Emperor Ming's grandson

Chapter 19 Clues in the Office

"Based on cultivated land, it is contracted land. The contract period is fifteen years. After the expiration of the contract, it can be extended to thirty years unconditionally. Each mu of land is 100 yuan/year, ten acres in total. The total contract fee for fifteen years is ten thousand. Five thousand dollars.”

In fact, the headmistress wants to count this land as forest land, which can make it cheaper. However, planting trees on abandoned farmland is different from the formal change to forest land. The latter needs to be confirmed by relevant departments. If someone comes, What should I do if a mysterious vortex happens to appear?
Therefore, Zhu Xiongying insisted on signing the contract as farmland.

After the contract clearly spells out the rent payment, nature of the planned land use, lease period, condition of the leased land, etc., it must be signed in duplicate and then stamped/painted. The land contracting is half done.

For the remaining half, Zhu Xiongying only needs to take the time to go to the town's government affairs hall, present the land lease contract, and go through the registration procedures for leasing land use rights at the real estate registration window.

After signing the contract, the headmistress asked him what to do with the outdated and damaged books that had been placed in the library corner.

"It's not good to throw it away, and it's not good to sell it for scrap."

"Otherwise."

The headmistress suggested that the books be placed in his grandfather's office before his death. The furnishings there are still untouched, but it has become a storage room, and the floor and sofa are full of sundries.

Zhu Xiongying thought about it and thought it was good. At least those books would have a home.

Moreover, he really wanted to take a look at his grandfather's office to see if there was any information or clues left. Even if the headmistress didn't say anything, he would take the initiative to request it.

Zhu Xiongying took the key given by the headmistress, opened the dusty door, and walked into his grandfather's office.

The office is on the first floor. Sunlight shines through the gaps in the windows, forming beams of light. Dust floats in the light. The indoor atmosphere is calm, as if time has frozen here.

Grandpa's office as an old principal is furnished in a simple yet full of traces of time. A worn-out desk occupies the center of the room. In addition to piles of documents and books on the desk, there is also an old-fashioned desk lamp with a slightly faded lampshade. yellow.

The wall clock on the wall has stopped moving long ago, and the hands are frozen at a certain moment forever. There are still some faded photos and pennants hanging on the wall under the wall clock. Each photo records an important moment of the school, and each pennant. Represents the school's honor.

Zhu Xiongying first piled the discarded old books on the ground, and then began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets.

It's a pity that Zhu Xiongying spent a long time and even turned over the photos and banners, but still found nothing.

Until finally, he locked his eyes on the drawer under the desk.

This is a locked drawer, with a small brass lock hanging firmly there, but there is no sign of any key in the office.

However, this thing can neither protect against villains nor gentlemen. Zhu Xiongying was too lazy to look for the key. This was not an escape room. There happened to be some tools in the utility room, so he just took a cross-shaped screwdriver and pried it open. , highlighting a powerful miracle.

There is only a green leather notebook filled with the style of the last century in the drawer.

After Zhu Xiongying took out the notebook, he did not read it immediately. Instead, he used the light of his mobile phone to explore the inside of the drawer and knocked again. After making sure that there were no mezzanines and other items, he closed the drawer and started to read the contents of the green leather notebook.

But to Zhu Xiongying's expectation, the notebook was very dry inside and the middle was torn off. After looking through the pages one by one, he only found two lines of small words in the calendar gap on the title page.

"I came home late from selling medicine and repairing the piano, and the mountain wind blew away the osmanthus branches.

In this world, everything happens in a moment. Don't play chess when meeting an immortal. "

What does it mean?
Zhu Xiongying was very sure that he had not memorized this ancient poem in the textbook. He first took a photo with his mobile phone and then opened the browser to search.

This is a poem by Xu Hun, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, called "Send Off the Song Dynasty Scholar Returning to the Mountain." The first line of the poem talks about the scene when he went into the mountain and met an old man who sold medicine and repaired the piano. It is an allusion, that is, "Lan Ke Ren". "Lanke man" refers to a man named Wang Zhi in the Jin Dynasty. He accidentally came to Shishi Mountain in Xin'an County while chopping firewood, where he met two boys playing chess with Wang Zhi beside them. After watching the chess game, the boy reminded him that it was too late. When he turned around, he found that the handle of the ax he used was rotten and the boy had disappeared. When he returned to the village, everything changed and time passed. A year later (60 years), everyone of his contemporaries had already passed away.

This story was often used to describe the great changes in world affairs and people's vicissitudes of life. It would be fine if this poem appeared elsewhere, but at this time it happened to appear in this notebook locked by grandpa. It was inevitable that Zhu Xiongying's thoughts wandered.

"Everything in this world is a matter of seconds. Don't play chess when meeting an immortal. It must be the case. Grandpa has long known the power of this mysterious vortex!"

Zhu Xiongying made up his mind. Seeing that there were no more clues, he put away his green notebook and planned to leave.

However, at this moment, he suddenly saw that the green leather of the green notebook had been peeled off. Zhu Xiongying pondered for a moment and then used his hands to peel off the green leather on it. There was actually something inside, a yellowed notebook. old photo.

Zhu Xiongying held the photo with confusion on his face.

"Why did grandpa never mention it to me?"

The photo above is a group photo with the words "Photo taken at the Jiangnan Provincial Theoretical Physics Conference in 1995." Because nearly twenty years have passed and the photo is not clear, Zhu Xiongying cannot identify it. Who are the people, whether there is a grandfather among them, and it is impossible to guess where the meeting is held from the blurry background.

Zhu Xiongying took the photo and saved it. To be cautious, in order to prevent the phone from being lost, he also posted a comment [visible only to himself] on the QQ space. He refreshed it and took a look at it. The comments posted by other students were not taken advantage of. Traveling in the summer before college is just to get better at sex, or break up after the senior year of high school and get hurt by love.

Only my deskmate Mu Jinyue posted a message saying, "Hey, after all the detours, I finally went home to inherit the family business."

Well, this is because I didn’t get into college and I don’t want to repeat it.

Thinking of the girl he had been with for three years in high school, Zhu Xiongying suddenly felt a little lost.

How could you not have unspoken feelings when you were young?
But just like many high school students who have a crush on each other, when they reach a crossroads in life, if they can't walk together, they will eventually part ways.

Zhu Xiongying used the mobile browser to check the keywords of "1995 Jiangnan Provincial Theoretical Physics Conference". Maybe it was a long time ago, and this academic conference did not leave any records on the Internet.

Seeing that there was nothing else to gain, Zhu Xiongying glanced at the app connected to the wireless camera out of habit, and suddenly made a discovery.

"what?"

Zhu Xiongying's face froze. He vaguely saw a small black dot in the fixed camera.

After confirming that his phone was not dirty, Zhu Xiongying took a screenshot of the phone, immediately put away his green notebook and photos, locked the door and left the school.

"Uncle, please give the principal the key!"

After leaving a message for the doorman, Zhu Xiongying pedaled the green Giant bicycle that he had unloaded from the Wuling Hongguang along with the books and started racing wildly.

With sparks and lightning all the way, Zhu Xiongying followed the path from the north of the island to his grandfather's grave in a few minutes. This is not surprising, because his family lives in the school's former staff building, and the distance between the school and home is about the same. too much.

As soon as he arrived at the tomb, Zhu Xiongying saw the mysterious whirlpool.

This time, the size of the mysterious vortex, just by visual inspection, can be seen to be obviously larger than the second time, about the size of a fist.

(End of this chapter)