Mysterious treasure chest

Chapter 434 Relics and Mysteries

The old village head was not stubborn either. He straightened up with a crutch on the top of a faucet, and then carefully took out something from his arms and handed it to Yang Hao: "Xiao Hao, this is the relic entrusted to me by your grandfather back then."

He explained softly: "It should have been handed over to you after you and Xiaohuan got married, but you are so promising now, and I am not in good health, so I will hand it over to you in advance."

Yang Hao was a little surprised. He really didn't expect his grandfather to leave a mysterious relic at the old village chief's place. He quickly took it and took a look. It was a very inconspicuous old snuff bottle. It seemed to be made of silver, but its appearance was early. It has been oxidized to black, and it is still covered with mottled scratches.

The old village chief seemed to see his doubts, shook his head and said: "I don't know what special use or significance this thing has. Back then, your grandfather was seriously injured and he talked nonsense. He entrusted this thing to me in private. Just tell me that I must keep it a secret, don’t tell anyone, and I will give you the things after you and Xiaohuan get married.”

Yang Hao asked in surprise: "Don't tell anyone? Including my parents?"

"Well, besides me, only you know about this matter now." The old village head nodded: "Your grandfather and I are close friends, since he chooses to entrust this thing to me, it is naturally very troublesome and serious Maybe it has something to do with your grandfather's death that year."

Hearing this, Yang Hao's expression became serious instantly, and motioned for the old village chief to continue.

"Back then, your grandfather was the most powerful hunter in the nearby ten miles and eight villages. He went to the mountains to hunt countless times in his life without any accidents. In the end, he picked up Xiaohuan with his front foot and died with his back foot. Do you think this is reasonable?"

As he said that, the old village head narrowed his eyes, and slowly shook his head: "Anyway, I don't believe it. Unfortunately, I did many investigations after the incident, but I couldn't find any abnormalities, so I had to give up in the end."

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Back home, Yang Hao watched TV with his parents for a while. Although he really didn't have any interest in the various dramas shown on TV, it didn't matter what he watched with his parents. They complain together, making them happy is the point.

Xiao Luoli and Xiao Yating were watching American dramas in the room, and Wang Xiaohu got a mobile hard drive from somewhere, and "Game of Thrones" was installed in it.

He was planning to watch it on the road to relieve boredom, but was accidentally discovered by the little Lolita, and then he was captured. Now he has forgotten to eat and sleep, and he dragged Xiao Yating to watch it with her.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Yang Hao returned to his room after taking a shower, and began to study the snuff bottle carefully.

The process is actually very simple. In front of the clairvoyant eye, there is no secret about this snuff bottle, and Yang Hao easily discovered the mystery.

It turned out that there was a very small wax pellet hidden in the inner tank of the snuff bottle, but the mechanism inside the snuff bottle had already been damaged artificially, and the only way to get the wax pellet out was to break the snuff bottle first.

Before doing it, Yang Hao carefully checked the snuff bottle several times, and took photos of all suspicious spider traces with his mobile phone.

In fact, the most important thing is the pattern on the snuff bottle, because apart from that, Yang Hao really can't see any bright spots in this snuff bottle.

But because the shell of the snuff bottle was worn out, the dense scratches completely destroyed the supposedly exquisite pattern, not to mention that the silver had already been oxidized to the point where it was so dark that it had no luster of precious metals. .

Yang Hao looked carefully, and could barely tell that the pattern on the front of the snuff bottle seemed to be a seal, which was written in regular script and Manchu, but apart from a 'Ming' character and a 'Hai' character that could barely be discerned, The other two words have been completely changed and completely destroyed.

The pattern on the back is a picture, and most of it is also damaged, and the rest is only some incomplete dark gold lines, and a little line representing the water flow can barely be seen.

It seems that this pattern should have been drawn with gold lines, coupled with the sterling silver body and exquisite craftsmanship, this snuff bottle is really extraordinary.

In addition to the front and back, the bottom of the snuff bottle can barely make out the character 'gan' in seal script, and half of the character 'zhi'. Yang Hao speculates that the complete four characters should be 'made in Qianlong'.

"It seems that this thing is still an antique. It might really be a good thing made during the Qianlong period. Unfortunately, it's not good and it's not worth much. So grandpa left it to me, it must not be a family heirloom."

Yang Hao thought about it for a moment, and felt that the secret was still in the wax pill inside, so he didn't hold back, brought tools, carefully cut open the snuff bottle, and took out the wax pill.

I don't know what kind of craft this wax ball is made of. After so many years, it is still intact. Yang Hao successfully took out a pocket note from it.

The material of the note is a brown unknown object that feels similar to a mulberry leaf. It is about the size of an adult's little finger when spread out, and there is a line of scrawled blood on it——Tiger Rabbit Meets Big Dream and Returns.

"The tiger and the rabbit meet and return in their dream?" Yang Hao frowned, completely puzzled, this sentence didn't seem like a hunter in the mountains could say it, could there be something hidden about his grandfather's life experience?
Thinking of this, Yang Hao turned his attention to this strange note again, read it over and over again, and quickly overturned his previous speculation.

This note should not have been written by grandpa, even the old man had no idea that there was such a mysterious and strange note hidden in this snuff bottle.

The reason is that these seven characters are written in lines. Although the writing is very sloppy, it looks like it was written in a hurry, but it can still be seen between the lines that the person who wrote the words has a deep calligraphy skill.

And Yang Hao had seen the old account books written by his grandfather before his death, as well as other written records left in the village, which showed that his grandfather did not know calligraphy at all.

Grandpa even wrote words very reluctantly, and often used pictures to replace words. For example, if he killed five rabbits today, he would draw a rabbit head and write the word "正" next to it to represent "five".

Therefore, if he analyzes it rationally, Yang Hao doesn't think that his grandfather will have any bizarre life experience and background. From this point of view, there is only one possibility left - this snuff bottle and the note inside are all related to Yang Xiaohuan's. Related to life experience.

Just as the old village head had suspected before, grandpa had been hunting all his life without any problems, but just a few days after picking up Yang Xiaohuan, he had an accident and entrusted the snuff bottle to the old village before he died. long.

It seems that this thing may be something that grandpa found when he picked up Xiaohuan, or it was simply "entrusted by someone" to keep this snuff bottle away.

(End of this chapter)