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CHAPTER 27 Fog Concealed Skeleton

Shizheng of Tibetan Scripture Repeated Four

Zhang Dayu used these gold bricks to open a silk shop. After that, it became extremely popular. Then, Zhang Dayu married the beautiful Miss Bao of Niu Village.

Initially, Miss Bao was a virgin, and she was a little against being the stepmother right after entering the door. However, when Zhang Dayu left and gave him a detailed explanation, Miss Bao happily accepted the order and became Zhang Danian's beautiful stepmother.

Because Miss Bao knew that all of Zhang Dayu's fortune was brought by this child from the iron box.

After that, Miss Bao became pregnant and gave birth three times. After three times of disappointment, Miss Bao and Zhang Dayu gave up on that idea and decided to treat Zhang Danian well.

After Zhang Dayu finished saying all of this, he extended his hand and pinched Zhang Danian's white and tender cheeks, and laughed: "My good son, all of this I obtained from you, in the future it will all be yours."

After Zhang Danian found out about all of this, his heart was a little depressed. He felt that he wasn't as good as someone who didn't know.

After all, coming out from the iron box was not something to be proud of.

Zhang Danian asked Zhang Dayu: "Where is that iron box? Let me see, okay? "

Zhang Dayu hesitated for a while, but still took out the iron box and passed it to Zhang Danian with both hands. He warned Zhang Danian carefully: "Son, this iron box is yours, you must be careful, don't lose it, this is not some iron box, it is our family's treasure pot."

Thinking about how the iron box s used to be filled with golden bricks, Zhang Dayu's eyes lit up again.

Zhang Danian said impatiently: "Understood." Then, he took the iron box.

Looking up, the iron box was indeed exquisite, the lock was even more intricate, the two tigers carved on the lid of the iron box were also lifelike, as though they were real.

As expected, each side of the iron box had eight words engraved on it.

Zhang Danian asked curiously: "What word is that?"

Zhang Dayu laughed: "You know that I can't read, but Father once asked Mr. Yu, that Mr. Yu studied it for a few days before he told Father this. These words, on one side, is to die in the morning, with lavender grass on the other side, while on the other side, there is a sword on the crown of one's clothes."

Zhang Danian asked curiously: "What does that mean?"

Zhang Dayu scratched his head and said: "It seems like you are a gentleman of some sort. Mr Yu was saying these sixteen words about the Classic of Mountains and Rivers s, saying it as if it was the story of a monarch."

Zhang Danian was not interested in any king country. He picked up the iron box and started to study it over and over again. After researching for the whole afternoon, other than discovering that this small iron box looked extremely like a small coffin, he did not discover anything else. He threw it into a drawer at the side.

When Zhang Danian was sixteen or seventeen, he had a sudden thought and went to Zhang Dayu's hometown. Sitting on the banks of the Qiantang River, looking at the torrent of Qiantang River flowing eastward, he thought to himself, "Who are my biological parents? Why did he put himself inside that iron box? Aren't they afraid that they will suffocate to death inside the iron box? "

The more he thought about it, the more upset he felt.

A thought suddenly emerged in Zhang Danian's heart: "Maybe my birth parents couldn't change their minds because of some matters, so they died like this. That's why I placed myself in the iron box, in order to leave myself a chance of survival. If that was the case, then the corpses of his biological parents should be lying quietly at the bottom of Qian Tang River, right? How about I go with my biological parents? "

Zhang Danian slowly got up, stepping on the grass by the river, he slowly walked towards the river. His feet touched the cold river water, and he was shocked – he left just like that? Wouldn't Zhang Dayu and his mother die from the pain?

They had raised him to such a big age, and they had such deep feelings for him. Could he really just leave like that?

In the midst of the conflict, Zhang Danian suddenly heard two barking coming from the grass behind him.

Zhang Danian was stunned, he turned his head and saw a small white dog that was covered in dirt standing in the grass, looking at Zhang Danian pitifully.

The grass covered the little white dog's four legs.

Zhang Danian looked at the little white dog, and the little white dog looked at him. After the two of them looked at each other for a while, the little white dog barked at Zhang Danian a few more times.

