Chapter Ninety-Three: Punishment by Needle
When he heard the three words Xuanyin Gate, Yan Laosan's expression was stiff, he looked at me and asked me why I mentioned Xuanyin Gate, and I, who the hell were.
I shook my head and told Yan Laosan that he only needed to tell me the cause and effect of why the Xuanyin Sect had risen rapidly in the East Market back then, and there was no need to know who I was.
Yan Laosan listened to my words and immediately threatened me that if I didn't know that I had offended him, he could let me walk out of Dongshi sideways.
I smiled and said, "Who doesn't know the name of Yan Sanye in the East City, but if something happens to me, do you think Xu Chong will let you go?"
In fact, just after seeing Yan Laosan's submissive appearance in front of Xu Chong, I knew that our play would definitely succeed, because Yan Laosan was originally such a powerful person, after all, the country is easy to change, and his nature is difficult to change, he was able to beat me for five cents back then, and today, he can also give up everything for the sake of millions, including the secrets in his heart that are usually impossible to mention to anyone.
Being led by the nose by a fledgling young man, Yan Laosan's face at this time was of course not good-looking, but he was helpless, if he wanted to cooperate with the Xu family, he had to cooperate with me first.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Laosan sighed, shook his head and said: "Xuanyin Sect is a sect that suddenly rose thirty years ago, their principal is called Xuanyin Zhenren, he claims to be three hundred and sixty-three years old, from the outside, he is just a teenage hairy guy, at the beginning, no one believed that he had true skills, until he resurrected a person who had been dead for forty or fifty years, in the entire East City, it caused an uproar. ”
I frowned: "Resurrection?"
Yan Laosan nodded, and said that it was indeed a resurrection, the resurrected person was called Zhang He, who was killed by a devil's shell when he was fighting devils in 38 years, this Zhang He was also a famous family before he died, so he left a photo, and when he resurrected Zhang He, he also called Zhang He's relatives to the scene, and when Zhang He was resurrected, one of the youngest sons who called himself Zhang He was directly excited and fainted.
I don't believe in ghosts and gods, and I don't believe that a person who has been dead for forty or fifty years can suddenly be resurrected because of a man's spell.
Yan Laosan said that it was not only Zhang He who was resurrected, but also those who died in a traffic accident a year ago, and those who died of illness a few days ago.
I looked at Yan Laosan and asked, "What about these people, are they all alive now?"
The latter smiled sarcastically, shook his head and said, " No, they generally fell down again in the second hour of the resurrection, Xuanyin Zhenren said, that is because his skills are not enough, so he needs more congregants to help him, over time, the news that Xuanyin Gate can resurrect the dead spreads all over the East City, and this Xuanyin Gate, therefore, has been active for decades, but I don't know when it started, as long as the people who enter the Xuanyin Gate, something will happen more or less, such as being punished for lying, for example, because they want to redeem their sins, in public* , Some people say that Xuanyin Zhenren is an immortal, and according to Xuanyin Zhenren's instructions, he can help him fly into an immortal, but the sins of his parents are too deep, if he can destroy the sins around him with his own hands, Xuanyin Zhenren can help him soar. ”
"Do you believe that?" I asked, suspiciously.
He sighed and said that he had no way not to believe it, because his father also came back from the dead in front of him, this kind of thing, as long as it didn't happen to him, he would never believe that it was true, but once it happened to him, he couldn't help but believe it or not, at that time he thought very simply, as long as his father could be resurrected, even if it was only for an hour, when his father really stood alive in front of him, he completely believed that Xuanyin Zhenren did not deceive people, he really had a spell.
He told us that he came from heaven and was the reincarnation of Jizo Bodhisattva, because he had been in the underworld for millions of years, and his relationship with the underworld had always been good, so he could bring the deceased back to life, and he could guarantee that the cultists who helped enter the Xuanyin Sect have immortal life, but very rarely, it was the people he selected to become immortals. ”
Yan Laosan spoke very seriously, and when I heard half of it, I laughed out loud.
Because my grandmother believed in Buddhism when she was alive, in addition to reciting sutras in the Buddhist hall every day, she also hugged me and told me the story of King Jizo.
I remember my grandmother once told me that the king of Jizo had made a promise that hell would not be empty and that he would not become a Buddha, but how could he become an immortal when he arrived at Xuanyin Zhenren? Isn't he a Buddha? And now he is dying every day, and hell is probably crowded, so why is hell not empty, and he will not become a Buddha?
Of course, I'm not disrespectful to the Jizo King Bodhisattva, it's just that in front of those gods who pretend to be gods, I really can't help but expose their faces.
"What about the real person of Xuanyin? Is it still there?" I asked a question that I wanted to complain about myself, since the Xuanyin Gate was exterminated by the police twenty years ago, then the man who claimed to be the leader of the Xuanyin Sect should be released from prison and return to his original self after completing his sentence, right?
But when Yan Laosan spoke again, I was stunned for a moment.
