"Dad, how is the situation in Tianshi Mansion now?" Lu Xiaohong asked his father with some worry.
"It's very troublesome, it's not an exaggeration to say it's a plate of loose sand."
Dad sighed and said: "One of the four elders is missing and two are dead. Now there is only one Elder Hua left in the Tianshi Mansion, but he has also..."
"By the way, Xiaohong, the last time you were poisoned, was Elder Ning the last person you came into contact with?" Dad mentioned the Elder Hua from Tianshi Mansion, and suddenly changed the subject and asked Lu Xiaohong.
"It's Elder Ning. He offered to accompany me, but after I was poisoned, I never saw him again."
Lu Xiaohong's eyes darkened, and he nodded and said, "Didn't Zhao Ke say that Elder Ning is missing?"
"You take a look at this first." Dad nodded, took out a black soft leather cover notepad from his body, and handed it to Lu Xiaohong.
The notebook is about the size of a palm, narrow and long. There is no pattern on the cover, only leather texture. The notebook looks like the paper has become a little soft due to too many flipping times, but there are no creases at all.
"Dad, is this Elder Ning's notebook?" Lu Xiaohong asked doubtfully while opening the notebook.
I stood next to Lu Xiaohong and also looked at the notebook.
It is actually a hand-written encyclopedia of poisonous poisons.
The font is in block letters. It can be seen that the owner of the notebook wrote every stroke very carefully when copying it. He even used the same pen from beginning to end, and the stroke size of the ink flow was exactly the same from beginning to end.
From the origin of poison on the first page, to the usage of various poisons in the following, as well as the names and methods of raising poisons, as well as the methods of removing poisons, it is written in detail and detail.
There are even hand-painted patterns of various Gu insects, and the painting skills are also very good.#@$&
It can be said that even an ordinary person can become a poison master if he gets this ordinary and old-looking notebook.
The book is not finished, there is a small stack of blank pages at the back.
A notebook is not surprising. Many masters in various fields do not want their skills to be lost, so they use this method to record their lifelong learning.
What makes people feel strange is that there is a children's song written in the middle of the small stack of blank pages at the back of such a treasured notebook.
Ten little Indian boys ran for food, one choked to death and could not be saved, leaving only nine out of ten.%&(&
Nine little Indian boys were so sleepy late at night that they fell asleep and died. Only eight of the nine were left.
Eight little Indian boys went to Devon City to hunt for novels, but one of them died and returned to the West, leaving only seven of the eight.
Seven Indian boys were not good at chopping trees and branches, so they died after being chopped in half with an axe, leaving only six of them.
Six little Indian boys played with the hive and made the bees angry. One of them flew in and stung them, leaving only five of them.
Five little Indian boys got into trouble and got into lawsuits. They were involved in lawsuits until they died. Only four of the five were left.
Four little Indian boys went to sea together and encountered a disaster. One of them was swallowed bloody by the fish, and only three of the four were left.
Three little Indian boys were in trouble in the zoo. A bear suddenly fell from the sky, leaving only two of them.
Two little Indian boys, sighing in the sun, roasted to death and grieving, only one of them is left.
…
This is a children's song called "Ten Little Negroes" in "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes". I remember that there should be another sentence at the end: A little Indian boy came home alone, hanged himself from a rafter, and had no one left.
Remaining.
This children’s song also has another name——
No one survived.
But only the last sentence was not written out, it was just replaced with an ellipsis.
Different from the neat block letters in the previous ones, the handwriting of this children's song is very sloppy, as if it was written down in a hurry.
Judging from the size of the pen leak, the color of the ink, and the direction of the strokes, it should be from the same pen and hand of the same person as the previous content.
What makes people feel even more strange is that the font of this children's song is written in a hasty and sloppy way, but the six dots of the ellipsis at the end are dotted neatly.
It also proves that this children's song and the previous notes were written by the same person.
Obviously, the last line of this children's song was not forgotten by the writer, but deliberately not written out.
The content of the children's songs is also a bit creepy.
"Dad, where did you find this notebook? Are you sure it belongs to Elder Ning?"
Lu Xiaohong stared at the children's song with a solemn expression for a long time, then went back and flipped through the content and handwriting in front of it.
"Elder Ning is best at medical skills and refining elixirs to dispel evil spirits and eliminate evil spirits. I have known him for almost forty years, but I never knew that he was proficient in poison, and I have never heard anyone mention it. But the handwriting on this notebook
, I can confirm that the handwriting of Elder Ning is indeed authentic." Dad nodded and answered Lu Xiaohong.
"Furthermore, in the past two years in the Tianshi Mansion, five people have died before Elder Ning disappeared, all of them were Venerable Tianshi. Of course, if I am still in southern Yunnan and are not found by you, I should be counted as six.
One." Dad continued in a calm voice.
Lu Xiaohong quickly raised his head, with cold eyes, and said: "If you count the missing Elder Ning, and the Elders Lin and Bu who died two days ago, there are nine in total."
Dad looked at Lu Xiaohong and nodded, "This notebook was found at the bottom of my medicine box."
I was a little confused, looked at my father, and asked strangely: "Dad, how come Elder Ning's notebook appears in your medicine box?"
"Elder Ning is good at medical skills and refining exorcism elixirs. Celestial masters have been dealing with evil spirits for a long time, so Elder Ning will refine a large amount of exorcism elixirs and other commonly used medicines every month and put them in the medicine boxes of each venerable Celestial Master.
inside.
When the venerable Celestial Master returns to the headquarters to report on his work or accept a task, he will take the medicines back and distribute them to the various Celestial Masters.
For easy access, medicine boxes are generally not locked, and no one puts any valuables or personal belongings in them except medicines.
So Elder Ning placed this notebook in my medicine cabinet as a bet that I could come back and that only in that almost impossible place would I not be discovered by others." Dad explained to me.
"Moreover, when Elder Ning wrote this children's song, he probably already knew the fate he was about to face, so he did not bewitch me voluntarily, but was forced." Lu Xiaohong continued what his father had said.
Dad nodded in agreement.
"Dad, have you contacted Ma Qiang?"
Lu Xiaohong suddenly asked his father, "Have you told him about Nannan and us coming over, and about the fourth uncle and grandma?"
He spoke in a somewhat anxious tone.
Dad looked at Lu Xiaohong with a hint of approval, nodded and said, "I called him, but he didn't mention anything about Nannan and her fourth uncle and grandma."