"Black Glasses! Don't even think about extorting money from Lingzi again! Since you know this is an ancient star map, you must know what it's used for. Have you studied it?" Wu Xie asked.

Black Bear shook his head like a rattle-drum, saying, "Study it? What's the point of studying it? I could make more money by telling fortunes for people than by studying it."

"You!" Wu Xie was furious. This guy with black glasses was really stubborn.

Wu Sansheng patted Wuxie's shoulder and laughed, "If you look closely at this picture, you'll understand. There's an ancient star map at the bottom of the furnace, and another pattern on the lid. When you rotate it to a certain angle, the curve on the lid will overlap with the star map at the bottom of the furnace, and the mechanism will naturally open."

"Doesn't that mean the diagram on this Warring States silk scroll is an astrolabe?" Wu Xie suddenly realized.

Black Bear chimed in from the side, "This child is teachable!"

No one knows what made the two kids laugh, but Zhuangzhuang and Lichu started imitating, "How ridiculous, how ridiculous." Then, fearing a beating, they chased each other and ran away.

“These two kids,” Wu Sansheng sighed, shaking his head.

Wu Xie ignored the two of them, and just stared at the alchemy furnace in deep thought. After a long while, he exclaimed in a loud voice, "It's the Star Gazing Technique!"

“You’ve made progress, kid! You’re a quick learner!” Wu Sansheng joked, “Jude Kao also discovered this secret, and he thought of the same thing as you.”

Wu Xie's face immediately fell. He and Jude Kao had the same thought: what was there to be happy about?

"Did he understand the meaning of this star chart? He's so smart, he can think of the same thing as me, he must have figured it out, right?" Wu Xie couldn't help but say sarcastically. He learned this trick from Ling Zi. He remembered that he had only secretly eaten a bite of the fried hawthorn that Ling Zi had frozen in the refrigerator, and Ling Zi had been teasing him for a whole week! Even now, he couldn't help but think of Ling Zi's tone back then.

Wu Sansheng clicked his tongue and continued, "At first, he asked Xie Lianhuan if anyone in the countryside knew about this. As you can imagine, Xie Lianhuan failed. So he turned his attention to your grandfather, but your grandfather was very tight-lipped. I really don't know how Xie Lianhuan could be so close to Qiu Dekao. He's heartless and treacherous. He couldn't get anything out of your grandfather, so he tried to get something out of me."

"So you told him?" Wu Xie knew how to pick out the key points.

Black Bear pouted his lower lip and answered for him, "Just look at his expression."

Wu Sansheng said with a wry smile, "I thought Xie Lianhuan really came to drink with me. At that time, I was engrossed in reading your grandfather's notes. I got drunk and tricked into telling him everything about your grandfather's tomb raiding during the Warring States period. I blacked out at the time. Later, it was that foreigner who told me about it. I regretted it to the core!"

After saying this, Wu Sansheng adopted a posture of pounding his chest and stamping his feet. Wu Xie watched his performance but did not believe him. His third uncle was a cautious man and would never drink and confide in Xie Lianhuan. He must have deliberately told Xie Lianhuan to pass on the message. As for his third uncle's purpose and how much of what he said was true, he had no idea. He could only listen and try to cooperate with Wu Sansheng's performance.

However, if that's the case, this Jude Kao is really quite a character. Perhaps he chose to help Jie Lianhuan because he knew about the relationship between the Wu family and the Jie family. To be able to drag someone who was not involved into this mess is truly remarkable.

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