This is indeed a bit mysterious.

For example, this natural lacquer tree generally takes the way of picking lacquer is "cutting lacquer", cutting a crescent-shaped opening on the natural lacquer tree, inserting it under the mouth with a container, and the lacquer in the lacquer tree will flow down from the mouth and flow into the container, so that you can pick up the best lacquer, however, the requirements for cutting lacquer are stricter, and the amount of lacquer is not high, so there has always been a saying of "a hundred miles and a pound of lacquer". After precipitation and oxidation, the color of the picked lacquer will change and the consistency will change accordingly, "white snow, red like blood, black like iron" means that the color of its oxidation will change and become like the color of oozing blood, but it is really a big problem to find human bones.

Zhou Tong asked again: "Did you find it after digging up the statue?"

"yes. "The time difference between before and after is no more than two days, it should be a problem with the statue." ”

"Are there any special customs or legends in the area?"

"I don't know. Stunned for a moment, he hadn't thought about it yet, and said, "I'll call and ask." ”

"No, I don't. Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "I'll go and see it tomorrow." ”

"Tomorrow?" said uprightly, "Aren't you tired of going as soon as you land?"

"I'm afraid of accidents. Zhou Tong said, "Before I experienced the 'four olds', there were some strange beliefs in various places, and some backward places did not have a deep understanding of metaphysics, and often believed in some wild gods, these wild gods are not orthodox gods, not to mention the ability to bless, they will absorb the local aura, and even use the people to do evil." Evil rituals such as the sacrifice of virgins and boys are typical of this. Later, more and more people began to advocate science, abandoning some of the old so-called feudal ideas, and by the way, abandoning these wild gods. ”

Zhou Tong's eyes fell on the god of wealth enshrined at home, looking at the painted pottery statue that he bought, even if it was well maintained, but this statue still lacked a bit of aura: "The orthodox gods are not as worshipped as before, not to mention these wild gods, in the long run, they will be resentful, either to take revenge on the locals, or to find some means to regain faith." I think that there is such a strange thing in that place, and it may be that the wild gods are doing it, and as for the purpose, I can't be sure yet. ”

"I see!" looked at Zhou Tong with admiration, "Why didn't I think of this?"

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "I won't know what you know, I bought my own villa so quickly, amazing." ”

"How can there be!" was embarrassed by the praise, scratched the back of his head, and smiled.

Zhou Tong still had to temporarily store the little doll cat here, and asked a special pet care to take care of the little doll cat, and the three of them flew to L City the next day.

Pingshan County is a small town under L City, the villagers in the county live in the mountains for a long time, the conditions are not good, the whole county is basically in a state of self-sufficiency, farming to support the family, the only thing that creates Zào wealth is this small piece of wild lacquer forest in the west of the village.

That lacquer forest is mixed with other tree species, the lush Cheng dù is not high, but the quality and purity of the lacquer are very high, some high-end furniture dealers are very in demand for this kind of lacquer, and it is also because of this point, plus he is obsessed with cultural relics, so he discussed with the people in the village to plate the lacquer forest here, this is actually his own business, did not let the family help, from beginning to end is his own money, thinking about how many lacquer cultural relics can be saved by such a good lacquer, it is also regarded as accumulating some virtue for himself. As a result, I didn't expect that not long after the plate was put down, and before the season of lacquer picking, something happened.

Zhou Tong bumped all the way into the village, and halfway through, Zhou Tong glanced out the window and said to the driver: "Master driver, please stop the car." ”

"What's wrong with Xiaotong?" asked Digong suspiciously, stretching his head out the window to look straight out.

Zhou Tong said: "I saw something. Zhou Tong opened the car door and walked out, and hurriedly followed, Zhou Tong said, "I'll just go with Ling Yuan, this road can lead to Pingshan Village all the way forward, right?"

"Huh?" Straightened upright, pondered, and said, "I'll go with you, in case you get lost......"

"Don't lose it. Zhou Tong said, "This road is not easy to walk, you go first, there is still waiting for us, you go and say hello, I will be there soon." ”

Straight glanced at the dense woods in front of him, it was really difficult to do things like his body in it, his body was not flexible and upright, he didn't want to trouble Zhou Tong and was worried that Zhou Tong would get lost, so he hesitated for a long time and finally nodded and agreed: "Then you be careful, always pay attention to your mobile phone, call me if you have something, come back quickly if you have nothing to do." ”

Ling Yuan sneered, straightened his neck and immediately shrank his neck and stopped talking, hey, my broken mouth!

