Chapter 268
When Shao Xuan opened his eyes, his vision was very blurry. Only becoming clearer after a while.
The face of the Wu and Shou Ling appeared above him. “Ah Xuan, how are you?” Ao asked sound worried
For Shao Xuan, it took quite some power to just sit up. Wu handed a cup of water to Shao Xuan to drink, which helped relieve a bit of his headache.
“I’m okay” Shao Xuan answered weakly.
”You don’t look okay.”
Ao poured more water into the cup. Shao Xuan felt that he was recovering and proceeded with telling Ao what happened at the cabin.
Ao was relieved when he heard that nothing bad happened to Shao Xuan.
“Is that all?” Ao took the wooden plate and barrel with the gold dust.
“Yes, What happened to the leaves?”Shao Xuan asked.
Ao and Wu looked at each other and then shook their heads. “I’ll go and ask again, no, I’ll go to the wooden cabin myself,” said Ao.
“I’ll go and see too.” Shao Xuan stood up.
“I’ll go too,” Wu said.
Once again, Shao Xuan came back to the wooden house. Shao Xuan pointed to the place where he had held the leaves before.
Only, the leaves were gone.
“Has anyone else been in here?” Ao asked.
Shao Xuan shook his head, “There shouldn’t have been. Recently, the people around here have busy with the two thieves, how could they have come to this house?”
Wu walked around the house, then stayed in the place where Shao Xuan fainted, crouched, stretched out his arm and brushed on the ground.
“The leaves are dead,” said Wu.
“Dead? When I took it out, the leaves looked fresh and green.”Shao Xuan was amazed.
But if Wu said that they were dead, then they really were dead.
After going back to the stone house, Wu told Shao Xuan to stay behind. “Do you know what your hand positions were in while you were unconscious?” asked Wu.
“I don’t know.”Shao Xuan shook his head.
“The leaf you were holding might be a leaf of eternal youth,” said Wu.
“Is there really such thing as leaf of eternal youth?” Shao Xuan was doubtful
“These are also powders from the tree of eternal youth.”
Wu didn’t care whether Shao Xuan believed it or not, just continuing with his explanation: “Reportedly, long ago, our ancestors used to inherit tools such as the leaves of the tree of eternal youth to record events of messages.
An example is if I wanted to pass on some of my abilities to future generations, I would write it on the leaf.
Such a heritage, even if written down, will be destroyed. They only exist once. When the recipient absorbs the leave or message, others will not be able to read the text. Naturally, there will not be a second person to get that kind of inheritance.”
“Do you mean that the message of the leaf of eternal youth is inside my head now?” Shao Xuan asked.
“Yes”
He glanced at what used to be the leaf.
“So, I inherited the message of that leaf? I don’t know what it was, I only saw a pair of hands with a partially fastened rope that looked like an incomplete knot”
Wu smoothed out his beard and pulled on it two times, still wondering what it was. “How about you go to GuiZe and ask her to teach you about the meanings of the ropes.” “Wu said.
“What do a few knots even represent?” “Shao Xuan asked.
However, Shao Xuan was really interested in what the ropes represented. He wanted to understand what kind of information the leaves were trying to give him.
The next day, Shao Xuan went to the medicine house.
Wu already told GuiZe about the situation. When Shao Xuan arrived, GuiZe gave him a scroll
Shao Xuan untied the scroll and opened it. There were some pictures of ropes and knots and next to it were text annotations.
The scroll was still new, From the time of production, it had only been a few years.
“Thank you. When I need help, I will call you.” Shao Xuan pulled out a rope and looked at it.
These ropes were relatively smooth. The pictures in the scroll told Shao Xuan how to make the knot and what the knot represented.
Sometimes, seemingly very similar knot had very different meanings. This was probably used to pass the hidden information.
Shao Xuan thought all of them were very simple knots.
Shao Xuan was able to make a sentence with the knots he made.
Shao Xuan tried to remember the sequence of knots that were on the leaf. He tried to copy the knots in his memory, but couldn’t make them look the same.
One by one, he started tying knots that were impossible to untie. All of them tied in a chaotic way.
When tying the knot Shao Xuan thought to himself: “Am I not supposed to be the smart one? Why is it so hard to tie a simple knot? Why are my hands all tangled up with the knots?”
After Shao Xuan untangled the knots from his hand, he wiped the sweat out of his forehead. It was very tiring
He decided to stop because it was getting late, choosing to continue tomorrow.
Shao Xuan didn’t believe that he couldn’t solve this simple knot.