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Chapter 55 Ding

"The cat of Jin Heng's family is not a common cat, but an ancestor" was first said by Liao Feiyun.

Although the iron-clad facts also prove that the old ear is indeed the ancestor of the Jinheng family, and he is a respected ancestor.

But maybe it's because his usual heartless and heartless appearance is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the Jin family from the old to the young never felt that this old man who had lived for at least 20 years, had an amazing appetite and a strong desire to perform There's something weird about cats.

Although as a cat, he will show some small emotions similar to people from time to time, for example, he always hides and meows and cries by himself recently, but generally the old people like Aunt Zhang who don't know the situation may be simple. I thought he was in a bad mood because the cat food was too salty because he was too old. After all, the well-behaved and docile old ears usually look like an old cat who is only slightly smarter than ordinary cats.

Regarding this point, Jin Heng has no way to explain in detail to Aunt Zhang who has always cared about cats. After all, he can’t say that these two days are actually the 2454th anniversary of the death of Lao Er’s wife, so he is so sad that he eats all the cat food No more.

And because of this past incident that the cat in question didn't want to take the initiative to bring up, the old cat who was hiding and secretly uncomfortable was definitely not found anywhere in the old house during this period.

So some time ago, Jin Heng, who was also busy dealing with family conflicts with Gentiana Qin, didn't take the initiative to come back to disturb the old ancestor who must be in a bad mood. It just happened to be something today, so he found the Jin Palace from outside the door all the way.

But when Jin Heng came in, he just came in, but when he came, he happened to bump into his own ancestor who was drunk and drunk, and seemed to be unable to speak human words.

"Come on... come on, sing and dance... sing "Mouse Loves Rice" to Gu again... Meow... Meow..."

Jin Heng: "..."

I saw with my own eyes those dancers with rat heads and women's bodies dancing. All the courtiers that could be seen in the entire royal court looked like rats, voles, hamsters, and squirrels of different species.

Jin Heng, whose head was almost bigger than the two, directly turned cold and ignored the little white face in front of him, who was more handsome than himself and weaker than himself, and a little impatient, he simply and roughly dragged him out from the stunned palace people all the way. .

"What are you doing... you little bastard is going to rebel... someone here... why don't you hurry up and get someone to save you!!!"

No matter how hard they struggled and yelled, the grandparents and grandson still yelled and stepped out of the vivid palace gate on the picture scroll together, and waited for the drunk young man to help his red forehead in a daze, then lay down on the carpet in the study room and began to fight. With a loud sneeze, his little grandson looked down at him rather indifferently and asked with a frown,

"Are you awake yet?"

"..."

I really want to say angrily that you brat dare to abuse me like this now that your wings are stiff, but the old ancestor who never dared to speak out in front of Jin Heng finally shrank into a ball and returned to his original cat body, The wrinkled, wine-red cat face nodded reluctantly and got up from the carpet.

"Oh, why did you suddenly come back today... I thought that after you had our aunt, you forgot all the serious things that grandpa and ancestors should have done. Hehe... A while ago, the strange dog at home caught you No...there is that snake? Did you forget to buy some snake medicine?"

Whispering in his mouth like this, he didn't really intend to ask Jin Heng to answer his trivial questions one by one. It was just the old cat who likes to chatter and crawled under the table to lie down.

After wiping his face with the paw of the cat on the left with a gloomy face, and listening to Jin Heng, who no longer blushes and embarrassment because of such teasing, he described what happened. After a while, the whole cat hid under the table, The old ear, who probably understood it, wagged his tail thoughtfully, and then said in a drawn-out tone to the young man in front of him,

"Oh...so that's why, that girl whose surname is unknown is telling you now...the other door that your sister left to avoid disaster is now in her hands? And your sister even put something in it ? You suspect it may be a Portkey?"

"kindness."