Zhou Tong shook his head with a smile.

After Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan got out of the car, they walked towards the forest, and Ling Yuan said, "There is such a big formation in this small place, I don't know what happened before. ”

"yes. Zhou Tong walked to a big tree, squatted down and pulled out a wooden stake about half an arm long nailed to the ground, and under the stake was a small half of the basically corroded rune paper, and the cinnabar characters on it were not clear, "Can you see what kind of formation this is?"

"No, I can't. Ling Yuan shook his head.

Zhou Tong walked forward a little further, and found a few pots with big bellies stuck in the mud on the ground, a layer of paint off, some years, he carried the mouth of the clay pot, smashed it on the tree, and there was also a rune paper between the broken tiles, because it was placed in the clay pot, less wind and sun, and the words on it could vaguely identify one or two, but it was still impossible to tell what it was.

"Clay pots, wooden stakes, are there copper nails?" Zhou Tong originally just made a joke, but he really saw copper nails on a tree stump.

The copper nail was nailed very deeply, Ling Yuan □□ the copper nail and handed it to Zhou Tong, this copper nail was covered with rust, and there were confetti mixed with patina at the top, Zhou Tong wiped the paper towel on the top, and wiped the paper scraps on the paper towel, red and white, or rune paper.

Zhou Tong lowered his head and pondered, looking directly at the confetti, "What ......is there in the mountains?"

He looked into the depths of the mountain forest, only to feel that this mountain was unfathomable, as if some fierce beasts were sleeping, and these formations that suppressed the beasts had become decaying over the years, and sooner or later, they would not be able to suppress the fierceness in the mountains.

Zhou Tong kept walking forward, smelling a strange smell, he looked at the crescent marks on the trunk of the tree, and said, "Have we come to the place where the paint is picked?"

"Hmm. Ling Yuan looked back, they had walked a lot, the small forest before was obviously rarely visited, the herbaceous plants on the ground grew very luxuriantly, common mushrooms grew in piles, and no one had set foot on them, but this one was different, herbaceous plants all grew under the trunks, and they were not very tall when they were trampled, and some wild mushroom plants were even less pitiful.

"Statue. Ling Yuan pointed to the dense forest in front of him and said, "The evil qi is very heavy. ”

Zhou Tong also saw the evil aura coming out of there, and walked forward, since they have all come here, let's go and see what the statue is first.

The statue was stuck in the soil diagonally, stuck on the edge of the bottom of the pit, similar to the photo, as black as ink, but when he changed the angle to look at it, there was a little red in his eyes, Zhou Tong went down to the pit, carefully looked at the wolf-like sculpture, and said with confidence: "It's a wild god, but this wild god has long been dead, and it was still haunted by some fierce aura, and its eyes are proof." ”

"Nonsense!" Suddenly there was a soft shout, Zhou Tong looked back, but saw a young man in his twenties walking over, he was holding a compass in his hand, wearing a decent Tang costume, a pair of eyes were big and smart, he glared at Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan, glanced at them left and right, and asked, "Who are you? Why did you come here? Who allowed you to move this stone carving?"

Zhou Tong looked at his dress, and estimated that he was a fellow Taoist, but this young man's qi was scattered and not gathered, and he obviously had not yet entered the Tao, in other words, he was a languid of the Blue Dao.

There are two kinds of people who rely on this to eat, one is the Red Dao Heavenly Master who has really entered the Tao and can observe the qi and use the talisman to really do practical things, and the other is the Blue Dao liar who is good at observing words and feelings, and is deceived and deceived, and all rely on a lively mouth to do things.

The young man in front of him obviously belongs to the latter, and he is not the same as them at all.

Zhou Tong stretched out his hand to Ling Yuan, Ling Yuan pulled him out of the pit, Zhou Tong clapped his hands and said, "We passed by, looking at the statue curiously. ”

"I hear your accent is out of town?"

"Aren't you too?"

