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Chapter 100: In the Mirror

Le Zhengli had never heard the old man say anything about his longevity lock before, but he seemed to understand it very well, and he didn't mean to deceive his family on purpose. He talked about what he saw and heard on the mountain, and then turned to the place where the stone pillar was drawn on the back and pointed it out to his grandfather.

The old man was obviously a little surprised that the fish sculpture was able to float in mid-air without any external force, but he didn't ask too much, instead he looked at Yin Ranyi and asked, "Xiao Yin, you said your master The surname is Guo? Is it a descendant of the Guo family?"

This Guo family undoubtedly refers to Guo Pu's family. Yin Ranyi nodded, his master is the only remaining blood of the Guo family's offshoot, and there are no living people in the direct line, so Guo Xuan did it at the beginning. It would be said that with his death, the Guo family is completely gone.

The old man nodded, and mentioned that he would have to invite his master to sit at home when he was free in the future, then turned back to Le Zhengli and asked, "Xiao Li, how much do you know about your longevity lock?"

Lezheng Li's understanding of the longevity lock is limited to the fact that it is an accessory that children are born with. Generally speaking, it is used to ward off evil spirits and support children; he himself has a longevity lock hanging around his neck , although the shape of the main fish is a little simple, but every part is handled very meticulously. The chains connected with the locks are made by the old goldsmith himself. Durable.

When he was a child, he couldn't understand what the Longevity Lock looked like, so he pestered his family to ask why he wore a big gold plate around his neck. Teach him to draw the fish pattern on the longevity lock: here is the head of the fish, here is the tail of the fish, and these interlaced lines are the scales of the fish; I was very impressed, and when I saw the fish sculpture, I quickly connected the two.

As for when the longevity lock was taken off, Le Zhengli doesn't remember at all. He reckoned it was when he was in elementary school. have no idea.

"It's normal if you don't remember. Originally, the long life lock was hung up to protect you from illness and disaster, but later it blocked a disaster for you. Your grandma and I put the long life lock on according to the instructions of our ancestors." The life lock was removed and placed in the ancestral hall."

After speaking slowly, the old man stopped talking, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea, then looked at the two young people in front of him with great interest and asked: "Do you know that the longevity lock is Put it with what?"

Lezheng Li was hearing the critical moment, but his grandfather suddenly changed the subject, so he had to think about the decorations in the ancestral hall. Speaking of which, he didn't find his longevity lock inside when he worshiped his ancestors?

"Could it be... put it together with the ancestral tablet?" After thinking for a long time, this is the only reliable way, and Le Zhengli simply said.

The old man raised his hand and knocked him again, "That's disrespectful." However, there was a bit of joke in his tone, and he didn't get angry. Then he stopped entertaining the two young people and told them about it.

When making the longevity lock for Lezheng carp, the pattern that the old man sent to the goldsmith's shop was not just the same as the fish-shaped longevity lock, but also another pattern, which was a small three-inch box with A boa constrictor is entrenched, its head just biting the tip of the tail on the top of the box lock, connecting the end to the end to tightly wrap the whole box.

Many people in Qing'an Town know the dream that Lezheng's mother had when she gave birth to Lezheng carp, and the goldsmith naturally knew it too. , the inside of the box was hollowed out in the shape of a long-lived lock, just enough to fit it tightly, and it was not taken out until the day when Lezheng carp was [-] days old, and the box was put in the ancestral hall by the old man until later. When Zheng Li had an inexplicable high fever when he was nine years old, the box was reopened and the longevity lock was put back in.

Speaking of this, the old man sighed, and said, "I know that the fish-shaped stone sculpture you mentioned will not appear alone, that's why." His finger pointed to the page of drawings spread out on the table, " How can these two things be separated?"

Le Zhengli seemed to understand what he said, but he didn't seem to understand it. According to this, the things on Xinglong Mountain were indeed closely related to them, but how did the ancestors know about this pattern?They even specially made a python box to store the longevity lock... But Lezheng Li doesn't have any memories of that box in his mind, but he is inexplicably convinced that the python pattern on that box is probably the same as the one on Xinglong Mountain. There is no difference between the two giant pythons hovering on the stone pillars.

He glanced at Yin Ranyi who was standing beside him. The latter had a serious expression as if he was talking about state affairs. After noticing his gaze, Yin Ranyi nodded slightly at him: Maybe this is what they are looking for. .

Yin Ranyi was silent for a while, and then asked: "Grandpa, what's wrong with Xiao Li?" In fact, when he asked this question, Yin Ranyi had already guessed the answer to some extent, but what puzzled him was At the beginning, Lezheng Li was still young, and he was born with a very negative constitution, so it was inevitable that he would get sick, but why did he only get benefits from it, and Le Zheng Li didn't benefit at all?

Le Zhengli himself can't remember this incident very clearly. It was only when his grandfather mentioned it that he remembered that he had suffered from an inexplicable illness when he was a child. For a while, he was a little curious. Could it be that this illness has something to do with the longevity lock? relation?

The old man thought for a while, and explained: "Actually, it's not considered a disease... Speaking of which, Xiao Yin, you should know that you probably ran into something you shouldn't see. After you came back that day, you developed a high fever, and it didn't get better after taking the medicine. If I hadn't heard him talking nonsense later, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known the whole story."

Yin Ran nodded knowingly. Although he felt that this matter should not end with a simple illness, he did not continue to ask.

No one has ever told Le Zhengli about this matter, at this moment he seemed to be listening to a novel story, and he couldn't help but ask after hearing this: "Then what did I encounter?"

The old man glared, "Who knows where you ran to meet the walking master and hurried away? Lying on the bed and talking about dead people walking, it made me and your grandma panic to death."

Chasing corpses?Lezheng Li couldn't help but subconsciously glanced at Yin Ranyi, and quickly smiled at the old man flatteringly, "Isn't it all right, thanks to you and my grandma, grandpa, that's why I took off my longevity lock Yes? Does the ancestor know? You still say that this is what she drew, I think the ancestor must know everything. "

"Still talking about your grandfather?" The old man waved his hand and said, "I may not know what the old ancestor knows. You can ask yourself tomorrow, by the way..." Speaking of which, the old man finally remembered the original intention of bringing the two of them here. He warned: "The ancestors wished you well from the very beginning, remember to behave well!"

The two hurriedly nodded together.

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