[Old Nine Gates] Homecoming

Following the bright light, Yu Manli picked up the phone, saw the face on the screen, and couldn't help frowning: "Baye, where is the place in the photo?"

Qi Tiezui rubbed his temples, summoned up his courage and reluctantly leaned over to take another look: "Wazhai, Bajiao Bridge. Before the Buddha left, he received a call saying that hundreds of corpses were found on Bajiao Bridge. Look at the photos. The mountains and bridges here are octagonal bridges.”

Yu Manli frowned even tighter: "Is it far from here?"

Qi Tiezui tapped the dagger twice with his finger to calculate the time: "It's far away, it will take more than four hours to get there by car."

A bold idea suddenly appeared in Yu Manli's mind: "Ba Ye, you are a master at identifying positions. Look at the Bajiao Bridge, the dry well, and the black corpse coffin array we are in now. These three places Is there anything special about it?"

Qi Tiezui thought for a while: "Bajiao Bridge? Looking at it this way, the Bajiao Bridge seems to be on the central axis of the black corpse coffin and the dry well." After speaking, a layer of cold sweat dripped on his forehead, "Manli, you mean, Is there anyone else who has turned the world upside down?"

Yu Manli cut off the rope on Qi Tiezui's body with a knife and tied it around her waist to make it easier to move her body: "Ba Ye, it may not be that the world is upside down. When I opened my eyes just now, I felt that I had entered Because the position of the coffin was exactly the same as the one I saw when I first went down the well, and there were traces on the wall of the tomb chamber that I had chiseled out with gold nails. But for some reason, the place was changed again. I knew where I was until you told me that this is the Black Corpse Coffin Formation, because the appearance of the Black Corpse Coffin Formation is really different from the Black Corpse Coffin Formation that I and Buddha saw before. The only thing I can be sure of is that I never Before leaving the dry well and going to the black corpse coffin formation, the last person I saw was the female guard in the photo."

Qi Tiezui wiped his sweat: "Have you seen her too? I found it really unlucky to follow you, and you can always meet dead people."

Yu Manli said seriously: "Ba Ye, what you saw was a dead person, but what I saw was a living person."

Qi Tiezui hurriedly fell silent, he knew that what Yu Manli said now was the key.

Yu Manli continued: "After I 'fall' into the tomb of Dry Well, I opened my eyes and saw two guards, one of the guards was kneeling to the other guard, and the other guard stabbed a long knife into the kneeling The chest of the guard. I couldn’t tell where they came from at first, so I hid in the coffin. But when I saw the kneeling guard fell limply, I knew it was a person. So I hurried from Jumping inside the coffin, at that moment, I saw the face of the kneeling guard. Unexpectedly, when I jumped out, I couldn’t see anything. I thought it was a hallucination until I saw the little girl just now After you mentioned the locations of these three places, I realized that it might be because my appearance accidentally broke through the formation, or it might be that my appearance brought some changes, which caused all the people in the three places to happen. shifted."

Qi Tiezui asked: "Then what should we do now? If according to what you said, another guard is likely to be in Wazhai now, isn't Buddha dangerous?"

Yu Manli turned the phone's light to the brightest, and pointed it at the wall: "Ba Ye, when did this tomb look like?"

Qi Tiezui leaned on his glasses and looked at it: "This is a brick tomb, supplemented by carved bricks. There are fairy grass and lotus patterns carved on the tomb wall. It should be a tomb of the Song Dynasty."

Yu Manli pointed her phone up again: "Baye, look here again."

Qi Tiezui stood on tiptoe and leaned on the wall of the tomb to look: "Stone carving? This craft only came after the Qing Dynasty. So this tomb does not belong to a certain tomb owner."

Yu Manli put away her phone, and lowered the brightness again: "That's right, Ba Ye, I just thought this tomb was strange, and you, an expert, probably understand three points. This tomb passage should be walked by people often, and it's already gone. It has been going for hundreds of thousands of years, so people will continue to repair it. Let’s go along this road and we will definitely find the exit.”

Qi Tiezui wiped off the dirt and blood stains on the dagger with his clothes: "From this point of view, your appearance seems to have knocked open a mechanism of the black corpse coffin, revealing its prototype. Let's go quickly Hurry up and save Buddha."

Yu Manli smiled bitterly: "Baye, I discovered a secret about myself today."

"What's the secret?" Ba Ye looked around with a knife in his hand. On the surface, he seemed to be protecting Manli and helping her back up, but in fact he followed closely behind Manli, afraid of falling behind.

Yu Manli held the golden nail and the rope tightly: "I found that, in addition to recalling the past, I will be displaced instantly. If the Huo family nail is nailed to me, I will suddenly disappear and reappear in another place."

Qi Tiezui faltered: "You mean, you can go out anytime now?"

Yu Manli also stopped: "It doesn't have to be going out, because I don't know where I will appear after disappearing."

Hearing this, Qi Tiezui sat down on the ground: "I'm not leaving, this tomb is so weird, who knows if I can get out. I'm afraid of death, and I'm even more afraid that no one will even know I'm dead. Why don't you go out first. If you can find a way to open the coffin, it will be the same with the Buddha to save me." He said and inserted the bronze knife into the tomb passage with a "clang" sound, looking impatient.

Yu Manli remembered that Lord Buddha had told her that although Eighth Lord was timid, he was still courageous.On the surface, Ba Ye is for himself, but actually wants her to go out by himself.

