of the young man. Xu Jin complained that he was ashamed of him, but the other students hated him as a young prodigy who lived for a hundred years, so the evil spirit of those who failed to pass the exam appeared. The body became that young man. The young man became the entity of the spell, and then backfired on the current head of the mountain. The head of the mountain died suddenly, but he felt ashamed when he learned of the dirty deeds of his ancestors a hundred years ago. Before dying Squeeze the poem you wrote to show the mistakes of the future generations. That's why I came here for a while later, and met Xu Jin who was trapped here."

Hu Yue rolled his eyes at him and said, "You knew it a long time ago? So it's just to deliberately pull me into the game?"

Chu Jue bowed with a smile and said: "It's just just now. When my virtuous brother entered the soul-binding technique, I knew the meaning of this place. According to the agreement, the Zuiyin flower must be sent to the house. You have won this game, my virtuous brother. Do not worry."

Hu Yue asked again: "You..."

Chu Jue asked, "What's the matter?"

Hu Yue shook her head and said, "It's okay. Now that this matter has come to an end, I hope to drink brother Chu's good wine in the future. It's not in vain... I recalled some bad memories."

Hu Yue recalled the portrait of the boy he saw in the illusion. Although the boy was young and arrogant, as if he was invincible, but there was tiredness in those eyes, and the signature of the painting was Mu Ran.

If it is really ruthless, how can you be persistent for a hundred years and not let go?If there is no nostalgia, then what is the purpose of the faint feelings in the pen?How much sincerity is there in the agreement in the walnut?Maybe only Xu Jin knows this, and this painting will continue to hang somewhere, maybe this painting has disappeared, but no one except Hu Yue and Chu Jue will know the secret in this walnut.

In the early morning of the next day, the two left the academy, and met the ten thousand year scholar at the door. The scholar was carrying a bag, shaking his head and reciting a book. Young master, actually stayed here for one night?"

Hu Yue smiled and said, "What? Still want to come to see that master?"

Wan Nian pouted, and said with eloquence: "Of course not, I have already figured it out. Studying is my own business, and I have to keep going. If you are only eager for fame and fame, how can you achieve your studies? If you don't accumulate steps, you will never achieve success." thousands of miles!"

Hu Yue and Chu Jue looked at each other, and both laughed, but Wan Nian shook his head and said: "Actually, I just remembered that my great-grandfather once said that studying is to restrain oneself and return to courtesy, and the world is all about benevolence. In the end, what you learn is just Taoism." No matter how deep this knowledge is, it is just learning to be a person. Since you have promised others, you must do it, even if the agreement will harm your own interests, but since you have promised, you should do what you say and do what you do. Fang Nai Virtue of a gentleman."

Hu Yue withdrew his smile and asked, "Is your great-grandfather a student here?"

Wan Nian nodded and said: "I seem to have heard from his old man, but unfortunately in my memory, although he is knowledgeable, he is not interested in fame, and not only because of something, he also broke his leg. It's a pity, otherwise he will definitely be named on the gold list!"

Hu Yue opened her fan and looked at Chu Jue again. Chu Jue's smile deepened.The two stopped talking, as if they understood the boy's final choice in their hearts.

At the inscription place under the Pagoda of Mercy, the youngest among the 17...

The author has something to say: Well, this is the new chapter in July and a half. Anyway, the top academics... just look up, the next story will still revolve around the two alcoholics.But how to deal with their emotional problems, and how to unravel the mystery hidden between them.Let's see how the story develops.Well, Xiaoqiu still has the old rules for so many years, write slowly, everyone read slowly.Bow~~~~~~~~~~