He told me that the real person of Xuanyin had died twenty years ago, when the police came to exterminate the Xuanyin Gate, and before he died, he also warned the sect members that if anyone betrayed the Xuanyin Gate, even if he was a ghost, he would not let them go.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Laosan told me that there are actually no rules in the Xuanyin Gate, in addition to not leaving the door casually, another taboo is not to lie, especially not to read real people to lie, he has seen people who lie to real people, and they are actually punished by needles on the oven.
"Acupuncture?" I asked, with a slight frown.
Yan Laosan nodded, and said that acupuncture is to put a palm-sized magnet on the back of the punister's neck, and the latter will place dozens to hundreds of embroidery needles in his mouth, when the magnet is close to the back of the deceased's neck, those embroidery needles are like bullets, quickly shooting into the torturer's throat, causing the torturer to be in pain, but not able to die immediately.
When I heard this, my left hand clenched into a fist slightly, and Xiao Feng's state of death kept flashing in my mind.
He...... Could it be that someone was also used to punish him?
In Xiao Feng's case, what has always bothered me is how those embroidery needles ran into his throat, if it is said that he swallowed it himself, it is simply impossible, but if it is said that the murderer stuffed it one after another, then Xiao Feng's cheekbones should be broken, because whether it is a man or a woman, you can't put your whole hand into someone's mouth, let alone in the throat?
Today, when Yan Laosan said this, it was like opening the door to a new world, it turned out that there was still this kind of punishment in this world.
If the murderer used to be a member of the Xuanyin Sect, then this kind of punishment is not strange to her, using this punishment to kill people is creepy for us, but for her, it is as simple as commonplace.
Thinking of this, I raised my head and asked, "What would you do if someone who believes in Xuanyin Sect believes in other beliefs?"
Yan Laosan didn't think about it, and immediately said with a smile: "What else can I do? The ending is death, and he believes in other beliefs while believing in Xuanyin Sect, which is tantamount to deceiving real people, what do you think will happen to him?"
Wrong, everything was wrong, everything I had speculated before, was wrong.
Xiao Feng was not killed because he lied, I remember that Xiao Feng believed in Christianity, and the murderer set up Xiao Feng's death scene in the Christian church, just to tell Xiao Feng that even if he was killed in front of Christ, his Christ would not save him.
Xuanyin Gate...... It...... Is there really a resurgence?
And the tragedy of destroying the door back then, could it be that Xuanyinmen also caused a ghost?
I have a vague feeling that Xiao Feng's death has nothing to do with my father.
If the murderer killed Xiao Feng in order to hide my dad's clues, then she would have taken my dad's ID card away at the scene, why did she leave the clues for us to investigate?
Twenty years ago, Xuanyin Gate was destroyed by the police, and at the same time, there was another tragedy in Dongshi, and I may be the only survivor of that tragedy, and my father also disappeared at the same time.
Is this a bit of a coincidence? If not, what is the connection between these events, which took place 20 years ago?
I looked at Yan Laosan thoughtfully, then nodded, and said that if there is any new movement in the Xuanyin Sect recently, you can contact me directly, of course, if not, it is the best.
And just as I was about to get up and open the door, Yan Laosan suddenly raised his head and asked, "Xuanyin Gate, are you back again?"
His eyes flickered slightly, it seemed that he was afraid of the Xuanyin Sect coming back again, of course, I also knew what he was afraid of, twenty years ago, if it wasn't for the police to encircle and suppress the Xuanyin Sect, he would not have been able to get rid of this cult so easily, but if the Xuanyin Sect came back now, the first thing they would do was to gather all the previous Xuanyin Sect disciples and create their so-called Xuanyin Sect again.
If this is the case, what is placed in front of Yan Laosan is either a road to the prison or a road to the morgue.
Because he told me everything he knew without reservation, in the face of an outsider, he took out all the things in the sect, and he was a person with brains, and he would guess what they would do to Yan Laosan.
I turned to look at Yan Laosan's frightened eyes, and whispered, "Maybe, there are signs of re-emergence." ”
After saying this, I turned around and walked out of this room, but what I didn't expect was that this visit would become Yan Laosan's talisman.
The next day, when Xu Chong and I were about to go to his house for dinner, in the car, Xu Chong told me that Yan Laosan was found dead in the box on the second floor of the antique store by his little lover who was a guest at a bar at about nine o'clock last night.
I was very surprised when I heard the news, because yesterday I was discussing something about Xuanyin Gate with Yan Laosan in that box, how could he die directly in the box in the blink of an eye?
Although Yan Laosan is in debt, judging by his attitude yesterday, he should have pinned his hopes on Xu Chong's father's project, he wanted to make money to pay off his debts, but why did he suddenly commit suicide?
No, it can't be suicide, according to Yan Laosan's actions, when we met him yesterday, he had no suicidal tendencies at all.
Therefore, it is very likely that Yan Laosan was killed by him.
At this time, Xu Chong patted me on the shoulder and said, "What do you think? People like him have countless enemies outside, and there is nothing strange about him dying." ”
I nodded slowly, and with doubts about Yan Laosan's death, I stepped directly into their villa with Xu Chong.
