Chapter 59: Tianguang Ruin XII
Hong once said that her grandfather was in his early sixties, but he had been washing his hands for 15 years.
The reason why he washed his hands so early was not because he was more conscious or because he saw through the red dust and no longer cherished the banknotes, but because he really couldn't do it.
Rootless fingers are very harmful to the person who practices it, not only will the fingers become deformed, but as time goes by, or the number of times it is used, it will gradually erode like a wound that is constantly healing and being torn open. Therefore, in the later stage, I can only be accompanied by gauze and ointment all day long.
Therefore, Lao Chen described Ah Hong and her grandfather as follows - an old dwarf with a wrinkled face, a rickety back, and a rancid smell and Chinese medicine smell all over his body.
It's so fragile that it can be broken with a single finger. Despite this, his voice sounded quite energetic, and after seeing Lao Chen enter the door at a glance, he didn't beat around the bush, and asked him directly, "Is Ah Hong dead?"
Lao Chen was afraid that he would come to investigate, so he hesitated for a long time and lied, saying that Ah Hong ran away by himself after having the map, and he had not been able to contact her for a long time.
The old man sighed softly after hearing this, then rolled his eyelids and looked at him for a long time, and said: "You lie and don't change your color and heartbeat, but you are also a piece of business material, and you will have the opportunity to make a fortune in the future, and the future is limitless." It's a pity for my family's Ah Hong, who was the only heir of my finger, and now the rootless finger is really broken. โ
Lao Chen suspected that he was talking about himself, and immediately vetoed: "Old man, what are you talking about?" At the moment, I don't know if Ah Hong really found the tomb, even if she really found it, how could an experienced veteran like her be an accident on this trip. โ
The old man smiled when he heard this: "Well said. But you see, I've lived for most of my life, what kind of people I haven't seen, what kind of nonsense haven't I heard? So don't talk to me, it's useless to talk to me, just ask you one thing, can the half of the jade knocked down from King Shu's coffin be given to me as a relic of my granddaughter. โ
These words sound polite, but they are clearly naked coercion.
At that time, Lao Chen was in a state of extreme tension and chaos, so the first reaction in his mind was this, so he forgot a very important point, that is, since the jade jue fell into his hands due to Ah Hong's death on the day of its unearthing, how could this sick old man who was far away from Ah Hong's hometown know about this piece of jade.
Completely forgot about this, so his mind was confused, and he blurted out: "What if you don't give it?"
The old man smiled again: "If you don't give it, then you don't want to mix it up, since I can pinch my fingers to calculate your future fortune, I naturally have a way to cut off your financial route, from now on, not to mention the future, even if you go to ask for food, you will also pick up a piece and lose five cents." What are you going to do?"
These words undoubtedly made Lao Chen's condition, who was already in a bad mental state, even worse.
In the past, he would definitely think through what others said and what he wanted to say from beginning to end, find out what might be in the words, and then filter them and say them in the best way. Doing business, it should be for the purpose of making money in harmony, and besides, that half of the jade is really not worth much, and what can the old man lose if he gives it.
But Lao Chen was completely confused at that time.
Everything is only understood and considered in the worst and the worst, so soon, he did a very bastard thing in his head, he turned the pills of the medicine mouse into water, and used it to make a cup of milk tea and serve it to the old man.
To this day, recalling the past at that time, Lao Chen's face is still frightened and dazed.
He gasped and muttered, "Actually, it stands to reason that the amount of rat poison can't kill people at all......
"Since you know that medicine doesn't kill people, why do you have to do more. The young man smiled and asked.
He shook his head: "I don't know, I was ruthless at the time, I just thought that using these rat poisons could really dive the old man to death at once, but after giving him a drink, I remembered that that thing can't kill people at all, at most it makes the old man uncomfortable for a while, so wouldn't it make you even more troublesome?"
"And how did you escape this catastrophe?"
"Me?" he smiled bitterly, "I didn't run away, because this old man was really drugged to death by that little rat poison that day." โ
At that time, Lao Chen was afraid that he would not drink milk tea, after all, elderly people are not very good at this mouthful, but the tea brewed by tea will show his feet, so he can only try milk tea if he is stubborn.
And presumably in response to the sentence 'Hades wants you to die in the third watch, you will not live to live in the fifth watch', I thought that the old man would definitely not drink it, but I didn't expect him to drink the cup of milk tea in one go. After drinking, he asked Lao Chen: "Did Ah Hong suffer when he died?"
Lao Chen almost shook his head.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly, and immediately said: "I really cut off contact with Ah Hong two days ago, old man, why don't you look elsewhere?"
