Dream Guide

The children and grandchildren have returned without a home...

Qingmu muttered these words silently, inexplicably remembering the first day he came to Liuying Lane.

Xia Wenyuan couldn't tell more stories about Mulberry Camp and the Hua family because it was too long. Xia Wenyuan was just a child at that time, but now he is an octogenarian.

Memory is like snow in winter, floating and dancing in the wind, stacked up on the ground, looking thick, but when the sun shines, it turns into water and disappears without a trace. Wait until next year for another heavy snowfall. As the years passed, only some beautiful and vague impressions of the snow in my childhood remained.

But Aoki's feeling about memory is different. His memory is not like melted snow, but like frozen ice. There are no traces of the melted snow, and if there are traces, they are light and fluffy. The frozen ice is very heavy, and the thick ice layer is wrapped with vague shadows, telling you that there is something inside, but you can't see clearly what is inside.

Xia Wenyuan suggested that Qingmu check the Wuzhong County Chronicle. A large family like the Hua family has been operating in Wuzhong for at least hundreds of years, and it is impossible that there is no record in the county chronicles of the past dynasties. However, the history of Wuzhong is very complicated. The county annals have been scattered and reedited several times. It is very difficult to find what you want in the vast and extremely confusing versions.

Qingmu had his own way. He turned on his phone and entered a line into the Ghost file: Help me find out if there is any information about Mulberry Garden, Mulberry Camp and Huajia in the Wuzhong County Chronicle.

He didn't know the mechanism through which the ghost file contacted and awakened the ghosts on the Internet. It was probably something like a virus that would send information to the server in the basement of the Mei Yiqiu Experimental Building. Of course, it is also possible that those strange mechanical consciousnesses on the Internet are sending messages to each other.

If it is the latter, it means that the Internet is not only a super brain with consciousness, but also a social structure, which is a bit scary to think about.

Things like county annals are generally not put on the Internet, and even if they are, they are all in PDF version, which is very difficult to check, but what is difficult for humans to do is not a problem for computers.

After only a moment, the ghost sent back a message, all of which were traditional Chinese vertical photocopied versions of the pictures. In addition to intercepting the content page, the keywords were also framed, and the cover of the corresponding version was also intercepted:

1. Pingjiang Zhi Wanli edition of forty volumes of biographies: Pingjiang native Sang Yun, named Lin Xi, after Tang Sang Daomao, was good at Taiyi Dunjia, reclusive in nature, and could not be summoned by Emperor Shizong. He lived on the left side of the river, planted mulberry trees, and raised silkworms. Yi Xing, named Mulberry Garden, all the villagers are rich.

2. Wu Zhi's Qianlong Edition of Thirty-two Volumes of Feng Wu Zhi: The best silk is the red silk reeled in the Hua Mulberry Garden. Its quality is better than that produced in the Weaving House. It may be said that wild mulberry silkworms are fed with human blood. Therefore, the silk is red and the silk is like blood, so people dare not wear it.

3. Twelve volumes of anecdotal records from the Republic of China edition of Wu County Chronicles: There is a mulberry tree in the mulberry garden that is more than ten feet tall. Its berries ripen when they are three years old. They can cure children's diseases. There are giant crows perched on top, shaped like falcons. They eat people's souls at night. No one dares to do so. close

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Qingmu looked at it and found it a bit strange. This first article was written like Shi Zhi's, except that his surname was Hua and he lived in Sangyuan. How could he be named Sang? The last two are more like telling stories about gods and monsters, and feel like reading the notes of Wei Caotang.

He showed his cell phone to Xia Wenyuan.

Xia Wenyuan put on his glasses, looked at it carefully and asked, "That's all?"

He did not ask how Aoki found the relevant content in the county annals in such a short period of time. Experts who study local annals may not be able to find what they want so quickly and accurately with the help of computers. In his eyes, Aoki is a magical person, many times better than those experts.

"that's it."

Aoki also felt that the content was a bit lacking, but he also did not doubt the ghost's ability. Although the county annals are complex and extremely cumbersome to search manually, this amount of information is nothing to a computer, let alone a conscious Internet.

Xia Wenyuan thought for a while and said: "That's a bit strange. Logically speaking, with the size and age of the mulberry garden, it's impossible to just chat about a few words like this! Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless the things I knew when I was a child are all false, but that is really unbelievable!" Xia Wenyuan shook his head as he said it, and he felt unbelievable. "There is also a possibility that when the county chronicles were compiled, people from the Hua family interfered. .”

"Meeting? Why would the Hua family do this?" Qingmu asked.

"As beautiful as a tree is in the forest, the wind will destroy it. Just like now, if I could, I wouldn't want the Xia family to be exposed to the media every day, but it's a pity that I can't do that!" Xia Wenyuan said with emotion.

Qingmu said: "The wealth and energy of the Hua family back then were greater than yours now?"

"Era are different, so it's hard to compare." Xia Wenyuan nodded and said, "But given the system of that era, it was not difficult to get involved in the compilation of county annals. What was difficult was that from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, through three dynasties and dozens of emperors, all county annals were involved. , this is not something ordinary people can do. The privacy of the emperor's family can be turned upside down as time passes, let alone the common people? And..."

Xia Wenyuan paused briefly, "I always felt that the fire was very strange."

Aoki asked: "What's the weird trick?"

Xia Wenyuan said: "A large family that has been passed down for several generations, with brothers and branches, relatives, friends, teachers, and disciples all over the world, is probably even more complicated than the root system of that thousand-year-old mulberry plant. How can it be burned away without any traces in a single fire? "

Qingmu has always found it strange that for a family as big as the Hua family, even an ordinary family with a slightly larger population, it would not be easy to get together and burn it all down.

"But didn't you see that fire with your own eyes? It's impossible to fake it."

"It's not false." Xia Wenyuan shook his head gently, "But if you think about it carefully, after the fire in the Mulberry Garden, it was the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War. Not only China, but the whole world experienced an unprecedented war. After that, the war continued and catastrophes Judging from the timing, it is inevitable that people will speculate that they are trying to escape the disaster of war and escape from their golden cicada shells."

Aoki felt that what Xia Wenyuan said made sense, and thought of what was recorded in the county annals: "After Tang Sang Daomao, he was good at the art of evading armor." Could it be that these people really have the ability to predict the future, and knew about the great turmoil in the next few decades, so they used fire to avoid it. disaster?

Speaking of the unpredictable, Aoki remembered again how he was trapped in zero-dimensional space in Zhao Pengcheng's dream and almost couldn't get out. During that time, Zhao Pengcheng almost experienced a complete life. If Aoki was trapped forever, then theoretically, the life that Zhao Pengcheng experienced would be the real history of this world in the future.

But Qingmu came out with the help of Crow, which Zhao Pengcheng did not expect. Because time does not pass in the zero-dimensional space, the moment Aoki came out, time returned to the moment before he was trapped, and Zhao Pengcheng was also pulled back. However, the experience of that life remained in Zhao Pengcheng's memory, like a lucid dream.

Aoki saw things in the next few decades from Zhao Pengcheng's dreams. Isn't this a kind of foretelling? If he doesn't make any efforts and instead lives in isolation, then the future world will probably be like what Zhao Pengcheng has experienced!

Therefore, this is why he must go to the South Pacific. He had to change everything, even if it was just to prevent Bishenghua from becoming what Zhao Pengcheng saw.