Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

I was led by Ahuai back to Zhang Rui's study, refreshed, and finally sat down in a "well-groomed" manner.

Ah Huai said that Zhang Rui has four masters in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but left out that Zhang Ergongzi's tea is also brewed well. There are a few fat leaves floating on the clear water, which is tender green, and the taste is better than drinking in the front hall. .

Zhang Rui lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and I also lowered my head and took a sip of tea.

Zhang Rui raised his head and smiled at me. I didn't know what he meant, so I had to apologize awkwardly.

He said: "I was just about to ask you, what does it mean that the thing was sent to me, but I didn't expect you to come to the door."

I was stunned for a while, and didn't remember what I sent, so I said in a daze, "What is it?"

Zhang Rui looked at me, smiled faintly, then lowered his head to take a sip of tea, and said, "Which bucket did it come from?"

I slapped my forehead in fear, and remembered: "Oh! That white knife! I couldn't think of what to do with it at the moment, so I wanted to show you first, and let you give me an idea."

Zhang Rui raised the corners of his mouth, and smiled with an inexplicable meaning: "Which fight did you go to, why didn't you think of asking me to join you? Although I think, it should be the master who asked you to practice in the fight, right?"

"Well, it's a practice." I pretended to be honest and nodded.

It's not easy to hide the truth from Zhang Rui. With my acting skills, he can figure out the details in less than three sentences.I mentioned Nanzhang Erbei and Jiang Si earlier, but there is actually another sentence: There are "two poisons" in the north and south, Zhang Erye has poisonous eyes, and Jiang Siye has poisonous mouth.

I was afraid that if Zhang Rui found out that I had something to hide, he would think wildly and didn't know where I was going alone, so I told him everything about my trip to Miao Village, except that I was in the cave with the incense burner. On that night in Beijing, I did not forget to explain the other details clearly and clearly.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, Zhang Rui narrowed his eyes and looked at me: "Did something happen the night before the fog?"

Paper can't cover fire, when he asked this question, I scratched my cheek in embarrassment: "Nothing happened, we just spent the night in the cave, and the incense burner told me that he is a Gu master."

Zhang Rui frowned, and I quickly spread my hands: "I didn't expect him to be a Gu Master, but I think his character should not be bad."

Zhang Rui has a pair of eyes that are more slender than peach blossom eyes and deep-set like a mixed-race person. When he squints, the long eyelashes cast a faint shadow on the lower eyelid, and a little cold light faintly leaks out of it. , icy cold and a bit coquettish, those eyes are really unbearable, I felt suffocated when I was looked at by him like that.

I feel like I was found out by my married wife, and I feel inexplicably guilty.

But he smiled, and said lightly: "Master Long is a mysterious person. You said you wanted to find him, so I paid attention to him for you. It turned out that he is a mystery at all. Almost no one in the circle knows his identity." In other words, he deliberately does not let anyone know his details."

Zhang Rui always likes to be tactful when speaking. I could hear other meanings in his words, so I smiled and said: "I understand, you are trying to remind me not to trust others too easily. Clean, right?"

Zhang Rui picked up the tea, his expression was covered by the teacup, and his voice said softly: "I just don't want you to be cheated, and I don't want you to get hurt because of it."

It wasn't until later that I pondered over the meaning of these two sentences that I suddenly realized that Zhang Rui, a silly boy, had wishful thinking, but I never noticed it.At that time, I really didn't think about that, so much so that I thought Zhang Rui was just trying to persuade him out of good intentions.

I shrugged my shoulders noncommittally, Zhang Rui put down the teacup, and said, "Think about it, in the deep mountains and wild forests, you spent a night with an unknown person, without any self-defense weapons on your body, but the other person is a person with extraordinary skills , if he intends to harm you, you will now become a rotting corpse in the cave."

Zhang Rui said in a joking tone, I got goosebumps all over my body, and rubbed my arms: "I'm good, the incense burner is not a bad person, I have confidence in my vision."

Zhang Rui smiled secretly, nodded, and said nothing more.

I remembered the purpose of the Dumendu sent to visit the Zhang family. Taking advantage of the fact that Zhang Rui and I were the only ones in the study, I asked, "You have also been in that tomb. Have you opened the coffin for the mother and son? Did you take it with you?" What came out?"

Zhang Rui was stunned for a while, then nodded: "Since you're here, let me show you."

The whole room is furnished simply, but also tidy and clean.Apart from desks, reclining chairs, bookshelves, and a plum blossom screen, there is nothing else.

Zhang Rui walked to the bookshelf, and I followed him with my eyes, and saw the blue and white porcelain vase on the third floor of the bookshelf, with the jade pendant bought from Chenghuang Temple hanging on the neck of the bottle.

I smiled and said, "Didn't you say that you bought the jade pendant to wear it yourself, why didn't you wear it on your body? Did you later feel that its texture is average and you don't like it?"

Zhang Rui looked back at me, then stared blankly at the jade pendant: "I'm afraid it's easy to lose it if I wear it on my body."

"Oh, that's right." Thinking of Zhang Rui's frequent fights, bumps and bumps are inevitable when he drills underground, and things on his body may indeed fall off inadvertently.

Zhang Rui brought over something and wrapped it in silk.He put the thing on the desk, then waved to me: "Come and see."

I walked over, Zhang Rui untied the silk, I looked down and was shocked.

Because for a long time, I have been thinking about it in my heart, so that I can recognize it just by looking at it.

This turned out to be a red sandalwood box!

However, unlike the one that Zhang Ci asked me to drive, that one had nine dragons engraved on it, but this one had a phoenix engraved on it.

