Guanqingzhai

Although it is a mass grave, you can see some small roads, and I don't know how these roads appeared on this weedy hill.They are very narrow and criss-crossed.

Xuan Mingzi asked: "Is this famous?"

Hu Yue shook his head, and he said, "I don't know yet, these roads seem to have been stepped on."

Chu Jue said: "This should be a puzzle, but I don't know what it means."

Xuan Mingzi looked up at the sky: "It's about to rain. If we really can't do it, why don't we go back to the pavilion in front and come back after we figure it out?"

The three of them couldn't find a clue for a while, and the rain clouds had already gathered, and it looked like it was going to be a downpour.They can only go back first.

They returned to the pavilion just as it started to rain.The air is gradually getting colder.In the water mist, the hills and hills seem to be blurred as if blurred.

The three sat around the stone table, looking at the scene in front of them without saying a word.Xuan Mingzi said: "Now the mystery we have uncovered is flowering and death. There is no connection between them."

Hu Yue said: "You still said you missed one, Crow."

Chu Jue looked at the scenery in the rain, and suddenly he stood up. He pointed to the distance and said, "Look, what is that?"

The two looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the scenery on the hill had changed in the rain and fog, and a group of people and horses appeared in the rain, walking very slowly.Between them was a coffin.

But what's even weirder is that they actually walked backwards.

Xuan Mingzi stood up all of a sudden: "Fall! But just one word... how to explain it?"

The three of them looked at each other, and it was already unclear what it meant.The mystery here is as clueless as a scattered chess game.

Xuan Mingzi shook his head in resignation and said, "Hey, it's over, it's over. The more we go, the more hopeless we go. Let's just leave when the time is up."

Hu Yue squinted at the team and said, "The team is going backwards, brother Chu, do you have any idea?"

He couldn't answer either.Hu Yue's brows were also a little tense. It is true that there is no way to find the connection here. From the beginning of the crow, to the later flowering period, and then death, the only reminders left are Xuan Mingzi and Hu Yue. The two in hand, and how many points can Xuan Mingzi's upside-down sign indicate?

Xuan Mingzi sighed again and again: "It seems that we won't be able to come next year. It's really the end of the mountain."

At this time, Chu Jue suddenly said: "Then it's time for the dark flowers to shine."

Hu Yue and Xuan Mingzi looked at him at the same time, Chu Jue stood up and said, "We have to go deep into the dark willows to find Huaming."

He said: "Brother Dao, there is an upside-down character written on the piece of paper in your hand, isn't it? Have you thought about why it didn't appear until now?"

Xuan Mingzi took out the paper and said, "It's an upside-down character. What do you mean by that?"

Hu Yue suddenly realized, she patted the table and said, "Okay, brother Chu, you really have it!"

Chu Jue said: "At present, all our clues are gone, but there is no unparalleled path. This is a game of remnant chess, and the remnant chess cannot be played. It is because there is no regret. But the word in Daoist hand Call us "Shouzi""

Chu Jue said: "We all think that we have to get out of the mass grave to know the next puzzle. In fact, it is time for us to solve the last puzzle. Now we are solving the last second puzzle. The clues are all connected backwards to form the answer."

Chu Jue reached out to pick up the pen and ink on the stone table, and wrote on the stone table: "First is the crow, then is the flowering period, and then is the change of life and death. Turn the puzzle upside down."

Chu Jue glanced at Hu Yue, and Hu Yue said with a smile: "Brother Chu, does that mean that in fact, there is a change of life and death first, then the flowering period, and finally the crow. But what is the connection between them?"

As soon as Hu Yue finished speaking, the surrounding scenery changed again. The mass grave was still gone, and it returned to the enchanting scene of red plums before.

But there is an extra bright red coffin in this scene.Plum blossoms sprinkled on the coffin.

Hu Yue looked at the coffin, and he took a closer look, and there was a child lying in the coffin. This child was none other than the boy who sent him the invitation card. At this time, the boy's face had turned blue and black, and his body began to swell. It looked like it was going to rot soon.

And around the child's neck is a string of three-legged black and silver bells.

Chu Jue said: "This child... is the last mystery."

Hu Yue looked at the child's death and shook his head, saying: "This child has been dead for a long time, but his soul has been sealed in the body with magic, and it has been delayed for a long time now. This is the last puzzle, and the one in my hand is the hint to the last riddle."

He opened the paper, the monster on it, the river and the door, Hu Yue closed the paper, he looked at the two of them and said: "The crow is a loving bird, based on filial piety. The answer to this mystery is probably guessed by the two of you."

The other two did not talk to each other, because this mystery made people feel very helpless.

Chu Jue said: "This..."

Xuan Mingzi and Chu Jue couldn't continue talking. The last answer to the mystery was not that they couldn't guess it, but that they couldn't do it either.They looked at the child's body, and then at the paper.

Hu Yue reached out and touched the child's face. His face was very rough. Just after Hu Yue finished touching the child's eyes, the child suddenly opened his eyes and stared at the three people in front of him.

