Chapter 58: Tianguang Ruins Eleven
"What's the fuss, don't you leave now, do you want to wait for her to come in, Lao Chen?"
The unhurried words of the young man reminded Lao Chen, who was shrunk into a ball of fright, and he immediately swallowed hard and straightened up, without even having time to fasten the safety belt, he directly started the car and rushed towards the road on the slope.
If you want to say that a good car is a good car, he can run wherever he directs with a quick response, but no matter how nimble he drives the car, there is always a white mist outside the window, which makes him anxious but never able to drive the car faster.
"This ...... is going to have an accident" After barely opening for a while, Lao Chen couldn't help but roar.
The young man smiled: "Just go straight, you don't have to worry about the side." β
"Go straight?" Lao Chen stared at the young man through the rearview mirror, his eyes slightly red.
It's no wonder that he is so anxious, he can't see anything clearly outside the window, even if the high beams are on, the light is one or two meters in front of him as if blocked by a wall, and it can't be expanded. "It's a wall!" he honked his horn a few times when he heard what seemed to be a car passing in front of him, and then said hatefully.
"How can the ghost hit the wall so tightly. His voice was still unhurried, and I couldn't help but pull him hard to see that the gap in the windowpane next to me was getting bigger and bigger.
It was so big that you could faintly see the strands of hair fluttering in the wind outside. Seeing this, he pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand and pressed it against the gap, and then whispered to the window:
"Niang Niang must know such a sentence, when is the time for retribution. β
As soon as the words fell, the body suddenly shook, and I was almost knocked out by the front seat with an unsuspecting head.
When I looked up, I saw that Lao Chen's head was pressed very low for some reason, and while holding the steering wheel hard, he was gritting his teeth and muttering something.
I was about to ask him what he was doing, but I swallowed it back, because the moment I straightened up, I saw Ah Hong riding on Lao Chen's neck, looking down at him coldly, and pressing his head tightly with her jet-black hand, forcing him to not look up at all.
"There are cars...... Fuck with a car...... There's a car ahead!!" Then I finally heard the words that Lao Chen muttered in his mouth.
But I wondered, there was a white fog in front of him, and his head was next to the steering wheel, so how did he see a car in front of him?
Still, I couldn't help but feel scared, and I tried to reach out and pull Ah Hong off his neck.
But the fingers went straight through her, and she turned back to me and giggled a sneer: "Tell you to care!"
I didn't want to care, but I didn't want to just throw my life here for no reason.
So subconsciously he held the jade card in his palm tightly, thinking that this thing would crack after she disappeared just now, maybe it really has the effect of blocking evil, it is better to try to press it towards her to see if it will really have an effect. But as soon as the thought came out of his mind, before he could move his hand, he was grabbed by the young man.
Then he faintly threw a sentence at me: "I want you to do a lot of things." β
Before the words fell, the other hand stretched out and made a slight gesture in the direction of Ah Hong, and I saw that her body suddenly shook violently, and then she fell straight towards me as if she was being dragged by something!
It scared me and shrank back into the back seat, but for some reason, although she almost fell on me, the young man did not completely pull her off Lao Chen's neck, but just let him raise his head by about two-thirds, and then looked at his blue and purple face, pulled off his rain hat and smiled:
"You see, although sometimes I make deals with others because of a certain need, I always have my own rules for doing things, and that rule is that whatever I promise to do for you, I must be clear about the cause and effect of the transaction before I start doing it. The story you made up was interesting, but if you didn't want to tell it, I had to let her take you away. So, do you want to cherish your feathers and keep your mouth shut, or do you want to tell me the truth completely and thoroughly, Old Chen?"
Lao Chen couldn't see the face of the young man, so he couldn't see the half of his face that had completely corroded the original shape of the skeleton due to the dampness after he removed the rain hat at this moment. Ah Hong saw it, so while twisting desperately, she kicked the window glass hard, but she never dared to touch the body of the underworld with her deformed fingers.
This action made Lao Chen extremely painful, but he couldn't see Ah Hong on his neck at all, so he could only barely stabilize the steering wheel, while pulling the gold necklace around his neck hard, and hissed: "I can't speak...... I'm going to suffocate...... I'm going to suffocate ......"
"Try it, maybe you can save if you say it, but if you don't say it, I can only watch you suffocate to death. β
I said...... I say...... I lied...... I lied to you earlier......"
Lao Chen's situation back then was actually very different from what he had always told the media.
Although house prices began to rise at the end of the nineties of the last century, the skyrocketing should have started in 2004, so although the house prices rose in 99 years, but the magnitude was not large, and it did not help Lao Chen's economic situation very much, and because of the recession during that time, although the resale of cultural relics came with a lot of money, but after all, it was not a long-term solution, so at the beginning of the new century, he sold the real estate in his hand for a while, together with the funds accumulated in the past few years to make an investment, thinking that if the investment was smooth, he could change his career to do the clothing business that was hot at that timeγ
But unexpectedly, he was deceived by an old acquaintance of himself who grew up halfway, swept away all the money and left the country without a sound, leaving a shell company for him, almost forcing him to jump off the building.
