Nine thousand kilometers away, Suzhou.

Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City is the ancient Fengqiao Ferry at night where Zhang Ji of the Tang Dynasty passed through the ferry three miles west of the ferry, and the ancient tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period where Qin Beiyang lived.

Qin Beiyang spent the whole summer here. Fortunately, in the ancient tomb and coffin, it was late autumn all year round, avoiding the scorching heat outside.

No matter it is windy or rainy, the person who comes every day is a twelve-year-old girl.

Before Ouyang Anna went to Europe, she bought an ancient house for her daughter outside Suzhou City. She was the mansion of a top scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, along with servants and servants in the house. After her mother traveled far away, Jiuse settled in Suzhou, facing pavilions and pavilions, gardens and water pavilions every day, and following the tutor to learn classical poetry, algebraic geometry, English and French, and even Japanese.

There were soldiers standing guard at the door of the mansion. This was Jiuse's godfather Chang Kaishen, sent from the Central Army Officer's School. On the way from Nanjing to Shanghai, Chang Kaishen would occasionally come to see her. Mrs. Chang had no children and regarded the smart Jiuse as the pearl in her hand. Chang Kaishen was also obedient to Jiuse and took her to Lushan for summer two years ago. The "party and state" military and political officials held a meeting on the mountain, and the little girl crawled under the platform, which scared the big guys such as Mr. Wang, Mr. Dai and others. She even bit Xiao Liuzi's thigh viciously. Once, Jiuse ran out of the villa in Lushan alone and met a bad person at the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, the soldiers quickly arrested the bad person. Chang Kaishen was furious and ordered the shooting on the spot.

In Suzhou, every evening, Jiuse would enter the ancient tomb and give Qin Beiyang all kinds of delicious food. Every day, he turned over and wiped his back, and found the red antler birthmark behind Qin Beiyang's neck.

Jiuse also recited Tang and Song lyrics for him, and recited his favorite "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Zizhi Tongjian". The black cat was always wrapped around her shoulders. It was eyeing everyone, even Chang Kaishen and his wife were afraid of it. Only it was quite gentle to Qin Beiyang, no longer like a "snake cat" over a thousand years old.

Qin Beiyang always tells his daughter the story of the nine-colored tomb-guarding beasts, the adventures of the two of them wandering the world, slaughtering the evil dragon tomb-guarding beasts in Mount Damo, discovering Xu Fu's secrets at the Yoshino Kotom of Japan, and a night that changed the world in Versailles in Paris...

The more my daughter listened, the more excited she became, as if she had become a tomb-controlling beast, and followed her father to the sky and earth. She also learned about the family history, and passed it from the Shang Dynasty three thousand years ago to the Qin tombsmen of the Republic of China. Jiuse even admired her grandfather, Qin Customs, the last royal craftsman in the Qing Dynasty.

Finally, Qin Jiuse made a request to his father: "I want to learn the skills of tomb-controlling beasts from you!"

"What?"

"Dad, do you have any other children besides Jiuse?"

Qin Beiyang, who was lying in the Ming Dynasty coffin, smiled slightly: "I will never have it again in my life. With your God-given daughter, I can rest in peace even if I die."

"Okay, Jiuse is your only descendant, you should teach me the skills of the tomb-suppressing beast."

"No way!"

Qin Beiyang said it firmly, which made Xiao Jiuse frown: "Why can't it?"

"First, the rules of the Qin tombsman tribe are passed down by men but not women. How can girls learn craftsmanship? Isn't this the case in all walks of life in China since ancient times? Girls always have to marry into other families. Isn't it a waste of money to leave outsiders' fields?"

"Since ancient times, it is now the 20th century. What boys can do, girls can do, and even do better!" Xiao Jiuse stood up and recited the poems of Qiu Jin, a heroine of Jianhu. "Alas, she sighed, she was drifting, and she walked thousands of miles away. Don't say that women are not heroic things, and they roar on the walls of dragon springs every night!"

"Yes, women can do things that men cannot do." Qin Beiyang smiled faintly, "Jiu Se, you must thank your mother if you can come to this world."

"Don't get out of the topic. You have to give me a reason, why can't I learn the skills of a tomb-suppressing beast?"

Qin Jiuse, who was twelve years old, was as stubborn and as smart as Qin Beiyang when he was nine years old.

"Second, the more important reason is that all the Qin children who have mastered the skills of tomb-control beasts have short lives. They usually return to the west at my current age. The reason is that tomb-control beasts must be driven by spirit stones, and spirit stones are extremely harmful to the human body. The reason why I am about to die is that I can only stay in the ancient tomb to prolong my life is because of the damage of spirit stones."

Jiuse took a breath of the air in the ancient tomb: "Don't you want me to suffer from a terminal illness like you?"

If it weren't for the broken limbs, Qin Beiyang would have wanted to touch Xiao Jiuse's hair and sighed: "Where is a parent who wants his children to live in a short life?"

"Since that's the case, why has the Qin tombsman's skills been passed down for three thousand years and have been passed down to this day? Why did my grandfather teach you the skills? Are you not the only son of the Qin family? Is my grandfather willing to watch you live a short life?"

"This is the life of our family. No one can escape from the male generation."

"Although I am not a man, I am your daughter, and I can't escape."

