The general went out again at night

"How did you find the bamboo leaves?" Liu Yan walked to the side of the soldier and asked.

"At dawn, our patrol team was patrolling the border five miles away. There was a bamboo forest there. The commander was afraid that there were Tartars hiding in it, so he ordered to go in and search. When we searched separately, I found this bamboo leaf."

"When you found the bamboo leaf, did it grow on the bamboo branch, or did it fall on the ground?" Liu Yan continued to ask.

"It's on a bamboo branch."

After staring at it for a moment, Xia Qingshu, who was silent, raised her head: "How many people have seen this thing?"

Xiao Bing didn't dare to hide it, and said truthfully: "After finding out, this subordinate felt that the matter was related to the general and should not be underestimated, so he kept quiet and didn't let others see him. He went straight to find Lieutenant General Liu Yan and sent him to the general."

"Okay, you've done a good job." Xia Qingshu praised without hesitation. If this matter spreads in the military camp, many troubles will arise, and no one else will know about it. It would be great to save her trouble.

After a pause, Xia Qingshu cleared his throat and said earnestly: "This matter may be a trick of the Tartars to shake the morale of our army. Liu Yan and I will conduct a thorough investigation in private. The matter is very important. After you go back, don't talk to others Bring it up. If it is rumored, it will be dealt with by military law!"

Xiao Bing looked solemn, knelt down on one knee, cupped his fists and said, "Yes! This subordinate will definitely keep silent."

"Go down."

"Yes!"

After the soldier left, Liu Yan lowered the curtain of the tent, and called two subordinates to guard the door, not allowing others to enter.The atmosphere in the tent became extraordinarily dignified with the arrival of this bamboo leaf.

Xia Qingshu glanced at Ji Qianyao and Liu Yan's expressions from the corner of his eye, swallowed, raised his arm, and suddenly threw the bamboo leaf in his hand on the table, and said angrily: "These tartars are too hateful , unexpectedly came up with such a sinister trick!"

Ji Qianyao and Liu Yan raised their heads and stared at Xia Qingshu with indifference.

Xia Qingshu's scalp became numb from the stare of these two pairs of eyes, and he picked up the bamboo leaves on the table and held them in his hands, smiling awkwardly: "I take back what I said just now, I just want...to adjust the atmosphere .”

The Tartar trick can only be used to deceive unsuspecting soldiers.When the three people in the camp saw this bamboo leaf, they couldn't help thinking of the Tree Coffin Man.

It's just that it appeared so inexplicably, what kind of clues would it bring to them?

"Liuyan, go and invite Doctor Jiang." Ji Qianyao suddenly said.When Xia Qingshu was not in the barracks, Jiang Xueqin had always dealt with the matter of the coffin man, and she definitely knew more about it than the three of them.If you find her, you should get a lot of help.

"Yes." Liu Yan hurried away.

Only Xia Qingshu and Ji Qianyao were left in the tent. Xia Qingshu put down the bamboo leaves, frowned, and walked around the tent with his hands behind his back.

Ji Qianyao picked it up, and wrote along the hollow strokes on the bamboo leaves with his hands: "Do you recognize this handwriting?"

Xia Qingshu was also recalling that the person who would save her should be someone she knew. If the two had never met before and had an irreconcilable relationship, why did the mysterious person save her?

After searching for a while, all the memories in her mind were opened. Xia Qingshu screened them one by one, but still couldn't find a suitable candidate. She said distressedly: "The characteristics of this handwriting are very obvious, but I have never seen it before. If it were me An old friend, she should also leave a name."

A piece of bamboo leaf with three lines of characters is placed alone, and the useful information conveyed is very little, it can be said to be pitifully small.First of all, someone wanted to kill Xia Qingshu. They already knew about this, so they didn't need to be reminded.

The second is the sentence "Only I can save you". These six words can trigger many thoughts, but none of these thoughts have answers.For example: Who is this "I"? What is the way to "save you"?

The camp fell into silent contemplation again.

After half a stick of incense, Jiang Xueqin arrived, and Liuyan had already talked to her briefly on the road, and she got the general idea: "Let me see the bamboo leaves."

"Here." Ji Qianyao pointed to the square table in front of him.

Jiang Xueqin carefully looked at the bamboo leaves themselves. The bamboo leaves were thin, with a tapered apex and a round base. The upper surface was hairless, the lower surface was finely pubescent, and the edge of the leaf was rough. She could conclude: "This is the leaf of the big-leaved green bamboo. "

"Is there something different about the leaves themselves?" Xia Qingshu asked.

"Yes." Jiang Xueqin nodded: "It's been two hours since this leaf was picked from the branch, but the leaf hasn't lost water, hasn't curled up, and it's still as bright green and straight as it grew on a tree. It's the first unusual place."

"What about the second?" Ji Qianyao asked.

"The second one is the characters." Jiang Xueqin stood up the bamboo leaf, pointed to the edge of the hollowed-out handwriting and said, "Look, the edges of these characters are smooth without any juice, obviously they were not carved out with a knife blade temporarily."

After hearing this, Xia Qingshu raised a possibility: "Could it be some kind of corrosive thing? It was written on the leaf, and the middle was corroded."

Jiang Xueqin disagreed: "Plants are fragile. If it is corrosive, the edges of the writing must be black, but this is not. I think these words are grown by myself."