When Zhang Danian heard the little white dog, he felt pain in his heart. "Does this little white dog not have any parents?" Immediately, the thought of suicide was completely dispelled. He walked over to the little white dog and picked it up.

Only when he focused his mind and looked did he realize that the little white dog's right leg was broken and its wound was dripping with blood.

Zhang Danian randomly picked up the little white dog and returned home. He found Doctor Duan, who was the neighbor on the left, and connected the bones of the little white dog.

There was an awkward expression on Doctor Duan's face as he kept evading. In the end, still out of respect for the two silks that Zhang Dayu gave to him, he helped the little white dog to connect its broken legs.

Even so, Doctor Duan's face was still filled with unwillingness as he instructed Zhang Dayu, "Next time, what dog or cat is your son going to bring over? Don't send it over to me, I'm a doctor who treats people, not a doctor who connects the bones of a dog."

Zhang Dayu smiled apologetically.

Zhang Danian stuck out his tongue from the side and laughed: "Doctor Duan, your dog-leg is connected really well."

Doctor Duan was so angry that he wanted to say something, but when he saw the silks in his hands, he could only give up. However, before he left, he glared fiercely at the youth.

Zhang Dayu heaved a sigh of relief and walked over to the little white dog. After examining it for a while, he grinned at Zhang Danian: "This dog is really good.

Zhang Danian nodded.

Zhang Dayu asked: Have you decided on a name?

Zhang Danian thought for a while and said, "I picked up this dog by the Qiantang River, let's call him Jiang Xiaobai."

Zhang Dayu laughed: "Good name, good name." As for the name, Zhang Dayu probably wouldn't be able to say it, after all, he was just casually saying it just now.

Zhang Danian waited until Jiang Xiaobai finished reconnecting her broken leg, then pulled him around the place when she had nothing to do. The strange thing was that this Jiang Xiaobai did not like to wander around in the daytime, and would sleep for a day during the daytime.

Zhang Danian could only wait for Dusk to take Jiang Xiaobai and walk along the eastern street of the Lin'an Palace until he reached the western street. After walking around for a few days, Zhang Danian found a strange pattern.

Every time this Jiang Xiaobai lazily walked in front, when she suddenly stopped, she would definitely stop at the door of a household on the main street.

Jiang Xiaobai did not call out, she just squatted in front of the house and stared at the inside.

Sometimes, the door of that house was closed and locked, while Jiang Xiaobai was still squatting there, attentively looking in.

Zhang Danian couldn't chase them away either.

Zhang Danian was curious, but he could only accommodate to the Jiang Xiaobai.

What was even weirder was that in a few days, the clan would surely be dead.

As time passed, almost all the people on the east street knew that Zhang Dayu's house had a dog that would die no matter who's squatting in front of their door. From then on, wherever Zhang Danian and Jiang Xiaobai went, as long as they stopped, they would be kicked away.

Zhang Danian also didn't bring Jiang Xiaobai out at night. The Jiang Xiaobai made a ruckus for a few days, but seeing that Zhang Danian was unmoved, he obediently stayed in the dog den.

One day at midnight, Zhang Danian woke up with a start. When he raised his head, he discovered that the kennel was empty. His heart skipped a beat and he immediately guessed that Jiang Xiaobai must have left on her own accord.

Zhang Danian was curious in his heart. He wanted to see where the Jiang Xiaobai would go, so he went back into his room to put on his clothes, quietly opened the door, and then closed the door behind him.

The main street was empty. The cold moonlight illuminated the street like it was covered in a layer of silver. A few days ago, Zhang Danian had been walking along this route with Jiang Xiaobai every day. As expected, it was in the middle of the East street, in front of a house near the river, that Jiang Xiaobai was currently squatting on the ground, unblinking as she looked at the two closed doors.

What made Zhang Danian's hair stand on end was that Jiang Xiaobai's eyes were misty white, as if they were covered by a layer of mist. What made him even more terrifying was that inside the mist, there was something that looked like a skeleton slowly emerging.