But at this time, an inverted bucket came to him and figured out that he had transferred a few newly unearthed bronzes, saying that they were dug up from the tomb of a noble lady in the Tang Dynasty. He was not proficient in antiquities, so he felt that the bronzes could not be sold at a high price and could not pump much oil and water, and he had no intention of doing business at that time, so he kept these things on hold, until one day a knowledgeable person came, and when he saw these bronzes, he immediately said, "Yo brother, I haven't seen such good things for a few days, the beast ding kit in the tomb of Princess Tang Shu, you must keep it for me, and I will take the money when I go back."
At this time, Lao Chen learned the origin of these bronzes. At the same time, I also learned from the mouth of the person who knew the goods that the tomb was stolen half a year ago, and the tomb was a well-dressed mound, so there were not many burial goods, except for some bronzes and jade ornaments, but I heard that there were two things that were quite valuable, but they were taken away soon after they were unearthed.
Those two things are two paintings.
Created by the Tang Dynasty painter Zhou Fang, one is a portrait of a lady he is good at, that is, a portrait of Princess Shu, and the other is quite special because it is a landscape painting. As we all know, Zhou Fang is a professional painter of figures, and none of the surviving paintings are landscape paintings, so this one can be said to be rare and precious. Therefore, the connoisseur took care of it before leaving, saying that if he saw someone changing hands on the painting, he must inform him, as he wanted it no matter how expensive it was.
Although Lao Chen agreed, he immediately made his own little calculations in his heart, because he had been in the circle of tomb robbers for a long time, and he had heard a rumor about the death of Li Yi, the king of Shu in the Tang Dynasty.
The man was drunk before he told Lao Chen nonsense. It is said that Li Yi died (supposedly) in the failure of the usurpation, so he "died" in October of the first year of Yongzhen.
Some people say that after his death, his grieving family bribed the bury to take the body away quietly, and was ceremoniously buried in an unknown place, and asked Zhou Fang to make a painting to record the burial location in an obscure way, so that future descendants can go to the tomb to worship.
However, after Princess Shu's death, the whereabouts of the painting are unknown, and some people suspect that she was brought into the tomb to prevent someone from finding her husband's tomb and invading her husband's body. This suspicion came true with the unearthing of the painting, which also made Lao Chen uneasy and worried. He wanted to find the people who bought the painting before they knew the secret, and then persuade them to sell it to him, and then pass it on to someone who knew the same secret, that is, the person who also knew the secret, so he would sell the painting no matter how much it was.
After inquiring in every possible way, he finally found out that the two paintings were taken away by a family in Luoyang.
The family's surname is Yan, and the ancestors have been fighting for a living for seven or eight generations, and they are family-style, and they never bring outsiders.
Hearing that it was a tomb robber, Lao Chen's heart tightened, thinking that it was terrible, maybe the family knew the secret of the painting, so they immediately accepted the two paintings not long after the thing was unearthed.
Despite this, he still had the mood to try it and asked the expert for a deposit of 300,000 yuan, and then went to Luoyang to probe the family's tone and see if it was possible to save a fluke. But what disappointed him was that the luck did not exist, and the family was in a hurry to buy these two paintings because they knew the secret of the paintings, so it was impossible for them to change hands.
Since it's impossible, but he took 300,000 yuan with someone, he has to think of a way to get this thing back.
He thought about it, but he could only find another shortcut, so he simply spent 5,000 yuan to find a thief, saying that you went to this family's house to steal these two paintings for me, roughly in what kind of place, and I will give you 5,000 after stealing them.
The thief was happy to take over the job, because he didn't think it was a big deal, even if he was caught, he wouldn't be locked up for long, and if he succeeded in stealing, he could get an extra 5,000. In this way, the thief spent several days squatting, and then in one night, in just an hour, he stole the painting from him.
Speaking of which, it was also the family who didn't take security seriously, and never thought that someone would come to steal such an old-fashioned broken painting, so the chains were unlocked, so the thief could get his hands on it so easily.
On the night he got the painting, Lao Chen left Luoyang in a hurry and returned to Guangzhou, and after a few days, he didn't hear any movement in Luoyang, thinking that there was nothing wrong, but as soon as he relaxed, he saw a news in the newspaper, saying that several members of a family in Luoyang killed each other overnight.
That family was a tomb robber surnamed Yan.
No one knew what reason they were doing that, but Lao Chen naturally knew, but he never thought that stealing a painting from someone else would lead the family to kill each other.
So at first, I was a little sad and blamed myself, but after a few days, I thought about it, and said that if I wasn't so greedy, so cruel, and so suspicious, how could I kill my own people, and even if it was a tomb robber, the cursed livelihood was finally borrowed by God from God, and they suffered retribution.
