Chapter 962: Silver Cross (22)
Grandma glared at Su Wu, and a smile suddenly appeared on her wrinkled face: "If you want to play with your brother Heihu, just tell me!
Can grandma stop you?
You just woke up now, and you are weak. You need to take good care of yourself.
Stay warm in the quilt, don't catch a cold.
Grandma will fry eggs for you!"
As she spoke, the old woman walked out of the house tremblingly. After taking two steps, she turned back and said to Su Wu with a smile: "Then, if Heihu comes this afternoon, grandma won't stop him?"
"No need to stop him! Thank you grandma!"
"Hey! You're still saying thank you to grandma?"
Grandma looked at her energetic grandson with a happy look in her eyes. She talked to Su Wu for a few words, and then left the room with a cane.
After the old woman left, Su Wu got out of bed quietly.
He carefully looked at the furnishings in the room.
The father of the original owner, ‘Zhu Zi’, had already decided not to raise him anymore and to sever the father-son relationship with him. It was a foregone conclusion that Zhu Zi would be included in the Li family genealogy from now on.
Therefore, Su Wu can also be called ‘Li Zhu Zi’ now.
‘Zhu Zi’ is most likely his nickname. What his real name is, he will have to wait until he reaches the ‘family genealogy’ to know it. Maybe he doesn’t have a real name yet.
Li Zhu Zi is a cause and effect left on the jade pendant by Li Zhu of Taoyuan Village.
Whether this person really existed in history is actually unclear.
Especially now that this cause and effect has been wiped out once by the Cross Tribulation and reorganized by the simulator, it is even more difficult to trace the past.
Also, since it is still uncertain whether this cause and effect itself is real or was far-fetched by Li Zhu and others from Taoyuan Village, Su Wu, who participated in this seemingly existent cause and effect, can quickly accept his own identity in this cause and effect.
The room he is currently living in should be a hall.
On the wall facing the main hall, there is a large painting of pine and cranes, and in front of the scroll, there is a square table.
There is a wooden tablet on the square table, and behind the tablet, there is a wooden box covered with black cloth.
In front of the tablet, three incense sticks are burning quietly.
There is a thick layer of incense ash in the incense burner.
This tablet should be worshipped from time to time, and the incense has never stopped.
Su Wu looked at the handwriting on the tablet, which read: the tablet of beloved daughter Li Wenjuan.
‘Li Wenjuan’ is the biological mother of ‘Li Zhuzi’.
Her tablet was not worshipped in the home of Li Zhuzi’s father, but returned to her mother’s home. This situation was originally very unusual - but Su Wu thought about the scene when Li Zhuzi’s biological father was anxious to break off the father-son relationship with him, and the information implicitly revealed in the grandmother’s words, and he understood this situation a little.
It seems that there must be something strange about Li Wenjuan’s death.
As grandma said, she didn't die peacefully.
So after her death, the Li family and Zhuzi's biological father may have turned against each other - the Li family took back Li Wenjuan's tablet and her ashes.
In this era, burial is very popular. In some places, even if people die in a foreign land, they have to ask special corpse drivers to help them bring their bodies back to their hometown for burial. For example, Li Wenjuan's body was not buried, but cremated, and the ashes were left in a box and placed in the main hall of the house - this situation is also very wrong.
The most wrong thing is that Su Wu sensed that there was something strange in the urn covered with black cloth.
Why did 'Li Wenjuan' die?
How much is her death related to Zhuzi's biological father and his father's subsequent second wife?
Su Wu's thoughts raced in his mind, and at the same time he stepped closer to the square table.
A pair of dark arms emerged from behind his shoulders, and instantly pressed down the wooden box covered with black cloth behind the tablet. The strange aura in the wooden box was completely imprisoned by the shadow ghost before it could escape.
The dark arm brought the wooden box to Su Wu, and he said "I'm sorry" to the wooden box, and then lifted the black cloth on the wooden box and opened it.
There was also a red cloth bag in the wooden box.
When the cloth bag was opened, the scattered bones that looked like gray in color were revealed.
These ashes have been infected by the strange aura until now, and no strange changes have occurred. The strange aura emanating from the box has another source. Su Wu stretched out his hand to push away the scattered bones, and finally saw a silver cross at the bottom of the red cloth bag.
The strands of strange aura were emanating from the cross surrounded by many ashes!
Seeing the silver cross, Su Wu's pupils shrank slightly, and he subconsciously restrained his breath. The oppressive feeling brought to him by the "Cross Tribulation" was too strong. Even if he entered the simulated time and space, he was always shrouded in the shadow of the Cross Tribulation. Now seeing an object similar to the "Cross Tribulation", he could not help but feel "once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the rope for ten years".
Especially the faint strange charm exuded from this silver cross, which was somewhat similar to the strange charm exuded by the "Cross Tribulation"!
Fortunately, although the cross itself was strange, it did not attract the "Cross Tribulation" after all.