The old man didn't continue to expose his lies this time, only lowered his head and uncovered the layers of gauze that wrapped his arm, and then reluctantly moved the already thinned fingers inside, as if counting, looking back and forth, back and forth.
At the end, he sighed vigorously and shook his head at Lao Chen: "It's a pity, I did too many things that damaged yin virtue when I was young, and now I can't save my granddaughter, and it seems that I can't save you." Forget it, since you really don't want to give me that piece of jade, then keep it for yourself, but there is a sentence you remember for me, the so-called 'windfall on the body is also a disaster on the body', and in the next few years, it will be smooth and prosperous, you are so self-conscious, remember to do more good deeds if you have money. โ
After saying that, the old man bled and died.
From that time on, until he met the man who sold jade in Tianguang Market, Lao Chen had a smooth life, and it was really as the old man predicted, with a lot of money and a bright future. Therefore, a few years have passed, Lao Chen has almost forgotten the unbearable memories of the past, and it was not until those events happened later that he remembered the last words that the old man said to him when he was alive, and at the same time thought that the appearance of Ah Hong's ghost was afraid that he was asking for his life.
But who was the other female ghost, and for what did she pestering him and his wife, and killing his wife with his hand?
"Brother," Speaking of this, Lao Chen slammed the steering wheel hard, gritted his teeth and said: "Speaking from the heart, if Ah Hong really didn't turn a blind eye and came to ask me for his life now, I would have admitted it, but what is the origin of that other female ghost, I have no grievances with her, why did she mess with me? and kill my family?"
"There is a certain number in the dark, and I can only say that all the things that have happened to you over the years are actually not caused by accident. โ
โ...... What do you mean, bro?"
"The tomb you asked Ah Hong to dig is the tomb of King Shu, so how much do you know about the life of King Shu?"
"I only know that he is Tang Xianzong's uncle, and it is said that he wanted to usurp the throne and become the emperor, but he didn't succeed, so he was killed by Xianzong and buried by his family in Tieqiziling. โ
But that's not true. โ
"What are the facts?"
"The fact is that King Shu has always been a strong competitor in the political office of Xianzong's father during the Dezong period, and the various factions from the palace have always been optimistic about him, so that although Xianzong succeeded to the throne later, the political situation was unstable at the beginning, and Xianzong was worried that someone would support King Shu by political inertia, so he carefully set up a bureau, not only to clear the forces around King Shu, but also to take the opportunity to escort King Shu to Chang'an in the name of rebellion and secretly executed. โ
โ...... So what does that have to do with me......
"The relationship lies in the fact that Li Chun, the Tang Xianzong who framed and executed King Shu on trumped-up charges, is your previous life. And the female ghost who pestered you with Ah Hong and killed your wife with your hand is Princess Shu, who was separated by your previous life. โ
"Grass!" Hearing this, Lao Chen struggled to raise his head with the strength to feed.
But he still couldn't lift his head completely, so he could only barely look at the rearview mirror, and scolded the young man with a smile: "The fucking past life?? If everything you did in the previous life is fucking going to be retribution in the next life, then how many fucking people can there be on the earth now??"
If it weren't for Ah Hong's miserable white face facing me at a distance from my slap, Lao Chen's words would have made me almost unable to hold back my laughter.
But the young man didn't smile, only glanced at him lightly, and said: "Have you ever thought about it, if it wasn't for the fact that you wanted to raise money and think of ghosts at that time, how could the events that followed happen, and how could Ah Hong die because of you." And the seven people in Luoyang were destined to die, if you hadn't stolen those two paintings, they would only be moldy and rotten in the house where the tomb robbers no longer lived, until they died with the old house. Now, because of your relationship, the tomb that has been sealed for thousands of years has been broken, and it has also awakened the resentful soul that has been sleeping for thousands of years, and the innocent people have been killed for this, do you still have the face to complain?"
After speaking, his eyes glanced at Lao Chen again, and when he saw that he was struggling to the green tendons on his neck bulging, he took his fingers out of the lotus shape and pressed lightly on Ah Hongtian's spiritual cover: "You will give me back first!"
When the words fell, I heard Ah Hong scream, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.
This made old Chen Dengshi feel relieved.
Then he raised his head, and was about to continue to say something, when he saw the expression of the young man in the rearview mirror, his mouth immediately closed and he stopped talking, and only concentrated on driving the car forward.
"What's going on?!" opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a moment, and Lao Chen lowered his head.
I was about to start the car again, but I didn't expect this action to save his life, because the moment he lowered his head, suddenly a cobweb-like crack appeared on the windshield, and five slender fingers reached into the gap, grabbing his neck, but because of his action, his fingertips โกโก the back of the chair behind him like nails.
It scared him into a scream, but then, an even more terrible scream came from outside the car: "Childe!