Chapter 878 White Bones
Women and men do have different ideas. Under the current situation, Xu Chunliang’s first thought was how to escape.
But Cao Mulan's mind was filled with what happened in the past two days. Over the years, Xia Houzun left the business to her, and she was basically responsible for all the big and small matters of the family. She had never thought of relying on a man, but this After the Gonggong Sha disappeared, her personality changed subtly. She didn't even bother to think about how to escape, and came up with a very strange idea. Xu Chunliang should be able to solve this problem.
Now Xu Chunliang was taking the lead, and she was just assisting. She suddenly realized that she had begun to choose to show weakness and obedience in front of Xu Chunliang. This was unimaginable in the past. Could it be because he did what he did to her? But apart from that, they still don't understand each other.
Cao Mulan's pretty face was hot, but fortunately Xu Chunliang's back was turned to her, so he couldn't see the shy look on her face.
The steps extended all the way to the stone chamber below, and Xu Chunliang saw two white bones inside.
One person was lying on the ground with a knife stuck in his chest, and the other person was kneeling next to him holding the other deceased in his arms.
Xu Chunliang could tell at a glance that the person lying on the ground was a man, and the person kneeling there holding him was a woman. Even though the men and women turned into white bones, the shapes of the bones were different.
From the situation at the scene, it can be inferred that the man should have been stabbed first. After the woman found out, she took him here and was trapped again. The two bodies were left here.
Cao Mulan picked up a dusty pocket watch from the ground and opened it. The hands of the pocket watch had stopped moving, but there was a photo inside the pocket watch.
The photo shows a family of three. Both parents are very good-looking. The two of them are hugging the cute little girl in the middle.
Cao Mulan recognized the little girl as herself at a glance. There was no need to ask. The other two people in the photo were her parents.
The pocket watch also has names engraved inside it—Xiahou Zun, Cao Xinzhu, and Xiahou Mulan.
Xiahou Zun is her father, Cao Xinzhu is her mother, and Xiahou Mulan is naturally herself.
When she first became sensible, Xia Houzun told her that the reason why she was named Cao was to commemorate her mother who died in childbirth. It turned out that everything was a lie. The two deceased people in front of her were her parents. Now Xia Houzun is eight out of ten. Nine is fake. Everything about his life experience and his mother are all lies spun by this despicable and shameless liar.
Looking at the bones of her parents and seeing how miserable their death was, Cao Mulan burst into tears. She made up her mind that from now on, she would be called Xiahou Mulan.
Xu Chunliang roughly guessed that she was already in so much pain, so there was no need for him to add salt to her wounds.
If this is the real Xia Houzun, who is the fake one outside?
Xu Chunliang searched the stone room and found nothing else.
Xiahou Mulan suddenly said: "This watch belongs to my father, and that person killed them." The person in her mouth refers to the fake Xiahou Zun.
Xu Chunliang said: "Why did he kill your parents?"
Xiahou Mulan said: "It's no need to ask. He must want to monopolize the secrets here. He killed my father and replaced him, becoming the head of the Weary Sect."
Xu Chunliang secretly thought that Xiahou Zun wanted to monopolize more than just Cao Cao's troop transportation and food channels. He may have discovered that Cao Mulan's body was special at that time. As long as she was carefully cultivated, she could be cultivated into a Xuanyin body. For Xiahou Zun, Money is something external to the body, and it is not as important as inhaling the energy of Xuan Yin.
Xu Chunliang said: "It seems that your parents have already discovered the troop transportation route. They may have been trapped here by Xiahou...that old bastard."
Xiahou Mulan said: "Maybe they are hiding here to avoid being hunted. Because my father was killed, my mother didn't want to live alone." She has always called the old thief after her father since she was a child. It was he who insisted on it. Now Only then did Xiahou Mulan understand the reason why he did this.
Xu Chunliang said: "If your conjecture is correct, there should be a passage here." He has searched all the stone rooms, and found nothing special. There is still one place that he has not found, and that is the home of Xiahou Mulan's parents. underneath the remains.
After seeking Xiahou Mulan's consent, the two moved the two skeletons away together. Xiahou Mulan pulled out the knife from his father's ribs. The knife was embedded in the ribs, so it still stayed in place after so many years. The knife was engraved with " Two words - Xinwei.
Xiahou Mulan secretly thought, her mother's name is Cao Xinzhu, could this new guard be her brother? Could it be the name of the murderer?
Xu Chunliang said: "Mulan, look at the bloodstains on the ground."
Xiahou Mulan followed what he expected and saw a pit on the ground. The color inside the pit was bright red. Only after looking carefully could he tell that it was a pool of old blood, about the size of a palm. There was no need to ask whether the blood belonged to his father.
Xu Chunliang asked: "Do you feel something is wrong?" He thought of a kind of stone that dissolves when it comes into contact with water. However, he had only read about this kind of stone in classics and had never seen it in reality.
Xiahou Mulan didn't think anything was wrong. Her father was fatally stabbed and would definitely bleed. It was normal for the blood to leave marks on the ground.
Xu Chunliang said: "With his injury, it is impossible that he only shed this little blood. Where did the other blood go? And there is a dent in this stone, as if it has been dissolved by something."
Xiahou Mulan said: "Perhaps the bleeding stopped in time or it seeped along the cracks in the stone." More than twenty years have passed, and it is difficult to deduce from the scene what the situation was at that time. Maybe time has faded the blood.
