"Uncle Xi, is there anything else you can't tell me about this Miss Leng?"
Seeing that Uncle Xi didn't speak, Kong Zhou asked again, he looked at the gentle-looking old man in front of him, but he couldn't guess what secrets were hidden under his kind face.
"Mr. is too worried," after a long silence, Uncle Xi finally spoke, he smiled softly, and then conveyed the calmness and calm in his body to the people behind him, "Miss Leng is the only daughter of Master Leng, this matter is well known, after her father died, she drove away the servants and lived alone in Lengfu, however, as for whether she has any other places that are more nostalgic, then I am afraid that it belongs to her private affairs, where can we know about it?"
” Kong Zhou stared at him quietly for a while, then took off the wine gourd on his waist and took a sip, "Since you don't know, then I'll walk around the neighborhood and see if I can find her whereabouts, only when I find her, can I make the next step." ” Xi Bo stretched out his hand towards the door, "Sir, please, if there is anything you need help with, just tell me." ” Kong Zhou smiled, turned around and walked outside, and when he passed by Liu Xujiao, he raised his head, "Liu Gongzi is willing to go with him?"
Your frog might be able to help me. ” The scorching sun outside, and the dark and cold in the cold house are completely two worlds, Kong Zhou looked behind him and found that the villagers did not follow, so he whispered to Liu Xujiao: "Liu Gongzi, your words last night were good, judging from Uncle Xi's reaction just now, he is indeed pregnant with a ghost fetus in his heart, not only him, but the whole village seems to be deliberately hiding something, but I don't have a clue now, I really don't know where to start." ” Liu Xujiao looked at him fixedly, and said a word in his mouth, "Bridge." ” "Bridge?"
He turned his head to look at Kong Zhou, "I once saw a painting in Leng's house, and the painting on it was the Laiyuan Bridge, which should have been made by Miss Leng in the last moments of her life, so it can be seen that she was thinking about this bridge at that time."
I went to the top of the bridge to investigate carefully, but I didn't find anything unusual about it, only found a small temple next to the bridge, and the person enshrined in the temple should be Miss Leng. ” "The villagers built that temple, which proves that they are thieves, and in order to meet Miss Leng's wishes before her death, they built this temple after her death."
Kong Zhou concluded.
"It's just that I really can't figure it out, what does Miss Leng have to do with that bridge?
As Uncle Xi said, she was born in a cold family and in a cold family, which should be true, but why do you want to be attached to that strange bridge?
” "Then let's take a look," Kong Zhou took another sip of wine, and he touched his chin, "I also suddenly became interested in seeing what was so strange about that bridge." ” On the way to Yuanqiao, Liu Xuzhu told Kong Zhou the illusion he saw in the Jade River, for some reason, he was not half wary of this man, Kong Zhou's body, there is a kind of chivalrous ancient way of warmth, this chivalrous spirit, let him feel the peace of mind that he has not seen for a long time.
The Laiyuan Bridge is getting closer and closer, it is like a white jade belt, connecting the village and the wide river surface of the Jade River, Kong Zhou tilted his head and gestured at the bridge with his thumb and index finger, "This bridge is not on the surface of the river, but between the river and the village, what does Gongzi think it looks like?"
” Liu Xujiao lowered his head and thought about it, then raised his head again, "Plank road?
” Kong Zhou nodded approvingly, and the two of them quickened their pace to the side of the Laiyuan Bridge, and walked to the center of the bridge through the two headless stone dogs.
"The plank road that connects the water and the village," Liu Xuzhu muttered, "you can reach the village by walking, so why build a bridge?"
Isn't that redundant?
” Kong Zhou ignored him, he squatted down, looked at the bridge carefully, and tapped the bridge deck with the hilt of his sword from time to time.
The bridge deck made a crisp sound under his tapping, and after a while, he knocked out a gap.
Kong Zhou put the stone knocked down in his hand, touched and looked at the sun, and suddenly, he stood up and walked back and forth on the bridge deck, his eyebrows tied into a dead knot.
Liu Xujiao knew that he was thinking about the reason for the matter, so he didn't dare to come forward to disturb, he looked at Kong Zhou's moon-white clothes and the two goose-yellow collars above the clothes, and for some reason he felt that he was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
But before he could think about it, Kong Zhou suddenly got the essentials and slapped his hands, and a smile overflowed from the corners of his mouth.
Liu Xuzhu hurriedly stepped forward, "Brother Kong, what did you remember?"
” Kong Zhou brought the stone in his hand to Liu Xujiao, "What do you think this is?"
” Liu Xujiao took it over, "Isn't this just a stone?"
” "Take a closer look."
Liu Xuzhu turned the stone over, and he found that the inside of the stone was not solid, but branched out one by one, some thick and some thin, thick like fingers, thin like insects.
"See what this is?"
Kong Zhou pursed his lips and smiled.
"I seem to have seen this thing somewhere" Liu Xujiao's eyes flashed a light, he remembered where he had seen it, a few years ago, Zhu Yuan Guo had paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty This thing, at that time, it was covered with red light, illuminating the entire court, attracting praise from the ministers.
"Is this coral?"
Liu Xuzhu hesitated to say these two words.
Kong Zhou poked him with his finger excitedly, "I said that Liu Gongzi is well-informed, and he is not mistaken, coral is a thing that grows in the sea and is not easy to salvage, so it is extremely precious, and it is often used as a tribute by various countries in the South Seas, but," he looked around, "This is the first time I have seen such a big coral bridge." ” Liu Xuzhu was even more confused, "How did this bridge come about?"
Could it be that the people of this village built it?
But where did they get such a large amount of coral, and even if they could, why didn't they use it for other purposes and build a land bridge?
” Kong Zhou walked forward, until he reached the end of the Laiyuan Bridge leading to the Jade River, and his excited voice became low, "Of course this bridge was not built by the villagers here, how can they have such ingenious skills to build such a bridge." ” "And who will make this bridge?"
As soon as the words fell, Liu Xujiao already had a vague answer in his heart, but there was a veil between him and it, and he couldn't see through it.
Kong Zhou sat down on the railing and took out his wine gourd again, Liu Xujiao found that as long as his mood changed, he would want to take a sip, whether it was when he was happy, when he was troubled, or now, when he was depressed.