She bent down, ready to draw the dagger to persuade Ba Ye to leave.Unexpectedly, as soon as she grasped the handle of the knife, she felt a force pulling the short knife downward, Yu Manli hurriedly said: "Baye, there is something underground."

Qi Tiezui hurriedly rolled over and stood up, and drew out his knife in the direction of Yu Manli.It's a pity that the short knife doesn't move at all, as if it's growing on the ground.He didn't really want to die, he could defend himself with a knife, maybe he could last until Manli and Buddha came back.Now that the knife is gone, Qi Tiezui simply let go, with a crying expression on his face: "Manli, you'd better go, if the knife is gone, it will be gone. It seems that I will not be able to pass this hurdle today. But my grandpa will count on me." Let me tell you that I can live to be 88 years old. Hey, I'm jealous of a talent, and I'm going to die!"

Yu Manli rolled her eyes and let go decisively: "Baye, you don't need that knife. Since your grandfather said you can live to 88, it seems that we don't have to die today. If you think your broken knife with dust If it can be compared to your Qi family's ancestors who have accumulated hundreds of years of Qi family calculations, then you will stay here, I will go to the tomb anyway, and it doesn't matter if you are dead or alive, you will not be able to see anyway."

Qi Tiezui almost burst into tears: "Manli! Sister-in-law!!"

Yu Manli was half-smiling and half-angry: "If you shout again, I'll throw you into the rice dumpling pile and feed it to the rice dumplings!"

As soon as the words fell, the underside of the dagger suddenly shook, and even the ground where they were standing began to crack.

Qi Tiezui said: "Go quickly, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time."

The two ran to the inside of the tomb.However, just as he was about to turn around and step forward, he saw that there was no longer a tomb passage in front of him, but a tomb chamber. The strange thing was that there was no coffin on the coffin bed, only a bronze mirror, and what was even more strange was that there was only Qi Tiezui in the mirror, not Yu Man Korea.

Man Li asked: "Ba Ye, have you seen any tricks? What does this mean?"

Just after asking, the mirror suddenly turned around, and the other side was exposed, and there was only Yu Manli in the mirror, without Qi Tiezui.

Then the surrounding gradually calmed down, Yu Manli in the mirror slowly melted away, and another "person" appeared in the center of the mirror.Her appearance was clearly visible, it was actually a dead female guard who was slowly coming out of the mirror.

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Yu Manli and Qi Tiezui turned around and wanted to run out of the tomb, but at some point there was a wall behind them, and the entire tomb was closed, with no way out.

The two had no choice but to turn around again, facing the guards.Yu Manli stood in front of Qi Tiezui, holding the rope with both hands, ready to fight the female guard at any time.

But the female guard didn't intend to fight.She waved at them in a little panic: "I'm not here to kill you."

Qi Tiezui poked out half of his head from behind Yu Manli's shoulder: "Then what are you here for?"

The female guard stepped down from the coffin bed, the armor she was wearing was still dripping: "Baye Qi, if I really wanted to harm you, I wouldn't have brought you here."

Seeing that she was getting closer and closer, and there was no way back for the two of them, Yu Manli wrapped the rope around her hand to form a whip, while holding the rope buckle on Qi Tiezui's body with the other hand, she moved slowly in the opposite direction. The guard kept a certain distance: "Then who are you?"

The female guard's eyes were suddenly blank: "Me? I am the guard you are looking for." Her voice was so innocent, her face was expressionless, like a pool of stagnant water.

"So you killed him?" Yu Manli avoided carefully while trying to get useful information from the female guard.

The female guard's icy face instantly melted away, and her eyes were full of despair and unwillingness. If you look closely, you can still see the shyness and sweetness of a young girl.She took out a photo from the armor and handed it to Yu Manli: "Is it him you are talking about?"

Yu Manli didn't answer, and glanced at it from a distance, and it turned out to be a group photo of the female guard and the handsome boy - in the photo, the boy was carrying the girl on his back, and the girl opened her arms, with the blue sky and the sea behind.

The female guard smiled sadly at Manli, the despair in her eyes turned into anger in an instant, and finally she seemed to have made a lot of determination before uttering a sentence through her teeth: "My grandpa, it was my grandpa who killed him, and he also killed him." I."

"Why did your grandfather kill you?"

The female guard sighed, trying her best not to hate and despair: "Because people in our family are born to die."

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1974 was an ordinary but extraordinary year in the ten-year catastrophe.It is ordinary because the misery and tragedy of this year seem to be no different from any year in the catastrophe.It's unusual because for me, from that year on, my life was doomed to a tragic end.

In the spring of 74, my grandmother was sent to the tea village, and that was the year she met my grandfather Wang Qijun.My grandfather is a man of great cultural heritage. It is reasonable to say that he has never been to school. In that era when there were no books, it is impossible for him to have the opportunity to become a talent by himself. Cultural literacy, even more knowledgeable than the students who went to the countryside at the same time.

My grandmother was a very romantic person, she was active, courageous, and courageous in her pursuit.Thus, the love story between the foreign female student and the local talent began so vigorously but naturally.So that when the educated youth returned to the city one after another at the end of 1976, my grandmother resolutely chose to stay in the helpless tea village.

But she never expected that this world is far less romantic than she imagined,

In fact, when the educated youth returned to the city in 76, my grandmother was already eight months pregnant.When you are pregnant in October, you are waiting to welcome the arrival of a new life.However, just as the delivery was approaching, my grandmother suddenly found a letter, a letter hidden deeply by my grandfather.