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Now that you have entered the ancestral hall, of course you have to burn incense on the tablet of the ancestors. The ancestors went to get the incense candles and handed them to the two. I just got up.

The old ancestor waited for the two to get up, and then led them out of the sacrificial hall in the back bedroom, and into a small courtyard in the third entrance.

Lezheng Li is quite familiar with this place. This courtyard was originally built for the people who guarded the ancestral hall. Later, when the ancestral hall became dilapidated, no one came to live there. After it was rebuilt, it was mostly used for rest on the day of ancestor worship. Have slept here a few times.

He put the bronze mirror he carried along the way on the low table by the door, and together with Yin Ranyi, he opened the bed board of the wooden bed in the bedroom according to the instructions of his ancestors. There was a cotton package under the bed board, and the two looked at each other With a glance, Lezheng Li reached out and took out the package, and showed the old man back, "Old Ancestor, is this?"

"Yes. This is it."

The two of them put the bed back on again, and Le Zhengli murmured as he unwrapped the cotton cloth, "Why is it under this? Didn't I sleep on this thing before?"

The old ancestor smiled and said: "Otherwise, where else do you want to put it? You were young at the time, and you were afraid that you would lose your life if you put this thing in the ancestral hall. I came here all night to choose it with your grandparents for a long time before I found it. place."

While speaking, Lezheng Li had already opened the package, and there was indeed a three-inch-square box with a coiled python inside. His hands shook slightly, and he breathed a long sigh of relief, and he lifted the box towards Yin Ranyi. Lift, that means let the other party open it, the latter nodded, raised his hand and gently pressed the skull of the python, only heard a light click, the lid popped open, and the longevity lock contained in it was also revealed. in front of the two of them.

This longevity lock is made of gold, and its shape is the same as the stone carving on Xinglong Mountain earlier. However, due to the different manufacturing methods, the details of the longevity lock are more delicate, but you can still see the two at a glance. They belonged to the same thing, Lezheng Li's eyes fell on the python on the box again, and a strange thought suddenly flashed in his mind - python, fish.Ever since Yin Ranyi said that he might turn into a boa constrictor one day, the clues they encountered all revolved around these two things. Whether it was his mother's dream or the sacrificial formation on Xinglong Mountain, they seemed to be far from each other. Regardless of the boa constrictor and fish, if Yin Ranyi is really a boa constrictor, will he be a fish?

Thinking of his love for water almost from birth, Lezheng Li felt more and more that this conjecture might be the answer, and he couldn't help but said to himself: "Could it be that my lord really turned into a carp?"

Yin Ranyi hadn't answered yet, but the old ancestor laughed when he heard it, and sat on the chair by the door and said, "That's not sure, but what the little carp is thinking about, thinking about it, it's our little one." Grandson."

Le Zhengli paused when he heard the words, that's true, even if this guess that sounded like a fantasy came true, he and Yin Ranyi had a connection in a previous life, but where should we start to investigate next?He has never heard of any famous story about pythons and fishes in history since he grew up, and this guess doesn't seem to help Yin Ran's turning into a python body for no reason. He suddenly turned into a fish, and even before meeting Yin Ranyi, he had never encountered any strange things.

Yin Ranyi suddenly raised his hand to lightly poke the frown between his brows, and said in a low voice, "Don't think too much."

Le Zhengli could only smile back at this, he really had no choice but to think too much, even if this matter had nothing to do with him in the slightest, as long as he was involved with Yin Ranyi, he would naturally think more .

Yin Ranyi seemed to know what he was thinking, but he didn't force it, he just sighed lightly.

"You two are so young, why are you sighing and sighing?" the ancestor said slowly, "the days are still long, there is no hurdle that you can't get over, little carp, you and Xiao Yin have to take your time, don't worry ah."

Le Zhengli turned to look at the old man, the old woman had a gentle and kind smile on her face, just like the old man's usual expression of comforting him when he made a mistake when he was a child and hid in the small building for fear of being beaten.

He suddenly had a sore nose. He didn't tell anyone in the family the real reason why he came home to look for Changshousuo this time, but his grandfather and ancestors somehow knew that he was not just "curious", right? The old man didn't ask too much, as long as he wanted to know, they told him everything without any concealment.

"Old ancestor..." He walked over and bent down to hug this old man who has gone through a century of hardships, just like the old grandmother hugged him to make him not be afraid.

The old man stretched out his fingers and scratched his nose, as if coaxing a child: "Your wife is still here, why are you crying?"

Yin Ranyi stood aside, looking at them with a gentle and indulgent smile on his face, Lezheng Li's ears turned red, and he sniffled and said, "If you have sand in your eyes, you're not crying."

The two sent the ancestor back to the small building, and then returned to the room with the ancient mirror and the box containing the longevity lock. Lezheng Li untied the clothes wrapped around the bronze mirror, and put the mirror on the table Standing up against the wall, he opened the box again, took out the longevity lock and put it in front of the mirror. Naturally, nothing was reflected in the mirror, so he walked away muttering: "Whatever you say is born from the heart, I will All I want to do is look at the reflection of a person in the mirror, why isn't there?"

Yin Ranyi sat on the rattan wooden chair beside him, propped his chin with one hand and looked at the ancient mirror without speaking. After a while, he stood up and said to Le Zhengli: "Everything can't be strung together."

"Ah?" Lezheng Li was sitting by the bed folding clothes. The two of them hadn't taken a few days off. Seeing that it was time to go back again, he didn't realize what Yin Ranyi said for a while, and asked subconsciously He said: "String together? Do you want to string something up?"

Yin Ranyi walked over to take the folded clothes in his hands and put them in the closet beside him, and then explained: "We have been looking for where these things come from. These things seem to be all related, but they are all connected. I can't get up, or... the string is very strange."

Le Zhengli stopped what he was doing, looked at the bronze mirror and longevity lock on the table, and said thoughtfully: "No... it's not a strange string, from the beginning to now, these things It's all connected together..." He pointed to Yin Ranyi and then nodded his nose with his backhand, "——it's all us."

Yin Ranyi nodded, and asked back, "Why?"