Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 11 The Chen Family's Plan

This is a scabbard made of white snakeskin, three feet long and two inches wide. The white snakeskin with distinct scales is particularly eye-catching under the light. It tightly wraps a long sword with a hilt It was jet black, made of unknown material, and formed a stark contrast with the bright and bright snakeskin scabbard.

"Grandpa, is this a treasured sword?" I swallowed involuntarily, and asked my grandfather. At this moment, in my eyes, my grandfather seemed to have turned into a hidden master, and this sharp sword It is the peerless magic weapon that he has hidden for a long time.

Grandpa stared blankly at the sword inserted in the snakeskin scabbard, and fell into deep thought, until a moment later, he said leisurely: "My dear grandson, do you still remember the story I told you about Chen Shengzhi, the ancestor of my Chen family? "

I nodded. Grandpa told me this story since I was a child, and my ears are almost full of cocoons.

Grandpa ignored me, didn't even look at me, he stared blankly at the snakeskin sword in his hand, and said to himself: "During the Kangxi period, the whole Tsingyi Village was slaughtered by the ghosts on the back mountain because of that disaster, Chen Shengzhi His parents and relatives were all killed, he gave up his easy-to-get fame, and resolutely searched all over the famous mountains and rivers to find the legendary immortal, hoping to practice immortality and avenge his parents."

"Hard work pays off. He searched for six full years, and finally met a strange man on Mount Hua. The ancestors of our Chen family finally got the Taoist magic taught by that strange man after going through many tests. God pity you, Chen Shengzhi is actually born He is a Taoist wizard who only took five years to reach the realm that ordinary people can only cultivate in decades. After the Taoism was completed, he returned to his hometown to take revenge. Unexpectedly, he encountered an evil dragon on the Minjiang River on the way. It fought for a long time, and finally beheaded it, and found an ancient sword in the nest of the evil dragon." When Grandpa said this, a gleam of brilliance bloomed in his eyes, and his face was full of pride and pride.

I am a little fascinated by what I heard at the moment. Grandpa never told me about this before. He just briefly said that Chen Shengzhi had cultivated Taoism and went back to his hometown to kill the white snake. I didn't expect that there would be such interesting things on the way. He is the ancestor of my Chen family. Hearing this story, I have a natural sense of substitution.

"Is this the sword that the ancestor found in the evil dragon's lair?" I asked curiously, looking at the sword wrapped in white snake skin, I was a little crazy for a while, and I automatically imagined that my ancestors fought against the evil dragon in front of me. scene.

At this moment, there seemed to be a force in my body driving me, and I involuntarily stretched out my hand to grab the black hilt, but Grandpa was stunned for a rare moment at this moment, and he didn't expect that I would be so bold Reach out and draw your sword.

Starting from the hilt of the sword, it is cold to the heart.

I pulled out the hilt of the sword vigorously, and the Excalibur came out of its sheath. The clanging sound of the sword resounded throughout the room. Instead, the scene of shooting was dimmed, and the earth bulb on the top of the room flickered violently at this moment, flickering on and off, just like when the voltage was unstable before.

Keng!
Grandpa took the sword from my hand, clapped the blade back into the snakeskin scabbard, the light in the room stabilized again, and the light bulbs stopped flickering. It seemed that what happened just now was just a hallucination, dreamy and unbelievable.

I opened my mouth wide, can't I close it? I was really surprised by everything just now.

"You melon boy, you are quite courageous." Grandpa scolded me, but I saw a slight smile in his eyes, and he didn't seem really angry.

I quickly asked: "Grandpa, what's the matter with this sword, just now..."

But before I finished speaking, I was directly interrupted by my grandfather, who said: "The words left by the ancestors are not complete, and I don't know the details of this sword. If you have a chance in the future, go study it yourself. Anyway, these Everything will be left to you in the future."

I was delighted when I heard what Grandpa said. After all, most boys are naturally immune to things like swords.

"Okay, dear grandson, it's time for us to go up the mountain." Grandpa wrapped the snakeskin sword in blue cloth again, and took a cloth strip to tie the sword on his back.