This step into Xu Chong's house, I deeply felt the gap between the poor and the rich.
The real estate here is the most expensive in Quandong City, but Xu Chong's nouveau riche dad was stunned to buy two villas side by side, and then opened up, so that when I followed Xu Chong in, I saw a huge hall, and above this hall, there was a chandelier made of Pixiu for Mozi, and the entire hall of his house was bright yellow, according to Xu Chong's words, his father was superstitious, because gold was yellow, so he made all the lights in the house yellow.
I had a headache when I thought of the nouveau riche dad who chased me when I was a child and asked me where my mother was, and the moment Xu Chong and I walked into the hall, a man about 1.73 meters tall, surrounded by a yellow bib and holding a spatula in his hand, walked out of the kitchen.
"Yo yo yo yo, who is this, isn't this my godson, Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, come on, I made your favorite braised pork, oh yes, what about your mother? Why didn't your mother come with you this time?"
Sure enough, five years have passed, and his dad still can't change his twittering personality, and as usual, as soon as he sees me, he asks where my mom is.
I'm really a dog's heart, although I was mentally prepared before I came, but I really got here, and my mind was full of the scene of Tang Seng chanting next to Sun Wukong.
"Uncle, I really don't need to, Xu Chong and I just came to see you, no, I haven't seen you for five years, so I thought about coming back this time to see you, how are you doing?
But who knows, as soon as my uncle called out, he directly covered my Tianling cover with his oily hands, and pretended to be angry and said: "I said Xiao Yi, why are you called Uncle again?" Call Godfather, you said, you didn't know to say hello to Godfather before you came back this time, and Godfather didn't have any meeting gifts for you, so let's do it, after Xiao Chong graduated from college, I gave him the first pot of gold, then I will also give you the first pot of gold, Xiao Chong, go upstairs and order five million, to Xiao Yi." ”
"What...... I said, Dad, am I still your own son? You only gave me 300,000 at that time. Hearing this, Xu Chong almost didn't jump up from the sofa, and immediately said angrily to his father.
His father's face was stunned, and his eyes immediately widened, and he said: "Can Xiao Yi be the same as you? How much money did I throw into you when you were admitted to college? Don't you have a little pressure in your heart? You are still yelling at me here, the money you have spent in the past few years, which of your sports cars did not I bought for you? Xiao Yi is wandering outside, working, I have not given a penny, why, now give him money and you will jump up? Brother, you have eaten everything I told you?"
The corners of my mouth twitched, and then I hurriedly pulled him aside and said: "Uncle, I'm a policeman now, what's the matter with this account suddenly having more than five million, I don't want this money, I just want to catch up with you today." ”
"Then let's put this money here first, and when you need it one day, I will ask Xu Chong to send it to you one day. ”
I nodded, silent, just glancing at Xu Chong and asking him not to do anything against his father anymore, it didn't do any good.
It was already six o'clock in the evening when we ate, and there were still two hours before the time the demon had said, and when Xu Chong's father brought the food, I was stunned, because the three of us moved the food for five or six minutes just to move the food.
Yes, this man has made thirty-six dishes, and even if I take a bite of each dish, I'm afraid I can eat enough.
"Come, Xiaoyi, try your uncle's craftsmanship, have you regressed? "Xu Chong's father kept the vegetables in my bowl, which caused my whole bowl to be full of meat and vegetables, if it wasn't for Xu Chong's father, I wouldn't even believe that the vegetables could be stacked so high in the bowl.
"Dad, let me tell you something, Yan Laosan died last night. Xu Chong held the bowl and put a green vegetable straight into his mouth.
His father was slightly stunned, immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks, frowned and asked, "Hades is dead?"
"I heard that he was in debt from outside and hanged himself. Xu Chong continued.
Hearing this, he immediately said in confusion: "Impossible, yesterday morning he was still discussing with me about the bidding for that piece of land, why did he die at night?
I was slightly stunned, but I didn't speak, listening to the conversation between Xu Chong and his father, I immediately determined that Yan Laosan's death was not so simple.
"DiDi Di Di"
Just as we were eating, Su Mian made a phone call suddenly, I glanced at their father and son, and then politely said that I would answer the phone, and went aside.
"Fang Yi, I'm not going back today, I have a girlfriend in Dongshi, I just met, so I want to chat, I'll call you again when I go back tomorrow." ”
"Don't you come back? Well, it's not safe for you to be a little girl outside, you send me your girlfriend's address, and I'll pick you up tomorrow." ”
It stands to reason that I can't take care of Su Mian's private affairs, but she came out with me, and I have the responsibility to bring her back safely, besides, I always feel that after Su Mian came back with me this time, it was like a different person, so be prepared and ask for an address.
"Okay, I'll text you later. ”
"Then you ......"
"Doodoo Dot ......"
As soon as I asked her to leave her phone open 24 hours a day, she hung up the phone in a daze.
I glanced at the phone screen, shook my head, didn't think too much about it, and went straight back to the dinner table.
But I never imagined that Su Mian's decision would cause me such a big trouble.