Thinking about this, he was naturally relieved, and quickly sold the painting of Princess Shu's portrait to the connoisseur for one million. With all this money in vain, he felt that his luck began to gradually improve, and the idea of exploring the tomb of King Shu became stronger and stronger. But it didn't take long for a person to appear, so Lao Chen had to sigh at the fate of the many, that person was Ah Hong.
When Lao Chen originally told the young man, he claimed that Ah Hong was the one who came to the door to ask him to sell goods as an agent, but he died suddenly, and he died very strangely, because the corpse spots came out first, and then died.
But in fact, Ah Hong was found by Lao Chen himself, and the reason for looking for it was that he hoped that a professional-level person would take him to dig a grave, and Ah Hong was young and professional, so he was a very good candidate, because being young means being easy to coax and deceive.
You see, Lao Chen is now in his fifties, and he still looks relatively young and handsome, so you can imagine how attractive he was to girls back then. Ah Hong was naturally fascinated by him when she saw him, after all, a girl who is very good at tomb robbing is destined to have a very bad relationship with the opposite sex, and her fingers are so strange, it can be said that she is kept away by other men. So Lao Chen was so gentle and polite to her, so considerate, naturally she was fascinated, what he said was what he wanted, he would do whatever he wanted, and the price he proposed would not go back at all.
After discussing it for two or three days, the two set off for Tieqiziling and began to look for the tomb of King Shu.
After all, Ah Hong has been running outside for a long time, and it doesn't take much effort to look at the picture, and he quickly guesses the place that the painting refers to, where is the exact location of King Shu's tomb.
What happened later was roughly the same as what he had sued before.
The only difference is that whether it is Ah Hong's bargaining or Ah Hong's death later, it is not in Lao Chen's house, but in Tie Langziling.
But Ah Hong originally negotiated the commission standard with Lao Chen, why did she temporarily change her words and bargain with Lao Chen?
It's also because this girl is quite realistic.
Because he is young, because he knows that he is not good-looking, he is extraordinarily realistic. So even though she was dizzy by Lao Chen for a while, Ah Hong still didn't forget that Jì told her grandfather about it before leaving, and by the way, she inquired about the origin of the painting.
And Ah Hong's grandfather is such an amazing character, even if his body and bones are already very bad, but his brain is very clear, so he naturally knows about the tomb of King Shu. So tell her, you have to be careful of that man, the tomb he took you to dig is a deadly tomb, you can't just be fooled by his thirty-seven cents, that kind of tomb usually either has nothing in it, or it is a treasure coffin, but it is a very good tomb keeper.
Since he is fighting with his life, why should he give the big head to the person who is out of the place but does not contribute at all?
Ah Hong didn't take these words to heart, but after encountering such a terrible thing in the tomb of King Shu, she couldn't help but sober up all of a sudden. So as soon as she escaped from King Shu's tomb, she immediately deducted the half of the jade Jue and said that she wanted Lao Chen to change the contract and replace her with seven and three.
At that time, Lao Chen was on fire, firstly, he was too frightened that day, and secondly, the 180-degree change in Ah Hong's attitude made him a little unbearable, so he somehow became angry in his heart, and he tore his face on the spot and quarreled with Ah Hong.
Originally, it was okay to just quarrel, but Ah Hong made a move on him.
Where is Lao Chen's opponent of Ah Hong? She was beaten almost all the time, and perhaps because she was addicted to fighting, she became more and more beaten as if she was evil. hit Lao Chen so much that he vomited blood in his mouth, and just as the so-called dog was in a hurry and wanted to jump off the wall, he jumped on Ah Hong and covered her eyes, and hit her head with his head.
It stands to reason that he can't hit Ah Hong, Ah Hong's head is much harder than him, so he was knocked to the ground after the collision.
But when he sat up and looked, he saw that Ah Hong had also fallen to the ground, and he didn't think too much about it at that time, so he ran away. I wanted to run away from that ghost place quickly, but after running for more than an hour, I found myself lost and went back to the same place.
Then I saw Ah Hong lying upright on the ground, her eyes open, but she was unconscious as if she was dead.
When I touched the back of her head, I realized that she might have accidentally fallen to the ground after hitting her just now, hitting the back of her head with a stone on the ground, and suffocating it. So he hurriedly dragged Ah Hong down the mountain, this time he finally didn't get lost, but for some reason, after sending Ah Hong to the hospital, the doctor said that Ah Hong died a few hours ago.
At that time, he hurriedly said that it was impossible, saying that he was still angry when he touched her just now, how could he die for a few hours?
The doctor looked at him a few times and said, "The corpse spots are all out, who do you think is right and who is wrong in our conclusion?"
After that, Lao Chen hurriedly left Ah Hong's body and returned to Guangzhou, who would have thought that just after returning home, Ah Hong's grandfather was sitting at his house waiting for him.