Chapter 5 Chapter Five Three Passes

After Gao Lan's chair fell down, everyone froze there - Gao Lan only held two bare chair legs in his hands, the chair fragments were all over the floor, but the treasure box was intact. Professor Yi picked up the treasure box with trembling hands, carefully observed it up and down, left and right, and finally heaved a sigh of relief: "It's intact! There's not even a single crack!" Then he frowned and shouted at Gao Lan: "Gao Lan Lan! Do you know this is a cultural relic? If it is smashed, it is destroying cultural relics, which is a crime!" Gao Lan was also furious: "Crime is crime, I just want to find my old brother! Hmph, your chairs are too weak!"

"Get out immediately, and never enter this door again!" "Let's go!" Gao Lan turned and left. "Don't teach, don't teach!" Professor Yi trembled with anger. Da Chuan looked at Gao Lan who was striding out, he didn't want to chase him, and he didn't want to chase him. "The Millennium Old Demon" is a netizen, a netizen of Dachuan, nothing surprising, a doctor of archaeology also needs a netizen, especially this netizen's astonishingly rich historical knowledge.Whenever Da Chuan has any difficult problems in archaeology, the thousand-year-old demon can always give him good tips and help.Over the years, the thousand-year old demon can be regarded as at least one-eighth of Okawa's teacher, and he would tell Okawa anecdotes from time to time.

When encountering the problem of the treasure box, Da Chuan would naturally think of him. This time it was about Xiao Chuan's safety, so he asked for an interview in desperation. But the thousand-year-old demon replied: "We have an agreement, we can't video, we can't meet each other, I have something urgent, so let's get off first, bye..." Seeing the old demon's avatar turn gray in QQ, Da Chuan shook his head: "Netizens are really unreliable, no matter how many years." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly received a link from the thousand-year-old monster. Da Chuan rekindled hope, and excitedly clicked in to see it, and he was so happy! ——This is Gao Lan's blog. On the homepage, there is a huge photo of Xiao Chuan, and the title is "Wanted - Chasing and Killing the Unscrupulous".

In the wanted criminals column at the gate of Wuzhong County, there is also a portrait of Xiaochuan, and of course the portrait of Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew is also posted. As the most wanted criminals in Kuaiji County, Xiao Chuan, Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang could only hide in the home of their old friend Fan Zeng to avoid the limelight. This Fan Zeng already had gray hair, but he was energetic, enthusiastic, and uniquely cultured. The room was full of books—they were bamboo slips. Xiao Chuan suffered from headaches when he read books since he was a child, but now he can't access the Internet, so he can only read Mr. Fan Zeng's bamboo slips for fun.It didn't matter that he opened the bamboo slips, Xiao Chuan suddenly realized that he was really... uneducated, a roll of bamboo slips, densely packed with hundreds of words, unexpectedly he couldn't read a single character.

Xiao Chuan was puzzled, and grabbed Xiang Yu beside him: "Brother Yu!" "What do you call me, Brother Yu?" Xiang Yu was a little puzzled. "That's right, it's popular in our place, such as Brother Fa, Brother Tom, and Hu Ge, they are all big stars!" Xiao Chuan patiently explained. "Brother Yu, Brother Yu, that sounds good too, very catchy." "I said Brother Yu, why can't I understand the words on this scroll of bamboo slips?" Xiang Yu looked down, frowned and said, "I didn't like reading since I was a child, and I can't read like you!"

Xiang Yu actually classified himself and him as illiterates, and Xiao Chuan was not happy: "I am not the same as you, I have a diploma, a junior college! It is still a correspondence course!" Xiao Chuan and Xiang Yu argued over who was more illiterate, and they couldn't agree, so they asked Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng to comment. Xiang Liang took a look at the bamboo slips, laughed, and opened another bamboo slip, Xiao Chuan looked at it, yeah, I know more than half of the characters here, how did this happen! Fan Zeng explained: "What you can understand is official script, and what you can't understand is Xiaozhuan. Originally, there were different schools of writing in the world. After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, Yingzheng proclaimed himself the first emperor and ordered 'books with the same text'. Only these two scripts are used. Xiaozhuan is indeed beautiful, but the writing is complicated, which is much more difficult than official script."

"No wonder I can't understand." Xiao Chuan suddenly realized, he suddenly remembered the word "mountain" on the treasure box, so he dipped in tea and drew the character on the table: "Master, Mr. Fan, help me See if this character is the word for 'mountain' in Shanshui?" "Yes, exactly." "Great. Please help me find out what these two words mean? Is it a place name?" Xiao Chuan was overjoyed. He happily wrote the three words on the treasure box on the table. It means that he has hope to return to modern times. After Xiang Liang looked at it, he frowned, as if he realized something, Fan Zeng was about to answer, Xiang Liang tugged his sleeve quietly under the table, Fan Zeng shut up hastily.Xiang Liang tentatively asked, "Xiao Chuan, why are you asking this?"