The young man glared, looked Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan up and down, rolled his eyes, and asked tentatively, "What did you mean by saying that this wild god had died a long time ago?"

Zhou Tong: "How can there be any wild gods in this world, isn't it just early to die?"

The young man obviously didn't believe Zhou Tong's statement, and looked at Zhou Tong cautiously, probably treating Zhou Tong as a competitor.

The law that the mountain does not tolerate two tigers is the same everywhere, especially in this industry, even in the face of the same feng shui bureau, different gentlemen use different methods, and some methods even hedge, naturally very taboo others to interfere, the taste of competition is as choking as gunpowder.

Sure enough, I heard the young man say tentatively: "I heard that this lacquer forest was covered by a soil boss?"

Zhou Tong: "......"

It is said that the ancestor was still an official scholar in the Qing government, so how did he become a local boss? However, the figure and style of speaking and doing things are indeed different from those in his family, and he does look like a local boss.

Zhou Tong held back a smile and said, "I heard about it too, cough, Boss Tu." ”

The young man tried again: "You are also coming for the local boss?"

"Ah, that's not ......"

"No, that's right. The young man snorted and said, "I advise you not to bother with the idea of this statue, do you know who I am?"

"Who are you?" Zhou Tong asked amusedly.

"Do you know the Qiyun Zechu family?"

"Are you from the Chu family?" Zhou Tong was a little surprised, if this person was really from the Chu family, he would have to break his leg if the old man Chu knew that he was abducted outside.

"Yes. The young man snorted triumphantly, "You should have heard of Zhou Tong of the Chu family, right?"

Zhou Tong: "......"

Ling Yuan: "......"

Zhou Tong looked at each other in surprise, the young man raised his chin mysteriously, beckoned behind him, and a man walked out, his long hair was scattered, hanging down to his waist, standing behind the young man, without speaking, he looked at them with a calm face, and the young man said, "You should know my identity when you see him, right?"

Zhou Tong was speechless for a moment, when did Ling Yuan become a symbol representing his identity?

Ling Yuan looked at the man even more expressionlessly, his eyes full of disdain.

It's too ugly.

Zou Fei was even more proud when he saw their expressions.

"Are you...... Zhou Tong?" Zhou Tong felt a little strange when he called out his name.

"Yes. Zou Fei slapped the compass, turned the pointer on it, and then put on a posture, nondescript, a bit like the Chu family, "It is the Chu family Zhou Tong." ”

"Yes. Zhou Tong's mouth twitched, Ling Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Zhou Tong: "You are idle to accompany him to make trouble here." ”

"It's fun. Zhou Tong couldn't help laughing.

Seeing this, Zou Fei raised his eyebrows: "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing. Zhou Tong suppressed his smile, but he couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth, and said, "It's an honor to meet you here, I still have something to do, so I'll go first." ”

Zou Fei saw that the direction he was leaving was to enter the village, so he hurriedly stepped forward and stopped in front and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Went to the village and had friends waiting for me. ”

"Drop by, together. Zou Fei shouted at the long-haired man beside him, "Let's go." ”

The long-haired man followed Zou Fei without saying a word, not to mention that his eyebrows were really a bit similar to Ling Yuan's deathless expression, Zhou Tong couldn't help but take a few more glances and laughed.

Ling Yuan: "...... You've got enough. ”

Zhou Tong: "Hahaha. ”

There is one more Zou Fei, and the two of them go down the mountain together Zhou Tong doesn't mind much, that Zou Fei talks a lot, he can chatter, and he still wants to test Zhou Tong's details along the way. There are still many retail investors in this business, and it is really impossible to investigate the details, Zou Fei wants to know if Zhou Tong is competitive, don't feed the cooked duck to other people's mouths.

After a phone call, Zou Fei's mouth was dry, but after a long time, the other party didn't seem to be all the way with him, it seemed that he graduated from college and came to engage in scientific research or something, he didn't have any culture, he didn't know anything about this aspect, and listened to Zhou Tong talk about the history of sculpture and tricks.

Zhou Tong listened patiently, although Zou Fei is from the Blue Road, but some of the things he has seen are quite interesting, this kid has a big life, and there are real and false in those wild falls, Zhou Tong knew when he heard it, and some could even kill him directly, Zou Fei was stunned and didn't feel it, but he also escaped death by luck.

