The Golden Lock and the Jade Lin

In the late spring of the 23rd year of Taiping, the emerald Guanyin in the Marquis Mansion of Nan'an shattered into pieces at the old lady's birthday party. That night there was lightning and thunder, and the concubine Bai Mulin came to the world with a jade unicorn in his hand. His mother died of bleeding, which fulfilled the prophecy thirty years ago that "the jade unicorn appeared in the world, and the white gate was robbed." The ancestral golden lock in the neck of his legitimate son Bai Mingde suddenly cracked, and the two spiritual objects resonated like weeping on a rainy night. For seven years, the sick and frail son studied hard at the sages' books, while the concubine with the unicorn birthmark on his palm was always looking at the portraits in the ancestral hall in trance. It wasn't until a Siamese merchant ship sent half a map of the sea and Qingcheng Mountain Taoist priests opened the royal door of the Hou Mansion that the two brothers knew that the belly of the split Guanyin contained the secret documents of the sea sacrifices of the Hongwu period. On the night of Bai Mingde's wedding, the golden lock reflected the skull totem; during Bai Mulin's scientific research, Yu Lin guided him to dig out twelve bronze keys. On the day when the armillary sphere in the Qintian Prison collapsed, the blind aunt used blood to draw the pattern of the sky patching stone on the Buddhist scriptures. The dragon-suppressing coffin on an overseas island, the cinnabar verdict on the beams of the ancestral hall, and the recurring scene of Nuwa weeping blood in Bai Mulin's dream finally forced the two brothers to two ends of the Jinling city wall - one looked at the netherworld sails rising from the East China Sea, and the other saw the jade unicorn turning into blood and shooting straight towards the purple star. This catastrophe that started in the deep residence of the Hou Mansion will eventually be revealed in the bones and blood of the White Clan's children. It's just that in the eyes of the emerald Guanyin that was quietly repaired, a glass bead like a mermaid's tears condensed at some point.