Without raising his head, he searched for the two or three old books that he had just taken off the shelf. Jin Heng's words made his old ears doubtful for a while, but after thinking about it, he said curiously, how did the two of them know each other? of.

Hearing his question, Jin Heng, who set his gaze on his left hand side and was still able to annotate with ink pen, only said slowly with a slightly complicated expression,

"...Ms. Zu Xiao, a certain elder of the Xiao family several generations ago, died of illness. In order to save her, her husband, Ding Sheng, went to find the old man who can bring people back to life. It is said that the old man can go back in time. ability, but it must rely on the human heart to continuously produce new wicks to ensure its long-term survival..."

"Eh? I seem to have heard of this before, where did it come from... But how can I remember that it was made up by people in the first place..."

"Well, this rumor was originally a country story that was fabricated at will and could not find any specific source, but because of a sudden rush to listen to this unrealistic rumor, Ding Sheng, who was just a scholar, actually went all the way from his hometown Hengjian He found Songjiang, but when he got there, he learned that there is no old man with a wick in the world. The old man with a wick is the personification of a storyteller in Songjiang who called the candlestick. ..."

"..."

"When he learned the truth, all the hope in his heart was in vain. In grief and anger, Ding Sheng dug out his heart with a lampstand, and used his blood and all the fat on his body to ruthlessly light the lampstand and burn himself to death. After one night, there was talk of going back in time and the resurrection of the little lady in Hengjian, and the old man wick who can bring people back to life actually began to appear in the Song and Ming Dynasty scripts and even in some related reports in recent years... ..."

"So...you mean, that Dingsheng is likely to turn into Old Man Wick in the end?"

"Well, Xiao Wuyun didn't admit it directly, but I think there is a great possibility that Jin Shu probably met her because of this incident, because Liao Feiyun mentioned that she had tried to fake her death, and in those few years There is another time travel incident in Yangchuan City."

"Then what is she trying to do now that she suddenly came out to talk to you about the 'door'?"

"I suspect that Ding Sheng, that is, the old man who has become a ghost, has used some method to make people with a small surname unable to age, but such things as longevity are not something normal people can bear, so even if It's the little madam herself who finally got fed up with the feeling of being unable to age normally."

"..."

"She may have told herself and Ding Sheng's only child before she died, to find his father no matter what... But after so many generations, the Xiao Clan still cannot end this long and tormenting suffering of eternal life, and they can only use their own Ending to forcibly end the endless life... She just tested me, maybe she wanted to use me to completely end this pain, and then used the condition of entering the door to find what I was looking for to complete her purpose."

The last words were just Xiao Wuyun's conclusion after talking with him in private. Jin Heng didn't rush to agree at that time, but just wanted to come back and ask Lao Er to confirm the credibility of some things before making further decisions. .

At this moment, I heard Jin Heng ask himself if there is such a door in the world that is not currently among the Wan family surnames, the old ears who narrowed their cat eyes thoughtfully and recalled it quickly answered he.

"Yes, and more than one, there should be eight."

"Eight?"

"That's right, the eight major surnames in ancient times, they never get together with common surnames, and they have never appeared in Wanjia surnames for so many years. What method did Jin Shu really use to make important things It's not surprising that the things are sent to their site for temporary storage. The place where the eight old and dying old guys live is not accessible to ordinary people, and their tempers are terribly bad. Going out can scare people to death..."

When the old ear curled his lips like this, Jin Heng's expression became a little complicated for a while, but when he noticed the old cat's eyes at the moment, and carefully thought about the memories of the previous ten years, Jin Heng suddenly frowned. He wrinkled and said in a hesitant tone,

"Is one of them called the Three Body Kingdom..."

"Eh? How do you know?!"

"Jin Shu seems to have mentioned it to me a little bit before."

When Jin Heng said this, he was not sure. After all, if some adjectives mentioned by his old ears were not so familiar, he would almost not be able to remember these things at all. Not quite right, Jin Heng suddenly opened his eyes thoughtfully, and stared at the pages of the book in front of him without saying a word, recalling some things that he had almost forgotten.