"Let me tell you, that widow's village is the feng shui of yin and yang, the white tiger trend is extremely high, the sand potential is high, and it can't be lowered at all, the men in this village have been covered by the yin of the white tiger for a long time, and they will see the hell if they don't have a short life...... Hey, I said, why did you stop suddenly?" Zou Fei stopped, looked back at Zhou Tong, and asked suspiciously.

Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan's footsteps stopped at the same time, Zhou Tong looked to the east, but Ling Yuan looked to the west, the two looked left and right, a gust of wind blew, Zou Fei tightened his coat, shivered, and asked again: "What's the matter?"

Zhou Tong moved his gaze back from the east, afraid that Zou Fei would bump into him, and said to him: "Come here, there seems to be something carved on the ground, can you see what it is?"

"What's engraved?" Zou Fei looked under Zhou Tong's feet, but he didn't see anything, he took a step forward suspiciously, but suddenly he was hit by something behind him. Fortunately, Zhou Tong was quick to move, pulled Zou Fei over, didn't hit a square, looked back, the old lady with small feet was looking at him with a smile, Zou Fei didn't want to care, but when he saw the old lady's expression, he suddenly wrinkled his brows and scolded: "Why don't you walk with long eyes?"

Seeing that the old lady didn't walk anymore, she just stood there and looked at them, with a little gray in her eyes, and suddenly beckoned to Zou Fei, Zou Fei's brain was a little scattered, and he felt that the whole person was like being drunk, and his steps were shaking.

The long-haired man who had been following Zou Fei and pretending to be cold couldn't pretend anymore, so he grabbed Zou Fei and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Zou Fei said in a daze: "I'm a little dizzy. ”

"I'm sorry to delay Daxian on the road, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Zhou Tong handed over a piece of jade, and the old lady took her eyes off Zou Fei and landed on Zhou Tong's jade, she stretched out her hand to wipe it on the jade, raised the corners of her mouth and laughed, the laughter was very weird, "Or you doll has eyesight." ”

The old lady grabbed the jade pendant into her sleeve and was about to leave, when she was stopped by Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong asked, "Where are you going, Daxian? Why are so many immortals in a hurry?"

"Wow. The old lady raised her chin in the direction of the lacquer grove and said, "There is a big man to be born there." After speaking, seeing that several other earth immortals had surpassed her, she hurriedly shook Zhou Tong's face: "I'm leaving, kid give way." ”

Zhou informed that the hearts of these earth immortals have always been extremely high-spirited, and if they can't get it in the open, they will give you some discomfort in secret, and they won't stop it, get out of the way, and let the old lady go.

Not long after the old lady left, Zou Fei's swaying body stabilized, but as if he had lost his memory, he looked at the long-haired man in confusion: "What happened just now? Why don't I remember?"

"You bumped into it. The long-haired man named He Chou said.

Zou Fei was still a little stunned, but he understood what He Chou meant by what he said, and immediately shook his body and said, "You can show me quickly, is there anything else?"

He Chou glanced at it and said, "It's okay." ”

"That's good. ”

Zhou Tong looked at this He Chou, but he was a little surprised, this He Chou is different from Zou Fei, he has some ability, he is a person who has entered the Dao, he hid it so deeply before, and he didn't even see the yin and yang eyes, what kind of magic weapon did he use to cover his qi? But since they came out to cheat, it is much better to have the blessing of real skills than to talk nonsense, why hide it?

But in the end, this is someone else's business, Zhou Tong is too lazy to care, just don't make trouble under his nose, he said to Zou Fei and He Chou: "That Daxian has already left, let's go too, it's getting dark, my friend should urge." "I made a phone call before, worried that he had taken a fork in the road, and if he didn't catch up, he might have to send someone to find them.

"Did you see that great immortal?" Zou Fei was nervous, and felt that Zhou Tong was a potential opponent.

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "It's the old lady you hit just now, that's Hu Xiangu." ”

As soon as you say Hu Xiangu, you know that it refers to the red fairy fox among the four immortals of red, yellow, white and green, and the female fox is also known as Hu Xiangu.

