Chapter 138 Solving Puzzles Along the Way
What if there is an emergency here with Mu Nanzhao, and if we don’t deal with it soon, what if the whole family gets buried with him?
It was just a change of mind and Gu Xixi made the decision.
look!
She quickly peeled off the wax seal on the bamboo tube and took out a roll of letter paper.
Gu Xixi thought the letter would contain something important, but when she opened it, she found only a few words:
"The tree at the entrance of the village has ten on the left and thirteen on the right, and the gentleman is hollow in the middle."
Gu Xixi was not only disappointed, but also confused.
What does this mean?
The tree at the entrance of the village...
At the entrance of Huachidu Village, the most eye-catching thing is the big locust tree with a bronze bell hanging on it.
The gentleman is hollow, bamboo? But bamboo is not grown locally.
Thinking of this, Gu Xixi bent down and rubbed the cat's head, "Good boy, go find Brother Shitou and come back."
Xiaohua can understand what people say very well.
It looked at Gu Xixi, meowed softly twice, and ran away with a cat-like gait.
Given the current atmosphere at home, Gu Xixi specially sent Shi Tou to Qin's house this morning to write with Gou Wa.
Xiaohua had sent him there early in the morning, so he could naturally find him back now.
Gu Xixi stood outside the gate and waited for a while, then saw a man and a cat walking back along the path.
Shitou looked down at Xiaohua and asked as they walked, "Xiaohua, you asked me to come back. Is there something wrong at home that requires me to come back for help?"
"Oh, you can only meow, but you can't speak human language!"
Gu Xixi found it funny and walked over to him, saying, "You know Xiaohua can't talk, but you still bully it like this?"
Shitou stopped when he heard the sound. He felt a little embarrassed when Sister Xixi saw him whispering to Xiaohua.
"I was just teasing Xiaohua!"
He quickly became serious, "Xiaohua called me, is it because Sister Xixi wants me to do something?"
Gu Xixi nodded and said, "I'll be out for a while, it shouldn't be too long."
"You know the situation at home. When I'm not here, you must lock the door tightly and stay at home. Don't go anywhere. Don't open the door unless I come back. Do you understand?"
Shitou didn't ask why, and readily agreed, "I understand, don't worry, Sister Xixi, I've remembered it all!"
Gu Xixi touched the small cloth bag across her body and patted Shitou's shoulder encouragingly:
"I'm at ease leaving the house to you."
After Gu Xixi left, Shitou immediately called Xiaohua into the yard.
He closed the two doors tightly and pushed both bolts with all his strength.
Then he brushed the non-existent dust off his hands, put his hands on his hips, and stood facing the gate, with an attitude of "who else but me can guard the pass?"
"Humph! I knew that without me this family would break up!"
"Xiaohua, we have to guard this door until Sister Xixi comes home. Do you hear me?!"
Perhaps Xiaohua understood, and he raised his head, meowed majestically, and pressed his sharp front paws on the ground.
Gu Xixi walked all the way to the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.
Since the code taught by Mu Nanzhao can match the code used by the Saker Falcon to deliver the letter, it means that this secret letter is most likely not sent by the enemy to lure someone into a trap or to divert attention.
Rather than wondering about it, it would be better to go and investigate according to what is written in the letter.
Gu Xixi took ten steps to the left. She looked around and found no way to turn right.
But not far ahead, there was indeed a trampled path in the grass that turned right.
Considering that everyone's stride length is different, it is normal for there to be some error in the measured distance.
So Gu Xixi walked forward a few steps, stepped onto the path in the grass, and continued to walk thirteen steps to the right.
She stopped and looked around. There were only weeds growing around her. There were no trees, let alone bamboo.
Could it be a misunderstanding?
The numbers ten and thirteen, aren’t they steps?
But it's not necessary to ask her to walk 23 miles to get something, right?
Almost at the same time, Aunt Zhang heard someone knocking on the door and ran out of the kitchen.
She saw Shitou standing upright in the middle of the road, and she felt disgusted and amused at the same time, "Are you blocking the way here? Go play somewhere else, didn't you hear anyone knocking on the door? You don't even know how to answer the door, kid!"
Shitou took two quick steps and stood in front of Aunt Zhang with his arms outstretched.
"You can't open it!" He whispered seriously, "Sister Xixi said so."
"Until she comes back, no one can open the door without knocking!"
Lao Qian's puzzled voice came from outside the door, "No one is home? Isn't niece Xixi recuperating at home? This shouldn't be the case."
When Aunt Zhang heard what Shi Tou said, she restrained her expression.
She nodded toward the stone and pointed toward the gate.
Lao Qian took good care of their family and this time he planted fruit trees with Gu Xixi.
You can't treat old money as if it's not there.
The clever stone immediately understood and said, "Uncle Village Chief, my sister Xixi just fell asleep after eating. Is there anything urgent for you?"
Outside the door, Old Qian's brows relaxed and he smiled, "My niece can eat today? That's good."
"It's nothing serious. The chickens and ducklings I bought came back, and I wanted to tell her."
Shitou agreed, "Okay, I'll tell Sister Xixi when she wakes up."
Lao Qian responded, and it sounded like he put something on the ground.
He said, "Also tell her to give her some of the eggs her aunt had saved to nourish her body. I'll leave them at the door. Be careful when you open the door and go in and out."
The footsteps faded away.
Aunt Zhang looked through the crack in the door, then opened the door and brought in the straw basket on the ground.
She turned to the stone.
Shitou immediately spread his hands and said, "I don't know where Sister Xixi has gone."
"But she said she'll be back soon."
Aunt Zhang shook her head helplessly and sighed, "It's getting more and more difficult to understand."
She carried the basket and walked towards the kitchen. "Forget it, forget it. I won't ask."
In the weeds, Gu Xixi looked around and thought for a long time, but still had no answer.
She was ready to give up.
It’s better to wait until Mu Nanzhao wakes up and let him solve this riddle himself.
Just as she was about to turn around, a gust of wind suddenly blew, causing Gu Xixi to squint her eyes and cover them with her hands.
The spring wind in the northwest is like this, it comes and goes, sometimes gentle and sometimes wild.
The wind blew through the deep grass somewhere ahead, and a dark blue color flashed by in Gu Xixi's vision.
She immediately used her hands to push aside the waist-deep grass and waded forward.
There was a huge rock hidden in the grass.
Gu Xixi walked around the boulder, groping with both hands, and really found a hole at the bottom close to the ground.
She picked up a straw stick and poked it into the hole. Only after making sure there was no living creature did she dare reach in.
Gu Xixi struggled for a while and took out a small package.
It was wrapped in waterproof oilcloth, which was flat and deflated, and it was impossible to tell what was inside.
She hesitated for a moment, then opened the package.
On the top was an envelope, and underneath the envelope was a stack of papers covered in red handwriting.
I thought this was a secret letter from the contact to Mu Nanzhao.
Gu Xixi opened it and recognized Mu Nanzhao's handwriting at a glance.
The content is as simple as the riddle sent by Hai Dongqing, and you can read it at a glance:
"I have been implicated by you for all the things that happened in the past. There is no point in saying more. I can only make up for a few things."
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