Su Wu observed it for a while, and after confirming that it was safe, he carefully took it out of the ashes.
After the cross was in his hand, it maintained the same temperature as Su Wu's skin. Its lower end was cast into the shape of an arrow, and the arrow nailed a yellowed paper ball.
After unpacking the paper ball, Su Wu saw the birth date written on it:
'Name: Li Wenjuan.
Birth date: Yichou year, Jiyou month, Renchen day, Bingwu hour. ’
On the ball of paper, there was no other writing except the birth date of the piglet's mother, Li Wenjuan, and no other clues were revealed. However, a cross with a strange charm pierced through the paper with Li Wenjuan's birth date. This situation was abnormal no matter how you looked at it, revealing a sense of weirdness.
Su Wu put the ball of paper aside and studied the cross again.
The cross seemed to be made of silver, but as soon as Su Wu took it in his hand, he found that it had a strange property - when it touched the human skin, it would immediately become the same temperature as the human skin!
On the cross, a bound human figure was cast.
The strange charm emanated from the bound human figure.
The silver color around the bound human figure was not static, but like a stream of liquid silver, under Su Wu's gaze, the bound human figure instantly "flowed", twisted, and struggled!
Even its blurred facial features suddenly became clear in this flow -
One moment it turned into the appearance of a round-faced woman, and the next moment it turned into the appearance of a withered man wearing a veil!
Su Wu did not dare to use the 'Eight Consciousnesses' or 'Six Heavenly Ghost Eyes' to observe the figure on the cross. After all, it was because he used the Eight Consciousnesses and Six Heavenly Ghost Eyes on the foreign Taoist last time that the cross calamity appeared instantly and took him away directly, and by the way, erased the cause and effect on the jade pendant.
He calmed his mind.
The distorted figure on the cross also solidified in its original state.
Sensing the footsteps approaching outside the room, Su Wu restored the 'silver-like' cross and the paper ball to their original state and put them back into the urn.
He put the urn back to its original position, suddenly walked to the bedside, and got into the quilt.
After he lay down on the bed, grandma came over with a cane in one hand and a big bowl in the other, smiling.
In the big bowl was a poached egg, several drops of sesame oil dripped on the white noodles, and a few green vegetables were pressed under a large scoop of hand-rolled noodles.
Grandma brought the bowl of noodles to the bed and handed it to Su Wu, smiling kindly: "Come, eat quickly.
I was thinking of frying an egg for the pig.
But then I thought, the eggs will become less if you fry them, so I cooked them directly in the noodles for you. You eat it well. Grandma poured a lot of sesame oil in it, it smells very good!
We will have noodles for lunch today. When Hei Hu comes, let's see if he has hunted anything.
If we hunt a pheasant, we will have stewed chicken in the evening.
If we hunt a hare, we will roast the rabbit meat in the evening. There are still a lot of cabbage in the cellar. Cabbage and rabbit should be delicious..."
Grandma was thinking about the dinner for the evening. Su Wu looked at the full bowl of noodles and was stunned. Suddenly he asked the old woman: "Grandma, what are you eating for lunch today?"
The old woman was stunned by his question.
Then she smiled slyly and said, "I'm eating noodles with Zhuzi too.
My noodles are still in the pot. I'll watch the pot. You can eat slowly..."
As she spoke, she leaned on her crutches - Su Wu held her back and said, "I can't finish such a big bowl of noodles by myself. Why should grandma cook it again? Bring another bowl and we can share it."
"You are growing up, how can you not finish it?
There are some in grandma's pot. I won't eat yours. You can eat it quickly!" Grandma waved her hand to refuse.
Su Wu said, "Then I'll go and see. If there is nothing in the pot, I won't eat this noodles."
"Hey! You dead child -"
"Go get the bowl quickly, grandma, I really can't eat so much.
The noodles will not taste good if they are left for a long time..."
The two argued.
Grandma couldn't persuade Su Wu, so she had to bring another bowl.
Su Wu gave her half of the noodles, and when she glared at him to stop him, he also gave her half an egg. The two of them gathered in front of the bed and ate the whole bowl of hand-rolled noodles in water.
It was a year of famine, and people could not even eat white noodles, black steamed bread, wheat bran or rice bran.
It was hard to get the bowl of hand-rolled white noodles that grandma brought.
After dinner, grandma took the dishes and went to wash them, and Su Wu lay on the bed with his eyes closed and thought.
Although he had told grandma many times that he had almost recovered, grandma would not let him get out of bed to rest, and insisted that he "rest for a few days". On this point, he could not resist the old lady, so he had to follow her.
In the room, after the cross was restored to its original position, it began to emit a faint strange charm.
This strange charm was very shallow and could not cause any harm to people for the time being.
But the existence of the silver cross in the box made Su Wu deeply suspicious: Was Zhuzi originally knocked unconscious by the inexplicable weirdness in the urn?
Did the foreign Taoist priest and Zhuzi's biological father start plotting against Zhuzi and his biological mother?
What did they want?