Xu Chunliang said: "Do you feel that the blood stains are too neat? There is something strange about this stone. Could it be that the blood has dissolved part of the stone?"
Xu Chunliang knocked on the stone. It should not be hollow underneath. He tried pounding it and it was extremely hard.
Xu Chunliang wanted to find some water to try, but after such a long time, the clothes on both of them were basically dry, and they didn't bring any water with them. Xu Chunliang asked Xiahou Mulan to turn around.
Xiahou Mulan didn't know what he wanted to do. She turned to face the wall as he said, but she heard the sound of water rushing behind her. When she heard the sound, she immediately understood what Xu Chunliang was doing? This guy is so thick-skinned that he doesn't even know how to avoid it in front of me? But then she thought about it, Xu Chunliang didn't ask her to turn around. Xu Chunliang didn’t do it as a prank. He mainly wanted to see what was weird about this stone. When he peed, the stone actually melted. It was undoubtedly a stone.
There is a bronze faucet wrapped in the stone, which is also in line with the characteristics of the stone. The stone is not natural, but made according to the formula. It is as soft as mud within half an hour after it is made. It can be made into any shape. After solidification Hard as iron stone, but soluble in water.
“Hey, look!”
Xiahou Mulan shook her head: "I don't want to see it!" She thought there was something interesting to see, but it wasn't like she hadn't seen it before.
Xu Chunliang said: "Dragon head!"
Xiahou Mulan said to her heart that you are really good at putting gold on your face. I have never seen a dragon head grow like you.
Xu Chunliang said: "The bronze one is the same as the outside one."
Xiahou Mulan then turned around and saw that Xu Chunliang had already lifted up his pants. The blood-stained stone had now been mostly melted, and a bronze dragon head was exposed from it.
Xu Chunliang said: "See if you can twist it."
Xiahou Mulan glared at him. Although she didn't look at it just now, don't think that she doesn't know how he melted the stone. Let me touch this thing. I'm not afraid of getting dirty? In fact, it's not that she refuses, it's just that she can't save face.
Xu Chunliang said: "Whether it's counterclockwise or clockwise, I'm afraid I can't grasp the scale well. If it gets screwed, I'll be in trouble. How long has it been and you still think I'm dirty? Why didn't you say it just now?"
Xiahou Mulan blushed and kicked him: "Get out of the way."
She understood that now was not the time to worry about such trivial matters. If Xu Chunliang had not achieved the desired effect just now, she might have to help. She reached out and grabbed the bronze faucet and reversed it for two weeks. She only heard a sliding sound from the east wall, and the entire wall Move to the side to reveal a hole.
Xiahou Mulan illuminated the entrance of the cave with a light, and said in surprise: "This is the armory, we can leave." She immediately thought that the armory was not far from the place where the old thief practiced in seclusion, and the movement here should not be noticed by him. Be aware.
Xiahou Mulan has been to the armory countless times in the past, but she never thought that the place separated by a wall is the burial place of her parents. The most important thing at hand is to leave the troop transportation channel first.
Xiahou Mulan led Xu Chunliang out of the armory, walked through the tunnel, and soon came to the emergency passage. There were two ways to leave the troop transportation and food passage, one was the elevator in Baicao Building, and the other was the emergency passage. , this passage needs to be climbed up.
Opening the secret door of the emergency passage, before entering, I heard a strange laughter.
“Mulan, Mulan, I never thought you could escape.”
The fake Xia Houzun appeared less than ten meters away from them like a ghost.
Xiahou Mulan's heart sank. She wanted to escape quietly, but unexpectedly she alerted the old thief.
Xu Chunliang blocked her behind him and said in a deep voice: "You go first, I will deal with him."
Xiahou Mulan said: "No, I will go with you."
The old thief felt jealous and resentful in his heart: "They say girls are outward-looking. I have seen it today. You can't leave. I promise you that I will bury you together after I kill you."
Xiahou Mulan said: "Cao Xinwei!"
The old thief was stunned for a moment: "You...how did you know?"
Xiahou Mulan raised the knife in her hand and said, "You should recognize this knife, right?"
Cao Xinwei's eyesight had recovered to 70% to 80% at this time. When he saw the knife, he immediately understood. He laughed and said: "It seems that you have found your father's bones."
At this time, Xiahou Mulan was completely sure that Cao Xinwei had killed her parents, and a sea of blood and hatred welled up in her chest: "Thieves Cao, give my parents their lives back!" She held the knife and was about to rush forward, but Xu Chunliang reached out to stop her and said softly: "Mulan , you just lost your Xuanyin body and need to take good care of yourself, leave this old thing to me."
These words were actually meant for Cao Xinwei. Xu Chunliang wanted to arouse Cao Xinwei's anger.
Cao Xinwei had just heard the two men making fire at the mouth of the well, and knew that Xiahou Mulan had been captured by Xu Chunliang. Now Xu Chunliang's words were equivalent to a public announcement that Xiahou Mulan's Xuanyin body had been broken by him.
Perhaps it's still too late, before Xu Chunliang uses Xiahou Mulan's Xuanyin Qi for his own use, and he can absorb the Xuanyin Qi from his body.
Cao Xinwei shouted: "Xu Chunliang, either you die or I die today!"
I’ll get home at nine tonight and I’ll pay off all the debt next week.
(End of this chapter)