"Master, you know that my hometown is far away in the sky. Now I miss my family and want to return day and night. But if I want to find the way back, I must figure out the meaning of these three words. I think about these three words every day. Hundreds of times..." "Okay, okay, okay, filial piety is commendable!" Xiang Liang nodded with a smile, but he was completely unhappy in his heart. He had long been optimistic about Xiao Chuan's cleverness, and he wanted to keep him by his side and train him to be Xiang Yu's right-hand man. How could a ghost like him slip away from assisting Xiang Yu in conspiracy to dominate.When Xiang Liang was thinking about it, Xiao Chuan asked again: "Master, what are these two characters?"

"Uh... even a teacher can't recognize these two words." As soon as these words came out, Xiao Chuan suddenly fell from the peak of hope to the bottom of disappointment. He didn't quite believe Xiang Liang's words, but he had no reason to suspect that Xiang Liang was lying - he didn't know what was wrong in Xiang Liang's heart. Fan Zeng didn't understand either, and looked at Xiang Liang inexplicably.Xiang Liang immediately cupped his fists: "I wonder if Mr. Fan can recognize him?" Fan Zeng, an old fritter, saw the clue and sneered: "You see the bewildered look on the old man's face, so naturally he doesn't know." ?

It was night, and Xiao Chuan was lying on the bed but couldn't sleep at all. He thought that in the fancy world two thousand years later, he still had a great youth, and he couldn't waste it in this era without even electric plugs.Xiao Chuan decided that he must study hard to recognize the remaining two characters. After learning about Xiang Liang's Xiaojiujiu, Fan Zeng couldn't help giving his thumbs up secretly.So, when Xiao Chuan came to borrow the bamboo slips to study, he promised: "Okay...okay, take whatever you want to see." He quietly hid the bamboo slips with these two characters.