The trust and thin layer of friendship established all of a sudden were gone, Zou Fei felt that he was deceived by Zhou Tong's easy-to-talk gentle appearance, and immediately put Zhou Tong in the enemy column, did not say a word to Zhou Tong again, and specially went to the left and right.

Along the way there was silence to the village.

The village party secretary was greeting them at the door, and the middle-aged man in his forties looked left and right at the people on both sides, and finally met Zou Fei's side.

Because Zou Fei was wearing a silk-faced Tang costume jacket, coupled with the deliberate appearance of the fairy wind and bones, he was more like a heavenly master than Zhou Tong, and he was followed by a long-haired man, exactly the same as the news found by the village party secretary.

The village party secretary rubbed his hands and said, "Mr. Zhou, please come inside, it's not too early, we have prepared a banquet for you." ”

Zou Fei was stunned for a moment, the prepared set of flickering routines had not been used, and he stammered and asked, "You, do you know I'm coming?"

The village party secretary was also stunned, and asked rhetorically: "Didn't you come with Boss Duan?" Boss Duan said that you had something on the road and were delayed, so let me pick you up here." ”

Zou Fei: "......"

It's going to be bad.

Zou Fei threw a look at He Chou, and He Chou's eyes obviously meant "wait and see what happens", Zou Fei's heart was stable, coughed, didn't speak, and made his attitude ambiguous.

The village party secretary couldn't figure out what the other party meant, so he turned to look at Zhou Tong and them, and asked, "Who are you? ”

Zhou Tong took off his backpack and took out his ID card, Ling Yuan was a black household, of course it was impossible to have an ID card, only a fake identity that was given to him by taking a proper relationship, but the ID card was real, and he handed it to Zhou Tong.

The village party secretary got Zhou Tong's ID card, was stunned, and asked, "Your name is also Zhou Tong?"

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "Yes." ”

The village party secretary was stunned all of a sudden, which of these two Zhou Tong is a friend of the boss Duan?

was panicking, he heard a righteous voice sounding, and he came over with a fat body, and when he saw the stalemate scene, he asked, "What's the matter, are you all standing here?"

Which one is true now, the village party secretary immediately understood, and he hurriedly apologized to Zhou Tong: "I'm sorry, I'm clumsy, I didn't recognize you." ”

Zhou Tong waved his hand unwillingly, and the anger and embarrassment of the village party secretary were all sprinkled on Zou Fei and them, and he said angrily: "What's the matter with you two?

This ghost trick that has not yet started was first exposed, and Zou Fei's face was not good-looking, but he endured it without having a seizure, and replied: "What kind of deception?

"What Mr. Zou, my name is Mr. Zhou!" The village party secretary was so angry that his face turned red.

Zou Fei said aggrievedly: "That's Mr. Zou." ”

"Mr. Zhou!"

"What Zou Zou Zhou, what are they talking about?" Zhou Tong, who was furrowed suspiciously, and knew the beginning and the end, suddenly laughed and said, "It's nothing, let's go, I'm hungry." ”

"You still know that I'm hungry, I'm dying of hunger, just wait for you to come to eat, let's take a walk, the cooking skills of the master in this village are really good, if it weren't for the old age and relocation, I really want to dig him up and cook for my hotel, and I will make him popular." ”

The group was lively and lively, and they didn't care about Zou Fei.

Zou Fei and He Chou glanced at each other, Zou Fei rolled his eyes at Zhou Tong's back, and complained: "Come on, you have set up a good bureau, and you really make wedding dresses for others." ”

"It's not that simple. He Chou said, "This game is half-true and half-false, he may not be able to break it, let's find a place to live first, and then let's see." ”

"Half-truths?" Zou Fei asked, "Brother Chou, didn't you say that it was all a fake game? Aren't the human bones in the raw lacquer bucket the chicken bones you threw in?"

"Yes. He Chou nodded, "But the bad situation is real, there is a problem in this mountain." ”

Zou Fei immediately tugged on He Chou's sleeve: "Then we are still here?"

"It's fine at the moment. He Chou said, "I still want to see if this Zhou Tong is as powerful as the legend." Saying that, He Chou took off the wig, revealing a very neat and neat shaved board, the whole person was a lot more energetic, he stuffed the wig into his bag casually, pulled Zou Fei and walked to the village.