The old man hung up the phone, but it took a long time for me to return to my senses. After thinking about it, he pulled Chongyang a hand, "Get up, stay here if the internet is not good."
The two of them came out of Xuanhuitang and saw that the sun was not early. I remembered that the old man did not set a time on the phone. According to his past, it showed that the time was not very urgent, so I found a hotel here with Chongyang. After one night, the next morning, we will transfer to Nanning and arrive in Beijing.
When they arrived in Beijing, it was already the next afternoon, and the two rushed to the father's house.
I was wondering on the way, why he asked me to come. If you want to say that the old man really has nothing to do with the longevity plan, these things were all done by Ning Shan, I definitely can't believe it. But I don't know how far he got involved. For example, the most critical thing at the moment, Ning Shan did not come out from under the Changshan Mountains, does he know
This is a futile idea. I soon arrived outside the old man’s yard. He answered the door without a few knocks. He slowly opened the door, glanced at me, and then glanced at Chongyang behind him, "Come in."
There is not much difference between the yard and when I first arrived at the beginning of the year. If there is a difference, the flowers and plants in the row of flower pots by the wall are completely dead, and the old trees in the yard are finally no longer branching. There are only stubble branches of old trees left. The advantage of this is that there are no fallen leaves on the ground in the yard. To put it another way, there is no falling leaves, and the decline is still not concealed.
The old man's rocking chair was still under the tree. There was a small table in front of the rocking chair. On the table were a few teacups and a pot of tea. He filled the three teacups each, and said, "Go to the house and move the chair by yourself."
"Hey." I said, and took Chongyang to the house to find two stools. No one had done it for a long time. Some dust had accumulated. The boy Chongyang actually took a pack of toilet paper with him, and the two of them wiped it roughly. Go out and sit at the table under the tree. The old man leaned on the rocking chair with tea and looked at us.
Chongyang was surprisingly restrained. The old man said to him first, "You have been here two years ago."
Chongyang said, "Yes."
I brought him here in 2017. It seems that it was before and after going to the underground palace of the Shao tribe, whether it was before or after the underground palace of the Shao tribe. I don't even remember. I only remember that my sister-in-law and Ning Shan were there, and it was a reunion meal.
"After all, it's been more than two years."
Chongyang said, "Yes."
"It's only been less than half a year." The old man said.
I suddenly raised my head, he was looking at me carefully with his teacup.
I didn't know what to say for a while, so I could only say, "That's why I went to Xuanhuitang to look for the fourth floor of Bai. Most of the underground in Changning was shot by their family and intercepted Ning's historical Hu."
"I can't count on it." The old man said, "The Bai family has been dormant in the Secret Investigation Bureau for so many years, and now it has completely broken with you. The fourth floor of Bai wants them to restrain, knowing that they are powerless and do not want to make waves again, but this does not mean He wants to be kind to others, even if the things you want are still in their hands, most of them will not come out."
"What can I do, let him do this..." I was at a loss for words.
"Originally in the Longevity Plan, Chongyang was just a failed experiment. It circulated in deep sleep-awakening-amnesia-deep sleep. For thousands of years, it was entangled with the Ning family. Until the time of Ning's history, the longevity project achieved great results. Progress..." He sneered. "It's not progress. It just discovered some things behind it, such as the Fuxi sword, such as the kingdom of wet floods. The role of Chongyang suddenly became important. In your grandfather's original plan, Chongyang As the Fuxi sword container, or introduction, that the Ning family has raised for thousands of years, it was finally thrown into the so-called blood pool, but then some accidents occurred underground in the Greater Xing'an Mountains, and Chongyang was replaced by someone."
Having said that, he was basically confessing that he knew everything, and also implicitly explaining that they didn't calculate me to that point.
"So Chongyang City can be considered to have escaped death, but in the end the so-called qi and blood, choosing you, the Ning family has been considered to be benevolent and righteous." The old man said lightly.
"Benevolence to justice?!" I stood up suddenly, "Benevolence to justice means to save someone's life? Benevolence to justice means to use him for thousands of years, and should I use him for thousands of years?"
Chongyang pulled me, Ning Xuejun also said, "Sit down."
I calmed down and sat down.
He continued, "I am calling you this time, not to quarrel with you, nor to talk about this. There are other things to tell you."
I didn’t say anything, and he didn’t wait for my reply. He went on saying, "Ningshan’s company has basically handled things. You signed a letter today, and you don’t need to take care of your daily affairs. Ask if you don’t understand anything. Xiao Hu."
I was completely stunned. He already knew what happened to Ning Shan, and he arranged the rest of the matter so indifferently? What about your son? Where is your eldest son
He drank the tea in his hand, "If there is nothing to do, go to Xiao Hu."
I really don’t know what else to say. When I came out of the yard, my whole body was dizzy. Looking at Chongyang, the one sitting in the yard behind me was the person who had raised me for more than 20 years.
"Where to go." Chongyang asked.
I thought for a while, "Go to Gu Tang's house."
After Ning Er died, I brought back the luggage he left in the camp, including his ID card and the keys of Gu Tang's house.
During this period of time, I haven't thought about Ning Er's lie to me, nor have I thought about where Gu Tang has gone. I don't know where I have forgotten, but subconsciously avoided it and didn't want to think about it.
But now I can't tolerate me not thinking about it, maybe I still have time to hurt the spring and sad autumn, there is still time to escape some things, but it is too late for Double Ninth, and I can't delay his time.
It's been a long time since Gu Tang's house has been here. It's still traces of me and Ning Er's cooking, in the gym, in the toilet, and in the bedroom.
"Clean it up," I whispered.
Chongyang saw that I was not in a good mood, but didn't say much, and went forward to pack up the snack packages that Ning Er and I had eaten.
But Mu Ran sat on the sofa and recalled the clues Ning Er told before he died, the context of the matter can be roughly guessed.
The so-called ground peeping is not dead, not that the ground peeping under Longshan is not dead, but that there is another ground peeping in the world. To be precise, it was the ground peeper beneath Longshan who created a mirror image of himself after his death. And that huge, non-existent mirror surface reaches Xinjiang in the west, reaches the East China Sea in the east, and at the other end of the mirror image. The place where the ground glimpses appears is now the Southeast Peninsula, in the once ocean. The kingdom of Jiao suddenly moved from the sea to the land, and the entire civilization suffered a huge collapse.
The numerous bones on the riverside are all people who mirror the created mirror world. They build steps on the stone pillars generation after generation, and finally open up the channel with the real world.
If this speculation is true, then in this world, besides the existence of the country of wet floods, there is probably a country of mirror image. And a reasonable hypothesis that can be put forward is that the people in this mirror country are different from mirror people like me and Ning San. The ground spy who created us has long since died, but the ground spy who created the mirror country is still alive. I am afraid that the will cannot be controlled by itself.
And what Ning Er and Gu Tang concealed from me probably came from Ning's history. On the afternoon when Ning Er and Ning Hanqing were talking in the park, Ning Hanqing told him about the second glimpse. So out of doubt about myself, because the timing of my appearance in this world was too weird, Ning Er and Gu Tang suspected that I came from the second spy and was dominated by the second spy, so they were in Beijing. During this time, something must have been planned, but out of fear, they didn't tell me.
But there were many variables in the plan. They didn't expect the Bai family's backlash, nor did they expect Ning Er's serious injury to die, so in the end, the mess returned to my hands. I still want to do these things.
The first is to solve the problem of Chongyang. No matter what Ning Xuejun said, I still have to go to see Bai on the fourth floor. (End of this chapter)