Xiao Chuan was not too polite, rolled up his sleeves and began to move. After going back and forth a dozen times, Xiao Chuan was already sweating profusely from exhaustion, and the bedroom was also filled with bamboo slips—probably this is how the idiom "sweat cows fill a house" came about! In the following days, Xiao Chuan had a particularly fulfilling life: he followed Xiang Liang to learn Wu during the day, and studied behind closed doors at night.Sometimes he would also think that if he worked so hard in his third year of high school, he would be able to get into a third-category undergraduate course anyway. When he was bored with studying, he competed with Xiang Yu in martial arts and riding skills. As time passed, the brotherhood between the two deepened day by day. A few months passed in a blink of an eye, Xiao Chuan not only made great progress in his skills, but also read the classics and history by heart.Even his original fashionable short hair has grown enough to be combed into the popular bun in Daqin. At this time, he often narcissistically imagines that when he returns to modern times, he must do shampoo commercials. This night, when the bright moon was in the sky, Xiao Chuan, who was reading at night, opened the window and suddenly felt puzzled, why is the moon so bright today?After counting, he actually jumped up, rolled up his sleeves and ran into the kitchen, and started kneading the dough... Xiang Yu was drinking in his room, Xiao Chuan held a box and pushed the door open. "Brother Yu, I'm bringing you delicious food!" Xiao Chuan put the box on the table, opened the lid, and there were four mooncakes in it, "I made these with my own hands, and they're fresh out of the oven!" Xiang Yu picked up the moon cake and looked it over carefully, full of curiosity: "What is this...?" "This is... a moon cake!" Xiao Chuan said in surprise. "Mooncake? What is a mooncake?" Xiao Chuan fell down on the seat. "Brother, are you kidding me? Today is August 15th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and you have to eat mooncakes! Martians know it." "Today is August 15th, but it's the first time I've heard of Mid-Autumn Festival and mooncakes." Xiang Yu said seriously. Xiao Chuan suddenly realized that by the way, during the Qin Dynasty, they didn't know about Mid-Autumn Festival, let alone moon cakes.I am so self-indulgent! Xiang Yu put the mooncake into his mouth, raised his eyebrows, and praised: "This mooncake tastes good!" "Of course, eating moon cakes and admiring the bright moon, hey, I don't know what father, mother, Da Chuan and Gao Lan are doing? Did Da Chuan's Mid-Autumn Festival plan succeed?" Da Chuan and Professor Yi's Mid-Autumn Festival night is even more deserted than Xiao Chuan's.The two were in the office, staring at the moon in a daze. Gao Lan came unexpectedly, and she was even more lonely. Since she was a child, her parents died, and her elder brother Gao Yao depended on each other for life. Now she has become a complete loner.So the three of them were lonely together, and the room was extraordinarily quiet until the arrival of the fourth person... When this lean and elegant middle-aged lady appeared at the door, Professor Yi was the first to react, but his reaction was three feet high: "Who sent you here?" "Dad, I invited my mother over for a reunion dinner!" Okawa hurriedly explained. "Listen clearly, my son invited me over to have our reunion dinner, it has nothing to do with you!" That's right, this lady is the biological mother of Da Chuan and Xiao Chuan—Mother Yi.Eighteen years ago, Mother Yi couldn't bear Professor Yi's archeology outside all day long and disregarded his family, so she filed for divorce. After the court ruled, Da Chuan followed Professor Yi, and Xiao Chuan followed Mother Yi.Since then, the two have not communicated with each other, and as long as they meet, they will inevitably fight with each other--there is almost no fight like the Smiths. Of course, this time was no exception. The more the two people quarreled, the more fierce they became. The result of the clumsy Okawa's persuasion was predictable, basically devastating. When the decibel level of their quarrel reached its peak, a higher voice broke out. "stop fighting!" Professor Yi, Mother Yi and Da Chuan all stopped and looked at Gao Lan in surprise. "It's too late for me to be envious of you as a big family? You still have to quarrel!... I have no parents since I was a child, and my brother is my only relative. In the past, my brother and sister celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, but today's Mid-Autumn Festival is only left. Leave me alone! No matter what, please help me find my brother!" Gao Lan began to cry while talking, Professor Yi was speechless, and Yi's mother hugged Gao Lan in her arms distressedly: "Mothers know the suffering of children without mothers. Auntie promises you, I will help you." Get your brother back." Gao Lan hugged Yi's mother and began to sob, Da Chuan quietly said to Professor Yi: "Dad, what do you say, can you ask Mom to help?" Professor Yi rubbed his eyes, pretending to be casual and said: "Let's do this first." So, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Professor Yi, Mother Yi, Gao Lan and Da Chuan appeared in the vault of the research institute. From the moment Yi's mother took over the treasure box, she devoted herself to the research of the treasure box. It is said that Yi's mother's family is a lockpicking family that has been passed down for thousands of years. During these thousands of years, her family has accumulated many mysterious methods of making and unlocking locks.At that time, Professor Yi met Yi's mother precisely because he encountered a strange lock that could not be opened, and this marriage was planted-hehe, but the result was not good. Yi's mother took out all kinds of weird tools handed down from her family and performed her special skills, so she basically figured out the key structure inside the treasure box.When Professor Yi, Da Chuan and Gao Lan saw the structural drawings drawn by Yi's mother, they were all stunned there. Finally, Gao Lan couldn't bear it any longer: "Auntie, you draw very well, and it looks cool—but I can't understand it at all." Mother Yi smiled: "It's strange that you can understand it!" Mother Yi explained: She guessed that the treasure box was installed with the "button dragon lock" that had been lost for thousands of years.According to legend, this "Dragon Lock" was created by Dayu when he was controlling the water. He used this lock to lock a monster dragon that made waves and relieved the water disaster in the Central Plains at that time, which shows the power of this lock.The most amazing thing is that