At this time, the old lady came out from the back room and said a few words in Yao language to the old man.
The old man said to Cheng Yu: "She asked you if you are hungry and do you want to eat something?"
Cheng Yu quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I ate bread before."
The old man waved his hand and rolled up the cloth bag containing the carving knives on the table. The pendant was also rolled up in it. He said, "I've eaten that before. It's not a serious meal. Let her make two dishes and we can drink."
Two drinks." He didn't ask Cheng Yu if he could drink, and he didn't know why the old man's attitude towards Cheng Yu suddenly changed. He was obviously very suspicious just now, but now he invited him to drink again.
Moreover, Cheng Yu found it strange that just now he saw an old man and a young man leaving the old man's house. They must have been eating here at that time. This means that the old man had just finished eating, so why did he suddenly
Do you want the old lady to cook two dishes and have two drinks with him?
"Uh... Old man, actually when I was taking photos on the hillside just now, I saw an old man and a young child leaving your house through the lens. You must have just finished dinner, right?"
The old man was stunned, stared, and said, "Why, I can't have two drinks after dinner?"
Cheng Yu couldn't say anything else and could only let the old man arrange it.
The old lady quickly prepared two dishes for the table, one was stir-fried and the other was obviously steamed. The bowl was clearly filled with the birds that Cheng Yu had seen the old lady put into the jar through the window.
It should be ordinary tits, but of course it is not just put in the jar, but has been pickled a few days ago, and now it is steamed in a pot and becomes a dish.
"This is called Bird Sauce. It is a unique dish of our Yao people. It is usually used to entertain distinguished guests. It seems that the old lady likes you so much that she actually made Bird Sauce for you." The old man pointed to the table and turned around.
I took out a bottle of Sanhua wine from the cabinet. It was in the most common white glass bottle. It probably only cost a few yuan a bottle.
Taking out two shallow bowls, the old man poured a bowl for Cheng Yu and himself, which were about 80% full.
"You drink slowly, the old lady is still frying rice dumplings for you. Drinking when you are full will not hurt your health."
Cheng Yu picked up the wine bowl as he was told and took a sip. The old man drank half the bowl in one gulp, picked up a handful of vegetables for himself, and signaled Cheng Yu to eat.
The old lady soon came over with another bowl. In the bowl were pieces of black glutinous rice cake-like things.
The old man said: "These are actually similar to rice dumplings. They are very similar. We are used to wrapping them into cylinders, then slicing them, steaming or frying them."
The old lady also said with a smile on her face: "Try it."
It seems that the old lady can basically understand Mandarin completely, but the vocabulary she can speak is limited.
Cheng Yu picked up a piece as instructed and tasted it. Sure enough, it was fried rice dumplings, but the glutinous rice seemed to be dyed almost black with something, and it was mixed with some small pieces of sweet potato and taro. The taste
It was so good that Cheng Yu couldn't help but eat two more pieces.
"Yesterday, there was a visitor, and he didn't smile..." The old lady looked at Cheng Yu with a smile, skipped one word after another, and then pointed at the old man, as if she was explaining to Cheng Yu why the old man had always doubted him.
Cheng Yu probably understood, so he asked the old man: "Auntie means that there were outsiders in the village yesterday, and you were not very happy."
The old man took another sip of wine, and the shallow bowl was empty. It seemed that he was slightly drunk. The old man's face was slightly red, and he was no longer as hostile to Cheng Yu as before.
"They should have entered the village last night, but they came very late. What I saw this morning were brought by people from the village. The three of them didn't look like good people. They wandered around in the village after they arrived, but
I know they must be targeting something in our village..." At this point, the old man seemed hesitant, wondering if he could tell Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu did not hide it and asked directly: "I heard from A De... oh, the driver who took me to the market town, and A Sen. They both said that your village has a long history.
There was also a queen from the Ming Dynasty. Did the queen leave you some treasures in the village? Are you worried that those people are here for those treasures?"
The old man glanced sideways at Cheng Yu, doubting whether Cheng Yu had known something for a long time, but the old lady smiled and said: "The baby is gone, very early..."
When the old man saw this, he stopped hiding it.
"Many people nearby know this. Our village was not originally from here. It was moved here from Hezhou. That was during the Qing Dynasty. They are right. Our clan did have a queen in our ancestors, but
You can’t say she’s a queen…”
Cheng Yu responded: "I know this. Ade told me while driving, so I checked online."
The old lady didn't understand, so she interrupted and asked: "Net?"
The old man obviously knew something about the Internet, so he spoke to the old lady in Yao language. The old lady nodded in understanding, shook her head, then smiled at Cheng Yu and said, "You tell me."
Cheng Yu continued: "I found out that during the Ming Dynasty, the Yao people in Guangxi did have a queen. However, the queen was actually kidnapped to BJ. She was just a palace maid at first, and then she was favored by the emperor.
She gave birth to a son. After many twists and turns, her son finally inherited the throne. Unfortunately, just one year after her son was named the prince, she died suddenly. There are many folklores about this, and they basically all say that she died after her death.