I recalled that 15 years ago the Zhang family brought out ten wooden boxes from the Hades of the Eastern Emperor. Could it be that the carvings on the wooden boxes corresponded to the ten spine beasts?

Then I thought of Hua Jinglan's tragic experience and her frightening madness. The people involved in that fight did not end well, and I couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Zhang Rui stared at the wooden box with a serious expression and cold eyes, as if there was a demon in the wooden box that made him hate it.After a long time, the expression on his face gradually eased down.

My intuition told me that he might say something crucial next, and sure enough, he lightly pressed one palm on the wooden box, looking very cautious and cautious, and his voice trembled slightly when he spoke.

"The person lying in the mother-child coffin..." He took a breath, "It's my sister, Zhang Yawen."

I was taken aback.

In the tomb, the Dumen Dupai once said that Zhang Rui entered the tomb and left in a hurry without sealing the robbery hole.However, Zhang Rui does not act like a careless person. He would be in such a hurry. There can only be two situations: first, there was something unexpected in the tomb that made him have to retreat immediately; He was stimulated and caused emotional instability, so he was uncharacteristically negligent.

When we went in, there was nothing unusual in the tomb, so the first rule was not true.But looking at it now, I finally understand that it is obviously the second case. Zhang Rui accidentally found his sister's body in the tomb, and he suffered a strong mental shock and blow, so he suddenly lost his direction.

It seems that when he left the tomb, he might be in a muddled state of mind, and his emotions were very disordered.

Until now, when Zhang Rui mentioned the situation to me, he couldn't hide the painful expression on his face.He covered his forehead with his hands, calmed down and adjusted his breathing, and then continued: "I don't know how long she has been lying in there, the body is well preserved, there is hardly any sign of decay, and...the face is serene, look There shouldn't be any pain when I get up and die, it's like... like she just fell asleep, I was in a trance at the time, always thinking that maybe she would open her eyes the next moment, call my name, and smile at me... ..."

"I wanted to take her body away, but she looked so peaceful, I... didn't dare to touch her." He took another deep breath, suppressing the trembling in the ending voice, "I'm afraid that if she moves, she may change It’s completely changed, it’s not as good as it looks anymore.”

Zhang Rui's other hand on the side of the table was tightly clenched, so tensed that his joints turned white.

Although the Zhang family is big, Zhang Rui has only one family member like his sister.The fool who was a child dragged his sister's skirt to hide behind his sister all day long, staring at others with fear, as if everyone in the world was a bad person who wanted to kill them and his brother in his eyes.I was ignorant at the time, but now I know that Zhang Rui is an unacceptable existence to the Zhang family. Maybe he has lived in a cold world despite the hustle and bustle since he was a child, and the only person who can give him some warmth is Only his sister.

His feelings for his sister must be unforgettable.

After searching for so many years, I suddenly saw the dead body of my relative in an ancient tomb in a remote mountain and old forest in remote Yunnan. In that dark and cold tomb, facing a cold coffin and relatives who have already been frozen and frozen in the coffin, what kind of mood should I feel?

Zhang Rui, Zhang Rui, did you strongly hope that there would be someone around you who could listen to your inner venting?

It's a pity that you couldn't call anyone at that time. In that kind of place where every day is not working, you were alone in the past, and you are still alone now. No one can share your feelings with you. That cold inner world.

I smiled wryly, and reached out to press Zhang Rui's shoulder. I don't know how he got through it, but he was still talking and laughing in front of me just now.

"My condolences." I said, "Perhaps it was her choice to sleep there forever."

After all, Zhang Rui has excellent self-cultivation, but he didn't continue to be depressed in such a state of mind. Soon he smiled at me and quietly buried the sadness in his eyes: "I'm the type who doesn't cry when I don't see the coffin. For many years, I have always thought that my sister might still be alive, although this hope is shattered now, but I still want to find out the truth."

Seeing his expression, there is always a feeling that one day moths will jump into the flames and die together. I patted him on the shoulder and couldn't help but said: "We are also friends who hit it off. The brother's business is my own business. Dou, I'll be with you, let's find out the truth of the matter together, so that if one day you feel depressed and uncontrollable in Dou, there will be someone who can speak your mind."

Zhang Rui looked back at me with bright eyes: "...Thank you."

"Where, why are you thankful. Uh, I mainly because..." I scratched my head, suddenly didn't know where to start, and finally said slowly as if squeezing toothpaste, "Because of some old things and certain agreements, although I was a child Yan Wuji, but I don't want to be a person who breaks my word, so, if you are in trouble in the future, my friend will definitely protect you!"

My face turned hot when I said that, probably because I felt embarrassed to give such a handsome and wise guy that kind of nickname in the past, and now I don’t have the face to mention it again, so I felt inexplicably embarrassed.

Zhang Rui suddenly smiled slightly: "So you still remember, I thought you had forgotten all about it long ago."

I shrugged awkwardly, but he rolled his eyes with a smile.

His eyes are really beautiful, as clear as water, but there is a bit of intoxication in them, as if he is looking at the blooming flowers in the world of flowers and flowers through the mist and rain, obviously he still has something to say, but he always just watches from a distance, instead of letting himself fall into that world.

I always think that Zhang Rui is a very simple person with all his thoughts written on his face, but has he ever been in love, what he likes and what he hates, even after many years, I still know him very well few.

Just as I was thinking wildly, Zhang Rui cleared his throat and said seriously: "Back to the topic. This wooden box has seven locks. I can only unlock the first one at the moment. We must find a way to unlock the remaining six before we can lock it." know what's in there."

I was surprised: "Is there something inside?"

"Yeah." While Zhang Rui nodded, he picked up the wooden box and shook it. Sure enough, there was a rumbling sound coming from inside. It should be something hard.