From Jin Heng's childhood memories, whenever the end of the month is approaching, his sister Jin Shu would suddenly disappear for a few nights when the moon completely lost its light.

At that time, he was still a child who was very dependent on his sister when he didn't go to middle school, so he habitually followed Jin Shu wherever he went, and he was even more reluctant to leave his sister when they went out together.

Every time Liao Feiyun thought about it later, he said that he was like a rice cake with long legs, as long as it stuck to Jin Shu, he couldn't tear it off. In addition, he was not in good health since he was a child, and he was very thin-skinned, so almost everyone In the evening, Jin Shu, who was worried about him, would come to see her younger brother for a while before going back to sleep by herself.

While at school during the day, Jin Heng, who may have just been frightened by Liao Feiyun with some hearsay ghost story, would hide under the covers and frown for a long time, until Jin Shu sat on the bed and asked him several times with a smile. What's the matter? At that time, his uncle, who looked like a little rabbit in terms of appearance and personality, sullenly complained to his sister in a low voice,

"...Feifei always deliberately scares me with stories about monsters in front of a group of people."

Because her younger brother hides under the covers and looks sulking all by himself is so cute, so Jin Shu, as an elder sister, always laughs at the fight between these two children, but she is never like other people That would directly tell Jin Heng that monsters and the like do not exist at all.

Only occasionally, in order to dilute Jin Heng's fear of monsters, I would tell him one or two stories that are not scary, but a bit magical or interesting when I think about it, but one night, Jin Shu just talked to him like this. Jin Heng seems to have told such a story by accident.

"In fact, there is a very magical door key in this world, which can open all the ancient doors that exist in this world. Behind these doors are countless places that no one has ever entered. One of them is called ①Three Body Kingdom, and inside There is also a group of people surnamed Yao."

"Three Body Kingdom?"

"Well, they are the descendants of the combination of Emperor Jun and Ehuang. All the ancestors in it have one head and three identical bodies. They seem to be inconvenient to move, but they can easily drive leopards and bears. At the same time It is also now that we know that the ancestors of all people surnamed Yao, plus Yao is one of the eight major surnames in ancient times, so he is the earliest source of a large part of the surnames..."

That was the first time Jin Heng heard that such a bizarre thing existed, so the story about the world behind the 'gate' was firmly in his heart.

Until the night of that year, he finally accidentally discovered Jin Shu's long-hidden secret from him in a sudden catastrophe, and that was the first time in his life that he really touched the so-called "door" and All the painful things that he can't recall carefully until now.

"Jinheng...go and find the lost things at home...I can't...tell you where it is now...those ghosts are looking everywhere...you can't compete with them for the time being...no matter what happens in the future Please remember to protect yourself...don't trust anyone easily, and...help me take good care of grandpa..."

"Then... what about those two children?"

"All... kill... kill, two... don't keep any of them, if you... can't be hard on them, just throw them... to the world... don't care about their life and death... listen In my words, let them have nothing to do with the Jin family from now on, so that you can... live in peace for a long time, instead of... I have been living forever..."

The author has something to say: ①Three Body Kingdom: from Shan Hai Jing.

② Visually, some girls can’t understand what I’m writing, so draw some important points. Ding Sheng is the old man of the wick. Xiaoshi wants to end his longevity, and his aunt needs to find his heart. This is a line; Xiaoshi has a door in his hand, and his uncle knows How to enter the real Three Body Kingdom correctly, what does my aunt have in hand!There is a door!key!key, spoon!

③If you don’t remember why your aunt has a key, you can go to Chapter 7 of this article to see what is in my aunt’s little black bag. In addition, about another name of my uncle in the previous chapter, in Chapter 4 Old Cat and It appeared in his conversations. At that time, the old cat called him Jin Suoyang, so there are previous backgrounds. Let me explain in detail here.