the buckle dragon lock cannot be cracked. If it is opened by force, the whole box will shatter by itself.Mother Yi pointed out several blank parts on the drawings and told everyone that there are five depressions on the five surfaces of the treasure box. Only by finding these five missing parts and installing them back can the treasure box be opened intact. Okawa shook his head: "This box has been buried for two thousand years, where should I find the missing part?" Mother Yi continued to explain: Another special feature of the Koulong lock is that the clues to unlock the lock will definitely stay on the utensils.The five sides of the treasure box are all messy patterns, only one side is complete, and the clue should be in the pattern on this side. On this side, three sixty-year-olds are sitting at a wooden table under a mountain drinking tea. The three have different expressions, one is peaceful, one is mature, and the other is ferocious. Mother Yi pointed to the three characters in the upper left corner of the picture: "These three characters are clues!" Xiao Chuan had long been familiar with these three characters, but he couldn't find them after reading all the bamboo slips at hand. On this day, he came to Fan Zeng's room to borrow bamboo slips again. Fan Zeng happened to be sleeping, and there was a roll of bamboo slips spread out on the table. Xiao Chuan took it by hand, and suddenly slapped the table without reading a few lines, and shouted happily: "I found it, I found it! The second character turned out to be the word 'Witch'!" Ogawa regained his energy and continued to search.Fan Zeng was awakened from his dream by the loud cry, and almost fell under the bed. He took a closer look and saw that Xiao Chuan was reading the bamboo slips on the table. His mind turned and his face changed drastically: "Not good!" Fan Zeng ran over in a hurry without his shoes on, deliberately pretended to fall, knocked over the ink and spilled it on the bamboo slips, all the characters on the bamboo slips could not be seen, and Xiao Chuan couldn't help sighing. Fan Zeng pretended to apologize: "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just woke up from a nap and felt dizzy, I'm laughing at you." Fan Zeng rolled up the bamboo slips in a hurry, and just as he was about to put them away, Xiao Chuan suddenly widened his eyes and shouted, "Wait a minute, Uncle Fan!" Fan Zeng was too frightened to move, Xiao Chuan leaned over to look carefully at the back of the bamboo slips and suddenly laughed loudly: "Thank you, Uncle Fan, for helping me find the last word!" Fan Zeng hurriedly turned the bamboo slips over, and saw that the title and author of the article were written on the back of the bamboo slips, and there was that word in it! Fan Zeng shook his head and sighed, "This is God's will!" "It's God's will, it's God's will. It turns out that the word reads 'tang', so that place is 'tang-wu-shan'! Haha, I can go home, I can go home!" Xiao Chuan laughed and moved Fan Zeng hugged him up, "Hey, when I go back, I will publish a book and earn a ticket for it. Uncle Fan, don't worry, I will definitely write you as a handsome old man, very handsome! I will tell you the good news right now. Tell Master!" Xiao Chuan ran out after finishing speaking. Fan Zeng looked at Xiao Chuan who was running away, stroked his beard and said, "In the dark, there is God's will!" Xiang Liang was teaching Xiang Yu how to shoot an arrow. He pulled out a full moon and aimed it at a distant target.Suddenly, Xiao Chuan ran over waving the bamboo slips in his hand, shouting: "Master, it's 'Tang Wu Shan'!" Xiang Liang's complexion changed, his hand trembled, and the arrow flew away from the string, and a hen a foot away from the target was killed immediately. Xiang Yu was surprised: "Uncle's arrow is not up to standard!" Xiang Liang patted Xiang Yu's shoulder and sighed: "Yes, uncle made a mistake this time... Yu'er, you have to remember the arrow just now. If you are disturbed by others, don't shoot rashly!" Xiao Chuan ran to Xiang Liang's side, still excited: "Master, those three characters are Tang Wushan!" Xiang Liang forced a smile: "Okay, very good." Xiang Yu happily patted Xiao Chuan on the shoulder: "Kung fu pays off, congratulations!" "Congratulations, congratulations! Master, I plan to set off for Tangwu Mountain immediately to find my way home!" "Xiao Chuan, are you leaving now?" Xiang Yu was unwilling, "Is there something urgent at home?" "No, I just want to go back quickly, sleep in late every day, eat hot pot, karaoke as Maiba, and enjoy it!" Xiang Yu was serious: "Xiaochuan, as the saying goes, a man's ambition is everywhere! If you go back to waste your time, I will be the first to let you go! Listen to me, you stay, and we brothers will fight the world together!" "Boss, I'm just an ordinary person born in the 1980s, a freelancer, and I'm good at playing games. If you want me to fight the world, that's unreliable. I can't even beat my girlfriend!" Xiao Chuan couldn't laugh or cry. Xiang Yu wanted to persuade, but Xiang Liang stopped Xiang Yu: "Yu'er, even if you keep his people, you still can't keep his heart." When Xiao Chuan heard this, he immediately saluted: "Thank you, Master, it is Master who knows Xiao Chuan's heart!" "Xiao Chuan, if you want to go home, I will not stop you as a teacher. However, according to the rules of the ancestors, in order to let the disciples learn something and avoid giving up halfway, the disciples of this school must pass three tests before leaving the teacher. If you fail any test, Just never leave again for life!" Xiang Liang's tone was extremely solemn. Xiao Chuan was shocked, and he was not allowed to leave for the rest of his life?Don't I want to say goodbye to my father, mother, Dachuan and Gao Lan forever?No, I live alone in this war-torn era, and I am also a lonely family. I must go back. Xiang Liang emphasized his tone: "...Xiao Chuan, you have to think clearly! This is a lifetime decision." Xiao Chuan gritted his teeth: "Master, I have made up my mind, I want to pass these three barriers!" Xiang Yu was in a hurry: "Xiao Chuan, you...uncle, you..." Xiang Liang narrowed his eyes: "Yu'er, this is Xiao Chuan's own business... Xiao Chuan, since you have made up your mind, go get ready!" Xiao Chuan bowed to Xiang Liang, turned around and left slowly, his breathing became quite heavy. Seeing Xiao Chuan walk away, Xiang Yu worried: "Uncle, how can you let Xiao Chuan go, he is a rare talent!" Xiang Liang smiled: "How can I not know this, but don't worry, as long as he can't pass the test, he will never be able to leave." He looked at Xiao Chuan's back and nodded secretly: "Xiao Chuan, you must not pass these three tests. off!"