He said: "You really came, sir said that the person who can see me in the end is the one who can help me."

Hu Yue smiled slightly: "What do you want us to help you with?"

The child's body could not move, he continued: "Can you return the bell to my mother for me?"

Hu Yue looked at the bell on his chest, and he said: "The reason why your soul persists is because of this thing. If you take it away, you will surely turn into nothingness."

The child said: "I know, my husband told me that if the bell leaves me, I will cease to exist. But my body can no longer wait. I can't serve my mother like I used to, but I can't bear her gray hair People give black-haired people. So please bring bells to Yu's mother. As if I am still by her side."

Chu Jue said: "You mean that you have been serving your mother for a long time after death?"

Child: "Yes, it has been 60 days. Mr. said that the crow has fed back for 60 days, which is called kindness and filial piety."

Chu Jue nodded silently.

The child continued to plead: "The three are guests invited by the master. The master said that as long as he can guess the title, he will understand my difficulties. I am still young, but I have suffered a sudden disaster. The master takes pity on me and promises to let me stay here for 60 days." For the time limit, to stay by my mother's side and serve, but now the time has come."

Hu Yue said: "The flowering period has come, and the flowers bloom and fall involuntarily, so that's what it means."

The child couldn't move his body, he moved his head with difficulty and said: "Please help me, but please don't tell my mother the fact that I am dead. If he asks, the troublesome son will say that I went to travel with my master to practice Taoism." .”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Isn't your mother unable to see you?"

Hu Yue said: "Life is better than death."

Tears welled up in the child's eyes.Hu Yue continued: "Don't you have any regrets?"

The child kept crying, and he said: "How can I not? Although I have 60 days, I can't last longer. Now that the time is up, as a person who is already dead, I will naturally leave my mother forever. It is me Unfilial!"

Hu Yue said: "If I help you stay with your mother in another form, but the price is that you can't be reincarnated, would you be willing?"

The child said excitedly; "Of course."

Xuan Mingzi stopped him and said: "Old monster, you have thought about it, this child can't be reborn as a human?"

Hu Yue looked at the child and said, "This is for him to decide, and Master Canmei invited the three of us to come, and that's actually the intention."

Xuan Mingzi wanted to speak again, but Chu Jue took the first step: "The final answer should be to go home. We want us to send the child's soul home. But Hu Yue, will you do this..." Hu Yue said: " Child, this is your decision. Of course, after your mother's life span is over, you can also enter reincarnation."

The child's voice was a little trembling: "Thank you son, I am willing."

Hu Yue looked at the child and said, "Then you close your eyes, and then go home as you wish."

The child closed his eyes with a smile, and finally just said thank you.

The child's body became more and more illusory, and finally there was only the string of silver bells hanging on the plum blossom branch. Hu Yue picked up the silver bells, looked at the bells and said, "What a good boy." Throwing it in the air, the silver bell flew into the air and turned into a crow, circling three times in the sky and then flew towards the distance.

Hu Yue said: "The crow is indeed a loving bird. If his heart remains unchanged, he will not disappear."

Chu Jue looked at the crow that disappeared in the sky, then looked at Hu Yue and said, "Who are we going to win this time? As the master, Brother Dao should make it clear."

Xuan Mingzi was taken aback, he said awkwardly, "Brother Chu, what do you mean?"

Chu Jue said: "As the master of Canmei, how can Brother Dao not give us a lottery? And we have done you such a big favor, right Brother Hu."

Hu Yue nodded and said: "Really, I didn't expect you to be so rich, a stinky Taoist priest. Since we all guessed your answer this time, you must give a reward."

Xuan Mingzi coughed, "How are you sure it's me?"

Chu Jue said: "The first time I suspected it was in the ruined temple. Immediately after you came in, you guessed that I was brought by Hu Yue, not that I was invited alone. At this time, only the boy at the beginning knew, then That is to say, only Master Canmei knows the relationship between the two of us, the second time is when we just saw the fragmented book, you can immediately guess what this book is? This is not easy."

Xuan Mingzi chuckled, and he said: "It's really not easy. If you follow suit, you'll be considered a loser. Indeed, I originally wanted to invite Hu Yue alone this time, because he is famous for being good at understanding ghosts and gods. If so, then why not?" Let him take the child for the last ride, but I was worried that Tong'er's physical body could no longer be preserved, so I promised him to bring another person as a helper, hey, Brother Chu, you don't know, every year I melt the snow. I came to invite him from time to time, but he ignored me, and I was very sad."

She said it as if she was about to touch tears, Hu Yue frowned and looked at him, thinking how could she be so pretentious.Xuan Mingzi changed his previous disappointed attitude and said: "Since the two of you have solved the problem for my boy and guessed the riddle correctly, then this time I will be the host, you two please."

Taking a second look, the branches are full of plum blossoms in front of me, and the spring is just right, and has the crow flying back to his hometown to repay his mother's kindness?