The black Escalade was speeding on the highway, the low roar of the engine and the slight bumps of the body making people drowsy.

I lay on the back seat with my eyes closed, Er Pang and Ah Hui next to me snoring like thunder.

Even though I rested for several days, I still felt very tired, but I couldn't sleep peacefully during the whole journey.

We came back alive from the Sea Eye Dragon Palace, learned the true identity of Professor Jiang, and found out what exactly happened in the Dragon Palace back then. This should have been a happy thing, but I couldn't feel relaxed at all.

There is still no clue about the whereabouts of my grandfather and the mysterious shadow that shot Professor Jiang at the Dragon Palace. Even the words of unknown meaning left by Professor Jiang when he was dying, as well as the organization "Tongyuan"

Everything has become a lingering question mark in my mind.

Before we could fully relieve the stress from the thrilling encounter in Sea Eye Dragon Palace, senior Liu Sa told us that the head of the Liu family wanted to see us and told us that he knew how to remove the human moth poison from me.

So Senior Liu Sa bought an Escalade from the 4S store without saying a word, completed the formalities on the spot, picked up the car, and took us straight to Zhengzhou.

I have to admire the Liu Sa family's strong financial resources. They casually bought a luxury car worth more than one million yuan, which attracted the attention of countless people in the store.

It can be said that we are on the road in glory.

Perhaps because the snoring of the two masters in the back seat was too loud, Liu Sa turned on the car stereo, and the first song played was "Fadeslike a Photograph" by the Filter band.

This song is the ending theme of the movie "2012". It has a soothing and smooth melody. Combined with the soul-shaking disaster scenes in the movie, it gives you a sense of comfort when you are saved after going through hardships.

It fits my current mood very well.

I looked at Liu Sa driving the car and Shang Qingyun sitting in the passenger seat in the rearview mirror. There was no trace of fatigue on either of their faces, especially Senior Liu Sa who still looked very relaxed.

"Senior, you don't seem tired at all?" I adjusted the back of my chair and sat upright to chat with Liu Sa.

"I've long been used to it." He smiled.

This sentence is a pun, and I don't know whether he means that he can still be energetic enough to drive after experiencing so much, or whether he is accustomed to the thrilling adventures in ancient tombs.

I know Senior Liu Sa very well. Although he is the kind of person who always gives people the impression of being careless and informal, that is just because he wants others to see this side.

As for the other side of him that he didn't want to reveal from the beginning, unless he wants you to know, even if you torture him, you won't get out a word.

So I changed the topic very wisely: "By the way, senior, what kind of person is the head of the Liu family?"

"Why do you think of asking this? Oh~ I understand, are you scared?"

"That's right. I'm afraid that I might be rude when meeting such a big shot." After all, your life is in someone else's hands, and you can't lose the minimum etiquette.

"Don't think about buying meet-and-greet gifts or anything like that. My old man is a very strict person. If you give him a gift, he will think you are bribing him." Senior Liu Sa waved his hand.

"But don't be nervous. Your family and mine are family friends. Your father and my brother are brothers. Your father and my father also worked together. I won't embarrass you, a junior. Let's go this time.

It’s just to the extent of exchanging information.”

I was very puzzled: "Haiyan Dragon Palace, senior, you are also a witness, why do you have to have all of us present together?"

"It's not that simple." Liu Sa breathed out, "Okay, I might as well just say it. What the old man wants to know is not just about the Sea Eye Dragon Palace, but also all the clues in the Danjiang River Basin."

The implication is that I want to know about the Sanjianshan Ancient Tomb from Er Pang and me.

"What about Ah Fai and Qing Yun?" I asked.

"Your little brother is also related to Tongyuan, right? From his behavior when he was underwater, it can be seen that he is definitely not an ordinary person." Liu Sa said, peeking at the co-pilot Shang Qingyun next to him, "As for Daoist Shang Xiao,

, He did it by the way. To be precise, it was not that the old man wanted to see him, but that after the old man saw us, there was another thing."

"another thing?"

Liu Sa shook his head, meaning that he would not let me ask any more questions now.

I secretly observed Shang Qingyun again. He folded his hands on his chest and sat upright in his position, like a fixed statue. As I looked at him, I seemed to find that his face was not very good.

"Qingyun, what's wrong with you?" I asked tentatively, but he didn't answer me.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, I had to put down the car seat again, half-lying down and looking out the window.

Next to the highway is a green rice field. A tractor is parked beside the rice field. A man in an undershirt is wearing rain boots to harvest wheat in the field. A child next to him is squatting on the edge of the field to play with insects.

This leisurely scene just flashed by with the rapid speed of the car, but it stayed in my heart.

I suddenly thought that when I get old and retire, I might as well build a house here, stay away from the hustle and bustle, and be as contented as I was when I was a child.

But before that, I must find Nizi and my grandfather.

When I was thinking about these things, the car suddenly slowed down, changed lanes, and drove off the highway along the right lane.

We are still some distance away from the urban area of ​​Zhengzhou, and it will take at least half an hour to reach the Zhengzhou toll station, but we got off the expressway in advance and headed towards the suburbs.

"My villa is in the suburbs. The old man doesn't like making noise, so he has never been willing to live in the city. He only asked my brother to stay there."