"How is it possible? How could the bamboo leaf write characters by itself?" Liu Yan was full of surprise.

Jiang Xueqin looked at Liuyan and smiled helplessly: "There is nothing impossible about the tree coffin man."

Ji Qianyao agrees with Jiang Xueqin: "I agree with what Dr. Jiang said, but the mystery we urgently need to solve now is, who is the person who wrote the letter? Doctor Jiang, do you have any opinion on this?"

Jiang Xueqin said slowly: "This bamboo leaf is not an ordinary bamboo leaf, and I think the person who wrote this letter is not an ordinary person."

"Demon?" Xia Qingshu spit out a word lightly from his mouth.

"I can only be so suspicious, I can't be sure." Jiang Xueqin picked up the bamboo leaf and pointed it at the light: "If you want to find the mysterious person behind it, you must first solve the mystery of the bamboo leaf. There may be something strange on this bamboo leaf." If you want to explore its function, you must not use the thinking of ordinary people and things, you can use your imagination, it is boundless, and you can think about it.”

Jiang Xueqin's voice fell.The tent became quiet again. The four of them either stood quietly or sat quietly. No one made a sound, as if time had stood still.

After a stick of incense, Xia Qingshu's spiritual light suddenly appeared, and he suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Word!"

The remaining three people focused their eyes on Xia Qingshu, and asked in unison: "What word?"

"Writing!" Xia Qingshu looked excited, opened his eyes wide, pointed at the bamboo leaves and repeated: "Writing!"

The other three still didn't understand what she said, and were at a loss.

Xia Qingshu took two deep breaths, calmed down the excitement in her heart, and slowed down her speech: "We can try writing on bamboo leaves."

"What about after writing?" Liu Yan's brain turned slowly, unable to understand Xia Qingshu's intentions, and asked in a daze: "Can writing change anything? Isn't it just a few more words we wrote on a bamboo leaf?" ?”

Xia Qingshu fetched a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and said excitedly while running, "What if the mysterious person sees what we wrote?"

Liu Yan was so surprised that his expression was distorted: "We are... writing here, will the mysterious person see what we wrote?"

Jiang Xueqin patted Liu Yan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's still the same sentence, there is nothing impossible about the tree coffin man. Since General Xia has this idea, he can try it boldly."

"It's okay to try." Ji Qianyao also agreed, she polished the ink for Xia Qingshu.

Xia Qingshu was eager to try, spread the bamboo leaves on a piece of rice paper, dipped the brush in the ink, and wrote the word "you" in the space between the corners of the bamboo leaves, but as soon as the word "you" was written, the strokes disappeared and the ink gathered. into a ball.

Xia Qingshu, Ji Qianyao, and Jiang Xueqin looked up at each other, and they all saw joy in each other's eyes. They were not disappointed, and they wanted to go together.

Only Liu Yan scratched the back of his head in puzzlement: "We can't write on the bamboo leaves, it's clearly a failure, why are you so happy?"

Xia Qingshu told her: "You didn't express it accurately enough, it's not that we can't write on bamboo leaves, and we can't write on bamboo leaves with ink pens."

Liu Yan: "What's the difference?"

"Yes." Xia Qingshu spoke slowly to Liuyan: "Ordinary bamboo leaves can be inked, but this one can't. After it finishes writing, the shape of the characters disappears, and the ink will gather into a ball. This is its difference. We found out again Isn’t it worth being happy about its difference? Besides, if you can’t write with ink, it doesn’t mean you can’t write with other things.”

"So that's how it is." Liu Yan finally understood, the three of them were thinking so fast that she couldn't keep up at all, she said in a low voice, "I don't seem to be able to help you solve the riddle, I'll go get some Here comes the water, you are thirsty, you can have a drink."

"Alright."

After Liuyan left, Xia Qingshu tried various methods, such as changing the ink color, changing brushes made of different materials... I tried it all, but it didn't work.

Liu Yan poured three cups of water and handed them one by one: "Take a rest, don't rush."

"General?" The last glass of water was handed to Xia Qingshu, but she was still lying on the table, frowning in thought, and didn't reach out to take it.

"General, drink some water and take a rest." Liu Yan called out again.

"Okay." Xia Qingshu didn't look up, but stretched out her hand forward, Liu Yan understood, and put the cup in her hand.It's just that Liuyan's cup was not placed firmly, so Xia Qingshu withdrew his hand, causing the cup to fall, and all the water in the cup was spilled on the table.

Xia Qingshu sat close to the table, the poured water flowed to the edge of the table, and dripped onto Xia Qingshu's clothes.Seeing this, Ji Qianyao quickly took out his handkerchief to wipe off the puddle of water in front of Xia Qingshu.

"Wait!" Xia Qingshu grabbed Ji Qianyao's extended hand, raised her head happily, and greeted the three of them: "Look at this bamboo leaf, all the water that fell on it has been sucked away by it."

Before and after the cup fell, Xia Qingshu never took her eyes off the bamboo leaves. She clearly saw that the ball of water that fell on the bamboo leaves disappeared in an instant.

The eyes of the four refocused on the bamboo leaves.

"It really has changed!"

After the bamboo leaf absorbed the water, the hollowed-out three-line character began to heal and became a complete bamboo leaf again. Then, in the middle of the bamboo leaf, two hollows appeared, extending vertically and horizontally, forming two characters.

"what's the matter"