Qin Jiuse turned around, opened the collar of the clothes, revealing a pair of red antler birthmarks on his neck.

Seeing this birthmark like himself, Qin Beiyang's eyes were moist: "My father said that only sons of Qin's descendants will inherit this birthmark. I didn't expect that you, a girl, would have it."

Jiuse simply sat on the coffin of the Ming Dynasty and spoke: "Since I was very young, I felt that I was different from ordinary children. Girls loved flowers, grass, beautiful clothes. But I didn't like these. I loved astronomy, geography and mathematics more. Whenever I went to the wilderness, I liked the ancient tombs, especially when I read the words on the tombstones. I read them one by one, and no one could drag me away. Once, I followed Mr. Chang and Mrs. Chang to the Zhongshan Mausoleum to worship Mr. Zhongshan. Passed by the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, I broke into the cemetery alone and walked around the treasure top of the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, as if a voice was talking to me underground..."

"More than ten years ago, during the restoration of Zhang Xun, Qi Yuanshan and I went south from Beijing, and passed by the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing, and lived on the Ming Tower for a night. That night, I had the same feeling, as if Zhu Yuanzhang's ghosts were not dispersed..."

"Yes, we all have the same sense. Just like in this ancient tomb of Spring and Autumn, my mother felt uncomfortable, but I was happy." Jiuse walked around the tomb, "My mother told me that I was born shortly after I was born, and I was captured by the tomb of Princess Yongtai in the Tang Dynasty. I grew up for more than eight months while drinking deer milk in the tomb. I was destined to be a member of the tomb of the tomb of the tomb of Princess Yongtai in the tomb."

Qin Beiyang was speechless. He thought that even the seed of Xiao Jiuse was buried in the Vikings tomb in the Arctic Ice Sea. This child, like himself, came from the ancient tomb and would definitely return to the ancient tomb.

But he shook his head: "I'm sorry, Jiuse, I can't let you learn the skills of tomb-suppressing beasts."

"Dad, are you just watching the three thousand years of skills and treasures cut off in your own hands?"

"Let it be cut off! The emperor has long disappeared. What's the use of building imperial tombs and tomb-controlling beasts? Do you still have to let me build a tomb for the Japanese puppet Puyi? This is fate and the general trend, who can resist it?"

Jiuse frowned and said, "But I don't want to do anything else, I just want to discover the secrets underground like you."

"Then you can study history and archaeology. Isn't it great to fulfill your mother's wish that was not fulfilled?"

"Didn't my mother fail to complete the history department of Peking University just to give birth to me?"

"This...that's my fault..."

"No one is wrong, you are right, my mother is right, and even... Uncle Yuanshan, he is right."

"Yuanshan is my best friend. I have never resented him. Jiuse, will you still miss him?"

This question made her silent. Jiuse has called Qin Beiyang the father and Qi Yuanshan the uncle. Without Jiuse's daughter, Qi Yuanshan has been depressed for many days. Since this year, Qi Yuanshan has lived in Nanjing and lived in the political and military centers so that he can have the opportunity to become successful. Sometimes he will suddenly come to Suzhou to visit Jiuse, after all, he has been in the father-daughter relationship for many years. However, Jiuse's attitude towards him has become polite and no longer close.

Suddenly, a rustling sound rang out of the ancient tomb.

Qin Beiyang alerted him: "Tang Dao!"

Jiuse pulled out An Lushan's three-foot Tang sword from under the coffin. This knife was too heavy for the little girl, it was simply a thick iron stick. Qin Jiuse was not afraid and held the Tang sword calmly, hiding behind the coffin.

"Beiyang! Nine Colors!"

Ouyang Anna's voice sounded at the entrance of the tomb passage, and a horse lantern illuminated her dusty face. She was still wearing work pants and a fox hunting hat.

She is back.

She crossed nine thousand kilometers, crossed the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean and the Chinese Sea, and returned with Qin Beiyang's life-saving treasure. She hugged her daughter tightly, stomped on the edge of the Ming Dynasty coffin, looking at Qin Beiyang like a living dead person.

"Anna, have you found the original version of "Qin's Tombsman's Essay"?"

"Well, indeed, on the tower of Notre Dame de Paris, in the coffin of Qin Jin, the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsmen's Alliance." Anna took out an iron box from her arms and opened it. "Qin's Tombsman's Mirror" six hundred years ago. "Beiyang, I have a bigger discovery that not only can extend your life, but also can make you stand on the earth and run again."

“How to say it?”

When Qin Beiyang heard Ouyang Anna say this, not only did not show his appearance, but was worried, reminding him of the disaster caused by the operation of the tomb-town beast Jiuse who had removed the excess spirit stones.

"Beiyang, on the way back from France, I have read the complete version of "Qin's Tombsman's Essay" from beginning to end. As long as you do what I said, you can live and one day be free."

"Anna, what are you going to do?"

"Follow me, we'll set out tomorrow!"

“Where to go?”

Ouyang Anna stood up and said, "Let's go to Luoyang first, and then to Bailuyuan."

"White Deer Plain?" Jiuse threw herself over to her mother, "Can I go together?"

"don't want!"

Qin Beiyang firmly rejected his daughter's request.
Chapter completed!