"Grandpa, what are we doing up the mountain? Is it to watch that old Taoist catch monsters?" I got a little excited. I wanted to follow up the mountain to watch the excitement when I was in the Zhao family's yard, but grandpa didn't allow people to go up the mountain at that time, so I could only Forget it, now grandpa said that he would take me up the mountain, which made me very excited.

The corner of Grandpa's mouth curled up, and he said with a smile, "Yes, let's watch that old Taoist catch monsters, hehe."

Grandpa stood up from the bed and closed the nearly tattered wooden box again, but he didn't even touch the other thing wrapped in blue cloth inside, let alone open it.

I asked curiously: "Grandpa, what did you get in the other cloth bag? Why didn't you open it?"

When grandpa heard my words, there was a trace of loneliness on his face. He sighed and said, "Grandpa has no skills and is not qualified to open it. Since the ancestors of Shengzhi, our Chen family has never made another Taoism." None of them are qualified to open or even use it.”

"Maybe in the future, no, as long as you succeed this time, dear grandson, it will be yours from now on, and it will shine brightly again in your hands! Our 300-year plan of the Chen family can only succeed, not fail! Even if you do everything!" Grandpa became more and more excited as he spoke, he looked at me with burning eyes, with longing and a hint of fanaticism in his eyes.

I was a little scared to be stared at by grandpa. Although I knew that grandpa would not harm me, being looked at by him at this moment terrified me.

I was ten years old at that time. Although I was not very old, I also had the ability to think independently.At that moment, I felt like a pawn, a pawn calculated by the ancestors of the Chen family. Every step of my life seemed to have been calculated by them.

I lowered my head, not daring to look at Grandpa.After he calmed down from the excitement, he took my hand and walked out of the house. I didn't speak, and neither did Grandpa. The two seemed to be in a strange state.

Out of the main room, I saw my mother standing at the gate of the yard. When she saw me coming out, her eyes lit up. She stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to pull me over.

But my grandfather snorted coldly at this moment, and stared at my mother fiercely with his eyes. Under the sunlight, his old face looked a little ferocious.

My mother trembled in fright at Grandpa's stare, and retracted her outstretched hand. In the final analysis, she was just a weak woman.

"He is my grandson, Chen Youcai!"

My grandpa left this sentence, regardless of my mother's reaction, he directly pulled me out and walked out. My mother stood there and watched us leave until we were far away. She fell to the ground and burst into tears. Tears flowed from her eyes, her mouth opened, but no words could come out.

"Grandpa, I'm afraid!"

Most people in the village ran to Zhao's yard to watch the excitement, but no one was seen on the road leading to the back mountain, and the desolate mountain road looked a little gloomy even in the sun.

Grandpa stopped and held my hand even harder. He stared into my eyes and said, "My dear grandson, you must remember that members of our Chen family have to straighten their waists and hold their heads up all their lives. Even if the road ahead is a mountain of knives and sea of ​​fire, we have to go through it without fear! Don't say it's just a mountain road, even if those ghosts, monsters, and evil zombies appear in front of you, you have to rush up with a knife, our Chen family, Afraid of a ball!"

I was a little excited by what my grandpa said, and I tried my best to straighten my waist, raise my head high, and look like a little man.

Grandpa smiled when he saw me, and then said to me with a serious expression: "My dear grandson, listen, when you go up the mountain, no matter what you see or hear, don't be afraid. Grandpa told you Whatever you do, you do it, this is the most critical time for our Chen family for more than 300 years, we must not let him fall short!"

I nodded, and seeing my grandpa's satisfied expression, I couldn't help asking: "Grandpa, you have talked about the plans of the Chen family so many times, what exactly has our Chen family been planning for these 300 years?"

Grandpa was stunned for a moment, he stood up, his eyes were facing the sun hanging high in the sky, his tall figure seemed to be covered with a layer of golden armor under the sun, he said in a sonorous voice:
"Seize the fate of the country and change the lives of people!"

"Fish jumps over the dragon's gate, carp turns into a dragon!"

(End of this chapter)