Hearing Liu Sa mention his mysterious brother again, I couldn't help but ask: "Senior, how old is your brother?"

"How do you ask this question?"

I counted on my fingers and said to him: "Look, you are not even thirty years old. But you said that your brother and my father are brothers in the same life. I am already 20 this year, and my father is almost 50."

If you are a man, then your brother must be around forty at least, right?"

Liu Sa made a sound and explained to me: "So that's what you're talking about. We are cousins. My father is a second-generation man at home. In the early years, my father had some conflicts with the family and ran away in anger. Later, he went to Hong Kong to start a business, and met

My mother.

He is 20 years older than my mother. In those days, age was still very scrupulous, but as the saying goes, life is precious and love is more valuable... It doesn't seem quite appropriate, but that's what it means anyway.

In the end, my mother married my father, but within a few years, my father disappeared due to something. My mother and I were left with a letter and this amulet. We took this letter and the amulet to Zhengzhou and found it.

My uncle has been raising our mother and daughter at his expense.

The Liu family is a big family, with deep-rooted paranoia about sectarian views. Because of the conflict between my father and the family, my mother and I have become the outliers in the family. Even side branches of the family often take the opportunity to bully us, but every time my brother

My uncle and I will come forward to defend us.

So since childhood, my brother and I have been like brothers.

I joined the family relatively late, my brother is more than ten years older than me, and when he graduated from high school, I went to preschool."

So that’s it.

I never knew that Senior Liu Sa had always acted like a noble man in front of others. If he hadn't told me, I really couldn't have imagined that he had such a complicated past behind him.

"But there are also selections within the Ninth Family that are similar to the blood test. It's not easy for me to explain these things to you. Anyway, you see, I'm doing pretty well now. I'm driving my car and picking up girls."

"Under the small grave." I added with a smile.

But Liu Sa just smiled at my joke and didn't respond.

It suddenly occurred to me that Er Pang told me in the ancient tomb that each of us has a different purpose in the tomb.

Er Pang and I both wanted to get results and find clues about the Eighteen Gold and Silver Vaults there. Ah Hui did it to stay alive, and Shang Qingyun did it for his grandfather’s order.

Even Professor Jiang had a purpose. When the archaeological institute was sorting out Professor Jiang's belongings, they found some old photos, but the institute just treated them as relics. But from the photos, we got some information about why Professor Jiang wanted to explore the Sea Eye Dragon Palace again, and

The reason why he did not move any treasures in the Dragon Palace, but chose to commit suicide.

The reason is simply that Professor Jiang followed Tong Yuan to the Sea Eye Dragon Palace decades ago; while Tong Yuan came to the Dragon Palace for "something", Professor Jiang did it because of his worship of the "dragon".

In Professor Jiang's diary, we know that when he was a child, Professor Jiang once witnessed the spectacle of Kowloon absorbing water and saw the dragon's figure in the clouds. From then on, he was fascinated by the dragon creature, but the people around him

Everyone thought he was crazy.

Until someone from Tongyuan brought him something - a piece of dragon scale.

This gave Professor Jiang hope that in exchange, Professor Jiang would provide Tongyuan with clues about the Sea Eye Dragon Palace passed down from his ancestors, and Tongyuan would take him to the real Dragon Palace.

By the way, it turns out that Professor Jiang has been anonymous for so many years. His real name is not Jiang Zhehu, or even Jiang, but Ye.

Many years ago, a huge theft occurred at a Han tomb in Henan. One of the tomb robbers was Professor Jiang, but he did not steal any property from the tomb at that time, so he was exempted from liability.

After that, Professor Jiang completely changed his identity and changed his surname to Jiang under Tongyuan's secret operation.

As for Professor Jiang's ancestors, they were nobles from the Chu Kingdom. If you say this, no one will care, but if you mention a well-known idiom, you will know how big his background is.

This idiom is "Ye Gong loves dragons".

Yes, Professor Jiang's ancestor is the legendary "Ye Gong" who loved dragons but was afraid of them. But in fact, the records in the legend are slightly different from the actual ones.

In fact, Ye Gong was an expert in water conservancy, and he was good at using the legendary "Nine Dragons Tongchuan" magic trick to bring about changes in the hydrology and landforms within his jurisdiction that were conducive to local development.

Ye Gong had never seen a real dragon in his life, but he firmly believed that dragons existed. Before his death, he told future generations that there was a mouth of the sea under the water of Danjiang River, and inside it was a real dragon raised by the ancient Bolong family.

However, their descendants failed to find the location of the Sea Eye Dragon Palace despite their efforts for generations. In the end, the frustrated descendants of the Ye family simply made a rule that future generations were not allowed to participate in any discussion about dragons.

It is true that later on, many people did not believe in the existence of dragons, and gradually the matter of Sea Eye Dragon Palace was forgotten. It was not until Professor Jiang's generation that the old matter was mentioned again.

The reason why Professor Jiang wanted to go to the Sea Eye Dragon Palace again was just because of his fanaticism. He chose to die in the Dragon Palace, but it was a kind of relief, or escape. After all, even if he returned to the earth, he would only face harm.

The crime of killing several people and stealing national cultural relics was sentenced by law.
Chapter completed!