The hand of a noble concubine. After the young emperor succeeded to the throne, he made his biological mother the empress dowager and began to search for his mother's tribe. According to historical records, they could not find it. They only built an ancestral hall for his grandfather in Guangxi, but I hear you
The meaning behind the words is that I actually found you."
The old man nodded and poured himself some more wine: "According to the genealogy, we should be of the same clan as the queen, and the emperor also gave us the imperial title based on this. According to the clan records, after the emperor found us, he was afraid of us.
It was involved in the government, so everything was done in secret. The emperor gave our ancestors a queen's phoenix crown, which has been enshrined as a sacred object of our clan for hundreds of years. Even during the war in the late Qing Dynasty, our whole family moved.
So far, nothing has been lost. But I didn’t expect that twelve years ago, our clan’s sacred objects disappeared.”
Cheng Yu asked strangely: "What does missing mean?"
"It just disappeared suddenly."
"Are there outsiders here?"
"At least no one in the village has seen any outsiders appear."
"Then it must be a thief. Since it is a phoenix crown, it must be made of gold and studded with various jewelry. Even if we don't talk about the historical value and the value of antiques, the gold and jewelry alone are worth a lot of money. With all due respect,
, your village should be relatively poor, so it’s normal for someone to secretly steal the phoenix crown and try to sell it for some money, right?"
"But that phoenix crown has always been enshrined in our ancestral temple, and I am the only one in charge of the key to the ancestral hall. When the sacred object disappeared, I confirmed that the lock on the ancestral hall door was still locked. It was the lock that I opened with my own hands.
I opened the door, but when I entered, I found that the sacred object was missing."
Cheng Yu actually already knew about this, but he still pretended to know nothing and said: "There are many ways to enter the house through windows, roofs, etc. You don't have to go through the door. This matter is probably
The traitors in your village must know your ancestral temple very well."
The old man shook his head and said: "If it were that simple, we wouldn't think that the sacred objects were missing. Our ancestral temple has only one door and no windows at all. The wall is only about five meters above the ground.
There were some air holes smaller than the size of a fist. The size of these air holes was not even big enough for the entrance and exit of holy objects. When we discovered that the holy objects were missing, we immediately thought that the thief might have entered through the roof, so we checked the roof.
But there are no signs of damage to the roof. We repaired the ancestral temple fifteen years ago, and the roof was re-poured. It was not just covered with tiles like before. Therefore, unless the roof is
It must be dug through, otherwise the gate will be the only entrance and exit to the ancestral hall."
This was something Cheng Yu didn't expect. According to the old man, the ancestral hall was a completely secret room. Unless someone could get the key in his hand, it would be impossible to get in.
"What about the ground? Is it possible that someone dug a tunnel and got in and stole the phoenix crown?"
The old man took a sip of wine, shook his head and sighed: "Of course we have checked this. There are no traces of digging on the ground. The ground in the ancestral hall was also poured into cement during the renovation fifteen years ago. We want to dig in."
It will inevitably be destroyed. That’s why we say that the sacred object is missing.”
This has really become a secret room, but it's just not a secret room after a murder like in ordinary mystery novels.
However, things like secret rooms are obviously not a big deal for Cheng Yu. He only needs a wall penetration technique to easily go in and take out the crown, and then come out through the wall. But it cannot be said that he stole the crown twelve years ago.
Is the person who wears the crown someone like Cheng Yu who has the ability to penetrate walls? If so, it is unlikely that this crown will end up in some underground auction in Vietnam.
Of course, it is not impossible. Assuming that the person who got the crown also has the system and used the ability to penetrate through walls, but he failed to complete the subsequent tasks and was eventually wiped out by the system, the crown may indeed be lost.
go out……
Cheng Yu was thinking about this, but the voice of the system sounded in his mind: "Don't guess, the host has the authority to know the mystery of the disappearance of the back crown. Twelve years ago, a certain host before the host received the task of obtaining the back crown.
.”
Come on, someone really used the wall-walking technique to steal the crown, and it was actually his ex.
But this is a bit strange. Since the predecessor has obtained the crown, it means that he has completed his mission. Why is this crown still among the people? That guy is so short of money? He obtained the crown but still sold it
? But since the God System said that the predecessor received the task of obtaining the crown, then he should hand over the crown to the system. Although Cheng Yu didn't know how to get the crown after the system issued the task of obtaining an item.
You can take away the crown, but you won’t let the crown become lost among the people, right?
"Since my predecessor's mission was to obtain the crown, he should have completed the task, right? Then why will this crown appear at the auction the day after tomorrow?"
This sentence was what Cheng Yu asked the system in his mind.
"No, he didn't complete the mission."
"You mean to say that my predecessor was killed by you because he failed to complete this task?"
"He failed the mission and died after the remaining life time was exhausted during the settlement. This system will not erase the host unless the host does something detrimental to the system."
"This is strange. He obtained the crown but failed to complete it... Oh, I understand. His mission is not to obtain the crown, but to understand the secret hidden in the crown."
